1
00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:16,920
Speaker 1: This is a Jesse Kelly show. It is the Jesse

2
00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,320
Speaker 1: Kelly Show. Another hour of the Jesse Kelly Show might

3
00:00:20,360 --> 00:00:23,000
Speaker 1: be a little too on the nose to play fortunate son, Chris,

4
00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:25,400
Speaker 1: When you know we're getting ready to talk about Afghanistan,

5
00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:30,000
Speaker 1: all right, here's how I'm gonna handle this this hour.

6
00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:33,360
Speaker 1: We're gonna discuss the spending stuff. I'll probably get to

7
00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,160
Speaker 1: some calls in a little bit. We're gonna talk about

8
00:00:36,159 --> 00:00:39,560
Speaker 1: this how the Overton window has shifted so much in

9
00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:43,159
Speaker 1: negative ways, and how we fight back against that remote work.

10
00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:45,160
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to all that stuff, but right now

11
00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:49,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna focus on this hearing from today. It was

12
00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,840
Speaker 1: a hearing about the Afghanistan pullout. And I know you're

13
00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,040
Speaker 1: gonna probably gonna be shocked to hear this about me,

14
00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,160
Speaker 1: but I'm going to trybody. I'm gonna say these words.

15
00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:01,120
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever said these words before. I'm

16
00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:04,720
Speaker 1: going to try to be sensitive today with my comments.

17
00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:07,480
Speaker 1: Let me explain, let me explain. I'll be able to

18
00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:11,319
Speaker 1: do it, Chris. I'll let me to explain. When it

19
00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:17,600
Speaker 1: comes to Iraq and Afghanistan, I have so many friends

20
00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:20,640
Speaker 1: who fought in one or both of those two wars.

21
00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:23,119
Speaker 1: Normally it's one. Most guys didn't do both, but it's

22
00:01:23,160 --> 00:01:26,000
Speaker 1: one or two of those. It's known as the Global

23
00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:28,720
Speaker 1: War on Terror. You know that g WATT. You'll hear

24
00:01:28,760 --> 00:01:31,880
Speaker 1: me refer to it as g WATT many times. Sorry,

25
00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:34,440
Speaker 1: I do that inadvertently whenever I refer to g WATT.

26
00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,960
Speaker 1: We're talking Iraq Afghanistan. For the most part, that's what

27
00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:40,440
Speaker 1: we're talking about. I have so many friends who have

28
00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:45,399
Speaker 1: fought in those wars, and I'll be honest with you.

29
00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:50,880
Speaker 1: My friends who have fought in those wars, many of

30
00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:55,960
Speaker 1: them are not doing well today, and they're doing as

31
00:01:56,080 --> 00:01:59,920
Speaker 1: bad or worse today than they were doing after week

32
00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,400
Speaker 1: up back. And allow me to explain for those who

33
00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:07,720
Speaker 1: may not quite understand. I'm not some warrior, right, that's

34
00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:10,200
Speaker 1: that's not me. I know a lot, but it's not me.

35
00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:13,200
Speaker 1: I was a four year grunt marine and an average

36
00:02:13,240 --> 00:02:16,120
Speaker 1: one at that. I ain't some stud right, that's it.

37
00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:20,000
Speaker 1: I was in Iraq. I was there for the Iraq invasion.

38
00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:22,000
Speaker 1: So we crossed the line all the way up to

39
00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:24,679
Speaker 1: Bagdad and back. So that's that's what my unit did.

40
00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,440
Speaker 1: First Battalion, seventh Marines Alpha Company Weapons patoon baby. Anyway,

41
00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,600
Speaker 1: when when guys get back, when guys get back, they

42
00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,560
Speaker 1: they obviously struggle. You've seen enough movies, maybe you know

43
00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:43,800
Speaker 1: enough people now that it most definitely is a struggle.

44
00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,200
Speaker 1: Once you get back from a combat situation and you

45
00:02:47,320 --> 00:02:51,600
Speaker 1: have to adjust to civilian life, normal life. You're no

46
00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:56,440
Speaker 1: longer in combat. Emotionally, you're a little, a little hard,

47
00:02:57,040 --> 00:02:59,840
Speaker 1: a little chafed. You're the there's a laundry list of

48
00:03:00,360 --> 00:03:04,040
Speaker 1: things you saw, things you did that creates something that

49
00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,400
Speaker 1: everyone would know today as PTSD. PTSD, you struggle with

50
00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,280
Speaker 1: certain things. I've told you about, you know, me sitting

51
00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:14,440
Speaker 1: alone in the dark. I've told you about that. I've

52
00:03:14,440 --> 00:03:16,760
Speaker 1: told you about one of my buddies. I remember, like

53
00:03:16,800 --> 00:03:18,960
Speaker 1: it was yesterday. We were leaving the gas station after

54
00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:21,720
Speaker 1: we got back, and there were construction workers at the

55
00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:25,160
Speaker 1: gas station. They were unloading some cones, some of the

56
00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,800
Speaker 1: orange traffic cones, out the back of a truck. They

57
00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:30,880
Speaker 1: weren't doing anything wrong, they were was just unloading cones,

58
00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,079
Speaker 1: and one of them, as we were getting in the car,

59
00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,200
Speaker 1: me and my buddy, he took one of the cones

60
00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,160
Speaker 1: and threw it out the back of the truck and

61
00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,480
Speaker 1: it landed flush with the pavement, so it kind of

62
00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:41,760
Speaker 1: did a bap, kind of did one of those type things,

63
00:03:42,120 --> 00:03:45,720
Speaker 1: and my buddy did not do well. He'd dove into

64
00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:48,520
Speaker 1: the car. He did not again. Okay, so you know

65
00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:52,520
Speaker 1: that that's regular PTSD, and I'm definitely not dismissive of that.

66
00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,320
Speaker 1: That's a real thing. It's cost a lot of guys

67
00:03:55,400 --> 00:03:58,760
Speaker 1: their marriages, their jobs, their lives. You know, it's the

68
00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,960
Speaker 1: real things. So I'm certainly not setting that aside. But

69
00:04:02,160 --> 00:04:06,360
Speaker 1: what I'm seeing a lot of today, a lot of

70
00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,240
Speaker 1: is guys who spent a long time, so many many

71
00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:14,920
Speaker 1: are still in many are out by now. But they served,

72
00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:20,160
Speaker 1: they served honorably, they did the right thing. And now

73
00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,000
Speaker 1: that we have the benefit of hindsight and the benefit

74
00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,200
Speaker 1: of time, they look back on wherever they fought, whether

75
00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,280
Speaker 1: it be Iraq or Afghanistan, and they feel like it

76
00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:36,000
Speaker 1: was for nothing. They feel like they fought for nothing.

77
00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,719
Speaker 1: And you know, I've never sugarcoated this for anybody. I've

78
00:04:39,760 --> 00:04:42,720
Speaker 1: never I've been very honest about how I feel about it.

79
00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,880
Speaker 1: That's how I feel. That's how I feel about Iraq.

80
00:04:45,920 --> 00:04:48,240
Speaker 1: I do, and you know, I'm not saying you have

81
00:04:48,279 --> 00:04:51,599
Speaker 1: to agree with me if you were there. But that's

82
00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,000
Speaker 1: how I feel. I look back on what we did,

83
00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:56,160
Speaker 1: and I'm very proud of my service and proud of

84
00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:58,080
Speaker 1: the service of my buddies. And we went over there,

85
00:04:58,120 --> 00:04:59,400
Speaker 1: and we did what we were told to do, and

86
00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:02,080
Speaker 1: we followed orders and whatnot. But look, let's be honest,

87
00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:04,479
Speaker 1: that was a bunch of crap. That whole thing was

88
00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:08,599
Speaker 1: a bunch of crap. What are we doing invading Iraq Afghanistan?

89
00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,480
Speaker 1: How we handled ourselves there was horrible. We weren't even

90
00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,760
Speaker 1: fighting to win. We got these guys out there fighting

91
00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,640
Speaker 1: and bleeding and dying, and we're not even trying to win.

92
00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,720
Speaker 1: We got our guys guarding poppy fields over there, guarding

93
00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:25,400
Speaker 1: the heroin fields. You'd get in trouble if you took

94
00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,240
Speaker 1: your humbie and you drove it through a poppy field

95
00:05:28,279 --> 00:05:32,000
Speaker 1: and damage their poppy you'd probably get court martialed over there.

96
00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:34,640
Speaker 1: In fact, they're well, I won't go into it. But

97
00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:40,160
Speaker 1: so guys, now, as all this military stuff which I'm

98
00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:45,000
Speaker 1: about to go into, as they're watching the after action report,

99
00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:48,600
Speaker 1: we'll call it the long term after action Report. Okay,

100
00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,520
Speaker 1: we're kind of done with Iraq. We're definitely done with Afghanistan.

101
00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:55,479
Speaker 1: And now that we're taking it all in and we're

102
00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:58,080
Speaker 1: learning about everything that happened there, we're learning more and

103
00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,080
Speaker 1: more and we're seeing the lack of accountability there, and

104
00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:05,320
Speaker 1: we're seeing how it all ended, and we're seeing how

105
00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:08,760
Speaker 1: the people who were in charge the wonderful way, to

106
00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:12,360
Speaker 1: be honest, they're treated my guys. A lot of guys

107
00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,400
Speaker 1: I know right now are struggling with that. It is

108
00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:19,159
Speaker 1: bringing I don't know if I want to call it

109
00:06:19,200 --> 00:06:21,520
Speaker 1: a new kind of PTSD, but I think I'll just

110
00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:23,360
Speaker 1: put it to you that way so it makes more

111
00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:26,200
Speaker 1: sense to you and to me. I am seeing a

112
00:06:26,320 --> 00:06:30,920
Speaker 1: renewed PTSD, a new kind of PTSD. Yeah, that's a

113
00:06:30,960 --> 00:06:32,520
Speaker 1: good way to put it, Chris. Chris said, a new

114
00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,920
Speaker 1: found hate. Yeah, I'm seeing that in a lot of

115
00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:39,560
Speaker 1: my friends. They are guys I won't guys I don't

116
00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:41,479
Speaker 1: even talk to regularly that I haven't talked to in

117
00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,200
Speaker 1: six months or a year. They'll text me an article

118
00:06:44,240 --> 00:06:47,560
Speaker 1: about this general or this, and it'll be something along

119
00:06:47,560 --> 00:06:50,200
Speaker 1: the lines of can you believe this crap? And it's

120
00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,560
Speaker 1: generally not with words that are not that nice and

121
00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:55,560
Speaker 1: they're struggling, and so we start texting, I find out

122
00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:58,479
Speaker 1: they're struggling. So when I say I'm going to be sensitive,

123
00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:01,080
Speaker 1: maybe I won't be sensitive. That's not really something I'm

124
00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:04,520
Speaker 1: probably capable of understand that. When I'm talking about what

125
00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,480
Speaker 1: I'm about to talk about, I understand that there are

126
00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:11,720
Speaker 1: men and women out there that this is going to

127
00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:14,720
Speaker 1: be hard to hear. A lot of this stuff is

128
00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:17,720
Speaker 1: going to be hard to hear and hard to digest,

129
00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:22,440
Speaker 1: and it is something I still deal with myself personally.

130
00:07:23,000 --> 00:07:30,559
Speaker 1: I still deal with Iraq was about nothing that's hard

131
00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,000
Speaker 1: for me. I'm okay, don't worry about me. I don't

132
00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:35,680
Speaker 1: don't worry that. You don't have to send me your

133
00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,040
Speaker 1: emails or whatnot. I know how wonderful you are to me.

134
00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:39,720
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about me. I'm doing okay.

135
00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:44,120
Speaker 1: But for me even it's hard to know that signed

136
00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,960
Speaker 1: up and join the Marines and then ah, yeah, America, patriotism,

137
00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,160
Speaker 1: will fight for my country, and to know that that

138
00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:55,040
Speaker 1: was wasted. And honestly, how many Vietnam guys are listening

139
00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:58,080
Speaker 1: right now and they're leaning back, scoff and saying, yeah,

140
00:07:58,080 --> 00:08:02,320
Speaker 1: tell me about it. They know Li've been through it

141
00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,840
Speaker 1: and it's hard to take. So let's just lead off

142
00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:10,120
Speaker 1: with this. This was General Kenneth McKenzie from today. There

143
00:08:10,160 --> 00:08:12,440
Speaker 1: was a hearing in the House where some of these

144
00:08:12,520 --> 00:08:15,000
Speaker 1: generals had to sit there and answer some questions.

145
00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:20,520
Speaker 2: August fourteenth, just days before the fall of Cobble and

146
00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:24,520
Speaker 2: the evacuation of the embassy. August fourteenth is when they

147
00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:27,880
Speaker 2: finally put forward this plan.

148
00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:30,640
Speaker 3: And that's when we got authority to execute the plan.

149
00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:32,920
Speaker 2: That's when you got authoritied and you urged the White

150
00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:35,480
Speaker 2: House and State Department to put pen to paper to

151
00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:39,160
Speaker 2: develop a plan to get Americans and our Afghan allies

152
00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:41,600
Speaker 2: out of Afghania State. Correct, Yes, I did.

153
00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,560
Speaker 3: In fact, I was concerned by the middle of July,

154
00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:48,640
Speaker 3: I was concerned about the different pace of Department of

155
00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,320
Speaker 3: Defense planning as compared to Department of State planning. And

156
00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:55,480
Speaker 3: I took an opportunity then to make representations to the

157
00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:58,880
Speaker 3: Secretary about my concern over that the fact that we

158
00:08:58,880 --> 00:09:02,040
Speaker 3: were moving pretty fast, miss they were not moving fast,

159
00:09:02,040 --> 00:09:03,520
Speaker 3: and I was concerned that we were going to arrive

160
00:09:03,559 --> 00:09:04,360
Speaker 3: at different location.

161
00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:06,959
Speaker 1: Let me do this a little differently. I want to

162
00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,160
Speaker 1: make sure I explain what you're hearing here. I know

163
00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,640
Speaker 1: a lot of it's kind of obvious, but essentially, this general,

164
00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:19,760
Speaker 1: the Defense Department, the military, they understand that leaving a

165
00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:23,520
Speaker 1: place is difficult. It is difficult, especially when you've spent

166
00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,200
Speaker 1: twenty years in Afghanistan. You have your own people there,

167
00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,240
Speaker 1: you have interpreters who are kind of your people. There,

168
00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,080
Speaker 1: all kinds of equipment there, different factions, different This different

169
00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:39,280
Speaker 1: that leaving a place safely. Getting everyone out of a

170
00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:44,760
Speaker 1: place safely, it is a challenge, but it is something

171
00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:48,840
Speaker 1: you can do. Remember, it is possible to leave a

172
00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:52,200
Speaker 1: place safely. It's always hard to be the last one

173
00:09:52,240 --> 00:09:54,800
Speaker 1: out who has to turn out the lights. But you

174
00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,480
Speaker 1: do things in stages, you do things smartly. We will

175
00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:02,079
Speaker 1: clear out this sector by this date and make sure

176
00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,120
Speaker 1: they're safe, and then we're gonna get take care of

177
00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,439
Speaker 1: this problem and make sure they're out. And you kind

178
00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:09,880
Speaker 1: of slowly but surely, as you're backing into the room,

179
00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,959
Speaker 1: you're closing the door on the way. That's how you

180
00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:15,200
Speaker 1: get out of a place and get out of a

181
00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,679
Speaker 1: place safely. And the military, as you just heard, they

182
00:10:18,679 --> 00:10:22,200
Speaker 1: were ready and willing and realized that they needed a plan,

183
00:10:22,320 --> 00:10:24,760
Speaker 1: so they came up with the plan, and they kept

184
00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:27,440
Speaker 1: asking the White House, the State Department, a should we start?

185
00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:29,880
Speaker 1: Should we start? Should we start? And that's what you're

186
00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:34,559
Speaker 1: hearing here, And you're also hearing something that I've heard consistently.

187
00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,920
Speaker 1: The problem with our ego or I'm about to call

188
00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:40,000
Speaker 1: it our egress. I got to stop using words like that.

189
00:10:40,320 --> 00:10:43,000
Speaker 1: A problem with our get out of Afghanistan is the

190
00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:47,000
Speaker 1: State Department took it over. The military didn't. The keys

191
00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,320
Speaker 1: were handed to the State Department. I'm going to play

192
00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:51,440
Speaker 1: that again and we'll explain that, and we'll talk about

193
00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:53,160
Speaker 1: that in a little bit more detail. But we'll talk

194
00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:55,760
Speaker 1: about what Mark Milly said about our equipment left behind.

195
00:10:56,040 --> 00:10:58,000
Speaker 1: Then I'll probably get to some calls and some budget

196
00:10:58,080 --> 00:11:00,640
Speaker 1: stuff before we do any of that. Let's switch your

197
00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,560
Speaker 1: cell phone real quickly. Pause on all that, and let's

198
00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,960
Speaker 1: do something else. You see, we all have cell phones,

199
00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,240
Speaker 1: don't lie. Everyone does. Everyone has one. Now I don't

200
00:11:11,240 --> 00:11:13,360
Speaker 1: even have a landline. They do would have a landline.

201
00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,240
Speaker 1: We all have cell phones. And the thing is, we

202
00:11:16,400 --> 00:11:18,960
Speaker 1: pay our cell phone bill automatically every month. It's one

203
00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:22,280
Speaker 1: of those things everyone does it. We sign up, we

204
00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:24,520
Speaker 1: give them our credit card number or our bank account

205
00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,959
Speaker 1: and they automatically take the money out. But isn't it

206
00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:30,959
Speaker 1: wild and kind of ugly to think that if you

207
00:11:31,160 --> 00:11:35,120
Speaker 1: have AT and TV verise in T mobile, you make

208
00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,760
Speaker 1: a monthly payment to Communism every single month. You realize

209
00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:44,720
Speaker 1: that every single month you automatically pay people who hate

210
00:11:44,760 --> 00:11:48,840
Speaker 1: your guts to destroy your country. It's kind of dark, right,

211
00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:53,600
Speaker 1: but it's true. That's why we should switch, especially when

212
00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:57,320
Speaker 1: switching is easy. I brought this up before, but Puretalk

213
00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,160
Speaker 1: hires Americans who speak in When you deal with Puretalk

214
00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,240
Speaker 1: on the phone, and I've had to, they're just wonderful

215
00:12:05,320 --> 00:12:08,160
Speaker 1: and they understand you when you talk. It takes ten

216
00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:12,960
Speaker 1: minutes on the phone to switch. Switch dial pound two

217
00:12:13,200 --> 00:12:17,640
Speaker 1: five zero and say Jesse Kelly Pound two five zero,

218
00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,160
Speaker 1: Say Jesse Kelly, switch to Pure Talk. We'll be back.

219
00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:25,040
Speaker 1: He doesn't care if you believe him, but he's right,

220
00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:33,600
Speaker 1: Jesse Kelly. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on a Tuesday.

221
00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:36,280
Speaker 1: Reminding you you can email the show and should we

222
00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,320
Speaker 1: love your emails whatever you want, love Hey, death threats,

223
00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,640
Speaker 1: ask doctor Jesse questions, email those into Jesse at Jesse

224
00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,319
Speaker 1: kellyshow dot com. I'm still going to get to this

225
00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,280
Speaker 1: spending deal and this poll about how the culture has

226
00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:53,240
Speaker 1: shifted and remote work and other things. We're just going

227
00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:57,199
Speaker 1: over some of this Afghanistan withdrawal today, and I just

228
00:12:57,240 --> 00:12:59,360
Speaker 1: want to remind everyone I'm about to play Mark Millie.

229
00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:02,760
Speaker 1: He was asked about all the equipment we left behind.

230
00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:07,360
Speaker 1: I'm sure you remember how many m fours did you see? Rifles,

231
00:13:07,640 --> 00:13:09,800
Speaker 1: how many machine guns? How many machine guns did you

232
00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:16,400
Speaker 1: see left behind? Helicopters, humbies, coms, we left the Mark Comms.

233
00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,079
Speaker 1: We left all these things to the people we were

234
00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,480
Speaker 1: supposedly fighting for twenty years. And when I heard Mark

235
00:13:25,520 --> 00:13:28,200
Speaker 1: Milly talk today, I couldn't get out of my mind

236
00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,679
Speaker 1: that article we'd gone over. I think it was last week,

237
00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:34,840
Speaker 1: maybe it was yesterday, about how wonderful Mark Milly, how

238
00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:38,720
Speaker 1: his post Joint chief's job is jobs. I should say,

239
00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:41,520
Speaker 1: are got all these lucrative jobs? I think one was

240
00:13:41,559 --> 00:13:44,599
Speaker 1: a JP Morgan and the other way. He's working for Princeton.

241
00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:49,319
Speaker 1: He's just sitting back watching the checks roll in. And

242
00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,360
Speaker 1: I'm reminded that the history of the US military prior

243
00:13:52,440 --> 00:13:56,960
Speaker 1: to Vietnam was general after general, after amro after admiral

244
00:13:57,080 --> 00:14:00,600
Speaker 1: getting fired. Oftentimes it wasn't even fair, to be honest

245
00:14:00,679 --> 00:14:03,680
Speaker 1: with you. You'll read these old books and some general

246
00:14:03,920 --> 00:14:06,240
Speaker 1: just get sacked and you'll look and you'll think, wait

247
00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,920
Speaker 1: a minute, that wasn't even his fault. There was bad intel.

248
00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:12,280
Speaker 1: You had no chance, nope, perform or go. But in

249
00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:14,559
Speaker 1: this country now, none of these people are ever held

250
00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:17,880
Speaker 1: to account. Mark Millie, as he gives his testimony here,

251
00:14:19,120 --> 00:14:23,040
Speaker 1: it's wealthy beyond belief. He will spend the rest of

252
00:14:23,120 --> 00:14:27,720
Speaker 1: his life on private jets, eating fancy steak dinners, red

253
00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:28,920
Speaker 1: lobster whenever he wants.

254
00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:32,480
Speaker 4: Here he was, he's about eighty some odd billion dollars

255
00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:37,040
Speaker 4: worth of military aid total. That's everything from food and building,

256
00:14:37,120 --> 00:14:41,320
Speaker 4: barracks and uniforms and boots, to include equipment over twenty

257
00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:43,840
Speaker 4: years in many sites. I think at seven point two

258
00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:48,440
Speaker 4: billion of military equipment. US manufactured military equipment that is

259
00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:52,000
Speaker 4: with the Afghan security forces. That's Afghan owned equipment, not

260
00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:57,040
Speaker 4: American equipment. Every piece of American equipment that the American

261
00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:00,840
Speaker 4: military owned came out with US with Scutt Miller, or

262
00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:03,600
Speaker 4: he destroyed it on site. And that's a fact. So

263
00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:05,880
Speaker 4: the idea that the Americas so.

264
00:15:05,960 --> 00:15:08,600
Speaker 5: This this attack on Biden for Naya.

265
00:15:10,920 --> 00:15:11,400
Speaker 6: Recognized.

266
00:15:13,920 --> 00:15:19,040
Speaker 1: That's the level of accountability we have. This goes back

267
00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:22,320
Speaker 1: to what I was talking about about why the Gwat

268
00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,920
Speaker 1: friends of mine are struggling so much. This is not

269
00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:28,720
Speaker 1: a small deal when these guys who've given it all

270
00:15:28,920 --> 00:15:30,960
Speaker 1: over there, and they've watched friends give it all. How

271
00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,640
Speaker 1: many guys are listening to me right now and they're

272
00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,480
Speaker 1: missing limbs because of all this, and they hear the

273
00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,040
Speaker 1: former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs say, well, I mean, look,

274
00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,320
Speaker 1: we didn't leave them the stuff. We didn't really leave

275
00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:47,000
Speaker 1: them the stuff per se. Yeah they have the stuff,

276
00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:50,560
Speaker 1: but see that was just stuff we gave the Afghan

277
00:15:50,720 --> 00:15:54,320
Speaker 1: security forces. And then the Afghan security forces, who we

278
00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:57,840
Speaker 1: supposedly trained for twenty years, they just collapsed and handed

279
00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,960
Speaker 1: all that stuff to the Talban. So I mean, yeah,

280
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,360
Speaker 1: I have a Talman. They have all of our stuff,

281
00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:03,840
Speaker 1: but we didn't give it to them, So.

282
00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:04,560
Speaker 7: We're all good to go.

283
00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,240
Speaker 1: That's where we're at now in this country. That's what

284
00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,960
Speaker 1: we get now out of our military leaders. That and

285
00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:13,840
Speaker 1: stuff like this. How many Americans left behind?

286
00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,120
Speaker 6: How many of our allies and what has happened to them?

287
00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:19,880
Speaker 2: Have they been beaten, killed, tortured.

288
00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,920
Speaker 4: Number of Americans. This was always an issue, the number

289
00:16:24,920 --> 00:16:29,120
Speaker 4: of Americans that was always a difficult number for us

290
00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:31,240
Speaker 4: in the Department Defense to get a hold of. And

291
00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:33,560
Speaker 4: I think it's true at the tactical level, an operation

292
00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:36,760
Speaker 4: level as well. And I'll be candid, I don't know

293
00:16:37,000 --> 00:16:39,400
Speaker 4: the exact number of Americans that were left behind because

294
00:16:39,440 --> 00:16:42,280
Speaker 4: the starting number was never clear. Same is true of

295
00:16:42,400 --> 00:16:47,600
Speaker 4: at risk Afghans SIVs, the commandos, other Afghans that serve

296
00:16:47,680 --> 00:16:47,960
Speaker 4: with us.

297
00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,160
Speaker 1: This goes back to what we were talking about about

298
00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:55,400
Speaker 1: how the State Department took this over. The State Department

299
00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:59,120
Speaker 1: decided Remember this was all done for political reasons. Remember

300
00:16:59,160 --> 00:17:02,920
Speaker 1: when this was This was done right before nine to eleven,

301
00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,760
Speaker 1: right before the twentieth anniversary of nine to eleven. This

302
00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,040
Speaker 1: was done so the Biden administration could have a big

303
00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:13,119
Speaker 1: victory lap and a bunch of parades that they had victory. Now,

304
00:17:13,160 --> 00:17:15,680
Speaker 1: they didn't end up doing those because the withdrawal ended

305
00:17:15,760 --> 00:17:18,920
Speaker 1: up being so disastrous. But that is why the State

306
00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,720
Speaker 1: Department stepped in and told the military, Hey, sorry, I

307
00:17:23,800 --> 00:17:25,359
Speaker 1: know you guys had a plan, but we got to go.

308
00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,760
Speaker 1: Actually ooh ooh, look at my watch, and we gotta

309
00:17:27,760 --> 00:17:29,720
Speaker 1: go right now. We gotta hurry up, right now. There

310
00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:33,679
Speaker 1: are other considerations, other considerations. That's how we'll put that. Anyway,

311
00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:35,600
Speaker 1: we gotta wrap this up, pack it up. Oh you

312
00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,440
Speaker 1: have a jail full of ISIS guys anyway, just had

313
00:17:38,480 --> 00:17:41,720
Speaker 1: him the keys who cares and one of those ICIS guys.

314
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,160
Speaker 1: I just want to remind everyone as I finished this here,

315
00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,240
Speaker 1: one of those Isis guys who we had on we

316
00:17:49,359 --> 00:17:52,159
Speaker 1: had him in custody, we had him locked up, and

317
00:17:52,280 --> 00:17:55,280
Speaker 1: he got let out. He's the ISIS guy who blew

318
00:17:55,359 --> 00:17:59,440
Speaker 1: up thirteen of our warriors outside of the airport. And

319
00:17:59,600 --> 00:18:03,919
Speaker 1: we have arc Milly in general after general, they're not sorry.

320
00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,560
Speaker 1: They expressed no regret. Our politicians expressed no regret Joe

321
00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:10,560
Speaker 1: Biden to this day, while I don't know how else

322
00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,640
Speaker 1: we could have done it, ha ha ha. That's why

323
00:18:13,720 --> 00:18:16,239
Speaker 1: our guys are struggling. All right, you know what, We'll

324
00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,800
Speaker 1: take some calls, do some budget stuff eight seven seven

325
00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:25,080
Speaker 1: three seven seven four three seven three eight seven seven

326
00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:28,800
Speaker 1: three seven seven four three seven three. Just get right

327
00:18:28,840 --> 00:18:32,000
Speaker 1: to the point. That's all that matters. Oh so, taking

328
00:18:32,280 --> 00:18:36,200
Speaker 1: care of the families left behind from the Global War

329
00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:40,000
Speaker 1: on Terror, that's not something that has stopped now that

330
00:18:40,119 --> 00:18:44,280
Speaker 1: the wars are over, because Dad still isn't there and

331
00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,400
Speaker 1: Mom still isn't there, and Tunnel to Towers is still

332
00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,120
Speaker 1: caring for these people. And they're still caring for these

333
00:18:51,200 --> 00:18:55,520
Speaker 1: catastrophically injured veterans who came back without legs, in arms,

334
00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:58,879
Speaker 1: in eyes. They're building them smart homes, and Tunnel to

335
00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:02,080
Speaker 1: Towers is still there for our fallen first responder families.

336
00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:05,240
Speaker 1: When firefighter Dad goes to work and gets gunned down

337
00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,960
Speaker 1: by a gang banger in his neighborhood, who's there for

338
00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:11,720
Speaker 1: mom and the kids? Tunnel to Towers is they come

339
00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:15,280
Speaker 1: alongside these families and they care for widows and orphans.

340
00:19:15,600 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 1: A ninety five cents of every dollar goes to its programs.

341
00:19:20,240 --> 00:19:24,080
Speaker 1: That's unheard of for an organization like this, So proud

342
00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,560
Speaker 1: to work with them. Eleven bucks a month is what

343
00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,760
Speaker 1: they ask for. T the number two T dot org

344
00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:39,040
Speaker 1: T two t dot Org. We'll be back, Jesse Kelly Becksion.

345
00:19:40,560 --> 00:19:46,040
Speaker 1: It is the Jesse Kelly Show, odda Tuesday. We have

346
00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,880
Speaker 1: to talk about this spending thing here, which we're gonna

347
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:51,560
Speaker 1: do here in a moment, and yes, I will get

348
00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:55,520
Speaker 1: to your calls tonight eight seven seven three seven seven

349
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,520
Speaker 1: four three seven three eight seven seven three seven seven.

350
00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,160
Speaker 1: All right, let's do this. I I'm unsure of exactly

351
00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,359
Speaker 1: how I feel like approaching this tonight. And this is

352
00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:13,200
Speaker 1: the reason why we've already done this. We have to

353
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,080
Speaker 1: do this every time, and eventually, don't you feel like

354
00:20:17,160 --> 00:20:20,240
Speaker 1: you're talking to the wall? I feel like I'm talking

355
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:25,879
Speaker 1: to the wall. We don't have any money left. The

356
00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:33,200
Speaker 1: United States of America is beyond broke, beyond dead broke.

357
00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:38,720
Speaker 1: We're well well passed dead broke. There is no money left,

358
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,480
Speaker 1: and our debts have piled up to the point it's

359
00:20:42,600 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 1: hard to imagine ever paying them back. Now, here's the

360
00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,879
Speaker 1: reason it doesn't feel like that. It doesn't seem like that.

361
00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 1: We've used this example before. We don't feel like a

362
00:20:54,400 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 1: poor country because here's what we are. We're the professional athlete,

363
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,680
Speaker 1: we're the young professional athlete, and we're making ten million

364
00:21:05,760 --> 00:21:09,680
Speaker 1: dollars a year, huge money, right, gigantic. We're rich, although

365
00:21:09,920 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 1: they probably make a lot more than that. Whatever ten

366
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:15,800
Speaker 1: million dollars a year we're making now, because we're idiots,

367
00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:21,120
Speaker 1: we spend twenty million dollars a year. It's new houses

368
00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,960
Speaker 1: and new mansions and new Lamborghinis and new diamonds and

369
00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,440
Speaker 1: new this, and did this and that. We find a

370
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:29,720
Speaker 1: way to spend twenty million a year, but we still

371
00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:34,639
Speaker 1: bring in ten million a year. Now, we are dead broke.

372
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,240
Speaker 1: We have loans piled up all over the place, and

373
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:43,119
Speaker 1: it's really really bad. But it doesn't really feel like

374
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:46,840
Speaker 1: we're dead broke. Why, well, we still live in a mansion.

375
00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:51,320
Speaker 1: My Lamborghini's still running this morning. I still have my

376
00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:55,639
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars diamond necklace that I bought, So how

377
00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:58,160
Speaker 1: could I be broke? But it doesn't feel like we're

378
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:03,560
Speaker 1: dead broke because we're still making ten million dollars a year. Therefore,

379
00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:08,480
Speaker 1: we're still bringing in enough to barely keep our heads

380
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:13,560
Speaker 1: above water for now. Obviously that day is going to end,

381
00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:15,800
Speaker 1: that time is going to end, and soon our heads

382
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,440
Speaker 1: won't be able to stay above water. But because we're

383
00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:21,160
Speaker 1: bringing in so much money, we can barely make enough

384
00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 1: bills here and barely make enough bills there, and we

385
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,520
Speaker 1: make this payment here and so we're just barely getting by.

386
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: So we're still in the mansion, we're still in the Lambeau.

387
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:34,479
Speaker 1: So everything's fine, right, Everything's not fine. We are thirty

388
00:22:35,160 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 1: four trillion in debt and now adding a new trillion

389
00:22:40,480 --> 00:22:45,320
Speaker 1: every three months. The fiscal crisis is coming. And in

390
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,880
Speaker 1: case you thought maybe that was just something I was doing,

391
00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: you should understand that now sitting members of Congress are

392
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:55,440
Speaker 1: essentially saying that I'm gonna paraphrase here because I don't

393
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:57,520
Speaker 1: have it right in front of me. But Thomas Massey

394
00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:01,919
Speaker 1: this morning, he basically came out online and no, here

395
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:03,240
Speaker 1: it is. Here is I have a word for word.

396
00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: This is his quote. This is a sitting member of

397
00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,439
Speaker 1: Congress quote. I have come to the conclusion that an

398
00:23:08,520 --> 00:23:12,880
Speaker 1: economic catastrophe must happen before a majority of my colleagues

399
00:23:12,920 --> 00:23:16,640
Speaker 1: will get serious about curbing out of control government spending.

400
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,760
Speaker 1: I don't know when these things will occur, but that

401
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: will be the order of operations. You don't think I

402
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: was just doing this for radio, right. The crisis is coming,

403
00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:34,920
Speaker 1: and yet Democrats and Republicans just met and have come

404
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,040
Speaker 1: to an agreement on a bunch of new bills. Now

405
00:23:38,119 --> 00:23:41,000
Speaker 1: you're going to find this confusing because they make it confusing.

406
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 1: It's supposedly one big bill, but no, it's six different bills.

407
00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,680
Speaker 1: But no, you talk to a different guy I talked

408
00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:49,879
Speaker 1: to a congressman this morning. He said, no, it was

409
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 1: one big omnibus build, but they split it into two

410
00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:55,920
Speaker 1: omnibus bils vvva. It doesn't matter. It's a lot of money.

411
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:59,639
Speaker 1: And let me clue you in on something. It not

412
00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: only doesn't cut a dime, it increases the spending. It

413
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:09,879
Speaker 1: increases it. And the reason I'm not sure if I

414
00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:12,520
Speaker 1: even want to go into this now is why. You know,

415
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: I know every few months when they do one of

416
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 1: these big things, we scream and we beat our heads

417
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: against the wall. But it's already been decided. Here as

418
00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, this was a what

419
00:24:23,640 --> 00:24:26,199
Speaker 1: was this, I guess it was this morning quote. An

420
00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:30,200
Speaker 1: agreement has been reached for DHS appropriations, which will allow

421
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: completion of the FY fiscal year twenty four appropriations process.

422
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:36,720
Speaker 1: This is my favorite part of this. Listen to this, then,

423
00:24:36,760 --> 00:24:40,800
Speaker 1: my favorite part. House and Senate committees have begun drafting

424
00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:46,160
Speaker 1: bill text to be prepared for release and consideration by

425
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:50,200
Speaker 1: the full House and Senate as soon as possible. Wait

426
00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:54,159
Speaker 1: a minute, you just said in the previous sentence that

427
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 1: an agreement has been reached, and in fact, I have

428
00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:59,600
Speaker 1: an article here. Yeah, Chuck Schumer and Mike Johnson got together.

429
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:02,920
Speaker 1: They've reached an agreement. Joe Biden has already said he

430
00:25:02,960 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: said it actually today that he'll sign it. So everyone's

431
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:07,600
Speaker 1: reached an agreement, an agreement on what.

432
00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 7: Oh, I don't know.

433
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: We're gonna start writing at any second, guys, we're gonna.

434
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: I'm glad we're all in agreement here. Hang on, let

435
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:17,840
Speaker 1: me let me sit down and write some stuff up.

436
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 1: Just naked corruption. This naked corruption, Kamala Harris corruption, that's

437
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:31,240
Speaker 1: what we'll call it. Just braisen, no clothes out in

438
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: the open. We've come to an agreement. We're gonna save

439
00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:37,399
Speaker 1: the country. Great bill we've got. Hey, what's in it?

440
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 8: Oh, I don't know.

441
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,320
Speaker 1: We're gonna start writing out here any minute now, any minute,

442
00:25:40,320 --> 00:25:45,000
Speaker 1: any minute, you guys, why bother? Why brother?

443
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,960
Speaker 6: We get this? My Republican friends tell me we're spending

444
00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 6: a lot of money.

445
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 2: It's saving billions of dollars, saving billions of dollars, were

446
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,320
Speaker 2: actually cutting the deficit.

447
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 6: Two.

448
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:58,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not even gonna bother. If you want a

449
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: rant about it, fine, I'm not even gonn I'm gonna

450
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: move on to other things. It's very clear they're not

451
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: listening to us, and it's very clear. Let's be honest,

452
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,399
Speaker 1: there aren't enough of us. People don't vote based on

453
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:11,520
Speaker 1: this stuff, and that's why we get these losers in charge.

454
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: We have exactly what we voted for. Whatever I hear

455
00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: from you, Neil Texas, go boss.

456
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 8: Hey, Jesse, I love the show, but you know that.

457
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 8: And I just want to offer some solas to those

458
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 8: of us that were out there in Iraq. And let's

459
00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 8: think about the good that we did do for people.

460
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 8: We were following orders. Yes, I get that, but think

461
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 8: about all the crippled people and the guys missing limbs,

462
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,040
Speaker 8: the Saddaman cut up. So we did do some good

463
00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:47,879
Speaker 8: and I hope that helps.

464
00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,160
Speaker 1: I hope it does too. And thank you for that, Neil.

465
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: You know, I don't thank people for phone calls. Thank

466
00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: you for that. I think there are guys out there

467
00:26:55,040 --> 00:27:00,440
Speaker 1: that need to hear that. And yeah, looky, I remember,

468
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,760
Speaker 1: I forget what city we were in. You never know

469
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,000
Speaker 1: where you are when you're actually there in combat. You

470
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 1: always find out after. I never forget what city we

471
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,320
Speaker 1: were in. And Saddam had been toppled and we were still,

472
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:13,840
Speaker 1: you know, working our way, just doing some things. And

473
00:27:13,920 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: I remember this family. The families in Iraq had to

474
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 1: have they were forced to have pictures or posters of Saddam,

475
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: who's stane up in their house. And I remember this

476
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 1: woman with her children, standing on a balcony looking over us,

477
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,679
Speaker 1: looking down, and she's holding up this picture of Saddam

478
00:27:27,720 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: and she's tearing it up in front of us. She's

479
00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:32,400
Speaker 1: so happy and whatnot. And yeah, it was a good moment.

480
00:27:32,440 --> 00:27:34,040
Speaker 1: It's one of those moments. Shoot, I'm forty two. It

481
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: was well. Gosh, March nineteenth, two thousand and three was

482
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,359
Speaker 1: the invasion, so twenty one years ago today, So this

483
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 1: is twenty one years ago, give or take twenty one

484
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 1: years ago. And I still remember it. Like as you said,

485
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: I remember the look on her face. And yeah, look

486
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, you did little things that made people's lives better.

487
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,040
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I stress that every guy

488
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: was over there. You did good, the honorable thing. You

489
00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:04,920
Speaker 1: should be proud of what you did. You should always

490
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: be proud of it, not ashamed of it. Just because

491
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: evil scumbags and charged tainted what we did. That don't

492
00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,400
Speaker 1: change what we did, all right, all right? Eight seven

493
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 1: seven three seven seven four three seven three, Brody Atlanta.

494
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 6: Go.

495
00:28:21,280 --> 00:28:21,639
Speaker 1: Heefe.

496
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 5: I was there in five and about eight months into

497
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:29,200
Speaker 5: our deployment, they took all of the snipers down. Those

498
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,679
Speaker 5: guys were bagging roadside bombers every night. If you had

499
00:28:33,680 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 5: a shovel and a one five to five round in

500
00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 5: your hand, you were on the ground and the QRF

501
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 5: went and got you. And they took those guys down,

502
00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 5: and the incidents the broadside bombs went up exponentially. Love

503
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:48,640
Speaker 5: the show, bro Let the bar eat.

504
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:54,480
Speaker 1: Appreciate your brother. For those who might be a little

505
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: fuzzy on some of the nomenclature there, obviously you know

506
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: what a sniper is. I'm not going to insult your

507
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 1: intelligen But we had we had our snipers in place,

508
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: and what they were supposed to do is take out

509
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: the guys who were creating the IEDs, the improvised explosive devices.

510
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: And when he said one five five, what that is,

511
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 1: it's an artillery shell. A lot of the IEDs were made.

512
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:17,600
Speaker 1: Were some of them, I should say, were made from

513
00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: artillery shells. They'd bury them in the ground, you'd shovel them.

514
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:23,160
Speaker 1: That's what he was talking about. The shovel. The shovel

515
00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:25,120
Speaker 1: in the one five five, you shovel it out, You

516
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,120
Speaker 1: bury it in the ground. You hook it up to

517
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:29,840
Speaker 1: some sort of a radio device, maybe cell phone activated.

518
00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: You wait till the troops come through. Pop, pop, you

519
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 1: blow them all up. Well, we smartly deployed our snipers,

520
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: so if you even look like you were interested in

521
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,880
Speaker 1: doing that, boom, there's one in your face. No IEDs

522
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:43,960
Speaker 1: our guys get to live so we can look better

523
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: to somebody. I don't know. We took away those snipers

524
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: and men died. I don't want to say I hate

525
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: these people because I don't dwell on it. I don't

526
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 1: let that bitterness fill me up. But I'll tell you what, man,

527
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,240
Speaker 1: that's not something I'm gonna forget anytime soon. Anyway. Seven

528
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:03,080
Speaker 1: seven three seven seven four three seven three. Let's talk

529
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: about something. Let's talking eight.

530
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:04,720
Speaker 6: You know what?

531
00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: You know what I could have used over there, some

532
00:30:08,200 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: Geza dream sheets, Chris, Do you know that we had these?

533
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: When I was there? We didn't. There weren't any bases

534
00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: or anything like that. It was in the very early time,

535
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: so we it was just the ground for the most part,

536
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,440
Speaker 1: and then eventually I remember we got cots and it

537
00:30:21,560 --> 00:30:23,440
Speaker 1: just those crappy green cotch you can picture, you know

538
00:30:23,480 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: what a cot looks like. We got these cots. Imagine

539
00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 1: how much better we would have slipped with some Giza

540
00:30:28,880 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: dream Sheets back then, and maybe a MyPillow two point zero,

541
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: maybe some my slippers, and we could have got them

542
00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:37,680
Speaker 1: super cheap back then, because we would have waited for

543
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:41,240
Speaker 1: a sale. Like now we're the My slippers are sixty

544
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: percent off Giza dream Sheets Queen size sets fifty nine

545
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: to ninety eight. Right now, you know what my pillow does.

546
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 1: Knew about the pillows, the mattresses, the mattress toppers, the pajamas.

547
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,959
Speaker 1: You know about the fact they actually love this country.

548
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 1: Go to myipillow dot com, click on the radio listeners

549
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: Special Square and use the promo code Jesse. All right,

550
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: MyPillow dot com Radio listener Special Square promo code Jesse

551
00:31:07,880 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: or call them eight hundred eight four five zero five

552
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,520
Speaker 1: four four. Don't miss out on some deals. Man, the

553
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: Geeza dream sheets, they really are the best. My pillow

554
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: dot com promo code Jesse. We'll be back, miss dast

555
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: catch up Jesse kellyshow dot com. It is the Jesse

556
00:31:30,320 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: Kelly Show on a Tuesday don't worry. We still have

557
00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 1: more than an hour At the Jesse Kelly Show on

558
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:38,360
Speaker 1: a Tuesday. I still say, yes, that's a great song.

559
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:41,040
Speaker 1: What's it called A Horse with No Name? Chris, that's

560
00:31:41,080 --> 00:31:43,480
Speaker 1: the name of the song. But they were absolutely on drugs.

561
00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: Every time I listen to the song, I convinced myself

562
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 1: that I'll figure out what they're talking about in the lyrics. Now, no, no,

563
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 1: an't know why I'm not on drugs. I have no

564
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: idea what they're saying. Maybe I'll start doing a acid Chris.

565
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: Two people still do acid? Well, how would you know? Never,

566
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to do any asset that doesn't sound

567
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:03,920
Speaker 1: good at always it was not that, you know what.

568
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: Let's move on, Let's talk about something else. Let's talk

569
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: to the people, Chris, Jerry, New York go.

570
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 7: How are you, Jesse, appreciate you taking my call. I

571
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 7: spent thirty four years in law enforcement on the local

572
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 7: and federal level, but I concur with you, it's a

573
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:31,840
Speaker 7: war on law enforcement. Now law enforcement has been neutralized,

574
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:35,800
Speaker 7: and on the federal level, it's been weaponized. I love

575
00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 7: the job, I love the people I served with my colleagues,

576
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,320
Speaker 7: but I feel exactly the way you feel in regarding

577
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 7: the military, and basically how it has been a two

578
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 7: from above and we're led by petty banat republic politicians.

579
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,600
Speaker 7: The only redeeming feature I have I can say is

580
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 7: that I was able to serve with good people and

581
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:12,520
Speaker 7: my brothers in arms, be they military, uh or law enforcement.

582
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 7: Those are the people that came out, and you know

583
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 7: that that was something that was good because we were

584
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 7: able to support each other.

585
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 1: You know, that's that's actually a really really great point, Jerry.

586
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:28,320
Speaker 1: Something I think that I want you to hear. The

587
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: point Jerry just made, and he's obviously spent a lot

588
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: more time doing those kinds of things than I have.

589
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: The time we got with special people is also worth something,

590
00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:45,560
Speaker 1: you know, just because our leadership sucks at every level.

591
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,480
Speaker 1: And look, Jerry's cop to think about he said, federal

592
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: and local. Think Think if Jerry was FBI, and I

593
00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:52,760
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm not not going to ask him, think

594
00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:55,800
Speaker 1: think about think about the changes he's seen and how

595
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: horrific that would be. But we did get to serve

596
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: with people. I'm actually texting during the break with my

597
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: mortar section, my old mortar section. We're texting about to

598
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: get together. We're gonna have probably this July. We're probably

599
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 1: gonna take a weekend this July. Just guys. Two were

600
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: over there together, spend so much time together, and we're

601
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 1: gonna get together. It's some cabin somewhere and no fancy plans.

602
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be nice or fancy. We're gonna get

603
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 1: a boat and we're gonna go fishing. We're gonna grill

604
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: out burgers and man, that's worth something too. Getting to

605
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: know wonderful people, amazing people, brave men, is worth something.

606
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 1: Too many people never get that. I'm blessed enough to

607
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: have experienced that in my life. Jerry is if you served,

608
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: you are too. Keep that in mind. Dave spoke can go.

609
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:56,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, last week you were talking about ams, and I

610
00:34:56,239 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 6: wanted to agree with you. I grew up and spoken

611
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:04,360
Speaker 6: the sixties and seventies and the aaws had car hawks

612
00:35:05,239 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 6: and they would serve frosty glass mugs, Oh root beer

613
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 6: to your window along with burgers, Mama burgers, Papa burgers,

614
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 6: anything you wanted. Is that? Also on Tuesdays it was

615
00:35:19,600 --> 00:35:22,879
Speaker 6: Cody Tuesdays for twenty five cents each.

616
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, Dave, how much did they cost?

617
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 1: Because I love talking to my old man about those stories. Oh,

618
00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:35,000
Speaker 1: the frosty mug. I forgot ANW root beer when I

619
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: brought it up. I forgot that they serve it when

620
00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: you're in the restaurant, that they serve it in the

621
00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: frosty mug. I can't believe that. And it adds something

622
00:35:42,719 --> 00:35:45,879
Speaker 1: to it. A frosted mug. Baby, Gosh, that sounds good.

623
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: Of what, Chris, I don't know why they don't do

624
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,760
Speaker 1: that anymore. Where the dimes get on the roller skates

625
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: and they skate up to the side of the car

626
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: and they deliver you frosty root beer and burgers. You

627
00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:58,719
Speaker 1: probably can't get away with that these days. Everybody's a

628
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,879
Speaker 1: feminist now, that's while the stewardess is our dudes are ugly.

629
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: That's exactly why, because everyone's too sensitive to that kind

630
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: of stuff. Now, we need dimes serving cheeseburgers and ANW

631
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: root bear and your dog needs rough greens. Listen, your

632
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,000
Speaker 1: dog really does need nutrition. We're gonna get back to

633
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: these calls in a second eight seven seven three seven

634
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,480
Speaker 1: seven four three seventh three. We're talking about your dog.

635
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: I may love ANW root beer and anw cheeseburgers, but

636
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: I can't eat them every meal because that's empty calories.

637
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: I would get fat and I would die at the

638
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: age of fifty. Your dog dies too early because we

639
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: essentially give him that every meal. That's what dog food is.

640
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:43,680
Speaker 1: It's brown because it's dead. And we need to start

641
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: pouring rough greens on our dog's food. All natural. What's

642
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: created by a naturopathic doctor, doctor Dennis Black is his name.

643
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: He's green Beret, by the way. He created this for

644
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: dogs because he loves them so much. Keep your dog longer,

645
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: keep your dog healthier, Start pouring screens on your dog's food.

646
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: Eight three three three three my dog. All right, We're

647
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: going to Roughgreens dot com. Slash Jesse, get your dog

648
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: some rough greens, Kathy Washington, go.

649
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 9: Hey, thank you, Jesse. Love your show and all your

650
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:23,319
Speaker 9: honesty that you give to us. This weekend, I found

651
00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 9: myself watching a bunch of movies about the American Revolution

652
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 9: and documentaries, and I realized that the revolution happened because

653
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 9: we were being taxed to death and nobody was listening

654
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 9: to the requests of the colonists. And we're there, I mean,

655
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,440
Speaker 9: it's like we're there and a while back you mentioned

656
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,880
Speaker 9: that the only solution that you saw was a divorce

657
00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 9: between the Democrats and the Republicans and we take different

658
00:37:55,040 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 9: states and with basically, if we're adding here a trillion

659
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 9: dollars every three months to our deficit, that gives us

660
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:08,840
Speaker 9: four years until we're at fifty trillion dollars.

661
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,239
Speaker 6: And I've heard that a nation.

662
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we're we're yeah, it's it's really bad, it's

663
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 1: extremely bad. Okay, let's talk about that. Let's talk about

664
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: you know, or we're their is there time for a revolution?

665
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: Let's let's have an honest discussion about that, all right,

666
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:28,600
Speaker 1: and then I'll get back to more of these eight

667
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: seven seven three seven seven four three seven three hang

668
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:31,920
Speaker 1: on