Saving the West Through Culture, Entertainment, and Sports | JAKE & BLAIN CRAIN & DAVID CONE
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Jake Crane, Blaine Crane, and David Cohn discuss the dangers of censorship in sports and culture, why so many people stand on money when they should be standing on what is right, and how sports shapes much of our views on masculinity in society.
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Our conversation today is a great follow-up to the conversation that we had with Hollywood actor
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and producer Kevin Sorbo last week. We have to fight the issues where they are. And right now,
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entertainment and sports are at the front of the battleground to capture and redefine what
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manliness looks like in the West today. I'm not interested in letting that happen, and neither
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are my guests, Jay Crane, Blaine Crane, and David Cohn. They are the host of Crane & Company,
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where they discuss cultural commentary through the world of sports. Today, we talk about the
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dangers of censorship in sports and culture, why so many people stand on money when they should be
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standing on what is right, how sports shapes much of our views on men, masculinity, and society,
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why we as a culture tend to mistakenly prioritize tolerance and acceptance, how sports is a powerful
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answer to the fatherlessness epidemic, and how to shift the Overton window back from where it's
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trending. You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest, embrace your fears, and boldly
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chart your own path. When life knocks you down, you get back up one more time, every time. You
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are not easily deterred, defeated, rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are.
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This is who you will become. At the end of the day, and after all is said and done, you can call
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yourself a man. Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Michler. I'm the host and the
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founder of the Order of Man podcast movement. I am glad you are tuning in today. I've got a very
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exciting one, one that was a lot of fun for me. I'm joined by Jake Crane, Blaine Crane, and David
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Cohn, host of Crane & Company, which is a podcast we'll talk more about here shortly. If you are new
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to the podcast, it's my goal to bring on relevant guests, important guests with important lessons and
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stories and experiences that they can share with us so that we can, A, become better men for ourselves,
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B, become better men for the people in our lives, and C, to become better men for society as a whole.
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We as a society are lost. We're degenerate. We're struggling. We're moving in the wrong direction.
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And it's my firm belief that having men who are capable, strong, bold, courageous, virtuous,
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righteous are going to be the people who end up saving the world. And I know that sounds
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grandiose. It's not hyperbole. That is where I think we're headed unless us as men can step up
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and do what we need to do to serve ourselves and other people that we have a responsibility for.
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introduce you to my guests. They are Jake crane, Blaine crane, and David Cohn. They are the host of
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the popular daily wire podcast crane and company where they discuss current sports events through
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the lens of American politics and cultural conversations. These guys are all former professional
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athletes, their coaches, and admittedly, they're some of the most entertaining voices in sports
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today. Uh, they're also the co-star stars, I should say of daily wires, hit movie lady ballers,
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and they do in-depth, uh, analytics, informative interviews, predictions in the world of athletics.
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And whether you agree with them or not, they always give you something to consider. Enjoy this one
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guys. Hey, what's up guys. Good to have you on the podcast, man. Thanks for having us. We're excited
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to, uh, to be here. I don't know if I've ever done, uh, interviewed three people at a time,
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so we'll see how this goes. This is new for me. You guys are seasoned professionals,
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so I'm sure it'll be all right. Yeah. We got more chemistry than Bill Nye,
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the science guys. So we're good. We're good. We'll adjust. How do you guys keep from, uh,
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tripping over each other? Cause I listened to your podcast. I'm like, man, they're pretty in sync
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here. Like they, uh, they don't really trip over or talk over each other too often. That's,
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that's impressive actually. Well, I appreciate it. Um, I, I, a lot of it, I mean, me and this,
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my brother's right here to my right. Allegedly. Allegedly.
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Allegedly. That is one of your favorite words. Yeah. We haven't checked the Carfax yet, but,
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uh, no, I mean, we were able to do it and then we've known David for so long. I think we kind
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of cousin. I'm a close cousin at this point. Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. I liken it to a
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band. Honestly, it's just like we met, we started making music and it just, it's, it grooved and we
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got to know each other. And I think that, you know, when you watch like the backstage here at the
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Daily Wire, like that's a masterclass and passing the baton to, from, from one person to the other in
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the midst of very different conversations, they're having them when we're talking about
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who's going to win the conference championships. But no, when I met these guys, like right when I
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met these guys, it was just like brothers. I have two brothers, they're brothers. And it's just,
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you know, happy to be here for sure. Yeah. Well, it's pretty cool also that you get to work with
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such an incredible team. I've had Ben on, I've had Andrew Klavan on, uh, working on getting mad on
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the podcast and the quality of the content you guys put out is incredible. How did you guys get
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synced up with, uh, with, with the Daily Wire? Yeah. Well, first off, I mean, we're, we're
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unbelievably fortunate and grateful to be at a place, uh, that number one has people that works
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as hard as what the Daily Wire has. And, and I don't say that lightly, you know, we, we're obviously
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sports guys. We grew up playing sports. We're able to play at a decently high level and we
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understand the importance of teamwork. And I think that's one of the main reasons why the Daily Wire has
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been so successful. And they let us say what we want to say, right. Right. There's no, there's no leash on,
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you know, to quote Dana White here recently on, on us diving into topics and, but, but I'm going to
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tell you, Ryan, like the truth is we, we say what we think. I think that's, what's kind of separated
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us from some other shows is that you may agree with us on who you think is going to win. Uh,
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you may disagree with us on certain things, but we're able to say what we think and it comes off
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as genuine. And when you're able to say what you think you can argue points, uh, pretty far
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instead of, you know, some of the other stuff you hear where it's rehearsed and we'll all take this
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side and you take that side because it'll be more fun. We genuinely say what we believe, but no,
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it's a, it's an incredible place to work. And, you know, we can give the origin story.
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Tell them, tell them about when we were at the college football hall and Ben Shapiro called.
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Yeah. So man, it's crazy. Uh, I coached college football for almost a decade. Um, my brother,
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my brother coached it for almost half a decade. And when COVID hit, I was coaching up in Montana
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and they sent the players back and the coaches back. Cause nobody knew what was going on.
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Our head coach was like, we're going to bring you back at some point. We just don't know it
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was touch and go. And so I went and bought a $50 mic, um, and just started kind of talking
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college football, stuff like that. And I didn't know what was good. I had no plan for it to go
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forward. I was going back to coaching and it kind of blew up. And I got reached out to by a couple
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investors who were pretty high up there and they wanted to move me to Atlanta and put it on video.
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So that's when I met David Cohn, who was actually the own, the video production company that I was
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going on video. We hit it off. Uh, long story short, he hops on, my brother hops on the show.
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We sign a deal with the volume and Colin Cowherd. Um, and we're doing it out of the college football
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hall of fame. We're in the middle of renegotiating a deal with, with Colin Cowherd in the volume.
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Cause we had had a ton of success early and we're really excited. And then I get a call,
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a DM on Twitter from Ben Shapiro. Uh, and then I get a call from Ben Shapiro and, uh, he was like,
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look, man, we're interested in having a sports show. We'd love to talk to you guys. And it's just
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blossomed from there, man. It's I'm just wanting to wake up from a coma, to be honest with you.
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Like, I really think I'm in a coma right now. Like, and I'm going to wake up eventually. And
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they're gonna be like, yeah, man, you were recruiting. I hit you. Worth it. For sure.
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And as somebody look for full transparency, like, uh, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson had a huge
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impact on me and sort of the transformation that I made throughout my twenties and stuff. So
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getting a call from them and being able to join this just elite cast of intellectuals and,
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and, and great people already felt like a dream. But then given the fact that I played football at
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Michigan and they just won the national championship, now I'm 100% convinced it's a
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dream. And at this point I'm fine, just staying in it. Like, let's don't wake up. Oh no. I'll
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Truman show this thing for all it's worth. Yeah. Time to wake up anytime soon. Well,
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I was going to ask if it ever feels like, you know, you're talking about waking up from the dream
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or feeling like, ah, man, somebody is going to find out who we really are and can us here pretty
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quickly, but it sounds like you guys are honest about who you are. And I think, you know, you
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talked about Dana White or you see somebody like Jim Harbaugh who, you know, it's, uh, at the,
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at the March for life or, and it's, it's, uh, it's sad that these types of things, the way people
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really believe, especially in the sports arena, feel like they can't actually share what's on their
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mind because of losing, uh, careers, losing job opportunities, losing promotions and the risk that
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comes with just being honest about what you think and feel.
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Yeah, without a doubt. And I think that's why some networks you see right now are struggling
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and are having to make some moves to try and make up for the fact that, look, let's be honest,
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they censor what the talent says and what the talent can't say. I've had more guys and we've
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had more guys reach out to us on certain other networks that are like, man, I want to say what
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you just said, but I would be fired into the sun instantly. And I think, you know, again,
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whether you agree or disagree to me, that's beyond the point. It's the human ability to
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tell when somebody is being genuine in what they think and what they're saying, at least
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you know where I stand with Dana White, at least you know where he stands. And at the
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end of the day, if I, if I'm going to go down, I want to go down, you know, with you knowing
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I'm, I'm meaning what I say, not that you say crazy stuff or you try and be a shock jock
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or anything like that. I'm going to tell you what I really think about something. If it's,
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if it's out there, it's out there compared to the mainstream, but the ability again,
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that the daily wire gives us to do that, I think is, is one reason why we've seen the
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results that we've seen because deep down, you know, I used to say it about recruiting.
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You can fake and trick a lot of people, right? But, but eventually they're going to find
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out that you're not genuine or you are genuine. And that's the way we've gone about it.
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Well, Dana White specifically, I mean, we've become friends with it. Wouldn't you guys say,
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I mean, that's a crazy statement to say too, but we've become friends and close with Dana White
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through his power slap initiative, which they have their next one coming up February 9th,
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right before the Superbowl. And, you know, I don't agree with everything Dana White says
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or all of the actions that he takes. And yet when I'm around the guy, like I'm captivized by his
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presence. And I think like that's, you know, that shows me the type of leader that he is,
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the way he runs his business and his comments this past week about not putting his UFC fighters on a
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leash and talking about free speech, I think was just a microcosm of that, that, Hey,
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it's healthy to disagree. Tell me what you think. I'll tell you what I, what I think.
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And then let's go to the blackjack tables and we're going to be friends.
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And yeah, well, I think, well, I think authenticity matters, right? And I think you could smell a fake
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from a mile away, but we're running to the problem now where people would rather stand on money than
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stand on what's right. And I think, I think dialogue matters. And we're scared to argue these days,
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a real authentic, authentic argument. And I think that's where we get in trouble. We're so
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one-sided. We have so many followers and not a lot of leaders in today's society. That's why you
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see all these corporations, all these major networks, just absolutely drowning, drowning in
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losses. And it's not going to get better because they're not leaders. They're going to follow
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the politicians and whatever the narrative is. So when it comes to our show and what we can say,
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authenticity lasts, like that sells the best. You want to know about why Joe Rogan's so good?
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Because Joe Rogan is authentic. He will say what he feels like, whether you believe it
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or whether you do not believe it. And that is what viewers want. That's what people want to hear.
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That's what people want to listen to. They don't want to see some guy get up on CNN and tell you
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not to go outside today because the sun can blow up, right? That's what we're running into. So
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I think we're smelling the fakes out. They're starting to come out of the trees a little bit.
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And the real ones will forever be able to see that. Yeah. Descent moves us forward. That's what we say
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on the show all the time. Well, and I think, yes. Did you say dissent moves us forward?
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Because that was actually going to lead into what I was thinking. Yeah, I agree. I think the more
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people who stand up and speak their mind, the less cancelable these types of things become.
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You know, you take Dana White was referring specifically to, I believe, Sean Strickland's
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comments about the LGBTQ agenda. And, you know, although I don't necessarily agree with the way that,
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you know, Sean delivered his thoughts on the subject, the fact that he stood up to a reporter
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and said exactly what he wanted to say, exactly what was on his mind and wasn't popular was actually
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a pretty redeeming characteristic, if you ask me. No, Ryan, it is. But like, to me, the saddest part
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is we have to celebrate that because we don't see it all the time. That's true. We've had so many
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people in our past die for our ability to sit here and say what we think, whether you agree,
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whether it's right or whether it's wrong. I don't know if there's one person in the world that I agree
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with everything they think. I don't know if there's one person in the world where I disagree
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with everything that they think. But the fact that we have to celebrate the ability of an individual
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to say what they actually think, it's borderline scary. And you have to celebrate it because you
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want more of it. And it's kind of a natural human reaction. But we've gotten to a point now where we
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are so fearful of being ourselves that we'll never reach our potential. And to me, that's the scariest
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part of the whole ordeal. And you brought up something there with Sean Strickland specifically.
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I remember growing up, my father would say, how you say something is as important as what you say.
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I mean, you could tell someone to go to hell in such a way they'd look forward to the trip,
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I think was the phrase that my father used. You've won a trip to hell.
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That's what you see. That's a guy that would get you excited for the trip. But with Sean Strickland
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specifically, of course, man, I'm sure he wishes and a lot of us wish he could have articulated that
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thought in a very different way. Right. But I think that's what Dana is alluding to. And look,
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when it comes to free speech specifically, there is, you can't just go and say whatever you want.
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It's not even about being canceled. There have to be some sort of standards, especially when we're
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talking about, you know, corporations and you're trying to promote a fight and that kind of stuff.
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But to me, what Sean Strickland said is not where the line is, right? Like the line,
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the line has to be as far as possible when we're talking about speech, especially when you're trying to push
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cultural ideas and where that Overton window is and how wide is that window and where exactly is it?
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So, of course, all of us are trying, especially we're on live TV every day like we are,
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trying to articulate thoughts as carefully as possible. And sometimes we make mistakes.
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But, you know, it's the sentiment behind ideas that's important, too.
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Well, one of the things I tell the guys that listen to the podcast and are tuned into what we're
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doing is you have a lot of these, quote unquote, nice guys who don't want to rock the boat. They don't want
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to make anybody feel bad. You know, they get steamrolled and rolled over. And I tell these
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guys, hey, look, if you want to be if you don't want to be a nice guy any longer, you actually have
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to tiptoe into asshole territory because you don't know what the line is. And until you're willing to
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be an asshole, you can't find the right appropriate line on how to stand up for yourself, how to have
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boundaries, how to share what you want, but do it in a respectful way that will elicit results from
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other people. Yeah, well, I mean, I think and I agree with you, Ryan, it's that's part of being
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yourself, though, right? Like me in the real world, sometimes my dad used to say that if we're
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going to quote our dance, somebody's got to wear the hat sometimes like you to me when I'm talking
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about something, it does release different emotions for me in certain aspects because that's me,
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you know, being myself. If I disagree with Blaine or something or if I disagree with somebody else out
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there, I'm going to talk about it. And if I have to tiptoe into that territory, I'll tiptoe into that
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territory. But I'm not going to live in that territory or I'm not going to just live in the
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nice guy territory again. I think the authenticity, right? It's the beanie baby rule, the baseball
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called rule. The more authentic it is, the more valuable it is. And that's the way that we kind
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of approach what we do. But I'm with you, man. And I think that goes into the full experience.
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I don't want you and I know these guys will agree with me to turn it, tune into Cran and Company
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because you're like, oh, it's just going to be nothing but rainbows and smiles. Or I'm going to tune
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into Cran and Company because these three guys are going to yell at each other the whole time.
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Like we see on different shows. I want you to tune in and be like, hey, I don't know what
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I'm going to get today. As far as emotional, right? Is it going to be funnier? Is there going
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to be something going to get angry? Are we going to get into a heated debate? But I know I'm going
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to get something that's real. And at the end of the day, to quote one of my favorite artists,
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I don't know if many of you already agrees, Drake on the pound cake song.
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Yeah. Only real music is going to last. All the other stuff is here today and it's gone tomorrow.
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Yeah. It took me a little while to realize in life, like being a good man and being a nice man
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are two different things, right? Like those are not the same thing. Sometimes being a good man
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and doing what's right in terms of taking on the responsibilities of a man means that you're not
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being nice, right? It's having the ability to not only get in a fight, but win a fight, whether that be
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figuratively or literally, but to win that fight. And sometimes that's what's called upon for a man to
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reach his full potential and to take on the responsibilities of life.
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One of my, uh, one of my friends, his name's Jack Donovan. He makes this distinction. He says,
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there's a difference between being a good man and being good at being a man. And I love that
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distinction. I do like that. I may have to borrow that one. I want to pivot real quick. Cause you guys,
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you guys mentioned something I take a little bit of issue with. So I'm really curious from your
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commentary, your professional and expert opinion in the world of sports power slap.
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Let's talk about that a little bit. Cause I love UFC. I love the fights. Um, I train a little
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jujitsu, not very much, but I love that. But then I see the power slap stuff and I just can't get
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behind it as a, as a, as a sport, as a, like a valuable thing to do. Tell me your guys' thoughts on
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this. Hmm. Well, look, I feel like if, uh, you want to grab the belt, grab the belt. Um,
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the way I look at it, it's like this, uh, both are brutal. Right. And having been there in person,
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I can tell you like power, it's visceral. Like it's watching it on TV is one thing being there
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and seeing it and hearing it and basically feeling it almost from the front row is a totally different
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thing. Um, but to me, I think, you know, it's as, as crazy as some people might think it is.
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I think it's a good pathway for some of these guys who are, who are trying to get a career.
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Maybe it's an MMA, maybe it's something else to try and get their foot in the door. A lot
00:19:25.060
of them, that's what they're doing. So to me, it's, you can get knocked out in both, right?
00:19:30.500
Which one would I rather do? I don't know. I, I think both of them can end up being, being,
00:19:35.140
you know, pretty brutal, but at the end of the day, I think it's providing opportunities
00:19:38.500
for guys who are willing to do it. Right. We're not, they're not forcing anybody to,
00:19:41.860
they're not going into different villages and be like, Hey, you come here, power,
00:19:45.380
son. You can sit in a hunger games situation, but I think it's getting a foot in the door
00:19:50.100
for some of these guys. And honestly, uh, after having met them and hung out with someone, man,
00:19:54.500
they're great guys. They're really cool people. I would encourage you check out their stories.
00:19:58.820
They also have the television show behind the scenes that's going on where you can see them
00:20:02.740
as they prepare for, for their bouts and stuff. But yeah, hear their stories and get to know them
00:20:07.380
because they're trying to not only make it an MMA, but you know, they're working a lot of different
00:20:11.700
types of jobs. And the way I see it is a, it's just another rite of passage, right? It's a physical
00:20:17.060
rite of passage that has physical consequences and one man standing in front of another. And I'm
00:20:22.500
thinking of this analogy in real time. So it may be flawed. It's almost like going for a two point
00:20:26.500
conversion at the end of a football game. You know, if an MMA fight is the full game that you
00:20:30.660
get to experience with special teams and the full field and everything going for that two point
00:20:34.820
conversion is the game distilled down to its essence in football. You line up at the two,
00:20:38.980
we're going to try and score. You try and stop us. That's how college overtime works.
00:20:42.660
Now, it's kind of how power slap is, you know, instead of a full fight,
00:20:45.620
I'm going to stand across from you. I'm going to slap you as hard as I can. Hopefully I get to go
00:20:49.540
first. Yeah, slap me as hard as I can. And when I see these things go multiple rounds, man,
00:20:54.260
I'm telling you, if I win the coin toss, that's the whole coin toss, I'm slapping. If he's not
00:20:59.540
knocked out, I'm leaving. You're not deferring. You're not deferring. I would so much rather
00:21:04.180
do power slap than actually being an actual. Well, what's funny is there's a scene in lady
00:21:08.100
ballers where we're sitting in the gym and I slap him and run away instantly. That's about
00:21:12.260
what it'd be like. I mean, that's what we did with our brothers and stuff. When we were kids,
00:21:15.940
it's like, let's have a slap competition. I'll go first. You slap them. And then, yeah, you don't,
00:21:19.860
you don't let them get a chance. Of course. I think that's where I take issue with is that
00:21:28.020
I can't, for me, wrap my head around letting somebody slap me. That's the difference between
00:21:32.740
power slap and MMA. Yeah, sure. You're in there beating each other up, but I'm trying not to get
00:21:37.940
hit. Like I'm trying to keep you from hurting me while I actively try to hurt you. And that's
00:21:43.220
where I take issue. Yeah. To me that that's almost more, it's more brave to me. It's here's what I
00:21:48.740
think about and not to compare a sport to war, but I mean, this is a gladiator sport. It's like,
00:21:54.580
and I've never understood this back in the day when they, they'd be like, all right,
00:21:58.580
you'd have one group standing facing the other group. They'd be like, all right, put your guns up.
00:22:02.420
Yeah. Fire. And you fired and then you put them down. Then the, then the other side puts their
00:22:07.220
guns up. Like to me, that takes, that takes a lot of guts, man. That takes a lot of guts.
00:22:12.500
Like being elusive. Trust me. I used to watch every Floyd Mayweather junior fight,
00:22:16.020
just wishing somebody would actually connect with this guy. Right. Cause no one, no one could hit him.
00:22:20.740
Um, but what you're saying, like that phrase of, I couldn't imagine just standing across from
00:22:24.580
someone and letting them slap me. Someone else is saying that about getting in the ring and having a
00:22:29.540
boxing match or having a UFC fight. I know I couldn't imagine ever, uh, getting involved in
00:22:34.340
something that, that that's brutal. That's that brutal or physical, something like that, or football.
00:22:39.860
A lot of people don't want to engage in the physicality that football requires. So it's just
00:22:44.020
a different flavor. And I see it as just another rite of passage, especially for some of these guys
00:22:48.740
who are trying to work their way up and be professional fighters. Well, I think it's cool that
00:22:52.180
he likes one and not the other though. I think that's cool. Cause I mean, obviously you're really
00:22:56.340
looking at it from, you know, your own perspective. I mean, I, I think that's interesting.
00:23:00.660
Well, I mean, knee jerk, I was like, Oh, these guys are morons. Like they're just,
00:23:03.220
they're slapping each other. But if I take like a real, a real look at it, no, there's technique.
00:23:08.420
There's, there's things they're doing. They're training. There's technique to it. There's,
00:23:12.180
there's a lot more to it than just, Hey, what's on the surface, which is what everybody sees.
00:23:16.180
And, and it's interesting what I saw too, but yeah, I was just curious about that. I kind of liken it to,
00:23:20.580
um, I played a little bit of sports in high school, never college or professional level,
00:23:25.460
but in high school and basketball was a sport that I just struggled in. And one of the biggest
00:23:29.540
things for me was that you actually are, are, uh, encouraged to let another player run over you.
00:23:37.140
That just did not compute in my mind. And so I, they put me in there to beat people up. I'd
00:23:42.180
foul out just about every game. And I lasted through my sophomore year and then got cut,
00:23:46.020
but that was just something I could not, like, it didn't click for me.
00:23:50.340
It could, you know, I just feel like you'd be the perfect goon in hockey though.
00:23:53.860
Like, you know, the guy they sent out there and they're like, they're like, please,
00:23:57.860
like this one Russian guy has given us problems. Will you please take it?
00:24:00.420
And you have that all sports. It's not only hockey. Like, look,
00:24:04.820
you've sent a guy out on a football field a couple of times, whether that'd be a freshman
00:24:07.700
or a sophomore, but like, Hey man, I need you to go take care of this guy.
00:24:13.540
The enforcer, the bash bros, that's right. Those are the guys I resonate with for sure.
00:24:20.500
Oh man. I'm a big Gordon Bombay guy. Who isn't? I'm big. Who isn't?
00:24:24.980
Yeah. That's exactly right. That's exactly right. What a great movie.
00:24:28.580
Well, did you guys think, uh, what you're doing now would ever lead you to be, uh, you know,
00:24:32.340
Hollywood movie? Well, I shouldn't say Hollywood. It's not really fair,
00:24:34.980
but at least movie stars. We'll say movie stars, man. You know, yes. Yeah.
00:24:43.780
I'll tell you what's funny though. I told my wife when my wife, now she was my girlfriend.
00:24:49.460
Then that's your previous wife. Don't trick people. I've been married one time so far.
00:24:55.140
Um, but, uh, when I was just, we were doing the J boy show, I was like, I just got a feeling
00:25:00.340
like I'm going to get a chance to act at some point. And she used to be like,
00:25:03.860
no, she's like, you know, you're doing your sports thing. Stick with that, whatever, whatever.
00:25:07.860
So of course, when we found out we were doing the movie after I had to tell her,
00:25:10.740
we had to cut our honeymoon in half. Once we got through that.
00:25:12.900
That was, um, yeah, God, for the, for the movie you did got through it.
00:25:16.740
Oh yeah. I'll tell you, I'll get, I'll get into that. But, um, I'll say this. I always wanted to
00:25:22.020
do it. Um, it's something I felt like I always could do. Uh, but I never thought you'd be given
00:25:27.380
the opportunity. Right. Cause I feel like that's, you got to go in there and earn your dues and stuff
00:25:31.540
like that in the acting world and all that crazy stuff to have a chance to not just be in a movie,
00:25:35.940
but be one of the main focal points of the movie. And the idea, uh, was, was kicked around. We had
00:25:41.380
talked about with Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boring. Like at first we were going to try and see if
00:25:44.740
Blaine could, my brother who's six foot four, um, could act and cone six, seven. We actually,
00:25:50.340
you know, we, we actually had a pretty decent sized basketball team, but, uh, if he could make the WNBA
00:25:55.140
like legitimately, like, because if guys can be girls and girls can be guys, then my brother
00:26:00.020
should be able to play in the WNBA and average a triple double.
00:26:03.300
Iso. Yeah. Iso the whole time five out. Iso. Um, but they wouldn't let them like they talk this
00:26:09.860
big game. And then when you try, they don't let you. So, uh, Ben and Jeremy came up with the idea
00:26:15.140
for the movie. Uh, we talked about it. They brought us in. We thought it was a great idea.
00:26:19.300
They got the script out so quick. They, they brought us in, handed us the script. They said,
00:26:23.380
yeah, an hour and a half to read it. Tell us what you think and bring it back. Cause they didn't
00:26:26.340
want the script out. Read it. It was incredibly well written. We were laughing,
00:26:30.260
like genuinely laughing. And, uh, yeah, man, it's, uh, it was an, it was an incredible
00:26:34.020
opportunity and, and something that obviously turned out really well and we want to do it again.
00:26:37.940
The most, and look, we're going to get a shot as crazy as the world keeps going. Maybe the, uh,
00:26:42.100
the golf lady ballers. I'm telling you, lady ballers too, lady ballers too. She's got drive.
00:26:47.300
Man. The craziest part for me is for the last 10 years, when I met you guys, I was working in video
00:26:51.620
and film production, right? I was on the periphery of this. I was directing actors for over a decade,
00:26:56.420
then to be on the other side of it and be in a movie and acting and to get directed.
00:27:01.060
It was a crazy experience. I'm just, I'm so proud of this group, man, because we went in,
00:27:05.380
we knew there would be no expectations, right? For us to actually deliver some sort of performance.
00:27:09.860
That's not only good, but maybe even funny. Um, and then when we went in there and we knew what we put
00:27:14.500
in the can, we knew the scenes we shot, but we had to keep it a secret for the eight months while
00:27:19.300
they're in post-production. I said, guys, I think we made something really special. Obviously we don't have
00:27:24.580
final cut. We're not going to be in charge of the edit, but I know what we shot. I think it's
00:27:28.660
really solid. Let's just see what happens. Then number one movie on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:27:32.340
It happened weeks. Couldn't believe that. The thing with me, I've always wanted to act
00:27:35.460
and two, I've always thought I was Batman. Yeah. So you want to be Batman in three years.
00:27:38.740
This movie is a great stepping stone for me to be Batman in the next two years.
00:27:42.100
And I'd be the Joker. I'm going to be Catwoman. I already played a girl.
00:27:44.980
Yeah. Dave's going to be Catwoman, look just like Halle Berry and
00:27:48.420
I'm the Joker. The Joker. Yeah. That's debatable about the Halle Berry comment,
00:27:52.500
but yeah, we'll go for sure. Well, better than I look like Elon Musk.
00:27:56.820
Dave's a little darker than her. Yeah. A little bit.
00:28:00.260
Yeah. I was thinking, you know, golf is certainly Avenue. Tennis,
00:28:03.060
although I'm not sure I'd want to see any of you guys in a skirt on the tennis court. That's for sure.
00:28:07.220
Yeah. No, I don't. We were very lucky that we didn't have to, you know,
00:28:11.780
our good buddy, Tyler Fisher. He was the only one who really had to dress up. Yeah. Like a woman
00:28:17.220
outside of, of Jeremy and Alex, the part, and obviously the main character, but you know,
00:28:22.500
the funniest part to me, and if you haven't seen the movie, this is something you need to watch as
00:28:26.020
it goes, uh, is that we get more masculine, the more games we play in this tournament.
00:28:31.300
Like it starts off very feminine. Like all of a sudden the wigs disappear.
00:28:34.740
Like I just had to wear a bow. So I feel like I lucked out.
00:28:39.380
It was the worst. I mean, you look like you're part of the Motley Crue at least.
00:28:41.860
Oh yeah. We're going to get an eighties band together for sure. I'm jamming out.
00:28:45.780
We're going to look like an anorexic Cruella de Vil.
00:28:48.180
But it's funny. I was like, just telling my dad this when this, when this story had broken about
00:28:52.580
the, the male golfer who won the female tournament and can now possibly play on the LPGA. I was saying,
00:28:58.740
you know, the world's so crazy. I would gladly not have men hoisting trophies in women's sports.
00:29:04.340
Um, and for us to not have starred in a movie, I would make that trade off. But if the world is
00:29:09.380
going to be so crazy, then, Hey, let's at least capitalize and point out the absurdity of it by
00:29:14.260
doing a project like this. And that's what was so fulfilling about it. I mean, our good friend,
00:29:18.020
Riley Gaines, I think would tell you the same thing. She would gladly trade in whatever fame
00:29:22.660
she's received in this new lifestyle. She's living to not have this absurdity have happened
00:29:26.980
to her in the first place, but this is the world we live in now.
00:29:32.500
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00:30:43.060
Yeah. I mean, I think it's an important movie and, and, and I, you know, I know there's probably
00:30:46.500
people and you guys have heard this, I'm sure that, that think it's, you know, just a mockery.
00:30:50.820
It isn't important. It's not relevant in the grand scheme of things, but I think tapping into
00:30:55.520
cultural, culturally important things, and that's movies, that's comedy, that's acting,
00:31:03.080
celebrities, even sports, you know, it's easy to take that and dismiss it as unimportant,
00:31:08.000
but these are all fronts that we can fight a good battle on and bring attention to real issues
00:31:12.800
that are important. Yeah. And to me, when you look at it and, and I try and look at everything,
00:31:18.360
you know, at some point from a 30,000 foot view, if you honestly believe that there's no difference
00:31:25.400
between men and women, especially in the sports arena, then you can be talked into believing anything
00:31:31.560
like that. That's an avenue for what's to stop just from having men go in women's bathroom.
00:31:36.480
What, what's, what's, where does it end? If you're going to start there and you can convince
00:31:40.420
people that this is actually a real thing, which I, I think 99.999% of people realize there's a
00:31:46.260
difference between men and women. Yeah. They're not convinced. Um, yeah, there's nobody, I, there's
00:31:50.140
nobody I've ever met is like, no, dude, like seriously, there's no difference. Like there's no
00:31:53.420
difference at all. Uh, but if you can believe that and you can be talked into that, then, then you can be
00:31:59.160
talked into anything that then you can believe anything that we know it's not debatable. It's
00:32:04.820
not an opinion. It is a fact that there's a difference between men and women biologically
00:32:09.980
and anatomically. So if you can sit here and say, Oh, it doesn't matter. Let men play against women.
00:32:15.480
Let, let women, you know, go in men's sports or whatever, which we don't ever see. Then again,
00:32:20.220
what's to stop anyone from saying, well, I'm a man. Well, no, there's no such thing as a man. So I'm
00:32:25.160
going to go into the women's bathroom. Like where does it end? It never ends. It's just an ever
00:32:29.300
winding road of stupidity in my opinion. Yeah. And look, I agree. I don't, I don't think many
00:32:35.020
people are convinced that men and women are different. I think they're, they're, they're
00:32:38.640
going along with the narrative because they're, you know, blissfully ignorant or, um, you know,
00:32:43.460
they're just kind of useful idiots, I think is the term that we often hear. But the other one is that
00:32:47.800
I think a lot of these people will rank virtues and they'll look at something like tolerance and
00:32:54.240
acceptance as more virtuous than truth and honesty. And so it's just a reprioritization
00:32:59.440
of their, their values and their virtues. And they've got it wrong. They've got it backwards.
00:33:04.460
100%. People don't want to hurt feelings more than they want to, which actually Matt Walsh made
00:33:08.440
this point a couple months ago, which was, Hey, he was speaking to the trans community. I care about
00:33:12.880
you more because I'm the one who wants you to live out your full potential. I mean, there, there's a
00:33:17.220
great quote that says, you know, the greatest, uh, the most honorable thing a man can do is to reach his
00:33:21.900
full potential. And I think you could take that and say the same thing about a woman, but not only
00:33:26.420
that aspect, but also I think people are lying to themselves about just how much our culture and our
00:33:31.460
country has changed over the past five, eight, 10 years. And that's what gets me thinking. And I
00:33:36.120
chuckle when I hear people talk about the movie, Juana man, uh, in reference to lady ballers, like when
00:33:41.340
lady ballers came out and they said, well, they already made Juana man for two reasons. One, just from
00:33:45.500
the surface level of that movie was made 20 years ago. So even if our movie was a direct ripoff, I mean,
00:33:51.000
they're making three dozen Marvel movies every single year. The fact we couldn't make a similar
00:33:55.020
movie 20 years later, the little, the little mermaids, like, uh, like, uh, like a neurodivergent
00:34:00.100
lesbian. So Robert Downey Jr. That just from a film, from a filmmaking standpoint, but then the
00:34:05.040
deeper issue is no Juana man was made at a time where it went without saying that it's ridiculous for
00:34:11.340
a guy to dress up as a woman and to play basketball. He was hiding all that's the points hiding it. This is
00:34:17.040
the humor in it. The same with Mrs. Doubtfire. The same with white chicks is the audience is in
00:34:22.060
on the gag. It's always been funny, which is men dressing up as women, but the other characters
00:34:26.640
aren't in on it with our movie. This is post absurdity post craziness in our country where
00:34:32.220
these men are hoisting women's trophies. Women are allowing it to happen. And that's the beauty
00:34:36.860
of lady ballers is we dominate the field of competition in wigs. We live in the dumbest,
00:34:42.560
smartest time ever. Elon Musk is landing rockets upside down on platforms in the Indian ocean.
00:34:48.380
Yet some people believe there's no difference between men and women. Can you believe, could
00:34:52.480
you believe when we teleported somebody from like 1820 to our time right now? And we're like, Hey,
00:34:57.820
here's the iPhone. They'd be like, Oh my God, these are, this were so smart now, but Hey,
00:35:03.500
dudes and chicks are the same. Like, can you just imagine like my head would explode and
00:35:07.640
spontaneously combust. We live in the dumbest, smartest time ever. Well, I think, I think the
00:35:13.200
reason the movie is so funny is because as the adage goes, it's funny because it's true. Like
00:35:17.900
if there wasn't an element of truth to it, it wouldn't be funny. You know, you guys did bring
00:35:21.540
up, um, Riley Gaines. I, I think she's probably one of the most important voices in, in sports right
00:35:28.820
now, especially as it relates obviously to culture, because you, you said it, uh, women need
00:35:33.700
to stand up too. I don't understand why, why these women, especially when it came to Leah Thomas and
00:35:38.660
the swimming stuff, why they didn't say, Hey, you know what? We're out. We're going to go create our
00:35:42.720
own league over here and do our own thing. And we're not going to play this game anymore. I
00:35:46.800
understand like a young lady who spent, you know, 20 years trying to get to that level, trying to
00:35:52.960
get to that point, the opportunity that comes with it. But unless women are willing to stand up
00:35:57.140
and say, we're not doing this, we're not participating in this. Uh, you're just not going to have
00:36:01.720
anything change. And they'll say, well, men need to do it. Well, if you want men and women
00:36:04.940
to be the same, then women need to step up as well. Well, men are doing it. Yeah. Well,
00:36:09.360
I mean, at the end of the day, that's the problem. Well, well, again, I think only legitimately only
00:36:14.100
women can stop this. Yeah. I only, they can't like, we can only do so much as men. And there's
00:36:18.820
a lot of women again, that same as, as men, 99.99% of people agree that there's a difference.
00:36:25.060
There's an advantage that men have over women. When that guy goes out there and plays against
00:36:28.860
women's golfers, he's seeing off from the women's tee, hitting a five wood from like two 65 out.
00:36:34.040
Meanwhile, every other lady out there takes her three shots to get there. I mean, we all know
00:36:38.040
the advantage that men have over women, but unless women, and we've seen it some, you've seen it at
00:36:44.000
the high school level, some boycotts, right? And a lot of times it works, but until it's a uniform,
00:36:50.160
all right, we are done with this. We are not going to tolerate this anymore, which is not going to
00:36:53.820
happen because you have these clowns out here, like Megan Rapinoe, who really don't care about women's
00:36:58.460
sports. They just care about themselves. They think their injury proves that God isn't real.
00:37:02.480
That's a story for another day. And again, if you put her brain in a dog and walk backwards,
00:37:06.220
but unless all women come together, this is not going to stop. If the LPGA, the women on the LPGA
00:37:12.560
don't come together and say, we just won't play. Right. And here's what I love. Here's,
00:37:16.400
here's the funniest argument, Ryan. Oh, well let's, let's make a trans division. Let's make a trans
00:37:22.020
division for athletes. That's going to turn into men's. It's just because all the, it's a men's
00:37:26.760
division. That's what it's going to turn into. So, uh, women have to stop it. And unless they
00:37:31.160
don't, we can sit here and scream and bring our pitch, uh, pitchforks and torches and run up to
00:37:36.820
the city council. It's not going to change. They've got to stop it. I agree completely. Women have to
00:37:41.280
lead the charge because you're only seeing this dominance in sports from one side of the transition.
00:37:46.120
Right. And, and Riley Gaines is such a great leader and such a great voice for these young ladies.
00:37:50.480
And I love when she said, sometimes I have to pinch myself that I have a million social media followers
00:37:55.500
just for saying the statement, men and women are different. Yeah. She's testifying Congress to tell
00:38:01.840
them the difference of why men shouldn't be entering women's locker rooms. Not, not only women, but the,
00:38:06.780
the, the most athletic famous women need to stand up the Serena Williams, uh, the, the voice that young
00:38:13.140
girls go to who they watch playing on in golf. Caitlin Clark and women's basketball WNBA. Um, there's
00:38:20.940
certain females out there who would stand up and say something that could make a difference,
00:38:25.020
but they won't do it because of what you brought up earlier in the show. They're too scared to lose
00:38:28.220
sponsorships. They're too scared to lose status in life, but that's why they sit behind a wool cover
00:38:33.740
and not saying, I think you see Martina Navratilova stands up and always addresses this issue. And when
00:38:38.780
you see the vitriol that she, that she receives and the pushback, it shows you why more females who are in
00:38:44.280
their prime won't speak up. Look at JK Rowling destroyed her. I mean, she came up with Harry
00:38:51.000
Potter, man. Yeah. It's pretty wild. It's unfortunate. It is the reality. But again,
00:38:54.440
I think we'd let off the conversation with this is that the more that people are willing to dissent,
00:38:58.520
the more, the less it becomes a dissent, then it's no longer a dissent anymore. And everybody's like,
00:39:02.840
yeah, this is actually true. And this is where we need to go. Yeah. No, I, again, and this is why,
00:39:08.840
you know, what I said earlier, you know, dissent does move us forward and it shines a light on
00:39:13.640
everything, right? So at least at worst, you can have a good perspective or an opinion on it,
00:39:19.640
wherever you land, at least when we're arguing or we're debating, or we're doing something,
00:39:23.960
you are getting every area, the whole spectrum, the whole window, as you referred to it earlier,
00:39:29.880
of the argument. Because without that, if it's going to be narrow sided, if it's like,
00:39:34.200
you know, looking at a kaleidoscope, right, you're never going to get anywhere. So I, again,
00:39:38.600
dissent is so important because I think at the end, at least at worst, as I mentioned,
00:39:43.400
you can get a valuable opinion or find out what you think or what you really believe about
00:39:47.400
something. Cause you've gotten different perspectives. Let me shift gears a little
00:39:51.560
bit. I'm curious what you guys think with, with what you do on a daily basis, where sports,
00:39:56.520
all sports in general come into play with the cultural conversations that we're having.
00:40:00.760
Cause I think a lot of the times it's easy to dismiss sports as people playing a game. I don't
00:40:06.520
watch admittedly a whole lot of sports myself, but I realized the relevancy of it. I realized a lot
00:40:11.080
of it is a metaphor for life. I love sports for young men, but I'm curious for, for, from your
00:40:16.200
guys's take is sports important in the cultural conversation and do these things move us forward
00:40:22.280
or is it purely just entertainment? Um, no, I think it's unbelievably important. And it,
00:40:26.680
for many reasons, uh, when you brought up, I think it's a great teacher of life. I mean,
00:40:30.520
I learned a lot of my best life lessons from sports sports has given me an opportunity to have success and
00:40:36.040
provide for, for my wife and hopefully our kids someday. But as far as the, the cultural aspect
00:40:41.080
of it, where I think sports is most important in the culture is that it needs to be a haven that is
00:40:45.880
not polluted by the divisiveness that we see in every other area of culture, right? I feel like
00:40:51.080
sports is a haven where if I go to a game, I don't want it to be pride night. I don't want it to be
00:40:56.360
hetero night. I don't want it to be, I sit by the stove and rub a balloon night. I want to go to the
00:41:01.640
park to watch a game. We can have bark at the park. That's great. We can have the sisterhood
00:41:06.280
of the poor right out there raising money for charity, but I don't want the sisterhood of,
00:41:09.960
of indulgence or whatever that was that the Dodgers did. Like, like, I feel like,
00:41:14.520
yeah, I feel like some people have tried to hijack sports and we see this on the four letter
00:41:19.160
network on all this to, to put politics into people, to use it as a vehicle to drive their
00:41:24.200
political agenda home. When in, when in reality, sports should be one of the biggest havens we have.
00:41:29.720
When I go to a game and I'm sitting down and my team scores, and I look to the person next to me
00:41:34.920
and they're wearing the same colors that I have on because they're supporting the team.
00:41:38.040
I'm not going to ask them what they think about immigration or abortion. I'm going to high five
00:41:42.520
them. We just scored a touchdown. Please, God, can we get a stop on defense? Like that's what,
00:41:47.480
where I think sports should, should unite us. Sports should not divide us more than I love this
00:41:51.960
team and you love that team. So I don't think it needs to be a cultural spear, right? Unless we're
00:41:56.600
talking about men and women's sports, which is just ridiculous. It's not even political to me.
00:42:00.440
Like it's not political to turn my blinker on when I'm on the interstate. It's just safety.
00:42:04.360
I feel like that should be one of the places we can go where you say, Hey, listen,
00:42:07.560
I know you want to vote for Trump. I know you want to vote for Biden or you hate this group of people
00:42:11.560
or you hate that group of people, but Hey, let's go watch the Ravens game, man. Let's go watch the
00:42:15.400
Ravens and the chiefs. We're Americans at the end of the day. Sports is something that we do best.
00:42:19.320
Uh, I just wish it, it would, it would be more of a Haven for people to come together and not hijacked,
00:42:25.000
especially by the left, in my opinion, to be able to, to force a political agenda home.
00:42:29.320
Well, not only is sports important, not only is it more than just entertainment,
00:42:33.400
but the origins of sports is one of the most important pillars in our society. I mean, think
00:42:37.640
about it. It was, you know, it was the respite for young men when they weren't at war to stay fit,
00:42:43.240
to stay ready during war times. Now, luckily we don't have to deal with that in the same capacity
00:42:48.040
that some of our ancestors did having to always stay at the ready. And so sports is obviously a
00:42:52.680
little bit different. I don't know. We'll see. You see guys getting drunk at the top shelf cheering,
00:42:56.760
cheering at the bills games. I understand that. But for our young men, especially young people,
00:43:01.800
but especially young men and for these sports like football and hockey and sports that have
00:43:06.280
physical consequences when you make a mistake. I mean, that right there can provide a wealth of
00:43:11.880
life lessons that are exponential returns, even as a nine, 10, 11 year old. Now we're going to do a
00:43:17.400
segment on our show this week to talk about the California lawmakers trying to ban tackle football
00:43:22.760
for, for 10 and 11 year olds out there in the golden state. We're going to be talking about that.
00:43:26.920
So make sure you tune into crane and company this week. But when I just, when I think about the first
00:43:31.160
time I played tackle football at 11 years old, and I think about, I still remember Simon Strickland
00:43:36.680
coming off the edge, someone who's bigger than me and weighed more than me. And to understand like
00:43:40.680
the biggest guy on the field can, can hurt you at 11 years old. If you don't do your job and your
00:43:45.320
teammate doesn't do their job. I mean, that right there provided a pillar and a foundation for
00:43:51.080
everything that I was able to accomplish in life, despite not making it to the NFL, despite not doing
00:43:55.880
anything currently today that requires me to be, you know, physical or, or, or to be a bodybuilding
00:44:02.040
champion or something like that. But just the, the idea of knowing what I'm capable, capable of when
00:44:07.320
someone could hurt me physically, if I make a mistake. Well, go ahead. Yeah. I just don't think one,
00:44:12.200
I don't think a football cares what color you are, right? I don't think baseball cares what religion
00:44:16.680
or what you believe in. Um, I think one thing about sports, it brings guys together from so
00:44:21.400
many different backgrounds, so many different places and the, the, the, the friendships and
00:44:27.480
the family that you go through and kind of what you were saying earlier, David, once you get on the
00:44:32.040
field, whether that's a baseball diamond, you get on the football field and you get hit or something
00:44:35.480
like this, there's no one you can go cry to. There's no, you can go run to. You can't go run to
00:44:39.160
mommy. It teaches you life lessons that you're going to have to get back up in life. And we see
00:44:43.320
that in society today, we have someone who one thing goes wrong and they're complaining, getting
00:44:47.400
on social media, getting on this, getting on Twitter. But back in the day, man, you, it's
00:44:52.200
either shit or get off the pot. Right. And that's what you learn in a young lesson. And that carries
00:44:56.280
you through life, man. It gets you to where you want to be in life. Yeah. Well, I, I had a coach one
00:44:59.880
time tell me, and I think this is the best way to put it because we were doing conditioning. It was in the
00:45:03.880
summer. It was hot. Um, we were running one tents and he was like, listen, he's like, we're going
00:45:08.520
to run three more. All right. I know you guys are absolutely worn out, but we're going to run three
00:45:13.240
more. And I'm not doing this to punish you. I'm not doing this because I like to see you suffer
00:45:18.920
at some point for most of you guys, pretty much all of you, you are going to have a wife, children,
00:45:24.680
a mortgage payment, an electric bill, a car payment. And that alarm is going to ring at 630 in the
00:45:30.360
morning. And you're going to have to get your ass up and go to work. And that's what you're going to
00:45:34.120
do because that's what you learned here. When it's hard, when it's tough, when it's not handed to you,
00:45:40.360
you have a responsibility to yourself, to your teammates and your family to go get the job done.
00:45:45.720
And I think that's something that we are lacking in society today. The responsibility, not just of men,
00:45:51.720
but of everybody that when that alarm clock rings at 630 in the morning, I'm getting up and going to work
00:45:56.440
and I'm going to give it my best shot because it's what I do for what I have and who I'm responsible
00:46:01.320
for. And I think that's what sports teaches you. And that's why our show is important on a daily
00:46:05.800
basis for those reasons. Yes, it becomes easier and more clickable whenever there's something in
00:46:11.400
the public news about men being in women's sports or about a star athlete, not standing for the national
00:46:16.600
anthem. And we can hammer that. And that's an intersection that perfectly intersects with the
00:46:21.160
daily wire and sort of the missional statement of our company. But even when those incidents don't
00:46:25.560
happen for all of the reasons that you just heard, the importance of sports, that's why our show is
00:46:29.880
important on a daily basis. Now we spend more time these days talking about sports than we do playing
00:46:34.600
them, but it's important for young men in our society to understand why sports writ large is
00:46:39.800
still an important pillar in our society. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's all well said. I definitely agree
00:46:44.920
with the even just with the racism, you know, I think sports arguably is probably done more to end
00:46:52.680
racism than just about any other outlet out there. Jackie Robinson.
00:46:57.000
Exactly. You know, there, there was the, the, it needed to break through. It needed to happen. But
00:47:01.960
you know, you look at any, any young man's, you know, wall and the posters that he has,
00:47:07.320
a white kid's going to have a black athlete's poster on his wall. A black kid's going to have a white
00:47:13.640
kids or white athletes poster on his wall. Like, I'm not worried about whether or not you're black or
00:47:18.760
white or whatever. Same thing with the military. I don't need to know if you're black. I need to know
00:47:22.120
how well you can shoot because I need to be able to stand right beside you and take care of the
00:47:26.840
enemy. And I think this is what we ought to be focusing on, not immutable characteristics that
00:47:32.520
none of us can control. For sure. And again, that's one of the biggest problems we have.
00:47:36.760
I mean, you're, you're, you're, you're punished or you're glorified for things that nobody has any
00:47:41.480
control over and it's not about merit. And I think people make a mistake. And honestly,
00:47:45.960
I think a lot of, a lot of white people make this mistake is they say, and I heard Nikki say this,
00:47:50.440
Nikki Haley say this the other day. Well, I had black friends growing up. Like that to me is one
00:47:55.160
of the worst ways to put it. Like when I'm, when I'm meeting somebody, the first thing I don't look
00:47:59.720
at and say, oh, it's a black person. I'm going to make them my friends. So people don't think I'm
00:48:03.080
racist. I have friends. I have friends that are, that just happen to be white. I have friends that
00:48:07.400
just happen to be black. I have friends that just happen to be Hispanic. Hell, I have friends that just
00:48:11.400
happen to be Alabama fans. Right. But they're friends with me too. So at the end of the day,
00:48:15.320
I think going about it in, oh, I have this quota of Hispanic friends or see, I'm not racist to me.
00:48:21.320
You're looking at color to start with like what you're compartmentalizing your friends
00:48:24.760
by the color of their skin. No, I have friends. I have teammates. I don't have black teammates.
00:48:29.080
I don't have white teammates. I have teammates. It just, at some point, that's the worst way to
00:48:33.880
go about it. And it's a trap that I think a lot of people fall into. Well, it's also,
00:48:38.040
but you got to be careful though, because now it's also racist if you don't see color. So, you know,
00:48:42.760
you're paying both sides of the fence on this one. You got to be careful with that.
00:48:45.320
You're the head coach of the Patriot. Yeah. Here's how you work around it. You say
00:48:48.360
friends of blackness. You put their personhood first, right? Not black friends, friends of
00:48:53.000
blackness. So look, I'm here to help you guys out. You just, you can lean on me and I'll charge
00:48:57.080
a small consulting fee of $10,000 a pop. Look, I don't care if you're white or black.
00:49:00.680
I'm not going to say that ever. So just be aware of that.
00:49:03.480
Yeah. Catch the ball. Yeah. Can you come down from safety and make a tackle? Yeah,
00:49:10.920
that's exactly right. Yeah. That's exactly right.
00:49:13.800
I think there's another important aspect here and you guys hit on it too, is making sure that
00:49:17.480
we have an outlet for communities of fatherless young men. I hear from guys every single day who
00:49:22.920
are like, Hey, you know, how can I give back? How can, how can I contribute? Go down to your
00:49:27.400
community center and tell them you're willing to coach. Like those community centers need so much
00:49:32.520
help. They don't, a lot of the times that you'd be surprised, you guys may not, because you might be
00:49:37.000
aware of this, how often it's women who are coaching our young boys and nothing against
00:49:42.600
women being involved and wanting to be involved, but we need men to coach them.
00:49:47.000
And then they're just not getting enough men to come in, to contribute, to help and to help lead
00:49:51.960
these young men in the absence of having a father. I didn't have a permanent father figure around a
00:49:55.960
whole lot when I was young, but I had coaches. I got one. I just messaged him. He was my head football
00:50:00.360
coach in high school. 23 years later, him and I are still friends. We're still talking.
00:50:05.000
Um, this was such an integral part of my childhood and one that, you know, I knew his name is Matt
00:50:10.760
Labrum. I knew he cared about us. He loved us, man. He was hard as hell on us. He could give you
00:50:16.440
a look and not say anything. And you knew you were in deep shit, but we knew he always cared about us.
00:50:22.920
Yeah. We used to call that, uh, when my dad would make that foot, we called iron face.
00:50:26.600
Uh, my dad just so happened to play like five years in the NFL. He's 6'2", 240 pound middle linebacker.
00:50:31.320
So, you know, when he made that face, you knew it was, it was not, yeah, it was, yeah,
00:50:35.000
it's exactly right. But here's what I'll say. You need both, right? You need that strong male
00:50:38.920
presence. You need that, that female presence as well to give you kind of the yin and yang a little
00:50:44.040
bit, uh, of it. And I'm going to be honest, there's a lot of cowards out there, man. There's,
00:50:47.720
there's a lot of guys out there that, that just, you know, hit and run honestly, and, and never hang
00:50:51.480
around. And, and to me, that's one of the, the most despicable acts. And it's, it's the biggest
00:50:56.760
problem I think we have in this country is, is father, uh, father absence in the home to not
00:51:02.200
help complete the nuclear family. And, and not even just from a sports standpoint, just from a
00:51:06.760
life standpoint, but the closest you can get involved for some guys is to go down and, and
00:51:10.600
volunteer at the rec to be a coach, to be able to maybe be that male presence in that young man's
00:51:15.640
life that he can look back to and say, well, I used to be able to get away with this, but you know,
00:51:20.360
coach crane, if I do this, he's, he's going to get on me. Maybe I can't play in my basketball game this
00:51:24.840
Thursday. There's consequences for it. You kind of lay that foundation, but yeah, it's a great way
00:51:29.160
to give back. And even at the college level, um, you know, being able to recruit guys that there's
00:51:34.040
a story. Um, there's a kid we signed when, when I was coaching out of, uh, New Orleans, uh, in the
00:51:38.840
ninth ward who literally went down there on our official visit to his official visit, came up.
00:51:44.360
Then we went down to his house, had dirt floors, no father. Um, mom was addicted to drugs. Was,
00:51:50.360
wasn't even there. He had 40 younger brothers and sisters. He was the oldest,
00:51:53.880
didn't play football his junior year because he'd have to come home and take care of his brother
00:51:57.720
and sister goes and plays his senior year, ends up getting recruited, comes out of nothing is a three
00:52:04.040
year all conference player in the sunbelt. And now he's the vice president of a concrete company
00:52:09.400
in new Orleans and is making six figures and has totally changed the trajectory of his family.
00:52:15.240
Cause he got that opportunity, right? Because he was, he, he took that chance and that's what sports
00:52:20.040
gave him. And that's what the coaches and the men who were able to mold him at that high school.
00:52:24.920
And then in college gave him that opportunity or Lord knows what he'd be doing. So I, I mean,
00:52:29.480
I agree with you a hundred percent. That's a great example that men constantly should
00:52:32.920
work on improving themselves, right? One of Jordan Peterson's initial 12 rules is
00:52:37.560
treat yourself like someone you're responsible for, because if you get your own life in order,
00:52:42.680
everyone else around the community or the younger siblings in your family are looking to you.
00:52:47.640
So sometimes when I think about myself and my situation, how can I best help the world?
00:52:52.120
Maybe it's as simple as making sure that I've gotten my own life together. And I have one son
00:52:56.840
right now, I'm about to have two daughters, but for sure with my one son to raise him in such a way
00:53:01.640
that he becomes a man and that he is a responsible member of society. Maybe that single act is the best
00:53:07.240
thing that I can do for the entire world. If everyone else follows suit, what a planet it would be for sure.
00:53:12.440
Well, I mean, I, one of the things I tell the guys is, and, and this is met with sometimes
00:53:17.560
some criticism and can at times be controversial is you're, you need to get as wealthy as you
00:53:21.800
possibly can be. You need to get out of debt. You need to make as much money as you possibly can
00:53:25.880
in a, in a virtuous way. Uh, because when you have money, you're able to go coach the teams.
00:53:31.800
You're able to donate to charity. My, my oldest son, uh, his, this community is starting a lacrosse
00:53:37.640
program and, uh, they're just getting geared up. They're trying to get gear and equipment
00:53:41.720
for their kids. I'm in a position where I can donate. I can't donate a bunch of time,
00:53:45.320
but I can donate some money to make sure these kids have the equipment they need,
00:53:48.600
but that's not going to happen if you aren't building wealth. So I wholeheartedly agree with
00:53:52.360
that. Fix yourself. It gives the opportunity to fix the environment around you.
00:53:55.800
Well, I used to do something with, with my DB, DB room, whenever we'd have guys come in,
00:54:00.680
younger guys, the older guys already knew, and they had been in the culture. The first thing I
00:54:04.120
should tell them is every day when you wake up, the first thing you're going to do is make your bed.
00:54:08.600
That that's what you're going to do. That's the first thing you're going to do. And I'd go
00:54:11.720
first three weeks and check and see when they got up, where they went to class, where they're coming
00:54:15.640
to meetings, was that bed made? Because it's a very good starting point on getting yourself
00:54:20.120
organized and being responsible for something. And it's amazing. You would see guys who maybe came
00:54:24.360
from backgrounds where they weren't asked to be super responsible. Maybe it's something they're not
00:54:28.280
used to. It's amazing what a little act like that can do to move you forward. And when you talk about
00:54:33.080
accumulating wealth, I agree with you a hundred percent. It's a lot easier to change things
00:54:37.320
when I'm able to help you out and give you opportunities. Well, to get opportunities,
00:54:40.920
you need money. Like let's, we live in the real world. It's 2024. You need money to do things.
00:54:46.200
And like you said, you do it in a virtuous way. But even on top of that, I want to acquire wealth
00:54:50.360
because I want my kids to have it better than I had it. You don't want to spoil them. Obviously,
00:54:54.280
there's ways that you teach, but I want to accumulate wealth because I want to be able to give my wife,
00:54:58.840
my son, my daughter, my dogs, the other members of my family. I want to leave it better than I found
00:55:05.080
it. And I think that's something where, you know, me and you are wholeheartedly 100% in agreement
00:55:10.520
because then there's the offshoot of the charity of the being able to coach of, hey, we can finally
00:55:14.840
get the lacrosse gear so these guys can go out and compete. And even if it changes one person,
00:55:19.000
even if it helps one person, it's totally worth it. Yeah. I love hearing you guys bring up the
00:55:22.840
importance of money. It reminds me of something that I read one time that said,
00:55:26.120
go out in life and make a million dollars, not for the money, but for what it will make of you
00:55:32.360
to achieve that. I mean, think about it. If you're able to go make a million dollars,
00:55:35.880
that's a lot of money, you're clearly capable in many respects. I mean, like you said, it should go
00:55:40.760
without saying that you're getting that money in a morally right way and in a responsible way,
00:55:45.160
or else it circumvents the point that I'm trying to make anyway. But if you're able to scale a business
00:55:50.120
or to have a skillset that warrants someone giving you a million dollars over time,
00:55:55.080
then clearly you've developed something that is worth offering the world.
00:55:58.280
Well, I think all of you are right. And I think making a bunch of money can
00:56:02.440
bring a lot of change. But I do think just the littlest things, even if you don't make a lot
00:56:06.440
of money, being there for those kids is just what matters most. I feel like a lot of kids just have
00:56:11.720
nobody there to look to, to ask questions, just to figure things out. And once you're alone,
00:56:17.080
once you hit that depression by yourself, man, that room starts to squeeze and it starts to squeeze
00:56:20.920
pretty quick. So the littlest thing I've loved coaching, it's one of the probably the favorite
00:56:24.600
thing I do in life, just being there for a kid and just helping him on his journey to what he's
00:56:29.320
going to be. But a lot of these kids don't have that. So even if you don't make a lot of money,
00:56:32.920
man, and even, you know, you work at McDonald's, if you have a chance to go coach some kid
00:56:38.440
at a gym, at a rec center, go do because I promise you, he don't care where you work at,
00:56:43.560
Hmm. One of the, one of the funny things I hear is a lot of guys that say, like, I'll ask for an
00:56:47.960
assistant coach and, you know, from the parents, the kids that are involved and they're like,
00:56:50.840
ah, I don't, I don't have any experience. I'm like, bro, they're nine. Can you hold that bag?
00:56:55.240
Yeah. I'm not asking you to be Phil Jackson, dude. I just need you to be there, bring some Capri
00:57:01.240
sons and make sure they're doing what they're supposed to do.
00:57:03.240
That's right. That's right. Well guys, what's next on the docket for you specifically for Daily Wire?
00:57:08.200
Obviously, you know, the thing I, and I talked with, uh, with, with a lot of you guys about this,
00:57:12.600
with the Daily Wire is I love that you're leading the cultural charge from entertainment to sports,
00:57:18.520
to political commentary, to culture commentary. Now there's, uh, Bent Key, which is, uh, kids
00:57:23.640
entertainment. So what's next? What do you guys got going on? Well, I mean, there's so many things
00:57:29.080
that, that, you know, the Daily Wire is doing right now to, to help, you know, fight those culture
00:57:33.880
wars and, and try and restore some, some balance to the forces. As I say, you know, you brought up
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the Children's Network. We have our sports show that continues to grow and, and get the word out
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there and, and popularity. Obviously you look at what's coming out with Snow White coming down the
00:57:47.720
pipe this year, Penn Dragon, which they just got done. And I'm sure we will have something, um,
00:57:52.840
cooking up outside of obviously just the, uh, the sports show that we do. But no, I mean, it's, um,
00:57:58.120
again, it's, I feel like, and you look at Jeremy's razors and, and the chocolates and stuff like that.
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The coolest thing about this place is it's not necessarily, at least in my opinion, uh,
00:58:10.120
just going out there to do something, to do it. It's the opportunity that presents itself.
00:58:14.280
Who knows what's going to happen tomorrow? What craziness the Daily Wire is going to have to go
00:58:17.640
out here and fix something. You know, they're remaking the Wizard of Oz. I don't know to,
00:58:21.400
to be equitable or whatever it is. I don't know. Maybe you got to make one of those, but with the Daily
00:58:25.560
Wire, I promise you this going to keep growing, going to keep doing it the right way and going and
00:58:29.560
fighting on fronts that need to be fought on and stuff that needs to be preserved the way of life
00:58:34.040
that we were used to growing up and, you know, with sports and things like that, and being able
00:58:37.640
to watch SportsCenter three times in a row without feeling like you're a terrible person because of
00:58:41.560
what you believe in. So with the Daily Wire, I mean, David, who knows what's next? The moon.
00:58:46.760
That's my favorite part about being with the Daily Wire is that you can be a Renaissance man here.
00:58:52.120
You can, you can wear multiple hats. I mean, we can come in and talk about sports and culture or politics.
00:58:57.160
We can act in a movie. We can record new music. Like that is celebrated here. And as long as it
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aligns with the missional statement of this company, then it's always fully supported.
00:59:07.080
And so we hope to be doing this for quite a while here. And please check out Crane & Company on a
00:59:11.160
daily basis. We got the Super Bowl coming up, conference championships coming up. So a lot of
00:59:16.040
exciting things. Hey man, all that's great. I'm just trying to hit a three leg parlay to be honest.
00:59:24.440
Awesome guys. We'll tell everybody how to connect with you.
00:59:26.360
Obviously Crane & Company, anywhere else you want to direct the guys. And then also
00:59:29.800
the movie Lady Ballers is out as well. So we want to make sure we plug for that.
00:59:33.800
Definitely. You can find us, just go to dailywire.com. You can find us there. We live
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stream every morning. We're live from 6.30 a.m. to 8.00 a.m. Central, 7.30 a.m. to 9.00 a.m. Eastern.
00:59:44.280
I'm not smart enough to know any other time zones other than that. So if you live in another one,
00:59:47.480
I'll let you connect the dots. Obviously we're on YouTube and Rumble and all that, Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
00:59:52.520
Go check out Lady Ballers at Daily Wire Plus. Again, it's had a ton of success. We're really
00:59:56.760
excited about it. Like I said, I want to do it again, but we take live calls. We have a live
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chat. We call our audience the Booster Club. It's a group of great people that keeps growing
01:00:05.480
by the minute. And yeah, I think if maybe, you know, the best compliment we get, I think,
01:00:10.200
in my opinion, is from people who are like, man, I gave up on sports when it got so political,
01:00:14.760
but you guys brought me back into it because I have a place I can go to where, yeah, we may talk
01:00:18.680
about why men shouldn't be in women's sports, right? But you're going to get the old school sports show
01:00:22.760
that you grew up where when you tune in, it's going to be about sports, right? And I think that's
01:00:27.560
something that that's been missing. So yeah, man, check us out. It's a, it's a good time. We laugh,
01:00:31.800
we scream, Blaine cries. I'm a dragon on Fridays. Yeah, Blaine's a dragon on Fridays. We have
01:00:36.840
Flamin' Dragon Fridays. That's good right now. It's a good time. Right on, guys. We'll sync it all up. I
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appreciate you. Keep up the good work and we'll keep promoting what you guys are doing because I
01:00:45.320
think it's crucial, not only in sports, but in culture in general. So appreciate the work you're
01:00:49.400
doing. Hey, you too, man. Appreciate it. You're doing what you're doing. I think we're all in
01:00:53.480
this together trying to push to a result that brings, again, some balance back to the force.
01:00:57.800
And it's unbelievably important. And thanks so much for having us on and to all your audience out
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there, man. Welcome to it. Gentlemen, there you go. My conversation with the one, only Jake Crane,
01:01:08.840
Blaine Crane, and David Cohn. I think that's the first time I had three
01:01:12.040
guests. I've done two in the past. I've never done three. I think it went pretty well,
01:01:15.960
but I'd love to hear from you. Hopefully it was relevant. Hopefully you guys got some good
01:01:20.520
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01:01:25.880
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01:01:30.440
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01:01:35.560
check out Lady Ballers, which is hilarious. It's not only is it a funny movie,
01:01:41.400
it's, I think it's funny because it hits on something that is not only so disturbing,
01:01:46.680
but it's also so true. And it, it, it's, it's absolutely ridiculous what's happening in,
01:01:51.720
in the world of sports by letting men play with women and all sorts of crazy stuff. So
01:01:56.360
it mocks that it makes fun of it and it does it in a humorous way and also an intelligent way.
01:02:00.440
And these are the types of conversations that we need to be having. So check it out,
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01:02:09.100
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01:02:28.660
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01:02:32.820
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01:02:36.820
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01:02:42.540
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