November 3, 2025 • 39 mins
Are kids scared of peanuts? Clay Travis and how young men in sports saved America. Remember the Maine. Medal of Honor Teddy Roosevelt
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Monday. I'm so happy the work week's just starting,
aren't you. So here's what we have this hour. We
got Klaye Travis coming up half hour from now. I
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do need to address the Halloween issue in about ten minutes,
but we don't have time for any of that right now,
because you know what time it is. It is the
start of the second hour on Monday, and that means
it's time for Medal of Honor Monday. We take a
medal of honor, citation, we read it. That's it. We
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honor the hero, we honor the deeds, we remember them
as we should. I again, as I always do, encourage
you to do this in your own life. I don't
I didn't do any of these deeds. I don't know
any of this. These are available for everybody. If you're
a teacher, do it with your class, If you're an employer,
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do it in the office, do with your sports team.
People love this stuff. It's important and people love it
all right. This one is one we've actually never done.
In fact, I'm going to give you a little bit
of history around this one before we move on to
the rest of the show. But this is the Medal
of Honor citation for Teddy Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt. That's right,
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one and the same. There's all kinds of things around
this we'll discuss in a moment, but before we do that,
we might as well honor the man. He was born
in New York, New York. Don't know if you knew
that Teddy Roosevelt was a New Yorker. He was an
old and he was from a wealthy family in New
York City. Very much a self made though human being
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wealthy but self made. I'll explain in few but without
further ado. There it is hey honoring those who went
above and beyond its Medal of Honor Monday for conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life, above
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and beyond the call of duty. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
distinguished himself by acts of bravery on the first of
July eighteen ninety eight, near Santiago de Cuba, Republic of Cuba,
while leading a daring charge up San Juan Hill, Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt in total disregard for his personal safety, and
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accompanied by only four or five men, led a desperate
and gallant charge up San Juan Hill, encouraging his troops
to continue the assault through withering enemy fire over open countryside.
Facing the enemy's fire, he displayed extraordinary bravery throughout the
charge and was first to reach the enemy trenches, where
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he quickly killed one of the enemy with his pistol,
allowing his men to continue the assault. His leadership and
valor turned the tide in the Battle for San Juan Hill.
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are
in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and
reflect great credit upon himself his unit in the United
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States Army. Now I'm going to give you a little
bit of history, little background on the Spanish American War
and on Teddy Roosevelt. So you know how we had
that discussion a couple weeks ago. I think it was
about how I feel that we should conquer more of
the Western hemisphere. Now, this whole thing kind of makes
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me angry because Cuba is one of those things we
should have never given up. The Spanish had control of Cuba,
we we launched the Spanish American War against them. Now
you probably already know this story. In case you don't,
we had a warship parked off of the coast of Cuba.
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We were having obviously some tensions with the Spanish. This
warship was called the Main, as in the state the Main.
It blew up one night. Nobody knows, and now we're
at the point where nobody will ever know why it
blew up. Did the Spanish do it? We don't know.
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Did someone was someone smoking a cigarette in the magazine
of the ship and dropped some ashes on that. We
don't know. We'll never know. But what we do know
is what came next. In what is known as yellow journalism,
America's media, major media outlets, major newspapers to the American
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people up into a frenzy, saying the Spanish blew up
our warship. The rallying cry across the country was, remember
the Main. Remember the Main. If I remember right, I
think there are even stupid old songs and stuff like
that they wrote about it. Remember the Main, Remember the Main.
So we decide we've had enough of these dirty Spaniards
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and we are going to go down there and we're
going to beat the Spanish up in Cuba. But we
didn't have much of an army. America was made to
not have much of a standing army. Our founders wanted
a very minimal standing army. We just didn't have many guys.
The President of the United States of America starts getting
legislation passed that not only beefs up the army for
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the coming expedition. He's flat out asking for volunteers, and
he finds somebody who is more than willing to volunteer.
That man's name was Teddy Roosevelt. Now let's pause for
just a moment. Why would Teddy Roosevelt volunteer this? There's
this thing. I don't want to speak for women, but
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I know this thing exists in men. Where you have
a father, or maybe you didn't, but your father, oftentimes
you will become what he is, and oftentimes you will
try very hard and succeed in making sure you're not
what he is. It just totally depends Teddy Roosevelt's father.
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I don't want to make him sound like a bad
guy at all at all. There's no I haven't read
anything to indicate that. But Teddy Roosevelt's father sat out
the Civil War, did not fight in the Civil War.
Teddy Roosevelt was a very sickly young boy, very very sickly.
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Teddy Roosevelt, through what appears to be will I don't
even know still understand fully what happened, decides that he's
going to make himself a tough guy. He's just going
to become one. He is sickly, he is weak, he
gets picked on by the other kids. That he just
starts training, training his body. He's just boxing, wrestling. He
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was physically, by far, the toughest president we've ever had,
maybe Abe Lincoln, who was an accomplished wrestler, but physically,
I mean, one on one, they're all in the ring,
Teddy Roosevelt would probably beat the living daylights out of
any of them. Just became that way. He was so
interested in being the ultimate American and a tough guy
that before all this, before the Spanish American War, he
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lost his wife, things like that. I won't go on
into the details. He moves out to the Dakotas, which
are brutal, especially back then in the winter time, and
he just becomes a cowboy. This is a New York socialite,
and he's, no, I want to be a wider. I'm
gonna go out. And he did it. There's toughest and
got very good on a horse, very good with weapons.
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Fast forward. Part of this volunteer thing for the Spanish
American War was, Hey, Teddy, why don't you take some guys.
He raises about eleven hundred men, and they were known
as the rough Riders. Many of them were ranchers, because
he wanted guys. This was going to be a cavalry
unit all horseback. Many of them were ranchers. Many of
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them were polo players or cross country riders. Many of
them were Indian tribesmen who were experienced on horses, cherokees
and things like that. It sounds like a motley crew,
but it was. They were selected for their horsemanship, and
Teddy Roosevelt himself was a very accomplished horseman. They end
uped up down in Cuba, really really crappy. Fighting. Disease
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was a terrible problem, malaria and yellow fever. We're talking
about a lot of tropical environment, a lot of tropical fighting.
It was killing the Spanish, it was killing us, and
Teddy Roosevelt again, he just decided he was going to
be brave. By force of will, he just goes charging
up this hill. It is disputed whether or not he
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was the first. Teddy Roosevelt says he was the first.
There are men who served with him who say he
was the first. He likely was the first. There are
other accounts that say, ah, there were other people ed.
No matter what, it was a very very brave thing
to do, to just go charging up and open hill
when people are shooting down on you. Is that's brave.
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That's very very brave. And so our American president on
Mount Rushmore goes charging up the hill, runs into some
guy trying to kill him, pulls out a pistol and
guns him down like the wiaterp. He decided he was
going to be Teddy Roosevelt. I actually politically have a
lot of disagreements with him. He's much more big government
than I am. But as a man, as a human being,
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I'm a huge admirer, a huge admirer. He is somebody
that is fascinating. I only said all this because I
wanted to encourage you. If this kind of stuff interest you,
Teddy Roosevelt would be a fascinating person to read about.
If you're a kid listening. Maybe I have a school
project coming up. If you did one on Teddy Roosevelt,
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you would enjoy the homework. I'll put it that way.
He's he's like an action hero. He's that why, just
a wild man. He used to box visiting dignitaries. He'd
make them box or wrestle. He finally had to stop
because he got hit so hard that he went like
blind in one eye. And so I'll just move on
to wrestling. He's just one of the dude's amazing dudes
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wild All right, Before we get back to politics, I'm
gonna get to some emails. I do want to address
something that's odd. I ran into something odd on Friday night.
Friday night. Before we do that, it's odd to me
that anybody would have Verizon after the news that's come
out recently. That's very odd. We have United States senators
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coming out saying Verizon just gave the checka all my stuff,
didn't chanut They couldn't wait to give people up same
thing after January sixth. Do you have a wireless company
that's communists Verizon AT and T T Mobile, You know
how quickly they're going to hand your information over to
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the checker when they asked for it one day. Why
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two five zero and say Jesse Kelly. Pound two five zero,
Say Jesse Kelly. We'll be back the Jesse Kelly Show.
It's still real to me, Dammit the tern stacks. It
is the Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Monday. Remember
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you can email the show Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.
I'm gonna get to those here in a few Also,
we have Clay Travis. Of course, if the Clay Travis
Buck Sexton Show coming up about ten minutes from now,
we'll be riffing with Clay for a few Oh, that's
so much more still to come on The Jesse Kelly Show.
We did get this one though, Jesse. We have a
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grandchild that is a first grader. The teacher and staff
preach about peanut allergies. He've afraid he's afraid to touch
the stuff. It's worse than their climate propaganda. And I
brought the climate propaganda is actually about to come into
play here on the show in a few But so
I need to set the stage for you. Friday night
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was Halloween. I told you want Friday. The Kellys have
finally upgraded to full size candy bars. Right, we went
full size. Now I need to set it all up.
That needs said stage Bob. Of course, I kind of
get the shaft. We'll get to that in a moment.
But Ob pulls out this huge tray. It's sitting by
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the front door. We have on this tray Starburst, Skittles,
her She's Chocolate bars, just a straight chocolate bar, Snickers, Twigs,
Reese's Peanut butter cups and butterfingers. All right, we have that.
It's those eight things. You know, I'm fascinated by people.
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And we've had this talk before about candy bulls in
the office. You know how the secretary has a candy
bull up there. What's the last thing? Always in the
little candy bull three Musketeers because it sucks and nobody
likes it, and you can yell all you want that
it's great. I'm sorry, but people don't lie. They pick
around the three musketeers. With a selection like this of
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so many of the base, I was fascinated. What was
gonna go first? What wasn't gonna go first? Now, first
thing off the board, Skittles, the skittle That's not surprising.
Everybody takes a handful of Skittles, tosses them all in
the mouth, chews them up until it's just one ball
of delicious sugary crack, and then you swallow it down.
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Skittles are amazing, No surprise Skittles. Second, now, I thought
this was a little surprising. Twis I like Twigs. This
is not an anti Twix rant. But second, off the board, Yeah,
there's butterfingers there, there's the Reese's Peanut butter cups are
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right there, Twigs. Third, straight up, Hirshley's chocolate bar. That's
exactly what I said. Jewish producer Chris just said, why now,
I like it if someone offers me a square something.
I'm not a huge candy person. I'd been I like it.
I would never if I was buying a candy bar
in the gas station with all those selections, go Hershey's
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Chocolate bar, but the kids did. Okay, you can defend
all this, But before the Reeses and the Snickers, I
did mention Snickers, right, I hope I did. If I
didn't mention Snickers, I should have because that's important to
the story. Full size Snickers. We couldn't give them away,
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nobody wanted them. The Snickers did not go until everything
else had been wiped off the tray, absolutely everything else,
and we had to go get the spare packs of Hershey's,
spare packs of skills. The skills were gone in the
first twenty minutes, just wiped out. Everything else had to
be gone. At the end of the night, the only
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thing left on the tray were Snickers bars and butterfinger bars.
No butterfinger and so I put this out on social media,
how weird this was, and I got a lot of
responses like this, is this a peanut allergy thing? Are
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I'm not trying to be little anybody, I don't know.
I know peanut allergies are real. Is this so prevalent
and dangerous in the next generation that now kids are
afraid of buying Reese's peanut or getting Reese's Peanut butter cups?
Chris says no way. Yeah, but your kids are young.
You're your baby's young, Corey's baby's young. My sons don't
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have this. I've never heard of this before. This was
news to me, and I know this is the most
unimportant thing in the world. I thought it was fascinating. Snickers,
I'll give you Snickers is always mid tier. Reese's peanut
butter cups, that's top tier candy bar, that's on almost
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everybody's top five. What Chris, Chris said, when you're going
through candy, you have to unwrap Reeses twice. Chris, you're
thinking like a logical adult. Children hyped up on sugar
at Halloween are not walking through this like you taking
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a part of a car engine, You goober. The kids
are not gonna worry about an extra little piece of
paper on rate on Reese's. The only the only way
I would push back on that, or maybe say you
could get agreement on that, is what's up with the Starburst.
The starbursts were not big either. Now that you have
to unwrap twice, and it's not easy to unwrap it twice,
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you have to dig your fingernails at what it didn't go.
Because starburst sucks it's not that it sucks. It can
be too hard. It could be if you get starbars
that's fresh enough, where it's nice and squishy, it's fine.
I don't want to have to pull out my molars
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trying to eat candy, or I'm just not doing it.
I have no idea why we just talked about this
for like ten minutes, but we're you know what, I'm
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You're listening to the oracle. You love this one. It's
a scream baby, the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Monday. Reminding you you
can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
Joining me now reluctantly says we're going to talk about
his new book and other things. Is my buddy Clay Travis,
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of course of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Doesn't exactly need an introduction on this program, Okay, Clay
before we get into politics in the book and everything else.
That there was a weird phenomenon at the Kelly household.
I just talked about it. I want to know if
you experienced this Halloween night, Skittles went super fast, Twigs
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super fast, Reese's Peanut butter Cups lagging way behind Snickers.
Snickers might as well have not even showed up. McLay,
I've got Snickers coming out the wazoo. Now, what happened
at the Travis household?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
So Reese's Peanut butter cups are like the gold standards. Yes,
they're the ten at the bar at closing hour that
you can't even believe would still be available. So so
Reese's went like crazy. The one that I realize I'm
getting to be an old guy on and having to
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learn this like Nerds gummy concoction. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The kids on the Nerd gummy creation and I haven't
even tried yet. This is where I feel like, as
my boys call me, the ultimate unk. I don't know
if you ever are called this, but you know, an
old guy who's not necessarily plugged in is now called
an unk by the young kids, obviously short for uncle.
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But I am the Travis family unk beyond a shadow
of a doubt. And so I didn't even know these
things existed. I couldn't believe how popular they were. And
my boys are like, of course, and even my wife
is like, you know, where have you been? And I'm like, well,
sitting around watching a lot of sports, not aware of
gummy nerds, I guess and coctions. But but yeah, this
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was we gave out how much like how busy is
your house? Like how many people would you bet come
by on a Halloween?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Okay, well, this is another point that I don't understand
that I feel like things have changed from seven to eight.
I would say there's a kid every five minutes, not
super busy, and we're in a neighbor a bunch of
kids eight o'clock, noticeable drop off. By eight thirty. You
can throw the candy outside, they're gone. I feel like
we didn't start trick or treating till eight thirty nine
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o'clock when I was a kid. I don't understand what's
happened to kids.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So my house, it starts in daylight, So I mean
we start getting slammed now. I think it's because there's
so many young kids and there are some you know,
parents out there, and they're like, I want to be
off the streets by the time it gets dark because
we got bad time and everything else. So the young
kids uh, starting about five thirty Central in the Nashville area, boom,
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people are just flooding it. Just I'm not kidding about this.
So this is fun. Years ago, I got into a
dispute with a company called Jack Daniels Fire. Do you
remember Jack Daniels when they got into the cinnamon whiskey business?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes' say this. Okay, so this is.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
A funny story. I don't know that you that you
have heard me tell this story for it's probably like
eight years ago. I got contacted. They're like, hey, we
know you like to drink. I was like yeah, okay,
and they're like, we'll pay you. They were doing a
launch party in Nashville. They're like, we'll pay you three
grand if you will show up and just you know,
get your picture taken at the Jackfire or whatever it
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was called, like their cinnamon whiskey event. And I was
like yeah, I mean all I got to do is
show up and you know, be like, here's a picture
of me with a whiskey bottle, y'all go. So I
agreed to do that. I think this is probably like
twenty seventeen or so, like six weeks later, I get
called and they're like, hey, this is so and so
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with Jack Daniels fire, I'm like, yeah, they're like some
of your social media posts we believe are bringing the
brand potentially into disreputable parsils. I swear to god Friggin'
Whiskey company. Jack Daniels like, I mean, do you know
who consumes your product? They were like, you are no
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longer able to come to our Cinnamon Whiskey of min
We are canceling your invitation. I swear to God. I
was like, is this I thought I was. I thought
it was one of my buddies like pranking me because
you know, like I probably bragged. I'm like, yeah, I'm
getting three grand to pose, you know, I mean I
I three grands a lot of freaking money to just
post a whiskey model, right, and you know they probably got,
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you know, pretty fun crowd that's showing up to come drink.
I was like, I'll show up for three I mean,
I want to go to the bar probably for free
between you and me, for three grand percent. So I'm
all set, all set to show up. They cancel on me,
and I was like, what did I say? And this
You'll love this? They were like, well, your comments about
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Confederate statues being torn down brought the brand into disrepute.
I'm like, Jack Daniel's brothers fought for the Confederacy. The
only reason Tennessee Company, the only reason Jack Daniels wasn't
a Confederate soldier was because he was too young when
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the Civil War happened to actually fight in the Civil War.
I was like, do you know who consumes your brand?
What percentage of whiskey drinkers are? Like, you know what,
I want more historical statues torn down. So this is
one hundred percent true. So the story Fireball sent me
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their top competitor. They sent me a fireball machine. They
sent me like like, it is like the same thing
that they have in the bar. It's a chiller. You
plug it in, you turn a fireball, you know, plastic
bottle upside down, double loaded. It will feed constant fireball
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shots out to anybody chilled, you know, directly out. So
starting about a decade ago, I don't know, eight years ago,
whenever they sent this to me, we started giving out
shots to parents in our neighborhood who would come by
with kids, you know, if they wanted it. So kids
get a trick or treat they get anything, and then
my wife, you know, is manning the shot machine. And
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so on Halloween for the last several you know, last
almost a decade in this house, we have now given
out last on Halloween. On Friday, we gave out seventeen
bottles of Fireball cinnamon whiskey. And it all started because
those morons that Jack Daniels said, you're too controversial, and
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to their credit, Fireball sent me a shot making machine,
and so we get we gave out seventeen bottles of
Fireball shots. Everybody loves it. And you know, there are
worse things than having some alcohol when you're having to
walk around and chase your kids all over the neighborhood.
So so yeah, seventeen bottles. My wife has been in
charge over the last years, and we're now moving and
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we have bequeathed the Fireball shot machine to a neighbor
so that trend can continue you in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I kid you not speaking with Clay Travis. He has
a new book Balls out, which we are going to
get to here in just a couple of months. I
kid you not to piggyback off your story, not to
Tommy Topper you at all Clay, but we also had
We were not those people, but we had people in
our neighborhood. It was right on the corner, like the
call to us at corner, and they were doing the
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same type thing. It wasn't just fireball though. They had
one of the big, like gigantic coolers and they were
handing out like like I think it's a college party,
jello shots and all kinds of stuff, and I'm all, no,
I'm not interested, no thank you, no, thank you. But
one of my buddies in the neighborhood was very interested clay.
And he happened to be the same buddy who took
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the governor off the golf cart he bought for his house.
He spent too much time in that corner one night,
long story short, the golf cart ended up upside down
in the middle of the road in the ambulance and
he had thirty five stitches in his legs because the
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golf cart ended up on top of it. And that
was the last time they rolled out the white cooler
full of jello shots and fireball. Close friend of mine
solely responsible for getting the alcohol taken out of the
neighborhood on Halloween.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Night, I well your friend. I mean, we have tons
of golf carts in our neighborhood too, and most people
walk because it's a very walkable neighborhood and everything else.
But the number of serious I mean, like just sort
of a psa, the number of serious injuries that I've
heard from people on golf carts. I think because you
just don't think about a golf cart as being dangerous,
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but the number of times that guys tip him over
or that you had accurbed the wrong way, I think
the golf cart is actually more dangerous than the actual
car because in most neighborhoods, you would have to be
a true moron driving twenty or twenty five miles an
hour to hurt yourself in a car, right, I mean,
you have to be like literally an absolute moron to
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hurt yourself in the car to go in that speed.
But at golf cars, people are getting screwed up all
the time. I had a buddy to one up your
the guy that I sold OutKick with my business partner.
He was on his fortieth birthday, hadn't even had any drinks.
He was down on the beach driving around in the
neighborhood as a lot of people have golf cars. They
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took a corner, he says, he thinks they just had
too many people on one side. It flipped off, his
foot got caught between the brake pad, the and the
He almost died. They had to transfuse him because they
hit the artery to such an extent that he was
bleeding to such an extent. And look, you never even
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he was like, I never even considered that I was
doing anything dangerous. I think he had like three buddies
sitting on one side and only one on the other.
And when they hit a curve, the thing flipped over
and he got caught under it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You gotta be careful how many feminists you put on
one side of the golf cart. We are gonna come
right back and talk to Clay Travis for one more
segment about his book. He's got this great book out.
Before we get to Clay, I want to get to
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Time matters legacybox dot com slash Jesse. We'll be back
the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
on a Monday back with Clay Travis. Clay Travis of
course with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. But has
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a book out now called Balls. How young Men Trump
in Sports Saved America? Clay, How did young men save America?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Well, I think you and I agree on this because
you have young sons too. I've got three and they
are just over the bs. And uh, sometimes rebellion can
be a bad thing because sometimes your kids rebel, as
all of you who've raised teenagers know, sometimes people just
rebel against things that are actually really good, and you're like,
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you want to slap them around because you're like, hey,
you're a moron, you know. Deciding that you want to
make d's instead of a's because you think it's not
cool to get good grades is not really a smart rebellion.
Other times, there are rebellions that actually make sense. And
I think young men are fed up with being told
that they are the cause of all problems in the world.
(32:25):
You and I are around the same age. We grew
up with the idea being that you should be treated equally,
not that everybody's equal, because we all have different skills
and talents. But these kids grew up and it started
with young white boys. Now it's young black boys, Hispanic boys,
Asian boys. They're all being told there's a problem with
being male, that masculinity is toxic, and they all just
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look around and they say this is not true. And
I think they've gotten fed up, and I actually think
culturally they are coming back around to the idea that
there's something to aspire to about masculinity, that we should
be proud of it that they want to grow up
and be masculine men. And this is what the book
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is about. How do we raise stronger boys the cultural
revolution that I think is happening. And you know, they
saying someone is a Kamala voter is an insult for
my boys, right Like when they're like sitting around making
fun of somebody, they're like, oh, that dude voted Kamala,
and it just like it brings down the house, right
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Like they just all die laughing at it. And I
think it's a sign of the Democrat Party having lost
young men and just not become cool. And I think
it's only growing with the younger generation and I'm super
optimistic about it. But you know, we have a lot
of work to do as men, because unfortunately, we still
have way too many absent dads. We have way too
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many families that are single parent moms trying to do
both jobs. And you know, the data that young girls
actually do well when there's a strong woman in the
household makes sense like sending them a message, But young
boys are the ones that actually struggle the most when
mom is trying to cover both sides because a lot
of dads are not living up to their obligations. And
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I know there's grandpas and uncles out there and male
figures that try to lift up everyone, but this is
about how men are stronger and have to take back, frankly,
the country and lead us to a better place. And
I'm optimistic there are green shoots of that starting to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Clay, I've only got a few minutes left here. Can
you explain to me, because I know you are a father,
and I am well aware because we're friends, how much
you adore your children. I mean, anyone who follows you
listens to who knows that. I just live and die
for my kids, so just so they're so awesome. I
don't understand why you would run out on your children.
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I just I cannot fundamentally understand it. Even if you're
completely selfish, there's so much fun. I don't get it.
Can you help me understand it?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I don't get it. I told my wife, who is
the saint, as you can well imagine, as your wife
is also a saint, as everyone listening can imagine. But
I told her before. I was like, Hey, if you
decide you're going to divorce me, I understand, but just
so you know, I will buy the house across the
street or next door and just leave the door unlocked constantly,
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because I cannot imagine living and not being around my boys.
And I'm fortunate to have three. They're seventeen, fifteen, and eleven,
but they are my life's purpose. They are the most
important thing in my life by far, and I can't
imagine not being around them. And I tell them all
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the time, Hey, I want you guys to grow up,
get married, have as many kids as you possibly can,
because I don't really understand. And I understand some people
can't have kids, don't have kids, don't find the right person.
I understand all that, trust me, But I just for
me personally, and I think this is true for a
lot of men without a family to provide for and
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without kids to raise, I think I would struggle in life.
I don't think I would find very much purpose because
at some point it's a lot of fun to be
hedonistic and go out and have steaks and chase girls
and all those things. But at some point you run
out of hedonism in some way and you do start
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to wonder what is the purpose of life? And for me,
it's raising three strong boys who I hope are really
good dads. I know you lost your dad recently. My
dad is eighty one. He's I was fortunate to have
an incredible dad, and I always say, if I can
be nearly as good of a dad as my dad was,
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then my boys are going to do really well. So
that's my life's purpose now. It's to raise three boys
who are really good dads and get married and have
a bunch of kids themselves. And I hope I get
to have a lot of grandkids, you know, in the future.
That would be you know, sort of my ideal world
would be kicking back. You know. My wife god Lover
basically lives in a frat house now because the boys
(37:10):
just you know, they all just want to get you know,
hamburgers and French fries and potato chips and soda and
just watch games. And it's like filthy and it smells
in the house all the time and like it's not clean.
And my wife's just rolling her eyes because she has
Thank god we don't have three daughters, because I would
be I think I would probably you know, be in
(37:31):
significant trouble. But yeah, she's she's got the three boys
and me and I'm the toughest to deal with, but
it is. It's an incredible experience. I can't imagine not
living with them.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
He is Clay Travis. His new book is Balls, and
I'm asking you personally, let's go buy that book. Let's
go get those numbers up for our boy, Clay Travis's
close friend of mine. Balls. You get it anywhere, Go
get that book. Thank you so much, Clay. I'll talk
to you soon, my brother. Also, Oh, remember that all
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This is the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Monday. I'm so happy the work week's just starting,
aren't you. So here's what we have this hour. We
got Klaye Travis coming up half hour from now. I
(00:31):
do need to address the Halloween issue in about ten minutes,
but we don't have time for any of that right now,
because you know what time it is. It is the
start of the second hour on Monday, and that means
it's time for Medal of Honor Monday. We take a
medal of honor, citation, we read it. That's it. We
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honor the hero, we honor the deeds, we remember them
as we should. I again, as I always do, encourage
you to do this in your own life. I don't
I didn't do any of these deeds. I don't know
any of this. These are available for everybody. If you're
a teacher, do it with your class, If you're an employer,
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do it in the office, do with your sports team.
People love this stuff. It's important and people love it
all right. This one is one we've actually never done.
In fact, I'm going to give you a little bit
of history around this one before we move on to
the rest of the show. But this is the Medal
of Honor citation for Teddy Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt. That's right,
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one and the same. There's all kinds of things around
this we'll discuss in a moment, but before we do that,
we might as well honor the man. He was born
in New York, New York. Don't know if you knew
that Teddy Roosevelt was a New Yorker. He was an
old and he was from a wealthy family in New
York City. Very much a self made though human being
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wealthy but self made. I'll explain in few but without
further ado. There it is hey honoring those who went
above and beyond its Medal of Honor Monday for conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life, above
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and beyond the call of duty. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt
distinguished himself by acts of bravery on the first of
July eighteen ninety eight, near Santiago de Cuba, Republic of Cuba,
while leading a daring charge up San Juan Hill, Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt in total disregard for his personal safety, and
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accompanied by only four or five men, led a desperate
and gallant charge up San Juan Hill, encouraging his troops
to continue the assault through withering enemy fire over open countryside.
Facing the enemy's fire, he displayed extraordinary bravery throughout the
charge and was first to reach the enemy trenches, where
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he quickly killed one of the enemy with his pistol,
allowing his men to continue the assault. His leadership and
valor turned the tide in the Battle for San Juan Hill.
Lieutenant Colonel Roosevelt's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are
in keeping with the highest traditions of military service and
reflect great credit upon himself his unit in the United
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States Army. Now I'm going to give you a little
bit of history, little background on the Spanish American War
and on Teddy Roosevelt. So you know how we had
that discussion a couple weeks ago. I think it was
about how I feel that we should conquer more of
the Western hemisphere. Now, this whole thing kind of makes
(03:56):
me angry because Cuba is one of those things we
should have never given up. The Spanish had control of Cuba,
we we launched the Spanish American War against them. Now
you probably already know this story. In case you don't,
we had a warship parked off of the coast of Cuba.
(04:16):
We were having obviously some tensions with the Spanish. This
warship was called the Main, as in the state the Main.
It blew up one night. Nobody knows, and now we're
at the point where nobody will ever know why it
blew up. Did the Spanish do it? We don't know.
(04:40):
Did someone was someone smoking a cigarette in the magazine
of the ship and dropped some ashes on that. We
don't know. We'll never know. But what we do know
is what came next. In what is known as yellow journalism,
America's media, major media outlets, major newspapers to the American
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people up into a frenzy, saying the Spanish blew up
our warship. The rallying cry across the country was, remember
the Main. Remember the Main. If I remember right, I
think there are even stupid old songs and stuff like
that they wrote about it. Remember the Main, Remember the Main.
So we decide we've had enough of these dirty Spaniards
(05:23):
and we are going to go down there and we're
going to beat the Spanish up in Cuba. But we
didn't have much of an army. America was made to
not have much of a standing army. Our founders wanted
a very minimal standing army. We just didn't have many guys.
The President of the United States of America starts getting
legislation passed that not only beefs up the army for
(05:46):
the coming expedition. He's flat out asking for volunteers, and
he finds somebody who is more than willing to volunteer.
That man's name was Teddy Roosevelt. Now let's pause for
just a moment. Why would Teddy Roosevelt volunteer this? There's
this thing. I don't want to speak for women, but
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I know this thing exists in men. Where you have
a father, or maybe you didn't, but your father, oftentimes
you will become what he is, and oftentimes you will
try very hard and succeed in making sure you're not
what he is. It just totally depends Teddy Roosevelt's father.
(06:31):
I don't want to make him sound like a bad
guy at all at all. There's no I haven't read
anything to indicate that. But Teddy Roosevelt's father sat out
the Civil War, did not fight in the Civil War.
Teddy Roosevelt was a very sickly young boy, very very sickly.
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Teddy Roosevelt, through what appears to be will I don't
even know still understand fully what happened, decides that he's
going to make himself a tough guy. He's just going
to become one. He is sickly, he is weak, he
gets picked on by the other kids. That he just
starts training, training his body. He's just boxing, wrestling. He
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was physically, by far, the toughest president we've ever had,
maybe Abe Lincoln, who was an accomplished wrestler, but physically,
I mean, one on one, they're all in the ring,
Teddy Roosevelt would probably beat the living daylights out of
any of them. Just became that way. He was so
interested in being the ultimate American and a tough guy
that before all this, before the Spanish American War, he
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lost his wife, things like that. I won't go on
into the details. He moves out to the Dakotas, which
are brutal, especially back then in the winter time, and
he just becomes a cowboy. This is a New York socialite,
and he's, no, I want to be a wider. I'm
gonna go out. And he did it. There's toughest and
got very good on a horse, very good with weapons.
(08:03):
Fast forward. Part of this volunteer thing for the Spanish
American War was, Hey, Teddy, why don't you take some guys.
He raises about eleven hundred men, and they were known
as the rough Riders. Many of them were ranchers, because
he wanted guys. This was going to be a cavalry
unit all horseback. Many of them were ranchers. Many of
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them were polo players or cross country riders. Many of
them were Indian tribesmen who were experienced on horses, cherokees
and things like that. It sounds like a motley crew,
but it was. They were selected for their horsemanship, and
Teddy Roosevelt himself was a very accomplished horseman. They end
uped up down in Cuba, really really crappy. Fighting. Disease
(08:50):
was a terrible problem, malaria and yellow fever. We're talking
about a lot of tropical environment, a lot of tropical fighting.
It was killing the Spanish, it was killing us, and
Teddy Roosevelt again, he just decided he was going to
be brave. By force of will, he just goes charging
up this hill. It is disputed whether or not he
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was the first. Teddy Roosevelt says he was the first.
There are men who served with him who say he
was the first. He likely was the first. There are
other accounts that say, ah, there were other people ed.
No matter what, it was a very very brave thing
to do, to just go charging up and open hill
when people are shooting down on you. Is that's brave.
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That's very very brave. And so our American president on
Mount Rushmore goes charging up the hill, runs into some
guy trying to kill him, pulls out a pistol and
guns him down like the wiaterp. He decided he was
going to be Teddy Roosevelt. I actually politically have a
lot of disagreements with him. He's much more big government
than I am. But as a man, as a human being,
(10:00):
I'm a huge admirer, a huge admirer. He is somebody
that is fascinating. I only said all this because I
wanted to encourage you. If this kind of stuff interest you,
Teddy Roosevelt would be a fascinating person to read about.
If you're a kid listening. Maybe I have a school
project coming up. If you did one on Teddy Roosevelt,
(10:20):
you would enjoy the homework. I'll put it that way.
He's he's like an action hero. He's that why, just
a wild man. He used to box visiting dignitaries. He'd
make them box or wrestle. He finally had to stop
because he got hit so hard that he went like
blind in one eye. And so I'll just move on
to wrestling. He's just one of the dude's amazing dudes
(10:41):
wild All right, Before we get back to politics, I'm
gonna get to some emails. I do want to address
something that's odd. I ran into something odd on Friday night.
Friday night. Before we do that, it's odd to me
that anybody would have Verizon after the news that's come
out recently. That's very odd. We have United States senators
(11:02):
coming out saying Verizon just gave the checka all my stuff,
didn't chanut They couldn't wait to give people up same
thing after January sixth. Do you have a wireless company
that's communists Verizon AT and T T Mobile, You know
how quickly they're going to hand your information over to
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the checker when they asked for it one day. Why
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Average family saves a grand a year while our bill
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two five zero and say Jesse Kelly. Pound two five zero,
Say Jesse Kelly. We'll be back the Jesse Kelly Show.
It's still real to me, Dammit the tern stacks. It
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you can email the show Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.
I'm gonna get to those here in a few Also,
we have Clay Travis. Of course, if the Clay Travis
Buck Sexton Show coming up about ten minutes from now,
we'll be riffing with Clay for a few Oh, that's
so much more still to come on The Jesse Kelly Show.
We did get this one though, Jesse. We have a
(12:29):
grandchild that is a first grader. The teacher and staff
preach about peanut allergies. He've afraid he's afraid to touch
the stuff. It's worse than their climate propaganda. And I
brought the climate propaganda is actually about to come into
play here on the show in a few But so
I need to set the stage for you. Friday night
(12:49):
was Halloween. I told you want Friday. The Kellys have
finally upgraded to full size candy bars. Right, we went
full size. Now I need to set it all up.
That needs said stage Bob. Of course, I kind of
get the shaft. We'll get to that in a moment.
But Ob pulls out this huge tray. It's sitting by
(13:10):
the front door. We have on this tray Starburst, Skittles,
her She's Chocolate bars, just a straight chocolate bar, Snickers, Twigs,
Reese's Peanut butter cups and butterfingers. All right, we have that.
It's those eight things. You know, I'm fascinated by people.
(13:35):
And we've had this talk before about candy bulls in
the office. You know how the secretary has a candy
bull up there. What's the last thing? Always in the
little candy bull three Musketeers because it sucks and nobody
likes it, and you can yell all you want that
it's great. I'm sorry, but people don't lie. They pick
around the three musketeers. With a selection like this of
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so many of the base, I was fascinated. What was
gonna go first? What wasn't gonna go first? Now, first
thing off the board, Skittles, the skittle That's not surprising.
Everybody takes a handful of Skittles, tosses them all in
the mouth, chews them up until it's just one ball
of delicious sugary crack, and then you swallow it down.
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Skittles are amazing, No surprise Skittles. Second, now, I thought
this was a little surprising. Twis I like Twigs. This
is not an anti Twix rant. But second, off the board, Yeah,
there's butterfingers there, there's the Reese's Peanut butter cups are
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right there, Twigs. Third, straight up, Hirshley's chocolate bar. That's
exactly what I said. Jewish producer Chris just said, why now,
I like it if someone offers me a square something.
I'm not a huge candy person. I'd been I like it.
I would never if I was buying a candy bar
in the gas station with all those selections, go Hershey's
(15:06):
Chocolate bar, but the kids did. Okay, you can defend
all this, But before the Reeses and the Snickers, I
did mention Snickers, right, I hope I did. If I
didn't mention Snickers, I should have because that's important to
the story. Full size Snickers. We couldn't give them away,
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nobody wanted them. The Snickers did not go until everything
else had been wiped off the tray, absolutely everything else,
and we had to go get the spare packs of Hershey's,
spare packs of skills. The skills were gone in the
first twenty minutes, just wiped out. Everything else had to
be gone. At the end of the night, the only
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thing left on the tray were Snickers bars and butterfinger bars.
No butterfinger and so I put this out on social media,
how weird this was, and I got a lot of
responses like this, is this a peanut allergy thing? Are
(16:10):
I'm not trying to be little anybody, I don't know.
I know peanut allergies are real. Is this so prevalent
and dangerous in the next generation that now kids are
afraid of buying Reese's peanut or getting Reese's Peanut butter cups?
Chris says no way. Yeah, but your kids are young.
You're your baby's young, Corey's baby's young. My sons don't
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have this. I've never heard of this before. This was
news to me, and I know this is the most
unimportant thing in the world. I thought it was fascinating. Snickers,
I'll give you Snickers is always mid tier. Reese's peanut
butter cups, that's top tier candy bar, that's on almost
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everybody's top five. What Chris, Chris said, when you're going
through candy, you have to unwrap Reeses twice. Chris, you're
thinking like a logical adult. Children hyped up on sugar
at Halloween are not walking through this like you taking
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a part of a car engine, You goober. The kids
are not gonna worry about an extra little piece of
paper on rate on Reese's. The only the only way
I would push back on that, or maybe say you
could get agreement on that, is what's up with the Starburst.
The starbursts were not big either. Now that you have
to unwrap twice, and it's not easy to unwrap it twice,
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you have to dig your fingernails at what it didn't go.
Because starburst sucks it's not that it sucks. It can
be too hard. It could be if you get starbars
that's fresh enough, where it's nice and squishy, it's fine.
I don't want to have to pull out my molars
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trying to eat candy, or I'm just not doing it.
I have no idea why we just talked about this
for like ten minutes, but we're you know what, I'm
gonna ask Klay Travis about it in a couple of
minutes and then we'll move on. I swear we'll get
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You're listening to the oracle. You love this one. It's
a scream baby, the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Monday. Reminding you you
can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
Joining me now reluctantly says we're going to talk about
his new book and other things. Is my buddy Clay Travis,
(19:52):
of course of the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.
Doesn't exactly need an introduction on this program, Okay, Clay
before we get into politics in the book and everything else.
That there was a weird phenomenon at the Kelly household.
I just talked about it. I want to know if
you experienced this Halloween night, Skittles went super fast, Twigs
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super fast, Reese's Peanut butter Cups lagging way behind Snickers.
Snickers might as well have not even showed up. McLay,
I've got Snickers coming out the wazoo. Now, what happened
at the Travis household?
Speaker 2 (20:27):
So Reese's Peanut butter cups are like the gold standards. Yes,
they're the ten at the bar at closing hour that
you can't even believe would still be available. So so
Reese's went like crazy. The one that I realize I'm
getting to be an old guy on and having to
(20:48):
learn this like Nerds gummy concoction. Have you heard about this?
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
The kids on the Nerd gummy creation and I haven't
even tried yet. This is where I feel like, as
my boys call me, the ultimate unk. I don't know
if you ever are called this, but you know, an
old guy who's not necessarily plugged in is now called
an unk by the young kids, obviously short for uncle.
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But I am the Travis family unk beyond a shadow
of a doubt. And so I didn't even know these
things existed. I couldn't believe how popular they were. And
my boys are like, of course, and even my wife
is like, you know, where have you been? And I'm like, well,
sitting around watching a lot of sports, not aware of
gummy nerds, I guess and coctions. But but yeah, this
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was we gave out how much like how busy is
your house? Like how many people would you bet come
by on a Halloween?
Speaker 1 (21:47):
Okay, well, this is another point that I don't understand
that I feel like things have changed from seven to eight.
I would say there's a kid every five minutes, not
super busy, and we're in a neighbor a bunch of
kids eight o'clock, noticeable drop off. By eight thirty. You
can throw the candy outside, they're gone. I feel like
we didn't start trick or treating till eight thirty nine
(22:09):
o'clock when I was a kid. I don't understand what's
happened to kids.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
So my house, it starts in daylight, So I mean
we start getting slammed now. I think it's because there's
so many young kids and there are some you know,
parents out there, and they're like, I want to be
off the streets by the time it gets dark because
we got bad time and everything else. So the young
kids uh, starting about five thirty Central in the Nashville area, boom,
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people are just flooding it. Just I'm not kidding about this.
So this is fun. Years ago, I got into a
dispute with a company called Jack Daniels Fire. Do you
remember Jack Daniels when they got into the cinnamon whiskey business?
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Yes' say this. Okay, so this is.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
A funny story. I don't know that you that you
have heard me tell this story for it's probably like
eight years ago. I got contacted. They're like, hey, we
know you like to drink. I was like yeah, okay,
and they're like, we'll pay you. They were doing a
launch party in Nashville. They're like, we'll pay you three
grand if you will show up and just you know,
get your picture taken at the Jackfire or whatever it
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was called, like their cinnamon whiskey event. And I was
like yeah, I mean all I got to do is
show up and you know, be like, here's a picture
of me with a whiskey bottle, y'all go. So I
agreed to do that. I think this is probably like
twenty seventeen or so, like six weeks later, I get
called and they're like, hey, this is so and so
(23:38):
with Jack Daniels fire, I'm like, yeah, they're like some
of your social media posts we believe are bringing the
brand potentially into disreputable parsils. I swear to god Friggin'
Whiskey company. Jack Daniels like, I mean, do you know
who consumes your product? They were like, you are no
(24:01):
longer able to come to our Cinnamon Whiskey of min
We are canceling your invitation. I swear to God. I
was like, is this I thought I was. I thought
it was one of my buddies like pranking me because
you know, like I probably bragged. I'm like, yeah, I'm
getting three grand to pose, you know, I mean I
I three grands a lot of freaking money to just
post a whiskey model, right, and you know they probably got,
(24:24):
you know, pretty fun crowd that's showing up to come drink.
I was like, I'll show up for three I mean,
I want to go to the bar probably for free
between you and me, for three grand percent. So I'm
all set, all set to show up. They cancel on me,
and I was like, what did I say? And this
You'll love this? They were like, well, your comments about
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Confederate statues being torn down brought the brand into disrepute.
I'm like, Jack Daniel's brothers fought for the Confederacy. The
only reason Tennessee Company, the only reason Jack Daniels wasn't
a Confederate soldier was because he was too young when
(25:07):
the Civil War happened to actually fight in the Civil War.
I was like, do you know who consumes your brand?
What percentage of whiskey drinkers are? Like, you know what,
I want more historical statues torn down. So this is
one hundred percent true. So the story Fireball sent me
(25:28):
their top competitor. They sent me a fireball machine. They
sent me like like, it is like the same thing
that they have in the bar. It's a chiller. You
plug it in, you turn a fireball, you know, plastic
bottle upside down, double loaded. It will feed constant fireball
(25:48):
shots out to anybody chilled, you know, directly out. So
starting about a decade ago, I don't know, eight years ago,
whenever they sent this to me, we started giving out
shots to parents in our neighborhood who would come by
with kids, you know, if they wanted it. So kids
get a trick or treat they get anything, and then
my wife, you know, is manning the shot machine. And
(26:12):
so on Halloween for the last several you know, last
almost a decade in this house, we have now given
out last on Halloween. On Friday, we gave out seventeen
bottles of Fireball cinnamon whiskey. And it all started because
those morons that Jack Daniels said, you're too controversial, and
(26:33):
to their credit, Fireball sent me a shot making machine,
and so we get we gave out seventeen bottles of
Fireball shots. Everybody loves it. And you know, there are
worse things than having some alcohol when you're having to
walk around and chase your kids all over the neighborhood.
So so yeah, seventeen bottles. My wife has been in
charge over the last years, and we're now moving and
(26:54):
we have bequeathed the Fireball shot machine to a neighbor
so that trend can continue you in the neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I kid you not speaking with Clay Travis. He has
a new book Balls out, which we are going to
get to here in just a couple of months. I
kid you not to piggyback off your story, not to
Tommy Topper you at all Clay, but we also had
We were not those people, but we had people in
our neighborhood. It was right on the corner, like the
call to us at corner, and they were doing the
(27:23):
same type thing. It wasn't just fireball though. They had
one of the big, like gigantic coolers and they were
handing out like like I think it's a college party,
jello shots and all kinds of stuff, and I'm all, no,
I'm not interested, no thank you, no, thank you. But
one of my buddies in the neighborhood was very interested clay.
And he happened to be the same buddy who took
(27:44):
the governor off the golf cart he bought for his house.
He spent too much time in that corner one night,
long story short, the golf cart ended up upside down
in the middle of the road in the ambulance and
he had thirty five stitches in his legs because the
(28:04):
golf cart ended up on top of it. And that
was the last time they rolled out the white cooler
full of jello shots and fireball. Close friend of mine
solely responsible for getting the alcohol taken out of the
neighborhood on Halloween.
Speaker 2 (28:20):
Night, I well your friend. I mean, we have tons
of golf carts in our neighborhood too, and most people
walk because it's a very walkable neighborhood and everything else.
But the number of serious I mean, like just sort
of a psa, the number of serious injuries that I've
heard from people on golf carts. I think because you
just don't think about a golf cart as being dangerous,
(28:42):
but the number of times that guys tip him over
or that you had accurbed the wrong way, I think
the golf cart is actually more dangerous than the actual
car because in most neighborhoods, you would have to be
a true moron driving twenty or twenty five miles an
hour to hurt yourself in a car, right, I mean,
you have to be like literally an absolute moron to
(29:05):
hurt yourself in the car to go in that speed.
But at golf cars, people are getting screwed up all
the time. I had a buddy to one up your
the guy that I sold OutKick with my business partner.
He was on his fortieth birthday, hadn't even had any drinks.
He was down on the beach driving around in the
neighborhood as a lot of people have golf cars. They
(29:26):
took a corner, he says, he thinks they just had
too many people on one side. It flipped off, his
foot got caught between the brake pad, the and the
He almost died. They had to transfuse him because they
hit the artery to such an extent that he was
bleeding to such an extent. And look, you never even
(29:47):
he was like, I never even considered that I was
doing anything dangerous. I think he had like three buddies
sitting on one side and only one on the other.
And when they hit a curve, the thing flipped over
and he got caught under it.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
You gotta be careful how many feminists you put on
one side of the golf cart. We are gonna come
right back and talk to Clay Travis for one more
segment about his book. He's got this great book out.
Before we get to Clay, I want to get to
this with you. And I know Clay is a fan
as well. You know about Legacy Box. I tell you
all the time, get your whole movies digitized, get your
(30:20):
pictures digitized. Well, I have something that's a little bit
more time sensitive right now. So hear me out to
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But time is of the essence. They wanted me to
stress that, Jesse, don't tell them you could do. The
(31:05):
time is of the essence. Legacybox dot com slash Jesse
Time matters legacybox dot com slash Jesse. We'll be back
the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
on a Monday back with Clay Travis. Clay Travis of
course with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show. But has
(31:28):
a book out now called Balls. How young Men Trump
in Sports Saved America? Clay, How did young men save America?
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Well, I think you and I agree on this because
you have young sons too. I've got three and they
are just over the bs. And uh, sometimes rebellion can
be a bad thing because sometimes your kids rebel, as
all of you who've raised teenagers know, sometimes people just
rebel against things that are actually really good, and you're like,
(32:03):
you want to slap them around because you're like, hey,
you're a moron, you know. Deciding that you want to
make d's instead of a's because you think it's not
cool to get good grades is not really a smart rebellion.
Other times, there are rebellions that actually make sense. And
I think young men are fed up with being told
that they are the cause of all problems in the world.
(32:25):
You and I are around the same age. We grew
up with the idea being that you should be treated equally,
not that everybody's equal, because we all have different skills
and talents. But these kids grew up and it started
with young white boys. Now it's young black boys, Hispanic boys,
Asian boys. They're all being told there's a problem with
being male, that masculinity is toxic, and they all just
(32:50):
look around and they say this is not true. And
I think they've gotten fed up, and I actually think
culturally they are coming back around to the idea that
there's something to aspire to about masculinity, that we should
be proud of it that they want to grow up
and be masculine men. And this is what the book
(33:10):
is about. How do we raise stronger boys the cultural
revolution that I think is happening. And you know, they
saying someone is a Kamala voter is an insult for
my boys, right Like when they're like sitting around making
fun of somebody, they're like, oh, that dude voted Kamala,
and it just like it brings down the house, right
(33:31):
Like they just all die laughing at it. And I
think it's a sign of the Democrat Party having lost
young men and just not become cool. And I think
it's only growing with the younger generation and I'm super
optimistic about it. But you know, we have a lot
of work to do as men, because unfortunately, we still
have way too many absent dads. We have way too
(33:53):
many families that are single parent moms trying to do
both jobs. And you know, the data that young girls
actually do well when there's a strong woman in the
household makes sense like sending them a message, But young
boys are the ones that actually struggle the most when
mom is trying to cover both sides because a lot
of dads are not living up to their obligations. And
(34:16):
I know there's grandpas and uncles out there and male
figures that try to lift up everyone, but this is
about how men are stronger and have to take back, frankly,
the country and lead us to a better place. And
I'm optimistic there are green shoots of that starting to happen.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Clay, I've only got a few minutes left here. Can
you explain to me, because I know you are a father,
and I am well aware because we're friends, how much
you adore your children. I mean, anyone who follows you
listens to who knows that. I just live and die
for my kids, so just so they're so awesome. I
don't understand why you would run out on your children.
(34:52):
I just I cannot fundamentally understand it. Even if you're
completely selfish, there's so much fun. I don't get it.
Can you help me understand it?
Speaker 2 (35:02):
I don't get it. I told my wife, who is
the saint, as you can well imagine, as your wife
is also a saint, as everyone listening can imagine. But
I told her before. I was like, Hey, if you
decide you're going to divorce me, I understand, but just
so you know, I will buy the house across the
street or next door and just leave the door unlocked constantly,
(35:25):
because I cannot imagine living and not being around my boys.
And I'm fortunate to have three. They're seventeen, fifteen, and eleven,
but they are my life's purpose. They are the most
important thing in my life by far, and I can't
imagine not being around them. And I tell them all
(35:46):
the time, Hey, I want you guys to grow up,
get married, have as many kids as you possibly can,
because I don't really understand. And I understand some people
can't have kids, don't have kids, don't find the right person.
I understand all that, trust me, But I just for
me personally, and I think this is true for a
lot of men without a family to provide for and
(36:06):
without kids to raise, I think I would struggle in life.
I don't think I would find very much purpose because
at some point it's a lot of fun to be
hedonistic and go out and have steaks and chase girls
and all those things. But at some point you run
out of hedonism in some way and you do start
(36:27):
to wonder what is the purpose of life? And for me,
it's raising three strong boys who I hope are really
good dads. I know you lost your dad recently. My
dad is eighty one. He's I was fortunate to have
an incredible dad, and I always say, if I can
be nearly as good of a dad as my dad was,
(36:47):
then my boys are going to do really well. So
that's my life's purpose now. It's to raise three boys
who are really good dads and get married and have
a bunch of kids themselves. And I hope I get
to have a lot of grandkids, you know, in the future.
That would be you know, sort of my ideal world
would be kicking back. You know. My wife god Lover
basically lives in a frat house now because the boys
(37:10):
just you know, they all just want to get you know,
hamburgers and French fries and potato chips and soda and
just watch games. And it's like filthy and it smells
in the house all the time and like it's not clean.
And my wife's just rolling her eyes because she has
Thank god we don't have three daughters, because I would
be I think I would probably you know, be in
(37:31):
significant trouble. But yeah, she's she's got the three boys
and me and I'm the toughest to deal with, but
it is. It's an incredible experience. I can't imagine not
living with them.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
He is Clay Travis. His new book is Balls, and
I'm asking you personally, let's go buy that book. Let's
go get those numbers up for our boy, Clay Travis's
close friend of mine. Balls. You get it anywhere, Go
get that book. Thank you so much, Clay. I'll talk
to you soon, my brother. Also, Oh, remember that all
(38:02):
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(38:24):
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