June 13, 2025 • 37 mins
How did we get to the point where the federal government has so much power? How much of our deficit is from government waste and abuse? How would Marine Jesse have reacted to the deployment to the LA riots? The problem with letting college athletes get sponsorships.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
This is a Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse
Kelly Show on an Amazing Friday, and asked doctor Jesse Friday,
We're going to talk about how I would have felt
when I was in the Marines getting deployed over there
to LA jury duty. Someone wants to discuss it, women, men, sports,
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college sports, the National Debt, all that and so much
more coming up this hour on the world famous Jesse
Kelly Show. So let's just dig into this one right here. Hey, Jesse,
if you were still in the Core, how would you
feel about being sent to LA? Says this from an
eighty five year old listener. So I'm gonna say something
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and it's not going to sound great unless you can relate.
And man, that was awesome. Did you guys hear that rhyme?
What Chris? Did you hear that? It's not gonna sound
great unless you can relate. Aha, that's good. I'm gonna
use that again anyway. So when you're in I'll just
make it about the Marines. When you're in the Marine Corps,
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and when you're specifically in the infantry, in the Marine Corps,
any kind of a real combat mos a combat job
in the Marine corps, which that's what I was. It
was infantry. Your day to day life sucks, and I
made it in this way. It's not that it's it's
not that it's horrid overall. It's that your day to
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day life is a grind and it's always miserable, and
it should be. I'm not complaining by the way it
should be. It's not supposed to be sunshine and roses.
You're in the infantry. They're trying to make you tough,
they're trying to train you. So your whole life every
day is sweating and misery, and you're out in the field.
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You're getting dirty, you're constantly hot, you're constantly tired, you're
constantly getting screamed at doing pushups, constantly running to and
fro and then waiting, hurry up and wait. This is
your daily life, and this is how it has to be. Again,
this is not a complaint. That's how it has to be.
It's your daily life. And as you're going through this,
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you are getting tougher and better. As you acquire more skills,
you do shoot better. You are physically getting harder and
harder and harder. You are becoming the longer you spend
you're becoming that warrior, right, And well, I'll put it
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to you this way. If you decided to go out
for the football team, and you go out and you
make the football team, and you go to two days
in the summertime, two practices, a hot, miserable, you're running stairs,
you're puken waits over and over, practice, over and over,
yelling over. Don't you want to get in the game
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at some point in time, if you're going to go
through all of that, don't you want to play a game?
That's the idea. You put in the work, You got
yourself strong, you got yourself ready. When we were in
we wanted to go to war. We wanted It's not
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that we weren't afraid. There was always that fear there.
No one wants to die or be maimed or be
burned or something like that. There's always that fear there.
But as young naive men, it is fairly naive to
want to go to war, trust me on that. But
as young naive men, you spend all this time to
go through all this misery, getting yourself hard and ready
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and hard and ready and hard and ready. You want
to use those skills I did the two days I've
been in the weight room. I want to go out
and play a football game. Now, if you had told
us we weren't even political, really, there wasn't really anybody
that I can think of. It doesn't stand out to
me that was political, myself included. I know you're probably thinking, well,
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except for you, no, I was. Remember I did not
grow up political. I did not grow up in a
political household. I have always been a huge history nerd.
And I knew that we were Republicans just because that's
the only thing my dad ever told me. I asked
him one time whether we were Democrats and Republicans. I
was a small child, and he looked at me and
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his lovely soft way and said, we're Republicans. And that
was that. So I was not political when I was
in the Marine Corps. None of us really were. If
they had come and told If they had come to
us one day and said, get your stuff packed. You
know all those people rioting in LA We're going to
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go smash some skulls, we would have been beside ourselves
with excitement. This is like I said, it was not
even a political thing. If you told us that there
were a bunch of people looting and burning in American city.
That would have bothered us a great deal. And you
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told us that we now have to go there and
fight them. Oh gosh, we would have been unreasonably excited
to do so. I know, from the outside looking in
that maybe sounds barbaric or makes us sound violent, or
and maybe it is. Maybe it is barbaric, Maybe it
is violent. I would have loved the opportunity to smash
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some COMMI rioter's face in. I would have absolutely loved
the opportunity to do so. We ran into one in
a well, you know, and I probably don't need to
tell that story on the radio. Maybe that's another time.
Shall we let's move on? Hey, Jesse, so now the
floor or so now the women are suing for equal
pay in the nil deals. He's talking about NCAA sports
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men's football and basketball bringing all the money and so well, listen,
I you know, I would never give myself any credit
for predicting this, But Chris Corey, I don't even know
if Corey was here yet. When I said, what did
I say was going to happen when college sports started
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allowing these athletes to sign endorsement deals? What did I say?
Was going to happen. Chris Craah, here's what I said.
The women are going to sue and it's going to
blow everything up in college sports. This is how it works.
And I know because my wife was a college athlete
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and I got to know all the intricacies of the
whole thing. Did you know that most universities, most this
is the vast majority, they only make money on the
football program. All the other different sports, men's, women's, doesn't
matter what it is. The football program is the one
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that brings revenue into the university. That's big schools, small schools.
Most of the universities, that's the case. There are a few.
There are some these men's basketball meccas, you know, like
a duke or something like that, where the basketball team
will also make money, but there aren't many of those.
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Beyond that, the sports are money losers for colleges when
you consider the facilities, when you consider these are essentially
six figure scholarships you're handing out for free. When you
consider all these things, the lack of attendance. Sports in
college outside of those examples I just gave are money losers. Well,
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you decide to open up college sports, and now you
can pay the players. You can get sponsorships for the players.
I saw this coming a million miles away. I don't
know why anyone else couldn't. Who's going to get the sponsorships?
The starting quarterback, the starting power forward, the wide receiver,
the defensive end, because remember, you only would sponsor a player.
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You know. You don't get advertisers for funsies. You know
the people who advertise on this show. Yes they share
our values, and yes I'm friends with pretty much all
of them personal friends, but they're not advertising just because
they love the show. You want a return on the
investment you expect, you demand, and you have every right
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to demand a return on your investment. If you're sponsoring
a college athlete, you're not doing it for no reason
at all. Either A you are just a huge fan
of your school and you're gonna hemorrhage that money because
it's nothing to you, or B. The most common one
is you you expect the starting quarterback to advertise for
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your local chicken wing company because you expect his endorsement
to bring in business, and you want to sell more
chicken wings. Who was showing up at your business for
the softball player. I'll make it about obs sport gymnastics.
She was an elite gymnast, one of the best in
the country. She didn't bring any money into the university.
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You could have driven through Tucson one day and actually
seen her up on some little billboard flag type thing.
She didn't bring a diamond too that university. She on
an international scholarship cost the University of Arizona money. And
she tell you that to this day, when I had
to go to the gymnastics meets and when I got
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to go, when I got to go to the gymnastics meets,
is what I meant to say. When I got the
awesome opportunity to go to the gymnastics meets, even the
big ones against the rival school, nobody in the stands.
Nobody's buying gymnastics merch. But when you combine the fact
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that the other sports don't make money with the fact that
today's young athletes, not all of them at all. There
are a bunch of wonderful young athletes, but a lot
of today's young athletes are really really entitled, little nasty brats.
It was obvious to anyone with the brain that the
women's basketball player was going to watch the starting quarterback
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get a million dollars a year, and she was going
to feel entitled to some of that scheddar herself. It
was obvious. That's how it works. All right, to move
off of this and talk about the national debt before
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All the podcasts are free. iHeart Spotify iTunes. Dear Hummer lover,
how much of our thirty seven trillion dollar national debt
do you think is from waste, fraud, and abuse and
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could have been avoided half most all? If I had
to put a number on that, I would tell you, Well,
I got hold on pause for a second. What do
we consider waste or fraud or abuse? And I ask
it for this reason. I'm not trying to be cryptic here.
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If a president declares a war, a war that really
doesn't have an end goal to it, a war that
maybe you consider unjustified or kind of pointless. If he
declares a war like that, and the war on top
of the lives and everything else costs five trillion dollars,
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does that fall for you in the category of waste, fraud,
and abuse? It does for me. And this is why
I want to answer the question this way. We don't
because this is the only thing we've ever known as Americans.
And I realize we have a bunch of foreigners listening
to but I'm just speaking as an American. We don't
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really realize and appreciate how wealthy we are. I don't either,
how wealthy we are as a country, over the top,
ridiculously wealthy in ways that even other countries, modern civilized
countries can never even compare to. They don't even relate
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to it. I was, remember I told you that time
I went to Europe with the fam, took ob and
the boys. We went to Austria in the Czech Republic. Well,
part of the appeal of leaving Houston in the summertime
was we were going to get to get out of
the heat. Let's get out of the heat, spend a
week out of the heat. I'd never been to Europe.
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I'd always wanted to go nerd out on history. Let's
get out of the heat and lo and behold the
way it works. Sometimes we show up in Europe and
they are having the hottest summer they've It was something
like a record or one of the hottest they'd ever had.
I don't want to be over the top with it.
But it was baking. We're talking for Europe. It was
ninety four ninety five degrees roasting in Europe. So we
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get there and it's cooking, and everybody, all the tourists,
it's all tourist spots. We're all walking around looking at
stuff like that. It's all hot, you know. The main
thing restaurants were advertising as you walked up and down
the street air conditioning. It is so rare there that
the restaurants who had it knew they had a selling
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point that other restaurants could not match. All they had
to do was put a sign out in front and said,
we have air conditioning here, come on in and eat.
Let me ask you something as an American, have you
ever won time in your life eaten in a restaurant
in this country that did not have air conditioning in it.
I'm sure I have a couple times. But that's something
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most people will never experience in this country. Air conditioning.
Everybody has air conditioning. You have air conditioning in your apartment,
of course you do. If you have a small, one
bedroom apartment, it's air conditioned, isn't it. If you work
in an office building. We're in one right now. There's
air conditioning. I'm doing my show. I think it's like
seventy five degrees in here. Your restaurants, I'm gonna stop
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at a gas station on the way home. It will
be air conditioned. So what I was getting to is,
we have an absurd amount of money in this country.
Thirty seven trillion dollars in national debt is an unbelievable
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disgrace because it should be zero dollars with the amount
of money we take in in this country, with the
amount of money we truly have, if we were run
the right way, if we had done things the right way,
we'd be sitting on a thirty trillion dollars surplus. That's
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how ridiculous, that's how criminal it is that we are
thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. We are as a country,
as a people. Those professional athletes. We make fun of
the NBA player who makes twenty million dollars a year
and then goes bankrupt the second he retires because he
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was spending somehow more than he was taking in. We
love to point at that guy. Ah, look at that
stupid idiot. Wow, what an uneducated moron. How do you
spend more than that's us. That's the United States of America.
We've done that. A country this wealthy should never be
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in debt. Ever, maybe maybe you could make an exception
for a large war like a World War Two. You
can understand, Hey, we have to put some economic things
on hold. We have to overbuild planes and ships and
the Maybe temporarily we should be spending more than we
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take in. But the amount of money this country takes in,
that we have not only not been able to stay
underneath that amount, but that we have blown through it
to the point where thirty seven trullion dollars in debt
is a disgrace. It's pathetic. I'll be honest. It embarrasses me.
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It embarrasses me. We are the young NBA player who
makes twenty million and spends thirty million a year. We're
the rapper who go bankrupt, but he's got a diamond
necklace worth eight hundred thousand dollars. That's us here in
the United States of America. Embarrassing what we have allowed
to happen to the treasury. That's how it goes. All right,
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realize missiles are flying and threats are being tossed around,
and it's probably gonna be a wild weekend over there
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here and ask answer some ask Doctor Jesse questions, and
I guess we'll sift through the carnage on Monday. Jesse,
You're discussions and your comments the other night about whether
we are still a nation prompt me to request or
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suggest that you discuss our founding as these United States
versus being a country or a nation. You explain things well,
and I would appreciate hearing your explanation of our progression
from a group of sovereign states to whatever we are now.
Thank you for your time and attention. Well, I'll just
touch on this briefly. Remember that we we were colonies
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at first. We were colonies. Everyone knows about the thirteen Colonies.
We were colonies, and the colonies had their own governments.
Human beings whenever they live together a city or a colony,
a state, whatever, they're going to create a government. A
government is a very human thing. You're always going to
have some form of it. It could be a tribal
chief or a king or a representative republican, but you're
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going to have a government of some kind. So the
colonies had a government. But as they were chafing underneath
the king, they were starting to figure out that a
bunch of separate colonies can be smashed, can be crushed.
But if there was some way to unify them, if
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there was some sort of uniting principle, then their collection
getting together would be a strength. They would become stronger
and possibly even strong enough to fight off the British crown.
We did that, but then then you really need to
figure out, Okay, how are we going to live together?
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Because New York even back then was different than South Carolina.
It's different different regions. You're going to have different values
in different regions. What are the unifying ideas? What are
the unifying principles? And they had all kinds of debates
about that back then, back and forth of how should
the government be here, how should it be there? How
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should function? All endless discussions. Eventually we settled on what
we obviously know the constitution. The federal government should be limited.
The states really should govern themselves for the most part.
But we are still one country. We have united the states.
The states are united, so we're one country. But the
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federal government is a very very small thing. The states
should handle their own business. That's how we were founded.
That's what they believed, that's what worked, and that's what
would still work. Federalism the idea that the states govern themselves,
handle themselves. The federal government only does the things that
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are absolutely necessary for a federal government to do. Things
like currency. You can't have South Carolina having a different
currency than Montana. It doesn't work. You have to have
one currency as a country, all right. So how did
we get to where we are now? Well, on a
macro level, we're human and we're governed by other human beings.
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And people who achieve power very very very rarely try
to just maintain it, and almost never do they try
to reduce the amount of power they have. You know,
no football coach takes over the football team and says,
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you know what, I really want less control over things.
That's not how it works. You want more control, But
governments operate the exact same way. And our federal government,
over years, decades and decades and decades and decades, because
it's occupied by flesh and blood human beings, was always
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trying to find a way to take more power than
it was constitutionally allowed to have. Hey, we're the federal government.
I want to be able to do this. I want
to be a to do that. I want to be
able to do this. You keep limiting my power. But
I have things I want to do, so I need
more and more and more of it. And how we
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got to this place is, honestly, money is a big
part of it. When the federal government started handing out money,
it started gaining control. That's really the huge problem we
have as a country. It's the amount of money the
federal government takes in and then hands out, giving them
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control over things they have control over. Well, the Department
of Education, Department of Education hands out money. That money
is power they can withhold it. Hey, you go ahead
and defy me, I'll hold back my money. Trump has
done it, Democrats do it, Republicans do it. Everyone does
it now. Because you have money, what you spend, what
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you pay for you control that. They've done it with
Wall Street, the financial sector in the government. You can't
even tell. There's not an inch of daylight between them. Now.
They have completely merged with each other because the federal
government has this. The federal government has that, Hey, go
ahead and screw up at your bank. We'll come in
and take it over and piecemeil that whole thing out.
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It's our bank. Now, these are ridiculous powers. The federal
government should have never had. The making war. I know
this is a basic point, but you know that the
president can't just declare war. Right, that has to come
from the Congress. We are not a country with the
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king where the president can just declare a war. But
I mean, all the way back to LBJ, I mean, shoot,
you can argue the Korean War, you could. Presidents have
just asserted their authority. They didn't like that limiting power. No,
I'm the president. I think we should. I think we should.
So they tried look back to Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson
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because he was a worth piece of tyrannical trash. Woodrow
Wilson thought he was above other people. He felt like
he was a king. Woodrow Wilson wanted US in World
War One so badly, so badly. FDR wanted US in
World War Two so badly, and the public opinion polls
were always against them. The public was dead set against
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getting involved in these wars. Until Pearl Harbor. No one
wanted to be involved in World War Two, until you know,
the Lusitania and the Zimmermann Telegram and things like that.
No one wanted to be involved in World War One.
Nobody did. But Woodrow Wilson in FDR again saw themselves
as kings, and they despised the fact that they had
to go along with the American public, that they had
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to wait for Congress to declare war. They hated that.
And look, you can hate those guys, and I don't
care for either of them, but it's human nature. Hey,
lady Fingers, it's not nice. I'm listening to Iran about
observing on jury duty. Whatever sort of case it is,
it's probably not near as heavy as what my elderly
mom has had to endure in Sending a pedophile to
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jail as a member of a jury here in Alabama
is as heavy as ten boxes that you might be moving. Well,
I do agree with your civic duty I would caution
people beforehand because you might be on a case like
a pedo and you have to look at all these
disgusting evidence items. I could never process this. It would
scar me for life just looking at that garbage. What
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are your thoughts, bald Philosopher? I love your show, but
I'm contentious on this topic. I think I think guarding
your what do they say today, what do these fruities
say today? Your mental health? I think guarding your mental
health is appropriate at times. Of course, of course, at
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the same time, who's going to sit on the jury?
And how much do you think you should shield yourself
from the ugly realities of life? You know, when when
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we're out traveling or doing something with our kids and
we encounter bad neighborhoods or or you know, some sad
homeless person drugged out or something like that, we don't
run across the street or tell our children to cover
up their eyes look see. Understand that there's a different
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Does he think so? Yeah? The Jesse Kelly Show, It
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dot com. Your love, your hate, your death threats. All
are welcome. Let's start chopping away at some more of these,
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shall we, Jesse? Can you know us and tell us
another story about your experience in the Marines. Did you
ever have to work closely with other branches of the
military other than Navy? Corman thanks to you and your crew.
So I told this story a long time ago. I'll
I'll give you one. I'll give you two actually, because
do you ever get the feeling that God smiles on you.
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You don't deserve it, but you end up you end
up catching breaks in life that you that are inexplicable.
I'll give you two of them. First, I told you
about the time I got giardia, that parasite in mountain
warfare training, and then I almost died when we were training.
It was one hundred and twenty degrees it was. I
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was so dehydrated. I was unbelievably sick. They had to
rush me to the hospital and I took down like
three ivs. It was, I mean, I was in bad shape. Well,
I'm symptom free after this for a couple of weeks
symptom free. They gave me a bunch of pills symptom free.
Our unit, our battalion, was getting ready to go out
for one of these brutal five day field ops in
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the desert, and it's going to be brutal. It's going
to be brutal. The day they're supposed to leave, I
get called down to the office. This is always bad,
universally bad. You're in trouble when you get called down
to the office. So I think I'm in trouble. I
take off to go down to the company command, the
company office. Okay, I see one of my corporals, one
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of my NCOs. He passes me on the way back
and he's just glaring at me, won't say anything to me. Now,
I really don't know what I did wrong. So I
don't know what I did wrong, but clearly something I
show up. I find out that they finally got my
test results back and that I have giardia, a parasite,
and they're telling me this like with a heavy like
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I'm gonna be sad. They're like, hey, this is very contagious,
so you're not going to be able to go to
the field with us. In fact, it's so contagious that
we have to quarantine you in your roommate. He was
my best friend. We have to quarantine you and your
roommate in case he has it too. You guys need
to stay in your rooms. You won't be going with us.
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For five days, my unit went out to the desert
and lived in complete misery. We weren't even allowed to
go to the chow hall, so we ordered Domino's Pizza
almost every single day. It was the only pizza place
on base on twenty nine palms, and we played video
games in eight pizza like a bunch of college freshmen
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for five days while everyone else was suffering like these
these are the kind of things that always happen to me.
So I'll give you. I'll give you a working with
the other branches story that again, it goes right along
the lines with what we're talking about here. We go
to Iraq. I'm in first Batian seventh Marines, Alpha Company
Weapons Patoon. We go to Iraq. Well, we go to Kuwait.
We stage in Kuwait. This is before Bush declares war.
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Finally he declares war. We take off, we head into Iraq.
We fight our way, we get all the way to
all the way up to Baghdad. Okay, so we move
all the way up through Iraq, we get to Baghdad,
we get into Baghdad, we have not there are no
facilities at the time, because again this is the beginning
of all of it. There aren't bases, there's nothing, there's
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nothing there. We're sleeping in holes in the ground. We dig,
there's no facilities, and there's no bathing. For two or
three weeks, there's no shower, there's no bath. Oh and
by the way, it's hot. We've been wearing are mop
gear for lots of the time. That's your don't don't
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die from gas gear. That's what it is. So what Chris,
what Chris said? How do you prevent the chafing and stuff?
You don't when you the only thing you can do,
as you are living in sweat and dirt and you
stink like you can smell yourself that kind of a stink.
The only thing you can do is you get baby wipes,
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an attempt to wipe sensitive areas down as best you
can to make sure just to make sure you don't
get sick. For you, you have to maintain some sort
of a high some sort of hygiene or else disease
is gonna spread. So this is your life, sweat, dirt, misery,
and there is no bathing. Have you ever gone two days,
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three days without bathing? Most people have for one reason
or another. Maybe you're camping or whatever it may be.
How do you feel? Yeah, greasy, slimy, dirty. You can
rub your skin and it's nasty. Right now, picture two
or three weeks in the desert with all this. By
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the time we get to Bagdad, we are disgusting, We
feel disgusting, and everyone's dying for a bath. So we
get to Bagdad and they take my unit and we
go to a place I believe it's still there. You
can probably look it up called the March. I think
it was called the Martyr Monument or Martar Monument Park,
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something like that. It has what looks like a gigantic
blue water drop in it. So if you look it up,
that's where we were. Okay, if it's still there, if
they haven't blown it up or something like that, that's
where they took my unit. Hey, this is where you're
going to stage go secure this area at the time. Again,
I don't want to tell you that's still the case.
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Because this is twenty years ago. At the time, there
was a big pond in there. I can't even describe
how badly we wanted to grab a bar of soap
and go dive into this water to clean ourselves. We
are nasty for whatever reason. Maybe it was security, maybe
they had tested the water, it was disease. Maybe they
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were just being me and I don't know. You don't
know a lot of things when you're in more, they
wouldn't let us get in it. So not only are
we nasty, we can't get in the water now we are.
I was in a mortar section. I was in O
three forty one mortarmen. We really didn't hardly we've ever
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used our mortars in Iraq. We were just basic infantrymen.
We had to carry them around, we had to set
them up on occasion. But mortars are not great in
an urban environment for obvious reasons. You hit buildings and
things like that with it. It's hard to lob things.
It just we weren't in a mortar friendly environment, so
we just became basic infant treatment walking around just like
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all the other three elevens, which we were all trained
for that. Anyway, it was fine, it was no big deal.
We were basic infantrymen. Now, remember I told you we're nasty,
And remember we haven't slept in anything resembling a bed
or even a cot or anything like that. In weeks,
we get called down to the company commander's office and
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We're going to talk about how I would have felt
when I was in the Marines getting deployed over there
to LA jury duty. Someone wants to discuss it, women, men, sports,
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college sports, the National Debt, all that and so much
more coming up this hour on the world famous Jesse
Kelly Show. So let's just dig into this one right here. Hey, Jesse,
if you were still in the Core, how would you
feel about being sent to LA? Says this from an
eighty five year old listener. So I'm gonna say something
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and it's not going to sound great unless you can relate.
And man, that was awesome. Did you guys hear that rhyme?
What Chris? Did you hear that? It's not gonna sound
great unless you can relate. Aha, that's good. I'm gonna
use that again anyway. So when you're in I'll just
make it about the Marines. When you're in the Marine Corps,
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and when you're specifically in the infantry, in the Marine Corps,
any kind of a real combat mos a combat job
in the Marine corps, which that's what I was. It
was infantry. Your day to day life sucks, and I
made it in this way. It's not that it's it's
not that it's horrid overall. It's that your day to
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day life is a grind and it's always miserable, and
it should be. I'm not complaining by the way it
should be. It's not supposed to be sunshine and roses.
You're in the infantry. They're trying to make you tough,
they're trying to train you. So your whole life every
day is sweating and misery, and you're out in the field.
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You're getting dirty, you're constantly hot, you're constantly tired, you're
constantly getting screamed at doing pushups, constantly running to and
fro and then waiting, hurry up and wait. This is
your daily life, and this is how it has to be. Again,
this is not a complaint. That's how it has to be.
It's your daily life. And as you're going through this,
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you are getting tougher and better. As you acquire more skills,
you do shoot better. You are physically getting harder and
harder and harder. You are becoming the longer you spend
you're becoming that warrior, right, And well, I'll put it
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to you this way. If you decided to go out
for the football team, and you go out and you
make the football team, and you go to two days
in the summertime, two practices, a hot, miserable, you're running stairs,
you're puken waits over and over, practice, over and over,
yelling over. Don't you want to get in the game
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at some point in time, if you're going to go
through all of that, don't you want to play a game?
That's the idea. You put in the work, You got
yourself strong, you got yourself ready. When we were in
we wanted to go to war. We wanted It's not
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that we weren't afraid. There was always that fear there.
No one wants to die or be maimed or be
burned or something like that. There's always that fear there.
But as young naive men, it is fairly naive to
want to go to war, trust me on that. But
as young naive men, you spend all this time to
go through all this misery, getting yourself hard and ready
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and hard and ready and hard and ready. You want
to use those skills I did the two days I've
been in the weight room. I want to go out
and play a football game. Now, if you had told
us we weren't even political, really, there wasn't really anybody
that I can think of. It doesn't stand out to
me that was political, myself included. I know you're probably thinking, well,
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except for you, no, I was. Remember I did not
grow up political. I did not grow up in a
political household. I have always been a huge history nerd.
And I knew that we were Republicans just because that's
the only thing my dad ever told me. I asked
him one time whether we were Democrats and Republicans. I
was a small child, and he looked at me and
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his lovely soft way and said, we're Republicans. And that
was that. So I was not political when I was
in the Marine Corps. None of us really were. If
they had come and told If they had come to
us one day and said, get your stuff packed. You
know all those people rioting in LA We're going to
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go smash some skulls, we would have been beside ourselves
with excitement. This is like I said, it was not
even a political thing. If you told us that there
were a bunch of people looting and burning in American city.
That would have bothered us a great deal. And you
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told us that we now have to go there and
fight them. Oh gosh, we would have been unreasonably excited
to do so. I know, from the outside looking in
that maybe sounds barbaric or makes us sound violent, or
and maybe it is. Maybe it is barbaric, Maybe it
is violent. I would have loved the opportunity to smash
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some COMMI rioter's face in. I would have absolutely loved
the opportunity to do so. We ran into one in
a well, you know, and I probably don't need to
tell that story on the radio. Maybe that's another time.
Shall we let's move on? Hey, Jesse, so now the
floor or so now the women are suing for equal
pay in the nil deals. He's talking about NCAA sports
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men's football and basketball bringing all the money and so well, listen,
I you know, I would never give myself any credit
for predicting this, But Chris Corey, I don't even know
if Corey was here yet. When I said, what did
I say was going to happen when college sports started
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allowing these athletes to sign endorsement deals? What did I say?
Was going to happen. Chris Craah, here's what I said.
The women are going to sue and it's going to
blow everything up in college sports. This is how it works.
And I know because my wife was a college athlete
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and I got to know all the intricacies of the
whole thing. Did you know that most universities, most this
is the vast majority, they only make money on the
football program. All the other different sports, men's, women's, doesn't
matter what it is. The football program is the one
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that brings revenue into the university. That's big schools, small schools.
Most of the universities, that's the case. There are a few.
There are some these men's basketball meccas, you know, like
a duke or something like that, where the basketball team
will also make money, but there aren't many of those.
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Beyond that, the sports are money losers for colleges when
you consider the facilities, when you consider these are essentially
six figure scholarships you're handing out for free. When you
consider all these things, the lack of attendance. Sports in
college outside of those examples I just gave are money losers. Well,
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you decide to open up college sports, and now you
can pay the players. You can get sponsorships for the players.
I saw this coming a million miles away. I don't
know why anyone else couldn't. Who's going to get the sponsorships?
The starting quarterback, the starting power forward, the wide receiver,
the defensive end, because remember, you only would sponsor a player.
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You know. You don't get advertisers for funsies. You know
the people who advertise on this show. Yes they share
our values, and yes I'm friends with pretty much all
of them personal friends, but they're not advertising just because
they love the show. You want a return on the
investment you expect, you demand, and you have every right
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to demand a return on your investment. If you're sponsoring
a college athlete, you're not doing it for no reason
at all. Either A you are just a huge fan
of your school and you're gonna hemorrhage that money because
it's nothing to you, or B. The most common one
is you you expect the starting quarterback to advertise for
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your local chicken wing company because you expect his endorsement
to bring in business, and you want to sell more
chicken wings. Who was showing up at your business for
the softball player. I'll make it about obs sport gymnastics.
She was an elite gymnast, one of the best in
the country. She didn't bring any money into the university.
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You could have driven through Tucson one day and actually
seen her up on some little billboard flag type thing.
She didn't bring a diamond too that university. She on
an international scholarship cost the University of Arizona money. And
she tell you that to this day, when I had
to go to the gymnastics meets and when I got
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to go, when I got to go to the gymnastics meets,
is what I meant to say. When I got the
awesome opportunity to go to the gymnastics meets, even the
big ones against the rival school, nobody in the stands.
Nobody's buying gymnastics merch. But when you combine the fact
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that the other sports don't make money with the fact that
today's young athletes, not all of them at all. There
are a bunch of wonderful young athletes, but a lot
of today's young athletes are really really entitled, little nasty brats.
It was obvious to anyone with the brain that the
women's basketball player was going to watch the starting quarterback
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get a million dollars a year, and she was going
to feel entitled to some of that scheddar herself. It
was obvious. That's how it works. All right, to move
off of this and talk about the national debt before
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Show on a Friday. Remember if you miss any part
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History thing from last night, you can download anything that.
All the podcasts are free. iHeart Spotify iTunes. Dear Hummer lover,
how much of our thirty seven trillion dollar national debt
do you think is from waste, fraud, and abuse and
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could have been avoided half most all? If I had
to put a number on that, I would tell you, Well,
I got hold on pause for a second. What do
we consider waste or fraud or abuse? And I ask
it for this reason. I'm not trying to be cryptic here.
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If a president declares a war, a war that really
doesn't have an end goal to it, a war that
maybe you consider unjustified or kind of pointless. If he
declares a war like that, and the war on top
of the lives and everything else costs five trillion dollars,
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does that fall for you in the category of waste, fraud,
and abuse? It does for me. And this is why
I want to answer the question this way. We don't
because this is the only thing we've ever known as Americans.
And I realize we have a bunch of foreigners listening
to but I'm just speaking as an American. We don't
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really realize and appreciate how wealthy we are. I don't either,
how wealthy we are as a country, over the top,
ridiculously wealthy in ways that even other countries, modern civilized
countries can never even compare to. They don't even relate
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to it. I was, remember I told you that time
I went to Europe with the fam, took ob and
the boys. We went to Austria in the Czech Republic. Well,
part of the appeal of leaving Houston in the summertime
was we were going to get to get out of
the heat. Let's get out of the heat, spend a
week out of the heat. I'd never been to Europe.
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I'd always wanted to go nerd out on history. Let's
get out of the heat and lo and behold the
way it works. Sometimes we show up in Europe and
they are having the hottest summer they've It was something
like a record or one of the hottest they'd ever had.
I don't want to be over the top with it.
But it was baking. We're talking for Europe. It was
ninety four ninety five degrees roasting in Europe. So we
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get there and it's cooking, and everybody, all the tourists,
it's all tourist spots. We're all walking around looking at
stuff like that. It's all hot, you know. The main
thing restaurants were advertising as you walked up and down
the street air conditioning. It is so rare there that
the restaurants who had it knew they had a selling
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point that other restaurants could not match. All they had
to do was put a sign out in front and said,
we have air conditioning here, come on in and eat.
Let me ask you something as an American, have you
ever won time in your life eaten in a restaurant
in this country that did not have air conditioning in it.
I'm sure I have a couple times. But that's something
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most people will never experience in this country. Air conditioning.
Everybody has air conditioning. You have air conditioning in your apartment,
of course you do. If you have a small, one
bedroom apartment, it's air conditioned, isn't it. If you work
in an office building. We're in one right now. There's
air conditioning. I'm doing my show. I think it's like
seventy five degrees in here. Your restaurants, I'm gonna stop
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at a gas station on the way home. It will
be air conditioned. So what I was getting to is,
we have an absurd amount of money in this country.
Thirty seven trillion dollars in national debt is an unbelievable
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disgrace because it should be zero dollars with the amount
of money we take in in this country, with the
amount of money we truly have, if we were run
the right way, if we had done things the right way,
we'd be sitting on a thirty trillion dollars surplus. That's
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how ridiculous, that's how criminal it is that we are
thirty seven trillion dollars in debt. We are as a country,
as a people. Those professional athletes. We make fun of
the NBA player who makes twenty million dollars a year
and then goes bankrupt the second he retires because he
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was spending somehow more than he was taking in. We
love to point at that guy. Ah, look at that
stupid idiot. Wow, what an uneducated moron. How do you
spend more than that's us. That's the United States of America.
We've done that. A country this wealthy should never be
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in debt. Ever, maybe maybe you could make an exception
for a large war like a World War Two. You
can understand, Hey, we have to put some economic things
on hold. We have to overbuild planes and ships and
the Maybe temporarily we should be spending more than we
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take in. But the amount of money this country takes in,
that we have not only not been able to stay
underneath that amount, but that we have blown through it
to the point where thirty seven trullion dollars in debt
is a disgrace. It's pathetic. I'll be honest. It embarrasses me.
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It embarrasses me. We are the young NBA player who
makes twenty million and spends thirty million a year. We're
the rapper who go bankrupt, but he's got a diamond
necklace worth eight hundred thousand dollars. That's us here in
the United States of America. Embarrassing what we have allowed
to happen to the treasury. That's how it goes. All right,
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move on, do some other stuff before we do that.
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your meat done right. Whatever you're making, it's chicken or steak,
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or a big brisket or a pull pork or what.
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wonderful Friday, and ask doctor Jesse Friday. And we're not
discussing anymore of this regime change stuff right now. I
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realize missiles are flying and threats are being tossed around,
and it's probably gonna be a wild weekend over there
in the old Levant. So we're just going to sit
here and ask answer some ask Doctor Jesse questions, and
I guess we'll sift through the carnage on Monday. Jesse,
You're discussions and your comments the other night about whether
we are still a nation prompt me to request or
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suggest that you discuss our founding as these United States
versus being a country or a nation. You explain things well,
and I would appreciate hearing your explanation of our progression
from a group of sovereign states to whatever we are now.
Thank you for your time and attention. Well, I'll just
touch on this briefly. Remember that we we were colonies
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at first. We were colonies. Everyone knows about the thirteen Colonies.
We were colonies, and the colonies had their own governments.
Human beings whenever they live together a city or a colony,
a state, whatever, they're going to create a government. A
government is a very human thing. You're always going to
have some form of it. It could be a tribal
chief or a king or a representative republican, but you're
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going to have a government of some kind. So the
colonies had a government. But as they were chafing underneath
the king, they were starting to figure out that a
bunch of separate colonies can be smashed, can be crushed.
But if there was some way to unify them, if
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there was some sort of uniting principle, then their collection
getting together would be a strength. They would become stronger
and possibly even strong enough to fight off the British crown.
We did that, but then then you really need to
figure out, Okay, how are we going to live together?
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Because New York even back then was different than South Carolina.
It's different different regions. You're going to have different values
in different regions. What are the unifying ideas? What are
the unifying principles? And they had all kinds of debates
about that back then, back and forth of how should
the government be here, how should it be there? How
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should function? All endless discussions. Eventually we settled on what
we obviously know the constitution. The federal government should be limited.
The states really should govern themselves for the most part.
But we are still one country. We have united the states.
The states are united, so we're one country. But the
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federal government is a very very small thing. The states
should handle their own business. That's how we were founded.
That's what they believed, that's what worked, and that's what
would still work. Federalism the idea that the states govern themselves,
handle themselves. The federal government only does the things that
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are absolutely necessary for a federal government to do. Things
like currency. You can't have South Carolina having a different
currency than Montana. It doesn't work. You have to have
one currency as a country, all right. So how did
we get to where we are now? Well, on a
macro level, we're human and we're governed by other human beings.
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And people who achieve power very very very rarely try
to just maintain it, and almost never do they try
to reduce the amount of power they have. You know,
no football coach takes over the football team and says,
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you know what, I really want less control over things.
That's not how it works. You want more control, But
governments operate the exact same way. And our federal government,
over years, decades and decades and decades and decades, because
it's occupied by flesh and blood human beings, was always
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trying to find a way to take more power than
it was constitutionally allowed to have. Hey, we're the federal government.
I want to be able to do this. I want
to be a to do that. I want to be
able to do this. You keep limiting my power. But
I have things I want to do, so I need
more and more and more of it. And how we
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got to this place is, honestly, money is a big
part of it. When the federal government started handing out money,
it started gaining control. That's really the huge problem we
have as a country. It's the amount of money the
federal government takes in and then hands out, giving them
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control over things they have control over. Well, the Department
of Education, Department of Education hands out money. That money
is power they can withhold it. Hey, you go ahead
and defy me, I'll hold back my money. Trump has
done it, Democrats do it, Republicans do it. Everyone does
it now. Because you have money, what you spend, what
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you pay for you control that. They've done it with
Wall Street, the financial sector in the government. You can't
even tell. There's not an inch of daylight between them. Now.
They have completely merged with each other because the federal
government has this. The federal government has that, Hey, go
ahead and screw up at your bank. We'll come in
and take it over and piecemeil that whole thing out.
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It's our bank. Now, these are ridiculous powers. The federal
government should have never had. The making war. I know
this is a basic point, but you know that the
president can't just declare war. Right, that has to come
from the Congress. We are not a country with the
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king where the president can just declare a war. But
I mean, all the way back to LBJ, I mean, shoot,
you can argue the Korean War, you could. Presidents have
just asserted their authority. They didn't like that limiting power. No,
I'm the president. I think we should. I think we should.
So they tried look back to Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson
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because he was a worth piece of tyrannical trash. Woodrow
Wilson thought he was above other people. He felt like
he was a king. Woodrow Wilson wanted US in World
War One so badly, so badly. FDR wanted US in
World War Two so badly, and the public opinion polls
were always against them. The public was dead set against
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getting involved in these wars. Until Pearl Harbor. No one
wanted to be involved in World War Two, until you know,
the Lusitania and the Zimmermann Telegram and things like that.
No one wanted to be involved in World War One.
Nobody did. But Woodrow Wilson in FDR again saw themselves
as kings, and they despised the fact that they had
to go along with the American public, that they had
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to wait for Congress to declare war. They hated that.
And look, you can hate those guys, and I don't
care for either of them, but it's human nature. Hey,
lady Fingers, it's not nice. I'm listening to Iran about
observing on jury duty. Whatever sort of case it is,
it's probably not near as heavy as what my elderly
mom has had to endure in Sending a pedophile to
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jail as a member of a jury here in Alabama
is as heavy as ten boxes that you might be moving. Well,
I do agree with your civic duty I would caution
people beforehand because you might be on a case like
a pedo and you have to look at all these
disgusting evidence items. I could never process this. It would
scar me for life just looking at that garbage. What
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are your thoughts, bald Philosopher? I love your show, but
I'm contentious on this topic. I think I think guarding
your what do they say today, what do these fruities
say today? Your mental health? I think guarding your mental
health is appropriate at times. Of course, of course, at
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the same time, who's going to sit on the jury?
And how much do you think you should shield yourself
from the ugly realities of life? You know, when when
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we're out traveling or doing something with our kids and
we encounter bad neighborhoods or or you know, some sad
homeless person drugged out or something like that, we don't
run across the street or tell our children to cover
up their eyes look see. Understand that there's a different
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side of the light of life that you know, there's
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We'll be back. Is he smarter than everyone you know?
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Does he think so? Yeah? The Jesse Kelly Show, It
is the Jesse Kelly Show. On a fantastic Friday, reminding
you you can email the show Jesse at jesse kellyshow
dot com. Your love, your hate, your death threats. All
are welcome. Let's start chopping away at some more of these,
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shall we, Jesse? Can you know us and tell us
another story about your experience in the Marines. Did you
ever have to work closely with other branches of the
military other than Navy? Corman thanks to you and your crew.
So I told this story a long time ago. I'll
I'll give you one. I'll give you two actually, because
do you ever get the feeling that God smiles on you.
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You don't deserve it, but you end up you end
up catching breaks in life that you that are inexplicable.
I'll give you two of them. First, I told you
about the time I got giardia, that parasite in mountain
warfare training, and then I almost died when we were training.
It was one hundred and twenty degrees it was. I
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was so dehydrated. I was unbelievably sick. They had to
rush me to the hospital and I took down like
three ivs. It was, I mean, I was in bad shape. Well,
I'm symptom free after this for a couple of weeks
symptom free. They gave me a bunch of pills symptom free.
Our unit, our battalion, was getting ready to go out
for one of these brutal five day field ops in
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the desert, and it's going to be brutal. It's going
to be brutal. The day they're supposed to leave, I
get called down to the office. This is always bad,
universally bad. You're in trouble when you get called down
to the office. So I think I'm in trouble. I
take off to go down to the company command, the
company office. Okay, I see one of my corporals, one
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of my NCOs. He passes me on the way back
and he's just glaring at me, won't say anything to me. Now,
I really don't know what I did wrong. So I
don't know what I did wrong, but clearly something I
show up. I find out that they finally got my
test results back and that I have giardia, a parasite,
and they're telling me this like with a heavy like
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I'm gonna be sad. They're like, hey, this is very contagious,
so you're not going to be able to go to
the field with us. In fact, it's so contagious that
we have to quarantine you in your roommate. He was
my best friend. We have to quarantine you and your
roommate in case he has it too. You guys need
to stay in your rooms. You won't be going with us.
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For five days, my unit went out to the desert
and lived in complete misery. We weren't even allowed to
go to the chow hall, so we ordered Domino's Pizza
almost every single day. It was the only pizza place
on base on twenty nine palms, and we played video
games in eight pizza like a bunch of college freshmen
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for five days while everyone else was suffering like these
these are the kind of things that always happen to me.
So I'll give you. I'll give you a working with
the other branches story that again, it goes right along
the lines with what we're talking about here. We go
to Iraq. I'm in first Batian seventh Marines, Alpha Company
Weapons Patoon. We go to Iraq. Well, we go to Kuwait.
We stage in Kuwait. This is before Bush declares war.
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Finally he declares war. We take off, we head into Iraq.
We fight our way, we get all the way to
all the way up to Baghdad. Okay, so we move
all the way up through Iraq, we get to Baghdad,
we get into Baghdad, we have not there are no
facilities at the time, because again this is the beginning
of all of it. There aren't bases, there's nothing, there's
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nothing there. We're sleeping in holes in the ground. We dig,
there's no facilities, and there's no bathing. For two or
three weeks, there's no shower, there's no bath. Oh and
by the way, it's hot. We've been wearing are mop
gear for lots of the time. That's your don't don't
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die from gas gear. That's what it is. So what Chris,
what Chris said? How do you prevent the chafing and stuff?
You don't when you the only thing you can do,
as you are living in sweat and dirt and you
stink like you can smell yourself that kind of a stink.
The only thing you can do is you get baby wipes,
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an attempt to wipe sensitive areas down as best you
can to make sure just to make sure you don't
get sick. For you, you have to maintain some sort
of a high some sort of hygiene or else disease
is gonna spread. So this is your life, sweat, dirt, misery,
and there is no bathing. Have you ever gone two days,
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three days without bathing? Most people have for one reason
or another. Maybe you're camping or whatever it may be.
How do you feel? Yeah, greasy, slimy, dirty. You can
rub your skin and it's nasty. Right now, picture two
or three weeks in the desert with all this. By
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the time we get to Bagdad, we are disgusting, We
feel disgusting, and everyone's dying for a bath. So we
get to Bagdad and they take my unit and we
go to a place I believe it's still there. You
can probably look it up called the March. I think
it was called the Martyr Monument or Martar Monument Park,
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something like that. It has what looks like a gigantic
blue water drop in it. So if you look it up,
that's where we were. Okay, if it's still there, if
they haven't blown it up or something like that, that's
where they took my unit. Hey, this is where you're
going to stage go secure this area at the time. Again,
I don't want to tell you that's still the case.
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Because this is twenty years ago. At the time, there
was a big pond in there. I can't even describe
how badly we wanted to grab a bar of soap
and go dive into this water to clean ourselves. We
are nasty for whatever reason. Maybe it was security, maybe
they had tested the water, it was disease. Maybe they
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were just being me and I don't know. You don't
know a lot of things when you're in more, they
wouldn't let us get in it. So not only are
we nasty, we can't get in the water now we are.
I was in a mortar section. I was in O
three forty one mortarmen. We really didn't hardly we've ever
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used our mortars in Iraq. We were just basic infantrymen.
We had to carry them around, we had to set
them up on occasion. But mortars are not great in
an urban environment for obvious reasons. You hit buildings and
things like that with it. It's hard to lob things.
It just we weren't in a mortar friendly environment, so
we just became basic infant treatment walking around just like
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all the other three elevens, which we were all trained
for that. Anyway, it was fine, it was no big deal.
We were basic infantrymen. Now, remember I told you we're nasty,
And remember we haven't slept in anything resembling a bed
or even a cot or anything like that. In weeks,
we get called down to the company commander's office and
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he gives us some of the best coolest news ever.
I'll finish this in a second hangout
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