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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Michael Barry Show.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Do you own an ice maker?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I do? I own an ice maker. I'm not sure
how you heard about it. I've been fairly tight lipped
about it, but no serious question.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Do you own an ice maker?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't think people know how much money you make.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, look it was it was forty it was forty
five dollars. I don't believe you. No, it was.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Your wife is here, and I don't believe you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Well, she's the one who bought it. And she's actually
the one who bought it. She's been really upset about
how much public credit I've taken for the fact that
it was her idea and she purchased it. Okay, I
did pay the extra four ninety nine for expedited shipping,
so I don't want to rub that in anyone's face.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I don't really like to be interviewed, so I
thought i'd interview you well clearly command So people want
to know what does Jesse Kelly do when he gets
home every night from the show and he's had a
long day, right sitting in an air conditioned office all
day and doing his show and having people tell him
how Grady is. What is it what's the do you
have a drink when you go home?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Not as much anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Actually, I used to I'm trying to be Tucker Carl
and be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
My My routine used to be, I'm being honest if
you would stop interrupted. My routine used to be, remember
I get home because my show is at night. So
by the time I get home, she's getting ready to
go to my wife's getting the boys are getting ready
to go to bed, like the house is winding down.
Because it's an evening show. I don't get home and
you know, I to have dinner. It used to be
(01:23):
more of go have a glass of bourbon or to
I am worried about my blood pressure because high blood
pressure runs in my family, and it was starting to
run a little high and not like anything concerning high.
So I had to basically cut a lot of that out.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
When you have that problem, like giraffes have, you have to.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Push that, but not like giraffes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm six eight, then why are you wearing high heel boots?
If you're six eight, you don't need to wear high
heel boots. You're already six eight. What are you six eleven? Now?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't need you, but I have one. Now your
problem is more than you have. You you my mentor
your mikel all this success, I have more ice than
you do. When you want to live with that?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Did you ever think that you would be hanging out
backstage with Tucker Cross and him telling all your friends,
including your mom, how great you are.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I was figured. I always figured whenever I was selling
r VS. Yeah, it figured. I figured. You know, when
I was in the Marines, I just when I was
in the sand, I would sit there and say to myself,
You're gonna be a huge star.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
One day, I was serious, like you're you're in the
national conversation with five people. No, it's serious, like I'm
being dead serious. It's it's cool as hell. It's fun
for me.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To watch I in all serious. It's like I'm watching
it too. My wife and I IV and I were
talking about it on the way in. We're at this
big Tucker Callison event and we're all backstage in there's
a green room and there's event. But you are the
super speed you pulled that in. When we pulled in,
it was Tucker's face on there, and then my face
(02:55):
is on the billboard, and we pulled over and took
a picture up. Yeah, that's like, that's really weird. It's
very weird. This is weird to me. I don't have
green rooms and stuff. Come from a construction family, which
I'm very proud of, but I don't have green rooms.
You don't have events, you don't have people wanting to
take pictures with you. It's like I'm watching it too.
People don't believe me when I say that, but it is.
(03:15):
It's weird. Like I'll come home well, IB and I
will talk about it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I will tell you and if people have asked me,
you've had a meteoric rise, and I tell people that
the reason for that is authenticity. There are a lot
of people that were an FMDJ. They were a TV personality,
and nothing against them. They're very good at presenting on TV.
Although I think you're phenomenal. But I think the thing
(03:38):
that makes you special is there's an authenticity.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You're a real person.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
People can imagine you. You're one of them. You know,
in poor towns, the preacher would wear the nicest suit
and have the nicest car. You're a guy who came
from everyday people and launched and I think that's really awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
For people.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know you went in the Marines. Who did that? Right,
You've had this experience, you sold our vs and you
embrace that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You love long John Silvers, I love that. I mean
you love red lobster. I love that. And I think
people I think that resonates.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
With people well about what we do that You told
me this when you were mentoring me and teaching me
how to do this. We learn about how intimate radio is.
At radio or podcasting, whicheveryone you want to put every
radio shows podcast and now, but when you have when
it's the spoken word, when it's audio. Again, this is
what you taught me. You do it with people, and
(04:34):
people watch me do TV. Because I have a TV
show where everyone's watching this right now on the first.
It's a different way to consume media. You sit back
and you watch it. When it comes to radio. I
am in your car with you, I am making dinner
with you, I am working out with you, I am
at your job. I'm sitting at your desk and because
you're doing your day with me. Whereas when people are
(04:56):
watching this right now on the amazing first TV, you
were sitting in front of your iPad or your television
or wherever you're watching and you're watching it. But you
can't lie if you're on the radio for three hours
a day. If you are fake, people are not stupid.
They will sniff it out in a heartbeat. They will
smell it in a million miles. I can't pretend to
be educated. I'm not. I can't pretend to not like
(05:19):
things like waffle House and red Lobster. That's who I am,
It's what I love, it's what I enjoy. I can't
if I pretended, people would know, so you might as
well not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Bop our ceo who we both work at a company,
that he's the umbrella. Bob Pittman, who is the founder
of MTV, says that we are your companion, at least
on your radio.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Side, your TV side.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I love watching the show because I get to
see you in kind of a different way, because now
you get to use the visuals and all that. You
don't have to tell the story quite so much. Now
you can emote in a way you can't on the radio.
You can show your reaction to a video. And I
think I got to tell you and I'm not blowing
you up because I'll knock you around as well. And
you know this, but I can't believe. And I'm not
(06:03):
good at TV. I've never been good at TV, so
why I don't do it? You are so good on TV,
not having come up through the ranks, not having been coached,
not having been and that, to me is one of
the anomalies about you. I've never seen somebody that's so
good on TV on day one. It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Well. I like talking with my hands when I talk
to people, and I like expressing things, and I appreciate
the radio aspect where you have to describe it, but
I like being able to make a facial expression like
right now. I like being able to roll my eyes
or laugh or or grab my head or I enjoy
(06:41):
I don't know, does that sound lame? It almost sounds theatrical,
But I enjoy that part of it. I think it
helps bring everything alive.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, that's the laugh track, right We're seeing how you're reacting,
and sometimes I'm like, yeah, I agree with that. I
absolutely agree with that. What worries you most about the
future of this country right now?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Things are so poisoned at the top, it's so corrupted's
so criminal at the time, and we already know that
we get that. You and I talk about this on
our shows every single day, all day long. How corrupt
they are, how we've all poisonous city. It's okay, that's
a given a right, that's the life we've been given.
That's the government we've been given. What concerns me is
(07:24):
the number of people who will wake up in time
to stop it, because we completely have the power to
stop this. We really do. People don't think so because
you feel surrounded and you watch the news and it's
just problems here and problems there and problems there. We
really do. We have the power, We have the numbers.
People do not know this. I'll probably end up saying
this tonight, but they're afraid of us. The government is
(07:45):
deathly afraid of us. You think you're afraid of them.
They are afraid. The media is afraid. They are afraid
the people will wake up and rise up and reject them.
And we have the power to do that if we
will wake up in time. And I'm also concerned, to
be honest, I know this is gonna get a little dark.
I'm concerned about a terrible event gutting people and holding
(08:11):
the movement back. Now that terrible event, everyone knows what
I'm talking about. Right off the bat, I'm worried they're
gonna kill Donald Trump. I believe they will because corrupt,
evil systems kill people who challenge them. That's just the
history of the world. But let's say it's not that.
What if it's just a loss in November. Everyone thinks
Kamala Harris is gonna lose. She's a moron. They want
to vote for that. Everyone's done with it? Everyone? What
if she does? What if it's cheating? What if it's
(08:33):
not Who knows? Are all the people who are energized
and rising up right now? Yeah, we're all gonna be
drowning our sorrows that night. But are people just gonna
say screw it and walk away? Because if that happens,
we're done. If that happens, we have a dark, ugly,
evil future ahead of us if people stay involved. If
people get involved, we do not. It's just that simple.
(08:54):
We will not be determined by Trump or one race
or the House or the Senate. Do the people canntinue
to rise up and get involved. If they do, we're fine.
If not, rescut That's what worries me because I don't know.
I don't know which way that's going to go. I
don't know. Historically, sometimes they do rise up and sometimes
they just go meekly into the goolegs.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You and I talk off air often about things, and
it's almost never politics. It's interesting for me because I
follow you on Twitter. You write things and I think
that's exactly how I feel, and we haven't talked about that.
He just put it better than I would, and it's
shocking to me. I've literally never seen an opinion of
yours that you posted, and your opinions are out there
(09:37):
and I go, gosh, I agree with him one hundred
percent of the time. But people will say, what do
you and Jesse talk about? And I'll say, we talk
about our families. We talk about what's going on our
personal lives. We talk about which part of our bodi's
falling apart because we're not as young as we used
to be. When you talk about being a father, which
you don't talk as much about that on the air
(09:58):
as I think you should, how are you different as
a father talking to the nation every night about and
every day about what's going on in this country? Because
I'm different, I know, how are you different?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I don't think I am and if anything, it can
come off I know it can. She'll, she'll, She'll say
to me, it can come off as very direct and harsh.
But my boys are at the age where, well even
when they were younger, I just don't sugarcoat things for them.
(10:31):
If they came home one day in class or from
school and their teacher told them that FDR was the
greatest president ever, I will not dance around it. Your
teacher is an idiot, and FDR was a scumbag communist
and I can't stand him. So it doesn't mean you
get in trouble in class. You keep your mouth shut,
but your teacher doesn't know what the hecker they're talking about.
And I don't know that that's the right way. I
(10:52):
certainly don't think I'm Father of the Year, but I
will tell you my sons I've met your son's in
the same way. But my sons are very much prepared
for when they hear crap. They can sniff it a
mile away now because of how we've raised them, how
we've been There's a new there's a Disney movie coming out.
I don't know what the stupid thing is. Some robots
(11:14):
running through the forest with animals and crap. Everyone's probably
seen the advertisers anywhere, And immediately we were at the movies,
I forget what we were going to see. My youngest
he's not even the political one. My oldest is. He
looks at me and he says, you know, that's just
gonna be a bunch of climate change propaganda. That's my boy, right.
They and if you teach them how to sniff out
(11:35):
all the garbage when you're in a system of lies,
when everything on the TV is a lie, and every
movie is a propaganda piece, and everything's a lie, if
you teach them how to see that instead of what
every individual story is, then they pick up on it
so fast. It makes me so proud. When they pick
up on it before, I don't have to say anything
because I know I'm prepping them to enter a world
(11:55):
of lies. That's the world we live in now.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And if parents had been parents, then the young voters,
especially today, wouldn't be making the mistakes they were.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well were. There was this law that is a very
understandable law. With the previous generation's previous generation or two.
They had been raised in a normal country, and they'd
been raised by normal parents, and the rot and corruption
and evil at the top was not broadcast every day
(12:25):
on the news. It wasn't nearly as evident. You had
little glimpses of this, and that it wasn't breaking news
that LBJ was a corrupt piece of trash. You started
an entire war over These things are known. It's not
like they were completely like lost. But you didn't know
that you had to teach your kids to wake up
and be be activists. You didn't know that you can't
(12:47):
raise your kids. Why we don't talk politics. You can't do.
It's not an option anymore. If you send your kids
out there, they're gonna get eaten alive by the wolves
in the society like that. You better prep them now.
But that generation didn't know because they weren't trying to
blow the Republican nominees head off and chop kids' penises off.
When my parents were raising it just didn't work out
that much.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So Saturday, we're chatting and I said, come over, I
smoke cigars. You don't, but let's have some bourbons and
catch up on things and celebrate and enjoy some good fellowship.
And you said, I'm at a cross country track meet
out in the sun while everybody else in America's watching
college football and enjoying themselves. But I got to tell you,
(13:30):
I think those experiences connect us to real Americans because
you and I both know that Kamala Harris is not
a real American. Her husband is not a real American.
Joe Biden's this is not They do not live the
lives that real Americans live. You need to be at
that cross country meet, which is why you're there. You
need to be out there in the sun. You need
to be spending four hours to watch your kid run
(13:52):
for ten minutes. And I think that helps us understand
what people are going through. Because you've been hanging out
with Tucker crosson tonight, it's very easy to get alienated
from the people sitting in those seats and the lives
they're leading, and to communicate with those people. And I
think that's an important part of what we do that
we tend to take for granted.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
We do take it for granted. And as soon as
you start, as soon as you start making some money,
right you get you get the successful enough of media,
you're gonna start making good money. People aren't naive. They
know you're making good money. You can quickly price yourself
out of experiencing with other people, experience at all. No, No,
I'm not going to I'm not going to cross across
(14:31):
countries an hour and a half away. I want to
sleep in. You know what, send that we don't have
a nanny, but send the nanny with the kids, and
you can. You can. You can use your money to
price yourself out of the way everyday people live. So
you're never in the grocery store sticker shocked at the
price of beef. You're never at a cross country tournament,
rotting and miserable heat with all the other parents because
(14:53):
your kid doesn't race again for another two hours. It's
just you never. You don't if you didn't, and if
you do that, you're done. If you lose connection to people,
you're done.
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Speaker 2 (00:01):
Do you own an ice maker?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I do? I own an ice maker. I'm not sure
how you heard about it. I've been fairly tight lipped
about it, but no serious question.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Do you own an ice maker?
Speaker 3 (00:11):
I do.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I don't think people know how much money you make.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, look it was it was forty it was forty
five dollars. I don't believe you. No, it was.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Your wife is here, and I don't believe you.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Well, she's the one who bought it. And she's actually
the one who bought it. She's been really upset about
how much public credit I've taken for the fact that
it was her idea and she purchased it. Okay, I
did pay the extra four ninety nine for expedited shipping,
so I don't want to rub that in anyone's face.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, I don't really like to be interviewed, so I
thought i'd interview you well clearly command So people want
to know what does Jesse Kelly do when he gets
home every night from the show and he's had a
long day, right sitting in an air conditioned office all
day and doing his show and having people tell him
how Grady is. What is it what's the do you
have a drink when you go home?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Not as much anymore.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Actually, I used to I'm trying to be Tucker Carl
and be honest.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
My My routine used to be, I'm being honest if
you would stop interrupted. My routine used to be, remember
I get home because my show is at night. So
by the time I get home, she's getting ready to
go to my wife's getting the boys are getting ready
to go to bed, like the house is winding down.
Because it's an evening show. I don't get home and
you know, I to have dinner. It used to be
(01:23):
more of go have a glass of bourbon or to
I am worried about my blood pressure because high blood
pressure runs in my family, and it was starting to
run a little high and not like anything concerning high.
So I had to basically cut a lot of that out.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
When you have that problem, like giraffes have, you have to.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
Push that, but not like giraffes.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm six eight, then why are you wearing high heel boots?
If you're six eight, you don't need to wear high
heel boots. You're already six eight. What are you six eleven? Now?
Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't need you, but I have one. Now your
problem is more than you have. You you my mentor
your mikel all this success, I have more ice than
you do. When you want to live with that?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Did you ever think that you would be hanging out
backstage with Tucker Cross and him telling all your friends,
including your mom, how great you are.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I was figured. I always figured whenever I was selling
r VS. Yeah, it figured. I figured. You know, when
I was in the Marines, I just when I was
in the sand, I would sit there and say to myself,
You're gonna be a huge star.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
One day, I was serious, like you're you're in the
national conversation with five people. No, it's serious, like I'm
being dead serious. It's it's cool as hell. It's fun
for me.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
To watch I in all serious. It's like I'm watching
it too. My wife and I IV and I were
talking about it on the way in. We're at this
big Tucker Callison event and we're all backstage in there's
a green room and there's event. But you are the
super speed you pulled that in. When we pulled in,
it was Tucker's face on there, and then my face
(02:55):
is on the billboard, and we pulled over and took
a picture up. Yeah, that's like, that's really weird. It's
very weird. This is weird to me. I don't have
green rooms and stuff. Come from a construction family, which
I'm very proud of, but I don't have green rooms.
You don't have events, you don't have people wanting to
take pictures with you. It's like I'm watching it too.
People don't believe me when I say that, but it is.
(03:15):
It's weird. Like I'll come home well, IB and I
will talk about it.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I will tell you and if people have asked me,
you've had a meteoric rise, and I tell people that
the reason for that is authenticity. There are a lot
of people that were an FMDJ. They were a TV personality,
and nothing against them. They're very good at presenting on TV.
Although I think you're phenomenal. But I think the thing
(03:38):
that makes you special is there's an authenticity.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
You're a real person.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
People can imagine you. You're one of them. You know,
in poor towns, the preacher would wear the nicest suit
and have the nicest car. You're a guy who came
from everyday people and launched and I think that's really awesome.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
For people.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know you went in the Marines. Who did that? Right,
You've had this experience, you sold our vs and you
embrace that.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Right.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
You love long John Silvers, I love that. I mean
you love red lobster. I love that. And I think
people I think that resonates.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
With people well about what we do that You told
me this when you were mentoring me and teaching me
how to do this. We learn about how intimate radio is.
At radio or podcasting, whicheveryone you want to put every
radio shows podcast and now, but when you have when
it's the spoken word, when it's audio. Again, this is
what you taught me. You do it with people, and
(04:34):
people watch me do TV. Because I have a TV
show where everyone's watching this right now on the first.
It's a different way to consume media. You sit back
and you watch it. When it comes to radio. I
am in your car with you, I am making dinner
with you, I am working out with you, I am
at your job. I'm sitting at your desk and because
you're doing your day with me. Whereas when people are
(04:56):
watching this right now on the amazing first TV, you
were sitting in front of your iPad or your television
or wherever you're watching and you're watching it. But you
can't lie if you're on the radio for three hours
a day. If you are fake, people are not stupid.
They will sniff it out in a heartbeat. They will
smell it in a million miles. I can't pretend to
be educated. I'm not. I can't pretend to not like
(05:19):
things like waffle House and red Lobster. That's who I am,
It's what I love, it's what I enjoy. I can't
if I pretended, people would know, so you might as
well not.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Bop our ceo who we both work at a company,
that he's the umbrella. Bob Pittman, who is the founder
of MTV, says that we are your companion, at least
on your radio.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Side, your TV side.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
And I love watching the show because I get to
see you in kind of a different way, because now
you get to use the visuals and all that. You
don't have to tell the story quite so much. Now
you can emote in a way you can't on the radio.
You can show your reaction to a video. And I
think I got to tell you and I'm not blowing
you up because I'll knock you around as well. And
you know this, but I can't believe. And I'm not
(06:03):
good at TV. I've never been good at TV, so
why I don't do it? You are so good on TV,
not having come up through the ranks, not having been coached,
not having been and that, to me is one of
the anomalies about you. I've never seen somebody that's so
good on TV on day one. It's incredible.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Well. I like talking with my hands when I talk
to people, and I like expressing things, and I appreciate
the radio aspect where you have to describe it, but
I like being able to make a facial expression like
right now. I like being able to roll my eyes
or laugh or or grab my head or I enjoy
(06:41):
I don't know, does that sound lame? It almost sounds theatrical,
But I enjoy that part of it. I think it
helps bring everything alive.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Well, that's the laugh track, right We're seeing how you're reacting,
and sometimes I'm like, yeah, I agree with that. I
absolutely agree with that. What worries you most about the
future of this country right now?
Speaker 3 (07:03):
Things are so poisoned at the top, it's so corrupted's
so criminal at the time, and we already know that
we get that. You and I talk about this on
our shows every single day, all day long. How corrupt
they are, how we've all poisonous city. It's okay, that's
a given a right, that's the life we've been given.
That's the government we've been given. What concerns me is
(07:24):
the number of people who will wake up in time
to stop it, because we completely have the power to
stop this. We really do. People don't think so because
you feel surrounded and you watch the news and it's
just problems here and problems there and problems there. We
really do. We have the power, We have the numbers.
People do not know this. I'll probably end up saying
this tonight, but they're afraid of us. The government is
(07:45):
deathly afraid of us. You think you're afraid of them.
They are afraid. The media is afraid. They are afraid
the people will wake up and rise up and reject them.
And we have the power to do that if we
will wake up in time. And I'm also concerned, to
be honest, I know this is gonna get a little dark.
I'm concerned about a terrible event gutting people and holding
(08:11):
the movement back. Now that terrible event, everyone knows what
I'm talking about. Right off the bat, I'm worried they're
gonna kill Donald Trump. I believe they will because corrupt,
evil systems kill people who challenge them. That's just the
history of the world. But let's say it's not that.
What if it's just a loss in November. Everyone thinks
Kamala Harris is gonna lose. She's a moron. They want
to vote for that. Everyone's done with it? Everyone? What
if she does? What if it's cheating? What if it's
(08:33):
not Who knows? Are all the people who are energized
and rising up right now? Yeah, we're all gonna be
drowning our sorrows that night. But are people just gonna
say screw it and walk away? Because if that happens,
we're done. If that happens, we have a dark, ugly,
evil future ahead of us if people stay involved. If
people get involved, we do not. It's just that simple.
(08:54):
We will not be determined by Trump or one race
or the House or the Senate. Do the people canntinue
to rise up and get involved. If they do, we're fine.
If not, rescut That's what worries me because I don't know.
I don't know which way that's going to go. I
don't know. Historically, sometimes they do rise up and sometimes
they just go meekly into the goolegs.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
You and I talk off air often about things, and
it's almost never politics. It's interesting for me because I
follow you on Twitter. You write things and I think
that's exactly how I feel, and we haven't talked about that.
He just put it better than I would, and it's
shocking to me. I've literally never seen an opinion of
yours that you posted, and your opinions are out there
(09:37):
and I go, gosh, I agree with him one hundred
percent of the time. But people will say, what do
you and Jesse talk about? And I'll say, we talk
about our families. We talk about what's going on our
personal lives. We talk about which part of our bodi's
falling apart because we're not as young as we used
to be. When you talk about being a father, which
you don't talk as much about that on the air
(09:58):
as I think you should, how are you different as
a father talking to the nation every night about and
every day about what's going on in this country? Because
I'm different, I know, how are you different?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I don't think I am and if anything, it can
come off I know it can. She'll, she'll, She'll say
to me, it can come off as very direct and harsh.
But my boys are at the age where, well even
when they were younger, I just don't sugarcoat things for them.
(10:31):
If they came home one day in class or from
school and their teacher told them that FDR was the
greatest president ever, I will not dance around it. Your
teacher is an idiot, and FDR was a scumbag communist
and I can't stand him. So it doesn't mean you
get in trouble in class. You keep your mouth shut,
but your teacher doesn't know what the hecker they're talking about.
And I don't know that that's the right way. I
(10:52):
certainly don't think I'm Father of the Year, but I
will tell you my sons I've met your son's in
the same way. But my sons are very much prepared
for when they hear crap. They can sniff it a
mile away now because of how we've raised them, how
we've been There's a new there's a Disney movie coming out.
I don't know what the stupid thing is. Some robots
(11:14):
running through the forest with animals and crap. Everyone's probably
seen the advertisers anywhere, And immediately we were at the movies,
I forget what we were going to see. My youngest
he's not even the political one. My oldest is. He
looks at me and he says, you know, that's just
gonna be a bunch of climate change propaganda. That's my boy, right.
They and if you teach them how to sniff out
(11:35):
all the garbage when you're in a system of lies,
when everything on the TV is a lie, and every
movie is a propaganda piece, and everything's a lie, if
you teach them how to see that instead of what
every individual story is, then they pick up on it
so fast. It makes me so proud. When they pick
up on it before, I don't have to say anything
because I know I'm prepping them to enter a world
(11:55):
of lies. That's the world we live in now.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And if parents had been parents, then the young voters,
especially today, wouldn't be making the mistakes they were.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Well were. There was this law that is a very
understandable law. With the previous generation's previous generation or two.
They had been raised in a normal country, and they'd
been raised by normal parents, and the rot and corruption
and evil at the top was not broadcast every day
(12:25):
on the news. It wasn't nearly as evident. You had
little glimpses of this, and that it wasn't breaking news
that LBJ was a corrupt piece of trash. You started
an entire war over These things are known. It's not
like they were completely like lost. But you didn't know
that you had to teach your kids to wake up
and be be activists. You didn't know that you can't
(12:47):
raise your kids. Why we don't talk politics. You can't do.
It's not an option anymore. If you send your kids
out there, they're gonna get eaten alive by the wolves
in the society like that. You better prep them now.
But that generation didn't know because they weren't trying to
blow the Republican nominees head off and chop kids' penises off.
When my parents were raising it just didn't work out
that much.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
So Saturday, we're chatting and I said, come over, I
smoke cigars. You don't, but let's have some bourbons and
catch up on things and celebrate and enjoy some good fellowship.
And you said, I'm at a cross country track meet
out in the sun while everybody else in America's watching
college football and enjoying themselves. But I got to tell you,
(13:30):
I think those experiences connect us to real Americans because
you and I both know that Kamala Harris is not
a real American. Her husband is not a real American.
Joe Biden's this is not They do not live the
lives that real Americans live. You need to be at
that cross country meet, which is why you're there. You
need to be out there in the sun. You need
to be spending four hours to watch your kid run
(13:52):
for ten minutes. And I think that helps us understand
what people are going through. Because you've been hanging out
with Tucker crosson tonight, it's very easy to get alienated
from the people sitting in those seats and the lives
they're leading, and to communicate with those people. And I
think that's an important part of what we do that
we tend to take for granted.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
We do take it for granted. And as soon as
you start, as soon as you start making some money,
right you get you get the successful enough of media,
you're gonna start making good money. People aren't naive. They
know you're making good money. You can quickly price yourself
out of experiencing with other people, experience at all. No, No,
I'm not going to I'm not going to cross across
(14:31):
countries an hour and a half away. I want to
sleep in. You know what, send that we don't have
a nanny, but send the nanny with the kids, and
you can. You can. You can use your money to
price yourself out of the way everyday people live. So
you're never in the grocery store sticker shocked at the
price of beef. You're never at a cross country tournament,
rotting and miserable heat with all the other parents because
(14:53):
your kid doesn't race again for another two hours. It's
just you never. You don't if you didn't, and if
you do that, you're done. If you lose connection to people,
you're done.
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