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Speaker 1 (00:11):
This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Thursday. I
am back. I missed you so much. It is so
good to be here. And congratulations. The travel is over.
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It was a July from Hell. I mean it was fine,
but there was too much travel. There's no other travel scheduled,
no days off scheduled for months. I am here, you
me politics, the election, I am here, and let us begin.
What do we have on Tapford tonight? First I need
to tell you because I missed Monday, I missed Tuesday
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and Wednesday. We're doing Medal of Honor, making Thursday tonight
about an hour from now. Why because I feel like
it and I miss it. We also have Joe Biden,
what's he been up to? Dome is being hidden, the
state of the race, the nine to eleven terrorists getting
a plea deal. I have thoughts on that. An assassination attempt,
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that's amazing. What do I make of these reporters being
freed in Russia? And some dude tranny not a tranny
who freaking knows beats up some poor Italian female boxer
at the Olympics. All that taco bell in so much
more coming up tonight on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show.
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I want to begin here though it's Thursday. This email says,
my walking buddy is back. All is right with the world.
I just want to tell you that I missed you
as much as you missed me. And I also wanted
to tell you this because I have so many emails,
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so many emails that they were gosh, there were over
one thousand, and there were so many that are concerned
about the coming election, about all the new polls that
were coming out, new poll this, new pull that. In
case you're just now tuning into the news, the race
Donald Trump and Dome, we know it's going to be
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Kamala Harris. So between Donald Trump and Dome, she's been selected.
She's going to be the nominee. The race is tightening
in a way it hadn't before. Donald Trump, prior to
Joe Biden dropping out, looked like it was gonna blow
out Biden. Even the Trump versus Harris polls looked like
Trump was gonna crush her too. And then Biden drops
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and the polls still look good and we're gonna win.
We got it, We got it, no matter what and
now there are polls out that still show Donald Trump
up up in the swing states. Remember that's what matters.
The polls. You need to pay attention to our Wisconsin pull,
Michigan polls, Pennsylvania polls. Does what matter. There are polls
showing Trump up, Trump up a little. There are polls
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now out showing Dome up, Dome up by a few,
Dome up by five. So first, let's do this. If
you're going to base any of your happiness or contentment
between now in November little more than ninety days, I
think it's like ninety seven days. I don't know. I
don't do research for the show. If you're going to
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base any amount of your happiness on contentment on the
newest polls, you're going to have a miserable ninety six days,
which I totally just came up with. Jewish producer Chris
absolutely did not convey that information to me. I did
that myself, not Chris. Anyway, Ninety six days of misery
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does nothing for your life, And I know why you
do it. It's the same reason I do it. I'm lecturing
myself here, Okay, just know I'm talking to me. I
want to know, I want the election to be over.
I want to know, are we gonna win, are we
gonna lose? Is everything lost? Is everything? So you want
you want to know ahead of time? Just someone tell me,
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someone comfort me, someone tell me we're gonna win or this.
So let's just do this. I thought I would read
this email and then we're gonna have a talk about
just where we are as a country, a society. Dear Pontoon, daredevil,
after all that has happened in the last three and
a half years, with all the lies that were proven
to be lies, economic struggles, lack of accountability, the border,
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and now this bait and switch. Now one hundred days
from basically the end of America as we know it,
people are gonna vote for this turd of a candidate.
How stupid can we be? It's he's talking about Dome,
He's talking about Kamala Harris, So let's chat about that.
How stupid can we be? Because something was done, it
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was done purposely, and we are living through it and
possibly the end of it, the back end of it.
But it what is it? What am I talking about? Well,
you can find yourself focusing too much. If you get
two in the weeds, you can find yourself focusing too
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much on any one election and not understanding there are bigger,
gigantic things at play when it comes to changing a culture,
changing a country, changing a society. You can allow yourself
to believe it's down to this election or that election.
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But here's the truth. The people. It is the people
of any nation. We're gonna make this about ours though,
so it is the people of America who will decide
the direction of America. You know how I always say,
we don't have a politician problem, we have a people problem.
And everyone hates that, even though it's true. Everyone hates that.
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Why well, we love our scapegoats, don't we. We love
the point at the television set and say, it's Joe
Biden's fault, it's Mike Johnson's fault, it's Kamalie Harris's fault,
it's Nancy Pelosi's fault, it's Mitch McConnell's fault. What we
don't like to do is the thing that all benefits
us all the time. What we don't like to do
is look in the mirror and say, what, oh my gosh,
it's that person's fault, because that hurts. That's accountability. And
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for you, it probably doesn't apply to you. So we're
talking about the people as a whole. The people. It
is the people who decide the direction of the nation.
You know, who understands that. The people in power and
the people who want power, they understand full well the
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people are the ones with the true power. And so,
if you want to destroy a nation, demoralize a nation,
dumb down a nation, you don't focus on dumbing down
and demoring the idiots in Congress or the FBI or
anywhere teach. You focus on dumbing down and demoralizing the
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people themselves. Why would you do that? Well, if you're
a dirty communist and you want power for yourself and
money for yourself, and you have agreed, you've met an
agreement with your conscience to destroy America in order to
achieve those things, what do you want? What do you need? Well,
you need a society full of morons, full of people
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who have given up, demoralized. I'm not voting. It doesn't work. Oh,
I don't care about this. What I know three branches
of government, I've never heard of it. You need to
create a society of dumb down, demoralized people, because what
that gives you, It gives you people who will constantly
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send you back into office no matter your failures. And
if you get a nation full enough of dumbed down
demoralize people that the truth is, it never ends up
mattering how horrible or frankly embarrassing you are.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
You all help us win in twenty twenty, and we
don't do it again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
People listen to that little clip of Dome talking to
the people in Atlanta, and she adopts a Southern accent,
the California Valley girl who was raised in California. We
gonna do it in twenty four.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
You all helped us win in twenty twenty, and we
don't do it again in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
And people laugh and they point and they say, oh
my gosh, we surely can't lose to that person. Right,
nobody would fall for that. She's been wrong on every issue.
She's a dirty far left communist who opened up the border.
She believes in trainees and women's sports. She's wrong on this,
she's wrong on that. Jesse. No one's gonna fall for this.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Right, you all help us win in twenty twenty, and
we don't do it again. In twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
WHOA, yeah they will, and yes they have many many, many,
many many times before. You will not You hear those
things and you roll your eyes and you scoff at them,
and you say, what a cringey, embarrassing loser woman. Surely
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nobody's going to walk into the polls and purposely choose
that over Donald Trump, even if they don't like Trump.
Nobody in their right mind surely would pick that woman
to lead a nation over Donald Trump because you could
never logically come to the conclusion that Dome would be
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a better president. So obviously Trump is going to win. Well,
what in the world, What in the world would make
you think that people choose logically? You choose logically. You
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seek out information. You want to know the bigger picture,
the why, how to think about things, what evil forces
are at work, what tactics techniques do they use, how
do we oppose them? You think in those terms. But
once you have dumbed down and demoralized enough people in
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a society, you become the ultimate minority. And we're going
to talk about that tipping points and some other things here,
and just the moment before we do that, let's talk
about this you know I got home last night. I
didn't get home in time, obviously to do the show.
I knew I wasn't going to. I was traveling, and
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my folks are in town. They were watching over the boys,
and the boys are there, and you know who demanded
to be greeted first. And I do mean demanded that gigantic,
fluffy idiot Fred. He just he demands. He couldn't. He
insisted on being greeted before my mom did. He just
comes and throws himself on me because me walking in
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the door after being gone for a week was the
greatest moment of his life. And it's impossible not to smile.
Right when your dogs sitting there greeting you like you
are just the second coming of Christ. It's impossible not
to smile. And that's why we love them, isn't it.
That's why we give Fred roughgreens. I'll tell you we
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give Fred roughgreens because I want that for as long
as I can have it, and I know it will
end one day, but I get to keep Fred longer.
Fred gets to live longer and healthier because I pour
roughgreens on his food. He gets real nutrition, unlike what
you get in dog food. He gets vitamins and minerals
in probiotics. It fixed his digestive problems. Eight three three
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three three my dog or Roughgreens dot com slash Jesse.
We'll be back care if you believe him. But he's right,
Jesse Kelly. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday.
And I almost forgot because I just now showed up
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the tomorrow's Ask Doctor Jesse Friday. So you need to
get your questions in for tomorrow, all three hours dedicated
to you. I owe you that, Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.
Get them emailed in right now for tomorrow. So we're
talking about the election Jesse's doing. I'm gonna win? Is
she not gonna win? Surely we're that not that stupid.
So let me let me just clarify. I don't know
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what's going to happen in the presidential election in November.
You don't know. I don't know. Is Trump gonna stomp her?
Are they going to manipulate things? Is you know, setting
all voter manipulation aside ballot boxes and whatnot? Are we
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just a minority now? Are normal logical thinking Americans? Are
they a minority now? And has the society been demoralized
and dumbed down? And let's be honest with all the
immigration replaced to the point where that doesn't matter. I
don't know, but I do know. Communists have spent decades,
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not months, not a year, not even years, decades dumbing
down this society. That was part of the point of
taking over the education system. There's a reason American high
school graduates can't complete sentences or do basic math. Now
that's not an accident. They spent decades dumbing down this society.
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They've spent decades demoralizing this society, making people give up
check out. They don't know up from down, left from right,
top from bottom. There's a reason Dave's spend decades replacing
the American citizen with foreigners who can be bought for
a five hundred dollars visa card. All these things were
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done for a long period of time. And one of
the main reasons they did this was the communists wanted
the day to come where it didn't matter who they ran,
where it didn't matter what campaign was run, how we
ran it, how they ran it, what our candidate was,
what the messaging was, what we did here they did
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all these things because they wanted the day to come
where they have power, no matter what, that was always
the goal. And people are so frantic about wanting to
know what's going to happen in November. They're so frantic
about that that they want me to tell them everything's
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going to be okay, or they want me to tell
them we're screwed. And the truth is, I don't know
where we sit there. I know we're very close to
that tipping point, there's no doubt about it, and many
people believe we've already passed it. Many people believe we
are past that tipping point. It doesn't matter who the
Democrats run, It doesn't matter who the Republicans won. They'll
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win forever, they'll cheat forever, it doesn't matter. And maybe
you're right. I'm not here to tell anybody they're stupid.
Actually I take that back, and I tell a lot
of people they're stupid. But I'm not here to tell
you you're stupid. If you think we're past the tipping point,
I'm not here to tell you you're stupid. If you
tell me we're not past the tipping point, I don't know.
You don't know, But what I do know is we
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always have to keep our eyes in our focus on this,
and then I'm gonna move on and talk about some
other things. We have to keep our eyes in our
focus on the fact that we are fighting gigantic cultural,
spiritual battles that are so much bigger than anyone election.
And if we don't think bigger in that way, in
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the end, we lose. No matter what Donald Trump curb
stops Kamala Harris in this election coming up in November,
and we decide, yes, it's right, let's sit back, let's relact.
If we don't after that election try to make gigantic
cultural shifting changes to try to tip things back the
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other way, than the election actually doesn't matter at all,
and vice versa. If Donald Trump happens to lose to Dome,
God forbid, if he happens to lose the Dome in November,
yet we choose to start participating more than we ever
have in every part of our culture, every election, every
bit of it, and we began to tip things back
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our way, then we are winning. What determines who will
win and who will lose is not who holds the
White House for any four year period of time. It's
who is shifting the culture and their direction. That is
who will end up victorious. And there's no question we
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have been losing that battle. There's no question we had
the culture, and now now that they've seized all the institutions,
we are now the counter culture. I'm not denying that
at all. I've always been very frank about that we
are the counter culture. Now. We are not conservatives anymore.
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You can call yourself that all you want. We're not
conservatives because we can't conserve what we have now. Now
we have to be revolutionaries. Now we have to be
counter culture. Now we have to fight back against the
existing systems of power because we no longer hold any
power in those systems. So I've never denied that. But
we can still win. It will take effort from all
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of us, and it will take years, it will take decades.
It will take fighting and fighting and losing some and
winning some and fighting and fighting and fighting. What we
can't afford to have happen. It is not November, it's
not the White House. What we can't afford to have
happen is us giving up and handing them the culture
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that we can't afford no matter what happens in November.
All right, remember that. All right, let's talk about you know,
these trainees and women's sports. Trump speaks to the Black
Journalist Organization. Let me talk to you first about you know,
this weekend, I had to meet with a bunch of
the suits in Florida and a lot of a lot
of our advertisers were there, and I had a chance
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to speak with Pure Talk. His name is will I
don't want to get about his last name. I didn't
get permission, but I was speaking with pure Talk there,
and you know, we all want to talk, and they
all want to catch up with me and talk about
politics and see what's new. And everyone asks different things
and wants to know different things. You want to know
what pure talk wanted. What Pure Talk wanted out of me?
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They asked if I'd be willing to speak to veterans
who are struggling to help them out. That was what
pure Talk asked. You want to talk about a company
that shares and promotes our values all these other companies,
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they would have asked me if they had a chance
to sit down with me, Pure Talk. All they wanted
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the vets. We got some vets who are hurting. That's
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is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday. I am
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Remember thirty minutes from now, we're doing Medal of Honor Thursday.
I've got Medal of Honor withdraws, don't you now? Before
I will come back to this cultural stuff, to the
cultural shifts and how we do that. I'm going to
come back to that in a little bit because they
actually do want to hit some of the major stories
that have been dropping well in the last twenty four
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to forty eight hours, seventy two hours. First, I'm going
to try to stay very very calm here, and in fact,
I believe I'm going to because I've had about twenty
four hours to process it. But the nine to eleven
terrorists getting a plea deal. In case you're just now
waking up or just now tuning in to news and
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figuring out what's going on, Khalid Sheik Mohammad, nine to
eleven guys, they were supposed to have a trial. They
still have never had a trial. And that trial, death
penalty was on the table and deserved. And now they're
going to live courtesy of the American taxpayer. They will
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live probably the rest of their lives in prison, maybe
the rest of their lives in prison. I should say.
You know, at some point in time, the Democrats going
to turn these guys loose back to their own countries. Anyway,
They're going to live the rest of their lives in prison.
You're going to feed them, house them, clothe them, You're
going to pay for their religious ceremonies. You're going to
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do this the rest of your life. And the anger
out there over this is palpable. My own personal anger
here is palpable. I you already know the story. I've
told you many times. I'm not going to go over
the whole thing again. But I watched the Second Tower
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get hit in my Marine Corps barracks room. We got
back from PT that morning and one of the towers
had been hit. They told us to go upstairs turn
on the news. We did. We watched the second tower
get hit. We watched both towers fall on Life television.
I am not a big crier. I don't remember the
last time I actually cried. I had tears running down
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my face. I wanted to murder everyone responsible for it
at that time. To be honest, that's how I felt.
And it wasn't long ago. I forget when. You'll probably
remember when better than I do. I don't know. I'm
too stupid to remember. But recently remember, I took my
wife and sons up to New York City, took them
up there. I wanted to show the boys the Statue
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of Liberty and in Central Park, and just got some
New York City things that's as American as apple pie.
And even though I had just been there recently, I
insisted on taking them to see the Nine to eleven
Memorial Museum. My wife and I had already gone and
I had been through it, and it hurt. It's so
well done. I they encourage you to go see it,
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but it hurt. But I knew it was something my
sons needed to see. They were younger. They were after
nine to eleven, so they're too young to understand that day.
So I wanted to make sure they saw the pictures,
the video, they heard the radio calls, the panic that
I wanted to make sure they saw it and experienced
what that day meant. And to know that these people
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are going to get off scott free, to know that
it's taken this long to even come to any kind
of an agreement on things, it probably saddens me more
than it angers me. And here's why the anger came
first when I saw the headline. The sadness came when
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I thought about what it means for my country and
what it means about us who we are are. Resolve
it for the families, because this is not ancient history.
Remember this is not ancient, it's twenty three years ago.
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For the families who are still suffering. I I'm sorry,
and I wish we had people who weren't horrible and
weren't evil leading this country. I wish things weren't this way.
And in fact, I'm gonna set this thing aside before
I get upset. I wish things weren't this way. I
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wished we lived in a country that took our national
security seriously. I wish we were just led by people
who love the country. I don't need to be. I
don't need the country to be led by everyone who
agrees with me on everything that's not realistic, Republican or Democrat,
I don't. I really genuinely don't need that. I prefer
that just like you would. Wouldn't you like someone who
agreed with you on everything leading the country? Of course
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I would, But I don't need that. But I will
take just genuine love of country if I could get it.
And we don't have it, I hope we get back
to it one day. We don't have it now, but man,
that is ah that sucks, doesn't it. And if you
were one of the people who is personally affected by this,
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lost a loved one, a mother, a father, husband, wife,
and anybody, anyone, someone who was close to you, I
know that there's nothing I can say to make this
any easier or better. But I wish these people didn't
lead us. I really genuinely did. All right, all right,
And another story I wanted to hit before we get
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back to the cultural shift stuff was. The video has
been all over the place of this Italian female boxer
at the Olympics. She lasted forty eight seconds against this
other fighter. Now there's a lot of people who are
calling this other fighter a trans and he maybe the
fighter failed a DNA test, the fighter failed a testosterone
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level test. I should be I should clarify, meaning, look,
something's wrong, obviously. And this Italian woman who tapped out
of this thing, she wanted to fight this fight to
honor her late father. And the video is heartbreaking. You
see her sobbing afterwards. I wanted to honor my dad.
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But I've never been hit that hard in my life.
And this video has filled so many people with anger
and rage. And there's another story. Remember that female volleyball player.
We've talked about her many times on the show where
some train he spiked a volleyball off her face and
now she's got brain damage, partially paralyzed. It's just it's horrible.
So I'm gonna just lay this out. Ladies. You need
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to stop any participation in any event, any sporting event
you're involved in where there's a dude on the other side.
If it means giving up a state title, that's what
you need to do. If it means giving up a
spot on your team, that's what you need to do. Parents,
we have to be strong enough and bold enough to
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step in so this burden doesn't just fall on our daughters. Fathers, you,
especially because I'm just gonna level with you here. This
makes me angry at the men of Western society more
than anything else. It should never fall to the women
of society to protect the women of society. It is
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the obligation of men to protect women. It is our obligation,
not optional. It is our obligation to protect women. And
to know we have woosified Western society to the point
that we allow our young ladies on the sporting field
to be beaten, regularly, hurt, regularly fellas. This is on us,
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and we have to be bold enough to take hits
to stand against it, because that's really what it comes
down to. You remember the the UPenn tranny swimmer, that
dude who was a really fairly crappy, mediocre dude swimmer
and decided to pretend to be a woman, and he
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swam again the women and just dominated all of them.
And you remember, you remember how scared the young ladies
on the team were to come out and say anything publicly,
put their name on anything publicly, they shouldn't have even
had to. The parents should have stepped in. But oh,
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what if my daughter gets kicked out of school? What
if this? What if?
Speaker 2 (28:24):
That?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Understand what it means to be counter culture, to be
a revolutionary. That's what you are now, You're a counterculture revolutionary.
It means sacrifice. It means giving up on access to
parts of your life, of my life that we wish
we could maintain access to. We have to do it, though,
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or the future is bleak. All right, We're going to
get to some more emails. We have Metal of Honor
Monday coming. I want to get to this email though.
This is just blessed me, time radio host. I just
wanted to say that my activism was getting my wife
pregnant with our third child. Upon finding out about her condition,
I made a donation to preborn. I'm praying my efforts
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bring two lives into this world. His name is Rob.
We need to say a prayer for Rob and Rob's wife.
And this is something when I first started talking about preborn,
I guess I probably should have seen this coming, but
I didn't. I didn't realize how therapeutic preborn would be
for people. Women who have had an abortion and regret it.
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They email me and they say, hey, this is what
I do to try to make amends. People who've lost
a child, miscarriage, something like that. They give to preborn,
knowing they're saving a life. Twenty eight dollars buys an
ultrasound for a woman about to a border baby. People
give in honor of dead parents. My dad died, I
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give to preborn. My mom died, I give to preborn.
I did not realize how therapeutic it would be, but
I'm glad it is. And it's tax deductible. How amazing
is that? Preborn dot com slash Jesse they need you
twenty eight bucks sponsored by Preborn. We'll be back. You're
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listening to the Jesse Kelly Show. You're welcome. It is
the Jesse Kelly Show on a Thursday. Remember tomorrow's and
ask doctor Jesse Friday and yes, I'll be here. Get
your questions emailed and now to Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.
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All right, so I did to clarify how the weekend
when everyone keeps asking me before I get back to
the news here. Remember we have Medal of Honor Thursday
coming up ten minutes from now. It was so awesome
to see my old Marine Corps buddies. It was a
Marine Corps reunion and it is funny how times change.
We rented a house up by Lake Travis here in Texas.
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It's just big lake, you know, pontoon boats, things like that.
We get into the house first thing, and the first
thing we do is go to the grocery store. And
you can tell we're all old now because instead of
heading right to the beer aisle, we headed right to
the produce aisle. Well, we need some bananas. That's why
we've become And it was it was so great couple
of things. It was so great catching up. It was
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amazing to watch how seamlessly we fell back into living
together again because we lived together for so long. It
was just immediate. You know, I was the cook. I
was immediately making the burgers and eggs, things like that,
but Campos is doing the dishes. It just it was
just like we never left. And we did a one
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night first night we were there. We started it was
pretty late and we were staying up. We were having
a good time swapping old stories and just being idiots
and just laughing about old times. And we decided to
call our old first sergeant even though he's sergeant major
now retire sergeant major. And get this, dude is almost
seventy years old. And we dialed him up at eleven
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thirty at night. Eleven shut up, Chris, I know. And
we wanted to We wanted to talk to him. We
were swapping stories about him and things he did in
Iraq and just ways he trained us. He used to
do this. He was of he's just one of these
guys who's trained with all these specop sealed type guys.
And he got to our company and he made us
do this horrible training that we hated. That was amazing,
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Like we looked at it afterwards and we thought to ourselves, wow,
for instance, let me give you a for instance, I'll
get back to the phone call. For instance, he would
have us, he would have us set up our gear
a certain way, we would have our magazines set up
a certain way on our bodies, and in the brutal heat,
he would make us stand in front of a wall
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with empty M sixteen's, no rounds, and sit there, drop
a mag pull a mag mag pouch from your magazine pouch.
Pull a mag from your magazine pouch, load it. Do
it again. Drop a mag, pull a mag out, load it.
Do it again. Drop a mag, pull it out, load it,
do it again. Freaking, horrible, boring, awful crap like that
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until you get in a pressure situation and you realize
it's now muscle memory for you to drop a mag,
pull out another one, insert it in the weapon, and
you look back and think, Wow, that freaking guy knew
what he was talking about. Anyway, he was always taking
care of us, always looking out for us. One of
my buddies, I'm not going to say his name, one
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of my buddies, was extremely close to his grandma. His
grandma pretty much raised him. And we were in Iraq,
we were still in combat, and his grandma was dying.
She was about to go. She had a couple of
days left. This guy, our first sergeant, pulled my buddy
out of combat and sent him back to America, and
he got to America in time to spend two days
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with his grandma before she died. Like that, that's how
this guy looked after us. He was hard on us,
but he looked after us anyway. We dialed him up
at eleven thirty at night. The dude takes the phone call.
Not only does he take the phone call, he just
sits there and gabs with us as if it was
old times. And of course he had to check in
and make sure we were okay. If one of us
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had done something dumb and been in jail, he'd have
been in the car. I guarantee he would have been
coming to help us out. Twenty years after combat, twenty
years after we get out. We're all old men. Now,
I've got I'm freaking bald, I've got gray in my beard.
Twenty years after, still looking out for us. And that's
pretty freaking cool, isn't it. Hence, it's amazing those connections
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you make and how they don't go away. No, Chris,
there were no jello shots, or there was nothing. There
was no cello shots. We're not on spring break and
I'm not twenty one years old jello shots. You know
what we did do? We We stayed up till something
like one am that night the first night. I don't
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stay up past really ten, that is ten, ten thirty.
We stayed up past one am the first night. I
woke up the next day and I wanted to die.
I just felt like this is the end. This is
going to be the end. So we just hung out,
made some food, enjoyed ourselves, caught up, caught up on
old times. I would highly recommend all you vets out there,
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no matter how long it's been, schedule something doesn't have
to be fancy. This wasn't fancy. The air conditioning hardly
even worked. There was not a fancy trip by any means.
Doesn't have to be fancy, doesn't have to be a week,
doesn't have to be expensive. Spend dude, spend an hour,
meet a red lobster for an hour, have some cheddar bass,
catch up on old times. What Chris or waffle house
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or someplace nice like that. Meet somewhere, don't lose those
old connections, because I'll tell you I'm ashamed that it
had been twenty years now. I had seen you know
this guy here, or we'd meet up for some chicken
fingers here now and then. But twenty years since we
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had a reunion. Unacceptable. And we all agreed that it
was unacceptable. And it won't be twenty years before the
next one. Life is too short. We're gonna start scheduling
these things every three years, four years, five years, and
we're gonna go and we're just gonna catch up. Next time.
We'll bring family, though we're too old. We don't do
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get anything out of just being together. We all missed
our families, of course. But yeah, fellas veterans, get with
your brothers, and if you're struggling, you'll remember that you
have brothers out there who can help, because we also
went through that while we were there, and we don't
all end up in the same place in life family wise,
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work wise, life wise, substance abuse wise, and your old
veteran brothers will still care about you and they will
still be there. And you go put a hand in
someone else's hand, you might just find that you have
help waiting out there. And know you're not weak or pathetic.
If you need it, go see your old veteran friends.
All right. And on that note, that's part of the
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reason I wanted to do Medal of Honor Thursday. We're
gonna when we come back, we're gonna do Medal of
Honors Thursday. Then I'm gonna talk about this prisoner exchange today,
this Wall Street Journal report. A couple other people got
sprung from Russia. We'll talk a little bit about Dome,
this Israeli assassination. I'll go through some emails. Young men
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are preferring older women now and so much else before
we do that. I also had a chance when I
was down in Florida to spend some time with the IFCJ,
the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. I'm just gonna
drop this little nugget on you. There are many things
I could say, I'm gonna drop this one on you. You've
heard about when Hamas launched that attack. You've heard about
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how they were mowing down people ambulances, right, because that's
what they do. It's how those people operate. You know
that there are a lot of ambulances where they were
able to get in and get out and the people
who were inside of the ambulance lived. And you know
why they lived because the ambulance was bulletproof. And do
you know how those bulletproof ambulances got there? The ifcj's
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what got them there. IFCJ providing body armor, bulletproof ambulances, bunkers,
which sadly Israel is going to need probably a lot
of in the coming times. IFCJ right now, they're asking
five hundred, five hundred listeners for one hundred and fifty
bucks because they have someone who's going to match the
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one hundred and fifty dollars. If that is something you
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