Military Involvement with Protesters

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. Aa. 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, 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 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.

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, 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 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 of today, 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 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 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, 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 that doesn't stand out to

me that was political, myself included. I know you're probably thinking, well, 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 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 go smash some skulls, we would have been beside ourselves with excitement. This is they Like I said, it was

not even a political thing. If you told us that there were a bunch of people looting and burning and American city that would have bothered us a great deal, and you 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 some commie rioters face in. I would have absolutely loved the opportunity to do so. We ran into one in a well, you know what, 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 men's football and basketball bringing all the money, 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 allowing these athletes to sign endorsement deals? What did I say was going to happen? Chris creeah. 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 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 that brings revenue into the university. That's big schools, small schools. Most of the unionies. 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. 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, 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 ends, because remember, you only would sponsor a player. 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 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 expect the starting quarterback to advertise for your local chicken wing company because you expect his endorsement to bring in business and you want to sell more chicken wings. Who is 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. 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'd tell you that to this day, when I had to go to the gymnastics meets and when I got 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 stance, nobody's buying gymnastics merch. But when you combine the fact that other sports don't 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 get a million dollars a year and she was going to feel entitled to some of that sheddar herself. It was obvious. That's how it works. All right, to move off of this and talk about the national debt. It is the

Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday. Remember if you miss any part of the show, If you missed our Alexander the Great 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 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. 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, 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 America. And I realized we have a bunch of foreigners listening to But I'm just speaking as an American. We don't 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 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. 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 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 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 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 if you have a small one bedroom apartment. It's air condition 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 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 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 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 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 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 we have the maybe temporarily we

should be spending more than we 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 we're thirty seven trillion dollars in debt is a disgrace. It's pathetic. I'll be honest. It embarrasses me. It embarrasses me. We are the young NBA player who makes twenty million and spends thirty million a year. We're the rapper who goes bankrupt, but he's got a diamond necklace worth eight

hundred thousand dollars. That's us here in the United States of America. Embarrassing. But we have allowed to happen to the treasury. That's how it goes, All right, move on, do some other stuff. It is Jesse Kelly Show on a wonderful Friday and ask doctor Jesse Friday. And we're not discussing anymore of this regime change stuff right now. I realize missiles are flying and threats are being tossed around, and it's probably going to be a wild weekend over

there in the old Levant. So we're just going to sit here and answer some ask Doctor Jesse questions, and I guess we'll sift through the carnage on Monday. Jesse, your history discussions and your comments the other night about whether we are still a nation prompt me to request or 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 were colonies 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 call, any estate, 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 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 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? 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 should it function? 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 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 are absolutely necessary for a federal government to do. Things like currency. You can't have South Carolina having a different currency to 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. 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, 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 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 able 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 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 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 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. Hell, keep 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 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. 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

king where the president can just declare a war. But I mean, all the way back to LBJ, I mean, shoot, you can, are you 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 because he was a worthless 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. In the public opinion polls were always against them. The public was dead set against 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 Zimmerman 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 to wait for cons 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 your rant

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 jail as a member of a jury here in Alabama is as heavy as tin 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 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 you mental health it is appropriate at times. Of course, of course, at 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 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 side of the light of life that you know, there's an ugly side out there, and I don't necessarily think

that's unhealthy. It may be painful, but I don't necessarily think that's unhealthy. 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, 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've 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. 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 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 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 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 fly got my test results back and that I have giardia, a parasite, and they're telling me this like with a heavy like 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. 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 for five days while everyone else was suffering like the These are the kind of things that always happened 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 Betid 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. Find the heat 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 remove 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 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

our mop gear for lots of the time. That's your don't don't die from gas gear. That's what it is. So what 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, 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 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 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 into right now. Picture two or three weeks in the desert with all this. By the time we get to Baghdad, 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 Martyr Monument Park 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. Is this is twenty years ago. At the time, there was a big pond in the in there. I can't even describe how badly we wanted to go have 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 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'd ever 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.

Just we weren't in a mortar friendly environment, so we just became basic infantrymen walking around just like all the other Oath 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 he gives us some of the best coolest news ever.

I'll finish this in a second. Hangou