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Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly
Show on a wonderful Monday, and we have a bunch
of stuff we're gonna get to this hour. I am
going to get to some emails. I'm going to talk
to you about a very particular set of skills. I
have Brandon Darby's coming up about a half hour from now,
but we don't have time for any of that right now,

(00:23):
because you know what time it is. It is time
for Medal of Honor Monday, where we honor one of
our heroes. We remember his name and his deeds. We
tell our children about what he did and give them
something wonderful to aspire to so they don't try to
be the YouTube star they're currently watching on their phones

(00:44):
when they should be listening to The Jesse Kelly Show.
And do remember. You can email you love, your hatred,
death threats to Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. You
can also email in Medal of Honor recommends. If you
have ones that are close to you, friend, neighbor, from

(01:04):
your hometown, just ones you like, You're welcome to email
those in This guy did he said, Jesse, I'd like
to recommend Army Medic Specialist five James C. McLoughlin for
Medal of Honor Monday. This hero is from South Haven, Michigan,
was awarded the Medal of Honor in twenty seventeen for

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actions that took place over three days in May of
nineteen sixty nine. Although he was wounded the first and
second days of a three day battle, he kept fighting,
saved the lives of ten men, took out an RPG location.
After his tour of duty in Vietnam, he spent forty
years as a teacher. How about that? So, without further ado,

(01:48):
let's find out what mister James C. McLoughlin of South Haven,
Michigan did in Vietnam. Hey honoring those he went above
and yond its Medal of Honor Monday, Private first Class

(02:10):
James C. McLoughlin distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and
intrepidity at the risk of his life, above and beyond
the call of duty. From May thirteenth to fifteenth, nineteen
sixty nine, while serving as a combat medic with Company C,
third Battalion, twenty first Infantry, one hundred and ninety six

(02:31):
Light Infantry Brigade, Americal Division, the Company Air assaulted into
an area near camp near Tam Kai in Noi Yan
Hill on May thirteenth. With complete disregard for his life,
he ran one hundred meters in an open field through
heavy fire to rescue a comrade too injured to move

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and carried him to safety. That same day, second patoon
was ordered to search the area near ney Yan Hill
when the platoon command commander was ambushed by a large
North Vietnamese Army force and sustained heavy casualties with complete
disregard for his life and personal safety. Private first Class

(03:13):
mcgloffin led two Americans into the safety of a trench
while being wounded by shrapnel from a rocket propelled grenade.
He ignored a direct order to stay back and braved
an enemy assault while moving into the kill zone on
four more occasions to extract wounded comrades. He treated the injured,

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prepared the evacuation, and, though bleeding heavily from shrapnel wounds
on his head and body, refused evacuation to safety in
order to remain at the battle site with his fellow
soldiers who were heavily outnumbered by North Vietnamese Army forces.
On May fourteenth, the platoon was again ordered to move

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out towards ney Yon Hill. Private first class mcloffin was
wounded a second time by small arms fire and shrapnel
from a rocket propelled grenade while rendering aid to two
soldiers in an open rice paddy. In the final phases
of the attack, two companies from the second North Vietnamese
Army Division and an element of seven hundred soldiers from

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a viet Cong regiment descended upon Company c's position on
three sides. Private first Class mcloffin, again with complete disregard
for his life, went into the crossfire numerous times throughout
the battle to extract wounded soldiers while also fighting the enemy.
His relentless and courageous actions inspired and motivated his comrades

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to fight for their survival. When supplies ran low, Private
first Class mcloffin volunteered to hold a blinking strobe light
in an open area as a marker for a nighttime
resupply route. Good grief exposing his body. During the morning
dark of May fifteenth, Private first Class mcloffin took out

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or knocked out a rocket propelled grenade position with a
grenade thought and eliminated enemy soldiers. Treated numerous casualties, kept
two critically wounded soldiers alive during the night, and organized
the dead and wounded for evacuation at daylight. His timely
and courageous actions were instrumental in saving the lives of
his fellow soldiers. Private First Class mcloffin's personal heroism, professional competence,

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and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest
traditions of military service, and reflect great credit upon himself,
the Americal Division, and the United States Army. My man
had himself a good few days. Huh. Oh, it was
a horrible few days. But that gone. And you know,
you just know when he took out that RPG, you

(05:55):
know that was totally the one who wounded him twice already,
and you know he just stewing about it. I'm totally
guessing on this, but you know he was just stewing
about it. I'm gonna get that And I'm telling you
right now, I'm gonna get that freaking guy. You've got
to shrap the wound in your head and your body,
and you're just thinking, I'm gonna kill him before I die.
I swear on my life I will. Forty years as

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a teacher, it's it's wonderful how often that seems to happen.
And maybe I'm maybe I'm blowing this up too much
in my mind because I know guys who I was
in Iraq with they moved on to be teachers. I've
heard of other guys in my kids' school veterans are

(06:38):
going into the teaching profession. If you are a veteran,
perhaps you're looking for something. You know, there's nobody better
to guide young minds than you. Consider if possible, going
into the teaching profession. Just consider it, That's all I'm saying. Considerate.

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Also consider this. Communists lie about everything at all times.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
In my state included, which is one of the most
blessed and cursed states as it relates to climate or
on the tip of the sphere of climate change, simultaneous
droughts and simultaneous floods. The hots are getting a lot hotter,
the dry is dryer.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
It's droughting and flooding.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Of course, the most devastating wildfires in American history in
the middle of winter in Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
Yeah, they already caught the artsonists. But remember how the
communist views the concept of truth words themselves. What is
the point of all of it. You know why you
tell the truth. You believe, whatever your belief system, that
that is right. You don't want to lie because it
is wrong. But the communist does not share your value systems.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Think are reverence for the truth might become might have
become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us
from finding consensus and getting important things done.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
Did you know over eighty percent of wildfires some say
the number is north of ninety are caused by man.
And I don't mean your suv. I'm talking arsonists setting
them intentionally. I'm talking about people flicking cigarette butts out
the window, maybe starting a campfire when it's dry and
the mountains without any idea what you're getting into. But

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all those wildfires, Man's lighting them all. But it gives
communists the opportunity to destroy more of your economy, steal
more of your liberty, and loot the treasury in the
interest of handing it out to their large donors in
the solar industry. So they'll hop on private jets like

(08:48):
Gavin Newsom did and fly all the way down to
Brazil and say things like this.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
In my state included, which is one of the most
blessed and cursed states. As it relates to climate, we're
on the tip of the sphere of climate change, simultaneous
droughts and simultaneous floods.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
The hots are getting a lot hotter, the dry is drier.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
You saw one of the most devastating wildfires in American
history in the middle of winter in Los Angeles in January.
One hundred mile hour winds attached to fire.

Speaker 1 (09:26):
The fire hydrants ran out of water. They already caught
the guy who lit the fire. California won't clear out
the dead underbrush one hundred percent man made. And he
knows that if you sat him down and hooked him
up to a lot of detector he knows everything I
just said. But remember that doesn't matter. This thing of truth.

Speaker 3 (09:50):
You think our reverence for the truth might become might
have become a bit of a distraction. That is preventing
us from finding consensus and getting important things done.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
He's trying to get things done, you see, doesn't have
time for the facts. All right, We are going to
get to some economic matters. We're going to get to
this reporting about the would be Trump assassin. We still
have to get to Brandon Darby. There's just so much
to get to on the show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Monday, a Medal of

(10:24):
Honor Monday. Remember, if you missed any part of the show,
you can download the whole thing on iHeart, Spotify, iTunes.
I shouldn't breeze over this. When I bring up gigantic
communist lies, and when I talk about communists lying about
everything at all times, it does. It has had a
devastating effect on America, specifically America's mental health. And so

(10:46):
I just played you. I'm not going to play it again.
I can't stand his stupid voice. Gavin Newsom flying down
to Brazil and saying California's fire, the Palisades fire was
caused by climate change, which is did not write lives
started by an arson, but set in that aside. This
is what these lies, these constant lies, the world of
lies the communists create for your liberal and Peggy, this

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is the result.

Speaker 4 (11:09):
It doesn't take long for me to pick up on this.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
People. This is a psychotherapist on Fox News.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
By the way, it doesn't take long for me to
pick up on this. People are obsessed with Trump, They're fixated,
they're hyper fixated on Trump, and they talk about some
of the features of this disorder. They can't sleep, they
feel traumatized by mister Trump, they feel restless. I had

(11:34):
one patient who said she couldn't enjoy a vacation because
anytime she saw Trump and the news or on her device,
she felt triggered. So this is a profound pathology, and
I would even go so far as to call it
the defining pathology of our time.

Speaker 1 (11:52):
How devastating. And if you're one of these people, one
of these democrats in the media, one of these Democrat politicians,
Hey taught us to bleach. He said Nazis were very
fine people. He colluded with Russia. I want you to
know you're a bad person. You are You're a terrible
human being. And the things you do on behalf of

(12:13):
the revolution are really evil things, because you know what
what you're doing is you're abusing disabled people. Those are
Democrat voters. Mentally disabled people like Democrat voters. They're susceptible
to your lies, and so you tell them huge lies.
You wreck their soul, wreck their mental health, and all
for power. It's very evil oracle. I've been very disappointed

(12:37):
with Trump two point zero deportation numbers. But think you
made a great point acknowledging the runway needed to be
built up to the mass deportation machine. What is your
concern level regarding deportation numbers wavering next year in the
mid terms. I'm worried the administration won't have the stomach
to ramp up the numbers and in create Okay, uh,

(12:58):
thanks for you doing. Yeah, like I said, ed, and
I mean, I don't want to make a presidency, a
four year presidency, into something that's overly simple, because the
president has so many jobs and they're all important. So
I'm not trying to make this overly simple. But for
my overly simple mind, if you ask me, hey, what

(13:19):
would be a metric to measure how successful the Trump
administration is Trump two point zero, I would say, is
he going to deport ten million plus people? I know
that's overly simple, but as I've explained a million times before,
the mass deportation of fifty million people plus is necessary

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to save the country. If we do it, we do
save the country. If we can't do it, we have
no country left to save. It has to be done.
So far that Trump administration has been deporting people, remember
when you count self, deportations were over two million, and
he's building an immigration machine that will help him deport more.

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That's why they're beefing up one hundred and fifty thousand
new ICE agents. That's why your leadership shake ups. Every
indication is that they are one hundred percent committed to
mass deportations and they intend to get it done. That's
we've seen nothing, and I would tell you if we
had that, that shows they're deviating from that. As of
right now, they're building the machine, the deportation machine. So

(14:25):
if if we're just going to follow this logically, if
that's two million this year, that's three million next year, right,
maybe four million the following year, maybe whatever my numbers
ten million. You asked me, if I'm going to consider
him a successful president, I'm going to tell you that

(14:46):
I need ten million deportations, and I think there's a
chance he's going to do it. He looks committed to
doing it. He does got to have credit. Where's too
If we're going to insult you know, they epstein this
and mishandle that or insult your got to give credit work.
This is the most committed administration I've ever seen to
deportation they are. Now, your question is are they going

(15:08):
to get squeamish in the midterms. I haven't seen any
indication they're going to get squeamish, but we may have
a little feather in our cap that we weren't thinking about.
Trump is a lamb duck. He's never going to be
a politician again. He's never going to be president ever

(15:31):
ever again. And I know there are powerful interests around
him who want to stay in politics of JD. Vance
and these types. I understand there are other people who
have aspirations for the future. I get that, but most
of this comes from Trump. It's himself, not the House,
not the Senate, not even JD. Vance. Most of it

(15:51):
comes from Trump himself. I don't think Donald Trump wants
to be wiped out in the midterms, so he has
some motivation there. But I think Donald Trump understands, or
at least the indication is right now that he understands
we have to have mass deportations to save the country. Hey, remember,

(16:13):
if he gets to ten million, that's roughly half the
number Joe Biden brought in. Because you can't bail water
as fast as it comes in, we would need another
four or eight years to finish up just what Joe
Biden did. Then we got to work on everyone who
came in beforehand. We have years and years, a decade more.
Can he get to ten in four years? I think
he can. If they start to wos out in the midterms, Hey,

(16:36):
no more of this, only the really violent ones, then
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Go make it happen. Now. There was all kinds of
video running around online of a protest in Mexico. Looked

(17:48):
a little spicy. People were talking about vivo revolution. What
Chris almost said? Perfect. Let's ask Brandon Darby about that
next Jesse Kelly show on a Monday. Gosh, Chris, turn
it off. I knew Darby picked it and van Halen
is so overrated. Joining me now, my friend Brandon Darby

(18:12):
of course with the cartel chronicles bright Bard, Brandon, come on,
van Halen, what are we doing here?

Speaker 5 (18:20):
I know, I know that he picked it, not me.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
All right, First of all, is there a group of
freedom fighters getting ready to cast off the government of Mexico?
Because I saw a bunch of protesters out there, and
then a bunch of bad internet rumors started floating around
what's happening down in Mexico City.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Well, I started to see that too. I was on
Twitter and ex or whatever they call it nowadays, and
I saw that, you know, Alex Jones said that there
was about to be a revolution, and a number of
other folks were tweeting out videos saying there's about to
be a revolution and it turns out assist to an
average run of the mill protest, which is common in

(19:01):
Mexico City. You know, elections are coming up and the
parties are whipping up their bases to protest one thing
or another about the current president. So not sure, not
any difference than what we routinely see in DC. You know,
some arrests were made, people get wild, and there's always

(19:23):
revolutionaries in Mexico, right, But I don't think that's what
this is not at this time.

Speaker 1 (19:29):
Okay, So that's actually why I wanted to bring on
one to clarify some of the information that gets tossed
out there. But two, we don't understand Americans, don't I know,
you do the politics of Mexico, of Mexicans of the
Is there a Republican and Democrat? Is it twenty different parties?
Who are the parties down there?

Speaker 2 (19:50):
Right? Right?

Speaker 5 (19:50):
So there's a number of different parties. But what you
have to understand is their right wingers are kind of
akin to our Democrats, and then their left wingers are
kind of a kin to Arcaesio Cortes, and then they're
ultra left wingers, like they still have resistance movements, you
like the Zapatistas and and so their resistance movements are

(20:11):
you know, Marxist and really really really far far left.
But the politics they are really you know, we're saying
this is why they outlaw guns. It is because no
one is really no one really feels represented unless you're
very wealthy there, right, Like, you have communities along the

(20:37):
US Mexico border, they call it the fronterra, right, the borderlands,
and they are just completely underrepresented in their government, Like
what their needs are does not seem to matter. The
only time that their needs are taken care of in
the border communities, their security needs is when people in
the US and yes I mean US right as in Breitbart,

(20:58):
make a big deal out of some thing that's going
on or the cartel, a various cartel controlling a city
and doing bad things, and then Mexico will send its
military in, right, And then if that military starts doing
corrupted things and we report on it, then Mexico send
their navy in, right, their marines. That's the only time

(21:19):
they're really represented is when people in the US raise
an issue with it. So, you know, not a lot
of hope for the politics in Mexico at this time.
It's all very corrupted. All of the parties have had
their ties to cartels when they were in positions of power.
The you know, the current party ammost party, which is

(21:40):
what Scheinbaum is part of. Their current president is very
well connected to to various drug cartels, specifically CJMG. The
last president was very well connected to the Sinaloa cartel.
And this is this is just how it goes there.
But back to what we were talking about with the protests,

(22:04):
this is a recurrent problem we have. Like, as someone
who's covered this for so many years, I feel very
successful that, you know, the candidates that was largely you know,
supported by Breidbart or given a fair shake by Breidbart
and no one else ends up becoming president and then
cares about the issues we cared about. Right. I love

(22:27):
that everyone focuses on the border. I love that everyone
is trying to focus on cartels, but it is very
frustrating to spend so many years developing sources and knowing
what's going on there and people just take cheap shots
and find a video of a protest and say, oh,
it needs this, and oh the cartels are doing this,
or this video is the cartel doing this and none

(22:49):
of it is almost none of it is accurate. So
what we do is we just every time it happens,
you know, we just run aheadline like no, no, Mexico
is not about to have a revolution, or know the
cartel did not just do this, or no, you know
that we just have to run these kind of debunking
headlines that gently debunked people while also appreciating the fact

(23:13):
that they're trying to cover it. Right, We just want
them to definitely cover it, but but you know, do
a little work, right, don't take cheap shots and just
find something on Twitter and run with it like it's
like you have the inside scoop or something, right, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (23:29):
Yeah, No, it gets frustrating when you've put in the
work and you've done the hours and in days on end,
and then somebody just kind of blows the whole thing
up just for cheap clips clicks. Of course, yeah, that would.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
That would It's a pretty common thing. But we are
very happy that people are covering it. We're happy that,
you know, they wouldn't be covering it if it didn't
get clicked. And the fact that it gets it gets
clicked means that that we have. Not only have we
been successful, but others who have tried to cover this
issue have been successful. It means that the Republican Party

(24:03):
and Donald Trump, that wing of the Republican Party has
been successful in getting people to care about Mexico based
cartels and our border. So there's a lot of positives
about it. But no, we don't think that this time
that this is on the level of you know, pulling out,

(24:24):
pulling the president out of the palace or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (24:28):
That really sucks because I was getting ready to yell
Viva Revolution many times on the radio just to work
on my Spanish what Chris, I was going to shout
it and play mariachi music and that failed. Well, all
that talk about Mexico, and now we're about to leave there, Brandon,
because El Salvador is a place that obviously it's getting
a lot of pub on the right because it's a

(24:48):
place that went from very dangerous to very safe, and
we're going to assign very simple things to that. But
I figured, here's my question. Losing that many criminals the
same region of the world surely created a vacuum of
some kind. What has been the fallout? What did they do?
And what has been the fallout from it.

Speaker 5 (25:10):
You know, man, there's a there's a county north of Austin,
Texas called Williamson County. Right, we're round rock areas and
so forth, and most people, like when I was younger,
people I knew who had marijuana or whatever, they would
drive around Williamson County. Nobody wanted to drive through Williamson County, right,

(25:32):
because they are so strict on enforcing the laws and
pulling people over, and they are so strict on actually
prosecuting every crime that yes, they put all their criminals away,
but other criminals don't want to go there, right, And
I think that that's a lot of what's happened in Osalvador.

(25:53):
They got Buquelee I believe his name, as a president.
He went in, he built a prison, He cracked down
on MS thirteen. This was a treatment was overrun with
MS thirteen. He cracked down on them in such a
significant way. I'm sure there's some human rights abuses. I'm
sure there's overreactions and some there's probably a few people

(26:13):
who maybe shouldn't have gotten caught up in it. I'm
sure there's all kinds of dirty mess that's happening. But
you know, we're in a situation looking at them where
we can judge because we have a functioning country, right,
as imperfect as we are, they did not have one right.
So it's you know, many have said it must be

(26:38):
nice to make a decision between right and wrong, or
good and bad, because most of the world has to
make decisions between bad and worse right, and that's a
complicated issue. So he built a prison, he started doing
parcelrate MS thirteen gang members and cracked down on them
in a brutal way, and now his country is flourishing

(27:00):
because of it. So I get from our liberal neoliberal sensibilities,
we're like, hey, that's they're human rights violations, kind of
like the thrug boat thing. I totally get it. But
all of those loved ones who watch their kids like
die from Sentinel and cocaine and heroin, I promise you
they a lot of them feel a sense of justice

(27:21):
when those boats bringing poison into our country are blown
up by Donald J. Trump, Right, And that's a lot
of the situation that's going on in O Salvadors. It's
it's just the way things have to be. And you know,
I don't want to curse on airsr won but everyone
likes to do lion stuff. Everyone wants to be a
lion until it's time to do lion stuff. Now there's

(27:43):
a curse word in there that people usually use, but
we'll say stuff right. Everyone wants to be a lion
until it's time to do lion stuff. And that president
he did the lion stuff. He did what he needed
to do for his country. And that's really to me.
It's that simple.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
I'm gonna go there, I'm gonna visit, and I'm gonna
try all the food. That's what I'm woua do. Brandon,
thank you, my man. I appreciate you as always. Chris,
what do we know about El Salvadorian Food? I haven't
heard anything. That's generally not a good sign. I mean, look,
I saw there's a place in Houston. I don't know
if it's still open, but it was Taste of Nigeria.

(28:21):
So clearly everybody's getting a restaurant at this point in time.
But El Salvadorian Food, I bet it's delicious. We'll be
back when it is. The Jesse Kelly Show on a
Wonderful Monday. Remember you can email us Jesse at Jesse
kellyshow dot com. So I am curious about this El

(28:41):
Salvadorian food. Chris says it's all gonna taste like Mexican food.
I think that's a little stereotypical of Latino people, Chris.
I don't think that that's necessarily accurate. No, beans and
beef aren't delicious. Beef is delicious. Beans is disco beans
are I'm assuming there are going to be some tortez.

(29:04):
I'm assuming there's gonna be cheese. There's gonna be cheese, right,
I want to try it, But why don't we have
any El Salvadorian restaurants that that's a little frightening. That's
one two. Before I get back to the stories, I

(29:26):
have to confess something. I believe I inadvertently misused one
of my really special skills, and I feel terrible about it.
Looking back on it, I think I would have done
something different. I almost feel like like maybe Superman shaking

(29:51):
someone's hand a little too hard and he broke it
because he forgot about his super strength. So here's what happened.
I am conscious of the fact that I am enormous.
I am six foot eight. I know that that is
it can be intimidating, especially for women, if someone like

(30:14):
that is behind you for any reason. Because of that,
I try to be conscious of, super super conscious of.
I try not to stand right behind him. I try
not to stand too close to anybody. I'm conscious of
the fact that women feel more like prey than men do,
for obvious reasons, and especially because there's a lot of

(30:36):
scumback predators out there. So if I'm in public, especially
if I'm alone, if there's a woman walking in front
of me, I will give way more distance than I
probably need to give, because I understand if I'm within
ten feet, you know that sounds far. You look around

(30:57):
and there's a six foot eight guy ten feet behind you.
As a woman, I understand that can freak you out.
And I don't ever want to freak a woman out. Now,
I would feel bad about that. Now, let's set that
part aside. Let's remember this part before we get back
to the politics. I am much more covert than you
think I am. I have I don't know what it is, Chris.

(31:21):
Maybe it's a Maybe it's an athletic thing, even though
I'm not athletic. Maybe this is a hidden athleticism where
I'm very very quiet. It's not intentional. I should note.
This is why I think it's just one of these
god given abilities. I move with such stealth. I'm constantly

(31:43):
freaking ab out in the house. She's always yelping when
I walk in the room. I didn't think I was
doing anything wrong. She just didn't hear me coming because
I almost glide. I'll put it that one almost glide
around without sound, similar to a ninja, like in the movie.
I'm walking into the building. This was not yesterday. This

(32:06):
is Friday. I forgot to tell you this on Friday.
I'm walking into the building on Friday. There's a lady
walking in front of me. Right at the entrance of
our building. There's a trash can. Obviously, stop throw your
trash in there. I'm walking behind her from the parking
lot into the building. I have given her a distance,

(32:29):
like I always do, conscious of the fact there's a
young lady in front of me. I don't want her
to think, oh wow, who's the jolly green giant ogre
behind her, So I've stayed safely back. But she stops
at the trash can. Well, what am I supposed to do?
I can't stop there awkwardly now. But I naively in

(32:51):
my mind, I assumed that surely she heard that I
was behind her. Surely she saw my reflect in the glass.
Surely she How could you not see that bigfoot is
behind you? But I forgot about myself. I forgot that

(33:13):
I wasn't walking through the parking lot. What, Chris, I
was gliding through the parking lot. She stops at the trash.
Can I continue walking towards the door. Maybe in hindsight,
I should have been like that kind of thing, Maybe
I should have declared myself in some way. Instead, I

(33:33):
continue to walk towards the door, walk right up past
her to where I'm two feet away, because she's standing
right by the door, and she looks and whoa like
freaks out back. She's like, oh, sorry, he really scared me.
And I said, I'm so sorry. I did not mean
to do that. What Chris, what? I know what's on her?

(33:56):
But you can't ask a woman to be self aware
in that way? No, what, I wasn't trying to be mean.
It was not mean. No, especially a younger woman. Did
you say, if you've seen younger women and how I'm
not self where they are, they'll go to one of
the most dangerous big cities. I remember when I went
to Boston. I went to Boston and half the city

(34:18):
was young women with noise canceling headphones on their heads,
jogging by themselves around the city. And I remember looking
and thinking, what in the what in the what kind
of world do you think you live in? Who is
surrounding you here? You have freaking wolves all over the place.
So maybe it's just a young woman thing. But mostly
it was my stealth, my gliding. I forgot about it,

(34:40):
and I freaked her out, and I feel bad what
I was trying to be a nice person, Chris. It
was a learning experience for her, you know what. She
got off easy this time, pow. Maybe next time, who
knows it'll be It'll be somebody from Somalia.
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