Plans to Keep TikTok from Shutting Down in the US

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The inauguration is Monday.

Speaker 3 (00:14):
You got the NFL playoffs this weekend, Monday night, you've
got the National Championship Football Game. Israel Gaza, the conflict
there with Palestine.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Biden on the way out.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
But you know what, the biggest, biggest, and I do
mean the biggest story by far, is TikTok. Will it
or won't it? Maybe yes, maybe no, maybe kind of
sort of maybe not. What will happen? I don't know,

(00:56):
I don't know. Biden's already vowed we're not going to
enforce anything into Monday morning. Trump's already said, man, we
can forget a way to figure this thing out.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
TikTok CEO is said to attend Trump's inauguration Monday, and
Trump's incoming national security advisor says the administration has plans
to keep the platform from going dark.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
What's the plan? That's just it. So remember this was
a bipartisan build.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
It passed.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
About getting rid of TikTok. It was bipartisan. Everybody was
on board with it. Look, it should never have been
on the phones of any government employee. I think we
recognize that. And this is not really about the data.
Can I just point that out like the whole Like here,
it's about the data. It's not about the data. They've

(01:48):
got all the data they need and then some you
guys understand that you need to get They've got everything
they need data wise. When it comes to TikTok, it's
about the algorithms that they have and how they can
shape American life. That is a bigger deal. The impact
culturally and how they can influence is way bigger than

(02:12):
I think people realize. It's not just about where they're
gonna get our data. Of course they're gonna get our data.
They're trying to hack us all the time. They're trying
to get into every aspect. I've said it once, I'll
say it a thousand times. Are you wearing shoes? Where
are they're from? Where they made? They're made in China.
They're spying on you.

Speaker 2 (02:30):
They're spy They're they're spying on you. You got a.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
T shirt on Maide in China, probably spying on you. Probably, Oh,
I don't think that's no, that's that's it. They don't
know what they're gonna do with the data. But TikTok
is massive, and I know Elon wants to buy it.
It's the thought, right, mister beast wants to buy it.
You guys have any idea what it cost? Any idea

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three four hundred billion maybe more. That's it. We're actually
gonna talk to Zach Abram, chief investment officer Bullward Capital
to kind of, you know, like sketch out how a
purchase of this would happen and what the actual cost is,

(03:18):
because it's not Twitter. Twitter's inexpensive comparatively, but the cultural
impact that this has is massive.

Speaker 6 (03:27):
I'm a little bit upset that TikTok is being banned. Honestly,
I like watching it for entertainment, just to see funny videos,
and then I've also seen a lot of like great
recipes and life packs.

Speaker 7 (03:40):
Kind of surprised that they're finally maybe gonna do it,
but not too upset because I waste probably like two
hours a day on TikTok, so I'll be able to
get a lot more done.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
A lot of people will. I'm here to tell you
guys right now, the recipe thinks real. Oh my god.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
My wife.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Has a couple of people she goes to for recipes
are Thanksgiving dinner. Our turkey was the best turkey of ever, ever,
ever eaten in my life. My wife found somebody on
TikTok talking to my buddy Ken, who's the news director
for the local show I do here in the station,

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and he's about my age, a little bit older. He says, Man,
I get so many recipes off there. So many people do.
And for those of you out there who think it's
only for twelve to fifteen and maybe eighteen year old,
it's not a rising number of people in their fifties, sixties,
seventies have TikTok. It's not just about the young, are

(04:47):
you sure? Absolutely? And you've got a lot of people,
not just creators, by the way, there's a lot of
creators out there who are worried that they don't really
have and you know, any kind of established following on install,
on Facebook, on YouTube. Comparatively to TikTok, the reach on

(05:12):
TikTok is so much greater, and they make a living.

Speaker 8 (05:15):
All the creators I know that are like the are
on the app. We're freaking out a little bit. We
all have pretty big followings on other platforms saying goodness,
but it's pretty stressful because I know some people make
a pretty good living. I know I've made a pretty
good living off of this app, and it has financially
supported me for a few years now. I mean a
lot of people turn to it when the world was

(05:36):
not so great back in twenty twenty. And I think
that's why it feels like a big sense of community.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
It's massive. It's a massive sense. I'll be honest.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
I enjoy it with the Chinese. I get it.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Look, I was all for it, but it was too late.
It was here, and there's tons of other apps. I mean,
it's too late.

Speaker 9 (05:55):
Now.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
Would I allow it on any government phone at all? No,
whether at the state level all the way up to
the federal level. But they're already hacking into everything. There's
no doubt. And this is you know, I mean, you know,
some people think it's all old people's fault, like this cat.

Speaker 10 (06:16):
This is all employed by senior citizens that run out
government to make us believe that they know better than us,
when the reality is is the world doesn't necessarily align
with their boomer opinions. If this goes through, you're going
to see a lot of these politicians that voted for
this get voted out of office.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
Upon the next cycle.

Speaker 10 (06:35):
I lose, you know, almost three hundred and seventy thousand followers.
But I don't think it matters. Like those people are
not going to stop watching vertical video.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
I don't think anything's gonna happen.

Speaker 10 (06:46):
I think it's all a bug and pony show.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
I think a portion of.

Speaker 3 (06:52):
What he says at times is people aren't going to
stop watching videos vertical video, whatever his videos, if you
go other places, if it was to go away. But
that's the useful idiot though that China was hoping for.
But like I said, this isn't just about getting data,
and I think that's where people go wrong.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's all about that.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
The influence it has on American culture and culture around
the globe is incredible.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
And it's the algorithm.

Speaker 3 (07:24):
I tell everybody, we can sit here and talk about
all of the stuff about somebody buying and they're gonna
go and they're gonna buy it, and they're gonna do this,
and they're gonna do that. What if Felon gets it?
Oh my god? And this, that and the other. The
most important thing of all of this is the algorithm.

(07:45):
If you have the algorithm that they have, which is
a guarded secret in China, because that's what you're buying.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Everything else is window dressing.

Speaker 11 (07:57):
But I think that part of why TikTok has been
valuable to me. Also part of why TikTok is a
security concern is that the algorithm is so good it
has helped me find an audience who's interested in what
I'm posting.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
And that's why it's a guarded secret. Because of the
influence the algorithm can give to people. They hone in
on that it is. I mean, look at Palestine, Look
at the influence it had on that. It has cultural
impact that I don't think some people are older understand

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As texts the program. Meanwhile, speaking of impact, will they
or won't they? Well, kind of sort.

Speaker 12 (08:44):
Of, I'm very confident that we this is moving forward
and we'll see the startup implementation of the agreement on
Sunday that.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Right there and Blincoln on the way out. Will they
or won't they get a deal done? Kind of sort
of the best way I can describe it, kind of
sorta well, what do you mean? Kind of sort of
because remember Hamas is a business. Their business is terror, okay,

(09:16):
Hamas business terror all right? In phase three basically Harmas
goes away, so your business goes away. Last time I checked,
most businesses don't want to phase out their business.

Speaker 13 (09:31):
A section of society doesn't want this deal at all,
the likes of Itama Benkavit, the Security minister who says
he will resign from the government if the deal is
approved by the cabinet. It won't pull down the government
his resignation because we expect other members of these readial
position to come into shore up the government to make
sure that the CEASEPAR deal can.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
Go through, which is again fine, but you're not eliminating
the thing you need to eliminate, and that is money.
You have to eliminate the flow of money. You have
to put pressure on groups and countries that hide the

(10:11):
essentially the owners the CEOs coos of Hamas, because once
you do that and you take the money side of
it away, then you could get stuff done. But as
long as they're allowed to operate, them going dark for

(10:32):
a year or two is like somebody filing for, you know,
restructuring in their bankruptcy Chapter thirteen. They're just restructuring and
then They're going to be right back at it because
they don't want to give away the money. The power.
The power is in making sure everybody knows how oppressed

(10:55):
they are while they live in luxury, nowhere near the
fighting or Palestine Gaza, any of the places. Three two, three, five,
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Benson Show. It's your Twitter, your Instagram. A lot of
stuff to get to today. More on TikTok.

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Oh yeah, baby, talk a little bit about that as well.
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things that happened this week.

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I'm not my motor running again.

Speaker 17 (14:00):
It's fun.

Speaker 18 (14:06):
I'm about to lose my job on TikTok, as an influencer.

Speaker 19 (14:09):
TikTok's lawyer says the app will go dark in the
US on January nineteenth.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
The idea of TikTok going away is scary, but you
know what's scarier, Elon musk owning it.

Speaker 20 (14:18):
We're just going to TikTok's other app I'm a TikTok refuge.

Speaker 18 (14:22):
You hell, little lemonade.

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It's fine five.

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It's the billionaire right knows that they cannot take California
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They're looking to try to take it with lies.

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It is not my nature to go quietly into the night,
so don't worry about that.

Speaker 22 (14:56):
Thousands rejoicing at the prospects of reprieve from a brief wool.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
This decimated much of the guz And landscape, killing more
than forty six thousand Palestinians.

Speaker 19 (15:06):
I know who loves this bill, Yes, bigoted folks love
this billow.

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Forget you don't want to settle man, You're curedents just
like this.

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And also, can you so casually cheat on a second
wife and cheat on the mother of a child who
had been born two months before, and you tell us
you are completely.

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What a week, crazy, fun and at times sad. Week.

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We lost a couple of legends yesterday. Now David Lynch.

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We'll talk about him later, but I just want to
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As far as you know what a great director is.

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Avant Garde did some amazing movies.

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We could talk about.

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Man, we lost an actor, a cherished actor yesterday, an
actor that, when given the opportunity, could take a character,
even a small part of a movie, and make it

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his own, a character actor who dazzled in movies like
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Speaker 2 (18:02):
Are the Glass coming in to DC?

Speaker 3 (18:08):
It's gonna be one of the coldest inaugurations in history.

Speaker 24 (18:12):
I think the.

Speaker 2 (18:14):
Coldest in about forty years.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
But people are excited, they're pomp they're going, it's going
to be great.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
What's it going to be like?

Speaker 3 (18:22):
Security wise? Though, And I think that's a big deal
because there are issues. There's no doubt about that. You know,
up until the fires hit, we were talking a lot
about terrorism. We were talking big time about terrorism New Orleans.
You guys remember that New Year's morning morning and then
the fires came and kind of sucked out all the oxygen,

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if you will. But now that it's here, there's no doubt.
There's been two tries on Trump's life. And you look
around and you're thinking, my goodness that many people go
back to past summer and the potential of attack in
Austria on Taylor Swift fans being in a crowd is

(19:08):
nervy to say the least.

Speaker 2 (19:11):
So how are they protecting not just the president but
the people.

Speaker 20 (19:15):
From only one hundred and fifty feet in the air.
Pilots dodge buildings, that's your left time drag pat flying
in a grid over the National Mall to scan for
radiological or nuclear irregularities. Threats like dirty bombs. So you're
trying to create a blueprint of what the radiation of
Washington U see it looks like ahead of the inauguration.

(19:35):
Correct Department of Energy scientists Jacqueline Brandon calls this low
flying helicopter one of just two of its kind per office.

Speaker 25 (19:43):
If we find a radiological irregularity, we'll investigate it even further.

Speaker 20 (19:47):
Highly sensitive technology sets off alarms in the air.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
That's an alarm.

Speaker 9 (19:52):
That is an alarm.

Speaker 14 (19:53):
It's a slight variation in our spectra, is what it's
saying it is.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
I mean, the what they have going on is going
to be amazing. But still, you know, a lot of
times we think about protection, We think about the president,
the dignitaries, the people are very important as well.

Speaker 2 (20:12):
But yeah, you can't rule out anything.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
And that's sad to say in this world, but truth is,
we let a lot of people in, and not all
of them that came in want to hug us, love us,
and embrace the American dream. And the ones we didn't
let in but came in anyways, Oh, those are the
ones I worry about.

Speaker 20 (20:34):
On the ground, a mission led and meticulously rehearsed by
the US Secret Service at their training facility in Maryland,
agents role playing worst case scenarios.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
Can we try a vehicle having a flat tire? Can
we try someone having a heart attack?

Speaker 26 (20:47):
These are all the things we want to mentally prepare
for because we have an immediate action for all those things.

Speaker 20 (20:52):
Michael Thomas is the coordinator for the big day.

Speaker 7 (20:55):
The amount of fencing and the amount of personnel that
we bring in for this inauguration eclipses all other inaugurations
that we have.

Speaker 3 (21:02):
Yeah, I would say, so is there going to be protesters?

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Of course?

Speaker 3 (21:08):
Is there going to be people that are going to disrupt?
I don't know what that looks like. How they get,
you know, how close you get either because of the worry,
the fear, you know, because of all of the stuff
that has happened. I know they've got fencing in certain areas,
and then you throw in the bitter cold, which by

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the way, doesn't help, doesn't make you comfortable. I mean
it is. It's shaping up to be interesting. And I said, look,
it could be the most boring thing ever, or it
could be something else. And I don't want something else.
The only excitement I want is Trump maybe dropping an
F bomb, when everybody's streaming it live, because you never
know with him.

Speaker 20 (21:46):
About twenty five thousand law enforcement and military personnel will
safeguard the inauguration, including seventy eight hundred National Guard authorized
to protect the nation's capital and it's two hundred and
fifty thousand ticketed guests. Throughout the city, a ring of steel,
thirty miles of anti scale fencing, and along the icy Potomac,

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more than twenty five Coastguard vessels lined up, ready to deploy,
ready to deploy.

Speaker 2 (22:11):
The Coast Guard. Well, it's about time you showed.

Speaker 20 (22:15):
Up, Captain Patrick Burkett says. Teams are now prepping frozen
waterways for patrol after a recent storm that.

Speaker 5 (22:22):
Put a lot of strain and stress on our resources
and our personnel.

Speaker 24 (22:25):
And everyone knew that January was going to be a busy.

Speaker 20 (22:28):
Month, dubbed a national Special Security event demanding the highest
level of federal protection. The inauguration comes just days after
two others January sixth electoral count and former President Jimmy
Carter's funeral.

Speaker 3 (22:43):
They had to protect that. Well they think was gonna happen, Well,
you know, Megain, were they arrested a guy in North
Carolina the other day, who sympathetic towards ISIS purchased firearms?

Speaker 2 (22:55):
The usual, you know, nut job?

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Who is he? How'd they find him? But that again,
low hanging fruit. It's the ones we don't know about.

Speaker 27 (23:08):
Alexander Justin White was known in online chat rooms as
Suleiman Alamriki. A federal complaint alleges that not only did
he try to make contact with terrorists.

Speaker 28 (23:17):
Mister White made or attempted to make some financial transactions
in support of ISIS camps.

Speaker 27 (23:23):
Assist in US attorney Michael Easily says White thought he
was talking online with ISIS members. They were actually FBI
agents who arrested him as he attempted to board a
flight from Raleigh, Durham to Morocco.

Speaker 2 (23:35):
What was he doing there? Was he going to go
and train, come back and do something?

Speaker 3 (23:39):
When White was.

Speaker 28 (23:39):
Asked if he was okay killing members of the military
or US citizens, the complaint alleges that he stated, if
it was a family member, I would still fight back
with them.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
There you go. How many more are out there like that?
And like I said, and have been saying to me
for the lasteteen years, going back pre Trump and everybody else,
I always worried about the Godaways because the Godaways don't
want everybody to know who they are. That's a serious issue.

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And under this president that's still in office, two million
of them. They're not all trent to Agua, and they're
not all just people who wanted to avoid the line
at the ports. Oh three two three, five, three eight,

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Twitter tweet at US text the program speaking of the president,
it's more pardons.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Today, mostly drug pardons. I want to understand.

Speaker 3 (24:55):
Decent amount non violent offenders. She's already you know, went
out and allowed the violent offenders to be pardoned and
or commuted. Legacy it's important to these people, right is
they want rich people graffiti, which is names on libraries
and schools and buildings, and what's his legacy?

Speaker 29 (25:16):
I think the way he's leading office has been frankly,
pretty terrible. He's going to be remembered for a few things,
but politically it's mostly for when he was vice president,
he and Obama sort of ushering in the Trump era initially,
and then as he's leading office as president, bringing back
Trump and trump Ism stronger and more popular than ever
today Biden has like a sixty one percent disapproval and

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Trump is over a fifty percent approval and more popular
in his ideology, is more popular than it's ever been.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
Think about that again, go back to January seventh, two
thy twenty one, flash forward till now. I doubt many
people are putting money on that resurrection of a political career.

Speaker 29 (26:03):
And for Democrats it's always been about communication and no
introspection about the policies that led to him leading office
as one of the most unpopular presidents. I remain astonished
that he, his family and other people around him thought
he could ever run for another term. I mean, there's
no way he could serve another six months, let him
known another four years. The fact that they pursued that

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forrest for as long as they did to me remains
one of the most astonishing things about this term.

Speaker 3 (26:29):
Absolutely still astonishing that he thought about it and was
it last week he was still telling everybody I could
have beaten him, was it?

Speaker 2 (26:38):
Harry Enton at CNN He's like.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
I, No, I call this BS of the highest order
for sure, speaking of for sure, but not for sure.
TikTok yay, your nay, stay or go, and no matter
what happens today or even Monday.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
It's going to be a while before it's all sorted out.

Speaker 30 (27:00):
The divestiture law passed with bipartisan majorities in Congress last year,
but there are now bipartisan calls to give TikTok more
time to find a non Chinese buyer. The Biden administration
tells ABC News it has no intention of going into
court on Sunday or Monday to enforce a ban, and
there's much speculation that President elect Trump might direct his
Justice Department to at least delay enforcement so he can

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try to work out some sort of a solution. But
the law says a one time ninety day extension can
only be granted if there's a sale already in the works.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
I don't think there's a sale, And we're going to
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(29:03):
We're gonna talk about that. Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (29:14):
Serving up talk radio, medium, rare and dripping with irony.
It's Chad Benson, David Dwayton, chance passed away.

Speaker 17 (29:23):
Whether it was Twin Peaks or Mulholland Drive or Blue Velvet,
there's a good chance you've encountered at least one David
Lynch project in your life. Lynch got his start in
filmmaking with nineteen seventy seven's Eraserhead, followed up by the
award winning The Elephant Man. In a statement, his family says,
there's a big hole in the world now that he's
no longer with us. But as he would say, keep
your eye on the doughnut and not on the hole.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
I love that like donuts.

Speaker 3 (29:47):
You guys know that The Elephant Man, he did a
bunch of stuff, right. They get eraser Head, Twin Peaks, right,
Mulholland Drive, some of us avant garde. But The Elephant Man,
about John Merrick, was an an amazing movie. And I
think that's where a lot of us got really introduced
to Anthony Hopkins, but William Hurt played John Merrick The
Elephant Man. Remember when who was it? Michael Jackson tried

(30:11):
to buy a skeleton of the Elephant Man who had
elephant Titus and gave us the great line, I am
not an animal, I am human. But that movie was incredible.
It was shot in black and white. It was just
an amazing movie. Interesting. Mel Brooks, the great comedic director actor,

(30:33):
produced a portion of the movie but refused to have
his name in there because he thought, if I put
my name in this, people are going to think it's
associated with comedy. And it was a very serious movie.
But he had amphasema. David Lynchin passed away. The Elephant
Man is such an interesting The whole thing was interesting.
But the way he filmed that, just in the black

(30:54):
and white, it had a surreal kind of almost looked
like it was a play at times that they were filming.
And you know, the whole story about John Merrick was tragic.
He ended up dying by he just fell asleep on
his back. You want to sleep on his back because
of the way his faces and everything was deformed and
his lungs. He couldn't lie down and sleep, and so

(31:18):
he went to sleep and never woke up. Tragic movie,
but and story, but an incredible director, David Lynch, and
the way he just brought like you know, they said,
he took the mundane and of Americana and life in
itself and made it a little darker but entertaining. Oh
you said dark but entertaining. But yeah, dark but entertaining

(31:41):
a little quirk as well, throwing that in there.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Speaking of quirky.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
So the Giuliani case where he you know, to fame
those two ladies, it's it's it's over, it's done with
and surprise, surprise.

Speaker 31 (31:55):
The terms were not disclosed, but we know that Juliani
gets to keep everything he owns, including a couple of
apartments a whole bunch of baseball memorabilia. In exchange, he
agreed never to defame Ruby Freeman or Seam Moss again
and to pay them some undisclosed amount of compensation.

Speaker 3 (32:15):
I know, I think he lost one or two pieces
of property. He gets to keep his World Series rings.
I'm like, he's got World Series rings. He didn't play
on a team. Well, you know, he was the mayor
of the world. If you know, if you can go
back that far and remember pre insanity that we saw,
you know, four plus years ago.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
This was his son yesterday.

Speaker 32 (32:36):
Look, I just want to say, as a son, as
an American, I'm so proud of my father to see
what he's that put through over the last four years.

Speaker 2 (32:48):
He did that to himself. He did that to himself.

Speaker 3 (32:52):
You lied and defamed two women, You brought hell on
their life by lunatics by saying they cheated in the
twenty twenty election.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
He did that to himself. You ever look at somebody and.

Speaker 3 (33:09):
Go, what the hell happened to you? He may be
the you know you think about with rock stars, right,
you think about it with bands or something, and they
have a couple of hits and they look like they're
gonna just be it, or maybe an actor and that
just doesn't happen for for whatever reason. Then you see

(33:32):
him later on you're like, man, what the hell happened
to you? This is the political version of that of
the what the hell happened to you? I continue to
go back, like his moment that he should be remembered
for with you know, on you know, nine to eleven
and on the pile and bringing the city together and
leading everybody through this and you know, being at the

(33:54):
Yankees games during the World Series, all that stuff that's
so long ago, but what's not long ago and freshen
a lot of people's minds, which isn't fair if you're
gonna look at the whole body of work of his
life is the insanity of twenty twenty. And that's stupid,
stupid hair dye he had and it's running down his

(34:16):
face and you're thinking, oh God.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Then he holds that ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (34:21):
Press conference in Arizona at the Four Seasons, except it
wasn't the Four Seasons. It was an industrial complex in
like an alley because they thought they booked the Four
Seasons hotel and instead it's like the Four Seasons landscaping. Yeah,
that guy, man, I tell you what. Talk about somebody

(34:42):
who swung and missed when he had the opportunity to
not so much go out on top but be beloved
because he ran for president that didn't work, but still
to be somewhat beloved forever as the mayor of the world.
Essential going around, you know, cutting ribbons to open up

(35:04):
supermarkets and people to love him all over the globe.
And instead he's going to be remembered, not for what
he did after nine to eleven, or even what he
did before that when he cleaned up New York and
all of its crime. But I think, unfortunately, he's gonna
be remembered for this nightmare.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
That he caused himself.

Speaker 3 (35:24):
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four, twenty three
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right here. On The Chad Benson Show coming up hour two,
interesting got some stuff about the fires, but price gouging

(35:47):
and what is California doing about it? But also who's
going to move back to some of these areas? Which
is the most expensive real estate in the world, and
how long are they going to wait? If you've got
a family, you're not waiting. Josh Altman from Millionaire Listing
said some interesting things about what he thought was going

(36:09):
to happen, and after being down there, what he says
is going to happen now when it comes to where
people are going to move. Talk about that a bunch
of other stuff. You were seeing the joke on the podcast.
It is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 15 (36:22):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson show,

(36:52):
Tick Talk, Tick talk Man, Will it or won't it
be here? How long will it be here? Those are
all really good questions.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
I don't think people realize what the cultural impact that
this app is having, and it is a massive impact
on not just the young, but the old as well society.

(37:32):
Social media has brought things to us that we never
thought we'd see, some great, some not so great, some awful,
A vast majority of it just stupid and hilarious. But
out of all of the apps, out of all of

(37:53):
the social media, this one has separated itself.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
And is a phenomenon.

Speaker 33 (38:03):
Dude, dude, for sure, there is way too much quiet
around this upcoming band of one of the largest public
spaces in America, TikTok. That's what social media is now.
It's the equivalent of the parks and public spaces for speech,
and TikTok is the second biggest, over a billion and
a half users worldwide, crushes Twitter one hundred and seventy

(38:25):
million users in America alone, that's half the country. I
was moved to speak out to you tonight. As someone
who relies heavily on the freedom to speak out, I'm
also moved by the youngest member of my family who
came at me for being quiet about younger generations having
their playground taken from them.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
And it's not just the younger generation.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
So my kids they love it.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
Two fourteen year olds and a sixteen year old they
love it. My six year old, as I said yesterday,
very into Toka Life World, which is a fun game
that little kids like her play. Jenary World just you know,
nothing bad. That's what I love about it. But this
is everybody, not just young and old. Jack and I
talk more on TikTok at times, and we talk to

(39:11):
each other. Hell, how many of you listening right now,
even if it's not TikTok. Sit on a couch next
to somebody, your wife, your husband, your boyfriend, whatever, and
you're watching something and at the same time, you're scrolling
through and you're sending funny memes and videos to your
loved one, probably a lot.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
How does this happen in America?

Speaker 33 (39:34):
Carolina almost fifteen, said to me, I thought you'd get
to say what you want. I said, well, but you've
got to balance that with this concern that China may
control what's on it and maybe spy on who's using it.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
She says, prove it.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
I can't.

Speaker 33 (39:48):
How can any of us allow the signature freedom of
this democracy, the ability.

Speaker 32 (39:52):
To choose how to exercise your right to free speech,
to take the biggest hit we've seen in recent history
without a really thorough debate, because there's been no proof
of the threat that lawmakers say that they're relying on.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
Well, I don't think you need the to catch the
malware virus that they've planted somewhere, some sort of weird
worm that will pop up later on. We see that
with all of this stuff that has happened to our
water treatment centers, to several other places that we know of.
But the thing that I think people miss about this

(40:29):
is it's not so much about the spy, because they're
going to do that all the time. My god, they
flew a balloon over us, and this president that's still there,
let the damn thing fly across our country and it
just happened to quote unquote be a weather balloon that
was blown off course, that happened to traverse our country
in strategic ways to look at the weather over our bases.

(40:58):
It's about the influence it has on people in society,
their version of TikTok is a time limit. It promotes
smart things. It champions the Communist Party, It talks of nationalism,
it promotes schooling and engineering, and it promotes things that

(41:20):
you're like, oh whoa ours? Has funny dances and great recipes.
It has a lot of things on there. But it
can also be used to manipulate. Remember when the whole
conflict between Palestine and Israel started after October seventh, the

(41:42):
attack of Israel. By the way, for everybody out there
is like, Palestine didn't do anything, yah hamas did that.
We understand that, but it was what ten to one,
eight to one, something like that. Positive videos four Palestine
comparatively to Israel, and we saw what happened. People took

(42:02):
to the streets. So when I hear people talk about, well,
it's this, or it's you know, it's their spying. Oh,
all those are true. By the way, they don't need
just this to spy. They can spy on you in
your damn TV. I keep joking, you got a pair
of sunglasses from China, probably spying on you.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
It's the cultural impact.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
And how they can manipulate that through the algorithm that
has a big impact on us.

Speaker 33 (42:34):
Washington says it's about national security law as the operative premise,
but it isn't the operative premise, And whether or not
to do this is the First Amendment, and whether it's
being violated. How is this not government regulating speech? So
the biggest factor in delaying what's happening on the nineteenth
may not be the Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 (42:52):
It may be the incoming president.

Speaker 33 (42:54):
Trump is supposedly against the TikTok ban, even though he's
always talking tough about doing tough things to China. Oh,
I'm told Trump may have changed his mind on TikTok
when he realized how much it helped his own campaign.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
Of course, I mean, we all know China's spying us, right,
we all recognize that. But while everybody's looking at the spying,
they're ignoring the bigger impact that it has. And if
you don't think that's true, listen to this is a
perfect example of what China.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Uses this thing for, the manipulation of this.

Speaker 18 (43:31):
The government has been lying to us about China for decades.

Speaker 25 (43:34):
Now that we've all gotten on red note and we
can see the lifestyle that all of the Chinese people have,
a lot of US Americans are pissed, the price of
going out to eat, the price of groceries, public transportation,
and the people on red Note are so flabbergasted that
we have.

Speaker 18 (43:48):
To work two jobs just to keep our roof over
our head.

Speaker 25 (43:52):
US government you picked up big time, which is not
a surprise because you do it constantly.

Speaker 18 (43:56):
Even if TikTok gets banned, I've seen enough. I have
been woken up.

Speaker 3 (44:02):
See that's what they want. It's a manipulation. I even
on Twitter. I mean they're everywhere, even on Twitter. If
you say something about China, this will get out. I
will get comments from people, mostly Americans, spies, bots, whatever.
Tell me how horrible I have for say any of

(44:24):
these things about China. Dare this is the most amazing
thing in the history of the world, because they would
never lie, they would never do any of those Like,
oh my god. Societal movement through this kind of information
and this kind of entertainment.

Speaker 2 (44:46):
Is huge.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
It's way bigger than I think people realize. And I
enjoy TikTok. And the algorithm is a military secret, that's
how much they value it.

Speaker 2 (45:06):
And when you can manipulate like that, well that's a win,
isn't it.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
Remember our Founding fathers were never worried about us being invaded.
We got the top hat in Canada, we got the
Hirachis in Mexico. See the way we did that Hirachi's
top hat, and we've got us. We've got two giant
oceans and a lot of people with guns, but a

(45:35):
road from the inside. They came through the front door,
and we clicked yes when it came to terms and services.

Speaker 25 (45:47):
I grew up fed propaganda that China is evil and
that they treat their citizens like American culture. American society
is toxic, gross, poisonous. They poison our food food, They
jack the prices up of everything. We don't get healthcare,
we don't get good public transportation, even though we're all
on the same continent. We destroy the planet for money,

(46:09):
power and control. Our government is funky as on the
left and on the right.

Speaker 18 (46:14):
This is a class for and I will not be giving.

Speaker 5 (46:16):
This fight up.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
China's all check that's another one, three, two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four, twenty three at Chadminton show, to Twitter, your Instagram,
all of the other things. By the way, Monday Inauguration Day,
What What's Biden gonna do?

Speaker 19 (46:36):
Biden, doing what Trump refused to do for him four
years ago. Unlike in twenty twenty one, Biden will be
there on Monday, participating in the peaceful transfer of power.
Other leaders and dignitaries, of course, are also expected to attend,
including former President Barack Obama, but former First Lady Michelle
Obama will not be attending. Neither will Nancy Pelosi, though
neither have specified why.

Speaker 3 (46:58):
I'll tell you why Nancy's not going, Jill Biden. If
Jill Biden saw Nancy, it would be the Real Housewives
big time. Jill would break her other hip absolutely one percent.
There's no doubt she hates Nancy Pelosi. That's why she's

(47:24):
not going. And Nancy's got the perfect thing. Yeah, she's
got a broken hip. She doesnt want to be there,
blah blah blah, bah blah. Okay, get over it. It's
her perfect excuse. But if she was well without the
broken hip, she was never ever going to show up
with Jill Biden there.

Speaker 19 (47:41):
Trump's major guests include tech billionaires Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos,
and Mark Zuckerberg. The CEOs of Apple, TikTok, and Google
also in attendance, and while Trump had invited Chinese president
she to attend. The Chinese vice president we now know
is coming instead.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
That is a first.

Speaker 19 (47:57):
Another milestone here. This is now expected to be the
oldest inauguration in forty years. Temperatures expected in the teens.
Washington getting ready to bundle up.

Speaker 3 (48:06):
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Speaker 12 (49:48):
California law prohibits a business from increasing the price of
a good or service more than ten percent more than
they charge before the emergency.

Speaker 2 (49:55):
And to be clear, that includes housing.

Speaker 12 (49:58):
Rentals, hotels, construction supplies and services, gas, water, emergency supplies.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
Rob BoNT Right, there ag of California price gouging going on.

Speaker 12 (50:09):
Be it landlords, short term rentals or hotels, price gouging,
a vacuees, or predatory buyers swooping in with low ball
property offers, whether it be scams or looting, you can
be sure we will hold you accountable.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Will you will you Well, if you go in and
buy land cheap, you'll hold them accountable.

Speaker 2 (50:34):
If you loot, Are you really going to.

Speaker 12 (50:36):
We're on the case and we will prosecute where laws
have been broken.

Speaker 2 (50:42):
Well, we hope you do.

Speaker 3 (50:45):
This is Josh Altman million dollars listing talking about what
he thinks is going to happen when it comes to
the Pacific Palisades fire.

Speaker 34 (50:54):
I walked the Palisades, I walked Malibu. For people watching
around the world and seeing this, I'm telling you it
is one hundred times worse. When you walk those areas.
It gives you a stomach ache. You can't even wrap
your head around it. Neighborhoods gone, think about the Palisades.
This was that all American neighborhood families, children running up

(51:15):
and down the street.

Speaker 2 (51:16):
It was like what you see in movies gone.

Speaker 34 (51:19):
I said when this first happened, maybe thirty five to
forty percent of the people.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Won't go back to the Palisades.

Speaker 34 (51:24):
I now up my number to sixty five to seventy
percent of the people who lived in the Palisades won't
go back there.

Speaker 3 (51:32):
What are they going to do?

Speaker 34 (51:32):
They're gonna be the house that's finished and then live
amongst one hundred other houses being developed. The kids or
that are five years old, they're going to be ten
years old by the time it's done. They're not going
to go to the same school.

Speaker 3 (51:44):
Yeah, it is absolutely.

Speaker 2 (51:47):
My buddy said, he's never seen anything like this.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
He goes. I joked the other day, Chad, when I
said it was I only seen two of the places
that it was like Hiroshima, he goes, But when you
get into the center of it, it's like that. So
I went on to say that houses that were going
for ten grand a month are going for twenty grand
a month. And how they know that it's price gouging
is because most of these houses were for rent last month.

(52:12):
So there's documentation of what these things cost, and they're
coming after people saying you can't do that. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
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Speaker 2 (52:28):
My question is if somebody comes to me.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
And offers me double I didn't advertise it, they offered
I should be able to keep that right, Like I
can keep that, and no, I think this is like
I said, I think this is going to change the
landscape of that city forever.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
TikTok will it won't it?

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Maybe? Kind of sort of. Here's the thing, whatever happens
with TikTok, it's it's not going away. Even if they
decide something this weekend. You know, it's just not gonna
as far as the issue until it gets sold. And
the issue is much bigger than what people think. We

(53:10):
talked about a little bit last hour. It's not about
the data, right, they're already stealing all of our data.
For God's sakes. If you've got a Chinese TV, it's
listening to you. I joke the other day. If you're
wearing some clothes and they're from China, just just know
they're spying on you. You don't know how, you know

(53:30):
what they put in the thread, but they're spying on you.
And we're gonna talk a little bit later to Zach Abraham,
chie investment officer at Board about TikTok, because the thought
of Elon buying it, Okay, that sounds great. It's like
a gazillion times bigger than Twitter could ever hope to be.

(53:52):
And because of that, it's gonna cost a lot more.
We'll see what Zach thinks.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
The cost might be.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
So this thought of well, Elon will byat hold your horses.
Let's see what it costs first, because a lot of
people are wanting to buy it. Do they know the
real cost? Three Q three five three twenty four to
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Speaker 1 (54:39):

Speaker 35 (54:40):
Donald Trump wrote, it is my honor to announce John Voight,
Mel Gibson, and Sylvester Stallone to be special ambassadors to
a great but very troubled place, Hollywood, California.

Speaker 36 (54:51):
Wow, Braveheart, Rambo and the Midnight Cowboy. He summoned the
three horsemen of the Apocalypto to suber Davis serve a
special envoye to me for the purpose of bringing Hollywood,
which has lost much business over the last free years
to foreign countries, back, bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
In other words, Trump saw the Expendables three on his

(55:13):
plane last night, and it's like, I need those guys.

Speaker 3 (55:16):
Tell yeah, you guys did lose a lot of business,
but a lot of that is because Hollywood leaves Hollywood
for cheaper areas to film, like Georgia Vancouver.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (55:32):
Speaking of Hollywood, they make not only motion pictures and
television shows, but commercials there and the super Bowl, Baby,
it's gonna be full of commercials. When I was a
kid growing up, even up to probably ten years ago,
you would never see any of the commercials before the

(55:53):
Super Bowl.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
That was the whole excitement of it. Now, well, a
lot of them already out there.

Speaker 16 (55:59):
Why you're talking to me?

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Every Super Bowl comes with supersized ads, and this year
some major players are going all in, hoping to score
big with viewers. Dorito's bringing back its famous crash, the
Super Bowl contest crowdsourcing ideas from the public.

Speaker 1 (56:17):
What do we think about the commercials?

Speaker 5 (56:18):
Personally?

Speaker 3 (56:19):
I like the one with the chip insightful.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
I think they all had chips.

Speaker 4 (56:23):
With one of these three finalists now set to receive
a million dollar payout for the winning ad, Companies like
FanDuel also teasing ahead to the big Game with some
trusted fan favorites, setting the stage for Manning versus Manning.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
The FanDuel kick of Destiny three is my Destiny Pigon.

Speaker 22 (56:41):
You and I both know this.

Speaker 4 (56:44):
None I make it first, while others like Pringles and
Go Daddy are keeping fans guessing.

Speaker 3 (56:52):
Well, there's some interesting commercials already out there. I try
to avoid them because I want to enjoy the day
in between the game watching the damn commercials, and you
guys are taking that away from us because you gave
it to us early. It's not all of them, but man,
it's you know, for all of the tiktoks of the

(57:14):
world and all of the digital stuff and all that stuff.
The reach of certain events World Cup, Olympics, Super Bowl
is still something that is incredible.

Speaker 26 (57:27):
So many of these commercials, you know, they're treated like movies.
We get the trailer and then we get the actual commercial.

Speaker 18 (57:33):
Why are these spots so coveted year after year?

Speaker 26 (57:36):
The NFL is just so popular they have cast such
a wide night. Yes, Taylor certainly has helped with that,
no question, It's rare that we have an event like
this where you know, pretty much everybody is watching.

Speaker 4 (57:49):
The demand for airtime during this year's game unprecedented, Fox
reportedly selling out all ad slots for Super Bowl fifty
nine in November spot going for a whopping seven million dollars.

Speaker 5 (58:03):
That's just the cover price.

Speaker 26 (58:05):
The budgets end up being really similar to like a small.

Speaker 4 (58:08):
Movie, but for so many companies, the steep price is
well worth the investment. Aneiser Busch, known for its quintessential
beer commercials, says it's returning to the Super Bowl this
year with five different ads running a total of three minute.

Speaker 3 (58:25):
What three minutes? Five different ads and like that guy said,
these commercials aren't cheap, so you're spending seven million to
buy it. So they're spending thirty five million, and it
probably costs that budget wise as well, if not more, depending.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
If you've got stars in them. It's because the reach
is so massive.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
It is so it puts you on the map in
front of eyeballs, one hundred plus million eyeballs watching your product.

Speaker 4 (58:54):
Also hoping to see green newcomers like Ritz and Durisel,
both entering the stadium for the first time with highly
anticipated ads. Though most commercials still remained tightly under wraps,
experts say to expect major star power and ensemble casts,
a winning formula behind some of last year's most popular ads,

(59:15):
like Uber Eats remember.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
When you used to be a pepulated?

Speaker 16 (59:18):
Was it the Simmon system, Laser babes and helmets?

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Huh?

Speaker 37 (59:24):
He lasted longer than most.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
Returning brands, like Recie's already giving fans a glimpse of
their Super Bowl spot, promising to deliver another unforgettable comedic
experience that'll have people buzzing on the big day.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
It's gonna be interesting because what do we talk about
the game? Yes, on Monday, but did you see that commercial?
Did you like that commercial? That's one of the things
in the course of this controversy or whatever the halftime,
But Monday morning, the day after, we'll be talking about
all of these things in the commercials will be a
part of it. One company, though, filmed a commercial and decided,

(59:59):
you know what, we're gonna do a hard pass on
it this year. You guys give us back our money.
We're not gonna We're not gonna. We're not gonna run
the commercial. Who's that like a good neighbor?

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
State Farm is the cut?

Speaker 24 (01:00:12):
State Farm has just announced it's pulled its new Super
Bowl commercial due to the devastating Los Angeles fires. Last
year's commercial was a huge hit with viewers, featuring actors
Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays an insurance agent
saving pats from a family's home that's going up in flames.

Speaker 3 (01:00:30):
Like a good neighbor.

Speaker 24 (01:00:32):
State Farm is there today. State Farm announced our focus
is firmly on providing support to the people of Los Angeles.
We will not be advertising during the game as originally planned.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
Yeah, probably smart thing to do. Maybe we're gonna go
with a no on this one. Guys, we appreciate it.
We'll get you next year if things are going better
for us. Okay, speaking of the commercials, why are running
the commerce because of the game?

Speaker 34 (01:01:01):
Oh?

Speaker 38 (01:01:01):
The game?

Speaker 2 (01:01:02):
There will be one. What are the odds right now?

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
As we head into the divisional rounds, We're.

Speaker 38 (01:01:08):
Down to the final eight teams in the race for
the Lombardi Trophy. The wildcard round only produced a pair
of upsets, but their promise is to be some closer
games during the divisional rounds. So who do the handicappers
and sportsbooks think will come out on top. Let's break
down all the odds. The top favorite on the board,
the Detroit Lions, are one of three NFL teams that

(01:01:29):
have never played in the Super Bowl. They are plus
two ninety to win it all in New Orleans, meaning
a one hundred dollars bet on the Lions to win
it will get you two hundred and ninety dollars.

Speaker 3 (01:01:40):
So Detroit sitting atop the odds continue, sir.

Speaker 38 (01:01:44):
The second biggest favorite trying to make a different kind
of history. The Kansas City Chiefs are shooting to become
the first team to win three straight Super Bowls. A
one hundred dollars bet on the Chiefs will earn you
three hundred and fifty As division winners. The next two teams,
the Eagles and Ravens, are similarly priced at four point
fifty and four seventy five. Those teams will lean on

(01:02:06):
their MVP candidates Sakwon Barkley and Lamar Jackson to lead
them to the Promised Land.

Speaker 3 (01:02:12):
Okay, okay, very interesting, indeed good money there right, still
good oughts.

Speaker 38 (01:02:19):
Bought a possible issue for Baltimore they meet the next
team on the list. The Buffalo Bills, are at plus
five point fifty to win the Super Bowl, mostly because
they will play at home on Saturday, and they also
have an MVP candidate in quarterback Josh Allen, who did
not have the best day in a loss to the
Ravens back in September.

Speaker 3 (01:02:38):
No, it wasn't a great day, but I think he'll
bounce back. Let's go through the game so this weekend.
And by the way, if you want to take a
flyer on all the teams, just one, you got to
throw some money at it.

Speaker 5 (01:02:47):
Do it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:47):
The Rams, they're plus eighteen hundred. I think they may
have the best chance. They've been there before. They know
how to win.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
They're getting hot at the right time.

Speaker 3 (01:02:56):
Texans, Chiefs, Chiefs win that game, Commanders, Lions, Lions win
that game. Rams, Eagles. I'm still going with the Eagles
at home. Ravens, Bills. Go with the Bills to get
it done this weekend, and then you're gonna have the
Bills and the Chiefs, and you're gonna have the Eagles
and the Lions.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
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Speaker 15 (01:04:56):
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Speaker 3 (01:05:01):
So that time of the week we sit down, talk
a little financial stuff, some other stuff with our buddies.
Zach Abram, chief investment Officer, Bullwick Capital, friend of the show,
sponsor of the show. I want to come out the
gate talk to you about what's going on in California,
the insurance industry.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
I think everything's going to be changing from this.

Speaker 3 (01:05:18):
It's interesting and for a lot of people, obviously, it's
frustrating and terrifying.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
I've got so.

Speaker 5 (01:05:23):
Many thoughts on this topic because the insurance industry. I
got in a back and forth with somebody about this
on Twitter the other day and they were trying to
argue against me, and I was just sitting there going, dude,
do you know how many State Insurance Commission officers we've
dealt with the insurance the insurance industry as a whole,
is it's archaic. Every single state has its own insurance commission.

(01:05:47):
It is vestiges of a time gone by, Right, Like,
it's just you should just have uniform insurance standards. You'd
lower costs and you'll think about that. People are like,
why is insurance going up? Well, one of the reasons
it's going up is because you have to make fifty
different versions of it in every single different state.

Speaker 34 (01:06:02):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:06:04):
The flip side is as it relates to LA, I'm
heartbroken by the video that I see. I think we
all I think we all empathize, sympathize. It's awful. Nobody
wants to lose a house. And I've heard of people,
you know, even on the conservative side of the aisle, saying, look,
we got to pass laws so insurance companies can't just

(01:06:25):
leave a state like they left California.

Speaker 10 (01:06:28):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:06:28):
Let's say a homeowner has been paying money into the
into into the insurance company for fifteen years. Right, insurance
company backs out. They're left high and dry, they can't
get insured. And he was making the argument that we
should have we should make that illegal, or the insurance
company should have to compensate him. Man, I am so
sympathetic to your view. I'm so sympathetic, and in my

(01:06:50):
heart I agree with you. But to quote mister Barack Obama,
elections have consequences. Yeah right, And you have elected in
company tent ridiculous and stupid human beings to run your state,
and you have let them dominate it for forty years.
I am sorry for what's happened to you. I'm sorry

(01:07:10):
about the fires, but no, we're not going to step
in and pass new laws. You made your bed, lie
in it. You re elect these people over and over again.
And I am tired of the rest of the state,
of the rest of the states, and the rest of
the constituency around the country having to come into places
that are brain dead like California and clean up a

(01:07:32):
mess that both they and their politicians damn well knew
was coming. I am sorry. I will cry with you,
I'll pray for you, But no, I don't think they
should change the insurance rules. This is one hundred percent
on the shoulders of the idiots running that state.

Speaker 3 (01:07:51):
Talking Zach Abramschi, vestment officer over at Board Capital, we
moved from that to TikTok So a couple of days
away from TikTok being gone. People are freaking out, and
from an investment side, TikTok is, shoote, what do you
think that thing's worth? Because now you're hear an Elon
and Trump is supposedly going to sign a you know,
some sort of executive order kick it out for ninety days.

(01:08:11):
But I'm sitting there going, he paid forty billion for Twitter?
What the hell do you think TikTok? Because TikTok blows
Twitter away size wise.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
It's owned by a Chinese company, so we don't have
the best look through as far as the fundamentals go.
If you're putting the Twitter transaction, Elon bought it for
around forty fifty billion. My guess is if you were
to ipo that thing and roll it out, probably be
somewhere in the three hundred to four hundred and fifty
billion dollar range.

Speaker 2 (01:08:35):
Damn, that would be my guest.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
You know, video is more engaging than Twitter. It is
so big. My daughter and her friends we're asking me
almost in a panic. Now. My daughter is in ninth grade.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
It is a topic around my house. My wife asked
me every day, if you think they're going to save it?
Do you think it's going to be saved?

Speaker 5 (01:08:55):
My daughter doesn't have it because I won't let it.
I won't allow it on her phone. It's really interesting,
you know, the thought of Elon buying it that's been floated.
Right from what I understand, they need to do something,
and they need to do something because this is absolutely
a trojan horse into American culture. It totally is.

Speaker 3 (01:09:14):
Yeah. I mean people think inact, people think that this
is a They're going to get all of our data.
They've already got all of our damn data, for gossakes,
And it's not.

Speaker 5 (01:09:21):
Yeah, if you have the app, Yeah, if you have
your the app on your.

Speaker 3 (01:09:24):
Phone or any app that has some China, it's they've
got your data. It is into the American culture, which
people don't understand. This is getting into the American culture.
It is changing the American culture. It is putting things
out there that numb the senses in the mind. It
is not just about collecting data.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
Yeah. No, and people need to understand that. If you
go look at the version of uh uh TikTok in China,
it is completely different. It is it is loaded up
with educational information, engineering clips, astronaut clips. It is they
have curated inside of China to be aspirationtional and inspirational

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for their young people.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
Very pro Chinese, very pro Chinese.

Speaker 5 (01:10:05):
Mouse say Dung was a humanist. Xijen Ping is his
you know, sacred holy child, you know, right, deer leader,
and you know all that stuff. And then you look
at the version they roll out to the rest of
the world, specifically the United States. It's got backdoor access
that's allowed to give them access to more and more
of your data and information they need to do something

(01:10:26):
with it. It is absolutely a trojan horse. And now
what I would be in favor of is either you know,
I mean, what I'd be in favor of is China
made their made their companies comply with international law. That
would be the easiest solution. But you know, the idea
of then American company buying the American made version and

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then even allowing that, you know, the Chinese company could
still own shares in that version, you know, not force
them out, but just you can't look, they chose to
design the app that way. They continue to deny the
way the app is built. Every every really smart tech
person I've looked at it just goes, oh, this isn't speculation, right,
Like they're not like saying they could do this. They're like,

(01:11:08):
this app was designed to do this.

Speaker 3 (01:11:09):
Absolutely, you know, So.

Speaker 12 (01:11:12):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
I would assume it's going to expire on Sunday. But
it is a valuable asset, especially here in the United States,
and I got to believe that they're interest interested parties
on both sides of this that would prefer it to
get resolved in some way, because right nobody makes money
for it not operating inside the United States. Absolutely, I
would think someone will get done. I just have no

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idea on the timing.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
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Speaker 5 (01:11:57):
All right, sounds good, chat. I have a good one.

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a little finally Friday and some What's trending which is
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Maybe we'll do some Village People stuff. They are playing
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the founder of the Village People, about why he's playing there.
I think it's fascinating. I think more people need to

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think like him, which is just crazy. Plus we'll talk
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Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
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Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
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Speaker 3 (01:13:28):
The Inauguration comes Monday, but Sunday comes the potential end
of TikTok.

Speaker 2 (01:13:39):
I don't think I can.

Speaker 3 (01:13:42):
Do it justice the impact that TikTok has had in
my business, cause.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
You guys know, look, I do stuff different, right. I
take the macro.

Speaker 3 (01:13:54):
Look well, everybody else look at the micro my business man.
Most of the people's Trump twenty four to seven, troop
trip toure, it's dead to all. It is do troop
trip and it's this or it's that, you know what.
I look at everything. I like talk about stuff. I
like talking.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
You and I are having a.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Conversation, right, you guys text. I text you guys throughout
the day, tweet at me and tweet back at you
as much as I possibly can. I mean, I I
like having a conversation. That's what I enjoy doing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:17):
And I like talking about things that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:18):
Impact everybody, not just people who hyper focus on one thing,
which is just boring as hell. And I've got friends
in this industry and I'm like, dude, how do you
do it every day? How do you just do it?
And they're like, well, it's what the audience wants. It
say that audience wants to talk about life, man, and

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nothing bigger than TikTok. Right now, Trump's coming in great,
that's happening. But the reality is the everyday average person,
He's gonna pay attention all day. It'll be neat, they'll
move on, it'll just be Monday. But TikTok going away,
Oh Nelly. And the impact that TikTok has on so

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many people, and everybody always thinks it's just the young.
It's not just the young. It's business owners. It is
the young, it's middle aged folks, it's boomers, it's everybody
is on TikTok. Social media has ever seen anything like this?

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
It hasn't. And while everybody's going it's, you know, the
Chinese thing, and it absolutely is.

Speaker 3 (01:15:29):
Let's be real. Let's not pretend for a second, right,
I'm not one of these guys. He goes, well, China
is not really spying. I don'ld say that. No, no,
they are, but they're spying on us everywhere. I've got
a camera in front of me that was made in China.
It's a really good camera. Now it's another company, but
it was made in China. Can I just tell you
I will come in at two or three in the

(01:15:50):
morning to start prepping for the show, because you know,
I have shows, and my camera's on my computer no,
it's sleeping, or it's off Amerzon. So China is always spying.
I just go with it's China.

Speaker 2 (01:16:04):
What if it's the NSSA, then it's the NSSA, for
God's sakes.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
But I think it's China, And everybody thought, well, this
is the way that China's going to go our stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
They've been collecting data for years.

Speaker 3 (01:16:13):
You guys know, we've had Gordon Chang, he's a regular
on the show, maybe the pre eminent voice in what
Happens in China, been warning people for decades about China
and what is coming. But while everybody's focused on the
trojan horse, as we heard our buddies Zach Abraham talk about,
you know, getting into certain thing, it's not about that.

(01:16:34):
They know they're not going to beat us. We could
give them all of our stuff. They're not gonna be
able to replicate ninety percent of it, any of that stuff.
What they can do is get at us. Our founding
fathers never worried about an invasion. They never worry about
being an attack. We've got Canada to the north the
top hat how's it going, eh? In my friends to

(01:16:54):
the south in Mexico. You just made a racism, the latchies.

Speaker 2 (01:17:03):
But what about the coast jed, We got oceans.

Speaker 3 (01:17:07):
But you know what, getting in here, getting into our culture,
that's what they worried about. How can they get to
us from within? Those things are what people should be
paying attention to while everybody else is worried about what

(01:17:30):
potentially may happen. But what about this and what about that?
They're worried about all of these things about they Oh,
they're going to get into our art. Yeah, they've already
done that. They've got into our water plants, they've got
into our power plants, They've got into everything you could
think of. Because they're hacking us. We're hacking them. But
they get into our culture. And it doesn't have to

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be praising their culture. It can be dividing us. It
can be using the algorithm, which is a guarded secret
by the military. It could be showing everybody how great
their country is and how horrible our country is. Well.
Their version of TikTok celebrates g celebrates Chinese culture. Nationalism

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promotes things like great grades, promotes things like amazing engineering feats,
Look at this kid play the violin, tiger mom stuff
ours promotes fun stuff, businesses, all these kind of things.
Not only does it distract us and it's fun, let's

(01:18:44):
be real, but inch by inch it's able to influence.

Speaker 18 (01:18:51):
The government has been lying to us about China for decades.

Speaker 25 (01:18:54):
Now that we've all gotten on Red now and we
can see the lifestyle that all of the Chinese people have.
A lot of us Amara skins are pissed, the price
of going out to eat, the price of groceries, public transportation,
and the people on Red Note are so flabbergasted that.

Speaker 18 (01:19:08):
We have to work two jobs just to keep our
roof over our head.

Speaker 25 (01:19:12):
US government, you've picked up big time, which is not
a surprise because you do it constantly, even if TikTok
gets banned.

Speaker 18 (01:19:18):
I've seen enough. I have been woken up.

Speaker 2 (01:19:21):
You've been woke, good enough, you're woke. You're awake to
how great China is.

Speaker 3 (01:19:29):
Again, it's the little things. Look what they did when
it came to Palestine. Through the algorithms they're able to manipulate,
and the algorithms, like I said, the thing that matters
more than anything else everything else is window dressing. If
you go to Red Note, which is we'll get to

(01:19:49):
that in a second, it's the Alternative and Lemonade. If
you go to any of these, they look virtually identical
in many ways, but the algorithm is the thing that matters.
But if you can get in and you can divide us.
You saw what a lot of people have talked about
the way that they've gotten into the colleges. And I'm
not talking about China, but many other disruptors, like looney

(01:20:15):
socialists who forever in a day made sure that they
could get into our education system and preach their insanity.
That's why we got the woke, wackiness and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
But this does something.

Speaker 3 (01:20:34):
Completely different because while you're in a room and somebody
you know, just going on and on about whatever it
is at a college, that doesn't follow you the way
that this does twenty four to seven. And in between,
you're looking at recipes, watching a funny dance, watching a

(01:20:54):
TV show, which is something else that's not being talked about.
The way that kids watch shows nowadays is it is amazing.
They do it minute by minute. Then I find myself
doing it minute by minute. The reason I watched land
Man my favorite show, it's because of TikTok.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I saw a couple of things with Billy Boba thought,
that's kind of neat.

Speaker 3 (01:21:17):
Next thing. You know, I've watched eight or ten of them,
and I'm like, Okay, we gotta watch this show. It works,
the influence it has, and that is scary.

Speaker 25 (01:21:28):
I grew up fed propaganda that China is evil and
that they treat their citizens like American culture. American society
is toxic, gross, poisonous. They poison our food, They jack
the prices up of everything. We don't get healthcare, we
don't get good public transportation, even though we're all on
the same continent. We destroy the planet for money, power

(01:21:51):
and control. Our government is funky as on the left
and on the right. This is a class for and
I will not be giving this fight.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
Up little things. The way they worked with Palestine to
create sympathy to grow all of these protests and unrest
on college campuses and everywhere else, it was eight or
ten to one pro Palestine versus pro Israel. Think about
that for a second. And the ones that got promoted

(01:22:21):
and the ones that were virtually invisible even though they
were on the site. This app is powerful. The cultural
impact is massive. So people are freaking out, Might it
go away? Well, there's an alternative right, Red Note.

Speaker 18 (01:22:43):
Hi, who else is here from TikTok?

Speaker 3 (01:22:46):
Pay all, thank you for welcoming us to the app.

Speaker 16 (01:22:52):
With TikTok's future hanging by us thread, a huge surge
of users are flooding a surprise.

Speaker 18 (01:22:58):
Alternative is so much better than TikTok.

Speaker 16 (01:23:01):
Red Note the English name for Shaohangshu, meaning little red book,
drawing comparisons to a collection of now Zadong's quotes. Red
Note is a Chinese communist government monitored social media platform
now topping Apple's US app store.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
And people are dumb enough to go, well, they're going
to keep this, aren't they. No, they're not. They're not.
It's a communist run one. They're not even pretending that
they're owned by somebody else. But the desperation and the
impact of the loss is causing people to look for
anything they can find as an alternative. Welcome. Red Note

(01:23:44):
is not in Instagram.

Speaker 16 (01:23:45):
Many say they came here out of spite.

Speaker 25 (01:23:48):
I refuse to support Facebook Meta, especially Elon Musk.

Speaker 3 (01:23:54):
Hey there, fellow TikTok refugee here, And I just want
to say I have no idea how to speak Chinese.

Speaker 14 (01:24:00):
I was scared that TikTok was gonna go away, so
I wanted to find an alternative.

Speaker 16 (01:24:04):
Heather Roberts from Texas says TikTok refugees like her are
desperate to find a new social media fix.

Speaker 3 (01:24:12):
I haven't been on Red Novel for very long.

Speaker 11 (01:24:13):
I've only been on there for maybe three days, and
I've found myself like, wow, this is this is very addicting.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
I'd probably say it's a little bit more addicting than TikTok.

Speaker 3 (01:24:21):
It's desperation, but it does show you the cultural impact
that TikTok has. And I don't think people understand it
because they're too busy thinking, well, it's all about the
trojan horse and the viruses that they're going to plant
inside the phones. Oh there's no doubt they'll try to
do that, but they've already done that. But while you're

(01:24:43):
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It's your Twitter, your Instagram and all of the other
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TikTok also trending because you know, could be going away,
might not be going away, could be going away, might

(01:29:16):
not be going away, Will.

Speaker 5 (01:29:17):
It be staying?

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
How long is it staying for? Did they extend you
or you you know, you see where we're going with this.
Bob Buker man, he was just a character, wasn't he.
Here's a guy who had a very below average baseball
career and took that and made it an entertainment career afterwards.

Speaker 39 (01:29:40):
Bob Buker, often referred to as Mister Baseball, passed away
at ninety years old after a battle with small cell
lung cancer.

Speaker 3 (01:29:45):
Mis Baseball Bob Yucker.

Speaker 39 (01:29:47):
Following a brief career as a backup catcher in the majors.
Uker's charisma and wit led to him being a frequent
guest of Johnny Carson's after famous appearances and Miller White commercials.

Speaker 3 (01:29:55):
Most endearing legacy maybe the fifty four years he spent
calling games for his hometown w he Brewers, And of
course for most people who didn't watch any of the
Brewers' games or here Uker, we saw him as I
must have been the front row right with doing those commercials.
But then it was he was on Mister Belvidere for years.
But it was Harry Doyle, the great Harry Doyle in

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Major League that Uker.

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Well, he did what he did so well. He played himself.

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Bob ucker Rip passed away yesterday at age ninety three,
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lot of stuff still to squeeze into. It's the Friday
before the inauguration. Talk a little bit about that bunch
of other stuff. Chad Benson, Joe Son, Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:31:16):

Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
The bcles.

Speaker 5 (01:31:21):
Have spoken.

Speaker 3 (01:31:24):
That's what I call scotus. I feel like they're oracles.
They have spoken about Thine TikTok. We shall deliver.

Speaker 2 (01:31:34):
Ah sentence. We uphold thine band.

Speaker 40 (01:31:40):
The Supreme Court announcing in this decision that they will
not save TikTok. The Supreme Court, in this unsigned ruling
has upheld a federal law that will require TikTok as
of Sunday to face a nationwide ban in the United
States unless it's Chinese based parent company Bite Dance divests now.

Speaker 3 (01:31:58):
Bite Dance and TikTok have been.

Speaker 40 (01:31:59):
Saying all along that divestment is not feasible and that
if this ban is allowed to go into effect, which
it is now poised to do, that TikTok will effectively
go dark.

Speaker 3 (01:32:09):
TikTok had been hoping for months that this day would
not come.

Speaker 40 (01:32:12):
They had been challenging this law that was passed by
bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed into law by President
Biden in April.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
And that was not in April. Fool.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
So I'll tell you that right now. So Sunday, in theory,
should nothing happen, then what so the way this law is.

Speaker 40 (01:32:31):
Designed, it would prevent places like Apple and Google, these
app stores and other service providers from providing their services
to TikTok. So it would ban Apple and Google from,
for example, offering TikTok on their app stores. They couldn't
provide updates to the app. But the law does not
specifically tell TikTok it has to shut down completely. If
you already have TikTok downloaded on your phone, the law

(01:32:53):
would not mandate that the automatically just disappears as of Sunday. Now,
TikTok has been claiming that this is a doomsday scenario
and that they're effectively going to have to shut down
all US operations. Now we'll see of course, after that
decision changes, whether the trajectory changes. The government here had
been effectively accusing TikTok of playing a game of chicken,
and they said, you know, once the Supreme Court comes
out with this ruling, maybe TikTok will reverse course.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
We'll see, but I doubt it.

Speaker 3 (01:33:18):
So if you've got it downloaded, from what I understand,
I've talked to several people about this, you will still
have all the stuff that's on your app, but there
won't be any new stuff, and it will take you
to like a web page or something. That's what I understand.

(01:33:39):
Everybody's like, well, they're not going to enforce it, right
Like as Biden said he wasn't going to enforce it,
Trump says he's not going to enforce it. Here's THETHEU
with that. Are any of these companies ballsy enough to
go screw it, We're still going to do it. That's
a good question because there could be issues monetarily. Even

(01:34:05):
though Biden and Trump said, well, we're not going to
enforce it, the reality is, do you want to chance
that with the size of fines you could face.

Speaker 40 (01:34:18):
Even if, for example, the new administration, once they take
control of the Justice Department says that they're just not
going to enforce this law that has now been upheld.
Then the question becomes, well, companies like Apple and Google
go along with it because this law, if they are
prosecuted and the found to violate it, they can be
fined up to five thousand dollars per user. So if
you just do the napkin math, you know, five thousand

(01:34:38):
dollars per user, millions of users, that's quickly finds amounting
into the billions. So even if Trump doesn't want to
enforce this law, there really is this whole other question
of whether tech companies will take it off their app
stores because they're concerned about the risk.

Speaker 3 (01:34:51):
And that's the big thing. Do you want to actually risk.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
The what if scenario?

Speaker 3 (01:35:04):
You pissed Trump off?

Speaker 2 (01:35:07):
I mean, you don't know what could happen? I mean,
I that's an.

Speaker 3 (01:35:14):
I enjoyed me some Donald and I like a lot
of the stuff that he wants to do. He can
be fickle at times. Let's be real. I'm still waiting
for him and Elan to blow up. You know what's
gonna happen on several occasions. By the way, He's gonna
wear Trump out Trump's gonna wear him out. They'll go
back and forth. Eh, so the tick and the tuck.

(01:35:39):
We'll see what happens on Sunday. Because TikTok, what I
do know is they are keeping their people in the
States on payroll, so that we do know. So does
it mean that you're not gonna be able to get
it anymore? Does it mean that they're gonna give it?
You know, a couple of weeks to find out what happens.

(01:36:00):
The CEO of TikTok is going to be there on Monday.

Speaker 2 (01:36:08):
With all the other tech gurus at the inauguration.

Speaker 3 (01:36:13):
So that'll be interesting to see how this thing plays
itself out, because of course you're going to write it
for as long as you can. Like you said, you
didn't play a game of chicken. Well, look, you guys
did this to yourselves. I understand why you did it.
You were looking in the wrong place, but you did
this to yourself. You passed a law and that said
oh no, no. It's like you guys sent an email

(01:36:38):
telling your boss to f off, and now you're trying
to figure out how to retrieve it and it's already gone.
Now the only thing that's left to do is try
to hack into his computer. How do you think the
youth of America field They're gonna blame it on the
old folk.

Speaker 10 (01:36:56):
This is all employed by senior citizens that run out
government to make us believe that they know better than us,
when the reality is is the world doesn't necessarily align
with their boomer opinions. If this goes through, you're gonna
see a lot of these politicians that voted for this
get voted out of office upon the next cycle. I lose,
you know, almost three hundred and seventy thousand followers, But

(01:37:20):
I don't think it matters. Like those people are not
going to stop watching vertical video. I don't think anything's
gonna happen. I think it's all a dog and pony show.

Speaker 3 (01:37:28):
It's all a Doug and pony show. Well, the oracles
looked at you, sir and said, so there you go.
There you have it, at least for now. Like I said,
none of this stuff is going to be sorted out
by Sunday. And even if he signs an executive order,
according to the way the law is written, the only
way it could be extended ninety days is if it

(01:37:52):
was in the middle of the sales process. Because let's
just say somebody wants to buy it, you gotta figure
out how are you gonna pay for it. Cash value
is probably gonna be fifty plus billion dollars with us
we pay for Twitter. Yeah, but there's probably gonna be
a lot more than that. I mean, if it was
the IPO today, you're probably talking three four hundred billion.

(01:38:15):
You've got lots of people who have their their fingers
in the pie. So we'll see how this plays it out.
For sure. Monday is inauguration Day. And guess who's gonna
be there. Oh, you know it, kids, the village people

(01:38:47):
are gonna be there. And Victor Willis, the leader of
the Village People, is actually speaking up about the fact
that he's coming.

Speaker 9 (01:38:54):
Yeah, we're doing it in a couple of the inaugural balls.

Speaker 41 (01:38:56):
As a matter of fact, we're doing it at the
Turning Point Rally and we're doing it at the Liberty Rally,
which are which are both part of the inauguration. And
what they did was they sent an email to Karen
and ask her to my wife and ask her if

(01:39:18):
it was okay to for village people to.

Speaker 9 (01:39:22):
Do the inauguration.

Speaker 41 (01:39:24):
And she came to me, and we spoke and we
decided yes that basically politically we had the candidates that
we wanted to win and basically lost. But at that
point we were we felt that we should let politics
stay out of our music and that we should try
to help unite the country by doing y m c

(01:39:47):
A at the inauguration for Democrats as well as Republicans.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
Which I think is absolutely awesome. He also said, we're
going to do our dance, the y m c A.
And Trump's going to be on stage with us, and
we're gonna show him this is the dance, and then
hopefully he does it, but if not, then he does
his own thing. But I like the fact that he said, look,
our guy didn't win, but it doesn't matter because we're showing.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
Up and we're gonna do it for everybody.

Speaker 26 (01:40:14):
I like that.

Speaker 3 (01:40:14):
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We are a few days away from the inauguration of
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forty fifth president. That's right, kids, it's coming on Monday.
We'll have full Chad Team coverage all day long, will
we No, we won't. But you know, today's Friday, and

(01:42:01):
let's look back. Listen back if you will, to this
past week of chaos, craziness, and insanity. It is fatily Friday.

Speaker 14 (01:42:12):
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Barby's burning.

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Speaker 16 (01:42:44):
It's fine Friday, Freak. I'm done my motor running again.

Speaker 22 (01:42:52):
Finally, Friday.

Speaker 18 (01:42:58):
I'm about telling us my job on tech talk as
an influencer.

Speaker 21 (01:43:01):
TikTok's lawyer says the app will go dark in the
US on January nineteenth.

Speaker 18 (01:43:05):
Idea of TikTok going away is scary. But you know
what's scarier, Elon Musk owning it. We're just going to
TikTok's other app. I'm a TikTok refe you Hello, lemonade.

Speaker 3 (01:43:16):
It's fun.

Speaker 17 (01:43:17):
Five, it's fun.

Speaker 21 (01:43:28):
The billionaire right knows that they cannot take California home
to Hollywood, San Francisco and Kendrick Lamar like culture, so
they're looking to try to take it with lies.

Speaker 9 (01:43:43):
It is not my nature to go quietly to the night,
so don't worry about that.

Speaker 28 (01:43:49):
Thousands rejoicing at the prospects of reprieve from a brutal
war that's decimated much of the guzz and landscape.

Speaker 3 (01:43:55):
Killing more than forty six thousand Palestinians. I know who
loves this bill.

Speaker 1 (01:44:00):
Us bigoted folks love this bill.

Speaker 18 (01:44:16):
You don't want to ask that we're.

Speaker 23 (01:44:21):
Also Can you so casually cheat on a second wife
and cheat on the mother of a child who had
been born two months before, and you tell.

Speaker 5 (01:44:29):
Us you are completely cleared?

Speaker 15 (01:44:31):
Will you resign as Secretary of Defense if you drink
on the job.

Speaker 29 (01:44:35):
Well, in short, I think Pete Hexath kicked our asses today.

Speaker 28 (01:44:38):
No oligarch is taking shape in America of extreme wealth,
power and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy.

Speaker 16 (01:44:45):
Are basic grace, their freedoms.

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
I hate America. What a week, My god, craziness, chaos, fires, bravestone,
frog's falling from the air. And then come Monday, Donald
Trump sworn in again, and what is going to be

(01:45:10):
the full Oh?

Speaker 36 (01:45:11):
What is it?

Speaker 3 (01:45:12):
The coldest inauguration in forty plus years because we're getting
an arctic blast. By the way, Trump's transition, you know,
they put a portrait up.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
It's very interesting the portrait.

Speaker 42 (01:45:25):
It is not your traditional White House portrait. The President
elect making sort of the same face he made when.

Speaker 3 (01:45:31):
His mugshot was taken.

Speaker 42 (01:45:33):
It's unclear why the President elect wanted to make this face,
but I will tell you. Look, I covered President elect
Donald Trump's campaign. Defiance was a major theme from the
campaign now to the White House defiance.

Speaker 3 (01:45:48):
So because Trump knows right, he gets it. It's all
about branding. He's like, man, I sell out of T
shirts with these things. I saw it all over yesterday,
all over the interwebs like that. It's just that's what
he does. He's like, I got a good look. I
know how to use this look. I'm gonna use the look.

(01:46:09):
And they're like, but it feels a little dark. He goes,
you know what, because you know, the portrait he really
wanted was him with his fist in the air. Same fight.
Fight fight. They're like, we can't, that's not what we're
doing here. He said, why don't we just get a
fat head one of those sticker things you can put
on them. That would be so trough right there. I
don't think that's really Truugh it is so Monday is

(01:46:31):
the big day, and it's gonna be very interesting to see.
I want to see first of all, the cold is
that's gonna I don't know. People have already made their
plans and they're going and you know, great and whatnot.
But the people local travel, I want to see what
that's like. But on top of that, I want to
se what the security's like. We talked about it a
little while ago. You know, they've got everything locked down.

(01:46:54):
How far away are people really going to be. It's
it's gonna be interesting to see what it looks like
on TV. It's going to be very I mean, just
because we're in a time when, let's be honest, you know,
the arrest of the guy yesterday North Carolina who was
trying to buy guns. Isis blegend his allegiance. You pray

(01:47:20):
to God nothing happens, but you never know. So this
is going to be a very interesting day. And then
how soon to he fires off those hundred executive orders,
probably practicing writing his name as we speak, TikTok? Will
it or won't it? That is a great question. And
even if it does, who's going to enforce it?

Speaker 22 (01:47:40):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:47:40):
The Biden and Trump administrations, who both supported the ban
in the past, appear to be looking for ways to
stop the shutdown, Biden's White House saying it won't enforce
the ban, and Trump now considering an executive order to
try to circumvent the law.

Speaker 3 (01:47:56):
And all that being said, even if they give him
ninety days. As we talked last hour to Zach Abram,
chief vestment officer for Capitol, if you missed it, go
grab it is interesting the thought of Elon buying it,
everyone saying, oh, that'd be great, or some people like
that's horrible. The cost is massive. He said, Look, if

(01:48:18):
we're to ipo that he goes, I'm just taking a
shot in the dark. You got to look at all
the stuff, but you might be looking at three four
hundred million dollars a billion dollars off the top. Three
four hundred billion, not million, but a billion dollars. THEMS
is a lot of bucks. He paid forty billion, which
I thought was too much for Twitter. This is ten

(01:48:40):
times that because it's so much bigger. Indeed, three two three, five,
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know how we finished this show as much as we
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(01:49:02):
much longer. No, it's time for the Gary Pucy moment
of the day.

Speaker 27 (01:49:10):
Two circles moving forever is one and that's what love is.

Speaker 3 (01:49:15):
Short, sweet, and insane. What a way to finish Three
two three, five, three eight twenty four to twenty three
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and amazing weekend. Inauguration Day on Monday, and you know what,
We're gonna do a show on that day because that's
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(01:49:36):
as always night not Jack.

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