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Tyler Reddick here from 2311 Racing another checkered flag for the books time to celebrate with chamba jump in at chamba casino dot com Let's chamba no purchase necessary btw group void were prohibited by law ct and c 21 plus sponsored by chamba casino The Jesse Kelly show final hour of the Jesse Kelly show and I'm fantastic Thursday. I can't get to smile off my face I don't know what it is. I don't know. You know what it might be I'm gonna get to some other political stuff probably. I don't know. We might just screw off in the last hour. I haven't decided yet, but Right now in Houston, Texas There is something going on called the Houston rodeo. Maybe you have heard of it. Maybe you haven't that's fine If you have never heard of it or if you have never been It's obviously a rodeo that goes without saying it goes on every year And it is a massive massive event that goes on for what two three weeks Chris goes on for for weeks weeks
What it is is there is a huge area with endless shopping and things like that. They'll have tents set up barbecue tents You can go eat as bad as you would like there You can go buy a peril you can but there's nothing you can't get at the Houston rodeo Then they have a rodeo every single night. There's a rodeo with all the greatness of the rodeo Then after the rodeo every night There is a concert of some kind and don't think we're talking about some fly-by-night local band here The busy the biggest musical artists you can think of they play at the Houston rodeo every year everyone Immediately in our area They'll look up the lineup immediately and say oh my gosh. We're gonna go this night this night this night in this night The reason I'm if it sounds like I'm trying to sell it to you. It's because I am You should go And you should bring your family come spend two days in Houston Eat like a fat pig
Enjoy the rodeo enjoy a concert if you've never been I would highly recommend it to you now. Why am I in a good book? well Last night I was obviously working as you heard me here on the show. I was working so ob in my youngest son They decided to go to the rodeo Creed the band creed every you've heard of creed I hope the band creed was playing Chris said who hasn't I'm sure someone hasn't whatever the band creed They were huge when I was younger the band creed they were the concert act that night so ob and Luke They hopped in the car drove up to the rodeo yesterday my kid H a chicken and waffles slider Chris how about that and the syrup was the sauce. He said it was fantastic Can you wait? Can you people eat chicken and waffles? You can right? That's kosher. There you go, Chris chicken and waffle sliders and then He ate a deep fried
Snickers bar now. I'm not holding on hold on Chris Chris said that's too much I initially pushed back on him and said look I'm okay with Snickers I Feel like if you're gonna eat a deep fried something you could do better Because they had things like a deep fried Reese's cup something like that and he said dad know you you're thinking about a regular Snickers Bread it and picture everything in a Snickers as being Melty and soft he said even the peanuts in it got a little soft So it's just kind of gooey All right, he kind of sold me on it the deep fried Snickers sounded good What Chris? I Never know I've never had one. I've never had one. I will try. I'm gonna try it once. I'm gonna try it once I might have to reschedule that physical. Hey, wait. I'm gonna try it Ob and Luke go up to the rodeo last night And they go eat they go chop a little bit. They didn't buy anything. Thank you Lord They didn't buy anything and then they went in for the rodeo The reason I'm encouraging you to go it's not because I benefit from it and wave high to me when you're in town
But not that I benefit from it If you go to the Houston rodeo You will be reminded of how many people in the United States of America are like you still They love this country. I'll tell you this It is you're gonna be overwhelmed with the politeness of the people up there certainly the people in the actual rodeo It's a bunch of yes ma'am no sir excuse me Ob of course because she's a woman had to take pictures and video the entire freaking thing The national anthem if you want to see actually you you want some inspiration for this? I have no idea why I'm doing a Houston rodeo infomercial you want some inspiration for this Ob pulls out her phone last night for the national anthem They go all in for the national anthem at the Houston rodeo And I put up the video she took of the national anthem. I put it up on my Twitter account at Jesse Kelly DC
You can if you can go watch it. It's sitting there right now. That's a video from ob She took that of the Houston rodeo There's a woman riding around on a horse with an American flag That you should hear the pipes on the ladies sing in the national anthem They're cooking off fireworks in there everyone is standing up Hats off and then at the end of it this like firework flames sparkler I think it came out the top of the flag pull is the horse is riding across the rodeo It's one of those things that makes you want to stand up and just cheer for the United States of America And then After the rodeo was over Creed comes out and she said it was one of the best concerts. She's ever seen in her life. They're praying in between songs The reason part of the reason I'm in such a good mood is You and me we sit down every day and obviously we talk about problems and there are lots of problems but
There's still a lot of good in this country A lot of good and huge pockets of good people and we can spend so much time in a problem area Focusing on the problem headlines. We got this and that in the stock market gas prices We could we can get mired down and all this crap and we can forget There are a lot of people like you and a lot of people like me out there There's a ton of good left in this country. I promise there is Bronco Today I hit my limit I am done and we need to stop and talk and be it stop all the talk and be meant of action I picked up bow jangles after a long day of travel They royally messed up my sauce order Yes, I should have checked this but it never used to be an issue They gave me some putrid that means organic matter in a state of foul smelling and I know what putrid means
They gave me some putrid mango sauce for my chicken like you. I'm an avid sauce man And I've had enough I'm not sure if we imprison or reeducate offenders but the constant disrespect and discrimination It's got me at my boiling point the restaurants All right, I'm gonna tell you something I'm not proud of You ready? If I order food delivered through some you know app you can get any food delivered now If I order food delivered I will tip well, you know that I just feel like you should be a good tipper in life I will take whatever tip they have on there and I will add to it Especially if the driver shows up in his polite. Please. Thank you. I always thank you I swear I get you five extra bucks for me It's just just manners or a good thing However
if there's a problem with your order The restaurant will have to pay If you if you ask for a refund and get one it doesn't come from the app the restaurant has to do it I more than once have demanded and gotten a full refund on my food order because they didn't put my sauce in there And It's not about the money and believe it or not. It's not even out of spite or anger I know that's what you think and I know that's what you think Chris It's not about that I want that refund request to come through to the restaurant and I always put the reason why And I want the manager or owner of the restaurant to look and say oh It's because we didn't include his ranch And I want him to go to his kitchen staff and loudly inform them That when someone orders for and often pays for sauce
It is not a an inconsequential thing that they then you can do it if you feel like it if you don't do it No big deal. It's just the thing of rent. We sauce people make it a priority It is not a small thing. It is the meal I called one of the taco places in Houston one time torches tacos in case you're wondering what it was Because me and Chris had gotten some tacos from there And they kept forgetting the sauce and kept forgetting the sauce and kept forgetting the sauce I called them and I said I need to speak to the manager It's not like you think She got on the phone. I told her what had happened. She said I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let me get your money back I said no, no, no, no. I didn't call for that. I love you guys. I'm gonna keep ordering I called to let you know You keep having to pay for my meal Because you have some moron in the kitchen who won't read a receipt and give me the sauce And I don't want you to have to do that. I want to pay you for the meal
She was so pleasant on the phone. She tried to demand that she pay for the meal and I said no I don't want your money back I wanted to let you know and Chris they never forgot it one other time after that Pull your people aside if you run a restaurant and tell them the sauce batters It is the Jesse Kelly Joe on a wonderful Thursday reminding you to email in your ask dr. Jesse questions for tomorrow Jesse at jessie kelly show dot com now you Sometimes you don't ever you don't want to look at the bad part of things because there's enough bad part bad parts out there anyway, right So when there's something good that happens you don't want to look at the bad part of it but Well read the headline Trump toutes historic 300 billion dollar Texas refinery As the first new at new us plant in nearly 50 years
Now I'm happy we have a refinery good for Trump good good all around. I'm good good for the country First one in 50 years The entire world runs on oil And we haven't built a new refinery in 50 years What are we doing and right now we're in a situation where We have some Middle Eastern oil that's not going to be a flowing Right about now would be a wonderful time to be able to produce and refine All of our oil needs and I know we have some refining capacity. I get that but We haven't built a new refinery in 50 years We have allowed the communists To wage this climate war on us for so long that we haven't built a new refinery in 50 years
Oh my gosh hey bald and smart Texas warlord how does polling work When I hear figures of percentages of people who think this or that how their figures obtained I'm 46 and in my 26 years of voting I've never received a phone call what they call people and How you call people when you call people which people you call That's what determines the accuracy of a pull and how many people you call I've bored you with this brutally boring detail before But I'm going to tell you about it again in case you are a nerd about such things There is a term sub tabs sub tabs you have ever heard that term well There'll be a pull all right, so I'll read one of these that's one of the ones we've already talked about nbc pull And this is approval rating of the Iran strike Maga Republicans are at 90 90 percent Republicans are at 77
Non-Maga Republicans are at 54 All adults are at 41 Independence are at 27 and Democrats are at 9 okay stop stop we're not going to focus on that That pull That pull has sub tabs that you can't read right there But they probably are available if you go looking for it usually the sub tabs are available online for any pull Why would that matter for polls? Well If they pulled 100 people That's a minuscule pull that you can you can almost dismiss it. It's too small of a number of people If they pulled too many Democrats or too many Republicans what if what if there's a pull that comes out that says Donald Trump's approval is it is it only 35 percent this is such a disaster. It's the end of the world well It might be Unless
You click on the sub tabs and find out. Wait a minute 70 percent of the people they pulled were registered Democrats Of course the pull was going to show his approval ratings that you see what I mean The sub tabs are one of those boring nerdy details about polling that people don't talk about because it is boring And it is nerdy, but it is Everything to be honest. They're they're everything. Oh, this was pulled Well, who did you pull? Oh water drinking ice cream eating bear You can drink water any ice cream, okay I've listened to you say get involved locally where you live Didn't sell it out today, but I am an elected town official. She says yesterday in New Hampshire Was a meeting so on so far. She lives in a small town to either way she got involved Through her hat in the ring and she won. I could have declined to serve But I thought it's a low-time commitment. I can serve my town and maybe find illegal's on the voting rules
I accepted the position. I think everything happens for a reason Love the show says I can say her name her name is Kathy Looks like she did so with the support of her husband Kathy Husband Well done Well done Another another great reason to get involved and get involved locally If you only focus on all the problems because there's always new problems You don't you don't ever get an of to then out that pressure When you start getting involved working on a campaign or running for office or whatever It feels like you're doing something about it because you are doing something about it. Believe it or not You get involved in your local city council school boards something like that It'll actually make you feel better about all the bad news international news national news all the bad news that comes down
It'll feel better because you'll feel like you're you're you're in the fight You'll feel like you're in it Yeah, that's a good point Chris. It otherwise you get to vote once every two years And that doesn't you so once every two years you get to go out and do something about it You get to do something about it more often If you get involved get involved get involved get involved. All right We'll talk to my buddy Kurt Schlichter. He wants to dog on John Cornyn next It is the Jesse Kelly show on a magnificent Thursday remember tomorrow's as Dr. Jesse Friday You need to get your questions emailed in now to Jesse at Jesse Kelly show dot com joining me now Is my friend famed author at this point in time Kurt Schlichter Kurt Before we get to John Cornyn I've lost track of how many books you've written. Why do you write so many books? I hate writing it sucks
Yeah, I like to eat I'm literally writing a book when you're a fine producer whose musical taste is impeccable gave me a call It's a it's a it's a thing I do and I'm actually expanding it there is now the Kelly term looks at the Kelly term old people's republic series There is a graphic novel coming out called blue flame and it's insane if you go to my twitter account at Kurt Schlichter You can see the animated trailer. It is completely badass Okay, a graphic novel. What what is a graphic novel? That's a comic book for adults because it's splattered with blood in action Okay, I like that. I'm a big blood girl. It is it is cool And uh, it's a conservative guy in our friend of Andrew Breitbart's who's doing the art It's actually kind of amazing So I hope people will check it out you can find it on my it's called blue flame you can find it on my uh
Twitter bio All over the place Speaking of flame Let's talk about Lindsey Graham and why he's on the news all the time counter messaging President Trump president Trump's up there every single day saying hey, this is going to be limited We're wrapping things up. We're ahead of schedule in Iran and then Runs to the news every night promising that we will continue to bomb the entire world and Basically ruining all the White House messaging where you're already massively underwater with independence and the whole thing Is Lindsey Graham secretly working against the Trump administration Well, look Lindsey Graham's got a lot of secrets and not any of them are particularly well-kept All right, Ty I We spent 48 years having our guys killed and mained by the Iranians. I have no use for them Let's from cook let him do his thing It's getting done minimal casualties. It's going to happen the last thing we need is this little guy in there
Doing exactly what you're saying which is counter counter messaging the president Everything's going to be fine once we get this thing won and the the problem is I'm not sure what uh Lindsey Graham's definition of winning is and I don't particularly care I think Donald Trump's going to leave Iran in the hands of people who are probably not necessarily nice people but people who aren't going to go and murder our troops with Explosively foreign projectiles and all those other things. So I can live with that result. I'm not interested in what Lindsey Graham can live with Tell me about John Cornyn Kurt Can you explain to me why a state like Texas and this applies to many other states than just my state? Well, I guess our state now Texas, but how can a red state like Texas consistently send a dirt ball like John Cornyn back to the United States Senate? Well, remember that uh
Most people are kind of normy conservative. They don't really pay attention and every six years Cornyn provides his own act You know his his unique. I'm a Texan. I care what you think. What? I'm hard core and people are like oh Well now's the only time I ever see him. I guess he's okay. Look at that hat. I mean it's got a hat It's got a hat. He's got a cowboy hat. He's got to be fine Um when in fact he holds us in utter contempt now I Think this is a problem in a lot of red states because you can't be a Democrat and get to statewide office You you you you basically have to be a Republican Which means everybody is a Republican even if they would be Democrats in other places So you you get this phenomenon where you have a Texan Senator and I'm still trying to get my head around this Jesse Who thought you know I'd be a great idea? You know what the Republicans are clamoring for here in Texas
It's for me to work with the Democrats on a gun control bill Yeah, and and there's more I'm really into a comprehensive immigration reform which is English for Amnesty And you get I mean he's horrible I just I just despise it Kurt We are getting better though. I mean when I say we I'm talking about the GOP primary voter Yes, we have a long way to go But if you look at the results for instance the John Cohn in results You have these other losers like Tom Tillis retiring and things like that Aren't we getting better now? I've with the GOP primary voter many times before But you got to hand out some sugar cubes when it's due every once in a while we're getting more involved in caring more right Yes, we are and you're absolutely right and I'm glad you're saying that because there's a lot of tumors Oh, nothing's ever changed. It's it's still the worst thing I ever do
I'm gonna go over to have a crappy No stop No, we are getting better But it if you have the idea that you know Someday we're going to get to a point where we don't have any opponents and everything is easy and we don't have to fight for You know freedom justice and Not cast rating young males Your delusional. We're always going to be fighting right now. We're winning and In this Texas primary, you know, you had a lot of people voting for Kenny Paxton who's got his own problems which many of them are of his own making Um, and that's not helpful But the the fact is this corner guy is a disaster and there's a lot to be said for posting his head on a stick figuratively if I if I said literally he would cry and you get a Tweets from the 25-year-old interns who work for him about how I'm trying to post his head on a stick um God, he said it
You know Look if he if Kenny Paxton was electoral poison and there was no way we would win the Senate seat against that blackness little Purve whose browser history to Makes me cringe Then I think it would be reasonable to support Cornon because he's going to be with us 90% of the time. It's just 10% will drive us crazy um But you know, I am unconvinced that taloriko is going to win against any republic in in Texas Especially with such greatest hits as Jesus loves abortion and God is non-binary Hmm Yes, that'll land very well Kurt, where can people go find these wonderful books yours? I You find my books on amazon, but I want you to go to my twitter bio page and you can get a link to Blue flame and watch the trailer watch the threat. It is so cool
And you know, we talk a good game about Conservative art. Why why are we're conservative doing art? Getting out there and doing popular culture. Well, stop talking and start going there and start getting in And support it where it exists people support my books. They should support this graphic novel blue flame Kirchlickter, I appreciate you my friend come back soon You know I've never understood why they call it a trailer Well, why do they call it a trailer? A trailer is something you pull behind your pickup truck You load your lawn over in there or four wheeler or something like that That's that's a trailer How is it that a a brief summary video summary of your movie or graphic novel or something like that In what way is it a trailer what Chris what It's the trailer not the boat Chris coming up with some stupid philosophical sentence in no way explains why it's a trailer
How is it what does that even mean what you just said? It's the trailer not the boat. That's the dumbest thing Chris You know what put your microphone down. You're done for the day. Chris is done for the day We're not done yet. We have another segment hang on It is the Jesse Kelly show final segment of the Jesse Kelly show on a Thursday But don't worry. We still have a big fat juicy one for you tomorrow a juicy Jesse Kelly show Friday. What Chris? I Like how that sounds I think everyone likes juicy things. What are you talking about? They do then it's a grand as you need to email in your ask dr. Jesse questions for tomorrow Jesse at Jesse Kelly show.com a juicy orange. That's what I'm thinking of right now is a juicy orange but not to watery Sometimes they can taste watery. What Chris? Would you see in water? We are not the same thing. Don't act like they're the same thing. No. No water is different than juice
Chris if you're bite into the orange and the juice that fills up your mouth His sugary and sweet and delicious That's different than if you bite into it and your mouth is full of just Orange flavored water totally a different thing. Don't act like they're the same things Why are you like this Jesse? I initially dismissed this thought as me being a conspiracy theorist But I finally become convinced I think it's probable that Jewish producer Chris is an undercover massage agent He undermines you in subtle ways by seeming to disapprove of your jokes His inability to answer the simple question about the length of the Olympics was the final straw I agree As you as your tour of Israel got closer to Tel Aviv that he happened to disappear for a few hours You know, I did lose sight of Chris for a couple hours in Tel Aviv What were you doing Chris what one Chris said who doesn't take a couple days away from a trip were you going going through training
Getting video recorders and planted in your nose or something I know how what Chris did you hear that story and I don't know whether it's true. Please Let me let me throw this disclaimer out there. It's probably total crap. It's just a story I saw I saw a story That Mossad Had implanted that basically they had infiltrated the dentistry of Iran And that they had implanted tracking devices In the teeth of the Iranian generals in leadership that helped them know where they were now again Hold on hold on don't take that to the bank. I don't know whether or not that's true Okay, but if that is true, that's amazing. That is amazing. That is man. That's dark That's what I totally support it like I support relief factor I You need relief factor have you recently had a bomb dropped on you by America or Israel you no
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Well, I wrote my new low TGOP non-jock taking senator Utah's John Curtis and told him to pass the save act I feel like these people don't represent us My question is does it really do any good to write your representative His name is Brian um, it does actually So Here's how I know it used to work and I would imagine it still works the same way At least in one office that I know of so I'm sure it was pretty common throughout throughout congress The congressman Had a what amounted to a point system For complaints where people call it in What kind of point system? Well, and I don't remember exactly what they were so I'm not gonna lie to you about the number But if someone called That was worth a certain amount of points If someone wrote a letter hand wrote a letter and mailed it in that was worth more points Because it was more difficult in time consuming to write a letter in email worth a certain number of points
And this congressman He would get reports from his people at the end of I want to say every day, but that's probably not true every every week something like that He would get reports from his staff on hey People are really mad about this and so because everyone's going to complain about something He's always going to get a complain about something but If a lot of people an overwhelming number of people are complaining about one thing It may not change his vote But it might change his vote Because the the reason the point system exists is he knows he only stays in office If the voters don't get too angry with him so If it seems like everyone in his district is mad at him about xy or z It may prompt him to change now that's not me telling you That your letter or your call or whatever That it's going to change the vote of your senator or your congressman
Maybe he's bribed and can't change his vote Maybe he's black mailed and can't change his vote that would be Lindsey Graham someone like that maybe you never know But You might change him Look, I'm telling you right now. What's what's happening to john cornon in Texas even Let's say something horrible happens and cornon goes on to win this primary That that would be horrible devastating actually But even if that happens That this election is now this close for a guy who was walked to re-election every other time That we already have a win you and me already the everybody listing right now Because the other GOP senators are looking at that race and they're thinking wait a minute He spent a hundred million dollars in a primary And he has to go to a runoff that he might lose. He barely won it That's how mad people were about john cornon voting for gun control
I better be careful when I choose to betray my base next time it does make a difference Speaking out makes a difference making these well look when they lack patriotism and so many of them lack patriotism All you can do is make them afraid for their jobs. All right And don't forget to email your questions in to jessie at jessie kelly show.com for now and now He's a headline Headlines we didn't get to Morrissey cancels a concert due to sleep deprivation Caused by a noisy hotel I would make fun of that person But I just stated a hotel in Los Angeles and there were sirens and honking and all kinds of things going on outside of it All night long and it was really horrible. I'm just really old and mean now London knife crime is so bad They now need bleed kits on every bus. Oh, we'll consider that an immigration update Trump stopping the evil empire iran is more important than oil prices
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