Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly Show. Let's have some fun on a Friday.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to you. You have made it. The week is
Speaker 1: over and it is smooth sailing from here. Now we
Speaker 1: have an enormous show for you tonight. I want you
Speaker 1: to think. Just close your eyes unless you're driving right now,
Speaker 1: and think about the feminist in your life. Tonight's show
Speaker 1: is bigger than she is. They ask Doctor Jesse Friday
Speaker 1: questions are the greatest we have ever had. And no,
Speaker 1: I don't say that every Friday. Some Fridays are good,
Speaker 1: sum are great, summer average. I mean, we have questions
Speaker 1: about the Olympics, Ewo Jima, Vietnamese general and the Vietnam
Speaker 1: Vietnam War general Gep someone as a Black Lives Matter
Speaker 1: flag waving. Can we actually get out of this political
Speaker 1: situation we're in without violence? All that so much more,
Speaker 1: even deporting your ex wife. Oh, that is coming up
Speaker 1: tonight on the World of Famous Jesse Kelly's Show. But
Speaker 1: we have to do something that I think is important. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the show is not important. It's just a radio show.
Speaker 1: I'm not an important person. I don't have an important job.
Speaker 1: My job is to make your day a little bit
Speaker 1: better for fifteen minutes or three hours, however long I
Speaker 1: have you. That's it. You probably have an important job.
Speaker 1: I do not, But every now and then I think
Speaker 1: it's important that we stop and attempt to do something
Speaker 1: meaningful on the show, something that has very deep meaning
Speaker 1: to me and very deep meaning hopefully to you. Before
Speaker 1: I get into anything else, I'm gonna play something for you,
Speaker 1: and we shouldn't ever underestimate this, the power of music.
Speaker 1: God gave us music. Did you know that? Do you
Speaker 1: remember that story the Old Testament? Chris? You probably remember
Speaker 1: King Saw when he was ravaged by evil spirits? How
Speaker 1: did he calm things down? Music? Maybe right now you're
Speaker 1: going through it in your life. Maybe it's great times,
Speaker 1: maybe it's bad times. I don't. I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I thought it would. I just thought it would. I
Speaker 1: thought it would make your day a lot better if
Speaker 1: we played some powerful, powerful music for you on the show.
Speaker 1: So before we start, I just want you to sit
Speaker 1: back and take this in.
Speaker 2: I thought, invite our neighbors, and we're gonna heal this
Speaker 2: world with loud.
Speaker 1: Tear down the fences. I can't take these were such nutballs.
Speaker 1: They really are just theater kids all the theater. Kids
Speaker 1: grew up and they didn't get efficiently bullied in school,
Speaker 1: and now we have to deal with these people. They
Speaker 1: do this stuff all the time. Hey, drop, where you
Speaker 1: going with that gun in your hands?
Speaker 2: We will over, we will I can't.
Speaker 1: I have to stop. I have to stop them crying.
Speaker 1: All right, quit, We're gonna focus focus. Y See, Conservatives
Speaker 1: have failed to take back the leadership of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party for over one hundred and twenty years. During that time,
Speaker 1: communists have succeeded in taking control of all the cultural institutions.
Speaker 1: Time appears to be on their side. Once communism is
Speaker 1: established in a nation, can you set an example of
Speaker 1: the nation voting its way out? What are your thoughts? Okay,
Speaker 1: so I do want to address this. You say Conservatives
Speaker 1: have failed to take back the leadership of the Republican
Speaker 1: Party for over one hundred and twenty years, and I
Speaker 1: would argue that's that's not true. I know there are
Speaker 1: all kinds of Republican leaders in the low TGOPO who
Speaker 1: are too weak, who you despise. But you know all
Speaker 1: the Republican leadership, you know they all hated Ronald Reagan, right,
Speaker 1: I know that none of them will admit that now.
Speaker 1: Nobody why Because Ronald Reagan got elected and was a
Speaker 1: two term president and was well thought of by the people.
Speaker 1: And so every single dirty snake Republican in leadership who
Speaker 1: tried to torpedo his nomination and keep him out of
Speaker 1: the White House, every one of them now and they're
Speaker 1: much older age. They all talk about how much they
Speaker 1: love Reagan, and Reagan loved me and look at me
Speaker 1: and took a picture with Reagan one time. Ronald Reagan
Speaker 1: was a political outsider Donald Trump. Maybe you don't like
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That's fine, I don't care, doesn't matter. It
Speaker 1: doesn't bother me. I'm not friends with him, doesn't bother me.
Speaker 1: Maybe he does things that get under your skin, totally fine,
Speaker 1: I get it. But do you really understand how much
Speaker 1: those people in Washington, d C. I'm talking about establishment Republicans.
Speaker 1: Do you understand how much they hate him? He's the president.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time he ran in his
Speaker 1: first primary? Do you remember who they wanted the establishment?
Speaker 1: They wanted Jeb Bush. And not only did they want
Speaker 1: Jeb Bush. Jeb Bush was the had a great reputation
Speaker 1: as the governor of Florida. He comes from political royalty.
Speaker 1: Obviously the Bush family and had a brinch truck of money.
Speaker 1: Everything was set up for Jeb Bush to be the nominee.
Speaker 1: Jeb Bush got imbarrassed, embarrassed to such a degree that
Speaker 1: to this day Jeb Bush is a punchline. And if
Speaker 1: you're pretty new to politics, or maybe you're a little
Speaker 1: bit forgetful, you forget that there was a time when
Speaker 1: Jeb Bush was a powerbroker in the Republican Party. Now
Speaker 1: people laugh at him. Donald Trump wasn't supposed to win
Speaker 1: that primary. Donald Trump had no chance. He's too crass,
Speaker 1: he's too he's been married three times. He's not a
Speaker 1: traditional conservative, he's Do you know how many establishment swamp
Speaker 1: rat Republican types have retired in recent years and how
Speaker 1: many are about to retire? You and I we rage
Speaker 1: against dorks like Tom Tillis, the Senator from North Carolina.
Speaker 1: All the time, he sucks, He sucks every day. He
Speaker 1: has a new anti Trump, anti youth thing out there.
Speaker 1: Every day he says something stupid. Tom Tillis is retiring. Why,
Speaker 1: Because Tom Tillis can see the writing on the wall.
Speaker 1: I don't know how the Texas Senate primary is going
Speaker 1: to turn out between John Cornyn and Ken Paxton. I
Speaker 1: have no earthly idea, but I have yet to see
Speaker 1: a poll that shows John Cornyn within sniffing distance of
Speaker 1: Ken Paxton. Do you understand how powerful John Cornyn is.
Speaker 1: John Cornyn has full time security because he has reached
Speaker 1: such a level of leadership in the Republican Party in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. I despise him, but John Cornyn is an
Speaker 1: absurdly powerful man. With a word, John Cornyn can move
Speaker 1: mountains of money two or away from your cause. John
Speaker 1: Cornyn is courted by all the dirty lobbyists in Washington,
Speaker 1: d C. John Cornyan is a mini king. And again,
Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead of myself. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of work to do, There's a lot of time left.
Speaker 1: But John Cornyn probably loses a primary this year. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's fair or accurate to say we you
Speaker 1: and I have never changed the leadership of the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: What I think is fair and accurate are two things.
Speaker 1: First thing, we discussed this a little bit last night.
Speaker 1: Change Political change comes very very Slowlyeople who love and
Speaker 1: read history, you know you'll read seven years of political activism.
Speaker 1: It'll be three pages in a book, so it seems fast.
Speaker 1: In a movie, it's a cutscene. This ten years years.
Speaker 1: It takes years. Political change takes years. That's one and two.
Speaker 1: Up until recent years when the Communists really lost their
Speaker 1: minds and started waking up all the norms and normas
Speaker 1: out there. Up until recent years, the GOP did not
Speaker 1: participate in anything outside of presidential politics. We wouldn't vote
Speaker 1: in primaries, we wouldn't vote in regular elections, we wouldn't
Speaker 1: get involved in off few elections special elections the Communists
Speaker 1: did every single time, every single time. I'll repeat the
Speaker 1: number again. Now this number is improving, so I'm not
Speaker 1: trying to dishearten you. Do you know why the Democrat
Speaker 1: Party has gone communist and the Republican Party hasn't moved
Speaker 1: as far to the right Because fifty percent of registered
Speaker 1: Democrats vote in their primary. Half they'll show up at
Speaker 1: the primary. The Republican number half that. That's just a
Speaker 1: national average, but half that. They are twice as invested
Speaker 1: in their primaries as we are. They have been. We're
Speaker 1: getting better, we are making changes. We are Will it
Speaker 1: happen in time, I don't know, But let's give ourselves
Speaker 1: a little bit of credit, shall we, Hey, Jesse, I
Speaker 1: won't give my name because I won have a neighbor
Speaker 1: with a gay flag, and two have another neighbor with
Speaker 1: a Black Lives Matter sign in their front yard. In
Speaker 1: three a Jewish neighbor with whom I was discussing cars,
Speaker 1: I suggested he buy a Tesla, and he replied with
Speaker 1: a Nazi salute jeez, and went on to explain what
Speaker 1: a horrible person Musk was and how bad his cars
Speaker 1: were built. Last year he was telling me how wonderful
Speaker 1: the cars were. Should I put a Trump sign in
Speaker 1: my front lawn? Now this is one of those situations
Speaker 1: where I don't feel comfortable giving advice. And I'll explain why.
Speaker 1: You remember during COVID, with all the lies and propaganda
Speaker 1: out there, everyone's gonna die. And then those, of course
Speaker 1: all compounded into lies about the fake vaccine that wasn't
Speaker 1: a vaccine at all. You have to get it. You
Speaker 1: won't get it, Okay, If you get the vaccine, you
Speaker 1: will get it, but not as bad. All right, you'll
Speaker 1: get it as bad. You won't spread it, you will
Speaker 1: spread it. It was all just one big lie. And
Speaker 1: you remember how evil the country got at that moment,
Speaker 1: how controlling an evil the country got, and it filtered
Speaker 1: all the way down to employers. Corporations are oftentimes huge cowards.
Speaker 1: They're just afraid. They operate out of fear, and companies
Speaker 1: oftentimes run by some angry lesbian and HR started sorry,
Speaker 1: Chris started making people take trying to make people take vaccines. Oh,
Speaker 1: you have to take it. You have to take it,
Speaker 1: or you're fired. I can't tell you how many emails
Speaker 1: we got, Jesse, Should I take it? Jesse? What do
Speaker 1: I do? Jesse? Should I take it? And what did
Speaker 1: I tell you? Every single time? I can tell you
Speaker 1: what I'm going to do, or more specifically, what I'm
Speaker 1: not going to do. I can't tell you to lose
Speaker 1: your job. I can't pay your bills. I can't tell
Speaker 1: you I can't make that decision for you. That's not fair.
Speaker 1: That's not fair of me to do to you. No
Speaker 1: stand on principle, lose your job. Uh okay, Now you
Speaker 1: gave that advice, and that guy took that advice, and
Speaker 1: now he's out of work, and now they're on welfare.
Speaker 1: Now he moved back in with his mom. Now they
Speaker 1: had to Oh, well, that's my fault. That's at least
Speaker 1: partially my fault. I can't do that to you. You
Speaker 1: have neighbors who are communists, Black Lives Matter, the gay flag,
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is a Nazi, all this other stuff. You
Speaker 1: have neighbors who are communists, and you ask should you
Speaker 1: put up a Trump flag a Trump sign in your
Speaker 1: front yard? I would love to tell you yes, but
Speaker 1: I think you have to understand two things. First, how
Speaker 1: soul draining it is to have a bad neighbor. I
Speaker 1: have had bad neighbors before. Because I've moved so many
Speaker 1: different places, I've lived all over, I've had multiple bad neighbors.
Speaker 1: It sucks, man, when your home stops becoming a place
Speaker 1: of peace because of a neighbor. What it does is
Speaker 1: it removes an outlet from your life. We all have
Speaker 1: stresses in life. That's the way it is. Wife, husband, kids,
Speaker 1: at school, church, work. If we all have things going
Speaker 1: on in life, health struggles. To not have a place
Speaker 1: where you can just rest from time to time, it sucks.
Speaker 1: You have communists as neighbors. Let's do remember what a
Speaker 1: communist actually is, right, they are anti humans. Let's say
Speaker 1: you put that Trump sign in your front yard and
Speaker 1: I'm tempted to tell you to do it because I
Speaker 1: think you should. But let's say you do. Let's say
Speaker 1: you do that. What radical changes have you seen in
Speaker 1: recent years with poll numbers in the Democrat Party and
Speaker 1: what they think about you. Your neighbors think you're a Nazi.
Speaker 1: Your neighbors think you should be deprogrammed. Your neighbors thought
Speaker 1: during COVID that your kids should be taken away from
Speaker 1: you if you have children. A large percentage of Democrats
Speaker 1: think violence is an option in politics. Your neighbors during
Speaker 1: COVID thought you should be ripped from your home and
Speaker 1: place in a camp for not doing what you were told.
Speaker 1: We need to be careful in life about stacking up enemies.
Speaker 1: I warned you not to keep coming back to COVID.
Speaker 1: That the person in your life who told you you
Speaker 1: couldn't visit for Christmas that year because you hadn't been
Speaker 1: boosted yet, that that went well beyond COVID, That whoever
Speaker 1: that person was, coworker, mother, daughter, whoever it was, whoever
Speaker 1: that person was, that's the person who's going to turn
Speaker 1: you into the FEDS one day. That's the person, if
Speaker 1: God forbid, the communist savages ever start going door to
Speaker 1: door to round us up. That's the one who's going
Speaker 1: to say, Oh, that's Bob with the Maga maga sign.
Speaker 1: Where I know where he has a crawl space. I
Speaker 1: know where he's hiding. Here, let me show you where
Speaker 1: he's hiding. I think you should move. If I had
Speaker 1: neighbors like that, I would sell my house and move.
Speaker 1: And I'm not exaggerating. I refuse to live in that
Speaker 1: environment anymore. There you go, all right, we'll talk Olympics,
Speaker 1: talk about the Vietnam War. It is the Jesse Kelly
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Speaker 1: You can email the show Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com.
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Speaker 2: I'm d I sunnys In, invine our neighbors kinda heal
Speaker 2: this world win.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad I'm not a communist. Hey, Jesse, did
Speaker 1: you know the Olympics started? I couldn't care less. The
Speaker 1: global elitist ruined it years ago. What's your stance on
Speaker 1: the Olympics. Well, here's here's my stance on the Olympics.
Speaker 1: It's it's very similar to my stance on sports, televised
Speaker 1: sports in general. When I was a kid, we didn't
Speaker 1: watch a ton of TV as a family, but the
Speaker 1: times we did it was special to me because it
Speaker 1: was family time. My dad traveled a lot for construction,
Speaker 1: and so this was back when we had Blockbuster Video.
Speaker 1: Remember Blockbuster Video. I've said, look, if you're young, we
Speaker 1: used to have to go visit a store to rent
Speaker 1: movies and take them home. I'm not trying to be
Speaker 1: old fogy, but that's how it was. When we went
Speaker 1: to Blockbuster Video. That was I mean, it's probably nothing
Speaker 1: from my parents, it was everything to me. Everybody pick
Speaker 1: out a movie, we'll rent a movie up, not that
Speaker 1: when it's got bad scenes in it. Did you go
Speaker 1: home and watch a movie that was special? The Olympics
Speaker 1: were part of that for me. We weren't Olympics obsessed,
Speaker 1: of course, but we would watch it and cheer. And
Speaker 1: this was the era of Carl Lewis was breaking all
Speaker 1: the track records and the gymnastics team. Do you u
Speaker 1: I say gymnastics team. They were always America's sweethearts back then.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know what I was looking at you.
Speaker 1: There was a bunch of Hey, I was a kid, right,
Speaker 1: I'm was ten years old, Hey, there are pretty girls
Speaker 1: doing gymnastics. I didn't know what's going on, but still
Speaker 1: I knew I was rooting for America. I was not
Speaker 1: raised in a political household, but it was a super
Speaker 1: America household. Now, we don't root for foreigners. My dad
Speaker 1: America baby. So that's what it was. But some things
Speaker 1: have happened over the years, and there's a couple different
Speaker 1: parts to this. Our education system, as we discussed, so
Speaker 1: much has gone so anti America, so communist. This obviously
Speaker 1: has an effect on everyone who comes through it. Some
Speaker 1: will come out stronger and better, but many will come
Speaker 1: out and they will succumb to the anti America propaganda.
Speaker 1: Oftentimes not always. There are many athletes who are brilliant people,
Speaker 1: but oftentimes athletes are stupid. They're really dumb people, just
Speaker 1: very very dumb. Physically gifted, but their minds never developed
Speaker 1: because they don't have to, and so they're just very
Speaker 1: stupid and very susceptible to propaganda. And so they go
Speaker 1: through the education system and they come out America hating Communists. Look,
Speaker 1: I'll stay with gymnastics because it's a perfect example. Simone Biles.
Speaker 1: Simone Biles, my wife is a gymnast, So she knows
Speaker 1: all this stuff. And I mean elite level gymnast. My
Speaker 1: wife will tell me all day long. Any gymnast I've
Speaker 1: ever talked to will tell me this that there's never
Speaker 1: been a gymnast who has ever walked who is as good,
Speaker 1: even close to as good as Simone Biles. She does
Speaker 1: things physically that are not possible for other gymnasts. She's
Speaker 1: that good, she's that elite. But she's a moron, a
Speaker 1: complete moron. She's a race communist. If you go look
Speaker 1: at her public comments, she's a filthy communist. If she
Speaker 1: never opened her stupid fat mouth, I would just I
Speaker 1: would root her on because she's an American and she's
Speaker 1: dominating and I love that. But she came up as
Speaker 1: a communist, she learned from other communists. And now, and
Speaker 1: this is the other part of it, due to social
Speaker 1: media pressures. Now when you turn around, she's opening up
Speaker 1: her stupid fat communist mouth and trashing Trump and trashing
Speaker 1: the country and trash and trash and that, and so
Speaker 1: turns me off. What am I gonna What am I
Speaker 1: gonna do? Tune in and watch? Now? Am I supposed
Speaker 1: to root for that? I don't give a crap about
Speaker 1: Simone Biles. You don't give a crap about my country.
Speaker 1: I don't give a crap about you. I hope you
Speaker 1: follow in the Olympics. Means nothing to me. You're gonna
Speaker 1: root against me, I'll root against you. Professional athletes and
Speaker 1: collegiate athletes, this comes into play, and this is not
Speaker 1: all of them, by the way. There are some wonderful ones,
Speaker 1: wonderful ones who are an inspiration. But the ones who
Speaker 1: turn out to be communist, they're not quiet about it anymore.
Speaker 1: It's all over their Instagram, it's all over social media,
Speaker 1: and then it becomes a news story. The New York
Speaker 1: Times is talking about it, and that has turned into
Speaker 1: making sports networks communist ESPN for example. Again not to
Speaker 1: date myself. When I was a teenager, I always played sports.
Speaker 1: I was terrible, don't get me wrong, but I always
Speaker 1: played baseball and basketball years and years and years. I
Speaker 1: was awful, but I played sports. My friends played sports.
Speaker 1: After basketball practice, you went home and you turned on ESPN,
Speaker 1: you turned on Sports Center, and what was it? It
Speaker 1: was dudes? Mainly dudes. But there were some women in there.
Speaker 1: Linda Cohen and the old types who were just awesome.
Speaker 1: There was dudes playing highlights with funny things. That's what
Speaker 1: ESPN used to be. I haven't turned on ESPN in years.
Speaker 1: It's a bunch of dirty comedy journalists crap it all
Speaker 1: over America. Everything's racist. Hey, do we have any games today?
Speaker 1: It's awful. It's turned me off of sports big time.
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you something, you know what's terrible, baring
Speaker 1: my soul to you here. My sons each play sports.
Speaker 2: We we.
Speaker 1: Wanted them to be physical. Not that they need to
Speaker 1: be elite athletes, and not that I'm that guy you
Speaker 1: got to get a scholarship or you're dead. To me,
Speaker 1: it's not at all what we do. We just want
Speaker 1: them to be physically active, and so we made them
Speaker 1: play everything till they found some sports they liked. So
Speaker 1: that you know, I have swimmer, I have a swimmer,
Speaker 1: I have a runner, I have That's what they do.
Speaker 1: But my sons, they aren't into watching sports because it
Speaker 1: was never a priority for me. As they were growing up,
Speaker 1: I kept getting more and more turned off by sports.
Speaker 1: And so now when there is something, you know, it
Speaker 1: was a big baseball game, the World Series. We just
Speaker 1: recently had the World I like to watch base I'm
Speaker 1: I've become more of a baseball guy. By the way,
Speaker 1: percentage wise, baseball players are by a mile, the most
Speaker 1: republican league in the country, way more republican than anything else.
Speaker 1: But anyway, I started to watch that World Series, you know,
Speaker 1: I would watch the World Series with my dad. I
Speaker 1: remember watching Randy Johnson and the Diamondbacks, and I remember it.
Speaker 1: My sons don't care because I got turned off, and
Speaker 1: so now that's a moment I don't get with them
Speaker 1: what Chris Chris said, not even like big track events
Speaker 1: or big swimming events. No, that's the thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: for one who wants to watch televised swimming, that's one
Speaker 1: and two. My boys do it as much for the
Speaker 1: camaraderie as anything else. My oldest James is more physical,
Speaker 1: much more physical than I ever was. He's just one
Speaker 1: of these natural athletes. You really see the difference in
Speaker 1: people with what God gives them when they're born and whatnot.
Speaker 1: He's just an unbelievable athlete. He could have played anything
Speaker 1: he wanted, but he just wants to run. That's it.
Speaker 1: He'll get up. He did it this morning. Get this.
Speaker 1: No one told him to seventeen. We heard him leave.
Speaker 1: He got up at five am this morning, five am,
Speaker 1: seventeen years old, got up with his running gear on,
Speaker 1: just went out for a run. Seventeen. No one told
Speaker 1: him too. It's not he's not in season. He just
Speaker 1: does it. It's just how he There's nothing you could
Speaker 1: have done to me at seventeen years old to get
Speaker 1: me up at five am, if I didn't have practice,
Speaker 1: to get me up at five am out there pounding
Speaker 1: the pavement. It's just who he is. But they're They're
Speaker 1: just not that way. And I could obviously I'm probably
Speaker 1: casting blame here. Well, it's their fault. It's their fault.
Speaker 1: It's their fault. But that's also a personality thing for
Speaker 1: me too. And when I get turned off by something,
Speaker 1: when I feel like somebody or some entity spits in
Speaker 1: my face, I'll walk away forever. I'll walk away the
Speaker 1: Black Lives. You don't realize how obsessed I was with
Speaker 1: the NFL. Obsessed fantasy football. I was that guy on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I'd watch every early game, flipping back and forth, every
Speaker 1: afternoon game, flipping back and forth. And then I'm there
Speaker 1: hanging out for Sunday Night football and then I can't
Speaker 1: wait till Monday night football, and then I'm upset. I
Speaker 1: have to wait till the next weekend. Everything obsessed my
Speaker 1: entire life. I don't think I've watched a game in
Speaker 1: its entirety since the Black Lives Matter stuff. It is
Speaker 1: the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic Friday. Sundays. You're
Speaker 1: just in such a good mood.
Speaker 2: You gotta sayna Dei Sunday. He invite our neighbors and
Speaker 2: we're gonna healed this world with love. Tear down the fences.
Speaker 1: Tear down the fences. We will tear down the fences.
Speaker 1: All right, quit It's asked doctor Jesse Friday, and I'm
Speaker 1: in a good mood. Jesse. I have to admit, when
Speaker 1: I found out you were in your early forties, I
Speaker 1: was a little put off, thinking you didn't have the
Speaker 1: gravitasta opining about politics or history. I deeply apologize because
Speaker 1: I've become a regular listener and a bit of a fan.
Speaker 1: You don't have to apologize to me, brother. Your takes
Speaker 1: on toxic immigration and to the left are spawn on
Speaker 1: and entertaining. Military question. What made Vietnamese General Gep so
Speaker 1: successful in his war against the Arvan and the Americans.
Speaker 1: All right, now, let's do a little primer here, General Gep. First,
Speaker 1: before America ever got involved in Vietnam, Vietnam had been
Speaker 1: colonized by the French. Now we could go back even
Speaker 1: further where Vietnam was a bunch of tribes. We're not
Speaker 1: gonna do that, though. By the fifties, the French were
Speaker 1: losing their hold on Vietnam. France post World War Two,
Speaker 1: for fairly obvious reasons, was having a difficult time keeping
Speaker 1: a handle on any of their overseas colonies. They just
Speaker 1: were Remember this, always remember this. Pause for a moment.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to Vietnam. I sowhere. I won't get
Speaker 1: too distracted. Remember this about colonialism one, it's underrated, completely underrated.
Speaker 1: If it's done right, and the British were the ones
Speaker 1: who really did this right. If it's done right, everyone wins.
Speaker 1: We will move into your Third world dump. We are
Speaker 1: going to run things. You are going to help us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna you're gonna get We're gonna take some of
Speaker 1: your resources. When we need troops for a war, we're
Speaker 1: going to have you send some. But don't think it's
Speaker 1: a one way street. We are going to provide for you.
Speaker 1: We are going to make your society more modern, roads, schools,
Speaker 1: the medical supplies. We're going to modernize your country and
Speaker 1: raise the standard of living for the people in your country.
Speaker 1: And we're going to protect you. That's a big, big,
Speaker 1: big part of colonialism that makes it work. The Third
Speaker 1: world country that gets colonized and then modernized, they can
Speaker 1: count on big Brother coming in if anyone wants to
Speaker 1: start some stuff. Why did so many of these countries, Britain, France,
Speaker 1: Why did so many of them lose complete control of
Speaker 1: their overseas colonies after World War Two? Whoa? You said
Speaker 1: you would protect me. The Japanese imperial army just marched
Speaker 1: into my country and pillaged it like savages. For years
Speaker 1: you said you would protect me. Clearly you can't. This
Speaker 1: deal is off. The deal is off. Remember the colonial
Speaker 1: power has to hold up there end of the market. Anyway,
Speaker 1: back to our story. Everyone has heard at least at
Speaker 1: least I hope you have heard of the Battle of
Speaker 1: den ben Fo. You've never heard of dmbnfu Chris, good grief?
Speaker 1: All right, all right, so let mean just let me
Speaker 1: do this. The French were a very modern army. Like
Speaker 1: I said, they had control of Vietnam. By nineteen fifty four,
Speaker 1: they were losing that control and they ended up in
Speaker 1: a huge battle known as d'en ben Fou. The French
Speaker 1: lost that battle. This is nineteen fifty four, I believe,
Speaker 1: I believe. Don't quote me on that, but I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure I'm right. Nineteen fifty four, the French lost d'en
Speaker 1: ben fo. The Vietnamese won one of those shocked the
Speaker 1: world type things, and the French, this modern empire, France
Speaker 1: had to walk out of Vietnam with its tail between
Speaker 1: its legs. Now, one of the main forces fighting against
Speaker 1: the French in Vietnam were the viet Men, the Viet
Speaker 1: min with me, before there was a Viet Kong, there
Speaker 1: was a Viet Minh. Sorry, we're gonna stop for another second.
Speaker 1: I guess we're gonna do a little history today. In
Speaker 1: the Vietnam War, you know, there was North Vietnam, the
Speaker 1: dirty commies, and South Vietnam, the North Vietnamese. They had
Speaker 1: an actual army, the NVA, the North Vietnamese Army. We're
Speaker 1: talking a regular army, uniforms, all the works. In South Vietnam,
Speaker 1: there was a communist gorilla insurgency. Those were the Viet Kong.
Speaker 1: Those were the ones who were farmers in accountants during
Speaker 1: the day. At night they put on black pajamas and
Speaker 1: go put out land mines for American troops. The communist
Speaker 1: guerrilla force in South Vietnam was the Viet Kong. Viet
Speaker 1: Kong and NVA are two different forces. Yes, they obviously
Speaker 1: worked together and whatnot, but they're two different forces. Now,
Speaker 1: those Viet Kong, before they were known as Viet Kong,
Speaker 1: they were the Viet Men. You know about the Vietnamese tunnels,
Speaker 1: of course, I know you know about the Vietnamese tunnels.
Speaker 1: They had all these tunnels in South Vietnam, all these
Speaker 1: little spider holes in tunnels where they would have they
Speaker 1: were huge, huge underground hospitals and places where you could sleep,
Speaker 1: and unbelievably intricate tunnels. Do you think they built all
Speaker 1: those right when the Americans showed up in the sixties. No, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no. Those were built to combat the French long
Speaker 1: before we got there, So many of the tunnels were
Speaker 1: already there. Now, obviously they built more and established more
Speaker 1: once the Americans got there. The viet Men were the
Speaker 1: ones who built those tunnels. Now, the name General Gapp
Speaker 1: is not widely known in American circles. It is just
Speaker 1: not because we care about Americans. Obviously, we're not going
Speaker 1: to focus on too many Vietnamese figures. Most Americans know
Speaker 1: who Ho Chi Minh was. He was the Communist leader
Speaker 1: of North Vietnam and then eventually the leader of the
Speaker 1: whole thing when they won. But people know Ho Chi
Speaker 1: Minh and they don't really know many other people. General
Speaker 1: g App is one of those guys. Depending on who
Speaker 1: you read, there are different opinions on this, but many
Speaker 1: people consider him to be a military genius, and militarily
Speaker 1: they consider him to be largely responsible for the Vietnamese
Speaker 1: success both at d'en Benfu and later on in the
Speaker 1: Vietnam War. I'll finish this up just hopefully just a
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, and we'll move on through some political
Speaker 1: things next