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<v Speaker 1>It is the Jesse Kelly Show on an Amazing Friday,

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<v Speaker 1>and asked doctor Jesse Friday, we're gonna talk about how

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<v Speaker 1>I would have felt when I was in the Marines

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<v Speaker 1>getting deployed.

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<v Speaker 2>Over there to LA jury duty. Someone wants to discuss it, women, men, sports,

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<v Speaker 2>college sports, the National Debt, all that and so much

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<v Speaker 2>more coming up this hour on the world famous Jesse

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<v Speaker 2>Kelly Show. So let's just dig into this one right here. Hey, Jesse,

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<v Speaker 2>if you were still in the Core, how would you

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<v Speaker 2>feel about being sent to LA? Says this from an

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<v Speaker 2>eighty five year old listener. So I'm gonna say something

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<v Speaker 2>and it's not going to sound great unless you can relate.

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<v Speaker 2>And man, that was awesome. Did you guys hear that rhyme? What? Chris?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you hear that? It's not gonna sound great unless

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<v Speaker 2>you can relate. Aa. That's good. I'm gonna use that

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<v Speaker 2>again anyway. So when you're in I'll just make it

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<v Speaker 2>about the Marines, when you're in the Marine Corps, and

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<v Speaker 2>when you're specifically in the infantry in the Marine Corps,

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<v Speaker 2>any kind of a real combat mos a combat job

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<v Speaker 2>in the Marine Corps, which that's what I was. It

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<v Speaker 2>was infantry. Your day to day life sucks, and I

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<v Speaker 2>made it in this way. It's not that it's it's

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<v Speaker 2>not that it's horrid overall. It's that your day to

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<v Speaker 2>day life is a grind and it's always miserable, and

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<v Speaker 2>it should be. I'm not complaining by the way it

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<v Speaker 2>should be. It's not supposed to be sunshine and roses.

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<v Speaker 2>You're in the infantry. They're trying to make you tough,

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<v Speaker 2>they're trying to train you. So your whole life every

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<v Speaker 2>day is sweating and misery, and you're out in the field.

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<v Speaker 2>You're getting dirty, you're constantly hot, you're constantly tired, you're

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<v Speaker 2>constantly getting screamed at doing pushups, constantly running to and

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<v Speaker 2>fro and then waiting, hurry up and wait. This is

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<v Speaker 2>your daily life, and this is how it has to be. Again,

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<v Speaker 2>this is not a complaint. That's how it has to be.

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<v Speaker 2>It's your daily life. And as you're going through this,

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<v Speaker 2>you are getting tougher and better. As you acquire more skills,

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<v Speaker 2>you do shoot better. You are physically getting harder and

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<v Speaker 2>harder and harder. You are becoming the longer you spend

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<v Speaker 2>you're becoming that warrior, right and well, I'll put it

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<v Speaker 2>to you this way. If you decided to go out

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<v Speaker 2>for the football team, and you go out and you

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<v Speaker 2>make the football team, and you go to two days

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<v Speaker 2>in the summertime, two practices of today, hot, miserable, you're

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<v Speaker 2>running stairs, you're puken, waits over and over, practice, over

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<v Speaker 2>and over, yelling over. Don't you want to get in

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<v Speaker 2>the game at some point in time, if you're going

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<v Speaker 2>to go through all of that, don't you want to

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<v Speaker 2>play a game? That's the idea. You put in the work.

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<v Speaker 2>You got yourself strong, you got yourself ready. When we

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<v Speaker 2>were in we wanted to go to war. We wanted

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<v Speaker 2>It's not that we weren't afraid. There was always that

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<v Speaker 2>fear there. No one wants to die or be maimed,

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<v Speaker 2>or be burned or something like that. There's always that

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<v Speaker 2>fear there. But as young naive men, it is fairly

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<v Speaker 2>naive to want to go to war, trust me on that.

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<v Speaker 2>But as young naive men, you spend all this time

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<v Speaker 2>to go through all this misery, getting yourself hard and ready,

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<v Speaker 2>and hard and ready and hard and ready. You want

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<v Speaker 2>to use those skills I did the two days I've

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<v Speaker 2>been in the weight room, I want to go out

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<v Speaker 2>and play a football game. Now, if you had told

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<v Speaker 2>us we weren't even political, really, there wasn't really anybody

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<v Speaker 2>that I can think of that doesn't stand out to

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<v Speaker 2>me that was political, myself included. I know you're probably thinking, well,

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<v Speaker 2>except for you, no, I was. Remember I did not

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<v Speaker 2>grow up political. I did not grow up in a

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<v Speaker 2>political household. I have always been a huge history nerd.

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<v Speaker 2>And I knew that we were Republicans just because that's

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<v Speaker 2>the only thing my dad ever told me. I asked

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<v Speaker 2>him one time whether we were Democrats and Republicans. I

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<v Speaker 2>was a small child, and he looked at me and

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<v Speaker 2>his lovely soft way and said, we're Republicans, and that

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<v Speaker 2>was that. So I was not political when I was

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<v Speaker 2>in the Marine Corps. None of us really were. If

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<v Speaker 2>they had come and told if they had come to

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<v Speaker 2>us one day and said, get your stuff packed. You

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<v Speaker 2>know all those people rioting in LA We're going to

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<v Speaker 2>go smash some skulls, we would have been beside ourselves

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<v Speaker 2>with excitement. This is they Like I said, it was

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<v Speaker 2>not even a political thing. If you told us that

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<v Speaker 2>there were a bunch of people looting and burning and

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<v Speaker 2>American city that would have bothered us a great deal,

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<v Speaker 2>and you told us that we now have to go

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<v Speaker 2>there and fight them. Oh gosh, we would have been

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<v Speaker 2>unreasonably excited to do so. I know, from the outside

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<v Speaker 2>looking in that maybe sounds barbaric or makes us sound violent,

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<v Speaker 2>or and maybe it is. Maybe it is barbaric, Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>it is violent. I would have loved the opportunity to

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<v Speaker 2>smash some commie rioters face in. I would have absolutely

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<v Speaker 2>loved the opportunity to do so. We ran into one

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<v Speaker 2>in a well, you know what, I probably don't need

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<v Speaker 2>to tell that story on the radio. Maybe that's another time.

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<v Speaker 2>Shall we Let's move on? Hey, Jesse, so now the

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<v Speaker 2>floor or so now the women are suing for equal

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<v Speaker 2>pay in the nil deals. He's talking about NCAA sports

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<v Speaker 2>men's football and basketball bringing all the money, so well, listen.

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<v Speaker 2>I you know, I would never give myself any credit

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<v Speaker 2>for predicting this, But Chris Corey, I don't even know

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<v Speaker 2>if Corey was here yet. When I said, what did

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<v Speaker 2>I say was going to happen when college sports started

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<v Speaker 2>allowing these athletes to sign endorsement deals? What did I

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<v Speaker 2>say was going to happen? Chris creeah. Here's what I said.

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<v Speaker 2>The women are going to sue and it's going to

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<v Speaker 2>blow everything up in college sports. This is how it works.

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<v Speaker 2>And I know because my wife was a college athlete

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<v Speaker 2>and I got to know all the intricacies of the

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<v Speaker 2>whole thing. Did you know that most universities, most this

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<v Speaker 2>is the vast majority, they only make money on the

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<v Speaker 2>football program. All the other different sports, men's, women's, doesn't

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<v Speaker 2>matter what it is. The football program is the one

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<v Speaker 2>that brings revenue into the university. That's big schools, small schools.

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<v Speaker 2>Most of the unionies. That's the case. There are a few.

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<v Speaker 2>There are some these men's basketball meccas, you know, like

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<v Speaker 2>a Duke or something like that, where the basketball team

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<v Speaker 2>will also make money, but there aren't many of those.

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<v Speaker 2>Beyond that, the sports are money losers for colleges when

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<v Speaker 2>you consider the facilities, when you consider these are essentially

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<v Speaker 2>six figure scholarships you're handing out for free. When you

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<v Speaker 2>consider all these things, the lack of attendance. Sports in

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<v Speaker 2>college outside of those examples I just gave are money losers. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>you decide to open up college sports, and now you

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<v Speaker 2>can pay the players. You can get sponsorships for the players.

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<v Speaker 2>I saw this coming a million miles away. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know why anyone else couldn't. Who's going to get the sponsorships?

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<v Speaker 2>The starting quarterback, the starting power forward, the wide receiver,

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<v Speaker 2>the defensive ends, because remember, you only would sponsor a player.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, you don't get advertisers for funsies. You know

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<v Speaker 2>the people who advertise on this show. Yes they share

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<v Speaker 2>our values, and yes I'm friends with pretty much all

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<v Speaker 2>of them personal friends. But they're not advertising just because

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<v Speaker 2>they love the show. You want a return on the

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<v Speaker 2>investment you expect, you demand, and you have every right

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<v Speaker 2>to demand a return on your investment. If you're sponsoring

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<v Speaker 2>a college athlete, you're not doing it for no reason

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<v Speaker 2>at all. Either A you are just a huge fan

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<v Speaker 2>of your school and you're gonna hemorrhage that money because

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<v Speaker 2>it's nothing to you, or B. The most common one

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<v Speaker 2>is you expect the starting quarterback to advertise for your

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<v Speaker 2>local chicken wing company because you expect his endorsement to

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<v Speaker 2>bring in business and you want to sell more chicken wings.

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<v Speaker 2>Who is showing up at your business for the softball player.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll make it about obs sport Gymnastics she was an

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<v Speaker 2>elite gymnast, one of the best in the country. She

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<v Speaker 2>didn't bring any money into the university. You could have

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<v Speaker 2>driven through Tucson one day and actually seen her up

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<v Speaker 2>on some little billboard flag type thing. She didn't bring

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<v Speaker 2>a diamond too that university. She on an international scholarship

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<v Speaker 2>cost the University of Arizona money. And she'd tell you

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<v Speaker 2>that to this day, when I had to go to

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<v Speaker 2>the gymnastics meets and when I got to go, when

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<v Speaker 2>I got to go to the gymnastics meets, is what

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<v Speaker 2>I meant to say. When I got the awesome opportunity

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<v Speaker 2>to go to the gymnastics meets, even the big ones

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<v Speaker 2>against the rival school, nobody in the stance, nobody's buying

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<v Speaker 2>gymnastics merch. But when you combine the fact that other

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<v Speaker 2>sports don't money with the fact that today's young athletes,

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<v Speaker 2>not all of them at all. There are a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of wonderful young athletes, but a lot of today's young

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<v Speaker 2>athletes are really really entitled, little nasty brats. It was

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<v Speaker 2>obvious to anyone with the brain that the women's basketball

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<v Speaker 2>player was going to watch the starting quarterback get a

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<v Speaker 2>million dollars a year and she was going to feel

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<v Speaker 2>entitled to some of that sheddar herself. It was obvious.

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<v Speaker 2>That's how it works. All right, to move off of

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<v Speaker 2>this and talk about the national debt. It is the

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<v Speaker 2>Jesse Kelly Show on a Friday. Remember if you miss

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<v Speaker 2>any part of the show, If you missed our Alexander

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<v Speaker 2>the Great History thing from last night, you can download

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<v Speaker 2>Dear hummer lover, how much of our thirty seven trillion

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<v Speaker 2>dollar national debt do you think is from waste, fraud

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<v Speaker 2>and abuse and could have been avoided half most all?

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<v Speaker 2>If I had to put a number on that, I

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<v Speaker 2>would tell you, well, I got hold on pause for

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<v Speaker 2>a second. What do we consider waste or fraud or abuse?

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<v Speaker 2>And I ask it for this reason. I'm not trying

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<v Speaker 2>to be cryptic here. If a president declares a war,

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<v Speaker 2>a war that really doesn't have an end goal to it,

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<v Speaker 2>a war that maybe you consider unjustified or kind of pointless.

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<v Speaker 2>If he declares a war like that and the war,

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<v Speaker 2>on top of the lives and everything else, costs five

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<v Speaker 2>trillion dollars, does that fall for you in the category

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<v Speaker 2>of waste fraud and abuse. It does for me. And

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<v Speaker 2>this is why I want to answer the question this way.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't because this is the only thing we've ever

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<v Speaker 2>known as America. And I realized we have a bunch

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<v Speaker 2>of foreigners listening to But I'm just speaking as an American.

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<v Speaker 2>We don't really realize and appreciate how wealthy we are.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't either, how wealthy we are as a country,

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<v Speaker 2>over the top, ridiculously wealthy in ways that even other countries,

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<v Speaker 2>modern civilized countries can never even compare to. They don't

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<v Speaker 2>even relate to it. I was, remember I told you

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<v Speaker 2>that time I went to Europe with the fam, took

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<v Speaker 2>ob and the boys. We went to Austria in the

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<v Speaker 2>Czech Republic. Well, part of the appeal of leaving Houston

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<v Speaker 2>in the summertime was we were going to get to

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<v Speaker 2>get out of the heat. Let's get out of the heat,

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<v Speaker 2>spend a week out of the heat. I'd never been

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<v Speaker 2>to Europe. I'd always wanted to go nerd out on history.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's get out of the heat and lo and behold

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<v Speaker 2>the way it works. Sometimes we show up in Europe

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<v Speaker 2>and they are having the hottest summer they've It was

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<v Speaker 2>with it, but it was baking. We're talking for Europe.

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<v Speaker 2>It was ninety four ninety five degrees roasting in Europe.

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<v Speaker 2>So we get there and it's cooking, and everybody, all

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<v Speaker 2>the tourists, it's all tourist spots. We're all walking around

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<v Speaker 2>The main thing restaurants were advertising as you walked up

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<v Speaker 2>in and eat. Let me ask you something as an American,

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<v Speaker 2>have you ever won time in your life eaten in

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<v Speaker 2>conditioning in it. I'm sure I have a couple times.

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<v Speaker 2>But that's something most people will never experience in this country.

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<v Speaker 2>Air conditioning. Everybody has air conditioning. You have air conditioning

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<v Speaker 2>in your apartment, of course you do if you have

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<v Speaker 2>condition isn't it If you work in an office building.

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<v Speaker 2>We're in one right now. There's air conditioning. I'm doing

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<v Speaker 2>my show. I think it's like seventy five degrees in here.

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<v Speaker 2>Your restaurants, I'm gonna stop at a gas station on

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<v Speaker 2>the way home. It will be air conditioned. So what

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<v Speaker 2>I was getting to is, we have an absurd amount

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<v Speaker 2>national debt is an unbelievable disgrace because it should be

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<v Speaker 2>zero dollars with the amount of money we take in

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<v Speaker 2>in this country, with the amount of money we truly have,

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<v Speaker 2>if we were run the right way, if we had

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<v Speaker 2>thirty trillion dollars surplus. That's how ridiculous, that's how criminal

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<v Speaker 2>it is that we are thirty seven trillion dollars in debt.

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<v Speaker 2>We are as a country, as a people. Those professional athletes.

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<v Speaker 2>he retires because he was spending somehow more than he

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<v Speaker 2>look at that stupid idiot. Wow, what an uneducated moron.

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<v Speaker 2>How do you spend more than that's us, That's the

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<v Speaker 2>United States of America. We've done that. A country this

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<v Speaker 2>wealthy should never be in debt. Ever, maybe maybe you

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<v Speaker 2>could make an exception for a large war like a

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<v Speaker 2>World War Two. You can understand, Hey, we have to

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<v Speaker 2>put some economic things on hold. We have to overbuild

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<v Speaker 2>planes and ships, and we have the maybe temporarily we

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<v Speaker 2>should be spending more than we take in. But the

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<v Speaker 2>amount of money this country takes in, that we have

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<v Speaker 2>not only not been able to stay underneath that amount,

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<v Speaker 2>but that we have blown through it to the point

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<v Speaker 2>we're thirty seven trillion dollars in debt is a disgrace.

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<v Speaker 2>It's pathetic. I'll be honest. It embarrasses me. It embarrasses me.

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<v Speaker 2>We are the young NBA player who makes twenty million

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<v Speaker 2>and spends thirty million a year. We're the rapper who

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<v Speaker 2>goes bankrupt, but he's got a diamond necklace worth eight

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<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand dollars. That's us here in the United States

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<v Speaker 2>of America. Embarrassing. But we have allowed to happen to

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<v Speaker 2>the treasury. That's how it goes, All right, move on,

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<v Speaker 2>do some other stuff. It is Jesse Kelly Show on

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<v Speaker 2>a wonderful Friday and ask doctor Jesse Friday. And we're

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<v Speaker 2>not discussing anymore of this regime change stuff right now.

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<v Speaker 2>I realize missiles are flying and threats are being tossed around,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's probably going to be a wild weekend over

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<v Speaker 2>there in the old Levant. So we're just going to

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<v Speaker 2>sit here and answer some ask Doctor Jesse questions, and

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<v Speaker 2>I guess we'll sift through the carnage on Monday. Jesse,

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<v Speaker 2>your history discussions and your comments the other night about

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<v Speaker 2>whether we are still a nation prompt me to request

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<v Speaker 2>or suggest that you discuss our founding as these United

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<v Speaker 2>States versus being a country or a nation. You explain

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<v Speaker 2>things well, and I would appreciate hearing your explanation of

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<v Speaker 2>our progression from a group of sovereign states to whatever

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<v Speaker 2>we are now. Thank you for your time and attention. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll just touch on this briefly. Remember that we were

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<v Speaker 2>colonies at first. We were colonies. Everyone knows about the

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<v Speaker 2>thirteen Colonies. We were colonies, and the colonies had their

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<v Speaker 2>own governments. Human beings whenever they live together a city

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<v Speaker 2>or a call, any estate, whatever, they're going to create

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<v Speaker 2>a government. A government is a very human thing. You're

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<v Speaker 2>be a tribal chief or a king or a representative republican,

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<v Speaker 2>but you're going to have a government of some kind.

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<v Speaker 2>So the colonies had a government. But as they were

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<v Speaker 2>chafing underneath the king, they were starting to figure out

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<v Speaker 2>that a bunch of separate colonies can be smashed, can

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<v Speaker 2>be crushed. But if there was some way to unify them,

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<v Speaker 2>if there was some sort of uniting principle, then their

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<v Speaker 2>collection getting together would be a strength. They would become

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<v Speaker 2>British crown. We did that, but then then you really

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<v Speaker 2>need to figure out, Okay, how are we going to

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<v Speaker 2>live together? Because New York even back then was different

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<v Speaker 2>than South Carolina. It's different different regions. You're going to

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<v Speaker 2>have different values in different regions. What are the unifying ideas,

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<v Speaker 2>what are the unifying principles? And they had all kinds

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<v Speaker 2>of debates about that back then, back and forth of

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<v Speaker 2>how should the government be here, how should it be there,

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<v Speaker 2>how should it function? Endless discussions. Eventually we settled on

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<v Speaker 2>what we obviously know the constitution. The federal government should

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<v Speaker 2>be limited. The states really should govern themselves for the

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<v Speaker 2>most part. But we are still one country. We have

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<v Speaker 2>united the states. The states are united, so we're one country.

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<v Speaker 2>But the federal government is a very very small thing.

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<v Speaker 2>The states should handle their own business. That's how we

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<v Speaker 2>were founded. That's what they believed, that's what worked, and

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<v Speaker 2>that's what would still work. Federalism the idea that the

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<v Speaker 2>states govern themselves, handle themselves. The federal government only does

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<v Speaker 2>the things that are absolutely necessary for a federal government

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<v Speaker 2>to do. Things like currency. You can't have South Carolina

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<v Speaker 2>have to have one currency as a country, all right.

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<v Speaker 2>So how did we get to where we are now? Well,

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<v Speaker 2>on a macro level, we're human and we're governed by

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<v Speaker 2>other human beings. And people who achieve power very very

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<v Speaker 2>very rarely try to just maintain it, and almost never

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<v Speaker 2>do they try to reduce the amount of power they have.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, no football coach takes over the football team

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<v Speaker 2>and says, you know what, I really want less control

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<v Speaker 2>over things. That's not how it works. You want more control,

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<v Speaker 2>But governments operate the exact same way. And our federal government,

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<v Speaker 2>over years, decades and decades and decades and decades, because

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<v Speaker 2>it's occupied by flesh and blood human beings, was always

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<v Speaker 2>trying to find a way to take more power than

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<v Speaker 2>it was constitutionally allowed to have. Hey, we're the federal government.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to be able to do this. I want

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<v Speaker 2>to be able to do that. I want to be

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<v Speaker 2>able to do this. You keep limiting my power. But

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<v Speaker 2>I have things I want to do, so I need

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<v Speaker 2>more and more and more of it. And how we

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<v Speaker 2>part of it. When the federal government started handing out money,

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<v Speaker 2>it started gaining control. That's that's really the huge problem

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<v Speaker 2>we have as a country. It's the amount of money

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<v Speaker 2>the federal government takes in and then hands out, giving

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<v Speaker 2>them control over things they have control over. Well, the

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<v Speaker 2>Department of Education, Department of Education hands out money. That

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<v Speaker 2>money is power. They can withhold it. Hell, keep you

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<v Speaker 2>go ahead and defy me. I'll hold back my money.

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<v Speaker 2>Trump has done it, Democrats do it, Republicans do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Everyone does it. Now. Because you have money, what you spend,

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<v Speaker 2>what you pay for you control that. They've done it

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<v Speaker 2>with Wall Street, the financial sector in the government. You

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<v Speaker 2>can't even tell. There's not an inch of daylight between them. Now.

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<v Speaker 2>They have completely merged with each other because the federal

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<v Speaker 2>government has this. The federal government has that, Hey, go

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<v Speaker 2>ahead and screw up at your bank. We'll come in

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<v Speaker 2>and take it over and piecemeil that whole thing out.

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<v Speaker 2>It's our bank. Now, these are ridiculous powers. The federal

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<v Speaker 2>government should have never had. The making war. I know

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<v Speaker 2>this is a basic point, but you know that the

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<v Speaker 2>president can't just declare war. Right, that has to come

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<v Speaker 2>from the Congress. We are not a country with the

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<v Speaker 2>king where the president can just declare a war. But

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, all the way back to LBJ, I mean, shoot,

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<v Speaker 2>you can, are you the Korean War? You could? Presidents

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<v Speaker 2>have just asserted their authority. They didn't like that limiting power. No,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm the president. I think we should. I think we should.

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<v Speaker 2>So they tried look back to Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson

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<v Speaker 2>Wilson thought he was above other people. He felt like

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<v Speaker 2>he was a king. Woodrow Wilson wanted US in World

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<v Speaker 2>War One so badly, so badly. FDR wanted US in

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<v Speaker 2>World War Two so badly. In the public opinion polls

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<v Speaker 2>were always against them. The public was dead set against

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<v Speaker 2>getting involved in these wars. Until Pearl Harbor. No one

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<v Speaker 2>wanted to be involved in World War Two. Until you know,

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<v Speaker 2>No one wanted to be involved in World War One.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody did. But Woodrow Wilson in FDR again saw themselves

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<v Speaker 2>to go along with the American public, that they had

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<v Speaker 2>to wait for cons to declare war. They hated that.

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<v Speaker 2>And look, you can hate those guys, and I don't

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<v Speaker 2>care for either of them, but it's human nature. Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>lady Fingers, it's not nice. I'm listening to your rant

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<v Speaker 2>about observing on jury duty. Whatever sort of case it is,

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<v Speaker 2>it's probably not near as heavy as what my elderly

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<v Speaker 2>jail as a member of a jury here in Alabama

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<v Speaker 2>is as heavy as tin boxes that you might be moving. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>I do agree with your civic duty. I would caution

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<v Speaker 2>people beforehand because you might be on a case like

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<v Speaker 2>a pedo and you have to look at all these

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<v Speaker 2>disgusting evidence items. I could never process this. It would

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<v Speaker 2>scar me for life just looking at that garbage. What

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<v Speaker 2>are your thoughts, bald Philosopher? I love your show, but

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<v Speaker 2>I'm contentious on this topic. I think I think guarding

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<v Speaker 2>your what do they say today? What do these fruities

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<v Speaker 2>say today? Your mental health? I think guarding you mental

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<v Speaker 2>health it is appropriate at times. Of course, of course,

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<v Speaker 2>at the same time, who's going to sit on the jury?

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<v Speaker 2>And how much do you think you should shield yourself

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<v Speaker 2>from the ugly realities of life? You know, when when

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<v Speaker 2>we're out traveling or doing something with our kids and

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<v Speaker 2>run across the street or tell our children to cover

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<v Speaker 2>up their eyes look see. Understand that there's a different

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<v Speaker 2>an ugly side out there, and I don't necessarily think

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<v Speaker 2>that's unhealthy. It may be painful, but I don't necessarily

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<v Speaker 2>think that's unhealthy. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on

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<v Speaker 2>a Fantastic Friday, reminding you you can email the show

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<v Speaker 2>Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. Your love, your hate,

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<v Speaker 2>your death threats. All are welcome. Let's start chopping away

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<v Speaker 2>at some more of these, shall we, Jesse? Can you

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<v Speaker 2>know us and tell us another story about your experience

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<v Speaker 2>in the Marines. Did you ever have to work closely

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<v Speaker 2>with other branches of the military other than Navy? Corman

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<v Speaker 2>thanks to you and your crew. So I've told this

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<v Speaker 2>story a long time ago. I'll I'll give you one.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll give you two, actually, because do you ever get

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<v Speaker 2>the feeling that God smiles on you. You don't deserve it,

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<v Speaker 2>but you end up, you end up catching breaks in

419
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<v Speaker 2>life that you that are inexplicable. I'll give you two

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<v Speaker 2>of them. First, I told you about the time I

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<v Speaker 2>got giardia, that parasite in mountain warfare training, and then

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<v Speaker 2>I almost died when we were training. It was one

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and twenty degrees it was I was so dehydrated.

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<v Speaker 2>I was unbelievably sick. They had to rush me to

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<v Speaker 2>the hospital and I took down like three ivs. It

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<v Speaker 2>was I mean I was in bad shape. Well, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>symptom free after this for a couple of weeks, symptom free.

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<v Speaker 2>They gave me a bunch of pills symptom free. Our unit,

429
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<v Speaker 2>our battalion, was getting ready to go out for one

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<v Speaker 2>of these brutal five day field ops in the desert,

431
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<v Speaker 2>and it's going to be brutal. It's going to be brutal.

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<v Speaker 2>The day they're supposed to leave, I get called down

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<v Speaker 2>to the office. This is always bad, universally bad. You're

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<v Speaker 2>in trouble when you get called down to the office.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think I'm in trouble. I take off to

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<v Speaker 2>go down to the company command, the company office. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>I see one of my corporals, one of my NCOs.

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<v Speaker 2>He passes me on the way back, and he's just

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<v Speaker 2>glaring at me, won't say anything to me. Now, I

440
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<v Speaker 2>really don't know what I did wrong. So I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know what I did wrong, but clearly something. I show up.

442
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<v Speaker 2>I find out that they fly got my test results

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<v Speaker 2>back and that I have giardia, a parasite, and they're

444
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<v Speaker 2>telling me this like with a heavy like I'm gonna

445
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<v Speaker 2>be sad. They're like, hey, this is very contagious, so

446
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<v Speaker 2>you're not going to be able to go to the

447
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<v Speaker 2>field with us. In fact, it's so contagious that we

448
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<v Speaker 2>have to quarantine you in your roommate. He was my

449
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<v Speaker 2>best friend. We have to quarantine you and your roommate

450
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<v Speaker 2>in case he has it too. You guys need to

451
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<v Speaker 2>stay in your rooms. You won't be going with us.

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<v Speaker 2>For five days, my unit went out to the desert

453
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<v Speaker 2>and lived in complete misery. We weren't even allowed to

454
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<v Speaker 2>go to the chow hall, so we ordered Domino's Pizza

455
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<v Speaker 2>almost every single day. It was the only pizza place

456
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<v Speaker 2>on base on twenty nine Palms, and we played video

457
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<v Speaker 2>games in eight pizza like a bunch of college freshmen

458
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<v Speaker 2>for five days while everyone else was suffering like the

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<v Speaker 2>These are the kind of things that always happened to me.

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<v Speaker 2>So I'll give you. I'll give you a working with

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<v Speaker 2>the other branches story that again, it goes right along

462
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<v Speaker 2>the lines with what we're talking about here. We go

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<v Speaker 2>to Iraq. I'm in first Betid seventh Marines Alpha Company

464
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<v Speaker 2>Weapons Patoon. We go to Iraq, Well, we go to Kuwait.

465
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<v Speaker 2>We stage in Kuwait. This is before Bush declares war.

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<v Speaker 2>Find the heat declares war. We take off, we head

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<v Speaker 2>into Iraq. We fight our way, we get all the

468
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<v Speaker 2>way to all the way up to Baghdad. Okay, so

469
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<v Speaker 2>we remove all the way up through Iraq, we get

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<v Speaker 2>to Baghdad. We get into Baghdad. We have not there

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<v Speaker 2>are no facilities at the time, because again this is

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<v Speaker 2>the beginning of all of it. There aren't bases, there's nothing,

473
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<v Speaker 2>there's nothing there. We're sleeping in holes in the ground.

474
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<v Speaker 2>We dig. There's no facilities, and there's no bathing for

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<v Speaker 2>two or three weeks, there's no shower, there's no bath.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh and by the way, it's hot. We've been wearing

477
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<v Speaker 2>our mop gear for lots of the time. That's your

478
00:29:56.240 --> 00:29:58.880
<v Speaker 2>don't don't die from gas gear. That's what it is.

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<v Speaker 2>So what what Chris said, How do you prevent the

480
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<v Speaker 2>chafing and stuff? You don't when you the only thing

481
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<v Speaker 2>you can do, as you are living in sweat and

482
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<v Speaker 2>dirt and you stink like you can smell yourself, that

483
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<v Speaker 2>kind of a stink, the only thing you can do

484
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<v Speaker 2>is you get baby wipes, an attempt to wipe sensitive

485
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<v Speaker 2>areas down as best you can to make sure just

486
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<v Speaker 2>to make sure you don't get sick for you have

487
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<v Speaker 2>to maintain some sort of a high, some sort of hygiene,

488
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<v Speaker 2>or else disease is gonna spread. So this is your life, sweat, dirt, misery,

489
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<v Speaker 2>and there is no bathing. Have you ever gone two

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<v Speaker 2>days three days without bathing? Most people have for one

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<v Speaker 2>reason or another. Maybe you're camping or whatever it may be.

492
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<v Speaker 2>How do you feel? Yeah, greasy, slimy, dirty. You can

493
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<v Speaker 2>rub your skin into right now. Picture two or three

494
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<v Speaker 2>weeks in the desert with all this. By the time

495
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<v Speaker 2>we get to Baghdad, we are disgusting, We feel disgusting,

496
00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:18.559
<v Speaker 2>and everyone's dying for a bath. So we get to

497
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<v Speaker 2>Bagdad and they take my unit and we go to

498
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.039
<v Speaker 2>a place I believe it's still there. You can probably

499
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<v Speaker 2>look it up called the March. I think it was

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<v Speaker 2>called the Martyr Monument or Martyr Monument Park something like that.

501
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<v Speaker 2>It has what looks like a gigantic blue water drop

502
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<v Speaker 2>in it. So if you look it up, that's where

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<v Speaker 2>we were. Okay, if it's still there, if they haven't

504
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<v Speaker 2>blown it up or something like that, that's where they

505
00:31:42.920 --> 00:31:44.920
<v Speaker 2>took my unit. Hey, this is where you're going to

506
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:48.839
<v Speaker 2>stage go secure this area at the time Again, I

507
00:31:48.839 --> 00:31:50.640
<v Speaker 2>don't want to tell you that's still the case. Is

508
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<v Speaker 2>this is twenty years ago. At the time, there was

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<v Speaker 2>a big pond in the in there. I can't even

510
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<v Speaker 2>describe how badly we wanted to go have a bar

511
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<v Speaker 2>of soap and go dive into this water to clean ourselves.

512
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<v Speaker 2>We are nasty for whatever reason. Maybe it was security,

513
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<v Speaker 2>maybe they had tested the water, it was disease, maybe

514
00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:13.720
<v Speaker 2>they were just being me and I don't know. You

515
00:32:14.200 --> 00:32:15.839
<v Speaker 2>don't know a lot of things when you're in more,

516
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<v Speaker 2>they wouldn't let us get in it. So not only

517
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<v Speaker 2>are we nasty, we can't get in the water now

518
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<v Speaker 2>we are. I was in a mortar section. I was

519
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<v Speaker 2>in O three forty one mortarmen. We really didn't hardly

520
00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:35.119
<v Speaker 2>we'd ever used our mortars in Iraq. We were just

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<v Speaker 2>basic infantrymen. We had to carry them around, we had

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<v Speaker 2>to set them up on occasion. But mortars are not

523
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<v Speaker 2>great in an urban environment for obvious reasons. You hit

524
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<v Speaker 2>buildings and things like that with it. It's hard to lob things.

525
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<v Speaker 2>Just we weren't in a mortar friendly environment, so we

526
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<v Speaker 2>just became basic infantrymen walking around just like all the

527
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<v Speaker 2>other Oath three elevens, which we were all trained for

528
00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:00.440
<v Speaker 2>that anyway, it was fine, it was no big deal.

529
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<v Speaker 2>We were basic infantrymen. Now, remember I told you we're nasty,

530
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<v Speaker 2>and remember we haven't slept in anything resembling a bed

531
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<v Speaker 2>or even a cot or anything like that. In weeks,

532
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.000
<v Speaker 2>we get called down to the company commander's office and

533
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<v Speaker 2>he gives us some of the best coolest news ever.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll finish this in a second. Hangou