WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:05.120 It is the Jesse Kelly Show, another hour of the 2 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.800 Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday. Of course, it's an 3 00:00:08.800 --> 00:00:12.160 ass doctor Jesse Friday. We'll get to the jobs report 4 00:00:12.199 --> 00:00:14.640 at some point in time this hour, maybe play a 5 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:18.920 voicemail or two, maybe a little World War One talk 6 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:21.679 about the tunnels. But before I get to that, I 7 00:00:21.719 --> 00:00:23.640 want to get to this one here, and I want 8 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.120 to remind you you can email the show Jesse at 9 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:29.160 Jesse kellyshow dot com and you can leave us a 10 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:36.039 voicemail eight seven seven three seven seven four three seven three. Now, hey, Jesse, 11 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:40.200 I have a ticket for the Trump rally in Butler tomorrow. 12 00:00:41.119 --> 00:00:44.399 Trump for those who don't know, Butler, Pennsylvania obviously where 13 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:47.600 Trump almost got killed. He's going back there for a rally, 14 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.679 which I do think is I think it's really really 15 00:00:49.679 --> 00:00:52.359 cool to go back and just it's it's a good 16 00:00:52.359 --> 00:00:55.200 show of defiance. I like it. Anyway, she said, I'm 17 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:58.719 excited to go see him in advance speak in person. However, 18 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.719 I'm concerned about some unhinged street commie using this very 19 00:01:02.759 --> 00:01:05.599 public event to either try and hit Trump again or 20 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:10.239 take out his supporters. If I were your sister, what 21 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:14.400 would your advice be attend or listen on the radio. Thanks, 22 00:01:14.480 --> 00:01:16.359 keep up the work you do. It makes a difference 23 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:21.200 to a lot of people. Okay, so let's have a 24 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:27.879 frank talk about this. I have told you before about 25 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:34.760 certain areas and not protesting there, like blue areas Washington, 26 00:01:34.840 --> 00:01:39.200 d C. You should not be attending political protests in Washington, 27 00:01:39.280 --> 00:01:42.040 d C. Not that you don't have a right, not 28 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:46.799 saying that, but Washington d C should be treated as 29 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:50.560 the Soviet Union because that's what it is. It is 30 00:01:50.640 --> 00:01:55.239 run by communists at every single level of power. Talk 31 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.959 to one of the January sixth political prisoners and they 32 00:01:58.000 --> 00:02:01.640 will inform you about the justice system. In Washington, d C. 33 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:05.560 The federal government will entrap you, throw you in a 34 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:08.560 cage for the rest of your life without the tiniest 35 00:02:08.560 --> 00:02:11.039 bit of hesitation. They'll do the same thing to you 36 00:02:11.120 --> 00:02:14.599 in New York City in LA. Keep your protests out 37 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:16.960 of blue areas. I've told you that before, and I've 38 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:18.520 also told you that's why you need to get to 39 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:24.639 a red area. That said communists sur violent. We know 40 00:02:24.759 --> 00:02:27.960 that they've been committing acts of violence against the right 41 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:31.560 for decades now decades. Again, if we had a media, 42 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:36.199 this would be widely known how violent street communists are, 43 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:38.240 but the American media wants you to be hurt, so 44 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:42.360 they cover up these things. Should you go? If I were, 45 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:44.639 if you were my sister, should you would? I say go? 46 00:02:46.680 --> 00:02:54.080 We cannot, We must not allow violent street communists to 47 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:59.280 stop us from gathering together. If you want to go 48 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:03.439 to a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania tomorrow, put on 49 00:03:03.520 --> 00:03:07.520 your freakin Maga hat and your Sunday best and you 50 00:03:07.680 --> 00:03:11.080 go out there and listen to what will hopefully be 51 00:03:11.199 --> 00:03:15.520 our next president, and cheer and bring friends and have 52 00:03:15.599 --> 00:03:19.319 a good time. And if God forbids something happens to you, 53 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.919 something happens to you. But we cannot allow these people 54 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:28.039 to intimidate us out of having a life at all. 55 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:30.560 You know, you remember remember after nine to eleven this 56 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:34.240 got a lot of talk, and when Isis was rampaging 57 00:03:34.319 --> 00:03:36.879 through Europe and killing people here. Remember they did kill 58 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:39.000 a lot of people here too when Isis was on 59 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:42.680 the rampage. This was a central theme of don't let 60 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.400 the terrorists win. And what were we all saying, then, 61 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:49.680 don't let the terrorists win? If you stop living your life, 62 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:51.639 I'm not going to fly here. I'm not going to 63 00:03:51.759 --> 00:03:54.120 visit there. I'm not going to do this. I'm too 64 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:56.560 scared about this. I'm not going to go to Paris. 65 00:03:56.599 --> 00:03:59.840 I won't visit Africa. I don't want to go to Chicago. Don't. 66 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.400 This is the only life you are ever going to live. 67 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.719 You will not be reincarnated. This is the only period 68 00:04:08.719 --> 00:04:11.240 of time God gave you to live on this planet. 69 00:04:11.520 --> 00:04:14.840 Go live. If you want to go to a Trump rally, 70 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:18.319 get your butt out to a Trump rally and live 71 00:04:18.360 --> 00:04:22.120 it up and celebrate it. Don't let the moment pass 72 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:27.040 go all right, all right, let's do some voicemails here. 73 00:04:27.199 --> 00:04:29.959 Jesse Kelly, you did us wrong out here, man. I 74 00:04:30.040 --> 00:04:32.600 live in rural Colorado. I just stopped at the first 75 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:36.399 BUCkies that they've opened here. What a hot mess. It 76 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:40.160 looks like a cracker barrel exploded inside a real gas station. 77 00:04:40.639 --> 00:04:45.759 Itchy stuff everywhere. A ten dollars ham sandwich, and make 78 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:50.839 matters worse. No squeegees by the pumps. This is Colorado. 79 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.040 How can you not have squeezes out by the gas pump? 80 00:04:54.439 --> 00:04:55.399 Cheep up the good work. 81 00:04:55.560 --> 00:04:57.920 We appreciate what you do. We love you. You're a 82 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:00.399 real example of what somebody would. It's just not a 83 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.079 whole lot of skills. Can do we appreciate it? 84 00:05:04.439 --> 00:05:06.560 Well, that's not very nice. That's not a very nice 85 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:11.360 voicemail for two a ten dollars ham sandwich. I've never 86 00:05:11.360 --> 00:05:13.720 paid ten dollars for a sandwich. And BUCkies, Chris, you 87 00:05:13.759 --> 00:05:17.839 would know are sandwiches what they're not? Ten dollars? What 88 00:05:17.879 --> 00:05:20.000 do you get on that ham sandwich? I get the 89 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.560 Philly cheese steak. And by the way, you didn't listen 90 00:05:22.560 --> 00:05:25.079 to the menu whisper. Let me tell you a little something. 91 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.279 This is something that happened recently. Chris won't want me 92 00:05:28.319 --> 00:05:31.519 to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. So 93 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:34.279 we have this taco place. This will come back to BUCkies. 94 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:37.519 Just stay with me. We have this taco place close 95 00:05:37.560 --> 00:05:41.399 to us. I would always get this special kind of 96 00:05:41.439 --> 00:05:46.360 taco they have there. It's glorious. It's got cheese, it's 97 00:05:46.360 --> 00:05:50.600 got fried chicken in it, fried chicken in the taco, 98 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:56.879 and it's just amazing. Chris. Chris would get the Jamaican 99 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:01.800 chicken taco and he swore, oh no, it's better, it's better, 100 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:04.240 it's better. You got it, it's better. And that we 101 00:06:04.279 --> 00:06:07.920 would order together all the time. I'm getting my tacos, 102 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:12.519 He's getting his crappy Jamaican chicken tacos. And finally, one 103 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:15.040 day I forget how this happened. Maybe I ordered extras 104 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:20.680 or something. Chris, he CaMLA down one of my fried 105 00:06:20.839 --> 00:06:27.319 chicken tacos. What do you think Chris orders every single time? Now? 106 00:06:28.279 --> 00:06:30.279 I don't remember the last time I saw Chris order 107 00:06:30.319 --> 00:06:33.680 one of his Jamaican jerk chicken tacos. And I tried 108 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:37.600 to explain, Chris, you work right beside the greatest orderer 109 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:40.839 of food in the history of mankind? How could you 110 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:45.040 not just order what I order? Whatever I do food wise, 111 00:06:45.439 --> 00:06:48.879 just copy me and you'll be an incredible food success 112 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.600 like I have been. So back to you and your 113 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:55.279 complaint about BUCkies. I wouldn't need a ham sandwich if 114 00:06:55.279 --> 00:06:58.240 you gave it to me for free. Ham sandwiches suck. 115 00:06:58.839 --> 00:07:01.839 I told you to go in there and get the 116 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:04.680 Philly cheese steak burrito. How many times did I say 117 00:07:04.720 --> 00:07:07.560 get the Philly cheese steak burrito, Chris? How many times 118 00:07:07.680 --> 00:07:10.160 every time I talk about BUCkies? I tell you to 119 00:07:10.199 --> 00:07:13.279 get a Philly cheese steak burrito and you walked in 120 00:07:13.319 --> 00:07:16.240 there and got a hand sandwich like your mama casts 121 00:07:16.480 --> 00:07:19.720 and you're upset that it costs ten dollars and you 122 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:24.720 ruined your BUCkies experience. And yes, I will admit there's 123 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.480 a lot going on. There is a lot of decor stuff, 124 00:07:29.600 --> 00:07:31.480 and I think you can buy Oh, I can get 125 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:36.720 a cutting board and wool dress for winter, and there's 126 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.040 nothing you can buy a smoker. You can get whatever 127 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:44.480 you want in BUCkies. Maybe you weren't ready to handle BUCkies. 128 00:07:45.079 --> 00:07:49.240 Maybe the problem isn't BUCkies. Maybe the problem is you. 129 00:07:49.759 --> 00:07:52.600 And as far as the squeegee goes on your windshield, 130 00:07:53.240 --> 00:07:55.480 I don't know about you. I have a little thing 131 00:07:55.480 --> 00:07:57.720 where I press the button and it's sprays stuff on 132 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.439 my windshield. My little windshield wiper just washed themselves. I 133 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:04.079 know it's pretty advanced technology, but it sounds like a 134 00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:08.319 U problem. Poo anyway, Jesse, question for your show. No 135 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:10.560 one has mentioned how the disaster in the South will 136 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:14.199 effect voting coming up in just over thirty days. What 137 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:16.839 attempts will be done to ensure those facing disasters will 138 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:20.160 be heard? Well, look, you don't want to make a disaster, 139 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:22.759 especially what people are going through right now. About an 140 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.279 election or politics. I know that's not where you're trying 141 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.639 to do. It's a very fair question you asked, and 142 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:31.000 I actually asked a similar question to someone who would know. 143 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:33.120 I said, Okay, I don't want to make it about 144 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.200 the election, but what does this mean for these people? 145 00:08:35.200 --> 00:08:39.039 What does it mean? And really, if you want to 146 00:08:39.080 --> 00:08:45.080 look at it electorally, it probably hurts Democrats in these 147 00:08:45.159 --> 00:08:49.960 areas more than it hurts Republicans because they're chasing down 148 00:08:50.200 --> 00:08:53.799 more ballots. They have a more robust ballot chasing operation. 149 00:08:54.399 --> 00:08:57.200 And if there's no cell phone service, no power, no nothing, 150 00:08:57.279 --> 00:09:01.679 it makes that more difficult. No matter what, I hope 151 00:09:01.720 --> 00:09:04.919 something is done to make sure all these people are 152 00:09:04.960 --> 00:09:09.279 able to vote. Now, again, I'm not going to run 153 00:09:09.320 --> 00:09:13.720 with unconfirmed reports. I am not, but I have now 154 00:09:13.879 --> 00:09:20.000 heard from several different sources that older folks are still 155 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:24.639 dying as we speak, especially ones who are in need 156 00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:28.600 of medications. They're running out of medications. The power is 157 00:09:28.639 --> 00:09:30.519 going out. You know a lot of times when you're 158 00:09:30.519 --> 00:09:33.799 older and your health is going down, you need equipment 159 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:37.720 that has electricity attached to it to help keep yourself alive. 160 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:40.720 This is not a problem that is gone. And now 161 00:09:40.759 --> 00:09:44.600 they're just picking up the pieces. The problem is ongoing. 162 00:09:44.879 --> 00:09:47.039 And if you've never spent any time in the mountains, 163 00:09:47.080 --> 00:09:48.840 I've spent tons of time in the mountains because I 164 00:09:48.840 --> 00:09:51.159 grew up in Montana and I'm in Tennessee. I was 165 00:09:51.200 --> 00:09:53.080 down there all the time. I know what all this 166 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:57.039 stuff is, Liken't You don't have a good grasp of 167 00:09:57.159 --> 00:10:01.399 how remote, how isolated it is is and even in 168 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:06.799 this modern era, how you can be cut off. There 169 00:10:06.799 --> 00:10:09.399 aren't a bunch of routes. It's not a super highway 170 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:12.360 everywhere is in Chicago, there aren't a bunch of routes 171 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:16.360 in Oftentimes there's one. If it's gone, you're on your own. 172 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:19.320 It's it's that way, all right. Let's talk about a 173 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:23.559 World War one? Shall we? Next? It is the Jesse 174 00:10:23.799 --> 00:10:28.559 Kelly Show on a Friday, and ask doctor Jesse Friday, 175 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:30.919 and don't forget. You can send us an email. We 176 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:35.559 are alive here Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. He 177 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.159 can leave us a voicemail eight seven seven three seven 178 00:10:39.320 --> 00:10:42.200 seven four three seven three. We'll get back to some 179 00:10:42.240 --> 00:10:43.720 of those in a bit. But I got this one 180 00:10:44.080 --> 00:10:47.679 step away from politics for a minute. Dear history Professor extraordinaire. 181 00:10:48.600 --> 00:10:52.799 I watched a series on Netflix called Peaky Blinders, in 182 00:10:52.840 --> 00:10:56.000 which the main characters were having nightmares and PTSD due 183 00:10:56.039 --> 00:10:59.320 to their service in the World War One British Army. 184 00:11:00.200 --> 00:11:02.639 They are part of a small group digging tunnels. They 185 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.840 could hear the Germans digging tunnels. Two. At some point 186 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:10.159 the British and German tunnels intersect, influx of air blows 187 00:11:10.159 --> 00:11:12.840 out the candles. They're forced into hand to hand combat 188 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:16.519 underground in the pitch black. Is this a true account? 189 00:11:16.639 --> 00:11:19.440 What were the purpose of the tunnels? Says I can 190 00:11:19.519 --> 00:11:22.080 use his name. His name is Benny. All right, we 191 00:11:22.120 --> 00:11:24.679 haven't done a World War One talk in a while, 192 00:11:25.159 --> 00:11:27.679 so let's do a little World War one talk as 193 00:11:27.720 --> 00:11:30.000 it pertains to the tunnels. This may take a little bit, 194 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.639 but just trust me on this. It's worth it. World 195 00:11:33.679 --> 00:11:45.240 War One is so underrated. Underrated now underrated it's a 196 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.120 hard word. Maybe that's not the appropriate word to use, 197 00:11:48.159 --> 00:11:52.759 because it was awful. Awful. World War One did so 198 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:56.519 much to shape the world we have. The thing is, 199 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.960 World War One is so overshadowed by World War Two, 200 00:12:01.159 --> 00:12:04.639 which was bigger and more damaging and killed more people 201 00:12:04.679 --> 00:12:08.559 and involved more countries that World War One is just 202 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:12.720 not talked about much anymore. It's not understood. It was 203 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:15.279 also and I know we have pictures in video from it, 204 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:19.039 but it's not great. World War two was not only big. 205 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.440 It was not only bigger, but we had all of video, 206 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:24.399 we had video, documentaries, pictures. It was just it was 207 00:12:24.679 --> 00:12:28.200 so it's more alive for us. But World War One 208 00:12:30.360 --> 00:12:33.200 it was we had never seen anything like it on 209 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:38.639 the planet where nation states could throw army after army 210 00:12:38.679 --> 00:12:42.759 after army and they would just die and then they 211 00:12:42.759 --> 00:12:47.480 could produce new armies. So people were dying in droves. 212 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:52.879 Twenty five percent of the French male population casualties of war. 213 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:56.159 We've never seen numbers like that anyway. So why was that, Well, 214 00:12:56.240 --> 00:12:58.360 obviously you know about trench warfare. We're not going to 215 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:02.159 go into the whole thing, but artillery really changed the game. 216 00:13:02.360 --> 00:13:06.320 Artillery and the machine gun changed the game before that. 217 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.360 The weapons, I'm not gonna say they were all single 218 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:14.000 shot weapons, that's not true, but they certainly weren't fully automatic. 219 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:18.519 Machine guns and artillery had been around forever. Really, you 220 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:21.799 could call what the Romans were using with catapults in 221 00:13:21.879 --> 00:13:27.440 such artillery but the cannons count as artillery. But there's 222 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.679 a big difference between a cannon that can shoot you 223 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:33.200 five hundred meters away and an artillery shell that can 224 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:36.960 shoot you twenty five miles away, and the round it 225 00:13:37.039 --> 00:13:40.919 fires is the size of a car. There's a monumental 226 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:46.519 difference between the two. You know, once you lose entire 227 00:13:46.720 --> 00:13:51.639 units once or twice, you start having to make adjustments 228 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.159 the very beginning. There's actually a great book on this. 229 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:57.919 The very beginning of World War One is super fascinating. 230 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.399 The whole conflict is fascinating, but the very very beginning 231 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:04.000 of it. The book is called Guns of August. It's 232 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:05.720 one of the best books I've read about the start 233 00:14:05.759 --> 00:14:08.679 of World War One. Let me say that again. Guns 234 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.039 of August is the name of the book. Again. If 235 00:14:11.039 --> 00:14:12.879 you miss any part of the show, you can download 236 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:16.519 a podcast on Iheartspotify, and iTunes. But allow me to 237 00:14:16.519 --> 00:14:18.399 do this one more time, so you don't send me 238 00:14:18.440 --> 00:14:22.039 an email asking the name of the book Guns of August. Anyway, 239 00:14:22.639 --> 00:14:26.320 at the beginning of the war, nations hadn't really figured 240 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.519 out this whole machine gun artillery thing, meaning they hadn't 241 00:14:30.519 --> 00:14:34.919 figured out the destructive power of it. So when you 242 00:14:34.960 --> 00:14:38.200 look at what the Germans did in Belgium, the Germans 243 00:14:38.240 --> 00:14:42.440 were sweeping through Belgium and you had artillery pieces blowing 244 00:14:42.519 --> 00:14:45.919 up forts that were buried underground, and you had men 245 00:14:46.000 --> 00:14:50.000 just charging machine gun after machine gun, bodies stacking up 246 00:14:50.080 --> 00:14:52.080 so high you had to go out and push them 247 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:55.279 over to open up the fields of fire. It was 248 00:14:55.360 --> 00:14:58.960 just eventually, if you're in any military, German, French, it 249 00:14:58.960 --> 00:15:02.120 didn't matter what the military was, you're getting casualty numbers back. 250 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:04.639 You know, they're bringing you pieces of paper with casualty numbers. 251 00:15:04.759 --> 00:15:07.159 You're yelling at the guy thinking he missed a he 252 00:15:07.200 --> 00:15:09.879 missed a kama somewhere. This can't be right. What do 253 00:15:09.919 --> 00:15:12.240 you mean this this is the entire unit. What do 254 00:15:12.320 --> 00:15:15.919 you mean they're all gone. So that kind of shock 255 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:18.559 is going to get a reaction. You know, in combat, 256 00:15:18.600 --> 00:15:21.960 there's weapons, and then you find things to counter the weapons, 257 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:23.759 and then you find things that counter the weapons. The 258 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:25.960 counter the weapons. That's the way combat. That's why war 259 00:15:25.960 --> 00:15:29.600 has always worked. What do you do when the air 260 00:15:29.799 --> 00:15:33.399 is full of deadly things like shrapnel from the artillery 261 00:15:33.799 --> 00:15:37.919 and bullets from machine guns. Where do you go? You 262 00:15:38.039 --> 00:15:41.639 go down? You have to dig, you have to go underground. 263 00:15:41.759 --> 00:15:43.759 To this day, in the Marine Corps we would dig 264 00:15:43.879 --> 00:15:46.480 fighting holes, and then the army they call them foxholes. 265 00:15:46.480 --> 00:15:50.600 To this day, men will dig in Russia, Ukraine, huge 266 00:15:50.720 --> 00:15:53.919 trench fighting whole thing, because the air is full of 267 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:56.000 things that will kill you, so you have to get 268 00:15:56.039 --> 00:15:59.840 below the air. Trench warfare became the name of the game, 269 00:15:59.879 --> 00:16:02.559 and that's what most people know World War One for 270 00:16:03.240 --> 00:16:10.320 trench warfare. But what trench warfare creates is a situation 271 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:14.120 that is just more terrible than you can imagine. Because 272 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:20.639 lines aren't moving. Battle lines don't move. We have our trench. 273 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.879 You have your trench. You're dug in. It's defended. You 274 00:16:24.879 --> 00:16:27.120 have snipers, you have machine guns, you have barbed wire, 275 00:16:27.200 --> 00:16:30.879 you have artillery. They are dug in. They have all 276 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.960 the same stuff you have. But you both want to advance. 277 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.320 You want to advance into their trench. You need to 278 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.759 take territory. That's the nature of war. And so just 279 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.519 like you've heard stories about, they would send entire units 280 00:16:44.600 --> 00:16:47.720 over the top. It's what they called it. They'd blow whistles. 281 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:50.159 Your whole unit would go over the top, and oftentimes 282 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.159 the whole unit would die almost immediately. Just bullets would 283 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.759 fill the air and die. So if you can't go up, 284 00:16:57.960 --> 00:17:02.639 you must go down. Is the Jesse Kelly Show on 285 00:17:02.639 --> 00:17:06.359 a Friday, and asked doctor Jesse Friday, we are going 286 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.519 to get to the talking heads talking about Trump and 287 00:17:09.640 --> 00:17:12.920 new charges against Trump. We have voicemails to get to 288 00:17:13.480 --> 00:17:17.759 attacking Iran's nuclear sites. All this stuff is still to come. Yeah, 289 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:19.920 we'll talk a little bit about the jobs numbers. There's 290 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.640 a big fat disclaimer and we need to throw on 291 00:17:22.680 --> 00:17:24.839 that thing. All that and more is still to come 292 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.759 on the world famous Jesse Kelly Show. For now. The 293 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:30.359 guy was asking a guy emailed to question asking about 294 00:17:30.359 --> 00:17:32.680 the tunnels of World War One. He didn't understand why 295 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:35.839 they were there, what happened. So I just talked about 296 00:17:35.880 --> 00:17:39.440 the trenches and why the trenches became. And remember there 297 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:43.119 are places that are very overgrown. Now I've never personally been, 298 00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:45.680 but there are places in Europe where you can see 299 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:51.279 the trenches to this day. The trench network was so extensive. 300 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:56.319 There were rooms, there were barracks, there was wallpaper in 301 00:17:56.440 --> 00:17:58.279 some of them, carpet. I don't want to make it 302 00:17:58.319 --> 00:18:00.440 sound like it was nice. It was not a horrific 303 00:18:00.480 --> 00:18:02.880 place to fight, a horrific way to fight. But they 304 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:06.720 were that extensive. But you still need to advance. And 305 00:18:06.759 --> 00:18:11.000 they were constantly beating their heads against the wall trying 306 00:18:11.039 --> 00:18:14.039 to figure out each side was how do we advance 307 00:18:14.400 --> 00:18:17.759 against a dug in enemy. One of the reasons the 308 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:22.119 Germans used gas poison gas. That's famous now everyone knows 309 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.279 the Germans use poison gas. One of the reasons they 310 00:18:25.279 --> 00:18:28.240 did it they thought it would be and for a 311 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:31.160 while it was an effective way to clear out the 312 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.160 enemy trench. If the gas is heavier than the air, 313 00:18:34.440 --> 00:18:36.799 you wait till the winds are right. You released your 314 00:18:36.799 --> 00:18:40.200 gas canisters. You let it float across the field, it 315 00:18:40.240 --> 00:18:42.960 gets to the trench, it sinks in the trench. Everyone 316 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:45.680 dies a horrific death, I might point out in the trench. 317 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:49.200 And okay, so you get the idea, how do you 318 00:18:49.279 --> 00:18:55.440 take out someone in a trench. Tunnels began almost immediately, 319 00:18:55.519 --> 00:18:58.880 and tunnels were used for a couple of different reasons. 320 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:02.200 One of the main reasons they would use tunnels is this, 321 00:19:03.359 --> 00:19:07.519 They would dig a tunnel towards the enemy trench with 322 00:19:07.640 --> 00:19:12.920 the intention of packing that thing full of explosives. When 323 00:19:12.960 --> 00:19:18.480 they got under the enemy defensive fortifications and setting off 324 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:22.920 the explosives. There was. The British did this, and I 325 00:19:23.039 --> 00:19:24.799 don't have the details because I'm doing this off the 326 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:26.640 top of my head. I forget some of the details 327 00:19:26.680 --> 00:19:28.960 of it. But the British did this once and it 328 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:34.680 was so big I believe it may still stand as 329 00:19:34.720 --> 00:19:39.319 the largest non nuclear explosion in the history of the world. 330 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:42.920 They blew They essentially blew up a mountain they spent 331 00:19:42.960 --> 00:19:46.119 forever digging underneath the Germans. The Germans were dug in 332 00:19:46.160 --> 00:19:48.720 on this mountain and they just set it all off 333 00:19:48.759 --> 00:19:52.400 at once and just straight up vaporized a mountain of people. 334 00:19:53.279 --> 00:19:56.319 That was the point of the tunnels. And both sides 335 00:19:56.319 --> 00:20:00.880 were doing it. Both sides were digging tunnels. Now, I 336 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:03.480 don't know how much how much experience you have with 337 00:20:03.960 --> 00:20:10.039 underground stuff that it is. It's not for everybody, you know. 338 00:20:10.400 --> 00:20:13.400 I come from a construction family. That's what my dad did, 339 00:20:13.920 --> 00:20:15.920 That's what his dad did. That's what we did. But 340 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:18.839 we didn't build houses or roads, and I've done some 341 00:20:18.920 --> 00:20:22.759 of that stuff. But what we did was underground infrastructure, 342 00:20:22.920 --> 00:20:26.359 underground water in sewer lines. That's really what we did. 343 00:20:26.519 --> 00:20:30.200 That's what the Kellies did. And so I've spent a 344 00:20:30.240 --> 00:20:34.680 lot of time in a trench, a very very very 345 00:20:34.759 --> 00:20:39.400 deep trench thirty forty feet you're just looking up. Quit 346 00:20:39.440 --> 00:20:42.079 shaking your head, Chris, Oh, Chris. It's nerve wracking. And 347 00:20:42.160 --> 00:20:46.319 you see the shoring, the things you put up to 348 00:20:46.440 --> 00:20:50.119 keep the trench walls all right, sounded like Batman there, 349 00:20:51.079 --> 00:20:53.680 the things you put up to keep the trench walls 350 00:20:53.680 --> 00:20:58.160 from caving in. And even then it's claustrophobic, it's kind 351 00:20:58.160 --> 00:21:04.319 of intimidating. And that's what modern technology, modern regulations, it's 352 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:08.359 a lot. Now rewind to back then, think about the 353 00:21:08.400 --> 00:21:11.720 technology they were working with. You would dig straight down, 354 00:21:11.799 --> 00:21:15.240 You dig a hole straight down, and then with shovels, 355 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:18.640 that's really what it was. Shovels and picks and buckets. 356 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:22.160 You and a crew of men would aim towards the 357 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:28.680 enemy trenches and you would start digging your tunnel their direction. Now, 358 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:32.039 the problem is this, Honestly, this might be one of 359 00:21:32.039 --> 00:21:35.160 the most it really might be. This in the tunnel 360 00:21:35.200 --> 00:21:37.640 rats of Vietnam. It might be the most horrific combat 361 00:21:37.680 --> 00:21:39.480 I think I've ever heard of in my life. I 362 00:21:39.559 --> 00:21:41.519 just I don't think, I don't have whatever that is, 363 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:44.440 whatever these guys had. The enemy's digging a tunnel towards you. 364 00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:49.720 You're digging a tunnel towards them. You are not. You 365 00:21:49.759 --> 00:21:53.559 are not generally planning on running into them. That's not 366 00:21:53.680 --> 00:21:56.880 the idea. You are diggers. You send diggers down there. 367 00:21:57.119 --> 00:21:59.680 They're digging things out. I told you what the plan was. 368 00:21:59.720 --> 00:22:01.839 The play was, you get it far enough, packet full 369 00:22:01.880 --> 00:22:07.559 of explosives, blow up the other guys. But oftentimes, look, 370 00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:11.559 there's only so much ground. You're fighting over a specific area. 371 00:22:11.599 --> 00:22:15.920 Oftentimes the tunnels would be heading towards each other and 372 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:18.680 the two sides wouldn't know it. It's not like you 373 00:22:18.759 --> 00:22:20.839 gave the other side a heads up, Hey we got 374 00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:26.720 a tunnel here. It's not how it works. And if 375 00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:31.599 that wall was breached, and this happened many, many, many times, 376 00:22:32.200 --> 00:22:35.599 if that wall was breached, well, you don't shake hands, 377 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:39.599 you don't say, hey, Fritz, it's good to see you 378 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:43.279 down here. It's on. When you run into each other, 379 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:46.920 it's on. And the men of World War One who 380 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:49.000 had to dig these tunnels are some of the bravest 381 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.240 human beings who have ever lived. They would bring brass 382 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:57.319 knuckles with them. They would bring daggers with them, blunt 383 00:22:57.640 --> 00:23:02.640 you name a blunt or relatively small weapon, they would 384 00:23:02.640 --> 00:23:05.960 bring it along. And they would bring it along because 385 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:09.880 with a decent amount of regularity, you would run into 386 00:23:09.920 --> 00:23:14.640 the opposing sides tunnel and you would have a fight 387 00:23:15.559 --> 00:23:20.119 hand to hand in a tunnel under the ground, in 388 00:23:20.200 --> 00:23:24.079 the dark. You don't even know if you read some 389 00:23:24.119 --> 00:23:28.200 of the accounts. Let's say you brought a dagger with 390 00:23:28.240 --> 00:23:32.039 you and you get in one of these tunnel fights. Look, 391 00:23:32.079 --> 00:23:34.519 you don't have a ton of light anyway. You're dealing 392 00:23:34.559 --> 00:23:37.960 with little old lamps and such. But how quickly does 393 00:23:38.000 --> 00:23:40.559 one of those lamps get kicked over, knocked down, broken, 394 00:23:40.960 --> 00:23:43.519 even if it's even if it's on, it's not providing 395 00:23:43.599 --> 00:23:46.759 that much light. You're just stabbing any piece of flesh 396 00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:53.079 you find trying to live in the dark. You think 397 00:23:53.119 --> 00:23:56.039 you know bravery, I think I know bravery. I don't 398 00:23:56.079 --> 00:24:00.799 know nothing about bravery. I couldn't even imagine the only Now, 399 00:24:00.799 --> 00:24:05.799 maybe it's because I'm claustrophobic, Not with things over my 400 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:08.039 mouth or something like that, not in a plane or 401 00:24:08.079 --> 00:24:10.279