Trump's Trade War and the Effects It Will Have on Americans

Trump's trade war and the effects it will have on Americans. Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter. FDA approves new, non-addictive opiod alternative for pain relief. Grammy Awards 2025. Passengers eveacuate after United Airlines plane catches fire.

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The battle has begun.

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Trump is moving fast and one of the things he
said he was going to do was tariffs. Who tariffs, Yep, tariffs.
He's doing it terriffy. It will start tomorrow. One of
the things that you must do as any leader, when
you do something like this that will affect everybody potentially

(00:35):
depending how long this goes, she must explain to people
why you're doing it. You must explain to people what
may be coming transparency. If there is going to be
some pain, explain it to him. And you're doing it
for these reasons. Therefore, at the end of it there

(00:57):
will be long term gain.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Have short term so a little pain and people understand that,
but long term, the United States has been ripped off
by virtually every country in the world. We have deficits
with almost every country.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Not every country, but almost almost every country, but a
lot of them all Right, So people are like, Okay,
what is a trade deficit?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (01:21):
So trade balance exports, things we export versus things we import.
We import far more than we export. Talked about it
for a long time. We're consumer based nation now and
because we like to consume rather than make, we like
stuff cheap, and cheap comes from places like China. Now

(01:46):
China's gonna get ten percent, and that's going to be
based on the Fentinel.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
It's the issue he's going in with their.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
We've had a back and forth with him for quite
a long time and it included yes, even pre Trump,
through Trump, even through by So we'll see what this
does and when to talk about fental always say this,
if there wasn't a market here would be an issue.
Our consumption is as much our problem as anything else.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Now when it.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Comes to the other stuff we as a nation do
like things cheap, we don't produce.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Am I a fan of this?

Speaker 5 (02:24):
Not?

Speaker 2 (02:24):
Genuinely? Do I understand why he's doing some of these things.
I do.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
The question is will people understand it when prices go up?
If they go up, depending again, how long these things
go because as we all know, not everything that Trump does.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Is a situation.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
Where he does it, it's put into effect and it
goes on forever sometimes and Tariff's being one of them.
It's a negotiating tool. So could go on a week,
could go on a month, could go on a year.
The possibility is there. There's no doubt about that first
up Mexico.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
Produce is likely where Americans will fill at first, So
think things like you know, Kelly mentioned it, we picked
it up. We got things like avocados here, so avocados, tomatoes, strawberries,
things like that from Mexico and analystsa you could see prices.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
Climb in just a couple of weeks. That's how soon
we're talking about. I know it's early in the morning.

Speaker 6 (03:19):
But you also mentioned alcohol, think booze as well, Tequila, mezcal,
and beer brands like Modello from Mexico, currently America's best
selling beer produced in Mexico by group of Modelo, which
also you know, exports other popular labels think Corona Pacifico.
According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States,

(03:39):
we've taken four point six billion in tequila from Mexico
and over five hundred million in Canadian alcohol as well.
Expect those prices to jump significantly.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So there we go. Now that's short term.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
The long term would be stuff like cars, electronics, things
of that nature is up today, so well, there's going
to be some short term pain and in theory for
long term gain. Now that's Mexico, that is our number
one trading partner onto the Canucks who boot our anthem,
which I thought was kind of a dick move, but whatever, right, whatever,

(04:15):
And every time I hear Trump goes we should make
good at the fifty first state, I'm like, is that
what you really want? They'd be the second largest state
and anyone, anyone do you think they're.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
More conservative or more liberal? Do you want to give
them two senators? Is that what you want to do?

Speaker 7 (04:31):
Mm?

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Just throwing it out there onto Canada.

Speaker 6 (04:33):
Price Frickingadian imports like beef and maple syrup on your
pancakes also at risk of going up.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
We're talking about a possible jumping the.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
Cost of everyday staples, especially you know, if grocery stores
pass those tears straight onto consumers people like you and I.
Something else we didn't really talk about, really really fast
electronics from China. Cell phones, laptops could go up down
the road, get a little bit priser, so budget lab
at Yell they say that this could cost on average,

(05:03):
all Americans about twelve hundred more for the duration of
the year, depending on how long these tariffs last.

Speaker 3 (05:10):
And that's a big how long I couldn't tell you.
Their argument is we take it into shorts, we end
up hurting our own workers, We end up basically looking
for cheap goods.

Speaker 2 (05:26):
And the stuff that we manufacture here.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
They won't let us settle over there, which is one
of those things that pisses us all off. And they
want to be able to sell their goods here. So
there we go, and the thought about, well, so if
we do this, this may incentivize, this may push companies
to start to bring back business here. Manufacturing and whatnot.

(05:53):
Sounds great, except for time.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
There has been some evidence that there is an effort
to on shore basically if tariffs are high enough. The
problem there is that takes a lot of time. I
was talking to one toy manufacturer about eighty percent of
all toys that come into the US come from China,
and I said, what would it take for you to
make your products here?

Speaker 2 (06:16):
And the reality is he says that would take years?
And how long are people willing to say?

Speaker 3 (06:22):
I'm fine with that? Not just for toys, I'm talking
about for everything. That's the big deal. Trump is looking
around and he's betting that both of these countries will fold. China,
that's a whole different set of battles that have gone
on and will continue to go on. But I'm really
focusing on Mexico and Canada and how long can people

(06:44):
hold on for One of the big reasons that Trump
is president is the fact that people got sick and
tired of inflation. People got sick and tired of the
nightmare of inflation, of the rising cost of everything, never
seeing to go down.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
Even though at times your paycheck.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Was rising, your earnings were rising, the reality was life
was passing you by as far as the price of
goods and the price of survival. So you get it
ten percent raise, but stuff went up fifteen percent. Well
you're down five percent. That wasn't theory, that was reality.

(07:24):
And are people willing to go.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
And pay more?

Speaker 3 (07:32):
That's what you've got to convince them of. If you're
the president, that's your sales pitch to them. Let me
tell you why this is important. Okay, let's see what
he can do. Who beleeks first, Mexico, Canada, both America.
Look at it this way. Everybody's got a finite amount

(07:53):
of oxygen for the most part in their tanks, and
they're below the surface. Do you have enough oxygen to
get you to the surface? For us, We're kind of
like Aquaman. Little unlimited oxygen doesn't mean it can't get uncomfortable.
We may not get the bends. People will complain. We'll
find out. But for Mexico and for Canada, they've got

(08:16):
a finite amount of oxygen. You have five minutes of oxygen,
but it's eight minutes to the top. That's gonna be tough.
We shall see three two, three, five, three eight, twenty
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Speaker 2 (08:28):
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Speaker 3 (08:29):
Meanwhile, immigration insanity continuing to go on as we all know,
and this weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Let me tell you something.

Speaker 3 (08:39):
If you have never how many times do we have
to say this on our show, I'm gonna tell you
guys this again. I don't care how much I may
agree with your position in life. If you stop traffic,
I hate your position and I will absolutely do everything
in my power to make sure did I go against

(09:02):
your position now in this case it's immigration, illegal immigration.
I don't hate the position, but the reality is stopping
traffic in the middle of the freeway in one of
the busiest areas of traffic on the planet is insane.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Saying it's a mess is the understatement of the century.

Speaker 9 (09:21):
It has been a problem all day long as many
of these protesters have been not just on the one
on one, but many of these streets in downtown La
So LAPED has come in to try to manage the
traffic situation, which was a bit scary at times because
cars were moving as protesters were moving physically on the
street as well. They were moving slow, albeit but they
weren't moving around at the same time.

Speaker 2 (09:44):
It was a nightmare. It was an absolute freaking loot nightmare.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Because we want people to what again, I go back
to what you what.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
Is it you want?

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Oh, well, we want people to to be find what
being here illegally. Look, we're not getting rid of everybody,
We're just not That isn't going to happen. The people
need to recognize that. That being said, the fact that
you want to stop ice from going and picking up

(10:20):
people that are bad, people that are told they must
leave because they've gone through the system. The system has
told them they do not meet the qualifications to stay
here for asylum, so they've got in order to be removed.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Or the people that have come here completely.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
Illegally, they didn't even try to get asylum they snuck
across the border.

Speaker 2 (10:44):
Those people all need to go, period.

Speaker 3 (10:48):
And every time a city stands up and says we're
not going to cooperate with ice, remember this. You not
cooperating with ice, especially when it comes to criminals. Does
what it brings ice into place is where there are
going to be collaterals, people that haven't done anything, who
have lived here for decades in many cases, and now

(11:10):
they're gonna get caught up in it. Because you want
to make a social stand. Good luck with that. We'll
find out how that works for you. Three two, three, five,
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a ton of stuff to talk about today. We're gonna
talk more about immigration and the insanity. We're going to
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This was something last week that should have made bigger noise,
but because of Trump and he sucks the oxygen out
of the room when it comes to everything. For the
first time in two decades, new pain meds non addictive,

(18:42):
you say.

Speaker 12 (18:44):
Central game changer for the millions of Americans who are
dealing with pain. The FDA has now approved a new
pain medication for the first time in more than two decades.
It's sold under the brand name Gynaviics. It's billed as
non addictive, and it could be again. It could be
quite the game changer in pain management.

Speaker 10 (19:01):
Experts say it could reduce the number of opioids patients
are prescribed after surgery.

Speaker 2 (19:06):
That right there, kids, is huge.

Speaker 3 (19:07):
You know, as we talk about the battle of Tariff's
fentanyl and all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
Remember this opioids has led to a massive.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
Addiction culture, and in doing so, that massive addiction culture
has led to a spike in the amount of fentanyl
that is brought into our country.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
So could this truly be the game changer? Let's find out.

Speaker 13 (19:42):
This is the first new pain medication that has been
improved in over twenty years. It has approved to treat
moderate to severe acute pain, such as after surgery or
after trauma, after tissue injury. Very expensive, about a little
over fifteen dollars per pill, which is significantly more expensive
than what's currently use.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
For post pain.

Speaker 14 (20:01):
For example.

Speaker 13 (20:02):
Side effects generally well tolerated. Some nausea and headache.

Speaker 3 (20:06):
That's not too bad, It's not awful, right if you
want to fight some pain that you have, say I
have surgery on your knee, something like that. Non addictive.
And that's the big thing here. People are willing to
accept a little bit of something. In every single study,

(20:27):
enough people take something, you're gonna have nausea, headache, something
like that, diarrhea, something like that, you know what I mean.
So this is again a game changer when we talk
about the amount of addiction that we have in this nation.
I joked about it earlier, but the reality is is,
you know, we could sit here and say China, this
is your fault, Mexico, this is your fault. We don't

(20:48):
want all this stuff flooding in here. We have a
consumption problem. We have to look at ourselves having something
that would be non addictive.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
And I know this. Am I a little bit skeptical
of some of this?

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Yeah, because I was told, well not me, but the
entire world was told that any of that other stuff
that was out there was not non addictive. Right, it
was all non addictive. You're not gonna be addicted.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Nothing you can do.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
It's all candy you're taking there. It's gonna make you
feel better. Well it wasn't.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
It wasn't.

Speaker 3 (21:17):
Those opioids weren't candy. Yeah, they made you feel better
till your life got worse. You hear stories about people
that are terrifying where it's like they hurt their back
or they hurt their knee, they went in got some opioids.
The next thing you know, it's six months or a
year later, they're living on the streets. Their family hasn't

(21:39):
seen them like that, all because of a knee injury
or back injury. So that's why this is such a
big deal.

Speaker 13 (21:48):
Pain is a very subjective experience. It's the way the
brain is perceiving tissue injury. The way this medicine works
is that it's blocking the transmission of that pain signal
at the level of of the trauma or the illness
or the tissue injury. Is that pain signal then does
not get to the spinal cord, doesn't get to the brain,

(22:09):
very different than the way opioids work. Opioids work by
blocking that pain signal at the level of the brain,
and opioids are accompanied by that feeling of euphoria, which
is why it could potentially lead to addiction.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
As we all know.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
Yeah, and this stuff you take and it just makes
it feel sad, does it?

Speaker 15 (22:27):
No?

Speaker 3 (22:27):
I don't know what it makes you feel. If you
just want the pain gone. You guys know, if you
listen to the show, I'm big Tee Todler. I don't drink,
I don't do drugs, I don't do any of that stuff.
I'm very much o't smoke. I'm just very boring. Never
have had even tasted alcohol any of that stuff. And
there's a reason for that, because I grew up in
and around alcoholism and addiction, which eventually costs my father's life.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
And I will tell you it is terrifying. It is
super terrifying.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
And it only takes one little thing for some people
to become addicted, and that's scary. They probably have addictive personalities,
but especially if you're dealing with certain chronic pain and
you have to take a few of these things. Because
the weird thing is is, especially when it comes to
chronic pain, you need something for the pain, and yet

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that thing may cause you to eventually become an addict.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
So it's that weird kind of dilemma.

Speaker 3 (23:25):
And I went and had my tooth pool about two
months ago, and I'm like, they're like you, I'm like, Nope,
don't want anything, don't need anything. If I need some
I'll take an aspirin. I'll be fine that I don't.
I don't want anything because of the potential of what
may happen.

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Yes, absolutely, Plus I think.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
We get we handed them all out way, way way
too easy back in the day.

Speaker 13 (23:51):
As soon as I got this, you know, press release too,
I was like, yes, this is something I can use.

Speaker 6 (23:56):
In my arsenal.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
Not quite there yet.

Speaker 13 (23:58):
So far the studies in more chronic pain conditions have
been a little bit mixed.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
But why we are so.

Speaker 13 (24:04):
Excited about it anyone who treats patients with pain, is
that this is a novel mechanism of action. This is
a new target, and so definitely everyone's excited about future
research expanding on this and something that could definitely help folks.
And just a point right now, this kind of acute
pain is treated with anti inflammatories opioids, and for a
lot of people it is not ideal, and so this

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is a great place for a medicine like this.

Speaker 3 (24:29):
So for the average person you go in you have
knee surgery, this will be perfect for you, rather than
giving you something much harder. And I know now they're
trying to like give you, you know, like eight hundred
ibuprofen and some other stuff.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
And if you can avoid it and just suck through
the pain, just get through it, you know, bite down
on something.

Speaker 3 (24:48):
What I tell everybody, it's terrifying, it really is, because
have you ever seen anything that's ravaged. I mean as
bad as crack was, and it was horrible. This is
that on steroids and it was legal. And then you know,
you see what has happened to whole towns and cities,

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just devastated, Just scary.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Glad that there may be an alternative.

Speaker 3 (25:19):
And again maybe especially for I think people who've got
one offs you had to go and have surgery on
your elbow, your wrist, whatever it is, This will help you.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
And it's non addictive. Three two, three, five.

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Speaker 2 (25:38):
Meanwhile, the tariff battle is going on.

Speaker 3 (25:44):
What's gonna happen? Prices may go up a little bit?
Are they gonna go up a lot of bit? Depends
depends on how long they last, if they last months, months,
months and months. Yes, some things are gonna go up,
and it's going to be a bit of a situation
where we're going to have some issues with certain products,

(26:06):
not all products, but certain products, and prices will rise,
not for everything. But it's always about negotiation. It's not
where you start in this situation, it's where you finish.
But there is a question of how long until the
finish line.

Speaker 5 (26:24):
US Customs and Border Protection data shows just one point
five percent of migrant apprehensions are happening at the Canadian
border and less than one percent of fentanel seizures. The
US President also going as far as to say Canada
is not a viable country without US economic support, and
posting that Canada should become the fifty first state, saying
much lower taxes, better military protection, and no tariffs.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
You might want to settle down on that. As I
said earlier, what are you going to do.

Speaker 3 (26:55):
They're going to be a Democrat state, so you're going
to give them two more senators and voting power. They'll
probably get forty five Electoral College votes. They would be
the second largest by population state. So I don't think

(27:16):
you want to do that. I think you think if, oh,
if we bring them in, they're gonna want to If
you ask the Canadians, maybe they don't want to be
a part of our our country. I'm just saying, maybe
ask them, hey, guys want to be part of our country.
They'll probably say no, And that's okay. We don't need
them to be a part of our country. We'll make

(27:37):
them a territory.

Speaker 2 (27:38):
How's that?

Speaker 3 (27:40):
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Grammy Talk who last night?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Indeed, guess who won? Not me? Not me? But I
will tell you who won.

Speaker 16 (29:05):
Chad Benson Show, serving up talk radio medium, rare and
dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (29:20):
It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 14 (29:25):
In a night filled with tributes to a fire ravaged LA,
the Grammys concluded with members of the County of Los
Angeles Fire Department presenting Album of the Year to Beyonce's
Cowboy Carter. While Beyonce is the most decorated artist in
Grammy history, it marked her first time ever taking home
the Album of the Year prize. She also won Best
Country Album and Best Country Performance.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Overall.

Speaker 14 (29:47):
Kendrick Lamar was the night's top winner, taking home five trophies,
including Record and Song of the Year for Not Like us.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
Okay, So my question is this, that's the difference between
the Record of the Year and.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
The album the Year. I have the answer.

Speaker 3 (30:02):
So Record of the Year recognizes the award goes to
a single song, honoring the performance and production of that song. Okay,
So that includes the artist, a producer, recording engineers, mixing,
mastering engineers.

Speaker 2 (30:16):
Who worked on the track.

Speaker 3 (30:18):
Okay, So Uptown Funk, Mark, Ronson, Bruno Mars they both
won Ronson Got producer, Mars got Performer. Album of the
Year different recognizes the entirety of the album, the overall
artistic version, production and songwriting. So producers, recording engineers, mixers,

(30:41):
songwriters as well as the artist. So that's the different.
One is a single and all that it encompasses and everybody.
The other, the album is everybody on the album, including
like the entire vision of set album.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
Because I was like totally confused, I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
What's a record. Well, first of all, kids are like,
I have no idea. I couldn't even tell you what
a record is.

Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't know all the records have made it come
back over the last few years.

Speaker 3 (31:10):
Just not pretend that they haven't, because they're kind of
hip and cool, the kind of hip and cool. So
Beyonce won and Kendrick lamar one those are the big
winners of the night. And then of course we had
to sit through a bunch of the usual Trump's evil,
Trump's bad, but also some interesting ones.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Let's start with a little bit of Trump's evil, Trevor, Noah,
But you.

Speaker 17 (31:33):
Know, the fifties are gonna come for you. Don't want
to mess with them. Many They're like an army of
Kendrick Lamas.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
All Right.

Speaker 17 (31:37):
The point is, people, we're gonna make some night special.
We're gonna try and have some fun and I we're
gonna do something different, right.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
I don't know if you know this.

Speaker 17 (31:44):
There's been a few changes in Washington. So I'm gonna
enjoy it tonight because this may be my last time
I get to host anything in this country.

Speaker 3 (31:50):
Dah, because you're gonna get rid of you and stuff
and whatnot. A good speech by Beyonce. I didn't watch
any of the Grammys, but I do watch this speech,
and there was a damn good speech.

Speaker 15 (31:58):
Wow. I really look expecting this. Wow. I want to
thank God, oh my God, that I'm able to still
do what I love after so many years.

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Oh my god.

Speaker 15 (32:17):
I like to thank all of the incredible country artists
that accepted this album. We worked so hard on it.
I think sometimes genre is a cold word to keep
us in our place as artists, and I just want
to encourage people to do what they're passionate about and

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to stay persistent.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (32:45):
I like to thank my beautiful family, all of the
artists that were collaborators. Thank you. This wouldn't have been
this album without you. Like to thank God again and
my fans and I still am in shock, So thank
you so much for this honor.

Speaker 2 (33:04):
No mention of ditty there, that's kind of odd, jeez, Chad.

Speaker 14 (33:09):
Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees
with a liveable wage and health insurance and protection.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
Labels, we got you, but do you got us?

Speaker 15 (33:21):
Uh?

Speaker 10 (33:21):
What?

Speaker 2 (33:23):
Wait?

Speaker 3 (33:23):
What what do we need to do? We need to
something about healthcare. I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.
You want healthcare?

Speaker 2 (33:31):
That right there is Chappelle Ron Shakira.

Speaker 16 (33:35):
I want to dedicate this a word to all my
immigrant brothers and sisters.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
In this country.

Speaker 16 (33:44):
You're loved, You're worth it, and I will always fight
with you.

Speaker 3 (33:49):
Shake those hips baby, that's not very nice. Here's some
more wackiness.

Speaker 2 (33:53):
We've seen it on this stage.

Speaker 15 (33:55):
Talented, hard working people from different backgrounds, with different.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Points of view, and it changes the game.

Speaker 15 (34:02):
DEI is not a threat, it's a gift.

Speaker 3 (34:05):
Lisia keys there. And by the way, you said the
first thing talented. Remember that's the whole thing with DEI.
Diversity's fine inclusions. Fight can you with the opportunity include
them in what you're doing. But equity, that's the difference
in that, right, And the difference is it's that word equity.
Keep telling people out there, it's not about equity. Equity
is we're all getting something here. We're all getting that trophy,

(34:28):
no matter what happens. No, including people, give people the opportunity.
Diverse is great, But what makes us who we are
in America is the strength of our unity into things
and the ties that bind us of being an American.
But DEI is ridiculous. And you said the word talent
and talent it's all about meritocracy. Do you have talent,

(34:48):
because if you do, fantastic. I didn't see anybody up there.
It's like, hey, look, Jim can't singer play an instrument,
but he deserves this tonight because of equity. And finally,
one more insanity.

Speaker 2 (35:00):
I just want to.

Speaker 8 (35:00):
Say tonight that trans people are not invisible.

Speaker 15 (35:06):
Trans people deserve love, The queer community deserves.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
To be lifted up. Okay, there you go. That's Lady Gaga, right,
they're talking about trans people.

Speaker 3 (35:14):
At no time did she apologize for that horrific movie
that she did with Joaquin Phoenix, The Joker.

Speaker 14 (35:20):
Two.

Speaker 2 (35:20):
You should have apologized for that, madam. I wish you
were invisible?

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Oh uh th thrown it out there three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Shows.
Your Twitter tweet at a text program right here in
the Chad Benson Show. Coming up, hour two of The
Chad Benson Show. On this Monday, it's tariff Monday. Tomorrow's
really tariff Tuesday. That's when everything goes into effect. So

(35:46):
how's this going to affect you? I mean, this a
big question going on out there for a lot of people.
Trump coming out talking about We're gonna feel some pain.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Good. Explain to the people.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
What you're doing and why you're doing it. The more
that you're open with them, transparent with them, the more
they understand, the more they're.

Speaker 2 (36:04):
Willing to go. Okay, I see what you're trying to
do here. That's fine. Talk a bit about that.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Obviously, more issues with planes in the air, talk about
that as well.

Speaker 2 (36:13):
If you're missing the show, grab the podcast. We appreciate
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Speaker 3 (36:16):
It is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (36:48):
In the immortal words of every human being, ever, how
does this affect me? I'm talking about the trade wars?
How does it affect you? Depends you got a lot
of money. That's not a big deal. Good on you, Trump.
I hope you get over it.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Let's do it. If you're living closer to the line,
closer to the edge.

Speaker 3 (37:09):
It may have a different thought about it. But starting tomorrow,
the trade wars will begin.

Speaker 18 (37:17):
Stock futures tumbling and oil prices rising after President Trump
made good on threats to impose tariffs on key trading partners.

Speaker 4 (37:25):
We have deficits with almost every country. Not every country,
but almost, and we're gonna change it.

Speaker 11 (37:31):
It's been unfit.

Speaker 18 (37:32):
Trump announcing twenty five percent tariffs on some goods from
Canada and Mexico and ten percent tariffs on some Chinese goods.
The tariffs are set to begin tomorrow. Trump justifies them
by blaming Mexico, Canada, and China for trade imbalances and
the flow of undocumented migrants and illegal drugs into the US.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Ooh, interesting, that's what you're blaming them on.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
I go back to this, and I'll always say it.
There's a market here for the drug. That's a big problem.
We also need to address that. Being said, the battle
is on and now, first and foremost, if you're the president,
you must do what you must get in front of this,
and you must explain it to the nation most importantly

(38:20):
about what may be coming.

Speaker 4 (38:23):
We may have short term of a little pain, and
people understand that, but long term, the United States has
been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.
We have deficits with almost every country. Not every country,
but almost.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Okay, let's unpack that for a second. Part of that
is because we've become a consumer based nation. We like
to consume. We like stuff cheap, stock them deep, and
sell them cheap. We don't want to pay a lot
of money for certain things. Life has kind of become disposable.
We're fine with that. There are things we'll spend a

(39:02):
lot of money on, and then there aren't things we'll
spend a lot of money on. But for the most part,
we no longer make things here and so because of that,
it's gone elsewhere, because we've decided, rather than paying ten
ninety nine for this, we'd rather pay four ninety nine
for it.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
All right, there's that.

Speaker 3 (39:25):
That's a big deal. It's part of us consumer base nation.
That's part of our issue is we like to consume
our biggest trading partner, Canada. Between Canada, Mexico and China.
I think it's about fifty one percent.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
Of our.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Trades, if you will. In what we're doing exports and imports,
is those three nations, Mexico being the biggest. Now the
how will it affect me? Because at the end of
the day, that's what you care about. I don't care
about the US stuff cheded. How is it going to
affect me?

Speaker 2 (40:02):
Well, first, let's talk a little bit about oil. Oil.
We got plenty of oil. Do we have the right
kind of oil?

Speaker 19 (40:09):
Economists are already warning drivers at the prices we are
seeing at the pump now will very likely go up.
That's because a lot of the gas we have here
in the United States actually comes from Canada. In fact,
Canada was America's biggest foreign supplier of crude oil by far.
The US actually imported ninety seven billion dollars worth of

(40:30):
oil and gas from Canada last year alone. And here
at home, we've really become reliant on Canadian oil, in
part because the country produces the type of crude oil
that American refineries are already geared to processed. Now, economists
say people in the Midwest could see the biggest impact
in prices. The President Trump has remained defiant.

Speaker 7 (40:52):
To make our cars, and they make a lot of them.
We don't need their lumber because we have our own forests,
et cetera, et cetera. We don't need their oil and gas.
We have more than anybody.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Now. We do have a lot of oil and gas,
but a lot of that is light crude. So that's
wanted elsewhere in the world, So we export a lot
of that. Heavy crude is what we need, and what
we produce heavy crude wide is a fraction. And I
know a lot of people out there, well, why don't
we just fix the refineries. Nobody wants to own a
refinery nobody wants a refinery next to their house.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
That's always been one of the big issues.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
No matter how much oil we produce, heavy, light, whatever,
sweet crude, which is another one, it doesn't matter if
nobody wants a refinery, None of it matters. There are
refineries for sale right now, nobody wants to buy them
because of the EPA regulations and all of that stuff.
Now with trumping in office, that may change, but that's

(41:47):
a big issue. That's why we have to rely so
much on refineries because of the heavy crude that.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
We need for those refineries. Because I think everybody says, oh,
we'll just get we we had all this oil and everything.

Speaker 3 (42:05):
There's different kinds of oil that are produced in the
United States. So we have ultra light oil, right, We've
got medium crude oil, we have heavy crude, but a
lot of it is light sweet crude. That's the most common. So, yeah,
there could be some issues here when it comes to oil.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
And then the cost of.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
What will be the rising price of gas having to
do with the fact that the stuff that we need
for the refineries we get a lot of that from Canada.
Now let's talk about other things that may be going up.

Speaker 19 (42:46):
Freight analysts who spoke with the Associated Press described it
pretty simply. They said this was like a grenade being
thrown on auto production because so many car parts come
to the US from countries like Canada and Mexico. For decades, actually,
auto companies have built supply chains between the US and
these two countries. Engines for popular cars like the Ford

(43:09):
F series pickup trucks, for example, those come from Canada.
More than one in five of the cars and light
trucks sold in the United States were built in Canada
and Mexico, and more than half of the billions of
dollars of car imports into the US last year, not
including December, came from Mexico. That sixty four billion dollars
worth of car parts. So these terrafts will very likely

(43:31):
impact the price of cars as making them will get
more expensive, and importers are very likely to pass most,
if not all, of this cost increase onto car buyers,
meaning it could cost you around three thousand dollars more
to buy a car very soon, at a time when
the average car price is already around fifty thousand dollars.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
It's insane the car prices, It really is trucks, cars
so frig and expensive. Even used cars were holding their
value ridiculously high, especially through the pandemic, and it came
down a little bit. But now you're looking at a
position where all of a sudden, this is going to
cost potentially more, which isn't going to again help the consumer.

Speaker 2 (44:15):
And that's what it's all about.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
But as long as you explained the reason we're doing
this is because we feel like we've been screwed. We
produce things in this country that they don't allow us
to sell in other countries, and yet they want to
be able to sell it here. My belief has always
been this way about tariffs. Not a fan of tariffs.

Speaker 2 (44:37):
If we produce it and other nations won't let us
sell it there, then you know what.

Speaker 3 (44:42):
There's where the tariffs come from. If we do not
produce it, then we don't tarff it.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Why should we?

Speaker 3 (44:49):
Again, there's several different things from immigration to national security
to deficits trade wise that Trump is looking at here,
and we'll see, we'll see how long this will go on.
It could go on for a while, it could go
on for a very short period of time. And how

(45:10):
much can not just us? Because I was thinking, you know,
we think about us, but how much can Mexico and
their citizens in Canada and their citizens take the rising
cost of stuff before they start to buckle. We shall
see three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four, twenty
three at Chad Benson Show. Is your Twitter tweet at
US text the program right here on the Chad Benson Show. Meanwhile,

(45:34):
speaking of immigration, Old Pete hegseth Head known down.

Speaker 20 (45:40):
The visit by Defense Secretary Pete Hegsath signals to the
Trump administrations doubling down on the militarization of immigration and
border enforcement. Around four thousand service members are now deployed
along the US Mexico border. The administration is poised to
start deportation flights to the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
Well, what's interesting about that is is something new is
happening in Texas.

Speaker 21 (46:03):
This is the first time ever that will give Texas
National Guard troops on the southern border, part of Operational
Lone Star, the authority to detain and arrest migrants before
they served more of that watch stock role they were
there to deter out. This agreement is effective immediately now.
Texas National Guard troops who will tell now we're more
of a watchtock force and serve to deter migroans costs illegally.

(46:24):
Now they'll actually have the power to arrest and process
individuals for immigration valletors. Just a few days ago, you're
looking at this brand new video from News Nation. We
captured Texas National Guard troops watching over a migrant women
from Honduras for hours. But because of the illegal authority,
the more able to actually take action when it comes
to detaining or arresting or This new agreement completely changes that.

(46:44):
It's the first time ever that Texas National Guard troops
will have this type of power in a majorship when
it comes to the state and federal cooperation when it
comes to tackling or security.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
That's right, you heard it.

Speaker 3 (46:55):
So the National Guard now Operation Loan Star, we'll be
able to take people that have crossed illegally into custody
before they monitor. Before they would essentially do a lot
of the paperwork, a lot of that stuff that just.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Bogged down the border patrol.

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Now they're going to be able to actually take people
into custody, which I'm not quite sure, I'm thrilled with.
I don't know how this is going to work. I
don't know what it looks like like everything else, though,
this is desperation. And always remind everybody, especially the Democrats
who don't like any of this stuff, remember this. You

(47:36):
allowed unfettered access to the border for four years. It
wasn't just a well if you come here, we'll let
you kind of come on it. It was you invited
the world to the doors, and then you open the
doors up. And that was a youth thing. And then
everybody said, well, this has gone on too far, this

(47:57):
is too much. We're changing sheriffs here, and that's what happened.
And now Trump is cracking down. So we'll see what
this looks like. Lots of battles coming. And I'm not
talking about battles in the streets, although we had some
balloon tocy over the last couple days. I'm talking about

(48:18):
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Speaker 22 (49:44):
Chad Benson terrifying moments on this United Airlines flight, A
flames bursting out of the wing.

Speaker 23 (49:54):
I could feel the plane going super fast, like we're
about to take off, and all of a sudden, it
felt like it like lammed back to the ground.

Speaker 22 (50:01):
Smoke filling the plane.

Speaker 23 (50:03):
People were screaming, there were people jumping over the seats
trying to get off the plane.

Speaker 22 (50:08):
Passengers scrambling down an emergency slide onto the runway. The
FAA says takeoff was safely aborted because of a reported
engine issue.

Speaker 3 (50:17):
Yeah, it's everywhere. It's a crazy situation right now. It's
top of mind, obviously what happened to DC. Then Friday night,
the horrific plane crash of the Meta back plane in Philadelphia.

Speaker 24 (50:34):
The crucial part will come from the flight data recorder
and the cockpit voice recorder. They'll be able to hear
what those pilots were talking about. They'll be able to
see what the computers were doing on board the aircraft.
As it was a forty three year old jet and
that may sound old to people, but if you maintain
an airplane, it will fly forever.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
In fact, they're meant to be flown. Talk to pilots,
talk to people. They are meant not to be on
the ground. That's not good for them. They're meant to work, work, work,
And it's a horrible situation and again seven people dead,
you had many people wounded on the ground.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
It was awful. Of course, there's pictures of it too,
which is terrifying.

Speaker 3 (51:19):
Phobia aerophobia affects twenty five million people. It's one of
the top phobias. It's because we have no control. We
as human beings like control. I thought, that's why the
day after the DC wreck, pilot started his announcement like this, maybe.

Speaker 25 (51:36):
I'm fearful about flying, and that's certainly understandable, but I
just please know that my first officer and on flight attendants,
I myself please your safety, the responsibility of carrying you
to Miami and chief your families or vacations, your beings.
Even at the highest level, I had no higher calling
than carefully and professionally transporting you today.

Speaker 26 (51:58):
So we did that.

Speaker 25 (51:58):
Relax and enjoy, and you believe you that we get
to fly in we'll.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
The geeration of welcome apart, there's a reason they call
it souls right when you talk about I'm in charge
of x amount of souls in a flight, because that's
how they feel about it. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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(52:27):
it's it's a control thing for a vast majority of people.
I wasn't that way, and then I got that way,
especially when it came to having kids.

Speaker 2 (52:36):
Things kind of changed.

Speaker 3 (52:37):
You worry, and there is a certain monocum of control
that we miss. And we're also thirty seven thousand feet
in the air, and thirty seven thousand feet in the
air you're flying around. There is no pulling over to
the side of the road.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
To fix it.

Speaker 3 (52:51):
And that's the thing I think, you know, that's why
we always joke about. As I talked about last week,
was it every other man believes in a dire situation
where everybody's incapacitated as far as pilots, that they could
land the plane, which we know is not true. Just
like we know we can't find a grizzly bear. Well

(53:13):
differ that we could fight a grizzly bear, but we
would die fighting the grizzly bear. How much of that
has been cheese mode? No, I think the reality is
it's just nature. We want to feel like we can
do things we have some control and we don't. Not
up there, we don't, and maybe not down here. According
to the giant rodent that said, no, six more weeks
of winter is coming for you guys.

Speaker 2 (53:34):
I'm going back in my hole. Is he a wizard?
I don't know what.

Speaker 3 (53:37):
Peta says, He's an animal, and Peta says he should
be treated differently. We will talk about that a lot
of other stuff, including more on the tariff battle going
on between Mexico America's Hirachis and the top Hat of Canada.

Speaker 2 (53:51):
It is the Jet Nutson Show, such Chad.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
Sixty six years ago today. Something touched me deep inside
in the day the music die so Fube, that's right.

Speaker 3 (54:56):
Sixty six years ago today, rock and roll.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
Took a hit like no other.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Buddy Holly, Richie Allens and the big Bopper JP Richardson
were killed in a plane crash in the Story of Courses,
very very famous man. A lot of talk plane crashes lately.
I know, right, we need to get back to train crashes.
But there's no doubt that this was a huge day
in music history, and not for the right reasons. So

(55:24):
at the time they were touring America. This isn't like
they see nowadays. These buses weren't the buses that we
have nowadays for these rock and roll legends. At the time,
they were busses with basically nothing on it. They were
getting frostbite, they were getting the flu, they were sick
as a dog. At the time, Buddy Holly and his band,

(55:44):
consisting at the time of Tommy Alsup, Carl Butch, and
Whalon Jennings were touring. They were playing the Winter Dance
Party Tour across the American Midwest in very bad conditions.
So they said, you know what, We're not going to

(56:06):
drive to the next place. We're gonna fly to the
next place. So Buddy Holly put together a thing, a
Beachcraft Bonanza airplane, and they were gonna they played it
clear Lake and then they were gonna hop on the
plane and head over to the next venue, which is
gonna be more Head, Minnesota. The Big Bopper was suffering

(56:28):
from the flu, so he Slopt. She swapped places with
Waylon Jennings uh, and then Alsop lost his seat to
Richie Allens in a coin toss, and off they took
four of them on board, all of them died.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Right after they took off.

Speaker 3 (56:48):
The plane lost control and crashed in a cornfield, killing
all four of them. Hence then the reason the.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
Day the music died.

Speaker 3 (56:57):
Now Don McLean his big song, obviously, American Pie is
something that everybody talks about, especially this time of year,
including him, and what the song's really all about, because
you know, a lot of times, you know, he'll tell
you it isn't. It's almost nine minutes, and it's not
just about the loss of three soon to be legends,

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but also about what America had kind of been through
in the sixties, the tumultuous sixties. There were several songs
that came out about it, including Tommy d who recorded
three Stars Mike Barry Tribute to Buddy Holly, as well
as several other ones along the way, including one from

(57:44):
Whalon Jennings A Long Time Ago from the album I've
Always Been Crazy By the Way. The Mike Barry Tribute
to Buddy Holly. It reached number twenty four in the
UK Singles Charge and then was banned because they said
it was too morbid, which you know, but Don mcclin
talked about the song and why it wasn't just about

(58:07):
the music. It was also about the tumultuous times that
we're head because those are kind of innocent times. With
the fifties rock and roll, innocent, right, taking your best
girl and going to the lake and the malts and
all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
The sixties was going to become something different.

Speaker 26 (58:19):
Well, American Pie starts off with the death of Buddy Holly, J. P.
Richardson and the Big Bopper and the Richie Vallens, but
it continues on for eight and a half minutes and
moves through a lot of other things that happened in
the country in that decade, so it's not only about
that terrible crash. And what I like about the song

(58:41):
is it's become kind of like a folk song really
that children sing when they were little, and then as
they grow up they want to ask questions about what
the lyrics mean and they start to learn more about what.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
Happened in the nineteen sixties.

Speaker 26 (58:56):
Many of those questions are still unanswered, which is why
the interesting release of all the information on those three
assassinations by President Trump is a good thing.

Speaker 3 (59:08):
By the way, it's a weird kind of thing to
think that's you know, it's kind of like a nursery rhyme.

Speaker 2 (59:12):
It's not what's.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
It about, Well, it's about all kinds of things in
the sixties, also about three big at the time stars,
including Buddy Holly maybe the biggest star in the world
at that point in time, and the likes of Ritchie
Vallen's an up and coming superstar, and you know, the
Big Bopper, all dying in a plane crash. That's a

(59:35):
horrible nursery. Nursery rhymes inherently are horrible. Have you ever
heard ring around the rosie? Yeah, that's that's something. How
about London bridges falling down again?

Speaker 2 (59:45):
Now?

Speaker 3 (59:45):
He was also asked earlier today, what if they didn't
go down, what if they didn't die?

Speaker 2 (59:51):
What would they think of today's music?

Speaker 27 (59:53):
Everything has gotten kind of dumb, If I may be honest,
the lyrics are and all that intelligent, and it's very
hard to find a melody that you can whistle, so
I don't know whether that would be any different or not.
But I don't think that's progress musically.

Speaker 3 (01:00:15):
That is kind of stupid. They're kind of dumb interesting. Indeed,
sixty six years ago today, the music died, but yet
continued to go on and on. And on, and of
course we had several movies about Buddy Holly. I don't
think we've had any one that I can remember of
the Big Bopper, and of course Richie Allens in that

(01:00:37):
great movie that really made lou Diamond Phillips a star star. Indeed,
speaking of playing crashes, Bill Maher talked about Donald Trump
and the weird question the other day and the way
that he answered it about going to the site of
the crash.

Speaker 28 (01:00:56):
I mean, they asked him a question today, and I'm
sure if you're of the type of person who just
always hates the one team and loves what the other
one does, they asked him a question about the crash,
and they said, will you visit the crash site? Now,
every other politician would go, of course, it was a tragedy,
and he went, it's the water.

Speaker 29 (01:01:15):
What do you want me to do?

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Swim that? And I was like, exactly right, You're exactly right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:21):
It's a stupid question, and you've got justice answering.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
He's right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:28):
I mean, I don't know if I would have answered
like that. I think some people and I said it
the other day. I think the whole thing about DEI
rolling it out that quick and soon about trying to
make it something and putting blame on anybody at that
point in time was ridiculous, let alone anything like DEI
and whatnot. And look, you guys know this. I find
DEI abhorrent. I find it ridiculous. I think it's asinine.

(01:01:49):
We sit here and talk about equity and all kinds
of bs like that. But that being said, there's a
time and a place. But everybody wants to assign blame
to somebody now, and everybody wants to get ahead of
something and make some sort of brownie points when it
comes to two things like a tragedy. And you know,
even you know the left, we showed you last week.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
We talked about it. If you're watching any videos I did.

Speaker 3 (01:02:13):
The insanity of blaming Trump for this is insane. Over
the weekend on MSN before the buck.

Speaker 30 (01:02:21):
Stops with the president, there is no warm up period
for the President of the United States. There's no warm
up president period for the cabinet. He is the president
of the United States. He has a cabinet that's in place.
If he wants to take responsibility for a raft of
illegal executive orders, he better take responsibility for being the

(01:02:41):
president and being in charge when a plane goes down
in Washington, d C. And it's as simple as that,
it's on him and it's on his shoulders.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Yeah, okay, that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
So he's been in there for a week and a
plane goes down and like that's Donald Trump's fault because
they don't have enough. It is again, they're still getting
the wreckage out, still identifying the body, still trying to
handle stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
But we are so us versus them.

Speaker 3 (01:03:11):
Gotta make the point asap, got to point out this,
got to point out that it is ridiculous. It really is,
and it is frustrating. All of us want to feel
like we're safe in the skies. As we were just
talking about, you got that pilot coming gown and going, look,
it's the most important thing I will ever do is
fly you. It is a responsibility that I welcome and

(01:03:33):
I take it with the utmost respect. And pilots are
having any calm people down because they're terrified right now
flying from Philadelphia to obviously what we saw the other night,
and people are having to be calmed down by it,
and it's frustrating that we have to place the blame.

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
And this is the most important.

Speaker 3 (01:03:50):
Let me come after you, and I got it. It's frustrating,
not that there won't be time to have blame, but
I think there is time and a place for a
lot of things that I heard from a lot of
you last week said, yeah, I agree with Trump de
i'd a lot of this wackiness, But there is a
time and place, and I agree there's a time and
a place to talk about it. I don't think that

(01:04:11):
was the time of the place, and I don't think
blaming Trump for something that happened six or seven days
after he took office is really the right thing to
do either. It's about making points. It's not about anything
other than that. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty
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I said Chad Benson Show, Like, yeah, so what.

Speaker 1 (01:05:57):
It's the chat Benson show owner row.

Speaker 3 (01:06:12):
And like that they summoned the ground hog, or as
I called it earlier, and continued to do so, the
land beavers.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
Not a beaver, chat, it's a squirrel, I know that,
or wood chuck and BOCKXATONI.

Speaker 3 (01:06:30):
Phil emerges to give us the weather, and he tells
this guy and he tells him do it.

Speaker 11 (01:06:37):
In poetry, it's groundhog Day, and maybe life is on
a loop. But I miss my burrow, I miss my coop,
so I'm headed back down. There's a shadow up here.
Get ready for six more weeks of winter this year.

Speaker 3 (01:07:00):
Oh he's spoken, but one group out there who loves
to ruin everybody's fun, PETA, wants him to speak no more.

Speaker 31 (01:07:06):
An animal rights organization, PETA is calling for changes to
the celebration once again, but does its latest idea take
the cake. PTA or people from the Ethical Treatment of
Animals is now suggesting the town of punk Satani, Pennsylvania,
replace the February second Punk Satani filled groundhog tradition with
a weather reveal vegan cake. Typically, if the animal sees

(01:07:27):
its shadow, it means six more weeks of winter. If
there is no shadow, that means early spring. Peta says
the sweet tree would be similar to how cakes are
used during baby gender reveal celebrations. Once the cake is cut,
it would show either blue meeting six more weeks of
winter or pink meeting an early spring.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
I don't even know what to say. They ruin everything,
so now you want us to do it? By the way,
have you not seen those gender reveals? What ends up
happening anybody? Chaos, sometimes death, horror, And now you want
to bring that to pak Satani.

Speaker 2 (01:08:13):
Nobody's showing up for a cake. I don't care how
good the cake is. Nobody's showing up for a cake. Hey,
come on over.

Speaker 3 (01:08:20):
We're gonna do cake, and we'll tell you if it's
gonna be cold or not. Where you're gonna still need
the groundhog. The cake doesn't pop up, Oh my goodness.
And by the way, if you want to know Posatani
tiny town, about five.

Speaker 2 (01:08:31):
Thousand ish people give or take.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
Revenue for the forty thousand people that show up on
a yearly basis well over a million to a million
and a half bucks. Nobody's showing up for the cake. Okay,
nobody is continue. People will ruin everything.

Speaker 31 (01:08:51):
Peta in a letter to the Punk Satani Groundhog Club.
Peter says, quote, year after year, Phil is transported to
Gobbler's knob whist on stage and objected to a noisy
announcer screaming crowds and flashing lights against all his natural instincts.
If approached in his natural habitat, he would run away
in fear, not volunteer to live year round in captivity,

(01:09:12):
unable to do anything that's natural and important to him,
like hibernate or burrow, just to be at towns once
a year.

Speaker 2 (01:09:19):
Fake meteorologist. God, they ruin everything.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
He's not fake meteorologists, by the way, he's not. It's
got a degree. It's married to Phyllis. I just they
ruin everything. This thing's living in the lapse of groundhog luxury.
There goes he give me name Scott for all we

(01:09:43):
know for reala There goes Scott.

Speaker 2 (01:09:45):
Yeah. Now he's yeah, he's Pucksatonic Phil. He's playing that
part now. Yeah, got lucky, You got lucky.

Speaker 31 (01:09:51):
Itta has made other suggestions in the past to replace
Punk Satani Phil. In twenty twenty four, the group asked
for Phil to be replaced by a giant coin, while
in twenty twenty two, they suggested officials use a person
in treat to predict the weather instead. In twenty twenty,
Peter said the animal should be swapped out for an
animatronic version that would be equipped with artificial intelligence capable

(01:10:13):
of more accurately predicting the weather.

Speaker 2 (01:10:15):
It's not about the weather, it's about the party. But
Peter is They're right, He's the worst life ever.

Speaker 31 (01:10:23):
Former president and current member of the club Jeff Lundy
responded to Peter's pass suggestions in a twenty twenty two
interview with KDKA Radio.

Speaker 32 (01:10:31):
But he's certainly well taken care of. So you know,
this zoo is a certified agricultural zoo. It's not just
a place where each leaps. He has all kinds of
vet checks and he is He's the king in Punk Satani.

Speaker 31 (01:10:45):
The Punk Satawani Phil reveal has been a tradition since
eighteen eighty seven. According to the Storm Facts, whether Almanak
Phil has been right only about thirty nine percent of
the time.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
It's because he drinks a lot. Just kidding, Is it
really good?

Speaker 3 (01:11:01):
No, he doesn't, But all joking aside. It's a groundhog.
Once a year comes out, people get their picture with him.
Forty thousand people show up at some tiny little hamlet
in Pennsylvania and they get their picture with him, and
they you know, they dance around, they get drunk. It's

(01:11:21):
great weekend. People make a lot of money for a
tiny little town. And then everybody goes home. And then
a year from now we'll talk about Puckstani again. It's
not like during the rest of the year that he's
making appearances across the nation. It's flying everywhere. Now he's
gonna go back and hang out in this little cagey thing.
Get a hold of yourself. This is why nobody likes you.

(01:11:47):
Pick your battles. Pick your battles, you get dumbasses, peta
people eating tasty animals.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
That's not what it stands for.

Speaker 3 (01:11:59):
Three two, three, five, eight, twenty four to twenty three
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texta program right here on the Chad Benson Show. Coming
up our three tariffs coming into effect tomorrow. Kind of
impact will they have.

Speaker 8 (01:12:18):
What they say overwhelmingly is that businesses end up having
to pass down those higher fees to American households to consume.
This is especially the case in industries like groceries where
margins are already very tight.

Speaker 3 (01:12:32):
The battle between Mexico, Canada and US, the tariff battle.
Should Trump have taken one on at a time. Yes,
he's gone after China. Totally different, ten percent not the same.
This would be very interesting to see how people react.
If you're missing the show Grid, the podcast, it is
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
This is the Chad Benson Show, the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 33 (01:13:23):
The battle has begun Canada, Mexico versus the Stadio Anitos,
the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
What will happen? I don't know what is Trump looking for.

Speaker 3 (01:13:40):
I have no idea, but it's going to happen because
we have a trade deficit. There's no doubt about that.
That's something you can't hide. And that's a lot on
us consumer based mean we're a consumption nation.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
No cheep chep, cheap, chep chep chep, chep cheap. It's
one of the big deals.

Speaker 3 (01:14:02):
Of our country is we like the economy booming because
we like to span where spendy folk we are. We
don't manufacture anything anymore. Ideas of what we manufacture. Technology
is what we manufacture. Things of that nature. We don't
manufacture goods anymore, so why the trade war?

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Hmmmm? And there's a good question. But Mexico and Canada
are ready.

Speaker 34 (01:14:31):
But he hasn't detailed what kind of progress he's looking for,
calling broadly for balanced trade and border control. And this morning,
Canada and Mexico are hitting back President Tetrum. Mexican President
Claudia Shanebaum announcing she'll impose retaliatory tariffs and slamming Trump
for accusing her government of working with drug cartels to

(01:14:52):
the north. A similar message from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
insisting the Canadian border is safe and secure.

Speaker 2 (01:14:59):
Well, let's for and foremost start with Mexico.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
It's hard not to think that maybe some within your government.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Haven't worked with, and or ignored and or partnered.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
With at times the cartels. And that's a hard thing.
I'm not saying the upper uppers, I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying there is a portion of your government
that has turned a blind eye to the cartels. Okay,

(01:15:36):
for Canada, again, I'm not quite sure what we're doing
with Canada.

Speaker 2 (01:15:41):
I'm not sure. Like we have a trade deficit, partially
because we.

Speaker 3 (01:15:48):
Buy so much oil by a crap ton of oil
from them, like a big amount of it, like so
much oil, and that is a big thing.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
Well, we don't need oil chain. We got all the
oil in the world. I don't have the right kind
of oil. What do you mean. We'll get to that
in a second.

Speaker 3 (01:16:11):
Again, I'm trying to figure out the whole thing with
Canada Mexico. This a lot goes into it, drug cartels
being one. Right, everybody wants to talk about fence, and
old Trump was big on that as well.

Speaker 4 (01:16:22):
It's pouring in from China through Mexico and Canada, and
they've got to stop it. And if they don't stop it,
the tariffs are gonna get worse.

Speaker 32 (01:16:30):
A lot of worse.

Speaker 3 (01:16:31):
By the way, I'm not when it comes to Canada,
it's such a minuscule amount, like such a tiny amount,
We're not I mean, it's infinitesimal compared to what comes
in through Mexico. Now, Trump has to be forward, he
has to be transparent, he has to be open. He

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has to absolutely set the stage for the potential that
in the short term, if this indeed happens, it starts tomorrow.
But if this indeed happens, that there may be a
little bit of pain.

Speaker 4 (01:17:08):
We may have short term some a little pain, and
people understand that. But long term, the United States has
been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.
We have deficits with almost every country, not every country, put.

Speaker 3 (01:17:23):
Almost and there's a reason for that. We've touched on it.
I'll touch on it again really quickly. We're consumer based, baby.
We want stuff, stock them deep, and sell them cheap.
We don't produce like we used to. Ideas big time.
You come up with the great idea, you want to
sell it here in the US. You look around and go, ah,
nobody's gonna buy it at that price.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
So what do you do? You go across the globe somewhere,
most likely China.

Speaker 3 (01:17:48):
You go to a place. Look at all this right here,
and how cheap it's going to be for me to
produce this. I could never do this in the United
States of America.

Speaker 2 (01:17:54):
Just couldn't happen. So what do you do.

Speaker 3 (01:17:56):
You go over there, you produce it, you bring it
back over here, and you sell it back to people
here in the United States.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
It's just cheaper to do it that way.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
Why don't we manufacture because you're not gonna spend thirty
five dollars on a shirt, you'll spend three thirty five
Probably not gonna spend thirty five bucks on a T
shirt that you think, hey, I can get that from
six bucks or whatever it is. So we have a
trade deficit, and much of that trade deficit, oddly enough,
is with American ideas and American products sold globally, but

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our companies go elsewhere to produce it and then sell
it back to us over here at a cheaper rate
than we could in the United States if we're going
to manufacture it here. So that's kind of an odd thing.
But he only hit China with a ten percent tariff.
Mexico totally understand the battle that's going on there. It's
not just about fentanyl, even though and I will say

(01:18:51):
this and it might piss be people off, and I
really don't care. A vast majority of the reason infentan
All is here is because we have a huge problem
with addiction, a massive, massive, massive problem with addiction. So
there's that now Canada again, I'm still trying to figure

(01:19:15):
out what the.

Speaker 2 (01:19:15):
Hell's going on there and the reason.

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Fentanyl, if I mean, if there's any it's so small
that comes across the border, and when it comes to
a legal immigration it's like one percent. So why why why,
I say, that's a great question. What's going to happen
to gas prices? Because at the end of the day,
how does this affect me?

Speaker 19 (01:19:42):
Economists are already warning drivers at the prices we are
seeing at the pump now will very likely go up.
That's because a lot of the gas we have here
in the United States actually comes from Canada. In fact,
Canada was America's biggest foreign supplier of crude oil by far.
The US actually imported ninety seven billion dollars worth of

(01:20:03):
oil and gas from Canada last year alone. And here
at home, we've really become reliant on Canadian oil, in
part because the country produces the type of crude oil
that American refineries are already geared to processed.

Speaker 4 (01:20:17):
Now.

Speaker 19 (01:20:17):
Economists say people in the Midwest could see the biggest
impact in prices. Though President Trump has remained.

Speaker 7 (01:20:24):
Defiant to make our cars, and they make a lot
of them. We don't need their lumber because we have
our own forests, et cetera, et cetera. We don't need
their oil and gas our we have more than anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
We do have a lot of it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:37):
The thing is, though, it's not about whether or not
we have oil and gas in particular oil, it's about
what kind of oil and what are the refineries set
up for. So the way this works is there's several
different kinds of oil. There's a lot of what we

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produced is that sweet light crude, so don't drink it though,
that's what I call it. And then there's sweet crude,
and then there's light crude. But we produce our gas
through the refineries and have refined through heavy crude. There's
not a lot of refineries out there, and so it's
already geared up for heavily crude oil to be refined.

(01:21:20):
That's why we buy so much from Canada, because Canada
produces that where we do not produce anywhere near what
we need in this country when it comes to that
kind of crude oil. And then the question will be like, well,
why don't we just fix the refineries? Aha, great question,

(01:21:43):
let's talk about that. What would be the cost? Well,
first of all, take about ten years. Has anybody got
that kind of time? I didn't think so not.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
When it comes to gas prices, you don't.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
Then we get to the cost each refinery would cost
anywhere between one and five billion, and that depends on
what state you're in in certain things like that, but
let's just say it's three billion. Okay, so ten years
three billion dollars. Now, while all this is going on,
there's going to be tons of losses, and I do
mean tons of losses.

Speaker 2 (01:22:15):
So we're gonna lose on average.

Speaker 3 (01:22:19):
Are you ready for this, about fifty plus billion in
losses just from closures and stranded investments. That doesn't include
lost revenue and market disruptions, as well as several other
things which we'll go into the potential of hundreds of billions.
And there is the thought, well, why don't we blend

(01:22:41):
the two. That's still going to be expensive and it's
still going to take time if you take light crude
and you know, heavy creud and put it together.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
The reality is we're not set up for it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:52):
Nobody wants to invest in refineries, and even to do that,
it would take a long time to get it up
and running, and we don't get that kind of time.
When it comes to inflation and the cost of traveling
on a daily basis, we'll see everything's the negotiation and
This is Trump's first opportunity to see what these tariffs

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can do and how long the American people can withstand it.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
The one thing about us, comparatively to everywhere else, life
is way cheaper.

Speaker 3 (01:23:22):
Even though it's more expensive for us, it's way cheaper
than everywhere else. So we've got more leeway than a
lot of other countries. We're also a fickle bunch, and
we don't like it when things are uncomfortable. So while
telling everybody, hey, we're gonna have some short term pain
but long term gain, we'll see how everybody handles the

(01:23:46):
short term pain, because as we know, we are not
a nation that likes short term pain for long term
game at all. We'll see three two, three, five, three eight,
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Speaker 20 (01:24:02):
At around the time of Pete Haigsat's arrival, El Paso
County Commissioners will be voting on an immigration measure of
their own.

Speaker 35 (01:24:09):
We're going to stand up against any executive order that
tries to infringe on the constitutionally protected rights of our residence.

Speaker 20 (01:24:17):
President Trump has suggested that birthright citizenship might be challenged
by El Paso County Commissioner Eleana Olden.

Speaker 35 (01:24:24):
Says a president can't just simply decide to end it.

Speaker 2 (01:24:28):
No, he can't.

Speaker 3 (01:24:29):
But he's going to do everything he can to bring
every ounce of awareness to how ridiculous the last four
years have been. And we'll see what things look like
when it comes to immigration in the.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
Next six months to a year.

Speaker 3 (01:24:42):
I don't know what it looks like, but this battle
is about to heat up more and more.

Speaker 2 (01:24:48):
Trump came out of the gates hitting hard. Not everything's
going to stick.

Speaker 3 (01:24:51):
Not everything he's going to land one hundred percent, but
these were things that needed to be done in many cases,
and immigration being a big one. Three twenty four to
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No, it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

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What's trouping?

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It's fine, it's turning in the old inner webs. On
this Monday, we'll start Twitter, do Grammys. There's no football yesterday,
Drake Grammys, Billy as An Eilish Gaka us AID that's
United States.

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Agency for International Development.

Speaker 3 (01:27:16):
For now, it might be nothing if Elon and Trump
have their way. Shakira, South Africa, Jay z.

Speaker 2 (01:27:31):
Lisha Keys here we're going with.

Speaker 3 (01:27:32):
This number one train anything on Google yesterday, Bianca Censori.
That is missus Kanye West and her outfit yesterday, which was, well,
it wasn't really an outfit. It was her essentially naked,
fully naked Grammys.

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
Who won the Album of the Year. Bucks at down
a Phil you rat it's not very nice. Chen obviously
still trending, Luca.

Speaker 3 (01:28:04):
Dunchik no longer part of the Mavericks, Canadian Dollar, Toby
Keith finally over to Yahoo, Barbie Shute, who was a
big star in Asia, passed away, Grammy's Stevie Wonder and

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again Bianca Censori, what are the headlines? Almost fully nude?
Now I think it was fully nude. You're wearing sheer.
We can see everything. Nothing's left of the imagination. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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On top of that, you could also reach out to
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Other social media including Facebook, and check out our YouTube
page as well. Right here, on the Chad Benson Show,
and of course tariff's trending and reason is simply tariffs
go in effect tomorrow. What will that do to the economy.
It's a big question. People have short term pain, long

(01:29:12):
term gain. Trump is telling everybody that. And here's the thing.
If you're open and honest with the American people and
you come out of here and tell them, look, this
is what is going to happen, so be prepared for it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:28):
It's better than being shocked and unprepared. And I think
he's doing it right.

Speaker 4 (01:29:34):
We may have short term so a little pain, and
people understand that, but long term, the United States has
been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.
We have deficits with almost every country, not every country,
but almost not.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
Every country, but the ones he's really talking about, the
ones that we went after China, ten percent on them
and then twenty five percent on Canada and Mexico, and
they fired back with tariffs on us. Short term pain,
long term gain, We're gonna find out. But if you're
honest and open with the people and you explain to

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why you're doing this, people are willing to give you
a chance. And many people don't quite understand that. Be open,
be honest, put it out there so that way they
understand what's going on.

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Speaker 3 (01:31:10):
For all the talk of fantanyl where does that usually start?
When you become addicted to something like fentanyl? That starts
with opioids, And we know they've been a scourge in
this nation for quite a while.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
That's what brings us to this.

Speaker 3 (01:31:25):
It's another episode of Now it's time for the Chad
Benson Show, Health Watch, where we watch health but we
really don't participate even.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
Though we should, Yes we should.

Speaker 3 (01:31:38):
Opioids have been absolutely a nightmare for many, many, many
people in this country, millions of people. Last week, through
all the chaos and craziness of what took place with
obviously the plane crashes and Trump and the battle of immigration,
et cetera, et cetera, the fear of teriffs, blah blah blah,
something happened and it was announced but not many people

(01:32:00):
paid attention to it, and that was a new pain killer,
supposedly non addictive.

Speaker 12 (01:32:09):
Tensral game changer for the millions of Americans who are
dealing with pain. The FDA has now approved a new
pain medication for the first time in more than two decades.
It's sold under the brand name Gynatics. It's billed as
non addictive, and it could be again it could be
quite the game changer in pain management.

Speaker 16 (01:32:26):
Experts say it could reduce the number of opiuaid's patients
are prescribed after surgery.

Speaker 2 (01:32:31):
Now that's a game changer. That is absolutely a massive
game changer.

Speaker 3 (01:32:37):
So after surgery, many of us who've had any kind
of surgery, they'll offer you something depending on what kind
of surgery you have.

Speaker 2 (01:32:46):
But for decades, what have they offered opioids?

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
They were supposed to be non addictive and they were
wonderful for you, and what did they end up being
devastating not just for you, but for communities.

Speaker 2 (01:32:58):
And this could be the game changer in a major way.

Speaker 13 (01:33:03):
This is the first new pain medication that has been
improved in over twenty years. It has approved to treat
moderate to severe acute pain, such as after surgery or
after trauma, after tissue injury. Very expensive, about a little
over fifteen dollars per pill, which is significantly more expensive
than what's currently used for post op pain. For example,
side effects generally well tolerated. Some nausea and headache.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Okay, I'm fine with that. Little things like that not
a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:33:30):
Let's be real. Everything has its potential side effects. How
long though, two decades before we had anything approved and
we're talking about again, we're talking about tariff to day,
what are teriff's. One of the big reasons is fentyl
Fentinyl exploded because we've consumed so many opioids in this country.
People who've had regular lives, who've got injured on the

(01:33:53):
job or something at carpal tunnel surgery. Next thing you know,
they're hopped up on opioids and within six months or
a year their life has gone from idealic to nightmarish.
They've gone from having a home to having nothing, and
opioid's played a big part in that.

Speaker 13 (01:34:08):
Pain is a very subjective experience. It's the way the
brain is perceiving tissue injury. The way this medicine works
is that it's blocking the transmission of that pain signal
at the level of where the trauma or the illness
or the tissue injury is. That pain signal then does
not get to the spinal cord, doesn't get to the brain,

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very different than the way opioids work. Opioids work by
blocking that pain signal at the level of the brain,
and opioids are accompanied by that feeling of euphoria, which
is why it could potentially lead to addiction, as we
all know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:41):
Absolutely I've seen it.

Speaker 3 (01:34:43):
So if you listen to the show, I don't smoke,
never smoke my life, Never done a drug in my
life outside of anything like prescribed, like oh yeah, you know,
and by that it's just for my ADHD. Just some
don't drive people crazy. And I've never had a drink
in my life because I've seen what alcohol and drug
can do. My father died essentially he had a heart attack,

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but it was brought on by copious amounts of drugs,
for the umpteenth time in his life that he had
a heart attack induced by drugs. And it is devastating.
And I've seen what's happened to people who have got
hooked on this stuff and how fast their life carened.

Speaker 2 (01:35:25):
And it is something like this.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
I mean, for all the stuff we talk about, you know,
like obviously tariffs will have a much broader effect on
us nationwide and different areas. Midwest gas prices could go
higher if these things take effect in certain parts of
the country. You could definitely see the potential of tariffs
affecting you. But opioids, there's not too many people out

(01:35:49):
there that haven't had somebody they've known, or maybe even
themselves have had to deal with the nightmare of opieids,
and that's why this is such a big deal. And
then the question about the chronic pain, So people who
are living in pain twenty four seven, three sixty five,

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and it's and it may not even have it to
do anything more with surgery or something just goes on.
My mother in law has this horrific thing on her
spine that will never there's just nothing they can do
about it. So she's she's chronically in pain twenty four seven,
three sixty five, and it's it's tough.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
And the people that have had this tarlov cyst thing.

Speaker 3 (01:36:37):
It many of them commit suicide over the years because
they just can't get away from the pain because of
what it does their spine.

Speaker 2 (01:36:44):
Some people live with a little bit better. There's a
big question.

Speaker 3 (01:36:48):
About will this have any any effect on people with
chronic long term pain.

Speaker 13 (01:36:55):
As soon as I got this, you know, press release too,
I was like, yes, this is something I can use
in my own arsenal. Not quite there yet. So far
the studies in more chronic pain conditions have been a
little bit mixed. But why we are so excited about
it anyone who treats patients with pain, is that this
is a novel mechanism of action. This is a new
target and so definitely everyone's excited about future research expanding

(01:37:18):
on this and something that could definitely help folks. And
just a point right now, this kind of acute pain
is treated with anti inflammatories opioids, and for a lot
of people it is not ideal, and so this is
a great place for a medicine like this.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Absolutely, it's it's huge.

Speaker 3 (01:37:34):
It's a big deal a getting fifteen bucks a pill,
which I'm sure over time will come down. But non addictive.
What's that word to everybody who's had issues? And as
we talk about the trade war and part of that's
on the fentanel again, I go back to this. So
much that's based off the opioids and the addiction, and

(01:37:54):
then all of a sudden you go from opioids to
looking for anything to potentially do in heroin from heroin
into you know, a mixture of heroin and fentanol.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
And it is awful. Really is three two, three, five.

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I didn't know whether i was gonna talk about this
or not, but I'm going to the Lakers fleece the
Dallas Mavericks, and I don't know why the Dallas Mavericks
allowed her to happen. So over the weekend, the big
sports news was the giant trade between obviously the Dallas
Mavericks and the Lakers. There's no NFL this weekend. Super
Bowl's happening this weekend, and once again the Lakers walk

(01:38:36):
away with a superstar. They got it with Wilt Chamberlain,
then it was Kareem then it was Magic, Then it
was Kobe and Shack, then it was Pau Gasol, then
it was Lebron and now it is Luca Doncer.

Speaker 2 (01:38:48):
People are asking the question of how the hell did
this happen?

Speaker 3 (01:38:51):
Well, I think part of it is the fact that
guy was due for three hundred and forty five million
dollars max contract. That was a big deal, There's no
doubt about that. I think the other part of it
was they looked at him and said, dude's never in shape.

Speaker 2 (01:39:02):
What's the deal. Yeah, you put up thirty points a night.
It's great.

Speaker 3 (01:39:05):
You may be an MVP, but you can't defend anybody.
And what happens when you give you three hundred and
forty five million dollars A You're gonna go the exact
opposite way and balloon up even more. But people were
setting up memorials in front of the arena.

Speaker 29 (01:39:20):
The twenty five year old Croatian had spent his entire
NBA career with the Map. Now he's heading to Los
Angeles with fans setting up a memorial to honor their
star player.

Speaker 14 (01:39:29):
Today I heard that they were doing this, I obviously
wanted to see it for myself and just see what
the scene was.

Speaker 3 (01:39:34):
This is.

Speaker 14 (01:39:35):
It's one of the most unimaginable things I probably can
ever think of in sports history.

Speaker 29 (01:39:39):
Or Some fans laid out pictures, cards, and even drinks
for a final topes to the man who led them
to the NBA finals last season. Others are sending a
message to the team's owners from GM.

Speaker 2 (01:39:51):
Yeah, we're not showing up anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:39:52):
You got rid of our star, not even in his prime,
just now hitting at twenty five years old.

Speaker 2 (01:40:00):
They're worried about his conditioning.

Speaker 3 (01:40:02):
Okay, maybe or maybe the GM is just sick of
working and he wanted to see how fast he can
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In a night filled with tributes to a fire ravaged LA,
the Grammys concluded with members of the County of Los
Angeles Fire Department presenting Album of the Year to Beyonce
Cowboy Carter. While Beyonce is the most decorated artist in
Grammy history, it marked her first time ever, taking home
the Album of the Year prize. She also won Best
Country Album and Best Country Performance. Overall, Kendrick Lamar was

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the night's top winner, taking home five trophies, including Record
and Song of the Year for Not like Us.

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
Now you're saying to yourself, how does somebody have a
record and an album? Aren't they the same? Aha?

Speaker 3 (01:42:25):
That's what I thought too, So I took deeper, as
I tend to do. Let me explain this to you guys.
So the record of the year, Okay, the record of
the year is a single song, so it honors the
performance and the production of that song. So the artist,
the producer, the record engineer, the mixing mastering engineers, who

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works on the track. Okay, So that is a single
song could have been the call, the single of the
year or whatever. The album of the year, which was
Beyonce Cowboy Carter.

Speaker 1 (01:43:06):
That is the overall.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
Album, all of the songs, the.

Speaker 3 (01:43:10):
Entirety of the album, and that award goes to the artists, producers,
recording engineers, mixers, songwriters as well. So one is the
best individual song of the year. The other is the
best overall album in its entirety. So there you guys,
go now you learned a little something. We tend to

(01:43:31):
do that for you right here. Lots of she won
last night. I thought she gave a nice speech.

Speaker 15 (01:43:39):
What I love after so many years.

Speaker 2 (01:43:42):
Oh my god.

Speaker 15 (01:43:44):
I'd like to thank all of the incredible country artists
that accepted this album. We worked so hard on it.
I think sometimes genre is a cold word to keep
us in our place as artists, and I just want
to encourage people to do what they're passionate about, to say,

(01:44:05):
stay persistent.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
Wow.

Speaker 15 (01:44:08):
I like to thank my beautiful family, all of the
artists that were collaborators.

Speaker 3 (01:44:15):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (01:44:15):
This wouldn't have been this album without you. Like to
thank God again and my fans and I still am
in shock, so thank you so much for this honor.

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:44:28):
No mention of P Diddy, none, no, no, no mention
of P Diddy at all last night, though a lot
of it was about southern California, LA and the surrounding
areas because of the fires.

Speaker 7 (01:44:40):
We're going to.

Speaker 37 (01:44:40):
Dedicate this one to the city compt in Watts Yeah,
Long Beach, Inglewood, Inglehood, Hollywood, Out to the Valley, proclaima II,
Sam Bernardino, all that all that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:58):
Yeah, I mean, that's it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:45:04):
Looking at parts of southern California where I grew up
in and around there, and it's just devastated. Nothing's going
to be there for quite a long time. And all
those people that because everybody thinks that everybody there was
rich and they're not, and they're stuck in positions where
they've got virtually nothing except the clothes on their back

(01:45:26):
and some other stuff that's been donated, and now they've
got to try to rebuild their life somewhere else and
their entire life.

Speaker 2 (01:45:31):
You think about this for a second. Your entire life
is gone in this area.

Speaker 3 (01:45:35):
Now you have to move somewhere else, and in many
cases way farther away. And it's like you live here
now and your life starts here now. And I wonder
how many people not only not coming back, but are
going to look at this situation and say, I'm just
getting out of California altogether.

Speaker 2 (01:45:56):
I have a feelings to be a lot more than
people think I do.

Speaker 29 (01:45:59):
I do.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Trump speaking today early this morning about tariffs, because tariffs
are here. They start tomorrow officially, and he's getting it
out of the way. Wants everybody know there's going to
be some pain long term gain.

Speaker 4 (01:46:14):
We may have short term some a little pain, and
people understand that, but long term, the United States has
been ripped off by virtually every country in the world.
We have deficits with almost every country, not every country,
but almost, and.

Speaker 3 (01:46:30):
The big ones are Canada, Mexico, and China. Those are
the big big trading partners and the biggest way of
massive deficits with. So if you want to know what
A explained earlier, but I'll give you a snapshot. We
import more, spend more money bringing stuff here than we export,

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So the trade balance it's not one to one. We're
spending x amount of dollars. Let's say we're spending ten
dollars and we're only exporting five. So it's one of
those things where we're sending out a much smaller amount

(01:47:13):
than we're purchasing and bringing back in, and it is
going to affect us.

Speaker 1 (01:47:18):
Liquor like tequila, also set to get more expensive.

Speaker 8 (01:47:21):
Small business owners like Amar harag and San Diego say
margins are already tight.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
It seems like at every turn we have to look
at additional costs around our business, which then results into
that one two dollars increase.

Speaker 1 (01:47:35):
The auto sector also highly exposed.

Speaker 8 (01:47:38):
New car prices could go up three thousand dollars on
average if the tariffs stay in effect, and that's.

Speaker 3 (01:47:44):
A big if it's gonna be a while for some things,
other things it'll be much more immediate, So we'll see.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
But get ready for that.

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
But if you're Trump and you're out in front of
it and you talk about why you're doing, explainats everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:47:57):
For China, it's the Fentanel.

Speaker 3 (01:47:59):
For the other nations, it's because well, that's part of it,
is the battle across the board for the way that
they not only treat us, in his mind poorly take
advantage of US consumers and our sectors that we produce
things here, but on top of that, things like immigration,
things of that nature.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
That's the battle that's going to go on here.

Speaker 3 (01:48:21):
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as always, kick off this Monday and full effect.

Speaker 2 (01:48:48):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:48:50):
Look, the markets are going to be jumpy for a while.
Markets like stability. We've talked about that. I don't know
how long the battle's going to go on. I think
with us in China, there's been tariffs on for a while.
Even by increase some of them, he didn't take. Everybody's like, oh,
he's gonna come in, He's gonna give into China.

Speaker 2 (01:49:04):
He didn't.

Speaker 3 (01:49:05):
He increased some of them, and that's only ten percent.
When it comes to Mexico and China. Remember Mexico's our
biggest trading partner. How long does it last for? Obviously
we've got more room to maneuver. It's going to affect
us a little comparatively to them potentially, but who blinks
first will be very interesting. You guys, have a blessed
rest of your money.

Speaker 2 (01:49:24):
We'll do it in tomorrow. It's always the night, night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):
This is the Chad Benson Show.