May 24, 2024 • 36 mins
New York Governor Hochul calls Trump supporters at Bronx rally "clowns." WSJ piece on the science behind great vacations. Jesse Kelly talks to C&B about the demise of one of his favorite restaurant chains, Red Lobster. Red Lobster manager calls in, says Red Lobster isn't going anywhere.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome in final hour of the week heading into Memorial
Day weekend. I know many of you out there preparing
to travel, maybe already have begun to travel. Lots of
different stories out there that we have been discussing. Monstrously
successful rally for Donald Trump in the South Bronx people.
(00:23):
The biggest criticism I can find of it is some
people are like, there wasn't actually twenty five or thirty
thousand people there, There was only fifteen or.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ten or twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Like if you're arguing about how many thousands of people
Donald Trump had at a rally in a blue district,
a blue part of New York City, even for New
York City, a blue area, it's probably a sign that
you lost the battle and you're trying to find a
way to justify the loss. It has dominated the news
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we have discussed I even gave you. Based on the
current numbers, Trump lost New York by twenty three in
twenty twenty twenty three points. He now is down to
single digits according to the most recent cnpoll of the
state of New York. And that would square with the
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success that nearly occurred in the governor's race in New
York and with much of the congressional race, which flipped
everything much redder. That's, in fact, why we have a
Republican House to a large extent, is how well the
election went in New York and Florida, where we did
get a red wave. Did not get a red wave
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all over the country, but in those two states we did,
and Lee Zelden lost by about five and a half
or six points to Kathy Hokeel. Let me play this
audio for you of Kathy Hokeel. The attempt to cope
with the loss has become with the fact that there
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are a measure of declining support for Democrats in New York.
Kathy Hokel went on CNN and basically said, Hey, everybody
out there who is supporting Trump in New York, they
are a bunch of clowns which has a basket of
deplorable spilled to it. New York Empire state version. Let's
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listen to that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, I'll tell you won't make a difference at all, Jake,
and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader
and bye all his clowns to a place like the Bronx.
New York will never ever support Donald Trump for president.
We know him better than anyone, and that means we
understand what he's all about. It's just for himself. So
this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for president,
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as it has in the past. So he wants to
spend his time doing these made up fake rallies and
pretending their support. Here be my guest, because while you're
doing that, Joe Biden's out there on the other side
making sure he's delivering for all Americans. And so go ahead,
spend all your time you want in New York, because
we'll be with Joe Biden, and Joe Biden's out there
winning over the rest of the battleground states.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The dumbest governor in America? Do you think that she
is the dumbest governor in America? Yes, I actually think
that in a test of cognition given to every governor
of all fifty states, I think Kathy Hochel would probably
come out dead last. I think that's that's likely to
be the case. It's a shame because in New York's
such a great state. I love New York. I always
will uh and you know, in my heart I'm still
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always a New Yorker. But they got to have better leadership.
You know, Eric Adams is not stepping up the way
that he should have. He's not a bad He's not
a bad guy.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He's just I just don't think he's he's got the
capabilities necessary to turn the city around. You know, he's
a Democrat, but as Democrats go, I think he's pretty
well intentioned.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But Kathy hochel Is is a disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And what she says about I think it's actually to
Trump's benefit. It's one of those things where it's to
Trump's benefit. The more Kathy Hokeel tries to undermine him
publicly and say he has no support in the first.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Of all, I mean he's got you know. I mean
I think the state.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Is at least forty percent pro Trump, right, I mean
at least, you know, even in the worst of times,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So it's not like this.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I talked about this last year when we were up
in upstate New York. We landed and we were going
to Cooperstown for the Little League Baseball tournament. My boys
could not believe the amount of Trump flags. Basically, anywhere
outside of New York City, the whole state is for Trump.
You you get outside of New York City, Buffalo and
a couple of other you know, urban centers, and you'll
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see Trump. You'll see lots of Trump stuff, and you
see lots of Trump support. I mean, there are parts
of New York State that feel a lot more like Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Than they do the Big Apple.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Totally, Totally.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I meant I would have thought that I was driving
in an SEC state for much of the drive through
New York. And many of you are listening to us
right there, okay, speaking to drives.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I within an hour and a half, I will be
on the road for the next eight or now hours.
I am driving to the Florida Gulf Coast. I believe
it is God's country. My favorite place in the entire
United States is the Florida Gulf Coast. The water is beautiful,
the beaches are fabulous. It's going to be packed, so
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we're full. So far as I know, there are no
great white sharks that are eating people, which sometimes happens
off the coast of the East up where you used
to live. I have been to a lot of beaches.
None are better than they are in the continental United States,
in my humble opinion, But you have in front of you.
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We were talking about this off air. Wall Street Journal
had a piece about the best way to vacation. I
think if you and I have major, major beef that
may come out here over the best way to have vacations.
But I want you to share with the people the
advice that the Wall Street Journal gave, given the fact
that it's now Memorial Day weekend, effectively.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And hat tip to Jeff Gallac who wrote this piece
for the Journal in their travel section, how to have
a great vacation. What science tells us? So follow the
science fauci.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Is this fauci science or is this real science? I know,
I think no. These are all smart things, So this
is real science, not fauci science. I think. Okay, I hope.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So you're trying to make sure that everybody has a
fabulous Memorial Day weekend if you are traveling based on
the science according to the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
All right, So there are a couple of core principles here.
I want to share with all of you. This might
be the most important thing you hear on radio all
week all right, because this will affect your life. First
thing for having a great vacation, And I think this
is where Clay and I are in a rock Eam
Sockem Donnybrook. If you will ah this guy there, Yeah,
thank you. Sir Gallac says, do less. And here's what
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he writes. If you love the beach, you should get
in as many beach days as possible. If you love
an art museum, go see every painting. Sounds logical, but
only if you want to have a not so enjoyable vacation.
One of the i'mary reasons vacations fall flat is because
of an inalienable truth about hedonic consumption. Enjoyment declines with time.
So basically he's saying, don't overdo any one thing. And
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what I said to Clay is I get to the beach.
And maybe it's because I'm pale and Anglo Irish in
origin and can't tan and you know whatever. You could
throw all these calumnies at me, but I go to
the beach. After two hours, I'm like, I need to
get inside of air conditioning and read a book, right Like,
you don't need to. You don't need to have six
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Marger read his day one, have one. You don't need
to go to every museum in the place, only go
to the ones with cool war stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What you seem to think that you can go all
in and there's no problem.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, so my thing is it depends on the type
of vacation that you are scheduled to have. So when
I went to Italy last year, which i'd never been to,
I took my family. I want to see as much
of Italy as I can because I don't know if
I'll ever get to go again. For instance, but at
one point my youngest kid was like another church, which
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was very funny because obviously we're going into all these old,
you know, esteemed historic churches all over Italy, and I
enjoyed them all. But I understand the point of if
you were a first grader or a second grader, you're
like dad, another old church, another old cathedral.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So I understand that, but I think. And then we
went to Australia, two places that I've wanted to go
my whole life. I want to see at all because
I don't know that I'm ever going to be back there.
But if I go to a beach, and my kids
are now old enough that I don't have to sit
terrified about every time they get close to the water,
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which every parent or grandparent with a young child will
understand it's not fun necessarily to.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Be at the pool or to be at the beach.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And when you've got a young kid who doesn't swim
very well, you got to have your head on a swivel.
You can't have any marguerite is you can't have many beers.
I want to just do nothing. So this weekend I
would be very happy where I'm going to the beach
if I don't have to go more than one mile
in either direction and there is virtually nothing accomplished at
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all that's other than hanging out.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You're agreeing with the science.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Here, he says, do less. The point here is just
don't overdo anything that you're doing. Not doing anything isn't
a thing you can really do too much of. I
just meant too many hours in the sun directly. But
like he's talking about how you shouldn't show up and
schedule out in hourly increments or something like that. Yeah,
your vacation, so you're you're you're Actually we did, but
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we did.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That in Italy and Australia. I think it matters what
the vacation is. Like some vacations the goal is I
just want to chill. I want to sleep. I want
to have a few drings. Clay is going against the
science once again.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I will say this.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You were talking about how easily you sunburned. I don't
know if you even heard this. And we had our
eighteen hour f photo shoot last week. When you left,
I came in and they were like, oh, your skin
is actually tannible, unlike your radio show co host. We're
going to have to change the coloration on the shots
that we're taking because of how pale he was. I
don't even think you heard this.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Shots fired, shots fired. Look at this right before the
holiday week.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
They were like, I didn't know how anybody could be
wider than Buck was. We're going to have to adjust
the color filters here now.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I might end up looking like Kramer on Seinfeld back
in the day when he got in the tanning bed
for too long. I don't know what the final shots
are going to look like, but there was an acknowledgment
that you were super white and they were going to
have to adjust the color filters when I came in
for the photos.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's not nice, all right, limit your choices? Is the
second one here? This is I think actually this is
a bigger lesson for life. Limit your choices when planning
a trip. It's critical to compare hotels, tourist restaurants. Make
the best possible choices. He says, not so fast. Don't
look at all the options. Look at the options and
find a good option. I'm gonna tell you, yeah, people
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that did. People that get their light out at the
restaurant on the menu and they're looking at it reading
a legal contract. Stop being lame. You know, basicos on
the menu. Look, go with what your eye gets drawn to.
You don't read it like you're reading a legal document.
You figure out, you do a little bit of artistry here,
you go a little bit of this, little bit of that,
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and you just go with something you're gonna like.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You don't have to read every side and know everything.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
And when it comes to hotels, you find a place,
Oh I'm gonna like that place.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You don't have to get.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Into the most you know, obscure review websites. To make
sure that you compare who gives you, you know, better
amenities or something for the thirty dollars amenities fee.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I agree with this this bit of advice because there's
nothing worse than going out to dinner with someone who
thinks that what they order for the dinner is going
to find their life's success for the next ten years.
And they sit there and they are terrified about it.
Maybe I'm unique. There's like eight things on every menu
that I would be fine with eating. I don't assume
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that there's a massive drop off between choice and one
and choice two.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Right, And this is he calls it choice overload. And
when you're I believe you're on vacation, he says you
want to be what he calls a satisficer, a person
who finds the first acceptable, acceptable option and accepts it
as set of a maximizer who's trying to find the.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Absolute best, the absolute best.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
The absolute best is an illusion. You gotta find good enough.
And I tell my wife this all the time, because
she'll be like, I got a great deal. I'm just
she can hear me right now, she's gonna yell at me.
But she'd be like, I got a great deal at Costco.
And then she'd be like, oh my gosh. Two weeks later,
she'd be like, I could have gotten a better deal
at Costco.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm like, no, no, you got a good deal. It's
a good deal. Is good enough.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We don't have to like go on a time machine
or something to get a better deal.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
A good deal is a good deal.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
My wife had a pretty devastating comeback when I had
this exact conversation with her. I said, you know, you
don't have to be super picky. You don't have to
worry about every little detail. You can just relax. You
don't have to make the perfect choice. She said, I
know I married you. If Carrie's listening right now, that
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would be a over the top decapitation response. And I
was just like, uh, you know, that's a mentality that
is I was just like, ooh, I know I married you.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I was like, well, you.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Order whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You know, it's a good point. Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That is a that is a very good wine, by
the way, not as well received if the man says
it to the woman.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That there would have been.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I took it in the spirit of which I assume
it was intended as a joke, and do not know
had I said it if it would have been taken
in the same way. But it's a good line for
women to men. I'm not sure that I would suggest
men use that with women. When we come back and
take some of your calls. Jesse Kelly's going to join
us to talk about Red Lobster shutting down.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Buck. I don't know if I've told you this.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Every restaurant that I like in Nashville, I am the
kiss of death it inevitably closes.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I love so many places.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think there are eight different top draft pick restaurant
choices I've had in Nashville, all of them close to
the point where I actually feel bad if I go
into a restaurant and really like it, because I know
that it's going to fail. That's where I am. So
I understand the pain of Jesse Kelly when it comes
to Red Lobster shutting down. But I want to tell
you right now, this Memorial Day weekend, and while we're
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We were just both joking around before about how it
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Speaker 2 (16:41):
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And the last thirty minutes before that clock hit four
pm or three thirty or whenever your clock, you know,
your school day ended, was the longest of your life.
Just to say, third hour of radio before more of
day weekend. We're powering down and we're relaxing and max
and hanging a little bit here because we're doing our thing.
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We are both very very much looking forward to a
long week, and I know all of you are too.
Hopefully you all have some.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Off, some off time. That's rare. We had to ask him, like, wait,
we actually do have Monday off.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
We forgot. We're so used to doing radio absolutely every day.
We want to take some of your calls and that'll
be at eight hundred two A two two A A two.
And also remember our friend Jesse Kelly is going to
be joining us here. So if you have any if
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, Memorial Day,
We Get and Friday. We're joined now by Jesse Kelly
faulding Man who orders seventy five dollars shots when he
goes out drinking in New York City and also a
diehard fan of Red Lobster. Where on the flow chart
of anger, sadness, despair does Red Lobster closing rank? And
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how would you compare it to the Michigan Wolverines being
a vastly superior football program, now to the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
First of all, I just want to point out to
everybody that you're a bad person. Okay, And I resent
your comments almost as much as I resent that mop
of hair you still have on your head. That's you
and Buck, both of you with all this hair. What
a couple of hippies. That's one. Two. People do not
appreciate red lobster. It's thought of as some kind of
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I don't know. I don't know why it's not thought
of where it should be, as the pinnacle of American cuisine.
We only had one in Montana when I was kid,
and it was two and a half hours away, and
we can never go out to eat. But whenever we
would go over to this town, we would always go
to Red Lobster, and it was it always delivers. Red
Lobster has been the peak of American seafood forever. And
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I am legit upset about it. I have one three
hundred meters I would say, from where I'm sitting right now,
I eat there twice a week and it's closing up.
I'm devastated.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, so what happened?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I mean, there's this rumor out there that and I
don't know if you part took in this, mister Jesse Kelly,
that it was the Endless Shrimp that was the last
straw if you will, They went endless shrimp and people
kind of like Homer Simpson when Hell is feeding them
donuts and Hell runs out of donuts. Remember that that
people could eat more shrimp than they ever anticipated at
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corporate headquarters for Red Lobster, and that that was the
coup de grass, if you will, the final moment for
Red Lobster.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
True or is that just rumor mill stuff.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
It's probably rumor mill stuff, But I'd like to think
that it's true because it's the kind of thing Red
Lobster would do. Red Lobster hasn't been about profit. It's
not been about making money for the restaurant itself. Red
Lobster has been about sustaining an American population with high
end seafoods since its inception. And I would say, I
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don't want to speak for the owners. I'm sure the
owners are, you know, wonderful Christian people or whatever, but
I don't want to speak for them, but I would
imagine that's how they would want to go, giving away
the last of their vast wealth to the people so
the people could enjoy. Have you guys ever had the
shrimp scampy for Red Lobster, have either of you ever
sat down and enjoyed that delicious buttery bowl of garlicy
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shrimp scampy. It will change your life. And then you
take the cheddar Bay biscuits and you dip them in
the butter in the shrimp scampy bowl. Gosh, I'm starving.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So I think most of our audience, and I don't
know if you would subscribe to this, would say Chick
fil A, if you had to pick one fast food restaurant,
is the best fast food restaurant in America. Now, look,
there are others that I really like. I'm a fan
of Zaxby's. I'm a fan of raisin Canes. These are
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Southern places. Sometimes every that he's talking about, Just to
be clear, I to be fair, Like Sunday Sunday meal
when I was a kid growing up was Captain D's,
which I don't think exists anymore. It was the seafood
fast food, which doesn't sound like a combo that would
be really popular during.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Sex and family road trips. I'll just tell you we
would have the argument about fast food, and my dad
would just the argument or was always burger king, flame broiled,
So that advertising worked really well.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So what is Jesse, let's presume that all Red Lobsters
shut down.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
What would be, and I'm not talking about fast food.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What would be your number two draft pick of a
place that would try to fill the great void in
your life that was formerly occupied by Red Lobster. I
would suggest this is my nomination. I'm curious what Buck
would say too. Olive Garden is probably the best. I
think the down company, I think, oh they used to be.
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They spun it off, But I would say Olive Garden
would now be the peak of American chain sit down dining.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
What would your argument be, Jesse.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
It definitely wouldn't be Olive Garden, which is low rent trash.
It's not high end like Red Lobster. It figures you
would pick Olive Garden, now, don't get me wrong, just
like anyone else who who's alive and has taste buds.
I love going to Olive Garden and comeling down some
breadsticks as much as the nests. Man. I'm a big
fan of that. But as far as replacements go, I've
already picked my replacement. People think I've got one white
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trash thing in my back pocket. I've been white trash
for the forty two years of my existence. I just
took my sons to waffle House the other day. They
love it. My wife refuses to go in. She says
there are some cleming this problems which I have personally
never seen. But waffle House. Do you know what waffle
House has? Everyone knows about the waffles and the breakfast
and the smothered and covered and the fist fights and
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everything else. What people don't understand is the cheeseburger at
waffle House is top tier. It's as good as any
restaurant burger you can get out there, now, are they
Jesse Kelly Burgers. No, of course, nobody's perfect, but waffle
House cheeseburgers, hash brown, smothered covered, Oh, that's as good as.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Have you ever been to a waffle House buck?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, I've been like hungover as a college kid,
for sure, I've been to waffle House.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's their staple.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
But I just think it's funny that as we're talking
about this last twenty four hours, also, the CEO of
Cracker Barrel has recently apparently said, yeah, we're just like
not as good as we used to be or something.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I'm just like, wait, what's going on? The why would
you throw your own stuff under the bus that way?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Before we get into the cracker barrel discussions to say, Jesse,
we asked for some of our VIPs to put you
on the hot seat. And this is clearly somebody who's
a clan buck, and Jesse Kelly listener because I don't
even know what's going on here. Brian, one of our
clan Buck VIPs, rights ask Jesse if he could defeat
fifty iguanas with a slingshot to defend himself shields high
(25:17):
Brian the plumber, what is he? Can you defeat fifty
iguanas with a slingshot? What is he talking about?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Yeah, I'm deadly with a slingshot. You see, when I
was a child, all I would do is I would leave.
You know, this is back in the day when you
just got kicked out of the house and we had
these woods back beyond my house, and I didn't have
any neighbors close to me, so I was constantly stuck
in my own world, talking to myself, playing with myself,
doing all those kinds of things. And the slingshot. I
got a slingshot for Christmas one year, and let me
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tell you what I was basically the world's deadly at sniper.
With that thing, I'd be taken out squirrels like you
can't imagine. My mom would be thrilled to come home
and find a bunch of dead squirrels in the windowsill
in the kitchen. You can bring on iguanas. You could
bring on rhinoscera, a bunch of rhinos, and I would
manage to take them out with a slingshot as well.
(26:06):
I'm basically king David.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
What is your best As we're going off the holiday weekend,
we had a conversation about this. There's a Wall Street
journal piece on the science of having the best possible vacation?
What is the Jesse Kelly version of having the best
possible vacation by you know, by the advice you can give?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Okay, well, are we talking now? Are we talking a
realistic vacation or Jesse's all of a sudden a billionaire
and I can go and.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Do well well, No, real realistic, Like if you're giving
folks like the basic nuts and bolts of how to
have a good long weekend, because they talk about things
like don't try to do too much, don't look for
the best, look for good enough. Stuff like that. Like,
what's what's your your real deal? Wisdom or advice on
a great American long weekend.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Okay, here's the best American long weekend you can possibly have.
What you need is either a mountain or a lake.
You need a cat. I've been on a lake or
a cabin on a mountain. And it has to be
an hour or less away from your home. Otherwise. This
is where people screw up with vacations all the time,
especially long weekend vacations. You got seventy two hours, you
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got three days max. Okay, we'll make it. Maybe you
got ninety six hours, Maybe you got a four day
or are you really going to bookend your vacation with
three four hours of either driving the kids and getting
daddy I get a beer, or you're going to go
fight off to the eight hundred pounds tsa agent at
the airport trying to get to and fro. No, thank you.
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It has to be less than an hour away. You
don't need a beach. The beach is the most overrated
thing in the world. I don't want sand in my ears.
I don't with The beach is fun for an hour
and then I can't read anymore. I'm hot it's miserable.
Go to a lake, a raft a lake. One of
the styrofoam coolers full of beer is all you need
to have the best weekend in the world.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That's not bad advice, except you're totally wrong on all
beach related opinions. And I bet you haven't been to
thirty A, which is where I'm about to head.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The Florida Gulf Coast.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You're talking about like redneck Galveston, Texas. You're talking about
throwing Galveston. I'm sorry Galveston. I mean it is like,
no everybody in Texas. They don't have a beach in
Texas that anybody wants to go to.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh, it's true that aggression cannot stand.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
First of all, I fully admit that Galveston, Texas is
kind of a rundown beach town and that's part of
its charm. But don't you dare call Galveston garbage while
pointing out the Florida Golf Coast. I love the Florida
Golf Coast. I go down there every chance I get.
Have you seen people smile when the Florida Golf Coast playing?
It'll look like Leon Spinks. Don't tell me about the
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Florida Golf Coast as if it's the correct, I'm not talking.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
First of all, the people are fabulous.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Second, they may not have as many teeth as they
would like, but that's what happens when you live well all.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So I would just say.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All of Texas biggest flaw that Texas has. The beaches
are a disaster. Everybody listening to me in Texas right now.
They come to the Florida Gulf Coast because the beaches
are white sand, because the water is emerald colored. It's
like you're in the Mediterranean, and it is spectacular. And
I subminietrated with more Trump flags. That's right, the Mediterranean
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with more Trump fat flags, which is a good combo.
And by the way, Jesse As we're about to go
out here, my mom won it.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
She just texted.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
She said, Dad and I ate at Red Lobster yesterday.
Shrimp scampy is my favorite. So you've at least won
over my mom.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, I love her already. She's by far the smartest Travis,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Do you think they're gonna keep making those cheddar Bay
biscuits even when the clothes because my sister and her
husband love those things like, I'm pretty sure they would
drive multiple hours just for the biscuits.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Buck. A great product never ever ever leaves. Once you
achieve the pinnic of something, it never leaves. It may
be ripped up, rebuild, it may be bought by someone else.
But when you've achieved the culinary masterpiece that is the
Cheddar Bay biscuit, it will be here long after you
and I are dead and gone.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I don't want to stroke your ego too much before
we go off of the weekend. But there are people
I have seen on the interwebs who think that you're
so called best burger ever imaginable is actually really good.
Where can they go and find out about this supposedly
amazing burger that apparently a lot of people like I.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Actually have to give unique guidance on this because now
this thing is taken on a life of its own.
And apparently they're about eight million blogs out there called
the Jesse Kelly Berger, and most of them are wrong.
They just kind of decided to come up with their
own recipe and called the Jesse Kelly Burger. So just
look up Jesse Kelly Cheeseburger and click on a video
of me describing it. That's the only way you can
make sure it's the actual Jesse Kelly cheeseburger and all
(30:53):
bluster aside, I do make the greatest homemade cheeseburger in
the history of mankind. You try one, you'll never make
them any other way.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Try me on that a great cheeseburger is unbeatable, undefeated.
It really is pretty fabulous.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Go check it out, and check out the Jesse Kelly
Show syndicated six to nine eas from across the country,
and also the Jesse Kelly Podcast. And mister Kelly, please
tell your lovely wife and the boys have a great
holiday weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And by the way, you're gonna be with us. But
you want to complain that I've got us all going
to Milwaukee. You've been upset that I managed to corral
everybody to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
We're gonna all go to Red Lobster. That's a truth.
I know we're all going.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You want to take a shot at this week in
Milwaukee that you're upset that I've managed to corral everybody
into No, I have no problem.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
With the road trip. I would just like in the
future to be consulted before Clay Travis signs me up
for four or five days away from home in a hotel.
I'm not by my bed. I don't even like Republicans.
Why do I have to go to the Republican Convention?
A bunch of useless unus out there selling us out
every single minute. Now I have to go act like
I like these people. Thanks a lot, Clay, you know
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what you're buying the dinners. Not that that would be abnormal, but.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
You're story Clay on the black card.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I'll handle the I'll handle the dinners, all right, right, yes, always,
I'll see you in a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I'll see you all saying out, Thanks man, Thanks Jesse.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
All right, you know what, if you're gonna be gone
this weekend, make sure you've got the best gear possible
with you. Bring I'm serious about this, by the way,
bring your pillow. People don't do this enough. Bring your
pillow from home. Because if you're going somewhere, you're going
to some cabin somewhere. What you think like the cabin
you're renting is gonna have great pillows. No, bring your
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Speaker 2 (33:03):
Look at home.
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I've got the my slippers, I've got my towels all
over the place. I just saw my dad in New
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Speaker 4 (33:47):
We're gonna be closing up shop here for a few
days because we're actually off on Monday. We just want
to say before we head off for the long weekend
for Memorial Day weekend, thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
To all of you who listened to us.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
And you know we're going to be coming up on
the three year anniversary of the show in just about
a month, so we so much appreciate you're giving us
your time, and we had a lot of fun here
and we take but we also take our mission seriously
to bring you the best we can every day and
we have a great time with it. So thank you
very very much. And we'll get to a caller right
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now who is a oh, yes, we have a Red
Lobster manager.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Is this right, am? I? Right on this one? We
have a general manager of a red Lobster in Virginia.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, talk to us, sir, what happened? I heard that.
I heard that.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
It was a delicious culinary delight for so many years,
and yet here we are.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Here, we are. We're not going anywhere. My store is
very profitable. All all five hundred and fifty or five
hundred and sixty of us that are staying open and profitable.
Everybody closes up stores now and then our back's closing.
Some Starbucks even close the stores that are unprofitable. We've
put it off for a long time. We've been saddled
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with When we left Darden, Golden Gate Capital saddled us
with some terrible leases that had million dollars poisoned penalties
to close up a store. So the only way out
was Chapter eleven. But the good news is endless shrimp
did not kill Red Lobster. We had been owned by
a Thai union, a seafood company you know, out of Thailand,
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that had made us sell endless shrimp too cheap and
by pay too much for all of their shrimp. There's
a big investigation with all that going on right now.
But the moral of the story is we're not going anywhere.
So those those cheddar Bay biscuits are still available.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Here we go. Thank you for the call, Thank you
for your service. Buck. This was the data point that
I wanted to hit you on red lobster.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Red lobster by twenty percent of all North American lobster
tails sixteen percent of all rock lobsters sold worldwide. That's
a pretty staggering stat right, that they would buy that
percentage of the seafood that is actually that is actually harvested.
(36:16):
I guess would be the word all over the country
and all over the world.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Is lobster your absolute go to seafood if you have it?
Is that is that number one? I usually go salmon.
I usually go salmon. I think it's hard to go
wrong with salmon. Yeah, it's healthy, salmon. Yeah, that's great,
probably the most getting off, fancy getting off. I think
salmon is less fancy than lobster or crab or any
of those.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I bet lobster is the.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Number number one seafood consumed in America by far.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I bet would be salmon. And I know sometimes it's
fresh water.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I know that, you know, telapia is is something that
a lot of people eat, but that's also globally.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Have a great weekend, everybody
Welcome in final hour of the week heading into Memorial
Day weekend. I know many of you out there preparing
to travel, maybe already have begun to travel. Lots of
different stories out there that we have been discussing. Monstrously
successful rally for Donald Trump in the South Bronx people.
(00:23):
The biggest criticism I can find of it is some
people are like, there wasn't actually twenty five or thirty
thousand people there, There was only fifteen or.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ten or twenty.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
Like if you're arguing about how many thousands of people
Donald Trump had at a rally in a blue district,
a blue part of New York City, even for New
York City, a blue area, it's probably a sign that
you lost the battle and you're trying to find a
way to justify the loss. It has dominated the news
(00:59):
we have discussed I even gave you. Based on the
current numbers, Trump lost New York by twenty three in
twenty twenty twenty three points. He now is down to
single digits according to the most recent cnpoll of the
state of New York. And that would square with the
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success that nearly occurred in the governor's race in New
York and with much of the congressional race, which flipped
everything much redder. That's, in fact, why we have a
Republican House to a large extent, is how well the
election went in New York and Florida, where we did
get a red wave. Did not get a red wave
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all over the country, but in those two states we did,
and Lee Zelden lost by about five and a half
or six points to Kathy Hokeel. Let me play this
audio for you of Kathy Hokeel. The attempt to cope
with the loss has become with the fact that there
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are a measure of declining support for Democrats in New York.
Kathy Hokel went on CNN and basically said, Hey, everybody
out there who is supporting Trump in New York, they
are a bunch of clowns which has a basket of
deplorable spilled to it. New York Empire state version. Let's
(02:21):
listen to that.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Well, I'll tell you won't make a difference at all, Jake,
and that is for Donald Trump to be the ringleader
and bye all his clowns to a place like the Bronx.
New York will never ever support Donald Trump for president.
We know him better than anyone, and that means we
understand what he's all about. It's just for himself. So
this state will go solidly behind Joe Biden for president,
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as it has in the past. So he wants to
spend his time doing these made up fake rallies and
pretending their support. Here be my guest, because while you're
doing that, Joe Biden's out there on the other side
making sure he's delivering for all Americans. And so go ahead,
spend all your time you want in New York, because
we'll be with Joe Biden, and Joe Biden's out there
winning over the rest of the battleground states.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
The dumbest governor in America? Do you think that she
is the dumbest governor in America? Yes, I actually think
that in a test of cognition given to every governor
of all fifty states, I think Kathy Hochel would probably
come out dead last. I think that's that's likely to
be the case. It's a shame because in New York's
such a great state. I love New York. I always
will uh and you know, in my heart I'm still
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always a New Yorker. But they got to have better leadership.
You know, Eric Adams is not stepping up the way
that he should have. He's not a bad He's not
a bad guy.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
He's just I just don't think he's he's got the
capabilities necessary to turn the city around. You know, he's
a Democrat, but as Democrats go, I think he's pretty
well intentioned.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
But Kathy hochel Is is a disaster.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
And what she says about I think it's actually to
Trump's benefit. It's one of those things where it's to
Trump's benefit. The more Kathy Hokeel tries to undermine him
publicly and say he has no support in the first.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Of all, I mean he's got you know. I mean
I think the state.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Is at least forty percent pro Trump, right, I mean
at least, you know, even in the worst of times,
you know.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
So it's not like this.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I talked about this last year when we were up
in upstate New York. We landed and we were going
to Cooperstown for the Little League Baseball tournament. My boys
could not believe the amount of Trump flags. Basically, anywhere
outside of New York City, the whole state is for Trump.
You you get outside of New York City, Buffalo and
a couple of other you know, urban centers, and you'll
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see Trump. You'll see lots of Trump stuff, and you
see lots of Trump support. I mean, there are parts
of New York State that feel a lot more like Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Than they do the Big Apple.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Totally, Totally.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
I meant I would have thought that I was driving
in an SEC state for much of the drive through
New York. And many of you are listening to us
right there, okay, speaking to drives.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
Buck.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
I within an hour and a half, I will be
on the road for the next eight or now hours.
I am driving to the Florida Gulf Coast. I believe
it is God's country. My favorite place in the entire
United States is the Florida Gulf Coast. The water is beautiful,
the beaches are fabulous. It's going to be packed, so
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we're full. So far as I know, there are no
great white sharks that are eating people, which sometimes happens
off the coast of the East up where you used
to live. I have been to a lot of beaches.
None are better than they are in the continental United States,
in my humble opinion, But you have in front of you.
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We were talking about this off air. Wall Street Journal
had a piece about the best way to vacation. I
think if you and I have major, major beef that
may come out here over the best way to have vacations.
But I want you to share with the people the
advice that the Wall Street Journal gave, given the fact
that it's now Memorial Day weekend, effectively.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
And hat tip to Jeff Gallac who wrote this piece
for the Journal in their travel section, how to have
a great vacation. What science tells us? So follow the
science fauci.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
Is this fauci science or is this real science? I know,
I think no. These are all smart things, So this
is real science, not fauci science. I think. Okay, I hope.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
So you're trying to make sure that everybody has a
fabulous Memorial Day weekend if you are traveling based on
the science according to the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
All right, So there are a couple of core principles here.
I want to share with all of you. This might
be the most important thing you hear on radio all
week all right, because this will affect your life. First
thing for having a great vacation, And I think this
is where Clay and I are in a rock Eam
Sockem Donnybrook. If you will ah this guy there, Yeah,
thank you. Sir Gallac says, do less. And here's what
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he writes. If you love the beach, you should get
in as many beach days as possible. If you love
an art museum, go see every painting. Sounds logical, but
only if you want to have a not so enjoyable vacation.
One of the i'mary reasons vacations fall flat is because
of an inalienable truth about hedonic consumption. Enjoyment declines with time.
So basically he's saying, don't overdo any one thing. And
(07:12):
what I said to Clay is I get to the beach.
And maybe it's because I'm pale and Anglo Irish in
origin and can't tan and you know whatever. You could
throw all these calumnies at me, but I go to
the beach. After two hours, I'm like, I need to
get inside of air conditioning and read a book, right Like,
you don't need to. You don't need to have six
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Marger read his day one, have one. You don't need
to go to every museum in the place, only go
to the ones with cool war stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
What you seem to think that you can go all
in and there's no problem.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
Well, so my thing is it depends on the type
of vacation that you are scheduled to have. So when
I went to Italy last year, which i'd never been to,
I took my family. I want to see as much
of Italy as I can because I don't know if
I'll ever get to go again. For instance, but at
one point my youngest kid was like another church, which
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was very funny because obviously we're going into all these old,
you know, esteemed historic churches all over Italy, and I
enjoyed them all. But I understand the point of if
you were a first grader or a second grader, you're
like dad, another old church, another old cathedral.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So I understand that, but I think. And then we
went to Australia, two places that I've wanted to go
my whole life. I want to see at all because
I don't know that I'm ever going to be back there.
But if I go to a beach, and my kids
are now old enough that I don't have to sit
terrified about every time they get close to the water,
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which every parent or grandparent with a young child will
understand it's not fun necessarily to.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Be at the pool or to be at the beach.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
And when you've got a young kid who doesn't swim
very well, you got to have your head on a swivel.
You can't have any marguerite is you can't have many beers.
I want to just do nothing. So this weekend I
would be very happy where I'm going to the beach
if I don't have to go more than one mile
in either direction and there is virtually nothing accomplished at
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all that's other than hanging out.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You're agreeing with the science.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
Here, he says, do less. The point here is just
don't overdo anything that you're doing. Not doing anything isn't
a thing you can really do too much of. I
just meant too many hours in the sun directly. But
like he's talking about how you shouldn't show up and
schedule out in hourly increments or something like that. Yeah,
your vacation, so you're you're you're Actually we did, but
(09:43):
we did.
Speaker 1 (09:43):
That in Italy and Australia. I think it matters what
the vacation is. Like some vacations the goal is I
just want to chill. I want to sleep. I want
to have a few drings. Clay is going against the
science once again.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
I will say this.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
You were talking about how easily you sunburned. I don't
know if you even heard this. And we had our
eighteen hour f photo shoot last week. When you left,
I came in and they were like, oh, your skin
is actually tannible, unlike your radio show co host. We're
going to have to change the coloration on the shots
that we're taking because of how pale he was. I
don't even think you heard this.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Shots fired, shots fired. Look at this right before the
holiday week.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
They were like, I didn't know how anybody could be
wider than Buck was. We're going to have to adjust
the color filters here now.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
I don't want to.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I might end up looking like Kramer on Seinfeld back
in the day when he got in the tanning bed
for too long. I don't know what the final shots
are going to look like, but there was an acknowledgment
that you were super white and they were going to
have to adjust the color filters when I came in
for the photos.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That's not nice, all right, limit your choices? Is the
second one here? This is I think actually this is
a bigger lesson for life. Limit your choices when planning
a trip. It's critical to compare hotels, tourist restaurants. Make
the best possible choices. He says, not so fast. Don't
look at all the options. Look at the options and
find a good option. I'm gonna tell you, yeah, people
(11:06):
that did. People that get their light out at the
restaurant on the menu and they're looking at it reading
a legal contract. Stop being lame. You know, basicos on
the menu. Look, go with what your eye gets drawn to.
You don't read it like you're reading a legal document.
You figure out, you do a little bit of artistry here,
you go a little bit of this, little bit of that,
(11:27):
and you just go with something you're gonna like.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
You don't have to read every side and know everything.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
And when it comes to hotels, you find a place,
Oh I'm gonna like that place.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You don't have to get.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Into the most you know, obscure review websites. To make
sure that you compare who gives you, you know, better
amenities or something for the thirty dollars amenities fee.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I agree with this this bit of advice because there's
nothing worse than going out to dinner with someone who
thinks that what they order for the dinner is going
to find their life's success for the next ten years.
And they sit there and they are terrified about it.
Maybe I'm unique. There's like eight things on every menu
that I would be fine with eating. I don't assume
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that there's a massive drop off between choice and one
and choice two.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
Right, And this is he calls it choice overload. And
when you're I believe you're on vacation, he says you
want to be what he calls a satisficer, a person
who finds the first acceptable, acceptable option and accepts it
as set of a maximizer who's trying to find the.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Absolute best, the absolute best.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
The absolute best is an illusion. You gotta find good enough.
And I tell my wife this all the time, because
she'll be like, I got a great deal. I'm just
she can hear me right now, she's gonna yell at me.
But she'd be like, I got a great deal at Costco.
And then she'd be like, oh my gosh. Two weeks later,
she'd be like, I could have gotten a better deal
at Costco.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm like, no, no, you got a good deal. It's
a good deal. Is good enough.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
We don't have to like go on a time machine
or something to get a better deal.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
A good deal is a good deal.
Speaker 1 (12:59):
My wife had a pretty devastating comeback when I had
this exact conversation with her. I said, you know, you
don't have to be super picky. You don't have to
worry about every little detail. You can just relax. You
don't have to make the perfect choice. She said, I
know I married you. If Carrie's listening right now, that
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would be a over the top decapitation response. And I
was just like, uh, you know, that's a mentality that
is I was just like, ooh, I know I married you.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
I was like, well, you.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Order whatever you want.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
You know, it's a good point. Uh.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That is a that is a very good wine, by
the way, not as well received if the man says
it to the woman.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
That there would have been.
Speaker 1 (13:52):
I took it in the spirit of which I assume
it was intended as a joke, and do not know
had I said it if it would have been taken
in the same way. But it's a good line for
women to men. I'm not sure that I would suggest
men use that with women. When we come back and
take some of your calls. Jesse Kelly's going to join
us to talk about Red Lobster shutting down.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Buck. I don't know if I've told you this.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Every restaurant that I like in Nashville, I am the
kiss of death it inevitably closes.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I love so many places.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I think there are eight different top draft pick restaurant
choices I've had in Nashville, all of them close to
the point where I actually feel bad if I go
into a restaurant and really like it, because I know
that it's going to fail. That's where I am. So
I understand the pain of Jesse Kelly when it comes
to Red Lobster shutting down. But I want to tell
you right now, this Memorial Day weekend, and while we're
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also too important to remember people who gave the full
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We were just both joking around before about how it
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Just womp womp, wompomp.
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And the last thirty minutes before that clock hit four
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Just to say, third hour of radio before more of
day weekend. We're powering down and we're relaxing and max
and hanging a little bit here because we're doing our thing.
(17:04):
We are both very very much looking forward to a
long week, and I know all of you are too.
Hopefully you all have some.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
Off, some off time. That's rare. We had to ask him, like, wait,
we actually do have Monday off.
Speaker 4 (17:13):
We forgot. We're so used to doing radio absolutely every day.
We want to take some of your calls and that'll
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And also remember our friend Jesse Kelly is going to
be joining us here. So if you have any if
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want to put him on the hot seat about red
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Speaker 1 (18:55):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton Show, Memorial Day,
We Get and Friday. We're joined now by Jesse Kelly
faulding Man who orders seventy five dollars shots when he
goes out drinking in New York City and also a
diehard fan of Red Lobster. Where on the flow chart
of anger, sadness, despair does Red Lobster closing rank? And
(19:22):
how would you compare it to the Michigan Wolverines being
a vastly superior football program, now to the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Speaker 6 (19:30):
First of all, I just want to point out to
everybody that you're a bad person. Okay, And I resent
your comments almost as much as I resent that mop
of hair you still have on your head. That's you
and Buck, both of you with all this hair. What
a couple of hippies. That's one. Two. People do not
appreciate red lobster. It's thought of as some kind of
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I don't know. I don't know why it's not thought
of where it should be, as the pinnacle of American cuisine.
We only had one in Montana when I was kid,
and it was two and a half hours away, and
we can never go out to eat. But whenever we
would go over to this town, we would always go
to Red Lobster, and it was it always delivers. Red
Lobster has been the peak of American seafood forever. And
(20:13):
I am legit upset about it. I have one three
hundred meters I would say, from where I'm sitting right now,
I eat there twice a week and it's closing up.
I'm devastated.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
Well, so what happened?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
I mean, there's this rumor out there that and I
don't know if you part took in this, mister Jesse Kelly,
that it was the Endless Shrimp that was the last
straw if you will, They went endless shrimp and people
kind of like Homer Simpson when Hell is feeding them
donuts and Hell runs out of donuts. Remember that that
people could eat more shrimp than they ever anticipated at
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corporate headquarters for Red Lobster, and that that was the
coup de grass, if you will, the final moment for
Red Lobster.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
True or is that just rumor mill stuff.
Speaker 6 (21:02):
It's probably rumor mill stuff, But I'd like to think
that it's true because it's the kind of thing Red
Lobster would do. Red Lobster hasn't been about profit. It's
not been about making money for the restaurant itself. Red
Lobster has been about sustaining an American population with high
end seafoods since its inception. And I would say, I
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don't want to speak for the owners. I'm sure the
owners are, you know, wonderful Christian people or whatever, but
I don't want to speak for them, but I would
imagine that's how they would want to go, giving away
the last of their vast wealth to the people so
the people could enjoy. Have you guys ever had the
shrimp scampy for Red Lobster, have either of you ever
sat down and enjoyed that delicious buttery bowl of garlicy
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shrimp scampy. It will change your life. And then you
take the cheddar Bay biscuits and you dip them in
the butter in the shrimp scampy bowl. Gosh, I'm starving.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
So I think most of our audience, and I don't
know if you would subscribe to this, would say Chick
fil A, if you had to pick one fast food restaurant,
is the best fast food restaurant in America. Now, look,
there are others that I really like. I'm a fan
of Zaxby's. I'm a fan of raisin Canes. These are
(22:19):
Southern places. Sometimes every that he's talking about, Just to
be clear, I to be fair, Like Sunday Sunday meal
when I was a kid growing up was Captain D's,
which I don't think exists anymore. It was the seafood
fast food, which doesn't sound like a combo that would
be really popular during.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Sex and family road trips. I'll just tell you we
would have the argument about fast food, and my dad
would just the argument or was always burger king, flame broiled,
So that advertising worked really well.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
So what is Jesse, let's presume that all Red Lobsters
shut down.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
What would be, and I'm not talking about fast food.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
What would be your number two draft pick of a
place that would try to fill the great void in
your life that was formerly occupied by Red Lobster. I
would suggest this is my nomination. I'm curious what Buck
would say too. Olive Garden is probably the best. I
think the down company, I think, oh they used to be.
(23:19):
They spun it off, But I would say Olive Garden
would now be the peak of American chain sit down dining.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
What would your argument be, Jesse.
Speaker 6 (23:30):
It definitely wouldn't be Olive Garden, which is low rent trash.
It's not high end like Red Lobster. It figures you
would pick Olive Garden, now, don't get me wrong, just
like anyone else who who's alive and has taste buds.
I love going to Olive Garden and comeling down some
breadsticks as much as the nests. Man. I'm a big
fan of that. But as far as replacements go, I've
already picked my replacement. People think I've got one white
(23:52):
trash thing in my back pocket. I've been white trash
for the forty two years of my existence. I just
took my sons to waffle House the other day. They
love it. My wife refuses to go in. She says
there are some cleming this problems which I have personally
never seen. But waffle House. Do you know what waffle
House has? Everyone knows about the waffles and the breakfast
and the smothered and covered and the fist fights and
(24:13):
everything else. What people don't understand is the cheeseburger at
waffle House is top tier. It's as good as any
restaurant burger you can get out there, now, are they
Jesse Kelly Burgers. No, of course, nobody's perfect, but waffle
House cheeseburgers, hash brown, smothered covered, Oh, that's as good as.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
Have you ever been to a waffle House buck?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (24:34):
Yeah, yeah, I've been like hungover as a college kid,
for sure, I've been to waffle House.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
That's their staple.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
But I just think it's funny that as we're talking
about this last twenty four hours, also, the CEO of
Cracker Barrel has recently apparently said, yeah, we're just like
not as good as we used to be or something.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
I'm just like, wait, what's going on? The why would
you throw your own stuff under the bus that way?
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Before we get into the cracker barrel discussions to say, Jesse,
we asked for some of our VIPs to put you
on the hot seat. And this is clearly somebody who's
a clan buck, and Jesse Kelly listener because I don't
even know what's going on here. Brian, one of our
clan Buck VIPs, rights ask Jesse if he could defeat
fifty iguanas with a slingshot to defend himself shields high
(25:17):
Brian the plumber, what is he? Can you defeat fifty
iguanas with a slingshot? What is he talking about?
Speaker 6 (25:24):
Yeah, I'm deadly with a slingshot. You see, when I
was a child, all I would do is I would leave.
You know, this is back in the day when you
just got kicked out of the house and we had
these woods back beyond my house, and I didn't have
any neighbors close to me, so I was constantly stuck
in my own world, talking to myself, playing with myself,
doing all those kinds of things. And the slingshot. I
got a slingshot for Christmas one year, and let me
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tell you what I was basically the world's deadly at sniper.
With that thing, I'd be taken out squirrels like you
can't imagine. My mom would be thrilled to come home
and find a bunch of dead squirrels in the windowsill
in the kitchen. You can bring on iguanas. You could
bring on rhinoscera, a bunch of rhinos, and I would
manage to take them out with a slingshot as well.
(26:06):
I'm basically king David.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
What is your best As we're going off the holiday weekend,
we had a conversation about this. There's a Wall Street
journal piece on the science of having the best possible vacation?
What is the Jesse Kelly version of having the best
possible vacation by you know, by the advice you can give?
Speaker 6 (26:26):
Okay, well, are we talking now? Are we talking a
realistic vacation or Jesse's all of a sudden a billionaire
and I can go and.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
Do well well, No, real realistic, Like if you're giving
folks like the basic nuts and bolts of how to
have a good long weekend, because they talk about things
like don't try to do too much, don't look for
the best, look for good enough. Stuff like that. Like,
what's what's your your real deal? Wisdom or advice on
a great American long weekend.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
Okay, here's the best American long weekend you can possibly have.
What you need is either a mountain or a lake.
You need a cat. I've been on a lake or
a cabin on a mountain. And it has to be
an hour or less away from your home. Otherwise. This
is where people screw up with vacations all the time,
especially long weekend vacations. You got seventy two hours, you
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got three days max. Okay, we'll make it. Maybe you
got ninety six hours, Maybe you got a four day
or are you really going to bookend your vacation with
three four hours of either driving the kids and getting
daddy I get a beer, or you're going to go
fight off to the eight hundred pounds tsa agent at
the airport trying to get to and fro. No, thank you.
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It has to be less than an hour away. You
don't need a beach. The beach is the most overrated
thing in the world. I don't want sand in my ears.
I don't with The beach is fun for an hour
and then I can't read anymore. I'm hot it's miserable.
Go to a lake, a raft a lake. One of
the styrofoam coolers full of beer is all you need
to have the best weekend in the world.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
That's not bad advice, except you're totally wrong on all
beach related opinions. And I bet you haven't been to
thirty A, which is where I'm about to head.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
The Florida Gulf Coast.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
You're talking about like redneck Galveston, Texas. You're talking about
throwing Galveston. I'm sorry Galveston. I mean it is like,
no everybody in Texas. They don't have a beach in
Texas that anybody wants to go to.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Oh, it's true that aggression cannot stand.
Speaker 6 (28:26):
First of all, I fully admit that Galveston, Texas is
kind of a rundown beach town and that's part of
its charm. But don't you dare call Galveston garbage while
pointing out the Florida Golf Coast. I love the Florida
Golf Coast. I go down there every chance I get.
Have you seen people smile when the Florida Golf Coast playing?
It'll look like Leon Spinks. Don't tell me about the
(28:50):
Florida Golf Coast as if it's the correct, I'm not talking.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
First of all, the people are fabulous.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
Second, they may not have as many teeth as they
would like, but that's what happens when you live well all.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
So I would just say.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
All of Texas biggest flaw that Texas has. The beaches
are a disaster. Everybody listening to me in Texas right now.
They come to the Florida Gulf Coast because the beaches
are white sand, because the water is emerald colored. It's
like you're in the Mediterranean, and it is spectacular. And
I subminietrated with more Trump flags. That's right, the Mediterranean
(29:24):
with more Trump fat flags, which is a good combo.
And by the way, Jesse As we're about to go
out here, my mom won it.
Speaker 2 (29:29):
She just texted.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
She said, Dad and I ate at Red Lobster yesterday.
Shrimp scampy is my favorite. So you've at least won
over my mom.
Speaker 6 (29:39):
Yeah, I love her already. She's by far the smartest Travis,
that's for sure.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
Do you think they're gonna keep making those cheddar Bay
biscuits even when the clothes because my sister and her
husband love those things like, I'm pretty sure they would
drive multiple hours just for the biscuits.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
Buck. A great product never ever ever leaves. Once you
achieve the pinnic of something, it never leaves. It may
be ripped up, rebuild, it may be bought by someone else.
But when you've achieved the culinary masterpiece that is the
Cheddar Bay biscuit, it will be here long after you
and I are dead and gone.
Speaker 5 (30:12):
Brother.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
I don't want to stroke your ego too much before
we go off of the weekend. But there are people
I have seen on the interwebs who think that you're
so called best burger ever imaginable is actually really good.
Where can they go and find out about this supposedly
amazing burger that apparently a lot of people like I.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
Actually have to give unique guidance on this because now
this thing is taken on a life of its own.
And apparently they're about eight million blogs out there called
the Jesse Kelly Berger, and most of them are wrong.
They just kind of decided to come up with their
own recipe and called the Jesse Kelly Burger. So just
look up Jesse Kelly Cheeseburger and click on a video
of me describing it. That's the only way you can
make sure it's the actual Jesse Kelly cheeseburger and all
(30:53):
bluster aside, I do make the greatest homemade cheeseburger in
the history of mankind. You try one, you'll never make
them any other way.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
Try me on that a great cheeseburger is unbeatable, undefeated.
It really is pretty fabulous.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
Go check it out, and check out the Jesse Kelly
Show syndicated six to nine eas from across the country,
and also the Jesse Kelly Podcast. And mister Kelly, please
tell your lovely wife and the boys have a great
holiday weekend.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
And by the way, you're gonna be with us. But
you want to complain that I've got us all going
to Milwaukee. You've been upset that I managed to corral
everybody to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
We're gonna all go to Red Lobster. That's a truth.
I know we're all going.
Speaker 1 (31:29):
You want to take a shot at this week in
Milwaukee that you're upset that I've managed to corral everybody
into No, I have no problem.
Speaker 6 (31:36):
With the road trip. I would just like in the
future to be consulted before Clay Travis signs me up
for four or five days away from home in a hotel.
I'm not by my bed. I don't even like Republicans.
Why do I have to go to the Republican Convention?
A bunch of useless unus out there selling us out
every single minute. Now I have to go act like
I like these people. Thanks a lot, Clay, you know
(31:57):
what you're buying the dinners. Not that that would be abnormal, but.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
You're story Clay on the black card.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
I'll handle the I'll handle the dinners, all right, right, yes, always,
I'll see you in a couple of months.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
I'll see you all saying out, Thanks man, Thanks Jesse.
Speaker 4 (32:15):
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this weekend, make sure you've got the best gear possible
with you. Bring I'm serious about this, by the way,
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over the place. I just saw my dad in New
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Speaker 4 (33:47):
We're gonna be closing up shop here for a few
days because we're actually off on Monday. We just want
to say before we head off for the long weekend
for Memorial Day weekend, thank you.
Speaker 2 (33:57):
To all of you who listened to us.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
And you know we're going to be coming up on
the three year anniversary of the show in just about
a month, so we so much appreciate you're giving us
your time, and we had a lot of fun here
and we take but we also take our mission seriously
to bring you the best we can every day and
we have a great time with it. So thank you
very very much. And we'll get to a caller right
(34:20):
now who is a oh, yes, we have a Red
Lobster manager.
Speaker 2 (34:26):
Is this right, am? I? Right on this one? We
have a general manager of a red Lobster in Virginia.
Speaker 5 (34:35):
That's correct.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
Well, talk to us, sir, what happened? I heard that.
I heard that.
Speaker 4 (34:41):
It was a delicious culinary delight for so many years,
and yet here we are.
Speaker 5 (34:47):
Here, we are. We're not going anywhere. My store is
very profitable. All all five hundred and fifty or five
hundred and sixty of us that are staying open and profitable.
Everybody closes up stores now and then our back's closing.
Some Starbucks even close the stores that are unprofitable. We've
put it off for a long time. We've been saddled
(35:08):
with When we left Darden, Golden Gate Capital saddled us
with some terrible leases that had million dollars poisoned penalties
to close up a store. So the only way out
was Chapter eleven. But the good news is endless shrimp
did not kill Red Lobster. We had been owned by
a Thai union, a seafood company you know, out of Thailand,
(35:31):
that had made us sell endless shrimp too cheap and
by pay too much for all of their shrimp. There's
a big investigation with all that going on right now.
But the moral of the story is we're not going anywhere.
So those those cheddar Bay biscuits are still available.
Speaker 2 (35:47):
Here we go. Thank you for the call, Thank you
for your service. Buck. This was the data point that
I wanted to hit you on red lobster.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Red lobster by twenty percent of all North American lobster
tails sixteen percent of all rock lobsters sold worldwide. That's
a pretty staggering stat right, that they would buy that
percentage of the seafood that is actually that is actually harvested.
(36:16):
I guess would be the word all over the country
and all over the world.
Speaker 4 (36:20):
Is lobster your absolute go to seafood if you have it?
Is that is that number one? I usually go salmon.
I usually go salmon. I think it's hard to go
wrong with salmon. Yeah, it's healthy, salmon. Yeah, that's great,
probably the most getting off, fancy getting off. I think
salmon is less fancy than lobster or crab or any
of those.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
I bet lobster is the.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Number number one seafood consumed in America by far.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I bet would be salmon. And I know sometimes it's
fresh water.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
I know that, you know, telapia is is something that
a lot of people eat, but that's also globally.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Have a great weekend, everybody
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