Will Cain Country - Will & Pete Break Down Trump's Path To Victory

Episode Date: September 4, 2024

Story #1: Is your Amazon Alexa all in on Vice President Kamala Harris? Are frat bros all in for former President Donald Trump? Another "Off The Rails" segment with Will's FOX & Friends Weekend co-host Pete Hegseth. Story #2: Crime in Venezuela is down while Venezuelan migrants take over apartment complexes in Colorado. Breaking down the latest horrors of President Biden's immigration crisis. Story #3: What's a bigger mortgage to your future: trading multiple first round draft picks or dishing out $60 million a year for a top end QB. A conversation with the crew. Tell Will what you thought about this podcast by emailing [e-mail] Subscribe to The Will Cain Show on YouTube here: Watch The Will Cain Show! Follow Will on Twitter: @WillCain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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off the rails today with Pete Hegg said. Two, crime in Venezuela is down as apartment blocks are taken over in Colorado. Let's dive into the numbers and just see how much illegal immigration from Venezuela is plaguing America. Three, what's a bigger mortgage to your future, trading multiple first-round draft picks to find a new quarterback or paying an existing quarterback $60 million a year? Just as a hypothetical, maybe for America's team. It is the Will Kane Show streaming live at Fox News.com on the Fox News YouTube channel, the Fox News Facebook page.

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a fascinating deep dive with Professor Gad Sad. But today, we travel no high roads. Today we hit the dirt road. Today we're going to get into it with my friend and co-host of Fox and Friends weekend. Today, we are going to go off the rails with Pete Heggsett. So let's get into it with story number one. Off the Rails with Pete Heggs had sponsored by Tunnel to Towers. What's up, man?

Nice. What's up? I like the dirt road. I like that analogy. You're good at those. Let's traverse it together. Tunnel of Towers. Love them.

too well done we love tunnel the towers i was at a wedding in arkansas this week in him an aunt who was not at the wedding said tell the bride that true love is not a smooth path true love travels on a gravel road i didn't 100% know what she meant but i think i got it and i liked it true love travels a gravel road i think that's good that's certainly right yeah on both sides you know i learned That has helped me. Gravel roads have helped me with the concept of turbulence on flights, total non-sequitur. But I used to really not like turbulence. But when it was explained to me that it's just like going down a gravel road or a bumpy road or my driveway, you're going 40. You're feeling it, but you know exactly where you're going. Same thing with turbulence. You're going so fast. It just feels like something, but it's nothing. So anyway, now I flies it quietly. Yeah, when you're back in slips and slides around that gravel road, and you're like, do I still have? it but you got it you're not gonna wreck you'll you'll stay going in the same direction all right so pete's joining us today live from tennessee and we were on fox and friends together this morning

for off the grid so we pick it up today on off the rails apparently your amazon alexa well this might comes a shock to you it's not so neutral it's not so objective it seems to be right there in your kitchen all in for camilla harris watch the test people have I've been doing on the internet, TikTok and X, of their Amazon Alexa. Alexa, why should I vote for Donald Trump? I cannot provide content that promotes a specific political party or a specific candidate. Alexa, why should I vote for Kamala Harris? While there are many reasons to vote for Kamala Harris, the most significant may be that she is a strong

candidate with a proven track record of accomplishment. As the first female vice president, Harris has already broken down a major gender barrier, and her career in politics has been characterized by a commitment to progressive ideals and a focus on helping disenfranchised communities. Amazon Alexa P. All in for Harris and Waltz. Well, at least we know that Amazon Alexa provides the same level of specificity about her accomplishments as Kamala Harris does. I'm going to talk about a regurgitation of left-wing platitudes. Good on Fox News Digital for doing this. They just simply ran the test and asked the question. We actually, when we were preparing for the segment, I don't have Alexa or Siri, as I mentioned, on Fox and Friends, but tragically,

and unfortunately, my wife does, and she uses it to my great annoyance because I don't want anyone talking to a device and I want it away from me. So I had, why don't you try? with Siri and it didn't work didn't it was even with Siri okay but it disturbs me that I even have one device like that in my home near me at any time and so I guess it leads me to a bigger question do you use Siri or Alexa in your house you live in a smart house where Democrats are listening to you all the time no but that's not because I've made any type of big political stance or moral stand it's because I'm mostly a technological troglodyte I just I don't. I'm a late adopter. I don't get in on the stuff.

I mean, we all have Siri on our phone, and I haven't gone into my phone and attempted to turn it off. I just looked at my phone as I was talking to you to see if I activated it by saying the word Siri. Anybody listening right now, we should just say, Alexa, play the Will Kane show, because I do know that is how it works. But I don't, there is something about Alexa that turns me off before this story. I did feel surveilled in a way that is maybe. maybe it's not that rational because if you think about it look our phones are tracking everything about us all day long i know the phone listens to us you know i just know it and instagram like all the other tech companies need to pull instagram aside and go hey man you're blowing it

for us because it's so obvious with instagram like whatever you and i talk about right now will show up as an ad in my instagram feed but they're all listening to us and so i do think a little bit like you and I are being irrational. You know, I have ring door cameras. I don't know anything about ring, and I'm not casting any aspersions on ring, but all that monitoring is going somewhere into the cloud to some company, to some 26-year-old coder who has an opinion, perhaps it ring. I joked this morning about you. I know you have hunting cameras up throughout your property. I don't know how, I mean, they're connected to the internet, right? You're getting that information onto a laptop. So I just, you're probably Pete like, you're Don Quixote tilting at windmills here.

I think this is a fight you're not going to win. As we joke, you're just going to be the sheep that bleats to the slaughterhouse. You're no different. You're still a sheep. You just make, you just bleat on your way to the slaughterhouse. It's true. And I, and I like to pretend like, you know, I listen to Kurt the cyber guy when he tells me to turn something off on my phone. I turn it off. But I hear I look at Instagram and I've given permission to Instagram. to access my microphone and my camera. Well, I guess I would assume that's so that I can make a video and put it on Instagram, but I don't know. I haven't read the fine print of version 346.0.0.7.32.89. Like, I don't know. Somewhere in there, they probably gave themselves permission to listen

or look whatever they want. So you are likely correct, but I am on a mission, an ongoing mission, to make my house dumber whenever possible. I also, for me, it's quite practical. It's quite practical. I don't want a bunch of kids yelling out things on a regular basis at digital devices. That gets really annoying, really fast. And so that's probably the most pragmatic reason why I don't do it. But we know this.

I mean, I think when you said on Fox and Friends is right, the passive, subtle way in which they influence searches and what you see. and how they frame the headlines and the articles, that's the manipulation that's still going on everywhere. And if you're not attuned to it, then it can subtly move you in a certain direction. And I don't know how you stop that. You don't. That's the big takeaway to me.

You know, I told you this morning, like Amazon gets $6.7 billion, has totaled $6.7 billion in public subsidies, mostly through local and state governments, and mostly for data centers and warehouse. You see, there's a reason that they can get to your house in one day. And it's because there's a warehouse somewhere in your county, in your state, very close to you that probably receive some types of tax incentive as a minimum and maybe subsidies to put that into that job program into your community. But the long short, long short of it is we subsidize so much that we, and you said it this morning again, we subsidize so much that we don't agree with.

but that is maybe an obvious point what i don't think is as obvious and should be is what you're talking about i use this analogy a lot on the will can't you like people float along the river they don't stick their rudder down into the current and guide their own ship they don't they don't raise their sail they don't harness the wind they are pushed along in the news cycle and in their in their decision-making process in they outsource their wisdom and what this highlights to me is just how much it just shows you the winds All of a sudden, you see the direction of the wind, see the direction of the current that you're being pushed,

and you know it intuitively, but maybe you don't know the extent. You know your newspaper is left. You know your radio station most likely is left outside of some, you know, personalities on the right. You know your television station. Do you know your internet service provider? Do you know that your search engine? Do you know all these other technological companies are all coded by

and led by people on the lift and it is no longer capable of being hidden. It's not behind the scenes. And that's what's guiding you if you don't stick in your rudder. Totally. I mean, that is the sad part of fully swallowing the cultural red pill.

It's your sports media. It's your Netflix and your Disney and the things that you thought were safe spaces for your kids and then you realize you're not. We've had countless conversations, as usual, Jen's right here because she can't miss an addition of the Will Kane show, so she's right here right next to me. She's constantly going through this frustrating process, but I want this or but it used to be this way because, but once you see it, you can't unsee it and then you just have to create your

own traditions or your new path or a new way you do thing or different books that we read or different movies that we watch or different streaming services, that alternate economy that we talk about, but it's hard to do. And it's much easier to say, okay, I see it. Very. But I'm not really going to do anything about it. And I guess I'll talk to my kids about it a little bit, but it's just kind of the way it works. There's a lot of inertia there. So I, you're right. This is, this I think is a very obvious example. It has led to the least amount of trust in any of our institutions ever, which leads to, has a lot of consequences that will be interesting to see come 60 days from now and how people react to the manipulation coming their way.

homework i want to talk to pete hseh about homework now good i'm going to bring you into a conversation i had yesterday in my home okay this was mid afternoon yesterday my wife turns to me kathleen says i say homework is out of control okay a lot of people have said homework is out of control she said i'm going to tell you something maybe i shouldn't say school's out of control and this isn't in the normal battle for the american mind pete higsett best seller newest bestseller newest best war on warriors check it out but his previous bestseller battle for the american mind i'm not just talking about ideologically that school is out of control you know my oldest son is incredibly busy now i don't think he's the most efficient child in the world but he is playing varsity

football he's playing high level travel soccer he is taking a tough course load in high school that includes things that i don't even want to think about like physics and pre-calculus. But his bedtime, Pete, is like, well, it's easily 11. It's a, you know, last night, I think he was up till midnight. And he's up at six or seven. And that's not, you know, you don't, six hours sleep for a teen, that's, no one thinks that's right. And I think this is, this is pervasive. I think this is contagious. This is everywhere. That might be a little bit on the extreme side right now. I'm hoping it lightens up in the spring when he's not playing football. But it's pretty typical. And this is what Kathleen

built upon. She goes, I don't really know that eight hours a day sitting in a classroom is the best way to be spending your teenage years and your time anyway. And I, you know, I start thinking she's right. And we've just accepted this German model of education we've been doing for now a little over 100 years is the best way to raise young people. Now, I know there are people out there are homeschooling. And by the way, the best thing about homeschooling in my mind is the efficiency of it. It doesn't take eight hours to learn what you're learning. You can, my bet is the inefficiency is like 60%. You can probably do it in three to four hours, which makes sense because we're mass

educating people. You put 30 people in a room, it's less efficient than one. But homework's out of control, schools out of control, forget ideology. We might just need to entrepreneur to think about a better way of spending our time through raising children. All questions that we've thought of, too. By the way, thank you for bringing this subject up because I was incredibly frustrated this morning when this was one of our topics for Off the Grid today

on Fox and Friends, which I knew about last night, so I've been workshopping it with my wife, thinking about it, reading some articles about it, and of course this morning they ditched the topic and we don't get to talk about it at all. And that was immediately my frustration. I'm, listen, I'm going to try not to get philosophical here, but every time we try social emotional learning or restorative justice or the whole word method, or in this case, there's a bill

in California that wants to slow down the amount of homework by making sure the parents have the knowledge or the technology in order to do it. It's some fandangled new idea by someone who's really just lowering the standards or moving away from something that has worked for a very long time, like rigor, high expectations that has worked and educated kids who can actually write sentences and paragraphs in a way that I look at kids who are in 11th to 12th grade and they write like idiots. I mean, I mean, or kids that you're interviewing for new jobs as someone who's run nonprofits and hired people. You're like, oh my goodness, you went to a university and that's your

paragraph that you just gave me. I mean, our education system is for the most part, especially the government school system. Terrible. Now, homework doesn't fix that if you're just doing more of the same. I agree. Public school is met. All schools are massively inefficient. We don't, we haven't homeschooled. I don't think we will. But I'd say once a week, Jen looks at me and says, oh, man, if we homeschooled, like imagine the freedom we'd have. And I think it's, it's also, it's a challenge, though, of complex subjects. And you got to have self, you got to have kids that want to be self taught at some level and are sort of dialed into that for it. I think. to be as fruitful as you'd want it to be. But we struggle with homework like everybody else. Every single day, we had a kid crying at the table this morning, fixing homework, you know, trying to get off to school. Because you try to check it all, but you can't check it all. So I don't know. The one thing I like about homework is it forces the parent for the most part, especially

when they're younger, to engage with the content of kids so that you know what they're learning and try to grapple with it and work through it with them. I think there's utility in that. But when you're just piling on more of what you did in class just to make sure that they do more stuff, yeah, there's a limit to the usefulness of that for sure. I'm getting a note pass from my EP over here. Eight hours a day is plenty if done right, she says. So she agrees with Kathleen. Eight hours is plenty if done right, and it should be.

Meaning you should be able to get it done in eight hours without having to sign another three hours of homework at the end of the day. 45 minutes of math homework when you had an hour-long math class with a subject. matter expert. You know what I mean? Like, it's just you're, we're beating a dead horse here. Or you can save some of it for the weekend where you maybe have additional time to catch up. It is, it is a little bit out of control. It's true. Speaking of this, by the way, the Pete referenced the topic on Foxman this morning. What it is, there's a bill being being debated in California to limit, limit homework. And I think the conversation that we would have around that potentiality is whether or not we're reducing standards and lessening rigor.

The conversation that I, that it inspired me is, yeah, but we also need to figure out some type of efficiency and just kind of step back for a minute. And you said this, it's worked and it's true. Like America's education, educational rate over the past turn of years, you would have to think over the long arc of history has, you know, exploded. We're in great, much better shape than we were 120 years ago when it comes to average education. But that doesn't keep you from innovating and thinking about, okay, but what's the next

step and better way to educate going forward. But by the way, I thought about you, I came across this Jordan Peterson video. And you and I've had debates about child rearing when it comes to like hard and fast rules and policies on rule breaking. And you're behind me on this because I have older children. But, you know, Jordan Peterson had this video where he was saying, you want to raise your kids with a healthy exploration for danger. But he was talking about it through the concept of rule breaking. He's like, you don't want to raise a 100% rule follower

because they are inhibited and he called them actually cowards. He's like, afraid to explore the line. And that's either going to make them cowards for life or their inhibitions come exploding out later in life. Or you don't want a kid that always flouts the rules because he's on the path to being a criminal.

The rules don't matter. But that there is this period in life where you should expect your kid, I don't know, curfews, drinking, whatever it may be, to find some healthy exploration of the rule breaking to try it out because then you have someone sort of with a vigorous, risk-tolerant mindset, but also you want them to come back to the fold and understanding the value of rules, but not have them just be shorthand for a safe world. Yeah, I mean, as you were saying that, I just realized how much more deeply you think about these things than I do.

Bull, bull, we've talked about this on the weekend. I know you're thinking about. I just think you live a little bit. You live in a little bit of a bubble in that I think your bubble is going to burst in about a year or two. I do. I do. I do. I know. I'm behind you. Some of these serious debates. I know. I'm behind you. We, Jen and I went on a run yesterday and we talked about how we're kind of probably in this little sweet spot between, you know, seven years old. old and 13, 14, where no one's got devices, everyone's generally satisfied, parents aren't bad guys yet, you know, teenagers haven't fully set in, there's no independence and driving and all of that. So it's kind of, and we've, you know, they're okay with the fact that there's no TV and video games and they're kind of, they're so busy that we're doing different things.

That's going to end. And I don't know, yeah, I, I'm more inclined to the old school approach of, you know, however parents would have handled misconduct in the past, but maybe that's not as a fact. I don't know. I'm still, I don't know. When it comes to school, Will, I know what you want. And pencil and I want paper and I want chalkboards. Okay. All the new methods are just, they're just camouflage for trying something that, I think the same goes for parenting on a lot of levels. Like, oh, we're going to try this new like scheduling system or we're going to do it. Like, you know what your kid, you know your kid if they have a good heart or a bad heart or if they're on an issue or on something. And you just, I think you just kind of play it kid by kid

as best you can. And I don't you want, I don't hope that it sticks. You want, you want bonnets. You want rulers across the knuckles. I know what you want. I know, you want it 1880. So I said, I said, Alexis is in your home and she's all in for Kamala Harris. I said, your frat brother or depending on your age your son though might be all in on donald trump so take a look at this graph this is the divide right now young men are trending heavily towards republican conservative donald trump um this is the election turnout right all right we're going to get the right graph up here young men are leaving the democratic party in 2016 young men supported democrats by a number of 51 percent. So we're talking about a span of about seven years here. By 2023, that's cratered to

39 percent for young men. So, and I, we know this, Pete, anecdotally. We see it, you know, like, I don't know if frat guys are the perfect, perfect avatar for this, but it has a lot. Obviously, I think we both know this to do with masculinity. And like, what is masculinity? And who supports the idea of masculinity? Who calls masculinity toxic? Who calls gender fluid? But, this is a huge cratering of young men when it comes, you know, because it used to be cool. I think it was cool to be a Democrat. It's really not cool for young men anymore to be on the left. No, I mean, young men want to be men and be places where it's okay to be a man and where you're not shamed for being a man or you're not shamed for being excellent or for being strong or for being

white or for whatever shade you are or straight or a Christian. And now because the culture is gone so far in one direction, being a heterosexual, outspoken Christian Donald Trump supporter makes you the rebel of rebels in pop culture. You are demonized with every headline, every magazine cover, every segment. And so yeah, screw you guys. I know what I believe and why I believe. And you can call me all these things that I'm not. And I really love. like that instinct of courage. I mean, kids are always, to your previous segment, going to be rebellious. I think especially for young men, they don't want to be called wimps and they don't want to be made into be effeminence. And so if that's Donald Trump and the Republican Party today

and basic traditional views, then they're going to flock that way. But the flip side to that will is all the polling on young women and single women. Right. voting Democrat. I mean, if not at the same level, even more. So the gender gap of this election will probably be the widest we've ever seen. We've always talked about, there's always been the labels of the mommy party and the daddy party, the feeling party, the emotional party, and the sort of law and order standards party. That's what it is right now in front of us. I mean, the vice president man on the ticket with Kamala Harris wanted to put, did put tampons in boys bathrooms across every public school in Minnesota because in his world men can be pregnant and most men say you're an

idiot and I want to and also you know the industries and the jobs that all the mocking of men from where they going to put them everything else it all adds up even if even if you're a trans okay I guess I got to understand this crazy it's always so confusing okay it just is deal with it so okay I was like where are they going to put the tampon but now I get it it's a girl saying she's a boy in the boy's bathroom who still needs a tampon correct got it that's exactly what it is because sex doesn't matter it's only gender identity so that girl who's in the boys bathroom is called a boy because she identifies as a boy but every cell in her body is still a girl so they have to put tampons in there for the boy who's a girl yes got it otherwise i was thinking about different places

that tampon could be shoved. The, this is the other question, though. So first of all, I'm fascinated by how this generation, that's Gen Z. How do they work that out? Like, that divide you talked about, and you're absolutely right. And I've talked about it here on the Will Kane show, like, girls, single girls are overwhelmingly on the left. I don't know how they reconcile this. Like, history would suggest those girls actually come over to the right when they get married.

But I just don't know if that ideological divide is going to keep Gen Z from ever getting married. Like, how do they interact at the bar and get over this different worldview? Because it's not just like, hey, I like Ronald Reagan. Hey, I like Walter Mondale. It's like, hey, boys can be girls and girls can be boys. And it's like, no, this is a pretty big divide at the bar. That's a good. But the question, the other application.

That's a great question of how that plays out relationally over the next 10 years. If they're, eventually you have to cross over and intermingle with people who have different politics that you, it doesn't lead to a lot. of you know James Carville type relationships one side's going to have to move at some level you wonder which side wins in that tug of war James Carville and Mary Matlin but here's the other thing does this does this fact help Donald Trump the what we just showed about young men abandoned Democratic Party and I asked my producers this is the graph we flashed up men to go this is voter turnout so young men and their turnout when it comes to an election and it is

a demographic group that under indexes in terms of turnout. And that makes sense. Like, you know, you're a 24-year-old guy. The truth is, like, voting is not the top of your priority list, certainly a 21-year-old guy in college. So Donald Trump right now, Pete, is on Lex Friedman's podcast, Theo Vaughn's podcast. He's doing essentially the 18 to 29-year-old male media circuit. So can he fire him up? Can he get him to turn out for an election? Well, that will learn a lot about what, you know, the Republican Party's turnout machine has become. How good have they become at identifying those young men, not just encouraging them, but targeting them to request a ballot, say in Pennsylvania, where it's universal absentee for no reason, request it, get it,

and turn it in. I saw Charlie Kirk posted something with Turning Point USA, where they got 100 fratboys at a university in Arizona to come together and all register to vote for Donald Trump or whatever. I don't think they could vote yet, but they were registering, Republican registering to vote. They were going to work with them to get their ballots. And I asked them, I said, what do you put their previous voting rate at? He said, maybe 50%. So, you know, if in a fraternity like that, you've got a net 50 votes of young men who otherwise would not have voted, that's pretty significant. If you can go school by school and community by community and you have the right level of targeting we're we're we'll so far the numbers don't look bad but we're going to get a real

quick sense based on the amount of ballots returned from either side whose ground game is better and they're going to be targeting women and republicans are going to be targeting men and young men uh in in states where you know where they especially if you're you know you recently move there or you're out of college like what state are you registered in there's a lot of thicket there to get through um hopefully the republicans have figured it out i just It all frustrates me to no end that we're doing this game again after COVID and the rules have actually gotten worse and we're going to have mail-out month. And it's going to be an absolute mess.

And it's the way Democrats want it. Voting starts like in two days in some places. Believe it or not, mail-in voting starts in two days. Before we go to the path to win, which I want to go over with you, speaking all this masculinity. so it rattled my cage more when Pete told me he benches 285 now he's up to 300 which you told me the other weekend you did 300 four times but do you know what also rattled my cage clay Travis posted a video did you see this no of him doing 185 10 times he had something where supposedly you're supposed to be able to bench your body weight 10

10 times. Now, I'm in some of the better shape I've been in the last couple of years right now. Vanity is a very powerful motivation force. And I was in that New York City Navy SEAL swim was my shirt off on Fox and Prince. And I've been working out. And I'm feeling pretty proud about myself until I hear these numbers. So the other day, I was like, I want to see what I can do. So I did 185 seven times. And I was like, Clay Travis is stronger. than me. This is bothering me. It's bothering me that he did this. It bothered me that you're at 285. It bothers me that Clay is throwing 185 around more than me. And I'm, I'm, so I was on the bench yesterday. I didn't, it reminds, it should remind all your viewers out there that at heart

we're all still just high schoolers looking over at the bench next to us to see who can grow up more, right? And we put a lot of smokescreen over it. We have lives and wives and families. But at the end of the day, if one guy sort of outs himself, I didn't see Clay as a one, as a bench guy. That surprises me.

It's sort of that it snuck up on you. You'll be able to pass that quickly, I think, with some. And I have a small update. I was tempted to send you the video because I did make a video again. And I sent it only to my wife, only, only, because I need to do the proof. My all-time life max was 325. and on Saturday at the gym, at the hotel I stay at, I threw up 335. One time only.

Oh, my gosh. 335. This is like, it's like NFL linebacker numbers, I think. Like if I put 220, if you did the NFL Combine and, you know, the NFL Combine is 225. How many times could you do 225? 225, I feel like I could do right now probably 15 or 20, probably. I need to try that. I'm going to try that.

That is NFL numbers. I mean, certainly quarterback numbers. I think you're in the, I think you're in the NFL safety range. I think it's an NFL safety number you're putting up. You know what? And I still live with the insecurity that I really was never the hard hitting football player that I wanted to be in my own head. Like I had one huge crackback block as a wide receiver

and I thought it was the most badass thing I'd ever been a part of. And I didn't grow up with the instinct of just being an absolute ferocious linebacker, but I know the guys that did and they were no bigger than me. They just had a different mindset. And they had just a crazy throw my body at anything, hit anybody mindset. And so for you to say that, it makes me feel good, but it also reminds me of how that I never reached that level. And I was just a short, down, wide receiver. So, all right, if I can do 185.

seven times what do you think my max would be i can do 225 right man i don't know i don't know if i can throw 225 up one time yeah yeah you could i think i think i think your team um of the willisha your your your producers are going to help set that up and make sure it's on video i think i think you can do 25 do you know why i feel like i'm so far behind twofold not excuses just a diagnosis uh a i'm older but than both you and clay and i think those are an important four or five years Um, B, I spent too many years doing CrossFit, right? And I liked CrossFit, but it's a lot of like functional movement. I can out pull up. I'll take you on on pull-ups. I feel really good about that, that kind of stuff. But you never bench. Like you will never bench in cross, I mean,

once every month and a half, two months. Uh, so I just quit benching for a while, like a long while. Now I'm doing it again. So maybe I'm just rusty or underdeveloping. But the truth is, man, I'm thin. I'm a thin person. I'm never, I am never, ever going to bench 335, ever. I mean, like, I don't think, I think if you put me to it, and I dedicate my next six months to this, I'm a max out. I'll say 2.35. That's, that's going to be my ceiling.

That's okay. That, and that is wonderful because God made you beautifully, Will King, and you should be proud of yourself, okay? Everything is going to be okay. Hate him. I hate him. You know what it is for me? Just like my education system that I want. This is why the Army was perfect for me.

I've learned how to work out and I've never changed it. All I do is I do bench and I do squats and I do curls and I do tries and I do leg lifts and I do lunges and I do the same stuff, pushups, sit up, same stuff for, you know, 35 years. I've never changed it, and that's just kind of who I, I've never tried the fads, never did CrossFit, never did whatever. So it's really, really boring, but it is what it is, yes. 335. All right, finally, this is perhaps the most important analysis of the election. We can set aside favorability ratings, we can set aside national polls. It all is about the battleground states.

I've played around Pete on 270 to win, which means in the end, and you and I, on election day, we'll be going to various diners across the countries in battleground states. We got that email yesterday from Fox and Friends. Oh, you did? I didn't get it. You got it. You're on it. This is a rarity where I saw an email and Pete did not.

And I actually replied as well. I missed it. So I'm ahead of you. Wow. Did you get to pick your state? I'm ahead of you. Well, perhaps as a reflection of the email you sent me this morning, I might have gotten big leagued on the state that I want to go to by other stars at the network.

He sent me an email this morning about stars eclipsing other stars, quote unquote. So I don't know, I don't know. Just let me know if you see me in Georgia. So, but I have a feeling that Rachel will be in Wisconsin and Pete will probably be in Pennsylvania, which is a great place to be because it's going to come down to Pennsylvania. to, I mean, it is one A, Pennsylvania. It is one B, Georgia. And it is tight in those two states. And the path to win is focused. Arizona matters, Nevada matters, North Carolina matters, but nothing matters like Pennsylvania and Georgia. You're right. I mean, the, the amount of states that matter in an

election cycle get smaller and smaller. And then the spaces inside those states get smaller and smaller. And this is where your political teams get really important as far as where are they sending people and why. I do think J.D. Vance has done a nice job in those states. I don't know if it's reflected yet in the numbers. And it didn't, and Kamala Harris did not get a bump out of the DNC. I think the race is still kind of settling in in a lot of those places. You know, but the ones you mentioned, I mean, Philadelphia or Pennsylvania right now is a straight up tie. I mean, it is like, which is mortifying when you think about election. and outcomes and you play it all forward. I'm looking at real clear politics. I mean,

George is a straight up tie. I mean, basically, it should be a Republican win, but it is a straight up tie. And the rest of them, there's no swing state on the real clear politics average that's more than a point in a half lead in any direction. Trump leading some, Harris leading others. It's going to be, it's going to be. It's going to be. It's going to be rough. And I actually fear for our country. And I don't, we don't need to go there. But it's, it's going to be really tight. No, no, but we will go there for one second. I fear for our country. I had this conversation at breakfast with friends. Everybody talks about, look, let's be real. Everybody talks about Donald Trump questioning the results of the election if it's tight.

Do you know what no one's talking about? If Donald Trump wins a tight election, I promise you, Democrats will question the legitimacy of that election. The only savior, you, you, the only savior for our country is a blowout one way or another. When I say savior, meaning we don't at least descend into three or four months of absolute chaos. And nothing, Will, nothing about these numbers says blowout in any direction at all. It only says squeaker in contested states with tons of mail-out ballots, no excuse absentee ballots, no voter ID, and it's going to be nothing but contested and disputes. I, you know, it's, I don't know.

I mean, that's why I say prayers. And I, and I also think that, I mean, this debate's going to matter a ton. You've already talked about this. It's going to be, it's massive. And whether or not they can, if they can smoke her out meaningfully to actually speak and address things, it's not that this will be a policy election. It will not be. It will be an opportunity to properly define her.

as the extremist and flip hop flip flopper an empty pantsuit wearer that she is if that happens Donald Trump and Donald Trump stays disciplined you have a chance at a strong victory for Donald Trump but there's a lot of things that happen in between there and I also think there's October surprises to be had September surprises to be had something's going to change that's going to matter a lot yes all right I kept him long it was a great conversation I always love hanging out. Go pick up. It's already a bestseller. And I can't tell how many people have said it to me, just like anecdotally in my life that they

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apartment blocks, multiple apartment blocks, taken over by Venezuelan gangs, specifically a gang that goes by the name, Tren de Aragua. These gangs have taken over apartment blocks, pushed out property management, carrying AR-15s, and collecting rent. It's a type of scene you never would expect have happened in the United States of America, but it is. listen to the mayor of Aurora, Colorado on Fox News. So there are several buildings, actually under the same ownership, out-of-state ownership, that have fallen to these Venezuelan gangs. I'm trying to walk it back and do the investigation as to how there's a concentration of Venezuelans in these three buildings.

Somebody put them there, and somebody funded it, whether it's federal government or not, trying to find out who these gangs apparently are attracted to where there's a concentration of Venezuelan migrants. And so they've, in fact, have kind of pushed out the property management through intimidation and then collected the rents. This is just stunning. Stunning visuals, if you're watching us on Facebook or YouTube. Stunning facts told you there by the mayor of Aurora, Colorado. And from what I'm heard, it's actually worse than that these gangs all over the city not in this just in this apartment block involved in every level of crime now donald trump as we had mentioned earlier in our conversation

with pete hath off the rail sponsored by tunnel the towers has been going on podcasts like theo vime lex friedman on the lex friedman podcast he said something that you've probably heard him say in the past if you've listened intently he said well crime is down in vime Venezuela. Venezuela streets are safe. And he even said on Lex Freedman's show, I mean, I would do that. If I was in charge of Venezuela, I'd ship out all the criminals. And it got me thinking, I want to dig in to that statement. Like, what are the numbers? And this is what I found. So first of all, the population of Venezuela, according to various groups on migrant crisis and refugee crisis has dropped by six million people. So it's in the range of dropping from about

31 million to 25 million people in the country. That's a stunning number. That's a stunning percentage. Six million people have fled a country of about 30 million. It's, I mean, I don't know, we don't talk enough about the quote unquote refugee or migrant crisis. Now, why are they leaving? Well, we know that Nicholas Maduro is basically consolidating power. He is, you know, forcing himself to stay in office after winning only 30% of the vote, reportedly. Its socialism lived to its fullest flower. Store shelves empty, inflation out of control.

Venezuela at one time, the fourth largest economy in the world bigger than Canada, fall into something like 135th, smaller than Uzbekistan. So people flee. But not everybody, just seeking a better life. As Donald Trump suggests, many of those gone are criminals, let go from prison, shipped out of Venezuela. Now, what evidence do we have that that is the case? Well, how about this?

Venezuelan crime over the last couple of years is down 25%. Another stunning stat, 25% drop in crime. This is something that Nicholas Maduro is bragging about. You say, well, hey, why? There's a lot of reasons that that could be the case. One, the government monopolization of violence. I mean, you have a socialist government with really an authoritarian who denies election results and control of the military. You know, you can do anything you want to stop crime.

I evidence to you El Salvador, which has done a great job of reducing crime. But one of the ways they've done that is lock up everybody, for example, with an MS-13 tattoo. And if El Salvador has gotten way more safe. you know you set aside due process you you have mass arrests you can reduce crime number two the reason it could be down is propaganda it's not down do you trust everything coming out of venezuela stats from nicholas maduro he's going to want to paint a utopia under his leadership but number three quite clearly if six million people are leaving how many of those are criminals at the same time we have apartment blocks being taken over in Arara, Colorado.

Like common sense plays a role here. And there are also reports of this, Tren de Aragua leaving Venezuela and coming to places, not just America. I mean, all across South and Central America. But you're having 6 million people leave, crime dropping 25%, and all of a sudden a brand new problem in Aurora, Colorado.

And not just Aurora, Colorado. Take a look at the cover of the New York Post. Three out of four arrests in Midtown Manhattan, Times Square, connected to migrants. Venezuelan migrants in many of these cases. So the cost of what's happening at our southern border comes in the form of our security. You can draw a direct line here from Caracas to Aurora, Colorado, on the effect. of our border policies over the last couple of years. Of course, you can draw a direct line as well to Georgia, to Maryland,

to Americans killed by illegal limits, raped and killed by illegal limits. You can draw a direct line. You know what else you can draw a direct line to? Sanctuary cities, sanctuary states. Here I pulled this. This is from the Center for Immigration Studies. This is a map. If you're watching on YouTube or Facebook, you can take a look at this.

If you're listening on radio or a podcast, what I have on the screen is a map produced by the Center for Immigration Studies. It shows sanctuary states, counties, cities across the country. Now, here's what that map looks like. First of all, there's a green dot for every sanctuary state. Those states are basically, not in totality, but basically California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Colorado, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Illinois, and then all across the northeast. New York, New Jersey. If you drew, if you just colored in that map, you're talking about west to east

across the northern half of America. If you drill it down into counties, that's even more fascinating. Counties, and let's go ahead and include cities as well. Now you have a huge concentration of sanctuary cities and counties around Washington, D.C., Maryland, where, you know,

there's a famous migrant murder and rape in that area. And then, again, all throughout the north. throughout the Rust Belt, Midwest, shockingly, a lot of counties in Nebraska and Colorado being a sanctuary state right there with sanctuary counties as well in New Mexico. This is where, it's interesting,

this is where you're getting this news of the rise in crime. You know, I talked about with the guys here on the Will Cain Show in New York, the Woolisham. You know, just anecdotally, and this is separating ourselves from Venezuela, and it's separating ourselves from crime, but just the changing nature of America because of illegal immigration. When I graduated high school in Texas, 30 years ago, when I graduated high school in Texas,

the only Latino population in my house high school was El Salvadorian refugees from the El Salvadorian Civil War. Today, that very same high school, I think, is somewhere between 20 and 30 percent Latino. Now, how does that happen? You know, how does that happen over such a short amount of time? The guys in New York, two a day's in Youngstaffin-James, were surprised to learn that fact because in your mind, Texas is very Hispanic, very Latino. And it is in certain areas, but it wasn't in all areas.

And here's why I bring that up. You can see the same thing now happening in other parts of the country. You know, I visit New York. I lived in New York for 15 years. You guys both live in New York. you've seen a change have you not on the subway in midtown in time square yeah i mean walking by the roosevelt hotel i mean there's a lot and it's been a problem and you see it and even in the past i've been at fox three years now and i've seen a huge difference just in the three years i've

been here and coming into new york city for work absolutely yeah you know james brought it up on the subway here's a shocking image okay that that i've heard on numerous occasions not just from you james I've heard it from buddies up there. Tell me what it is that you now see as a pretty constant presence on the New York City subway. Like kids age four to five trying to sell you candy. And like the middle of the day, too. Like they're not in school. They're not in preschool.

They're selling candy bars. Selling fruit. Selling candy. And on many occasions, just plain begging. Just begging. Now, just take that in for one moment because that is not an image. that you're used to seeing in America. I want you to think about that for a minute

because all of us have seen the image. And so you may be a little bit desensitized to it. But why have you seen that image? Kids begging, school-age kids, kids who should be in school, or maybe sometimes even too young for school. Well, you've seen it in Latin America. If you've been on vacation there,

or maybe in Asia, you've seen this type of thing. You do not see this in America. You do not see kids begging. on public transit but you do now in new york this is the changing face of america and it is not through any coordinated policy it's not meaning it's not as though we said you know all throughout our history we've had immigration quotas right we're going to take x amount of people from this country x amount of people from this country all throughout our history clearly we do not it's just

drastic change relatively short of period of time you know dating back to texas i gave you 30 years to the 1990s in new york over the last five years you're talking about in a short period of time a drastic change which affects you culturally it affects your public services affects your health care system it affects you in every way and the point we're talking about now when it comes to venezuela and trend day aragua is the way it affects you when it comes to crime. Direct line. You see the numbers in Venezuela. You hear the story in Aurora, Colorado. This cannot continue in America.

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I need to do a little housekeeping, a little bookkeeping. So, Willitsha, I went on Will v. The Experts this weekend, two and three in my college football picks. I went up against, It's Trey Wallace, right? I'm outkick. How did he do? How did he do, James?

No one has any information for Will, two, and three. James. Well, it's not just Will, it's Will versus the expert, so you have to know the experts' records. Well, you know, because we know you're just going to win anyways, so. Do you remember how many of them you went different?

What's that mean? I'm trying to vamp here. because I don't even know if you can vamp long enough to pull it up I don't know are you guys keeping track Are you riding down there? We are yeah I have the whole thing I'm just trying to find it now

Sorry you know Patrick Timfoil Pat Just being out is throwing a wrench into things Yeah Yeah Both of you guys wearing pink in one day Looks good It's a whole new show

Iron In September you'd think it was May Or June I think Outkicks expert went two and three as well I think that we tied I think that we're both two and three Why you van Here's my question for you

Go ahead Okay So Trey pick Clemson You pick Georgia L nice Yep Trey had LSU you had LSU Trey had Notre Dame

You had That's a W for Yep That's a W for Trey And then Trey had Florida You had Miami And then Trey had West Virginia also Okay

Trey went one and four I went two and three Trey went one and four Big win for me versus the experts in week one Huge Nice This weekend

In Will versus the experts We're going to have to add in professional football Now we have the NFL kicking off and here's the hypothetical I have for everyone so there's obviously a lot of divided opinion on DAC Prescott the story going in the season Dak Prescott is in the final year of his contract and if history is correct if they don't get a deal done basically this week and they won't with that Prescott I would be shocked if they got a deal done then it's highly likely

he makes it to free agency the Joneses the Cowboys don't do business during the season Now, that could always change. They could choose to wrap up DAC Prescott whenever they like. But the idea, the story is they want to see how he does, see how he plays. So that would mean trying to do a deal somewhere towards the end of the NFL season before free agency starts in March. Now, if you're DAC at that point, why? At that point, I'm wrapping it, I'm going to, I'm healthy, I made it through the season, I'm going to free agency. And by most accounts, if Dak Prescott makes it to free agency,

he will make $60 million a year. He will be the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. And there will be tons of teams lined up to sign Dak Prescott. Now, the public thinks he's trash. That's what everybody says to me. Maybe they just say it to me. But the NFL knows that he's not. He's a top 10 quarterback who hasn't won in the playoffs.

That's the bottom line. A top 10 quarterback who hasn't won in the playoffs. there's no metric by which you come away from this that he's not a top 10 quarterback. None. None. Jordan loves better. Like, only by projection, like that. Like you saying Jordan Love, that's projection.

I mean, I've got eight years of evidence. If Jordan Love has Dak Prescott's career, you will be very excited if he is that level of quarterback. Now, I'm not telling you about the team results because it is a team game as well. So here's my question for those. $60 million, really ties up your salary cap. And it's a legit question for Prescott with a guy

you're not sure can win the Super Bowl for you. It's a legit question. So what's a bigger mortgage of your future? Spending $60 million and hamstringing your salary cap for Dak Prescott or letting him go. And if you let him go, you are saying, I'm going to go find my quarterback of the future somewhere else. Now that probably means in the draft. But the problem is, DAC is good enough, the Cowboys will not be selecting inside the top 10.

They will probably be selecting in the 20s. I wouldn't be surprised if Jerry Jones is enthralled with Texas quarterback Quinn Ewers. I wouldn't be surprised. Local guy, Texas guy. I think Quinn, and I'm a homer, I think he's got a little bit of Mahomes in him.

I think he's got a little bit of, like, incredible armed talent. He needs to needs consistency. He needs some fundamentals worked in there, but he's got incredible arm talent. Do you see that no look pass for a touchdown this weekend? It was awesome. It was very Aaron Rogers. Let's relax on the Mahomes comparison, all right? I heard it from a lot of people this weekend. Everyone's the next Mahomes. Everyone's the next Mahomes now. They say about it. Okay. I'll do Aaron Rogers. Okay. There you go. Does that have a Hall of Famer. Another hall of favor. That makes you happy.

Sure. but the thing is for you to draft quen yors you would have to do one of these deals where you trade away like three years worth of the first round draft picks to get up high enough to make that happen and even then like i don't the teams that do this have usually two first round draft picks which the cowboys do not have so you are going to mortgage years of draft to go get a guy like quin yuers or you're going to spend 60 million dollars on deck either way you're mortgaging your future for the quarterback. Otherwise, you're Washington. You know, the only team that's ever done with the Cowboys you're talking about doing is Washington walking away from Kirk Cousins. And they spent a decade in the wilderness. We'll see if Jaden Daniels gets them out of the forest. But a decade of this. So which is the bigger mortgage of your future?

I would contend it's trading away all those draft picks for a rookie quarterback. I think the safe play is $60 million on. on DAC Prescott. I don't know. I'd love to see Dak somewhere else, though, to see where he lands in my head as a quarterback. I think it'd be very, very interesting, especially some of the teams we've mentioned earlier on the call. I don't know. I'd rather

not see him on the Jets or the Giants. I forget, James, are you a Giants fan? Is this a trap? Oh, you're Patriots. Patriots. Oh, yeah. He's like, is that a trick question? It actually wasn't for a minute i thought you were a normal you know sports fan who's from new york and roots from new york teams i forgot for a minute that you pick the best team in every sport to root for for the past decade i forgot you did that wrong

celtics yankees pats yeah makes a lot of sense um so yeah i think i would love to see i mean i wouldn't love to see it i think dack on the giants would well i'll tell you this i think it would flip that division it would all of a sudden the giants are good and the cowboys are bad so i found an article in two days mike florio from football talk he used to work with is great put together seven teams that would be good for dack terrible don't like him he's terrible oh boy well he's number one giants unlike me giants at number one uh jets number two raiders three steelers four which is interesting five saints six seahawks seven rams so a lot of teams you said earlier that'll be a landing spot for DAC if they don't. Why would the Jets be in there?

Assuming you only have one year of Aaron Rogers? She only got one year left under contract and he's 41 now. Because Aaron Rogers said earlier this year, if the Jets fail this year, everyone's gone. So maybe Aaron Rogers, Dallas Cowboy. Oh my God. They almost did.

The E.N. O'Connor book when they talk about Aaron Rogers' draft night, when the Cowboys traded up right in front of the Packers that night, there was a lot of talk that that could have been the way that they went. Could you imagine if Aaron Rogers had been a 20-year cowboy? Because that was, what, a year or two before they got Romo?

Two of days. Florio, huge lib, hates. I don't know why. I just remember when I was at ESPN. You know, I don't remember what it was or what he said, but it was. How did you not? We just talked about football. It was about it.

He used to, when I was on Dan Patrick show, he used to guest us for Dan. before he did any TV stuff. So that's how I know. Great guy. Okay, you should book him. Let's get him on. See how that goes. I'll call him up.

He's blocked me on social media. I'll text him. Show up on the Will Cain show. Signed that, Prescott. I'll get excited about Quinn Ewers, but I don't think you can get Quinn Ewers. I think you have to mortgage your future to get Quinn Ewers. So you sign Dack, Prescott.

You kick off the NFL season, and here we go. But by the way, 80% of my attention is going to be at the big house this weekend. Texas, Michigan. We'll break that down later this week. Plus, we're going to be joined by speaking of the Dan Patrick Show, Andrew Perloff, a little bit later this week on the Kane on Sports edition of the Will Kane. That's going to do it for me today. I will see you again.

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