Speaker 1: It's the perfect into your day Jesse Kelly on seven ten.
Speaker 2: Woo but Jesse Kelly Show, let's have some fun.
Speaker 3: On a Thursday. Ah, my goodness, I am so unbelievably excited.
Speaker 4: And do you know.
Speaker 3: Why I'm excited?
Speaker 2: No, freedom is not.
Speaker 3: Free because Independence Day is tomorrow, and I am just like, Look,
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to get used to this. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: be obnoxious all night long. I can't help it. I
Speaker 3: love Independence Day. I love my country. It's asked doctor
Speaker 3: Jesse Thursday. Life is freaking good. The questions are amazing.
Speaker 3: Everything from food to July fourth, to the big beautiful
Speaker 3: build Congress to everything else under the sun will be
Speaker 3: discussed over the next three hours. And before I forget
Speaker 3: a half hour from now, the great Mike Rowe. You
Speaker 3: know Mike row Micro. Of course, everybody knows who Mike
Speaker 3: Rowe is. Mike Rowe, the guy who's been teaching us
Speaker 3: about the greatness of the trades and all that stuff
Speaker 3: for so long. He knows I'm hot on that too,
Speaker 3: and he will be joining the show a half hour
Speaker 3: from now to talk about you and me and jobs
Speaker 3: and the economy, and yes, Chris, we will discuss what's
Speaker 3: on the grill for Independence Day. I love it, Okay,
Speaker 3: I got to give you a heads up about something.
Speaker 3: I don't want to talk about the bill. I don't uh.
Speaker 3: Maybe you're just now joining us. Maybe you're just now
Speaker 3: getting in a car. I've been paying attention to the news.
Speaker 3: This was Mike Johnson earlier today.
Speaker 1: This vote, the yaser to eighteen, the nayser two fourteen.
Speaker 3: The motion is adopted. You got it. The bill passed.
Speaker 3: Maybe you love it, maybe you hate it. There you go,
Speaker 3: there's your breaking news of the day. I don't care
Speaker 3: to talk about it anymore. Sorry, I'm not interested whatsoever.
Speaker 3: It's gigantic, way too big, spends way too much. There
Speaker 3: are some wonderful things in it, some absolutely disgusting, criminal,
Speaker 3: embarrassing things in it. That's how life goes. Congress is evil, corrupt,
Speaker 3: and horrible. I'm not going to be dragged down on
Speaker 3: this day. The bill passed, Trump signed it to YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 3: There you go. There's your breaking news. Jessey, do you
Speaker 3: think there's any chance of an attack on America on
Speaker 3: the fourth, or more importantly, next year on the two
Speaker 3: hundred and fiftieth birthday celebration. Okay, there's a reason I
Speaker 3: wanted to open up with this question. Maybe maybe there is.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe Iran's gonna go set off a bomb somewhere.
Speaker 3: Maybe another one of these training terrorists is gonna go
Speaker 3: murder a bunch of people. Maybe maybe, maybe maybe maybe
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know. There could be an
Speaker 3: attack going on right now. I don't know. But let
Speaker 3: me tell you something. There's nothing, nothing in this world
Speaker 3: that would keep me from celebrating Independence Day. Do you
Speaker 3: know what I'm doing on Independence Day. There's this town
Speaker 3: close to us, well, I say close about an hour away.
Speaker 3: They have the most ridiculous, over the top, red, white,
Speaker 3: and Blue God and Country Independence Day parade that morning. Now,
Speaker 3: I hate parades. Hate parades. I think they're the most boring,
Speaker 3: lame thing in the world. Not this one. They'll have
Speaker 3: guns laid out on the table you can just buy.
Speaker 3: They'll have they do American Revolution reenactments with squirt guns
Speaker 3: where they're where the British are shooting squirt guns that
Speaker 3: the kids and the kids are throwing water balloons back.
Speaker 3: It is the most over the top thing in the world.
Speaker 3: And I'm going I don't care what the threats are.
Speaker 3: I don't care what the danger is. I'm going and
Speaker 3: then tomorrow night I have a vat of fireworks that
Speaker 3: is probably equal or perhaps exceeding the fireworks that will
Speaker 3: be set off in many towns across the United States
Speaker 3: of America. No, it's not for the whole neighborhood. It's
Speaker 3: just for me. I mean me, the kids, oh, my
Speaker 3: fam a couple other family members, a couple of friends
Speaker 3: coming over. And there's nothing that's gonna stop me from
Speaker 3: setting it off. And do you know why, Because I
Speaker 3: am so insanely grateful to be an American and you
Speaker 3: should too what we have here, because it's all we've
Speaker 3: ever known. If you're an American listening to this, because
Speaker 3: it's all we've ever known, we don't even I don't
Speaker 3: fully appreciate how amazing it is to live in a
Speaker 3: country that had a revolution. We had a revolution against
Speaker 3: the most powerful empire on the planet. You could make
Speaker 3: the argument that the British Empire when we had our revolution,
Speaker 3: was the most powerful revolution or most powerful empire in
Speaker 3: human history. They had Australia, then India, America. The sun
Speaker 3: never sets on the British Empire. All that stuff was true,
Speaker 3: this ridiculously powerful empire, and yet they started to do
Speaker 3: what evil tyrannical governments do. They started to poke and
Speaker 3: poke and poke. We're not gonna let you do this,
Speaker 3: and we're not gonna let you do that, and we're
Speaker 3: gonna tax this, and we're gonna abuse you with that,
Speaker 3: and we're going to abuse.
Speaker 1: You with this.
Speaker 3: Almost like they were daring us to revolve, Almost like
Speaker 3: they were daring us to have a revolution. But you
Speaker 3: know all that, Here's what you maybe don't know. Revolutions
Speaker 3: are awful almost every single time because whenever you remove
Speaker 3: a government, even an evil one, Mao will make it.
Speaker 3: Mao maybe the most evil man who ever lived. Even
Speaker 3: if you had a revolution in China when Mao was
Speaker 3: busy killing fifty million of his own people, even if
Speaker 3: that happened, you know who would usually almost every time,
Speaker 3: you know who would take over the warlord who has
Speaker 3: the most guns and most power and honestly is the
Speaker 3: most violent. That's who wins the wars most of the time.
Speaker 3: You realize that the most violent gun happy person, weapon
Speaker 3: happy person, who's able to kill more people than other people,
Speaker 3: he takes over for the tyrant who just got kicked
Speaker 3: out and then he does worse things than the other
Speaker 3: tyrant did. Actually, that's a really good point, Chris. Haiti
Speaker 3: is a great example. Haiti. Everyone knows about the transit
Speaker 3: transatlantic slave trade and all that, and I know America
Speaker 3: and then America is the only one, but it was
Speaker 3: South America the care It was a big business, it
Speaker 3: was a global business. You'd be hard pressed to find
Speaker 3: in that era a more despicable slavery condition than Haiti
Speaker 3: had at the time, because it was sugarcane and that's
Speaker 3: so labor intensive and just the abuse. And so you're
Speaker 3: looking at Haiti at the time and you're thinking to yourself, Wow,
Speaker 3: they should cast that off, they should have a revolution,
Speaker 3: they should revolt, and they did. Whoo, yes, let's get
Speaker 3: rid of them. Yep, Haiti's the biggest dump on the
Speaker 3: planet today. You could easily argue that Haiti is worse
Speaker 3: today than it was when they had slaves. They're eating
Speaker 3: each other in the place. Revolutions don't work out, that's
Speaker 3: not a thing that happens. Oh, Revolutions happen, and the
Speaker 3: people are as bad or worse off every single time. Now,
Speaker 3: let's talk about this the men who led our revolution.
Speaker 3: They were the top one percenters of their time. It
Speaker 3: wasn't just you know, a peasant revolt where you or
Speaker 3: me were unhappy with the taxes. I can't, I can't.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, no no. Our political leaders, our
Speaker 3: business leaders. Patrick Henry, you know Patrick Henry. Everyone knows
Speaker 3: at least the saying give me liberty or give me death.
Speaker 1: You know that.
Speaker 3: Patrick Henry was the five time governor of Virginia. Our
Speaker 3: top and elite. They led our revolution against the British crown.
Speaker 3: And so you have these elite guys, politicians and wealthy people.
Speaker 3: John Hancock, you know that huge signature on the declaration everybody,
Speaker 3: John Hancock. John Hancock was like a billionaire. I mean
Speaker 3: not a billionaire, but compared to his time, pretty much
Speaker 3: was a billionaire. Our elite read led a revolution against
Speaker 3: the British crown. Now let me ask you something. If
Speaker 3: Jeff Bezos and Donald Trump and Elon Musk and but
Speaker 3: all the elite, all the Rhonda Santus will make it
Speaker 3: the political elite too, all the political and wealthy elite,
Speaker 3: if they all banded together and they had a revolution today,
Speaker 3: what kind of government would they give?
Speaker 1: Us next.
Speaker 3: Do you think do you think they would all have
Speaker 3: the kind of government all agree to give us, the
Speaker 3: kind of government that strip them of power. That doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: They would come up with a kind of government that
Speaker 3: gives them more power and more money, like happens in
Speaker 3: every other revolution, but not here, not in the United
Speaker 3: States of America. We replaced a tyrant with freedom, and
Speaker 3: that never happens. You, an American citizen, can turn off
Speaker 3: the Jesse Kelly Show right now and go buy a
Speaker 3: billboard in your town that says Donald Trump sucks. And
Speaker 3: you know what will happen to you? Nothing, because you
Speaker 3: are free, a free American, and you are free because
Speaker 3: we had the greatest revolution ever. I don't care what
Speaker 3: may happen on the fourth of July, I will be
Speaker 3: out there waving the red, white, and blue, celebrating the
Speaker 3: unbelievable blessing that I am an American, and I hope
Speaker 3: you will join me. By the way, I had a
Speaker 3: chance to have a discussion today with somebody. He is
Speaker 3: a professor. He knows more about American history. He's forgotten
Speaker 3: more about American history than I will ever know in
Speaker 3: my entire lifetime. His name's Wilfred McLay by the way,
Speaker 3: Wilfred McLay. And you know what he told me. I
Speaker 3: was asking him about how do you teach history? Because
Speaker 3: he's a professor. How do you teach history? How do
Speaker 3: you teach it? How do you present it? You know
Speaker 3: what he said to me, just bless me. He said,
Speaker 3: I feel like I have an obligat obligation as a
Speaker 3: history teacher to create good citizens.
Speaker 4: Wow, it is the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent
Speaker 4: Thursday Independence Day eve in a rebel yell.
Speaker 3: Indeed, because we rebelled. We rebelled against tyranny. We rebelled
Speaker 3: against the evil English king, that piece of trash that
Speaker 3: he was, and we said no more, no, we will
Speaker 3: be free. We will cast off our tyrant, and we
Speaker 3: will not replace him with another one. The people of
Speaker 3: this country will choose their government, they will govern themselves.
Speaker 3: And that is why I will celebrate tomorrow. It's not
Speaker 3: because we don't have problems and everything's fine, Abev abev
Speaker 3: of the I will celebrate because my children live free,
Speaker 3: and they live free because we fought against tyranny and
Speaker 3: replaced it with something freaking better. Like here's another one,
Speaker 3: dear Top five napper, listening to your podcast tonight, hearing
Speaker 3: a clip of Dome answer the questions on CBS reminds
Speaker 3: me of how we dodge that bullet. It's the fourth
Speaker 3: of July this week. We need to celebrate as much
Speaker 3: as the Communists celebrate their BS holidays. We're doing good.
Speaker 3: Momentum is building, celebrate wins, and on the fifth, let's
Speaker 3: keep up the fight. Semper five. Maybe we ought to
Speaker 3: just dwell on that for a moment. Here we are
Speaker 3: on Independence Day and I know nothing's perfect. I get that.
Speaker 3: I know we have all kinds of problems FBI and spending.
Speaker 3: I get all that. What's today like with President Kamala Harris?
Speaker 3: What what tomorrow? What's today tomorrow like with President Joe Biden.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what. It's not like. It's not this.
Speaker 5: So the Homeland Security Department, or at least brand new
Speaker 5: data this week showing that in June there were a
Speaker 5: record low number of both nationwide border encounters and illegal
Speaker 5: immigrant apprehensions at the southern border. Here's the craziest part.
Speaker 5: There were zero illegal immigrants released in the US.
Speaker 1: You compare that to the.
Speaker 5: Highs under the Biden administration when we saw as many
Speaker 5: as twelve thousand encounters per day.
Speaker 3: Do you know what else isn't happening with President Kamala Harris?
Speaker 4: This?
Speaker 3: This is better than expected? Yeah, Sarah it is. They're
Speaker 3: talking about the jobs report. By the way, this is
Speaker 3: better than expected. Yeah, Sarah, it is.
Speaker 6: Look, this jobs market is like the energizer bunny. Every
Speaker 6: single time we expected to run out of steam, it
Speaker 6: just keeps going and going. So these new numbers show
Speaker 6: the US economy added one hundred and forty seven thousand
Speaker 6: jobs in June. That was well ahead of the expectation
Speaker 6: of about one hundred and eighteen thousand, well ahead of
Speaker 6: some whispers that we heard on Wall Street of a
Speaker 6: sub one hundred thousand number. This is indeed beating expectations.
Speaker 3: We were also expecting a slowdown. We did not get that.
Speaker 6: This is basically in line with May, which was revised higher.
Speaker 6: It's also good news the unemployment.
Speaker 3: You want to feel good about that bill that was
Speaker 3: passed today, I want to feel good about something else.
Speaker 3: I'm not even saying I like it. Well, let's go
Speaker 3: to a Democrat. Why should I like this bill? Who
Speaker 3: came Jeffries all out of assault on the care mister
Speaker 3: Speaker being provided by Planned Parenthood. The bill is an
Speaker 3: all out of sault on Planned Parenthood. Hey at Kim Jeffries,
Speaker 3: should I like this bill and miss the speaker? We
Speaker 3: want no part of it, which is why we're fighting
Speaker 3: so hard to stop it. Sounds like my kind of thing.
Speaker 3: Why is he fighting so hard to stop it? Or
Speaker 3: why was he fighting so hard to stop it? Probably
Speaker 3: things like this.
Speaker 6: A deportation machine that will be unleashed on steroids by
Speaker 6: this one big, ugly bill.
Speaker 3: Yes, I'm so excited. It sounds wonderful. Anyway, steroids are underrated.
Speaker 3: No stop, I don't want you what Chris, It's fine,
Speaker 3: let me explain. I don't want you to ever do steroids. Okay,
Speaker 3: So I want you to stay away from the rooids
Speaker 3: because I don't want your hard to explode when you're
Speaker 3: thirty five. But man, wasn't baseball speaking of America? Wasn't
Speaker 3: baseball sweet when everyone was all juiced up? As I've
Speaker 3: gotten older, I'm getting back into baseball and I love
Speaker 3: it now, don't get me wrong, But everyone complained. Everyone
Speaker 3: complained that all the players had biceps the size of
Speaker 3: my thighs. And that were jack and eighty bombs a year.
Speaker 3: That's the most fun I've ever had watching baseball on
Speaker 3: my entire life. That's fine, it's not my dad. He's
Speaker 3: not my strength. Coach. Go ahead, jam that needle in
Speaker 3: your arm, buddy, and hit one out for all of us. Sorry, Chris,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna clean that up. I told you I'm in
Speaker 3: a good mood. And when I'm in a good mood,
Speaker 3: sometimes the show can take a dark turn. All right,
Speaker 3: it can take a dark turn because I'm a dark person, really,
Speaker 3: especially now I've been out in the sun. Doctor tiny hands,
Speaker 3: I have two questions for you.
Speaker 1: I like you.
Speaker 3: I never paid attention in school, so I'm still green
Speaker 3: on the different branches and their powers. Who has more
Speaker 3: power the House or the Senate? Or is it like
Speaker 3: comparing apples to oranges? Also they both suck something awful.
Speaker 3: What which group of people are the worse or worse
Speaker 3: rhino wise? House members or Senate members? All right, let's
Speaker 3: talk about this first. Who has more power the House
Speaker 3: or Senate? That is definitely like comparing apples to oranges.
Speaker 3: You kind of nailed that one. Keep in mind, there's
Speaker 3: what the Senate is now and there's what the Senate
Speaker 3: was supposed to be, and because of something horrible called
Speaker 3: the Seventeenth Amendments, what the Senate is now is totally
Speaker 3: totally different, totally totally different than what the founders had intended.
Speaker 3: So let's discuss this because look, it's American Revolution time.
Speaker 3: I mean, no, hold, stop, stop, don't have a revolution.
Speaker 3: We're talking about Independence Day, and so the American Revolution,
Speaker 3: in our constitution and our form of government, it's going
Speaker 3: to be on people's minds. Let's discuss what was the
Speaker 3: intention of all of it and where that brought us now.
Speaker 3: But you're gonna have to wait on that because we're
Speaker 3: talking to Micro next. Mike Ro's going to talk about jobs, trades,
Speaker 3: other things, and then I swear on my life will
Speaker 3: geek out on constitution stuff and Senate and House and
Speaker 3: everything else. I bet Micro takes chuck. I bet he does, seriously,
Speaker 3: anybody who works with his hands like Micro does and
Speaker 3: encourages others to do the sames. You know what, he
Speaker 3: has testosterone, a lot of it. And I bet, look,
Speaker 3: he's perfectly aware that our water is full of estrogen.
Speaker 3: Full of estrogen. You heard of Kim Jeffrey. You think
Speaker 3: this water isn't full of estrogen and miss the speaker,
Speaker 3: we want no part of it. Okay, Chris, did you
Speaker 3: detect a little lisp in there? Hey, miss the speaker
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Speaker 3: the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Thursday. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 3: I'm so excited for fireworks in the parade with guns
Speaker 3: in god in America. Gosh, I love Independence Day, and
Speaker 3: I'm so excited to talk to Mike Rowe joining me now,
Speaker 3: somebody I've respected for a very long time and honored
Speaker 3: to have him on the show. I love his content
Speaker 3: and love how he encourages young men to perhaps forge
Speaker 3: a different path in what society's telling him to go along.
Speaker 3: CEO of Mike Roworks Foundation, do I have that right, Mike?
Speaker 1: That's close enough, man. Yeah, that's me, Mike.
Speaker 3: Why shouldn't everybody go to college? I was always told
Speaker 3: you got to go to college, you got to go
Speaker 3: to college. Do you just want young men to be poor?
Speaker 1: First of all, thanks for the kind words. I stumbled
Speaker 1: across something you put up on X the other day,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if you saw it, but I
Speaker 1: actually commented on it because it's the same thing I've
Speaker 1: been screaming for seventeen years. But look, the short answer
Speaker 1: is we're individuals. And you know, when you get into
Speaker 1: politics and when you start hearing people paint with a
Speaker 1: very broad brush, you know, you start to get these platitudes,
Speaker 1: and all of them are well intended, but none of
Speaker 1: them really make any sense. And the idea that a
Speaker 1: four year degree is the best path for the most
Speaker 1: people is right up there with one of the most
Speaker 1: hair brained ideas that's ever been put forth. You know,
Speaker 1: you can walk it back to the day we took
Speaker 1: shop class out of high school, and ever since then,
Speaker 1: to varying degrees, we've gotten it into our heads that
Speaker 1: our kids are going to be screwed if they don't
Speaker 1: borrow whatever it takes to get a four year degree.
Speaker 1: And that has caused so many problems. I know you're
Speaker 1: familiar with most of them, but just so your listeners know,
Speaker 1: in no particular order, we have seven point six million
Speaker 1: open jobs available right now, most of them don't require
Speaker 1: four year degree. We have one point seven trillion dollars
Speaker 1: of student loans on the books that never going to
Speaker 1: get paid back. We're lending money we don't have to
Speaker 1: kids who can't pay it back, to training for jobs
Speaker 1: that don't exist anymore. And it really all spins out
Speaker 1: of this misguided idea that everybody needs a four year degree.
Speaker 3: No, I just love that, and I've always loved that.
Speaker 3: But granted I come from a construction family. It's what
Speaker 3: I did, it's what my father did, it's what my
Speaker 3: grandfather did. And I think there's a couple of things,
Speaker 3: just in my opinion that people will get wrong about this. First,
Speaker 3: they think that being sweatier, dirty somehow is bad. If
Speaker 3: you don't work in the air conditioning, then you have
Speaker 3: a bad job. My dad made a ton of money,
Speaker 3: got sweaty and dirty his entire life, and I think
Speaker 3: they think it means you're going to not have as
Speaker 3: much money. But I've worked with somebody who had one
Speaker 3: hundred thousand dollars in college debt. He was making twelve
Speaker 3: I think it was twelve dollars an hour. He's never
Speaker 3: going to pay that off. Yet there's a plant a
Speaker 3: mile from my house. After you're done with your education,
Speaker 3: you can start at a hundred fifty grand a year.
Speaker 3: It's just not true that sweat's bad for you, and
Speaker 3: it's not true you're going to be poor.
Speaker 1: Well, this is, you know, from your mouth to God's ears,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it was. It's funny. Twenty two
Speaker 1: years ago I shot the pilot for Dirty Jobs and
Speaker 1: tried to sell it, and it was a tough sell.
Speaker 1: None of the networks wanted it, you know. Discovery finally
Speaker 1: took it, but really just to shut me up. They
Speaker 1: had other plans for me, and I just you know,
Speaker 1: did a couple episodes of this thing because for the
Speaker 1: exact reason you're saying, Jesse, the network executives are not
Speaker 1: much different than concerned parents, you know, they they want
Speaker 1: to make the right call. And at the time, nobody
Speaker 1: had ever really celebrated jobs that take place out of
Speaker 1: sight and out of mind and that require you to
Speaker 1: deal with peces from every species and all sorts of
Speaker 1: these other things. It just didn't seem like something people
Speaker 1: would want to watch. But holy cow man, once that
Speaker 1: went on the air, we got thousands, tens of thousands
Speaker 1: of letters from viewers, not telling me how funny I
Speaker 1: was or how much they loved the show. Necessarily it
Speaker 1: was more about, hey, Mike, if you think that's dirty,
Speaker 1: way do you see what my dad does, my brother,
Speaker 1: my cousin, my sister. Right, And so there was a
Speaker 1: real enthusiasm for the country that a lot of people
Speaker 1: have missed. That comes down to celebrating and honest day's
Speaker 1: work and really paying tribute to people who show up early,
Speaker 1: stay late, you know, go to work clean, come home dirty,
Speaker 1: and somehow keep polite society on the rails. So I
Speaker 1: got very lucky with that show. It was ahead of
Speaker 1: the curve, and so when I started Microworks on Labor
Speaker 1: Day of two thousand and eight, it was really just
Speaker 1: a love letter to a couple million open jobs we
Speaker 1: had at the time that nobody seemed to want. Today,
Speaker 1: it's something else, and I'm not really sure how to
Speaker 1: describe it, but I'll tell you. We've We've awarded thirteen
Speaker 1: million dollars in work ethics scholarships. We've helped train twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred men and women for a long list of
Speaker 1: jobs that need to get done but simply don't have
Speaker 1: the popular enthusiasm behind them. But most of them pay
Speaker 1: well into the six figures. So that's kind of what
Speaker 1: I do with my life these days. I work with
Speaker 1: big companies. I've worked with governors. Governor Abbott and I
Speaker 1: are embarking on a big endeavor to help Texas lead
Speaker 1: the charge to close the skills gap and reinvigorate the trades.
Speaker 1: CEOs from companies from Sea to Shining Sea believe me,
Speaker 1: they've got the memo. The shortage of skilled workers is
Speaker 1: real and it's about to become a problem that's going
Speaker 1: to be headline news.
Speaker 3: I'm afraid, Mike again, speaking with Mike Row, CEO of
Speaker 3: Mike Row Works. Mike, can you I just I get
Speaker 3: these emails all the time because this is something I'm
Speaker 3: passionate about I talk about it all the time, and
Speaker 3: so I'm telling you right now there a whole bunch
Speaker 3: of share parents leaning into the radio when they hear
Speaker 3: wait a minute, scholarships. Scholarships to what? Because I get
Speaker 3: questions of Jesse. Where do I even find a trade school?
Speaker 3: Where do I go? How long is it? Could you
Speaker 3: please explain that process to every parent of teenage boys
Speaker 3: like I am, who's interested in this. I have a
Speaker 3: sixteen year old. He's already told me that's where he's going.
Speaker 3: I'm interested in this.
Speaker 4: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Sure? Sure, well. The first thing not to oversell it,
Speaker 1: but you have to understand the totality of the problem
Speaker 1: and what's caused it. Seven point six million open jobs
Speaker 1: in manufacturing and skilled trades is a result of something right,
Speaker 1: and it's really two things. First, it's just bad math.
Speaker 1: We've got a demographic problem. For every five trades people
Speaker 1: who retire this year, too will replace them. And it's
Speaker 1: been that way for twelve years, so the labor pool
Speaker 1: gets smaller and smaller every year. We also are still
Speaker 1: dealing with stigmas and stereotypes and myths and misperceptions and
Speaker 1: just all kinds of bad information that have led people
Speaker 1: to conclude that there's no real opportunity in these vocations.
Speaker 1: That's why we got where we got to answer your question,
Speaker 1: there's many, many ways to get to find a trade
Speaker 1: school in your area, or an apprenticeship program, or a
Speaker 1: community college that might offer some kind of OTJ or
Speaker 1: on the job training. It's as simple as going online. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you can go to my website microworks dot org, and
Speaker 1: while you're there, there's always a big pile of free money.
Speaker 1: I mean, we do this every nine months, and you know,
Speaker 1: I mean it's we're modest by foundation standards, but still
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen million dollars is left to mark. So my
Speaker 1: advice to parents really is is to don't make the
Speaker 1: mistake that got us here in the first place. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's best for your kid, but I do
Speaker 1: know that they deserve an honest look at all of
Speaker 1: the options that are out there. And you know, I
Speaker 1: worry that when we put our thumb on the scale,
Speaker 1: we just skew the whole conversation to the point. Your
Speaker 1: point actually that these misperceptions are keeping kids from giving
Speaker 1: these trades an honest look. Last point. Sorry for the filibuster,
Speaker 1: but it's important. Not a week goes by where I
Speaker 1: don't get a call like the one I just got
Speaker 1: from the Blue Forge Alliance. These guys represent fifteen thousand
Speaker 1: companies who collectively build our submarines. They've got to deliver
Speaker 1: three per year to the US Navy. I'm talking Virginia
Speaker 1: class in Columbia Class subs. Incredibly complicated and really really
Speaker 1: important part of our national defense. These guys called me.
Speaker 1: I swear to god, I'm not making it up. They said,
Speaker 1: we're having a hell of a time finding tradespeople. Can
Speaker 1: you help us? I said, maybe, how many do you need?
Speaker 1: They said one hundred and forty thousand? One hundred forty thousand.
Speaker 1: They said, we've looked everywhere. Do you know where they are?
Speaker 1: And I said, yeah, man, I do know where they are.
Speaker 1: They're in the eighth grade. And that's what we're dealing
Speaker 1: with now. Not a week goes I've heard from the
Speaker 1: automotive industry eighty thousand openings in collision repair and technical jobs.
Speaker 1: The energy industry, my god, don't even get me started.
Speaker 1: Three hundred thousand openings at least welder's electricians. I just talked.
Speaker 1: Was at a conference, the Aspen Ideas Festival, whatever that is.
Speaker 1: But I was there and I listened to the CEO
Speaker 1: of Blackrock and Wells Fargo talk about the need for
Speaker 1: half a million electricians. So these guys got the memo Jesse.
Speaker 1: It's like it's out there and you can start to
Speaker 1: see the ship turn around. But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: the opportunities are real. Scholarship money is available. The country
Speaker 1: needs enthusiastic skilled workers way more than we need enthusiastic
Speaker 1: paralegals and actuarial accountants. With all due respect to those vocations.
Speaker 1: Is coming. AI is here. Those jobs are in peril.
Speaker 1: Plumbers and electricians job security like I've never seen before.
Speaker 3: He is Mike Rowe. I am a fan of Mike.
Speaker 3: I don't heart they ever have guests on my show.
Speaker 3: It's a very rare thing. You can come join me
Speaker 3: anytime you want. This is what young men need. I
Speaker 3: want to point this out microworks dot org, mikerowworks dot org. Parents,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you're scrambling there right now. Go Mike. I
Speaker 3: appreciate you very much. My brother come back soon.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you too.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Have a great uh and happy independence.
Speaker 3: Day, you too, How about that? We'll be back. Is
Speaker 3: the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Thursday. Smile, put
Speaker 3: a smile on your face. It's you can almost sniff
Speaker 3: Independence Day from here, although honestly that might just be Chris.
Speaker 3: I'm smelling it's Independence Day.
Speaker 1: Eve.
Speaker 3: You can email the show Jesse at Jesse Kelly show
Speaker 3: dot com. Now, as promised, let's discuss because somebody emailed
Speaker 3: in and it may sound basic, A lot of it
Speaker 3: may be basic, but people don't know the difference between
Speaker 3: the House and the Senate, and you know which group
Speaker 3: is worse for rhinos and whatnot. Well, first let's discuss this.
Speaker 3: The founders of the country. They were obviously obsessed with
Speaker 3: ensuring people could be free and would remain free. And
Speaker 3: it's easy to pick at the constitution today, Declaration as
Speaker 3: the Independence Constitution, all those things, But keep in mind
Speaker 3: what a daunting task it is not to create a
Speaker 3: government for the moment. To create a government that will last,
Speaker 3: you have to create a government that it's not just
Speaker 3: good for seventeen seventy six, is this kind of government?
Speaker 3: Is it gonna be okay? In eighteen seventy six, In
Speaker 3: nineteen seven twenty six. What are we dealing with here?
Speaker 3: And one of their challenges was, how do we ensure
Speaker 3: smaller states don't get smashed by larger states? Because even
Speaker 3: back then there were rich, powerful states like New York.
Speaker 3: How do we ensure that smaller states and their desires
Speaker 3: don't get trampled by the larger states and their desires,
Speaker 3: while at the same time ensuring that the population is
Speaker 3: properly represented. And let's pause on this for a moment,
Speaker 3: because maybe you're thinking, well, they were all unified back then.
Speaker 3: I want you to know something A lot of people
Speaker 3: actually don't know this religion, various forms of Christianity. They
Speaker 3: were different state to state back then, and I don't
Speaker 3: mean small differences. There were Quakers and there were Presbyterians,
Speaker 3: and there were multiple So one state would have, you know,
Speaker 3: this is their belief system, and the other state would
Speaker 3: have this belief system. They did not always get along.
Speaker 3: In fact, they were at each other's throats a lot.
Speaker 3: From the outside looking in, probably for someone like Chris,
Speaker 3: that kind of looks crazy. I don't get it. It's
Speaker 3: the Bible, it's Jesus. Why aren't you getting along? And honestly,
Speaker 3: I kind of think the same thing lots of times,
Speaker 3: but just know that it did matter to them. So
Speaker 3: there were big differences, religious differences, a central banking differences,
Speaker 3: all kinds of differences back then. How do you set
Speaker 3: up a government where the people are represented equally? So
Speaker 3: everybody will have a member of the House of Representatives.
Speaker 3: He represents so many people, and the small states don't
Speaker 3: get stomped by the big states. That that small states
Speaker 3: not getting stomped by the big states. That's why they
Speaker 3: gave us the Senate. That's why Montana it's the same
Speaker 3: number of senators as California. That's why Delaware gets the
Speaker 3: same number of senators as New York. When it comes
Speaker 3: to the Senate, large or small, the states have equality
Speaker 3: with their representation. Now, let's discuss what we talked about
Speaker 3: before about how it's so different now than it was then.
Speaker 3: Senators get elected how now by vote, by a statewide vote.
Speaker 3: So if you want to get elected senator in Arizona,
Speaker 3: all the citizens of Arizona will go decide, well, I
Speaker 3: want this person to be my senator. That is not
Speaker 3: absolutely not how it was supposed to be in this
Speaker 3: country before the Seventeenth Amendment. The state legislators, they would
Speaker 3: pick a senator to go represent them in Washington. DC
Speaker 3: created a completely different type of representation in the Senate.
Speaker 3: But let's not talk about what it was. Let's talk
Speaker 3: about what it is now. Because you asked, who are
Speaker 3: the worse rhyows, what are the different things? Well, you
Speaker 3: could probably argue, and Thomas Jefferson would argue this, that
Speaker 3: the House is more powerful, at least should be more powerful,
Speaker 3: because the House has the power of the purse. It
Speaker 3: is the House of Representatives that controls the budget, that
Speaker 3: controls everything. That's how it's supposed to work. But the
Speaker 3: Senate also has crucial roles to play, crucial roles to
Speaker 3: play different different than the power of the purse, but
Speaker 3: crucial roles like judges. Those haven't been in the news
Speaker 3: at all, right, judges, Yeah, the Senate has to give
Speaker 3: the old thumbs up or down on all those judges
Speaker 3: who were doing all those terrible things. By the way,
Speaker 3: if you want a little light reading that'll make your
Speaker 3: head pop off with rage, go read how many Republican
Speaker 3: senators voted for these communist judges who are screwing everything
Speaker 3: up or skipped the vote entirely, and them skipping the
Speaker 3: vote is the reason these communist judges got approved. Anyway,
Speaker 3: We're not having time for them. We're not doing that
Speaker 3: today because that's just gonna make me angry. Now, you
Speaker 3: ask which group of people are the worst rhino wise,
Speaker 3: it's always the senators. I know there are bad members
Speaker 3: of the House, but I've said this before, I'll say
Speaker 3: it again. There is a tiny, relatively tiny cabal of
Speaker 3: ten to fifteen GOP senators. Ten to fifteen GOP senators.
Speaker 3: They are the ones with their foot in the door,
Speaker 3: holding the door open for Democrats to savage this country
Speaker 3: like the animals. They are people like James Langford, Mike Rownds,
Speaker 3: Bill Cassidy, John Dune, Mitch McConnell, John Corny, I could
Speaker 3: go down the list, Curtis, the Lindsay Landy, Graham, all
Speaker 3: of them. They are the ones, you know, they'll give
Speaker 3: you a little win here and a little win there,
Speaker 3: and a little win here and right when we get
Speaker 3: to that crucial moment where we can drop the hammer
Speaker 3: on communism and stop it boot stop it right then
Speaker 3: and there, that's one of those step boh guys, I'm
Speaker 3: lnsy Graham. We can't do that. I'd rather bomb. I'd
Speaker 3: rather bomb every country on the planet than stop American communism.
Speaker 3: The Senate is where the rhinoes are, and that's why
Speaker 3: it's so beneficial that we are getting rid of them.
Speaker 3: The Tom Tillis's John corn and I believe is going
Speaker 3: to lose his primary. In fact, he probably will drop
Speaker 3: out ahead of time. Another thing to feel good about. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Let's do another hour, Let's do all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: What would the show be like if Chris left China
Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty election.