March 4, 2026 • 35 mins
You owe no politician your loyalty, especially if they turn on you. Angry emails. Is the economy recovering after Joe Biden? Tiana Lowe Doescher. Billy Idols hobbies outside of music.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Final hour of the
Jesse Kelly Show. Chris, what is this awful music? Did
Tianna pick this? She knows better than the not pick
a song. A reminder to everybody, if you don't pick
your song, you get the worst song we can find
on short notice. So now Tianna Desher has to own that.
(00:38):
Joining me now call him this with the Washington Examiner.
Tianna Desher, Tianna, what are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hi, Jesse, I'm sorry, I own it. I own it.
It's it's what the AI evangelists called decision fatigue. You know,
there's so many decisions to make it a day, and
sometimes you just it's hard to pull the trigger.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, all right, well look, just don't make that mis
second again. All right? Well, now let's discuss several things.
I have several things I want to go with you. First, Economically,
you see things that make you think the economy is rebounding,
doing well. Then you see things and well, for instance,
consumer spending appears to be all the rich people and
(01:20):
no one else is doing it. Record credit card dead?
How is the economy doing.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Right now? We sort of have a Goldie Locks recovery,
and it is a recovery, right, Like I think people
under the reason why historically speaking, presidents in avoid inflation
like it is the bubonic plague is because it takes
so long to get out of. Across four years of
Joe Biden, Americans lost in average of about four percent
(01:50):
of their wages. Right. But we have a real recovery
going on the unemployment rate. You know, for all that
that people are freaking out about, Oh, the labor market
is stoppening, We'll have an unemployment rate that is considered
historically full employment, right, four point three percent. I think
real wage growth that is the biggest and most important
number because it's inflation as it stabilizes.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Not not accomplished yet, And.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We have real wage growth for the first year of
Trump two point zero at almost two percent, right. Ven
undoes about half of the damage of Biden. Right, But
there's still more progress. Look as far as this ke
shaped economy narrative goes, I just don't know how much
I believe it. Because Jesse, I know you are a
big believer in personal choice and not just pathologizing consequences
(02:45):
of personal choices. We every single holiday clock in the
highest spend for that holiday in human history, and that
does not indicate that Americans are really feeling the pain
when it comes to superfluous spending. Right, housing remains the
biggest issue because the problem is we just don't have
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enough housing, period right, and it is worse in Democratic states.
Healthcare too expensive, education too expensive, but everything else really
has leveled off.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, so let's focus on the housing portion of this
because I have teenage sons and I would very much
like them to own a house one day. You say,
we don't have enough of it, which always begs the question,
there's a demand for housing, we don't have enough of it,
why aren't they building more?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean, the main thing is on a local level,
we've we've regulated housing out of existence, right. It's and
the reason why I bring up Blue states in particular
is because it's part of the solution. So for instance,
so I'm from California, I could not live in California
right now if I wanted to. You know, my parents
always say, oh, are you going to come back? Never?
(03:58):
The answer is never. Because right now, about a fifth
of all home transfers in California are just inheritances. Why,
because you have the California Coastal Commission, all of the
environmental regulations nationwide, the equivalent of about the equivalent of
about one fourth of all new home builds are just
to comply with local and state government standards for housing.
(04:22):
But then specifically it gets worse depending on what the
zoning reform and your jurisdiction is right, and it's why
we need we need a lot more build baby build,
the same way we do drill, baby drill when it
comes for housing. So honestly, but most of it is
a local issue, and this is part of the problem
Trump's running into. You know, he just wants to see
the interest rates come down. The problem is like there
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is not that much more for the interest rates to
come down. We are never getting that COVID two and
three percent mortgage rate environment ever, again, that is not normal, right,
sub six percent five percent mortgage that's normal. Like ask
your parents how long which their mortgage was for their
home if they were able to own a home. Right,
it historically is closer to five or six percent. The
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real issue is that your grandparents didn't have neighbors that
went to Pold day in, day out, to make sure
it was illegal for someone to build a new home
next to you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So something I've said over and over again on the show,
and please argue with me if you'd like. But one
of the great ways to defeat inflation, at least somewhat
is to get out of a blue state. I mean,
in blue states, the problems are not only bad, the
problems are getting worse because there's no more limiting principles
over there, and your money just goes so much further
in a red.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
State, I mean in general, Yes, And like we see
some sort of sweet spots, right like, blue areas in
red states tend to do really well because you get
a lot of you know, you get a lot of
tech investment places like Austin, Miami, just absolute boomtown right now.
(06:01):
But like the big problem, and this is, you know,
you have Democrats like Ezra Cline trying to save the
party from itself because they realize they have regulated home
ownership and they regulated growth out of existence. So like,
yes to just broadly, yes, and your point, you are
basically correct that it is artificially more expensive to live
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in blue states, and not just in the big cities.
It is across the states. So the American Community Survey,
which is just every ten year survey as annual surveys
of where do people live, where do people go? And
over the five years from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four,
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Blue states lost population across almost every single age demographic
except for seniors and Americans in their thirties, whereas Red
states gained, they gained children, they gained prime age working adults,
and they gained seniors. So what you have is like
(07:08):
like what we think of as Florida, you know, a
retiree home for wealthy boomers that is rapidly becoming California.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, so let's set that aside for a moment. Can
the red areas of this country? Are they able to
provide enough of a standard of living to get enough
people to move there. I'm asking this question purely out
of political power reasons. Are we going to be able
to get enough people in the red sane areas of
the country to completely politically neutralize or at least somewhat
(07:43):
insane Blue areas who are destroying themselves like California, Colorado
states like that?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean demographics to an extent our destiny, right,
It's why like that next census that comes out, it
will be a bloodbath electorally speaking for Democrats because quite literally,
they just they priced out all of the young people
out of a lot of these states. That's why you
have places like California, New York losing congressional seats, Texas gaining.
(08:09):
I mean, I would seem the main thing to do
is don't be scared of that growth, right, embrace that growth.
And also, you know Republican states need cities too, and
you see some governors really leaning into it, right. I
think Ronda Santis has embraced Florida being a growing state.
(08:30):
You know, Greg G. Mforte in Montana is being brought
all across the country to explain to blue state governors, hey,
how you legalize building a new condo or a new
apartment complex? Right, and then just don't let the environmental
crazies get in the way.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Tiana, again with speaking with Tiana Desher, a columnist with
the Washington Examter, you mentioned healthcare, and this is such
a winning issue for Democrats because the right has never
been able to effectively message against the communists and they're
just well, just let the government run the whole thing.
What should be the GOP message on healthcare because health
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insurance is just flat out unaffordable. It's ridiculous what it
costs now, normal people cannot afford.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It, absolutely, And this is one where I think President
Trump's instincts are definitely in the right place. You kind
of have to work around Obama, right, You don't have
the political will to undo it. You have to work
around it because the fact is Obamacare made it that way.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You could not.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I think it's three times for OBEs lifelong smoker who's
got as old, then you charge a young, healthy eighteen
year old who doesn't smoke, and that just meant that
you have young people subsidizing old people, which is basically
the story of the American economy right now. But it's
(09:59):
getting worse if you as as the population ages. So
what do we want. We want expansion outside of Obamacare.
We want more association insurance type plans, but instead of
being tied to your employer, it can be tied to
say costco membership or your church, where then you create
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a completely different risk pool. You want more direct primary
care coverage. This used to be known as luxury concierge care,
and now over time has been, you know, deregulated to
the point where it becomes a little bit more affordable
for us normal folks. But really, you know, if any
you cannot give Obamacare another sense because it doesn't go
(10:49):
to the patient, it goes to big insurance.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You're not wrong, Tiana. Appreciate you very much. Thanks for
dropping some economic knowledge on us. Come back to us soon.
All right, we have to talk about smoking crack and
we have to what Chris and we have to do emails.
We also have to talk about your cell phone service.
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
You're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. You're welcome.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Maybe because these people they are crazy, because they always
talk about how Christian is Listen. I'm a gun sold Texan, right.
I've always been someone who has been intellectual. I was
top ten percent of my class, and that is specifically
why I said age free Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at
least don't go.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Out and just tell lies.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
But if somebody who understands history, when I see I
s slave patrols, that's all.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm sorry. She's gone. Oh miss you, Jasmine, you are
the best run for office again, Please please, you will
always have the backing of the Jesse Kelly. Jasmine. I
want you to know, Chris, I can't believe our only
endorsement ever lost. Dang it, that's a bad look.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
We're over one.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We're over one Billy Idol said smoking crack helped him
quit heroin. Kids, please pull up a chair for just
a moment, Let Daddy Jesse have a little talk with you.
Don't do drugs, all right, Maybe one day if you
start doing drugs now, I know, maybe your friends are
(13:30):
doing it, who knows what the situation is. But maybe
there will come a day when you're trying to kick
the black tar heroin habit and you're doing it by
smoking crack. And if you ever find yourself in that situation,
you probably made some bad choices. Don't smoke crack. Also,
(13:55):
I am starting to notice something, but because there's a
sorry out that Papa John's is closing hundreds of restaurants.
And again I'm not This is not me pitching for
Papa John's. I generally don't like commercial pizza outside of
Little Caesar's. It's okay, it's fine, I'll eat it. It's fine.
But I keep reading headlines like this about all these restaurants.
(14:18):
I heard Red Robin's shutting down a bunch of stuff,
Papa John's. I just keep hearing these things. And this
is why I wanted to have tianadesher On last segment,
I'm worried that regular American families are not making it anymore,
that they're not making it and so they're not ordering pizza,
they're not going out to Red Robin, they're not going
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out to and Look, maybe it's just an online food
ordering world now, but even then, it would make sense
that these businesses would be able to stay in business
if people were still ordering Papa John's on door dash
or something like that. Why are we getting so many
restaurant closures. Again, it's not about the restaurant on themselves.
(15:00):
I don't care about Papa John's. What I do very
much care about is that people are maintaining or lord
willing improving their standard of living. I don't want your
life to get worse. I don't want your credit card
bills to get maxed out. I don't want a pizza
on a Friday night with the kids to be financially
out of reach. I don't want that, and I'm really
(15:24):
worried that we're getting there. That is my concern. That's
the only reason I brought this whole thing up, very
concerned about it. Also, speaking of concern GOP, if I
may offer a bit of advice, I understand that since
Congress didn't declare war, that we don't want to call
(15:45):
it a war. Trump doesn't want to call it a war,
and hexat doesn't want to call it a war. And
Mike Johnson got up, he said, this ron.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Has attacked three of our US embassies in the last
couple of days. Okay, those are sovereign territories of the US.
They have declared war on US. I don't believe in
the semantics. We've talked about the language this morning. We're
not at war right now. We're four days in to
a very specific UH clear mission and operation Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Come on, this was Pete Hagsath this morning. We're not
at war yesterday. This is really cool, by the way.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Yesterday in the Indian Ocean, an American submarine sunk an
Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters.
Instead it was sunk by a torpedo, the first sinking
of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.
Like in that war, back when we were still in
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the war department, we are fighting to win.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
How epic is that? I like, I don't care what
you're what you're what you're fretting about? Or what you're
cheering for. But man, what must have been going through
the head of that sub crew when they got the word,
oh yeah, go ahead and fire a torpedo into its
side and sink it. And you know the most amazing
part of this. I hate to be one of these
people that treats Wore like a video game because very
(17:11):
much not. People die and it's terrible on all those things.
You Right now, if you have access to social media,
you can go watch the video of this torpedo hitting
the ship, in the ship going down. It's amazing, Jesse,
changing the regime is not easy, That's what I said,
And this guy said, this is your quote with an
(17:31):
exclamation point. This is why you're hesitant about what we're
doing in Iran. It's not easy. This is your spineless quote.
He's clearly very emotionally stable. What about the fifty thousand
people we got murdered in the streets protesting against the oppression?
We can only hope, so on and so forth, And
then he throws in a pull your head out of
your buddy, calm down, Okay, I'm down. I know you
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hate heron I get it. I have a pretty good
idea why I understand that I got it. I got it.
Don't yell at people, and don't yell at people about
something I'm right about. Changing a regime is not easy.
Killing people was easy. Breaking it for us the United
States of America is easy. Creating a new government the
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people of Iran will accept, and that's also friendly to
our interests. It's infinitely more and more complicated. That's what
I said. If you heard something different, it's because you're stupid.
And you're stupid because you're emotional. Emotions make you dumb.
Stop screaming at me and calling me names like a
teenage girl. All Right, we'll do some more emails.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Next, you're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Now you had to
play that Billie Idol song. Chris, Now, I'm wondering was
he on heroin or crack? Was he in crack rehab?
I don't know. Look, I don't know, Chris. We can
ask the hard questions here. My job as a journalist.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's journalist, Jesse.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There's just no one better.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
We love Jesse.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He's the best.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
YESSI please kiss my baby, YESI Jesse Jessey Jesse Jesse.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Now every time I hear a billy idle song, I'm
gonna wonder, is this heroin billy or crack Billy? I
don't know? And which one was a better musician? Having
never done Heroin or crack, I can't say which one
would help your musical abilities. But now I'm curious. Heroin
Billy crack Billy, I don't know. I think if we
(19:38):
have to be honest, though crack sounds worse, doesn't it?
It does right with Heroin at least? Maybe what Chris,
we can have an honest conversation about which one sounds better,
which one sounds worse. Heroin's bad, I know that it's
certainly when it's black tar. I don't know the difference
(19:59):
between regular heroin and black tar heroin, but I'd like
to say black tarks. It sounds really dark, it's scary
and exotic. But crack man, you don't want to ever
admit to that. Hey, Jesse, I'm a consistent, dedicated, loyal conservative.
I lived in Washington State. I have my three y
five Trump flag hanging outside my house, taking a lot
(20:21):
of flak from my neighbors. Christy Nomes television ads are effective.
The cost to run these ads is worth the result
of clearly informing the illegals they're supported. She's going to
do her job. You and Senator Kennedy are making this
all about Christy Nome. You constantly rag on spineless Republicans
for not holding it together, and here you are ragging
(20:42):
on Christy Nome, who's doing the job we need her
to do. Knock that off? And he got that beep off.
He says, what the beep is the matter with you?
So I guess I'm gonna have to cover this one
more time. If you expect me to be okay with
what I'm about to play you because the person who
(21:03):
did it happens to be a Republican or happens to
be appointed by Trump, please change the channel. This is
your money, this is my money. Every single American scraping
to get by. They are taxed by the federal government.
If Christy Nolan, if if she's handing out no bid
(21:23):
two hundred million dollar contracts to friends, I have a
huge problem with it, and you should be freaking embarrassed
as a man. If you don't have a problem with this.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
My research shows that you did not bid them out,
that you pick, in fact, one of the people you picked,
the Strategy Group. I'm sorry, say America Media was a
company formed eleven days before you picked them, and that
the Strategy Group got most of the money, and the
(21:56):
head of that is married to your former spokesperson. I'm look,
we all have friends who are qualified. I'm not quippling
with that. I'm just it troubles me quarter a fifth
to a quarter of a billion dollars taxpayer money when
(22:17):
we're scratching for every penny and we're fighting over recision packages.
I just can't agree with, Madam Secretary.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's bad and it's wrong, and it's not okay because
our side is doing it. And I want to remind
you of something else. All these people, everyone we elect
and everyone who gets appointed, all of them, even the
ones you like, they're all just rental cars. Just use
them to get where you're going and dump them, you understand.
(22:51):
Don't worship, don't ever man worship anyone, and that goes
beyond politics. Don't ever man worship Trump or Christy nom
or your past or your boss, or some sports star
or an actor. But don't man worship anybody ever. Don't
ever do that ridiculous good evening, Jesse. I have to
(23:11):
say you're the best radio talk show host out there.
I agree, what Chris, You're slowly becoming Rush Limbaugh caliber
with your unconventional and humorous approach. Given this, can you
answer a question for me? Oh, why does Clay Travis
aggressively argue that Taylor Swift is the Beatles of her generation?
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There's absolutely no comparison. I can't even name one of
her songs, whereas the Beatles, you name a song, you
can typically think of a couple verses. Listen, Clay is
a friend, all right, he's a friend. But Clay drives
an electric car. I was actually on the Clay Travis
(23:57):
and Buck Sexton show earlier today where I discovered that
Clay drives an electric car. Any man who drives an
electric car is going to be a man who listens
to Taylor Swift in the electric car. I know it,
(24:18):
and you know it. And here's the thing. Tell you
the same thing I told Clay on the air today.
When the Kellys have to take a road trip, which
is always for some sports function for the kids or
something like that, the Kellys understand, all of them. You
better go light on the water or the soda or
whatever you're drinking. Because there will be one stop every
(24:41):
two and a half to three hours. We are going
to make good time. And when we stop, don't think
we're going in and sitting down for a nice meal.
I'm pulling in. I'm walking up to the gas pump
while I'm plunging it. You better be boot scoot in
your little butt inside the gas station. You go use
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the bathroom, go pee, wash your hands, You want to
grab a couple snacks, That's fine. We are in and
out in ten minutes. These people who have these electric cars,
and I understand Tesla's a great car. I totally get it.
Twenty thirty minutes if the charging station is available. If
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I ever had to take a road trip and wait
in line for the privilege of starting to juice up
my car for twenty or thirty minutes, I would lose
my ever loving mind. There's not a chance in the
world that would happen. Clay, though, he can just sit
there and jam out to Taylor Swift. What Chris, He
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can just jam out to Taylor Swift in his little
electric car. Sure it's hot, pink wife beater. Jesse don't
call me wife beater, Jesse. This is because I started
wearing wife fas. I don't want that's that leaves a
bad impression speaking of it. You know what Op did
when in Sometimes she has these old gymnastics injuries that
(26:10):
flare up. She's had more surgeries and you can count.
It's a really brutal support. And so every now and
then there'll be some injury that flares up, and sometimes
she has to go kind of get some sort of
massage therapy on it with some you know, the people
who know that stuff. And one of them, well, the
girl she goes to did those suction cup things. You
(26:30):
ever seen those? I've never done it. I don't know
what it feels like, but apparently it's really good for
whatever you have. Well, I guess it leaves some bruising
or discolored skin. Afterwards, she had on one of her shoulders,
this big bruise on one of her shoulders from the
from the suction come thing. It was on the back
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of her shoulder. And we were going out the other night.
I told you, we were going out with some other
couples in the neighborhood. We were going out the other
night and she wears like a tank top type. Sure,
not a tank top, but it's something that didn't have
sleeves on it. And there's a bruise right there. And
I said, baby, I don't think you can wear that,
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And she said why.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I said, what do you think everyone's gonna think if
you have like a half covered bruise on your shoulder,
They're all going to be staring daggers at me? Like
I did something which only made her start laughing, and
she said, well, that's definitely what I'm gonna tell everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now. I'm just gonna tell them all that you beat me,
all right, quit do a couple more of these and
then we'll check out of here.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Jesse Kelly returns next.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show, final segment of The
Jesse Kelly Show on and Amazing, Amazing Wednesday. We are
going to come back tomorrow and we'll see what all
has shaken out with the endorsement the non endorsement. We're
not going to focus on it right now. I should
probably keep you updated on a couple different things. For instance,
(28:06):
Secretary of War Pete haig Seth, he said some things
today and I realized some people want to know what's
the latest and greatest aunt Iran. So here's a couple
things from Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Starting last night and to be completed in a few
days and under a week, the two most powerful air
forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian
skies uncontested airspace.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I hope I'm gonna pause on that. Sorry, I let
him have a say now to talk about something. There's
something that you should be appreciative of and that I
should be appreciative of, but we can't really fully appreciate
what I'm about to say. You know that I nerd
out on World War II like any other man over
the age of forty. You know that I Korean War
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and Vietnam and these things. I've read so much on
these different conflicts, including from the enemy's perspective. What was
it like in Japan when the bombs were dropping, What
was it like for the Viet Kong, for the North
Vietnamese when we were carpet bombing them over the jungle?
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And it sounds like the most terrifying thing in the
history of the world. Remember that when bombs drop big
enough bombs, the explosion is so massive that it sucks
all the oxygen. The flames around it suck all the
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oxygen out of the air, so you can completely avoid
the blast and die of suffocation. Standing out in the
open in what looks like fresh air, you can die
of suffocation. Think about how large that explosion has to be.
You listen to these Viet Cong guys and they'll talk
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about being down in the tunnels. You know, they were
famous for those tunnels when our bombs were dropping overhead,
and you're just waiting for the whole system to collapse
on you, and obviously oftentimes it did, and then you'll
die buried under all that, buried alive. The Japanese as
Americans start dropping bombs on them, what they went through.
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We here in the United States of America, none of us,
I certainly don't. We do not appreciate how awesome it
is to have never ever had someone else have air
superiority over us. Now. I realized there have been big
air wars over Germany and things like that, but we
have never experienced that as a people, where we lost
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control of the skies. Someone else's air force was able
to overwhelm ours, and we just sit there with bombs dropping.
Now I'll let them have his say, but you should
appreciate that because it sounds like the worst thing in
the of the world when someone's dropping five hundred pound
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bombs on your head.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Starting last night and to be completed in a few days.
In under a week, the two most powerful air forces
in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,
uncontested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what
uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will
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fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing
and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the
Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders,
Flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital,
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flying over the irgc, Iranian leaders, looking up and seeing
only US and Israeli air power every minute of every
day until we decide it's over and Iran we'll be
able to do nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
B two's B fifty twos.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
B ones, predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets,
death and destruction from the sky all day long.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That's wonderful because it's ours. Not so wonderful if you're
on the receiving end of it. That is terrifying to
think about, isn't it? And I hope that my only
point in this. I hope you do feel blessed to
live in a country that no one has ever owned
the skies over you. Ever, you have never had to
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experience that, And of course, on a long enough timeline,
maybe that day will come one day in the United
States of America. But it ain't today, and I thank
God for it. Anyway, back to this guy's question when
he called me wife beater, Jesse, I'm not a big
tinfoil hat guy, but the other day I tried Dots
pretzels for the first time and suddenly started seeing ads
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on my phone for them, even though I've never searched
for or even heard of them before. Then two days later,
I hear you speaking the praises of Dots pretzels. Are
you and Jewish producer Chris trying out some creepy new
targeted advertising or is this just a coincidence. Well, here's
something that may creep you out. No, we're not doing
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a targeted advertising campaign. But you said you just tried
them the other day. I just bought a bag the
other day. Why did we see an ad? Did we
both see an ad did has dots pretzels launched some
sort of an advertising campaign. If you want to get
(33:48):
creeped out beyond belief, go look at how the online
tracking works of your searches and how much they know
about your preference. They go through your Internet history and
they know they know whether you prefer blue or green
as a color. They know everything your shoes size, where
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you shop, what your tendencies are. We all have an
online profile now and they know everything about us. It's honestly,
it's quite creepy. It majorly creepy, but it's true. And
now here's a headline.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Why you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
The thing headlines we didn't get to.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Attorneys for illegal immigrants have flooded federal courts with over
twenty four thousand lawsuits. How is it that we, a
sovereign nation, allow illegals to flood our court system in
any way? You don't have rights if you're an illegal,
at least you shouldn't. You have a right to be
arrested and sent away. Scandal plagued Rep. Tony Gonzalez is
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forced to a runoff. This is the dude who's alleged
mistress set herself on fire. She's running or he's running
against Brandon Herrera. Good guy, totally like Brandon Herrera. If
I could vote for him, I would man Alive Texas.
We got to do better than that, sending Tony Gonzalez
to a runoff. Look, I think Brandon Herrera is going
to win that runoff, But either way, we'll see what happens.
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All right, we'll be back tomorrow to sort everything out.
That's all
This is a Jesse Kelly Show.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Final hour of the
Jesse Kelly Show. Chris, what is this awful music? Did
Tianna pick this? She knows better than the not pick
a song. A reminder to everybody, if you don't pick
your song, you get the worst song we can find
on short notice. So now Tianna Desher has to own that.
(00:38):
Joining me now call him this with the Washington Examiner.
Tianna Desher, Tianna, what are you thinking?
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Hi, Jesse, I'm sorry, I own it. I own it.
It's it's what the AI evangelists called decision fatigue. You know,
there's so many decisions to make it a day, and
sometimes you just it's hard to pull the trigger.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Okay, all right, well look, just don't make that mis
second again. All right? Well, now let's discuss several things.
I have several things I want to go with you. First, Economically,
you see things that make you think the economy is rebounding,
doing well. Then you see things and well, for instance,
consumer spending appears to be all the rich people and
(01:20):
no one else is doing it. Record credit card dead?
How is the economy doing.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Right now? We sort of have a Goldie Locks recovery,
and it is a recovery, right, Like I think people
under the reason why historically speaking, presidents in avoid inflation
like it is the bubonic plague is because it takes
so long to get out of. Across four years of
Joe Biden, Americans lost in average of about four percent
(01:50):
of their wages. Right. But we have a real recovery
going on the unemployment rate. You know, for all that
that people are freaking out about, Oh, the labor market
is stoppening, We'll have an unemployment rate that is considered
historically full employment, right, four point three percent. I think
real wage growth that is the biggest and most important
number because it's inflation as it stabilizes.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Not not accomplished yet, And.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
We have real wage growth for the first year of
Trump two point zero at almost two percent, right. Ven
undoes about half of the damage of Biden. Right, But
there's still more progress. Look as far as this ke
shaped economy narrative goes, I just don't know how much
I believe it. Because Jesse, I know you are a
big believer in personal choice and not just pathologizing consequences
(02:45):
of personal choices. We every single holiday clock in the
highest spend for that holiday in human history, and that
does not indicate that Americans are really feeling the pain
when it comes to superfluous spending. Right, housing remains the
biggest issue because the problem is we just don't have
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enough housing, period right, and it is worse in Democratic states.
Healthcare too expensive, education too expensive, but everything else really
has leveled off.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay, so let's focus on the housing portion of this
because I have teenage sons and I would very much
like them to own a house one day. You say,
we don't have enough of it, which always begs the question,
there's a demand for housing, we don't have enough of it,
why aren't they building more?
Speaker 3 (03:37):
I mean, the main thing is on a local level,
we've we've regulated housing out of existence, right. It's and
the reason why I bring up Blue states in particular
is because it's part of the solution. So for instance,
so I'm from California, I could not live in California
right now if I wanted to. You know, my parents
always say, oh, are you going to come back? Never?
(03:58):
The answer is never. Because right now, about a fifth
of all home transfers in California are just inheritances. Why,
because you have the California Coastal Commission, all of the
environmental regulations nationwide, the equivalent of about the equivalent of
about one fourth of all new home builds are just
to comply with local and state government standards for housing.
(04:22):
But then specifically it gets worse depending on what the
zoning reform and your jurisdiction is right, and it's why
we need we need a lot more build baby build,
the same way we do drill, baby drill when it
comes for housing. So honestly, but most of it is
a local issue, and this is part of the problem
Trump's running into. You know, he just wants to see
the interest rates come down. The problem is like there
(04:45):
is not that much more for the interest rates to
come down. We are never getting that COVID two and
three percent mortgage rate environment ever, again, that is not normal, right,
sub six percent five percent mortgage that's normal. Like ask
your parents how long which their mortgage was for their
home if they were able to own a home. Right,
it historically is closer to five or six percent. The
(05:07):
real issue is that your grandparents didn't have neighbors that
went to Pold day in, day out, to make sure
it was illegal for someone to build a new home
next to you.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
So something I've said over and over again on the show,
and please argue with me if you'd like. But one
of the great ways to defeat inflation, at least somewhat
is to get out of a blue state. I mean,
in blue states, the problems are not only bad, the
problems are getting worse because there's no more limiting principles
over there, and your money just goes so much further
in a red.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
State, I mean in general, Yes, And like we see
some sort of sweet spots, right like, blue areas in
red states tend to do really well because you get
a lot of you know, you get a lot of
tech investment places like Austin, Miami, just absolute boomtown right now.
(06:01):
But like the big problem, and this is, you know,
you have Democrats like Ezra Cline trying to save the
party from itself because they realize they have regulated home
ownership and they regulated growth out of existence. So like,
yes to just broadly, yes, and your point, you are
basically correct that it is artificially more expensive to live
(06:25):
in blue states, and not just in the big cities.
It is across the states. So the American Community Survey,
which is just every ten year survey as annual surveys
of where do people live, where do people go? And
over the five years from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty four,
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Blue states lost population across almost every single age demographic
except for seniors and Americans in their thirties, whereas Red
states gained, they gained children, they gained prime age working adults,
and they gained seniors. So what you have is like
(07:08):
like what we think of as Florida, you know, a
retiree home for wealthy boomers that is rapidly becoming California.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay, so let's set that aside for a moment. Can
the red areas of this country? Are they able to
provide enough of a standard of living to get enough
people to move there. I'm asking this question purely out
of political power reasons. Are we going to be able
to get enough people in the red sane areas of
the country to completely politically neutralize or at least somewhat
(07:43):
insane Blue areas who are destroying themselves like California, Colorado
states like that?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean demographics to an extent our destiny, right,
It's why like that next census that comes out, it
will be a bloodbath electorally speaking for Democrats because quite literally,
they just they priced out all of the young people
out of a lot of these states. That's why you
have places like California, New York losing congressional seats, Texas gaining.
(08:09):
I mean, I would seem the main thing to do
is don't be scared of that growth, right, embrace that growth.
And also, you know Republican states need cities too, and
you see some governors really leaning into it, right. I
think Ronda Santis has embraced Florida being a growing state.
(08:30):
You know, Greg G. Mforte in Montana is being brought
all across the country to explain to blue state governors, hey,
how you legalize building a new condo or a new
apartment complex? Right, and then just don't let the environmental
crazies get in the way.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Tiana, again with speaking with Tiana Desher, a columnist with
the Washington Examter, you mentioned healthcare, and this is such
a winning issue for Democrats because the right has never
been able to effectively message against the communists and they're
just well, just let the government run the whole thing.
What should be the GOP message on healthcare because health
(09:12):
insurance is just flat out unaffordable. It's ridiculous what it
costs now, normal people cannot afford.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
It, absolutely, And this is one where I think President
Trump's instincts are definitely in the right place. You kind
of have to work around Obama, right, You don't have
the political will to undo it. You have to work
around it because the fact is Obamacare made it that way.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
You could not.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
I think it's three times for OBEs lifelong smoker who's
got as old, then you charge a young, healthy eighteen
year old who doesn't smoke, and that just meant that
you have young people subsidizing old people, which is basically
the story of the American economy right now. But it's
(09:59):
getting worse if you as as the population ages. So
what do we want. We want expansion outside of Obamacare.
We want more association insurance type plans, but instead of
being tied to your employer, it can be tied to
say costco membership or your church, where then you create
(10:21):
a completely different risk pool. You want more direct primary
care coverage. This used to be known as luxury concierge care,
and now over time has been, you know, deregulated to
the point where it becomes a little bit more affordable
for us normal folks. But really, you know, if any
you cannot give Obamacare another sense because it doesn't go
(10:49):
to the patient, it goes to big insurance.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
You're not wrong, Tiana. Appreciate you very much. Thanks for
dropping some economic knowledge on us. Come back to us soon.
All right, we have to talk about smoking crack and
we have to what Chris and we have to do emails.
We also have to talk about your cell phone service.
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Speaker 1 (12:13):
You're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. You're welcome.
Speaker 5 (12:23):
Maybe because these people they are crazy, because they always
talk about how Christian is Listen. I'm a gun sold Texan, right.
I've always been someone who has been intellectual. I was
top ten percent of my class, and that is specifically
why I said age free Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at
least don't go.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Out and just tell lies.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
But if somebody who understands history, when I see I
s slave patrols, that's all.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
I'm sorry. She's gone. Oh miss you, Jasmine, you are
the best run for office again, Please please, you will
always have the backing of the Jesse Kelly. Jasmine. I
want you to know, Chris, I can't believe our only
endorsement ever lost. Dang it, that's a bad look.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
We're over one.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
We're over one Billy Idol said smoking crack helped him
quit heroin. Kids, please pull up a chair for just
a moment, Let Daddy Jesse have a little talk with you.
Don't do drugs, all right, Maybe one day if you
start doing drugs now, I know, maybe your friends are
(13:30):
doing it, who knows what the situation is. But maybe
there will come a day when you're trying to kick
the black tar heroin habit and you're doing it by
smoking crack. And if you ever find yourself in that situation,
you probably made some bad choices. Don't smoke crack. Also,
(13:55):
I am starting to notice something, but because there's a
sorry out that Papa John's is closing hundreds of restaurants.
And again I'm not This is not me pitching for
Papa John's. I generally don't like commercial pizza outside of
Little Caesar's. It's okay, it's fine, I'll eat it. It's fine.
But I keep reading headlines like this about all these restaurants.
(14:18):
I heard Red Robin's shutting down a bunch of stuff,
Papa John's. I just keep hearing these things. And this
is why I wanted to have tianadesher On last segment,
I'm worried that regular American families are not making it anymore,
that they're not making it and so they're not ordering pizza,
they're not going out to Red Robin, they're not going
(14:39):
out to and Look, maybe it's just an online food
ordering world now, but even then, it would make sense
that these businesses would be able to stay in business
if people were still ordering Papa John's on door dash
or something like that. Why are we getting so many
restaurant closures. Again, it's not about the restaurant on themselves.
(15:00):
I don't care about Papa John's. What I do very
much care about is that people are maintaining or lord
willing improving their standard of living. I don't want your
life to get worse. I don't want your credit card
bills to get maxed out. I don't want a pizza
on a Friday night with the kids to be financially
out of reach. I don't want that, and I'm really
(15:24):
worried that we're getting there. That is my concern. That's
the only reason I brought this whole thing up, very
concerned about it. Also, speaking of concern GOP, if I
may offer a bit of advice, I understand that since
Congress didn't declare war, that we don't want to call
(15:45):
it a war. Trump doesn't want to call it a war,
and hexat doesn't want to call it a war. And
Mike Johnson got up, he said, this ron.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
Has attacked three of our US embassies in the last
couple of days. Okay, those are sovereign territories of the US.
They have declared war on US. I don't believe in
the semantics. We've talked about the language this morning. We're
not at war right now. We're four days in to
a very specific UH clear mission and operation Operation Epic Fury.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Come on, this was Pete Hagsath this morning. We're not
at war yesterday. This is really cool, by the way.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Yesterday in the Indian Ocean, an American submarine sunk an
Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters.
Instead it was sunk by a torpedo, the first sinking
of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II.
Like in that war, back when we were still in
(16:43):
the war department, we are fighting to win.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
How epic is that? I like, I don't care what
you're what you're what you're fretting about? Or what you're
cheering for. But man, what must have been going through
the head of that sub crew when they got the word,
oh yeah, go ahead and fire a torpedo into its
side and sink it. And you know the most amazing
part of this. I hate to be one of these
people that treats Wore like a video game because very
(17:11):
much not. People die and it's terrible on all those things.
You Right now, if you have access to social media,
you can go watch the video of this torpedo hitting
the ship, in the ship going down. It's amazing, Jesse,
changing the regime is not easy, That's what I said,
And this guy said, this is your quote with an
(17:31):
exclamation point. This is why you're hesitant about what we're
doing in Iran. It's not easy. This is your spineless quote.
He's clearly very emotionally stable. What about the fifty thousand
people we got murdered in the streets protesting against the oppression?
We can only hope, so on and so forth, And
then he throws in a pull your head out of
your buddy, calm down, Okay, I'm down. I know you
(17:58):
hate heron I get it. I have a pretty good
idea why I understand that I got it. I got it.
Don't yell at people, and don't yell at people about
something I'm right about. Changing a regime is not easy.
Killing people was easy. Breaking it for us the United
States of America is easy. Creating a new government the
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people of Iran will accept, and that's also friendly to
our interests. It's infinitely more and more complicated. That's what
I said. If you heard something different, it's because you're stupid.
And you're stupid because you're emotional. Emotions make you dumb.
Stop screaming at me and calling me names like a
teenage girl. All Right, we'll do some more emails.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Next, you're listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. You're welcome.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Now you had to
play that Billie Idol song. Chris, Now, I'm wondering was
he on heroin or crack? Was he in crack rehab?
I don't know. Look, I don't know, Chris. We can
ask the hard questions here. My job as a journalist.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
It's journalist, Jesse.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
There's just no one better.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
We love Jesse.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
He's the best.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
YESSI please kiss my baby, YESI Jesse Jessey Jesse Jesse.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Now every time I hear a billy idle song, I'm
gonna wonder, is this heroin billy or crack Billy? I
don't know? And which one was a better musician? Having
never done Heroin or crack, I can't say which one
would help your musical abilities. But now I'm curious. Heroin
Billy crack Billy, I don't know. I think if we
(19:38):
have to be honest, though crack sounds worse, doesn't it?
It does right with Heroin at least? Maybe what Chris,
we can have an honest conversation about which one sounds better,
which one sounds worse. Heroin's bad, I know that it's
certainly when it's black tar. I don't know the difference
(19:59):
between regular heroin and black tar heroin, but I'd like
to say black tarks. It sounds really dark, it's scary
and exotic. But crack man, you don't want to ever
admit to that. Hey, Jesse, I'm a consistent, dedicated, loyal conservative.
I lived in Washington State. I have my three y
five Trump flag hanging outside my house, taking a lot
(20:21):
of flak from my neighbors. Christy Nomes television ads are effective.
The cost to run these ads is worth the result
of clearly informing the illegals they're supported. She's going to
do her job. You and Senator Kennedy are making this
all about Christy Nome. You constantly rag on spineless Republicans
for not holding it together, and here you are ragging
(20:42):
on Christy Nome, who's doing the job we need her
to do. Knock that off? And he got that beep off.
He says, what the beep is the matter with you?
So I guess I'm gonna have to cover this one
more time. If you expect me to be okay with
what I'm about to play you because the person who
(21:03):
did it happens to be a Republican or happens to
be appointed by Trump, please change the channel. This is
your money, this is my money. Every single American scraping
to get by. They are taxed by the federal government.
If Christy Nolan, if if she's handing out no bid
(21:23):
two hundred million dollar contracts to friends, I have a
huge problem with it, and you should be freaking embarrassed
as a man. If you don't have a problem with this.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
My research shows that you did not bid them out,
that you pick, in fact, one of the people you picked,
the Strategy Group. I'm sorry, say America Media was a
company formed eleven days before you picked them, and that
the Strategy Group got most of the money, and the
(21:56):
head of that is married to your former spokesperson. I'm look,
we all have friends who are qualified. I'm not quippling
with that. I'm just it troubles me quarter a fifth
to a quarter of a billion dollars taxpayer money when
(22:17):
we're scratching for every penny and we're fighting over recision packages.
I just can't agree with, Madam Secretary.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
It's bad and it's wrong, and it's not okay because
our side is doing it. And I want to remind
you of something else. All these people, everyone we elect
and everyone who gets appointed, all of them, even the
ones you like, they're all just rental cars. Just use
them to get where you're going and dump them, you understand.
(22:51):
Don't worship, don't ever man worship anyone, and that goes
beyond politics. Don't ever man worship Trump or Christy nom
or your past or your boss, or some sports star
or an actor. But don't man worship anybody ever. Don't
ever do that ridiculous good evening, Jesse. I have to
(23:11):
say you're the best radio talk show host out there.
I agree, what Chris, You're slowly becoming Rush Limbaugh caliber
with your unconventional and humorous approach. Given this, can you
answer a question for me? Oh, why does Clay Travis
aggressively argue that Taylor Swift is the Beatles of her generation?
(23:33):
There's absolutely no comparison. I can't even name one of
her songs, whereas the Beatles, you name a song, you
can typically think of a couple verses. Listen, Clay is
a friend, all right, he's a friend. But Clay drives
an electric car. I was actually on the Clay Travis
(23:57):
and Buck Sexton show earlier today where I discovered that
Clay drives an electric car. Any man who drives an
electric car is going to be a man who listens
to Taylor Swift in the electric car. I know it,
(24:18):
and you know it. And here's the thing. Tell you
the same thing I told Clay on the air today.
When the Kellys have to take a road trip, which
is always for some sports function for the kids or
something like that, the Kellys understand, all of them. You
better go light on the water or the soda or
whatever you're drinking. Because there will be one stop every
(24:41):
two and a half to three hours. We are going
to make good time. And when we stop, don't think
we're going in and sitting down for a nice meal.
I'm pulling in. I'm walking up to the gas pump
while I'm plunging it. You better be boot scoot in
your little butt inside the gas station. You go use
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the bathroom, go pee, wash your hands, You want to
grab a couple snacks, That's fine. We are in and
out in ten minutes. These people who have these electric cars,
and I understand Tesla's a great car. I totally get it.
Twenty thirty minutes if the charging station is available. If
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I ever had to take a road trip and wait
in line for the privilege of starting to juice up
my car for twenty or thirty minutes, I would lose
my ever loving mind. There's not a chance in the
world that would happen. Clay, though, he can just sit
there and jam out to Taylor Swift. What Chris, He
(25:47):
can just jam out to Taylor Swift in his little
electric car. Sure it's hot, pink wife beater. Jesse don't
call me wife beater, Jesse. This is because I started
wearing wife fas. I don't want that's that leaves a
bad impression speaking of it. You know what Op did
when in Sometimes she has these old gymnastics injuries that
(26:10):
flare up. She's had more surgeries and you can count.
It's a really brutal support. And so every now and
then there'll be some injury that flares up, and sometimes
she has to go kind of get some sort of
massage therapy on it with some you know, the people
who know that stuff. And one of them, well, the
girl she goes to did those suction cup things. You
(26:30):
ever seen those? I've never done it. I don't know
what it feels like, but apparently it's really good for
whatever you have. Well, I guess it leaves some bruising
or discolored skin. Afterwards, she had on one of her shoulders,
this big bruise on one of her shoulders from the
from the suction come thing. It was on the back
(26:51):
of her shoulder. And we were going out the other night.
I told you, we were going out with some other
couples in the neighborhood. We were going out the other
night and she wears like a tank top type. Sure,
not a tank top, but it's something that didn't have
sleeves on it. And there's a bruise right there. And
I said, baby, I don't think you can wear that,
(27:12):
And she said why.
Speaker 8 (27:14):
I said, what do you think everyone's gonna think if
you have like a half covered bruise on your shoulder,
They're all going to be staring daggers at me? Like
I did something which only made her start laughing, and
she said, well, that's definitely what I'm gonna tell everybody.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
Now. I'm just gonna tell them all that you beat me,
all right, quit do a couple more of these and
then we'll check out of here.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Jesse Kelly returns next.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show, final segment of The
Jesse Kelly Show on and Amazing, Amazing Wednesday. We are
going to come back tomorrow and we'll see what all
has shaken out with the endorsement the non endorsement. We're
not going to focus on it right now. I should
probably keep you updated on a couple different things. For instance,
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Secretary of War Pete haig Seth, he said some things
today and I realized some people want to know what's
the latest and greatest aunt Iran. So here's a couple
things from Pete hag Seth.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
Starting last night and to be completed in a few
days and under a week, the two most powerful air
forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian
skies uncontested airspace.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I hope I'm gonna pause on that. Sorry, I let
him have a say now to talk about something. There's
something that you should be appreciative of and that I
should be appreciative of, but we can't really fully appreciate
what I'm about to say. You know that I nerd
out on World War II like any other man over
the age of forty. You know that I Korean War
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and Vietnam and these things. I've read so much on
these different conflicts, including from the enemy's perspective. What was
it like in Japan when the bombs were dropping, What
was it like for the Viet Kong, for the North
Vietnamese when we were carpet bombing them over the jungle?
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And it sounds like the most terrifying thing in the
history of the world. Remember that when bombs drop big
enough bombs, the explosion is so massive that it sucks
all the oxygen. The flames around it suck all the
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oxygen out of the air, so you can completely avoid
the blast and die of suffocation. Standing out in the
open in what looks like fresh air, you can die
of suffocation. Think about how large that explosion has to be.
You listen to these Viet Cong guys and they'll talk
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about being down in the tunnels. You know, they were
famous for those tunnels when our bombs were dropping overhead,
and you're just waiting for the whole system to collapse
on you, and obviously oftentimes it did, and then you'll
die buried under all that, buried alive. The Japanese as
Americans start dropping bombs on them, what they went through.
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We here in the United States of America, none of us,
I certainly don't. We do not appreciate how awesome it
is to have never ever had someone else have air
superiority over us. Now. I realized there have been big
air wars over Germany and things like that, but we
have never experienced that as a people, where we lost
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control of the skies. Someone else's air force was able
to overwhelm ours, and we just sit there with bombs dropping.
Now I'll let them have his say, but you should
appreciate that because it sounds like the worst thing in
the of the world when someone's dropping five hundred pound
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bombs on your head.
Speaker 7 (31:04):
Starting last night and to be completed in a few days.
In under a week, the two most powerful air forces
in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,
uncontested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what
uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will
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fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing
and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the
Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders,
Flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital,
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flying over the irgc, Iranian leaders, looking up and seeing
only US and Israeli air power every minute of every
day until we decide it's over and Iran we'll be
able to do nothing about it.
Speaker 1 (32:07):
B two's B fifty twos.
Speaker 7 (32:09):
B ones, predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets,
death and destruction from the sky all day long.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
That's wonderful because it's ours. Not so wonderful if you're
on the receiving end of it. That is terrifying to
think about, isn't it? And I hope that my only
point in this. I hope you do feel blessed to
live in a country that no one has ever owned
the skies over you. Ever, you have never had to
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experience that, And of course, on a long enough timeline,
maybe that day will come one day in the United
States of America. But it ain't today, and I thank
God for it. Anyway, back to this guy's question when
he called me wife beater, Jesse, I'm not a big
tinfoil hat guy, but the other day I tried Dots
pretzels for the first time and suddenly started seeing ads
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on my phone for them, even though I've never searched
for or even heard of them before. Then two days later,
I hear you speaking the praises of Dots pretzels. Are
you and Jewish producer Chris trying out some creepy new
targeted advertising or is this just a coincidence. Well, here's
something that may creep you out. No, we're not doing
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a targeted advertising campaign. But you said you just tried
them the other day. I just bought a bag the
other day. Why did we see an ad? Did we
both see an ad did has dots pretzels launched some
sort of an advertising campaign. If you want to get
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creeped out beyond belief, go look at how the online
tracking works of your searches and how much they know
about your preference. They go through your Internet history and
they know they know whether you prefer blue or green
as a color. They know everything your shoes size, where
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you shop, what your tendencies are. We all have an
online profile now and they know everything about us. It's honestly,
it's quite creepy. It majorly creepy, but it's true. And
now here's a headline.
Speaker 4 (34:27):
Why you know, you know.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
The thing headlines we didn't get to.
Speaker 2 (34:35):
Attorneys for illegal immigrants have flooded federal courts with over
twenty four thousand lawsuits. How is it that we, a
sovereign nation, allow illegals to flood our court system in
any way? You don't have rights if you're an illegal,
at least you shouldn't. You have a right to be
arrested and sent away. Scandal plagued Rep. Tony Gonzalez is
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forced to a runoff. This is the dude who's alleged
mistress set herself on fire. She's running or he's running
against Brandon Herrera. Good guy, totally like Brandon Herrera. If
I could vote for him, I would man Alive Texas.
We got to do better than that, sending Tony Gonzalez
to a runoff. Look, I think Brandon Herrera is going
to win that runoff, But either way, we'll see what happens.
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All right, we'll be back tomorrow to sort everything out.
That's all
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