New Wildfires in California

New wild fires in California. Fmr. Pres Jimmy Carter's lays in state at the US Capitol. Trump wants to rename Gulf of Mexico the 'Gulf of America' and annex Greenland. Driver in Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion used ChatGPT to plan blast. Woke Wednesday. Peter Yarrow of folk-music trio Peter, Paul and Mary dies at 86. Waymo passenger nearly misses his flight after car drives in circles. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Normally we don't do this here, we do it elsewhere
in the show. But this is definitely something we should
be paying attention to nature.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
We less you.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Because it will. Yeah, fires devastating.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
We begin with a Fox News alert.

Speaker 5 (00:38):
Los Angeles County is under mass evacuations right now as
three wildfires tear through the area, leaving thousands of acres scorched.
Dozens of homes and businesses are believed to have already
been destroyed by the flames. Dire warnings have been issued,
with official saying there is an immediate threat to life
in several towns.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yes, I'm talking about devastating. It is apocalyptic. It is
the end of the world kind of stuff. And not
since I mean, I've been to several of these fires
covered him. Anthony and I went up to the one,
the Paradise one a few years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
That was just horrific.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
And I remember Anthony and I we were getting on
one of the bridges across over the bay and as
we crossed over the bay, you could see a plume
of smoke that looked like a nuclear bomb had gone
off over the mountain, and you see this red hue
over the mountain and you're like, my god, nature will
mess you up, and it is devastating if you look
at it.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
This isn't like the.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Paradise fire was one of those fires where it was
a smaller town, it was lots of a wooded area.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
This is.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
In the middle essentially of Los Angeles, on the coast
and into woodland hills. It is not this is urban sprawl.
This is not one of those things where it's it's oh,
it's just a few things. We're talking absolute devastation and
probably gonna get a lot worse because.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
The evil that is the Santa Ana wins.

Speaker 6 (02:10):
This is really all about the wind, the extreme Santa
Ana winds that are blowing right now. There was one
wind gust recorded at ninety nine miles an hour overnight.
The wind was rattling windows, You could hear it against walls.
It was just so strong, almost like a freight train sound.
I mean, that's a cliche, but that's kind of what
it sounded like, just blowing through areas. It is this

(02:33):
wind that is pushing the three large wildfires, including the
one in front of me right now, where there are
flames moving up above homes.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
And devastating Pacific Palisades is a gorgeous little community kind
of it's really interesting. It's one of those communities that
you know, you're surrounded by, you know, all of the
sprawl that is Los Angeles in Malibu and everything, but
Pacific Palisads is one of those ones that is just
it's right on the coast. It's beautiful, and it's devastated.

(03:06):
Took Jack to a hockey tournament right over there, and
that place is gone and it is gonna get much
much worse before it gets better.

Speaker 3 (03:16):
And it is crazy.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
And the big crazy thing of all of this, because
as we know, nature will mess you up. But the
thing that is most alarming, and it is absolutely alarming,
is the failure, once again of California and how they
handle things.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
This is Rick Carusoe.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
He ran to be the mayor of Los Angeles, lost
out to career politician and stooge.

Speaker 7 (03:44):
Bass.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Okay, this lady who is useless, she's in Ghana. I
don't blame her for that. She went over there on
a trip for Los Angeles kind of thing. And you
know that's what.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
You can't sit around and wait for a disaster.

Speaker 8 (03:58):
You go.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
But how things are going on the ground is terrifying.
So Rick Cruso here who ran from here and lost,
talking about what he's seeing in the devastation. And oh,
by the way, they're just one thing missing from the
firefighters arsenal to fight the fires.

Speaker 7 (04:20):
My heart goes out obviously that the people at their
homes and I'm watching the small businesses around us go
up in plains. You know, this is people's livelihoods. So
it's devastating. But what is most concerning to me is
our first responders, in our firefighters. There's no water in
the palatates. There's no water coming out of the fire hyder.

(04:42):
This is an absolute mismanagement by the city. Not the
firefighter's fault, but it's by the city. And I'm going
to be very honest. We've got a mayor that's out
of the country, and we've got a city that's burning,
and there's no resources to put out fires. So it
looks like we're in a third world country.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Here, Yeah, because you are at this point. So Mayor
bas is in Ghana. Again, I don't falter for going
to Ghana. You do those things, you make those diplomatic trips,
all of that stuff. Get your ass home. It's that simple,
And how do you do it? Get on a plane? Well, well,
there's not a lot of planes there. I understand that,
but you know what, you could charter a plane. You
got the kind of money LA's got, the kind of

(05:18):
money they waste a ton of money. You got the opportunity.
Do what you have to do. I don't care if
you have to get on a plane, Get on a boat,
get on a hot air balloon, right, find a griffin,
little fly you whatever you need to do. You need
to get back to the people, and you need to
show them that you're getting back to the people. It

(05:39):
is absolutely a California kind of thing.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (05:44):
We'll be covering this throughout the day because it is
big nightmarish news. And then on the other side of
the country the deep freeze.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yesterday.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's like the east just gonna freeze, the southeast is
going to the middle of the country's going to freeze,
and Jellifonia is on fire. Apocalyptic welcome to nature, which
will mess you up. Yesterday I said a few things

(06:18):
that I do not regret saying, and it has nothing
to do with the show that I was actually on
to do.

Speaker 3 (06:22):
My national show, My local show.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Some people got pissed at me and I posed a question,
And maybe it's a weird question. Maybe I shouldn't have
posed it, but I did because I myself find it
absolutely bizarre about Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 9 (06:35):
Watched over by a military honor guard. The body of
the former president will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda.
Carter's casket will be placed on the Lincoln catafalqk, the wooden,
black cloth covered funeral beer that was built after Abraham
Lincoln's assassination in eighteen sixty five. Foreign ambassador's, Supreme Court justices,
administration officials, and members of Congress will first pay their respects,

(06:56):
and then through Thursday morning, everyday Americans can line up
with the call to do the same.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
Why my question is why why the pomp and circumstance
out of curiosity? Why so he dies in Georgia, you
fly him to DC, then there's the pomp and circumstance yesterday,
and whatever the case and whatever it was, because I

(07:22):
said buggy during my local show, and the people that
always have to be right make sure that they told
me a thousand times it's not called that. So then
they take him through the city, and you know they
play that, you know, all of the music and the
band and all of that stuff, and everybody's marching with him.
Even the Coastguard was there nowhere near the coast. And
I thought to myself, think about this. So we fly

(07:44):
him from Georgia to DC, the pomp, the circumstance. We
put him in a rotunda. People like, well, those are
rotunda exactly. Then they give all these speeches and then
they'll have the big thing and then.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
You can walk by it. How do we even know
if he's in there?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Why is he in there? Why would I want to
walk by a person's casket. It's just a bizarre thing.
Maybe that's wrong. You're not even sitting him up or
doing anything. Put him in an action post, Chad, No,
it's just weird. The whole thing is weird. And I'll
continue to say that he was one hundred, and then

(08:22):
we're gonna fly hi back to Georgia so he can
be buried. I don't even know if he's in there.
And I waited in line when I was a kid
to get gas.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I'm not waiting in line to see your casket.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
Oh, Chad three, two, three, five, eight twenty four twenty
three at Chat Betson show to your Twitter, your Instagram,
all of the other things. Yesterday, Donald Trump said a
lot of stuff that was hilarious. Okay, I can he
just laugh a bit about some of his press conference

(08:54):
and the reactions, which we're going to talk about. But still,
you know, oh, he is a great troll. Whether he's
trolling Canada or whether he's trolling the left, he's just
an awesome troll. And he trolled the hell out of people, Yesterdady.
He said a lot of good stuff, but a lot
of it was just Trump being Trump.

Speaker 10 (09:15):
We're gonna be changing the name of the Gulf of
Mexico to the Gulf of America. It's a beautiful ring
that covers a lot of territory, The Gulf of America.
What a beautiful name.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
And it's appropriate.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
It's appropriate.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
It is actually we can do that now, whether anybody
calls it that, we can actually do that. But it's
just people like, oh my god, all right, got it.
N't believe he did then. He's not even president yet.
Look at that's oh my god, he wasn't done. Well.

Speaker 11 (09:45):
We need Greenland for national security purposes. I've been told
that for a long time, long before I even ran.
I mean, people have been talking about it for a
long time. You have approximately forty five thousand people there.
People really don't even know if Denmark has an illegal
right to it. But if they do, they should give
it up because we needed financial security. That's for the

(10:06):
free world. I'm talking about protecting the free world. You
look at you don't even need binoculars. You look outside.
You have China ships all over the place. You have
Russian ships all over the place. We're not letting that happen,
but nobody knows if they even have any right title
or interest. The people are going to probably vote for
independence or to come into the United States. But if

(10:29):
they did do that, then I would tear iff Denmark
at a very high level.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
Oh sok of that.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
There we go, it's already begun, and everybody's freaking out
about it. Our good buddy lonely Scots not though.

Speaker 12 (10:40):
There, argue it's interest in Greenland. They have rare rooth minerals.
We already have some kind of space facility there, and
it would help fortify us against the Russians. The Panama
Canal is, of course adventures when you consider the Chinese
incursions and influence in this hemisphere. What Donald Trump is
saying for the world is we are not a shrinking
violet anymore. We're the United States America. We're the prium

(11:00):
and his superpower, and reporters keep asking him to rule
things out and take things off the table, and it
would be the height of stupidity to do so now,
or to anything else before he takes office. Why would
he tell the rest of the world what he may
remain here?

Speaker 2 (11:14):
That's fantastic. Lonely scout there, not lonely anymore because he's
got us with it. But we got more of people
just loose in their minds. Same thing with Metta and Facebook.
We've got some woke stuff coming to there. Obviously, more
about the fires devastating southern California and potential to not
just get worse, get so much more devastating, so much

(11:37):
worse because of where they're at in the high population.
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Speaker 1 (13:10):
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Speaker 13 (13:11):
The fire erupting in the Pacific Palisade of Port Hills,
west of Los Angeles. Fire trucks racing to the scene,
aircraft attacking and from above making Garment, her daughter and
their dog evacuating on foot after they abandoned their vehicle.

Speaker 14 (13:24):
Well, the smoke just got really bad, so I just
started packing up all of our stuff and we got
in the car to go, and then all the cars
were abandoned, so I had nowhere to go, so I
just had to get out of my car and start walking.
The smoke is so bad.

Speaker 13 (13:36):
Authorities helping the family to safety.

Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, Hell on Earth.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
PRESSU way to describe what's going on in southern California
right now? Hell on Earth? And you know what is
helping hell expand winds being one of them. But the
other one is the fact that there's no water certain areas.

Speaker 3 (13:56):
So picture this.

Speaker 2 (13:57):
You're a fireman and you pull up in your and
you're like, we're gonna fight this fire. We're gonna do
this thing right, because this isn't like when you see
a lot of those fires that are wildfires in California,
where there isn't really that many homes.

Speaker 3 (14:12):
We're talking.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
It's a modern urban sprawl in city. And so the
fire department goes over and they go to the fire
hydrant and they connect and what wah wa wa wa
wa wah wah no water?

Speaker 3 (14:32):
Why is that?

Speaker 2 (14:33):
You ask? Because of the drought Chad and global warming
and climate change, or the fact that they decided not
to fill some of the reservoirs.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
Oh, it's embarrassing. And where's the mayor, mayor? Where are you?

Speaker 15 (14:51):
Well?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Uh, missus bass the mayor, She's in Ghana. So it's embarrassing.
It is crap together, California.

Speaker 15 (15:00):
Having just quite literally an hour or so ago, gone
up the canyon and sawt firsthand the impact of these
swirling winds and the embers and the number of structures
that are destroyed, not a few, many structures already destroyed.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
Gavin Newsom full of crap with a smile on his face.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
That's true, because it's true, Thank you, sir. It is.
I mean, you know, we talk about nature messing you up.
This is nature doing what nature does. It's got the
Santa Ana wins, You've got it's a perfect storm for
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(16:03):
the property. He's kind of like, you know, that's the
conspiracies that are out there, that what happened to Maui? Uh,
the guy who killed himself in Las Vegas? What did
chatgept do? Asking some questions about blowing stuff up?

Speaker 16 (16:19):
The research on chat gipt determined that he needed at
least two thousand feets per second velocity on the firearm
in order to be able to actually cause a full
detonation of all the explosives he had.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
He didn't want to kill anybody else, didn't want to
be a terrorist. He wanted to end his life.

Speaker 16 (16:36):
He does transition at some point and talks about being
concerned of the media labeling them as a terrorist and
that he had no intent on killing anyone else asides
from himself.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, that's what they want you to think. Three two, three, five,
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Show is your Twitter tweet edistal text the program love
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conspiracy theorist. No, but that's the lunacy that's out there again.
Go look and see all the things that are trending.

(17:05):
Maui's one of them, and people are already gone, well,
this is the same thing that happened to Maui. You
watch what happens the Rock and uh, you know Oprah
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Speaker 17 (17:18):
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Speaker 2 (18:01):
The Chad Benson Show takes that time of the week
where we get you woke.

Speaker 18 (18:06):
Correct we not only are they act hurting our kids,
directlish make everything better.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Correctuens are fine.

Speaker 1 (18:13):
Just my gender is a complete nightmare. Trans women can
breastfeet and this is great news.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
No, no, no, no.

Speaker 19 (18:19):
No, there's something I need to tell you.

Speaker 20 (18:21):
The princess who came to your ball tonight with me,
I'm Gonzarella.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
That's the one where Harry waves the magic wand and
turns everybody back to their select gender.

Speaker 21 (18:32):
Miss dan It.

Speaker 22 (18:33):
You can't speculate about someone's sexuality unless they're famous or
peppermint Patty.

Speaker 2 (18:37):
It's time for woke Wednesday.

Speaker 3 (18:40):
Oh where do we start?

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Well? Earlier this week, John Crier aka Ducky was on
with Bill Maher on his podcast and as they were
doing stuff, talking about everything, they got into stuff that
maybe you know.

Speaker 3 (18:54):
Bill said, are you sure you want to do this?

Speaker 2 (18:55):
John? Are you sure we can cut this out? One
of them, of course, being the trends.

Speaker 23 (19:00):
You when someone is born, there is a default setting
for humans male and female. Not everyone is. Now a
real conservative would say no, everyone is. I would never
say that, but I think there are.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Fault there. There's a default setting.

Speaker 23 (19:18):
But then there's a whole other other section, and that's
great and we should protect those people. But don't pretend
there isn't also a default setting. And you can't rewrite
the world so that every baby is just a jump ball. Oh,
it could be anything. No, if it's got it, it's
probably a boy.

Speaker 2 (19:36):
Absolutely either we recognize that, we know that, but this
want by the left, in particular coastal lefts because, as
I've said for a long time, in the woke world,
having kids that are trans is like having a broken bag.
It's the new thing, right, it's that new thing. Oh

(19:57):
is that a burke? Oh is that a trans kid?
And the left will they just well it could you
could be anything, and if it's not, we'll deal with that.

Speaker 23 (20:05):
We'll deal with that in.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
A compassionate way.

Speaker 23 (20:07):
Well, yeah, it will also be re apprized of the
idea that children don't know about anything. Yes, sometimes it
is obvious and we should address.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
It that way.

Speaker 24 (20:16):
Well, again, the people that go through it don't say
this is the life I want.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
No parent wants to be in the midst of those choices.

Speaker 23 (20:23):
It's Tarakidge these days, actually just do want to be
Transits cooler, John, I don't agree.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I don't agree with film. That's the name of the show.
Well you your eyes are not open to that, Okay,
but you hear him. He's like, I'm not agree because
this belief that oh yeah, children can just do anything
they want, uh, magically decide to switch their gender.

Speaker 3 (20:48):
Here there and it's okay, it's not it's not.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Yesterday my local show, I had Jack Johnson on, who
is the editor who sponsored the bill that it went
to the Supreme Court about the trans and under eighteen
because Tennessee's got a very conservative look at this, and
he's just like, it's not about anybody who's an adult.
It's about kids. We shouldn't be lopping breast off healthy

(21:18):
young girls at twelve and thirteen and pumping them full
of hormones that we have no idea what it's going
to look like in the future that is going to
drastically change their body. We shouldn't all for the sake
of wokeness.

Speaker 23 (21:35):
There are some kids. Yeah, especially why is it like
so much more prevalent like here than NBA. Well, are
they suppressing it there? Maybe a little, Yeah, there's a
societal suppression. But it's like left handedism.

Speaker 24 (21:47):
Left handed being left handed was suppressed for you know,
for thousands of years amongst human beings, but once they
was you know, apparently in the thirties, scientists basically said, no,
there's no ten is doesn't actually do anything bad.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Right left tendon is shot up.

Speaker 24 (22:04):
People just stop training themselves to be right handed. And
this is a this is a you know, this has
happened societally before, and that's the that's the closest analogue
that I can think of.

Speaker 8 (22:14):
It.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
It's we didn't lop the left hand off, right, We
didn't do that. It's just it's absurd. And like you
you see these famous people who've got two trans kids.

Speaker 3 (22:29):
That is not possible.

Speaker 2 (22:33):
That is statistically just it's because it's a she shei
thing to do.

Speaker 3 (22:41):
Got to kill this wokeness as fast as possible. We do.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
And you know what's interesting is what's the whenever you
see people go out like, hey, would you do you
think that you know, gender for me?

Speaker 16 (22:52):
Care?

Speaker 3 (22:53):
Child mutilation?

Speaker 2 (22:54):
Should the kids like seven, eight, nine, ten, they should
be able to ch?

Speaker 25 (22:58):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Absolutely? Should they be given drugs?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
A hunter perc? Should they have if they want their body?
Oh yeah, yeah totally, because you know what that's the
thing to do. Hey, should a kid who's nine get
a tattoo? Oh no, really, one eye can get rid
of pretty easily, and the other one, well, it'll destroy
your life, especially if you haven't made this decision based
in anything real, but because it's the shishy thing to do,

(23:23):
or because you're feeling pressure or because you want to
be different, that they're gonna pump you.

Speaker 3 (23:26):
Full of drugs.

Speaker 2 (23:28):
I say that because in Arizona, Ema, by the way,
a nine year old got a tattoo.

Speaker 22 (23:34):
Yes, it happened right here at the Black Onyx Empire
tattoo shop in downtown Yuma. And well, the tattoo artist
is standing by his decision. We asked him, where does
he draw the line.

Speaker 26 (23:47):
It's not like a tattoo nine year olds every day.

Speaker 22 (23:49):
A tattoo artist in Yuma, known as Sosa, is addressing
the backlash he's receiving after a video he posted online
showing him tattooing a nine year old girl at his shop,
Black Onyx em Higher Tattoo went viral.

Speaker 26 (24:01):
I mean any publicity is good publicity. I mean I
would rather have good publicity. However it is, it's just
a debate.

Speaker 22 (24:08):
The video shows him inking an American flag on a
young girl's arm, who, he says, initially wanted a picture
of Donald Trump on her neck, but he convinced her
to get an American flag on her arm instead.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
She wanted a big old tattoo of the Trumpster on
her neck. And he's like, you know what, maybe maybe
a little uncomfortable on that one. How about an American
flag on your arm? This is child abuse? Wait a minute,
this is child abuse. This is child abuse. But mutilating
a child pumping them full of hormones is not. Look,

(24:42):
I wouldn't let a nine year old get it. But
if we're going to compare the two, come on, come on,
if we're going to compare the two, and that's the debate, right, like, well,
one of these is really child abuse and the other
one is the right thing to do.

Speaker 22 (24:56):
The tattoo was done last year, and she recently came
back to his shop a touch up. For those questioning
his decision, he says, there's more to the story, because.

Speaker 26 (25:05):
You know, being an artist and business man, you also
got to know like the cultures they come from.

Speaker 22 (25:10):
Sosa says the young girl and her family are from Turkey.
After hearing their story about how grateful they are for
their opportunities in America, he was swayed and went ahead
with doing the tattoo.

Speaker 26 (25:20):
Very grateful of being here in the United States. They
were just being grateful, said Donald Trump. They just they
saw don Donald Trump as a hero, saw.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
Donald Trump as a hero. Well, mom and dad brought
her in right like this. So mom and dad brought
her in, and that's something apparently they like to do together. Again.

Speaker 3 (25:40):
Nine for me a little bit young.

Speaker 2 (25:41):
That being said, if we're going to compare the two,
if you were nine you want to start pumping kid
full of hormones, you'd be cheered on by a lot
of people. But you get a small American flag on
a kid's arm, you know.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Ah.

Speaker 22 (25:55):
Despite facing criticism, he remains firm on his decision.

Speaker 26 (25:58):
I don't tattoo my kids. I'm not promoting coming get
your tattoos.

Speaker 22 (26:02):
He was aware of the video would stir up controversy,
but not to this extreme.

Speaker 26 (26:07):
I'm getting a lot of hate from it. My employees
are getting a lot of hate from it. My business,
I'm getting so many bad reviews on Google.

Speaker 22 (26:14):
But where does he draw the line?

Speaker 26 (26:15):
Starting point is at fifteen years old, That's when I
started tattooing.

Speaker 14 (26:20):
Now.

Speaker 22 (26:20):
The family also told the tattoo artist that getting tattoos
is a tradition in their family. Now again, in Arizona,
it is legal to tattoo a minor as long as
there is parental consent and the parent is also present.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
There you go. What do you think?

Speaker 2 (26:35):
Let me know? Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,
twenty three at Chad Benson Show. Is your Twitter tweet
at his text the program like to hear what you
have to think about that? Nine very young, Like Jack
turns fifteen next year. He is already like, Dad, I
can't wait till I get like eighteen's I want to
get some tats. And I'm like, yeah, you know what,
when you get older, you decide what you want to

(26:58):
do when you get older. I'm not gonna stop you
from doing that, not one of these you know parents.
But but you know, if he went today and said, Dad,
I want to get a tattoo. No, no, maybe I
don't know, Like if you wanted to get like like
his sister's name on his shoulder, I'm not going to

(27:18):
say no to that. Come on, not not going to
have his sister, right, you know what I mean? Something
silly like that. But it's ridiculous. I got my first
tattoo at sixteen. I survived, and it's I know, some
people freak out about it. Nine seems to be a
little bit young, uh you know, but it's a culture thing, right.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
They're from Turkey.

Speaker 2 (27:42):
I'm like, I've been to Turkey. I don't think they
did it. Nine three two, three, five three eight, twenty
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Sashtag me too, hashtag immigration reforms, hashtag help. I'm trapped
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Speaker 2 (29:47):
Was it real or was it not real? I'm talking
about Jerry Jerry.

Speaker 28 (29:54):
Jerry, outrageous knockdown, drag out brawls. Nobody would some family
food fights, shocking confession.

Speaker 1 (30:04):
Sleeping my man. Oh that wasn't the first time.

Speaker 28 (30:06):
Sweetheart and the Jerry Springer shows twenty seven year history,
everyone wondered could those epic confrontations be for real or
were they stage Now. A new documentary, Jerry Springer Fights
Camera Action, reveals the dark secrets behind the show's infamous slugfests.
This guest screamed and lunged at her cheating boyfriend. Now,

(30:29):
more than a decade later, she says the producers drove
her to act that way.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
What it it?

Speaker 3 (30:38):
It's gotta be real, right? Did you think it was real?

Speaker 29 (30:43):
They did everything in their power to get us as
crazy as possible.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
They gave us so many drink tickets. They were like,
go hog wild, all right?

Speaker 21 (30:52):
So again, the producers were there just kind of like
coaching us on what to say.

Speaker 1 (30:56):
You can hate me all you want.

Speaker 28 (30:58):
The documentary shows producers rehearsing provocative lines with guests before
they stepped on stage.

Speaker 1 (31:03):
What are you've done for me?

Speaker 4 (31:07):
I take your kid.

Speaker 28 (31:08):
In nineteen ninety eight, Inside Editions spoke to three friends
who say they were approached by Jerry Springer producers to
be on the show and they were told they would
need to fight.

Speaker 4 (31:17):
They said that they would give one hundred dollars for hit.

Speaker 30 (31:19):
Gave them, yes, one hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (31:22):
One hundred bucks. Whoa man I'd be throwing blows. I'm like, dude, look,
it's not personal. You and I are going to make
some money afterwards. We'll go out and have a nice dinner.
All right, let's just go to town.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
How much for an elbow?

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Wait? What?

Speaker 28 (31:36):
But in the new documentary, the show's top producers insists
the fights were not fake.

Speaker 2 (31:42):
You just can't fake that kind of passion.

Speaker 28 (31:45):
After Jerry Springer died from pancreatic cancer in twenty twenty three,
I spoke to former bodyguards from the show.

Speaker 31 (31:51):
Nobody, to my knowledge, no one ever got paid for
throwing a punch.

Speaker 28 (31:54):
And remember that bizarre episode where a man married his horse?

Speaker 2 (31:58):
Was that fake?

Speaker 28 (31:59):
Former producer Toby Yashimora tells us it was all true.

Speaker 2 (32:03):
I get a call in the middle of the night
from a guy who says I want to come on
the show because I left my wife and two daughters
for a Shetland pony. Guys, totally, you telling the absolute truth.
I have to be honest with you. I have that
conversation starts with your wife. Look, I've found something else.
Excuse me, who is She's gorgeous, it's long, beautiful hair,

(32:28):
it's not very tall, it's a Shetland pony. You can
never see our kids again. I can't believe that wasn't real.
You know what was real? My childhood as was yours yesterday.
Our childhood suffered a little bit because you see, one
of the greats of our childhood, and I do mean

(32:50):
one of the greats for us as kids passed away,
a man who wrote a song about a dragon, and
with his friends he sang it, and it made our
little world come alive.

Speaker 30 (33:07):
The Magic Dragon lived by.

Speaker 32 (33:12):
And Collecting of the Magic Dragon was not written as
a children's too.

Speaker 30 (33:17):
It was written as a just a song with whimsy.

Speaker 32 (33:22):
In nineteen fifty nine, when it was written at Cornell,
the most egregious thing that we did was.

Speaker 30 (33:31):
Have beer in the dorms. We didn't have an option.

Speaker 32 (33:36):
Of writing a song about a dragon with a subtext
about grasp. I assure you that within six months I
could have written such.

Speaker 30 (33:45):
A song many times. But I have a little message
for you.

Speaker 32 (33:49):
If we keep our ethic and our values strong within us,
our dragon will be safe and happen.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Peter yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary fame. All that's
left now is Paul. So normally you rob Peter to
pay Paul, but now we can't even do that, and
no he's paying.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
Mary passed away yesterday.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
But as a kid growing up, many of you listening,
you love Puff the Magic Drack and it was a
great Yippuff the Magic Dragon, live by the sea and
frolicked in the autumnists. Come on everybody, yeah, Hana Lee exactly.
This is an interesting story about this because I like

(34:31):
interesting stories. So he was going to school at Cornell
and his friend introduced him to this guy named Leonard Lipton,
and they were hanging out and Lipton wrote a poem
or typed up a poem, and he saw this poem

(34:53):
Peter did and what that ended up becoming was Puffed
the Magic Dragon. This is where it gets interesting. So
that becomes their first mega hit. He spent years trying
to find Leonard, and he finally threw an acquaintance who
knew Leonard said, Hey, Peter, Peter Palmery's trying to get

(35:15):
a hold of you. He wants to talk to you
about something. It's like, that's odd. So it gets a
hold of him and he said, look, it's your poem
that inspired me to do this, and he gave him
co writing credit and shared the royalties, which I thought, Man,
that's pretty damn cool. That is three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Shows
your Twitter. I love hearing from all of you right

(35:35):
here on the Chad Benson Show. Coming up, second hour,
more of the devastation going on in California. You guys
are just hearing this California. Southern California's on fire. Some
of the most expensive property in the world is burning down.

(35:56):
Some historic areas are burning down, and there's no water
and there's a reason for that, and it's the usual
bs that comes with California. But it is a I
think the best way to describe it is apocalyptic. So
we'll talk a little bit more about that. Bunch of
other stuff to get to. If you're missing the show,
red the podcast, It is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Fire, fire, and fire. Southern California is on fire.

Speaker 33 (37:00):
We have an extremely dangerous situation developing here in southern California.
As people are racing to evacuate their homes as a
wildfire explodes in Pacific Palisades. There was a major traffic jam,
forcing people to abandon their cars on the road and
run towards the coast for safety. In just a matter
of hours, the fire consume nearly eight hundred acres of

(37:21):
the most expensive land and property in this country, weather
conditions described as life threatening, destructive, and widespread.

Speaker 4 (37:29):
The National Weather Service warning.

Speaker 33 (37:31):
Of extremely critical fire danger as southern California experiences the
worst wind event in over a decade.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
It is awful.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
So if you don't know, unfamiliar with San Ana, wins
are brutal and they are causing hell and havoc like
you cannot believe. I mean, it is apocalyptic, and we're
going to get deeper into it throughout the show the
rest of the show today and because it's ever changing.
But you've got to realize, this is moving at a
speed that is absolutely crazy. I don't think people realize how.

Speaker 3 (38:07):
Fast fire moves. I don't.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
It is so fast, and it moves at such a
speed at such a large clip. When you toss in
the the you know, the winds, and the fact that
it can jump if you will. It is insane how
massive and big and devastating fires are, and seeing it

(38:34):
up close. A couple of years ago, went to the
Paradise fire. I'm pretty sure Anthony I went up there
and covered it. It was just it's it is terrifying,
it really is. And it's gonna get a lot worse
before it gets better, There's no doubt about that. Then
you've got I don't know, the insanity of the other

(38:54):
side of the country that's going, Oh my god, it's
gonna be cold. How cold? Is it so damn cold?
Texas gonna get a bunch of snow? Are you ready
for that? Severe weather of the freezing type rather than
the heat type, and an.

Speaker 34 (39:12):
Army of transportation workers is pulling twelve hour ships to
lay down de icing chemicals on hundreds of miles of
highways in North Texas alone, even with the best preparation.
Tony Hartzel of the Texas Department of Transportation says.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
It only takes a split second for the conditions to
change and for your car to lose control.

Speaker 34 (39:30):
Forecasts say the clear, dry conditions now are deceptives. Snow
and ice are expected to move in starting tonight.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Yes, and it's going to be if you're not prepared
for it. And I'm not just talking about you as
as a person. I'm talking about you as a city
or state. It's devastating. And throughout the Southeast they're getting
prepared for it, including North Texas. And it's gonna be cold.
So you got fire and ice going on right now

(39:59):
across the nation. Apocalyptic chad end times. Is it because
of the orbs or is it because he's back in
the White House. Yesterday, Donald Trump gave his first real
press car. He gave a press conference. Still his press

(40:20):
conference and a half that he has given since he's
become president is more than Biden.

Speaker 9 (40:24):
At a mar A Lago news conference, the president elect
was asked if he would commit to not using military
or economic coercion in attempting to gain control of Greenland
and the Panama Canal.

Speaker 2 (40:33):
No, I can't assure you on either of those two.

Speaker 9 (40:36):
Trump did rule out using military force to.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Acquire Canada, no economic force.

Speaker 9 (40:41):
He called the Canadian border an artificial line. He also
said this.

Speaker 10 (40:45):
We're going to be changing the name of the Gulf
of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
What I love is the trolling. People lose their mind
over the trolling, and can he actually do the Gulf
of America. He can't. That's something he can do. But
the Greenland thing is very interesting. But what is even
more interesting is the reaction everything from the left, especially

(41:16):
the media, is hair on fire. It is. He does
have a weird obsession with Greenland, though.

Speaker 19 (41:21):
During the first administration he's always floated this idea of
buying Greenland, and obviously it's an obsession of his. He
has his son over there. Now, Donald Trump Junior is
traveling over there with members of Trump's political and personality
and now, of course they're saying that that visit is
a personal visit, that it doesn't have to do with
anything that Trump is proposing here. At the same time,
Trump is posting on a social media that he's hearing

(41:42):
good things from over there, so surely it potentially is
more than a.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Personal trip, no is it.

Speaker 35 (41:49):
Now.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
John Fetteran, as you guys all know, is my liberal
spirit animal, and he was on Fox last night wearing
his traditional hoodie and shorts. God bless your brother, and
he laughs at this stuff because he sees the hair
on fire. I think people, you know, I think Kirsten

(42:11):
Cinema in Arizona. She felt that way. I think she
got in there and thought, man, I can't beat these
people are nuts. They just run around. Everything's everything is drama.
It's high school. And I think Vetterman's in there going,
oh my god, everything here is high school.

Speaker 36 (42:24):
There's a lot of talk about Greenland, for example, now,
and I know a lot of there's a lot of freakouts,
you know, and of course I would never support taking
it by force, but I do think it's I do
think it's a responsible conversation if they were open to
acquiring it, and you know, whether they're just buying it
out right, I mean, if anyone think that's bonkers, it's like, well,
well remember the Louisiana purchase. I think Alaska is pretty

(42:47):
pretty a great deal too, fifty million dollars, I think
it was, It was recorded, it was it was referred
to as Seward's folly, and now that was Alaska. Now,
So I mean, you know, open having all kinds of
conversations as well. And now I don't think we it's
not helpful to freak out. But some things might work out,
some may not. But that's part of ongoing dialogue. But

(43:10):
he hasn't even take office in two weeks. And you know,
we really need to pace ourselves. If we're going to
freak out over every last tweet or every last conversation
or press conference.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Well they have nothing else to do. Freaking out is fun.
You told my got a herold fire. Oh my god.
Oh that's what they love doing. I mean they are.
We just talked about Jerry Springer. Everything is Jerry Springer
to them, everything is, it's overdone, everything is.

Speaker 3 (43:37):
Oh my god, it's the craziest thing in history.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Oh, we got to Everything is a reaction and it's
big because he's evil and bad. And look what he's doing.
He's talking about this and he's gonna do that.

Speaker 3 (43:49):
Oh my god. Did you listen to the.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
Rest of the press conference. No, you just take stuff
from there and the little bits and pieces that you
think will get your tiny audience excited. How about guys
and the strip there and Israel they asked them about that.

Speaker 11 (44:09):
We want to get back those hostages for Israel and
for us. You know, we do have people that are
hostages being held. And I'll just say it again, if
this deal is not done with the people representing our Nation.
By the time I get to office, all hell is
going to break out.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Thanks, all hell is going to break out. It's pretty
straightforward right there. Look, you're going to do this or else.
It is that simple. We're going to get this done. Okay,
do you understand what is going to happen. We're going
to get this done? Three two, three, five, eight, twenty

(44:48):
four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show, is your
Twitter tweet at a text to program? Then yesterday, of course, Facebook,
Oh geez, Chad, Facebook did it. The reaction for that
is pretty hilarious as well, because it's been a nightmare
on Facebook for a long time. I am a conservatorian, right,

(45:12):
I am a live and let live kind of guy.
Lead to the right certain social issues, I'm not I
don't you live your life so long as you do
not hurt anybody else. That's always been my motto, my thing.
We have been suspended on several occasions on Facebook for
stuff that we're just we were to this day, we
were never sure why we were suspended in certain situations,
we had no idea. We had no idea why again

(45:34):
were we suspended? What did we do? And the reality
is it's time for this to happen, should have happened sooner.
Some of you didn't agree with me yesterday when I
said I don't ever think that Zuckerberg was as political

(45:55):
as people thought. I think he kind of felt that
he had to correct something that was in his fault
in twenty sixteen, so he tried to correct it in
twenty twenty, when I think he just cares about business
and doesn't want to be the referee of the world.
The reality is that this is a tradeoff.

Speaker 12 (46:12):
It means we're going.

Speaker 2 (46:13):
To catch less bad stuff.

Speaker 37 (46:14):
Will also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and
accounts that we accidentally take down.

Speaker 2 (46:20):
Which tended to be to the right kind of people.
Knew that he tend to take stuff down, and they
are going to miss some stuff. But now it's all
about community notes, things of that nature, like you see
on X where they go and they'll you know, put
the community Yeah, now that's not true, or that is true.

Speaker 18 (46:41):
The change coming just days before Donald Trump takes office.
Zuckerberg acknowledging the move was prompted in part by the election.
Metal will phase in a community note system letting users
decide which posts are misleading, a model similar to Access,
the platform run by Elon Musk.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
The move a kind of rece.

Speaker 18 (47:00):
For Zuckerberg and Facebook, which President elect Trump once called
a true enemy of the people. Zuckerberg recently traveling Tomorrow
Lago to meet Trump.

Speaker 2 (47:09):
What, yeah, he did, because you have to so, President
of the United States, you run one of those powerful
companies on the planet, You're probably gonna meet. This is
all about the bottom line. I would assume some of
it is about the bottom line, because yes.

Speaker 35 (47:23):
Critics say the change will lead to more misinformation. They
argue misleading posts are often amplified more on x, whose
approach Meta is now following. The nonprofit Common Sense Media
condemning the move, saying Mark Zuckerberg's playbook is as clear
as day. Protect Meta's bottom line and cozy up to
political leaders while leaving users to fend for themselves. Zuckerberg,

(47:44):
who was once called a true enemy of the people
by President elect Trump, recently met with Trump at mar
A Lago and added UFC CEO, and Trump allied Dana
White to Meta's board of directors.

Speaker 2 (47:57):
Ooh, he's doing that because he wants to fight in
the UFC. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not kidding,
So I put data on there, hoping that data would
give them a shot. I just want one title shot.
Come on, Dana, I put you on the board. It's
the least you can do. Three two, three, five, eight,
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Right there.

Speaker 2 (49:25):
Devastating wildfires. We're going to talk about that little woke
stuff coming up as well some of your emails and text.
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Chad Benson.

Speaker 6 (49:49):
Traffic is an absolute standstill as people are using all lanes,
even going the wrong way to try to get out
of Pacific Palisades, and fire engines are stuck on able
to get in. Fire has been raging around Mo time
million dollar homes. LA Fire Captain Eric Scott says firefighters
have gone in to rescue some people who could not
get out.

Speaker 31 (50:06):
Yes, there were some people that needed assistance and we
expect that to continue.

Speaker 6 (50:11):
The strong Santa Ana wins pushing the flames are expected
to last for days.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
Yeah, the sant Ana Wins, for those of you around
the country don't know what they are. They are awful.
They are they are horrible. So what happens with the
sant Ana Wins? You get like the high pressure. That's
all the high pressure low pressure. But essentially what happens
is these are dry, nasty winds that come from the
high pressure, and because of the mountains, it's almost like

(50:38):
a you know, like to think of a roller coaster,
and they pick up steam and they go into the
canyons and they take off and they can last for
days and I'm talking days, and it is awful.

Speaker 3 (50:50):
And what that does is it fuels the fire, just
like you.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
Know, if you're making a little fire and you blow
on it, it gives it the oxygen boom away it
goes and it is nasty and it's sad watching. By
the way, every home in southern California's basically get multimillion
dollar homes, so that really is not the calt but
these are really legitimately million dollar homes and watching places
that I grew up hung out a lot there. Buddy

(51:16):
Tony used to hang out all the time, Pacific Palisades.
But I took Jack to hockey tournament there several months ago.
Where this has burned down. I mean it is ferocious
and one of the big issues no water, No water.

Speaker 3 (51:36):
In the hydrants. No water.

Speaker 7 (51:39):
My heart throws out obviously that the people at their homes,
and I'm watching the small businesses around us go up
in plains. You know, this is people's wife woods. So
it's devastating. But what is most concerning to me is
our first responders, in our firefighters. There's no water in
the Pala States. There's no water coming out of a
fire hydrant. This is an absolute mismanagement fighters city, not

(52:03):
the firefighter's fall, but it's further city. And I'm going
to be very honest. We've got a mayor that's out
of the country, and we've got a city that's burning,
and there's no resources to put out fires. So it
looks like we're in a third world country.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
Here, Rick Kruser right there three two, three, five, three eight,
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your Instagram, all of the other things right here on
the Chad Benson Show. And the fact that we have
no water in certain areas of one of the greatest
cities on the planet is very third world.

Speaker 3 (52:36):
Meanwhile, this is a bad idea.

Speaker 37 (52:39):
A revolutionary mode of transportation is starting to take off.
They're known as electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft or
ev talls and they could be the future of taxis.
They lift off the ground like helicopters and fly like
planes that speeds up to two hundred miles per hour.

Speaker 2 (52:55):
There's such a new concept.

Speaker 37 (52:56):
They prompted the FAA to create a whole new category
of aircraft, a step that hasn't taken since civilian helicopters
were introduced in the nineteen forties.

Speaker 2 (53:05):
I'm gonna say absolutely hard no on people flying above me. Right,
I've seen the way you drive on the ground. I
don't think you should be above the ground in any
kind of vehicle where you're piloting it.

Speaker 31 (53:22):
We see this as a new class of transportation, as
a first step in moving into the skies for our
daily transportation. No, initially we will be serving routes, high
density routes like city centers to airports.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Well, we'll see how that goes, anyone, Yeah, I didn't
think so. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four
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Speaker 3 (53:53):
And I do mean.

Speaker 2 (53:54):
Crazy because apparently that's the world we live in today.
A lot of other stuff as well. Make sure you
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Speaker 3 (54:55):
Is on fire.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
California. Ya his own fire. If you're not paying attention,
California is on fire.

Speaker 21 (55:06):
It's going from bad to worse. And let me explain why.
Just take a look here. We're talking about near hurricane
force winds taking all of these embers and then pushing
them away, and those are sparking new fires. And to
give you an idea of where we are, the beach
is only a few hundred yards of that away, about
a mile that away. These are multimillion dollar homes that

(55:29):
are going up in flames. We go from home to
home and take a look just over here, go this
way just a little bit. I mean, this will give
you an idea of what it looks like from our perspective.
Everywhere we look. Everywhere we look, you're seeing something like
this and the relentless wind. When you talk to some

(55:51):
of these officials, it's not gonna let up.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
And that's what.

Speaker 21 (55:56):
Is really scary.

Speaker 3 (55:59):
It should be.

Speaker 2 (56:00):
And this guy's got the full outfit on right, the
firefighter outfit, and he says, sell service barely works there.
It's sunny, except it looks like it's pitch black and foggy.
It is devastating to see what's going on in southern California.
You've been covering it throughout the day and throw the

(56:21):
stations you're listening out here, you guys are going to
hear about it. And then on the other side, you've
got the big freeze going on throughout the southeast, the northeast,
and everywhere in between. So let's just say that nature
is doing what nature does and it can mess you up.
So be careful out there. Speaking of being careful, would
you get in a car without a driver? Would you?

Speaker 3 (56:43):
This was always the plan.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
I know it's new for some people, but if you
go back and look, especially with Uber, this was always
the plan to one day have driverless taxis.

Speaker 39 (56:56):
Two popular rights your companies are now preparing to offer
a new feature, driverless taxis. The two companies are working
right now to train staff on how to maintain the
autonomous vehicles in becoming Once customers in Atlanta and Austin,
Texas will be able to hail one of these taxis
sance driver.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
Through the app, sans driver through the app, taxis without people.

Speaker 3 (57:21):
Would you do it?

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Could you let yourself go and get in the vehicle
and let it drive.

Speaker 40 (57:30):
I've only had positive experiences in a Waimo, but I've
reported multiple times on issues with driverless vehicles, and while
vandals and criminals are factors, the more common problems have
involved glitches and technical issues, which drives home the fact
that our driverless future is still evolving. In at least

(57:52):
two markets, residenta who live near Waimo depots have complained
about cars honking incess at each other when parking for
the night. Before Cruz folded and left the game, activists
had targeted those robotaxis with a cone campaign disabling sensors
with traffic cones to disrupt the industry, and in a

(58:14):
new incident just recently, a man heading to the Phoenix
Airport literally went in circles due to a Weaimo glitch,
and he says things got worse as he dealt with
customer service, which was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
You guys want to hear that we have some of that.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Thanks Mark Johns. Why has this happening to me? On
a Monday.

Speaker 1 (58:32):
I'm in a Weimo car to writer support.

Speaker 5 (58:34):
This may be recorded for quality assurance.

Speaker 40 (58:37):
This car?

Speaker 3 (58:37):
Is this going in circles?

Speaker 20 (58:39):
Mike Johns recorded this video from the backseat of a
Waimo driverless ride share vehicle when he says it began
to drive erratically. Johns was in Scottsdale, Arizona, and ordered
the self driving car to take him to the airport
when the video shows it started driving in circles.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Couldn't happen to me? And Oh, it did happen to me?

Speaker 17 (58:58):
Is this a prank at fourth loop?

Speaker 6 (59:00):
Oh?

Speaker 17 (59:01):
We got a problems just going to circles.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
So he's got to call customer service while he's in
the back of the car, so I end up hearing
them contact me in the car.

Speaker 41 (59:12):
Either, Mike is a scab. I'm calling from waiting support.
I'm just calling because I received a notification at your
car might be experiencing some routing issue. Please stare at
me while I am.

Speaker 42 (59:22):
Yeah, I got a flight to catch. Why is this
thing going in a circle. I'm getting dizzy. It's look
at what it's doing.

Speaker 41 (59:28):
I understand. I'm really really sorry, Mike. We're currently working
with a situation of a vehicle. Is it circling around
a parking lot?

Speaker 42 (59:34):
Run, it's circling around a parking lot. I got my
seatbelt on, I can't get out the car.

Speaker 6 (59:39):
What's going on?

Speaker 42 (59:40):
I feel like I'm in the movie.

Speaker 2 (59:42):
Come, it's a little funny. Oh he's only five minutes late.
That being said, this was always the plan driverless vehicles.
It's going to be the same way that's coming when
it comes to you know, moving freight. It's gonna be
driverless vehicles. They're already trying it. We're gonna have big

(01:00:04):
eighteen wheelers, right, the big ones out there with no drivers.
Always the plan for some of these companies to get
there way. Most interesting having been out in Arizona and
if we still a house there and stuff, you'll see
them zipping around and there's nobody in it, and it's
an odd thing. Or there's one person in the passenger seat,

(01:00:25):
but there. I mean, it's it's a computer, because that's
a lot of what this thing is. Now. Your car
is not a car anymore. If you bought anything semi new,
your car is not a car. It's a computer with wheels.
But would you do it? Here's the other.

Speaker 3 (01:00:41):
Thing, it's a computer, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
One of the things they're talking about is the guy
who killed himself in Las Vegas. How much data they
had of him, including cameras in the car, things of
that nature. Do you want your car spying on you?
How much data do you want to give your vehicle? Oh,
I never thought of that.

Speaker 40 (01:01:04):
Since debuting here in Los Angeles last year, weimos are
now pretty common sight, mixing in with La traffic, largely
without incident, as we are rolling right now. Well, now
Uber and Lyft are hailing driverlests tax since the right
sharing market continues to grow. Actually, and for now, the

(01:01:27):
novelty factor that's a big one. A large share of
weimo rides in La San Francisco and other cities. They're
hailed by tourists who want to experience this technology for themselves.
Now weimo is not about half a million rides a
month in California. So now, both Uber and Lyft they
are developing robotaxi partnerships to offer driverlest rides in the

(01:01:51):
future and get a cut from those fares.

Speaker 2 (01:01:54):
Which is interesting and it's funny that people want to
go places just so they can drive around in a
car that doesn't have anybody driving the car.

Speaker 3 (01:02:02):
I've been in them. They're pretty cool.

Speaker 42 (01:02:03):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:02:04):
I don't I have zero problem with it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:05):
I don't have any I don't have I'll zip around.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
I got no problem what I could sit back here
and I'm to do anything. Sounds good to me.

Speaker 2 (01:02:15):
And mostly because all that driving I did over the
last several years was exhausting. A couple of years ago,
I got a truck from one of the dealerships out there.
They said, hey, try this thing for you know, for
a month, and I said, okay, and I will tell
you this right now. It had driverless you can plug
it in and driver less as one of those trucks
costs like one hundred twenty one hundred and thirty grand whatever.

(01:02:36):
It's like a house payment. It was amazing, though, I'm like, dude, dude, dude,
I don't have to do anything. It does its own thing.
It zips around. It was incredible.

Speaker 40 (01:02:45):
The Uber option that's going to debut soon in Austin
and Atlanta now after unveiling its own futuristic line, Tesla
expected to join the robotaxi market in the next few
years and under test right now in San Francisco.

Speaker 4 (01:03:02):
An Amazon offering called Zeus.

Speaker 40 (01:03:05):
This is a more spacious autonomous ride hail service with
no steering wheel or controls.

Speaker 1 (01:03:12):
The company aims to begin offering service.

Speaker 40 (01:03:14):
Later this year, and while more driverlest vehicles are on
the roadways now, no one expecting a fully autonomous ride
share future anytime soon. In fact, the CEO of Uber
predicts that in a decade though, the mix between regular
and driver lists could be about fifty to fifty.

Speaker 3 (01:03:35):
I think that is.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
It's definitely coming, there's no doubt, especially in bigger cities.
Maybe not obviously small medium sized cities, but in bigger
cities you're going to see that. In a lot of places.
You will, and it's a novelty at first, but after
a while it's just not a big deal. Although I
wouldn't want to go in circles, that would see seem
to be a little bit more frustrating because that is

(01:03:58):
the one thing that you've got to call customer service. Well,
they noticed that guy going in circles. Hey, we notice
you're going in circles. Yeah, it's not supposed to do that.
How does it stop? We'll find out it's going to
be surprised to all of us. But we're gonna watch
it on the app. Speaking of technology, a judge goes

(01:04:18):
VR to get a different perspective.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Check this out, brower.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
Judge peered through a virtual reality headset.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
These people are coming into his space, right.

Speaker 43 (01:04:29):
And he's backing up and so it is not to
be injured like his wife as we back up and
are being approached and it's like a chest to chess
encounter no matter where you look.

Speaker 5 (01:04:40):
That based on his review of depositions, a site visit,
and sworn witness statements to police.

Speaker 43 (01:04:45):
Now this is where the base was broken from the
chair that had been thrown previous.

Speaker 8 (01:04:49):
When what is this is actually a photograph from one.

Speaker 43 (01:04:52):
Of the videos, right, Yes, that's correct, and it's there's
the names.

Speaker 8 (01:04:57):
And the purpose of putting in this this photograph is
to show what connection to this animation.

Speaker 2 (01:05:03):
That's correct, such a trip. So he's got the full
VR goggles. He's sitting there in his judge outfit. They're
in the courtroom. It's this is a standard ground trial
with I think somebody killed and they've recreated like the
dance floor and all of the stuff because it was
a wedding and it's a trip like this is the

(01:05:25):
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Speaker 25 (01:07:17):
Conservatives and liberals in Canada are uniting to clap back
against Donald Trump's suggestion that Canada could be the fifty
first state of the United States. Outgoing Prime Minister and
liberal had Justin Trudeau said that there is no way
in hell Canada will ever be the fifty first state
of the United States. Meanwhile, the head of the Conservative
Party in Canada, Pierre Pauliver has also said that Canada

(01:07:37):
will not be the fifty first state of the United States.
The one thing that has united Canadian is Donald Trump
in his suggestion that Canada could somehow become the fifty
first state of the United States through economic pressure and
tariffs slash sanctions that Trump would try to impose on Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:08:03):
I gotta be honest, I like O Canada a lot.
How about some more of out Canada?

Speaker 3 (01:08:10):
Shall we.

Speaker 44 (01:08:13):
Say?

Speaker 15 (01:08:19):
Sun fee stand done?

Speaker 2 (01:08:27):
God bring heatrolls them so amazing. I tweeted something last night.

(01:08:51):
If you want, you should go look at It's just
the picture, you know, and it just he's just the
greatest troll of He loves it. And it's what people
on the left don't understand. And you guys got to
get this, please, I implore you stop losing your blanking
minds when he does something ridiculous, Laugh at it and

(01:09:14):
move on, or you're giving into a child.

Speaker 3 (01:09:20):
He wants you to react and he's a master at it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:23):
So the Liberal Party in Canada tweets out not the
United States, that was Canada, right, and then in black
it says united States. So red it says not the
United States, and then Trump tweets out North America in red,
white and blue like the flag. It's just he loves it,
and they just react because that's what they do. Don't

(01:09:45):
give in to him, That's what I'm saying. But if
we are to make them not just the top hat
of America but part of America, here's a question what
anthem do we go with? And I'm gonna say this
star Spangled banners not a great anthem, hard to sing.

(01:10:05):
It's a poem Like I've always thought, America the Beautiful
should be the anthem.

Speaker 3 (01:10:11):
Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
But then if we bring them in, well they've got
their anthem and we've got our anthem. What do we do?
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
I just don't know. Oh, we've got breaking news, breaking news.

Speaker 2 (01:10:23):
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Speaker 45 (01:10:27):
Yummy sought after Girl Scout cookies are back. The organization
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it will phase out two popular cookie flavors. YEP, it's
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Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
Are you ready for that? Are you ready to be
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go to? Are you ready for that? I know we
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because they got to do cash.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
There's no, there's no, we don't do cash.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
And a great guy. Yeah, you walk in the store,
Its like I don't have any cash. And by the way,
that doesn't even work anymore because they all have apps.
You can't even get away with that. Oh my god.
And I know I'm gonna be hit up for it,
and I'm gonna be like no, and then okay, But
I'll tell you what. I'd rather be hitting for that
than my son playing hockey. And he's like, dad, any
of their twelve million dollars to play ice hockey. I'm

(01:11:41):
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of stuff to get to. Obviously, what's going on in
southern California is absolutely apocalyptic and devastating.

Speaker 32 (01:12:27):
When you see the ocean front come in from the ocean,
you'll see the activity pick up.

Speaker 3 (01:12:33):
Fires are raging.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
God knows how many homes have been destroyed, and it's
going to get a lot worse before it gets better.
We're going to talk about that Jimmy Carter Trump yesterday
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the fires devastating in southern California. This is the Chat
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Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
This is the Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
We are confirming now a nature will always mesh you up,
as you guys know. And b there is now a
fourth fire in southern California and it is getting worse.
Hell on Earth is what it's being described, and it
is moving fast.

Speaker 33 (01:13:48):
We have an extremely dangerous situation developing here in southern
California as people are racing to evacuate their homes as
a wildfire explodes in Pacific Palisades. There was a major
traffic jam, forcing people to abandon their cars on the
road and run.

Speaker 4 (01:14:03):
Toward the coast for safety.

Speaker 33 (01:14:05):
In just a matter of hours, the fire consumed nearly
eight hundred acres of the most expensive land and property
in this country. Weather conditions described as life threatening, destructive,
and widespread.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
The National Weather Service warning.

Speaker 33 (01:14:19):
Of extremely critical fire danger as southern California experiences the
worst wind event in over a decade.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
They're called the Santa Anas and they are absolutely awful.

Speaker 6 (01:14:34):
This is really all about the wind, the extreme Santa
Ana winds that are blowing right now. There was one
wind gust recorded at ninety nine miles an hour overnight,
the wind was rattling windows. You could hear it against walls.
It was just so strong, almost like a freight train sound.
I mean, that's a cliche. That's kind of what it
sounded like, just blowing through areas. It is this wind

(01:14:58):
that is pushing the three large wild including the one
in front of me right now where there are flames
moving up above homes.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
And Alex is actually surrounded by wildfires when I last check,
but now there's four. So this is the way the
San Anas. So you get that high pressure. They come
and they blow out through the desert. But what ends
up happening is because of the topography that is the
ups and the downs, the mountains, the hills and all
of that stuff of California. They come down over the
mountains and shoot down through the canon. Think of it

(01:15:28):
as something akin to a roller coaster, and picks.

Speaker 3 (01:15:33):
Up steam and they can last.

Speaker 2 (01:15:35):
On average, they're about three days, and they're just awful
and they're dry and they're hot. The Debi winds we
call them in southern California, the Ola.

Speaker 46 (01:15:47):
The Ruin.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
They've lasted as long as fourteen days, and they expect
this one to continue to go which is making it
absolutely devastating.

Speaker 3 (01:15:58):
When it comes to.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
With these fires, because they can turn in an instant,
and how fast they're burning. It's it's when you hear
how fast. I don't think people realize we touched on
a little bit last hour, how fast these things can
gobble stuff up.

Speaker 13 (01:16:21):
Over fifty thousand people forced to evacuate their homes, fleeing
for their lives as fires burned across La County. Multimillion
dollar homes incinerated one after the other. The largest fire
tearing through the enclave of Pacific Palisades, one of the
wealthiest in the country. It was fueled by historic winds,
burning at a rate of five football fields permitted, gutting

(01:16:44):
the Palisades high End downtown area.

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
Five football fields a minute.

Speaker 2 (01:16:51):
And unlike a lot of the other stuff in the
past when it comes to fires, when you hear wildfire,
you think it's out in the middle of like you know,
a mountainous area where it's you know, sparse homes and
you know it's there's not a lot of people. This
is in the middle of the most populated place in

(01:17:12):
southern California, Pacific Palisades Woodland Hills area into long.

Speaker 3 (01:17:17):
I mean, we're talking about it the place.

Speaker 2 (01:17:21):
This is urban sprawl, this is not in the middle
of nowhere. And then you've got the fact that there
are no working hydrants in some of these places, I repeat,
no working hydrants, which is crazy. So we're gonna be

(01:17:42):
watching this the rest of the day and probably for
the next couple of days, because they're saying it could
be the rest of the day into tomorrow before they
get any of it contained, which is era fighting. Meanwhile,
Donald Trump yesterday at mar A Lago gave us first
real press conference since becoming president elect. And you know,

(01:18:05):
he held court, lots of stuff. And here's the thing, he
doesn't shy away. You ask him a question, he's going
to tell you it. It's the reaction of people afterwards.
It always makes me laugh. A lot of people freak
it out. Of course, lots of talk about Canada, lots
of talk about Greenland.

Speaker 19 (01:18:22):
During the first administration, he's always floated this idea of
buying Greenland, and obviously it's an obsession of his. He
has his son over there now, Donald Trump Junior is
traveling over there with members of Trump's political and personal team. Now,
of course they're saying that that visit is a personal visit,
that it doesn't have to do with anything that Trump
is proposing here. At the same time, Trump is posting
on a social media that he's hearing good things from

(01:18:45):
over there, so surely it potentially is more than a
personal trip.

Speaker 3 (01:18:50):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
Is he purchasing it? What would it cost us? Watching
people lose their mind over though it's pretty fun. It
is because it's all about reaction, because he's that's the
greatest troll on the planet. Last night, Lonely Scott had
to battle with all the CNN folks about I can't
believe it. He'd want to buy something, Diz. He's insane.
He's already starting a wardah blah blah blah blah.

Speaker 12 (01:19:12):
There argus interest in Greenland. They have rare roath minerals.
We already have some kind of space facility there, and
it would help fortify us against the Russians. The Panama
Canal is, of course of interest when you consider the
Chinese incursions and influence in this hemisphere. What Donald Trump
is saying to the world is we are not a
shrinking violet anymore. We are the United States of America.
We are the pre eminent superpower, and reporters keep asking

(01:19:34):
him to rule things out and take things off the table,
and it would be the height of stupidity to do
so now or to anything else before he takes office.
Why would he tell the rest of the world what
he may or remain neuter?

Speaker 2 (01:19:45):
I agree, Why would you tell the world that?

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Why would you go out and tell the world.

Speaker 2 (01:19:49):
All right, here's all the things I'm not going to do,
So you guys do the opposite. What about Canada, cheed?
Is he going to invade Canada? That's the big question?
Is he going to invade Canada?

Speaker 47 (01:19:58):
Were under the assumption serious about making Canada fifty first
state in the United States? The leader of the Conservative
Party in Canada said a hundred no circumstances or will
ever be the fifty first problem.

Speaker 2 (01:20:09):
Maybe he won't win, but maybe he will.

Speaker 47 (01:20:11):
I don't want to you, it suggested, listen, I don't
your way to spend servo off as your SI. You're
considering military force to acquire Hannam in Greenland? Are you
also considering a military force to annex and.

Speaker 11 (01:20:23):
Acquire no economic force?

Speaker 2 (01:20:26):
Economic force to grab our state fifty first state? That
would be I don't know how many states do you
think we get out of that? Because you're not going
to have Canada as a singular state. Alaska too, North Montana,
North Wyoming. So what I don't know, like, do you

(01:20:49):
break it up into fours? How's that work? Are we
going to go up to like fifty five? It's fifty
five just right there. It's not going to happen now,
it's not gonna happen. He likes it, though he loves
it because people are talking about it. People are talking
about what about Panama?

Speaker 8 (01:21:05):
Can you assure the world that as you try to
get control of these areas you are not going to
use military or economic coors?

Speaker 11 (01:21:16):
No, I can't assure you. You're talking about Panama and Greenland. No,
I can't assure you on either of those two. But
I can say this, we need them for economic security.
The Panama Canal was built for a military. It might
be that he'll have to do something. Look, the Panama
Canal is vital to our country.

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
It's being operated by China.

Speaker 11 (01:21:41):
China, and we gave the Panama Canal to Panama.

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
We didn't give it to China, and I've got no
problem with that. China is in it to win it.
And the sooner that you people realize that, the better,
because several of you reach out to me, he's going
to do this, and he's going to do that. You
know what, understand who you're dealing with. China is not

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here to play, and.

Speaker 3 (01:22:09):
That's a no go for us. Sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
And if Panama is going to allow China to run
rough shot and to have way more control, no, no
can do it. You think that allowed us to do
any of that over there? No, And somehow we're supposed
to go, Oh, it's okay, we'll do that'll be fined.

Speaker 40 (01:22:30):
Eh.

Speaker 7 (01:22:32):
Wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Yesterday he's beaking of President Jimmy Carter in DC, which
I find weird, watched over.

Speaker 9 (01:22:41):
By a military honor guard. The body of a former
president will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Carter's
casket will be placed on the Lincoln Catafalk, the wooden,
black cloth covered funeral beer that was built after Abraham
Lincoln's assassination in eighteen sixty five. Foreign ambassadors, Supreme Court justices,
administration officials, and members of Congress. We'll first pay their respects,

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and then through Thursday morning, everyday Americans can line up
with the Capitol to do the same.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
And I'm saying this, why Carter aside, because you can't like,
I'm not gonna be sg. He lived to be one hundred.
He lived a great life. He was a peanut farmer,
a governor, president, he you know, got the Nobel Pea.
But people love him whatever, all right, Why it's weird.

(01:23:33):
Why do I want to go and see a casket
with maybe somebody. There's no consurances anybody's in there that
just may be the one he's going to be buried in.

Speaker 3 (01:23:49):
So he dies in Georgia, you fly him to DC.

Speaker 2 (01:23:52):
You give him the full honors, you know, right, and
he's got the thing that he gets pulled on and
the horses in the military. And then he goes and
he lies in state in the rotunda. And then you
can walk by and look at the cat. It's not
a sea through casket. He's not posing. You don't get

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take any selfies. Oh now you're doing it. It's just
a weird thing. And as I said yesterday, I had
to wait in line in the seventies to get gas
with my family. I have to wait in line to
see you in your casket, if you're even in there.
It's just an odd thing. Sorry, it's nothing against the man.

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I just think the whole thing itself is weird. Three two,
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Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending James.

Speaker 19 (01:26:43):
Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sera.

Speaker 2 (01:26:52):
Jump what trupping? That's fine up trending on the end
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Pacific Palisades. Just ferocious. So far what thirty plus thousand
people have been evacuated, But that's going to go up. Russia,
Ukraine war, Greenland will we own Greenland. I don't know
NFL playoffs. Jimmy Carter. No, I'm not going to say
anything more about how silly it is that they've basically

(01:27:36):
flown him from Georgia where he died, to Washington, DC,
dragged him to the street, put him in a rotunda
so people go walk by him inside of a box.

Speaker 3 (01:27:48):
I find it weird. Sorry, not sorry.

Speaker 2 (01:27:51):
Steve Gutenberg got a Steve Gutenberg Actor Police Academy helping
people out there in the magical world of Lass on Fire.
It's on Fire Friends held at Google Pacific Palisades Fire
at number one, Gulf of America. Trump's renamed it Girl
Scout Cookies. They retired too, they did, they did. They

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were retired, not one but two. Peter Yarrow we talked
about earlier of the Puff the Magic Dragon fame. So
all that's left is Paul now, so we can no
longer say we're robin Peter to pay Paul, because Paul
is all that's left. Greenland trending, Lincoln Riley act Wesley Huff.

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If you don't who Wesley Huff is, he is a Canadian,
you know, but he is a Christian. Biblical an ancient
text historian and he was on yesterday with Joe Rogan
and it was really interesting, very very interesting. You need
to check it out if you're interested in that kind

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Why is Ghana trending? Well, it's pretty simple. The Mayor
of Los Angeles is out of the country in Ghana,
that is why. And there's no water in a lot
of places, so the hydrants are being used.

Speaker 28 (01:29:31):
I described photo albums, that kind of stuff. Anything important,
maybe just some clothes, you know, to prepare. I have
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out back as well.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
Just in case the zombies.

Speaker 2 (01:29:43):
You never know, So I'm just ready to leave whenever,
Like if I wake up in the middle of the
night and something has jumped over towards my side, I'm
just ready to get in the car and leave. It
is uh And by the way, the area where some
of the area where it's at. It's like the most amazing,
incredible area Pacific Palisades is.

Speaker 3 (01:30:03):
It's this little enclave that's.

Speaker 2 (01:30:05):
Not quite La but it's not Orange County and it's
on the beach and it's not Malibu.

Speaker 3 (01:30:12):
It's just awesome and nature.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
Kids talk about it, right, Nature will mess you up.
And nature with the Santa Ana Wins if you're unfamiliar
with them. These are winds that come and they bring
with them hell in southern California, and oh, just it is.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
It is ugly indeed.

Speaker 2 (01:30:33):
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Speaker 3 (01:30:49):
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Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
It is a disaster movie in southern California. Fires raging
everywhere and the fire department doesn't have a lot to
work with because there's no water in certain areas. Wait

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what yeah, they go to the to the fire hydrant.
There's no water. That's not a good thing to have.
You say, where's the water? Ah, funny story, climate change
and so no, excuse me.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
This is Rick Carusoe.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
He wanted to be mayor of Los Angeles, but people
in La are idiots, so they said, hey, weish put
Karen Bass in charge because she's been a career politician
that has ruined the city, so why not let her
finish it off. And she's also not in the country.
She should be as soon. She's in Ghana. She was
there for a trip. I don't blame her for that.
Senator earlier continued to say this, I don't blame her
for that. You do this when you're mayor's and you

(01:32:21):
run certain things, you have a chance to go do
a diplomatic thing and go say, oh we should we
should have community situations where we do stuff and we
could learn from you.

Speaker 3 (01:32:29):
You can learn.

Speaker 2 (01:32:30):
Yeah, that's fine, but your city is burning right now
and they have no water.

Speaker 7 (01:32:36):
My heart goes out obviously to the people at their homes,
and I'm watching the small businesses around us go up
in plains. You know, this is people's livelihoods, so it's devastating. Well,
what is most concerning to me is our first responders,
in our firefighters. There's no water in the Palace States.
There's no water coming out of a fire hyde. This

(01:32:57):
is an absolute mismanagement, not the firefighter's fault. But it's
in the city. And I'm going to be very honest.
We've got a mayor that's out of the country, and
we've got a city that's burning, and there's no resources
to put out a fire. So it looks like we're
in a third world country here.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
Indeed, as one person puts it, apocalyptic.

Speaker 13 (01:33:15):
Firefighters attacking the more than twenty nine hundred acre wildfire
from the ground and the air, but the fire exploding
everywhere seemingly at once. A Santa Ana wintervent the National
Weather Service called the worst in over a decade. Turbo
charging the fire and that wildfire sparing no one, no
vehicle or structure safe across Los Angeles County, home to

(01:33:36):
ten million people, just frightening.

Speaker 2 (01:33:41):
So I'm sure for the next couple of days this
is going to be a big story. And again, it's
a very urban, suburban area. This is in the heart
of you know, Los Angeles, the surrounding area. It's urban sprawl.
This isn't in the woods. This isn't one of those
things where it's like, you know, the Paradise Fire was
where it was pretty remote. This is in the part
of southern California, and it is tell you what, it's

(01:34:06):
terri because I have friends there, I have family in
around there, and they're all fine, but.

Speaker 3 (01:34:11):
They said, you can see the smoke and everything.

Speaker 2 (01:34:13):
And if you've never seen anything like that, there's a
difference between a house fire, which we all know could
be big and oh, and something like this the true
apocalyptic nature of And I go back to this when
Antony and I went up to the Paradise Fire in
northern California and we went over the bridge, so you know,

(01:34:35):
through San Francisco, we're going over the bridge and as
we go over the bridge, there's a there's a decent
sized mountain there, you know, a couple of fifteen hundred
two thousand feet, but there's a plume of smoke. It's
like a nuclear bomb had gone off that was coming over.

Speaker 3 (01:34:49):
So it's so picture.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
Everything around it is sunshine and blue except for this
giant plume of smoke about two miles wide, god knows
how many, you know, several miles high and it was
crazy because you could also see the fire and the
hue of the orange coming off the mountains, and you're.

Speaker 3 (01:35:09):
Like, what the hell.

Speaker 2 (01:35:11):
And then when you get into a certain area you
are you see the fire, you don't realize how hot
it is because it's you can feel the heat coming
off some of these like the mountains and stuff. For
it was just it was insane. It was truly just
mind boggling. Speaking of mind boggling, now, if you're aware

(01:35:33):
of this, Facebook made a move yesterday that's got the
people on the left losing their minds.

Speaker 18 (01:35:39):
The change coming just days before Donald Trump takes office,
Zuckerberg acknowledging the move was prompted in part by the election.
Metow will phase in a community note system letting users
decide which posts are misleading, a model similar to Exits,
the platform run by Elon Musk. The move a kind
of reset for Zuckerberg and Facebook, which President elect Trump

(01:36:00):
once called a true enemy of the people. Zuckerberg recently
traveling tomorrow lago to meet Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:36:06):
So I took with him Dana White. So he's made
this switch. And when the switch is the way that
they're going to do things, which is they're gonna have
community notes now like X.

Speaker 3 (01:36:18):
Has, So what is that supposed to mean?

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
It's it's no more than that community notes. You go,
you look and you're like, okay, so and says put
a note here that this is wrong or it's just
it got to the point where can we all just
agree it was insane. You put something up and you're like, well, uh, it.

Speaker 3 (01:36:39):
Got pulled down. Why do you get pulled down?

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
I don't know. Well, I mean you don't know. I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:36:44):
They said this.

Speaker 2 (01:36:45):
They got rid of the third party fact checkers, which
were very biased.

Speaker 35 (01:36:50):
Facebook's parent company announcing it's eliminating its third party fact
checking program, which was in place to fight misinformation.

Speaker 2 (01:36:58):
We've reached a point where it's just many mistakes in
too much censorship.

Speaker 35 (01:37:02):
CEO Mark Zuckerberg saying fact checkers have become too politically
biased and will be replaced with a community note system
similar to the one used by Elon Musk's company X,
where users decide what posts are misleading.

Speaker 2 (01:37:16):
There you go, so they gonna make that change community post.
But this is going to cause hell and craziness and chaos.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (01:37:29):
It's not Joy Reid losing her mind. Though, and I
want you to listen to what Joey. First of all,
somebody said to me as they send me an email,
and I said, oh, she's awful. I said, she's comedy gold,
kind of like Sunny hosting. They're comedy Gold. I don't
want it to go anywhere. They're comedy gold because they
say the most ridiculous things. January sixth was just like
the Holocaust?

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
What just say that out loud?

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Don't don't talk, don't don't You're embarrassing yourself, Joy Reid.
I don't know why conservatives are celebrating this.

Speaker 3 (01:38:00):
What do you need to be fact checked for?

Speaker 44 (01:38:04):
Why we're conservatives think fact checking is biased against them?
I mean, what are you sharing if you keep getting
fact checked for false information?

Speaker 2 (01:38:13):
Think about it?

Speaker 44 (01:38:15):
What were conservatives sharing on meta that was getting flagged
so much for their spreading false information? And why were
they so eager? And why are Republicans in general so
eager to end the idea of fact checking? What are
they trying to share? What is the motivation for not
wanting it to be fact check.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
I'm great with fact checking. Here's my issue. Who gets
to be the fact checker? Out of curiosity? Because let's
not forget what was fact check real stories that turned
out to be what true, that were flagged and taken down,
Hunter Biden laptop mask, you know, all the stuff. When

(01:38:57):
it came to COVID, it all works. You get a shot,
you're never going to get it again. I mean, all
that maloney. It was out there. So the reality is
fact checking is great as long as it's truly unbiased.
But if we're gonna have a biases, well then I

(01:39:18):
want to be the one that fact checked my stuff. Ah.
And that's what was going on with the left, even
stuff that was true, so it would be true and
it would be verified from every place, but there may
be a keyword in there and they say, well this

(01:39:39):
is false, and you're like, and then they had these
third party and you would challenge it, and then you
go to the third party and half the time they're like,
we never even heard it, what are you talking about?
So he got out of that business as a smart
thing for him to do.

Speaker 29 (01:39:55):
It gets in this broader sense that when people like Zucker,
Elon Musk or mars Erberg talk about free speech, everybody
wants free speech, but it oftentimes seems that these tech
CEOs actually are favoring or preferring a certain kind of speech. Right,
they're favoring their own speech or their own political preferences
and not the actual entire user or the community's speech.

(01:40:17):
You know, the changes announced by Meta today are very
much a MAGA makeover of pro Trump makeover, and that's
going to win Medico conservative users, but it may repel
some liberals. That's the same thing we've seen happen on
Elon Musk's X. He's turned into more of a right
wing platform where he's pro free speech when it's really
pro Musk or pro Trump speech.

Speaker 2 (01:40:38):
Some of that true about Musk because he has shut
some stuff down. I'm not going to pretend that he hasn't.
But it's way more open and free than it was before.
And you don't have to worry they're getting kicked off
there because you said something that somebody else found super

(01:41:01):
offensive and then they'd flag you and then away you
went and you were suspended or they took your count down.
Let people decide what is best for them. Let people
decide if this story is true or this story isn't true.
And if you're really curious, which all of you should

(01:41:22):
be you'll do your homework if you care to know
more about the subject. It's that simple. If you're curious
about something and you find something interesting and you think, well,
I don't know if that's true or not, well you
know what the best thing to do from there is
when you see it on the old Twitter and you think, WHOA,
I agree with that, but I'm not sure if that's real.

Speaker 3 (01:41:46):
There's a whole.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Computer system that can help you find a lot of
those answers. But that's if you're curious. A lot of
people they're not curious enough. They want affirmation on information.
Thereby they don't want them challenges, so they move on
with their life. Okay, well again, I'd like to think
that my audience is a little bit more open minded,
free your thinking. You want to find out what the

(01:42:10):
truth is, you'll go search it out yourself. But I
want to make that decision for me. I don't need
some third party and some algorithm to try to protect me.

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Serving up talk radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (01:43:53):
It's Chad Benson for most of.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
You, and then around my ages, a little bit younger,
a little bit older. Yesterday we lost somebody. It was
a bit of a legend for us as children. Peter
Yarrow died and you're saying yourself, who the hell's Peter Yarrow?
He helped us through our childhood and he wrote a
song way back in the day called Puff the Magic

(01:44:20):
Dragon in a trio.

Speaker 3 (01:44:24):
He was one of three. There was Paul, then Mary
and Peter.

Speaker 30 (01:44:30):
Oh the Magic Dragon lived.

Speaker 32 (01:44:35):
By scene and prog not the magic Dragon. It was
not written as a children's too. It was written as
a just a song with whimsy. In nineteen fifty nine
when it was written at Cornell, the most egregious thing
that we did was.

Speaker 30 (01:44:57):
Have beer in the dorms. We didn't have an option.

Speaker 32 (01:45:01):
Of writing a song about a dragon with a subtext
about grasp. I assure you that within six months I
could have written such a song many times, But I
have a little.

Speaker 30 (01:45:13):
Message for you.

Speaker 32 (01:45:14):
If we keep our ethic and our values strong within us,
our dragon will be safe and happened.

Speaker 2 (01:45:24):
That was Speeder talking about what everybody thought was the
subtext of the song was about weed.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
He said, no, it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:45:36):
An acquaintance of his at Cornell wrote a poem, actually
typed it up. He remembered it, typed it up, left
it in the typewriter. He saw the poem and he
wrote the song, and the poem essentially is how puff

(01:45:59):
is this, this great dragon? He's your childhood and eventually
you gotta let go of the dragon and you got
to move from childhood to adulthood. Interesting about this is
he never forgot that guy, but he couldn't find him.
It wasn't like today. It was way back in the day.

(01:46:20):
His name was Leonard Lipton, and he eventually tracked him
down when one of Lipton's friends from Cornell said, Hey,
Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary is looking for you.
Why don't you get in touch with him. He got
in touch with him, and he gave him co writing
credits on Puff the Magic Dragon so he could share
in the royalties. That's pretty damn cool hippies. I love

(01:46:44):
that as a kid growing up. I gotta tell you something,
And I was, explained my daughter six, and I was
singing that song yesterday, and she's like, Dad, what's that?
And I said, A song called puff the Magic Dragon,
and we sang it and stuff and we looked at stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:47:00):
Where the wild things are puffed the matchi dragon.

Speaker 2 (01:47:04):
Those evoke memories, and that is one of those things
that evokes memories. And by the way, that was our
first big hit. So passed away yesterday. Lived a good life, though,
you know. I mean, look, you got five Grammys and
you're in a folk band. I mean, you're.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
That's a pretty good life right there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:23):
Speaking of good lives, we couldn't leave you without giving
you some words of wisdom from our uncle Gary. And
by the way, today's words of wisdom come as he
describes his first bucyisms. So the words of wisdom came

(01:47:44):
after his horrific motorcycle accidents. Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready, No,
it's time for the Gary Pucy moment of the day.

Speaker 48 (01:47:58):
So after my brain chargery from the crash of motorcycle,
I had restless energy and I was recovering. So Judy
had an idea. She said, tell Gary he's going to
be a doctor in this next movie. I gave him
a white coat and flipboard and have him go through
and do the rounds for me. Well, I go through,
do the rounds, and on scribble, I couldn't write, and
I would look at their drawers and I opened the

(01:48:19):
drawer and the socks in the underwear.

Speaker 2 (01:48:21):
We're just a mess.

Speaker 48 (01:48:22):
So I organized it, and I said, this is very neat,
and neat stands for nice, exciting and tight.

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That's how you get the first buseeism right there after
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(01:49:08):
you are upset with me about the stuff I said
about Jimmy Carter. It has nothing to do with the man,
it has all to do with I still think it's
weird that we fly guy who died from Georgia to DC,
parade him through the streets, put him in a rotunda.
People walk by it, stare at it, and then they leave,
and then they fly him back to Georgia to bury it.

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That's just me finding that to be weird.

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Have of the blast Day. We'll do it again tomorrow night,
night Jack.

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