Will Cain on the show

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Will Cain on his new radio program

Episode Transcript

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Now here's Jimmy Barrett. Hey,welcome, it is Uh what is
today? Oh? Today's too?Is that a bad sign? That?
That's a bad sign, isn't it? When it's only Tuesday and you wonder
what day it is? It's Tuesday. We got a little follow up work
to do today, and I thinksome great audio to share with you,

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especially as relates to student protesting.I love the great Gutfeld cut. I'll
share with you a little bit laterabout about dad brains versus you know,
what is the term he used,dad brains verse. Anyway, we'll get
to that in just a little bitbit. I want to start with this
first, because I know we talkedabout it, certainly we talked about in
the Morning show, and I knowwe talked about it here. Uh.

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The CEO of Hymns, who isevidently Palestinian, or at least that that
is that is his heritage is Palestinian. And he came out and congratulated the
Columbia students who were protesting for theimpact that they were having. And uh,

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and basically said someone I'm paraphrasing alittle bit, but basically said that
he would love you know, don'tworry about if your if your school penalizes
you. I would love to Iwould love to hire kids like you is
a part of my company. Andof course you can imagine he's gotten a
tremendous amount of pushback for that.For one thing, Uh, he's the
CEO of a national company. Now, I don't know if you're familiar with

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hyms or not, but basically theysell they have hymns and hers and it
basically they sell pharmaceutical products for onthe hymn side for things like a rectile
dysfunction and you know, the thingsthat are very male specific. And you
know, from what I understand,they do a pretty good business. Well,
the moment he came out and madehis comment about hiring some of these

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students, the stock the same daystock went down like eight percent. Boom.
You know, I kind of likeI had a Budweiser impact on it.
So needless to say, he's notdoing much good for his company doing
this. He's not the owner,he's the chief executive officers. Last time
I checked, he still is theCEO of the company. Kevin O.

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Larry, though, the guy fromShark Tank, has some specific thoughts on
what should happen to this guy,and he didn't mince any words. Here
is Kevin O. Larry. Letme preface my comments about this situation by
saying that I don't support war andI don't support I don't get behind either
side. I'm against war and I'ma I support entrepreneurship in America. That's

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what I focus on. How However, if I were a majority shareholder in
a control position of equity your debtin that company, I would have fired
this individual seconds after he made thoseremarks be gone, because who are you
serving by saying that? You knowyou're in a highly polarized situation. Fifty
percent of your market does not agreewith your view. We know that's the

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case. People are very polarized bythis war, as they are in every
war. So who are you servingby saying something like that. You're not
serving your employees, You're not servingyour customers. You're not serving your shareholders,
You're serving yourself, and for thatI call you an idiot and I
whack you. You have no rightto push your values on everybody else.

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You can have an opinion just likeI can or anybody else can, but
it is not your business to polarizeeverybody on your sack of shareholders and customers
and employees that has That mistake hasalready been made. We saw it first
happen at Azeizer Bush. What happenedthere set six billion dollars worth market cap.
If you can't figure this out asa CEO, your board should fire

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you right now. And if youwere working for me, you'd be whacked
in seconds. Seconds, you'd behistory. Wow. Now I'm assuming he's
Canadian, so maybe my wife isSicilian. So when I hear the word
whacked, it kind of gets myattention because I assume that involves the trunk
of a car, you know,the trunk of a very big car,

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like a Lincoln tom car, andyou'll foul play. I don't think that's
what he meant by whacked. Icould be wrong, but I don't think
that's what he meant by whacked.I think he just meant that you're fired
on the spot and with an explanationpoint. I think that's what he meant
by that, at least I hopeit is. Now on the other end
of the coin, here here's apr battle that maybe maybe I was a

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little bit wrong about Christy Nome.I mean Christine Nome. You know the
dog quote unquote dog killer. ChristineNome has owned this story. It's a
part of her book. She says, it's a part of who she is.
And she's been going on all thesetalk shows over the course of the
last day or two to talk aboutthis, and she gets asked every time.

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She was on with Jesse Waters lastnight. Evidently she still is considered
on the shortlist of vice presidential picksfor Donald Trump. But she's going to
get asked here in just a second. First she gets asked about what you
know about debating Kamala Harris and allthat kind of stuff, and then she
gets asked about the dog. Sohere is Governor Christinom. I think the
President Trump is going to be backin the White House real soon, and

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I've told him I'll do whatever hewants me to do to help him win.
When he was in the White House. As governor, I was on
offense every day I got the chanceto solve problems for my people in South
Dakota. And ever since Joe Biden'sbeen there, all I do is be
on defense and try to defend ourfreedoms and liberties. So this President Trump
that has been so persecuted politically,I'll do everything I can to help him

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get back into leadership with this country. Now, what happens if you are
debating Kamala Harris and she says,well, wait a second, you shot
your dog and you wrote a bookabout it, bragging about it, how
can you be vice president? Youknow that story was a choice as a
mom, the the safety of mychildren versus a dangerous dog that was killing

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livestock and attacking people. So thisbook that I've written is full of stories
of my past hard decisions, andI told the truth. And I think
that's very different than a lot ofpoliticians that we have today are never friends
telling that story. Do you feellike, oh, maybe I should have
said it. Do you understand whypeople don't like that story, Well,
everybody's known that story for years.That's what most people don't realize is that

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in South Dakota. They've used thatstory to attack me and my political campaigns
for years. I wanted people toknow the truth. This dog was vicious,
it was dangerous, it was killinglivestock for the joy of it and
attacking people. And I had achoice between keeping my family safe. I
had little kids at the time,a very public business of inviting people out
to come out and enjoy our huntinglodge, in our business, and I
don't pass my responsibilities off to anybodyelse. So that stories in the book

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because I want people to know thatI'm honest and that I when I have
difficult jobs, that I take responsibilitymyself. You gotta admit, that's a
pretty dog gone good answer, right, you know, let's face it.
You know, as I mentioned afew days ago, you know, farming
communities, rural areas, they're alittle bit different, certainly much different than

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the city. You know, youdon't have you don't have a vet.
You can call up. I mean, you have a vet you can call.
But they're they're treating with horses andlivestock and that kind of stuff.
They're not dealing with dogs for themost part, and they're not right around
the corner. There's not the BET'soffice right around the corner for you to
drive to. You're you're in SouthDakota. You're you're out, you're out
in the country, and you know, ranchers and farmers know how to take

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care of those things themselves. AndI'm guessing there are probably a plenty of
people who who understand that lifestyle,who don't blame Christine um won Lick for
what she did. You know,she's trying to keep her kids safe,
she's trying to reduce liability and inthe and the dog was a menace,
a problem. Anyway, she may, she may, she may be able

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to go ahead and and uh andown this story. At least at the
rate she's handling it the right way, I will say that she's she's talking
about she's getting in front of it. All right, Gotta take a break
back with Monamama, Jimmy Bart Show. Here an am nine f KPRC.

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Hey, we're back here in namenine fifty KPRC student protesting. I think
we're all getting a little tired ofthe whole thing. I'm sure that university
officials would like it all to justgo way, even though most of them
have not done nearly enough and orto be to be able to make that
happen. I don't feel the leastbit sorry for Columbia University for the situation

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that's in. It put itself inthat situation, and now they're kind of
stuck, right, they're kind ofstuck. I mean, what are they
going to do other than try toget tough? Now they finally brought the
NYPD in, and I think thatthat that may be enough. But it
never needed to get to that point. It never it never needed to get
to that point. You know,protesting is one thing. Demonstrating is one

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thing. Vandalizing taking over you know, student buildings on campus, university owned
property that is quite enough. That'strust passing. Vandalism and trust passing.
Those those are offenses that can andshould be prosecuted. Of course. You
know, as soon as you arrestthese people, then they've they've got their

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network ready to get them out onbail and most of them, most of
them will never see the light ofday. Is it a card room is
concerned? They all know this.They know that nobody's going to really prosecute
them when it gets right down toit, so they're not afraid to keep
doing what they're doing not the leastbit afraid. But let's talk a little
bit about the psychology, can weLet's talk a little bit about the psychology

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of what's going on with all thisstuff. First up, Victor Davis Hanson.
Now he's an interesting guy to mebecause he is regularly on a college
campus. He works at Stanford.But he has some thoughts about the student
protest and kind of what fuels thesethings. And I think he's a big
believer. I am too that alot of this has to do with social

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media. That is one of thebig changes that we've seen. That's kind
of what separates the protesting of todayversus protesting for example, the Vietnam War
back in the late sixties early seventies, is that there was no social media
back then. You know, whateverhappened on campus generally happened fairly spontaneously and

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it would get reported by ABC,NBC and CBS, but that was it.
There's nobody else to report it.A local newspapers, local television.
That's it. It didn't become thisbig national story with video everywhere like it
does. Now here's Victor Davis Hansenwith some more thoughts about you know why
we're seeing what we're seeing right nowon college campus. One thing that I

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like, I don't like it,but we have got moral clarity about all
these demonstrations. They have just blownout a lot of the left's charades.
We've known. Anybody's been in theso called elite campus is known for years
that they're mediocre. At Stanford whereI work, they let in only twenty
percent of the student body is socalled white. That's not important, but

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it is important that they threw outthe SAT and they don't rate comparative GPAs
to achieve that, and so theyare letting in students who, by their
own definition, cannot do the workthat they themselves used to require. They
were in competition with other universities andsaid, we're pre eminent. Now what
are they doing. They're giving sixtyto eighty percent a's at all these campuses.

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They're watering down the courses and halfthe workload, or they're introducing new
courses, and then they're creating thesehelicopter privileged, helicopter parented students. And
everybody's watching this and they're thinking,Wow, these kids tore up the Portland
State Library. They were like animals. They destroyed it. Wow, do

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you see what they did at USCand UCLA. They've made a mess.
It's worse than a homeless camp.And then you know who has to clean
it up? All these poor maintenancepeople and they left up a janitor at
and there's all these poor middle classpolicemen that they spit in. And then
there's ol Viyrant. Donald's come hereand they call him Uncle Tom and a

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trader. This middle Eastern students andthey shall you go back to Poland or
the final solution? We don't likethese people. They're spoiled. I think
the Americans are concluding that they're spoiled. We don't like these administrators and presidents
that won't stop it. And they'rescared. Why are they scared? I

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think he's right, But why arethey scared? What? What are they
scared of? What is it they'reafraid of at these universities And the only
thing I can think of is they'reafraid of their instructors. They're afraid,
they're afraid of their staff, whichis almost entirely liberal and in some cases
radicals. Well you hired them,you hired them, and now you've letting

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them, you're letting them take completecontrol. I mean, it's one thing
if you want to have a littleprotest. I mean college campuses are all
about protesting. But at least someof the some of these universities starting to
push back say way, wait,wait, wait, wait wait. You
you can demonstrate over there, youcan't come over here. You can't take
over our buildings, you can't shutdown classes for everybody else. You can't

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take graduation commencement away, although theyhave with some success, right at some
of these major universities, no commencementif there is a commitment, we will
interrupt the commencement and ruin the graduationfor kids who graduate from high school in
twenty twenty in some cases COVID yearand had that graduation ruined. You know,

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at some point in time, there'sgot to be some accountability. I
like this next thought here from GregGuttfeld because I think Greg Guttfeld is onto
something. You know, he says, there's two different brings at work here.
The students are on Internet brain.They are reacting to social media.

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They are influenced by social media.They are broadcasts too by social media.
You know, they get their newsfrom social media. They star in videos
on social media that's the world thatthey're kind of used to. There's the
Internet brain, and then there's thedad brain. The dad brain is something

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that many of us were brought upwith. If you had a father who
was trying to teach you the differencebetween right and wrong, how to respect
other people, how to respect yourself, how to have a work ethic,
how to be responsible for yourself andresponsible for a family. If you were
brought up that way by dad,I thank god I was, then you

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understand what a dad brain is.Greg Gutfield does a heck of a job
here sort of displaying the difference,if you will, between an Internet brain
and a dad brain. As faras what's going on with these social protests,
let's compare Internet brain and dad brain. Dad brain lays down the law
when nonsense gets out of hand.No mom's ever gotten the kids in line

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by saying wait till you're non barbinary community organizer gets home. Dad's brain
lives in the world of paid bills, changed tires, mode, lawns,
of vital things getting done. Meanwhile, Internet brain has strong opinions on building
a carbon neutral tree for it writtenby people too weak to lift a hammer.

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Internet brain doesn't focus your problems,it expands them by saying the world's
problems are yours. Dad brain says, no, Hamas is not your beef.
Mother's Day is get your mom acard and some flowers. The internet
brain offers you big problems you can'thandle, climate change, the Middle East,

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global inequality. Dad brain knows thatsuch obsessions create anxiety and says,
save us the lecture on Marxism inPeru? Have you paid your phone bill?
Internet brain also forces kids to comparetheir lives to others, generating envy
that leads to mental anguish. Dadbrain says, I know Kelly and Ada

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went to Aspen on spring break,but we're going to your grandmother's. You
know that kind old lady who mightnot be here in a few years.
Dad brain sees what the inner braindoes to you. It makes it crazy,
like a bad boyfriend, and dadbrain is not so much enforcing discipline
as calling Most of these kids knowtheir causes and commitment are all a show.

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It's the equivalent of a school play, and that it's badly produced.
It becomes boring, and the parentsaren't so much enjoying it as they are
tolerating it. In fact, manyof them want dad brain to knock them
into line, and so after weeksof hamas cosplay, who shows up?
Yep, the adults college officials,like the president of the USC who told
the kiddies funds over. As aresult, USC has been cleared out twice

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with no injuries or riots, disappointingmost of the media. Of course,
Florida has a healthy supply of adultsin charge too, where students were told
their schools are not a daycare,that's a dad brain. I'm surprised they
also didn't yell with them for touchingthe thermostat or threatened to turn this car
around. Of course, the copswere a massive dad brain here. No

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shootings, no real injuries, andthe sort of patience only a dad could
have with brats. Boy, Icouldn't help but think of my old dad
when he's saying that. Do youthink part of the problem, the reason
why we aren't spending more time withdad brains is we don't have enough dads
involved with kids. I mean,we still have dads, but whether it's

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the divorce, raid or single parenthoodor whatever it is, maybe we're not
exposing kids to dad brains the waywe used to. Maybe that's part of
the problem, you know, maybethere's not enough accountability. You know,
as much as helicopter parents love tohover and above their kids and take care

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of everything, they don't really teachthem the coping skills, do they?
A lot of times they don't.You know, Dad lets you fall down
and get hurt every now and againwhen he thinks you'd need to learn a
lesson. And there's some kids outthere right now who really need to learn
a lesson. All right, we'regonna take a quick little break back with
war in a moment Jimmy Barirtt ShowHere in a nine fifty KPRC. All

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right, special guests today here theJimmy Bird Show. His name is Will
Caane. You know him from weekendsin particular on Fox News. He's all
over Fox News and he does afantastic job. But for some reason,
this guy wants to be on theradio. What's up with this, Willkane?
What is it with all you guysat Fox now wanting to be on
the radio. I thought you wereTV guys. Well, Jimmy, I

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actually come to you with a radiobackground. I did three years of radio
at ESPN Radio and I'll tell youthis. I don't think there's any better
media than radio. I think it'sa direct connection to the audience. I
think you can have a natural,free flowing conversation. I think you can
have fun, you're not inhibited bytime. I think it's the best.

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And if you can do radio,you can do any other form of media,
because for three hours, you can'tpretend. You got to be real.
You got to lay out your thoughts. And if you can do that
in three hours and carry the timethree minutes on TV is easy. Tell
me about tell me about the Foxexperience though, how long? How long
have you been a Fox? Now, I've been a Fox for three years?
Okay, what got you interested inmaking that switch? You know you

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mentioned the whole ESPN thing, youknow, obviously going for the sports world
into more of the political in thenews world. What made you interested in
making that switch? Well, Iwas in news and politics before I went
into sports. It was my introductioninto media. I was a contributor at
The Blaze. I was a conto CNN, their lone voice of sanity

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and reason, and you know Imade the move over to sports. I've
always been a huge sports fan.I love it, but in twenty twenty,
the world kind of went nuts inmy estimation, and between COVID and
race politics, I just felt likeI wanted to be more directly in the

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fight. I wanted to be moredirectly in the conversation. You touch on
culture when you talk sports at intersectsin so many different ways, but I
wanted to be more direct and whatI thought was a really pivotal and important
moment for the country. And Icould always still talk sports, and I
still do, but it was timeto address the things that are really facing
the country. Well. And youknow sports has become so political, right,

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I mean you can't. You can'tavoid politics and sports anymore. I
used to look, I too lovesports, but as that got more and
more political, that became harder andharder to watch. Yeah, no doubt.
And you know that I was kindof described as the conservative voice city
ESPN. But you know I madea point, Jim, when I was
there. The reason that someone waslistening to ESPN or watching ESPN, or

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the reason we watch a game atnight is to escape and be entertained,
and you respect the audience. Now, there are times when it's unavoidable when
culture and sports and politics intersects,but too many people were trying to make
it political. I think so manysports people are what you know, coming
from a guy who did make themove back to politics, I think a

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lot of these sports people really wishthey were in politics from the beginning.
I guess because they looked at everyopportunity in Jeck to politics into sports.
Yeah, it's a difficult transition,though not everybody can make that. Why
do you think it's been successful foryou? I, for example, maybe
maybe it is because you're coming froma more conservative point of view. I've
noticed that Steve even step and ASmith seems to be getting more conservative about

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some things. Keith Oberbin over there, I mean he kind of wrote the
book on you know, on beingwoke and being involved in sports. He
kind of moved completely away from sportsand used his sports venue to become politic.
Yeah. I mean, there's notmany lessons to take from Keith Olbman.
He's just an insane old man.Steven A who I know. Look,

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I mean, he's got a lotof thoughts. He he got a
lot to say. I think Iwas ever watched him knows that. So
in some areas outside of ESPN.He's definitely getting more political. I'll tell
you why I think it worked forme. It's because I was you know,
I'm hesitant to say I was herebefore I was in sports, because

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I've been a sports fan since.I don't know, I remember crying in
nineteen eighty one when Dwight Clark madea catch over Everson Walls an NFC Championship
game. But my my formal educationand thoughts, I went to law school.
That's really when I started to formmy ideas, my ideology. I
guess that gave me the background thatwhenever I talked cultures, politics, I

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mean, I don't want to soundI just knew where I was coming from.
I knew what I believe. Iknow why I believe it. And
that's really what I try to do. Often when I do Fox and Friends
or the Will Kine Shows, it'snot just like here's my incredibly passionate case.
It's like, here's how I gothere, Here's why I believe this
about some idea or the country.I'm not shooting from the hip. I

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got a pretty deep philosophical understanding ofmyself or what I believe or want to
share that and by the way.Because of that, I'm happy to debate.
It always have been. You disagreewith me, let's let's let's have
it out. Make your case right. Yeah, Well, Kine is with
us. He's got a brand newshow. There's going to premiere on KPRC

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twelve midnight on June the third.We should make sure you throw a plug
in for that. Uh where didyou go to law school? University of
Texas? Okay, that explains alot. Anybody who's spent any time in
Texas generally has their head screwed on, right, even if even if it
came out of Austin, you know, born and raised Sherman, Texas,

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small town about an hour north ofDallas. I'm texting through and through I
live. I hope Houston doesn't holdagainst me, but I live in Dallas
now. I just I can't explainthe level of passion I have for Texas,
Like, if we succeed, I'mgoing with Texas. Well, you
know what it may come to that. I hate to say it will,

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but it just might come to that. It's somebody who's a lawyer and obviously
attended law school. Tell me,what do you make of what's going on
in Columbia. What has happened?What does happen? I mean, it's
always been always been liberal, it'salways been a little nuts. But what
do you make about the way theuniversity itself has handled all this? Well,

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let me and I'll try not tomake this long. But you asked
me first what's going on in Columbia, because I think that's pretty fascinating.
So first of all, we haveto acknowledge the inorganic level of this.
There is a lot of paid organizedprotesters who are not Columbia students, who
are professionals on this and have beentraining for months for this moment. They're
funded by organizations like the Tides Foundation, Students Justice for Palestine, and these

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people are funded by literally hear thenames behind it, Soros, Gates,
Pritzker. Pritzker, by the way, is of the Hyatt family fortune and
JB. Pritsker is the governor ofIllinois. Right, They have funded these
organizations. This is trackable. Theyalso, by the way, big donors
to Joe Biden. So it's fascinating. They're funding the thing that could actually
take down the guy that they arefunding. So there's the inorganic level.

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But maybe just as concerning is what'shappened over a long period of time.
Half a century. Students have beentaught critical theory, which is a Marxist
theory that defines the world into theprism of oppressor and oppressed. They look
for the oppressed in any situation,and in many situations they do it very
shallowly. Who has the darker skin. But they see themselves now, not

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as critical thinkers in education, butas activists. They're taught to be activists,
so they're activists for the cause ofthe oppressed. And again, you
could inner a lot of these students. They don't know anything about Gaza,
but they have defined one group asthe oppressed, and they will be activists
in trying to champion that oppressed.That's what's happening at a deeper level.

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And you can fire as many administratorsas you want, as many Columbia presidents
as you want. It's not goingto change until you change the deep philosophical
problems within education, all right,but change in the administration. And different
administrations are handling this different ways.Obviously, usc didn't put up with a
whole bunch of nonsense. UCLA didn'tput up with a whole bunch of nonsense.

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And I'm sure there's just as manyliberal wackos at those schools as there
is at Columbia. But first,whatever reason, Columbia stood down. They
were hesitant to take any action.They were actually negotiating with these students.
You don't negotiate with students. Theybut they bred this. This happened in
the sixties with Columbia. I mean, this is modeled right after what happened

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in sixty eight during the Vietnam Warprotests. They took over Hamilton Hall in
sixty eight. They took it overagain in twenty twenty four, And so
the administration, certainly the professors,they agree with these students. They've been
breeding this again for half a century. I think also some of these other
schools like USC or UCLA and tosome extent University of Texas, they saw

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it, they got to learn fromit. So it's like which university professor
was it that went up before Congressafter the three idiots went up there and
made a fool of themselves and losttheir job. Once you see like three
or four chickens get their heads cutoff, the fit and six chicken thing.
Maybe I should back way into thecorner that's true. That's true.

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Survival. It's all about survival atthis at this point in time. All
right, you know the student protesting, obviously, I think it's going to
be the next big powder gig isgoing to be at the Democratic National Convention.
What do you think again, parallelsto nineteen sixty eight are uncanny.
I think you're absolutely right. Andthey know it. By the way,
it's being prepared just like the studentWall Street Journal reported, these these campus

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protests were trained up for months aheadof time. They're training for the Democratic
National Convention and Democrats know it.Currently they're only permitting these protests like four
miles away from the convention in Chicagoby the way, Chicago sixty eight,
Chicago twenty four. But I don'tI don't think they can keep a handle
on it. So what your estimation, if anything, can Democrats do about

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it? I mean, is thispotentially damaging to them or do you think
do you think they'll have similar actionsat the Republican National Convention or are they
just targeting Democrats? With all thismostly targeting Democrats, there's no there's no
hatred greater than where you once hadlove, you know, betrayed Loyalties six

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again, comparing things to sixty eight. It hurt. I mean they chanted
hey, hey ho ho, LBJhas got to go. Now they're chanting
genocide Joe. Then LBJ had tobow out. I don't think there's anything
they can do to diffuse this.I do think it will hurt Joe Biden.

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I don't know if it hurts enoughfor it to become president or a
candidate Kamala Harris for president. ButI wouldn't put anything off the table.
By the way, wouldn't you thinkthey'd come up with some new chants in
the last fifty sixty years. Comeon, no, man, they're just
running the same playbook. No,you're right. The playbook never changes,
does it. Maybe the players change, but the playbook doesn't. Will Kane

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a pleasure to talk to you,sir. Continue success on Fox and Friends
and on Fox in general, andwe're looking forward to hearing your new show
starting June the third, here onAM nine to fifty KPRC. To be
in Houston, Excited to be inTexas. Thank you, Jimmy, Take
care my friend. That's Will Kanejoining us here on AM nine to fifty
KPRC. Quick break Back with morein a moment on the Jimmy Barrett Show.

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All right, we are backward.We got one more segment here before
we wrap it up for today.I want to get into this story a
little bit here, and I feellike I always feel like I need to
preface these things by telling you whereit comes from, because there's a I
think there's a lot of built inprejudiced in news media, and most of
it has a liberal bias. Imean, every now and again, I'll

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take stories from conservative sides, althoughthere's times man ney to choose from,
but I always try to when Itake a story from example, this is
from Newsweek. So Newsweek is aboutas liberal as the day is long.
And I mean I know that goinginto it, but I always find it
interesting to look at a story likethis to try to figure out where they're
coming from and how they're trying toset this thing up. Here's the headline

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from this New Week's story. Headlineis rising number of men don't want to
work. Rising number of men don'twant to work. So the story is
basically, in the nineteen fifties,the labor participation rate in twenty five to
fifty four year old men either fulltime or part time work was ninety seven

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percent. The participation rate now withthe same age group, twenty five to
fifty four year old men, eitherfull time or part time, is down
to eighty six percent. So that'seleven percent less of working age American men
between twenty five and fifty four whoare working either a full time or a
part time job eighty six percent.The story goes on to say, is

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fewer men financially support themselves. Theirlong reaching economic and societal implications. The
US has a major issue of primeage men giving up and permanently exiting the
labor force. This is according toa senior fellow research person from the Brookings
Institute and a former chief economist.What's striking about this is it doesn't get

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talked about at all, not inthe mainstream media, not by the economist,
even though this obviously feeds political radicalization. So I'm not sure where they're
coming from here political radicalization. Arethey suggesting that these men who are not
working are being radicalized on a politicalbasis? Maybe now they get into what

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caused the drop, several factors maybe at play for men's declining participation in
the workforce. They first they talkabout the two thousand and eight grade recession,
which saw mail employment decline from eightyeight to just eighty point six percent,
and the rate has never been ableto get higher than eighty six point
seven percent since then. So theyblame the Great Recession, but they go

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on from there they blame the collegeparticipation rate. Right now, by sixty
percent of all people who go tocollege go to universities, are women,
forty percent are men. It usedto be closer to fifty to fifty,
so we have fewer men that aregoing to college. Now, are these

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men not going to college because theydon't want to work, they don't want
to get an education, they don'tsee the value of an education, or
maybe are some of them participating insomething else, for example, like skilled
labor, electrical plumbing, mechanics,those kinds of things. Because we've already

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talked about in this show a milliontimes. College is not for everybody,
and there are a lot of skilledlabor positions out there that are waiting to
be filled where they can't find enoughpeople. So we have a lot of
positions that are still open. Soit can't be necessarily that that lower rate
of male participation is just based oneither a lack of education, because the

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educational opportunities are out there, ifnot in college, then in a vocational
school to learn a trade. Sowhy do we have men who are not
interested in either going to college orlearning a trade. Then we start getting
into, I think, the thingthat we all have to look at.
Have we made it too comfortable forpeople to not work? What are we

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doing to encourage work? In theanswers, we aren't doing a lot,
I know thing to encourage work.We don't really have a work requirement anymore
as it relates to, you know, getting things like welfare and food stamps
and all those types of things.We have Harris County and others like it

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who have made proposals about giving peoplea universal living wage, you know,
five hundred bucks a month or whateverit is, for no other reason than
the fact that you exist. That'sit. So we really haven't done anything,
I don't think to encourage people.We've made it too comfortable to stay
at home. If you're a thirtyyear old male and you're not employed,

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and you're living at home, andyou don't really have a desire to live
somewhere else on your own, andpeople are still taking care of you and
you're getting certain benefits. Have wemade it way too easy or simple to
stay home? You know that usedto be counteracted with ambition, But ambition,

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I think it's here's another interesting question. Is ambition a learned behavior or
are you born with ambition or alack of ambition? I think it's a
learned behavior. So if you areraised in a household where there isn't a
lot of ambitious people around you lookingto get ahead, and there's no expectation

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for you to get ahead or orpressure for you to get ahead, why
would you If you're perfectly happy withwhat you've got, and you're and you're
getting by just fine, and youdon't really have anything you're interested in doing,
I can see where it'd be veryeasy to fall into that. So
I don't know that that you know, there's it's more than they want to

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blame it on the lack of acollege education. That is not the problem.
Plenty of jobs out there. Theproblem is not the lack of an
education. The problem is a lackof ambition. All right, listen,
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