Will Cain Country - The USMNT's World Cup Payday Sparks Outrage (ft. Vince August)

Episode Date: July 9, 2026

NYC’s esteemed socialist mayor has just released his long-awaited map of the city’s ethnic enclaves, but despite listing over 30 neighborhoods, including “Little Egypt” and “Little Palestine,” there is one glaring omission. Comedian, Friend of the Program, and Proud Italian-American Vince August joins Will & The Crew to examine Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s erasure of the Big Apple’s wildly diverse Italian population, and share the reality of modern Italian culture that the Left will do everything they can do bury.Plus, they examine the disconnect between the new payout structure for the USMNT and USWNT as the men are forced to split their World Cup winnings and perform an autopsy on the disastrous campaign of Maine Scandal-Magnet Graham Platner.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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If Donald Trump is a poor person's idea of a rich man, an insult that turned out to be gold for Donald Trump, then Graham Platner is a rich person's idea of a poor man. Here we are again. The U.S. women's national team demand for equal pay has now taken half of the pot of gold brought in by the U.S. men's national national. I feel like I've been here before. It's Will Kane Country. Will Kane Country streaming live at the Will Kane Country YouTube channel, the Wilcane Facebook page. We're here for you.

We hope you will. Do it with the favor. Just hit that follow button on your phone at Spotify or on Apple because, as has become our regular treat, we're joined once again by comedian Vince August. What is up, Vince? I can only imagine what topic we're covering that. You made sure to have me in today. I'm thinking.

I'm thinking. I brought you up in our morning meeting. I said, this is a topic that Vince has actually brought up with us. But what are you alluding to? What topic is it that fits perfectly for you, Vince, August? I think it's the only thing that Mayor Mondami did that made you happy as an anti-Italian. Oh, yeah. He took the boot right off the globe.

Are you kidding me? He took the boot off. He took the little triangle island, took everything off. Who needs pasta. Right. We're erasing canoli from our heritage. Coming for the Italians. Mom Dami.

Even how he says it. And I do have the perfect guest in Vince August, along with two of a day, Stan and Ten, flip out. Let's start there, then. Let's get you fired up, Vince. Yeah. New York City Mayor Zohramamam Dhani has put out a immigrant enclave's map purportedly designed for tourists to understand what's going on around New York City. This enclave map has 30 different ethnic neighborhoods of New York, obviously entitled in most cases, little.

You've got little Ukraine, little Poland, little Pakistan, little Mexico, little Guyana of Queens, little Guyana of the Bronx, little Egypt. I lived in New York for 15 years. No idea where Little Egypt might be. Little Bangladesh. Guiana of, what is that one? Gateway. How many Giants, little Guiannas do we need here? Two China towns, two Korea towns, 30 different ethnic enclaves.

Yes. Suspiciously missing one. But it isn't just one. There are multiple that are missing, but suspiciously missing one. Where is Little Italy? Where is it? Is Staten Island even on his map? because I mean that yes right the whole thing you should just put an Italian flag over

Staten Island just to begin with yeah and listen little Egypt you could tell where it is by the way they walked holy sh that was a great by the way you missed that he's only got two I didn't you miss that town I don't because I was looking at Staten Island what did it what are the two in Staten Island yeah walk like an addiction yeah welcome to the show well nine out of ten yeah our delay with Dallas um he's got two flags on Staten Island. What are they are? Go ahead. Little Africa. There you go. And number 22 is Little Mexico. My image is a little blurry, boys. Little Mexico in Port Richmond. Is that what that says? Port Richmond? Is that a neighborhood in Staten Island? Yeah, I don't know. Yeah.

But he's got a little, yeah, he doesn't have, I mean, the whole damn thing is Italian. Yeah, all of Staten Island. where all that's where the people from Brooklyn, when they moved to the country, the Italians, they moved to Staten Island and Long Island. That was their moving out of the city and moving to the country. Well, what is Jersey then? Is that different Italians? Jersey is an upper crust Italian.

Well, that's when we really made it. That's when people like me started actually going to college and law school. That's for special Italians that earned that extra level. Let me get straight. So when you meet another Italian, There's a lot of Italians there at 1211 in Midtown Manhattan, right? And you guys are sizing each other up. Yes.

And you're like, where'd you grow up? Right. And he's like, I grew up on Staten Island. Right. And he's like, I grew up in Jersey. Right. His opinion of you is, oh, fancy. Yeah.

Yes. You guys, yeah. You guys went way west, way west. That's like California west. We trailblazed all the way across the Hudson into New Jersey. But sometimes we don't even have to ask each other. We could tell by the amount of gold chains that we are wearing. The size of the crucifix will tell.

Okay, bigger, bigger in Staten Island? Yes, yes. I don't even know how much you're joking, but I am fascinated. The Jesus actually talks on the crucifix on the Staten Island. I'm fascinated. I love this stuff. You know, this is the point of like everybody yelling everything is racist. You are so deprived of so much richness in life.

Like to shut a conversation down to be like, oh, generalization stereotypes. Man, get out of here. How fun is this? Because I lived in New York for 15 years. 15 years and I had no idea about this intra-Italian divides between Jersey and Staten. I had no idea that you guys were sizing each other. Then it's funny. Dan brings up a good point.

Then there's the different types of pizza from the different types of neighbor. And this is a real thing because there's a whole brand of pizza that's like the Connecticut. They actually have a name for the style. It's Abitz. Yeah, Abitz, right, Connecticut. And then there's... Yeah. And then you have different type of pizza that came from Rhode Island.

For the Rhode Island Italians, then you have the Jersey, which maybe has some of the best pizzeria in the world. Then you have the Brooklyn. you have the little Italy connection with the cousins who was Grimaldi who was Lombardi over in the middle of the city. Yeah. A lot going on here. Don't you love this? I love it. I was scrolling Instagram before I came on the show.

I don't know why I did that. Just like took a minute to scroll. That's where we were. And I saw this video algorithm. I think this is like one of these, you know, I don't think it's college. Whatever. It's somebody doing like Texas content. I'll give him a shout out.

It's called Road Dog, right? And they were out in West Texas at Texas Tech. And the video was like, what's your biggest red flags for guys and what's your biggest red flags for girls? Now, West Texas, Texas Tech, it's got a lot of, I love it. My wife's from Lubbock. I didn't go to tech. But if my boys chose, a lot of people that went to, you know, where I went to law school is Texas, they look down on Texas Tech for a variety of reasons. But I loved it.

So they were like, what's your red flag? And this girl goes, if he's wearing felt boots. And I'm like, felt. Is she talking about roughout? Like roughout is also in fancier terminology, suede. And I got to admit to you, I love me some roughout boots. I think especially when they get beat up, they look great. They wear in awesome.

But I never thought like if I wore those out to West Texas, would they be going, look at this guy, look at these boots? And I just love when you take a culture that looks monolithic from the outside and you start going, no, no, no, it's not. and maybe it still is to your eyes, but internally, they're judging each other. I love that. Look, wait, so I just want to nail this down. Go ahead. You are the college-educated fancy-pants Italian, if you're from Jersey?

No, and I'll break it down for real, putting the jokes aside. So my parents are first-generation. They were born there. So I'm actually first-generation. They're Italian immigrants. They came here in 1957 from CISO. my first language was Italian. I learned English through school.

So we are like in a real hardcore. I was raised with Italian values in the house. But like I said, told you before, we were told speak English outside the house, Italian in the house. So we're like true Italians in that sense. As Italians that speak Italian, like then there's the second third generation Italians

that say like, you know, Gabagool. You know, it's a good know. Like those people make our skills. in crawl because that's that's not you're not speaking italian that's that's some weird you know you bastardize the language with with you know english and you kind of combined yeah so that's like another level italian right just can i jump in yeah i see italians like real italians making fun of that jersey american tony soprano talk yeah and i don't like it right you don't get to tell them they're not real italians no we do we get to do that yeah we actually do

No, I don't like you. I'm with those guys. I'm with those guys. Oh, gee, you're with the mobsters. Gee, I wonder why. I know why. I'm going to tell you why, August, because you're hanging on to something

that you're not actually... You're not Italian. Do I have to reiterate this every time you appear? You're American. And that guy with the Gaba Gould, he knows he's American. You know what?

I trust that guy. If this war breaks out, I'm taking that guy. I'm afraid you're going to be under the other flag, August. That's where I'm afraid. I'm going to tell you this. Who's real Italian?

But here's the difference between me and that guy. The actual difference. I go to Italy. No one's going to mistake me for an American visiting Italy. And you think that's a compliment. That's an insult. It is. It's a complete compliment.

It's a complete compliment. Because when you came here and you were working in your fancy ESPN studio and you went back to Texas, they were like, who's this Yankee? Who the hell is this guy? He barely has the accent. But you're that guy. That's the point. You're that version of me.

No, because I kept the Italian in me. You lost to Texas. You are so corporate America, New York. He still doesn't have the Texas. That's what I'm saying. We're his accent. His accent gets thicker when he's in Dallas. I'll tell you that.

I look like I'm about to go play a quick nine. Where is it? Yeah, exactly. I mean, what happened to me? I don't even know. Oh, Will. Come on, Will. Does your accent get deeper, the deeper you're going to Texas?

Is that what happens? I don't know. But I don't know. Vince is so successfully lobbied this world that he is Italian, that he's undercut his American. Here's the weird thing about it. I'm sorry, Vince just wore an American flag shirt last time he was on. So I think he's embracing his American accent.

Because Italy wasn't playing, Patrick. He was almost like baiting me. But here's the weird thing about Mandami and how these people don't know their history. It wasn't until like the 1950s that Italians were no longer considered like non-white. Like that took a long time. People, especially someone like him that, you know, looks back into history and the oppression of people. Don't forget the mass lynchings that took place in this country involved Italians. What, second most?

If not near the top. I mean, don't forget. Mass lynchings of Italians? Oh, my God. 1891. Are you kidding me? In Louisiana was one of the biggest stories in our history, how there was a killing of a cop or unliving. I don't want to get your profile there on YouTube. I think it's a compliment that I don't know this story.

Italians haven't been running it out for 100 years to talk about your victim of Olympics. Look up mass lynchings. 1891, Louisiana. There was a trial in Louisiana and the Italian defendants were found not guilty. and they stormed the jail, killed the defendants that were acquitted, and they lynched them. They lynched 11 of towns. It was one of the first mass lynchings that happened in the United States. And the second most lynching of nations, of nationalities, were Italians in this country.

Not considered fully white until the mid-50s. Let's take a quick break, but continue this with Vince August comedian here on Will Kane Country. Cheers to America's 250th birthday. Get 20% off your first purchase at Fox Newswineshop.com with code FNRadio 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 to order. Please drink responsibly.

Welcome back to Will Kane country. We're still hanging out with comedian Vince August. Okay. This is the point. The fully white. Okay, whatever. But that's not just whatever. It's not just whatever.

It's because Mom Donnie. This is the entire point. point. This was not a snub or a flub. It was a snub, not a flub. He is saying today, and his people are saying it's a flub, like an oopsie, okay, which is so effing dumb. It's the original little. Little Italy is like the original Little. Now, I need to be a little bit historically accurate. I think that if we went further back into the 1800s, like the gangs of New York days, there was Little Ireland. I don't know if they called it Little Ireland or Little Ireland, whatever. Hell's Kitchen.

Yeah. Every, well, I'm talking pre-Hale's Kitchen. I'm talking five points. I'm talking, you know, Lower East Side. Yeah. But anybody that's ever visited, much less has lived in New York, knows about Little Italy. Now, little Italy isn't what it used to be, right? We know that.

It's not as Italian as it used to be. It's not as important as it used to be in terms of activity. It's still, like, landmark important. You can go see where John Gotti's office was. You can see Imburto's Clam House where Crazy Joe Gallo was killed. You know, there'll be Italian flags in Italian restaurants, but it'll be a little touristy. But it's there, and it's been there a long time. He did this on purpose.

And by the way, it wasn't just little Italy. There's no Little Ireland, and there are Irish enclaves. I'm not talking about what we said a minute ago. I'm not talking about descendants of the five points. And I'm not even talking about Hill's Kitchen and the Westies. I'm talking about newer Irish immigrants yet still. And that's not on his map. You know what else isn't on his map?

The Orthodox Jew populations. I think he has Little Odessa on there. I have to double check. And again, it's kind of blurry on mine. You guys double check if he has Little Odessa. Because Little Odessa is like a Russian. Well, they're both blurry. I don't know.

But the... I've learned the New York Post. That's a Jewish population, Little Odessa. But he left all of them out, Vince. Yeah. And it wasn't a mistake. No. No, it was within 10.

Yeah. Yeah, I think we can agree. It was with intent. Yeah. And so what's the intent? And that's what's interesting. Okay. Let's read what Spencer Pratt had to say.

Who's, you know, whatever. He's out of his race for mayor of L.A. He's, I think he's getting better. He's still yet getting better. Spencer Pratt says, leaving the Italian Jewish and Irish enclaves in New York City is like leaving Mexican and Persian enclaves out of L.A. It's not an oopsie.

This is deliberate subversion. The communists must erase your history. so he can demolish your home and make it his own. He's been on that line, and he's playing off his home getting burned, but he's absolutely right. You erase history, and I actually knew this is part of the leftist narrative of America is an idea, and we're always on progress to the idea. If you keep it abstract, erase where we were, erase who we were, a race where we come from, erase the constitutional principles, and act like we are.

All we are is an Instagram self-help reel. Then you can make that real whatever you want. You get a blank slate of people and you take them wherever you go. So I do think a racing history is part of it. But the other part is why specifically those groups? And the answer is because you're now seen as the oppressor. You're raising one. Right.

It's raise one lower the other. I mean, it's obvious. We know what this is. and look, are people going to buy into it? Yeah, the people that want to be raised that way, they're going to buy into it. There are people that are part of those groups that also look and be like, dude, I don't need to,

don't raise me that way. I'm not part of this. So, you know, we have to be careful when people like him do this and then we don't get mad at the groups that he's including in his thing. Because then what happens is everybody, Everybody wants to get mad at the groups, like it's their fault.

And it's like, no, no, no, no. This is this guy doing this. So don't start hating on all of those nationalities and groups because this guy's shining a spotlight on them. What do you mean? What I mean? You like, they'll start heading on the Little Egypt's and all that? Yeah. Right.

Because being more divided. Yeah. A way to divide us and be like, oh, you see, man, this is the Egyptians want to take up. No, no. This is this guy doing this and putting a spotlight on those. communities that sometimes those communities aren't asking for the spotlight. That's not why they're how they're asking to be raised up. They're not, they're not looking for that whatever advantage it might bring them by being on this map. And then it's just another way

to divide us, keep us in our separate camps, you know, put us in our separate tents and find another way to just put labels and names on all of us. Yeah, but he is part of a group that does need to be called out. And it is an ideological group. That's the thing. It's political. It's political. I think it's right to his politics. I almost don't even like political because political turns everything into Republican and Democrat. And this is deeper than that. This is way deeper than that. Now, Democrats have adopted this idea in these ideologies, at least in part, but this is more revolutionary than Bill Clinton versus Bob Dole. That's political. Do you see what I'm saying? This is deeper than that.

But this is, and this, and it's sitting in the mayor's mansion of New York City, this crazy ideology. And Mark Hemingway, look, I don't, this is anti-white. That's what this is. There's no other way to read this. And why is it anti-white? Because the goal of all of this is in the end, not communism. We call it that. We say that he's into that. I don't, I think we had this conversation with somebody the other day. The vision isn't actually Stalinism, Leninism, communism. It's a vehicle to get to a reordering of a hierarchical society where we can put, as you said earlier, new people on top and new people on bottom. That's all this is about. And that's what communism is too, by the way.

It's never flat. It's always a reordering of human high. hierarchies. Capitalism, imperfect as it is, purports to create that hierarchical system based upon merit, right? These people want to create a new hierarchical system based upon, um, based upon, honestly, force. That's what communism is. It's force. It's like, I have the votes. I have the power. I have the populace behind me. And it's, they're using ethnicity to create that. to create that hierarchy. And I'm going to tell you why I think it's political. I think he's highlighting those neighborhoods and those areas for one simple reason.

That's his base. That's his voting base. That's who he is appealing to. So when he leaves out the Irish and the Italians, what he's leaving out is, I don't think they're going to vote for me anyway. So you know what? Here's what I'm going to do. Again, I'm going to put a spotlight on all of the communities that either I can associate

with or can associate with me we can assimilate with each other because ultimately these are the people I'm speaking to because these are the people that are going to vote for me, vote for my that's what I mean by when I say it's political and it's politically motivated. With regards to, listen,

as somebody and you know and putting the joke and aside, you know, I'm a very proud Italian American. When I saw it, did it bother me? Was that something I was just like, oh my God, dude, I honestly I could tell you I really didn't blink twice. It was just another

one of those. Oh, here we go. And that was it. It was because in the end what you can't erase... I think it's deeper. Yeah, but for me, in the end, you can't erase where my parents came to. Look, I know my family history. I know what we did. My parents were brought here. My father was

brought here by Butoni Foods. Originally came to Hackensack. There wasn't a little Italy. He moved to Bensonhurst because they didn't speak the language. There wasn't phone technology that could translate. So you needed to be around the community of people that did speak your language. So you knew how to get things done.

So these were people that would help you get around your society, get around what you needed to do in terms of getting driver's license, getting, you know, passports, getting your citizenship, all of that set up. You needed to be around people that spoke your language. And then once they did start learning the language, then they could move back to New Jersey closer to where his job was. So look, you can erase it on a map, but you're not going to erase it from what I know to be the truth. So whatever you want to create, but I'm saying this is the start. This is just the

start. It's an intentional start, but it goes uglier from here. And it's up to people like me. That's why it's deeper. And it's up to people like me that know the truth to repeat it and say, look, you could try to erase that and you could try to make your map. But this is the reality. And I know the reality because my family live the reality. So that's where people like me and Irish people and other people that migrated here have to continue to tell their story. I thought you Italians were hot blooded. Why are you always so even killed? Pissing me off. I thought you were hot blooded.

Law school taught me. Law school did that to you? Yeah, law school did this to me. Yeah. That's a shame. Toned down, Vince. Yeah. No, I do also think that you know, maybe Mimdani didn't actually play a role in the creation of this map. He probably has a lot of radical people underneath him who

probably aren't all that bright. Probably didn't even think about it. Without a doubt, Pat. I mean, it's not like he's thought about it, Patrick. No way, dude. They thought about it. Yeah. Again, apply to, we have to speak to our base. Let's highlight where our base is in all of New York City. Yeah. Okay. I have been doing this career for 16 years. 16, yeah, 16 years I've been in broadcasting.

Somewhere along in the line, I'd say, what is it, probably four years into it, five years into it, the concept of The virality sort of comes around, right? So in 16 years, this Dan play part one is the most viral thing I've ever done. Hold on before you hit play. My most interesting part of this to me is that it went viral years after I did it. Like I did it and it was fine and it was great and all that. But it shocked me when kids started coming up to me and going, hey, I saw this. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I did that a long time ago.

It still comes up. And I can't tell how many people have. It still comes up. How many people? And it ties into the news today. Here's part one. Let me do something that I'm afraid nobody wants to hear or no. Tell you why it's like this.

Now, there's two things, first of all. When you talk about, as Trevor Scales just laid out, the bonus difference between the men's team and the women's team, between what a winner, if it had been the U.S. men, would get in the World Cup and the women. The women got a pool or got paid. out from a pool of $30 million from the Women's World Cup. The men would draw from a pool of $400 million, okay? $400 million, $30 million. Why is that? It's because the Men's World Cup generates $6 billion in revenue. The Women's World Cup generates $131 million in revenue. Okay, so the debate was about at the time, what year was that? In 2018,

probably. That's not right. You want to hear something funny? Equal pay. Real fast? Yeah. So I was getting that clip, right? And it said,

bookmarks, like the clip or the full thing, and it said, Max Kellerman speaks out on this. You didn't even get credit for it. Hell with that. That's the only one I've ever seen said that. I'm getting playing credit.

Max would never make this argument. Trust me. That would touch that. credit. The official video, what are you talking about on ESPN's YouTube channel? Yeah, yeah. I got it from the official video on the YouTube channel. It's not like ESPN labeling.

ESPN is saying that's Max? No, no, no. It's not ESPN labeling it. It's auto-generated chapters within the video. And it identified you as Max because of your beard. Flares. Let's take a quick break, but continue this with Vince August, comedian here on Will Kane Country. Before the next track starts, have you ever wondered who are the people in my old family photos?

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Visit Ancestry.ca slash beginners for details. Terms apply. Welcome back to Wheel King Country. We're still hanging out with committee in Vince August. Hmm. Okay, the issue was equal pay between the U.S. men's and women's national soccer team. And this was at a time when the women were saying, we get a fraction of what the men get. We win the World Cup. They always go out in the round of 16 or in 2018, the men didn't make the World Cup. And so I'm explaining, quite honestly, basic economics to people here. Because the debate is always like unfair or sexist.

Well, here's how we're back in this moment. The men just played in the World Cup. They're out in the round of 16. They had the nation's attention. I mean, absolute captured. Against Bosnia, 30 million watched on Fox. I think another 12 to 15 watched on Telemundo. So you're talking about 42 million people.

By the way, same thing for Belgium. roughly the same numbers. 30 million on Fox, 12 million on Telemundo, which is the highest rated broadcast out of anything, I believe, except for Super Bowls, or NFL games, probably Super Bowls. I don't even think an NFL playoff game gets those numbers. It was huge. And obviously, with that kind of ratings comes big money. And everybody knows this. And that's why the World Cup has gigantic sponsorships and commercials and everything else. Well, today, the news is out. this is the way it's going to work, that U.S. soccer was awarded $15 million for the men's national team performance of the World Cup. It's going to distribute $6 million to both the men's and women's teams.

Split it evenly. The money will remain in an account until the conclusion of the women's World Cup and then be distributed to the players after next year's tournament. Now, this is what they were asking for, right? which is totally unfair. The Women's World Cup will not generate this number of eyeballs, will not generate that level of revenue. And so the men are handing over some gigantic percentage of what they earned to the women. We'll start there.

I think this is fine because, like, I have to give 100% of my paycheck to my wife. So it's not that bad. But, Will, they negotiated it. I mean, it's one of those. Yeah, it's one of those things that you look and say, well, you guys made this deal. They negotiated events over the barrel of popular BS. And here's the other thing they negotiate. Dan, I want you to look this stuff up as I go.

The women negotiated at that time a base level salary. The men do not. So what was important to the women were security. I think each woman's player gets like 150 grand. base salary. And then they get at the time, they got a chunk of their percentage of revenue. The men get nothing, no base. They get paid nothing, only a chunk of the percentage that they earn. So now the women have a base and the upside. The men have no base, and they share the upside with the women. That's what the women get. And you're right. They negotiated this eventually,

but because I guess I lost debates like that, you know, which by the way, play the second half. This is where I lay out a little more of the economics. Give me some more Max Kellerman. If you want to talk about pay disparity, the women's World Cup players get paid out 20% of the total revenue. The men get paid out 7%. As a percentage point, they are getting much more. The problem is for anybody desiring equal pay, and by the way, I think equal pay is a ridiculous

concept in and of itself. If the women generate more revenue, they should get paid more than the men. Don't strive for getting the same. Strive for getting what you're worth. And if you're worth more, then get more. All right. So that's the most viral thing I've ever done right there. That's how I knew you.

But that's the first thing you ever saw of me? Yeah, I think so. That made me follow Max Kellerman on X. So the women seem to have won the debate. They're going to get everything they want. They're getting so much. They were actually negotiating a worse deal for them. themselves. If I'm not mistaken, back when, their deal was actually being negotiated worse.

And they were actually told, no, look, we have a better deal for you. Take this one instead. And they almost like begrudgeonly took this one, not realizing how great it was for them. Someone could Google that and tell me if I'm right or wrong. But I'm pretty sure that they were actually negotiating a worse deal. And then this one got presented to them. And I was like, look, we have an even better one for you. Hey, the weird thing about it to me is that they take. I think the top, was it 20% and it goes to just U.S. soccer to help develop the programs. And then the balance of the 80% is split 50, 50, and then they split that between the players, if I'm not mistaken. To me, look, if you want to grow the sport and after watching a Belgium game, we should probably want to grow it a little bit more.

They should be taking a bigger cut off the top to really help the game. because a lot of what all the other players around the world I hear is it's more important that you're wearing the jersey and playing for your country than the actual pay itself. Because look, all of these players are professional soccer players on teams around the world, whether it's Premier League, whether it's Seria, whether it's here. So they're making money regardless. So do you really want to grow the sport in your country or not? That was the part that, if anything, offended me with that 20%. I don't know how this works, Vince. But look, everybody's having a debate right now about why the U.S. men's soccer isn't better, right?

And we can go through it. Honestly, we could do a 12-part series on it. But I think that most people would probably at least throw into the mixer money. Like they'd figure out, like, you just did. You said investment. Investment means money. Maricio Pachitino, not Italian. He actually is.

He actually is. He's Italian. I know a lot of those Argentinians are, you know, I had to talk to my son about it last night. He goes, you realize these Argentinians aren't even from Argentina. I'm like, yes, they are. They're Italians. Go ahead, Mayor. You can't.

Like they're American. If you're lucky, they're Italians. No, go ahead. Mayor Mondami, continue your point. Go ahead. Put everyone in a box. See, here goes Dan. Put everybody in a box. Now we can't have an interesting conversation.

We're all just gray aliens. We all look the same, act the same. We're just blah. Right. But Pachitino's expensive. Dudes coached everywhere. Huge. So how did we get him? Well, we had to pay him like $5 to $6 million a year. We didn't have the money to pay him. Do you know what they did? Dan, by the way, will you look up while we're talking the ratings on the last women's World Cup? I want to compare that to the men in what they just got. I do have the amount of money. Hold on real quick. I'm finish this. Yeah. Okay, I want that in just a second. Okay. I can't remember which one it is. He's a private equity guy, and he paid for Pachitino's salary. So the point of money, we had to go get benefactors.

In the end, we can debate about whether or not it was worth it. We didn't get any further than we always went. But there is a general belief, hey, you've got to have to pay people. And here we are forking over, you know, half of it to the women's team that didn't earn it. But that's what I'm saying. That's what offended me the most is that we took this money. And we only took 20% of that pool and decided to give it to U.S. soccer and then defied the other part that pro athletes already getting paid in their respective. And listen, I don't want to see these guys not get paid.

I don't want to see these girls not get paid. Let them get paid. But 80, 20? Do we want to grow to sport or not? If you want to grow to sport, then as someone who wears that jersey that wants to see the future generations get better, maybe make that 60-40. and let 40% of that money go to the sport if you really want to grow it. Before we do that, I would say, show me you have a plan, U.S. soccer. I want to know if we get, it's like Democrats.

Like, it's like Democrats. I'm not just going to shovel money at you. You have no history of showing me you know how to spend that money to a successful end. So I'd like to see U.S. soccer's plan. Let me see your plan, Democrats, before you tax me at 45%, you know. We're just going to take LeBron James and put him on a soccer pitch. Oh, here we go. Here we go.

Go ahead and give me the numbers. You both have different numbers, and I'm curious what they are. I have from 2023 article says U.S. audience for FIFA women's World Cup final drops to 2.2 million. Okay, the final. Wait, was America in that final? No. I don't think we were. Yeah, I don't think they were there.

I think we got kicked out. Okay, well, hold on, but we can do apples to apples. Yeah. Two million in that women's final. Obviously, the U.S. is not going to be in the men's final. what do you think the ratings will be? And we're just talking America, I assume, at this point. Those ratings are just America.

What will be the men's final ratings? Let's say if it's France versus Argentina again. What will it be? 25. I would go higher. I don't know if it'll be that high. Really? Oh, that's high, guys.

Without America in it? Yeah. I don't know. People are super into it. Without America in it? I think it was pretty high for Argentina. What about all the foreigners in the U.S. right now? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I was telling you, Will.

I mean, you've got to take into account all the illegals here. They love their soccer. Wow. Well, they're watching on Telemundo. So that's a different. So, okay, maybe you guys are right. Maybe it'll be 20, 25. Well, you can probably look that up, Dan.

What was the men rating from 2022? It was France and Argentina. What was that number? So if you guys are right, you're talking about 10 times the audience. 10 times the audience for the men's. And by the way, that's just a. America. This is a pool of money that also derives from the World Cup and FIFA at large. And so it's a percentage of the entire revenue generated from the World Cup. And if you think,

if your position is we're so sexist in America, Mai Tai introduce you to the rest of the world. They don't give a hot damn about the Women's World Cup. You think in England, you think in Italy, they don't even think it's ladylike that they should be playing soccer. That's a fact. culturally. It's changing. It's changing a little bit. But the rest of the world doesn't care at all about women's soccer and they are exponentially more passionate about men's soccer than we are. So that gulf and revenue, once you expand the market beyond America, gets even wider, wider, wider, wider in every country. In the U.S., the last... Go ahead, Dan. The 26 million in the U.S. for 2022 final, 570 million worldwide.

that. Look at that. So by the way, two million for the women in America, I bet if you spend that worldwide, it's not like that. It doesn't, what did you just say, 26 million for America and 500 something million worldwide? Watch that? What do you think the worldwide audience is for the Women's World Cup? If it's two men in America, I'd suggest to you it's under 20 worldwide. Well, the women in the last World Cup, our women got 1.87 million contributed to the pool. Wow. And the men just got 15. So I'm going to guess it's pretty substantial.

All right. Seven, eight times as much. 22 million for last women's World Cup final. No, that's way higher than I thought. Wow. It's half the men, but that's way higher than I thought. interesting. That ratio's off, by the way.

By a lot. Percentage of Americans of the total. I mean, that suggests maybe we don't love women's sports as much here. Or soccer. Well, doesn't each Premier League club have a women's team also will? A lot of them do. It's a relatively, and Vince, that's a relatively new phenomenon. The Italian teams.

Yeah, Italian teams just started last decade. And what it is is, it's, the sister team of, you know, what the men's team. So like, you know, Juventus has their, you know, their sister club, A.C. Milan has their sister club. Kind of like the WMBA. Let's take a quick break, but continue this with Vince August, comedian here on Will Cain Country. Welcome back to Will Cain Country. We're still hanging out with comedian Vince August.

And I know you don't really watch. But in this, but in soccer world, it's the same branding. Manchester City has a women's team under the brand Manchester City. Yes. Yes. Same brand. I know you don't watch it, Will, but welcome to Rexit. Rexum with Ryan Reynolds and Rex.

Yeah, Rexham. They actually cover some of this in their documentary about their sister team. It's usually like season two and three, and that's why I kind of stop watching it because I'm like, enough of this stuff with the broads, you know. The broads, this guy. You know, you kind of see. It's all right. I'm just downloading some of your photos. Thank you.

Just making sure. I want to see what some of these commenters say. White Hat Bobby says, Women are on observation. Women are on Obama Vision. Men were Fox. More watch men. Obama Vision is Netflix.

That's what White Hat Bobby says. No, no. Obamas were on the board of Netflix. Yeah. Oh, really? Yes. Well, that's my favorite argument. Well, if you marketed the women more or you put them on bigger platforms, then it would rival the men.

It's like, it's such a chicken egg. They were on, they were on, yeah, they were on all the net. Yes, they weren't. Yeah. They weren't on Netflix. Yeah. No, they were on Fox. Big Yep, OKC says the women are also winners with four exclamation points, but winners is beside the points.

My favorite knowledge of this is winning has nothing to do with it. I mean, it can help. Obviously, if the men continue to win, who knows where they would. If they had moved on and played Spain, more 50 million people watched. You'd have more kids that want to be a part of that. Winning gets interest.

All the feminist lefties came out when the men lost. But winning is not dispositive. The best dark player in the world doesn't have a right to claim that he should be paid the same as the sixth man on the Mavericks. It doesn't work that way. You see, he's a better dark player than that dude is a basketball player.

But economics has something. to say about what you get paid here. I got to book this guy. I got to, you've, you've slandered him multiple times over the last year or two. I feel like he's got some stuff to say. I wonder what he would say. What is his name? Look that up, Dan.

Is there a LeBron James of Darts? B.J. Brown says on YouTube, cannot stand this equal pay crap. It's basic economics and shame on U.S. soccer for negotiating the deal. That's the thing. It's just basic economics. and then Bob Phil Taylor is the

is the goat of darts by the way Undisputed Undisputed Really? 16 world championships What Phil Taylor makes 15 My man

Tom Brady Why doesn't he make as much as Tom Brady That's dartist What is going on What does Phil Taylor make He makes It's a lot more than we think Seven and a half to eight and a half

million dollars is accumulated in his career For prize money in his career 15 championships and he's averaging What's wrong with the world? People just don't love darts

Bob Malabali Marley I don't know, I can't read it If the U.S. men's team doesn't create revenue At the same level or above the women's team Why should they be paid equal? Makes no sense. Men in European football earn more

Because they create more. I think he agrees with this. He's just reversing it. Yeah. You know? Because the men do earn more. So they should get paid more. So I guess we folded. This is the deal that Vince talks about. This is the deal that was negotiated. All right. I want to take some time here, Vince, to talk about Graham Platner. I think there's some pretty interesting conversations here about Platner. Let's start with this. Let's start with the people. We haven't played this video, but let's start. start with the people that found Plattenor. They were interviewed by the Wall Street Journal. So these are the DSA. Their job was to go out there and find a guy, a working class guy, and they were interviewed about how much they vetted him. So these two are gyms.

At this point, you hadn't vetted Graham Platner. You hadn't done a full scrub of who he is. How did you go about vetting him? And why did you... We paid a, yeah, we paid a nice firm, a whole chunk of money, and got to... got some stuff back, some of what you've seen on the news we got back, other stuff we didn't. Did the vetting process turn up the tattoo that became so controversial? No. Look at her look at them. It's so great.

We're in a vetting process. At what point do you say, hey, listen, you've answered all of our questions real quick. Hey, can you take off your shirt? It's like a succession. How many times do you readmind comments? For those of you listening on radio or Spotify or Apple, let me paint a picture for you. These two. I'd say they're in their early 30s, to be my guess.

She is what seems to be about a four-foot-eight little Asian girl with glasses on who is a giggle fest while her husband or boyfriend answers every question. Her contribution is to repeat the last word he says in a sentence and to giggle. and he is the biggest beta you have ever seen. And he talks like a teenager. He, like, doesn't finish his sentences as though what he said with that half sentence is obvious. For those of you... And I saw somebody describe his vocal fry. Is that vocal fry?

If you're driving in your car listening to the show and you're trying to picture these two people, imagine you're driving behind a Subaru and you pull up next to... it and you look and you're like, oh, okay. And there's a coexistic on it. No, no, no. I have to change your image. You're driving behind a Subaru and you pull up and you're met with half a measure of surprise that it's not a lesbian.

And then you go, oh, but still makes sense. That's what kind of Subaru. Yes. I heard somebody say vocal, these two are like the perfect, like, whatever, is it, millennial probably. Vocal fry. What is vocal fry? How they talk?

Do you know what I'm talking about, Dan? Vocal fry, isn't that usually like, oh my God? It's talk like that. Yeah. Where you let your voice trail off a little bit to sound like you have no care in what you're saying, but you actually do. It's just an affectation. Right, right. He's such a great God.

And you make that little guttural thing in every vowel? Do you really want that? Oh, my God. I love Maine. Yeah. You need to get a tattoo or a moment. Such great lobsters. So the real

the real victim in this whole grand platinum who's now dropped out of the main senatorial race, the real victim here is actually the media. They were sold a falsehood. Just listen first to Jin Saki. It is an end to what has been an unpredictable, incredibly tumultuous, at times

fascinating, simply because of the political story and ultimately deeply in a raging political career for Graham Platner and raging for all of us. And we have covered this race from the very beginning on purpose because I think it's important that we don't put our heads in the sand and just project upon all of you what we think and only talk to people at a table in Washington, D.C. She kind of does the vocal fry, doesn't she? Did she do that on her vows a little bit? What are you talking about?

You a big soccer fan? Yeah, I've always had a little crush on it. I don't know why. Oh, really? That's a rough one. Really? Oh, I think redheads. My wife's redhead.

Oh, okay. That's that, that's true. All right. You got a kink. Yeah. All right. She was doing a little bulk of right, though. You're right. Well, if you like redheads, I've got more for you, Dan.

Oh, no. Because I've got Molly Jong fast. What is her, I don't know what she is. I mean, not gender-wise. What is her job? What is Molly Jong fast job? American. Political commentator, author.

She's one of these people that I know of because she's ridiculously, insanely, nonsensically, politically, partisanly left, and then kind of flies under the banner of journalism. And here's what she says about the true victims in the story of Grant Platner. You know, a lot of us, I interviewed him for my podcast. I've talked to his team. When the first New York Times article came out, I said, this reads sort of funny. What else is there?

Is there something else coming out? And everyone told me up and down. Absolutely not. And I think all of us heard that same thing from him, from his team, nothing else coming out. This is clearly a misunderstanding. There's nothing more coming out. So they were duped.

They were duped by that. little Asian girl. Did not age well. And that beta dude. They pulled a fast one on everybody in the media. But they blamed it on another company, by the way. She's doing something with her vows too. Team and time.

They drag those vows out an interesting way. I don't know what that is. So the media, Vince, they're the real victim here. That's what you do when you lie. Lying? Is that what it is? Why would I lie? I saw somebody say this.

They used to say this about Donald Trump as an insult. Donald Trump is a poor person's idea of what a rich man is. And it actually worked for Donald Trump that insult because it made him extremely accessible. Whether or not it was true or false, it's like, yeah, he's like a relatable rich person. When they, and they did, the academic elite went and looked for Graham Platner, what they were were rich people finding. their vision of what a poor person is. Graham Platner was a private school kid whose family had money,

who started a fake oyster farm business, whose only client was his mom. And he somehow, probably because of the depth of his baritone, fit the image for them of this guy is working class. And, you know, somebody said he's a political, he's a political,

private school screw up. I saw our friend Alex Barron and say, no, he's not. You're getting that wrong. Private school screw-ups end up in rehab. This dude ended up a sociopath. He chose to do Blackwater and go to Afghanistan. And not be out of patriotism, that's pretty clear. Because this dude has serious issues and serious problems.

But let's play this thing out a little bit in terms of real victims. Are the real victims, I'm being sincere here, are they actually the voters? Because up until literally the last rape victim steps forward, alleged, rape victim steps forward, they were all in on this guy regardless. And they voted for him and he won the primary. And now those people that knew everything, heard everything, that still voted for him, okay? they're now because apparently, and listen, you could call this even election interference, all the House senators and Republicans, I'm sorry, Democrats that came out that said,

you got to step aside, you got to step aside, you got to step aside, gee, where have I seen this before? And now they're going to put in someone else. Those voters that voted for him in the primary, now they don't get a shot to decide who they want to vote for, because now they're going to all of a sudden throw somebody in and say, here's your candidate. I mean, look, for all we know, maybe 30, 35 percent, who knows, even 40 percent of those people would have still voted for this guy, regardless of this, right? Let's be honest. They would have still voted for this guy.

Okay. So they're really the truth. I'm with you. I think the victims are those voters. Okay. I don't know if he's in the chat right now, but our boy first drowned by, who's a Democratic socialist and liked Graham Platner. he's the victim in this.

Yes. And I'm going to tell you why. I disagree with him. And I don't think we need socialist or democratic socialist or communist in the American government. And I would even go further. I mean, there was a time in America where if you were a communist, that was grounds for denaturalization. Right. So I'm on board with that stuff.

We don't need that. However, the voters of Maine said we do want that. We want the Democratic socialist. And if that's legally fine with America, then that is the voters will. and the the the nobody has a bigger establishment problem than Democrats okay they undercut Bernie Sanders for Hillary Clinton we know that happened they took out Joe Biden and placed in Kamala Harris they have a history of undercutting their own voters now I think it was you Vince that said to us last time you were here you don't think this is a full-on

embrace of socialism that you think it's a middle finger to the establishment in part. Yes. That was you, right, Vince? That's what it was me. Okay. Now, let's presume for a moment that you're right. This isn't a full-on embrace of socialism. It's rather a rejection of the establishment. If they do this, and they've already taken him off, and I want to emphasize something else, I think he's a dirt bag. I do. I think there's enough smoke here that there's got to be fire.

This guy, he has sociopath written all over him. However, these are allegations. These are not convictions and we have seen the history of allegations and over time whether or not they've borne out to be true. And I think even Donald Trump kind of defended him yesterday, right? Didn't he say something? Trump said something about, well, there's a lot of allegations. I don't really know. So I hear you. Like, I don't know that this should be the thing that takes him out, right? What if it turns out later, these allegations are fake? I don't know if they are or aren't. I have a long history of defending people against allegations in sports or in. in politics. The point is, this was the excuse for the establishment in the Democrat Party

to take out an insurgency against them. And that's what they did. And who they replace him with will be really, really interesting. It's election interference. You're the Democrats. If you don't pick another Democratic socialist, if you pick some kind of mainstream Democrat in Maine, it will be self-defeating. You will create. more Democrat socialist in Maine. I fully believe that. And I think the Democrats are doing a combination, well, Vince, I think they're doing a, the Chuck Schumer world, right, we'll call that the Estab. They're trying to do two things at the same time.

They're trying to play to this far left stuff and co-opt it. And they may have been successful a little bit with AOC, at least in part. Not now. Or they want to cut it out before it takes over. And that's what they've done with Platner. Right? They're playing footsie and also trying to keep the baby from actually growing. They're trying to do two at the same time. And what they've done in Maine is going to grow the baby.

It will create more Democrat socialist. And I think, and tagging on to what I said last time I was here, this is where the Democrats and the Democratic Socialists have to decide, am I going to let you Democratic Party, am I going to let you socialist run in our primaries on our backs? or is it time that we cut apart? And you have got to call yourself a third party. Because let's be honest, if this guy was not running as a Democrat, if this was a third party candidate, he's still running. He's still running because who's going to tell him to drop out?

There's no one there to, there's no one to tell them to drop out. So I think this is one of those inflection points. Democrats have to sit back and say, hey, do we really want these candidates running in our primaries? Or is it time to look at this and say, look, You guys are a third party. We can't have this mess again. Now, the guy who's running.

Patrick, go ahead. Well, the guy who's the likely replacement for Platner is Troy Jackson. I saw the first round by mentioned him last day or two. And so I looked into him. And he's kind of like walking that Platiner line where he's like, he's a logger. He's a main guy. He's kind of like this outdoorsy kind of guy. And he's also endorsing.

by like people like Bernie, but I don't think he's as radical. But who came in second in the primary? Where's the person that comes in second in the primary? At what point do we look at the actual voters and say, look, this, you were first, that person's out. Next person that got the most votes steps up. So this is why I don't want to hear about this solo the democracy crap from anybody on that side.

The people that scream that are the people that usually don't care about democracy. That's their cover. If we yell about it enough, it looks like we're trying to save democracy, whatever to how that is. And in the meantime, they subvert it every chance they get. Yep. Yeah, totally agree. Totally agree.

It should be Janet Mills. It should be Janet Mills. Yeah. Well, and the job for Democrats is if you don't want to lose to Democratic socialism, then you need to make the argument and persuade the voters. Maybe you're right. Then you can be like, well, you're not going to do this on our ticket. You can do it on another ticket.

But you can't do this backroom stuff. You can't take him out from the inside and replace him. That's what you can't do. You're losing your popular argument. The answer for that is not to negate the popular argument. It's to win the popular argument. But will they do this every single time? When Biden was running, he was losing to Bernie.

And what happens? South Carolina, who is it? Clyburn comes out and says, here's who we're voting for everybody. That's not election interference? How are all these endorsements and withdrawing endorsing? How is that not? I don't think that is.

Adorcements are not. But if you, how about this? When the Democratic Party moves, they move the first primary to South Carolina. That's what I'm saying. On purpose. Right. So that that voice, Clyburn's endorsement and the black vote in South Carolina takes precedence.

It would have outsized influence on picking the next president. Right. That's election interference. We did it this way for how many years. You know what? We can't take a chance on Bernie jumping back in again. So you know what? Let's start in South Carolina where we know we have the guy

who can make the endorsement to make sure that it turns out the way we want it. So again, the victims are always the voters. Yeah. We have more for the other couple if you want. Go ahead. Yeah, we got to hear. from these people. I love this.

The Reddit posts, did that turn up in the vetting process? The firm sent us a thing, and it had some of the posts, but it didn't have all of them. And what did you think about that? How did you think your way through the fact that he had posted these things on social media? I said none of this. Will or should stop him from becoming a US senator? Weller should. What a lot? And shut it?

Hey, they're a gem, dude. Willard Shott. Oh, God. Link to you in a vegan restaurant. Ever talk before or first time? I saw people spoofing it, like a couple of people, and you can't because it's good enough on its own. You know what I mean? Like, her, what is she doing?

What do you call that? She's kind of like massaging her hair or combing her hair the whole time he's talking and looking at him. I was like, I don't need you playing her. her. I just need to see her. Yeah. Nervous tech. Yeah. Oh, it's incredible.

As is Vince August. Will. Will, did you see? Did you see that we got called or you got called out by Ruthless today on their show? No. What happened? Yeah. They called you out for you calling out Josh Holmes.

And they said that you're not. Yeah. Yeah. They even played a clip of you doing it. And Josh has seen the light again. Yeah. He said, they said you're not a team player. What kind of team player?

Fox team player? Yeah. Yeah, that's what Smug said. Damn right, I'm not a team player. Independent thinker, baby. Can't put them in a box. Yeah. In the words of Stephen A. Smith,

hey, smug, in the words of Stephen A. Smith, I'm not changing one syllable. That's exactly where I stand. And that's the bottom line, because Max Kellerman said so. Yeah. Tag that video as Max Kellerman calls out comfortably smug. Well, as a tease, Ruthless will be on the Will Cain Show later today on Fox News channel at approximately 450 Eastern Time. Vince August, always love having you on.

Thank you so much, Vince. My pleasure, brother. Thank you for having me. That's going to do it for Vince, tinfoil pack, two-a-days, Dan, and me. We'll see you again. again next time. Make sure you follow us on Spotify or Apple. Listen to ad-free with a Fox News podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts. And Amazon Prime members, you can listen to this show,

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