Biden and Netanyahu Hold Phone Meeting

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Independent thoughts, independent life. Thisis Chad Benson. They talked on the
phone yesterday, which is weird,right, talking on the phone, But
Biden and Babe got together had achat. Why is that because of what's
going on in Gaza, the famine, the nightmare, the killing of the

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workers. Well, it's a mistake, and it was a mistake. People
are pissed and angry. Your alliesare starting to turn from you. You're
losing the public opinion, which isso much of what this is about.
And public opinion, by the way, especially amongst the youth of the world,
is that Israel's bad and evil becausewe have this weird view of the

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world that anybody who is quote unquotethe underdog somehow is more virtuous than the
other, which is bizarre, likethey can do no wrong. But this
killing of the seven plus workers,you know, I mean, was there

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several workers from the world Kitchen hasreally upset the Apple card and it's been
a look, Biebie's got a lotof problems and it is escalating, and
there's a worry that this thing isgoing to spill over. And we'll talk
about that in a second. Butthey did have a conversation yesterday. President
Biden spoke a short while ago withPrime Mistery and net Nyatita. The leaders

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discussed the situation in Gaza. ThePresident emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers
and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. He made clear the need for Israel
to announce a series of specific,concrete and measurable steps to address civilian harm,
humanitarians suffering, and the safety ofaid workers. He made clear that
US policy with respect to Gaza willbe determined by our assessment of Israel's immediate

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action on these steps. How realis that? Is there a red line?
Somebody said today for BB I don'tknow. There is a lot of
issues that are going on over therethat pre date, by the way,
October seventh. Let's remember this,let's put this in context. First,
none of this would have happened.Those seven people wouldn't be dead. If

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a moss didn't attack, those sevenpeople wouldn't be dead. But there are
problems. Bbe's got tons of problems, political problems that pre date October seventh.
Is it about to get worse?It's a possibility there and there is
no doubt that there is a realhumanitarian nightmare going on in Gaza, in
Rapa that needs to be dealt with. I don't know if Bib is the

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right person to deal with it ornot. He underscored as well that an
immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize andimprove the umanitarian situation and protectingness and civilians
and to yours Prime Minister Deniao toempower his negotiators to conclude a deal without
delay, to bring the hostages home, which has to happen right now.
I said it. When the thing, when this the expansion of you know,

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the few day of bombings and theninto you know, Gaza they went,
I said, Hamas is won,Hamas has one. They did.
Everything that they wanted to happen hashappened. Tens of thousands of Palestinians are
dead. They wanted that to happen, of course they do. Hamas cares
about Hamas. The Palestinian people area means to an end, to control,

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to have power to live an absolutelyamazing life, as they do in
other places that aren't Palestine, likeCutter. And guess what Israel and the
Arab nations now tension normal ways preOctober seventh, where we're all getting along,

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we're trading behind closed doors. We'rehaving conversations about how we can expand
our trade, how we can normalizerelationships in a way that we never have
and all of a sudden it's over. Yeah, we are looking at one
of the worst humanitarian disasters that wehave seen in a very, very long
time. We're literally, at thismoment looking at hundreds of thousands of children

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starving to death because Israel is notallowing the humanitarian trucks into Gossa, where
people are in most desperate condition.To my mind, Israel should not be
getting another nickel in military aid untilthese policies are fundamentally changed a no more
military aid to Israel when children inGaza are starving. And the other question
is that what does that look likethough, because the moss is still in

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power, which they were always goingto be in power, so what does
that look like? But the otherpart of the problem is the Arab question,
which is they don't really care aboutPalestine, so they're pain in the
ass. They won't accept them,they don't want any part of it because
they've seen what's happened in the radicalizationover time. How do they get involved?

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Because they also like the fact thatthey like trade, they like being
modern, but they can't be seenas we're going to side with Israel.
But at the same time they're like, yeah, we may side with these
guys because the same religion. Whateveryone we don't want them here. So
it's a really complex situation. Thenyou have the questions of how in God's
name did this happen? Is theremore to the story? But I love

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it this morning Joe taking on thisquestion, and some of what they say
is right, But I love howthey got to throw Trump in there,
net Yahoo knowing for a year beforehandof Hamasa's plans. They had the plans
in hand in the government doing absolutelynothing about it, doing absolutely nothing about
the illicit funding that Trump and Netanyahwho knew about in twenty eighteen, the

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funding sources that kept Hamas's war machinealive. They looked the other way.
And yet for some reason that Yahoo'sstill is not having to answer for this,
and he needs to. This happenedon his watch. Embarrassment one hundred
percent, because he's supposed to bethe hard ass the world is watching though,
And it wasn't just about the funding. I mean, come on,

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they were practicing on the other sideof the wall with gliders, and people
are looking through their binoculars and withtheir own eyes, and they go,
well, they really practiced some stuffgoing on. It feels like like that
looks like our buildings. These looklike our stuff. It feels like they're
getting ready to do something, andeverybody's like, nah, things are good,

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things are goodt Yaho sent a representativeup to Doha three weeks before the
attack. On October the seventh,the leaders of Cutter said, do you
guys still want us to keep sendingall this money to Hamas? The answer,
yes, of course we do.Netting Yahoo was the chief sponsor of

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Hamas through Cutter. Well, butwe can't investigate that until after the war's
over. We can't do anything untilafter the war's over. Like I said,
I think you know the political sideof this, with BB and the
problems he had pre this and thenthis on him, Israel's getting tired.

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The world's looking at them. Thetwo state solution is crumbled at this point
in time, and people are lookingat that and Yahoo and part of this
is staying in the powers. That'swhat I firmly believe he wants to stay
in power, and the longer thisgoes, the more power he's able to
hold onto. Why would you allowthis man to continue running your country when
he is responsible responsible for Harmas beingable to run loose in Israel and commit

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the worst atrocities against Jews since theHoly coaust the Holy Cost. By the
way, he's not responsible the endof the day, You're responsible for your
own actions. Hamas wanted this,They're responsible for it. You weren't getting
them out pre this, so they'reresponsible for it. But did you know

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more? Is the question that peopleare going to ask. And I think
a lot of people knew. Ijust didn't think they thought they had the
balls enough to do it, butthey did. And then you've got to
worry about what's going on in Iranbecause after the attack the other day,
word is on the street, Iron'sabout ready to fire away. Israel lives

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in a tough neighborhood. Everybody's focusedas and rightly so, on Gaza in
the humanitarian situation there, but theyface threats from elsewhere, from Hesbeula to
the north, from militia groups inIraq and Syria, and from Iran proper
itself. Yeah, could it happensoon, maybe the eclipse day. You
don't know. Ooh, we shallsee. It's gonna be uh, it's
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You're listening to the Chad Benson Show. It is Friday, and it
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the show first started, and Iwant to thank each and every one of
you guys by the way this pastweek, I was joking around. I
didn't realize we'd been on the airnationally for nine years. And I want

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hate me, Thank you so verymuch. I appreciate that. But I
know when I first started, youknow, there was kind of absent flows
in the news. We didn't havethe chaos and craziness that we have nowadays.
Now it's just seem to be chaosand craziness, and each and every
week sometimes you just sit back andrelax and realize, wow, was that

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just if things don't improve with thehigher prices and the customers stopped coming in,
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lose jobs. Only thirty six percentsay that the strength of the economy is

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excellent or good. Sixty three percent, nearly two thirds of Americans in these
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You come, sit your trifling behinddown. Y'all not supposed to be expensive.
The Democrats said, please, don'tcall them animals. Say humans.
I said, they're not damage,not yamage, they're animals. It'll be
neat to see how the animals herereact to this event. Oh my goodness,

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crazy crazy week. Indeed, it'sgonna be wacky start of next week.
Obviously, solar eclipse on Monday,the total solar eclips will create sudden
darkness in the middle of the dayfor about four minutes across thirteen states.
Cities and towns in the path oftotality bracing for an influx of visitors.

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We have folks coming from Japan andTasmania eleven European countries. The phenomenon,
projected is the year's largest mass travelevent in the US, the FAA warning
of potential flight delays, hundreds ofschools closing or dismissing early for the day.
Local officials expecting heavy traffic. Yes, indeed, that traffic is going
to be interesting to see. Howcrazy is that traffic going to be in

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certain areas for something that's not gonnayou don't sit there for several hours and
watch it. It comes and goesfast. It's going to be interesting.
It is. It's exciting. I'mexcited. Am. My kids and I
were talking about it the other dayand even yesterday, how excited they are.
Because we're not going to I thinkwe get like sixty some percent here
in Arizona. But just the wholethought process and watching people get excited about

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this and building up to it,it's it's fun. Hillsboro, Texas offering
a whole weekend of fun events.Locals say they've been preparing for two years
to welcome visitors to Eclipseboro. Weordered twenty five thousand pairs of eclipse glasses,
and there was a moment when westarted to think maybe that's not enough,
and so we ordered another twenty fivethousand pair. Local economies will no

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doubt see a big boost. Thestate of Texas alone could pocket a record
four hundred and twenty eight million dollars. It's big. By the way,
what are eclipse glasses? They containa special purpose filter to protect your eyes.
All right, So that's you know. I remember. I'm sure some
of you guys you remember as akid, you go out and they would
do like the cardboard box, theypoke a hole in it. We've moved

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on since then. We got eclipseglasses. Eclipse glasses. Are you ready
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Good luck, sir, it's goingto be busy. Indeed, what
about the animals we talked to?You listened to the finally Friday thing that
we played. The last part wasabout animals. Well Trump, no,
no, no, the one afterthat, because there's a big talks like
what about animals during the twenty seventeeneclipse, Biologist Adam hartstone Rose was teaching
at the University of South Carolina anddecided to head to the zoo and run
a little experiment. I hypothesized thatthis was going to be a nothing burger,

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but as Adam observed, when themoon covered the sun and totality,
the giraffes started running around their enclosures, the flamingos made a protective circle around
their young, and the Galapagos tortoisesstarted mating behavior. This time, Adam
is flying to a zoo in theeclipse's path and bringing forty scientists along with
them, and asking folks to sendin their observations and make a bigger study

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together. We'll see how that goes. Three two, three, five,
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I'll go out and see what myanimals are doing. I've got big tortoises.
I don't have galopagus, but I'vegot big tortoises. I'll check them
out and see if they're gonna doanything wacky. One of my tortoises,
his name is Merle. He's prettybig and he's gonna get a lot bigger.

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When I go play pickleball out back. He likes to come out and
wander around on the court while I'mplaying pickleball. And it's hilarious because every
time one of the green pickleball rollsnerrove the red ones, he thinks they're
a snack. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
to twenty three at Chad Benson Show'syour Twitter coming up? Talk a little
bit about food? What yeah?But do you hear this? Chad Benson,

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Joe, Chad Benson, Joe andthoughts Independent Life. This is Chad

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Benson. Addiction is big business gettingyou off stuff and keeping you off stuff.
Big business keeping you on stuff.Big business. And there's a new
anti diet movement. What yeah?Now, who's part of the anti diet
movement? Several people? You know, we talked about addiction when it comes

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to food. So if you goback and look and see who owns a
ton of the food companies, youfind out, Wait a minute, aren't
theyse all cigarette companies and stuff likethat? Yeah, Because it's about addiction.
It's not about the product. It'sabout keeping you addicted to something,
whether it's healthy or not. Whatever, now you've got this anti diet movement,
and it's bizarre. Anti diet cultureis basically a pushback against the cultural

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narrative and norm that losing weight isgood and healthy and everybody should be doing
it, which is basically the messageof diet culture. And it's the pushback
because it says, hey, that'sneither true, nor healthy, nor okay
for anybody. Most people are beinginfluenced into diet culture believing that they should
lose weight, that being thin isgood and being bad is bad, that

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they should be striving to lose thoselast five pounds, that it's normal and
acceptable to hate your body and tryto change it all the time. That
is diet culture. Anti diet culturesays that's bullshit, and anti diet culture
is a critique of that message.Now, first, let's let's get something
straight here. There is a differencebetween being beautiful and you know, and

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and wanting to strive for a certainlook and being healthy. Okay, there's
an old saying, if you wantto lose weight, it starts in the
kitchen. If you want to getfit starts in the gym. So yes,
you could be really thin and unhealthyand you could be a little bit

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bigger and okay, but we recognizethere's a health side of things that goes
with this, and there is apush and you how many times do we
talk about all time fat influencers,body positive whatever, people of size poss

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right, nutritional overachievers. Well you'refinding out that they're part of what the
anti diet culture. Whatever, I'mgetting cheese fresh. Dieting has been part
of the American psyche for generations.Resolution number one will lose twenty pounds.
People constantly debating what you can eatand what you can't cure of fat foods

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you should never eat if you wantto lose weight. But as more people
are leaning into the weight loss drugfrenzy, there's another social media trend gaining
traction two. You do not haveto eat healthy in order to lose weight.
The anti diet movement the idea thatyou can remove shame about what you
eat and still have some of thefoods you crave. Yeah, but you
can look it's it's you know whatit is. It's it's about moderation.

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Portions, that's it. Portions.Hey, maybe I'll get a cheeseburg,
but I'm not going to get fries, maybe I'll get a salad. It's
about making choices, calories in,calories out. Maybe it's eating a little
less, moving a little bit more. It's not that hard. The interesting
thing about the quote unquote anti dietmovement, though, is, and we'll

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get to it in a second,is the money side of it. And
yes, weight loss drugs are partof that anti diet movement. A quick
social media search turns up dozens ofhashtags like no food rules, no bad
foods, and calories don't count.I'm an anti diet dietitian, of course,
I'm going to tell you that it'sok toepasta now. An investigation from

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the Washington Post finds some anti dietdietitians and influencers are being paid by companies,
including General Mills, to promote sugarysnacks and cereal products. I'm partnering
with General Mills. The Post investigationfinding at least ten registered dietitians promoted General
Mill cereal on social media in thelast year. Yeah. So this new

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expose study whatever it is that cameout and says, look at all of
these companies that are doing what firstand foremost they're trying to keep up an
addiction. It's an addiction thing.Food is one of those things. We
can get you addicted to food,get you eating this stuff. And we've
talked about it since the beginning ofthis show nine years ago, that everybody

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wants you to be addicted to something, right, I want you to be
addicted. This to g addicted.That we all want you to be addicted
to whatever it is, you know, whether it's social media, my show,
whatever, I want you to Andagain it's about moderation. But when
it comes to things like studies,you can you can go and find any
scientist that you know and say,if you throw enough money at him,

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they'll find something and some truth thatwill benefit the company to put out there
as a scientific study. It's crazywhat's going on. And think about the
obesity, what it cost us.Vast majority of the money that is spent

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right now in the medical world it'sbecause of obesity. How much productivity is
lost every year out of the marketplacebecause of obesity. It's not good.
We have to take away this shameand blame that goes along with a lot

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of this idea of dieting. Obesityis a killer in our country. Is
that true? Obesity is currently ourlargest epidemic in our country today. Read
the nutrition labels as we've heard,and this idea that you can eat everything
in moderation and listen to your body. It's great in theory, I think
in practice a lot of us needhelp, especially if you've been on a
yo yo diet. You have anunhealthy relationship with food. So going on

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social media and hearing someone say caloriesdon't count. Eat whatever you want,
nothing is off limits. Well,if you eat unlimited sugary processed foods,
you'll find yourself right where you don'twant to be one again portions and that's
hard for people. It's getting intoa routine now. Jillian Michaels remember her
talking about this coming out, talkingabout not just the food world, but

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also the farmer world. We'll getto that in a second. So which
you have to be mindful of.We have to safeguard ourselves. We have
to take agency, and we've gotto employ common sense because all of our
institutions of trust are being corrupted.The doctors are being paid off, all
the research is being paid for bybig food. Do you really think chocolate
milk is an exercise recovery drink ofcourse it's not. And now the dieticians

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are being paid off. So weneed to use our common sense, do
a little bit of our own homework. And you can look at the posts.
They'll say sponsored. There's a hashtagthat says sponsored. Look for who
has paid for at the study,and you'll know what the incentive is behind
it. Follow the money, Followthe money one percent right now. Then

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she gets onto ozembic because she feelsit's kind of the same thing. Take
ozempic. You don't never have toworry about dieting again. I am opposed
to ozembic, but not because Ithink it's an easy way out. If
it was an easy way out,Dan, I would take it. I
would sell it on my website.I mean, there's absolutely no reason for

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me to tell you this except forthe research that I have done on it
and the information that I have beengiven from PhDs and mds, and I
can outline all of that for youif you like. But the bottom line
is it's not a permanent solution.It has very serious side effects. You
will ultimately plateau on it. Youcan never get off of it because all

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of the meta analysis show us yougain all the weight back and then some
and I could we could go deepinto the science. But I promise you
it's all true, yeah, onehundred percent. If if you can,
if you just need a jumpstart,right, you need to lose forty fifty
pounds you used to be active,a jumpstart. I've talked to doctors about

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this. Uh they said, look, it's it's it's fine, it's good.
Right, so you get going andand and if it's one of those
things where you know quietly you've putit on weight, You've got to change
your habits. That's the number onething. Are you eating more salads?
Are you doing It's little things likethis, But addiction is the issue.

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People understand. Businesses want to sellyou addiction. They don't care what it
is. The fact that they're usingbody positive, fat influencers, whatever it
is to sell you snacks and tellyou it's okay to be unhealthy is ridiculous.
One, it's crazy. These arethe same people who say a cigarettes

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so be prepared for that. Ifyou're looking for something to do this weekend,
go see one of those movies thatsound fun. I will probably see
the Omen at some point in time. Jack's here. We've been doing a
lot of different stuff. He's gettingready to go home. He's been spending
time here. We play a lotof video games. It's interesting about video
games. My daughter Charlie plays agame called Total Life Total Life World.
She loves it and it is it'sfun. She is she's five by the

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way and very computer savvy, whichI appreciate, especially at that she spends
sometimes a little too much time onit. But she's like the rest of
the kids. She has a pointwhere she needs to get her wiggles out
and she's gone for hours. She'sgot a friend across street. They play
all day. Sometimes she'll come inand play on this thing called Total Life
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at this game. It is cooland there are some in app purchases and
if you don't know what those are. And you know, my uncle and
I we have our other company.One of the big things is is And

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I remember when he first started,when he worked at Blizzard and he worked
at you know, which is abig gaming They came up World of Warcraft
and all these kind of things.The reality of gaming started to change,
and the game's changing was simply this. You can have the game for free.
Don't give me sixty bucks, right, I'd rather you have the game

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for free, but inside of thegame, if you want to do certain
things right, you can still playthe game all day for free. But
if you want to get a newskin, that's like a new design for
your outfit. If you want toget a new pack of different guns in
this, that, and the other. Whatever it is you're playing, you're

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going to have to do what youhave to pay for it then get expensive.
The thrill of playing video games isturning serious for some kids, using
their parents credit card guards on thosein app purchases. Michael Ferry says his
eight year old son Joey unknowingly rackedup four thousand dollars in charges on his
credit card thinking it was virtual money. I think sometimes it's confusing as to

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what's real money and what's fake money. Ferri says he got the money back
after months of fighting consumer experts orwarning parents about the potential for fraud and
scams. Here's the thing about fraudand scams. It's not you got a
lot of younger kids. I mean, there are frauds and scams out there
all over the place, But whatyou get is a lot of younger kids
who don't quite understand what they're doing. See for Charlie, we had to

(32:34):
put all these safeguards on there,not because I think she can do anything
to fairies or somebody's gonna scammer insome of these games, but because of
the fact that they do think it'svirtual money. I remember my little brother
Dakota. So if you guys don'tknow this, I have several little brothers
and sisters. They're actually my niece'snephews. My mother's adopted them. They're
my sister's kids. She's a hotmess. He gets impatient. When he

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was now not so much, butwhen he was real young, he got
impatient, and he would play gameson the phone, and he would download
stuff, sometimes over and over again, and it would get charged to my
aunt's phone. And I remember onetime she got to get seventeen hundred dollars
in charges. And it wasn't thathe bought in that purchase. The game

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didn't download fast enough, so keptbuying it over and over and over again,
and she had to get her moneyback. So you've got to be
wary of some of these stuff.And it's not And here's the thing talking
about it makes me, Oh,I just as one of my kids won't
play games. Now, you can'tdo that. You just have to have
an understanding of what it's all about. Rohit Showpra is the head of the
CFPB, the government agency charged withsafeguarding Americans finances. What's pretty obvious is

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that their financial incentives are for playersto spend as much as possible. It's
an immersive world where there is itsown economy. But what we want to
make sure is that it's not justa way to side step existing rules.
Yeah, and here's something else.This generation of kids, the millennials,

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not maybe a little bit, butdefinitely gen Z and Gen Alpha, it's
going to change the way that we, advertisers and everything do things because to
them, it's about in app purchases. It's it's totally shaping a new consumer

(34:28):
that wants something for free. Butalong the way is going to spend a
lot more money potentially with inside whateverit is they're doing because of that.
You're seeing that with cars, right, you'll get a Tesla and you're gonna
see this more and more with alot of the new vehicles. Everything's going
to be an add on and notwhere you add it on. It's like

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I want a blue one and Iwant this, this, and this because
of the computer. Those are goingto be purchases inside of the car,
monthly free fees, subscriptions, thingsof that nature. It's a whole new
world. When we have a fraudulentcharge on our credit card, we can
fight it. Many times, yousee on these gaming platforms there's really just
finger pointing or not really taking accountability. Yeah, some of that's true,

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right, You know, it's nottheir fault that the kid bought it forty
eight times and didn't understand that.And that's where the parent comes in.
So just be aware of that,your kids, your grandkids, they got
your phone, they're playing with something. Know that those games are in many
cases free in app purchases or whatgets you. And that's what they saw

(35:37):
a long time ago. Why wouldI sell a game for fifty bucks and
get a one time feet when Ican give it to you for free and
you'll spend eight dollars a month,month in and month out to play the
game and buy new stuff three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Facebook page as well. Coming upa lot of good stuff. More on
Israel. Housing prices are up.What's it cost in each state for you
to buy a house? What doyou have to have? Earnings? Wise?
Shocking? Shocking indeed, Chad Benson, Joe, this is the Chad

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Benson Show, Independent Thoughts, IndependentLife. This is Chad Benson. Life

(36:50):
is more expensive? Is the AmericanDream dead? So many things going on
out there? Is it all negative? Now? It's not all negative,
but the reality is life is moreexpensive. The American dream is shifting for
some people, and in some people'sI especially younger generation, understandable they feel
like it is dead, it's dying. I think it's in the middle.
People haven't given up hope entirely,but I think a lot of people are

(37:15):
doubtful. I can't afford the Americandream with what we wanted when we were
young. It's not something really ourkids can afford because it's too expensive.
We've got ours, but our kidsand our grandkids can't afford owners and they
can't afford to do the things they'dlike to do. Kind of dead.
I just think it's really hard tochange where you're at in life these days.

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It's possible, but it's extremely difficult. Kind of lost our way.
I mean it's impossible for the youngergeneration to afford housing. I mean a
car costs what my parents bought ahouse for, like stuff like that.
And I mean wages have remain stagnant. Yeah, you think they've remained stagnant.
Yeah, we'll get to that ina second when it comes to uh,

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well, just inflation in general.But the can you afford a house
life? Again? Expensive homes areexpensive? Mortgage rates are? Are they
expensive? No? Not comparatively towhat they've been in the past for a
vast majority of me. I'm fiftythree for our lives, but compared to

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where they were, say, threefour years ago. Yes, Data from
Freddy Max showing the average thirty yearfixed rate mortgage ticked up slightly from six
point seven nine percent to six pointeight two percent over the past week.
Rates have held pretty steady so farthis year, as they haven't crossed over
seven percent nor dipped below six pointsix Freddy Max says, despite signs pointing

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to easing inflation, rates says theydon't expect mortgage rates to meaningfully decline in
the near future. Fifteen year fixedrates are at six point zero six percent,
down slightly, down slightly, that'sfifteen years now to get into a
home nowadays. I mean, let'sjust say you're because the latest report about
renting compared to buying is crazy.And you know, getting into that middle

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class, secure lifestyle. The homeownership has always been the thing that's how
you build net worth and stuff.The reality is, you got to save
a ton of money for your downpayment, maybe even it's just ten percent.
The average home across the country fourand fifteen thousand dollars, so you're

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going to have to earn about ninetynine thousand dollars to buy a medium price
home. According to data from realteradot com. Many people, as they
say Hannah Jones, analyst from realtredot com, they can't buy a house.
It's not feasible right now. Andin most of the big cities,
renting is actually cheaper now than buying. There are places you can afford to

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buy. So let's look at themost expensive places and the least expensive and
what you're gonna need to earn tobe able to afford a home. Hawaii
medium homeless price eight hundred and fiftygrand. You're gonna have to earn two
hundred and two thousand dollars. Massachusettsone hundred and eighty five thousand, medium

(40:14):
price seven hundred and seventy seven thousand. California. Now here's a perfect example
of something. California. You're gonnahave to earn one hundred and seventy three
thousand dollars to afford a medium pricehome. Hawaii. A lot of people.
It's a luxury. It's a retirementhome for you. You've got money,
you've got you know, it's old. Not a lot of young people

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moving there. Not all of familiesthere. Massachusetts been old money, right,
but you're close to some of thebig cities. So California up and
down the board. One hundred andseventy three thousand, New York one hundred
and fifty five thousand, DC,one hundred and forty seven thousand, Montana,
for god's sakes, well, becauseof those Californians, you have Tourn

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one hundred and forty three thousand dollars, medium price home six and two grand,
Utah one hundred and forty two thousand, Colorado one hundred and forty one
thousand, New Hampshire one hundred andthirty four thousand in Idaho one hundred and
thirty two thousand. Now, ifyou're saying to yourself, where can I
go? Where I can afford somethingsimple? West Virginia, if you're in

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fifty five grand, you can afforda medium price home two hundred and thirty
gees, Ohio sixty grand, mediumprice home two hundred and forty nine thousand,
Michigan still affordable. Sixty one thousanddollars can get you into a medium
price home. Louisiana, Mississippi,Indiana, Pennsylvania. You're in about sixty
seven grand, you can get intoa house. Missouri seventy grand gets you

(41:44):
into home, Arkansas seventy grand,in Iowa seventy grand. Is it?
Is it gone? The American dream? That's a fair question. I think
it's changing, it's evolving. Andeverybody blames the boomers for what doing what
the general did because they were affordedthe opportunity took advantage of it. That's
silly. But you know, forall the bitching, and I remind everybody

(42:07):
this, for all the bitching,the winding, the moaning about this,
know this that the Gen millennials,Gen Z's largest amount of wealth that will
be transferred between them. So thesekids and these people who are bitching in
many cases about how they can affordlife, this, that and the other.
Their parents are going to help youafford life down the road. But

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right now, that dream for theaverage person, Yeah, it's a struggle.
Speaking of struggles, inflation Chris Reaganearlier today, she's a newsperson studies
financial stuff, things of that nation, talking about inflation and the grocery store.
Is there a sure for the shoppingcart blues? Yeah, you get

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a lower inflation. You gotta getthis thing in check. I mean,
I saw the graph you put up. One thing you got to keep in
mind, Maliua is all the stuffis cumulative. So you're up over nine
percent, and sure you come down, you're only up two and a half
percent. Now what to do?The reality is that's on top of the
nine percent you had before. Soin other words, even though I'll say,

(43:14):
oh it's coming down, it's comingdown, well I'm sorry, it
went way up and it still hasn'tactually gone down. Now. You don't
want it to go totally down,right, because then then a good whole
other scenario. I mean, ifyou have disinflation, then nobody's actually gonna
buy anything today because they're gonna wait, thinking it's gonna be less tomorrow.
So you always want a little bitof inflation in the economy. The FED

(43:35):
tends to shoot for two to twoand a half percent, and sure,
maybe we're getting back there now,but the reality is this, you know
what, You can't wash away thosememories because they're still fresh, still fresh.
And she talks about the cumulative effect, which most people don't talk about.
Five percent a here, two percentthere, eight percent here. It
all adds up over time, andthen you get stuff like this when you

(43:58):
go grocery shopping. What is yourbill like? It depends. If I'm
grocery shopping for just basic household stuff, my grocery bill can be Hell,
it's never twenty dollars, it's anywherefrom fifty dollars to two hundred dollars.
I think most people feel that way. Most people aren't over the sticker shock

(44:19):
yet of stuff that is doubled andtripled in price. Most people aren't over
that sticker shock yet, and incomeshaven't kept up. So if inflation overall
is up cumulatively, let's call it, eighteen percent, is probably a little
bit higher. Well, incomes areup roughly fifteen and a half percent.
That's a justed for inflation. Soguess what we're not keeping pace. And

(44:43):
then you think about those eggs,what of sixty three percent? It makes
it hard, makes it very hard. She was asked, well, can
this be fixed by November? Obviouslyelection big issue before November? No,
absolutely not. I'm sorry, Likethe train left the station, I'm sitting
here in August twenty twenty saying hey, wait a second, and be careful

(45:04):
with the next stimulus check. Cansomeone get the Fed under control? We've
got to stop printing money. Atsome point this is going to come back
to bite us. And at somepoint is now yeah, big time.
We're going to talk to our buddyZach Abram later on this hour about that
about retirement, how much you're gonnaneed because the new thought is you need
one point five million basically to retire? Why is that? What are these
arbitrary numbers? A lot of stuffgoing on out there. Is the American

(45:30):
dream dead? Well no, butit may be on hold for a lot
of people. Three two, three, five, three eight twenty four to
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dot com slash benson, betterhelp dotcom slash Benson. What's this heist all
about? In California? Chad Bensonshoe you're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

(46:59):
Was so so quiet what happened andso well planned. It seems that
they were able to go in completelyundetected, take upwards of thirty million dollars
and leave and nobody knew it.It was a perfect day on Easter Sunday,
nobody was around, and they gotaway. And until Monday morning when
the guard employees came in and wentinto the vault and said, we got

(47:20):
a problem here. Nobody knew.Nobody knew. What didn't they know?
Thirty million dollars cash stolen? Heaudidn't hear about the story. It is
a trip San Fernando money storage facilityEaster Sunday. They got in and stole

(47:45):
thirty million dollars. Oh of thisis like something out of a movie.
They bypassed the alarm system, neverset it off, go into the vault
in a way that from the outsideyou wouldn't even know anybody had been in
there. And they were able toload up on all of that cash.
And can you imagine how much weightthirty million dollars in cash. What that

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would be like, I mean we'retalking hundreds of pounds. If they had
to figure out some way to getthat out of the building and then be
able to haul it away without anybodynoticing, that's crazy. So by the
way, I what does it weigh? About fourteen hundred pounds give or take
depends on the size of the bills. So all these bills are out of

(48:29):
place in San Fernando Valley, whichis you know, just think of La
and the all the small businesses andeverybody around they keep their cash there.
It's a storage facility, and it'scrazy what took place, how they got
in there. Of course you gotto look on the inside, right,
that's got to be the number oneplace you got to start there. It's

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the biggest heist since nineteen ninety seven, So nineteen ninety seven at a dunbar
armored facility. There's about nineteen milliondollars stolen from the site. Those suspects
were eventually caught, But who arethe suspects here? They had to know
what was going on. They hadto have the right gear to get in
through the roof, to go undetected, to not set off the alarms.

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They had to really either do alot of homework or have somebody on the
inside who knew something. The FBIand the LAPD they think they are sophisticated,
but who is behind it they don'tyet know. We do not know
how many of them are there.Right. This goes back to you remember
Goodfellas, the Luftanza Height heist,you know, like that heist? What

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about that? Who is it?Who's on the inside? Is it somebody
on the inside. Is it aformer employee? So you got to look
at everybody. Is it somebody whogoes to the facility and drops cash off,
maybe has a small business, looksaround a says yes, this place,
but you figure to know all ofthe things and how to maneuver is

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It's got to be either a formeremployee or an employee. Now, so
if somebody didn't come to work onMonday, here we go. Let's let's
talk to them first. I waspartying heart for Jesus. I'm sorry about
that, okay, three two,three, five, three, eight,
twenty four to twenty three at ChadBenson Show. Is your Twitter tweet at

(50:21):
us text the program. I lovehearing from every single one of you.
Speaking of law enforcement. That TSA. What are they doing? Did they
catch something that something happened that wascrazy? The TSA spokesperson actually told the
Washington Post that these attempted breaches area trend and a larger number than they
realized, and the TSA telling usthat one in every eleven million passengers tries

(50:45):
to bypass some part of the TSAsecurity process, but that almost all of
them are unintentional. Why is thisbecause a crazy woman tried to get past
the TSA? The TSA, America'sfirst line of defense at airports, telling
the Washington Post that hundreds of peoplehave bypassed airport security in the past year.
The numbers are startling. Three hundredpeople bypassing checkpoints, like a woman

(51:07):
in Nashville who was arrested but notcharged for boarding a flight to la without
a ticket, the FBI detaining herwhen they landed, and two hundred people
going the wrong way in exit lanes. Newark Liberty seeing it up, ticking
people doing that. Luckily, theyare the first line of defense. I
like how she got on the planeand they're like, ah, you know,

(51:28):
let's not turn them around, Let'sjust let her go and then we'll
get her when she's on the otherside, you know, let her get
there. And I like how they'relike, look, we're gonna rast you,
but we're not going to charge youwith anything. Oh okay. There's
so many layers, multiple layers ofthe screening process. One may break down,
but others hopefully we'll catch that individualthat penetrated security. Yeah, we

(51:52):
hope. So one in eleven million. Well, when you think about how
many people fly every single day,you think that seems like it's a bit
much, don't you. I've alwaysjoked about the TSA being useless, and
yeah, I'm not going there's noapology there. I mean the fact that
you walk in, you have totake off your shoes, and you do
all of these kind of things thatare ridiculous, and the random screenings and

(52:17):
silliness. I shake my head becausedoes it really do you feel better or
do you just feel more annoyed.And my kids, by the way,
you know, they've only ever grownup with the TSA. And we watched
a thing a few months ago aboutdB Cooper, you know, and remember

(52:38):
he stole all the money and jumpedout of the airplane. They so we
watched this thing and they did itreenact me and he just walks up and
buys a ticket and just waters onin around. I said, oh yeah,
before nine eleven, you had noidea. Going to the airport was
not a big deal. In fact, it was an annoyance for a lot
of people. Nowadays, you're like, dude, I can't forgive the airport's

(53:00):
too much hassle, you know,with all the stuff three two, three,
five, three eight, twenty fourto twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
to Twitter, your Instagram, allof the other things. What do
you think TSA first line of defense? Do you feel better every year?
I'm always shocked at like twenty fivethousand million guns got by the TSA,
And you're like, uh, thatseems like a lot. I'm more worried

(53:22):
about what goes on. And Iwill tell you this, I don't worry
about the passengers on the airplane.I've said this a thousand times. I
worry about what goes on underneath theairplane, what's being put in to the
cargo space. That to me isa bigger issue and potential attack or something

(53:45):
than whether or not you've got topull this eighty seven year old woman out
of line to frisk her just tosee if she's got something oooh fallngcross all
social media atch hadventson show. Youtext the program as well. Three two
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Sun Chad Benson Show, Independent Thoughts, Independent Life. This is Chad

(54:35):
Benson. You'd always reach out tous three two three five three eight twenty
four twenty three at Chad Benson Showis your Twitter. We're talking earlier this
week about the California minimum wage.Some of you are chiming in about that
for a specific group of people,Burger flippers at fast food chains that have
more than sixty places nationwide there andthis is just in California. Their wage

(55:04):
went up starting Monday, and well, some business owners aren't thrilled, but
we're going to have to increase pricesthat cover the cost cutting hours for my
employees, which is not good,and also possibly layoffs. There's a potential
if things don't improve with the higherprices and the customers stopped coming in,
that we will shut down, andyou know, then basically people will lose

(55:25):
jobs. Somebody chimed in. Theprices were raised before the wage hike even
passed. You ask Cloud, yes, of course cause inflation. Then you
add this to inflation, and whatdo you have a recipe for success?
I don't think so. Another personchimes in about liberal cities, liberal cities,

(55:51):
why do you never talk about crimein red states? Is worse?
Is it worse? Is it really? By the way, you know,
I talk about cities, not states. And there's a reason for that because
in a lot of Red States,the biggest city maybe quote unquote run by
Democrats and it's not even the people, it's the das that have a lot

(56:14):
of say in this. I wantpeople to understand that. Well, Chad,
you know it's it's you just you'refull of it. No crime is
up, period, understand that.No, it's not. Crime numbers are
that they're not down statistics look atthem, well, it says they're down.

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We're talking about the fact that incidentreports are the things that matter.
And if you're not going to chargesomebody with a crime, then is it
a crime? Maybe? I don'tknow. If crime is nowhere to be
had and liberal cities are banged doingbank job, why is LA have a

(56:58):
restaurant that's doing what well? Thecost of dining out is going up at
restaurants all across the country, forcingsome to limit where they eat. Now,
one LA hotspot is adding a securitysurcharge to their tabs in order to
pay for the safety measures at therooftop eatery, and the reaction from customers
has been mixed. You think,so, they're adding a security fee for

(57:25):
your safety and security. I'm ona rooftop. How bad is it?
What do you expect? Tterodactyls?What snipers tell me? This is a
rooftop restaurant. It's called Perch.You head in here to get to the
elevators, and you can expect topay LA prices up there, but also

(57:46):
tack onto every check a security chargeof four and a half percent. The
popular restaurant is perched above downtown LosAngeles, offering views and French inspired fare,
and reservations are usually a must.Its new security fee came to light
through a viral post on Reddit,with hundreds of customers chiming in about the

(58:10):
extra charge. Now, according tothe Perch website, the restaurant retains the
entire charge for security resources. Thischarge should not be considered a tip.
Further noting that since perch is ontop of the building. It requires more
security personnel than a restaurant on theground floor. For customers. The extra

(58:34):
charge is clearly food for thought.You think it's food for thought? Yes,
why is it? If I'm onthe rooftop dining, do I need
more security because the security around thebuilding. That's why security for the parking
lot, so your crap doesn't getstolen. Oh oh, so if you're

(59:00):
going to go there and have ameal, it's going to be about ninety
bucks to one hundred bucks a person. You get some drinks and stuff.
Yeah, two hundred bucks four percent, looking about five dollars or so on
average. That's what somebody's paying asa security fee to eat at their restaurant.
A security fee, Nay, securityfee is crazy And when you think

(59:22):
about it, it is crazy.What you think it's like? Are we
actually paying for food? Are wepaying for the bills? We have to
pay attention for our expenses, especiallyin such a time economic you know,
inflation and everything. But I lookat at it in a different way.
Also, the restaurants, they havetheir expenses. Everything is getting expensive.
They have a lot of embluees upthere. It requires a certain type of

(59:45):
person to come in there and wantto spend money and be at perch.
Maybe that's what they're looking for.Is that what they're looking for? Come
to us, We'll charge you you. Why not just say we'll charge you
fifty bucks for a bodyguard fee?Just why? Why? If things are
so great, why why do youneed a special security fee? Because you

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have to have more security guards andpeople watching, A for people to get
into the building, and b foryour stuff not to be stolen. See
Oakland and the fact that they closedor what anyone an in and out burger?
Oh because wages went up. No, because the insanity of crime was

(01:00:34):
so great at their in and outburger that they said it's not feasible for
us to keep this open anymore.Expect to have your stuff stolen while you
get a burger. Now, crimeacross the state could mean surging prices across
the board. Many businesses stepping upsecurity to combat theft and protect their merchandise,

(01:00:57):
and more and more customers are footingthe bill now between the healthcare and
now security charges on restaurant bills,as well as California's new fast food minimum
wage at twenty dollars an hour.That means higher fast food prices in a
lot of places, dining out couldbe out of the question for some Yeah,

(01:01:20):
get an expense about their kids.That's what we're saying. Three two,
three, five, three eight,twenty four, twenty three at Chad
beat to show that's your Twitter,your instagramming say, I got a lot
of people tweeting in it this week, especially about the fast food now the
chat. If you follow dollars herein California, you'll see that fast food
is an unhealthy food choice. Ifyou tie that to the fact that California
wants to own the healthcare system,you can see where costs could be cut.

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Also, if you take away affordablefood choices, it would increase the
plight of the homeless, leading tomore bucks for that cause as well.
Just you know, it's frustrating havinghad businesses, some successful, some amounts
of successful coming in and I goback this, why are you only pushing

(01:02:07):
twenty dollars an hour for one specificgroup of people? So if you work
at a burger place, that's aone off. Like my two favorite burger
places in California. Number one isVolcano Burger. It's in Los Alamidoes It
is freaking amazing, and it's alwaysa zoo. They have one location.

(01:02:30):
Those people who are doing the samething, in fact, far busier than
McDonald's a bunch of other places becauseit's not on a conveyor belt. They
make everything fresh. It's incredible thatright there they're not being mandatory twenty dollars
an hour. But McDonald's is.Why is that? I know we'll get

(01:02:51):
that because the giant corporation. Goback, listen, understand, vast majority
of things owned by you know andby franchises are are franchise ease. An
individual like you or me who mayown a McDonald's. If you're lucky,
you may own a couple. Notthat you're not the CEO of McDonald's.

(01:03:15):
You're the CEO of Chad's restaurant company, where I have two McDonald's. I
don't have any McDonald's. By theway, our kids would love it though.
Three two, three, five,three, eight, twenty four twenty
three at Chad Benson Show to Twitteryour Instagram got a lot of people chiming
in about the food addiction thing lasthour. If you guys didn't hear,
well, we'll probably touch on itin the third hour. But a lot

(01:03:37):
of you are talking about the factthat yeah, I mean, you know,
this is what they sell. Youknow, this ultra processed food,
you're selling into addiction and they've doneit for years, and you know,
the cigarette companies realized eventually they weren'tgoing to have cigarettes around for very long.
So what do you do? What'sthe next addictive thing? And the

(01:03:58):
fact that these these companies are goingto the fat influencers, people of size
whatever, body positive influencers to helpthem, you know, talk about,
oh, you don't need to behealthy, no need for that is It's
so weird, isn't it. Ifind it weird that there are people out

(01:04:19):
there who take to the to theairways, if you will, to push
things like being unhealthy as good.No, like we don't see anorexic positivity.
Well, no, that's not that'sthat's a disease. Oh okay three

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We're going to talk about retirement,Wall Street Journal, How to report this
week another arbitrary number or something real? One point four one point five million
dollars now is the magic number toget to for retirement? Is that true?

(01:06:06):
We will discuss that, amongst otherthings. Straight ahead, you stink
like fear and white male privilege.To me, I do often out myself

(01:06:26):
verbally as a younger. My pronounsare they them? And I'm proud to
be a gender? Are you sobid? It's not a great way to
use your white privilege. Some peoplegot it, some people don't. You're
listening to the chat Fences show sadtime. Letie talk to our man,

(01:06:49):
Zac Camraam, chief investment officer,Bully Capital's friend of the show sponsor the
show, talk about all things investmentand whatnot. Or to bring this up,
hit it out because it's been inthe Wall Street Journal's front of CNN.
It's insane to know that we're soill prepared, Zach for any kind
of retirement at this point in time. A vast majority of people have zero

(01:07:10):
saved. We're living longer. Isaw not just that, the fact that
people don't even take an advantage ofwhat they have at work because they can't
afford to anymore. And then itwent from it was that magical number,
it's a million bucks. You getto a million bucks, you're good.
Now it's at one point four millionbecause you're living longer, dude, how
are we going to get there?First of all, I hate it.
I hate it when people say what'sthe magic number? Because there's so many

(01:07:34):
other factors that go into play,right, Like, everybody's different. I've
got clients that live incredible retirement livesthat have you know, seven or eight
hundred thousand set aside. But youknow, the husband might have a pension,
they've got a paid off house,there's maybe they got a couple rental
properties. So there's so many moredifferent things that go into it. Generally

(01:07:58):
speaking, though, the point thatthey are making is correct. And now
that you've entered in an inflationary cycle, you know, and nobody knows exactly
how long it lasts. It's ofour it's our belief that it's going to
be here a lot longer than well, to use the Fed's words against them,
it's not exactly transitory, right,yeah, no doubt. So you
know in every tick higher, everytime inflation is a little bit higher,

(01:08:21):
right, that's going to tax youryour earnings going forward. So it goes
back to what you knowe Chad,Like, I think those numbers are kind
of counterproductive because I think they discouragepeople and get them to be like,
well, what's the point now,We're never going to get there? You
know that is not the case.That is the worst attitude you can possibly
have regarding this stuff. And regardlessof where you're at, there's a way

(01:08:44):
forward, and you just need toset a plan, right, set a
plan, save and invest aggressively.And then, like I said, there's
a lot of different things that youcan do on the margins. But yeah,
I mean, you know, onepoint it's just one point four to
six. Sure for some people thatthat's not close to enough, you know,
but I mean nobody's retirement's the same. You may want to sit around
and do nothing, to hang outwith the grandkids, your house is paid

(01:09:06):
off, if you get three fourgrand a month, your living life large.
Somebody else wants to travel the world, they want to do a first
class. Somebody else wants to start, they want to start a second career,
they want their own business. Soeverybody is different. I think the
thing now though there was you know, everybody's always shooting for something because I
don't and I think you understand thisact. If you don't put a number

(01:09:27):
out there, people won't go forsomething right time. You need to dangle
something out there to give them something. But we're whether it's a million,
whether it's a dollar. In somecases people are not prepared. No,
no, they're not prepared at all. The other thing that they're not prepared
for all is or they're not preparedfor, is an inflationary environment in their
portfolio, right, Like, that'sthe So there's a funding issue, but

(01:09:51):
there's also and people are like,well, what do you mean. And
I'm like, guys, you've hadthe longest bull market in US history,
right, You've gone effectively fifteen yearsnow without recession. Okay, and one
category, one sector is dominated thatentire time, which is technology. And
there's a lot of great companies inthere, okay. But and I'm not
saying that all those companies are goingto go down or get hit by an

(01:10:12):
inflationary environment. But it's not anywhereclose to the protection that you need.
You know, you look at goldright now, Goldpress in twenty three hundred
bucks right breaking out to a newall time high every single day. Do
you know that in the average retailportfolio right now, the average allocation to
gold is like less than half apercent. It's at the lowest margin in

(01:10:33):
history. The average portfolio has oneof the lowest allocations to energy and commodities
in history, right, And soit's not just the saving issue, it's
also the allocation issue. And youcan just see it in the sm P
five hundred. Right. You don'thave to take my word for it,
be like, well, my,you know, my mutual fund has you

(01:10:53):
know, exposure to it's diversified.It's probably not. Go look at the
s and P five hundred. Imean, you have a you know,
almost record low exposures to energy andcommodities historically looking at different sectors. You
know the waiting in the SMP andso you know, I'm not sitting here
trying to tell people that those thingsare going to make you rich and that
you should only have those What Iam saying is it's probably a wise thing

(01:11:17):
to have a portfolio that is balancedin a way that replicates the traditional weightings
of the S and P five hundredat the very least. And I think
when you're in an inflationary environment likethis, it probably makes sense in most
cases to overweight those things. Soyeah, it's a preparation issue. And
then it's also an allocation issue.You look at the average portfolio and it's

(01:11:41):
not set up for this environment atall, not at all. Talking to
Zach Abraham, chief Investment Officer BoardCapitol, all right, people want to
reach out to you. They wantto get a free I was tellybody,
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(01:12:02):
Easiest way to find us is KnowYour Risk Radio dot com. You
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It's your Twitter tweet text Chat BensonShow. This is the Chat Benson
Show, Independent Thoughts, Independent Life. This is Chad Benson. We talked

(01:13:19):
about this in the first hour.Addiction is big, big, big business
selling addiction, selling people things toget away from addictions huge. And the
food industry is about getting you addictedto stuff, ultra processed foods. We've
all been guilty of it, theease of it, the taste of it,

(01:13:39):
et cetera, et cetera. There'sa new movement out there, an
anti diet movement. Whatever I'm gettingcheese freshs. Dieting has been part of
the American psyche for generations. Resolutionnumber one will lose twenty pounds. People
constantly debating what you can eat andwhat you can't cure five foods you should

(01:13:59):
never eat you want to lose weight. But as more people are leaning into
the weight loss drug frenzy, there'sanother social media trend gaining traction too.
You do not have to eat healthyin order to lose weight. The anti
diet movement the idea that you canremove shame about what you eat and still
have some of the foods you crave. Why is that? What's this?
What's this anti diet movement? Whatis this all about? Very interesting?

(01:14:23):
The anti diet culture. Anti dietculture is basically a pushback against the cultural
narrative and norm that losing weight isgood and healthy and everybody should be doing
it, which is basically the messageof dieculture. And it's the pushback because
it says, hey, that's neithertrue, nor healthy, nor okay for
anybody. Most people are being influencedinto diet culture believing that they should lose

(01:14:46):
weight, that being thin is goodand being bad is bad, that they
should be striving to lose those lastfive pounds, that it's normal and acceptable
to hate your body and try tochange it all the time. That is
diet culture. Anti diet culture saysthat's bullshit. An anti diet culture is
a critique of that message, isit? Now? There is a difference
between being healthy and wanting to striveto be beautiful. I think that's the

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here's the problem. It's like withthe gender issue, right that we talk
about all the time in the battle. There's we know there's only two genders.
Now you can identify as whatever,but as far as the physiological side,
there's only two genders. Let's notpretend the diet culture is the same
thing. There's a difference between thebody positive movement, right, which is

(01:15:38):
essentially I didn't want to do anything, and if you want to lose weights
only because you're vapid and you wantto beautiful. No, no, no,
no no. It's a health sideof thinner people are healthier. The
effects of obesity long term on yourbody. Science, right, what do
I say, Oh, look atthe science, study the science, the
effect of being thinner and not havingmass amounts of weight on your body.

(01:16:02):
It's good for you. Now.The beauty side of it, now that's
a different debate. You want tolose weight starts in the kitchen. You
want to be beautiful and fit,it starts at the gym. So there's
a two different discussions. What's goingon? Well, simple, the body
positive folk aka people of size,fat people. They're being paid to go
out and slang food and saying,hey, being thin sucks, eat what

(01:16:26):
you wants healthy. A quick socialmedia search turns up dozens of hashtags like
no food rules, no bad foods, and calories don't count. I'm an
anti dietdietician. Of course, I'mgoing to tell you that it's okdepasta now.
An investigation from The Washington Post findssome anti diet dietitians and influencers are
being paid by companies, including GeneralMills to promote sugary snacks and cereal products.

(01:16:50):
I'm partnering with General Mill. ThePost investigation finding at least ten registered
dietitians promoted General Mills cereal on socialmedia in the last year. They're everywhere.
I follow some of them just tosee. There is a body positive
group that goes to amusement parks andtries to get on rides and then complains
because they weigh five hundred pounds andit's not built for somebody five hundred pounds,

(01:17:12):
And then they're pissed at Disneyland.Oh boy, eat less. I
know, Satado, it's just andat the same time they'll push out all
kinds of snacks and stuff like that. It's about money, baby, It's
about money, Jillian Michaels. Allof our institutions of trust are being corrupted,
The doctors are being paid off,all the research is being paid for
by big food. Do you reallythink chocolate milk is an exercise recovery drink?

(01:17:35):
Of course it's not. And nowthe dieticians are being paid off.
So we need to use our commonsense, do a little bit of our
own homework. And you can lookat the posts. They'll say sponsored.
There's a hashtag that says sponsored.Look for who has paid for the study,
and you'll know what the incentive isbehind it. Follow the money,

(01:17:56):
Follow the money. I always saythe same thing when you ever watch a
because now you're being inundated. Sowe come towards the nitty gritty time of
the year when it comes to elections. Inundated with ads. You're going to
see them across the country wherever you'relistening, whether it's for a congress person
or a state senator or some sortof bill bond, whatever it is,
See who's paying for it. Listenat the end. This has been endorsed

(01:18:18):
by blah blah blah blah blah.This is paid for by because there's an
end game there. And you know, Coca Cola spent a bunch of money
getting scientists to say coke was goodfor you. You can follow the money
and the anti diet movement and bythe way, diets, fad diets,
all that stuff. Here's the thing. Do you want to lose weight?
We should all want to be inbetter shape. Since I've started working at

(01:18:41):
home and I'm not working the chaotichours I used to know because I was
getting up at two two thirty inthe morning, I wasn't up until seven
o'clock at night, sometimes seven thirty. I got very little sleep. I
was going all day, I wasworking ninety hours a week. It didn't
lead to a super healthy lifestyle,and that put on I put on about
thirty five forty pounds. I've beenhome for now, just full time home
work, not having to travel intothe city as I like to call it,

(01:19:01):
and working out every day, eatingmuch better, getting sleep, which
is important. I feel a thousandtimes better. Your body positive. Yeah,
I was positive I'd put too muchweight on my ass. Fad diets,
Yeah, they're ridiculous. What's goodfor you? Exercise, walking,
something, eating less portion control.To me, that's always been calories in,
calories out kind of stuff. Now, what you put in matters as

(01:19:25):
far as the health of your body. But when it comes to losing weight,
which will help you in some ways, that's what you got to look
for. Cowies in, cawories out, Yeah, you're burning calories. Those
things matter now. A zempic,oddly enough, is getting blasted by Jillian
Michaels for essentially being the same thing, just a little bit different. You
have the opposite narrative pushed by bigPharma instead of big food. Oh god,

(01:19:49):
go crazy. You could be healthyat any size. You get big,
you get sick. Oh my god, you're big and sick. This
is going to kill you. Youhave a disease. So that's the narrative
from big Pharma, which is howthey push ozempic onto you. You see,
obesity is a medical disease and youneed pharmaceutical interventions and or a surgical

(01:20:10):
adjustment to your digestive system to losethis weight. Just say no, I
know. Zampi is one of thosethings we're big farmers pushing these things.
Now, it's good that you're losingweight. That's a good thing because the
cost of obesity in this country ismassive, the amount of money lost,
the amount of money that goes intoour healthcare system. Why things are so
expensive in a lot of places inour healthcare system. So much of that

(01:20:32):
is preventable. We're a reactionary society. We react to a lot of things,
in particular, you know, ourhealth. I've been guilty. I'm
sure many of you have too.Her big thing is it doesn't really work
the way you think. I amopposed to ozempic, but not because I
think it's an easy way out.If it was an easy way out,
Dan, I would take it.I would sell it on my website.

(01:20:56):
I mean, there's absolutely no reasonfor me to tell you this except for
the research that I have done onit and the information that I have been
given from PhDs and mds. AndI can outline all of that for you
if you like. But the bottomline is it's not a permanent solution.
It has very serious side effects.You will ultimately plateau on it. You

(01:21:17):
can never get off of it becauseall the meta analysis show us you gain
all the weight back and then someand I could we could go deep into
the science, but I promise youit's all true. Unless you change your
behavior, you're going to be onit forever. And at some point she
talks about the plateauing and does itstop working long term when it comes to
weight loss. Now, if youneed to lose thirty forty pounds and you've

(01:21:38):
got to jumpstart with this, andyou were active before and you're getting active
again, and you're still eating lessand doing this acond, then you're probably
going to be okay. If youdon't change your mindset, you're still going
to be in that same situation.How many times, I'm sure many of
you listening have known people that gotweight loss surgery, lost a bunch of
weight. Now they've put it allback on what happened, and the changed
your mindset and then went right backto it. So some of it,

(01:22:00):
a lot of it is the mindsetof it. But this thought that the
anti diet movement has been hijacked bycompanies who are paying people that are obese,
overweight, and unhealthy to tell youthat it's okay to be that way,
it's nuts. Three two, three, five, eight, twenty four
to twenty three acts, Ed Benson, show it to Twitter, your Instagram.
A lot of other stuff coming up, Little Wat's trending, straight Ahead
Board Capital spoke to our buddy lasthour, Zach Abraham over at boorg.

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dollars to retire on. They owntheir stuff there far some people need a
lot more than that because there's alifestyle they want to lead. Where are

(01:22:45):
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Now it's time to find out what'strending. What's trending? Norway,
Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sereno, lot trupping. That's fine,

(01:24:04):
I was trending on this beautiful Friday. Where do we start today?
How about X slash Twitter? Sothe trending stuff Friday trending. Finally,
Friday Friday, Bitcoin X purchase botsand trolls NYC Mayor that would be Mayor

(01:24:25):
Adams and his subway spend. Isit the safest or most dangerous? Trending?
Un versus Israel War Crime Showdown?Obviously a lot of stuff about Israel
trending, Biden Net and Yahoo,Biden and Trump trending. Charlie Kirk and
his take on birth control and whatit does to the women's brain. Maybe
we'll play that for you here ina minute. WW three, watch Taiwan's

(01:24:47):
air defense zone infiltrated Iran trending.Diddy, his former bodyguard has come out
and said, oh, he's gotall kinds of blackmail tapes on powerful politicians.
Now those tapes are apparently in thehands of the FEDS. Ooh,
what un demands halt to arm,sail to Israel. Oh my lord Iran,

(01:25:15):
why are they trending? Because rumorhas it in the next couple days
there could be a strike from Iranin response to Israel's attack on their generals
the other day that killed the kitchenworkers as well the world kitchen folks,
and apparently they're getting ready to rampup. Now. Iran has been attacking

(01:25:41):
Israel for a while. They're calledHesbalah, but apparently this is coming straight
from Iran. So we'll see ninetynine cents stores closing down. Ooh,
no, yep, because nothing isworth ninety nine cents anymore. The praying
grandma faces prison. Rebecca Levre lavrendsseventy years old when she's seventy seventy two.

(01:26:06):
Apparently she faces prison for attending thej six events. That's January sixth.
Do I think she needs to goto prison? Know? Did she
attack anybody? Ah? I mean, come on, this is where the
ridiculous. You want to know.There are people that were participating in January
sixth that have They're not prisoners ofsome sort of political insanity, because there's

(01:26:29):
plenty of that out there, butthey are idiots and for whatever reason,
they thought they got some sort ofspecial wink and a nudge from the president
to do something stupid. There area lot of people that were there got
caught up in the moment we're wanderingthrough you trespass, all right, get
over it. It's time to moveon. You give him a fine,
whatever? Did you send him home? If she goes to jail, she's

(01:26:51):
seventy two, what harm is sheto anybody? Was at any point ted
she could do something? No?Like I said, there are people that
got popped that every right to askthe question is this it like, did
I do something? Should I reallybe going to jail for this? And
there are people that got arrested andgot convicted who should be in jail because

(01:27:14):
of what they thought they were doingand the things that they thought they were
doing and how they overreached. They'renot political prisoners, they're idiots, they're
ass hats, and their actions hadrepercussions. But when it's this blanket thing,
a seventy two year old going tojail, Come on, this is

(01:27:35):
where people stand back and go thisfeels a little bit much. Oh yeah
yeah, head over to uh Yahoonumber one training thing. Valerie Burton,
Ellie, Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trumpputin the war, Kate Middleton, Yukhon,
Caitlyn Clark, the Eclipse, who'sexcited for the eclipse? And finally

(01:27:58):
Google lots of sock, Chelsea ManUnited, Liverpool and IT Championships. Sutter
Health Park that is where the riverCats play, the Triple A baseball team
for the Oakland A's. Oakland A'sturned down the chance to stay in Oakland
for three years while their stadium isbeing built in Vegas, and they decided
to go to their Triple A affiliatein Sacramento to play their home games there.

(01:28:25):
And finally, last thing, Birdflu It's National Brito Day. Dude,
go get a burrito for God's sake. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four twenty threeat Chad Benson's Shows your Twitter tweet
at as text the program, bythe way, the Charlie Kirk thing is
is very interesting. So he's talkingabout birth control what it does to the
woman's mind. A lot of themare on birth control two and birth control

(01:28:47):
like really screws up female brains.By the way, every single one of
you to make sure that your lovedones are not on birth control. It
increases depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation. Birth control is the number one most
prescribed medication for young ladies under theage of twenty five. They will give
birth young ladies birth control for pimples, for acne, for to control their
moods, their period. It is. It is awful, it's terrible,

(01:29:10):
and it creates very angry and bitteryoung ladies and young women that then that
bitterness then manifests into a political partythat is the bitter Party. I mean,
the Democrat Party is all about bringus your bitterness and you know,
we'll give you free stuff. It'slike we'll trade you, you know,
bitterness for stuff. Essentially, that'slike the Democrat Party. Oh okay,

(01:29:32):
look, everything has a side effect. I didn't know that it turned you
into an evil liberal. That wasbitter. A lot of people even on
the ride, are going really reallyreally Charlie, Yes, they're bitter angry.
Three two three five three eight,twenty four to twenty three at Chad

(01:29:53):
Benson Show. To Twitter your Instagramcoming up, little sound salad some of
the sounds that we missed this week. Hit that with the right there.
There's a lot of stuff we missWe tried to get through a lot of
stuff. We just couldn't because there'sso much stuff every day you think,
well, is there anything else goingon? Yeah, there's a ton going
on. We'll get to that plentyof other things. Try to add three
two three five three eight, twentyfour, twenty three. That is your

(01:30:15):
text line. You can also leavea message there. We'll play it on
the air if it's not insane,and if it is insane, we're definitely
playing it on the air. Ijust want to let you guys know that
the crazier, the more hilarity.Yeah, we're gonna play it on the
air. I just understand that aswell. You can tweet at a slash
x at Chad Benson Show. Itis the Chad Benson Show. Such Chad

(01:30:40):
Benson Show, Independent thoughts independent life. This is Chad Benson. Am I

(01:31:04):
happy with the state of America rightnow? Or that answer is no.
Do I believe we're going to getbetter? I believe in that. I'm
an optimistic guy, and I believewe can't get better. The endorsement that
I made years ago with Biden wasone I thought was the best decision for
me at that time. You know, I'm in this position where I have
some influence, and I felt likethat then it's my job now to exercise

(01:31:28):
my influence and share with this Thisis who I'm going to endorse. Am
I going to do that again thisyear? That answers no, Oh my
god, you got the people's elbowBiden to check on. The Rock says
no to Biden. Why is thatbecause he's not thrilled by what's going on?
So the Rock is saying no toBiden. Is he an RFK junior

(01:31:50):
guy? I doubt he's a Trumpguy, But you never know. I
always wonder how quietly behind the scenes, because I know some people who I
know personally say a lot of crapon their social media about Trump and blah
blah blah blah, and then quietlywhen we're in our meetings or talking.
It's the exact opposite. Optics,Baby, It's just optics. And I'm

(01:32:14):
sure there are people on the rightwho in public say a lot of supportive
things about Trump and quietly like,I can't stand this guy. I can't
So very interesting there the Rock sayingno, it is Friday. We do
a little sound salad here, havefun, some stories we zip through,
some a little bit more important thanothers. I don't know if you guys
saw this yesterday, but quietly they'relike, yeah, you know, Ukraine's

(01:32:35):
gonna join NATO. You're like,wait, what you do Realize Article five,
of which we take very seriously,means that if NATO's attack, we
all get involved. So when yousay join NATO, you don't mean like
tomorrow, you mean like five sixyears after all of this stuff has gone
and we're calm. At least,That's what I hope you meant. Meanwhile,

(01:32:56):
in other parts of the world,there are some serious issues. Yesterday
and the Biden had a chat onthe phone. President Biden spoke a short
while ago with Prime Mistery and Netnyata. The leaders discussed the situation in Gaza.
The President emphasized that the strikes onhumanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation
are unacceptable. He made clear theneed for Israel to announce a series of
specific, concrete and measurable steps toaddress civilian harm, humanitarians suffering, and

(01:33:23):
the safety of aid workers. Hemade clear that US policy with respect to
Gaza will be determined by our assessmentof Israel's immediate action on these steps.
Okay, mediate action, you guys, You've screwed up way too much.
Cannot happen anymore. Killing of theaid workers has made it so this situation
with you and supporting you is becominga little it's becoming a little bit tougher

(01:33:46):
than we thought it was going tobecome. Absolutely. He underscored as well
that an immediate cease fire is essentialto stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and
protectingness and civilians and to yours,Prime Minister Detnao to empower his negotiators to
conclude a deal without delay, tobring the hostages home. Well, I
think they've been trying that, justblinking. I think that when they're negotiating,

(01:34:09):
they're trying to bring them home.I think it's the other side the
other side, which has won Amasis won. The goal was what anyone
simple. The goal was very simple, stop normalization of Arab nations and Israel

(01:34:30):
because they were being left behind,cause chaos, hell and habit and if
they kill a bunch of our people, eh, that's good business for them.
And the fact that there's a famineand the fact that all of this
stuff is going on is great.The fact that Israel to a lot of
people, even in the West,especially amongst the young, they're seeing the

(01:34:53):
tens of thousands of people on thestreet, that is a win for them.
They've won this. They knew thefight was going to be in the
court of public opinion. They knewit. We are looking at one of
the worst humanitarian disasters that we haveseen in a very, very long time.
We're literally, at this moment lookingat hundreds of thousands of children starving

(01:35:15):
to death because Israel is not allowingthe humanitarian trucks into Gossa where people are
in most desperate condition. To mymind, Israel should not be getting another
nickel in military aid until these policiesare fundamentally changed. A no more military
aid to Israel when children in Gazaare starving. It's tough, and the

(01:35:36):
Arab nations are stuck between a rockand a hard place. I know that
the left, in particular, theyoungsters, you know, because all they
think about is well, they're colonizers, You're just like whatever. And then
you point out the reality of what'sgoing on is that Hamas wanted this.
They never for a moment thought thatthey were going to kill as many and

(01:36:00):
kidnap as many as possible. Idon't think for a moment they thought it
would work the way it did,and I don't think they thought it would
be as fruitful for them in someways for the reaction by BB Net,
Yahoo and Israel to crush a vastmajority of Palestine cause of famine and get

(01:36:27):
a ton of the world, eventhe US having issues. Now, all
that being said, actions matter morethan words. I know that's shocking because
so many of you only care aboutfeelings and words. But here is the
reality of this. He can sayall the stuff he wants Biden in public,
and he could be stern on thephone, which I'm sure he was,

(01:36:50):
and then quietly he does what sendssome more weapons. So do you
want two own bombs? Fifteen hundredpound bombs. How many do you want?
Hey, remember stop bombing the worldkitchen people, right, you guys
need to do better. I don'tworry. We fired those people. Well,
well we'll we'll we'll clean it up. Look, you know we gotta

(01:37:12):
do this. Hey, Look,you just gotta do what you gotta do,
right, But you need to figureout how to start painting a putting
a better picture on this thing.Because right now, the lipstick, which
not too many people in the West, you know, media and stuff,
we're buying that that that that wasa beauty queen and not a pig.
Well that lipstick fell off the pigalready, So you better figure this damn

(01:37:34):
thing out. So we'll see lookfor the actions, not the words.
Speaking of words. As we continueon this Friday, little sound salid some
stories, we miss, some stories. I find it interesting Batcha Hunger Sarga
talking about the sexual revolution, thechaos that's coming. There is a coming

(01:37:57):
sexual apocalypse though, and it's thisLeland. More women are going to college,
and when women go to college,they become very liberal, as opposed
to men who kind of when theygo to college, they become, you
know, slightly more liberal or remainconservative and liberal women. Very liberal women
no longer want to date conservative men. And so when that gap starts to
grow and grow and grow, whenthere's a lot of very liberal women who

(01:38:20):
don't want to date conservative men,there's going to be a shrinking pool for
them to choose from, and thenwe're going to start seeing real problems.
But the data suggests that it's muchharder for men right now in the dating
market, and that men who can'tfind a partner are much more unhappy than
women who can't find a partner.So I kind of disagree with Charlie's analysis

(01:38:41):
there. I'm talking about Charlie Kirk. We played this thing earlier about you
know, the bitterness and this,that and the others. That's very interesting.
That being said, though, oneof the other things going on is
the fact that the nuclear family,the family itself, that's old fashioned,
and people are poopooing it. Ithink this idea that the family having a

(01:39:01):
monogamous relationship that begins when you're young, in your twenties and carries through your
life, that idea is very muchsneered upon by a certain kind of leftist
elite that controls the culture right now. In a big way, and a
lot of working class people get thetrickle down effects of that. We're seeing

(01:39:23):
the breakdown of the family, andthat has both spiritual and psychological and massive
economic repercussions which are very negative tothe working class. So children being born
out of wedlock, for example,they face a lot of downward mobility,
a lot of pressures, and that'sterrible. And so we should be encouraging

(01:39:44):
people to get married, both forspiritual and for economic reasons. Not going
to happen anytime soon. We've gota big divide. We have people that
don't want to bait hell, peopledon't even want to talk to each other
in some cases. So it'll beinteresting, very interesting to see what happens
in the future. Because we're notreproducing, we're not marrying, we're not
coupling up. That stuff's just nothappening. And again, successful healthy societies

(01:40:05):
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(01:41:16):
to this, say it is Friday. We wrap up the week. Every
week we have craziness sounds that arewacky things that people said, stories we
cover try to get it all in, but we want a fresh reminder of
some of the stuff that's taking placeover the last several days. In boy,
has it been crazy. You knowthere needs to be unrest in the

(01:41:38):
streets for as long as there's arest in our lives. Happy Transgender Day
of Visibility. One of the workshopswas how to be a drag Queen,
And I got to tell you didn'tset well with me. President Biden is
much worse threat than Pokracy. I'vegot one hundred dollars falk my beautiful.
I know what I'll say. Itbugs burning a hold right through my fugget

(01:42:02):
in and doing my skin. Comeon the morning, I'll be brown.
It's find I'm freezing here. I'mdon my motor running. These illegal alien
squattis were arrested because they had flowits up in guns, ambo drugs,

(01:42:23):
and they lived across the street froman elementary school. The sugar baby down
the road and she's sitting ready androcked in the hog look at sample stone
and later on that we'll be workingall I doing all around thing right,
it's fire and bed fed. Hello, excuse me? Will we be able

(01:42:44):
to have some bystander intervention cards?Please? Thank you so much so.
This card over here is for whenyou're being arressed. It says you got
me. Kaitlyn Clark should play foran NBA team explicitly forbidden from being a
partisan, authoritarian police force standing onstage entirely unethical. So I'm currently work,

(01:43:08):
cry do I going to do?I don't like what I do.
I'm not greatful hand study. Wonderif I ever windy in a thirty hours
slowly unity owner up fay, I'ma friend here, I feel like any

(01:43:30):
won't lose in the Earth twenties islike, what the fuck are we doing?
It's no way around not live andcheck the check. We all live
and check the check at this point. If things don't improve with the higher
prices and the customers stop coming in, that we will shut down, and
you know, then basically people willlose jobs. Only thirty six percent say
that the strength of the economy isexcellent or good. Sixty three percent Nearly

(01:43:54):
two thirds of Americans in these sevendecisive states say not so good or poor.
That's not high per McDonald's. Youcome sit you old trifment behind down,
y'all not supposed to be expensive.The Democrats say, please, don't
call them animals, say humans.I said, no, they're not damage,
they're not yemas, they're animals.It'll be neat to see how the
animals here react to this event.It will be neat, that event being,

(01:44:16):
of course, the solar eclipse,which happens Monday, just three days
to go before the historic solar eclipse, and for some the final preparations have
been bumpier than the surface of themoon. Keep an eye on the forecast.
Overcast skies could dampen the experience.For millions. Overbooked hotels from upstate
New York to the Deep South aresuddenly canceling some guests reservations, leaving them

(01:44:39):
with no place to stay. Forothers, the options are pricing, yeah,
very pricey. Some money maker ina lot of places, going to
make a ton of money. It'sexciting. Doesn't happen a lot. And
we'll tell you about some of thefacts stuff here in a little bit as
we end the show. But traffic'sgoing to be chaotic, it's going to

(01:45:02):
be amazing, you know, becausewe live in a digital age that you
know, it's just it's incredible.And the fact that how busy it is
going to be. I don't thinkyou guys understand what we're talking about.
Potentially the busiest day of the year, not Christmas time, not Thanksgaving,
Memorial Day weekendy that we're talking about. The busiest travel day of the year

(01:45:24):
might be the Eclipse travel Hillsboro,Texas, offering a whole weekend of fun
events. Locals say they've been preparingfor two years to welcome visitors to Eclipseboro.
We ordered twenty five thousand pairs ofeclipse glasses, and there was a
moment when we started to think,maybe that's not enough, and so we
ordered another twenty five thousand pair.Local economies will no doubt see a big

(01:45:45):
boost. The state of Texas alonecould pocket a record four hundred and twenty
eight million dollars. Money, money, money, money, mony money.
Listen to the Finally Friday thing.At the end of it, it was
about animals. No, it wasn'ta Trump thing. It's about the animules.
How will they react in this mDuring the twenty seventeen eclipse, biologist
Adam Hartstone Rose was teaching at theUniversity of South Carolina and decided to head

(01:46:10):
to the zoo and run a littleexperiment. I hypothesized that this was gonna
be a nothing burger, But asAdam observed, when the moon covered the
Sun in totality, the giraffes startedrunning around their enclosures, the flamingos made
a protective circle around their young,and the Galapagos tortoises started mating behavior.
This time, Adam is flying toa zoo in the eclipse's path and bringing

(01:46:30):
forty scientists along with them, andasking folks to send in their observations and
make a bigger study together. Indeed, gonna be exciting. And of course,
coming Monday, we'll broadcast live fromthe Sun. I'm kidding, UT's
not gonna have it, Chad forreal, speaking of the eclipse. As
we finished the show, it's timeto learn a little something new, silly
stuff. Now it's time full stupidinformation. Get prepared for the eclipse come

(01:47:01):
Monday. Some silly, stupid,wacky information you can share with your friends
and dazzle them. First total solareclips in the continental United States in seven
years, last one took place twentyseventeen, August twenty first. To be
precise, solar eclipse occurs when theSun, the Moon, and the Earth
are alne okay. Solar eclipse,by the way, can only happen at

(01:47:26):
new moon. Solar eclipses do notoccur at every New moon. Obviously,
clips total totalities are different lengths.They can be anywhere between you know,
a few minutes up to seven minutes, so be prepared for that. It's
all about the magnitude and obstruction.Astronomers categorize each solar eclipse in terms of

(01:47:47):
its magnitude and obstruction, so youknow what they said. Look, they
don't want to confuse you when youencounter these terms. The magnitude of a
solar eclipse is the percent of theSun's diameter that the Moon covers during maximum
eclipse. So be prepared for thatwhatever that means, Nerds. Everyone in

(01:48:09):
the continental United States will see atleast a partial eclipse. That's why they
talk about the totality being in thatrange where you're gonna see the full eclipse
take place. Like they say,it's about totality. Baby, you're gonna
want to be on the center line. That probably isn't a revelation. But

(01:48:29):
the moonshadow is round. If itwere square, it wouldn't matter so much
where you've viewed it totally, aspeople cross its width would experience the same
duration of darkness. But the lunarshadow is round. The longest duration of
eclipse occurs at the center. Firstcontact will be in Texas and the center
line crosses through fifteen states. Someinteresting stuff there, indeed at Chad menton

(01:48:53):
show Twitter C Chad b E Ns O and solid week of shows appreciated,
big, I'm excited Monday, thetotal clipse. Do you think it's
something crazy? It's gonna happen Mondaytoo? Like is this the time when
Israel gets attacked by Iran and itall goes down? Oh, the world
is watching. Indeed, you guyshave a blessed, amazing weekend. We'll

(01:49:15):
do it again on Monday as always, Night night Jack. This is the
Chad Benson Show.

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