Elon Musk Makes an Appearance at CPAC 2025

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson show, Sea Pack going on strong, upsetting
and angering the left because it's a big conservative like
think of Comic Con or one of those big you
know things that comes to your city where you've got
all the stars and stuff like that. Sea Packs like that,

(00:31):
but for politicians in the conservative side of the world.
And it's very interesting because last night everybody's talking about
did you see what happened? Did you see what happened?
I'm like, I know, Canada one, We'll get to that
in a minute, which was a bigger story by the way,
but watching the left freak out over Elon Musk being

(00:57):
at Seapack and getting his Javier Malay chainsaw what there's
a video out there. Javier Malay of course, vargin Andina Organdina,
and he's the one that has come in and he
took a chainsaw to everything, started cutting all these you know,

(01:18):
uh programs and cutting all of these insane things that
Argentina had put on, price controls and all that they've created,
all these agencies. And he's like, yeah, we're getting rid
of all of them. And then, of course, you know,
America's like, that's a good idea. We have too many
agencies and then they bring Alon in and of course
Elon and due scares the world. And so last night

(01:42):
what did he do? Puts up a video because Hoveer
Malays at seapack and there is a video that's going
around where he sees uh Elon and Elon sees him
and they hug each other and he gives him his
chainsaw because that was his big thing, hove Here Malay
on his campaign. He had a chainsaw and he was

(02:03):
going to chainsaw all the bureaucracy and BS and Argentina.
And he's gone and he's done that, and oh jeez,
we couldn't do that. Here this is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Turns all, oh my god, what are they doing? It's crazy.
Livery action was spectacular.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
This is the air performers. And that was another show.
But what I have I have something to tell the
American people. That show is going on tour and it's
coming to a city near you.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
And they are going to cut your.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Social Security, they're going to cut your Medicaid, they're going
to cut your Medicare, they're going to cut your Section eight,
and you're not going to get money. Your prices are
not going to go down, so perform all you want.
I think we have to continue to remind the American
people that this has real impact on their lives and
it's not going to just stop in Washington, DC. And
they aren't just people that you want to take a

(03:01):
chainsop when we talk about violence and all the rhetoric
and whatnot, like, we're talking about human beings and the
jobs and their children and their mortgages and their groceries
that have to pay for that he's saying he's slashing,
So I'm not surprised by his performance, but his actions
have real life consequences, and he's making a joke of it.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
This is why, this is why you guys on the
left side of the aisle are full of nothing but
struggle in theory. If we want to get our debt
under control, if we're serious about it, then yes, we're
going to have to slash a lot of things across
the board. You know what, I don't hear them talking

(03:41):
about as they get ready to go into the Pentagon
and start slashing a bunch of stuff. I don't hear
anybody on the left side of the aisle going, Man,
I can't believe we're not spending all this money on military.
We're cutting all these programs that don't work, and all
this obsolete equipment that we spend gazillions of dollars on.
Why those people have jobs who make those obsolete things,

(04:04):
and those jobs have a trickle down effect. You're not
saying anything about that, No, you're not, because you care
about the bureaucracy. Everybody is fine with cuts as long
as it doesn't affect them. And where they go wrong
on the left side of the aisle and why they
continue to swing and miss is they have, first of all,
nobody with any khones to actually stand up and be

(04:26):
a leader. But you stand on things that quite frankly,
not doing you any good. Not champing the many, but
champing bureaucracy. And that's why you continue to fail. That's

(04:48):
why you continue to have nobody paying attention to you
when it comes to why, you know, why did we
lose this last election? Because you picked ridiculous things to
stand on that hill and die for. Stuff that was
so stupid, stuff that was so ridiculous, stuff that was

(05:11):
so insane, from trans kids in sports to looney activists
to just the wackiest stuff out there. You played to
the uber progressive rather than the many that you needed
who were frustrated. And when they hear that somebody who

(05:31):
is making six plus figures working for the federal government
with a retirement that's massive, and the fact that the
federal government gets bonuses, which to this day just pisses
me off. You don't produce anything, you don't make anything,

(05:56):
you get bonuses for what. And they hear this and
they think, hmm, no, I don't feel sorry for you,
because in the private sector you would have been let
go a long time ago. Welcome to the world of
actually having to have accountability. That's why nobody feels sorry

(06:20):
for the Democrats and for a lot of these people
who are being let go. Reducing a department that has
seventy thousand people down to sixty seven thousand. It's not
making people feel bad. Keep doing what you're doing and

(06:42):
you can keep getting what you get, which is loss
after loss after loss three two, three, five, three, eight,
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your Twitter tweet at US text the program. I love
hearing from all of you. Just frustrating, man, I tell
you what it is frustrating listening to these people want.

(07:03):
It's gonna they're gonna come. They're gonna take your little
security and to hit your grama over the head. They're
gonna throw her on a train track. It's just you
can't be stopped, is it can't. It can't be stopped.
It's not stopping. It isn't. No, no, no, and nor
should it for a while, nor should it. And people,
I was out to dinner last night with a bunch

(07:24):
of people who for the most part on the left
side of the aisle, and they all said the same thing. Yeah,
I'm not a fan of Trump, but that being said,
our government is too big, Our government's kind of overreached

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itself when it comes to the amount of spending we do.
And the the fact is they're not really feeling sorry.
They want to see. They all said the same thing
to a person last night. Let's see what happens. Let's see.
Like I said the other day, we'll see, we'll see,
we'll see what we're going to see very very very soon.

(08:07):
What this looks like. Somebody tweeted at me weirdly in
the morning, said do you sleep well at night knowing
that they're destroying the country, And I'm like, how do
you know they destroying the country because because it's not
an answer, And then of course they go, well, you

(08:30):
and I are fine because we're white males. I'm like,
oh god, this is the problem right here, this is
the problem. Speaking of problems over to Ukraine.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
The president has called Dlensky a dictator. Does he view
Putin as a dictator? And does he want Zelenski out
of power? I know he's called for elections. And then thirdly,
the head of the Defense committee in Ukraine's parliament just
has claimed that the US has stopped selling weapons to Ukraine.

Speaker 6 (08:58):
Is not true? When does this end? How much is
it going to take? How many lives will be lost?
How much will we spend? As a member of Congress,
we repeatedly asked the Biden administration those questions and we
never got a satisfactory answer.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
So much of what's going on again negotiations, what we're
not seeing. Do I think that Putin is a dictator?
One hundred percent? And several of you are mad at
me yesterday because I said, do I understand why Trump's
doing some of the stuff? I do, micro macro, what's
the bigger picture? For the bigger picture is this has
nothing to do with how Trump feels about Putin and Zelenski.

(09:42):
This is all a negotiation over mineral rights. This is
all negotiation over oil. This is all a negotiation over
a lot of things that have very little to do
with the war, and all to do with stuff that
comes out of the ground, and where are we going
to get it? And the stuff that we have, who's
going to buy it from US? I e. Europe. That's

(10:06):
what a lot of this is all about. And do
I think that he thinks Zelenski is a bit of
a a bit of a corrupt fellow. I do, because
he probably is. Ukraine was the most corrupt country in Europe.

(10:26):
That being said, Trump's under no illusion of who he
has to deal with here. That's a bigger issue when
it comes to the economy, and that of course is Putin.
They're both corrupt. But when it comes to who's really

(10:50):
a dictator and who's a bad dude, everybody knows right
Putin is living in a different world. Putin is a
Hall of Famer, and you look over there and you
see the likes of Zelensky, and he for the most part,
is playing minor league baseball comparatively, but when it comes

(11:12):
to negotiation. This has more to do with monetary issues
on who's gonna get oil from whom? Who is going
to get tons of minerals that are in the ground
in Ukraine. So understand why he did it. Maybe not

(11:33):
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sounds it is the Chadminton Show.

Speaker 4 (13:09):
Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
It's that time of.

Speaker 8 (13:11):
The week where we relax, we breathe it all in
and yes, kids, we say it is finally Friday.

Speaker 7 (13:23):
Elon Musk is clearly running for shoulder.

Speaker 9 (13:26):
This was my dream job and it's just being taken
away by an administration who doesn't care about science. It
doesn't care about people who might be homeless with their dog.

Speaker 10 (13:36):
Now, what are we really trying to do here is
restore the will of the people.

Speaker 7 (13:41):
I'm not a hundred dollars walking in my man home.
I know how I'll say.

Speaker 2 (13:46):
Anybody's burning a hold, go through my bogeting and do
my skin my money.

Speaker 11 (13:53):
Morning.

Speaker 12 (13:53):
I'll be brown talking.

Speaker 13 (13:55):
It's fine, motor.

Speaker 14 (14:08):
Struck and the plane went sideways. We skidded like on
our side and then flipped over on her back.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
The cuts do not affect our scale.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
You would have to fly every day for one hundred
thousand years to be in a fatal misshouse. Is it
safe to fly? So the simple answer is yes, it's
safe to fly. Of course, it's far fire motor.

Speaker 15 (14:39):
Struck.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
We'll call it what jeoparded.

Speaker 16 (14:45):
We don't need it as stupid rural worth nothing racists.

Speaker 7 (14:50):
I'm sure they thought it was a joke, but it
was not.

Speaker 17 (14:53):
It was a seal in the.

Speaker 18 (14:54):
Street, transgender homicidal computer nerd vegans Wow.

Speaker 19 (14:59):
Armed off, searched to suspects home, then seized his laptop
and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been
used to commit a crime prime posting a racist cartoon
online follow.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Time.

Speaker 20 (15:27):
Donald Trump and the Republican Party has changed the electorate.

Speaker 7 (15:30):
We're not in a constitutional crisis.

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis slightly.

Speaker 21 (15:35):
That's the only person in history to be responsible for
all American guests.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
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Speaker 22 (15:50):
The thing I do like about it is if other
people really are setting up parties for their neighborhood friends,
that's going to be a good thing in the country
because we're kind of divided now.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Ah. I love that Doug's Winner part. That Doug Winter
Party thing was great. He's right, we're divided over the
silliest things in the world. We fight over stuff that
in many cases has very little bearing and meaning in
our life. And we need to get back to some community.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
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Speaker 1 (16:13):
We need Jesus. That's what I'm trying to tell you.

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Speaker 1 (18:02):
Normally I do this in the second hour on Friday
out such you know what, I'm gonna do it in
the first hour. See how it goes, because it's a
fun thing to do. We call this the Wheel of Surprise.
So what happens is there's a lot of stories that
we didn't get to this week, and we go and
we essentially just put numbers on cards that I play electronically,

(18:22):
and so it'll be like, you know, one, and then
it has lined up the carts, but I don't know
what's on him. There's no name on him or anything.
So it's called the wheel of Surprise. We spin it
and it'll tell us, you know, okay, number four, We
hit it, and the way we go and we see
what the story is about and we react to it's
just a good time. So we thought, you know what,
let's let's let's try it here and see how this works.

(18:44):
So you guys ready for it. Fantastic. Here we go
the Wheel of Surprise Number two Dodgers taking the field.

Speaker 10 (19:02):
As the Dodgers and Cubs began Cactus League games, something
was different. A new automated ball and strike calling system
in place. It's not replacing human umpires, but it will
allow for challenges. The minor leagues have been using it.
It came up during the broadcast on Spectrum Sports Net.

Speaker 7 (19:18):
The guys that have played in the minor league level
understand it pretty.

Speaker 10 (19:21):
Well, and then quickly in the first inning it was
used the Cubs winning a challenge to a called ball.

Speaker 7 (19:26):
Well good, we see it in the very first inning.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
There you go.

Speaker 10 (19:28):
Teams in spring training get to challenge two baller strike
calls per game and the robotoms will get the final say.

Speaker 1 (19:35):
Kind of interesting. They've got this now in pretty much
every sport out there where they're integrating it. In some
sports it gets frustrating. Soccer being a big one they have,
especially in Europe, they have video assistant referee and it's
not as smooth as it could be at times, and
you watch guys celebrate goals and then they turn and

(19:58):
they look and they're like, okay, now what so now
we got to wait because the video assisted referees can
to decide if I was all side or this, that
and the other. But we want to get it right.
But there's a certain part of I don't want to
say error that is part of the human spirit of things,
where you know, that's that debate that goes on. But yeah,

(20:20):
we want it right. So we'll see how this goes.
Not every Major League Baseball training camp has the technology
in it, but it'll be interesting to watch and if
we get it right and it speeds up the games
at times, that's the thing with Major League Baseball. Unlike
other sports, major League Baseball's issue has always been it's
too slow. So is this going to speed up the
game or make it worse? We shall see the wheel

(20:42):
of surprise Number eight.

Speaker 16 (20:57):
Ozzie is wearing booties on his walk today as X
for protection after word quickly spread. Two dogs were shocked,
one electrocuted on Sunday in River North.

Speaker 11 (21:06):
That's why we've got the shoes on for sure today
and we're just trying to avoid the manholes as much
as we can.

Speaker 16 (21:12):
Chicago Police confirmed two dogs were shocked within two hours
on the six hundred block of North Dearborn after stepping
on a manhole cover. The first call came in around
eleven thirty. A nearby veterinary emergency clinic confirms it treated
the first dog, a thirty to forty pound poodle mix,
with only mild symptoms, but the second dog, a sixty
or seventy pound Akta mix, died.

Speaker 13 (21:33):
The avoiding manhole covers for sure, and then anything electrical.

Speaker 7 (21:37):
Hyperconscious of that.

Speaker 24 (21:38):
Now do wait what?

Speaker 1 (21:42):
I saw the story earlier in the week, and I'm like,
and because I live in apartment now, so our dogs
have to go outside. And I thought to myself, wait
a minute, they have electric manhole covers in places. That's
wait what so I guess in Chicago some of these

(22:06):
things were electrified Because you and I wear shoes. It's
not a big deal. They don't no way, it killed
a dog. It killed a dog.

Speaker 16 (22:17):
Pet parents and veterinarians in the area now on high alert.

Speaker 23 (22:20):
Humans wear shoes with usually heavy rubber soles that would
give you insulation from the electrical current.

Speaker 16 (22:27):
The manhole is operated by the city, not comment according
to the utility. That's say, in addition to booties, the
best way to protect your pet is to avoid stepping
on the covers and look for these signs.

Speaker 23 (22:38):
Initial signs may just be a yelp of pain, but
if it's a very serious shock, it can actually cause
immediate cardiac arrest or cardiac arrhythmias. So as long as
they're not attached to the current, it's going to be
safe to touch your pet, and it's going to be
really important to get them as fast as possible. Full

(23:00):
two of that, Marian.

Speaker 16 (23:01):
We did reach out to Chicago's Department of Streets and
Sanitation to ask why this manhole was electrified with no
warning and how many others may be, but so far
have not heard back.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
They said, we're not quite sure, so it'll to be
surprised to all of us. What are some of the signs, Well,
my dog caught fire, that's one of the signs. Oh
my god, it's an adventure, kids, it's an adventure. It's
the wheel of surprise. Number one.

Speaker 25 (23:41):
A former NFL player was arrested at a city council
meeting in California for what he called an act of
civil disobedience over a plaque with the acrostic poem that
spells out maga.

Speaker 26 (23:52):
Unfortunately, it's clear that this council does not listen, so
instead I'm going to take my time to say what
MEGA has stood for these past three weeks. MAGA stands
for try to erase trans people from existence. Magastans for
resegregation and racism, magastans for censorship and book bands. Magastans
for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing.

Speaker 1 (24:11):
Chris Kluey is the guy that is the former punter.
He is uber woke and uber wacky. Everything he said
there was all wrong. There was no air traffic controllers
fired zero, zilch nada zero. How many of them zero? Zero?

(24:33):
Air traffic control? Well, they fired three. They fired three
hundred people from the FAA. What is there forty or
fifty thousand people that work there? Three hundred of them
are essentially non essential jobs. Like I said yesterday, pushed
paper over here, nie and then push paper over here,
n They and they were all promotion probortionary, probutionary chief
shed probationary hires that were let go. And it means

(25:00):
that you're going to erase trans people.

Speaker 27 (25:04):
Ha what what?

Speaker 1 (25:05):
What?

Speaker 26 (25:07):
MEGA stands for cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.
MEGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti democracy, and most importantly,
Mega is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced
a swastika with a red hat, but that is what
it is. I will now engage in the time honored
American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience.

Speaker 7 (25:34):
Get out.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Yeah, then they dragged this house out of there. We're
going to engage in the time honored tradition of dragging
your ass out of here. And you could dislike Mega
all you want. Stop with the Nazi stuff, it doesn't work.
Stop that. Stop demonizing a portion of America. Stop lying about, Oh,

(25:57):
it's doing this, it's doing this, it's doing this, and
one of that stuff's coming true because you watch lunacy,
you think it's true. You're on the TikTok or whatever,
and you think, oh, I heard this, so it's got
to be true. Do some research, Do some research.

Speaker 25 (26:12):
The plaque was approved by the city council members and
was privately funded. According to the city council.

Speaker 1 (26:19):
I would just really emphasize.

Speaker 28 (26:21):
I'd emphasize that words have meaning, So make America Great
Again has meaning.

Speaker 25 (26:28):
The plaque will be installed at a library to celebrate
its fiftieth anniversary. Kluey says he was charged with a
misdemeanor for disrupting an assembly and held in custody for
about four hours.

Speaker 1 (26:39):
Oh good, wackad do wackad do, wackad wack could do.
It's the wheel of Surprise.

Speaker 20 (27:00):
Number nine from the USDA chief says the Make America
Healthy Again Commission will consider banning junk food and sugary
drink purchases with food stamps. Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins says
the SNAP program for low income families really needs to
prioritize healthy food options instead. The problem is, as we
know here in America, a lot of these so called

(27:22):
healthy options are actually really expensive compared to the cheap
ultra processed foods that are often purchased, and accessibility to
these healthier options is a real problem for communities.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
Absolutely, we need a healthier nation. It's one of those
weird things where they're more expensive, But would you rather
spend a little bit more now and save a lot
later with healthier lifestyle.

Speaker 22 (27:53):
Or not.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
That's an interesting thing when it comes to something like this,
because it whether it's the EBT and all these kind
of things, you go and you're like, wait a minute, here,
I'm at a fast food restaurant. You guys take this
and we have an issue here, especially among the lower
income folks in America, where we have a weight issue

(28:15):
and not that they're too thin.

Speaker 20 (28:17):
Now, the SNAP program, it's enormous if you want to
check out these numbers. According to the USDA, last year,
forty one point seven million people received SNAP benefits and
it costs taxpayers nearly ninety four billion dollars, each person
receiving about one hundred and eighty eight dollars each month.
So the problem is a lot of these dollars trying
to go towards fresh fruit and vegetable wouldn't go very far.

(28:38):
There are currently at least two bills in Congress about
SNAP benefits, Marky. The first one would ban them for
being used on junk food items like cookies, cakes, pies,
so doas we know what they are. The other bill, though,
is more about finding ways to improve nutrition and diet
quality for these recipients and marking. Another economic argument for
this ban is that taxpayers are in a sense kind

(29:01):
of paying twice, paying for the junk food upfront and
then essentially paying for the medical care as well, because
these junk foods often cause chronic disease.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
What to do. Do we pay now or to pay later?
We're gonna pay. I think we know that we can
better figure it out. And you hear about some of
these people and how much Snap benefits they get and
some don't. That talk about fraud, waste and abuse. Wooh,
there is a ton of that in a lot of
these kind of programs, which is very frustrating. But we've

(29:34):
got to figure out a way to make the stuff
that we truly need a little bit more inexpensive, healthier food,
and the stuff that we don't need maybe not as inexpensive.
You mean the things we want junk food? Yeah, yeah, three, two, three, five, three, eight,

(29:55):
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Speaker 7 (30:27):
But I don't want to.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
I'm not quite sure what to do. This is not
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So you go and you say, Steph Currys, you're gonna
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Speaker 1 (31:54):
I got it wrong, I did. I thought the US
would win last night. I did. But Connor McDavid, the
man ny nicknamed mcjesus best hockey player in the world
in overtime for Canada Great Beast mcscars Connor McDavid.

Speaker 7 (32:13):
What's that for?

Speaker 1 (32:14):
Town? Ssh? What a game though? So my agent is
a good friend of mine and a bunch of people
that are in the radio industry. They happened to be
in town and I didn't know she was in town.

(32:36):
And yesterday in the middle show, she calls me and
she goes, oh my god, you're on there. I'm so
sorry because I was in the commercial break luckily, and
I said, yeah, what's up, And she goes, oh, I'm
in town. I forget that you're here. She goes, you know,
you know, and I remembered Oh my god, Yad's here.
So we went out to dinner last night, which turned
into very late night, so my wife and everybody went.
It was great. And I bring that up because these

(32:57):
are a bunch of radio people who aren't really in
the sports, and the game was on everywhere. People had
it on their phones. It was on in bars because
you know, there was a hotel there was a big
like an event and it was there, and it was
a big country event, and there was a like, you know,

(33:17):
it's one of these things where it's big people in radio,
and they got one of these big up and coming
stars who's upstairs inside this like this, it's a room basically,
it's like a little suite and he's playing for like
fifty people. And the minute the goal went in, everybody's like, oh,
including him. It was just it was weird. But the
numbers for this hockey were massive. In fact, they expected

(33:45):
about fifteen million people to tune in last night across
all of the platforms, which would make it the number
one show of the night. There was no doubt about that.
So I thought the US would win. It was a
hell of a game. And remember this was instead of
an All Star game, they had a four Nations tournament

(34:05):
and it was incredible. Speaking of the All Star Game,
something crazy happened at this All Star Game weekend in
the NBA. Victor webbin Yama, who maybe for the next
decade or so be the best player in basketball, is

(34:26):
out for the season because deep vein thrombosis.

Speaker 15 (34:31):
Victor Womanyama came back from the All Star Game this
past weekend in San Francisco and he was diagnosed with
a form of a blood clot it's called a deep
vein thrombosis in his right shoulder, and he is out
for the season. And the Spurs right now believe that
this is an isolated condition, that there's one form of

(34:52):
a blood clot in that right shoulder of his that
will sideline him for the remainder of the season. The hope, obviously,
is that there's no spread, that there's nothing more here,
and that he's going to be ready to go for
the offseason and.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
For the twenty twenty five twenty twenty sixth season. This
guy is the best young player in basketball. God Willie,
Everything's okay, but he's right though. It's the thing about sports,
It only takes one issue. Chris Bosh. I remember basketball
player superstar blood clots never really recovered and played the

(35:24):
same way afterwards. So hopefully he feels better and then
get him back out there sooner rather than later. Three two, three, five,
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(35:45):
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(36:06):
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and what the hell's going on in the Middle East.
Talk a bit about that as well. If you're missing
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Speaker 4 (36:21):
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Speaker 1 (36:50):
The Democrats are floundering. Touched on it a bit yesterday.
I thought i'd bring it up again, especially last night
after going out with a bunch of people that essentially
are left leaning and having some interesting conversations. They're not
just floundering, they are a hot mess. And yesterday I

(37:13):
talked a bit about the fact that I love Manchester United.
I said, football club, soccer team. Manchester United is one
of the two or three biggest sports teams on the planet.
We could equate it to the Dallas Cowboys. Their greatness
is in the past. Their greatness is something that is

(37:37):
no longer relevant in today's world, and that is frustrating
for a lot of people out there. And the problem
is leadership. They go for bright, shiny things, not things

(37:57):
that will bring them what their fans crave, and that
is frustrating to a lot of people. And talking to
people last night who are, like I said, very left
leaning in a lot of cases, who aren't really that

(38:18):
upset by what Trump's doing, which I was like, WHOA,
that's interesting, that's interesting. So you're not really you know.
They say, well, we're gonna see what happens. And one
of the people I was talking to as we're sitting
down and having a nice meal watching the hockey game Canada, said,

(38:42):
you know, my dad is a He was an old
railroad guy, strong Democrat, strong Democrat, Union go to church Democrat.
He wouldn't recognize his party today. He wouldn't recognize his

(39:06):
party today because this party has hung up on things
that would infuriate him, stuff that they've allowed the progressives
and activists to push out into the middle of the
country and say this is what we care about. One
of the things I've always said is when we talk

(39:29):
about like the progressives, they allow the coastal uber wackado
progressives to lead the line, meaning you've got people that
are in Berkeley, in New York City, LA Chicago leading
the line and push out things that the average Democrat

(39:54):
doesn't care about. The trans issue is a big one,
and it gets back to the thing I was talking
about is you're pushing out something that you think is shiny,
and that you go for all of this magical, neat
stuff that you think is going to energize the base.
When in reality, the average person who's a Democrat, they're
in the same spot they've been for a very long time.

(40:16):
You've moved so far away from them you can't even
see them. It's the same thing with my love of
Manchester United. They've gone out and signed a whole bunch
of players that are past their prime. They're not This
isn't who I love. I want them to win, but
they're a rudderless ship and every time they turn around,
they make another bad decision after another bad decision. Rather

(40:39):
than going, you know what, we need to strip this
thing down and start all over again. And I think
that's what Manchester United, the soccer team is starting to do.
Is there going to go, Hey, we're gonna have to
start all over again, and there's gonna be some pain,
and there is going to be some pain, and the
Democrats need to figure that out. They need to get
a leader, and then you get somebody who is willing

(41:01):
to stand up and say, all right, here's the deal, guys,
this is the way this is going to go from
now on. We don't care if you're trans God bless you,
but stay away from the kids. Okay, enough of this. No,
you're not going to play in girls sports just isn't

(41:23):
going to happen. Oh and by the way, we're definitely
open to having people come here from other countries, but
a wide open border, no, that's not going to happen.
Common sense has left the building. And much like many
of the sports teams that I love, many of you

(41:45):
listening places like Dallas, where you're sitting out there going, oh, yeah,
that's us right. Leadership is a mess. He signs all
the shiny toys. Manchester United the same kind of thing.
It is a mess. And they're living on yesteryear and
we live in today. Your focus is on the other
team and trying to keep up with it. And the

(42:06):
thing about Manchester United is they were always the big
dog in the house. They were always that and then
their neighbor came in next door, and their neighbor, Manchester City,
owned by a fund from another country, a sovereign fund

(42:29):
with more money than they know what to do with.
Did they buy all the splashy players they could buy? No,
they started from the ground up. But they're billionaires. They
knew exactly what they were doing, and they were loud
while they were doing it. Seems familiar, huh A loud billionaire,

(42:50):
and all of a sudden they became the it thing.
In a city where two of the biggest soccer clubs
in the world are separated by a few miles, you
can see each other stadium from the other stadium, which
is bizarre. Every time I look at the Democrats, I think, man,
you have all the opportunity of the world to do something,

(43:11):
and yet you're idiots. You've left your base, common sense
has been overrun by activists and lunacy. You spend more
money than you know what to do with, and every
time you do it seems like you buy the wrong thing.
Same thing with my Manchester United. You got lots of money,

(43:32):
you spend it always on the wrong thing, and you're
focused more on the neighbor than on your own house.
And the hills that you die on are hills if
you will, that nobody else cares about. And yesterday is

(43:54):
the victory you had and you're still celebrating it. Well
today everybody else is playing a different game. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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all of you. Sea Pack is going on. You don't
know what seapack is. It is the equivalent of I

(44:17):
want to say, let's just think of it like a
comic con. So if you know what a comic con is,
this is for conservatives, right, it's they they all come
together and they all the big stars and they it's
it's it's like that. And so you've got Elon Musk,

(44:38):
who's there, the big star of the night, as well
as Javier Malay who is the audiontinen presidente presidente and
his chainsaw which he gave to Elon Musk so he
could cut, cut, cut, cut.

Speaker 18 (44:53):
Elon Musk surprise the crowd and one of the biggest
annual gatherings of conservatives, and the guy who says he's
taking a wood chipper to the federal government waved around
a chainsaw.

Speaker 1 (45:05):
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy, turns off.

Speaker 18 (45:13):
Chainsaw for bureaucracy was given to Musk by the President
of Argentina, who you also saw standing there on stage.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
And.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
It was.

Speaker 1 (45:26):
Theatrics welcome to politics nowadays, and the liberals reacted the
way that liberals do. Oh, this is it. The world's
coming to an end? Et cetera, et cetera. And I
just laughed. These things are all so silly. But if
you don't figure out how to deal with this stuff,

(45:46):
you're going to continue to be obsolete. The reaction to
Musk is, Oh, you guys think it's funny, Well, he's
coming to your house and he can take everything away
from you.

Speaker 3 (45:55):
This is the Air Performers, And that was another show.

Speaker 4 (45:59):
But what I have something to tell the American people.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
Tell us that show is going on tour and it's
coming to a city near you, and they are going
to cut your Social Security, they're going to cut your Medicaid,
they're going to cut your Medicare, they're going to cut.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
Your Section eight.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
And you're not going to get money your your prices
are not going to go down, So perform all you want.
I think we have to continue to remind the American
people that this has real impact on their lives and
it's not going to just stop in Washington, d c.
And they aren't just people that you want to take
a chainsaw. When we talk about violence and all the
rhetoric and whatnot, like, we're talking about human beings and

(46:31):
the jobs and their children and their mortgages, and they're
groceries that have to pay for that he's saying he's slashing.
So I'm not surprised by his performance. But his actions
have real life consequences, and he's making a joke of it.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
There you go. They have real life consequences. Everybody's actions
have consequences. I said it earlier this week. I didn't
see one Democrat in Dallas protesting the what seventeen hundred
people being laid off at Southwest. I did see a

(47:09):
bunch of them in northern California when Meta announces some
big layoffs. I don't know. No, this is about bureaucracy,
That's what it's about. And they're gonna tell you over
and over again. Oh, you guys just don't get it.
This is important. They're gonna cut all your stuff. Well,
if they're smart, they're gonna start cutting some of that stuff.

(47:31):
And some of that stuff, by the way, is going
to get cut when there's no money for it, which
they also don't realize or don't care to realize. The
Democrats are continuing to live in the past with no future,
looking at the shiny things that they think are virtuous,

(47:56):
and as they do that, everybody else around them is
going to the other thing that they see as going
in the right direction. You better figure it out. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 30 (49:48):
Before a Conservative conference in Washington, Elon Musk chainsaw in hand,
boasting of slashing the federal workforce.

Speaker 1 (49:55):
This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy.

Speaker 30 (50:01):
The firing's part of the administration sweeping effort led by
Musk to dramatically downsize the federal workforce. More than two
million people spread out across all fifty states, with the
largest number in d C, Virginia, Maryland, Florida, Texas, and California.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Yeah, and by the largest in Maryland, d C. And
we're talking about a vast majority of them. That's why
yesterday Chris Kalisa when he was talking about all the
people being laid off, like Jamie Raskin. He represents an
area where it's basically all federal employees. You know, our

(50:38):
good friend and yours, Phil, producer Phil. He lives in
and around the DC area, and he'll tell you pretty
much the entire place is built only four d C.
That's what it's made for. That's what d C has made.
It was never meant to be a city. It was
meant to be essentially a work area. Well it's a

(51:02):
city now, okay, should be its own state and get
everything it wants. That's why all of this is falling
on deaf ears for a lot of people. And they
talk about the federal workforce. How's this gonna affect your life?
Let me tell you how it's gonna affect your life.
Minimal at best as far as the feeling of what

(51:27):
is happening, like, oh God, I feel it, somebody's Unless
you work for the federal government, then maybe you'll feel
it a little bit more. Maybe maybe you'll feel a
little bit more, but probably not, because there are so
many people that work for the government. And it's not
about reducing the size of government. That sounds like a

(51:49):
wonderful thing. Government's only goal is to grow especially bureaucracy,
that its number one thing that we're going to row.
It's slowing the growth kind of like inflation, the rate
of the growth of government. If we could slow that down,

(52:10):
that'd be good. But when these federal workers and a
lot of these senators look around and go, why don't
people care about this? Three two, three, five, three eight,
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(52:31):
has spent wildly and is oversized encumbersome. So downsizing from
forty eight thousand to forty two thousand in a certain
area really doesn't seem like it's all that big of
a deal. Meanwhile, little sleight of hand in the worst

(52:54):
kind of way yesterday with.

Speaker 24 (52:56):
The exchange of hostages and I say exchange of hostages
because this was not an exchange of hostage in Palestine,
this was turning over bodies except for whose body is this?

Speaker 12 (53:10):
Israel's Prime minister this morning is promising revenge after officials
in Israel say one of the four bodies handed over
by Hamas was not that of Shari Bibas Israel officials
say they don't know whose remains they are. In his statement,
Prime Minister Benjamin Nettignant, who says the cruelty of Hamas
knows no bounds. Hamas says her remains were mixed with
other victims buried in the rubble of a building.

Speaker 1 (53:31):
This is horror and people in Israel are beyond pissed.
So if you don't know what happened yesterday, they got
four hostages back, all of them dead, including this woman
and her two kids, one of them a nine month old.

(53:52):
If that wasn't bad enough, now they're saying, well, this
isn't her, and it's now stoking up more anger in
Israel's go and get spicier, and it's already spicy. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 30 (54:41):
The New Washington Post Episodes poll has Trump's approval rating
at forty five percent, with fifty three percent of Americans disapproving.
Fifty seven percent say the president has exceeded his authority
since taking office, only thirty four percent approve of how
Musk is handling his role, with forty nine percent disapproving.
The The president gets his strongest numbers on his top issue, immigration,

(55:03):
but even there the public is split fifty percent approving
of his performance and forty eight percent disapproving.

Speaker 1 (55:10):
That's modern politics right there. And those numbers were never
that high for Trump in his first go around. They
were never that high for Trump. Remember, he was stuck
in the at best low forties, but mostly in that
thirty eight to forty range. And that's a Washington Post poll.

(55:34):
So they're trying to find people that can't stand him.
Sure it's not scientific, Pretty sure it's not scientific. I'm
pretty sure the people that they're aiming to talk to,
and they put stuff out there, probably even if they're
conservative or Republican, they're conservative Republicans, they're Reagan Republicans. So

(55:58):
at best you're getting people that like some of the
stuff Trump does, but can't stand Trump because Trump's a populist.
He's not a conservative. I tell people that. And it's
funny because I'll get people who will send me stuff,
Oh so and so's a rhino, or so and so's
I'm like, you don't even understand will the Republican name only?

(56:19):
Trump's a Republican in name only. He's a rhino. He's
not a conservative. He's a populist. Oh yeah, huh. He's
not uber conservative. He's not a Christian values kind of
conservative guy. He is a populist who is a libertarian

(56:42):
conservative maybe at best, but he's not this kind of
Reagan super conservative that people think. Oh and so they'll
call you're a rhino, a Republican in name only, Like okay,
dealing with people. So the story happened this week, and

(57:09):
we just had so much other stuff to get to.
I mean, we've got so much stuff that we've talked
about today. We haven't even got to the fact that
Cash Mattel is now the FBI director and a curator
at the Deep State Museum. Talk about that next hour.
But this shows you the insanity of the uber woke progressives.

(57:30):
So Trevor Noah, who, by the way, can I just
say I have never ever found funny, ever found funny,
was talking to some academics and this is about segregation,

(57:51):
and it's bizarre the way that he takes this on
as pro segregation, which again it's the progressives are taking
people backwards while saying we're progressing forward.

Speaker 31 (58:07):
I found myself wondering, and this applies to America and
then maybe it'll go to other places in a different
way because Finland ties in. Do you think that integration
was the right move? And now I'm separating two things
because I know in American people like, well, of course,
I mean there were people were there was racism, and
there's segregation, and I go, yeah, no, no, no, I'm
separating them. Let's separate someone being oppressed and someone not

(58:30):
being able to get a job, and someone not being
able to get a bank, or let's take all of
those the negative things away. Because I'll put myself up
personally and say, I think, whether we're talking about gifted
kids who are anomalous, let's say to the norm, whether
we are talking about and I mean anything anything that
does not fit into a category. So he brings Finland

(58:53):
into this, which is again very interesting. So segregation. Should
we not have done segregation? I think the part of
the reason Finland is able to do it is because
have you been to Finland.

Speaker 27 (59:11):
I've been to Finland.

Speaker 1 (59:12):
You know who's in Finland. Finish people that's it. That's it.

Speaker 31 (59:18):
And because they're all finished, there's an idea of like, no,
we all hid in the same direction. We all know
what our actions mean. And that's a really powerful thing
I've learned in communicating with other people. When I'm in
a room with anyone where we start to tie together
multiple things. So if I'm in a room with black
people already, there's like an implicit trust because we know
what certain actions, words, and vibes mean.

Speaker 1 (59:41):
And then you're in a room with another African Ah already.

Speaker 31 (59:45):
Now, even if you shout at me, I know what
your shout means, the same way in Italian knows what
an Italian shout means.

Speaker 1 (59:51):
Yeah, right, I know.

Speaker 31 (59:53):
I'm prefacing it with a lot. Yes, it's a loaded question, yes,
but I would love to know if you think integration
was the right salution maybe.

Speaker 1 (01:00:02):
On the other side of you know what America of
civil rights. Now, there's so much to unpack here, integration, segregation,
things of that nature. Finland, and the thing he brings
up about Finland is will they're all finished? People homogenize? Yeah,

(01:00:23):
go look around. The more diversity you have, the more
issues you have. When people say diversity is our greatest strength.
I say, no, it's not. It's probably our biggest weakness.
And I'll tell you why it's our biggest weakness. Because
the Left is decided to diversity matters to a point

(01:00:45):
where they want you to be diverse in everything, in
every aspect of life. What our greatest strength is is
our commonality. And he said, well, they all know that, fins,
they all know what it's about. They're all going in
the right direction. They're all going in that. Yeah, that's it.

(01:01:06):
So you want everybody to be so diverse in everything,
including having a disdain for this country, wanting all of
these things that are polar opposite to what makes America
what America is. That's why it doesn't work. Commonality works.

(01:01:28):
I always use this example. I can make a chain,
and I can make it out of let's see here,
do little paper. We've got some plastic, got a couple
pieces of metal and steel. Right, there's there's a rope

(01:01:49):
kind of version of the of the class. We're going
to put it all together. Now we have a change,
and it's super diverse. This chain is super diverse. And
when I pull it, because of its paper and systanta,
it's going to come apart because there was no commonality
in it. Now I can make a chain that is
all metal and steel, and I can put it together.

(01:02:12):
And some of them are black, some of them are silver,
some of them are copper looking, some of them are big,
some of them are small. But they're all made of
the same metal and steel. And while they look different,
the commonality between and the material makes it so pulling

(01:02:32):
it apart is impossible. That is what's missing when they
talk about diversity and oh, we should have had segregation. No,
segregation was great, but we should all realize we're going
in the same direction. We might differ on how we
want to get there, but we've stopped with the commonality.

(01:02:54):
And the only thing we focus us on, especially the left,
is the diversity side of stuff, not what binds us together.
Just insane, this wackiness out there. Even friends of mine
who are on the left look and go, what the
hell is these people talking about? Yeah, so now you

(01:03:17):
want segregation will kind of sort of, but not really,
because we're gonna see each other as a black person
or a gay person, or as this, that and the other. No,
see yourself as an American and then work backwards from there. Three, two, three, five,
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It is the Jad Benson Show, serving up talk radio
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Speaker 4 (01:05:02):
It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 14 (01:05:03):
We were just talking.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Somebody's not very happy about all kinds of stuff. Zach A. Ram,
Chiefvestment Officer, Board Capital. What's ou brother? Oh man, you
caught me? It was Apple in particular.

Speaker 17 (01:05:14):
It is amazing to me how pathetic their technology has become,
how far they have fallen behind. I mean remember when
the iPhone came out, Man, it was amazing. Right, Yeah,
change revolutionize things, Jay, We've never seen anything like it.
You can go buy third run Chinese made phones that
can outfunction these this garbage that Apple puts in our hands,

(01:05:37):
that has the same spell checking capability that can't learn
that it had in two thousand and eight, that they
charge in extra eight hundred bucks to put another camera
on there that nobody uses. All I see are their
phones lasting not as long these things now you get
two or three updates in one and a half. Two

(01:05:58):
years in they just quit working, quit functioning as well.
If you don't use, Like if you're just a texter
or and a caller, you probably don't notice. But you know,
for me, it's like a minutees your laptop. Anyway, It's
another great formerly great American institution. And guys, if you
own a bunch of the stock, don't this is a
company that's peaked. You're paying more for their stock than
you ever have, and they're putting up by far, the

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worst financial results they have at anytime in the last
twenty five years. This company is a shadow of what
Steve Jobs wanted it to be. You know, if you
were looking at the two Americas, I think Apple right
now really resembled America prior to this last selection, just
going down the slow slope.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Look at all their tech. When did Apple.

Speaker 17 (01:06:38):
Start spending more money in innovation thought on coercing you
and trapping your stuff so you can't leave their platform,
as opposed to actually making a phone that has functionality
that is at least on par with their Chinese competitor.
You see their iPhone sales in China. We're down eleven
percent quarter over quarter last year.

Speaker 1 (01:06:57):
They're not open to anything outside of you work with
our stofe, our stuff only, don't touch any don't even
think about doing anything else, and so you are captive
to whatever they can come up with. If anybody else
has got a brilliant idea, good luck.

Speaker 17 (01:07:11):
I'm sorry, I just I've had my doubts about Tim
Cook from the very beginning because he always reminded me
of your classic CPA.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
He hasn't innovated anything the last twelve years.

Speaker 17 (01:07:20):
What are they giving you AirPods?

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
His goal was not to break, it was never to innovate. Well,
I mean well boy, so you can say he accomplished that.

Speaker 17 (01:07:28):
He has not innovated anything. That headset they put out
was garbage, garbage for three thousand dollars per unit. The
Oculus kicked it all over the room for six hundred bucks.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
I love we have an Oculus. It's awesome, it's fun.

Speaker 17 (01:07:43):
It's better game playing ability than the three thousand dollars
Apple set.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Talking to Zach Abraham, Chief SMN Officer, bull Ork capital,
So we talk about investments and all kinds of stuff,
having fun with some apple or not. Fun really depends
on what side of the fun you think you need
to be on. Dude, I got a weird question. Somebody
hit me up today and said, Hey, you're gonna talks
a sack ask him about this. I said, Okay, the

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Doge Trump heading to Fort Knox gonna be interesting. And
as he says, we're gonna see what's in there? What
if there was nothing in Fort Knox? What if they
went there, they opened the doors and it turned to
be a Haraldo moment like with Capone, and it was

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what what what would happen?

Speaker 17 (01:08:33):
Okay, Well, so I funny enough, this is the second
time I've answered this question today, so I'm sort of happy.
I'm sort of hoping that's what happens, because what would
happen now? The only discernible effect that I think you'd
see is I think you'd see the price of goal
go up a lot.

Speaker 1 (01:08:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 15 (01:08:51):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
And here's why it's not that discernible.

Speaker 17 (01:08:54):
It really Now, if you're still operating under the guys
of like you know, like nineteen sixty five America, like
you think that you know.

Speaker 1 (01:09:05):
The president wouldn't lie to me, right then? You know
that that might rock your world, and it should.

Speaker 17 (01:09:12):
I mean, it's not gonna be a good thing for
you know, if they can't, if they went to Fort Knox,
there was nothing there, it's certainly not gonna be good
for you know, public trust and institutions. But having said that,
it would have been amidst much bigger issue thirty years ago.
And why do I say that if you've got the
amount of gold that they've gotten Fort Knox, I want
to say, at current prices, you're probably looking about six
to seven hundred.

Speaker 1 (01:09:31):
Billion yea somewhere old something like that.

Speaker 17 (01:09:34):
Okay, Well, you know even when gold you know, think
about that, so you should have relatively, I believe, about
the same amount of gold in Fort Knox as you
did in like seventy nine.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
Yeah, theoretically right.

Speaker 17 (01:09:48):
Okay, Well, in seventy nine when gold hit nine hundred
bucks announced, that would have meant you had probably, let's
say it's the same amount as you do today. That
would have meant you probably had around two hundred billion
dollars worth of gold right now. In seventy nine, total
US debt was probably less than five hundred billion. Okay,
So when you got two hundred billion sitting there a

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golden a vault, that is a big deal. And if
all of a sudden that gold goes missing, I mean,
I think you'd see treasury yields fly up.

Speaker 1 (01:10:17):
I think you'd see the dollar get crushed.

Speaker 17 (01:10:19):
But when you've got thirty seven trillion in debt and
you're attacking on two trillion a year, yeah, and you
find out a six hundred billion I mean, and if
it was a big deal, the Fed had print it
tonight and they could buy the six hundred billion dollars
worth of gold tomorrow. I'm not saying it's not a
big deal. What I'm saying is, if you think it's
a big deal, I don't know. I don't know what

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movie you've been watching for the last twenty five years.
Because it in terms of the balance sheet, Like if
if we find out a six hundred billion dollar asset
is missing versus thirty seven trillion in debt, I mean,
on a financial basis, it makes no difference.

Speaker 1 (01:10:57):
Yeah, it's in reality it would be it would be
a bigger blow to the psyche of of government and
American trust, more so than the actual financial.

Speaker 17 (01:11:08):
Blow one hundred percent one hundred percent and like that
shouldn't comfort you either, No, right, like that that's kind
of a weird a testament to where we're at, or
a weird testament to where we're at.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Sakkay Ram, Chief investment Officer, Board Capital. But people want
to reach out to you, what do they do? Uh,
go to Bordcapitalmanagement dot com. Know your Risk Radio dot com.

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Pretty easy to find doing our updates every single you know,
every single day, do about twenty five to thirty minute
update in our our hour to hour and a half
show once a week. And so just Google Know your
Risk Radio, Boardcapitalmanagement dot com.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Not through our definement. Right, I'm brotherly good talking to it,
but doing again next week. All right, sounds good, pal,
Thanks for having me. Love talking to Zach. Make sure
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to get to, more and less night's hockey game. We
got a little Friday Sounds for you as well as
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Kennedy Institute of Pug Policy Research. You joined the program
as well, talk a little politics as well. Make sure
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each and every single day as much as we possibly can.
We're kind of like a one man band times one
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guys get where I'm going this. It can be a
little hectic at time. We will do our number three
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Speaker 4 (01:13:01):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:30):
We've got a new FBI director and a curator of
the Deep State museum. That's right, Cash Patel, Ladies and gentlemen, ooh.

Speaker 33 (01:13:39):
The Senate has confirmed Trump loyalist Cash Patala's FBI director
in a fifty one to forty nine vote. Senators Susan
Collins and Lisa Murkowski joined Democrats in voting no, citing
concerns Patel will use the role to settle political scores.
Patel has openly criticized the FBI, vowing to dismantle the
so called deep state. During his confirmation hearing, he tried

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distancing himself from past comments about seeking political retribution.

Speaker 1 (01:14:05):
I like how they start out Trump loyalist. They never
do that for anybody else. They never just go hey, uh, Biden,
why don't you randomly pick somebody even if they can't
stand you and a're gonna work against you if I
go and choose somebody to be my whatever anything from

(01:14:26):
my age two, I don't know my assistant manager at
an RB's And you get a pick from people you know,
are you going to go? Hey? Remember remember remember Jerry, Yeah,
he dick, he didn't like me, right, Remember that he
wants to he said he wants to ruin my life. Hey,
let's make him the assistant manager underneath me. This is

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why people don't trust you, guys. I'm excited about cash Hotel.
Why because Epstein.

Speaker 13 (01:14:55):
I was briefed on that yesterday. I can't talk about
got pow. But you know, President Trump is given a
very strong directive and that's going to be falling.

Speaker 5 (01:15:04):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (01:15:04):
Okay, so a lot of.

Speaker 6 (01:15:06):
Documents, Yeah, okay, all right, so people can expect actually
movement on this.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
It's not just empty promises.

Speaker 13 (01:15:11):
Oh, Donald Trump doesn't make empty promise all right. I
think I think promises made promises, Captain. That's why we're
all there to carry out his directive about making America
safe and prosperous.

Speaker 1 (01:15:23):
Oh that's horrible, PAMBONDI we need to get rid of you.
Is there anybody who hates Trump? Oh, there's plenty of them.
Promises made, promises kept good. And that was about the
Epstein client list.

Speaker 2 (01:15:37):
Now.

Speaker 1 (01:15:38):
I'm not much of a conspiracy theorist. You guys know
that I'm curious about stuff. Don't get me wrong. I
do think that the government lies to us a lot.
Some of it is because, well, you know what, we
sleep well at night and I don't really need to
know what you guys are doing in certain areas other
things is because you guys are doing stuff you shouldn't
be doing. With the JFK stuff. I was watching Mike

(01:16:01):
Baker the other day. He's a former ciach and he
was on with Rogan. He echoed what I did. And
the people that I have talked to who've seen some
of this stuff. If you believe that the government killed
RFK and JFK and they participated in certain things, and

(01:16:23):
you're probably not going to change your mind on any
of this. I've said, I don't think that smoke and
gun thing, that second gunman on the Grassy Knoll is there.
It could be wrong now that they've found another twenty
four hundred documents or whatever, but I don't think it's there.
I think embarrassment is there. I think there were opportunities
to maybe stop some stuff. But I think the thing

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that is going to hurt them the most, and already
at a time when we've got very little trust in
our government, is the MLK stuff. We already know that
so much of what they did was not just kind
of against the law. They'd be charged with felonies today.
They broke so many laws. But I think there's a

(01:17:10):
lot more to it. I think the MLK is going
to be the one that is going to be really,
really nasty. We'll find out Epstein too. What did they
know about Epstein? Did they use Epstein? Did they go
and cut deals with him to say, get a bunch
of these people and compromising positions, and did he cut

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deals with other countries. That's interesting as well, not just
who's on the list. Who knew about what was going
on and instead of cracking down on it, because to me,
that's just a big crime. Like if we had our
intelligence agents knowingly, which I'm sure is very much a possibility,

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using Epstein to get powerful leaders from all over the world,
from business to I mean entertainment to yes, kids politicians
incompromising positions because they may need to use that in
the future. If we had that and knew about it,

(01:18:24):
that to me is just as disgusting as anything else.
So we'll see, and we'll see how much of this
list actually gets out, because you never know. Somebody asked
me last night, actually, dude, you think he's going to
really ease the list because we were talking about Castel
again people who don't talk politics. I said, yeah, he goes.
You think he was a Cia guy. I said, possible,

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it is. They go do you think did he has
a list like that? I said, oh, he does, But
I don't think it's politicians. Oh Donald Trump, you know
people are going why you know, the whole dictat thing
with Zelensky, I have I have some issues with that.
I understand why he did it. If you guys don't know,

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we talked about it, I haven't heard because everything, again, Donald,
the nuance is missed because we now only care about
the sizzle, and so the media is running around going
hermack cad, herm cad. He called Zelensky a tyrant and
a dictator and blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, is
he corrupt? It's possible, Yeah, sure, I mean the whole

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nation is corrupt. They were the most corrupt nation in Europe.
The thing I found interesting is nobody focused on what
took place. What took place was Trump's trying to make
a deal because he understands that once peace comes and
these sanctions start lifting, oil's going to flow. So it's
good for business. But Europe may start now buying and

(01:19:57):
getting tons of oil and stuff from not US and
our other allies. They would benefit US but from Russia.
Plus the race to get key minerals is important, especially
when it comes to so much of the stuff we need.
And that was a lot of what this big argument's about,

(01:20:21):
because Trump basically said, sign this contractor else.

Speaker 27 (01:20:26):
This was the deal from Trump that Zelensky was asked
to sign, according to Ukrainian officials, and over half of
the revenue from its mineral resources to the US forever,
but without any promise of security going forward. A senior
Ukrainian official telling ABC News they were given almost no
time to read the document, the source claiming when Zelensky
presented an alternative plan to the US team at the

(01:20:48):
Munich Security Conference, they threatened to cancel plan meetings with
Vice President Vance and Secretary of State Rubio. Ah.

Speaker 1 (01:20:57):
Yeah, there's a lot more to it than just Putin's
my friend. It's a bigger picture Macro micro. The headlines
were sizzle, then nobody ate the steak find out is
it good?

Speaker 7 (01:21:09):
Is it not good?

Speaker 1 (01:21:09):
Why are we doing this?

Speaker 27 (01:21:10):
Zelensky is saying Ukraine is ready for a just and
lasting piece. And here's why Alexander lost both of his
legs in a Russian attack. It's a miracle he's alive.
His body is broken, but his spirit strong. We can't
stop the fighting, he says. It's the Russians who came here,
not us.

Speaker 1 (01:21:30):
Yes, you better tell your boss, you better get with
some of the program. So I don't mind. I don't
like the tactic of what's going on. I understand why,
and I think, you know, there's so much to it.
It's not just as simple as he's going after Zelensky
and and you know a guy that is kind of
a national hero. I would think over there, and who

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the media loves, and you know, putin who's evil and
bad and stuff, and he cherishes him and his friendship,
and he holds them up and they love each other. Yeah,
there's more to it, because the media is so concerned
about the look, not the action and what takes place afterwards.
And if we can secure certain minerals and we can

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do certain things. Because what do I always tell you
about Trump? It's always about business, baby, always about business,
which is what is the number one thing with him
he cares about. I want peace because with peace comes
good times. Good times means people are spending money, et cetera,

(01:22:34):
et cetera. I want that. I want cheap energy. I
want a booming economy and I want peace. But he
recognizes this isn't just about Russia. This is about Iran, Russia,
China and the battle that will go on through energy
and minerals, because why China is in Africa and what

(01:22:56):
are they doing through the Belton Road. They are trying
to secure as much of the minerals as they possibly
can in certain areas, which means were more dependent on them.
And who's their pal Russia? Oh oh, I didn't see
you like that. Of course you didn't, you fool three
two three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty three
at Chadmitz and show is your Twitter yesterday there was

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an about face speaking of Trump with the nine to
eleven healthcare DOGE cuts that came. So if you guys
remember nine to eleven, obviously you remember that. But they
have a agency that helps with nine to eleven. Everything

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is for the emergency workers, has to do with like
the cancer. All of this stuff that has gone on
in is called the World Trade Center Healthcare Program, and
they help with the nine to eleven illnesses. They're doing
all of the research and there were cuts and they've
reversed it. Because bipartisan. It wasn't popular. And this goes

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back to what I've said about Trump for a very
long time. Not the conservative, he's a populace. He's on
the conservative side, but he's a populace. And he saw
that this was unpopular, and he said, nope, we're going
to reverse course here, because that's the kind of thing

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you do. And the unintended consequences of some of these
cuts people talk about and I don't mean to be
little people who've lost their job, but the reality is
the federal government's bloated. Any other business has blowed like that.
If they were making cuts, people wouldn't feel bad about it.
But this is one of those things where he looked
out and said, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, We're not
doing this. People are mad about this. Nine eleven is

(01:24:50):
a big deal. That's stealing people's hearts. We're going to
keep this, even if it's one person, We're keeping it.
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Let's find out what was trending on the old interwebs?

Speaker 29 (01:27:00):
Shall we?

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Oh, we shall start over? The magical world v Google.
The game last night?

Speaker 7 (01:27:11):
Wow, what a game.

Speaker 1 (01:27:15):
Canada wins in overtime. It was incredible. Best way to
describe it, just people that don't care about hockey cared
about hockey because of the excitement. Because yes, obviously the
political tension. The NHL knocked it out the park last night.

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Shows you how big things are that A lot of
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the nickname of McDavid. It's not very nice now, I'm
just being honest. That's that's the nickname. It's funny my
mother and family because they're a hockey family. That's what
they joke around and call him Mick Jesus. And I
joke about the mcjesus thing and hockey and whatnot. And
you know as far as like, oh my god, because
I know I'm gonna get a text message an email,

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you shouldn't call them that you know, it's one of
those things where I think Jesus came down and said
you you're going to be great at something, and it's
gonna be hockey, and you're gonna make a nation smile,
great scars.

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Com big test?

Speaker 7 (01:30:01):
Done it again?

Speaker 1 (01:30:03):
Three two? So be honest with you, guys. I watched
the game on a little phone last night. What yeah.
I had a good friend of mine, they asked. My
agent surprised me and came in last night to to
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some here and we all went out to dinner and everybody,
the people that you would think not watching sports, watching
crowding around TVs, phones, anything to watch this. It was
that big and it's an amazing thing. What do you
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but people care about three two, three, five, three eight,

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Speaker 1 (01:31:21):
It's time for the Wheel of Surprise. I enjoyed this
so do you guys, I hear a lot of you
chime in if you don't know what the Wheel of
Surprise is. It's where we spin a wheel and all
of the carts that I play they have numbers on them,
but there's nothing listen on them outside of that. So
what happens is the story is a surprise. It could

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be a story that's happened this week we just can
get time to It could be something completely rando as
you wheel, but it's a lot of fun. So I thought,
let's do it. Let's do it. Let's do it. Let's
do it. Are you guys ready for the Wheel of Surprise?

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Number two?

Speaker 7 (01:32:10):
Dodgers taking a field.

Speaker 10 (01:32:11):
As the Dodgers and Cubs began Cactus League games, something
was different. A new automated ball and strike calling system
in place. It's not replacing human umpires, but it will
allow for challenges. The minor leagues have been using it.
It came up during the broadcast on Spectrum Sports Net.

Speaker 7 (01:32:27):
The guys that have played in the minor league level
understand it pretty.

Speaker 10 (01:32:29):
Well, and then quickly in the first inning it was
used the Cubs winning a challenge to a called ball.

Speaker 7 (01:32:34):
Well, good, we see it in the very first inning.

Speaker 1 (01:32:36):
There you go.

Speaker 10 (01:32:37):
Teams in spring training get to challenge two baller strike
calls per game, and the robotoms will get the final say.

Speaker 1 (01:32:43):
Kind of interesting. They've got this now in pretty much
every sport out there where they're integrating it. In some
sports it gets frustrating, Soccer being a big one they have,
especially in Europe, they have video assistant referee and it's
not as smooth as it could be at times, and
you watch guys celebrate goals and then they turn and

(01:33:07):
they look and they're like, okay, now what So now
we got to wait because the video assisted referees can
to decide if I was all side or this, that
and the other. But we want to get it right.
But there's a certain part of I don't want to
say error that is part of the human spirit of things,
where you know, that's that debate that goes on. But yeah,

(01:33:28):
we want it right. So we'll see how this goes.
Not every Major League Baseball training camp has the technology
in it, but it'll be interesting to watch and if
we get it right and it speeds up the games
at times. That's the thing with Major League Baseball, Unlike
other sports, Major League Baseball's issue has always been it's
too slow. So is this going to speed up the
game or make it worse? We shall see the wheel

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of surprise Number eight.

Speaker 16 (01:34:05):
Ozzie is wearing booties on his walk today as extra protection.
After word quickly spread, two dogs were shocked, one electrocuted
on Sunday in River North.

Speaker 11 (01:34:15):
That's why we've got the shoes on for sure today
and we're just trying to avoid the manholes as much
as we can.

Speaker 16 (01:34:21):
Chicago Police confirmed two dogs were shocked within two hours
on the six hundred block of North Deerborn after stepping
on a manhole cover. The first call came in around
eleven thirty. A nearby veterinary emergency clinic confirms it treated
the first dog, a thirty to forty pound poodle mix,
with only mild symptoms, but the second dog, a sixty
or seventy pound Akta mix, died.

Speaker 13 (01:34:42):
The avoiding manhole covers for sure and then anything electrical.

Speaker 7 (01:34:45):
Hyperconscious of that.

Speaker 1 (01:34:46):
Now do wait what I saw the story earlier in
the week, and I'm like, and because I live in
an apartment now, so our dogs have to go outside.
And I thought to myself, wait a minute, they have
electric manhole covers in places. That's wait what, so I

(01:35:11):
guess in Chicago some of these things were electrified because
you and I were shoes. It's not a big deal.
They don't no way. It killed a dog. It killed
a dog.

Speaker 16 (01:35:25):
Pet parents and veterinarians in the area now on high alert.

Speaker 23 (01:35:29):
Humans wear shoes with usually heavy rubber soles that would
give you insulation from the electrical current.

Speaker 16 (01:35:36):
The manhole is operated by the city, not comment, according
to the utility that say, in addition to booties, the
best way to protect your pet is to avoid stepping
on the covers and look for these signs.

Speaker 23 (01:35:47):
Initial signs may just be a yelp of pain, but
if it's a very serious shock, it can actually cause
immediate cardiac arrust or cardiac arrhythmia. So as long as
they're not attached to the current, it's going to be
safe to touch your pet, and it's going to be
really important to get them as fast as possible to

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a vetinarian.

Speaker 16 (01:36:10):
We did reach out to Chicago's Department of Streets and
Sanitation to ask why this manhole was electrified with no
warning and how many others may be, but so far
have not heard back.

Speaker 1 (01:36:20):
They said, we're not quite sure, so it'll to be
surprised to all of us. What are some of the signs, Well,
my dog caught fire. That's one of the signs. Oh
my god, it's an adventure, kids, it's an adventure. It's
the wheel of surprise.

Speaker 25 (01:36:48):
Number one, a former NFL player, was arrested at a
city council meeting in California for what he called an
act of civil disobedience over a plaque with the acrostic
poem that's out MAGA.

Speaker 26 (01:37:01):
Unfortunately, it's clear that this console does not listen. So instead,
I'm going to take my time to say what MEGA
has stood for these past three weeks. Magastans for trying
to erase trans people from existence, Magastans for resegregation and racism,
Magastans for censorship and book bands. Magastans for firing air
traffic controllers while planes are crashing.

Speaker 1 (01:37:20):
Chris Kluey is the guy that is the former punter.
He is uber woke and uber wacky. Everything he said
there was all wrong. There was no air traffic controllers
fired zero, zilch nada zero. How many of them? Zero? Zero?
Air traffic control? Well they fired three, they fired three

(01:37:42):
hundred people from the FAA. What is there forty or
fifty thousand people that work there? Three hundred of them
are essentially non essential jobs. Like I said yesterday, pushed
paper over here, Nie, and then push paper over here, Nie.
They and they were all prootion probotionary, probortionary, chief shed
probationary hires that were let go. And it means that

(01:38:06):
you're going to erase trans people.

Speaker 17 (01:38:11):
What what.

Speaker 26 (01:38:13):
MEGA stands for? Cutting funds to education, including for disabled children.
MEGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti democracy, and most importantly,
MEGA is explicitly a Nazi movement.

Speaker 1 (01:38:25):
You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat,
but that is what it is.

Speaker 26 (01:38:29):
I will now engage in the time honored American tradition
of peaceful civil disobedience.

Speaker 1 (01:38:40):
Yet out, Yeah, then they dragged this ass out of there.
We're going to engage in the time honored tradition of
dragging your ass out of here. And you can dislike
MEGA all you want. Stop with the Nazi stuff. It
doesn't work. Stop that, Stop demonizing portion of America. Stop

(01:39:02):
lying about Oh, it's doing this, it's doing this, it's
doing this, and none of that stuff's coming true because
you watch lunacy you think it's true. You're on the
TikTok or whatever, and you think, oh, I heard this,
so it's got to be true. Do some research, Do
some research.

Speaker 25 (01:39:19):
The plaque was approved by the city council members and
was privately funded. According to the city council.

Speaker 1 (01:39:25):
I would just really emphasize.

Speaker 28 (01:39:27):
I'd emphasize that words have meaning, So make America Great
Again has meaning.

Speaker 25 (01:39:34):
The plaque will be installed at a library to celebrate
its fiftieth anniversary. Kluey says he was charged with a
misdemeanor for disrupting an assembly and held in custody for
about four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:39:45):
Oh good, wackad do wackad do wackad do wack could do?
It's the wheel of Surprise.

Speaker 20 (01:40:06):
Number nine from the USDA chief says the Make America
Healthy Again Commission will consider banning junk food and sugary
drink purchases with food stamps. Agriculture Secretary Brook Rawlins says
the SNAP program for low income families really needs to
prioritize healthy food options instead. The problem is, as we
know here in America, a lot of these so called

(01:40:28):
healthy options are actually really expensive compared to the cheap
ultra processed foods that are often purchased, and accessibility to
these healthier options is a real problem for communities.

Speaker 1 (01:40:40):
Absolutely, we need a healthier nation. It's one of those
weird things where they're more expensive, But would you rather
spend a little bit more now and save a lot
later with healthier lifestyle.

Speaker 6 (01:40:57):
Or not.

Speaker 1 (01:40:58):
That's an interesting thing when it comes to something like this,
because whether it's the EBT and all these kind of things,
you go and you're like, wait a minute, here, I'm
at a fast food restaurant. You guys take this and
we have an issue here, especially among the lower income
folks in America, where we have a weight issue and

(01:41:20):
not that they're too thin.

Speaker 20 (01:41:21):
Now, the SNAP program, it's enormous if you want to
check out these numbers. According to the USDA, last year,
forty one point seven million people received SNAP benefits and
it costs taxpayers nearly ninety four billion dollars, each person
receiving about one hundred and eighty eight dollars each month.
So the problem is a lot of these dollars trying
to go towards fresh fruit and vegetable wouldn't go very far.

(01:41:42):
There are currently at least two bills in Congress about
SNAP benefits Marky. The first one would ban them for
being used on junk food items like cookies, cakes, pies,
so doas we know what they are. The other bill, though,
is more about finding ways to improve nutrition and diet
quality for these recipients and marking. Another economic argument for
this ban is that taxpayers are in a sense kind

(01:42:05):
of paying twice, paying for the junk food upfront and
then essentially paying for the medical care as well, because
these junk foods often cause chronic disease.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
What to do do we pay now or to pay later?
We're going to pay. I think we know that we
can better figure it out. And you hear about some
of these people and how much Snap benefits they get
and some don't. That talk about fraud, waste and abuse woo,
there is a ton of that in a lot of
these kind of programs, which is very frustrating. But we've

(01:42:38):
got to figure out a way to make the stuff
that we truly need a little bit more inexpensive, healthier food,
and the stuff that we don't need maybe not as inexpensive.
You mean, the things we want like junk food, yeah,

(01:42:59):
like junk food. All right, we got one more spin
because I'm going along, But I've got like fifteen gazillion
stories I could still get to on here. Apparently number six.

Speaker 10 (01:43:19):
After the Delta air Lines regional jet operated by Endevor
Air flipped and caught fire on the runway, social media
has lit up with what Delta air Line says has
misinformation and now it's believed as fact by some. Deltair
Lines says contrary to some claims, the first officer was
not brand new. She was hired over a year ago
and had been flying since she finished training last April,

(01:43:40):
and the claims she failed training events are false. The
captain was hired in two thousand and seven, had worked
training pilots, and claims that he too had failed training
events are also false.

Speaker 1 (01:43:51):
What yeah, what did I say earlier this week? Nobody
knew who the pilot's where. Delta was doing everything to
not get this stuff out there. And all people need
in today's world is a smidge of reason to think
some weirdness has happened, and then conspiracies run wild. So

(01:44:18):
do we still know who they are? Not? Really, But
there's gonna be some more conversations about this. Like I said,
the left they want it to be all Trump's fault
fire people DFA, that's why the plane crashed, and the
right wants it to be DEI I continue to say,
I just don't want any more plane crashes three two, three, five,
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sashtag me too, hashtag immigration reforms, hashtag help.

Speaker 4 (01:45:55):
I'm trapped in a hashtag factory and I can't get out.
The chat is a show.

Speaker 1 (01:46:00):
It is that time of the week where we listen
back to the chaos, the craziness. It was this week.

Speaker 7 (01:46:08):
Elon Musk is clearly running for show grew.

Speaker 9 (01:46:10):
This was my dream job, and then she's being taken
away by an administration who doesn't care about science. It
doesn't care about people who might be homeless.

Speaker 13 (01:46:19):
With their dog.

Speaker 7 (01:46:20):
Now, what are we really trying to do here is
restore the will of the people.

Speaker 10 (01:46:25):
I'm not a hundred dollars walking in my batifle.

Speaker 7 (01:46:29):
I know how I say it didn't body's burning a
hold got.

Speaker 1 (01:46:32):
Through my boggeting doing my scam. Come on the morning,
I'll be brown.

Speaker 15 (01:46:39):
It's fine free, I'm done my motor running.

Speaker 1 (01:46:44):
Wow again, it's fine burning work.

Speaker 21 (01:46:50):
And then they cut some time and.

Speaker 14 (01:46:52):
The plane went sideways. We skidded like on our side
and then flipped over on her back.

Speaker 7 (01:46:58):
The cuts do not affect our scale.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
You have to fly every day for one hundred thousand
years to be in a fatal mishap. Is it safe
to fly? So the simple answer is yes, it's safe
to fly. Of course it's five.

Speaker 5 (01:47:21):
Time.

Speaker 7 (01:47:25):
We'll call it what jeoparded.

Speaker 16 (01:47:27):
We don't need it as stupid rural worth nothing racists.

Speaker 7 (01:47:32):
I'm sure they thought it was a joke, but it
was not.

Speaker 26 (01:47:34):
It was a seal in the.

Speaker 18 (01:47:35):
Street, transgender homicidal computer nerd vegans Wow.

Speaker 19 (01:47:40):
Armed officers searched into suspects home, then seized his laptop
and cell phone. Prosecutors say those electronics may have been
used to commit a crime crime posting a racist cartoon online.

Speaker 1 (01:47:54):
Five time true.

Speaker 20 (01:48:07):
Donald Trump and the Republican Party has changed the electorate.

Speaker 7 (01:48:10):
We're not in a conscial crisis.

Speaker 1 (01:48:12):
I do not invoke the specter of Nazis slightly.

Speaker 21 (01:48:15):
That the only person in history to be responsible for
all American deaths, then Donald Trump is as final eight all.

Speaker 17 (01:48:24):
I just view this as yet another example of progressive
left boxing themselves in into a suicide dance.

Speaker 1 (01:48:31):
They just have a blind spot with Trump.

Speaker 22 (01:48:33):
The thing I do like about it is if other
people really are setting up parties for their neighborhood friends,
that's going to be a good thing in the country
because we're kind of divided now.

Speaker 1 (01:48:41):
I love that Doug is Winter party last week, and
he's right, we're divided now, and having a little party
and smiling at your friends and your neighbors not a
bad thing, no matter what political side of the aisle.
They're on three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four
to twenty three at Chad Benson Show. To Twitter, Instagram
right here on the Chad Benson Show. Solid fun week
of shows, right guys, man, this week flew bah. You

(01:49:04):
think there's gonna be another week? I don't know, not
if Trump has his way. Oh goodness me. Just chaos
at times, isn't it? And I remind everybody today find
the things that bind us together as a nation, as Americans,
and not the stuff that the media and the algorithms push, which,
as you and I both know, are crazy and wacky

(01:49:25):
and they're there to divide, they're not there to unite.
Reach out to us across all of our social media.
We love it when you do three two, three, five,
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We'll do it again on Monday and night night Jack.

Speaker 4 (01:49:41):
This is the Chad Benson Show.