Will Cain Country - The Rock Isn't Woke Enough for the Left (ft. Wade Stotts & Chef Andre Rush)

Episode Date: July 2, 2026

Woke 2.0 is here, and it’s far more insidious than ever before. Should you be concerned? Wade Stotts, the one and only Host of ‘The Wade Stotts Show,’ joins Will and The Crew to break down the Left’s newest offensive against American values, weighing on two former ‘Star Trek' stars attempting to cancel Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson for choosing to stay out of politics and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s attempts to homogenize New Yorker’s air conditioning preference amid a scorching heat wave. And of course, the gang also weighs in on the blatant anti-US bias from FIFA officials in the wake of star Folarin Balogun receiving a red card during last night’s game.Plus, Legendary Celebrity Chef Andre Rush shares what it takes to cook meals for the leader of the free world, and preview the new FOX Nation Special, ‘American Kitchen: An America 250 BBQ.’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

Set the sermon with that at 78 degrees. Yell at Dwayne Johnson. Silence is complicity. The rock. And call soccer a sissy sport while the rest of the world. Normal people yell USA. It is Wilcane Country. Streaming live at the Will Cain Country YouTube channel,

the Wilcane Facebook page. Hit follow at Spotify or on Apple. Tenfold pack, two a days, Dan, and the host of the Wade Show with Wade, Wade Stott's. Glassless. No eyewear joining us today here on Will Cain Country. Who is that? What's up, Wade?

Man, it's a pleasure to be here. I always appreciate our opportunity to be here. With soccer being the main sport, people are paying attention to, I wanted to let you know that my kids have watched several of these appearances that I've been on the show. and they always call you during football season they call you helmet guy and so that's right but right now so they're like what did helmet guy do why did he take his helmets off of his desk so they're excited for football season mainly because will cane has the helmets on his desk yes helmet guys helmets are

behind him i don't know they're not making their way to the table that's it during the off season um okay there are first of all can we just take a minute Dan, you and I can at least do this. USA. USA. USA. Let's go, baby. Showed those Bosnians, what's up.

Get out of here. Out of here, Bosnia. And take Herzegovina with you. We beat two countries at once. That's right. That's right. Why is it Bosnia and Herzegovina? Great question.

Like, I'm pretty familiar with geography. Wade's probably better than me. You give me a blank map. I'm going to nail it. it. I could probably tell you on a map, Bosnia versus Serbia, Serbia versus Croatia. But I don't really know what's up with Herzegovina. I saw a post on X. It said dudes are Bosnians and chicks are Herzegovinians. And I thought, is that true? I'm sure it means something. It means Duke's land, so it's from a nobleman, so they added it into the name.

So it's a region of Bosnia. So it's like a noble, royal thing. Okay, because I was thinking, like, if you're Bosnia and you're going to team up with another country, you would do Serbia so you can actually access beaches because you're completely land-lossed. Yeah, that's true. Otherwise. No, Croatia's got the beaches. I don't think Serbia even has any water.

I don't know. Put your glasses back on. Well, if Wade's not going to You literally can't say anything, can you? No. Just little borders. Did you all see the Bosnians doing a chant on the streets and in the stadium?

Do you guys know what I'm talking about? I didn't notice it in the game last night. No. But it was, I saw it especially, Palestine. Palestine. Oh, really? Yeah.

Now, I do believe Bosnia, Bosnia is a Muslim nation. Isn't that correct, guys? Like, Serbians were primarily Christian, and Bosnians were Muslims, and thus we have a lot of the Civil War of the 90s right there. Do you have that correct? Population. Remanders, Orthodox Christians and Roman Catholics. Okay, so, yeah. Okay, half Muslim.

So I saw this. I'm going to weave. I'm going to do the weave. Wade, I saw this post. I believe it was by J. James Lindsay. And James Lindsay is, I don't know. I don't know how to describe James Lindsay.

It was a time when he was, you know, really insightful. Then he decided his main target was people on the right, you know, and he started calling him the woke right. I don't really remember his attributions. I can't tell you or the audience exactly what his attributions are. But I saw it the new, it said, Woke 2.0 is back. Woke 2.0 is coming. It's coming.

Get ready. It's centered around three main. points. One, affordability. Two, anti-corruption, and three, anti-Israel. And that's going to be the animating factors of the, and identity politics won't go away, but it will take a backseat. It will be a sidekick to this new version of woke that is coming. And I actually, I think he's kind of right. Like, I think that the Mammondonis and the Darya Lisa Chevaliers and the lady Mirat Kilos, who just won in Colorado, they're members of the Democratic Socialists of America, I think they're running on those things. And here's what I'm here to tell you, those things

have way more electoral power than identity politics. Well, I think that might be just a different way of looking at what wokeness one was. And I would say that the woke have basically stayed the same if if the through line is just anti-Western civilization. And so if if if what a lot of these kind of this this version of leftism sees Israel, why they hate Israel, they're there are people on the right who don't like Israel, people on the left, you don't. But the left-wing reasons for not liking Israel are because they see that as the sort of outpost of Western civilization in the Middle East, or they are, they are colonialism over there. And I think that that's, that's a very different kind of, it's, it's not a, oh, well, I don't like our relationship with the drill because I'm a strict nationalist and I'll think we should have allies, like there are people who think that. And there are people who think that, yeah.

So I would say that woke one, if this is how you're defining woke two or how Lindsay's defining woke two, I would say the through line between those things would just be like, I do not like Western civilization. I think that it is here to take the end goal. It's just a different path to getting there. Same end goal has not changed. And, you know, same with like socialism, communism, somewhat of a distinction without a difference. You might argue a bit of on degrees. But, you know, I'm Rand, I think, I love how she put this. She goes, you know, communism is by force, socialism through the ballot box, communism is murder, socialism is suicide, but they're all headed in the same direction. It's the manner of which you get there. And I think you're right.

I think that woke one, woke two, whatever, it's the end of Western civilization. You know, a lot of people on the right would say, hey, quit using the word woke. It's actually Marxism we're talking about. But I actually don't even think Marxism isn't in the goal weight. I'm curious what you think. Marksism is simply a destructive tool to end Western civilization. I don't think there is a grand vision. The grand vision is power accumulated into the hands of the few, and Marxism is a great vehicle from which to do that, but I don't think that anybody really envisions even Mamdani, you know, the same thing as Karl Marx. Yeah, I think it starts with

What President Trump said recently was where he got in a lot of trouble for saying Oh, I'm joining a long line of the people for thousands of years who have been going against communism And the truth in that statement that's kind of hidden under there people made fun of it It's like oh it's communism started at 18 whatever The truth underneath that is that resentment is the thing that underlies has Underlined plenty of rebellious and you know, back to the French Revolution, back even before that, it's resentment disguised as ideology. And resentment, resentful people or people who want revenge don't have an end goal in mind.

They just have a destructive goal in mind. They just want to destroy the thing that makes them feel this way. I feel this way. And if I, they don't plan long term. These are not like people thinking 1,000 years in the future. They just want to let out their feelings. And resentment does for a time unite people to if you can aim it at one particular person or aim it at one faction of the world and just go, well, the reason that you feel this way, the reason for all this resentment would be taken care of if we would just blank. And that is a very tempting way of dealing with things going back to human sacrifice thousands of years ago.

Like that's the logic is resentment. Why do I feel this way? And oh, if we just pin it on person. an X or Western civilization or white people or whatever, then yeah, these are not builders, is another way of saying it. Yeah. No, I think it is way more psychological than it is ideological, and it is about resentment. You know, Mamdani, the mayor of New York City, is imploring the people of the city to set their thermostats at 78 degrees amidst this heat wave for fear of... No, thanks.

Blackout. What is your thermostat? What is your go-to thermostat setting, Dan? I'm 67 all day. That's low. Dude. That's low. Patrick, what's yours?

Listen, mine has to get up there. It's probably like $6.75 right now because it's so hot, the air conditioning can't even keep up. So it's like, even if it's that at 75, it's like still 81 in the house sometimes. So it just depends on how hot it is. But like ideally, like at nighttime, I'm like 70. in the summer and then I don't use central heat if I can help it in the winter. You're up there in Idaho way. Do you even need air conditioning?

Yeah, it's snowy, isn't it? It is so cool. Most places do not have air conditioning in Idaho. Even installed. Central air is not a thing people typically do. But not because like today the high right in my little town in Idaho is 72. So we're experiencing the world a little bit differently than the rest of the window. Yeah.

Yeah, it's nice. It's nice out. I'm a 71-72 guy. That's where I like it. Now, I've learned to crank it down to about 69 at night because that's a little better. But I don't like it as cold as everybody else does. You're texting. 78. So, well, I think I'm still the outlier. I think everybody else loves it in the 60s, constantly in the 60s.

So set your thermostats at 78. Okay, that's two things. One, it's primarily a mechanism through which you cover up the incompetence of your organizers, your leaders, those who can't manage an electrical system. But it's secondarily pushing people towards accepting, you know, you talk about resentment. So the catch in capitalism is to make condo, I saw this, make condo owners resent mansion owners, make condo owners resent penthouse owners, right? And the resolve for that is that we all live in mud huts. We all reduce or compromise our standard of living under the guise of equality so that you don't have to resent anyone, even if all of our living standards are higher. And in some way, you know, I think that's what's on display with the World Cup visitors, right?

They may live in what is built as the socialist utopias of Scandinavia or wherever it may be, but their general standard of living is lower than what they experience when they come over here, and size of meals and ease and convenience and food and this and that. And that's what happens with this whole, that's set your thermostat to six. That's the end result of socialism. It is the equality of mud huts. Yeah. I mean, and you saw this also with, so on the standard of living thing, there's also a cultural difference that people are experiencing.

And their response to that cultural difference says a lot about them and where they're coming from emotionally. So you've got the people, and you guys have talked about on the show, people who are coming in and are thrilled to be here. People like, I saw this Irish couple going through Alabama who got their food paid for and they were just overwhelmed. with gratitude and had also just reflecting on like the people who settled this area were sort of Anglo-Irish like folks and so he they're like meeting their cousins at some level and their response to this is gratitude like wow what a strange culture that I've just walked into and they're treating me really well and other people look around and they're just like just you know furrow-browed and just angry about it all the time and so yeah that those same people are yes going to come in and find any excuse they can have for again so like any So somebody starts with, somebody looks around, they see something better. Their response to that, the natural, like, sinful human response is going to be envy. The unnatural and surprising response is gratitude and admiration. So it's been interesting to see both of those things happening at the same time.

Okay. There's two words. These are my two least favorite people right now. Okay. I have two. Number one. The soccer connoisseur. Okay, that's different than me.

I am a soccer connoisseur. I'm going to say, wait, do you hear so far. Hey, this is my response to the soccer connoisseur. This is what I'm like, I know more soccer than you. I can name the 2D at Chelsea, okay? I can, I can, I can, we can do a quiz. I'll give you Belgium's lineup, soccer dude, okay? Football dude, okay?

I can't stand the guy that acts like it's a garage band. He discovered six years ago, and he knows more than the rest of you guys. and quit bitching about, you know, off sides. You know, this guy acts like it's a closed club, and he doesn't want anybody else to come in. This is essentially the Europhile. This is the American who walks around with tennis shoes with no soul on him and, you know, wishes he lived in Amsterdam. Like a picture. You know this guy.

Yeah, you, yeah, exactly. You can. You probably go to brunch with him. And this guy, this guy, he's kind of like the social. in this conversation, I mean, he's probably literally a socialist, but also he would prefer soccer to be smaller as long as it's his and he can sneer it's you. And you don't know what you're talking about. And he's tweeting at me, stick to the state fair, you know, Fox douch. And I'm like, and I'm like, oh yeah, do you know who started in place of Romilly Lukaku as starter yesterday for Belgium, a striker?

I hate that guy. That's number one. I hate that guy. You know else who hates that guy? Alexi Lollas. Alexi Lollas hates that guy, and that's why they hate him. Yeah, Alexi makes soccer accessible.

You can talk about it with him tomorrow. Good. Alex, I kind of want to talk about that, but I also don't want Alexi to be like, I don't want the interview to be like, hey, Alexie, let's talk about why everybody's saying they hate you. You know? Let's talk about all the articles about why everybody hates you.

He's like, I don't really want to do that, Will. I'm like, yeah, I get it. What's it like to be not universally loved? Let's take quick break, but continue this conversation with the host of the Wade show with Wade. Wade. Wade Stott's here on Will King Country. Cheers to America's 250th birthday.

Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FN Radio 20. 20% discount excludes wine club offers and cannot be combined with any other promotion. Expires July 31st, 2026. Must be 21 order to order. Please drink responsibly. That's the rock. All right, second. That's a good point.

We're going to get to the Rock. Second worst guy. Basically, the guy I hate right now, basically, you know, he's already nodded and he's coming. He's on the screen. He's coming. Yeah, that's right. And I could be you too, Wade. Could be you. I don't know.

Because the second guy I hate is soccer's a sissy sport. I hate soccer. I like Jesse. Jesse Kelly's a friend of mine. Don't tweet. I've tried. I've watched it. The sport is awful.

I hate it more now than even before. You know, F off, man. You know, seriously. At some point, if the whole freaking world likes it, maybe you're the bad roommate, right? Maybe you're the one who's missing the boat. It's awesome. And it's just growing for me.

And maybe I'm being defiant. You know what? It's second. It's second to American football. I have it above baseball. I have it above basketball. I'm loving soccer. I love soccer.

And I'm unapologetic. and I'm done with you, Patrick. Wade, could be you too. I'm done with you soccer as a sissy sport. I thought you were going to weave to the rock story and you're like, I'm done with these, I hate these two guys. And then when you brought soccer into it, I'm like,

he's coming for me. That's, yeah. I am coming for you. You tweeted us last night. God, it's so annoying. Dan's like, yeah, Dan, you texted me. How amazing was that? It's so awesome.

Like, God, that was awesome. And Patrick's text, did we win? I didn't watch. I'm like, it's not cute. It's not cute. It's not cute. Dude.

I had stuff going on. There's Taco Bell night. Dude, it was, it reinvigorated my love for the game, and I'm new to it, and it was unreal last night. I was amped. Wade, did you watch?

Wade, did you watch USA last night? I did not watch. I went out and, so I went out and played catch with my sons. Okay. That would be my excuse. Okay. But, no, it's, yeah, my guys, I've got little guys and they're not, they can't sit still for a whole soccer game.

So we went out and had a, the sun's, it's summer, you know, you got to take advantage of the long sunlight. So that was my, that was my excuse. Yeah, I like, I admire soccer players. The game, the game kicked off at six mountain time. It doesn't get dark until 11 p.m. You could have played catch at 10.30 with your kids up there. You had time to watch the game. Yeah.

Yeah, you know, priorities, I guess. But, no, I admire soccer players. I admire the athleticism. I think it's very cool. It's not how I choose to spend my time. It was, it was, I could have watched it, actually, because I'm a baseball guy, and Mariners weren't playing last night. So I could have watched it.

It's on me. I don't mind people. I don't mind people not trying to force it. God forbid you miss one of 162 in baseball, one of 162 Mariners games. I missed that one Wednesday night game. God forbid. You're below 500. Seattle Mariners might actually miss one of their 162 games.

Yeah, well, below 500 is still second in the division. So that's pretty... I know, because my team's in the same division. I'm with weight on the athleticism, though, of soccer players. I mean, it's pretty cool how they can just, like, go and stomp on people's Achilles like that. He deserved that red car. They don't need water bricks either, let's be honest. See, listen, dude, let me tell you something else about your antisocial.

This is the thing. Like, the whole culture has moved your way. way and it's the worst. You're a black pillar. You don't understand comedy. You think that rage baiting me is comedy. It's working though. The best comedy is when we laugh with each other, not at each other. And this whole like generational rage baiting, laughing at each other, you're just still alone. You're laughing by yourself. So have fun with that. It, I think he likes that. Loner, loser. The, um, it's, it's not a red card, Dan. It's, it's not a red card, Dan. It's infuriating, and he's out for the next game against Belgium.

Should we look at it? It's not a red card. You can put it up. These two non-socker guys won't have. He doesn't even see Moore Hremovich coming. He's coming on the outside of him, and he jumps in front. Just not. God.

Do you see the picture? Shut up, Patrick. Do you see the picture I sent you from Miriam? Spikes right in the leg. Oof. The Miriam Webster Dictionary. Yeah. Did you see the picture going around with Messi doing this?

Yes. To somebody else, and it's no. foul whatsoever. And here, we've lost him. Okay, we survive last night. We survive a man down for 30 minutes. We hit a free kick, incredible free kick. The crowd goes bananas, USA, USA.

And now we have to go play Belgium, who's no pushover. We have a legit chance to win. But without, he's one of our two best players. Without him, it's going to be. By the way, here's a question for you. I think we're really close to what was necessary in this World Cup for a soccer explosion. So what I mean by that is every World Cup has the opportunity to explode soccer in popularity and participation. This is a victory now.

This is a victory. Should we not win another game, we did not disappoint in this World Cup. But if we win one more game, now we're talking real upside for the world of soccer in America. If we win two more games, it explodes. It explodes. What do you think, Dan? Absolutely. I completely agree.

I mean, it's going to become a cool sport, number two in the country. I mean, there's no question. And by the way, we're playing, I tweeted this out last night. We're playing really good soccer. We're not just like kicking the ball and getting lucky goals. Dude, we look, in, I just want to say it's for one second, I'll move on from soccer. The cool thing about soccer is it's two things at the same time. It's individual and team-based.

So when you're growing up playing soccer, which I didn't, but I raised two boys that did, you're always going to reward individual brilliance. That's what it is. They're going to progress and elevate, and probably they should. Like, that kid by himself is special. But at some point, the game is not 11 dudes doing something brilliant. That doesn't mean individual brilliance has to be totally excised from the game. But that individual brilliance has to fit within what 11 other dudes are doing.

And what the Americans are doing right now is so cool to watch, one guy moves, another guy passes, he moves. It looks like water. It's like it's flowing, bump, bump, bump, one touch passing. It is, yes, still moments of individual brilliance. Last night was Malik Tillman and Balagan. But their individual brilliance wouldn't work if everybody on the field was playing that way. And so it's about those two things coming together at the same time.

Your individuality, but also 11 dudes working in harmony. And when that happens, it is really one of the coolest sports to see. That's it. Into my sermon. Wade and Patrick already checked out. And I know they left. Are they on screen? I'm in.

I'll watch it. I'll keep watching. I'll join late. It's a great sport. Everyone should try. I'll come in for the Belgium game. Yeah. Love it.

Now they got to beat my favorite player in the world, Kevin DeBrona, in Belgium. And my Abadu. Okay. Yula Onana, I like him too. He's 6-5. I like big guys. Yeah. Okay

The Rock We talked about this at the top So the rock Dan you put up the elements I'm not I'm not into that lately The The rock Is he under fire?

This is the big question George Taked From Star Wars And Will Wheaton Which I had to remember who Will Wheaton Was but he's the dude from stand by me And I think he was in a remake of Lost in space or Star Trek,

a more modern Star Trek, I think. Star Trek, yeah, so both of those guys are Star Trek guys. So two Star Trek guys got mad at the rock. That's the story. Yes. And this happened on threats, Will. That's the story. End the story. You're right.

Wait, that's it. Two Star Trek guys got mad at the rock. Breaking. I don't know why. It feels like there's nothing left to say. You just put a rip on it. Two Star Trek guys got mad at the Rock saying he's cowardly and silences complicit complicity for staying out of politics because he won't give in to Trump derangement syndrome. Here's what I find the question or the conversation beyond two Star Trek guys got mad at the rock. It's just two Star Trek guys.

But where do you think we are right now culturally? One of the coolest things about the election of 2024 wasn't just a political win of Donald Trump, but the victory of culture. It truly felt like a fog lifting where guys like us were made to feel like we're totally on the edges and we're not. Our opinions are not mainstream. And what was revealed is, no, no, no, we actually are. And what we believe is common sense. And I do wonder, though, that was one of the coolest things about 2024. I don't care what Theo Vaughn believes this or that.

I don't care what Joe Rogan, but I do care that the culture at large begins to see the light. That's what I do care about. And it felt like a huge victory for that in 2024. However, I kind of don't know where we are now in 2026. Yeah, I think it was that the Rock endorsed. first Biden in 2020 back in the day, which, and then later on said he regretted it. It's interesting to think back there to when it was really easy to think that the any kind of, that Trumpism itself was kind of a blip on the inevitable, like inevitable race of progress. And so Trump is just kind of this last gasp of from the left's perspective, authoritarianism and fascism or whatever.

And so at that point, it was very easy for the rock to think, like, oh, yeah, if I do this, it's the most popular thing I could do. And now he's backing away because it wasn't, turns out it wasn't the most popular thing he could do. And, yeah, it is an interesting thing that the left at some level has always seen themselves as inevitable. And the right has tended to see itself as an insurgency, as something that's having to fight back against this inevitable force. And the election of 2024 made it feel like, oh, maybe the left in America, the victory of the left in America is not inevitable. Maybe the long march of progress for the left. Maybe it can stop. Maybe we can actually turn around.

And that was the first, you know, real national feeling that that could happen. So, yeah, of course, the Rock. The Rock is the typical kind of guy who really wants to succeed right now. Because under Trump, you're having a, like, entertainment-wise, you're having a kind of, even if it's even if at the bottom it still kind of has progressive assumptions there's still like a resurgent masculine kind of aesthetic that people are trying to put together in movies and TV shows So the rock like really needs to still appeal to red state Americans, but he feels like he's burned his bridge and burned his bridge six years ago or whatever So it makes sense that he would want to back up now

Yeah, I see all of this as like you're never going to be able to please everyone in 2026 However, my hope is that You can that like he can recognize like, oh, I shouldn't necessarily just assume that the left is inevitably victorious and that I can just break my neutrality. My first ever political endorsement is for Biden in 2020. Like that that actually we are pretty divided and that there are plenty of people who would not be supportive of a further march of the left. So Dwayne told that to me that that I regret voting for Biden thing or a regret endorsing Biden. That's the end, basically, of my political conversations with Dwayne Johnson on or off air, pretty much. So I'm guessing here.

I think if I'm guessing, Dwayne is probably conservative. That's my guess. That's my guess. Okay. Dwayne is also a massive celebrity and has no upside in waiting into the world of politics. No upside. So what he's publicly going to be is the thing that is the main thing at the moment in the culture. Do you see what I'm saying? And so if you rewind that clock to 2000, whatever it was,

I guess it was 20, Biden would have felt that way, right? Biden and the march of Democrats against Trump would have felt like the main thing. And that totally flipped by 2024. And that's what I don't know where we are now. Like, I don't think Will Wheaton and George TK represent anything near the center of America culturally. They don't. They don't. They're. They're not important. Their criticism is not reflective. But I don't know with the war in Iran, you know, gas prices in general, where the main vein of American culture, if it's a river, I don't know where it's turned in the last two years. You know what I mean?

Like, I don't, I just don't know. And that's largely the people weighed that will go along to get along. Those are the people. They do have an instinct that I actually think that mainstream trends towards patriotism, trends towards, it's always been said this, but somewhat center right. I think it does trend towards common sense, but it's also fearful. That mainstream is also fearful and capable of being manipulated through mechanisms like COVID or race guilt and things like that. Yeah, there's plenty of that for sure.

I would certainly agree with most of that kind of assessment. I think that people are looking around to try to find what the consensus is. And yes, there are people who, like, your average small town is, yeah, they're going to show up at the Fourth of July parade this weekend. It's going to be amazing. They're going to love that. And they're not going to be sitting around thinking about ice or whatever. But I think that the Trumpism, the kind of resurgent patriotism, or at least basic baseline love of America thinking that it's a good thing. thing, I think that's actually reinforced by the World Cup.

And I think that that, it's, even though it is a sort of global sport and they're all coming here, we're hosting it. And like, we're succeeding really well in it. So I think that all of that stuff does bode really well for at least having a generally pro-America position. And I think the smartest thing that anybody could do is just be like, okay, well, patriotism itself is basically the avenue for patriotic If you even just kind of a little bit like America, then your avenue for that is MAGA, basically, like politically. And I think that that's, and so whether, whatever you think about the war in Iran and whatever you think about gas prices, you can argue about that within MAGA. And that's, that's kind of what I say is, what I would say is the hope for any kind of political mainstream in America. Kind of has to be intra MAGA debates, is my opinion.

coming up chef andre rush celebrity chef former white house chef retired master sergeant on will king country yeah because the the opposition is increasingly openly embracing anti-patriotism increasingly embracing globalism open borders socialism which are you know antithetical to america okay uh dan hold on because chef ander rush is going to join us in just a second but i want to do one more topic and i don't want him to have to address it if he doesn't want to He can if he wants, but I do want to do this topic really quickly. So my old friend, Stephen A. Smith over at ESPN, has a very hot take on the newly formed Los Angeles Lakers. Wade, I don't know if you know anything about basketball either, but the big three of the Los Angeles Lakers now is Luca Donchich, Austin Reeves, and recently traded for Walker Kessler.

Now, those three guys have something in common. They are white. And Stephen A says, what do you think? Lincoln Lakers. Dan, play Stephen A. Where the hell of Los Angeles Lakers think they go on with a bunch of white dudes? Your three top players are white dudes? Really? This ain't golf.

This ain't baseball. Hell, it ain't even soccer. What y'all think this is? Basketball. In NBA history, when have you seen your three most prominent players on a basketball team all be white? And that takes you to the promise.

Somebody got to say it, so I'm saying it. This is basketball. I'm not complaining. I'm simply making the point, the Los Angeles Lakers. You ain't going anywhere being led by three white dudes. Okay. All right. Wade's laughing.

Not everybody's laughing. Outkick as a column up by our friend Bobby Burack talking about how this is racist. And if you reversed it and you had a commentator talking about you can't win with a black head coach in the NFL or a black quarterback. imagine what the world would do. I have two points I would make. One, Stephen A's just wrong, first of all. He's just wrong. Like, several of the best players in NBA right now are white guys.

Luca Donchis, Cooper Flagg, Nicola Yokic. I don't think there's any monopoly on success in basketball based upon one skin color at this point in the game. But number two, I'm not offended. actually. And I can't explain it. I'm not mad at his take. Like everybody else is mad. I do think the hypocrisy is right. If you flipped it, everybody would be freaking out. But I'm not, oh, here's, here's, so I guess the chef wants in on this too. Because Dan just popped him up. Chef Andrew Rush joins us now. Um, Andre Rush, sorry. God, look at Andre's. Andre's a little

more built than the rest of us. It's unavoidable. I'm not offended, Chef. I'm not offended, Wade. I'm not offended, Patrick, by Stephen A's take. I'll let you go ahead first. Welcome to the show, Chef Andre Rush. Thank you for having me. And you know what? I'll be honest with you. I'm not offended either. I actually got a big laugh out of as a chuckle. You know, Steve, he's always over-exaggeratory about everything he does and he makes it big and hard. And that's basically for the views and points about it. But, you know, like I said, I can't discriminate. Like you said, some of the best players in, you know, back from the Larry Burry days to fast forward.

But you think about Toby, you think about other parts of it. It's just kind of like that stigma that it has to be there. So that's what I think from it. But at the same time, you know, I wish I'm a Lakers fan. I'm here in L.A. So it is what it is and I'm going to give them all the praise for it. Wait, wait, wait, at the same time, you wish what? There was a brother in the big three at the Lakers?

I mean, I like diversity on part of it. Everybody was a representation of something to be there, especially with basketball. It's the token of it. You know, basketball started off that way. You know, it's like, you know, kind of like Tiger Woods coming to golf, you know, but it's the same kind of switchover. Yeah. Okay.

Chef, I don't know if you know me, but I spent a lot of time at ESPN. And, you know, I'm going to tell you what I know. Okay, you tell me if you think I'm wrong. Okay. Black America culture thinks that it has a monopoly on basketball, that if you're not black, you really can't talk basketball. Trust me, I was told. You don't know what you're talking about.

Why? Because you're white. And therefore, when somebody like, well, it's Les Luca, we'll see in the coming years with Cooper Flagg, or Caitlin Clark, for that matter, comes in and is awesome. There's going to be a little bit of antipathy towards it. It's going to be a little antagonism. And that's what Stephen A is actually playing on.

He's playing on. you talking about? Basketball is black. You can't win with your three best players being white. And I think that is underlying what Stephen A is saying. You know, I'm going to say this to you as simple as possible. And in elementary point of view from me, is that if you cut me and I cut you, we bleed red. There's no different color whatsoever. So it's not going to say mine is green or it's better or yours is the same, whatever. It's all equal across the board. So I agree with that take on that? Yeah.

So I need to say it to Stephen A now. But I'm not mad. Wade, I'm not mad. I can't do the thing where I get mad. I don't know why. I'm just not mad that he said that. It helps that he's being funny. And like, yeah, it is true that, like,

Stephen A. Smith is a great entertainer. That's, like, his job, right? So when you watch him, he is doing an entertainment show, I love that. But you talked about, like, yeah, people would be mad if somebody did it reverse and said, like, you can't win with a black head coach in the NFL, whatever. whatever, like, I think that would be, like, it would be, we'd be a better off if everybody could say that. Like, if people could just argue and be like, what are you talking about?

And, like, everybody goes back and forth. That's fun. Like, everybody having a good time being funny about it. Like, I think that would mean a lot more health going on. That's what would happen in real life. If we were all hanging out, wherever it is at the barbecue, that's what would happen in real life. If chef Andre said to me, Lakers are never going to win, they're all white, I'd be like,

I wouldn't get mad. I'd be like, you're an idiot. Yokic, Donchich, flag, and we'd all have fun talking about it. That's what would happen in real life, but it's not what happens on the internet. Patrick, you like to get mad, so are you mad? No. I don't like basketball. Okay.

You don't, yeah. I mean, it's just above soccer for me. I don't even, I have no idea. It is funny. I mean, Stephen A. Smith, there's a lot of games to watch, a lot of sports to keep up with. He's kind of on 24 hours a day at ESPN. And so I imagine that this is the kind of take that you would have if you weren't following the sport and just saw pictures of the team.

You'd just be like, you need to have an entertaining take for TV. Like, I'm going on the show in 20 minutes. I don't know. What are the teams even look like? Okay. Like, and he spins gold out of that, you know, yarn or whatever. There's also summer. It's like, you've got to talk about something, you know?

That's true. He's only going to get so much run out of the World Cup over it, over on first take. He's not going to get that much run. So he's got to go to this. All right. Chef Andre Rush is with us here, as you can tell. He's celebrity chef. He's featured on Fox Nation's American Kitchen Season 2, an American 250 barbecue. He's also a former White House chef and a retired master sergeant. Okay, so which presidents, chef have you cooked for at the White House? Bush Clinton, Obama and Trump.

Bush, Obama, and Trump. Is that what you said? And what about Biden? Clinton. No, he was after him. First Trump. First Trump, then Biden came. Yeah.

Okay. Tell me, if you would, like, well, tell me the difference, first of all, in their meal requests. Oh, that's loaded. I mean, you know, I try to explain to people very simple, because they, One of the number one question, what's their favorite meal? You know, what do they like to eat and all that good things, whatnot? But you got to understand is the president. They go everywhere.

They eat everything. They're a little bit older. So they have a lot of dietary and, you know, age restrictions, whatnot because everybody's trying to impress them with creams and butters and all those things, even if they say, here's my restrictions on that part. So to be honest with you, a lot of them are very simplistic. You know, I'll use like Trump, for instance. Trump, he has his comfort food.

What you know is burgers and tacos and things which I eat burgers and I eat a lot of beef, right? So the things they eat, you know, from like the Taramisus or Red Velvet Cakes is just what they grew up off of or some of the things they came from the pieces to, you know, pushing with the barbecue. They love simple simplistic, but at the same time they try to keep into that regulation of health and diet. So did President Trump, did he like his stuff well done? Is it just a rumor? Okay, okay, I just was curious. But he's always been that way. Everything, and I think it's kind of like one of those things where you get into it,

where maybe if a kid you got sick from something being undercooked or something, like you know that part, and then you got, you know, sick from it, and all of a sudden it's like, okay, cook all my stuff well done. Cook the salmon well done, burgers well done, fish well, everything well done. I know boomers love that. Boomers love, well done. You think, I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true.

I think Trump did. Not the entire generation. Everything was wrong done. You have two examples. Yeah. But Obama and Clinton were younger. So you had them in their 40s. So to the older thing, you know, I assume then, therefore, they had a little bit of a broader diet.

So President Obama, you know, he was a fitness person. So he played basketball all the time. He did his whole part of it. So his routines were on par. And a lot of times, the wives that control their diet, you know, she, uh, speaking of that, um, uh, Clint's wife, she would control what he'd because before social media was crazy like it is, focusing on, you know, Donald Trump about the burgers, Clint was a diehard burger. fan. Very diehard, if you guys know that, right? And she was like, I remember. Yeah, exactly. But it wasn't on social media. It wasn't that type of generation back then. Yeah, when he was running, there was that famous photo of him, like, stopping it fast.

He'd go for a jog, and he'd be in all his jogging gear, but he'd stop at the donut shop or stop at the burger shop and get something like that. He, that's a car load. Did he lose weight with you? Did he lose weight? Because he, I feel like. like when he was running, he was heavy, but in my mind, somewhere he got, he got thin. I don't know if while he was in office, he got thin. I think he was, he got thin and why he was in office, but I don't know if that was from, that I think it was from stress. You know, take a little weight off of you.

Okay, people ask you what their favorite meals are. Here's what I actually want to ask you, because I think this meal defines your day. I know it does mine, okay? And it sets the path for the rest of the day. It's breakfast. What do you do for breakfast? And I think if I eat healthy for breakfast, it's easier for me to keep going all day long. Healthy. If I skip breakfast, then I'm super hungry by lunch and I'm going to make bad choices. So how did they start their day? Who did what for breakfast? So a lot of them didn't eat breakfast. And if they did, it was sometimes very simplistic on that end of it. Right. I mean, because a lot of people, like even myself, I'm a, I'm a breakfast guy. I love breakfast, but I'm hard charging also. Like I got up at 3 o'clock this morning. There's some pushups came out, working, working, working, I'm drinking my coffee. I haven't had breakfast yet. Right. So on that part of it, you know, like for instance, I'll ask you what do you, what's your token? Because I'm curious, what's your token for breakfast? All right, I got two. I go one of two directions for breakfast.

I either eat Greek yogurt with hopefully a little fruit and I like this protein cereal called Catalina Crunch so I can get more protein. Because I don't like eating yogurt without some crunch in it. I need something in there to chew on. So it's either that or eggs. I like eggs. And if I can reduce the carbs with the eggs, I might throw a piece of toast in there or a tortilla. but it's based around eggs. You know, I like you.

You know what? Because that's my... You know, I do... I was doing 24, but I do 12 softball eggs a day. I eat 12 softball eggs. But my go-to is Greek yogurt, plain, nothing more. I use pure honey. I put it inside.

I use my protein crunch to go inside that. I use... I get a little sweetness from... I like my crispy, crunchy apples with a little sweetness in that, so I cut them up fine. I put my bananas inside of it. I'll put my seeds and chide and everything inside of that.

I'll mix it up in. I'll get all that from that. Then I also do a homemade protein shake to get on. I haven't taken a lot of calories because I'm traveling so much. I'm exerting a lot of energy. I'm only like 280 pounds right now. So being down, right? So that makes me a little smaller than what I'm usually doing.

The Greek yogurt thing, I'll tell you why it's one of my go-toes is ease. It's easy. I don't have to cook anything. I just got to mix a few things together. And I use a bunch of honey too. Because I buy the plain yogurt, no flavor, and then I put the honey in it. You get up early. You do 2,200 push-ups a day.

Why? And how do you get them in? Why is they're not a workout. They're my cause and my reason. 22 vets, unfortunately, commit suicide a day. Actually, that number is higher. You think about 44 because the military doesn't count for their spouse is the that goes along with that.

My whole platform is about suicide awareness, mental health. That's where I speak, what I do, whether it be from USA to going on all the basis, whatnot. We do 22 a day for suicide awareness month. I tried that. 22 took me a second. And then I did 222. That was too simple.

So I needed something more, which is 2-2-2, angel numbers, but also goes not only for the military vets, for first responders, for their families, the kids, and kind of like a driving force all across the board. and I break it up into 125, 17.5, 17.6, 1776. So everything has a reason when I do it. I don't do Saturday and Sunday anymore because I'm usually on a plane. I have to do a carb load and eat a lot more.

Let's take a quick break, but continue this conversation with Chef Andre Rush and Wade Stott's here on Will Cain Country. Okay, so you break it up into, say again, how many, how many you do at a time? 125. 125. And then the math on that is you have to do 125. How many times a day to get to the 2-2-2-2? 17-6. Oh, man, man.

That's, you're doing more, that's more than once an hour. You're dropping down to the floor and doing 125 push-ups. I mean, if you're getting a good night's sleep. It's a short break period. Unfortunately, like a lot of, of us were a bit different. I say that just because of me growing up in Mississippi, getting up early since I was a kid, going into the military, still getting up early, getting out of the military,

and just rolling over to the same platform. I can do a lot more on less, but also I do, I'm on different time zones. So I travel all the time, wherever I go, whether be in Japan or Korea, if I see three o'clock that day, it's three o'clock everywhere. That's the way my body works. really you're on that you stay on that same rhythm no matter what the clock says no matter what the clock says wow um do you also work out i mean i'm looking at you and if anybody's listening on spotify apple or on the radio he's 280 and there's i mean i'm going to guess your body fat is about 12% maybe less 10 is 12% i don't get to work out a lot i'm an endurance trainer so I hate to say this, because people are going to probably come in on it.

Believe me, I'm not no Stephen A. I, in military, I did all endurance. I do a zero amount of percentages of weight. And, you know, from 25 to 50 reps, each one, focus on muscle memory, longevity. And so I get to work out. If I work out three times a week, I am imperfect. I'm happy. Okay, so that's working out three times a week on top of these push-ups.

somebody is Dan Dan just told me to pull this up This is somebody watching the show right now Eddie Curtis says Will you and chef Eat very similar Why don't you look like him How many calories a day

Are you eating chef To all of them But honestly I try to do Two to one Well I do I go off of protein I do two to one protein Two grams of protein

Every body pound But If I get at least 400 grams of protein in, which actually, believe it and not, it's a lot. It's very simple. It's very simple. I just told you I'll eat 12 to 24 eggs. You know how many, how much protein is in one complete egg, which is a superfood? Let me guess.

An egg is like, isn't an egg only like 12 grams of protein or something like that? Close. If you do the whole important part, that's why I do a softball egg, which goes down really simple, easy. People don't know that if you do a heartburn. boiled egg is hard to chew. It's rubbery. So it doesn't go down. But if you think about that times 10, you're already at 120, you know, a grounds of protein. And then I do my protein when it has another 80 or 90 grams of protein. And then I do my yogurt, which has another, you know, 60 grams of protein with everything added inside of it. It doesn't take a lot of time.

Besides, here's the thing. Your body's not going to process all the protein. You're going to get rid of it. But that's how you know you're growing and you're doing it. It's that natural cause. It would have the fiber or whatnot in it. So I tell people to think about their health. And I also tell people the first thing that you do is get your blood work check. Get your blood work check where you jump into any deep dive thing, especially if they're like a regular person. And I go to all the shows from with Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Olympia to all those things. But in a realistic style, I can't live like a bodybuilder. I can't live like a cardio person. I'm not competing. I'm doing everyday life. So two to one. I tried, and I'm not doing a good job of it right now.

When I was, about a year ago, I was in pretty good shape. I was trying to do 170 grams of protein a day, which would be one to one. I weigh about 180. So that's one to one. And it took work. I mean, you say it's easy, but it takes focus on, and by the way, if you're taking in that much protein to you what you said earlier, you don't need to worry about the calories. Because Your calories are just not, they're going to be in the right ratio if you're taking in that much protein. But I found that hard to get that much, man. That is a lot of, it's a lot of chicken breast. A lot of chicken breast.

You don't have a chef like me, though. Chicken breast is a nemesis. It's a nemesis. Everybody overcoves chicken breasts. It is like a job. I think it's a superfood. It is a superfood. It's one hundred percent of food.

Chicken. Yeah. I mean, that's, that's, it's two to one on calories to protein. You get 40 grams of protein for 200 calories. I've seen nothing that matches it. Nothing that matches the chicken. You're right. You're right. I do need to hire you. And you do. And you do need to work out with me as well. And you do look similar. It sounds like all I have to do is drop down and start doing push-ups. You're not doing the Navy SEALs for this year. You might as well start push-ups. I know. No, I'm not doing the Navy SEAL swim, so vanity is not motivating me to work out. Vanity is a great motivator. It's a great motivator. By the way, at that 170 grams of protein chef, I did get my blood work done. They did say there was a little bit of an indicator in my kidney. That's not bad.

They just said it's a little elevate. I can't remember what the marker is in my kidney. And she said, that's probably from you doing so much protein. Those doctors will tell you don't be doing so much protein. No, no, they do. But, you know, you got things for that. You also got to make sure you cleanse that. You know, you have to drink your liquids, your fluids, your fluids, and go along with it, your electrolytes.

I flower at times so people don't know that you need that salt, that electrolytes to go up high because you can dehydrated from it. And that's a strain on your kidney all the way across the board, especially doing things where people don't. A lot of people want to follow everyone else and think about it. It's kind of what we're doing like an American Kitchen. It's like want to go and kind of deep dive in and show the healthy part of it. And even with me, I was just at the UFC and with Mr. Kennedy's people want to do a show where it is focused on upside down pyramid, focus on younger kids, which I have a lot of in my platform, thank God, and be able to teach them and learn them, teach them how to cook first off, and like especially young boys and girls, but at the same time how to use what they have as far as eating healthy with a low cost and low budget.

I want to ask you about your special up at Fox Nation. Wade, do you want to jump in? Do you have anything for this, chef? You're sitting there, and I feel bad I've boxed you out. Yeah, no, it's good. I would ask 1,000 questions about Trump's regular diet. But I, yeah, I'm fascinated by all this stuff. I want to hear more about the RFKs or the Mr. Kennedy series as well.

But, yeah, I'm excited to hear about the podcast. Oh, let's do this. Wade. Yeah, how many grams of protein you get in, Wade? I don't know. I just eat three meals a day. That's all I know. I get it out.

I do my best. I had an apple and milk for breakfast. Can you chef explain? Can you explain President Trump? Because he is a medical mystery. He's 80 years old. From the outside, it appears like he eats garbage. I'm sure he didn't when he had you cooking for him.

And he sleeps very, very little. How is he the way he is? That's very simple. He's an alien. I'm joking. You know, he's a one-percenter. I'm going to be honest with you on that part. People will doubt things that they don't know it that they can't do. And, you know, it's when I say people, hey, sometimes I only sleep two hours or three hours or sometimes I don't sleep at all, they're like, that's not possible. So when I say that you have to be able to gain as much mass and muscle mass.

I'm like, well, here it is. I mean, you don't know until you try it. I say on that part, but if you have a mission or a token like President Trump does, I mean, he believes in what he believes, that he's been doing it so long consistently that he just takes himself out of that mental mindset of normalcy and just goes and deep dives of what he believes in. So, you know, I mean, I thrive it. It's incredible. It is alien.

You're clearly an alien as well. The RFK inverted food pyramid. Tell us about that for a second. Wait asked about that. And I'm interested, too. When was the food pyramid developed? Was that like in the 60s? I just remember learning about it in the 80s.

And it's pretty insane, the old food pyramid, if you look at it. And so what are you and RFK talking about on the inversion of the pyramid? So inversion of it is basically what it should always talk about, healthy cooking, healthy food, what you should and should eat, what the benefits are, all the whole parts of what he's always talked about. The great thing about him is coming in and looking at things. on a very realistic way and not a political way saying that we need to do this more for the FDA or over part just like for instance with the peptides recently where he just said

okay he's gonna open it more which means having a peptide company now and doing it as I'm deep diving in it because I've never done it before but I do know there's benefits from it which I love going back to the pyramids is my focus is out of my 20 million I have about 57% younger kids right I live off of them I strive off of them I've had success rates with them along with some unfortunate events that happen with me personally, my family and my soldiers and whatnot, but also with their kids. So now it's a time to teach them about it. I say it very simple because the kids are our future. You know, I go all the shows and I do this thing called, don't label me. It's about simple label reading. One thing it is that kids now, I don't care,

even at 20 years old, they don't know how to read a simple label on the back of a box. They have no idea what it means. The percentages for FDA, how many it should take and whatnot. And you know they even more so well because you have to go and look at it, but they don't do that now. Now it's a world of fast food. Fast food is taken over. Everything is taken over. Everything has been, I use the word, kind of dumbed down, especially here in the U.S. where it's a normancy to go and get fast food 24-7, right? But the kids are stuck on it. That's all they know. They're gamers, their streamers, they're this part. People are selling to them. You've got the people. who are doing brain deals to them saying promote my unhealthiest thing that we

could possibly have and I'll give you a couple of dollars for it and we want to take that back because they're going to be the future and they are so it's a longevity and also the preservatives of our life you know going forward because people don't know that you can change your genetical makeup after a long period of time if you work out if you have high blood pressure diabetes and your generation works out then the next one comes and next one keeps working working there that's going to dissipate and that's been proven over history and time. Right, right. Um, it made me, listening to you also thought about something that you're

talking about mental health. You know, I just, I've done a lot on this. I'm just curious what your thoughts are on it. I'm still trying to learn about peptides, by the way. I'm a little, I'm, I'm, I'm having trouble going all the way because I'm really skeptical of putting things into my body that I don't know everything about yet. And, um, I mean, I know a lot of guys who are doing it and they, they outwardly show great results. Great results. So the question is, what's happen internally over the long term. That's the big question that I don't know. But I've done a lot of interviews on this chef, on Ibegain, and there's a new-ish documentary up at Netflix on Ibegain. And this documentary is awesome. It has Marcus and Amber Capone, who we've had on the show,

former Navy SEAL, and man, he walks the path with like four or five of these guys who have serious issues. Most but not all. connected to military service, and their trip down to Mexico and doing Ibegain. And it's not a cure-all. It's not that. It's not a miracle drug, but putting them on the path to Middala. Have you seen anything about this? Have you seen this documentary or familiar with this?

I'm familiar with it. Yes, we're diving. Yes, going to Mexico. You know, it is, and I'm glad you brought that up. Of course, you know, a lot of guys, I remember when I first got in my part, there's still a gangning block. And I was working with some of the guys on the hill as far as trying to promote it. and they were taken it away from him from the military guys with PTSD, with, you know, ideation, whatnot, whatnot.

And it was like, no, no, no, it's not going to work. It worked for me, right? It worked for a lot of other guys who, purple art recipients, you know, even just simple guys. And so it's all that part of it is what's true and what's not true. What's control and what's not control. Now, for instance, I'll go back to my part of it when I was doing this and said, okay, we're going to do Argo Health for to peptides, but I want to do telehealth because it's the only way we know. It's going to be certified. It's been stripped. It's going to be third party, seven party tested. You want to go

all across the board. And we're going to make it where it has a reason to cause behind it and not a money grab. So we'll do the lowest of the thing where people does not have insurance and so they can know that everybody is worth it. Now on that part of it is you take a chance anytime you do anything in life, no matter what you put in your body. It can be a pill that's been expired for three months or three years. You don't know. on that part of it. It could be something that I've happened with me being the military. I've had some botched surgeries from the doctors that I trusted. You know, so I don't know. Everything is going to be a 50-50 chance on that part of it. But all I do know, like I say, what I began on that part, it was enlightening, you know?

And those are guys that I know I can trust because they walked the path and they've seen the same light that I've seen. And they do the same straw as I have, the same way and vice versa. So it has to have some kind of credibility to it with the people that actually doing it. And even with me with Pebble. I haven't deep dive in it, but I said if I'm going to get and put it in front of everybody, I'm going to start it to see that transformation and take that journey so you can see how I actually am. Because you know what they say is don't just, it's kind of like those commercially talk about the fast food where all the CEOs started tasting their own food. And now someone looked like they were going to gag because they never tasted it before. So there you have it.

Yeah. Okay. So, chef, one of the main reasons you're joining us here today is that you've got this, Fox Nation, America's Kitchen Season 2, an American, an America 250 barbecue. It starts streaming tomorrow at Fox Nation. Tell us a bit about this special. Oh, wow. I'm excited about this special.

It's been in the works for a while now. I think I talked to Brittany from Fox about over a year ago when she first brought it up. And now from Richie is here. I think that first episode is me, David Burke, Robert Irvine. and it's basically about the commotion of the 250 first off, you know, happy anniversary to the USA and everybody in it, but at the same time is, is a way to bring unity together, bring everyone back together for the homestead.

I'm from Mississippi, and the best part of me being from where I'm from was sitting down on a table eating together with my family, that camaraderie, that love, that respect, the whole admiration of it, and showing different cultures. Or now I go over to different countries, and I love the food. I love the mission stars, but what I love most so is the culture behind it. I don't care if the mom and pop shop, you know, think about that Anthony Bourdain type of lifestyle back in the day where he just goes to a place and he sees the ajama, someone just sitting there

making some by hand that doesn't look appetizing, but actually is the most amazing thing you could possibly have. And so that's what American Kitchen is. It's kind of bringing people back to where they belong, not only cooking, you know, with each other, but having your families cook, having the kids cook together, having their families cook together, and looking in the foresight and bringing it back from those days. What is the quintessential American meal? Is it barbecue? Well, it's funny you said that because I had David Burke and Robert Irvine. They made for the barbecue a steak, 45-day dry steak, and they made this flank flank.

salmon and I made when I first went to my first Connais duty station O'Connis in Korea I was in love with it because the flavor profile was crazy the people the culture and so I had one of my first thing I had I fell in love with was Bogo so for the 4th of July in Korea I want to combine both flavor profiles together with ribs and Bagoi so I made Bagogi spare ribs and they were absolutely insane so yes I was that. It's a token. Yeah. I think it's barbecue. I do. I think that's, it, coast to coast, right? I mean, yes, it has its cultural centers in the South and Texas and places like that, but coast to coast.

Everybody loves a rack of ribs. Everybody loves a brisket. And you want to get funky with it with some Korean stuff? That's fine. It's still a brisket. It's still ribs. And you can get, one of my favorite rib recipes puts coffee on it, a dry rub, coffee. coffee on the ribs? I love it. That's my first viral video. It was a steak coffee rub. Oh, yeah? Your first viral video. Okay. They went crazy about it before a thing.

Well, I'm going to start doing a bunch more push-ups, and I'm going to look into peptides. I think everybody should check out Fox Nation's American Kitchen Season 2 and America 250 barbecue with former White House chef Andre Rush. Chef's been fun conversation. Thank you for joining us here today. Thank you, sir. I had a great time. Thank you guys. Thank you. All right. Take care. Before we say goodbye to Wade, I want to tell you this from Chevron. Since 1879, their people have been more than a source of energy.

They've been a source of progress, helping deliver record U.S. energy production and fueling the breakthroughs that move America forward. Learn more at chevron.com slash 250. All right. Wade Stott's the host of the Wade show with Wade. Make sure you always check Wade out. We appreciate him hanging out with this for a long time here today. What are we doing tomorrow? Not really getting...

Okay. Come back up. Pat and Dan. What are we doing tomorrow? Oh, and Wade's still here, which we appreciate. Yeah, wait still here. We're going to Philadelphia tomorrow. Yeah.

Tonight, actually. I'm excited. Yeah. It'd be fun. Dan and Will are going to slum it in... Should we be excited? I mean, honestly, I'm trying to get excited. It's Philadelphia for the Fourth July.

I'll be hosting on Saturday as well. everybody's saying it's 101 degrees. I've had a hard time mustering fear coming from Texas, but they're telling me I don't have to wear a coat and tie anymore. It's like super hot.

Can I wear shorts? Yeah, if you're off camera, you can wear shorts. Okay. Yes. I think you're on camera too for this. But just think about this when you're in the heat. You'll be in the city that

started America on the 250th anniversary on the 4th of July around the World Cup. I mean, that's pretty dang good if I do say so myself. We're staying next to the Liberty Bell. It's a great environment. It's a great environment. Yeah, we'll be next.

I don't know if we're going to be with the Liberty Bell or Lincoln Financial Field where there's a World Cup game. We will be at Independence Mall. We will be. Okay. This show. I won't be. I won't be.

Tomorrow. And then Saturday. Tomorrow live noon. We just got news. Go to YouTube tomorrow if you're watching because it'll be live. Yes, everyone watch live tomorrow at noon. Right here on the YouTube channel. Come back.

It's a great guest from Philadelphia. Live. What a great promotion, me and Patrick. You can jump into the comments like Amy White, who says, hey, Will, love your show. You're awesome with a couple heart emotions. Thanks, Amy. What up? What up?

All right. Thank you guys. Wade, thanks for hanging out. everybody, make sure you check out the Wade show with Wade Stats. He's awesome. Thank you, Wade. Thank you so much for having me. I look forward to my mid-70s, Idaho, 4th of July.

You guys have fun in Philadelphia. Damn you. Yeah, I've been up there. It's awesome. Not Idaho, Montana. Same thing, though. All right, Dan, Pat, thanks. Thank you for listening as well.

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