Cultural Wars

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Jesse Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Friday.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
It's an ask Doctor Jesse Friday, and it's going to
be a huge day, like nuclear war huge. We're gonna
discuss what's happening today with Russia, the West, the government.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
What will they do? What won't they do? I will,
of course, spend almost the entire day on your questions.
Someone wants to know is starting to get involved locally,
wants some advice on how to do that. How do
I handle getting interrupted? People are worried about the FBI
turning into the secret state police, what that's like. We

(00:44):
will discuss that. Are the communists so most done with
the revolution phase? All that immigration? So much more coming
up tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. Now,
let's have a talk, and this is a discussion. If
you've listened to the show for any length of time,

(01:06):
you know that we have talked about this at length.
But we're going to have a just brief talk about
this right now. It'll be kid friendly, but hard to hear. Okay,
we as Americans are blessed for so many reasons. I
hope you said a prayer today of thanks just that

(01:27):
you're here. Right now, as bad as times are and
the government is, and we are blessed for so many reasons.
We'll say it together, Dear Lord, thank you for making
me an American. Thank you in Jesus name. Amen. All right, then,
just pray for it, be thankful for it. Why we
don't even really understand what it's like to be attacked

(01:51):
by another nation state on our own soil. And I understand. Listen,
I understand, Pearl Harbor. I understand nine to eleven. And
I'm not dismissive of those things. But let's discuss that
just briefly. Pearl Harbor nine to eleven. We're talking three

(02:11):
thousand people. Obviously, every single life matters, big deal. When
you look at the history of civilian populations being attacked
by a foreign nation state, three thousand people is a
bad five minutes. That's what it looks like. If you've

(02:33):
ever done any reading World War one, reading is great
for this. Can go back to the Civil War, go
back to ancient times, sieges of cities, it doesn't matter
where you go. We'll go as modern as we can
possibly go here, and look, we can make it World
War two if you want. Have you ever read the
stories of what they were going through in London. You

(02:54):
ever looked at the footage of it during the Blitz
when the Germans were bombing London, Dresden and Germany. Doesn't
get as much play because it's the filthy Nazis and
they're not exactly sympathetic figures. But there weren't all filthy
Nazis in Dresden. There were a bunch of completely innocent
German civilians who burn to death in their homes, who

(03:21):
suffocated to death out in the open, standing outside. Did
you know that was a thing? Fire consumes oxygen. It's
the fuel that makes fire go. If fires get hot
enough in an area as unbelievable as this is, the
fire will suck all the oxygen out of the air

(03:42):
and you can suffocate to death standing in the middle
of a road. Many half. I want you to think
about you know what, I don't even want to do
someone you love. It's too heavy for a Friday. I
want to move on to ask doctor Jesse questions. I
want you to think about your pet. Ever had a pet,
Maybe have one now, little dog Muffy. Think about searching

(04:06):
through the rubble for Muffy in what used to be
your home hope and praying, calling for him. If this
sounds harsh and hard, good it's supposed to. We as
Americans are blessed because war like that has never visited

(04:26):
our shores. Think about nine eleven. We just had the anniversary,
just had the twenty third anniversary. I've told you you
need to go to the museum. You remember that day.
Think about the people being pulled from the rubble buildings, collapsed,
cops dead, firefighters dead, women dead. It's awful. Think about
that day every day, every single day, nine to eleven, nine eleven,

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nine eleven. That's what war looks like in the modern era,
well really historically, when it arrives at the doorstep of
a civilized population, of a civilian area, that's what it
looks like. That's that's what it's like. And so today
the news out of Russia, well out of us, it's

(05:19):
not something that probably blew you away. Maybe it's not
even something you've talked about today. Let's just skip out
ahead of it. What happened today. There's talk that NATO
and the United States of America, remember we're part of this,
we are authorizing deeper long range strikes into Russia. I

(05:41):
could play you a million sound bikes. Actually we have
to go to Canada for one of the most jaw
dropping ones. This is that dirty Kammi loser who leads
Canada Justin Trudeaux.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Vladimir Putin says Russia will be at war with NATO
if Ukraine uses long range missiles deep into Russia.

Speaker 4 (05:56):
How far into Russia do you think Ukraine should be
able to strike? Vladimir Putin is striking regularly in the
heart of Ukraine. He's sending missiles and bombs at hospitals,
at daycare centers, at families and communities across Ukraine. And
it was his choice, his choice to invade a neighbor

(06:17):
neighboring sovereign nation, his choice to start this conflict, and
it could be his choice to notice.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
He still hasn't answered the question yet. He's spending a
lot of time justifying the decision. That's all we've heard
so far. But has it answered the question?

Speaker 4 (06:31):
And tomorrow all he has to do is pull back
his troops into Russian territory, but he won't do that,
and we will continue to be there to support Ukraine.
And yes, Canada fully supports Ukraine using long long range
weaponry to prevent and interdict Russia's continued available, continued ability

(06:55):
to degrade Ukrainian civilian interrastruct infrastructure, and to kill innocent
civilians in their unjust law.

Speaker 1 (07:03):
A couple things, just the heads up those long range
missiles the United States of America's missiles, and Vladimir Putin
knows that that's one two more than the facts, he's
a communist. What I hear when I hear guys like
Justin Trudeau give lines like that, I hear a naive
college boy who's never heard a shot fired in anger
and has no idea what it might sound like, look like,

(07:26):
or even smell like. To watch his own mother melt
into the pavement of the road because the asphalt has
turned to liquid. That's what happens when your cities get bombed.
And as much as I despise Russia and Vladimir Putin,
Vladimir Putin Russia, they have the ability to visit that

(07:50):
where you live right now, Donald, this show's coast to
coast nationwide. Shoot more than coast to coast, from New
York to Honolulu and everywhere in between. Wherever you're listening
to the sound of my voice, Russia can plant a
bomb in your front yard. And Russia, Vladimir Putin himself

(08:11):
and their representative at NATO. I'm not going to play
it because it's all in Russia and it won't do
you any good to play it. But they came out
and said today, this is the line. If you're going
to do this, this is the line you start planting
US made long range missiles in someone's living room in Moscow.
Russia is going to respond. And this is a country

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historically that has been more than willing to kill every
civilian they have in the name of war, in the
name of Mother Russia or whatever the name happens to be.
These are not a people hesitant to spill blood. And
so that leads me to this, to a way we cope.

(08:57):
It's a way I cope with it. Maybe it's a
way you cope with it. We shouldn't cope this way,
but it's the natural human response. So here's what we do.
Here's what I do. I convince myself that as horrible, stupid,
terrible as the people are who run this country, and
you could pick pick your name, it doesn't matter. Joe

(09:19):
Biden's not running anything, but Kamala Harris Lloyd Austin, Anthony
Blinkett pick, it doesn't matter, pick your one. As horrible, terrible, stupid,
awful as they are, surely, surely they would never push
us clear into a World War three style conflict that

(09:40):
could end up with fifty million Americans dead. They would
never do that. That's too far, right. Surely, once it
got almost to that point, then sanity would take over
and people would step in and they would pull us back.
That's what we love to tell ourselves. I try to
comfort myself with that in the night. But it's of

(10:01):
course a lie. It's just cobe the people who live
in power in this country. Here's the God's honest truth.
And we're gonna move on because I don't want to
dwell on this. You know how many of us they
would kill if it meant to staying in power. Every
single one of us three hundred Americans could be laying

(10:24):
on a heap of ash. And if these people were
allowed to keep their seats of power, it wouldn't bother
them even a little bit. They wouldn't shed a tear.
And these are the people dragging us into World War three,
and I'm worried. So there I want to move off that.
I don't want to talk about it anymore. We're moving on.
Just try to get that off my chest. It is

(10:46):
the Jesse Kelly show. OB's mad at me. I'll go
into that in just a moment, but just I want
to finish up this talk really briefly on long range
strikes into Russia. Russia now threatening a major war, and
we try to convince ourselves powers that be, the people
leading this country, as much as we hate them, surely
they would put the brakes on before it got too far.

(11:08):
But the entire history of the world proves that cope
to be exactly that cope, false hope. That's not how
it works in broken, corrupt countries. Remember, remember this administration
got thirteen of our people killed at avigate in Afghanistan.

(11:29):
In response to that, they were worried about the poll numbers,
so they reaper drone ten innocent Afghanis, and afterward the
people who lead this country didn't so much as reprimand
each other.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
Was anyone ever held accountable by the president directly for
what happened with the withdrawal in Afghanistan?

Speaker 1 (11:47):
And if not, remind the audience.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
Why not we have all held ourselves accountable for the
progress of the withdrawal cross the administration, and it was
a true interagency effort to get those one hundred and
twenty fo how some people out and to make sure
we've removed our diplomats and our military personnel safely. As
I said, ed, not everything went according to plan.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
Nothing ever does. Yeah, anyway, let's move on to some mass.
Doctor Jesse questions, Bob is mad at me, though, I
just have to get this off my chest. Listen. I
always understood it that it is it's our job as
men and women to fill in each other's blanks and
support each other. Right. So the things where she's the

(12:33):
places where she's lacking, that's where I step in. The
place is where I'm lacking, that's where she steps in.
So here's what happened. We have this couple we're friends
with and they have been struggling to get pregnant. This
is a struggle. Maybe you're going through this right now,
but it's a very common struggle. People struggle to get pregnant,
struggle to have a baby. They've been struggling and struggling.

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And a few months ago we were having dinner with
them and they told us that they they were getting
some treatments done. They were doing some of that doctor's stuff.
I don't know what it was. I wasn't half listening,
but they were getting some doctor's stuff done to try
to get pregnant. And said, this morning, sitting there with
Ab in the kitchen having a cup of coffee, she said, Hey,
did you ever hear from them? Did they end up

(13:16):
getting pregnant? And I said, I don't know. I'll text
him right now. So I shot him a text. He says, yeah,
we did. I said, hey, congrats, and Bob looks at me.
She says, did you tell him? I was the one
who asked, and I said, Prince House, what difference does
it make? We're a team. We're a team here. And
she didn't see it that way at all. She saw it.

(13:38):
What was the word? She said, something along the lines
of I co opt her good heart because I don't
have one, or something like that. Whatever it was, it
wasn't nice. I'll tell you that much. It wasn't nice.
Let's move off. Do you're greatest anti communist. I've been
listening to your show for a long time, but recently
decided to actually put my knowledge in common sense to
action and get involved in my local Republican Party one

(14:01):
of the most important things we need to work on
and get better at as a whole in order to
defeat the communists. Thanks for all you do. You're my favorite. Listen.
His name is Jane. There are a lot of things
we need to do, a lot a lot of basic
blocking and tackling things that you will figure out as
you get more and more involved in your Republican Party.
Voter outreach, things, fundraising, those are all basic politics stuff.

(14:25):
So I'm going to set that stuff aside and I'm
going to talk to all of us. Every single one
of us has to make an adjustment. And this is
difficult for people on the right to make this adjustment.
It's not at all hard for them, it's difficult for us.
I want you to listen to this. This is that
he's that commedye what's his name, Ellie mystel at the
el Mistol, whatever the stupid idiot's name is. He's on MSNBC.

(14:46):
I want you to listen to him discuss Trump and
Trump supporters.

Speaker 6 (14:50):
Listen to this, so to do things, Ellie that one
would think our career ending the way he desecrated Arlington
national cemetery would be career ending for normal politician, but
his constant. But even this piece about saying, well, my
building was the tallest until you know, they brought down
the World Trade Center. Now it's the second talk. I mean,
everything he does is despicable.

Speaker 7 (15:08):
The reason why it doesn't end his career is because
his supporters are just as despicable.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
All right, Like, okay, well that's an awful thing to say,
and I don't necessarily think you need to go that far.
But here's the thing. They've made huge gains and carved
up huge parts of our culture because they decided long

(15:35):
ago you are the enemy. You are not a little misguided,
You don't well kind of want the same things. People
on the right love to say that. I have no
idea why. It's just the base, naivete or wishful thing. Well,
we all want the same things. Have you ever spoken

(15:58):
to a democrat in your life? We all want the
same things. These are people who have a worldview. You
can't even recognize this is a different speech.

Speaker 7 (16:11):
Aden Clark was killed by a sixty year old white man.
I bet you never thought anyone would ever say something
so blunt. But if that guy killed my eleven year
old son. The incessant group of hates viewing people would
leave us alone.

Speaker 1 (16:35):
Our flaw, our failure, is they have seen us as
an enemy and they've operated that way. We have not.
We are in a cultural war, by the grace of God,
a fairly non violent war, although it's getting more and
more violent by the day with how violent they are.

(16:55):
We have to adjust that part of our mentality. We
have to win, winning this culture war against an enemy.
That's our goal today is the Jesse Kelly Show on
a Friday. Of course, it's an ass doctor Jesse Friday,

(17:16):
and it's time to tear through those We've only gotten
to one so far. Remember you can email the show
Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. What amazing freaking questions tonight.
So let's begin, Jesse. You've said on numerous times on
your show that that Trump should be focused on appealing
to the norms and norms in society, But in both
debates it felt like he was spending the majority of

(17:37):
his time talking to his base. He talks with an
accelerated pace and makes references. He assumes people understand practices
one would execute if they were talking to friends. Or
co workers not pitching a sale. Am I missing something?
I'll tell you what, Chris grab for me something I
should have had you grab it for him. Grab when

(17:58):
he mentions their eating cats in Ohio or eating dogs.
When he said something like that about Springfield, Ohio. They
were asking about the Haitian migration thing. So that's what
it is. That's a great example of what Trump was doing.
But allow me to explain, because you're not wrong. You're
not wrong. I'll paraphrase till Chris grabs it. But they
asked him something about immigration. Now what happened There was

(18:24):
a common thing that happens to everyone, yourself included. I
know it happens to me. I know you've probably heard me.
Do it? You have it, Chris, Oh, go ahead, play play.

Speaker 8 (18:34):
She's destroying this country and if she becomes president, this
country doesn't have a chance of success. Not only success
will end up being Venezuela on steroids.

Speaker 3 (18:45):
I just want to clarify here. You bring up Springfield, Ohio,
and ABC News did reach out to the city manager there.
He told us there had been no credible reports of
specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by
individuals within the immigrant community.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
I see people on intelligence. Let me just say here,
this is the people on.

Speaker 8 (19:02):
Television say my dog was taken and used for food.
So maybe he said that, and maybe that's a good
thing to say for a city manager.

Speaker 3 (19:09):
I'm not taking this from a.

Speaker 1 (19:11):
All right, all right, all right now, I am guilty
of this. I bet you are guilty of this. Here's
what we do. It's a human nature thing, and it's
what Trump did on that debate stage. We're not going
to talk about this anymore. It's the only time I'm
going to talk about this today. Debates over. We're done
with it. But it's worth talking about because it applies
to you. It applies to me. When you are good

(19:35):
at something, or when you are extremely knowledgeable about something
whatever that's something is, and you are, especially if you're
of any certain age, you have some kind of knowledge
about whatever. Maybe it's cars or quilts or guns or
military matter, doesn't matter what it is, history things you

(19:58):
I all of us. If you are not at zero,
we're talking about steps here. If you're not at step zero,
well what's World War two? If instead you are at
step one hundred, you've got twenty thirty years of knowledge
on World War Two. It's very difficult for you to

(20:20):
talk to somebody who's at step zero because their knowledge
base is so different than yours. You have a difficult
time dumbing down your speech enough to explain it to
someone who is not as advanced as you are. Look,

(20:40):
I'll actually use Chris is an example here. Jewish producer
Chris is one of these work with your hands guys.
It's just what he is. He loves that crap, loves
It's not just because he's cheap. I've made fun of
him forever for making a manora at a scrap wood
he found in a ditch. But that's the kind of crap.
He loves it. He's good at it, like it's good.
You should see it. It's really good. It's really good.
He does to think it's great, but it's good. It's

(21:01):
really good. He's one of these guys who can rebuild
a car engine. That's probably fair to say, right, Chris,
he'd probably he acts. I can see he just shrugged off,
like yeah, of course, of course. So if I ever
talked to Chris about a car or car trouble, Chris
will oftentimes, even when he's trying to be helpful. He'll

(21:22):
use words I don't even know what they mean or
where we're at. Well, here, you gotta just tweak the
dates on carburetor and you got to move the alternator around.
And he's not trying to be a jerk, but he's
speaking to me as if I have his base of knowledge.
I'm on step zero. I need you to dial that
way back, Palell, I don't know what the heck you're

(21:44):
talking about. See Chris, just to me, cars don't even
have carburetors anymore. I had no idea I had knocked down.
See you see what I mean? What happened. Remember my theory,
and it's just a theory, but my theory on the
Trump debate was that he crushed you by and he
ended Joe Biden's political career. Last time he had debated,
he'd sat back and watched Dome perform terribly. On the

(22:08):
campaign trail, he has been caught on camera making references
to her that really what they reveal is he thinks
she's a total moron in a lightweight. In fact, I
think he was caught on camera calling her an effing
moron something. I think that's what he said. I think
that's verbatim. So it's just what he thinks. Okay, you
get bad at him about that, but that's what he thinks.
So what I think is that she killed herself preparing.

(22:31):
I think he blew off preparations. And when you do that,
when you don't sit down in a room, and when
people aren't saying no, no, no no, that's too advance,
no no no, when you're just going off of your
knowledge base, that's when you drop a line. He had
an open window right there. On immigration. He could have

(22:52):
explained the women being raped and murdered, the drug overdoses.
He could have explained in ten seconds, the executive orders
of his the wonderful executive orders he did that closed
the border, the ones that they opened up immediately. He
could have pinned all the illegal immigration stuff on them,

(23:13):
and then when it comes to Ohio or anywhere else,
talked about how the crime is ravaging it. But all
that stuff is step zero. You see, he already knew
all that, and he was speaking as if he was
speaking to you because you knew all that. And so
when it came out, when his words came out, in

(23:36):
my opinion, it's because of lack of preparation. When his
words came out, he was talking to step one hundred.
He was talking to someone like you who knows all
the stories, knows all the issues, knows what Haarris did,
and so Yes, to your point, this stuff wasn't aimed

(23:56):
at norm and Norma because Trump has such an expansive
knowledge base on these things, as do you. He was
speaking to the expert on it. It's history. Actually, I
have to be very very careful whenever I decide to
do an expansive history thing like I did. Was it

(24:17):
last week? I did like two hours on something and
it was on Rome, Mark Antony Octavian, all kinds of
Battle of Actium is what it was was last Monday.
But when I did that, I had to be careful,
not because I'm super smart, but because I'm a Roman
history nerd who's been consuming various parts of Roman history

(24:41):
for years. So when I'm talking to you about it,
maybe this is your first introduction to it, doesn't make
you any dumber than me, I should point out, just
means it's something that it's been a passion of mine,
not a passion of yours. If you're at step zero
and I launch into the various formations of the Roman legion.

(25:02):
I'm talking so far above your head and beyond you.
I'm gonna kill the story. You're gonna be freaking lost.
You know, Tom Clancy. You ever read any Tom Clancy books?
I love Tom Clancy books. Now. I tried to read
Tom Clancy books when I was a child because I

(25:23):
would just hoover up every military book I could get,
and I hated them. How could you? How could any
dude hate Tom Clancy books. He uses so much military nomenclature,
the military language that for me, I never had any
any idea what the story was even about. Well he
was using the j DAM with the NVG. I'm just

(25:46):
sitting there and thinking, I don't But now I get
all these terms and things like that now. But the
way he wrote his books, and I love that he
did it. I'm not insulting Tom Clancy. God rest his soul.
It was beyond me and it killed it. So I
think that's I think that's a lot of what you saw.
I think that's a lot of what you saw. All right,
Let's move on. Let's talk about something a little bit different.

(26:07):
Being interrupted. Hang on, it is the Jesse Kelly Show
on a Friday, got that kid throwing a little hissy fit,
do you Chris has a new baby obviously, just figuring
out exactly where she fits in the household. Guess what
my kid pulled on me last night, Chris. So you
know my fifteen year old Luke. The boys are they're

(26:31):
pretty much banned from electronics and things like that. During
the week. We'll let them play on occasion. On the weekend,
they're not you know, we're not hiding them in a basement,
but we control that stuff in our house, so they're
really at my mercy or at our mercy, whatever we
want to do. The wife was doing laundry or something,
and I was killing time after I got home, and
the boys were there with me, and I said, hey,

(26:51):
let's watch let's watch a movie. And I turn on
The Untouchables. Remember that movie. It's an old, great mafia movie,
Kevin Costner and Robertson. It's a great movie about al Capone.
And you're not gonna believe what my youngest said to me.
I five, belt fell out of my chair. I'm sitting
there my recliner. I've got me a recliner for Father's Day.
I'm sitting there in my recliner and he says, Dad,

(27:12):
I'm not watching some mob movie. And I said, I'm sorry,
excuse me, I'm not watching some mafia movie. And I said,
exactly when did you think that you got to make
that call? When was that? And you could tell he knew. Look,
he's a teenager. His mouth had written written a check

(27:35):
his butt couldn't cash, and it had just gotten way
out ahead of him. So two hours later he ended
up enjoying the untouchables. So there was that, dear purple nurple,
it's not nice. One of my greatest pet peeves is
being interrupted. In certain cases. I understand why someone would
need to say something mid sentence and cut me off,
but my mother in law is next level. She doesn't

(27:58):
mean anything by it, but she does it to everyone,
but man, it wears on me. My question is this,
Do you pause and let them speak then go back
to your story. Do you elevate your voice and continue speaking,
or do you do what I do and quit the
story and never ever finish it under any circumstances. His

(28:20):
name is Jason. Okay, so I have apparently we're going
to talk a lot about my flaws today. That's fine,
that's fine. I have a real bad flaw. It is
a legitimately bad flaw. You know you have things about
yourself you wish you could change. Here's one for me.
You ready for the most hypocritical thing you've ever heard

(28:40):
in your entire life. I despise being interrupted. I don't
think that makes me unique. I don't think there's anyone
out there who loves being interrupted. Oh it's my favorite.
Everyone dislikes it. But I despise it. When I'm speaking,
I of course feel like I'm the most important thing
talking right now, and I just want to get my
voice out. So it doesn't matter who it is, kids, friends,

(29:02):
coworker's wife, doesn't matter. If I get interrupted, I get mad,
and I actually I'll pull every single one of these
things you just said. Sometimes I'll just keep elevating my
voice and talking. Sometimes I'll just stop, and then I
refuse to go on with the story like a child.
I do all those things, everything petty. But you want
to hear the worst thing I do it to other people?

(29:26):
I do. I hate being interrupted, despise it, and I'm
a little bit of an interrupter. I am what Chris do.
I try to tone it down. Oh no, no, no,
I'm aware of it, and I think I've cleaned it
up for the most part as I've gotten order. No,

(29:48):
I'm aware of the flaw, but it's still a flaw
of mine, especially if we're in a discussion. Doesn't have
to be a heated argument, but maybe a debate, maybe
something about politics. In fact, I did this the other night.
We were talking about Republicans in Congress. I was talking
with the political friend and he said something that wasn't

(30:10):
wrong or wasn't correct, and he was mid sentence, and
instead of allowing him to finish the sentence, because to me,
he was building a premise that was false. It was
about Republicans and cutting spending. And you know how much
I yelled that Republicans spend as much as Democrats do,
and they do, he said, he started out his sentence.

(30:31):
I'm paraphrasing, but he essentially said, well, you know, Republicans
aren't going to spend as much as Democrats do because
and as soon as he launched into the because I
interrupted him, no, yes, they do, Yester do. He didn't
even get to finish his sentence, and I interrupted him.
I do the thing I claim to not like, I'm

(30:52):
the worst hypocrite in the world. What Chris, No, He said,
you let the guy build the argument on a shaky foundation,
and then you sledge hammer the foundation out from under him.
That's what I should have done. But because again I'm
a flawed person, I couldn't just shut my mouth and

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let it go. And I did the thing that I
yell about other people doing. I wished I didn't do it.
I'd do it. Jesse, my husband and I live in
the heart of communist Boulder, Colorado, took a trip in
April to look to her red state to move to
in our future. He downloaded your show at the hotel.
Each night. One day, you did a Medal of Honor
tribute and mentioned that the honored veteran had just died

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a week or two earlier. I thought, wouldn't it be
amazing if you did a Medal of Honor tribute to
someone who was still alive, who could hear this and
feel the honor of the recognition. I would love it
if you would consider this, said, I can say her name.
Her name is Jen, and her husband is Stu. Apparently
they're big fans of the show. Jen and Stu props

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to you, guys, we have actually done Benavidez before. Benavidez
is a st a army dude. Will he earned a
Medal of Honor in Iraq charging into a building. I
don't know if we ever sent him the citation, but
you know, you'd say you want to do one for
people who are still alive. Here's the thing about Medal

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of Honor citations and people who earn the Medal of honor.
They are incredible and they're wonderful and we will always
keep reading them. And Medal of Honor Monday comes again
on Monday. But to earn a medal of honor, all
the stories pretty much have the same thing in common.
You have to do something where it's a high probability

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you're going to die. And most of them do most
of them die? If you ever, you know, I tell
you you can go look them up online, and you can.
You can go look up every Medal of Honor citation online.
There are ones that we don't do, and honestly, maybe
we should do this on Monday, Chris, Maybe we should

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grab four or five of these and do them. You know,
the most common ones in my readings. I love reading
them myself I do it in my private time. You
know the most common ones you read the guy who
jumped on the grenade. He jumps on a grenade and
he saves his friends. They're almost always short reads. They're
very short read jail, they're in a fighting hole, grenade

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rolls in, he jumps on the grenade, he absorbs the explosion,
kills himself to save his friends. It's the most common
medal of honor citation you will read. If you read
through them, you'll come away. I swear it's half of
them are guys who jumped on a grenade. Now, what
that guy did doesn't make for a sexy medal of

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honor citation because it's very short. It's brief. He's not
charging machine gun nests and bayoneting Germans. He's not doing
these things. But he's doing something that guarantees his death
to save his friends. That's really the essence of the thing.
And that's why I mean, there just aren't many of

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them that live star. There aren't many of those guys
around