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