1 00:00:00,520 --> 00:00:04,520 Speaker 1: Is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,600 Speaker 1: Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. We are going to 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:11,600 Speaker 1: get to some of the communists response to all that 4 00:00:11,680 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: stuff from last night. But I told you an hour 5 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:18,239 Speaker 1: ago what was coming now, and now it has arrived. 6 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:23,680 Speaker 1: We are doing a special Wednesday edition of Medal of 7 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 1: Honor Monday only. I guess it's not that's Medal of 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,920 Speaker 1: Honor Wednesday either way. Couple gentlemen last night, couple beasts. 9 00:00:32,720 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: They had already earned the Medal of Honor, and last 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 1: night they got it draped around their necks. And I 11 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:41,120 Speaker 1: thought it would be appropriate since the citations are now 12 00:00:41,200 --> 00:00:46,080 Speaker 1: publicly available, to read said Medal of Honor citations. So 13 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:50,080 Speaker 1: let's do the first one. The first one is the 14 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: helicopter pilot guy. I mean, you remember when we went 15 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:58,000 Speaker 1: into Caracas in the middle of the night. You roll 16 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 1: your rs when you speak Spanish. Christ, When we went 17 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,039 Speaker 1: into Karakas in the middle of the night, we didn't 18 00:01:05,080 --> 00:01:10,360 Speaker 1: lose a man, right, it was flawless. It was flawless, 19 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: but they were shooting back and we did have people hit. Now, 20 00:01:17,959 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: imagine taking one bullet in the legs, one you got 21 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:26,720 Speaker 1: shot in the leg. Imagine the pain. I mean, when's 22 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: the last time you stubbed your toe or hit your 23 00:01:29,240 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: shin on something? Now, imagine taking a bullet in your leg. Now, 24 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:38,959 Speaker 1: imagine taking multiple bullets in your leg, and you can't 25 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:43,120 Speaker 1: lay down and call for mommy. You are flying a 26 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: helicopter and you continue to fly it masterfully. Mister eric A. Slover, 27 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,680 Speaker 1: United States Army Chief Warren Officer five got his Medal 28 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 1: of Honor last night. 29 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:02,600 Speaker 2: Hey, honoring those she went above and beyond its Medal 30 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,520 Speaker 2: of Honor Monday. 31 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:14,799 Speaker 1: Chief Warren Officer five, Eric A. Slover distinguished himself by 32 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:19,239 Speaker 1: conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. 33 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:22,519 Speaker 1: On January third, twenty twenty six, during a mission in 34 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:28,040 Speaker 1: Venezuela in support of Operation Absolute Resolve, Chief Warren Officer 35 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,919 Speaker 1: five Slover piloted his MH forty seven as the lead 36 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:36,880 Speaker 1: aircraft of the operation, tasked with executing a highly complex 37 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:42,680 Speaker 1: infiltration through hostile integrated air defense systems to safely deliver 38 00:02:42,960 --> 00:02:49,200 Speaker 1: military forces during ingress. That's the way in Chief Warren 39 00:02:49,240 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: Officer five Slover skillfully led the helicopter force through a 40 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: dense jungle valley in a mountainous region, navigating marginal weather conditions, 41 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: humerous topographical hazards, and near insurmountable surface to air threats. 42 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:10,120 Speaker 1: Upon touching down at the designated landing zone, Chief Warren 43 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 1: Officer five Slover's aircraft was immediately engaged by multiple machine 44 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 1: gun positions at close range. The hostile fire resulted in 45 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:26,680 Speaker 1: fifteen armor piercing rounds entering his cockpit, with four rounds 46 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,919 Speaker 1: striking his leg. Despite the intense and effective enemy fire 47 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,160 Speaker 1: and at great personal risk, Chief Warren Officer five Slover 48 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: maintained his situational awareness and aircraft position in the line 49 00:03:41,160 --> 00:03:45,200 Speaker 1: of fire to ensure the safe infiltration of the military forces. 50 00:03:45,840 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: After the force disembarked, and despite suffering significant life threatening injuries, 51 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 1: Chief Warren Officer five Slover identified hostile heavy machine gun 52 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: positions that were engaging his aircraft and targeting the ground 53 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,760 Speaker 1: for fource. He maneuvered his aircraft to enable his door 54 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: gunner to deliver effective fire, successfully neutralizing the threats. Chief 55 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 1: wign Officer five Slover's heroic actions undoubtedly saved countless American 56 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:18,839 Speaker 1: lives and ensured the complete and overwhelming success of the mission. 57 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:23,080 Speaker 1: His gallantry under fire and extraordinary valor, are in keeping 58 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: with the highest traditions of military service, and reflect great 59 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 1: credit upon himself. In the United States Army die gone. 60 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: Then there was this one, which Trump mentioned last. 61 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:39,440 Speaker 3: Week, truly extraordinary American patriots. 62 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,839 Speaker 4: But there is one last living legend to honor before 63 00:04:42,880 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 4: we go. He is one more heroic American aviator Navy 64 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:50,560 Speaker 4: fighter pilot. 65 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:53,240 Speaker 3: Royce Williams served in World War II. 66 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:58,120 Speaker 4: Korea Vietnam, flying more than two hundred and twenty missions 67 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:02,720 Speaker 4: in disguise over career. In nineteen fifty two, Royce was 68 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,840 Speaker 4: in the dog fight of. 69 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 3: A lifetime legendary DOUG flight. 70 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:12,800 Speaker 4: Flying through blizzard conditions, his squadron was ambushed by seven 71 00:05:12,880 --> 00:05:14,159 Speaker 4: Soviet fighter planes. 72 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,080 Speaker 3: There was his first aerial combat of the war. 73 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 4: Despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, Royce led the takedown 74 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 4: of four enemy jets and almost destroyed the others, vanquishing 75 00:05:26,839 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 4: his adversaries while taking two hundred and sixty three bullets 76 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 4: to his own plane and being seriously hurt. 77 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 3: His story was secret for over fifty years. He didn't 78 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:40,440 Speaker 3: even want to tell his wife. But the legend grew 79 00:05:40,480 --> 00:05:45,240 Speaker 3: and grew. But tonight, at one hundred years old. 80 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 4: This brave Navy captain is finally getting the recognition he deserves. 81 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:54,320 Speaker 3: He was a legend long before this evening. 82 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 4: Royce, please stand up and I will ask the First 83 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 4: Lady of the United States to present Captain Royce Williams 84 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 4: with his Congressional Medal of Honor. 85 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: So let's read the citation for mister Elmer Royce Williams, 86 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:16,400 Speaker 1: born in Wilmot, South Dakota, in nineteen twenty five. 87 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 2: Hey, honoring those he went above and beyond. It's Medal 88 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 2: of Honor Monday. 89 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:34,040 Speaker 1: For conspicuous gallantry in intrepidity at the risk of his life, 90 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,479 Speaker 1: above and beyond the call of duty. On the eighteenth 91 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,120 Speaker 1: of November nineteen fifty two, while leading a division of 92 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 1: three fighter jets, three jet fighters attached to Fighter Squadrons 93 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: seven hundred and eighty one and embarked on the USS 94 00:06:48,200 --> 00:06:50,839 Speaker 1: Oriskani that was the name of the naval ship they 95 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:54,360 Speaker 1: took off from. While flying a combat patrol mission over 96 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:59,480 Speaker 1: the northeastern coastal waters of enemy held North Korea, Lieutenant 97 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:05,719 Speaker 1: Williams demonstrated extraordinary heroism by intercepting a superior force of 98 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 1: attacking enemy MiG fifteen fighters in order to protect the 99 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: ships of Task Force seventy seven. After thwarting the enemy's 100 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: initial attack, he maneuvered his aircraft to make two firing 101 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:21,920 Speaker 1: passes on one MiG, which then spiraled into the sea. 102 00:07:22,520 --> 00:07:26,120 Speaker 1: He inflicted heavy damage to a second MiG fifteen, which 103 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: started smoking badly, and retired from the fight. When his 104 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,000 Speaker 1: own aircraft was severely damaged by a direct hit from 105 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: one of the remaining enemy MiG fifteen's, Lieutenant Williams evaded 106 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:41,000 Speaker 1: further enemy attack while continuing to direct the dog fight. 107 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,760 Speaker 1: He eventually found cover in a cloud bank, broke off 108 00:07:44,800 --> 00:07:50,160 Speaker 1: the engagement, and miraculously landed his nearly uncontrollable aircraft on 109 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 1: the USS Oriskani. His exceptional airmanship, coupled with his complete 110 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: disregard for his own personal safety, resulted in the destruction 111 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: of three enemy MiG fifteens and severe damage to a fourth, 112 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:06,880 Speaker 1: and undoubtedly saved the lives of hundreds of Task fourteen 113 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:12,280 Speaker 1: seventies or Task Force seventy seven sailors. By his undaunted courage, 114 00:08:12,280 --> 00:08:16,280 Speaker 1: bold initiative, and total devotion to duty, Lieutenant Williams reflected 115 00:08:16,320 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of 116 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 1: the US United States Naval Service. That was freaking special. 117 00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: That was special. He lived to be one hundred, and 118 00:08:32,679 --> 00:08:35,840 Speaker 1: we don't have hardly We don't have many World War 119 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 1: two veterans left World War two Korea, Vietnam. Imagine dedicating 120 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 1: so much of your life to fighting for this country, 121 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,080 Speaker 1: you actually make it to one hundred years old, and 122 00:08:50,120 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: that in and of itself, it's not just impressive, it's difficult. 123 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 1: I know a couple people, not quite one hundred, but 124 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,480 Speaker 1: in their nineties, solidly in their nineties, and I'll tell 125 00:09:00,520 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: you they're sad a lot because everyone they know dies that. 126 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: You don't have any friends left, you don't have any 127 00:09:08,240 --> 00:09:11,079 Speaker 1: siblings left, everyone's dead. If it's so rare to make 128 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,400 Speaker 1: it that old, but this guy made it to one 129 00:09:13,440 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 1: hundred years old. Then he gets a phone call one day, Hey, 130 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:22,600 Speaker 1: we need to put you on a plane to Washington, 131 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: DC because somebody heard about what you did in Korea 132 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,800 Speaker 1: over seventy years ago. And you're going to earn the 133 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:35,679 Speaker 1: Medal of Honor? Is that not just the coolest thing 134 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: in the world. And Milania Donald Trump's wife, obviously Milania 135 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:43,120 Speaker 1: Trump was the one who strapped it to his neck. 136 00:09:44,520 --> 00:09:49,080 Speaker 1: That's really really cool. It was an awesome moment. It 137 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,439 Speaker 1: was a night of many, many awesome moments, the introduction 138 00:09:52,520 --> 00:09:55,320 Speaker 1: of the hockey team, and of course making Democrats look 139 00:09:55,360 --> 00:09:58,120 Speaker 1: stupid and had all the other things I love so much. 140 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,960 Speaker 1: But he saved that one to the I mean, Trump's 141 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:02,840 Speaker 1: such a show when he knows what he's doing. He 142 00:10:02,960 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 1: saved that one to the end. And man, gotta be honest, 143 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:13,599 Speaker 1: the old Oracle with his frosty heart almost got a 144 00:10:13,640 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: little choked up. I said almost. Okay, I didn't get 145 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: choked up, but it was like someone was cutting onions 146 00:10:19,559 --> 00:10:23,480 Speaker 1: there for a minute. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on. 147 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 3: An amazing, amazing Wednesday. 148 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 1: I'll homeday. So before I get to the emails, remember 149 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 1: I'm a cigar guy. Now, don't shake your head, Chris. 150 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,960 Speaker 1: Before I even get it out. So we have Carol 151 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: Roth coming up in ten minutes to talk about the 152 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,680 Speaker 1: economy and other things. But you know, I haven't traditionally 153 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 1: been much of a cigar guy, kind of one of 154 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,800 Speaker 1: those once every three years at a golf outing type thing. 155 00:10:54,080 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 1: But I had a couple in the month of December. 156 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,320 Speaker 1: I think it was January one was New Year's Eve. 157 00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:06,520 Speaker 1: Decide to have a cigar. I think it looks very distinguished. 158 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:10,800 Speaker 1: I don't think it's very healthy, though. So last night 159 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,360 Speaker 1: for the State of the Union address. You know I've 160 00:11:14,360 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: told you my mentor is Michael Berry. He's the reason 161 00:11:18,040 --> 00:11:21,200 Speaker 1: I'm sitting here behind this microphone. He's given me so 162 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 1: much guidance. He's obviously wonderful, nationally syndicated radio guy. He's amazing, 163 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:30,040 Speaker 1: but he's he's a friend, like we're good buddies. And 164 00:11:30,880 --> 00:11:32,680 Speaker 1: I as soon as the show was over, I took 165 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:35,000 Speaker 1: off from Michael's house to watch the State of the 166 00:11:35,120 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: Union address with Michael, and he suggested we sit outside 167 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 1: for it and have a cigar, and I did it. 168 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, Hm, I feel like I'm clearing 169 00:11:52,679 --> 00:11:57,120 Speaker 1: my throat a lot today. What is funny, Chris? I 170 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 1: think a couple times on accident and healed it and 171 00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: that was really really harsh, and then it went up 172 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,400 Speaker 1: my nose one time, and I feel like my nose 173 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: is what, Chris? My nose is still burning a little bit. 174 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: I hope I didn't get cancer. What what is it. 175 00:12:15,880 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 4: Do? 176 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:21,320 Speaker 1: I think cigars maybe aren't for me? No, I have 177 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:24,480 Speaker 1: to be a cigar guy I have I want to be. 178 00:12:25,520 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 1: I want to be that guy with a what's that 179 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:30,840 Speaker 1: thing they keep him in? Chris? It starts with an ah, 180 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:36,920 Speaker 1: starts with an h. A Lewinsky, Now a what, Chris. 181 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:39,480 Speaker 1: We can make jokes A humid or a humid or? 182 00:12:39,720 --> 00:12:44,160 Speaker 1: I want a humidor a nice one, one that's a 183 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: nice And I want to be I want to have 184 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:49,840 Speaker 1: one of those things where they clip off the end 185 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:52,679 Speaker 1: of it, one of the clip thingies. I saw a 186 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,120 Speaker 1: mob movie once where a guy used that to clip 187 00:12:55,160 --> 00:12:57,800 Speaker 1: people's fingers off, and I've wanted one ever since. Not 188 00:12:57,840 --> 00:12:59,680 Speaker 1: that I wanted to use it for that purpose, but 189 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,320 Speaker 1: I think it would be cool to have one. There's 190 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,520 Speaker 1: something manly about it, and I want to start being 191 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:09,600 Speaker 1: more of a cigar guy. I just don't want it 192 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:12,719 Speaker 1: to go up my nose anymore. And I'm doing a 193 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: lot of a lot of coughing and throat clearing today 194 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:19,520 Speaker 1: and I stunk when I got home. I walked in 195 00:13:19,559 --> 00:13:21,920 Speaker 1: and AB was all, oh my gosh, you smell like 196 00:13:21,920 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 1: an ashtrak what Chris? But Chris said, if I thought 197 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:30,320 Speaker 1: about a pipe, here's my plan, Because I have thought 198 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:36,920 Speaker 1: about a pipe. My plan is I'm going to I'm 199 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: gonna be a cigar guy until there's no more color 200 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,199 Speaker 1: in my beard at all. I mean it's already going gray, 201 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:49,480 Speaker 1: but clearly I have some years left until it's full 202 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: out Santa Claus. As soon as it's full out Santa Claus, 203 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:59,120 Speaker 1: I'm switching over to a pipe and I'm gonna be 204 00:13:59,559 --> 00:14:02,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna be that guy. I feel like this is 205 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:06,280 Speaker 1: a great plan. Bob didn't seem that supportive of it 206 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:09,640 Speaker 1: when I when I mentioned it, and the boys already 207 00:14:09,679 --> 00:14:13,160 Speaker 1: are acting like I'm Keith Richards because I've had three 208 00:14:13,280 --> 00:14:17,640 Speaker 1: cigars in their lifetimes. I'm getting lectured by the boys. 209 00:14:17,679 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 1: A Dan, that's terrible for you, Dad, as if I 210 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 1: need lectured by my sons. But I'm a cigar guy now. 211 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,960 Speaker 1: And I don't know what specific kinds of cigars they were, 212 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:34,080 Speaker 1: but they were they were brown, and they were delicious. 213 00:14:34,760 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: Kind of, I'm kind of. It wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. 214 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: It's not my preferred vintage, but it wasn't It wasn't bad. Jesse, 215 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:46,560 Speaker 1: please explain the difference in the views on the filibuster, 216 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 1: and they're pros and cons. The we have a filibuster 217 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:54,880 Speaker 1: because we were never supposed to be a majority rule country. 218 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:58,040 Speaker 1: The founders wanted it to be difficult to pass laws. 219 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:01,840 Speaker 1: They didn't won fifty one senators to rule the United 220 00:15:01,880 --> 00:15:05,360 Speaker 1: States of America, so they said, no, you need sixty 221 00:15:05,440 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 1: votes to pass a law. That's what they said. Now, 222 00:15:09,040 --> 00:15:12,800 Speaker 1: if you end the filibuster, that would mean that you 223 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,560 Speaker 1: can pass any law you want with fifty one votes. 224 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,000 Speaker 1: That's what the whole argument is about. And the right 225 00:15:20,360 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 1: is confused on this, and understandably so, because there are 226 00:15:24,440 --> 00:15:27,760 Speaker 1: many people on the right who say Democrats they're going 227 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,240 Speaker 1: to end the filibuster if they ever take back the Senate, 228 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:34,400 Speaker 1: and they're going to pass every law imaginable, and that's 229 00:15:34,440 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: probably correct. Remember the Democrats thought about ending the filibuster before, 230 00:15:38,720 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 1: and there were Democrats senators, a couple of them, like 231 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:45,120 Speaker 1: Kristen Cinema, who stopped them, and then she lost. She's 232 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:48,160 Speaker 1: not in the Senate anymore because she stopped Democrats. So 233 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: they got rid of the Democrats who were stopping them. 234 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: So the people who say Democrats are going to do it, 235 00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:59,040 Speaker 1: we better do it first, they're probably accurate. The problem 236 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: we're in is you can say something like the Save 237 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:07,000 Speaker 1: Act sounds good. Have you tracked down fifty one votes 238 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:10,320 Speaker 1: for the same act. We don't even have Minch Peccano 239 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:13,720 Speaker 1: on board. We can't get everyone on board. If you 240 00:16:13,880 --> 00:16:17,800 Speaker 1: told me we had the votes, I'd say, okay, well, 241 00:16:17,960 --> 00:16:20,720 Speaker 1: maybe that's something we should go ahead and do. But 242 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,040 Speaker 1: we have a bunch of losers in the GOP. We 243 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:27,480 Speaker 1: can't pass a good law with these dorks running things. 244 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: So if you can't pass a good law, what's the 245 00:16:30,040 --> 00:16:32,520 Speaker 1: point ending the filibuster? Let's don't know what the point 246 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:35,000 Speaker 1: will be. All right, Carol Roth is gonna join us next. 247 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:38,440 Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask about everything from consumer spending to student 248 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:42,840 Speaker 1: loan debt, to cheeseburgers to everything else. Hang on, kitties, 249 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:47,760 Speaker 1: A Jessie Kelly shall On a fantastic Wednesday member. If 250 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:50,720 Speaker 1: you miss a single second, you will die. You have 251 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: to download it on iHeart, Spotify iTunes. Joining me now, 252 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:57,920 Speaker 1: as you can probably guess by the music, is my 253 00:16:58,080 --> 00:17:03,160 Speaker 1: friend recovering former investment banker Carol Roth. Okay, Carol, tell 254 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,960 Speaker 1: me about these cheeseburgers we were talking about earlier. 255 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 5: All right, Jesse, when you think about innovation, I remember 256 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,800 Speaker 5: I keep talking about AI, but I contend that the 257 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:16,400 Speaker 5: greatest innovation of twenty twenty six is something I saw 258 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,960 Speaker 5: when I was watching some sports on television. Basically, it's 259 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:25,720 Speaker 5: a cheeseburger that they've cut in half and they've placed 260 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:30,120 Speaker 5: on a platter of sizzling caso, so that like each 261 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 5: half of the burger is just sitting in the caso. 262 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:37,680 Speaker 5: And I just feel like, in terms of American innovation, 263 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 5: that we're really picking up the pace because why have 264 00:17:42,000 --> 00:17:44,439 Speaker 5: we not thought about that sooner? It's like the greatest 265 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 5: invention of all time. 266 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:50,960 Speaker 1: Gosh, I love this country. So true story Carol TGI Fridays, 267 00:17:50,960 --> 00:17:52,760 Speaker 1: and I don't know if they still exist anymore. I 268 00:17:52,800 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 1: almost stabbed the guy with the FOURK and TGI Fridays 269 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: one time, But that's another story. They used to have 270 00:17:57,720 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 1: a cheeseburger where they put a like a hockey puck 271 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:05,520 Speaker 1: shaped mozzarella stick on top of it and then served 272 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 1: it with a cup of caeso and you dipped it. It 273 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,280 Speaker 1: was like the and the word cheese was in it 274 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,119 Speaker 1: like ten times. The extra Cheesy Cheesy crunchburger or something. 275 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: One of the great restaurant cheeseburgers I've ever had in 276 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 1: my life. 277 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, it's ahead of its time obviously, but 278 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:24,240 Speaker 5: now in twenty twenty six, it is the time. It's 279 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,200 Speaker 5: the return. And I'm telling you this is a sizzling 280 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 5: I think it's actually Applebee's. Maybe it's a dizzling platter 281 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:35,520 Speaker 5: of just like bubbling cheese with the with the sides 282 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,120 Speaker 5: of the burgers. So you don't even have to do anything. 283 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:38,719 Speaker 5: You don't have to like, you know, pick it up 284 00:18:38,720 --> 00:18:41,080 Speaker 5: and dip it and be all neat, like it's already 285 00:18:41,160 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 5: there for you for the taking. 286 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:46,159 Speaker 1: I've been telling people about Applebe's not to sleep on 287 00:18:46,200 --> 00:18:49,119 Speaker 1: it for a long time. Their chicken wings are underrated, 288 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:52,680 Speaker 1: chicken fahi to roll up, all right, we have to focus, Carol. 289 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 1: In fact, I want to stay right there. I want 290 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,880 Speaker 1: you to tell me about consumer spending, because we see 291 00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:02,359 Speaker 1: consumer spending solid, consumer spending solid, and then then the 292 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:04,440 Speaker 1: next breath you pick up an article and found out, 293 00:19:04,440 --> 00:19:06,960 Speaker 1: wait a minute, it's the top ten percent of wage journers, 294 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:10,119 Speaker 1: which begs the question is no one else spending? Are 295 00:19:10,160 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 1: people broke? 296 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 5: So it depends on which people. If you are an 297 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:18,959 Speaker 5: asset holder in this country, if you're somebody with a 298 00:19:19,000 --> 00:19:21,439 Speaker 5: four to oh one k and you're taking advantage of 299 00:19:22,119 --> 00:19:24,760 Speaker 5: near highs in the stock market, and you've got a 300 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:27,879 Speaker 5: house that's increased in equity. You're feeling pretty good and 301 00:19:27,920 --> 00:19:31,360 Speaker 5: you're going out and spending. Funny enough, if you are 302 00:19:31,359 --> 00:19:33,800 Speaker 5: making over six figures a year, you're going out and 303 00:19:33,840 --> 00:19:37,160 Speaker 5: you're spending at Walmart because that's who's been driving their 304 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,160 Speaker 5: incremental growth and sales at Walmart are people who make 305 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:44,640 Speaker 5: at least six figures a year. So the people who 306 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,359 Speaker 5: are doing well, that have the high paying jobs, that 307 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 5: are holding the assets, those people are feeling great. However, 308 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 5: if you're somebody who is young and getting out of college, 309 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,639 Speaker 5: if you don't have a big six figure job, if 310 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:01,320 Speaker 5: you don't have assets, if you have a lot of debts, 311 00:20:01,400 --> 00:20:03,879 Speaker 5: you know, whether it's credit card debt or other types 312 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 5: of debt, you're not feeling so great. You're struggling to 313 00:20:07,720 --> 00:20:11,359 Speaker 5: keep pace. So it really is the haves who are 314 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 5: keeping the perception of a strong consumer, you know, in 315 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:19,640 Speaker 5: the front of the media, and keeping the economy quote 316 00:20:19,720 --> 00:20:23,480 Speaker 5: unquote afloats. While there's still a lot of people who 317 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 5: are hoping that the affordability crisis that started under President 318 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,119 Speaker 5: Biden that they would be feeling more relief today, and 319 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,920 Speaker 5: they're not quite there yet. 320 00:20:34,680 --> 00:20:38,160 Speaker 1: Okay, Kirol. That leads me into, well, you just brought 321 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 1: it up. College kids not finding work. Just saw another 322 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:47,120 Speaker 1: statistic yesterday. I think it was forty percent graduates cannot 323 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:51,399 Speaker 1: find a job. This problem appears to be getting worse than. 324 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: What I want to know is why are college kids 325 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: dumber unless qualified? Are the jobs not there if they've 326 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,320 Speaker 1: been handed to foreigners? Is in America contracting? Is it AI? 327 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,920 Speaker 1: What is happening? I have two sons approaching that age, 328 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:06,760 Speaker 1: and I'm worried. 329 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:09,680 Speaker 5: Yeah, it's some of all of the above. I think 330 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,400 Speaker 5: the biggest frustration is that as the US government has 331 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 5: nationalized the student lending industry, what they've done is a 332 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:24,400 Speaker 5: wholesale wealth transfer from young people directly to college administrators. 333 00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:28,520 Speaker 5: So young people are going to college, they're having to spend, 334 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:31,560 Speaker 5: you know, ridiculous amounts of money. They're coming out with 335 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,920 Speaker 5: five and six figures worth of debt, and there's no 336 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 5: return on investment for most of them. As you're seeing, 337 00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 5: you know, a very large percentage of them aren't even 338 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,719 Speaker 5: able to find a relevant job. This is absolute predatory 339 00:21:46,800 --> 00:21:50,120 Speaker 5: lending by our government, and it's absolute accept by these 340 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 5: colleges and universities and seems like the biggest low hanging 341 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 5: fruit that this administration should be addressing, that Congress should 342 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:02,040 Speaker 5: be addressing right now, because it flows through everything. You know, 343 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 5: if you're young and you have tons of debt, you 344 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:06,800 Speaker 5: put off starting a family, put off you can't buy 345 00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,680 Speaker 5: a house, you all those kinds of things. So it's 346 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:13,280 Speaker 5: it's some of everything. They're not getting the right skills. 347 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 5: It is a more competitive market. Companies aren't necessarily laying 348 00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:21,000 Speaker 5: off some of the tech companies are, but not necessarily 349 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:24,120 Speaker 5: all of them. But they're not necessarily hiring a lot 350 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:27,760 Speaker 5: of new people either. There's concerns, particularly on the white 351 00:22:27,800 --> 00:22:30,680 Speaker 5: collar side, that's going to be aligned with somebody coming 352 00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:34,440 Speaker 5: out of college that AI, at least in the beginning, 353 00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 5: there's going to be an over correction where there's going 354 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:40,919 Speaker 5: to be less hiring in those arenas. And I just 355 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:43,879 Speaker 5: don't think that they're doing a good job of prepping 356 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 5: for you know, macro skills that are needed in the 357 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 5: job market and frankly in life today. 358 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: Okay, so look, I'm kind of putting you on the 359 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 1: spot here, but if you're me. I have a seventeen 360 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,960 Speaker 1: year old not really hot on college, but let's say 361 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 1: he was or changes his mind, which direction where should 362 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:09,439 Speaker 1: I be guiding him? I know there are a lot 363 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:12,159 Speaker 1: of people listening who have kids in this situation or 364 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,119 Speaker 1: almost in this situation, and we want to offer help. 365 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:16,760 Speaker 1: What should they do? 366 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:17,760 Speaker 3: So? 367 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,160 Speaker 5: I think if you have a child who's not inclined 368 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 5: to go to college and is inclined to do a 369 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 5: trade something that can't be replaced by AI day one, 370 00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:31,920 Speaker 5: I think that that is a fantastic option. In fact, 371 00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,919 Speaker 5: I think there is going to be you know, what 372 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,800 Speaker 5: has sort of happened to manufacturing jobs, you know in 373 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 5: the eighties and the nineties, will probably see that at 374 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,920 Speaker 5: least for some period of time, with white collar jobs 375 00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:46,200 Speaker 5: coming up here in the next few years and starting 376 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,439 Speaker 5: to see a little bit. If you do have a 377 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,719 Speaker 5: kid who wants to go to college and they cannot 378 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:55,400 Speaker 5: get a scholarship, you know, a to a bigger university 379 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,679 Speaker 5: to make the return on investment makes sense, then a 380 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,399 Speaker 5: really good option is to have them go to a 381 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:07,840 Speaker 5: strong community program that isn't particularly expensive, at least for 382 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,760 Speaker 5: a couple of years, and then they can see what 383 00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 5: interests them, where their strengths lie, and then consider transferring 384 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 5: or they can continue to go down that path and 385 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 5: they can network and get some real world experience. One 386 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,840 Speaker 5: of the greatest things that kids have going for them 387 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 5: is that people like to help them, Right like Jessee, 388 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,320 Speaker 5: If you and I called somebody up and said, hey, 389 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:32,800 Speaker 5: you know, can I talk to you? You know, they 390 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:34,240 Speaker 5: hang up the phone on us. Well, maybe not you, 391 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,920 Speaker 5: but definitely me. But a kid, you know, everyone wants 392 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 5: to help them. So if there's an an industry they're 393 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:44,399 Speaker 5: interested in, Hey, I'm a student, I'd love to learn 394 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:47,840 Speaker 5: more about this. It's a great way to get on 395 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:51,920 Speaker 5: someone's radar early networking, and we know that people who 396 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 5: typically find jobs, you know, having somebody put their name 397 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 5: at the top of the pile is way better in 398 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,480 Speaker 5: terms of of the outcomes than trying to go through 399 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 5: some sort of a recruiting process. So real world networking 400 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,840 Speaker 5: is a very undervalued skill and leveraging the fact that 401 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,360 Speaker 5: you're a student and not spending too much money. I'll 402 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:17,960 Speaker 5: give you one other guide post, so from my perspective, 403 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,160 Speaker 5: in terms of the amount of debt that you can 404 00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 5: take on to make your college ROI make sense that 405 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,879 Speaker 5: if you are making an expected salary three to five 406 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 5: years out of school, your debt should not be more 407 00:25:31,880 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 5: than that. If it's more than that, you're never going 408 00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:36,080 Speaker 5: to pay it back. So let's say you three to 409 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 5: five years out of school, you're expecting to make sixty 410 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:41,440 Speaker 5: or seventy thousand dollars a year. You cannot come out 411 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,280 Speaker 5: with one hundred thousand dollars of debt. Those numbers do 412 00:25:44,440 --> 00:25:47,720 Speaker 5: not work out. I've ran the calculations many times. So 413 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:51,199 Speaker 5: if you're going to take on debt, it has to 414 00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 5: be worthwhile, and it has to be going towards a 415 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,080 Speaker 5: good return on investment. But invest in yourself, invest in networking. 416 00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:03,800 Speaker 5: Call your friends and family members, friends and parents' friends, 417 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 5: and anybody you want, you know, call them up buff 418 00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 5: a LinkedIn, send them a note, and you know, leverage 419 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:11,680 Speaker 5: the fact that your kid and people want to help 420 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 5: young people succeed. 421 00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:20,000 Speaker 1: Carol, what's the greatest restaurant cheeseburger you've ever actually had? 422 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,440 Speaker 1: If it's a fancy steakhouse, that's fine. Look if it's 423 00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:26,159 Speaker 1: friggin Wendy's, I get it. What's that restaurant cheeseburger that 424 00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: you put above all others. 425 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,640 Speaker 5: Okay. So there's a place on the in the North 426 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:34,600 Speaker 5: suburbs of Chicago called the Claim Company, And the Claim 427 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:38,320 Speaker 5: Company has a burger that's called the Mother Load. And 428 00:26:38,359 --> 00:26:42,120 Speaker 5: the mother Load not only the burger itself, the meat 429 00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 5: itself is such a good quality. But it's a make 430 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,800 Speaker 5: your own everything. So you get to pick the bun. 431 00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 5: You want pretzel, you want shebata, you want one with sesame, 432 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,840 Speaker 5: whatever it is. You can pick the cheese. 433 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 6: You can even have MRK cheese, which is like the 434 00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:01,479 Speaker 6: greatest processed cheese you've ever had, like she spread in 435 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,320 Speaker 6: your life, with a little bit of a sharp bite 436 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 6: to it. You can put like any kind of toping 437 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,640 Speaker 6: you think about it, and they just build it for 438 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,080 Speaker 6: you exactly to what you want with this delicious, delicious 439 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 6: meat quality and they get it right every time. So 440 00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:16,000 Speaker 6: if you get a chance. 441 00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:18,080 Speaker 5: They actually have a second place called wickan Or that 442 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:23,200 Speaker 5: also does it too, But the Claim Company in Northbrook, Illinois, 443 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:24,879 Speaker 5: that's my go to burger. 444 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: What word, I'm yeah starving now, Carol, you are the best. 445 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:33,479 Speaker 1: Come back soon, thank you. It is the Jesse Kelly 446 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: Show and I'm magnificent Wednesday. You can email us your love, 447 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:41,359 Speaker 1: your hate, your death threats Jesse at jesse kellyshow dot com. 448 00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:43,840 Speaker 1: I swear I'm going to get to some of those. 449 00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:48,520 Speaker 1: As you can imagine, Jewish producer Chris dug into this 450 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,879 Speaker 1: burger place that Carol Roth was just talking about the 451 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:55,840 Speaker 1: claim company. We go to commercial break. We just got back. Obviously, 452 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,119 Speaker 1: I asked Chris, because I hadn't had a chance to 453 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: look at anything yet, what he thought of it. And 454 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 1: guess what I got back from Chris On my life, 455 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,600 Speaker 1: I'm telling him, Chris, the price. It's a twenty dollars burger. 456 00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: I said, Okay, I got that, Chris, I understand, but 457 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,960 Speaker 1: how does it look? Well, you have to pay extra 458 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: for jeez, you have to pay extra for that. I 459 00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,920 Speaker 1: didn't ask about the price. It's Chris, I know if 460 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: it's some elite restaurant burger, it's going to cost a fortune. 461 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: I wanted to know how the food looked. Instead, I've 462 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,480 Speaker 1: had a pricing breakdown from you that you know, it's 463 00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: so frustrating sometimes and you know what else is frustrating. 464 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 1: So along the lines of family and young people, teenagers, 465 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:45,440 Speaker 1: college age, things like that. So my oldest son, James, 466 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,520 Speaker 1: he's a worker which I love. I'm just I'm so blessed. 467 00:28:50,880 --> 00:28:53,280 Speaker 1: He just loves to work, wants to work, doesn't matter 468 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,760 Speaker 1: whether it's odd jobs, you name it. He's always yeah, 469 00:28:56,760 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm in. He just wants to work, 470 00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: wants to earn money. Hard worker. He's also like any boy. 471 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:09,600 Speaker 1: He likes video games, of course, and he but to 472 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,280 Speaker 1: a different level. Like he codes them, like he edits them, 473 00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:17,280 Speaker 1: He writes, he does art, he does all that stuff. 474 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 1: He's not just by hand on a computer, three D 475 00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: modeling like. He's just always been into that stuff. Real, 476 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,880 Speaker 1: real talented. I don't have that, whatever that is. God 477 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:32,480 Speaker 1: didn't give that to me. James has it. So I've 478 00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: yesterday reached out to a good friend of mine because 479 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,760 Speaker 1: I want James to maybe end up at a tech school, 480 00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:42,719 Speaker 1: a trade school of some kind for that kind of thing, 481 00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,400 Speaker 1: if I can avoid have him go to college, if 482 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,960 Speaker 1: that's what he ends up wanting to do for a living. 483 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: So I reached out to a friend yesterday. I said, hey, 484 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:52,760 Speaker 1: you know anybody in this industry, anybody you know with 485 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:57,120 Speaker 1: Sega or Xbox or whatever, computer games. I don't know 486 00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 1: who makes all this crap, but do you know anyone 487 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: in that industry who might be interested in letting him intern. 488 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,480 Speaker 1: I'm not looking for some nice gig or something like that. 489 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: Let him in turn sniff around. Buddy responds immediately, Yeah, 490 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:13,280 Speaker 1: I'll work on it. I'll work on it. I know 491 00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,720 Speaker 1: a bunch of people. But he throws in the butt 492 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:22,000 Speaker 1: and I should have seen this coming, but AI makes 493 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:26,200 Speaker 1: it hard now. And look, it's just one example, right, 494 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: don't get wrong. We'll figure things out. I'll figure it 495 00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:30,640 Speaker 1: out and James will figure it out, and we have 496 00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:34,120 Speaker 1: whatever God has for us. But I know that maybe 497 00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,560 Speaker 1: you're in that situation right now. Maybe you are that 498 00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: person and you're slamming into a wall jobs wise, or 499 00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,720 Speaker 1: you have a daughter or a son in that situation. 500 00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:47,880 Speaker 1: It was the reason I bring this up is it's 501 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:52,280 Speaker 1: probably the first time that hit me because he's seventeen now, 502 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,440 Speaker 1: and before it just been odd jobs. He's going to 503 00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: go do this and deliver that, and he'll go clean 504 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 1: out your garage do that stuff. But now that he's 505 00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:04,480 Speaker 1: finally starting to look for legitimate employment, and that was 506 00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: one of the first things I heard, I thought to myself, Wow, 507 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:12,200 Speaker 1: that just brought it home, didn't it. That sucks? And 508 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: it's just what it's a struggle. I understand economies are 509 00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,000 Speaker 1: always changing. You just heard what Carol said about the 510 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,680 Speaker 1: eighties and nineties when we watched all the manufacturing jobs disappear. 511 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:27,480 Speaker 1: I understand economies are changing and technology changes things and 512 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: stuff like that. But that has to feel like quite 513 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: a rug pool for a lot of people who went 514 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: into a field and did the right thing and got grades, 515 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:41,400 Speaker 1: and maybe you even picked the right degree for the 516 00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:43,280 Speaker 1: field you wanted to go into. You know, you're not 517 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,600 Speaker 1: majoring in basket weaving and African American studies. You who 518 00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: actually got a degree in something that matters, and now 519 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:53,360 Speaker 1: you're sitting there with college loan debt with or without it, 520 00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:57,120 Speaker 1: and you can't find a job. And I've had friends 521 00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,720 Speaker 1: of mine lament this many times, or he can't get 522 00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:02,480 Speaker 1: a call back, he can't find a job. Now they're 523 00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,000 Speaker 1: all white, right, that's this tough in corporate America for 524 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,520 Speaker 1: that particular demographic right now. Everybody has to be diversed anyway. 525 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:14,160 Speaker 1: That's another story. But still, that was the first time. 526 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:16,680 Speaker 1: It was last night. That was the first time I 527 00:32:16,760 --> 00:32:22,840 Speaker 1: got that Oh oh that sucks. That sucks, And I'm 528 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,880 Speaker 1: so stupid the second I started thinking along those lines 529 00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:30,960 Speaker 1: for James. Immediately, because I'm an idiot, immediately I had 530 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:33,240 Speaker 1: him working for you know, Xbox or something like that 531 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,240 Speaker 1: as an internship. And of course, because I'm a father 532 00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,040 Speaker 1: there of course going to love him. He'll be the 533 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 1: best employee ever and he'll be the CEO in two years. 534 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:43,000 Speaker 1: And I'm an idiot, Okay, I admit that. I'm more 535 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: on it hit me, It hit me, it was. It sucks. 536 00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,320 Speaker 1: If you're going through that, I'm sorry. Then we'll work 537 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:55,240 Speaker 1: it out, all right, all right, I know I owe 538 00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,600 Speaker 1: you a bunch of emails. We still have to make 539 00:32:57,640 --> 00:33:00,920 Speaker 1: fun of Bill Gates. Canada is just flat out slaughtering 540 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:04,320 Speaker 1: people now in record numbers talk about jobs that are 541 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,600 Speaker 1: coming in May or may not be coming in