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00:00Well, good afternoon. Happy Labor Day weekend. And live from Texas, this is the Will Cain Show.
00:12Flick on the Friday night lights. High school football is here. Kicks off tonight in Texas.
00:18College football kicks off this weekend. We're waiting for that number one versus number two
00:22matchup, Texas versus Ohio State. But Labor Day weekend is here. And so are lower gas prices,
00:29lower crime rates, a border that is shut down. But back up, cracker barrel. Things are looking
00:35pretty good. And not just for the long weekend, but for the long haul. And you don't have to take
00:40my word for it. Drivers are hitting the road this weekend, and they'll be paying the lowest prices
00:44at the pump that we've seen in five years. And the hysteria rages over President Trump's crime
00:50crackdown. Some Democrats are taking notes and taking action. In New York City, Mayor Eric Adams
00:56is sending 1,000 police officers to the Bronx after a surge in shootings there.
01:01And he's planning on inviting gangs for peace talks at Gracie Manchin.
01:06And then there's the case, the curious case of California, where Governor Gavin Newsom,
01:12after suggesting that the crime rate in California is lower than most red states,
01:17and mocking President Trump, is sending state police to more cities, prompting the question,
01:23crime. Is it a problem or not in California?
01:27The issue of crime quality of life is something Democrats need to recognize,
01:34that we need to reconcile, and we need to be accountable for all of us. And this is not
01:40this is not a permission slip for the way Trump is doing things, quite the contrary.
01:45But it is an acknowledgement that he's hitting on an issue that is an issue across this country.
01:53What a roller coaster. I'm going to get whiplash. I thought on social media that Governor Newsom
01:58was suggesting that crime is not a problem in California. But he thinks he does have a message
02:03that works. Muscles. We also have to pivot back to a much more, dare I say, muscular,
02:11not from. Muscular. I know. Muscular, but not through, not through a gender frame.
02:17Muscular approach to communication. A little more smash mouth, dare I say,
02:22in terms of our ability to get the message out of what we're doing.
02:26It's really got to be hard. It's got to be hard as the words are coming out of your mouth,
02:30as you're forming a sentence, to always cover the bases, but not in a gender frame. Maybe he's
02:35just talking about his biceps again. Anyway, Maryland Governor Westmore, though, he told me
02:40yesterday, kind of, that he's open to federal support. You're welcome to federal support. That's
02:46wonderful to hear. I would absolutely welcome federal support. But I also know what federal
02:51support is going to be necessary and required. It's the reason that I've said we would love to
02:55have additional support for license plate readers, things that we know can actually stop crimes,
03:00as they are happening and making sure that people are brought to justice and not having
03:03$30 million cut from public safety budgeting that is coming from the federal government,
03:08that I would love to be able to make sure that the federal government can do things like ban
03:12ghost guns and making sure we're eliminating these extended clips for Glocks, which are essentially
03:17turning Glocks into automatic weapons. I would love to make sure we're investing in local law enforcement.
03:23So he wants federal support. I'm trying to write this down in form of more money to do the job that
03:29is supposed to be done by local police and local governments, and that he wants to make sure that
03:34we adopt all liberal policies to fight crime. What he doesn't want, though, is what's being offered,
03:39the National Guard, the National Guard, doing what they've done in Washington, D.C., in a city like
03:45Baltimore. President Obama, former President Obama, doesn't want any of this. He wrote in the New York
03:52Times, suggesting that what President Trump is doing is actually building an authoritarian state.
04:00He wrote, the interview, which is also available to listen in podcasts, provides a useful overview of
04:05some of the dangerous trends we've been seeing in recent months regarding federalization
04:08and militarization of state and local police functions. Here's a taste of what's in the
04:13referenced podcast. The other picture I see, the one that keeps coming into clear focus.
04:22Not Trump cleaning up crisis or disorder, but Trump creating crisis and disorder so he can build what
04:28he has wanted to build, an authoritarian state, a military or paramilitary that answers only
04:35to him that puts him in total control. What I think we're seeing right now is Trump is attempting
04:41to build his own paramilitary force, right? They want people whose, you know, first and ultimate
04:46sort of loyalty in this job is going to be to the president.
04:5081% of Americans consider crime a serious problem in this country. That could be why you're seeing the
04:57National Guard deployed to various cities across the United States. Or, as an alternative,
05:02it could be living out the fever dream of liberals. He's finally building the authoritarian state with
05:07his own private army. I'll let your common sense guide you as to what's actually happening in
05:12America. Vice President Vance, though, yesterday, he told me safety is something that we have to
05:18address on all fronts. What would be the root unit you would snap your fingers and fix?
05:24It's probably the migration problem. And I think, again, the president of the United States
05:29has shown in just a few short months what you can do. We've got illegal border crossings
05:32effectively at Zebra. We've got net migration negative in this country for the first time.
05:37And why do I say that? First of all, I think it's very hard to feel, you know, like you're part of
05:44the same country when your leadership brings in tens of millions of people uninvited. So that sense of
05:50shared American identity, the sense that we're part of the same American family. I think that gets
05:54destroyed when you import 20, 30 million people without any democratic check on it.
05:59He's right about those record low border numbers. In July alone, there were 24,000
06:04encounters. A record low number of apprehensions in 6,000. And the lowest single day total in
06:10agency history, 116. That was on July 20th. Zero parole releases. By the way, you can catch that
06:17entire interview with vice president J.D. Vance by heading over to the Will Kane country channel
06:23on YouTube. Just click on that QR code at the bottom of your screen and you can get the entire
06:28uninterrupted, unedited, more than 20 minutes with vice president J.D. Vance. But the good news
06:33doesn't stop there. Cracker Barrel is back scrapping the new logo for the fan favorite. A move that it
06:39seems the CEO hopes will speak for itself. Why is Cracker Barrel changing its logo back?
06:49What's Cracker Barrel's plans?
06:54So as we head into Labor Day weekend, let's just zoom in for a moment on the national debate over
06:59crime. In particular, Gavin Newsom and his order of state police to form a crime suppression team
07:05across California. It's hard to read that. But anything as taking a hint from President Trump's
07:11moves in Washington, D.C. Let's get a read from my next guest USA Today opinion columnist Nicole
07:17Russell. Nicole, it's great to see you here today. It's great to be here. So I don't understand.
07:21Is crime a problem in California or not? How do I make sense of Governor Newsom?
07:24That's a great question. It's hard to tell what he's thinking. It's obvious that he's
07:30positioning himself to run in 2028 for the Democratic Party nomination. But I think he realized over
07:37time that he's too progressive for most Americans. So he's trying to become a bit of a squishy moderate
07:43and it's not really working. So first he mocks Donald Trump for sending in the National Guard to
07:49Fixed Crime in Washington, D.C., a place that I lived nearby for many years. Anyone knows that
07:56there was it was a crime ridden area. He mocked him. His social media team has relentlessly
08:01been mocking Trump. Yet now he turns around and says he's going to do the same thing. He's going to try
08:07to halt crime in California by sending in these teams. So I think he's trying to play both sides
08:13of the same coin. He's trying to win over voters by showing that he's moderate and really covering
08:20up his governing record of being complete progressive.
08:24Yes. The image that he is cultivating, I think that you're right. It's almost now
08:29adopting the policies of Donald Trump while mocking the persona of Donald Trump. And he's reaped the
08:35benefits when it comes to polling among the left for the shallow mockery. But the policies he's trying
08:41to adopt or at least in some way guard off Donald Trump run antagonistic to the governor that he has
08:48been in California. I mean, the record speaks louder than the image. And the record not just
08:54on crime, but on fire prevention, on the economy in California speaks for itself when it comes to
09:00Newsom. Yes. Newsom has absolutely decimated the state of California. He has turned an incredible,
09:06beautiful place with natural resources and the entertainment industry. He has completely
09:11destroyed the hope that people have living there. Taxes are higher than ever. Homelessness has been,
09:18they've just been throwing money at the homeless problem. And yet it has increased. It has not
09:24been resolved. And now he's got his social media team sending posts on X, painting Donald Trump as an
09:31authoritarian, wearing a Soviet era union, you know, uniform. And here, here, Gavin, this whole time,
09:39Gavin Newsom, you know, shut down California during the pandemic showing that he is actually the
09:44one that's an authoritarian. So he's trying to kind of massage his governing record, meanwhile placating
09:51to moderates or even people on the right by suddenly cracking down on crime. It's really a mixed
09:57message. Yeah. A mixed message, a mixed image, a mixed, an unmixed governorship. It is pure
10:04unadulterated failure. Great to see you, Nicole. Thank you. All right. Coming up, our smartphones melting.
10:17Welcome back. Check this out. Chaos on the Mexican Senate floor. A massive brawl broke out
10:23among two senior Mexican politicians after a heated debate over U.S. involvement in the fight
10:29against drug cartels. Other lawmakers can be seen trying to break up the fight after a senator stormed
10:35the lectern and grabbed the Senate president following a disagreement on U.S. military in the
10:40country. The brawl comes as U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces a visit to Mexico and Ecuador
10:46next week to advance the administration's cartel and illegal immigration crackdown.
10:52All right. Now to this. Our smartphones changing our personalities, ruining our brains.
10:58A new study out of the University of Southern California suggests yes. Let me show you over at
11:04the wall. All right. Take a look at these graphs that were published in the Financial Times.
11:08The dark blue line focuses on people over the age of 60. The light blue is people between the age of 40
11:15and 59. But the group we're focused on is the red lines. That's people ages 16 to 39. Now in this
11:22particular graph, you see age demos plotted against certain personality characteristics like
11:30conscientiousness. Conscientiousness among 16 to 39-year-olds has absolutely plummeted. Meanwhile,
11:36neuroticism has spiked. Agreeableness has gone down. And extroversion, all three groups, by the way,
11:44on extroversion, meaning we're not as socially active. We aren't putting ourselves out there.
11:48We're all capturing our own little worlds has gone down. Then take a look at this. This is the way
11:55we behave, not just the way that we think and not just the traits of our personality, but now how it
12:01manifests in our lives. Makes plans and follows through. Look at 16 to 39-year-olds.
12:06Inability to make plans and follow through. Persevere on a task until it's finished. Again,
12:12also plummeting for the 16 to 39-year-olds. Meanwhile, easily distracted, skyrocketing.
12:18Can be careless, skyrocketing. And then finally, this is the behaviors of that same very same
12:27cohort and how they interact with others. Outgoing, as I mentioned, like extroversion,
12:32plummeting. Helpful to others down. Trusting way down. But starts arguments way up. So what's
12:39going on and how connected is all of this to our increased use in the smartphone? Joining me now
12:46is addiction psychiatrist and medical director of the chemical dependency at Texas Health Presbyterian
12:52Hospital, Dr. Lee Spencer. Doctor, thanks for being with us here today. This is incredibly concerning.
12:58Let's talk about why it's concerning first. Like what does, what do you see in patients? Is this
13:05reflected? Yeah. It's an interesting study because it's the first time I've really seen
13:10smartphone data and data about what damage it can do to the young people reflected in personality
13:17traits. And conscientiousness being kind of one of the most important of the big five. We talk
13:23about the big five. Conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism, openness, agreeableness. And
13:29conscientiousness is one that kind of proves out as the one that leads to kind of most likeliness
13:34to follow through on things, be achievement, striving, be successful, get married, live a long,
13:41happy life, right? People that are less conscientious don't live as long. Let's not take for granted
13:45that we all fully understand conscientiousness. What is conscientiousness? It really is kind of a measure
13:50of a bunch of traits, sub-traits that add up to someone that is self-disciplined,
13:58achievement, striving, dutiful. It's someone that you think of as being kind of hard-working and driven.
14:04Well, I also think it means someone at least, at least anecdotally or colloquially,
14:08it's someone who's aware of how their behavior affects others around them, conscious of their own,
14:14their own effects on the world around them. Right. There's a thoughtfulness toward other people.
14:19Yeah, I think that is embedded within the concept of conscientiousness. You know,
14:24Jordan Peterson would say, if you want to see someone that's low on conscientiousness,
14:27just go look at the bedroom, right? Like if it's a disorganized bedroom or if it's got a
14:31voicemail box that's full, right? Things like that are examples of someone that's low on
14:36conscientiousness. But the idea is really important because conscientiousness is something that we're
14:41looking for these days to be able to work through difficult situations, work through problems.
14:46This is where I see it in my patient. Okay. Now, why is this happening, doctor?
14:50Well, it's a problem, I think, inherent in the instant gratification problem. Someone that's
14:55high on conscientiousness can delay gratification, can think about the importance of the future to
15:00achieve whatever it is they want to achieve and be successful, right? And if they can't take the
15:07time to do that or they don't have that sort of trait embedded within them, then they have more
15:12difficult and they want to look for short fixes. And this thing is constant. And that thing is a
15:15constant short fix, right? Constant instant gratification. It's a constant pull toward instant
15:20gratification. Somebody on there, a thousand people on there at all times want your attention,
15:25right? And if your attention and the need for your time and your intellect and everything that you have
15:32to offer is pulling at you constantly, right, there is a lack of ability to take time and think
15:39through things for yourself, right? And to make plans and to come up with duty and order and how you're
15:45going to organize your life, right? So that is pulling that sort of resource away from our, well,
15:50us as adults, but also our kids. But there have been many studies and there are a couple of good
15:56meta-analyses that have looked at brain volume in kids, right? Their brain volume is actually
16:01shrinking due to the fact that smartphones, those, those kids that use smartphones more are more likely
16:08to have reduced brain volumes. Literal physical volume. Literal physical volumes. In the subcortical areas
16:13of the brain, which is not necessarily the, the high level planning stuff, like the, the stuff that's the,
16:19the sub-area of the brain that's more, uh, like around impulse control, um, and, and those areas are
16:26actually, in fact, reducing in volume, which I think we're, we're seeing not only this, like,
16:30like, personality problem, we're seeing an actual brain, brain change in, in young folks because
16:35their brains are still changing, right? They're still developing. And their personalities are still
16:38developing. So this personality traits for somebody like you and me, they're 30, 35 plus,
16:43right? Like, it's not as much of an, it does impact us, but not as much of an impact, whereas the kids are
16:48still developing and their personalities are still developing and their personalities are still
16:50developing until they're 35. Wow. That's incredibly concerning.
16:55Not just behavioral, but physical changes to our brain as well. All right, Dr. Lee, thank you so much
17:00for being with us today. Yes, happy to be here. Okay. Uh, coming up, as the country mourns the victims
17:04in the Minneapolis church shooting, the questions turn to how do we prevent these evil acts from
17:09happening again? Marine veteran and Medal of Honor recipient, Dakota Meyer has been vocal on the mental health
17:15crisis facing our nation, and he joins me next.
17:18Welcome back. An update from Minneapolis now, where the two children who lost their lives in the
17:47horrific Annunciation Catholic Church school shooting have been identified. They are 10-year-old Harper
17:53Moisky, whose family said she was known for her laughter and kindness, and 8-year-old Fletcher
17:58Merkel, who, according to his dad, loved to fish and cook. His father remembering his son yesterday
18:04and urging parents to give their kids an extra hug.
18:07A coward decided to take our 8-year-old son Fletcher away from us. Because of their actions,
18:16we will never be allowed to hold him, talk to him, play with him, and watch him grow into the
18:24wonderful young man he was on the path to becoming. An important conversation is emerging in the wake of
18:32this tragedy, the back and forth over thoughts and prayers. Why is there such an overwhelming
18:37condemnation from many on the left over prayer? We told you about Jen Psaki's comments and the
18:42White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt's response defending those who believe in the power of
18:48prayer. Meanwhile, California Governor Gavin Newsom weighing in on X. He posted these children
18:54were literally praying as they got shot. What is the implication there? Is the implication that
19:02prayer is worthless? Is the implication that they have been forsaken by God? Is the implication
19:07that he is not just now pro-crime, but that he is anti-prayer? Vice President J.D. Vance told me
19:13yesterday, prayer and action can and should coexist. I'm praying every single day, multiple times a day,
19:21that while two deaths is tragic, three deaths is even more tragic, and I hope it stays at two,
19:26because there still are some kids who seem to be in pretty serious condition at hospitals and we're
19:31praying for their swift recovery. And I think on the broader stuff, I mean, look, clearly this person
19:36was a mentally deranged human being. Clearly it was a transgender individual. We're going to learn a lot
19:41more, and I think the FBI and local authorities, I ought to try to get to the bottom of this, but you don't go
19:47and shoot up innocent children unless you are a clearly screwed up person. When I see far-left
19:52politicians say, how dare you offer thoughts and prayers? You need action. You know, I don't care
19:57about your prayers. I care about what you're going to do to prevent this from happening. Why does it have
20:00to be one or the other? Why can't you pray for the speedy recovery of these kids who literally just
20:05got shot yesterday while at the same time committing to making sure this doesn't happen again or that
20:11it happens as infrequently as possible? I don't think there's anything inconsistent about saying a
20:16prayer to God for these innocent, beautiful kids, while also thinking constructively about how we're
20:22going to prevent this from happening the next time. You can do both of those things. You can hold
20:26a thought, both of those thoughts in your head at the same time. And, Will, if you are a politician
20:32or you're a media commentator and two beautiful babies just got murdered while praying and your
20:38politics force you to contend prayer in response to it, you ought to get new politics because
20:43something very wrong has gone on inside your soul. My next guest says we've got to take a look at
20:48mental health in this country. He's marine veteran and medal of honor recipient Dakota Meyer. Dakota,
20:53it's great to see you again. It's been quite some time, but it's always good to talk with you, Dakota.
20:58And, um, and I know you've been very, very moved by this moment and had a lot to say
21:04when you look at what happened in Minneapolis, both the cause and the response. What are your thoughts?
21:10Yeah, I mean, look, you know, first off, as a father myself, you know, my thoughts and prayers go out
21:14to everyone involved in this, in this terrible, terrible action that took place up in Minneapolis.
21:22You know, and unfortunately, because of the failure of the leaders that we've trusted to lead and to
21:28to make policies and to address these issues, once again, that's all we are left with because of lack
21:34of action, as you've heard, you know, the vice president talk about yesterday. I mean,
21:37this is nothing more than, you know, a symptom of the bigger issue that we're seeing across our nation
21:44right now of a mental health crisis going across our country. And it's at the expense of, you know,
21:50the same people that are relying on these leaders to do this. And, you know, it's failed
21:55democratic policies. And once you, again, you see this, this, hey, you know, the thoughts and prayers
22:01and all this, this attacking that aspect of it because it's political posturing and getting ready
22:06for them to push their agenda over what people truly need them to do.
22:09Right. The agenda clearly that they're trying to push is that of gun control. And we're going to set
22:14aside now for a moment the, the conversation over thoughts and prayers, because I do think it can
22:18be dismissed fairly easily. What was put out by Jen Psaki and the likes of Governor Gavin Newsom is
22:23simply vile. And I think on that we can agree, Dakota. But to the issue of mental health, you know,
22:29there's a very important conversation that needs to be had that have been brought up by example,
22:34by RFK Jr. about the effect of SSRIs. Much of our population, a high percentage of our population
22:40is on SSRI medication. We should talk about hormone therapy, which this kid, this, this perpetrator
22:50was, you know, transgender. And so, you know, when people talk about mental health, we're going to have
22:55to have honest conversations to look into the things affecting mental health. That's a broad category,
23:00you know, and we've got to address it. And we've got to be honest about what is causing the mental
23:05health crises. Yeah, I mean, but you see this all across right now, right? I mean, we don't want to
23:11blame what the real issue is. We want to be the victims of it. And until we start going back and
23:16seeing this as a mental health crisis, you know, this trans issue, this pronoun issue as a mental
23:22illness, it's a missed opportunity when someone comes with this. It's an outcry. It's an outcry for help.
23:27And every time we don't, every time we affirm that and we try to play with it, we're doing
23:32nothing but failing the person that's asking us for help and that we owe to help. There's no
23:36compassion in entertaining this and affirming it. There's compassion in getting this person help
23:41in order to help them be better, right? I mean, the Democrats' policies on this transgender issue
23:48and trying to entertain all of this is absolutely absurd. And until we can identify the problem,
23:54we cannot come up with a real solution. Well, and I just think about the segment that I just did and
23:58laid out for the audience on the way that the phone is affecting us in our brains and how young
24:03people in particular are losing conscientiousness and rise in narcissism. And then you layer on top
24:09of that that the solution seems to be medication or changing your gender in some cases. And now you've
24:15just got problem compounding upon problem. And we look up and we see these horrific acts taking place
24:19across our country. That's a real conversation you want to have. Not about the role of guns. I mean,
24:25quite honestly, you want to talk about guns at any moment, I think a guy like Dakota or myself is
24:29ready to have that conversation on an educated level. And I don't think anybody asking for gun
24:33control is ready for that conversation. Dakota, I'm ready for any conversation with you whenever
24:37you're right. Last word. Go ahead.
24:40Yeah, look, we don't blame the car for a drunk driver, so we can't blame the gun for a mentally ill shooter.
24:46Right. That's a great, it's a great analogy. Dakota, great to see you. Thank you.
24:52Great to see you. All right. Coming up, let's lighten things up. It is Friday, so it's time for
24:57Friday night's Spotlight. Anybody want to hear me get upset about the Dallas Cowboys trading Micah Parsons?
25:02Stick around, you just might.
25:03Micah will be a Dallas Cowboy. Fortunately for Cowboys fans, you don't have to worry. He's not going to be traded
25:28from the Cowboys. I was wrong. Okay, I was wearing the same jacket, but that was a while
25:34back. That wasn't, that wasn't yesterday or today. I was wrong. Sometimes I'm wrong. The Cowboys
25:39have traded their star defensive player, Micah Parsons, to the Green Bay Packers. And obviously
25:44I have some thoughts on this. I have some pros and some cons. I'm an irrational fan. I ride the
25:49roller coaster. And I know this isn't SportsCenter. I know this is the Fox News Channel. But the truth
25:53is the producers want to see me get mad. And that's what they're hoping in this segment.
25:57And I am mad. I am mad that we have a generational star and a talent in Micah Parsons who's no
26:02longer a Dallas Cowboy. But I'm also someone who rationalizes and looks for the silver lining.
26:07And there are some silver linings, like not spending $47 million a year, 17% of your salary cap to a
26:14player that doesn't play quarterback. And getting two first round picks back, getting a defensive tackle,
26:19which the Cowboys need. But even though I rationalize, I always come back around to the
26:23reality in Dallas. And that is for 25 years, we haven't been to a Super Bowl. You don't have to
26:27tell me. I know. And when you have a player like that, you don't trade him away because they are
26:33rare. And those picks, by the way, the Green Bay Packers are going to be good. They're going to be in
26:37the 20s, the 30s, those picks. So did you get enough? And the answer we know is no. This is the life
26:45of a fan of the Dallas Cowboys. All right, joining me now to react on our Friday night
26:50Spotlight panel is Fox News contributor Mary Catherine Hamm, Fox News national correspondent
26:54Griff Jenkins and Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell. I said to the producers,
26:59these three don't want to talk about Micah Parsons. And they said, oh no, they actually do, Will.
27:04So I don't know which one of you are ready and want to just go and come get it. Come take your
27:09licks at this piñata, Mary Catherine.
27:12Mary Catherine, I'll let you go. But I think the three of us are all thinking the same thing.
27:15Well, which is, are you okay? Are Dallas sports fans okay?
27:19First it was Luka Doncic, now it's Micah Parsons. Like, I feel for you and all the Dallas residents.
27:25There's a numbness to it all now, Griff. You're right. Like, Luka Doncic gets traded,
27:30then Micah. Those aren't the same, by the way. That Luka trade was worse. So I'm numb. I'm numb.
27:35I'm 25 years numb, Mary Catherine.
27:39I feel you. I was 41 years numb before the dogs won a championship. So I get it.
27:44Here's the thing. I like you speaking up for Kenny Clark. I feel like he's taken a lot of strays in
27:49this conversation and he doesn't deserve them. One of the things I do like about these kinds of
27:54trades, especially as somebody who's not emotionally involved, is that I get to look at the reactions
27:58of the grown men who are his teammates on Twitter and Instagram, which are fantastic because they're,
28:03because they're just emojis of, like, single tear, broken heart, gif of Steve Harvey drinking
28:09and crying. And I just enjoy that part of it. It brings some color to my enjoyment of the game.
28:15And Gianno, people say to me, Will, you're a grown man. Why do you care so much? And my answer to that
28:19is, I do. I enjoy caring so much. I'm going to care tomorrow a lot when the Texas Longhorns
28:24take on the Ohio State Buckeyes. I am allowed to have fun in life. This, though, Gianno, this is no fun.
28:30No, no fun at all. And sorry to see you in morning, Will, but I want to hear from your chest.
28:37Jerry Jones, what are you doing? $47 million? Make the investment, especially when you've been
28:42behind for so long. I don't know what the owner of the Dallas Cowboys is thinking, Will.
28:48Well, you know what? I don't either, Gianno. We're in the same city. Here, let me just make a quick
28:51appeal. We're in the same city, Jerry. You've sat in this chair right here. You sat in my chair before.
28:56I wasn't here. Come back. Come sit with me and explain it in a little bit of a one-on-one conversation, Jerry.
29:02I'll be nice. I like you. I'm a fan. But maybe we can have a real conversation.
29:08Jerry's invited. Some tough questions, yeah.
29:10Jerry's invited. Dimitri... I'm going to see if I can say it right. Dimitri Daskalakis, former of the CDC.
29:18I don't think he needs any more appearances, guys. He has been fired from the CDC and he went on CNN and he had this to say to Caitlin Collins.
29:26I find it outrageous that this administration is trying to erase transgender people.
29:33I very specifically used the term pregnant people and very specifically added my pronouns at the end of my resignation letter to make the point that I am defying this terrible strategy at trying to erase people and not allowing them to express their identities.
29:51So, I accept the note from the press secretary and counter that with, I don't care.
30:00I think that is an incredible resignation letter.
30:03I think that we shouldn't have someone at the CDC that thinks that men can get pregnant.
30:07And, by the way, has satanic pentagrams tattooed on his chest and wears as a harness.
30:11I just think it's probably not good medicine, Mary Catherine.
30:15No, it does seem like that statement and the pregnant people statement is a pretty decent heuristic for, like, do I want this person in charge of my health care?
30:24I remember when I was first introduced to him, by the way, when he was taking charge of the monkeypox issue and he said in the news several times over, like, no, don't change your behavior at all.
30:34Whatever super risky issues that you're dealing with, you go ahead and do that.
30:38And I'm like, where was that during the pandemic when all we wanted to do was have a barbecue?
30:41Like, the CDC has embarrassed itself over and over and over and over and over again.
30:46This guy continues to do so.
30:48I don't trust someone like that.
30:49I want there to be real reform there.
30:51Sometimes I'm worried about how it's carried out.
30:53But, like, the idea that you can go, like, the CDC has done such a fantastic bang-up job.
30:58Why would they get rid of me?
30:59I think we have our answer.
31:01Yeah.
31:01And, Giannu, they're really on the left and another mainstream media outlet's acting like this is a real indictment of this administration and they're undercutting public health.
31:10I think hiring that guy is undercutting public health.
31:15100% and it was so funny when I saw his picture in the news cycle.
31:20I said, wait a second, I've seen this guy in person.
31:22Oh, my God.
31:23He was having a martini with Jimmy Fallon and they actually had on a matching outfit, bondage.
31:29What?
31:29I'm imagining we're going to see him on the show with that tomorrow.
31:33But, yeah, like, to Mary Catherine's point, we want to have real professionals in this business.
31:40And certainly he doesn't come off as a serious contender for us.
31:43So I'm actually glad to see him leave.
31:45All right.
31:45Last thing to you, Griff.
31:46I was kidding about Jimmy Fallon, by the way.
31:48I know.
31:48I think I was – I almost said that for you, but I figured the audience would know.
31:51That was a joke.
31:53Griff, Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, have filed for a trademark.
31:57Here's what the trademark terms are.
32:00Gold digger.
32:01And there's more, by the way.
32:02But it includes – do your job.
32:05But they're going to have jewelry.
32:07It's a new brand.
32:08They're going to have all kinds of products.
32:10This is not Bill Belichick.
32:12I think he needs to blink.
32:13Like, if you need to be rescued, Bill, blink.
32:15Yeah, blink twice because you're being held hostage.
32:19I mean, look, the UNC football fans are going to really have a lot of questions if they don't win games.
32:26And he's off doing this gold digger jewelry side business.
32:31Why he's doing it makes absolutely no sense.
32:35And she is, of course, Jordan Hudson's the manager of all this.
32:38Clearly she's driving this.
32:40And I'm not sure really – you know, when he was winning six titles for the Patriots,
32:47if you would have told me in just a few years, he's going to open up a gold digger jewelry business with his much younger girlfriend.
32:52And on the side, Coach College Football, I would tell you you're crazy.
32:56But here we are.
32:58You know who else would tell you you're crazy, Griff?
32:59Here we are.
33:00Bill Belichick from 2010.
33:02He'd be like, you're crazy.
33:04Exactly.
33:04Poor Bill.
33:05Exactly.
33:05It's a different world.
33:06It's a different world.
33:07Literally.
33:09Mary Catherine Hamm, Griff Jenkins, Gianna Caldwell.
33:10Great to see you on this Friday.
33:11Have a great Labor Day weekend.
33:13Thank you for having me.
33:14All right.
33:15Tomorrow, by the way, you can catch me working on Fox & Friends Weekend.
33:18I'll be in Columbus, Ohio, all morning long, ahead of Fox's big noon kickoff, ahead of Texas versus Ohio State.
33:26But coming up, country music star John Rich is out with a brand new song today, so he's going to perform it for us live from Nashville next.
33:35Welcome back.
33:36Well, you know him.
33:37You love him.
33:38And today, country star John Rich is out with a brand new single.
33:41It's called The Devil and the TVA.
33:42And the song is about corporate power versus local families and their land.
33:46The Tennessee Valley Authority proposed a methane power plant in Cheatham County.
33:51After opposition and a two year battle, they scrapped the plan last month.
33:56Part of a statement TVA put out reads, quote, with feedback from our community leaders, we're
34:01evaluating a new site at a nearby industrial park, as well as others in middle Tennessee.
34:06That will support economic development and address increasing power demands across the system.
34:11Natural gas continues to be a vital part of our TVA generation portfolio.
34:16The TVA would still need to build a gas plant to meet demand and unleash American energy.
34:22But this particular plant that they had planned to build is the focus of this new song from
34:29John Rich, who joins us now live from Nashville.
34:34John, great to see you here, man.
34:36Glad to have you live from Nashville.
34:38We're about to hear the new song from John Rich, who joins us now live from Nashville.
34:44John, great to see you here, man.
34:47Glad to have you live from Nashville.
34:49We're about to hear the song.
34:50Tell me what inspired this, why you were so moved to write this story, this song.
34:54So the TVA has been around since 1933.
34:57Frank and Delano Roosevelt started it and he built it to where they only answer to the
35:13president of the United States, not senators, not governors, not municipalities, nobody.
35:18And in the county of Cheatham County, Tennessee, where I live, my dad, my brother, a bunch of
35:23people that I know, the TVA started showing up on people's land with bulletproof vests and
35:29loaded weapons, showing up in old ladies' front yards and telling them we're coming in
35:34there to do destructive testing on your land, then we're going to condemn it, then we're going
35:39to take it, and then we're going to build our project on it.
35:42And when I saw a video of an old lady named Miss Nicholson, 88 years old, she looked into
35:48the neighbor's little iPhone camera and she said, you think you own something, but you
35:53don't own nothing.
35:54And when I saw that video, I said, that is one of the most powerful things I've ever heard,
36:00and the fact that the TVA can operate and step on top of the Fourth Amendment with no repercussions
36:06is the most un-American thing I've ever seen.
36:09So they sent the TVA to me to talk about it, and I said, listen, man, get out of that county
36:15or I'm going to write a song about you that compares you to the devil, to the devil.
36:19And I'm going to have America singing along with me.
36:21And they didn't back out until President Trump and Secretary Rollins weighed in, and I wrote
36:26the song anyway.
36:27So I'd love to sing it for you right here on the Will Cain Show for the first time ever.
36:31I'd love for you to debut it.
36:32Take it away, John.
36:38For a hundred some odd years, her families worked the same old fields, raised their kids
36:45and grandkids right there on that land.
36:50Saw the storms flood their ground, watched their crops die in the drought, stared the
36:56great depression down and never ran.
37:01But now they're looking at one hell of a fight, trying to save the family name from a rich
37:11man's bottom line.
37:13And you think you own something, but you don't own nothing.
37:19When the government man comes around, puts his dirty old boots on your ground, laughs
37:25at your protest.
37:28With a gun and a bulletproof vest, he don't care what you have to say.
37:34He's just going to do it anyway.
37:37He'll smile and grin and then take your farm away.
37:42He'll tear it all to hell right in your face.
37:48Now the devil ain't got nothing on the TVA.
37:57He's got nothing on the TVA.
38:04And if you won't bend the knee, he'll call his personal army.
38:10Then he'll survey all your trees and cut them down.
38:15If you try to stand and fight, he'll remind you he's Goliath.
38:22And you're nothing but a David in his eyes.
38:27And he don't care about your life and liberty.
38:33And it's been that way since 1933.
38:38That's a long time.
38:40And you think you own something, but you don't own nothing.
38:46When the government man comes around, puts his dirty old boots on your ground,
38:52laughs at your protest.
38:55With a gun and a bulletproof vest, he don't care what you have to say.
39:01He's just going to do it anyway.
39:04He'll smile and grin and then take your farm away.
39:10He'll tear it all to hell right in your face.
39:16Now the devil ain't got nothing on the TVA.
39:23He's got nothing on the TVA.
39:30And you think you own something, but you don't own nothing.
39:40That is awesome.
39:41John Rich, you can hear that at Apple Music and on iTunes.
39:44And we're so proud that you did it with us here today.
39:47Thank you so much, John.
39:49That's it for us today.
39:50Now it's time for the five.
39:53So there you go.
39:55Take care.
39:56I pray for you.
39:57Debra system.
39:58We may have a moment for you.
39:59Take care.
40:00Take care.
40:02Take care.
40:03Take care, then.
40:05Let him have breakfast.
40:08Take care.
40:10Take care.
40:12Take care.
40:13Take care.
40:15Take care.
40:16Take care.
40:17Take care.
40:18Take care.
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