September 14, 2026 • 36 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is The Jesse Kelly Show. It is The Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Monday. And we have all kinds of stuff
this hour. I may be doing just a couple more
quick soundbite things on the foreigners and the culture and
everything else. But that's going to have to wait. I
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will get to emails. All that's going to have to wait, though,
until I get to this. It's Monday. It started the
second hour on Monday, and so you know what time
it is, Medal of Honor Monday. If you are a
new listener to the show, every Monday at this time,
we read a Medal of Honor citation. I believe now,
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and I've always believed, that this is very important for society.
This is important. Remember these men. Remember their deeds. and
share their deeds with others. You know, I talked a
lot in the first hour about culture, what we incentivize,
what we disincentivize. You know that by sharing these stories,
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you are incentivizing this kind of bravery, this kind of
attitude throughout society. If we told more of these stories,
we would get more men like this. That's just how
it works. And we do... Accept email recommendations if you
have ones that are personal to you in some way,
or maybe you're just a fan of one. You don't
just have to send your love, your hate, your death
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threats in. You can email in Medal of Honor suggestions,
should you so choose. And this one came in. It
says his name is Spencer. He said, Dear Bronco, Ninja,
Deep Sea Diver, what Chris, brain surgeon, and who knows
what else, I'm writing to recommend... Colonel Leo K. Thorsness
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as a Medal of Honor recipient to be aired on
your show. He flew multiple missions in Vietnam, was later
shot down. I would also like to tell the story
of when my father, Colonel Dean, I don't want to
read his last name to give this guy away, even
though he's probably, you know what? He probably wants his
dad's name read. Colonel Dean Shuler met George Patton in
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World War II. My dad flew 95 missions in Italy and... Wow,
that's sick. My dad flew 95 missions in Italy and
North Africa and received the DFC. As he was climbing
out of his P-51, Patton called him over and dressed
him down for not wearing a necktie on his mission.
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It reminded me of you telling us to always dress appropriately.
I guess it did not matter that his combat group
had just successfully sunk a German destroyer You're a national treasure.
Keep terrifying the commies. Your dad sounds like a beast.
And without further ado, let's find out what Mr. Lieutenant
Colonel Leo Keith Thorsness did. Ready, aim, fire. Honoring those
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who went above and beyond. It's Medal of Honor Monday.
And he was United States Air Force, by the way.
It doesn't say that, I don't think, in here. And
he was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. For conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life
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above and beyond the call of duty. As the pilot
of an F-105 aircraft. I'll get into that in a moment.
Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness was on a surface-to-air missile suppression mission
over North Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness and his wingman attacked
and silenced a surface-to-air missile site with air-to-ground missiles and
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then destroyed a second surface-to-air missile site with bombs. In
the attack on the second missile site, Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness'
wingman was shot down by intensive anti-aircraft fire and two
crew members abandoned their aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness circled the
descending parachutes to keep the crew members in sight and
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relay their positions to the search and rescue center. During
this maneuver, a MiG-17 was sighted in the area. Lieutenant
Colonel Thorsness immediately initiated an attack and destroyed the MiG.
I'll get into that in a minute too. Because his
aircraft was low on fuel, he was forced to depart
the area in search of a tanker. Upon being advised
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that two helicopters were orbiting over the downed crew's position,
and that there were hostile MiGs in the area posing
a serious threat to the helicopters, Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness, despite
his low fuel condition, decided to return alone through a
hostile environment of surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft defenses to the
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downed crew's position. As he approached the area, he spotted
four MiG-17 aircraft, and immediately initiated an attack on the MiGs,
damaging one and driving the others away from the rescue scene.
When it became apparent that an aircraft in the area
was critically low on fuel and the crew would have
to abandon the aircraft unless they could reach the tanker,
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Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness, although critically short on fuel himself, helped
to avert further possible loss of life and a friendly aircraft,
by recovering at a foreign operating base, thus allowing the
aircraft in emergency fuel condition to refuel safely. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness'
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extraordinary heroism, self-sacrifice, and personal bravery involving conspicuous risks of
life were in the highest traditions of the military service
and have reflected great credit upon himself in the U.S.
Air Force. Now, uh, Let me explain something. Obviously, if
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you're a military nerd, maybe a military person or just
done a bunch of reading, a lot of this stuff
you'll get, but a lot of people aren't, so let
me explain something. An F-105, you look it up, it's
going to look like, by the way, I think they're
really cool-looking jets. It's going to look like a fighter jet,
a Vietnam-era fighter jet. That's what it's going to look like,
and that's fine. But remember something. To the untrained eye,
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like mine, I'm pointing at me here, all planes can
look alike. You know, if you were to go to
a World War II aircraft carrier and look at all
the planes that were lined up, are you going to
be able to tell the difference between a dive bomber,
a torpedo bomber, and a fighter plane? I bet you
would not. Again, unless you're a history nerd, you wouldn't.
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Different planes for different purposes and different munitions for different purposes.
This particular plane and mission was designed to do what?
He said it in there. to take out surface-to-air missiles,
anti-air defenses. Now, I just want to focus on this
because actually we're about to talk about our own pilot recently.
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He got a story on 60 Minutes, which was actually
really good. We're about to talk about this. Think about
how dangerous that mission is. My job as a pilot
is to attack the air defenses? Wait a minute. You
want me to attack the thing that is specifically designed
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to locate me and take me out? Absurdly brave. Absurdly
dangerous mission. And these guys had to do these things
to open up a corridor so other planes could come
in behind them. and land their stuff. That brings me
to the multiple time he engaged with enemy MiGs. He
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didn't have the equipment to engage with enemy MiGs. He
had his cannons and machine guns, all of a sudden.
He had machine guns, which is better than nothing, obviously,
because it worked. He took one out and they think
he actually took the other one out. They just said
damaged because they couldn't say it. The thinking is he
took it out. But he did not have, you know,
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the Top Gun thing, missiles, I've got a lock on.
He didn't have any of those. All his munitions were
for things that were on the ground. He didn't even
have a plane and munitions that were made to take
on enemy MiGs. So brave, so skilled, so selfless, over
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the jungle, goes out and gets it done. And the
email mentioned it, so I'll bring it up now. Two
weeks later, as fate would have it, he gets shot
down in Vietnam. They can't get to him, and he
is taken prisoner. He injures his back during, you know,
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he had to eject and land in the jungle. That
could get obviously rough on the body. I hurt my
back on the rower, right? It could get bad. He
injures his back, and then, The scumbag North Vietnamese proceed
to torture him on his back, and he was such
a defiant prisoner, they left him in solitary confinement for
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a long period of time. I think he was in
there for a year, if I remember the story right.
Dude was just a certified beast. Isn't that awesome? And
this is a reminder to you before we talk about
our pilot, and then we'll get back to other foreigner
things and stuff like that. If you have a Vietnam
veteran in your life, talk to them. If they are
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able to, and they may be able to at this
point in time because this guy is getting pretty old,
ask them to tell you some stories. These are good stories.
Not only are they entertaining, these are good stories for
you to pass along to the next generation so their
stories live on. Vietnam guys have some stories, and they
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don't have to all be combat stories, right? It might
be stories about them drinking beer back at base or
getting arrested or something. Who knows what it may be?
Ask them to tell you stories. They have lived a
wild life, at least at some point in their lives,
and I think those stories should be passed along. Call
the Vietnam veteran in your life. Go meet him for
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a cup of coffee or a beer. He's a Vietnam guy,
probably a beer. And go find some stories out. All right?
Now let's talk briefly about our guys. Next. Missed out?
Catch up? It is the Jesse Kelly show on a fantastic,
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wonderful Monday member. You can email us Jesse at Jesse
Kelly show.com. Hey, Chris Corey, I tell you what I
had for dinner last night. So mad at myself. So
let me explain. I told you that I had been
sick all weekend long. My weekend sucked. And it was really,
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it's a miracle from God that the timing worked out
this way. About the time I got home from doing
the show on Friday night, I was going downhill. Throat
didn't feel right. Lungs kind of had that feeling where
they're burning a little bit. And you're thinking to yourself, man,
I'm going to wake up and I'm going to want
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to kill myself. I told her, I said, I need
all your healthy weirdo supplements, and she's got crap all over.
I'm taking all. I don't even know what I was taking.
I was taking everything. Wake up the next day, worst
sore throat I've ever had in my life. By a mile.
I'm taking ibuprofen just to drink water. Like, that's how
bad it was. Terrible. And I'm thinking, jeez, this is
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the worst. All right. Fast forward to last night. Now,
I just told you, been coughing all weekend, miserable. Throat
sore all weekend. Last night, by the grace of God,
because I obviously wanted to be in good shape for
the show today, by the grace of God, I can
kind of feel it clearing out. Clearing out. All right.
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And now, you know me, I have an unhealthy obsession
with food, according to Ab. That's her words, not mine.
But I will admit to you that food, it really
legitimately affects my mood. And I know this is very unhealthy.
I wish this was not the case. And Ab knows
this by now. I mean, she uses it as a weapon.
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She knows if she wants something, the best way to
do it is to fill my belly up with something delicious.
She'll whip up some homemade fettuccine with blackened shrimp or something.
And I'm like, yeah, whatever you want is fine. I
get fat and happy. And exactly the opposite is true, too.
If I have not had a decent meal over... We'll
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call it the last two meals. Two meals. One, I
get a grace period. If I have not had a
decent meal in the last two meals, I am just sour.
Absolutely terrible to be around. Last night, both the Meathead
boys are home. And that's actually a miracle because now
that they both have driver's licenses, we never see them.
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I don't know... Everyone complains that their kids won't leave
the house. We can't get ours to get home. I
don't even know where they are right now. Who knows?
It might be in another state. They're finally home last night.
I'm starving. And now I want something bad, right? I've
been coffee and snotty and miserable. I want something bad
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for me. I don't want freaking Brussels sprouts and crap.
I want cheeseburgers or tacos or something. And I finally
land on pizza. I want a pizza. I want a big, greasy, cheesy,
meaty pizza. And I go to the boys. And of course,
you don't have to twist their arms. Boys, pizza tonight? Yeah.
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And I hit them with a, where do you want it?
And this was my mistake. You don't give people options.
You certainly don't give stupid children options. You make the
decision because they're small, Pathetic, unrefined palates don't even understand
what good food is. We have pizza options around us.
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There's this local family-owned joint, Chris and Corey know the
one I'm talking about, that is dynamite, absolutely dynamite. It's
like five minutes from my house. And I like local.
They asked for Pizza Hut. And I even pushed back
a little, but it was weak. I admit it was weak.
Maybe I haven't taken enough chalk. I said, Pizza Hut?
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Pizza Hut sucks. We can do better. No, Dad. Pizza
Hut's amazing. Can we get Pizza Hut? I agreed. Because
apparently I'm pillow soft. And we ordered Pizza Hut. Now,
we got it delivered. Call Pizza Hut. Actually, no, it
was online, Pizza Hut's website. You just do this stuff
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online now. Chris, did you know that, that you can
order pizzas online now? It's crazy. Anyway, it gets to
the house, and it's just the grossest thing you've ever
eaten in your entire life. I kid you not. I
got pepperoni and Italian sausage on it, on my life.
If I'm lying, I'm dying. 75% of the sausage crumbles
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were on one piece of the pizza. I don't even
know how high the person was who put together my pizza. What, Chris?
Was it... What, Chris? Was that my piece? It was
all my piece, pal. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up, Chris.
So get this. And this is what's coming for you, buddy,
if you guys have more kids and one of them's
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a boy. I accidentally... I told you I did it online.
Instead of ordering one large pizza for the boys... I
got two. I must have fat fingered the button. I
got two. I thought it was pretty expensive. I got
two large pizzas for the boys and then a small
one for me. They almost cleared out both of them.
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There was like three pieces of pizza left this morning
between two large pepperonis. Apparently one large pepperoni pizza is
not enough food now for two boys. Chris, I'm telling
you right now. I know that's what the breadsticks are for.
I should have ordered breadsticks, but that's, you know, that's
another extra. Who knows what they charge for that? Five shekels?
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Something like that. It's what, Chris? I'm telling you, it's expensive. Wait,
wait until they get older. It's backbreaking. I'm still so,
I'm angry about it. I'm grounding somebody. James is already
grounded because he got me sick. I'm grounding Luke too,
just for the Pizza Hut suggestions. I think it was
his suggestion. All right, I didn't actually get to anything worthwhile.
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I have no idea why I just did that. Look,
I'm salty about it, and I'm still hungry, and I'm
still craving pizza. Should we get a pizza? Anyway, you
know what we should get is some relief factor. Oh,
wait a minute. I already have some. I'm already pain-free.
How about you? You know, pain happens to everybody. Different levels,
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different kinds, right? Maybe you have a sharp pain in
your foot or a dull pain in your neck, or
maybe it's muscle pain or something, but no matter what,
you live long enough, stuff starts to hurt. As my
old man always said, getting old ain't for sissies. That's
why Relief Factor is here. Relief Factor is here so
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you don't have to live with pain, and you also
don't have to reach for a drug option, a pill
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by doctors that supports your body's natural response to inflammation.
You take it, and the longer you take it, the
better it works. I'll tell you right now, after day one,
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you won't feel any difference at all. Week one, week two,
you're thinking to yourself, oh my gosh, am I going
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Weekdays with the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
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Kelly Show on a magnificent Monday. Remember, if you miss
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Before I get back to emails and other stuff, including,
you know, the Mamdani and them laughing on 9-11. I'll
get to all that stuff in a moment. Back to
the foreigner talk. You want some good news? This is
from the Morse Report. The Trump administration has invoked the
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long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the
United States of America any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any
person unable to take care of himself or herself without
becoming a public charge. Ultimately, this will allow the Trump
administration to deny green cards to immigrants who are likely
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to use federal welfare, food stamps, or Medicaid, and to
revoke the green cards of immigrants who are currently using
these programs. The new rule is set to take effect Friday,
September 18th. As a result, 5.6 million immigrants are expected
to lose access to those benefits. That's what I'm talking about.
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Here's what they say about it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
The toll of this new rule cannot be overstated.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It is estimated that up to.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
4 million people from across the country could unenroll from
their health care alone, including 1.8 million children. None of
this is abstract. People could die. As a result of
these changes, the rate of premature mortality in immigrant communities
in New York City could increase by up to 10.6%
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within just the next five years.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
They also had this to say. My plan, my car plan. Now, quit, quit, stop.
They had this to say.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Immigrants are New Yorkers, and like I said once before,
To get to any of us, you will have to
get through all of us. That is why today we
are confronting this injustice with the solidarity and action that
it demands. New York City is leading a coalition of
cities and counties, including Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Clara County,
and King County, to sue the federal government for the
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gross illegality of their new public charge rule and the
irreparable damage.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That it will cause. Wonderful. Now remember what we were
talking about in the first hour? about the words they
use to try to protect what they've done. Here's Juman Williams.
Purpose of this is cruelty. That's it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Cruelty and fear. That is the purpose of all of
these immigrant decisions that are coming from the Trump White House,
and absolutely nothing else, particularly to non-white immigrants. I want
to be clear about that. And I say that every
single time Donald Trump has said that only people who
need assistance are white South Africans. Everyone else is left
to fend for themselves. There is nothing ever that helps
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with public safety. None of this helps with public safety.
All this does is create cruelty and violence.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Racism. You aren't racist, right? I mean, hey, listen, this
is James Tallarico, better known as Bottom. Don't you think
Jesus would want open borders?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I often wonder, what would Jesus do if he visited
the U.S.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Senate?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I think he would tell the senators on the floor,
depart from me, for I was hungry and you cut
my food assistance. I was sick and you kicked me
off Medicaid. I was a stranger and you deported me
and my family.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Jesus wants open borders. Jesus would never want you to
deport people who were here illegally. They say these things
along with you're a racist to try to weaken you,
to try to use your values against you. Don't ever
let them do that. And speaking of Mamdani and AOC, Trump,
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torched both of them because AOC and Mamdani went to
a 9-11 ceremony last week on the anniversary. And Mamdani
and AOC were seen snickering, smoking and joking at this very,
very solemn, as you can imagine, ceremony to honor the fallen.
I mean, this is a very, very sober, solemn event.
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Why were they joking? Well, it's really quite simple. Remember
when Joe Biden... When we got those 13 warriors back
from Afghanistan and Joe Biden got himself in a lot
of political hot water because he kept checking his watch.
Kept checking his watch. I remember one of the dads
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who was there came out and said, no, no, that
was one picture. He checked his watch the whole time.
The whole time Joe Biden was sitting there. Oh, gosh,
how much longer is this going to be? Oh, I
want to go home. I'm bored. Oh, how much longer
is this going to check in his watch?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, it's quite simple. The country doesn't mean anything to
these people. Americans, the sacrifices Americans make, it doesn't mean
anything to these people because these people hate America and
hate Americans. Now, Joe Biden knows he has to show
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up when those bodies get back, but he was so
riddled with dementia, he wasn't aware of of his surroundings
enough to not check his watch. So he did what
was natural to him. AOC, Mamdani. Why weren't they more solemn?
Why were they laughing? They don't care anything, nothing, about
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the people who died on 9-11, about those terrorist attacks.
In order to bring yourself to care about the terrorist
attacks of 9-11, you would have to care about America.
You would have to care about Americans. Those thoughts never
cross these people's minds. Ever. Never cross their minds. Let's
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do some emails. Hey, Jesse. Just a heads up. The
Giants end zone, I'm assuming he's talking about the New
York Giants, said never forget this week. I thought that
was kind of important. I don't know. Let me clarify it.
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I've heard these statements many, many times in my life.
Never again. Never forget. Never again. Never forget. And I
guess here's the thing. I'm not a huge fan of
bumper sticker statements that are not backed up by action.
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That's where I'm at. Bumper sticker statements... that are not
backed up by concrete, tangible action means absolutely nothing. We
had al-Qaeda terrorists flying planes into buildings. Now, because that
day hurt us so badly, still hurts me to this day,
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now we say to ourselves, never again. Okay. What have
we done to ensure that won't ever happen again? Oh,
I see that we have, in response to that day,
massively imported millions of Islam followers from all over the
world in the United States of America. So are you
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selling me a never-again bumper sticker while also building a
mosque on every street corner in the United States of America?
Because if you are, then you'll have to forgive me
if I don't think never again actually means anything at all.
This is my problem. Never again. Chris brought this up
because he was talking about camps in China. The Holocaust
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is one of those things. You know, 6 million, and
the number's probably higher than that, 6 million freaking Jews
butchered along with the gypsies and everyone else. And now,
what do you get? Never again. Really? Really? There are
gigantic concentration camps right now in North Korea. And we
know about them. Yeah. In China. Right now. In China,
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they have organ harvesting camps where they take the Uyghurs,
the Uyghur Muslims, and do allegedly unbearable things to them.
Never again? What's that mean? Nothing. It's a bumper sticker. Look,
I would love it if it was never again. I
don't buy it. I don't like the bumper sticker stuff.
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All right, let's move off that. Get through a couple
more emails here before we get to the CIA guy
caught with $ 40 million in gold bars stacked on. Of course,
the way gold prices are now, that was probably two bars.
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Catch up. jessikellyshow.com It is the Jesse Kelly Show on
a Monday. Remember, you can email us jesse at jessikellyshow.com
with your friendly host, ADD Jesse, who forgot to actually
play the 60-minute pilot little clip thing. And look, have
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I ever told you to go watch 60 Minutes before? Garbage. Garbage.
Garbage show. But This is one of those ones you
should probably watch. That guy who got downed in Iran,
had to escape on foot. He sat down. He tells
quite a tale.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
It's dark, right? And can you tell me what you
see around you?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
It is dark, but much like early morning hunting trips,
you know, the sun starts to come up and you
can start to perceive elements of the environment around you.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Iran is the size of Alaska.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
And in the heart of Iran, where we were, there
are high desert valleys, but also amazing craggly cliffs. And
so I find myself in one of those valleys with
cliffs on either side.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Bravo told us the safest place for him to go
was up. So he quickly made the decision, despite his
broken bones, to hike and climb up a 7,000-foot ridgeline.
Given your injuries, how did you find the strength to
make it up the mountains?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Never let a lack of motivation put you on Iranian TV.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
You were thinking that?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Soon after the crash, an Iranian news anchor announced a
bounty for the capture of the Americans. Videos emerged on
the internet of armed groups hunting for the downed crew.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I can tell you for a fact that they were
looking for me.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I just want to say, first of all, The American spirit,
the American fighting spirit is just awesome. We were in Slovenia,
I told you, and we did a lot of hiking
up there. I am relatively healthy, pretty decent shape, 45
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years old. And we went and hiked a, we didn't
hike the entire distance of elevation wise, but the peak
ended up being something like 5,700, 5,800 feet, something like that.
I was sucking wind at the top of that thing.
This dude has broken bones and he hikes a 7,000
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foot ridge line in Iran. It's pretty awesome. That's one. Two.
I reached out to BK, and he can't make it
on today, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, because as
you know, BK, a frequent guest of the show, was
an Air Force PJ, an Air Force pararescueman. And those
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are the guys who went out, and they got these guys.
And I'm sure, look, they're going to write a book
about this someday, so we'll get all the details on it.
But I hope you, as an American, if you are
an American, I know we have international people, but If
you are an American, I hope you appreciate, as I do,
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the fact that we are part of a country where
we will move heaven and earth to go get guys
we lose behind enemy lines. Up to and including their
dead bodies. We will, and we've told this story before,
we will kill ourselves. In the actual sense of it,
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we will kill ourselves to go get your dead body
and bring it back home. That's freaking awesome. And I
hope you don't think that other countries in the world
operate that way. Are there some? Sure. But, shoot, most,
I would argue, countries in the world would tell you, well,
just shoot yourself or something. We're not coming to get you.
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Just kill yourself. I told you before, the Russians, the Spetsnaz...
If you parachute in, Spetsnaz is their special forces, guys.
If you parachute into a place and you break your arm, they'll,
you know, bandage it up and whatnot. If you break
your foot, they'll just shoot you and bury you right there. You're, well,
you're a hindrance to the mission. In the United States
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of America, we do things differently. And I think it's
really freaking cool. I think it's really, really cool. You
know what? I'm playing it again for this freaking warrior.
Listen to this. This is... Go watch this 60 minutes.
I'm telling you, I'm sure it's available for free online.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
It's dark, right? And can you tell me what you
see around you?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
It is dark, but much like early morning hunting trips,
you know, the sun starts to come up and you
can start to perceive elements of the environment around you.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Iran is the size of Alaska.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
And in the heart of Iran, where we were, there
are high desert valleys, but also amazing cragly cliffs. And
so I find myself in one of those valleys with
cliffs on either side.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Bravo told us the safest place for him to go
was up. So he quickly made the decision, despite his
broken bones, to hike and climb up a 7,000-foot ridgeline.
Given your injuries, how did you find the strength to
make it.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Up the mountain?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Never let a lack of motivation put you on Iranian TV.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
You were thinking that.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Soon after the crash, an Iranian news anchor announced a
bounty for the capture of the Americans. Videos emerged on
the internet of armed groups hunting for the downed crew.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I can tell you for a fact that they were
looking for me.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
An American fighting man goes down with broken bones and
he hikes 7,000 feet up to hide from his captors.
And he does so because he knows we have brave
men deep in enemy territory out there trying to find
him and bring him home safe. And they did. That's awesome.
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This is The Jesse Kelly Show. It is The Jesse
Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on
a magnificent Monday. And we have all kinds of stuff
this hour. I may be doing just a couple more
quick soundbite things on the foreigners and the culture and
everything else. But that's going to have to wait. I
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will get to emails. All that's going to have to wait, though,
until I get to this. It's Monday. It started the
second hour on Monday, and so you know what time
it is, Medal of Honor Monday. If you are a
new listener to the show, every Monday at this time,
we read a Medal of Honor citation. I believe now,
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and I've always believed, that this is very important for society.
This is important. Remember these men. Remember their deeds. and
share their deeds with others. You know, I talked a
lot in the first hour about culture, what we incentivize,
what we disincentivize. You know that by sharing these stories,
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you are incentivizing this kind of bravery, this kind of
attitude throughout society. If we told more of these stories,
we would get more men like this. That's just how
it works. And we do... Accept email recommendations if you
have ones that are personal to you in some way,
or maybe you're just a fan of one. You don't
just have to send your love, your hate, your death
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threats in. You can email in Medal of Honor suggestions,
should you so choose. And this one came in. It
says his name is Spencer. He said, Dear Bronco, Ninja,
Deep Sea Diver, what Chris, brain surgeon, and who knows
what else, I'm writing to recommend... Colonel Leo K. Thorsness
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as a Medal of Honor recipient to be aired on
your show. He flew multiple missions in Vietnam, was later
shot down. I would also like to tell the story
of when my father, Colonel Dean, I don't want to
read his last name to give this guy away, even
though he's probably, you know what? He probably wants his
dad's name read. Colonel Dean Shuler met George Patton in
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World War II. My dad flew 95 missions in Italy and... Wow,
that's sick. My dad flew 95 missions in Italy and
North Africa and received the DFC. As he was climbing
out of his P-51, Patton called him over and dressed
him down for not wearing a necktie on his mission.
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It reminded me of you telling us to always dress appropriately.
I guess it did not matter that his combat group
had just successfully sunk a German destroyer You're a national treasure.
Keep terrifying the commies. Your dad sounds like a beast.
And without further ado, let's find out what Mr. Lieutenant
Colonel Leo Keith Thorsness did. Ready, aim, fire. Honoring those
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who went above and beyond. It's Medal of Honor Monday.
And he was United States Air Force, by the way.
It doesn't say that, I don't think, in here. And
he was born in Walnut Grove, Minnesota. For conspicuous gallantry
and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life
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above and beyond the call of duty. As the pilot
of an F-105 aircraft. I'll get into that in a moment.
Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness was on a surface-to-air missile suppression mission
over North Vietnam. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness and his wingman attacked
and silenced a surface-to-air missile site with air-to-ground missiles and
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then destroyed a second surface-to-air missile site with bombs. In
the attack on the second missile site, Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness'
wingman was shot down by intensive anti-aircraft fire and two
crew members abandoned their aircraft. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness circled the
descending parachutes to keep the crew members in sight and
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relay their positions to the search and rescue center. During
this maneuver, a MiG-17 was sighted in the area. Lieutenant
Colonel Thorsness immediately initiated an attack and destroyed the MiG.
I'll get into that in a minute too. Because his
aircraft was low on fuel, he was forced to depart
the area in search of a tanker. Upon being advised
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that two helicopters were orbiting over the downed crew's position,
and that there were hostile MiGs in the area posing
a serious threat to the helicopters, Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness, despite
his low fuel condition, decided to return alone through a
hostile environment of surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft defenses to the
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downed crew's position. As he approached the area, he spotted
four MiG-17 aircraft, and immediately initiated an attack on the MiGs,
damaging one and driving the others away from the rescue scene.
When it became apparent that an aircraft in the area
was critically low on fuel and the crew would have
to abandon the aircraft unless they could reach the tanker,
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Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness, although critically short on fuel himself, helped
to avert further possible loss of life and a friendly aircraft,
by recovering at a foreign operating base, thus allowing the
aircraft in emergency fuel condition to refuel safely. Lieutenant Colonel Thorsness'
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extraordinary heroism, self-sacrifice, and personal bravery involving conspicuous risks of
life were in the highest traditions of the military service
and have reflected great credit upon himself in the U.S.
Air Force. Now, uh, Let me explain something. Obviously, if
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you're a military nerd, maybe a military person or just
done a bunch of reading, a lot of this stuff
you'll get, but a lot of people aren't, so let
me explain something. An F-105, you look it up, it's
going to look like, by the way, I think they're
really cool-looking jets. It's going to look like a fighter jet,
a Vietnam-era fighter jet. That's what it's going to look like,
and that's fine. But remember something. To the untrained eye,
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like mine, I'm pointing at me here, all planes can
look alike. You know, if you were to go to
a World War II aircraft carrier and look at all
the planes that were lined up, are you going to
be able to tell the difference between a dive bomber,
a torpedo bomber, and a fighter plane? I bet you
would not. Again, unless you're a history nerd, you wouldn't.
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Different planes for different purposes and different munitions for different purposes.
This particular plane and mission was designed to do what?
He said it in there. to take out surface-to-air missiles,
anti-air defenses. Now, I just want to focus on this
because actually we're about to talk about our own pilot recently.
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He got a story on 60 Minutes, which was actually
really good. We're about to talk about this. Think about
how dangerous that mission is. My job as a pilot
is to attack the air defenses? Wait a minute. You
want me to attack the thing that is specifically designed
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to locate me and take me out? Absurdly brave. Absurdly
dangerous mission. And these guys had to do these things
to open up a corridor so other planes could come
in behind them. and land their stuff. That brings me
to the multiple time he engaged with enemy MiGs. He
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didn't have the equipment to engage with enemy MiGs. He
had his cannons and machine guns, all of a sudden.
He had machine guns, which is better than nothing, obviously,
because it worked. He took one out and they think
he actually took the other one out. They just said
damaged because they couldn't say it. The thinking is he
took it out. But he did not have, you know,
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the Top Gun thing, missiles, I've got a lock on.
He didn't have any of those. All his munitions were
for things that were on the ground. He didn't even
have a plane and munitions that were made to take
on enemy MiGs. So brave, so skilled, so selfless, over
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the jungle, goes out and gets it done. And the
email mentioned it, so I'll bring it up now. Two
weeks later, as fate would have it, he gets shot
down in Vietnam. They can't get to him, and he
is taken prisoner. He injures his back during, you know,
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he had to eject and land in the jungle. That
could get obviously rough on the body. I hurt my
back on the rower, right? It could get bad. He
injures his back, and then, The scumbag North Vietnamese proceed
to torture him on his back, and he was such
a defiant prisoner, they left him in solitary confinement for
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a long period of time. I think he was in
there for a year, if I remember the story right.
Dude was just a certified beast. Isn't that awesome? And
this is a reminder to you before we talk about
our pilot, and then we'll get back to other foreigner
things and stuff like that. If you have a Vietnam
veteran in your life, talk to them. If they are
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able to, and they may be able to at this
point in time because this guy is getting pretty old,
ask them to tell you some stories. These are good stories.
Not only are they entertaining, these are good stories for
you to pass along to the next generation so their
stories live on. Vietnam guys have some stories, and they
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don't have to all be combat stories, right? It might
be stories about them drinking beer back at base or
getting arrested or something. Who knows what it may be?
Ask them to tell you stories. They have lived a
wild life, at least at some point in their lives,
and I think those stories should be passed along. Call
the Vietnam veteran in your life. Go meet him for
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a cup of coffee or a beer. He's a Vietnam guy,
probably a beer. And go find some stories out. All right?
Now let's talk briefly about our guys. Next. Missed out?
Catch up? It is the Jesse Kelly show on a fantastic,
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wonderful Monday member. You can email us Jesse at Jesse
Kelly show.com. Hey, Chris Corey, I tell you what I
had for dinner last night. So mad at myself. So
let me explain. I told you that I had been
sick all weekend long. My weekend sucked. And it was really,
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it's a miracle from God that the timing worked out
this way. About the time I got home from doing
the show on Friday night, I was going downhill. Throat
didn't feel right. Lungs kind of had that feeling where
they're burning a little bit. And you're thinking to yourself, man,
I'm going to wake up and I'm going to want
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to kill myself. I told her, I said, I need
all your healthy weirdo supplements, and she's got crap all over.
I'm taking all. I don't even know what I was taking.
I was taking everything. Wake up the next day, worst
sore throat I've ever had in my life. By a mile.
I'm taking ibuprofen just to drink water. Like, that's how
bad it was. Terrible. And I'm thinking, jeez, this is
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the worst. All right. Fast forward to last night. Now,
I just told you, been coughing all weekend, miserable. Throat
sore all weekend. Last night, by the grace of God,
because I obviously wanted to be in good shape for
the show today, by the grace of God, I can
kind of feel it clearing out. Clearing out. All right.
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And now, you know me, I have an unhealthy obsession
with food, according to Ab. That's her words, not mine.
But I will admit to you that food, it really
legitimately affects my mood. And I know this is very unhealthy.
I wish this was not the case. And Ab knows
this by now. I mean, she uses it as a weapon.
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She knows if she wants something, the best way to
do it is to fill my belly up with something delicious.
She'll whip up some homemade fettuccine with blackened shrimp or something.
And I'm like, yeah, whatever you want is fine. I
get fat and happy. And exactly the opposite is true, too.
If I have not had a decent meal over... We'll
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call it the last two meals. Two meals. One, I
get a grace period. If I have not had a
decent meal in the last two meals, I am just sour.
Absolutely terrible to be around. Last night, both the Meathead
boys are home. And that's actually a miracle because now
that they both have driver's licenses, we never see them.
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I don't know... Everyone complains that their kids won't leave
the house. We can't get ours to get home. I
don't even know where they are right now. Who knows?
It might be in another state. They're finally home last night.
I'm starving. And now I want something bad, right? I've
been coffee and snotty and miserable. I want something bad
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for me. I don't want freaking Brussels sprouts and crap.
I want cheeseburgers or tacos or something. And I finally
land on pizza. I want a pizza. I want a big, greasy, cheesy,
meaty pizza. And I go to the boys. And of course,
you don't have to twist their arms. Boys, pizza tonight? Yeah.
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And I hit them with a, where do you want it?
And this was my mistake. You don't give people options.
You certainly don't give stupid children options. You make the
decision because they're small, Pathetic, unrefined palates don't even understand
what good food is. We have pizza options around us.
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There's this local family-owned joint, Chris and Corey know the
one I'm talking about, that is dynamite, absolutely dynamite. It's
like five minutes from my house. And I like local.
They asked for Pizza Hut. And I even pushed back
a little, but it was weak. I admit it was weak.
Maybe I haven't taken enough chalk. I said, Pizza Hut?
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Pizza Hut sucks. We can do better. No, Dad. Pizza
Hut's amazing. Can we get Pizza Hut? I agreed. Because
apparently I'm pillow soft. And we ordered Pizza Hut. Now,
we got it delivered. Call Pizza Hut. Actually, no, it
was online, Pizza Hut's website. You just do this stuff
(15:08):
online now. Chris, did you know that, that you can
order pizzas online now? It's crazy. Anyway, it gets to
the house, and it's just the grossest thing you've ever
eaten in your entire life. I kid you not. I
got pepperoni and Italian sausage on it, on my life.
If I'm lying, I'm dying. 75% of the sausage crumbles
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were on one piece of the pizza. I don't even
know how high the person was who put together my pizza. What, Chris?
Was it... What, Chris? Was that my piece? It was
all my piece, pal. Oh, I'm glad you brought that up, Chris.
So get this. And this is what's coming for you, buddy,
if you guys have more kids and one of them's
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a boy. I accidentally... I told you I did it online.
Instead of ordering one large pizza for the boys... I
got two. I must have fat fingered the button. I
got two. I thought it was pretty expensive. I got
two large pizzas for the boys and then a small
one for me. They almost cleared out both of them.
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There was like three pieces of pizza left this morning
between two large pepperonis. Apparently one large pepperoni pizza is
not enough food now for two boys. Chris, I'm telling
you right now. I know that's what the breadsticks are for.
I should have ordered breadsticks, but that's, you know, that's
another extra. Who knows what they charge for that? Five shekels?
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Something like that. It's what, Chris? I'm telling you, it's expensive. Wait,
wait until they get older. It's backbreaking. I'm still so,
I'm angry about it. I'm grounding somebody. James is already
grounded because he got me sick. I'm grounding Luke too,
just for the Pizza Hut suggestions. I think it was
his suggestion. All right, I didn't actually get to anything worthwhile.
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I have no idea why I just did that. Look,
I'm salty about it, and I'm still hungry, and I'm
still craving pizza. Should we get a pizza? Anyway, you
know what we should get is some relief factor. Oh,
wait a minute. I already have some. I'm already pain-free.
How about you? You know, pain happens to everybody. Different levels,
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different kinds, right? Maybe you have a sharp pain in
your foot or a dull pain in your neck, or
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you live long enough, stuff starts to hurt. As my
old man always said, getting old ain't for sissies. That's
why Relief Factor is here. Relief Factor is here so
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Weekdays with the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
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Kelly Show on a magnificent Monday. Remember, if you miss
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Before I get back to emails and other stuff, including,
you know, the Mamdani and them laughing on 9-11. I'll
get to all that stuff in a moment. Back to
the foreigner talk. You want some good news? This is
from the Morse Report. The Trump administration has invoked the
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long-unenforced Immigration Act of 1882 to prohibit entry into the
United States of America any convict, lunatic, idiot, or any
person unable to take care of himself or herself without
becoming a public charge. Ultimately, this will allow the Trump
administration to deny green cards to immigrants who are likely
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to use federal welfare, food stamps, or Medicaid, and to
revoke the green cards of immigrants who are currently using
these programs. The new rule is set to take effect Friday,
September 18th. As a result, 5.6 million immigrants are expected
to lose access to those benefits. That's what I'm talking about.
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Here's what they say about it.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
The toll of this new rule cannot be overstated.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
It is estimated that up to.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
4 million people from across the country could unenroll from
their health care alone, including 1.8 million children. None of
this is abstract. People could die. As a result of
these changes, the rate of premature mortality in immigrant communities
in New York City could increase by up to 10.6%
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within just the next five years.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
They also had this to say. My plan, my car plan. Now, quit, quit, stop.
They had this to say.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Immigrants are New Yorkers, and like I said once before,
To get to any of us, you will have to
get through all of us. That is why today we
are confronting this injustice with the solidarity and action that
it demands. New York City is leading a coalition of
cities and counties, including Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Santa Clara County,
and King County, to sue the federal government for the
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gross illegality of their new public charge rule and the
irreparable damage.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
That it will cause. Wonderful. Now remember what we were
talking about in the first hour? about the words they
use to try to protect what they've done. Here's Juman Williams.
Purpose of this is cruelty. That's it.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Cruelty and fear. That is the purpose of all of
these immigrant decisions that are coming from the Trump White House,
and absolutely nothing else, particularly to non-white immigrants. I want
to be clear about that. And I say that every
single time Donald Trump has said that only people who
need assistance are white South Africans. Everyone else is left
to fend for themselves. There is nothing ever that helps
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with public safety. None of this helps with public safety.
All this does is create cruelty and violence.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Racism. You aren't racist, right? I mean, hey, listen, this
is James Tallarico, better known as Bottom. Don't you think
Jesus would want open borders?
Speaker 4 (21:56):
I often wonder, what would Jesus do if he visited
the U.S.
Speaker 5 (22:01):
Senate?
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I think he would tell the senators on the floor,
depart from me, for I was hungry and you cut
my food assistance. I was sick and you kicked me
off Medicaid. I was a stranger and you deported me
and my family.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
Jesus wants open borders. Jesus would never want you to
deport people who were here illegally. They say these things
along with you're a racist to try to weaken you,
to try to use your values against you. Don't ever
let them do that. And speaking of Mamdani and AOC, Trump,
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torched both of them because AOC and Mamdani went to
a 9-11 ceremony last week on the anniversary. And Mamdani
and AOC were seen snickering, smoking and joking at this very,
very solemn, as you can imagine, ceremony to honor the fallen.
I mean, this is a very, very sober, solemn event.
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Why were they joking? Well, it's really quite simple. Remember
when Joe Biden... When we got those 13 warriors back
from Afghanistan and Joe Biden got himself in a lot
of political hot water because he kept checking his watch.
Kept checking his watch. I remember one of the dads
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who was there came out and said, no, no, that
was one picture. He checked his watch the whole time.
The whole time Joe Biden was sitting there. Oh, gosh,
how much longer is this going to be? Oh, I
want to go home. I'm bored. Oh, how much longer
is this going to check in his watch?
Speaker 5 (23:46):
Why?
Speaker 1 (23:46):
Well, it's quite simple. The country doesn't mean anything to
these people. Americans, the sacrifices Americans make, it doesn't mean
anything to these people because these people hate America and
hate Americans. Now, Joe Biden knows he has to show
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up when those bodies get back, but he was so
riddled with dementia, he wasn't aware of of his surroundings
enough to not check his watch. So he did what
was natural to him. AOC, Mamdani. Why weren't they more solemn?
Why were they laughing? They don't care anything, nothing, about
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the people who died on 9-11, about those terrorist attacks.
In order to bring yourself to care about the terrorist
attacks of 9-11, you would have to care about America.
You would have to care about Americans. Those thoughts never
cross these people's minds. Ever. Never cross their minds. Let's
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do some emails. Hey, Jesse. Just a heads up. The
Giants end zone, I'm assuming he's talking about the New
York Giants, said never forget this week. I thought that
was kind of important. I don't know. Let me clarify it.
(25:11):
I've heard these statements many, many times in my life.
Never again. Never forget. Never again. Never forget. And I
guess here's the thing. I'm not a huge fan of
bumper sticker statements that are not backed up by action.
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That's where I'm at. Bumper sticker statements... that are not
backed up by concrete, tangible action means absolutely nothing. We
had al-Qaeda terrorists flying planes into buildings. Now, because that
day hurt us so badly, still hurts me to this day,
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now we say to ourselves, never again. Okay. What have
we done to ensure that won't ever happen again? Oh,
I see that we have, in response to that day,
massively imported millions of Islam followers from all over the
world in the United States of America. So are you
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selling me a never-again bumper sticker while also building a
mosque on every street corner in the United States of America?
Because if you are, then you'll have to forgive me
if I don't think never again actually means anything at all.
This is my problem. Never again. Chris brought this up
because he was talking about camps in China. The Holocaust
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is one of those things. You know, 6 million, and
the number's probably higher than that, 6 million freaking Jews
butchered along with the gypsies and everyone else. And now,
what do you get? Never again. Really? Really? There are
gigantic concentration camps right now in North Korea. And we
know about them. Yeah. In China. Right now. In China,
(27:01):
they have organ harvesting camps where they take the Uyghurs,
the Uyghur Muslims, and do allegedly unbearable things to them.
Never again? What's that mean? Nothing. It's a bumper sticker. Look,
I would love it if it was never again. I
don't buy it. I don't like the bumper sticker stuff.
(27:24):
All right, let's move off that. Get through a couple
more emails here before we get to the CIA guy
caught with $ 40 million in gold bars stacked on. Of course,
the way gold prices are now, that was probably two bars.
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Catch up. jessikellyshow.com It is the Jesse Kelly Show on
a Monday. Remember, you can email us jesse at jessikellyshow.com
with your friendly host, ADD Jesse, who forgot to actually
play the 60-minute pilot little clip thing. And look, have
(29:17):
I ever told you to go watch 60 Minutes before? Garbage. Garbage.
Garbage show. But This is one of those ones you
should probably watch. That guy who got downed in Iran,
had to escape on foot. He sat down. He tells
quite a tale.
Speaker 6 (29:36):
It's dark, right? And can you tell me what you
see around you?
Speaker 4 (29:40):
You?
Speaker 7 (29:40):
It is dark, but much like early morning hunting trips,
you know, the sun starts to come up and you
can start to perceive elements of the environment around you.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
Iran is the size of Alaska.
Speaker 7 (29:53):
And in the heart of Iran, where we were, there
are high desert valleys, but also amazing craggly cliffs. And
so I find myself in one of those valleys with
cliffs on either side.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
Bravo told us the safest place for him to go
was up. So he quickly made the decision, despite his
broken bones, to hike and climb up a 7,000-foot ridgeline.
Given your injuries, how did you find the strength to
make it up the mountains?
Speaker 5 (30:26):
Never let a lack of motivation put you on Iranian TV.
Speaker 6 (30:30):
You were thinking that?
Speaker 5 (30:31):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Soon after the crash, an Iranian news anchor announced a
bounty for the capture of the Americans. Videos emerged on
the internet of armed groups hunting for the downed crew.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
I can tell you for a fact that they were
looking for me.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I just want to say, first of all, The American spirit,
the American fighting spirit is just awesome. We were in Slovenia,
I told you, and we did a lot of hiking
up there. I am relatively healthy, pretty decent shape, 45
(31:13):
years old. And we went and hiked a, we didn't
hike the entire distance of elevation wise, but the peak
ended up being something like 5,700, 5,800 feet, something like that.
I was sucking wind at the top of that thing.
This dude has broken bones and he hikes a 7,000
(31:39):
foot ridge line in Iran. It's pretty awesome. That's one. Two.
I reached out to BK, and he can't make it
on today, maybe tomorrow, maybe the next day, because as
you know, BK, a frequent guest of the show, was
an Air Force PJ, an Air Force pararescueman. And those
(31:59):
are the guys who went out, and they got these guys.
And I'm sure, look, they're going to write a book
about this someday, so we'll get all the details on it.
But I hope you, as an American, if you are
an American, I know we have international people, but If
you are an American, I hope you appreciate, as I do,
(32:19):
the fact that we are part of a country where
we will move heaven and earth to go get guys
we lose behind enemy lines. Up to and including their
dead bodies. We will, and we've told this story before,
we will kill ourselves. In the actual sense of it,
(32:42):
we will kill ourselves to go get your dead body
and bring it back home. That's freaking awesome. And I
hope you don't think that other countries in the world
operate that way. Are there some? Sure. But, shoot, most,
I would argue, countries in the world would tell you, well,
just shoot yourself or something. We're not coming to get you.
(33:05):
Just kill yourself. I told you before, the Russians, the Spetsnaz...
If you parachute in, Spetsnaz is their special forces, guys.
If you parachute into a place and you break your arm, they'll,
you know, bandage it up and whatnot. If you break
your foot, they'll just shoot you and bury you right there. You're, well,
you're a hindrance to the mission. In the United States
(33:26):
of America, we do things differently. And I think it's
really freaking cool. I think it's really, really cool. You
know what? I'm playing it again for this freaking warrior.
Listen to this. This is... Go watch this 60 minutes.
I'm telling you, I'm sure it's available for free online.
Speaker 6 (33:42):
It's dark, right? And can you tell me what you
see around you?
Speaker 7 (33:47):
It is dark, but much like early morning hunting trips,
you know, the sun starts to come up and you
can start to perceive elements of the environment around you.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
Iran is the size of Alaska.
Speaker 7 (33:59):
And in the heart of Iran, where we were, there
are high desert valleys, but also amazing cragly cliffs. And
so I find myself in one of those valleys with
cliffs on either side.
Speaker 6 (34:14):
Bravo told us the safest place for him to go
was up. So he quickly made the decision, despite his
broken bones, to hike and climb up a 7,000-foot ridgeline.
Given your injuries, how did you find the strength to
make it.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Up the mountain?
Speaker 5 (34:32):
Never let a lack of motivation put you on Iranian TV.
Speaker 6 (34:36):
You were thinking that.
Speaker 5 (34:37):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (34:40):
Soon after the crash, an Iranian news anchor announced a
bounty for the capture of the Americans. Videos emerged on
the internet of armed groups hunting for the downed crew.
Speaker 7 (34:53):
I can tell you for a fact that they were
looking for me.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
An American fighting man goes down with broken bones and
he hikes 7,000 feet up to hide from his captors.
And he does so because he knows we have brave
men deep in enemy territory out there trying to find
him and bring him home safe. And they did. That's awesome.
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That's awesome. Look, you can disagree with the Iran stuff
and all that. I've been very clear about my views
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