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Medal Of Honor Monday featuring U.S. Navy Spanish-American War vet Gunner's Mate 3rd Class John Davis

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Speaker 1

This is a podcast from woor.

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It is Jesse Kelly Show. Another hour of The Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Monday. Of course, it's Medal of Honor Monday, which I'll get to in just a moment.

Speaker 3

Then we're going to get to actually something that's happening in here and Germany.

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We'll all explain. I'll get to all that. Just trust me, it'll be good. Ah that and so much more still to come on The Jesse Kelly Show. Now, first, before we do any of that, it's been all of our Monday time. Every Monday, we take a Medal of Honor citation, we read it, talk about it a little, and then we get back to the news and emails and everything else.

But I do get emails from time to time of people wondering why the Medal of Honor citations all seem to come from World War Two, Korea, Vietnam, or kind of the global War on terror A right, A lot of people seem to want to, hey, why not older Jesse, where's the Civil war stuff? Where's the where's the you know, the Spanish Civil War stuff, the Spanish American War. I'm sorry, where where's the World War one stuff. We get a

lot of those questions. So Chris had the idea. I think I think it's a pretty good idea to read one. Don't worry, I'll get to a different one. This isn't gonna be the only one. But would you like to know why we don't read the ones older than World War Two? Allow me to introduce an American hero who deserves all the credit in the world. He was actually born in Germany, but became an American fought with the

US Navy in the Spanish American War. So, without further ado, Chris, would you play the music for a United States Navy gunners made third class John Davis, right.

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Hey, honoring those who went above and beyond.

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It's Medal of Honor Monday on board the U Marblehead during the operation of cutting the cable leading from San Fuegos, Cuba, the eleventh of May eighteen ninety eight, facing heavy fire of the enemy, Davis sit an example of extraordinary bravery and coolness throughout his action. That's that's it. That's it for the citation. That's why we don't read the older ones. And maybe you're thinking, well, at least go get the information and tell you. Well, that's the that's the thing.

If I sound frustrated, it's because I am frustrated. Oftentimes it's not available. We are so used to this information age, at least I am. I shouldn't put words in your mouth. I'm so used to the information age that when I want to know something, it's on my phone. I was actually messing with my car over the weekend. Had to spend a little time under the hood. You know, don't like to brag what Chris, I had to put in

more windshield washer fluid. Anyway, I had to spend some time under the hood, and I had a question about something. I just pulled my phone out and looked it up. No, I didn't have a question about putting in the windshield washer fluid. Chris, I was looking at I was curious when I was tweaking the wrenches and stuff under there, I was curious about anyway. I just looked it up on my phone. All the information was right there. We're used to having the information right there. The older stuff

is oftentimes not around. So without further ado, let's do the real one. This is from the United States. Well, not that that one wasn't real. That was disrespectful. Let's do a longer one. This is one that you will know well. It's from Mogadishu, Somalia, during our operations over there. And this is the Medal of Honor citation for a Gary Ivan Gordon. You know he was one of the Delta Force snipers that did something very very brave that day.

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Hey, honoring those he went above and beyond its Medal of Honor Monday.

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Master Sergeant Gary I. Gordon, United States Army distinguished himself

by action above and beyond the call of duty. On the third of October nineteen ninety three, whilst serving as a sniper team leader, United States Army Special Operations Command with Task Force Ranger in Bogadishu, Somalia, Master Sergeant Gordon's sniper team provided precision fires from the lead helicopter during an assault and at the two helicopter crash sites while subjected to intense automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenade fires.

When Master Sergeant Gordon learned that ground forces were not immediately available to secure the crash site, he and another sniper unhesitatingly volunteered to be inserted to protect the four critically wounded personnel. Being well aware of the growing number of enemy personnel closing in on the site. After his third request to be inserted, Master Sergeant Gordon received permission

to perform his volunteer mission. When debris and enemy ground fires at the site caused him to abort the first attempt. Master Sergeant Gordon was inserted one hundred meters south of the crash site, equipped with only his sniper rifle in a pistol. Master Sergeant Gordon and his fellow sniper, while under intense small arms fire from the enemy, fought their way through a dense maze of shanties and shacks to

reach the critically injured crew members. Master Sergeant Gordon immediately pulled the pilot and other crew members from the aircraft, establishing a perimeter which placed him and his fellow sniper in the most vulnerable position. Master Sergeant Gordon used his long range rifle and sidearm to kill an undetermined number of attacks until he depleted his ammunition. Master Sergeant Gordon then went back to the wreckage, recovering some of the

crew's weapons and ammunition. Despite the fact that he was critically low on ammunition, he provided some of it to the dazed pilot and then radioed for help. Master Sergeant Gordon continued to travel the perimeter protecting the down crew. After his team member was fatally wounded and his own rifle ammunition exhausted, Master Sergeant Gordon returned to the wreckage, recovering a rifle with the last five rounds of ammunition

and gave it to the pilot with the words good luck. Then, armed with only his pistol, Master Sergeant Gordon continued to fight until he was fatally wounded. His actions saved the pilot's life. Master Sergeant Gordon's extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest standards of military service and reflect great credit upon him, him his unit in the United States Army, and he gave his life

for this country. A uh, you know what I've always thought was really awesome, awe inspiring, really impressive is how many guys have given their lives for pilots and helicopter crews and things like that that have gone down in hostile territory. A lot of this is special operations guys, rangers do some of this stuff, stuff like that. But I think about the SAG guys in Vietnam used to do this stuff all the time. It's something that happens

in the military. But sometimes on these missions, everyone will be dead. Where you're going. You're going to risk your life to rescue people who lots of times they're already dead. But it means so much to the men to get their bodies back and to bring them back that men will die in the effort to try to bring people back. And you already know the story because you're well aware of black Hawk down. But those two Delta Force guys in that helicopter, they were above and they were safe,

relatively safe. Okay, not super safe. You can always catch around from somebody. But where they were flying in that helicopter above all that. They were not right down by the ground. They were safe up by where they were. And those helicopters went down, these two studs practically demanded they be set down. And I've read stories like that before. I read one over the weekend of green beret who his buddy was on the ground and his buddy told the helicopter pilot leave me, I'm not going to make it.

This is in Vietnam. The Green beret who was still in the helicopter held a gun to the back of the pilot's head and said, you set it down. Now we're going to get him, and he made him, at gunpoint go down. No, we're going to get my friend. That's awesome and a lot of men, a lot of men have died going to do that stuff, and I've just always really admired it. I think it's really awesome. All Right, let's discuss something that's happening here and something

that's happening in Germany. Yeah, I know you don't really care about Germany, but I'm just going to use it as an example. Before we get to that, let's get to preborn. Let's get to something good and wonderful. It's been heavy and dark. Preborn is the light a young mother. Is there anything more precious and wonderful than a young mother? And think about this concept. A young woman she's about to kill her baby preborn comes alongside her and says, hey,

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ridiculous that it's tax deductible. I tell you about preborn if it wasn't. But you give them whatever you want and deduct it on your taxes. Preborn dot com slash jesse twenty eight bucks buys that ultrasound twenty eight dollars for a life that worth it. Preborn dot com slash jesse sponsored by Preborn We'll be back.

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He doesn't care if you believe him.

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See Kelly Show on a wonderful Monday, and we're about to talk about something. It may take me a few minutes, but you have to stay with me. This is gonna come to the Trump executive orders saying hey, no more government money for NPR, no more government money for PBS and things like that. But before we get to that specifically, let's discuss what has happened to our country. So I'll about you to think about it in this way. I want you to think about your house, or we'll do

my house for the purposes of it my house. Ah, but I we budget. We have a budget. Don't think it's anything it's fancy. It's an Excel spreadsheet, probably the same kind of budget. We all know Chris budgets, but I'm sure Corey budgets. It's a budget, and it has on mind same thing that's on yours. Okay, Well, the car payment's this, and the house payment is that, and so you have this long list of necessities that are going to come out every month. Insurance, and it's that

same kind of thing. But then everybody, if you're smart, you have extras built into your budget that aren't necessities. For instance, me chips, I say chips, but we will make it about any kind of junk food. Let's just make it about chips. That We'll make it about Dorito's for now, Okay, Doritos. That's obviously not a necessity, So it doesn't go into a permanent portion of my budget. It's one of those things that I can do or do without depending on whether or not money's coming in.

You got it. You got the same thing. But here's what's happened to the United States of America. You see, I I don't want my doritos to be optional. In my mind, my burrito, my burritos, my doritos are as important to our home as the car payment, the house payment. They're certainly as important as the kids. We should make my derrito's part of the permanent budget. It shouldn't be

in the extra budget. And so, year after year after year after year after year, I've been working on OB and working on OB and working on OB, and finally I've gotten to the place where the permanent family budget has a specific amount of money dedicated to my doritos every month and it's not optional. Okay, by the way, I haven't done that, but just think about how ridiculous that would be. Right. That is what has happened with American communism when it comes to the budget of the

United States of America. You see, politics, Republican or Democrat are supposed to be separate. I know it's weird, but they're supposed to be separate from the government. Once you have an official government role, once you are the president, you don't get to politic on behalf of Democrats, not

when you're doing the job a president, right. I know that's kind of the president makes it weirder, but for instance, when you're running for Congress, or if you're in Congress, if you are a member of Congress, a member of the House of Representatives, did you know you are not allowed to discuss your congressional campaign or anyone else's congressional campaign while inside the congressional office office building offices. Why well,

those are taxpayer funded offices. While you're in there, you're not campaigning, you're not a candidate, you're not helping anyone else campaign. Your job once you've been elected is simply to represent the people. The politics, the getting elected, and all that stuff has to be separate. That's how it has to work in a country. But if you're an American communist, well that doesn't work for you. You're looking for a level of permanence, if you will. You don't

want your doritos to be optional. You don't want your communism to be optional. You want to find a way to guarantee that the United States government will pay for your communism at all times, now, in forever. And the sad part about that is, over years and years and years and years and years, they've been insanely successful in that endeavor. Communists have ensured over years and years that we the American taxpayer will fund them fund their revolution.

Why did Stacy Abrams Cloimate group get a two billion dollar taxpayer check. That's why they've put this system in place. So Trump comes out puts out this presidential order that says, hey, no more taxpayer money for NPR PBS. That's just not good. Everyone knows those are like the most two left wing organizations. Ever, how did the media respond to this kind of stuff.

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It is a fundamental attack on this is Jonathan K.

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Park.

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It is a fundamental attack on our constitution, on the foundation of this country. People need to understand and remember.

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Just just pause on that for a moment. Think about that way of thinking. Taking taxpayer funds away from NPR and PBS. To Jonathan, that's an attack on the constitution. Do you see. I'll let them go in a moment, but do you see what they've done in their minds and in the minds of so many democrats. Democrats they really think that the government should use your money for

their purposes. And you can hold up NPR as an example and point out how left wing it is, and then point out the taxpayer dollars that go to NPR and you wouldn't get a Democrat to bat an eye because in their minds, well, that's how it's supposed to work. And if you're trying to take away the taxpayer money from my stuff, then my goodness, it's unconstitutional.

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It is a fundamental attack on our constitution, on the foundation of this country. People need to understand and remember there is only one profession that is protected in the constant.

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Listening to him talk reminds me. Have you gotten your testosterone levels checked? Do you want to sound? Do you want to sound like Jonathan KPart If your t levels get any lower, you're going to America's losing testosterone at an alarming rate fifty percent in fifty years. It's in the water. We can't what do we do?

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Well?

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I know in response to this, of course, we've done the worst thing possible. There's a new tea clinic on every corner. Don't do that. That's horrible for you and you don't need it. Fix things naturally, get all your levels where they need to be naturally. That's what Chalk is here for. Go to choq dot com real quick. You know I'm not even telling you about anything. Go look at chalk dot com. Choq dot com and go look at the stuff they have. Whatever you're looking for.

They have an incredible natural herbal supplement to make your life better. I personally take a male Vitality stack every day. That's what I'd recommend for the fellas, or a female Vitalis Lody stack for the ladies. Get a subscription. You'll be feeling better before you know it. Choq dot com promo code Jesse We'll be back Oway and happy Sinco Tomayo once again from us to you here at the Jesse Kelly Show. And remember if you want to email us,

you can Jesse at Jesse Kellyshow dot com. Celebrating as only we can. So they're very, very concerned about the potential for taxpayer money being taken away from PBS and PR. Jake Tapper doesn't know how kids are going to learn how to read.

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Peter Johnson has said he would additionally like to cut funding for public broadcasting PBS, which does does receive.

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Some support from the federal government. I just it's interesting.

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I just have to say, on a personal level, I learned to read by watching Sesame Street and Mister Rogers Neighborhood and the Electric Company that's that's literally how I learned to read as a kid.

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Sessmes literally literally how you learn to read. But we'll set aside the literally thing. But that's funny because they're not teaching that the way they used to. In fact, this is what your child learns now when you sit them down for Sesame Street. Remember what we talked about with.

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The doritos and slowly moving it into the permanent family budget, and how America's communists have slowly over the years taken their communism and ingrained it in the government so you have to pay for it.

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This is what your money funds now.

Speaker 1

Across the country, people of color, especially in the black community, are being treated unfairly because of how they look, their their culture, race, and who they are. What we are seeing as people saying enough is enough. They want to end racism and listen, isn't.

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Two Oh you didn't think that was all. Here's some more Sesame Street.

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Hi Elma and I wanted to share that everyone is always welcome on Sesame Street. This month and every month, we want to uplift and celebrate our lgb t q I A plus family, friends and communities.

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US friendissary lot from our sesame Street family to yours head, be proud.

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I'm a messian heavy pad on that annoying voice. You know what happened in Germany. Germany has a party called the af D Party. Don't worry about remembering that, but it's kind of consider them the more Trump party, the more populist. Hey, let's deport the illegalis party. Their spy agency just classified them as being right wing extremists. Now German police officers who are members of that party maybe expelled. You see what's happening here is what has happened in

every single country where communists have taken over. They slowly but surely move their opinions and make them the law. They move their politics and they make it the law. And they do that in large part so they can use all the force of the law against their political opponents. It's happened in Germany before. As a matter of fact, it happened in the Soviet Union. It's happening in America, it's happening in Germany again. It's happening everywhere. This is

what they do. This is why they do what they do. Moving the doritos from the optional portion of the family budget into the required portion of the family budget. Jake Tapper, of course knows that. He knows that the American media knows that. But watching the scam be exposed and taken away, it's too much for the people who have luxuriated under the scam for a very long time. Let's do some more emails. We haven't done any Jesse at jessekellyshow dot com.

This guy says, hey, Ice cold ghost killer, do you like sunflower seeds? I think your perfect teeth, cheap nature, and tiny hands would make them the ideal snack for the world famous Jesse Kelly, I don't. I don't like sunflower seeds that much. And here's the problem. One, it's a lot of work to get the seed out. I don't want to have to sit in I don't want to have to suck on it for a half hour. And then you have to wait till the shell gets soft enough. But then once the shell soft enough, the

inside of your mouth is raw, feels like leather. Then you have to sit there and kind of awkwardly gnaw on the seed and then you're trying to tongue the little seed out, and your buddies are looking at you weird. Oh and if you are successful in getting the seed out, which is a big if, and if you're successful in not chewing on part of the shell with the seed, again a big if, then you have what to do with the shell. We went to a baseball game a

couple of weeks ago. This isn't about sunflower seeds specifically, but at the baseball game, they sell peanuts, like any red blooded American baseball game would be. We go to sit down in our seats and there were some people who were sitting in our seats, some husband and wife whatever. No we did. We said, hey, these are our seats. That said oh. They looked down, did the same thing everyone else does, acted surprise, and they got up and moved it down the aisle. They were in the same aisle.

They were like five seats away. But he had been eating the peanuts. The peanuts you have to crack, you have to crack open from the peanut shell. He left behind in ocean of cracked peanut shell dust all over my seat, in the floor in front of it. I don't like the mess that the sunflower seed brings with it. I just don't like the mess. No, no, I'm not a sunflower seed guy. It's not that I don't like them. I mean they're They're fine once you get one out of there. The juice is not worth a squeeze on

a sunflower seed. Bottom line, chessis I appreciate you for a couple reasons. One I agree with you on ear everything, and two you are so positive in a day when it's easy to be negative, even when the news is sickening. So thank you. Huh. It's not that I'm I mean, I guess sometimes I can be positive, sometimes I can be negative. I just don't think I'll tell you what I think about the times we live in. I don't think they're unique. They're unique to us, and they may

be unique to our country. I would agree with that. But one of the reasons I love history as it gives me perspective when I read about remember that story, Remember that history story we did about the Great flood of China that one time. It was a long time ago. Don't even bother going to try to find it. I don't even know where it would be. It's got to be years old, years old, and look, I've forgotten most of it by this point. But there was this terrible

flood in China, this river overflowed. Now we're not talking about a flood that took out a home or two, and we're not talking about a month or two. Essentially, a bunch of people in China when this flood happened, they lived. Have you ever seen the movie water World where there is no dry land, there's there's just nothing but whatever. You cobble together as a boat and you live on the water like water people, that's what you do.

That's how people in China were living. And they reached such a level Chris, look up the death toll for this thing. They reach such a level of devastation during this river, during this river flood that families who were floating on makeshift rafts and boats up the river, they would sell their children. They would pick a child and sell the child to other people, to other boats who

were passing by, so that other boat could eat their child. Now, I know I just bumped the microphone, chrisy To'll be fine. Now just think about that for a moment. The level of despair and desperation. And this is not some crazy story. It's happened. It's happened. These things have happened throughout history. So when I look at our problems. It's not that they're not big. They're enormous and they are important. It's just what chance, what choice do we have but to

roll with the punches. Man, Let's laugh a little bit, goof off a little bit. I was gonna do some COVID stuff with parents. I don't even have the heart to. Let's talk a little bit about Alcatraz being reopened according to Trump, and then we'll do some emails and things like that. Sound good. Hang on the Jesse Kelly Show. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Monday. Remember, you can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com or downloaded on iheard Spotify iTunes. Okay, so let's

talk about the Alcatraz thing. Everybody's talking about it today and it's not something you need to focus on at all, but Trump orders the reopening of Alcatraz. Alcatraz Prison. It's obviously that famous prison off the coast of San Francisco that it was for the worst of the worst inmates. Al Capone was held there for a while. Well, you've at least seen enough movies to know exactly what I'm talking about. Alcatraz actually I've never been to it, as

a matter of fact, but it's cool. It's really really cool. It's an island prison. Now. I'm not going to spend a lot of time on this because it's really not important. But if you're one of the people who's upset about it, and you're pointing out I don't like I don't like the costs, or I don't like the distraction, or I don't like this, allow me to remind you again that Trump he's been shot. This is his last four years. He is either eighty or pushing eighty. Is he eighty eight?

Chris has got to be close to it these upper eighties. Doesn't have a ton of time. Let yet, even if he lives, you know, into his nineties, you're certainly on the back back end of the whole thing. Donald Trump has his name on buildings and golf courses around the globe. He is the once shot, former and current president of

the United States of America. He's going to try to do big things like we talked about with the buying greenland stuff and renaming the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America and taking back to Panama Canal and the trade stuff. The trade stuff is actually a great example of this. The trade stuff, all the trade stuff tariff is and tariff that no tariffs, but we need tariff. I whatever. Donald Trump intends to leave a mark, a

big mark, and he's going to do big things. Remember when I told you, Remember when I told you Trump's two hundred and fiftieth independent state that's next year. Next year is our two hundred and fiftieth. That Trump is going to blow it out and do it bigger than you can imagine. Did you think I was kidding about that?

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A big, beautiful parade, a military pario. We have the greatest welter people peanuts compared to the value of doing it. We have the greatest missiles in the world. We have the greatest submarines in the world. We have the greatest army tanks in the world. We have the greatest weapons in the world.

Speaker 2

And we're going to celebrate it. Donald Trump sees things big. He's always been that way. What do you think he's going to do with his last four years as president? He's not running again. He's going to try big things. Don't sit and stress about dumb things that don't matter at all, and don't stress about ihan Omar being a dirt ball either, I know she is, you know she.

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I would say, our country should be more fearful of white man across our country because they are actually crossing most of the deaths within this country. And so if fear was the the driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.

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Remember I told you, don't get offended, don't get offended, don't get offended, don't do that. I can't believe she's saying that about white people. That's racist. And I got all that, don't get offended, don't be offended. But be aware, be aware that this way of thinking, this way of talking has been ingrained over and over and over again in the left. I was going to say the American left, but that's not true. The left in the UK thinks this exact same way. Germany thinks this exact same way.

These countries have decided that white men are the height of all evil. And look, you want to know why, here's a good example. Rasmussen has a new poll out today about Trump's net approval. Trump's net approval with men. Married men eighteen to thirty nine is thirty nine percent. That's ridiculous. Young men between the ages of eighteen thirty nine who are married love Trump. Unmarried women negative thirty seven percent is Trump's net approval. They have decided that

men in particular are the height of all evil. Demographically, they really have narrowed their focus to white men because for a variety of reasons. One it's how white men vote, but two, that's the demographic you can attack publicly without any without any response whatsoever, no repercussions at all. You

can get on and say whatever you want. You can call white people evil, call them terrorists, say they all to deserve to be arrested and profiled and die and know what bad and I if you said that about any other race or religion or whatnot, you'd immediately have your whole career destroyed. You already get all that, but you don't have to get offended. But you do have to be aware that that's how these people talk. Lots of them talk this way. The Jasmine Crocketts of the world.

They spread this stuff.

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Instead of publicly calling us the in word, they use races epithets and suggests that we're ghetto or unqualified or diversity hires, even though we're all more oftentimes than that, more educated and qualified than they are.

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That's quite a thing to say, but that's how she is. Hey, Jesse, I love the show, especially love hearing about Fred, since it reminds us of our dog Cooper, who we recently lost. Always needed affection and was anxious whenever someone left for even a few minutes. Keep up the good work. I hope Jewish producer Chris is kind enough to pass this along to you. Says, I can say their names. Their names are Kevin and Tina. It's freaking dogs, man. They

just become part of your family. It's you know what's happened to Fred? Fred has? He now has this really weird misplaced sense of his role in the family because whenever he gets in trouble by one person, the other three people in the family will immediately leap to his defense. So he's never actually in serious trouble because the second someone raises their voice, everyone else jumps in and says, hey, he didn't mean to do that. It's really quite pathetic. This has been a podcast from wor

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