Speaker 1: The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show,
Speaker 1: and we have so much we have to get to
Speaker 1: this hour. I don't even know how we're gonna do
Speaker 1: it all. Medal of Honor Monday, of course, as it
Speaker 1: always is, coming up a couple minutes from now, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about, Okay, so all this communist violence that
Speaker 1: they're not gonna stop. They want this to happen. Well,
Speaker 1: what do we do then? What can we do? We'll
Speaker 1: talk about that we can do this. It's gonna take
Speaker 1: some time, but we can do this. John Conrad is
Speaker 1: coming up thirty minutes from now, our global shipping expert,
Speaker 1: John Conrad. We're gonna ask about how clogged up are
Speaker 1: things right now? What's good, what's bad? All that and
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Speaker 1: of the second hour. Before we get to any of
Speaker 1: those other things, we are going to honor a hero,
Speaker 1: as we always do. It is time for Medal of
Speaker 1: Honor Monday, where we take somebody's Medal of Honor citation
Speaker 1: and we just read it. It's it. These are available
Speaker 1: for you. They're all free, they're all online. If you
Speaker 1: have internet access right now, you could go read every
Speaker 1: single one of them. And I would recommend you start
Speaker 1: chopping away at it because it's amazing. And we pick
Speaker 1: out ones we like. We do ones that you like.
Speaker 1: If you have one that you just like or you're
Speaker 1: related to it, you can always send us an email
Speaker 1: along with your love, hate and death threats to Jesse
Speaker 1: at jesse kellyshow dot com. This guy actually said, Hey, Jesse,
Speaker 1: can you read the Medal of Honor citation for a
Speaker 1: Raymond Zusman. I think it's amazing how he was able
Speaker 1: to do so much with very little ammunition and men
Speaker 1: much thanks and God bless So what did mister Zussman do?
Speaker 1: Raymond Zussman of Hamtrack, Michigan, let's find out shall.
Speaker 2: Write, Hey, honoring those who went above and beyond. It's
Speaker 2: Medal of Honor Monday.
Speaker 1: On the twelfth of September nineteen forty four, Second Lieutenant
Speaker 1: Zussmann was in command of two tanks operating with an
Speaker 1: infantry company in the attack on enemy forces occupying the
Speaker 1: town of noroy Leburg, France, at seven o'clock PM. His
Speaker 1: command tank bogged down. Throughout the ensuing action, armed with
Speaker 1: only a carbine, he reconnoitered alone on foot, far in
Speaker 1: advance of his remaining tank in the infantry, returning only
Speaker 1: from time to time to designate targets. He directed the
Speaker 1: action of the tank and turned over to the infantry
Speaker 1: the numerous German soldiers he had caused to surrender. He
Speaker 1: located a roadblock and directed his tanks to destroy it.
Speaker 1: Fully exposed to fire from enemy positions only fifty yards distant,
Speaker 1: he stood by his tank, directing its fire. Three Germans
Speaker 1: were killed, eight surrendered. Again, he walked before his tank,
Speaker 1: leading it against an enemy held group of houses machine
Speaker 1: gun and small arms fire, kicking up dust at his feet.
Speaker 1: The tank fire broke the resistance in twenty enemies surrendered.
Speaker 1: Going forward again alone, he passed an enemy occupied house,
Speaker 1: from which Germans fired on him and threw grenades in
Speaker 1: his path. After a brief firefight, he signaled his tank
Speaker 1: to come up and fire on the house. Eleven German
Speaker 1: soldiers were killed and fifteen surrendered. Going on alone, he
Speaker 1: disappeared around a street corner, the fire of his car
Speaker 1: being could be heard, and in a few minutes he reappeared,
Speaker 1: driving thirty prisoners before him. Under Second Lieutenant Zuspin's heroic
Speaker 1: and inspiring leadership, eighteen enemy soldiers were killed and ninety
Speaker 1: two captured. Not a bad day, huh, Not a bad day. Now,
Speaker 1: let's get back to the task at hand. I don't
Speaker 1: want to live in this kind of country, political assassinations
Speaker 1: and violence all the time. I want the communists to stop.
Speaker 1: I want there to be peace. But how do we
Speaker 1: get that? How do we get that? Well, let me
Speaker 1: use a couple examples here. You remember our Rhodesian history segment,
Speaker 1: don't forget histories. Coming back May fourth our Rhodesian history segment,
Speaker 1: and we talked about how these communist groups were pouring
Speaker 1: into Rhodesia from the surrounding countries. Okay, you can arrest them,
Speaker 1: you can go out and kill them, and they did,
Speaker 1: but they just kept coming, and they just kept coming,
Speaker 1: like there were endless amounts of them. What do you do?
Speaker 1: Why were they still coming? That's the best question. Why
Speaker 1: so many coming? Because they were funded and trained by
Speaker 1: large nations state like China in the Soviet Union, Nation
Speaker 1: States were funding and training all these communists. So the
Speaker 1: Rhodesians are killing them as fast as they can kill them,
Speaker 1: but there seems to be an inexhaustible supply of them. Okay,
Speaker 1: Paul's on that for a moment. Let's talk about crime,
Speaker 1: drug dealing. If you will, picture a major American city.
Speaker 1: There's some gang banger on the block and he's selling crack.
Speaker 1: Not ideal, I think you would agree, probably not great.
Speaker 1: Now you want that to stop, okay, but you go
Speaker 1: put handcuffs on that drug dealer and you throw them
Speaker 1: in jail. And the next day there's a different guy
Speaker 1: standing on the street corner with a bag of crack
Speaker 1: selling it, and you can arrest that guy and throw
Speaker 1: him in jail. But then the next day there's another
Speaker 1: guy in the street corner with a bag of crack
Speaker 1: selling it. What's going on here? Well, that guy standing
Speaker 1: on the street corner with a bag of crack, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have any actual power. Really, maybe he has a gun.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's violent, probably stupid, but why see actually
Speaker 1: there he's there because in all likelihood, his gang of
Speaker 1: hoodlums who live on that block, they were hired by
Speaker 1: a middle management type in a large criminal organization, could
Speaker 1: be the Italian mafia cartel, mixture of the two. You
Speaker 1: see some middle manager based here in America. He wants
Speaker 1: to move a lot more crack and make a lot
Speaker 1: more money through the streets of let's call it Chicago.
Speaker 1: So he goes and finds a bunch of young, stupid
Speaker 1: idiots and hands them bags a crack and says, I'll
Speaker 1: give you a little cut, go sell my crack. Okay,
Speaker 1: But even then, if you if you travel all the
Speaker 1: way up the chain to the middle management guy, what
Speaker 1: if you just throw handcuffs on him and send him, well,
Speaker 1: then you have to climb further up the chain until
Speaker 1: you get to the man or the men who have
Speaker 1: the plan, and they're hiring the right people to carry
Speaker 1: out the plan. I'm mister crime lord, and my plan
Speaker 1: is to make a lot of money. How am I
Speaker 1: going to make money? I'm gonna make crack. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make tons and tons of crack, and then I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hire a bunch of violent, scummy losers to distribute my
Speaker 1: said crack, and eventually enough money will be flowing up
Speaker 1: into my coffers that I'll be flying private jets and
Speaker 1: living in mansions all over the world. If you really
Speaker 1: want to stop the guy on the street corner with
Speaker 1: a bag of crack in his pocket, you don't just
Speaker 1: throw him in jail. You must go to the institutions
Speaker 1: who create people like him. You must go after the institutions.
Speaker 1: The poor Rhodesians were never going to win the road
Speaker 1: Dejian Bush War once the American West cut them off
Speaker 1: from resources, not because they weren't brave enough. They were
Speaker 1: so brave, not because they weren't good fighters. They were
Speaker 1: amazing fighters. Not because they didn't have a great country.
Speaker 1: And the right idea is they had a wonderful country.
Speaker 1: They were always going to lose because it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: how many Kami street animals you butcher out in the
Speaker 1: Rhodesian Bush, the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China,
Speaker 1: they will always find new recruits and write new checks
Speaker 1: and send a new group of a thousand of them
Speaker 1: into your country to rape and terrorize in murder. Unless
Speaker 1: you can travel up that chain and get to the
Speaker 1: institutions who create the communists, all else is just noise.
Speaker 1: It is all else. To be honest with you, it's
Speaker 1: just a coping mechanism. That's all it is. You're trying
Speaker 1: to convince yourself that if we just arrest this this
Speaker 1: street animal, you know what should do. Maybe you've even
Speaker 1: said something violent in the past twenty four to forty
Speaker 1: eight hours. I think we should try him tomorrow and
Speaker 1: then skin him alive on national television. Okay, I applaud
Speaker 1: your vigor. It would work. It just wouldn't work. Why
Speaker 1: wouldn't it work Because America has institutions, some foreign funded,
Speaker 1: some domestic funded. They have communist run institutions, we should say,
Speaker 1: have communist run institutions in this country, and they produce
Speaker 1: another thousand assassins a year, I should say, would be assassins.
Speaker 1: There's an assassin factory of institutions in this country. If
Speaker 1: the factory stays running, this will never stop. What's the
Speaker 1: biggest factory. We'll talk about that next. It is the
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show. On a Magnificent Monday. We had Medal
Speaker 1: of Honor Monday. We're gonna get to emails. We have
Speaker 1: John Conrad coming up ten minutes from now. By the way,
Speaker 1: you can email us Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
Speaker 1: Your love, your hate, your death, threats. I am going
Speaker 1: to tackle your emails about everything from this shooting to
Speaker 1: other things. People have questions about the security, How could
Speaker 1: this have happened, And I'm gonna lay that out. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lay out, frankly, what happened, because I can tell
Speaker 1: you exactly what happened. What were our failures, what were
Speaker 1: our successes? If we're failing, why are we failing? We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about that, and that is something very important
Speaker 1: to me because, as I mentioned at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the show, I know it's ugly to think about, but
Speaker 1: this culture of assassination we live in is not going
Speaker 1: anywhere anytime soon. We have a lot of work to
Speaker 1: do to make it go away. And so our next guy,
Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's Jdvance, but who knows who it is.
Speaker 1: The next guy is already in mortal danger. I told you,
Speaker 1: I told you a long time before that shot rang
Speaker 1: out in Butler that they were going to kill Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: I warned you that they were, and then he got
Speaker 1: shot in the head. By the grace of God, he
Speaker 1: turned his head at the right time. I told you
Speaker 1: it was coming, and I'm telling you right now there
Speaker 1: is going to be a very credible assassination attempt on
Speaker 1: the vice president of the United States. Over the next
Speaker 1: few years, there's no question, certainly as he ramps up
Speaker 1: his run for the presidency, whether it will be successful
Speaker 1: or not. Gosh, I hope not, but it's coming. I
Speaker 1: guarantee you it's coming, probably more than one. Now. I
Speaker 1: want that to stop. I want to go back to
Speaker 1: living in a normal country where communists don't kill the
Speaker 1: people they disagree with. So we have to go to
Speaker 1: the root of the problem. The root of the problem
Speaker 1: is the institutions. I'm going to read something for you.
Speaker 1: Credit to Rob Henderson. He's the one who pulled out
Speaker 1: the chart. Relative to Americans with high school education, Americans
Speaker 1: with graduate degrees are twice as likely to support political violence.
Speaker 1: More education equals higher support for political violence. And there's
Speaker 1: a chart here showing a staggering, staggering thing something we
Speaker 1: talked about before. To break it down simply, the longer
Speaker 1: you spend on a college campus, the more violent, demonic,
Speaker 1: and communist you will become. If you just step foot
Speaker 1: on there for half a second, it probably won't be bad.
Speaker 1: You checked in and out for a year, maybe you
Speaker 1: get by you go all the way to a bachelor's degree.
Speaker 1: Getting dicey, hope you pack up your stuff and leave.
Speaker 1: You start sticking around for master's degrees and PhDs. You'll
Speaker 1: be polepot before you know it. Here's a headline cal Tech.
Speaker 1: You know that's where this would be Assassin went. Cal
Speaker 1: Tech's probe into its racist pass isn't working. This is
Speaker 1: an LA Times article that I will not go into.
Speaker 1: Kyle Tech is supposed to be one of these engineering
Speaker 1: super schools, very difficult to get into. This guy, this
Speaker 1: would be Assassin, probably had a very high IQ and
Speaker 1: then he got into this prestigious school, cal Tech. Why
Speaker 1: would a guy like this grab a shotgun and hop
Speaker 1: on the train from LA to drive clear to Washington, DC.
Speaker 1: And now he is a man. I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: how old he is, but he is a man who
Speaker 1: will probably die in prison one day, old wrinkled.
Speaker 3: No more California, no more freedom, no more sunny beaches,
Speaker 3: no more esteak dinners. It's federal penitentiary time pow where
Speaker 3: you better shower.
Speaker 1: With two eyes in the back of your head for
Speaker 1: the rest of your life. Life. Why in the world,
Speaker 1: why in the world would he do that? Why would
Speaker 1: he risk that because the university system in this country
Speaker 1: trains communists foot soldiers to kill people, it just does.
Speaker 1: We are going to have to start burning down the
Speaker 1: American university system legally. By the way, legally, I don't
Speaker 1: want you to do anything of legal. Please don't go
Speaker 1: physically burn anything down. We are going to have to
Speaker 1: start not just stripping all funding from these universities, we
Speaker 1: are going to have to start firing everybody and closing
Speaker 1: the doors. I'm not even close to kidding. If you
Speaker 1: want America to stop producing communist assassins, one of the
Speaker 1: key institutions, one of the key assassin factories in this
Speaker 1: country is America's university system. And we could go deeper
Speaker 1: than that, because there is more than that. Of course,
Speaker 1: the media institution, We could of course go to k
Speaker 1: through twelve schools, even the companies who make the textbooks.
Speaker 1: All these things are extremely valid targets. But what we
Speaker 1: have to start prioritizing is the institutions themselves. It's not
Speaker 1: enough to shoot the plane out of the sky. What
Speaker 1: you need to do is get your butt down to
Speaker 1: the plane factory and bomb it to smitherings. Then it
Speaker 1: will stop producing the planes and you don't have to
Speaker 1: shoot them out of the sky. We are asking all
Speaker 1: these questions right now, and we're asking the wrong ones.
Speaker 1: But if we get a new White House ballroom it
Speaker 1: has bulletproof class can we stop this in the future.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm all for it, build the ballroom, put
Speaker 3: in the bulletproof glass. But when you're at the place
Speaker 3: where you have to put heads of state behind bulletproof glass,
Speaker 3: when they give a twenty minute speech at a college campus,
Speaker 3: that's not a healthy place. And the solution cannot be
Speaker 3: more bulletproof glass. You have to find a way to
Speaker 3: smash the communist movement into a fine powder, and you
Speaker 3: do that by the complete dismantling and destruction of communist
Speaker 3: universities in this country. We have to go after the
Speaker 3: institutions themselves. Throwing another street animal in prison is not
Speaker 3: near enough, because there's another ten of them waiting with
Speaker 3: weapons to kill you and me in Whoever the next
Speaker 3: Republican nominee is the institutions that produce them must be
Speaker 3: ground to powder.
Speaker 1: Period. We talk to John Conrad next. It is the
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Shall in a Wonderful Monday. It's been an
Speaker 1: amazing Monday and It's time to get smarter about shipping
Speaker 1: things because that's kind of a fairly important industry which
Speaker 1: is being revealed more and more every day. We have
Speaker 1: blockades and everything else. I'm gonna know what's happening out there.
Speaker 1: So joining me now is he has many times before.
Speaker 1: John Conrad, Merchant, Marine Captain, author, Okay, John, I'm shipping.
Speaker 1: We know that there's currently a blockade on the Straight
Speaker 1: of hor Moves. How is that affecting or is it
Speaker 1: affecting things worldwide on the high seas.
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 4: You've already always been ahead of this curve by meon
Speaker 4: and guys like Ross Kennedy. I appreciate that it's working
Speaker 4: its way through the system. It's not this apocalyptic. If
Speaker 4: you read the news in Europe, they say it's this
Speaker 4: apocalyptic problem. It hasn't been that. You know, Shipping is
Speaker 4: very elastic. Things can move around, we get new ships.
Speaker 4: But it is definitely putting a strain on the system.
Speaker 4: The bigger problem is going back to the poor congestion
Speaker 4: crisis in twenty twenty, after COVID to the Panama Canal,
Speaker 4: drought to the Red Sea and the hoo Thi's there
Speaker 4: to now this it's just increasing stress on the system.
Speaker 4: And this is all participating in global inflation. You know,
Speaker 4: if everything takes longer to get shipped, if you need
Speaker 4: more inventory, prices are going to go up. So I
Speaker 4: think that's the main effect.
Speaker 1: Okay, pause, Sorry, I'm going to ask you a bunch
Speaker 1: of nerdy details because I want to get smarter tonight
Speaker 1: and then rub it in all my friends faces. Panama
Speaker 1: Panama Canal drought one. Why is this whole canal important anyway?
Speaker 1: To what drought? What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: Well, the Panama Canal is the most important canal for
Speaker 4: the US Navy because without the Panama Canal we have
Speaker 4: half our fleet in Norfolk and half in San Diego.
Speaker 4: And if something, you know, war breaks down in China,
Speaker 4: you'd have to go all the way around Argentina or
Speaker 4: South Africa. South Africa has not been good friends lately.
Speaker 4: They've been inviting Chinese and Russian in. We have a
Speaker 4: better relationship with Argentina. But that's a lot of time
Speaker 4: to get the navy all the way around there, and
Speaker 4: the weather's horrible. The drought was two years ago. They
Speaker 4: ran out of water. They built a second canal that's bigger,
Speaker 4: next to the original canal, and it uses a lot
Speaker 4: of water. They collect the water in this lake and
Speaker 4: then the water flushes out on each ship transit into
Speaker 4: the Pacific or Atlantic, depending which way you're going. Well,
Speaker 4: there's a limited amount of water. If it doesn't rain,
Speaker 4: you can't transit, So they had to limit the transits
Speaker 4: going through. This led all the way up to the
Speaker 4: beginning of the administration. Rubio and Pete Hegseth went down
Speaker 4: there and you know, tried to negotiate this, you know,
Speaker 4: favorable term, saying, hey, the US needs to be able
Speaker 4: to secure it. We want free transit for US flag
Speaker 4: vessels and a few other priority for US ships because
Speaker 4: when there's a drought they start auctioning off. And there's
Speaker 4: some indication that they've allowed US to have some security
Speaker 4: forces down on there, oh and kicking the Chinese out
Speaker 4: of the port. They own the two ports, but the
Speaker 4: other ones have kind of installed they're still charging US ships.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's go back over to the Strait of
Speaker 1: horror moves before we talk about some shakeups in the
Speaker 1: navy and things like that. People are confused about how
Speaker 1: we can wipe their navy off. The high seas with
Speaker 1: such ease, and yet things are not flowing. What is
Speaker 1: happening and why?
Speaker 4: Well, I at the very beginning was very anti war.
Speaker 4: I think a lot of us were anti war. And
Speaker 4: there were some initial casualties. But if you know, to
Speaker 4: get to this point where we are now, I was
Speaker 4: anticipating two thousand casualties. We haven't come close to that number.
Speaker 4: And now what we see is the President doesn't want
Speaker 4: any more casualties. Pete Hegset doesn't want anymore. The Navy
Speaker 4: doesn't want any more. So we're starting to, you know,
Speaker 4: send We just sent some two destroyers in for the
Speaker 4: first time last week. We're darning could do a little
Speaker 4: bit of mind clearing. But they're taking their sweet time, Jesse,
Speaker 4: And they're taking their sweet time because I Ran can't
Speaker 4: be trusted and they we don't use the uh, you know,
Speaker 4: we don't. We make our we have our own oil.
Speaker 4: We use some oil from the Middle East, but it's
Speaker 4: not critical to us like it is in Europe. So
Speaker 4: they don't want to put the Navy, Marines, Army in
Speaker 4: harms way. They'd rather take their time and do this slowly.
Speaker 1: Okay, So you said in harm's way for the normal
Speaker 1: person who doesn't understand this. What could harm us? At
Speaker 1: least our navy ships? We wipe their air force out,
Speaker 1: we wipe out their navy. What can hurt us? Did
Speaker 1: he round has?
Speaker 4: You're right, we did a fantastic job operationally. But it's
Speaker 4: an insurgency, right, So these the Straight of Horn News
Speaker 4: is a big U. And one side of that U
Speaker 4: is Iran. And there are a lot of places that
Speaker 4: you could hide drones, hide missiles, hide these speedboats. We
Speaker 4: see them, you know, launching these Boston whalers, and you
Speaker 4: could put some minds in it. There already might be
Speaker 4: minds in the Strait of hor Moves. So the real
Speaker 4: way that you would secure a street like that, and
Speaker 4: say this was a war against China and you absolutely
Speaker 4: had to secure the Straight is you would send the
Speaker 4: Marines boots on the ground. Maybe not a long term
Speaker 4: mission like months, but you would at least surge them
Speaker 4: in for a week or two in order to check
Speaker 4: the basements and clear out the drones and destroy the
Speaker 4: Boston whalers. We don't even seem willing to do that.
Speaker 4: So we're taking a very cautious approach here.
Speaker 1: Okay, So we're taking a cautious approach. I understand that
Speaker 1: the Trump administration doesn't want soldiers to die, certainly doesn't
Speaker 1: want more bad head minds. I understand all that, but
Speaker 1: that clearly is going to extend the timeline somewhat correct.
Speaker 1: I mean, I realize Iran is hurting, but significantly, go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead, please.
Speaker 4: It's extending the timeline significantly. We probably could have. You know,
Speaker 4: some ships were going through because I Ran much charging
Speaker 4: them this toll a few weeks ago. That has gone
Speaker 4: down because we've instituted a blockaded. We told people you can't,
Speaker 4: you can't pay Iran to go through. I Ran clear
Speaker 4: doesn't have minds on their side, so they were allowing this,
Speaker 4: and we've put an end to that. So we're kind
Speaker 4: of in a stalemate now. Iran, as blog says, they're
Speaker 4: block heating friendly ships, and the US is blockading ships
Speaker 4: that could be transporting missiles or other cargo oil that
Speaker 4: benefits Iran. We're allowing humanitarians plus three, but not oil
Speaker 4: or dangerous goods.
Speaker 1: Okay, And you don't see an economic problem coming yet.
Speaker 1: I know you indicated that we could be in store
Speaker 1: for one, but as of now, we're holding okay.
Speaker 4: But we're holding Okay, Europe's in bigger trouble. They're running
Speaker 4: out a jet fuel. We've seen shortages in Australia, Korea,
Speaker 4: other places are having this prom price of oil. Because California,
Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom shut down so many refineries. The oil goes
Speaker 4: from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to South
Speaker 4: Korea and then gets brought back to California to supply
Speaker 4: the cars. Well, because all the ships are moving around
Speaker 4: trying to get oil from other places, we don't have
Speaker 4: extra tankers. So to get that tanker you got to
Speaker 4: spend a lot more money. So the price of gasoline
Speaker 4: I was just in California, it was like seven dollars
Speaker 4: and sixty cents for a gallon of diesel. And that
Speaker 4: diesel costs all farmers, all contractors, anyone running a generator.
Speaker 4: So there are costs, but the acute costs is on
Speaker 4: our allies. It's on Europe, and Europe does not could
Speaker 4: send mine sweepers themselves. They don't want to send the mines,
Speaker 4: so we're in this kind of stalemate here. Trump saying, hey,
Speaker 4: if you want to, if you want this goods, because
Speaker 4: it's you could run out jet fuel before the big
Speaker 4: travel season in the summer. You know you need to
Speaker 4: help here and eure up saying well, we need to
Speaker 4: start this more. We don't want to help, and that's
Speaker 4: part of the stalemate.
Speaker 1: John, do you have time to do just a couple
Speaker 1: more questions? Another segment with me real quick. I want
Speaker 1: to ask you about a couple of the things.
Speaker 4: I always gotta have time for you, Jesse, my man.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to be right back with John Conrad.
Speaker 1: I want to ask about the new Navy secretary's shakeups
Speaker 1: going on shipbuilding, other questions. Hang on, Jesse Kelly Becksian.
Speaker 1: It is Jesse Kelly Shoe on a wonderful, wonderful Monday.
Speaker 1: Remember you can email us your love, your hate, your
Speaker 1: death threats. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Back with
Speaker 1: our favorite merchant, Marine and history Captain John Conrad. Okay, John,
Speaker 1: we got news and just political nerds, but we got
Speaker 1: news that there's been a shake up in the Navy,
Speaker 1: the big cheese, and no one really understood why what's
Speaker 1: going on?
Speaker 4: Well, John Feeling came in as Secretary of the Navy,
Speaker 4: this top civilian in the Navy and has a lot
Speaker 4: of control over what the Navy's doing. And he had
Speaker 4: a chief of staff named John Harrison, who is a
Speaker 4: real go getter. He kind of looked at Nimitz and
Speaker 4: King world War two and said, hey, we got to
Speaker 4: really break some heads here, and that caused a lot
Speaker 4: of stress in the Navy. So Harrison was pushed out
Speaker 4: in October, and John Feeling's kind of been moving along
Speaker 4: the ball that John Harrison plays a major reorganization of
Speaker 4: the Navy. All of these things, but the president's priority
Speaker 4: has been shipbuilding, and the Secretary of the Navy has
Speaker 4: been doing a good job. You know, he got us
Speaker 4: the Golden Plate, he's getting us new frigates, he's getting
Speaker 4: us a battleship. He's got a fifty percent increase in shipbuilding.
Speaker 4: He's fixed a lot of the budgetary problems in Maybe
Speaker 4: this guy's a billionaire. He's friends with Trump. He has
Speaker 4: the mansion right next to Marrow Lago, very successful businessman.
Speaker 4: He's cleaned out a lot of that and he did
Speaker 4: it in the first year. But John Feeln is not
Speaker 4: a guy who gets on media. He won't get on
Speaker 4: the Jesse Kelly Show, we won't do videos. And then
Speaker 4: in the shipbuilding world, you can't build a stealth jet
Speaker 4: like you can in the Air Force and skunk works.
Speaker 4: You have to get the unions together. You've got to
Speaker 4: get the shipyard. You got to get Wall Street excited.
Speaker 4: You got to get the people excited to call that
Speaker 4: a congressman and want to put all this money. Shipbuilding
Speaker 4: is expensive, and you know, he did all of these
Speaker 4: reforms and a lot of them were good. But then
Speaker 4: the air kind of came out of the tires of
Speaker 4: the whole thing. And you know, this Navy conference I
Speaker 4: was at last week last year, it was brimming with excitement.
Speaker 4: It was full house. They sold out of tickets. This year,
Speaker 4: it was kind of that kind of boring and people
Speaker 4: were like, I don't know if this is actually getting through.
Speaker 4: So the President let John Feeling go. Brought in Hung Cow,
Speaker 4: who's great on video. It's one of the most popular
Speaker 4: videos on x You know, when he was running for Senate,
Speaker 4: just railing against communism. He was born in Vietnam right
Speaker 4: before it fell, and you know, a real success story
Speaker 4: and became a Navy EO D and Navy captain. He's
Speaker 4: an expert with minds because that's what eods do is,
Speaker 4: and he's now in He's already released two videos, he's
Speaker 4: already walked back some of the structural change, and I
Speaker 4: think he's gonna, you know, infuse some enthusiasm in the shipbuilding.
Speaker 1: Okay, the shipbuilding. You reference that all the time. I
Speaker 1: know it's near and dear to your heart, and you've
Speaker 1: referenced the problems we have with it before. Can you
Speaker 1: tell me is it getting better? Because I know that's
Speaker 1: something Trump's hot on. It's something he stresses that China
Speaker 1: can do and we cannot. Are we getting better? And why? Well?
Speaker 4: Will we will? Even if everything Trump goes through, we
Speaker 4: won't approach China. China has four times four hundred times
Speaker 4: to shipbuilding capacity.
Speaker 1: We do.
Speaker 4: We're not trying to compete with China, but we've built
Speaker 4: zero merchant ships last year and our navy ships. The
Speaker 4: newest carrier is seventeen years overdue. It's been we've been
Speaker 4: building it for seventeen years, Jesse, So we want to
Speaker 4: get some action. What I tell people is this last
Speaker 4: year I have been the most excited I've been in
Speaker 4: my thirty year career at SEAT. But then I become
Speaker 4: the most depressed I've ever been in my thirty year
Speaker 4: big career. So we're flip flopping between, hey, here's an
Speaker 4: amazing Trump executive action and then you know, all the
Speaker 4: players the Navy Maritime Administration dropped the ball. Here's a
Speaker 4: maritime action plan, here's a new Secretary of Navy who
Speaker 4: redoes this, and then they don't follow through with the
Speaker 4: video and the podcast and really selling it to the
Speaker 4: American public. So we're flip blobbing some really good structural things.
Speaker 4: But you know, excitement's dying, and if we don't get
Speaker 4: some traction before midterms, you know the next two years
Speaker 4: is just going to be the Democrats fighting us. So
Speaker 4: now's the time. Now's the chance to get it done.
Speaker 4: And I think bringing hung cal someone who's out there,
Speaker 4: who's verbal, who knows this as a priority. I think
Speaker 4: this is the last hail Mary to get this done,
Speaker 4: because it's not we're not getting actual traction. A lot
Speaker 4: of money, a lot of structure, but we're not actually
Speaker 4: building ships yet.
Speaker 1: John, how has our Navy performed with this whole Iran thing? Obviously,
Speaker 1: I know we're dominanting much better than they are technologically
Speaker 1: every possible way. I understand all that, But are there
Speaker 1: are there things that happened or didn't happen that raise
Speaker 1: some concern for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah. The number one thing is we got the best
Speaker 4: navy in the world. These guys are really good Jesse,
Speaker 4: but they don't have enough destroyers, they don't have enough
Speaker 4: they don't have enough cargo ships to resupply these carriers
Speaker 4: and stuff at sea. But the problem is, and the
Speaker 4: problem has been for two decades, is when more in
Speaker 4: a pinch, when Americans, you know, backs are against the wall,
Speaker 4: we figure out a way to get it done. We
Speaker 4: figure out a way that that may not be ideal.
Speaker 4: We may have to get out some duct tape and
Speaker 4: some super glue, but we're going to get that done.
Speaker 4: And the problem is when you get it done, then
Speaker 4: Congress says, well, you got it done last time, why
Speaker 4: do you need more ships? And you know, the problems
Speaker 4: keep mounting up. So there were a lot of problems
Speaker 4: with the Iran thing, but the Navy found you know,
Speaker 4: kind of jerry rigged around them, so we didn't really
Speaker 4: see those problems. But now we got three carriers in
Speaker 4: the Persian Golf. One of them has been the second
Speaker 4: longest deployment in US Navy's history. For a ship. So
Speaker 4: these guys are tired, they're over worked. And now when
Speaker 4: these ships go back, you know, the lot operates when
Speaker 4: you push the envelope like this, and it just kind
Speaker 4: of gunks up the whole system.
Speaker 1: If that makes sense, Oh, it does, it does. Where
Speaker 1: do we repair our ships now, just back at home
Speaker 1: or is there some other place we can dock them
Speaker 1: and fix them.
Speaker 4: We just opened up allowed Korean I think in Japan,
Speaker 4: letting them repair our ships. It used to be just
Speaker 4: in the United States. You know, the Navy used to
Speaker 4: build their own ships. The Brooklyn Navy Yard that built
Speaker 4: our battleships, that was owned by the government, operated by
Speaker 4: the government, and there were these public shipyards Philly, there
Speaker 4: was one in Hawaii, one in Washington. We change that
Speaker 4: now so all our ships are built by private or
Speaker 4: you know, some of the company's issue stocks, they're built
Speaker 4: by private defense contractors. But the Navy retained three yards
Speaker 4: that do repairs. So the warships are at our three
Speaker 4: public shipyards, Norfolk, Washington, I believe, in Hawaii, and then
Speaker 4: we have a few Diakins and Alabama Shipyard that repair
Speaker 4: kind of our oilers and our auxiliary ships.
Speaker 1: Right now, Okay, John, you are a wealth of information, buddy,
Speaker 1: John Conrad, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: Brother, thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: We have an entire final hour. We're gonna talk about
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Speaker 4: Hang on,