May 18, 2024 • 37 mins
The difference between discretionary and non-discretionary spending. Running trillion-dollar deficits. The best environment to fight a war. A pastor who stands up against the cultural rot. Why veteran suicide rates are so high. Coming back from combat and adjusting to life back in the states.
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show on a Friday, of course at ask Doctor
Jesse Friday, and it's another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show. Member,
you can email us we are live here Jesse at
Jesse kellyshow dot com. I already played the mud throwing
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poop throwing spat that happened today in the house. I
don't even know if I'll play it again. It's a
dagne embarrassing, but it is what it is. Let's move on,
you know what. Let's step away from politics to deal
with a couple of things. Military matters, veterans, suicide. Where's
the worst place to fight? This guy says, dear Oracle.
Regarding your hammock story, if you missed it the other night,
(00:53):
I retold the story I've told before about my hammock
exploding in the middle of the jungle and Thailand and whatever.
Go download a podcasts of the show if you missed it.
iHeart Spotify iTunes. Anyway, Regarding your hammock story, as you
have experience of desert warfare from fighting in Iraq, was
it less hellish than jungle fighting? What environment do you
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consider most conducive to warfare jungle, desert, temperate planes, forests
of Europe and North America. Warfare is hellashawan warriors wherever
they fight, But what environment would be the least hellish?
My cousin, who also listens to you, wonder what life
is like for you up in the sixth age stratosphere.
(01:36):
His name is Michael. Okay. Well, first of all, being
as how I'm six eight, let me just clue you
in on just something, just something. Everyone has different philosophies
in life. I'm not saying mine's correct about everything or
really anything. Who knows, right? But I never wanted to
be boring. I just don't want to be boring. Isn't
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that isn't that bad? I don't want to be boring.
So let me tell everyone, when you see a really
tall person, try the best you can not to ask
them how the weather is up there, And if you
can make that effort, maybe go one step further and
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don't ask them if you play basketball, Because it's not
that you're going to offend me if you've ever said
these things to me, it's just you really really need
to understand how painfully unoriginal those two questions are about
ninety percent of the people I get in an elevator
with will ask me those two questions on our way
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up or down wherever we're going. Oh my gosh, how
tall were you? Do you play basketball? It just comes
out of people. So that part of being six eight's annoying.
It's very, very annoying to have to purchase first class
air travel seats. I've never traveled first class in my
entire life. Our honeymoon we got upgraded for free because
they found out we were on our honeymoon. It was
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the greatest moment of my life. And now it's gotten
to the point where my right kneel. But whatever. Now
I basically have to buy them if it's a long flight,
and it really irks me to spend that kind of money.
So that sucks. Other than that, six eates being great now.
The best environment to fight a war now, I would
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argue the desert. And I've been doing a bunch of
reading lately on Rommel, that German general Rommel in the fighting.
He was fighting the Brits for a long time in
Northern Africa before we ever got there, Before Patten and
whatnot got there, he was fighting the Brits and the
Nazis would push him back, and then the Brits would
push them back, and then the Nazis would push them back.
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All this desert warfare training, and you would think the
desert would be uniquely horrible. And don't get me wrong,
it was most definitely horrible. It was hot and miserable
and it sucked. But it is fairly open. You can
move around. And it depends on what kind of army
you have, obviously, but if you are a mobile army
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that wants to move and can move, the desert is
amazing because you don't have canyons and gullies and all
kinds of things like that. Trees, you just don't have
that stuff. Chris said, sand Well, when I say desert,
I should clarify I'm not talking about sand dunes and
things like that. You generally don't see a ton of
fighting and that kind of you're thinking Sahara from the movies.
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You're thinking that Sahara desert from the movie. You generally
don't see a lot of fighting there, and yes, that
would be a pain, but believe me, that would suck too.
The worst from I shouldn't say the worst because I
don't know. I've only fought in one. I only fought
in the desert. I did training in other kinds. But
have you ever, how much do you know about the
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fighting that took place around Port Moresby in New Guinea,
New Guinea? You know where New Guinea is. It's over
by Australia. It's thank you, John, over by Australia. So
I'm not going to go into that. We're not doing
a bunch of history. But you should know that it
was a combination of the thickest, most horrific jungle you
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can imagine, and everything that came with that, the jungle disease,
the poisonous animals, honestly hostile tribes that many still exist
there to this day. A combination of jungle like that
with mountains that are as big as the Rocky mountains
the jungle. There are stories about Japanese rampant, stories about
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Japanese cannibalism during World War II. The environment was so
horrific the men were starving so badly they started eating
each other. Did you know over two hundred thousand Japanese
troops died in New Guinea in World War Two? Two
hundred thousand. It is fighting. Most people don't even know
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about it. There's stories about men who would you'd be
humping up and down up through the jungle, but it's
straight up and down where you're on your hands and knees,
you're on all fours trying to get to the top
of this single jungle path. There are stories of men
getting to the top and being so happy they finally
made it, they would weep with joy. It sounds like
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a living hell. And speaking of the Japanese, you know
how they were all over the place. They were in India, Java,
they were obviously the Philippines. They were all over all
over for the Japanese, and they wrote about it. A
lot of them did. The worst place they had in
their empire that they were trying to defend and take
over by a mile was New Guinea. New Guinea a
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combination of jungle warfare with mountain warfare. Oh my gosh.
And this, what I'm about to say, is going to
make a lot of people, a lot of military types
probably angry. And you're welcome to argue with me about this,
because this is personal opinion stuff. But I have always found,
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at least in my own personal dealings and in my reading,
I have found mountain fighters. Mountain people to be the toughest. Genuinely,
you would think it might be jungle fighters as mountain fighters,
like if you, oh, please forgive me my fellow Marines.
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But Mountain division mm hmm, you any any unit. There
are different seal units that specialize in mountain warfare. There
are different depending on which group you're in, different special
forces units. But the mountain warfare guys, they're always mocked
their by their veteran buddies because they got the worst assignment.
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Because you're just hiking. You're humping up and down cluills, cliffs,
it's cliffs, it's cold, it's whatever. They always get mocked
for getting the worst assignment, but everyone kind of knows
in the back of their head those are the toughest
dudes they had. I'm so mad at myself. I can't
think of it. I'm doing this on the fly. They
referenced this a little bit in the HBO series Band
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of Brothers. But the German troops there were many different,
very very elite German units, speaking of World War Two.
In World War Two, there were many elite German units,
and some of the most elite units would walk around
with a flower. They had a flower. I want to say,
is Aidelweiss a flower? I want to say it was
an Adelweiss flower. That may be wrong. I'm almost pauseive
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that's what it is though. Either way. You had these
super tough troops and there are in these you know,
German army uniforms, and they would have a flower stuck
in their uniform. Well what was that flower? You? There
was some mountains somewhere that you had to crest, or
you had to get above a certain level as part
of your military training, and if you achieved to that,
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you that was like a mark, a serious mark of admiration.
Guys would see that be like, oh crap, oh wait, crap,
there's one of those guys that got the flower. It
was a device, Yeah, it was right. It is Adovice anyway. Mountains,
the guys who've been through the mountain trials, the mountain tribulations,
there are amazing stories and I mean really really incredible stuff.
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The fighting in Italy was so much mountain fighting, and
of course the Italians couldn't defend anything, so the Germans
had to take it all over. And there are stories
because you're fighting on cliffs of guys they're attaching explosives
to string, and they're fighting vertically straight up or straight down,
and they're essentially dropping ex explosives on strings and swinging
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them back and forth until they try to swing it
into the cave opening. And we're talking mountain fighting like that.
It's wild, it's crazy, right, mountain fighting manh No thanks,
And then you combine mountain fighting with young fighting. No,
I'm too old and fat. I would just die. I
would just fall over and die. My back hurts just
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(11:14):
somebody has a speaking of all this warfare stuff. Someone
has a heart for veterans and what they're going through
and suicide and depression and things like that, and let's
let's have a talk about that. Maybe it'll help somebody,
maybe it won't. Thanks fighting for your freedom every time
the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
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on a Friday, churning through everything here on the show,
I do have to get to this, so before we
get to the veteran thing, So someone sends this email
and showgun Oracle. My wife and I became members of
Shadow Mountain Church, in case you don't know, that's in
San Diego. Below is a link to their pod to
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their broadcasts. Sry to ask Michael to do some work,
so on and so forth. Whether you are personally making
any difference or everyone is slowly waking up, You and
the other good people of the world are waking up,
and the guy's name is doctor Jeremiah. I think it's
doctor David Jeremiah. Yeah, doctor David Jeremiah is this guy's name.
So this bastard gets up and I gotta tell you
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they went and pulled the guys went and pulled the
audio because she said he sent a link over. I
like this, dude. I'll tell you if I lived in
San Diego, I know what church I've been going through.
This sounds like a man after my own heart.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Tremendous option. We have as parents to make a difference
in the lives of our children, and if we're honest,
we know that much of that difference is made in
those early years. Many of the principles that we live
by for all of our lives are ingrained into us
when we're very small. So don't ever throw those years away.
Don't ever say I'll wait until they're older. If you
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do that, you will have waited too long. I'm going
to tell you something that's become very apparent to me,
and it might not make some of you happy when
I say this, but I really don't care. I'm going
to say it because it's important. If you train off
your children for twelve grades and send them to a
private or secular school.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You will regret it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You will be sorry you ever did it. I don't
know one school that has not been taken over by
the crazies and the communists and all the rest of
the people that are filling the heads with all that's
junken cause them to do what we're watching on television.
I can't imagine someone you love, you train them for
twelve years or twelve grades, and then you say, okay,
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why don't you go to Harvard. Harvard's a good school
that it used to be. Not anymore. It's full of
woke people who just want to destroy your children, and
that will be the cause that happens. If I didn't
want to embarrass some people, I could tell you the stories.
There are people in this church who I love who've
gone through that process, enamored with the intelligentia that's a
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part of the big schools with the big names, not
realizing that when they send their child there their praying
Russian Roulette with their soul. There are other schools to
go to. There are Christian schools. There are schools where
this craziness doesn't happen. I'll tell you what, if my
children were at the age and getting ready to go
to college, I'd never send them to Harvard or Yale
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or Pen.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I love this guy. Might want to take those words
to heart. Do you love Aiden, Jaden and Braden? And
I'm glad you do love them enough to not send
them to be educated by your mortal enemies. This is
not nineteen sixty. Colleges are not liberal, that kind of
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left leaning. They are openly hostile, many of them to you,
to your babies, to your belief system, to everything. Do
you take your kids to the zoo and chuck them
in the gorilla enclosure? I don't, so don't send them
to Harvard. Oh great crayon eating Oracle. I literally, why
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do you guys have to do that? Met my hero today.
When people say the heroes of the past wars don't exist,
I just want to say they still exist. I met
and talked to Marcus Marcus Latrelle, aka the Loan Survivor.
He was talking about veterans' suicide. My mentality is completely
changed after hearing him talk. Thankfully, it's a commercial, so
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hopefully all of America can hear what he has to say.
But my question is, how do you recommend helping veterans.
Have you thought about bringing some veterans on and letting
them talk about the transition to civilian life to help
us non military understand we might all need some chock
to get through this. You're welcome for the transition. No,
I'm not gonna tell you about chock right now. But look, first,
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I'm not going to speak for all veterans. I'm not
some veteran's voice out there where I and every veteran
and how they all feel. I can simply tell you
about me, how I felt, how I feel, and how
many of the guys I served with how they felt
and feel, depending on whether they're still alive or not. First,
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and foremost, when you sign up to join the military
as a young man, you do so oftentimes. Yes, you
want to serve your country, you want to better yourself.
That both those things were true of me. Also, this
was true of me. I wanted some adventure. I want
an adventure. Young men, much of their mother's chagrin, young
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men crave a little bit of danger. They do. They do.
It's how God made us. It's why they always march
off to war. Who marches off towards the young men.
It just it's their thing, it's our thing. It's what
we do. Well, I shouldn't say our. I'm not a
young man anymore anyway, but it's what we do. And
what happens is you join the military. I'll just make
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it about the Marines, and they're going to grow you
up fast and you're going to find yourself very quickly.
At least I can only speak from my experience in
the Marine Corps. You are going to find yourself quickly
within a year or two, unless you're a turd or something.
You're going to be in a leadership position, a revered
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leadership position where men under you must follow your orders
to the letter and they will. You are trusted with things, weapons, equipment, ammunition.
You are given incredible responsibilities over things you are and
I hate putting it this way, but I am. I'm
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just going to tell you you're important, and you feel important,
you feel significant, you matter, and you do. I at gosh,
I was twenty one or I was twenty two. I
think I was twenty two years old, and I was
in charge of ten men in combat. I was our
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mortar section leader. By the time we left Iraq. It
was my section. I was a section leader. Ten men,
life or death mine. We're going out on a patrol
at night, me another NCO. You're leading the patrol. We're
in charge at twenty two. And then I'll tell you
the other half of the story. Before i tell you that.
Let me do this really quickly here. Let me tell
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you about what's happening with our money. It's not only bad,
it's getting worse. And we keep previewing things about inflation
and interest rates, and have you noticed something that they
keep saying things like, well, next year, the interest on
the debt's going to cost more than the military. And now,
because everything keeps going the wrong way, they're saying, well,
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never mind, that's going to actually be this year too.
Things are not going the right direction monetarily. So we
have to do things to protect ourselves. Getting some precious
metals in your hands and in your retirement is a
basic way to do that. Not going crazy, doing some basics.
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Just do some basics, the little things. Oxford Gold Group
will do these things for you. They will mail it
to your front door. It's anonymous, it's insured. You don't
need a bank vault. We're just talking little coins here.
They'll get it in your retirement account and they'll make
it easy. Eight three three nine gold, let's talk about
this veteran stuff. Hang on, he doesn't care if you
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believe him, but he's right. Jesse Kelly, it is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday, and ask doctor Jesse
Friday reminding you you can email the show and you
should Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So before we
get back to the politics, someone wants to talk about
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spending and this Biden Trump debate and many other things.
Before we get to that, we're talking a little bit
about veterans and veterans suicide and things like that. And
I was just kind of going over how it feels. Okay,
so you're young, you sign up, you go fight, because
the guys who are struggling with depression and suicide, of
the guys who went over and fall, you go over
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and you fight, and you're important. I really want to
stress that you're important. You remember you ever see that
movie First Blood? The first Rambo? Everyone thinks it's called Rambo,
but it's called First Blood. You ever see First Blood?
Most people have seen First Blood. If you haven't he's
this green beret who comes back from Vietnam and gets harassed. Whatever.
It's a great movie, how they recommend it. But at
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the end, at the end, when his buddy's trying to
get him to turn himself in, he starts screaming about
I am mattered. I was important. I was in charge
of million dollar equipment, and now I can't even find
a job parking cards for the guys I serve with.
For some of the guys I serve with, it wasn't
just the explosions and the blood and whatever. Was you
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come back from that? Remember I told you I was
a mortar section leader, and I wasn't a good one. Okay,
I'm not bragging, believe me. But I was in charge
of the section. Ten men under my command. They're under
my charge in Afghanistan. At twenty two, I am a leader.
When the leader of our company, he wants something done,
calls in the NCOs I'm one of them, I'm standing
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there in a small circle. You do this, and you're important.
Twenty two, you come back, you get out. You're not
the same. Now, I would argue that you're you probably
have prioritized the wrong things, but you think about this.
I want you to think about this, and what I'm
about to say is no insult, no insult to blue
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collar workers or whatever. But I went and did construction
when I got back. Okay, so I was twenty two
fifteen minutes ago, I was twenty two years old leading
men on night patrols in Baghdad. At one point in time,
we were on a night with green berets in the
night in Bagdad with mvgs on fifteen minutes later. I'm
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not only on a construction crew. I'm pretty much the
low man on the construction crew. And if somebody needs
the trash picked up, Kelly, pick up the trash. That's hard.
I cannot speak for women. I will not speak for
a women for men. We have this picture in our minds.
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I certainly did I do. I'm no different, not separating
myself from this. Where throughout life our rank in society
or place in society, I don't know how I want
to put that. We just assume it's going to slowly
and steadily go up. Yeah, you'll have this entry level job,
but then you'll keep your nose to the grindstone and
you'll work your way up and soon you'll be in management.
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Maybe one day you'll start your own business. Hey, look
at that, I'm fifty years old. I bought a Mercedes.
Hey i'm fifty five. I fly for his class. Oh
we have a beach house now at sixty. Oh, I
retire one day and my wife and I are very
comfortable down in boc over tone. You just have this
picture in your head that you're slowly and surely in
your life. If it was one of those charts, it
would just slowly but surely you hit it, be heading
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up up, up, up, up up up. But you go
do combat, all this responsibility, all this adventure, and you
come back and it doesn't feel like you went up.
It feels like now all that was for not and
you're not really anybody anymore. That hurts. I will tell
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you it affected me, it did. It bothered me a lot.
The noises bothered me a lot. To this day. I
actually do not do that great with loud noises. I'm fine,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hide under the desk
and cry if a balloon pops. But I will tell
you if if Chris and Michael were to actually do
something nice for me, for once, for my birthday or
something and blow up a bunch of balloons and put
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them in the studio, and then they started popping the balloons.
I mean, I wouldn't cry or scream or yell, but
I would find an excuse to leave. Hey, guys, I
gotta run to the story. You need anything. I would
not do well with that. I just wouldn't. I wouldn't
do well with it. I still prefer the dark, ever,
sitting in the light. I just if I'm alone at
home there are no lights on. Ever, I like it
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in the dark. I don't know why. I don't know
what's wrong with me, and I am not putting myself
in the shoes of other guys who I mean, I
never had to hold my best friend and watch him die.
When you're a young man and you go through all that,
you can get yourself so twisted up and lost and
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messed up, and then what else do you do? And
I did this too, is you turn to drugs or alcohol.
I didn't do the drugs, but booze, it's just drinking
all the time, just drinking and drinking and drinking. And
then it came back to me later on in life,
after I've shaken it drink and drink and drinking, and
finally ended up conquering those demons by the grace of God,
and only by the grace of God. But that makes
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it worse. So they go through all these things, and
what it really comes down to, what a lot of
it comes down to, is guys will convince themselves. Men
will convince themselves that that awesome, admirable thing they did,
that it's the last great thing they'll ever do. There
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all of a sudden, they were twenty two and important.
Now they're twenty five and they're a garbage man. Not
that there's a daggun thing in the world wrong with
being a garbage man, but you're a garbage man, or
you're on a construction crew like I was, or you're
backing groceries or whatever you're doing, and you feel like, well, crap, man,
my friends are dead, I'm all messed up. I drink
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too much. I just did the last great thing I'm
ever gonna do. Hey, I'm checking out. That is why
when I talk to veterans, I practically scream this from
the rooftop. And if you're one of those guys listening
right now, and I'm sure there are more than one.
Listen to me, you did do something incredible. You did
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you should be proud of it, and on the resume
of your life. Believe me, that's going to stand out
to people. Your kids one day will admire it. To
this day. My old dress blues and the Marines, they
hang up high in my clause and I don't put
them on, but my boys will look at them. My
boys will talk. I mean, that's dad. Well look at
that ribbons and stead. I mean for them, it's cool.
But it is not the last good thing you have
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to do in this life. It's a thing good. You did,
a great thing. You put it on your resume. God's
not done with you yet. I promise you cross my
heart and hope to die when your time is up.
Your time is up. No need to rush it. There
was a show. I'm gonna move on to other things.
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This can get a little heavy, so move on to
talk about politics and spending and debates and things like that.
But there was a show I never watched in its completion.
I've had people ask me if you watched it. But
it was called Generation Kill. I believe it was on HBO.
But Generation Kill. It was about our generation and the
fighting and everything, and there was one young man who,
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by all accounts, he just looked like a wonderful young
marine and just looked like a solid dude. And they're
interviewing him one night, and he's sitting there and there's
explosions going on around him, and he's talking about how
he's just ready to be out, he's ready to be done,
can't wait to get back home like any other young man. Hey,
I want to get back home and see my woman
and need a hot meal. And I went in and
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then something blows up behind him and he's like, I'm
tired of that too. And I remember watching it, and
I remember thinking, man, I really hope that guy makes
it back. I hope he makes it. I hope he
makes it back. And I hope. I hope he has
a wife one day and ten kids running around, and
you know, Bill's stacking up of course, and stresses of life.
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But I hope, you know he's there, he's doing it.
He's awesome, he's brave, he's a good dude. I hope
he makes it. He oded about two months after, or
two years, two or three years after that little footage
was shot. He overdosed. He's gone. Now, gentlemen, don't check
out on us, all right? And as let me just
say this, as I've said many times, there are a
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million suicide hotlines you can call if you are somebody
and you are in need, or that you are the
wife of somebody in need that are probably wise listening
right now whose husbands may be going through this. If
there's a problem, you reach out to me. You understand,
Send me an email to the show. I'm not saying
we can work miracles, but I do know some people. Okay,
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Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Just send one email
before you do something stupid. All right, we don't believe it.
We don't delete those all right. All right, enough of
that talk about politics? You ready to talk about politics? Now?
We have debates? So are they gonna dump Biden? What
do we have to cut out of the federal government?
To all kinds of things? Still to come home, schooling
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and more? Next, miss something? There's a pot get it
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Speaker 4 (29:35):
I'll get them from you.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I yi yai yi oh imd Fritto Buntito, give me
Brito scornchips and I'll be your friends. De fritto Buntito,
you must not up in unch munch a bunch.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Of dear oracle of oratory opulence. I would fully support
your dictatorship and hutting almost all the federal government, But realistically,
how much of the government and it's spending would you
have to cut in order to start making a debt
in our national deficit and start running in the black again?
(30:14):
Do you know or know someone it's an economist, so
on and so forth. As name is Tony, and we
can dig into this more. If it's something that we
really want to get into the details of, we can
have on more budget experts. But let's just let's think
of it this way. Okay. So we're running now regularly
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over a trillion dollar deficits. Now, remember, deficit and debt
are different things. Just for all the kids out there.
A deficit that's how much yearly you spend more than
you take in. So if I take in three trillion,
I spend four trillion, we have a one trillion dollar
deficit that year. The debt is different. The debt is
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all of the deficits we've ever accumulated, all of our debt,
all lumped into one. Deficit is your yearly overspending. Debt
is your lifetime overspending. Okay, so here's why our situation
is so brutal and so scary. To be honest with you,
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it's not only that we spend far more than we
take in. Now, it's that the government because politicians never
want to have to make hard choices. That's the last
thing a politician wants to do. A politician never wants
to go to the voters and say, sorry, I've got
to cut you off from this. I've got to take
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away this that you're used to. Politicians love to give
away things. Vote for me, I'll give you this, vote
for me, I'll give you that. Because of that, over
the years, what they've done is have you ever heard
the terms discretionary spending or non discretionary spending. Let me
just go ahead and simply this for everybody. What they've
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done is they've made most of our spending mandatory mandatory,
meaning no matter what Congress does, it goes through period,
end of story. They've done that with the gigantic popular
entitlements that everyone loves. I'm honestly, I'm done wasting my
breath on it. I'm just gonna wait till they go bankrupt,
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and then I'll come on here on the radio, very
obnoxiously and tell everyone I told you so. I've accepted
the left and the right. They love Medicare and Social Security.
They believe they'll be there forever. You're gonna get a
whole bunch ironed it stuff, and then it's gonna collapse
the United States of America. And I'll just sit there
and trug my shoulders and say, I told you so,
so I'm not wasting my breath on that again. But
that's one great example. If a politician, any politician, even
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hints that we have to adjust these programs before they
end America, that politician will probably lose his seat in office.
The reason I'm sitting here today talking to you on
the Jesse Kelly Show, and I'm not a member of Congress.
Is social Security? I went on camera and I said,
it is the largest Ponzi scheme in human history, which
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it obviously is by any definition, and we have to
take steps to phase it out and privatize it. That's
what I said. That is the reason I lost in
a Tea party year by four thousand votes. I can't
tell you how many Republican old people came up to
me and told me they voted for my Democrat opponent
because of the commercials she ran on social Security. Any
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politician who speaks about those issues in an honest way
will lose their seat in Congress Monday when I show up, what,
Chris All, you have it? I'll go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Is jesse Kelly listening to you? Was jesse Kelly listening
to you when he said on Social Security, I'd love
to eliminate the program jesse Kelly said he would work
to eliminate Medicare over time. Was he listening to you?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Then?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
How about when Jesse Kelly said, at the same time
he'd cut taxes in half for millionaires. Is Jesse Kelly
listening to you? Just listen to Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
We didn't make that up. Chris pulled that. It's still
available on YouTube. That was an ad on the television
set when you sat down. When I was running for
Congress in Arizona, people would watch that cost me my race.
I'm not mad about it. I'd much rather be here.
But because the voters love those programs and that's going
to end the country. The politicians know that. So what
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they've done is they've taken it's not just those programs,
it's other things, and they make it mandatory so they
can then go to the voters and say, I can't
do anything about it. All this is mandatory. We have
realized this. The money we spend over eighty percent of it,
over eighty percent of it is mandatory. It would be like, oh,
(34:47):
let me explain. Let's say I made one hundred thousand
dollars a year and we were spending two hundred thousand
dollars a year. Oh my gosh, we're going to go broke, right, Oh,
problems in the Kelly household. I'm making one hundred thousand,
I'm spending two hundred thousand. But through some weird thing
I've written into law, that it's a requirement that I
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spend one hundred and seventy thousand. So can I ever
save myself if, no matter what, it's written into law
that I spend far more than I'll ever take in,
it's not problem. They've made it a situation where it's
not legally possible to save the financial system. Does this why,
I tell you all the time, I don't know how
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you write the debt ship. I just thought there's no
appetite for it in the country, and there won't be
until the social Security checks stop coming, and they will
until Medicare stops being accepted, and it will until we
have collapse of these systems, and they will collapse because
no one wants to reform them, no one wants to
adjust them. Everyone wants to just promise handouts. So to
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answer your question, we would have to You would have
to cut spending in half at least to eliminate the
deficit in this country, to truly eliminate the deficit. Now,
you can do that any way you want. Go look
at a pie chart of the government. Cut this, cut
that little here, little there. Ideally, you do this stuff
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in phases so you're not destroying people. But you want
to stop running a deficit, That's what it would take.
All right, let's talk about Joe Biden getting bounced at
the convention, homeschooling, and so much more. But first let's
talk about my pillow. Like, as long as there's going
to be a debt bomb that drops on us, at
least our feet can be comfortable because of my pillow sandals.
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Have you ever heard everyone's heard of my pillow pillows.
I'm just gonna set those aside right now. My pillows sandals.
Have you seen these things? Have you ever you ever
talked to somebody who owns a pair. They're indoor outdoor,
and they have It's not just some cheap five dollars
sandal you buy at the local big box store. Of course,
they overengineered and overbuilt the thing. All wear them around
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all day if I'm working out back or something like that,
it's my pillow sandals all day. My feet don't hurt,
my knees don't hurt at the end of the day.
These things are amazing. They're twenty five dollars. Right now,
my pillow has a twenty five dollars extravaganza sale right now,
Go get yourself some My Pillow sandals. They have a
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that's not gonna last forever, so you might want to
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press the gas pedal on it. MyPillow dot com, click
on the radio listener special square and use the promo
code Jesse. MyPillow dot Com promo code Jesse. We'll be back.
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show on a Friday, of course at ask Doctor
Jesse Friday, and it's another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show. Member,
you can email us we are live here Jesse at
Jesse kellyshow dot com. I already played the mud throwing
(00:33):
poop throwing spat that happened today in the house. I
don't even know if I'll play it again. It's a
dagne embarrassing, but it is what it is. Let's move on,
you know what. Let's step away from politics to deal
with a couple of things. Military matters, veterans, suicide. Where's
the worst place to fight? This guy says, dear Oracle.
Regarding your hammock story, if you missed it the other night,
(00:53):
I retold the story I've told before about my hammock
exploding in the middle of the jungle and Thailand and whatever.
Go download a podcasts of the show if you missed it.
iHeart Spotify iTunes. Anyway, Regarding your hammock story, as you
have experience of desert warfare from fighting in Iraq, was
it less hellish than jungle fighting? What environment do you
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consider most conducive to warfare jungle, desert, temperate planes, forests
of Europe and North America. Warfare is hellashawan warriors wherever
they fight, But what environment would be the least hellish?
My cousin, who also listens to you, wonder what life
is like for you up in the sixth age stratosphere.
(01:36):
His name is Michael. Okay. Well, first of all, being
as how I'm six eight, let me just clue you
in on just something, just something. Everyone has different philosophies
in life. I'm not saying mine's correct about everything or
really anything. Who knows, right? But I never wanted to
be boring. I just don't want to be boring. Isn't
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that isn't that bad? I don't want to be boring.
So let me tell everyone, when you see a really
tall person, try the best you can not to ask
them how the weather is up there, And if you
can make that effort, maybe go one step further and
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don't ask them if you play basketball, Because it's not
that you're going to offend me if you've ever said
these things to me, it's just you really really need
to understand how painfully unoriginal those two questions are about
ninety percent of the people I get in an elevator
with will ask me those two questions on our way
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up or down wherever we're going. Oh my gosh, how
tall were you? Do you play basketball? It just comes
out of people. So that part of being six eight's annoying.
It's very, very annoying to have to purchase first class
air travel seats. I've never traveled first class in my
entire life. Our honeymoon we got upgraded for free because
they found out we were on our honeymoon. It was
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the greatest moment of my life. And now it's gotten
to the point where my right kneel. But whatever. Now
I basically have to buy them if it's a long flight,
and it really irks me to spend that kind of money.
So that sucks. Other than that, six eates being great now.
The best environment to fight a war now, I would
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argue the desert. And I've been doing a bunch of
reading lately on Rommel, that German general Rommel in the fighting.
He was fighting the Brits for a long time in
Northern Africa before we ever got there, Before Patten and
whatnot got there, he was fighting the Brits and the
Nazis would push him back, and then the Brits would
push them back, and then the Nazis would push them back.
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All this desert warfare training, and you would think the
desert would be uniquely horrible. And don't get me wrong,
it was most definitely horrible. It was hot and miserable
and it sucked. But it is fairly open. You can
move around. And it depends on what kind of army
you have, obviously, but if you are a mobile army
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that wants to move and can move, the desert is
amazing because you don't have canyons and gullies and all
kinds of things like that. Trees, you just don't have
that stuff. Chris said, sand Well, when I say desert,
I should clarify I'm not talking about sand dunes and
things like that. You generally don't see a ton of
fighting and that kind of you're thinking Sahara from the movies.
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You're thinking that Sahara desert from the movie. You generally
don't see a lot of fighting there, and yes, that
would be a pain, but believe me, that would suck too.
The worst from I shouldn't say the worst because I
don't know. I've only fought in one. I only fought
in the desert. I did training in other kinds. But
have you ever, how much do you know about the
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fighting that took place around Port Moresby in New Guinea,
New Guinea? You know where New Guinea is. It's over
by Australia. It's thank you, John, over by Australia. So
I'm not going to go into that. We're not doing
a bunch of history. But you should know that it
was a combination of the thickest, most horrific jungle you
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can imagine, and everything that came with that, the jungle disease,
the poisonous animals, honestly hostile tribes that many still exist
there to this day. A combination of jungle like that
with mountains that are as big as the Rocky mountains
the jungle. There are stories about Japanese rampant, stories about
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Japanese cannibalism during World War II. The environment was so
horrific the men were starving so badly they started eating
each other. Did you know over two hundred thousand Japanese
troops died in New Guinea in World War Two? Two
hundred thousand. It is fighting. Most people don't even know
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about it. There's stories about men who would you'd be
humping up and down up through the jungle, but it's
straight up and down where you're on your hands and knees,
you're on all fours trying to get to the top
of this single jungle path. There are stories of men
getting to the top and being so happy they finally
made it, they would weep with joy. It sounds like
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a living hell. And speaking of the Japanese, you know
how they were all over the place. They were in India, Java,
they were obviously the Philippines. They were all over all
over for the Japanese, and they wrote about it. A
lot of them did. The worst place they had in
their empire that they were trying to defend and take
over by a mile was New Guinea. New Guinea a
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combination of jungle warfare with mountain warfare. Oh my gosh.
And this, what I'm about to say, is going to
make a lot of people, a lot of military types
probably angry. And you're welcome to argue with me about this,
because this is personal opinion stuff. But I have always found,
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at least in my own personal dealings and in my reading,
I have found mountain fighters. Mountain people to be the toughest. Genuinely,
you would think it might be jungle fighters as mountain fighters,
like if you, oh, please forgive me my fellow Marines.
(07:30):
But Mountain division mm hmm, you any any unit. There
are different seal units that specialize in mountain warfare. There
are different depending on which group you're in, different special
forces units. But the mountain warfare guys, they're always mocked
their by their veteran buddies because they got the worst assignment.
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Because you're just hiking. You're humping up and down cluills, cliffs,
it's cliffs, it's cold, it's whatever. They always get mocked
for getting the worst assignment, but everyone kind of knows
in the back of their head those are the toughest
dudes they had. I'm so mad at myself. I can't
think of it. I'm doing this on the fly. They
referenced this a little bit in the HBO series Band
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of Brothers. But the German troops there were many different,
very very elite German units, speaking of World War Two.
In World War Two, there were many elite German units,
and some of the most elite units would walk around
with a flower. They had a flower. I want to say,
is Aidelweiss a flower? I want to say it was
an Adelweiss flower. That may be wrong. I'm almost pauseive
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that's what it is though. Either way. You had these
super tough troops and there are in these you know,
German army uniforms, and they would have a flower stuck
in their uniform. Well what was that flower? You? There
was some mountains somewhere that you had to crest, or
you had to get above a certain level as part
of your military training, and if you achieved to that,
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you that was like a mark, a serious mark of admiration.
Guys would see that be like, oh crap, oh wait, crap,
there's one of those guys that got the flower. It
was a device, Yeah, it was right. It is Adovice anyway. Mountains,
the guys who've been through the mountain trials, the mountain tribulations,
there are amazing stories and I mean really really incredible stuff.
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The fighting in Italy was so much mountain fighting, and
of course the Italians couldn't defend anything, so the Germans
had to take it all over. And there are stories
because you're fighting on cliffs of guys they're attaching explosives
to string, and they're fighting vertically straight up or straight down,
and they're essentially dropping ex explosives on strings and swinging
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them back and forth until they try to swing it
into the cave opening. And we're talking mountain fighting like that.
It's wild, it's crazy, right, mountain fighting manh No thanks,
And then you combine mountain fighting with young fighting. No,
I'm too old and fat. I would just die. I
would just fall over and die. My back hurts just
thinking about it. My back doesn't hurt because I take
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somebody has a speaking of all this warfare stuff. Someone
has a heart for veterans and what they're going through
and suicide and depression and things like that, and let's
let's have a talk about that. Maybe it'll help somebody,
maybe it won't. Thanks fighting for your freedom every time
the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show
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on a Friday, churning through everything here on the show,
I do have to get to this, so before we
get to the veteran thing, So someone sends this email
and showgun Oracle. My wife and I became members of
Shadow Mountain Church, in case you don't know, that's in
San Diego. Below is a link to their pod to
(11:59):
their broadcasts. Sry to ask Michael to do some work,
so on and so forth. Whether you are personally making
any difference or everyone is slowly waking up, You and
the other good people of the world are waking up,
and the guy's name is doctor Jeremiah. I think it's
doctor David Jeremiah. Yeah, doctor David Jeremiah is this guy's name.
So this bastard gets up and I gotta tell you
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they went and pulled the guys went and pulled the
audio because she said he sent a link over. I
like this, dude. I'll tell you if I lived in
San Diego, I know what church I've been going through.
This sounds like a man after my own heart.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Tremendous option. We have as parents to make a difference
in the lives of our children, and if we're honest,
we know that much of that difference is made in
those early years. Many of the principles that we live
by for all of our lives are ingrained into us
when we're very small. So don't ever throw those years away.
Don't ever say I'll wait until they're older. If you
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do that, you will have waited too long. I'm going
to tell you something that's become very apparent to me,
and it might not make some of you happy when
I say this, but I really don't care. I'm going
to say it because it's important. If you train off
your children for twelve grades and send them to a
private or secular school.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
You will regret it.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
You will be sorry you ever did it. I don't
know one school that has not been taken over by
the crazies and the communists and all the rest of
the people that are filling the heads with all that's
junken cause them to do what we're watching on television.
I can't imagine someone you love, you train them for
twelve years or twelve grades, and then you say, okay,
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why don't you go to Harvard. Harvard's a good school
that it used to be. Not anymore. It's full of
woke people who just want to destroy your children, and
that will be the cause that happens. If I didn't
want to embarrass some people, I could tell you the stories.
There are people in this church who I love who've
gone through that process, enamored with the intelligentia that's a
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part of the big schools with the big names, not
realizing that when they send their child there their praying
Russian Roulette with their soul. There are other schools to
go to. There are Christian schools. There are schools where
this craziness doesn't happen. I'll tell you what, if my
children were at the age and getting ready to go
to college, I'd never send them to Harvard or Yale
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or Pen.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I love this guy. Might want to take those words
to heart. Do you love Aiden, Jaden and Braden? And
I'm glad you do love them enough to not send
them to be educated by your mortal enemies. This is
not nineteen sixty. Colleges are not liberal, that kind of
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left leaning. They are openly hostile, many of them to you,
to your babies, to your belief system, to everything. Do
you take your kids to the zoo and chuck them
in the gorilla enclosure? I don't, so don't send them
to Harvard. Oh great crayon eating Oracle. I literally, why
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do you guys have to do that? Met my hero today.
When people say the heroes of the past wars don't exist,
I just want to say they still exist. I met
and talked to Marcus Marcus Latrelle, aka the Loan Survivor.
He was talking about veterans' suicide. My mentality is completely
changed after hearing him talk. Thankfully, it's a commercial, so
(15:29):
hopefully all of America can hear what he has to say.
But my question is, how do you recommend helping veterans.
Have you thought about bringing some veterans on and letting
them talk about the transition to civilian life to help
us non military understand we might all need some chock
to get through this. You're welcome for the transition. No,
I'm not gonna tell you about chock right now. But look, first,
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I'm not going to speak for all veterans. I'm not
some veteran's voice out there where I and every veteran
and how they all feel. I can simply tell you
about me, how I felt, how I feel, and how
many of the guys I served with how they felt
and feel, depending on whether they're still alive or not. First,
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and foremost, when you sign up to join the military
as a young man, you do so oftentimes. Yes, you
want to serve your country, you want to better yourself.
That both those things were true of me. Also, this
was true of me. I wanted some adventure. I want
an adventure. Young men, much of their mother's chagrin, young
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men crave a little bit of danger. They do. They do.
It's how God made us. It's why they always march
off to war. Who marches off towards the young men.
It just it's their thing, it's our thing. It's what
we do. Well, I shouldn't say our. I'm not a
young man anymore anyway, but it's what we do. And
what happens is you join the military. I'll just make
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it about the Marines, and they're going to grow you
up fast and you're going to find yourself very quickly.
At least I can only speak from my experience in
the Marine Corps. You are going to find yourself quickly
within a year or two, unless you're a turd or something.
You're going to be in a leadership position, a revered
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leadership position where men under you must follow your orders
to the letter and they will. You are trusted with things, weapons, equipment, ammunition.
You are given incredible responsibilities over things you are and
I hate putting it this way, but I am. I'm
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just going to tell you you're important, and you feel important,
you feel significant, you matter, and you do. I at gosh,
I was twenty one or I was twenty two. I
think I was twenty two years old, and I was
in charge of ten men in combat. I was our
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mortar section leader. By the time we left Iraq. It
was my section. I was a section leader. Ten men,
life or death mine. We're going out on a patrol
at night, me another NCO. You're leading the patrol. We're
in charge at twenty two. And then I'll tell you
the other half of the story. Before i tell you that.
Let me do this really quickly here. Let me tell
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you about what's happening with our money. It's not only bad,
it's getting worse. And we keep previewing things about inflation
and interest rates, and have you noticed something that they
keep saying things like, well, next year, the interest on
the debt's going to cost more than the military. And now,
because everything keeps going the wrong way, they're saying, well,
(18:52):
never mind, that's going to actually be this year too.
Things are not going the right direction monetarily. So we
have to do things to protect ourselves. Getting some precious
metals in your hands and in your retirement is a
basic way to do that. Not going crazy, doing some basics.
(19:15):
Just do some basics, the little things. Oxford Gold Group
will do these things for you. They will mail it
to your front door. It's anonymous, it's insured. You don't
need a bank vault. We're just talking little coins here.
They'll get it in your retirement account and they'll make
it easy. Eight three three nine gold, let's talk about
this veteran stuff. Hang on, he doesn't care if you
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believe him, but he's right. Jesse Kelly, it is the
Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday, and ask doctor Jesse
Friday reminding you you can email the show and you
should Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. So before we
get back to the politics, someone wants to talk about
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spending and this Biden Trump debate and many other things.
Before we get to that, we're talking a little bit
about veterans and veterans suicide and things like that. And
I was just kind of going over how it feels. Okay,
so you're young, you sign up, you go fight, because
the guys who are struggling with depression and suicide, of
the guys who went over and fall, you go over
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and you fight, and you're important. I really want to
stress that you're important. You remember you ever see that
movie First Blood? The first Rambo? Everyone thinks it's called Rambo,
but it's called First Blood. You ever see First Blood?
Most people have seen First Blood. If you haven't he's
this green beret who comes back from Vietnam and gets harassed. Whatever.
It's a great movie, how they recommend it. But at
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the end, at the end, when his buddy's trying to
get him to turn himself in, he starts screaming about
I am mattered. I was important. I was in charge
of million dollar equipment, and now I can't even find
a job parking cards for the guys I serve with.
For some of the guys I serve with, it wasn't
just the explosions and the blood and whatever. Was you
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come back from that? Remember I told you I was
a mortar section leader, and I wasn't a good one. Okay,
I'm not bragging, believe me. But I was in charge
of the section. Ten men under my command. They're under
my charge in Afghanistan. At twenty two, I am a leader.
When the leader of our company, he wants something done,
calls in the NCOs I'm one of them, I'm standing
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there in a small circle. You do this, and you're important.
Twenty two, you come back, you get out. You're not
the same. Now, I would argue that you're you probably
have prioritized the wrong things, but you think about this.
I want you to think about this, and what I'm
about to say is no insult, no insult to blue
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collar workers or whatever. But I went and did construction
when I got back. Okay, so I was twenty two
fifteen minutes ago, I was twenty two years old leading
men on night patrols in Baghdad. At one point in time,
we were on a night with green berets in the
night in Bagdad with mvgs on fifteen minutes later. I'm
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not only on a construction crew. I'm pretty much the
low man on the construction crew. And if somebody needs
the trash picked up, Kelly, pick up the trash. That's hard.
I cannot speak for women. I will not speak for
a women for men. We have this picture in our minds.
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I certainly did I do. I'm no different, not separating
myself from this. Where throughout life our rank in society
or place in society, I don't know how I want
to put that. We just assume it's going to slowly
and steadily go up. Yeah, you'll have this entry level job,
but then you'll keep your nose to the grindstone and
you'll work your way up and soon you'll be in management.
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Maybe one day you'll start your own business. Hey, look
at that, I'm fifty years old. I bought a Mercedes.
Hey i'm fifty five. I fly for his class. Oh
we have a beach house now at sixty. Oh, I
retire one day and my wife and I are very
comfortable down in boc over tone. You just have this
picture in your head that you're slowly and surely in
your life. If it was one of those charts, it
would just slowly but surely you hit it, be heading
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up up, up, up, up up up. But you go
do combat, all this responsibility, all this adventure, and you
come back and it doesn't feel like you went up.
It feels like now all that was for not and
you're not really anybody anymore. That hurts. I will tell
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you it affected me, it did. It bothered me a lot.
The noises bothered me a lot. To this day. I
actually do not do that great with loud noises. I'm fine,
I'm not gonna I'm not gonna hide under the desk
and cry if a balloon pops. But I will tell
you if if Chris and Michael were to actually do
something nice for me, for once, for my birthday or
something and blow up a bunch of balloons and put
(23:51):
them in the studio, and then they started popping the balloons.
I mean, I wouldn't cry or scream or yell, but
I would find an excuse to leave. Hey, guys, I
gotta run to the story. You need anything. I would
not do well with that. I just wouldn't. I wouldn't
do well with it. I still prefer the dark, ever,
sitting in the light. I just if I'm alone at
home there are no lights on. Ever, I like it
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in the dark. I don't know why. I don't know
what's wrong with me, and I am not putting myself
in the shoes of other guys who I mean, I
never had to hold my best friend and watch him die.
When you're a young man and you go through all that,
you can get yourself so twisted up and lost and
(24:34):
messed up, and then what else do you do? And
I did this too, is you turn to drugs or alcohol.
I didn't do the drugs, but booze, it's just drinking
all the time, just drinking and drinking and drinking. And
then it came back to me later on in life,
after I've shaken it drink and drink and drinking, and
finally ended up conquering those demons by the grace of God,
and only by the grace of God. But that makes
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it worse. So they go through all these things, and
what it really comes down to, what a lot of
it comes down to, is guys will convince themselves. Men
will convince themselves that that awesome, admirable thing they did,
that it's the last great thing they'll ever do. There
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all of a sudden, they were twenty two and important.
Now they're twenty five and they're a garbage man. Not
that there's a daggun thing in the world wrong with
being a garbage man, but you're a garbage man, or
you're on a construction crew like I was, or you're
backing groceries or whatever you're doing, and you feel like, well, crap, man,
my friends are dead, I'm all messed up. I drink
(25:39):
too much. I just did the last great thing I'm
ever gonna do. Hey, I'm checking out. That is why
when I talk to veterans, I practically scream this from
the rooftop. And if you're one of those guys listening
right now, and I'm sure there are more than one.
Listen to me, you did do something incredible. You did
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you should be proud of it, and on the resume
of your life. Believe me, that's going to stand out
to people. Your kids one day will admire it. To
this day. My old dress blues and the Marines, they
hang up high in my clause and I don't put
them on, but my boys will look at them. My
boys will talk. I mean, that's dad. Well look at
that ribbons and stead. I mean for them, it's cool.
But it is not the last good thing you have
(26:24):
to do in this life. It's a thing good. You did,
a great thing. You put it on your resume. God's
not done with you yet. I promise you cross my
heart and hope to die when your time is up.
Your time is up. No need to rush it. There
was a show. I'm gonna move on to other things.
(26:44):
This can get a little heavy, so move on to
talk about politics and spending and debates and things like that.
But there was a show I never watched in its completion.
I've had people ask me if you watched it. But
it was called Generation Kill. I believe it was on HBO.
But Generation Kill. It was about our generation and the
fighting and everything, and there was one young man who,
(27:06):
by all accounts, he just looked like a wonderful young
marine and just looked like a solid dude. And they're
interviewing him one night, and he's sitting there and there's
explosions going on around him, and he's talking about how
he's just ready to be out, he's ready to be done,
can't wait to get back home like any other young man. Hey,
I want to get back home and see my woman
and need a hot meal. And I went in and
(27:28):
then something blows up behind him and he's like, I'm
tired of that too. And I remember watching it, and
I remember thinking, man, I really hope that guy makes
it back. I hope he makes it. I hope he
makes it back. And I hope. I hope he has
a wife one day and ten kids running around, and
you know, Bill's stacking up of course, and stresses of life.
(27:49):
But I hope, you know he's there, he's doing it.
He's awesome, he's brave, he's a good dude. I hope
he makes it. He oded about two months after, or
two years, two or three years after that little footage
was shot. He overdosed. He's gone. Now, gentlemen, don't check
out on us, all right? And as let me just
say this, as I've said many times, there are a
(28:10):
million suicide hotlines you can call if you are somebody
and you are in need, or that you are the
wife of somebody in need that are probably wise listening
right now whose husbands may be going through this. If
there's a problem, you reach out to me. You understand,
Send me an email to the show. I'm not saying
we can work miracles, but I do know some people. Okay,
(28:33):
Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Just send one email
before you do something stupid. All right, we don't believe it.
We don't delete those all right. All right, enough of
that talk about politics? You ready to talk about politics? Now?
We have debates? So are they gonna dump Biden? What
do we have to cut out of the federal government?
To all kinds of things? Still to come home, schooling
(28:56):
and more? Next, miss something? There's a pot get it
on demand wherever podcasts are found. The Jesse Kelly Show.
It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday, and
ask doctor Jesse Friday. And before we get into this
deficit debt situation, email that I'm about to read here.
(29:18):
I think it's been far too long since we've heard
from the Freedo Bandito.
Speaker 3 (29:23):
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I like Rinto stornchips.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
I love them.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
I do I want Printo scornchits.
Speaker 4 (29:35):
I'll get them from you.
Speaker 3 (29:37):
I yi yai yi oh imd Fritto Buntito, give me
Brito scornchips and I'll be your friends. De fritto Buntito,
you must not up in unch munch a bunch.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Of dear oracle of oratory opulence. I would fully support
your dictatorship and hutting almost all the federal government, But realistically,
how much of the government and it's spending would you
have to cut in order to start making a debt
in our national deficit and start running in the black again?
(30:14):
Do you know or know someone it's an economist, so
on and so forth. As name is Tony, and we
can dig into this more. If it's something that we
really want to get into the details of, we can
have on more budget experts. But let's just let's think
of it this way. Okay. So we're running now regularly
(30:34):
over a trillion dollar deficits. Now, remember, deficit and debt
are different things. Just for all the kids out there.
A deficit that's how much yearly you spend more than
you take in. So if I take in three trillion,
I spend four trillion, we have a one trillion dollar
deficit that year. The debt is different. The debt is
(31:00):
all of the deficits we've ever accumulated, all of our debt,
all lumped into one. Deficit is your yearly overspending. Debt
is your lifetime overspending. Okay, so here's why our situation
is so brutal and so scary. To be honest with you,
(31:20):
it's not only that we spend far more than we
take in. Now, it's that the government because politicians never
want to have to make hard choices. That's the last
thing a politician wants to do. A politician never wants
to go to the voters and say, sorry, I've got
to cut you off from this. I've got to take
(31:41):
away this that you're used to. Politicians love to give
away things. Vote for me, I'll give you this, vote
for me, I'll give you that. Because of that, over
the years, what they've done is have you ever heard
the terms discretionary spending or non discretionary spending. Let me
just go ahead and simply this for everybody. What they've
(32:02):
done is they've made most of our spending mandatory mandatory,
meaning no matter what Congress does, it goes through period,
end of story. They've done that with the gigantic popular
entitlements that everyone loves. I'm honestly, I'm done wasting my
breath on it. I'm just gonna wait till they go bankrupt,
(32:23):
and then I'll come on here on the radio, very
obnoxiously and tell everyone I told you so. I've accepted
the left and the right. They love Medicare and Social Security.
They believe they'll be there forever. You're gonna get a
whole bunch ironed it stuff, and then it's gonna collapse
the United States of America. And I'll just sit there
and trug my shoulders and say, I told you so,
so I'm not wasting my breath on that again. But
that's one great example. If a politician, any politician, even
(32:46):
hints that we have to adjust these programs before they
end America, that politician will probably lose his seat in office.
The reason I'm sitting here today talking to you on
the Jesse Kelly Show, and I'm not a member of Congress.
Is social Security? I went on camera and I said,
it is the largest Ponzi scheme in human history, which
(33:06):
it obviously is by any definition, and we have to
take steps to phase it out and privatize it. That's
what I said. That is the reason I lost in
a Tea party year by four thousand votes. I can't
tell you how many Republican old people came up to
me and told me they voted for my Democrat opponent
because of the commercials she ran on social Security. Any
(33:28):
politician who speaks about those issues in an honest way
will lose their seat in Congress Monday when I show up, what,
Chris All, you have it? I'll go ahead. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (33:39):
Is jesse Kelly listening to you? Was jesse Kelly listening
to you when he said on Social Security, I'd love
to eliminate the program jesse Kelly said he would work
to eliminate Medicare over time. Was he listening to you?
Speaker 1 (33:53):
Then?
Speaker 4 (33:54):
How about when Jesse Kelly said, at the same time
he'd cut taxes in half for millionaires. Is Jesse Kelly
listening to you? Just listen to Jesse Kelly.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
We didn't make that up. Chris pulled that. It's still
available on YouTube. That was an ad on the television
set when you sat down. When I was running for
Congress in Arizona, people would watch that cost me my race.
I'm not mad about it. I'd much rather be here.
But because the voters love those programs and that's going
to end the country. The politicians know that. So what
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they've done is they've taken it's not just those programs,
it's other things, and they make it mandatory so they
can then go to the voters and say, I can't
do anything about it. All this is mandatory. We have
realized this. The money we spend over eighty percent of it,
over eighty percent of it is mandatory. It would be like, oh,
(34:47):
let me explain. Let's say I made one hundred thousand
dollars a year and we were spending two hundred thousand
dollars a year. Oh my gosh, we're going to go broke, right, Oh,
problems in the Kelly household. I'm making one hundred thousand,
I'm spending two hundred thousand. But through some weird thing
I've written into law, that it's a requirement that I
(35:09):
spend one hundred and seventy thousand. So can I ever
save myself if, no matter what, it's written into law
that I spend far more than I'll ever take in,
it's not problem. They've made it a situation where it's
not legally possible to save the financial system. Does this why,
I tell you all the time, I don't know how
(35:33):
you write the debt ship. I just thought there's no
appetite for it in the country, and there won't be
until the social Security checks stop coming, and they will
until Medicare stops being accepted, and it will until we
have collapse of these systems, and they will collapse because
no one wants to reform them, no one wants to
adjust them. Everyone wants to just promise handouts. So to
(35:56):
answer your question, we would have to You would have
to cut spending in half at least to eliminate the
deficit in this country, to truly eliminate the deficit. Now,
you can do that any way you want. Go look
at a pie chart of the government. Cut this, cut
that little here, little there. Ideally, you do this stuff
(36:18):
in phases so you're not destroying people. But you want
to stop running a deficit, That's what it would take.
All right, let's talk about Joe Biden getting bounced at
the convention, homeschooling, and so much more. But first let's
talk about my pillow. Like, as long as there's going
to be a debt bomb that drops on us, at
least our feet can be comfortable because of my pillow sandals.
(36:41):
Have you ever heard everyone's heard of my pillow pillows.
I'm just gonna set those aside right now. My pillows sandals.
Have you seen these things? Have you ever you ever
talked to somebody who owns a pair. They're indoor outdoor,
and they have It's not just some cheap five dollars
sandal you buy at the local big box store. Of course,
they overengineered and overbuilt the thing. All wear them around
(37:04):
all day if I'm working out back or something like that,
it's my pillow sandals all day. My feet don't hurt,
my knees don't hurt at the end of the day.
These things are amazing. They're twenty five dollars. Right now,
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Go get yourself some My Pillow sandals. They have a
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