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can hurt us. Imagine it's twenty thirty and Gavin Newsom is now president. Gives me the willies. Swat teams are going house to house, knocking on doors and demanding that people give up their guns or go to a re education camp. Please tell me what use all our guns are going to be against the government taking away are guns? Can you see the average yellow, yellow bellied American of today standing up and fighting the government. People can't even be bothered to vote. All right, Well, that's a very

fair question. One let's understand what motivates most people, what motivates you in moments, at least if you're being honest and me in moments, necessity necessity. Have you ever gone through a period of time in your life or maybe it's been your whole life, or maybe you're in one right now where you weren't working out, you're being lazy. I have this really yo yo thing when it comes to working out. I will go all in two three months,

I'm all in. It's three four times a week, if not more, working out, working out, working out, get myself in great shape. Then like it's almost like a light switch. I don't even understand how it happen. Happens. I'll just stop, Nah, I don't feel like it. I'll stop and then I'll double down on that and I'll start eating terribly. Do you know what gets me back in the gym. This has happened so many times. I'm ashamed. I'm embarrassed to

even say it. I wish I was a different person, a better person, but you know, it gets me back in the gym. I'll be getting in the shower one day and I'll turn and look at it myself in the mirror, naked and I'll go, oh gosh, what did you do to yourself? You disgusting tub glue goo, And next day back in the gym. Necessity drives so much of what we do. If you're being honest, if you've ever had a job, or maybe you're at one now where you hear layoffs are coming, or that's the rumor

layoffs are coming. You work a little harder that day, don't you. Maybe you show up a little earlier in the coming days, the coming weeks earlier than you normally do. Don't you stay late? Hey boss, just tear grinding, don't you I've done it? Why why weren't you doing that before? Well? In necessity? Now now now it's dire. You accurately point out the apathy of a large portion of Americans. There are a few things that are more disheartening politically than

looking at the voting totals for local elections. Just set aside president stuff, and because those can go either way, but local elections, you know, your community, your local government, in your state government actually has so much more to do with your quality of life than the federal government does. They just do. Look at how many people show up, and you look at those numbers, and you say to yourself, this whole population is apathetic. They're not involved, they don't care.

That these people will never stand up and fight back. But that would be it will be a mistake to look at it that way. People are apathetic naturally until they can't be anymore. I'm actually working on something right now. I've told you my next history episode is going to be the Rhodesian Bush War, right and I'm not going to spoil it for you, but I'll give you just a little tidbit of something. I'm getting background on the area.

I'm doing a bunch of reading and watching stuff and listening to things on the background of the area so I can set up the area appropriately for you. And at some point in time, the Africans, this is before actual Rhodesia, the Africans rebel against the Europeans that are there, but they didn't rebel right away. In fact, the rebellion the revolt was a bit of a shock because they had been working with and for the Europeans for a

year or more with not really major problems. All of a sudden, you open up the door of your hut and there are twelve angry Africans with war clubs getting ready to bash your skull in and you're looking around saying, what, well, what happened? It was fine until it wasn't fine anymore. If you are concerned about one day we get another communist government in there and they attempt to do worse things than even the Biden administration did, that's a valid concern.

That's a very valid concern, because they will try to They're going to double and triple down the next time if they can. The only lesson Democrats learned from all the evil crap they've done over the last ten years is they didn't do enough of it. That's the only lesson they've learned. So that's a very valid concern. But

you can only push people so far. Just because my normy neighbor skips a local election, even though I'm yelling at him, doesn't mean he's not going to step up and load a magazine if he hears the government is going door to door confiscating people's guns. That for him is probably a bridge too far, and now people are gonna die and understand this. There are a lot of bravado sounding statements around guns in the Second Amendment. In

America's gun ownership and things like that. You know, the Second Amendment is the one that protects the rest of them. But almost all those statements just like that one are one hundred percent true, and the government knows it, and the military knows it, and every law enforcement agency from federal to local knows it. Your local police department wherever it is, would be brushed aside like gnats. If the armed people in your area ever chose to do so,

it would be like nothing. And I've told you this before, and please don't do this, Please don't organize this or do this. The reason it's so laughable that they called the January sixth and insurrection is simply this. I know, you think about DC almost like it's a fortress with all the cameras and the cops and the Secret Service and the FBI, and that there's all whoa, there's all

these federal guns. And if the American people wanted to march into Washington, DC and wipe out the entire government, including the FBI, including the Secret Service, it would be easy. Did you know that? Just numbers wise, it would be nothing. The reason it's laughable that it was an insurrection is if there was ever in a tempted resurrection or resurrection insurrection by Americans in this country. It would succeed. Unless

it was unbelievably tiny, it would succeed. There's nothing they could do about it that the Secret Service would have to scramble to get Trump on a helicopter and get him out of town before him because there's no stopping those numbers. As Napoleon so famously said, quantity has a quality all its own. It's a great line, and it's very, very true. The American citizen has more guns and ammunition than every branch of the military and every law enforcement

agency in this country combined by orders of magnitude. The American citizens, should they, god forbid ever feel the need to revolt, would win. And the military knows it, and the cops know it. And I mean, you can say a swat team, what if the swat teams? Swat teams know it too. Quantity has a quality on its own. Don't ever, ever, ever give up your guns. Ever. The reason they've been trying for so so long is they

know what I just said is true. And should they ever succeed in confiscating our guns and taking them away, then what I just said becomes completely untrue. Then we would lose, Then we would be massacred. Whenever we get an evil enough communist who wants to go do well what communists have always done. Don't ever give up your guns ever. And that little fact I told you about how we could sweep these people out if we ever chose so chose to do so. They all know it

and all hate it. Did you know that drive some razy, absolutely crazy outifi iTunes. People be texting today, Chris, I can't help it.

free money every month month until they die. Am I the only one that angers to no end? It makes me say, in the name of a just merciful gosh, in the name of a just merciful guy, what's say you? Yeah? I hate it, and I have friends who do it are doing it. When we got out of the Marine Corps, we got the same thing, you know, the same people in our ear that young veterans get today. People telling you, hey,

go claim disability, Hey, get down to the VA. Hey, if you do X, Y and Z, if you claim this, if you claim that, if you claim this, then you get free money. You get free money, You get free money. And I never was never even tempted to do it. I I kind of look at it as theft. If I'm being honest, I feel like it's theft. I feel like it's stevius and dirty, and I feel like it

is disrespectful to veterans who legitimately need it. That's what I feel like, because I have friends who legitimately need it. One of my buddies, he was a sniper in Iraq and he was up on a rooftop. It doesn't matter. But the roof caved in and he fell I think like three or four stories through the building. And he's actually the guy I bailed out of jail in Mexico, by the way, and I was not with him when it happened. I heard it had happened. We were in Iraq.

I had heard it. It happened, I think about a week after it happened, and by the time I had heard, they didn't know if he was still alive. And he ended up living by the grace of God. And this is a very physical, awesome dude. He was just an awesome dude. And the next time I saw him, I would say it was a year later. I'm just guessing on that. Who knows. A year later finally saw him on base. His entire freaking body was pins and needles and casts, and I don't I think he broke both legs,

has himp both arms, ribs. It was awful, like his body was shattered. You're right, Chris, very lucky to be alive. Now you're telling me that you deserve the same disability that guy deserves. That guy's going to have physical problems the rest of his life. That guy's my age, and he probably has arthritis all over his body from all that damage and inflammation and that, and it it seems dishonorable to those guys to go claim something like that. So I never did it. I never liked it, never

did it. Wasn't even tempted to do it. And I did go to the VA. There's a big VA in Tucson, Arizona, and I went. I was having all kinds of stomach problems when I got back from Iraq. I still don't know what it was. Fine, it's fine now, but I was having these real bad stomach problems. So I was going to the VA. And you know, if you're a veteran of a form war, you get free health care at the VA. At least that's how it was. I'm

assuming it still is. And I'll tell you what really hit me is you would go to the VA and get these appointments, and you're sitting in there and you're looking at all these old timers, you know, World War two vets and Korean War vets, and they're cool hats on, and you just know that guy's freaking cool. And then you're sitting there. I'm sitting there pretty much. And I'm able bodied. I'm having problems, that's why I'm there, but I'm able bodied. And it made me self conscious about

taking up their space. And maybe that's a bad way to look at I'm not saying I'm right, but it made me self conscious about taking up their space. And then the longer I would go to the VA, Iraq was getting worse, you know, Irack got worse. After I got back, Afghanistan was getting worse. And then younger guys with significant injuries were starting to walk and be wheelchaired through the halls at the VA, and that made me even more self conscious. Now we're looking at guys my age,

and he doesn't have a leg, you know. Now we're looking at guys my age and he's got burns all over his body, and it just I don't want to take up their space, if that makes sense. Does that make any sense? I just don't want to. It made me feel dirty, and I am a terrible person, I admit that, but it made me feel a little bit dirty, all right, right, And that's the kind of dirt you don't want on your conscience. You just don't want that on your conscience. I don't want it on mine. I've

got enough bad things I've done on my conscience. I don't need to add anything else to it. A Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful, wonderful Friday. Remember you can email us steal. We're live here on a Friday Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Let's knock out a couple of food things because Thanksgiving is coming next week, and I want to give you heads up on something for next week before we get into this. I think I'm gonna start this on Tuesday, Monday or Tuesday, but I'm

gonna give you a heads up now. On Wednesday, We're gonna do a show I'm similar to our normal show, of course, with issues in the stories of the day and things like that. But I'm gonna start asking for things you're thankful for. I used to do when we rarely would take phone calls. Those were usually my favorite nights, the ones tell me something you're grateful for. Sometimes that can be hard to see, especially when you're going through hard times, hard to find something to be grateful for.

But I think it's important, especially in this season. It's a good season to do that. So I'm gonna ask for it'll be emails, it won't be phone calls. Something to consider thinking about. I'm gonna start asking for those. And it doesn't have to be huge, right, But it can't be Hey, I'm cancer free. You know. It could be small. It could be whatever. I'm grateful I have shoes, whatever it is, find something to be thankful for in your life. It's a very healthy way to live. Jesse

actually says Bronco. My wife gave me the okay to smoke chicken for Thanksgiving. She hates turkey. Sounds like a wonderful woman. What are your recommendations to brine or not to Brian the day before? What do you recommend for a good rub? His name is Mike. I don't I don't hope I didn't give you the impression that I'm a good cook. I'm joking when I call myself a pitmaster. I have a pellet smoker. Any idiot can use a

pellet smoker. That's actually exactly why I got the pellet smoker, because I'm an idiot and I don't know what I'm doing any more. On can turn on a pellet smoker and throw a brisket on there and just leave it for twenty four hours and pull it off and it'll be delicious. Any moron can do that. That's why I do that. I don't know what I'm doing. I don't have any idea, but I'll tell you what I do know. People criticize the Internet, and your criticisms are usually justified.

Of course, this is bad for you, and that's bad for you, and social media and all the other smut garbage, all that's bad for you. All that's very valid, But remember it can be wonderful. You know how easy it is now to find things online websites, social media of how to cook things and they'll even break down a little video for you. Go find good Point. Chris chef Gruel. Chef Andrew Gruhle is a friend of mine. He's awesome, awesome dude. Go follow Gruel on social media and he will.

I guarantee he's going to break it down for you. And he does it in ways that are affordable too. It's not all this well you have to use the gold flakes and the truff with He's just a normal dude. He will have you eating some of the best stuff in your life that there's there are resources out there for people all right, But in general, I will give you this. I'm a beer canned chicken guy, and I

found these things. Every every guy who's a pit master's gonna mock me right now, but I found these things. Where it's a stand for beer care beer caned chicken. You used to have to balance it yourself or something, but now there's an actual stand where you put the beer can in and it'll hold the chicken up low and slow with beer canned chicken, and it's delicious. It

just is you cook everything the temperature that much. I know, put a freaking thermometer in there and cook the temperature it Jesse, I was attending my first holiday dinner of the season. I'm completely mortified by what people do to desserts. There's a delicious looking chocolate bunk cake covered in a vomit brown coconut molasses, chocolate brownies with pecans in them. Oh, come on, pumpkin pie with no cool whip or even whipped cream. I had to settle for a piece of

lemon sponge cake. Please help your audience's holiday season, and if they bring a dessert, keep it simple and delicious. Everybody wants to be special. I do you do people don't want to be like everyone else. They want to have something special. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's good to be ambitious and want to rise above. But in an effort to be special, people can oftentimes ruin something that is good. And you see this a lot with food, especially with desserts. We don't really need

your special flare on apple pie. Just make apple pie be fine. That's right. Bring a think of vanilla ice cream and throw it on some warm apple pie as good as it gets. You definitely don't need to nut the dessert. Can we stop putting pecans and various nuts and the brownies? It's like a there's just nothing worse than biting into a brownie and it's moist and it's delicious, and then just this nut assalts your mouth. It's the worst thing in the world. Can we stop nutting that?

There's no need of nut the desserts. There's Simplicity is key. I've told you Obbs a great baker. Everything simple, Everything is simple. Oh that reminds me, I've got a good dessert for you for Thanksgiving. If you got a Thanksgiving coming up and you don't want to go traditional pumpkin pie, banana pudding with the Nila wafers in it. Banana pudding. Of course, everyone in George is nodding, because that's what

Georgia really specializes in. But the rest of the country is not necessarily familiar with the banana putting Georgia to just stow it for a minute. I've got to tell everyone else about this glory. Banana pudding is not even that difficult to make. At least Abbs says it. I don't know. I've never I've never done it. I've watched her, though, and that's quite easy. It's easy watching her do it,

trust me. Banana pudding. Jesse, you speak often about the communists habit of co opting institutions and pointing them at their enemies. Is there a risk that Trump's deportation machine is used to attack the right when Newsome or the next Marxist takes power. There's a chance. I don't know about specifically, Ice, because their role, their job is is so narrow. They can't really wrap up US citizens and that,

but the Communists certainly could find a way. I will say that that's the kind of thing we can't fret about, meaning we can't sit and paralyze ourselves by thinking about everything the communists might do with what we're doing. You can't do that to yourself. It would be like getting in a fistfight. You ever been in a fistfight. The worst thing you can possibly do if you're getting in a fight is sit and think about what he might

do to me if I do this. But if I jab him right there, then he's going to get mad about that. If I kick him here, then I might really make him mad. And then if you start doing that, you're going to lose. Period. When you are up against communists, you know that they're going to use every institution. They will infiltrate it like the little subversives they are, and they will use it for the revolution until it dies. It's what they always do, always have, always will. But

you can't stop you. You can't let that stop you from building institutions. We must have institutions. Nations are built on institutions. What we need to do is be much more vigilant about letting the communists infiltrate them. We were way too negligent, We were way too naive for so long, and one day we woke up and gay the gay pride was in the Boy Scouts. We looked around at thought, wait, what the how did we weren't vigilant enough. We were far too nice while the communist was on the move.

We were naive, We were nice, and we convinced ourselves that at some point he would back off. It would be too far, and he would back off. And then the next day they put gay porn in your child's school library. They don't back off. We have to stop them, all right, we have more next for the last night. Sheila Cheriflous McCormick. I don't know why they always have the hyphenated last name, but look, we all we'll just go with that for now. She's accused of funneling five

million dollars from FEMA into her campaign account. Well that's kind of a big deal. That's kind of thing that's going to send you to prison for a very long time. So, Sheila, what's up with all this stuff?

myself and actually state the truth. But if this is what Congress is becoming, where the're always try to intimidate you scare tactics, especially attacking minorities, black and brown people, then we're going to have to keep fighting for the district.

want anyone in power forever. Remember just a little remedial US history. This idea of presidential term limits, where presidents can only serve two terms, that's relatively new in American history. George Washington was our first president. George Washington was insanely popular in this country after the American Revolution because it's just a boss and everybody was awesome, just an awesome guy, and after two terms, Washington could have walked to re

election forever till we died in office easily. One of the greatest things about George Washington is not just his generalship, not just his bravery on the battlefield, his humility. He loved his wife. It's not just that George Washington gave up power on purpose. He gave up the presidency because he knew it's unhealthy for a nation to have one person in power that long, and it's unhealthy for him to be in power that long. There is no man walking the planet today. You want to rule over you

without end. It's just not I'll tell you something else. We'll come back to the political parties thing in a moment. You've heard of Bouqueley in El Salvador, right if you haven't. He's the one who changed El Salvador from being the murder capital of the world to being one of the safest places in all of the planet. It's safe, it's clean, and he's done just so many wonderful things there. He's cleaning up the streets, he took all the criminals locked

him in cages. He impeached all the judges. He saved the country, and he was supposed to be term limited out according to their constitution. He's been so successful. He's so popular. I believe his approval rating is over ninety percent. Imagine that over ninety percent. Just the whole place is like, yeah, so popular that they changed it so now he can just stay. And I'm I'm a fan. I like him a lot. I don't know him personally, but I'm so impressed with someone who steps in and saves his country.

I mean, so I say this as someone who I admire him and I so respect what he's done. The second I saw that he can stay in power forever. They think he's about my age forty two, I think forty three. I thought to myself, Oh, that's probably going to end badly. This is someone I like. This is someone I like a lot. I respect as far as I can tell from Afar. I mean, he may be a scumbag, as far as I can tell from Afar, seems to have a good heart, wants to save his country, family, man, husband, father,

This is someone I like and respect. He's done an amazing job. And the second I saw he's there forever I thought, Oh, that'll be terrible. It's not healthy to stay in power, to stay in the limelight forever. I've told you before about this job. I'm just so blessed beyond belief to be here, so I don't deserve it. I can't believe you like it. I'm blessed beyond belief to be here. We love what we do. We laugh, we laugh before the show, during the show, we just

we love what we do here. I'm not gonna be doing this when I'm sixty five. I'm not staying that long. I'm not going to I am going to retire, and when I retire, I'm not going to retire and then go put up an Instagram video every fifteen minutes. Hey it's Jesse Kelly. I'm in the meat section of the grocery store. Hey, I've ever been up. I'm just going to go away. I'm gonna retire. I'm gonna go watch my grandkids suck at sports, which I know they're going to.

I'm gonna be at every little choir thing they do. I'm gonna travel with ob as much as I can do so, and I'm just going to disappear and have a normal life because that's healthy. What Chris. Chris said, how are you gonna do that with no hobbies. I'm gonna develop some hobbies, Chris, I've yet. Food is a hobby, Chris, Yes it is. You think I'm not. You think I'm not gonna start just traveling around trying the best stuff out there. By the way, I told you, I'm go

to New York City next week. Not only have I already scouted out a cheese steak place in New York City, I made sure I already sent it to Jewish producer Chris and producer Corey to rub it in their faces that they don't get to eat there and I do. And fellas, don't worry. I may not put it out there for everyone, but I will send you each a detailed review of how delicious it all is, all with pictures. Yeah, no, there are definitely gonna be pictures, probably what Chris? What

Chris is so jealous? So don't worry, buddy, it's not kosher anyway, All right, it's not kosher anyway. You would just have to I would let you sit on the sidewalk and watch me eat it from the outside. That would be something. What then I would well, know what you can come in and mellet that will be better, then you can half enjoy it. I guess we still have an hour left. We're still going to talk about slavery. I do want to address her question about why don't

we just eliminate democrats completely? The hypocrisy. Should we point out the hypocrisy of ice wearing masks? And so much more? Before we get to any of that, Let's get to this. We love our dogs. I love mine, You love yours. Mine's an idiot. Yours is probably smart, but he is the best, and we want him around. Not for ten years, for twelve years.