Guest Host Lidia Curanaj: Work Hard vs. Handout

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Jesse Kelly Show. I am Lydia sarran I.
It's my pleasure to be with you on this second
day this holiday season, this Christmas season. I am talking
to you. Live right here from New York City, the
heart of Midtown Manhattan, the iHeart studios here in New
York City. It took me a while to get in,

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so I live just right outside the city, but the
Rockefeller Christmas Tree is just a few blocks away from here.
And people, no offense if you're listening to this, if
you are from out of town, please do not drive
in New York City because you have absolutely no idea
what you were doing. I mean, some people don't even
know how to cross the street if you're from out
of town. So it is complete and utter chaos. And

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I cannot wait until the new Year and all the
tourists leave town. But Merry Christmas to all of you.
So I was looking for the stories, and initially I
was going to start to talk about the economy and
how it's a big hoax, about how they're trying to
weaponize a very the Democrats destroyed and they're trying to
use it against President Trump. But then I saw this

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other story, and it's funny because it also caught the
eye of Elon Musk. There was a young man twenty
seven years old in Ohio that was killed by a
once again a career criminal. Now, if you remember, probably
the first time you heard about that story about the
elderly woman Jeanette Markin in Seattle, who is standing at

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the corner by the way, you can see that video
on my social media at Lydia News Ldia neews one.
That's me on Instagram. You can follow me there. I
put the video up there. This Jeanette Markin was just
standing on the corner waiting to cross the street when
this psychopath comes up from behind her whacks her across

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the head with a giant stick. And at the end
of the stick he puts some nails and he puts
some screws there, and he took out her eye, her
right eye. She's now permanently blinded in that eye. He
also broke several bones in her face. Jeanette Marken. This
guy's a career criminal. He'd been arrested multiple multiple times,

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just eight times alone in twenty twenty five. Well, now
there's another story similar to this, but it's even worse,
a repeat offender. He killed an Ohio man just date,
five days after he was released from jail, just five
days after. It gets worse, it gets even worse. So
this suspect is Donnie Allen, and Donnie Allen looks like
how you would expect somebody that's been in and out

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of jail multiple times. He's a black guy. He looks
absolutely like a like. He looks evil, his eyes look evil.
He's accused of killing twenty seven year old Benjamin Mecomas
during an attempted robbery. He shot him to death. Benjamin
is a twenty seven year old, good kid, white guy.
And so here it gets worse. So he kills somebody

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just five days allegedly allegedly, we have to say alleged,
just five days after he was released. A nonprofit group
paid for his bail. So it reminded me of kind
of the BLM the riots. Remember when Kamala Harris put
a GoFundMe basically on her Twitter to get the violent
rioters out. And so this judge, Judge Joy Kennedy, she's

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a black woman. Again, these judges are appointed. She's the one.
So the prosecution wanted to keep him behind bars. When
he was recently arrested for being violent and robbing people
at knife. I mean, you name it. This isn't like
somebody who's called jaywalking or or shoplifting. We're talking about
repeat felony offender, violent crime in Ohio and they just

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let him go. A nonprofit paid for his bail, and
then five days later he kills somebody. I want you
to take a listen to the judge in the case
and her philosophy on how she approaches sentencing people and
why she allows them to get out Clip twenty two,
Judge Joy Kennedy of Ohio.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
So I have the experience and I want to serve
with compassionate justice. So that's what I'm want to do.
Everybody doesn't need to go to prison, but some people do.
Some people do, And you want someone with the temperament
and the ability to make that sound decision. And I
think I have that.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
No you don't, No you don't, honey, No you don't.
And yes, she looks exactly as you would think she looks.
So it's you know. Elon must said, oh, we need
to hold the reasons. I was looking at chat GPT,
which is a very helpful resource. I said, why are
these judges they're not held accountable And it says it's
because of judicial immunity. Judicial immunity, so they have it.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
They have.

Speaker 1 (04:38):
It's like a law. They can't be held responsible. But
this woman, this judge, has blood on her hands, right,
she has blood on her hands, and so does that
nonprofit group that paid for his bail. But their accountability
can exist. Of course, there's appeals, but this guy's dead.
You can't appeal to death right judicial conduct boards. But
I mean, how many people have to die, how many

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people have to be made how many people have to
be blinded for these judges for the laws to change.
I don't know. I have no idea. I have no idea,
but this is what happens when you have Democrat rule.
And all I have to say is, thank god we
have President Trump in office. Thank god we have Republicans
that are fighting the good fight. We have conservatives that

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are trying to just kind of bring common sense. I
don't even think it's like a right or left wing thing.
This is a normal thing. If you're violent, if you're
a sick person and you commit crimes over and over
and over again, you should be put behind bars. Okay,
you should be put behind bars, throw away the key.

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That's it. So that kind of brought me to somebody
that's never been held accountable for any of the horrible
things that he has done in life, because he is
a NEPO baby. If you guys don't know what that is.
A nepo baby is somebody who comes from rich parents.
So Hunter Biden, I played that clip for you yesterday,
Hunter Biden. He says he's now fifteen million dollars in debt.

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Now I don't understand. All he has to do is
sell one of his paintings. Remember that his paintings were
getting a million dollars because you know that was bs. Basically,
people were buying favors with the Trump administration, and then
they were using the excuse that, oh, I was buying
Hunter's painting, right, that's what it was. So that's why
now he can't curry and if he can't do any

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more favors, right, you know, China, Russia, Ukraine, all these things.
All of a sudden, Hunter is broke because he doesn't
have daddy, right, the big guy upstairs is no longer
in office. The poor guy was never in his right
mind to begin with Hunter for drugs and of course,
which I think he's still high on drugs, by the way,
He's still messed up. But he's doing all of these

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interviews Hunter Biden, and so I want you to take
a listen to what he said about the Afghanistan withdrawal
Clip thirteen.

Speaker 4 (06:49):
The way in which they executed the withdrawal from Afghanistan.
I think it was an obvious failure. I think thirteen
Marines are dead. I think that there was a better
way to do it. And I think that and I
can blame it on his generals. I can blame it
on the people, the way in which we did it.
But my dad always knew this also is that the

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buck stops with him.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
We're just saying this now. You know, we know that
weakness begets aggression. That disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal where we saw
our own US service members being killed and left behind,
our interpreters. I mean that image of people like hanging
on to the plane. It was so pathetic. It showed
the world how weak Joe Biden, how weak the United

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States is, and that is why we saw October seventh massacre.
That's why they had the goal to do that Hamas
when they went into Israel massacred all those people. And
then of course Russia invading Ukraine because they knew the
United States was weak. And that's why President Trump, just
because those two those two US service members that were
killed in Syria, and President Trump, what does he do

(07:56):
a week later? He launches like seventy air stride to
one hundred precision ammunitions, you name it, because he said it.
You have to mean what you say, and say what
you mean right. And if you he said, if you
touch a hair on American's head, god help you, because
the wrath of the United States is going to come
down hard on you. And that is like, it's kind

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of like how I was raised too. I was my
parents were not my friends. I fear them, and that's
how I look at like President Trump. There should be
a sort of reverence. There should be a sort of respect.
That's how we should That's how the world. I like
it that the President Trump is a badass. I like
it that he's tough. I like it that he can
be a jerk. I like it that the Ice agents

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are going in with battering rams. I like it because
these are criminals and that's how they should be treated.
You do something wrong, get ready to pay the price again.
I am Lydia sarn I, filling in for the great
Jesse Kelly, who has some deservedly some time off with
his family again. You can follow me on social media
at Lydia News l I d I a Anywi and

(09:00):
you can follow me on Newsmax as well, where I
have several shows there. And you'll catch me Friday at
six pm Eastern.

Speaker 4 (09:06):
We'll be right back to Jesse Kelly on the Voice
of New York seventon wor.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Welcome back to the Jesse Kelly Show. I am Lydia
sarn I. We've got a lot to talk about. I'm
gonna be talking about the Somali fraud Minnesota. You're gonna
hear from Tim Walaltz. We're gonna play more Hunter, We're
gonna talk about the economy. We're even gonna talk about
with the priest another he's a really great guy, about
why when you feel like you don't want to pray,

(09:37):
that's when you should pray the most. But speaking of
the economy, a lot of us think that the system
is broken. And if you think it's broken, you're right,
but it's not broken. It's designed this way, central banks, surveillance, currency,
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back to somebody that claimed maybe, maybe, Hunter Biden needs

(11:03):
to invest in silver and gold because he says he
is broke. And now he's doing all of these interviews.
Who knows, maybe he's going to become a paid contributor
for MS now or for CNN. Maybe they're gonna give
him a primetime show. Right after all, Joe Biden said,
Hunter is the smartest guy he knows. And you know what,
Hunter is a really smart guy because he's done so

(11:24):
many horrendous crimes. We know tax crimes, right, we know that.
And then we know that the only executive order that
Joe Biden signed was the one for his son, President
Auto pen We have no idea who is behind that,
who signs all those executive orders, the most executive orders
of any president. And this is from a guy that
literally could not go up a flight of stairs. Well,

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Hunter Biden, he did another podcast, did another interview I
played earlier for you before how he said that the
Afghanistan withdrawal was a disaster, which it obviously was, and
it set off a domino of effects that ended up
killing me millions of people, right, because this is what
happens when you have a weak and feckless leader, especially
of the most powerful country in the world, the United States.

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So now take a listen to what Hunter says about immigration.
Now keep in mind his father allowed twelve million people
to invade this country clip twelve.

Speaker 4 (12:18):
We need immigration, we need a vibrant immigration, but we
don't want immigrants that are coming here illegally, draining us
of resources and being prioritized above people that are actual
literal heroes.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
Really, because that's what you guys did, Because we have
veterans on the streets that are homeless. You know. Again,
I work for Newsmax, and I remember we had a
reporter go out on the streets and the Roosevelt Hotel,
which was like the huge hotel where it was once
upon a time it was a beautiful luxury hotel and
they turned it into complete trash and there was all
these little scooters and motorcycles and stuff because all the

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the illegals were staying there for four or five hundred
pop bucks pop a night. I mean, it's crazy the
grift that was going on. Because what happens is you
have these hotels they would charge this ridiculous amount of
money for five hundred dollars right and then, but really
it's like probably one hundred and fifty dollars that it
cost them maybe even one hundred dollars. So they were
pocketing all this money. People were getting rich left and right.

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So that's why COVID was such a scam, all the COVID,
the illegal migrant all everything, all of it. It was
just people are getting rich left and right. It's just
so crazy. Anyway, So the Roosevelts Hotel, we had a
reporter that went there with a home, a girl who's homeless,
and she was an American and she went to a

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hotel and said, listen, I'm homeless on the street. Can
I get a hotel room? And they told her, no,
we can't give you one. You're an American citizen. This
is only for illegals. She said, are you telling me?
She said, I used to work, I have a Social
Security number, I've paid into the system. Are you telling
me that I can't get a hotel room because I'm
an American citizen. But these people can get a hotel

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room in this fancy hotel. Well they've trashed it so
it wasn't fancy anymore. But anyway, and they're getting free meals,
three meals a day and all that stuff. Plus they
got debit cards. They would get like multi thousand dollars
debit cards, are you telling me? And they said yeah, yeah,
so yeah hunter. We saw it over and over again.
That were that people that break the law because of

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the Democrat rule or prioritize over people law abiding American citizens.
And then that's what people are pissed off. I mean,
it is so infuriating, right because you're like, I'm doing
everything the right way. Even you have immigrants they came
like my parents, they came here the right way. They wait.
My parents waited four years for their visa just to
just to come here, and then they had to wait

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years and years of with the Great all these things
and my parents never got a single hand out. My
mother told me that on this second day they got
here to New York City. She said, the first day,
it was late at night. The second day, she and
my father woke up early, and she said they walked
up and down the streets in Manhattan looking for a job,

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up and down, up and down, she goes, we walked
all night long. She's like, I remember, my shoe had
holes in them. We had no money, and by the
end of the day, she said, we both found jobs.
My mother was a cleaning lady for forty five years,
forty five years, and my dad was a he was
like a handyman, you know, like a handyman kind of guy.

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But they would save and save their money and they
actually bought properties and so they actually ended up doing
really well for themselves despite the limited education because they
grew up in farms back home, so you know, but
not just because they're my parents, but highly highly intelligent
people and they just worked and people are like, well,
how is it possible. They have two people that came
from another country, they barely know the language, very limited education,

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and they did very well for themselves financially, Like my
parents are better off than me. And it was because
they just worked hard and save their money literally achieve
the American dream. But that dream is gone now because
now you have people that jump the line, jump the border,
commit the crime, and they're getting handouts. And you know

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what happens when somebody hands you something that you didn't earn,
that you didn't work for, you don't respect it, you
don't care about it. And that's what we're seeing happening
with these illegals. That's why the Somalis they don't care.
They don't give up about the United States because they
never had to have that blood, sweat and tears that

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it takes in order to get here, in order to
achieve something right, because it was just handed to them.
And that is we are actually doing the illegals and
even the legal immigrants, we're doing them a disservice. Anytime
you give anybody a hands out, including your child, you
are doing them a disservice. You want to make them

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work for it, and that's what That's how I was raised.
I've been working since I was maybe fourteen years old.
If you want to consider babysitting getting paid, I had
a job, you name it anyway. I am Lydia Soarran.
I filling in for Jesse Kelly Lydia News l Ida Anyws,
will be right back. Don't go anywhere, Welcome back to
the Jesse Kelly Show. I am Lydia Soarana. You can

(17:13):
follow me at Lydia News, l Idia Anyws like you
watch on TV with the one there, on Instagram and
all my social media because after all, you're like Sarana,
how do you spell that? So it's just Lydia News.
You can see me on Newsmax quite a bit. I'll
be on Friday at six pm filling in for Carl Higbee,
and then Sunday I'll be back at noon. I was

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supposed to work Saturday, but I took off because I
want to spend time with my family. I have a daughter,
husband and a big family, so we love to spend
the holidays together. You know, Christmas this year, it's not cheap, right,
And of course you've got the Democrats affordability crisis, affordability crisis. Meanwhile,
it's their fault aside from spending government money and just

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handing out money, aside from the fraud, you know, the
Somali which we're going to get into. By the way,
I'm going to talk to Congressman Randy Fine in just
a moment. He wants to introduce possibly a resolution to
expel ilhan Omar. We've also have don't forget about the
illegal aliens that we had to pay for. Right, all
this money and yet our streets have potholes. My street

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has pottled, I mean all the stuff that we're like,
they tell us they don't have the money for right,
they don't have the money. Yet they sure had enough
money to spend for all of these illegals, and it's
because of Joe Biden. I mean he aided, abedded and
incentivized this invasion. Listen to this. I would in fact
make sure that there is we immediately surge to the border.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
All those people are seeking asylum.

Speaker 1 (18:46):
Surge the border. Joining us now to talk more about
the economy, Tim Dosher. He is the executive director of
Unleash Prosperity. Tim, thank you so much for joining us. Hey, Lydia,
Mary Merry Christmas. So, what do you say to people
that say, I President Trump? How dare he say affordability

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as a hoax? Which I think I don't think he's
saying that. I know he's not saying that. He's saying
the fact that they're trying to paint it on him
is the hoax when he's been trying to turn everything around.
What do you say to people that say, you know,
the economy it you know, I don't care what the
numbers say, I'm suffering.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Well, look perceptions reality and that's that's the bottom line.
You can't tell somebody that they're not, you know, going
through something. But what you can do is you can
look at the same numbers and the same method of
collecting those numbers, and the same people that collected those numbers,
that collected them under Biden, that collected them under Trump
the first time, that collected them under Obama, that collected

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going way back. This is the same way that we
are gaining the knowledge of our economy, and those numbers
tell a completely different story. It tells the real median household.
Think of that means that's the very middle Americans, very
middle of America. Cans are up twelve hundred dollars since
President Trump took office, and that's that's factoring in inflation.

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You know, you take a look at what the numbers
that just came out today. This is the strongest economic
growth since twenty twenty three. And by the way, in
twenty twenty three, that was Biden and he was growing government.
It wasn't the private sector, which is growing currently. So,
like anybody who wants to stand up and say the
economy is bad, look, I don't know their individual story.

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I don't know their credit card debt, I don't know
the you know what, but burdens they have, you know,
private schools. Maybe I don't have no idea, but what
I will say is this Those who want to be
making a way in this country can do it right now,
and they can do it even better in the Trump economy.

Speaker 1 (20:47):
Again, we're speaking to Tim Dosher, executive director of Unleashed Prosperity. Tim,
you know the economy is good when you've got CNN
even touting just how low gas prices have gone down.
Remember President Trump said, drill baby, drill clip fifteen. Let's
take a listen.

Speaker 5 (21:06):
Prices, they've been under control really all year, and they're
ending the year at especially low level. So the national
average two eighty six a gallon. That's down by twenty
one cents from a month ago. It's also the lowest
level since April of.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Twenty twenty one.

Speaker 5 (21:22):
Now, gas prices were pretty low a year ago two,
but they're even lower right now. When you look across
the country, there's ten states where the average is below
two fifty a gallon, right including Louisiana, Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Colorado.
Oklahoma has the cheapest gas price in the country at
two twenty nine a gallon.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
And so Tim explain to our listeners how it's a
domino effect when gas prices go down.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
Well, gas prices e fact really almost every aspect of
the economy. I mean, think about how you're going to
get your goods to the grocery store. And you know,
look there is sticker shock in the grocery store. Still
we are still seeing high grocery prices from the Biden
administration inflation, you know, debacle that they had and that
they brought to the American people. But one way you

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can bring prices down is through being more efficient and
and like you said, drilling more and being less regulatory
focused on the economy. And that is exactly what's happening. Look,
when you start seeing refineries come back online, and when
you start seeing you know, oil rigs coming back online,

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that isn't just a headline. That's actual reality that's making
its way through the economy. And that's making sure that
we're not one not relying on foreign sources of oil
who you know, hate this country, but we're relying on
our own workers, were relying on our own ingenuity, and
that's making ripple effects in our economy, especially when we
actually export that oil that we're making. So this really

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is a massive deal when you start bringing energy princes.
By the way, it's just so you know, are good
friends in the UK. They're all freedom loving people. But Lydia,
you know, their energy prices are four times higher than
what we pay here in America. It's because of regulation,
and it's because of a backwards thinking mindset that does that. Unfortunately,

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we have an administration right now that's focused on moving forward,
not backward.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Right again, this is Lydia Saroni filling in for Jesse Kelly.
You can follow me at Lydia News. We're talking to
Tim Dosher to your point about fuel costs. So I
live right outside of New York City in a suburb
that is unfortunately, very very blue. It wasn't so blue.
It used to be kind of purple. It used to
be red, then it became purple. And then of course
during COVID, all the losers that from New York City,

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from Brooklyn and Park Slope and whatever, and they came
to live in my neighborhood and they, I mean, I
mean it's the housing prices skyrocketed. So there was a
nuclear power plant called Indian Point. Andrew Cuomo, who is
oh my god, he shut it down and they were like, oh,
it's dangerous, it's dangerous. And I remember telling people, do

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you understand, if you shut down this nuclear power plant Connetism,
which is a utility company, they're gonna have number one monopoly,
number one. The grid's not gonna be able to handle it.
Nuclear energy is good, clean energy. It's gonna cause nobody listened.
We all talked about it. My fuel costs have skyrocketed.

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Three can't even handle it.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Yeah, this is really amazing because if you if you
remember what was going on in the campaign for me
for governor who was running against Mom Dami, who did
a terrible, terrible job Croomo. He started talking about how
we needed an all of the above approach when he

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was the governor that took this nuclear power close to
your community, took it offline. If he was the one
that said we have to be we have to look
out for the environment, we have to do all of this.
This rhetoric which is now being completely reversed because we
start to see that what's driving all of this growth

(25:18):
lydia it's it's it's the AI boom. It's the fact
that we are going to start making things cheaper by
automating and by bringing new technology into plants, into by
by moving forward and leading the worldness and what does
it require. It requires energy, and nuclear power might be

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the single best, most reliable avenue to getting and generating
that power on a mass scale than any other source
of energy that we have.

Speaker 2 (25:49):
Uh it.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
It really is an incredible thing. And the fact that
blue states like New Jersey and New York are tying
both hands behind their back is the reason why they've lost,
to combine, over two million people over the last ten years.
They've just moved south to states where they aren't doing
things like that. They're making the choice to vote with
their feet and move south. And that's very unfortunate because

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you know, that's about a trillion dollars in tax revenue
that's lost tax and not tax income that's lost in
that state, which turns into tax revenue. So I know
it's I know it's a little bit boring and wonky,
but policies have consequences lydia, and you can tell that
right right from your own community where you're seeing where
energy prices are more expensive than they are if you

(26:35):
move south.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
I know, people just don't get it. They're like, oh,
it's you know, we're right outside of New York City.
We can't have a nuclear power plan. What if there's
a nine to eleven and it's like guys, guys like
this is we need? How do you That's why Joe
Biden when he shut down the oil rigs, when he
strangled the oil like that's liquid gold. Why would you
make us poor and make us more reliant on foreign oil,

(26:57):
dirty oil from Venezuela. I mean, I'm not an oil economist, expert,
you name it, but even I get it. We got
to leave it right there. Tim Dosher, Executive director of
Unleashed Prosperity, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, Mary,
Merry Christmas, Lydia Merry Christmas. Thank you. All right, guys,
coming up, we're gonna talk more about fraud in Somalia.
We're going to talk to Congressman Randy Fine ilhan Omar

(27:19):
and why Mike Waltz is now apparently what he's saying,
he's got white privileged, white supremacy. All that and much
more right here on the Jesse Kelly Show. Welcome back
to the Jesse Kelly Show. I am Lydia Sarama. You
can follow me on social media at Lydia News l
I d Ia News n Ews with the one on
Instagram and you can see me on Newsmax. I'm a

(27:42):
news anchor there. And before that, I was at WABC
Radio with Curtis Sliwa. You know, the first time I
was ever on the radio hosting a show was with
Curtis Sliwa. So what happened was I was hired at
WABC Radio too. Initially, this is before John Katzmtiti's bought
the station. I was hired to just do the news,

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do the headlines because I already had another job. I
was working at a Catholic news TV station, and so
I was just kind of doing it on the side
here and there. I'm one of those people obviously you
probably can tell I like to keep busy. So I
already have a full time job at Newsmax and then
I do the radio thing on the side, and so
I was just doing the headlines just to get extra money.
And then the Catholic news station they were based all

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the way out in Brooklyn, and the commute just became
too much based on where I live. And so then
WABC Radio was bought out and they said, hey, we
need a news director. Can we have you as a
news director? So I said great. I was like because
I wanted to kind of get away from TV and
just go straight into news and production and management, because

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I had done that before as well. I was a
producer before I went on TV, and so here I
was news directing at the radio station when COVID hit
literally like he bought the station in early March, and
by the end of March everything was shut down and
so nobody was coming into work anymore. None of the
house were coming in, people were calling out six So
Curtis had a co host who didn't want to come

(29:10):
to work anymore, and so they were like, Lydia, can
you go in with Curtis so, and Curtis was and Curtis,
I'm almost I never even told him this. I'm ninety
nine percent sure Curtis gave me COVID. He did because
he was sick. He has this like weird He was
going down into the trains, subways and he was he
always is all up in the faces of the homeless

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people's He's very much like that. He gets he's not
afraid to get into close contact with people. Now, remember
he was a little sick, and he'll put like rubbing,
he carries rubbing alcohol with him and he'll put it
in his nostrils. So anyway, he was coming in. And
so the first time I ever they said we're going
to have you co host with Curtis Sliwa. I was

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so nervous because he's a legend, you know, And I
didn't sleep all night and I basically said nothing during
the who whole entire three hour show. But then I
was doing it more and more with him, and I
learned a lot from Curtis. And then a few months later,
I remember we got a COVID anybody test and I
knew it that cold that I got from Curtis turned
out it looks like it was. It was COVID. So

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Curtis Lee what gave me COVID. But yeah, so that
is like how my radio opinion hosting career began by accident.
I never planned on this. I was a straight news
reporter for most of my career. Then COVID hit. Then
I started doing this, and I just I love it.
I just really loved talking to people. I love radio

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more than I love TV because with TV you have
to do things scripted because the director has to take
the video. They have to know when you can't just
say can you play this clip? Can you do this,
Like they have to have the cues in the scripts
and all of that, and you have to be really
careful with what you say. On TV radio there's a
little bit more latitude. So I really love the kind

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of intimate relationship you have with the listeners when you
do the radio, And you know, I can tell these
kind of stories with you guys that I can't tell
on TV, like my parents and how I got into this,
and you know, I told the story yesterday about how
I stole my parents' car, and Yeah, you can tell
those kind of stories. You can really explain yourself and

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people really get to know you. And that's why I
would love one day to have like a long I
love the whole podcast format and sit there and talk
to Trump. Right, that would be a great interview. I'd
love to sit down and talk to him. And for me,
what I would love to talk to Trump about is
how he grew up. Like they are always talking about
his policies and this person, what do you think of putin?

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What do you think is Jijing ping? And why are
you friendly with this guy from Qatar? What I would
love to talk to Trump about is like how he
was as a kid, like, did he like to play
practical jokes? His mom fascinates me, right, his mom was
from Scotland. His mom, because he think about it, Trump
was the first generation immigrant on his mom's side. So
how is his father, Like, do we like, I know

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we've heard kind of these stories, but I'd love to
have those. And then of course about talk about his faith,
because for me, my faith is an integral part of
who I am, and I think for most people it
is the foundation of who you are as a human being.
And I think I've noticed a change in Trump ever
since he was almost assassinated. And in fact, I was

(32:27):
I was anchoring his rally that night when I was
sitting in the chair and I tossed to the rally
and then it was like, uh, be an American. And
then all of a sudden, he starts talking and then
he goes puts his head a little, ever so slightly
because he went to that you know, he had like
a graphic that he never uses graphics. And then and

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then you saw him like grab his ear and I screamed,
and I said, oh my god, he was shot.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
He was shut.

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And then then when he stood up, you could see
like and it was a little monitor, because where I
was doing the broadcast from was from our newsroom, not
even in the main studio, and it was just this
tiny little monitor, and so I'm squinting and I'm looking
and I was like, oh my god, that's blood. He's
got blood on his face, and oh my god. And
I remember and then I was on the air for

(33:13):
hours straight by myself, with my one of my producers,
Nick kind of was hanging out, like he was there
early early in the morning. He just happened to be
there late and then he stayed late with me, and
so Nick was there and we just went on for hours,
and I remember saying how he was shot and there
was blood and he was hit, and I was getting
all these hate texts and messages. You're so dramatic. Trump

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wasn't shot. I think he got stung by a bee,
and like all this craziness. And meanwhile, we know, comparori,
we know a firefighter was killed protecting his family. So
people are just so vile and disgusting, and especially from
the left. And that is at the end of the day,
what I think is going on in this country. It's
not a right or a left issue that we're seeing

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democrat or a Republican. It is good versus evil. And
you have a lot of godless, soulless, evil, nasty people
out there that say, oh, I wish they would have
finished the job with Trump, or I wish this or that,
and they're all for the mutilation of kids and all
this because they don't believe in God. They have no foundation,
they have no soul. They're in one with the devil.

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And that's what we're seeing happening all across this country.
And that's why they're all about numbing themselves with drugs
and alcohol and psychotropic drugs, because they are fundamentally broken
and what they need to do is submit their will
to God. That is what is happening, and that is
what is wrong with this country. And so we're gonna

(34:40):
talk about that. We're gonna talk about Somalia again. We're
gonna talk about the fraud, the stealing, and why we
shouldn't be surprised because they basically Tim Wolt's saying, come
steal the money, take the money. Wait till you hear
what one may or even is saying about the Somalis again.
I'm Lydia Soaran, I filling in for Jesse Kelly. You
can follow me on social media at Lydia News l

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I d I A n e WS. I'm gonna be
talking with Congressman Randy Faring, who's on a mission to
get rid of ilhan Omar. Will he succeed, I don't know.
We'll be right back