United States Marine Corps Birthday

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is the Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The
Jesse Kelly Show, and a Magnificent Monday and Marine Corps
Birthday Monday, and we're going to talk about a lot
of things this hour. Medal of Honor Monday is coming
up just thirty seconds from now. We're also going to
get to the struggles right now of middle class, working

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class people and the dangerous spot that puts us in
as a nation. Really for both sides, both parties will
do that. I am going to get to some emails.
There's all kinds of stuff I have to get to.
But you know what time it is. It is Monday,
start of the second hour on Monday. And that means
we honor a hero, we say his name, we remember

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it for many. Maybe this is you. Maybe this will
be the first time you ever heard this name. Maybe
this will be the first and only time you ever
heard about these deeds. When people go out and earn
a medal of honor, they write up what he did.
They write it up and everyone can read these and
I would encourage you to do so with family, at

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work in school, that if you're one of the wonderful
teachers who listens your students will eat this stuff up.
It's notop political and research these things, but it is
important to remember our heroes and what they did, and
it serves to inspire future generations to become men like these. Now,

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I'm sure you already guessed it, but being a sow,
it's the Marine Corps birthday. We are going to honor
a marine here. Before we get to him, I just
wanted to explain that this takes place on Okinawa for
World War II history, Bobs. People who've ever listened to
this show for any length of time, you'll already know
a lot or most of this. But the war in

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the Pacific against the Japanese Empire was so unspeakably terrible.
And it was unspeakably terrible for really two main reasons,
and the first one being the environment where they fought.
It was. You know, it sounds tropical and nice, but
you know what's nice about the tropics. When you're in
an air conditioned hotel and somebody bringing you chicken strips

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by the pool, you know, it's not lovely. When people
were trying to kill you, and there's everything from yellow
fever to malaria to crocodiles that can kill you. The
environment was brutal, brutally hot, that it was a horrible,
horrible place to fight. And I said there were two reasons.
The second reason was the Japanese, the Japanese Empire of

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World War two. Better think it's lucky stars that Hitler
and the Nazis were busy doing unspeakable things all throughout Europe,
because the Japanese Empire in World War two was every
bit as evil. They just didn't get the public, the
pub They were a militaristic empire. They were all about
torture and rape and murder, and it was just what

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they did was what they believed in. It was how
they conducted themselves during the war. And they also believed
in dying to the last man. They never ever ever
surrendered in mass It never happened. Oftentimes, when the Japanese
would finally lose an island, they would do so with
ninety nine percent casualties. You'd have a guy here or

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a guy there, but they would all die. If they
weren't killed in battle, they'd kill themselves. They'd hold grenades
to their head, they would. It was awful. And the
Marines and the army, to give them credit, the army
was very valiant in the Pacific War, fought their way
from island to island to island, and the idea was

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take enough islands, working your way closer to Japan. You
wanted to be as close to Japan as possible so
you could launch more air raids into Japan, and so
you would have an appropriate staging area to finish off
the invasion of Japan. If God forbid, you had to

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invade the place which brings us to Okinawa, after Ewo Jima,
after everything, really the final stop pre Japan was Okinawa.
The good news is it's almost over. The bad news
is the Japanese knew it was almost over. This was

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there in their minds, final chance to keep Americans from
killing their families back home. It's what they believed. They
believed their families, their entire nation was at stake, and
they were going to fight that way. And because this
is nineteen forty five, they had had an entire war
against us to learn. It's very easy to assume that

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you're the only side with brains. You're the only side
that learns you're just facing a static enemy. He's almost
a robot, really, but he's not a robot. It learns
what works and what doesn't work. And what they learned
was trying to stop America at the beaches does not work.
It never worked for them. You're going to get some

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Americans on the beaches, but you're not going to stop
them from landing. It's not possible. America had too many planes,
too much naval gun power that were just they could
run you off the beaches and they could land. But
you can fight a defense in depth. You find strategic
defensive locations on the interior of whatever island you're going

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to defend, and you turn those into what amount to
be underground fortresses, and there you just kill Americans by
the thousand. That was Okinawa, a living hell like you
cannot possibly imagine. And that brings us to James Lewis.
They born in East Saint Louis, Illinois. Hey, honoring those

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who went above and beyond. It's metal of honor for
conspicuous gallantry in intrepidity at the risk of his life,
above and beyond the call of duty as squad leader
in sustained combat operations against Japanese forces. On the first day,

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Corporal day rallied his squad in the remnants of another
unit and led them to a critical position forward of
the lines of Sugar Loaf Hill. Soon thereafter, they came
under an intense mortar in artillery barrage that was quickly
followed by a ferocious ground attack by some forty Japanese soldiers.

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Despite the loss of one half of his men, Corporal
Day remained at the forefront, shouting encouragement, hurling grenades, and
directing deadly fire, thereby repelling the determined enemy. Reinforced by
six men, He led his squad in repelling three fierce
night attacks, but suffered five additional mo manes killed and

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one wounded, whom he assisted to safety. Upon hearing nearby
calls for korm and assistance, Corporal Day braved enemy heavy
enemy fire to escort four seriously wounded marines, one at
a time, to safety. Corporal Day then manned a light
machine gun, assisted by a wounded marine, and halted another

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night attack. In this ferocious action, his machine gun was
destroyed and he suffered multiple white phosphorus and fragmentation wounds.
He reorganized his defensive position in time to halt a
fifth enemy attack. With the devastated with devastating small arms fire.

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On three separate occasions, Japanese soldiers closed to within a
few feet of his foxhole, but were killed by Corporal Day.
During the second day, the enemy conducted numerous unsuccessful swarming
attacks against his expos position. When the attacks momentarily subsided,
over seventy enemy dead were counted around his position. On

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the third day, a wounded and exhausted Corporal Day repulsed
the final repulse the enemy's final attack, killing a dozen
enemy soldiers at close range. Having yielded no ground and
with more than one hundred enemy dead around his position,
Corporal Day preserved the lives of his fellow Marines and

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made a significant contribution to the success of the Okinawa campaign.
Corporal Day inspired the efforts of his outnumbered marines to
defeat a much larger enemy force, reflecting great credit upon
himself and upholding the highest traditions of the Marine Corps
in the United States Naval Service. Corporal Day thought he

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was going to die. He was alone because every time
he got help, they would be killed. He would roll
the grenades down the hill. He didn't want to shoot. Oftentimes,
when he heard them coming at him at night, he

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would roll the grenades down the hills so as not
to expose his exact location, listening to the grenades blow
up Japanese soldiers in front of him. I just told
you about the Japanese Empire. Corporal Day was undoubtedly aware

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of what would happen should God forbid he be knocked
out or wounded and the Japanese get a hold of
him alive. I will spare you the details of what
happened to marine after marine, soldier after soldier in that
unfortunate situation. But he would not have died quickly. It
would have been bad. And yet for three days he

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sat up their during Japanese soldiers. That's amazing, and you
know what I think he deserves on this birthday. Happy birthday, Marines,

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Happy birthday day, Happy birthday to all of you. That
is the kind of legacy left behind by heroes greater
than us. It is the Jesse Kelly Show reminding you
you can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
So let's discuss some some economic things before we get

(11:02):
to other emails and other parts of the show and
goofing off and things like that. I do want to
discuss economic things now, not in big nerdy terms. It's
not that your life, my life, the cost of things
in this life. And so I got this email. This
is about the Trump shut or the Trump shut down,

(11:23):
the shutdown that is now coming to an end. Not
quite over yet, obviously, but coming to an end. And
here it is Jesse. The subject to this one is
where are my firings? Another empty threat slash promise from
the Trump administration. I was promised mass firings because of
the shutdown. How many people have been fired? Three? I'm

(11:46):
disgusted by the lack of spine. Make them feel pain?
Enough is enough? His name is Chris Okay. So I
also wanted large numbers of government employees fired. Yes, the
Trump administration said if you shut down the government, we
will fire large numbers of government employees. And no, that

(12:09):
did not happen. That's a very very fair criticism. But
I wanted to use this email as an opportunity to
explain something because I'm actually about to insult a couple
things that have been proposed economically by the White House.
So I needed to get something out of the way first.
You know that I don't weigh palm poms. I don't

(12:30):
do it. You know that I'm more than willing to insult. Really,
everybody in the GOP happy to do it and have
yelled about Trump before me. It does something I disagree
with and I always will and if you don't like it,
you can pounce in That's what I believe in. But
here's what I know. I know that the mass importation

(12:51):
of foreigners is destroying this country. It is winning elections
for open communists. It is the reason, and it's not
the only reason for so many problems that affect your life,
but it is a big reason for so many problems
that affect your life. If you could snap your fingers
and deport fifty million foreigners, all our problems would not disappear,

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but all of our problems would get better, significantly better overnight.
They would. It is It's one of those rare things
that solves not everything, but goes a long way to
solving everything. Magic pills are rare. You deport fifty million foreigners,
housing gets affordable like that. Imagine when you're not competing

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with fifty million foreigners, healthcare affordable like that. What do
you think happens to tuition? What do you think happens
to crime? Cleanliness? But what do you think happens to
the Democrat Party. If you deport fifty million foreigners, it's
almost I don't want to oversell it, but it's almost
this this magic bullet that does everything. Okay, So what's

(13:59):
that have to do with the government firings and whatnot?
The Trump administration. Maybe you remember the final year of
his first term. It was very hard on Trump. Why
because Donald Trump fifteen days to slow the spread. Donald
Trump allowed himself to be manipulated by very evil people

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into destroying the economy that was going well, and I
was very angry about it. Vice versa. The Trump administration
has gotten two million foreigners out of the country in
ten months. That's not twenty million. I know it's not
ten it's not the fifty We need tell me another

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administration that has done that. And it's not just that
they have gotten two million foreigners out, one point five
of those of self deportations, but still out. I don't
care how you get out, just get out. On top
of that, they are, obviously, when you look at the
ice hirings, when you look at the various things they're doing,

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they are building a deportation machine that will make what's
already happened into the warm up Act they're warming up,
they're learning what works, what doesn't work, what personnel they need.
We've already heard, remember we discussed this on the show.
A huge leadership shakeup at ICE in major ice hubs.

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The Trump administration was not happy with the pace of things.
They started firing people. And yet, what do you think,
what do you think they're doing things like this for us?

Speaker 2 (15:37):
Because you got over two hundred thousand applications in how
many of those are you going to take? And how
quickly can you get them on the street because you
need a lot of backup right now?

Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, you got it, We got it. Two hundred thousand applications.
Now those people still have to be screened, still have
to be trained, so that'll take time too. I get that.
That was not me telling you that I Am going
to sit here every day and wave Donald Trump's pom poms.
In fact, like I said, I'm just about to insult
a couple things that have come out of the White House.

(16:08):
I'll explain. However, as long as the Trump administration remains
committed to deporting as many foreigners in his four years
as possible, he is going to get more leeway from
me than otherwise than he would otherwise. I was probably
more critical of him in the first term than I

(16:30):
otherwise would have because of the COVID lockdowns. While he's
deporting millions of foreigners, he's going to get more leeway
from me than ever before. That's not to say it's perfect.
It's not to say I didn't want to see fifty
one hundred thousand a million government employees fired. I wanted
it too. We didn't get it. It sucks. I'll give

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him some leeway, and except when it comes to fifty
year mortgages. Next, there's a Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful,
fantastic Monday. Member. If you miss any part of the show,
you can email at Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
So before we get to those emails and the airports

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and all kinds of things, Jimmy Kimmel his wife leaving
her family, before we get to any of that other stuff, well,
I'll just read this something we've read before on the show.
I want to read it again. Fifteen million more adults
under the age of thirty five are living with their

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parents compared to a decade ago. Per that's per Fortune magazine.
Fifteen million. Now I could sit here and I could
read stats like that for the next hour and a
half of the show. I could, because the stats are well,
they all point to the same thing. Middle class people

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are being pushed down into the low lower classes, and
lower class people flat out aren't making that. Younger people
are not finding Younger Americans. I should say, if you're
from Somalia, you're good. But younger Americans are not finding jobs.
They are graduating college, many of them in debt, and
they cannot find a good job to even go live

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on their own, let alone start paying off the debt.
And all the statistics point to this fact. Younger people today,
they do not have the same opportunities older generations did.
America for younger people today is less affordable than their

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parents had, than their grandparents had, than their great grandparents had.
That's just simply a fact. It is. Can't find a house,
can't find this now. This is a bad, obviously a
terrible situation, and it's terrible for a laundry list of reasons.
One of those reasons may be, well, your life is
worse and you're you're finding goals you had unachievable. Well,

(19:07):
when I when I'm twenty eight, years old. I want
to own a home and have a wife and a
dozen kids and then okay, so I understand that, but
it's also terrible for this reason. When life becomes unaffordable,
not just houses either, car insurance, home insurance, just health insurance.
When life becomes unaffordable, what will inevitably happen is people

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inside the government will promise to hand you money in
one way or another to make it better. They will. Now,
the history of this is not often well known. You
know it, but Normanis don't know it. Normalis don't understand
how COVID and the massive printing of money caused all

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the inflation that made life unaffordable. Normalis don't know that.
Normies don't understand how much more affordable health insurance was
before Obamacare. Normanies don't know that. You know what, Normies know.
They can't afford it, can't afford the house, can't afford
this feeling the squeeze. And of course Democrats, who really

(20:19):
authored so many of these things, most definitely the healthcare one.
Democrats are aware you can't afford it. That's why they
tried to make the whole shutdown thing about health insurance.
Healthcare Chuck Schumer when he was whining about it.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Democrats have been fighting to get the Senate to address
the healthcare crisis. This bill does nothing to ensure that
that crisis is addressed. I am voting no, and I
will keep fighting.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Now. I need you to walk with me with something.
And this might be a painful walk, all right, it
might be, but just walk with me. We have the
midterm elections coming up in twenty twenty eight. We have
a big presidential election. If you had a handicap and
you'd say JD Vans versus Gavin Newsom, doesn't matter. Big

(21:07):
presidential election coming up. Now. I'm not talking about you,
nor am I concerned about you. You're going to be fine,
But you're enormy. You're one of these weird independents. You
voted for Obama and then Trump and then Biden and
then Trump again. You're just kind of all over the place.
You're just a low info nor me. Democrats are out

(21:33):
there loudly campaigning on the cost of health insurance that
stops stops up. Don't start screaming at me and screaming
at the RADO. But they're the ones who cast it
with Obamacare. I know, I know, we're not talking about you.
You're informed. I'm talking to low infos. Democrats are running
on the cost of health insurance. The cost we just

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had to renew our health insurance here at iHeart. It's
just un believable, how crappy the insurance is now for
what you have to pay for, It's unbelievable, horrible. And
Democrats their message is you're paying too much for health insurance.
You're paying too much for health insurance. You're paying too
much for health insurance. Do you think that is going

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to have a receptive audience. I'm not worried about you
with the Normies. Is that message going to land well
with Normanies? Of course it will. So here's where we
end up in a serious pickle. How do you answer that?

(22:39):
What's your political answer for that? If you don't want
Democrats to take the House, the Senate, and the White
House in twenty twenty eight, this is where Republicans will
fall into traps. They they will fall into what I
would probably classify as a populist trap. They will try

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to hand out different stuff, try to control and manipulate
the market in different ways, not the same ways. So
we can claim superiority. But Trump over the weekend floated
a two thousand dollars dividend from tariffs for normal Americans.
Of course, he even put in there excluding the wealthy,

(23:25):
not including high income people. What they've already attempted. Scott
Pissent and others attempted to try to walk it back.
But don't pay me two thousand dollars of my own money.
This is why you get things like Josh Holly, We've

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played it for you before. When he's talking about Amazon.

Speaker 4 (23:49):
Their CEO is getting paid. Let me make sure I
get this right. In twenty twenty four, Amazon's president earned
forty point one million dollars in total compensation forty point one.
The previous year he'd earned merely twenty nine point two.
I mean, that's that's an unbelievable that's great work. If
you can get it, that's an unbelievable raise. Only problem is,

(24:12):
according to their own financial disclosures, Amazon's average worker average
employee worldwide is making thirty seven thousand, one hundred and
eighty one dollars thirty seven thousand, one hundred and eighty
one dollars, So that's a c suitep to employee ratio
of one thousand, seventy eight to one.

Speaker 1 (24:32):
That kind of wealth envy crap is going to have
a receptive audience. But that's not the solution. Democrats don't
have good solutions. They're going to make everything worse. But
handing people more stimmy checks makes everything worse. Whining about
the pay of the CEO and Amazon just creates more

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wealth envy and makes everything worse. Populism can be great
at times, and it can be completely disastrous at times.
Headline Trump administration considering fifty year mortgages. This is, of course,
to get the average monthly cost down. Do you have
any idea what you would pay for a two hundred

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thousand dollars house in the end, after you got done
paying off a fifty year mortgage. I won't even in
the interest of making sure a Jewish producer Chris doesn't
stroke out on the air, I'm not going to elaborate
on what you would pay, but it would be you

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don't want to know. I'll just put it to you
that way, you don't want to know. These aren't solutions.
These are temporary government throwing the starving peasants a loaf
of bread. Solutions. They don't tackle the fundamental problem. Until
government spending and money printing is addressed, all these problems consist.

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They'll they'll, they'll, they'll, they'll, they'll go on forever. Now again,
I hate to beat a dead horse, but deporting fifty
million foreigners will, she'll sure go a long way to
solving a lot of this, including health insurance. When you
don't have to keep paying for the health insurance of
illegals who flood the emergency room, that will certainly help.
But that's another story entirely. It is that Jesse Kelly

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Show on a fantastic Monday. You can email us Jesse
at Jesse kellyshow dot com. I'm just in such a
good mood today, I can't imagine what it is. Ah,

(27:07):
that's probably it, don't you think, Chris, It's probably it.
Be safe out there tonight, Marines, all right? And in fact,
I hate to even do this because you know, you know,
I don't want to be the fun police, and I
certainly am not one who's ever, ever, ever going to
judge you for any mistakes you make, anyones you've made

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in the past, anyonees you're going to make tonight, Marines.
I'm not going to judge you. I'm just going to
offer a little bit of advice from time to time
about this or that. You can take it, you can
leave it. But I saw this artist when I wanted
to address it. It's from the New York Posts. Kind

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of a weird thing to even write, but I got it.
The best and worst airports for getting tipsy during are revealed. Okay,
this is the New York Post telling you where to
get hammered. Which airport? Now let's talk. And again this

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is a note. This is a judgment for his zone.
I'm the guy. I'm the guy who used to sit
in the dark when I got back from Iraq with
the blinds closed and the lights out, getting drunk by
myself in the living room, sitting in a chair in
the middle of the living room. I'm the guy who
used to get road beers on the way home. I'm

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not judging you at all, not at all. I'm this
is just an assessment of what is worth it and
what is not. Let me ask you something. If you
have a history of boozing it up, how many what
percentage would you put on it? What percentage of the

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time is it worth it? And by the way, I'm
not going to say again, I'm not fun policing. I'm
not gonna say it's never worth it. You're at a concert,
you're having an extra glass of wine with your wife.
I'm not saying that it's never been fun. Not what
I'm saying. Would you at least agree with me that,

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especially as you get older, those percentages go down the
juice may be not worth the squeeze? You with me? Still, Okay,
you know what that percentage falls to when you are
traveling by air zero the percentage falls to zero. I

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do not understand this concept. This is a concept I
actually rejected back in my boozing days when I was
super young. I came to this realization. Okay, so you're
gonna go into the airport bar Applebee's or Chili's or something.
You're going to crush ten beers at Chili's before you

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get on flight to Chicago. Now that you're all lubed
up from ten beers at Chili's, what are things you
would normally do. Let's say you're at the house. I
will tell you what I will be doing tonight when
I get home. I'm gonna watch a Marine Corps documentary
about Pelulu. Someone just told me there's one on Netflix.
I'm watching it tonight. That might be something you do

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after ten beers. Maybe you call up a friend, Hey,
come watch baseball baseball seasons ever, come watch football tonight.
It's Monday night football. I know that. Hey, that might
be something you do. Maybe you turn on music, play
video games. Maybe you text an X bad idea. There
are a variety of things you can do at home.

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None of those options are available to you when you're traveling.
You're going to get on an airplane in a gigantic
steel tube with annoying, smelly strangers. What are you planning
on doing? Are you going to keep drinking? I've had

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people yell at me, well just keep drinking. Okay, So
you're what You're going to pass out and vomit on
the flight? That's the plane. Oh no, no, I'll stop. Okay.
So on top of flying being super miserable, you're going
to add a midflight hangover in there. You know what
those ten beers need to do. They have to come out.

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Have you used the bathroom in an airplane before? Have
you gone it? Do you feel like going ten times
in there? I don't understand the appeal. Oh, Oh, and
then when you get where you're going, what's waiting for you?
Are you walking right off the airplane and into your
living room? No, maybe you're one of these savages who

(31:49):
checks a bag. I wouldn't know. I refuse to do
such a thing. The Kellys don't check bags. Now we've
made a commitment. Let's say let's say you're at least
me and you don't check a bag. I live an
hour from the airport. Now my hangover is getting worse
and worse. I'm more and more exhausted. Now, even if

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I'm not waiting at baggage claim for a bag, I'm
getting in a car and I'm gonna ride drive an hour?
Am I even okay to drive? That's unsafe. Let's say
I'm getting a cab or an uber. Let's at least
say I'm being responsible. I have to sit in the
back and listen to Mohammad for an hour as he drive. What, Chris,

(32:31):
What am I wrong? Am I wrong?

Speaker 3 (32:33):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (32:33):
Come on? Everybody knows who runs the freaking uber companies
and cab companies. For Pete's sake, you might as well
get in with the prayer rug. Everybody knows what I'm
talking about Chris. It's fine anyway. I now have to
ride for an hour. There are weird smells. It's not
worth it. I'm not trying to judge. Like I said,
I want to be clear about this. I'm not trying

(32:56):
to fund police. And you want to belly up to
the bar and have a martini shaken knots third. I
think that's totally acceptable, if you're gonna make that three five.
I don't understand it. I don't see how it's worth it. Chris,
am I wrong? Chris isn't something Even Chris agrees, he's

(33:16):
not some puritan. Chris will have some booze every now
and then. Corey am I wrong. Cory gets it. It's
not worth it. I don't understand the air travel, the
fascination with air travel in boozing. Maybe it's because I'm
a loner. Maybe it's because I'm a homebody. Maybe what
Chris what?

Speaker 2 (33:37):
What?

Speaker 1 (33:38):
He agrees? Everyone agrees. Now, let's discuss something, because there's
this way of thinking on the left that you're uninformed.
Hang on,