Trump Pauses Reciprocal Tariffs but Hikes Duties on China to 125%

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
In the immortal words Brian Wilson The Beach Boys. God
only knows when it comes to Trump tariffs in China. Again,
God only knows. I have no idea where this is
going but whiplash indeed for the rest of the world
when it comes to their tariffs. But the battle is

(00:36):
nowhere near over, and it's about to get uglar. China
has threatened to unleash a giant dragon really no, one
point nine trillion dollars shsonami on the world in traw

(01:00):
out tear warfare with the US Carolyn Levitt yesterday on
the lawn of the White House.

Speaker 3 (01:06):
As you all know, the President just put out a
statement announcing an additional tariff on China. The tariff on
China will now go up to one hundred and twenty
five percent because China imprudently decided to retaliate against the
United States. And as I said at the podium yesterday,
when you punch at the United States of America, President
Trump is going to punch back harder. In that same vein,
we have had more than seventy five countries from around

(01:29):
the world reach out to President Trump and his team
here at the White House to negotiate better trade deals
for the American worker. We have been overwhelmed with the
amount of requests from countries around the world. I'll let
the Secretary speak to that. We will continue with the
tailor made negotiations that I spoke about yesterday. In the meantime,
there will be a ninety day pause on the reciprocal
tariffs as these negotiations are ongoing, and the tariff level

(01:52):
will be brought down to a universal ten percent tariff.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
You hit me, I hit you, back and forth and
back and forth and back and forth. It's going to
be interesting. Already you're seeing Chinese dealers, if you will,

(02:18):
or Amazon dealers or whatever they are, start to say,
screw it, We're just not going to work with the
US anymore. We're done, and they're going to Laos and
Cambodi and several other places to try to make it up.
You're never going to make up what you would lose here.
It's just not possible. We're about forty percent of the

(02:40):
global economy. Think about that for a second. But it's
going to get ugly, ain't no doubt about it. Do
we have the fortitude to stay with it because politics
is going to play a huge role. People fighting for

(03:01):
their political lives to be re elected to their positions
in the Senate and the House, especially on the Republican side,
will absolutely play a role.

Speaker 4 (03:13):
Listen, this was clearly and Donald Trump said as much
on the South Lawn that he was looking at the
bond markets collapsing and that was what forced his hand
into this reversal. And beyond that, I do believe the
White House is hearing from foreign leaders, but more importantly,
they're hearing from business leaders, business leaders who a lot
of them met big on Donald Trump. They thought he
was going to be good for the economy. They were

(03:34):
expecting Trump term one all over again, and then they
saw the markets and shamble. So I think his hand
was forced here. And thank god, you're hearing a big
ciygh of relief from Capitol Hill and from our allies
around the world right now.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Now that being said, it's not over. Isn't this as
I've been saying? Did video last night? Go check it out,
go to the YouTube at Chad Benson Show and Twitter
and Instagram live last night talking about and we've been
talking about it for for for months and months and
months and for years that China is not our friend,
they're not our ally. We have deemed it a necessary

(04:11):
evil because our appetite for cheap goods is tremendous and
their goal to dominate the world is very real, and
they're trying to do it in several different ways. And
we are now in a position where Trump feels like,
we got to do this now, and it's understandable. Why

(04:33):
we didn't do this earlier is beyond me. Once they
started stealing intellectual property, once they started doing the things
they have been notorious for, that's when the world, not
just us, should have stood up and said no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 (04:54):
That we are dependent on so many things to come
out of our biggest adversary. They are the enemy, and
we should not all.

Speaker 6 (05:02):
But they are partner, the minerals UNA.

Speaker 7 (05:09):
Right, but like that are not sure, Michael.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
They are our biggest trading partner.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
And if we were to manufacture iPhones here, iPhones will
cost thirty five hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (05:16):
The American people are not going to tolerate that. I
don't think that we can say forget you China. So
you're okay, You're okay.

Speaker 5 (05:22):
If we continue to put our own economic and national
security future in the hands of our biggest enemy because
effectively they use slave labor to build stuff, and that
makes it better for us.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Well, we became very much a consumption nation. We know that.
But lonely Scott, there's right, they are. They've never been
our friend. We thought through panda diplomacy, right, you go
back to Nixon and Kissinger and them that opening up
the world to them and giving the opportunity to come

(05:56):
out of this. I mean, if you go look and
see what China was sixty years ago to now, to
come out of this almost dark ages, simplistic living, think
of North Korea to what it is now. We thought
at some point in time that that would overtake everything

(06:17):
that they do with the world of communism and eventually
they would step out of that and not be this communist,
authoritarian society. And it hasn't happened that way. They've just
allowed people to have a little bit more freedom while
they continue to control their thoughts and many other things

(06:38):
and try to you know, expand in every way, shape
or form, using our money and the world's money to
expand as many places as they possibly can. And that's
what they've done. Nobody wants to say the thing that

(07:01):
needs to be said, which is, we have to do
this because they're not our friends. They're not our pals,
they're not our allies. It's an uncomfortable relationship that has
been a necessity once we stopped manufacturing. It's an uncomfortable

(07:24):
relationship that we have enjoyed on the surface side as
well as the purchase side. But it's also a relationship
that our hopes were, Uh, they're gonna get it, and
then they're gonna be more free and open, and they're
gonna allow democracy to reign free and it's gonna be great. No,

(07:48):
that hasn't happened, and it's not gonna happen anytime soon.

Speaker 8 (07:51):
China is the bad guy here.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
They're a bad actor.

Speaker 5 (07:53):
Anybody who does business with China in and around China
knows you can't trust them.

Speaker 8 (07:59):
They steal your ip.

Speaker 5 (08:00):
They I mean, they do things and then they resell
it back here in the United I mean, they do
terrible things to everybody that does business with them. And
so if the net result of this ends up being
that the United States creates fairer trade deals with the
rest of the world and we end up isolating China,
I think it will have been worth it.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
And the whole you know, she was right talking to
our friend Lonely Scott about we're not going to spend
thirty four hundred dollars an iPhones. She's not going to happen,
and we could get those prices down kind of. But
there's plenty of other places that we can go where
the labor is cheap but proportional for where they live.

(08:41):
I think that's one of the things that you know,
businesses need to do a better job explaining, which is
they may make five dollars a day, but that five
dollars is equivalent to you know, over a year, a
sixty thousand dollar year, fifty thousand dollars a year, whatever

(09:01):
it is, it's equivalent to their world. You've got India,
You've got several other Central American countries that we do
some manufacturer. There are things that we can do and
places we can go to keep the cost somewhat down.
But then you also run into the labor side of stuff,

(09:25):
which is some of this stuff is intricate and not
just turning a screw. So this is going to be
interesting to see how this thing plays itself out. And
it's not going to be an overnight thing. Spain yesterday
said that you know what, maybe they should have closer
relationships with China. Do that at your peril. Do that

(09:49):
at your peril, knock yourself out. But it's not just
about trading. There's a lot of other stuff that goes
into it, including what we offer the world, which is

(10:12):
protection in many areas. So at your own risk if
that's what you want to do. We're not saying don't
deal with them. But if you want to get closer
and closer with Beijing and forego US, that's a you thing.

Speaker 9 (10:28):
China is probably the worst example. I'm not the only
one God created the world that everything else is made
in China. But because President Trump has done what he's done,
and I'm not saying it hasn't been tough with the market,
it has been, but we would not be in the
situation able to negotiate lower arrists and trade barriers if

(10:51):
President Trump hadn't done what he has done.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
And we're going to find out what it looks like. Again,
the politics is going to play a huge role because
as much as you and I can stomach when it
comes to the rise of goods and the louder the
voices get towards incumbents in the Republican Party whose seats

(11:17):
are up next year. If that gets so loud, there
will be a move to figure this out sooner rather
than later, because not only would they lose their seats,
the Republicans in Congress and Senate, but then Trump would

(11:39):
lose his opportunity to hold those and not have two
years where not only is he a lame duck, but
every other day there's a fear of impeachment three two, three, five,
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(13:30):
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Speaker 3 (13:35):
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But I'm on there. Let him fight it out. Trump's like,
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that sea cod in l Salvador, which is where the
worst of the worst go, and it feels like one
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the key.

Speaker 10 (14:03):
There's a reason why it's become known as infamous. It
is an incredibly harsh place.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
It is brutal.

Speaker 10 (14:09):
Frankly, it is depressing, and it is designed to be
that way. You know, there is a reason why we
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It's because the government of El Salvador is proud of
this and they want us to see it.

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Not only are they proud of it, they want everybody
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or if you're ever thinking about doing something, this is
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Speaker 10 (14:32):
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In each cell, you have at least eighty people. They
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They are not allowed books, they are not allowed letters

(14:52):
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Speaker 2 (15:01):
Because it's not about rehabilitation. It's about punishment, plain and simple.
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violent offenders, but you had a lot of people are
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(15:21):
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(16:04):
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Speaker 11 (16:20):
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Speaker 12 (16:31):
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Speaker 11 (16:42):
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of everybody who does everything else. What do you bet

(17:15):
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Speaker 13 (17:36):
Shown Chad Benson Joe.

Speaker 1 (18:00):

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Last night, Bernie Sanders at a town hall with CNN
Anderson Cooper and I'm gonna play a portion of this
clip because it says a lot about the Democrats and
why Trump all aback Senator Bernie Sanders. I want to

(18:24):
introduce Grace Thomas. She's a local civil rights attorney. She's
a Democrat.

Speaker 14 (18:28):
Right, see them pronouns? Actually, thank you, Oh, if you've need,
Senator Sanders. Polling and turnout data indicate that men of
all racial demographics are turning away from the Democratic.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Party, and that's why Trump what what? Why?

Speaker 15 (18:43):
What?

Speaker 2 (18:44):
It's they them pronouns. Oh, for God's sakes, really, it's
that important. It's they them pronouns. Just want to let
you know, it's they them pronouns. And then she goes
into poll show that men are leaving the Democratic Party.
Why is that? Well, they them That's why you're insane

(19:09):
what you just said, right, there's lunacy. Course, men are
moving to the right. The Democrats have not only lost
their way, it's the ridiculousness of stuff like that that
makes them go, what's this party.

Speaker 8 (19:24):
Have for me?

Speaker 2 (19:26):
Eric Weinstein was on a podcast earlier this week. You
don't who he is? Really guy, smart guy, professor investor,
got a podcast and part of the intellectual dark web,
as they would say, just a just a really smart
cat talking about why men feel like they have to

(19:49):
go to the right, and he's like, Nah, they don't
have to. They're pushed.

Speaker 16 (19:54):
Have you seen the data showing the movement of teenage
boys politically to the right.

Speaker 17 (19:59):
Have you been looking at this?

Speaker 18 (20:00):
Where else are they going to go?

Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's a good question.

Speaker 18 (20:02):
I mean I had a teenage boy. I still have one,
but he's eighteen now, and I watched them be pushed
farther and farther right by their schools.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
You suck.

Speaker 18 (20:12):
All of your instincts are bad. These girls are amazing.
Look at you, You're pathetic. Be less masculine and more attractive.
You're just barking at them constantly. They're not moving right,
they're moving out of your stupid way.

Speaker 2 (20:26):
You've given them what, nothing, nothing. One of my.

Speaker 18 (20:30):
Son's friends died recently by his own hand, and I
don't know what kind of pressures he was put under,
but I watched those kids go through this pressure cooker
created by this crazy, parasitized left wing educational movement. Get
away from our sons, get away from our daughters. Get

(20:50):
away from our sons and away from our daughter. It's
not left or right. I don't have a Republican bone
in my body. Get the crazy people who do not
understand human development away from our children.

Speaker 2 (21:00):
Here. Here, they're not going over the right because they want.
They're being pushed there. They're being pushed to the right.
They're being forced. It's capitulate and give up everything that
is being a boy, being masculine, and all of the things,
or get out of here and they're saying, get out
of here. So when that lady goes, it's they them.

(21:23):
Why do you think men are leaving the party? It's
that simple. Keep doing that kind of stuff and you're
going to continue to see them step away. Besides all
of the other things, you've made it personal. Somewhere along
the line, we decided that boys, men, fathers no longer mattered.

(21:47):
And it wasn't about equality. It was about girl boss.
It was about to do the things that I want
to do. You must not be equal but less than,
and your belief system. Who you are nature wise is

(22:09):
not important. I'm more important. Keep doing what you're doing.
You're gonna keep getting what you get. But it was
an interesting town hall, so move on. A lot of
it about, obviously, elon the future of all kinds of things,
the middle class, stuff like that, oligarchy, lots lots of oligarchy,
and AI if.

Speaker 19 (22:29):
Musk can do this through federal employees, some of them
are in unions, some of them who will work for years.
What do you think is going to be doing when
artificial intelligence and robotics comes for your job? Guess what
The job you have today ain't gonna be here in
ten of fifteen years, and you think Musk and his
friends are saying, Oh my goodness, how do we protect

(22:51):
American workers from the explosion in technology that we're seeing.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
They don't give a damn about you, They don't care
about you. What should we do? Bernie just I'm curious.
So should we just stop AI from doing what it does?
I mean, if it can perform jobs better, should it
not have the opportunity to do that to save people money,

(23:16):
to be more efficient? Or should we say Nope, We're
going to continue to do what we've done, Stay away
from cars. Who wants a horse and buggy?

Speaker 19 (23:26):
If this is what they could do to federal employees,
think about what they could do to people in the
private sector. So bottom line there is I am not
a luddite. I think technology has many positive things to say,
but we have got to understand that new technology AI
robotics has got to work for working people, not just
for the billionaires and miss the Musk, not just for them.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
What brings us to this AI and shopify? If you
know what that is, you should They're using AI in
conjunction with human beings for now, and they're using it
in a lot of different ways. But one of them
is very interesting. It's about a job, your job. Should

(24:09):
we expand in this job, do you guys need more
money for your job? Or should there even be this job.

Speaker 17 (24:17):
If you work for Shopify, one of the biggest e
commerce platforms in the world, you may not like this answer.
The company CEO is encouraging its employees to weigh their
need for workers against the talents of AI.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I'm Alexa.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
I share this name with lots of amazing people.

Speaker 20 (24:33):
From homes, to cars, to classrooms and now in business,
artificial intelligence is being used more and more to advance
our lives.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
So you've now got to report to your AI to say, look, AI,
look at the data, look at all the things that
we're doing. We need more help here, or we need
to add this to our job description, whatever it is,
and AI is going to decide if that is something

(25:06):
that needs to be done or if indeed, maybe AI
can do it for you.

Speaker 20 (25:10):
And it's finding its place at Shopify, where co founder
and CEO Toby Lutkey says using AI is a fundamental
expectation for the e commerce platforms employees. In a memo,
Lucky underscores the direction our world is going noting AI
is a tool of all trades today and will only

(25:30):
grow in importance. Lucky calling on employees to put AI
to the test before expanding departments and hiring new employees,
and some tech leaders think his plan is great motivation.

Speaker 21 (25:43):
He's asking them to think about AI as the accelerator,
using the data that they have a variable and their
big ideas, and how that could augment their big ideas,
and then he'll give them investment.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Really see a problem with that. I feel that's a
very fair thing to do. You've got this tool. Let's
use it before I go invest more money or move
money somewhere else that you guys may actually need it.
Let's use this tool to see what it can do
to help you take pressure off you, help expand your
role in different areas. Whatever it is, that's a great thing.

(26:24):
Do use AI every single day, all the time. I
love it. One day it may replace you. It's possible.
There are certain things that you know AI is going
to be able to do that is incredible. There's also
certain things that we will expect from a human being
because we have lived experiences as human beings, and you

(26:47):
want to hear about those things. Somebody says, oh God, Jeddi,
you sound like one of those weirdo liberals. No, but
as a human being, AI has never been a human.
Doesn't understand a broken heart or being a parent or whatever.
The day to day world of running a business, the
day to day world of dealing with human beings face
to face, not with having every answer it is. That's

(27:12):
a human experience that AI doesn't have. So there will
always be things that AI is just not capable of doing.
And you know, people talk about, well, it's going to
get to the point where it's it's somewhat sentient and
it understands being a human. Understanding something and being something
are two different things.

Speaker 20 (27:31):
Continue and luck He wants employees to use AI to
prove they need more resources. Writing teams must demonstrate why
they cannot get what they want done using AI.

Speaker 21 (27:43):
This is about having quality work for their direct employees
and really delighting and serving the customers.

Speaker 20 (27:52):
And for anyone who thinks AI is taking jobs.

Speaker 21 (27:55):
Man is not being replaced by machine.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
Yet yet yet could they? In some areas they probably will,
But that's also going to have an opportunity to create
other jobs. Whenever we talk about AI, it's either them
taking over the world, blowing up the world doing something.
It's always, for the most part, somewhat negative. I mean,

(28:19):
you know, if there's ten stories about AI, seven of
them are negative in some way, shape or form. But
there's positives out there, and I do believe the positives
at least for now, so they take over the world
outweigh the negative.

Speaker 20 (28:33):
Experts say, in Shopify's case, they want artificial intelligence to
help employees think like their customers. It can help anticipate wants, needs,
and in this case, shopping patterns, which will in turn
help the consumer and likely the company's bottom line. Shopify
is not alone in using AI. According to Exploding Topics

(28:54):
in twenty twenty four, forty percent of all global companies
reported using AI in their businesses.

Speaker 21 (29:01):
Using AI and technology reinforces your business controls because you
know where information is going and you know who's using
it and for what. It really saves so much time
from your internal employees to really work on high quality
projects and think of new ideas.

Speaker 2 (29:20):
It's going to be great, and it's going to be uncomfortable,
and you're going to get a lot of pushback from
a lot of people when you learn to work with it.
Embrace it and move in a certain direction with it, going, Hey,
I can use this thing as a benefit. I continue
to say. What it will do for you is awesome.
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in his boxers.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
He was quickly arrested.

Speaker 22 (31:40):
A woman not involved in the crash came out of
her house with a gun. She was shot and wounded
by police, who said she was pointing her gun at them.
The woman, identified as Gillian Lauren is married to a
member of the nineteen nineties rock band Weezer.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
That's right, the bassist of Weezer. I'm still trying to
figure out what the hell happens. So there was a
hit and run on a freeway. These people took off,
there were three of them, and they scattered into a neighborhood.

(32:15):
Then one of them tried to get into somebody's house.
I mean, it's very convoluted. How she got involved is bizarre.
But apparently she came out and she pointed a gun.
Not quite sure. What people are saying is they weren't
quite sure if she knew that they were cops. They
told her to put the gun down multiple times, and

(32:36):
then they shot her. So she's facing attempted murderer charges
and she's in the hospital with non life threatening injuries.
That's not very good. They lost two of them, by
the way, they couldn't find two. So the guy in
the boxers they got him. Who thought that was a
good idea? Hey, you know what, I'm gonna take all

(32:57):
my clothes off, stand in the backyard and d you
know water plants. Oh okay, speaking of not good yet,
great Minecraft movie is booming, But if you're a parent,

(33:18):
chicken jockey, Learn that chicken jockey.

Speaker 23 (33:21):
Probably had heard about Minecraft long before the movie. It's
a hugely popular video game where players build fantastical lands
and try to protect them from zombies.

Speaker 1 (33:31):
That built in.

Speaker 23 (33:32):
Audience is bringing fans to the movies in droves thanks
to a social media trend. It's also become something of
an interactive experience. But not everyone is happy about that.
It's the latest rallying cry for millions of moviegoers.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Chicken jockey.

Speaker 23 (33:51):
Those two little words sending teenage fans of a Minecraft
movie into a frenzy, resulting in screaming, popcorn throwing, and
soda flying.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Through the air.

Speaker 23 (34:02):
In at least one case, the police have gotten involved
escorting some of the offenders out of theaters.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's very rocky horror picture show picture seventies and eighties,
kids having fun, people throw at popcorn, so you're not
supposed to do that. But chicken jockey.

Speaker 23 (34:19):
So what is a chicken jockey? The official definition a
child zombie who rides a chicken. Of course, this morning
that craze around chicken jockeys, causing one movie theater in
New Jersey to take matters into its own hands, instituting
a new policy, miners will now have to have a
parent or responsible adult with them if they want to
watch the film. The Township Theater in Bergen County riding

(34:42):
in a statement that a group of boys engaged in
completely unacceptable behavior, including vandalism. They also received multiple complaints
from other moviegoers who were trying to enjoy the film
with their families.

Speaker 24 (34:54):
The manager called us and said that the theater was
in bad shape. He said, well, it's a terrible mess.
There is lotion squirted all over the place, and there's
a row of steats that have been pulled out of
the floor.

Speaker 2 (35:09):
Don't why are you bringing lotion? First of all, don't
break crap kids. I get it, you're excited. It's Minecraft.
Stop breaking stuff. Why do you have this is why
we can't have nice things? For God's sakes, Why are
you bringing lotion to a Minecraft movie? So if your
kid says chicken Jockey, watch out three two, three, five,

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(35:52):
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(36:13):
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Speaker 1 (36:23):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
China led by Gee, America led by down Trump, a
pissing match between two men who probably have prostate problems.
That's who will decide whether or not they'll be a
global recessions. Yay, Look, we need to take China on.

(37:14):
You guys know how I feel about that. They're not
our friends, They're not even our freenemies. They are who
they are, which is a communist ignation that is bent
on global dominance. And we are a society free thinkers,

(37:41):
strong constitution who also likes a little bit of global
dominance and we like to consume. But yesterday tariffs on
tariffs off, tariffs on tariffs off. Why I thought that
people were jumping a little bit out of line. They

(38:03):
were getting yippy yipp getting a little bit yippy, a
little bit afraid. I did a ninety day post for
the people that didn't retaliate, because I told him, if
you retaliate, we're going to double it. And that's what
I did with China, because they did retaliate. Now China's
threatening to crush our souls. Apparently one point nine trillion

(38:26):
dollar tsunami trade war overwhelm us. Haraldo.

Speaker 15 (38:34):
I believe that he ambushed China. I believe that he
suckered the whole world into believing that he was going
to go down in this you know this, Harry carry
this suicide.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
I believe it evolved.

Speaker 15 (38:44):
I mean, Monday, so many people were feeling terrible pain.
The markets were tanking, There was no you know, end
in sight. People were watching their four one k's, their
iras disappear. The whole nation was, I think, trembling over
the uncertainty of where we were going with this.

Speaker 8 (39:02):
It was he was.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Picking a fight with the entire world. He was and
then instead. Yesterday he said no, not the entire world,
just China.

Speaker 15 (39:12):
I went to my Twitter followers, I said, please don't sell.
This is on Sunday and Monday. Please don't sell unless
you absolutely have to. And then, you know, look what
he does.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Surprise.

Speaker 15 (39:23):
You know, this is why Trump is triumphant.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
I think that what he did was brilliant.

Speaker 15 (39:27):
A lot of people are heaving a huge sigh of relief. Yeah,
people were staring at the abyss. You know, no one
knew how far this was going to go, whether we
really were off the cliff forever. And you know, I
just feel sorry for all the people who chickened out
and sold out and took the major losses.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Because that's the thing about the market.

Speaker 15 (39:47):
When somebody wins, somebody else has lost.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Everybody needs to take a deep breath. When it comes
to the market. There's going to be tons of fluctuations.
It's up huge, might be down huge, might be up huge.
These wild swings are going to go on while this
battle happens. There's no doubt that these things, at least
right now, the volatility is going to be huge. But

(40:16):
it's the consumer right now, It's you and I that
have to worry about the day to day cost of stuff, goodies, things,
some stuff we want, some stuff we need. What is
going to affect our pocketbook? Those are the things that

(40:36):
we need to pay attention to at this moment in time.
The stock market unless you're drawing from it, and more
and more people are. More and more people are drawing
money out of their stock accounts because they're having trouble
making ends meet. But just because more and more doing
it doesn't mean it's everybody. But you have to say,

(41:02):
how does this affect me? Well, for the average person,
the consumer, You and I, it's going to affect us
because things are going to cost more. How long is
that gonna last? Don't know? What are those things? Again?
Don't know?

Speaker 25 (41:19):
While stocks sword on Wall Street, at stores, farms and
ports still looming uncertainty, financial experts Warren. Higher tariffs on
China means higher prices for Americans. Some of the top
imported products from China include mobile phones, computers, electronics, toys,
and clothing. A PlayStation five that now costs four hundred

(41:40):
and ninety nine dollars could go up to more than
eleven hundred dollars within a year. An increase of over
six hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
That's you don't feel that. If you want that, you're
gonna feel it. I don't know what's going to happen
long term, short term, this battle's not going anywhere. What
is also fascinating is how the left knows that we

(42:10):
need to fight this fight. Not that we want to,
but we need to. And they'll even come out and say, well,
of course China cheats.

Speaker 26 (42:25):
So I believe that China cheats, that the government there
subsidizes industry, which creates an unlevlable playing field for Wisconsin workers.
You know, Wisconsin is a state that makes things. We're
a big manufacturing state. But when you have an unleveled
playing field, you see the results. We lose jobs. We

(42:47):
see China being able to undercut and underprice, we see
steel dumping, aluminum dumping. I think it's absolutely appropriate to
have targeted tariffs or countervailing duties when when China cheats.
But there are tools that make sure that we are

(43:08):
analyzing their practices and responding appropriately.

Speaker 2 (43:13):
Tammy Baldwin, right there, Wisconsin Senator, how are we responding
to them?

Speaker 24 (43:19):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Are you guys using slave labor? Yeah? I'm gonna put
that in my notes. Probably send you a strongly worded letter.
Is that what we're doing. The reality is we're not
gonna do too much. This is a fight with China
that has yes to do with the amount of money

(43:41):
we spend over there. But why aren't we focusing on
companies saying if you're going to do business in China
and you're gonna be cost focused, we don't even want
you to do in business here. That solves a lot.

(44:02):
You can do the character, the stick. I don't know
why they say carrot. It's just so awful you want
a carrot? No, no, how about this. You can do
the donut or the stick. I know why they said
it because of the horse. Right, you know, you can
either whack them in the butt or you can put
a carrot in front of them. They'll go after it.
But still we're talking humans here. Nobody rides a freaking
horse anymore. Nlesse, you're a cowboy. Cowboy, But back to this.

(44:26):
You tell them manufacture it in India or where our
allies are, and we're gonna We're gonna do all kinds
of things to make sure that your stuff is sold
here without having to worry. Big and Tarff start thinking
outside the box, because this is bigger than just the

(44:52):
fact that we have a deficit trade wise with them.
They have a trade deficit with us when it comes
to our services. In fact, most nations do we export service?
What did I say, we export ideas, software, financial stuff.
That's those are exports. They have a deficit with us there.

Speaker 16 (45:16):
Senator Merkley, you have often called China an adversary on
just this point of taking I mean of taking on China,
bumping up more tariffs on Chinese goods. Do you applaud
that he is taking China on so directly, Well.

Speaker 27 (45:32):
He's not taking it on in a serious manner. In
a serious manner, you say, hey, we're going to have
a long term, stable rising response to the very low
wages and very low environmental laws in China that are
undermining manufacturing, because we want people to build their factories
in the United States. But when you say I'm sending

(45:53):
shock in aw in order to negotiate, no investor is
going to build a factory in the United States as
a result. So this is a really insanely it's not crafted,
it's not planned. It it's from one day to the next.
Where am I going to stumble to Literally, this is
a testosterone battle right now between between Trump and she

(46:13):
and what we need is a serious strategy that encourages
investment factories to be built in the United States of America.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
By the way, just let you know, nobody's going to
build factories here at all. It was Democratic Senator Merkley.
Nobody is going to build those because why would we
well to bring back manufacturing. I get it, they say

(46:42):
that it sounds good, but that's the reality of bringing
back something as opposed to the idea of bringing it back.
We have some factories you can probably fire up and
do some stuff, but cost prohibited and time prohibited, so

(47:07):
those things are going to take years. I don't care
what anybody says, Peter Navarro that somehow magically, yeah, we
can just get it done tomorrow.

Speaker 12 (47:17):
Obviously, the goal ultimately is for major businesses to manufacture here.

Speaker 28 (47:23):
That is, you know, would take years to take effect.

Speaker 29 (47:26):
I challenge your assumption that takes years.

Speaker 23 (47:28):
Okay, it's not going to take years.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
We do this in Trump time.

Speaker 21 (47:31):
That means as quickly as possible.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Okay. What does that mean, Well, a's quickly as possible. Okay,
do you have a magic pill that you can or
maybe magic beans you throw in the ground and something happens.
We we aren't going to manufacture like we used to.
And if we do manufacture, a lot of it's going
to be AI and robot driven. And even if we

(47:58):
started opening up plants today, do we have the people
to work those plants? In some cases yes, in other
cases no. So let's be reasonable about this and will
still be cost based when it comes to how we shop.
And if things are wildly expensive, even though you manufacture

(48:20):
it here, people aren't going to buy it. They'll look elsewhere.
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Speaker 1 (49:47):
Chad Benson, in all the chaos.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Of Trump for Palooza, Tarifa Palooza, all the palosas the
market swung crazy style dipshift, wants to know something.

Speaker 30 (50:03):
So today Trump removed many of the tariffs he had imposed.
In this on again, off again, it must be Wednesday.
Tariffs are off again kind of policy. This has just
recavoc on the markets. But there is another profound danger
as well, and that is insider trading within the White House,
within the administration. You may have seen early in the

(50:25):
day Trump tweet this, now this is a good time
to buy.

Speaker 8 (50:28):
The question is who knew what the president was going
to do?

Speaker 30 (50:31):
And did people around the president tradestock knowing the incredible
gyration the market was about to go through.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Did they know? Hmmm? Did they? Did Trump tip them off?
That's a fair question, But dipshift. You do know what
party you're in, right, you do? Happen to have the
greatest trader of all time in your party is Nancy Pelosi.

(51:03):
You understand that. I'm all for figuring out a way
to get trading out of the political world, especially that
they have because of the access that politicians have to
sensitive information that will move a stock one direction or another.

Speaker 30 (51:25):
You've got people like Elon Musk who are doing their
own conflicted self dealing in the administration. In any administration
this corrupt. It is more than necessary to ask were
people personally profiting from insider information while people's savings, their
retirement accounts were being torched we're right into the White
House to demand answers, So we invite whistle blowers to

(51:47):
step forward. But at the end of the day, we're
going to get to the bottom of this whether people
were profiting off the pain of the American.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
People, and I have zero, zero problem with that. In fact,
you can go to Salon, very left leaning who's got
a Pelosi tracker shows us how you can trade stocks
like Pelosi and others. I am one hundred percent this
should be bipartisan. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty

(52:19):
four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show. Is your
Twitter tweet at us texta program right here on the
Chad Benson Show. Sensitive information leads to stock trades being
made that benefit these people. They come in with a
small net worth of anything, most of them, and in

(52:41):
many cases they leave worth millions, tens of millions, and
sometimes hundreds of millions of dollars. So you can go
right now and they've got actually they have several apps
where you can absolutely either follow along across all of

(53:05):
the politicians and how they're investing. They've even got x
accounts where you can go and follow Nancy Pelosi and
her trades. It's It's crazy the amount of money they

(53:26):
make and the fact that they're always right. Wow, well
we should just take it from them and put it
in a blind trust. It doesn't work that way. The
problem is husbands, brothers, father in law. That's the issue.
Doesn't have to be their money in theory for them

(53:46):
to make money, it could be somebody else's account. You
see where I'm going with this. It's frustrating, man. I'll
tell you. I'll take you what three two, three, five, three, eight,
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your Twitter? We'd had the programming in Texas program I
do love hearing from every single one and you a
lot of stuff to get to, including what is chicken jockeying?

(54:07):
We're gonna talk a bit about that. Yeah, wait, do
you hear this chicken jockey? We cover the big stories kids.

Speaker 13 (54:14):
It's a Chad Benson Show, then Chad Benson Joe.

Speaker 1 (54:39):

Speaker 2 (54:41):
As we have stepped further and further away from the
Biden administration, it's now in the rear view mirror of
life and history. Things are now starting to emerge. The
failure of the media, in particular to recognize the issues
that were going on, and when you did recognize them,

(55:04):
you got blasted for it. Then the media came out
and they defended what everybody in the world could see.
Here's something that will never not be funny and didn't
age well because I'm about to tell you the truth
and f you if you can't handle the truth.

Speaker 9 (55:23):
This version of Biden, intellectually, analytically is the best Biden ever,
not a close second.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
And I've known him for years. The Brazenskis have known
him for fifty years. If it weren't the truth, I
wouldn't say it. That will never, ever, ever not be funny. Ever,
so books are out, more books are coming out, more
people are speaking out, and there's some books to come

(55:54):
that are going to be just I'm sure eye popping.
Because we knew, we knew what was going on, we
knew what was happening, and the media did nothing. Bari

(56:16):
Weiss of the Free Press, who I love to watch.
She's amazing. She's got her podcast and she has everybody
in the world on and she was the one remind
everybody is after Trump won in twenty sixteen, the New
York Times are like, dude, I can't believe what happened.
Who thought that he would get any votes? And they

(56:39):
were like, what do we do that. We need to
hire somebody who's actually, you know, not afraid of Trump's
supporters and who may tell us about them and go
out and meet them. And she did and then she
reported back and they're like, no, we don't like you.
We need to get rid of you. And she bounced
because she was like, these people aren't crazy. So she

(57:02):
talks to anybody and I love that. And because she's
a journalist and she cares about journalism and she cares
about news and she cares about telling the truth. She
has so many people on and she's not afraid to
ask them what the hell happened. And the other day

(57:22):
she had Mike Allen and Jim Vanderhi on. These guys
are the guys who run axios, and she was asking
them questions about why should anybody trust the media? You
guys failed, you failed.

Speaker 31 (57:37):
What explains the failure? Is it a lack of curiosity?
Was it the White House successfully spinning people? How do
you explain what happened? Mike?

Speaker 28 (57:48):
Yeah, Barry, this was all the worst parts of reporter
brain coming together and there is the group think, the
mono think that you were talking about. You add to it,
another piece of what you were just talking about is cluelessness, right,
And this is where the American people see something sent

(58:10):
something and they're not seeing or reflected in news outlets
that they used to trust.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
Why would anybody trust you If you're that clueless that
you can't see an eighty year old man who has
no idea what's going on? Why should I trust you
with anything? If you're not curious as to why you're
being shielded the way you are, and that nothing is

(58:37):
normal about what's happening at the White House when it
comes to everything from press conferences to access to anything.
If you're not curious about any of that, why should
I trust you with anything? Ever? Again, when it comes
to the media and your stories.

Speaker 28 (58:57):
And so specifically with the Biden hell, people discounted what
they saw with their own eyes, ignored it. And this
is the reporter group think part of it. That there
is an insecurity, a herd mentality, you don't want to
be separate, is like the typical reporter instinct and like

(59:23):
you know, like the three of us like have made
great lives and a great innovation by saying we did
want to be the one that's different. But it's the
hardest thing to teach your kid. It's hard to teach
a reporter. We tell our reporters, if you go somewhere
and there's two other reporters, you can leave. There's no story.

(59:46):
If there is, we'll see.

Speaker 1 (59:48):
It on TV.

Speaker 2 (59:49):
Very interesting. And by the way, Axios, while left leaning,
I use them. I find them pretty damn reliable. And
they did push at times and say some things against
the White House, including one of the reporters, which we'll
get to in a little bit. But again, it's not
just Axios. Everybody failed. I am always curious as to

(01:00:11):
why there was nobody, even for their own edification, their
own narcissisms, to build a name, to become the next
Woodward and Bernstein. Why there wasn't more people breaking through
trying to break a story that really didn't need to
be broken, just need to be told. Everybody knew what
was going on. Continue Mike Allen of Axios.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
But Mike, what did the herd?

Speaker 31 (01:00:36):
I agree with you that herd mentality group think is
incredibly powerful as something we all learned in COVID, But
what did the herd want in this case, right, they
wanted the herd.

Speaker 28 (01:00:45):
Yeah, the herd wanted the approval of the White House
connectivity of the White House. They didn't want to look
like they were being ideological on uh, Twitter or another
social media when in fact they were being clinical.

Speaker 2 (01:01:06):
You wanted to be part of the tribe. You could say,
it's the Hurbmans, that's the tribe. Your tribe doesn't like Trump,
can't stand Trump, hates Trump. And because of that, you
didn't want to upset the tribe for fear of being

(01:01:28):
tossed out. That was Mike Allen. Now over to Jim
vander High, also of Axios. Why again, should anybody trust
anybody in the media, the mainstream type of media anymore.
You guys dropped the ball, you gas lit America, and

(01:01:49):
then you want us to trust you.

Speaker 32 (01:01:51):
I feel like the trust really started to shatter over
the last decade. And I look at it as in
three phases. The first was the creation of Twitter. What
happened with Twitter is people forget like now. It's a
lot of conservative voices, a lot of independent voices. It
was a hot bed of liberal groupthink for a long time,

(01:02:12):
and it was the first time since I've been in
this business that I would get on a feed and
I would see reporters who I had trusted, who I'd admired,
making it crystal clear what their views were, what side
they were on. You could tell in what they were tweeting,
and you could tell in who they were following and
who was following them. So I thought that was stage one,

(01:02:32):
because at least before any bias people had they hid
from the public.

Speaker 2 (01:02:37):
Now it was in a somewhat full view. Okay, but
I'm not blaming Twitter for not doing your job just
because you're now letting everybody know how liberal you are,
and you're in that tunnel of group think. If something
presents itself as a story, isn't your job to dig

(01:03:02):
deeper into the story to find out what the reality
is of the story, and then to give it back
to the people even if you don't like it. Isn't
that your job?

Speaker 32 (01:03:11):
Then came along kind of the COVID defund the police
word policing, where I think a lot of Americans were
looking around and being like, it don't sit right with me,
and it doesn't in the way it's being covered didn't
sit right with them. And then I think The final
straw really was the coverage of Joe Biden when people

(01:03:33):
were saying, hey, I could see with my own two
eyes that the guy seems pretty old, probably doesn't seem
capable of being the president in the next term, and
yet there's not a whole hell of a lot of
coverage of it. We you know, Alex Thompson, our White
House reporter, just won the White House Reporting Award because
he was one of the few reporters to write about
the decline of Joe Biden.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
And he got the hell kicken, Yes he did. He
got the hell kicked out of him because the the
tribe decided that they were going to destroy him, and
so they came hard for because you reported the truth.
And you're not a reporter, you're an advocate. And I
don't like it when Trump does it. I don't want

(01:04:14):
it when Democrats are in there. And yes, you're going
to try to shape the narrative. We all understand those
kind of things. And you you know, everybody looks for
a person that is going to give you some sort
of you know, free easy press and questions. But your
job should be report what is actually happening. And if

(01:04:40):
you want America to trust you, which I don't think
is going to happen again. And it wasn't just about
the stuff that was going on with Biden. The COVID
stuff I think played a huge role, as did Yes
the Summer of Love in twenty twenty. But I think
the COVID thing was a massive, massive issue you as well.

Speaker 32 (01:05:02):
Exactly some of the very reporters who may have you know,
who will applaud him when he wins the award in
a couple of weeks, if you go back and look
at their Twitter feeds, there's a lot of people dunking
on him and saying, oh, that's not actually true. And
we're on the other ends of the calls from the
White House saying that you guys are out on a limb,
you're wrong, you're crazy, blah blah blah. And so I
think those three things in totality really cemented the distrust

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that a lot of people have in media, and it
breaks my heart.

Speaker 2 (01:05:32):
I hate that. I love journalism.

Speaker 32 (01:05:34):
I am a fierce, fierce, dependent defender of journalism. I
believe that most reporters, that most institutions actually do try
to get to the closest approximation of the truth and
achieve it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:45):
Most of the time.

Speaker 32 (01:05:45):
I think it's a couple of bad apples who make
it look bad for everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
You had me up until that point. There's no way
that's true. And I'm a fierce defender of journalists, and
I tell everybody this, I am not a journalist. I
am not a journalist. I'm an opinion throwing out sometimes
habitual linestepper. I'm going to give you my opinion, but
I want to get it right. And I know a

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ton of journalists being in this business for a long
time and the frustration they have because the industry is
now a much different place where it's about clicks and
likes and shares and sometimes you just got to find
that niche and it frustrates us, and it I get
the frustration. I'm a fierce defender of journalism, but don't

(01:06:36):
tell me it's journalism when it's advocacy and you're there
to advocate against the other guy for your guy, and
then tell me that it's journalism, because that's not journalism,
and that's why people don't trust you. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
Running with Scissors sounds great compared.

Speaker 33 (01:08:42):
To this, say, the death of a viral social media
squirrel is inspiring new legislation in New York. The animal
was a rescued squirrel named Peanut, who gained widespread popularity
on platforms like Instagram and TikTok after being found orphaned
on Manhattan Street. Peanut became the face of Freedom Farm
Animal Sanctuary, a nonprofit rescue operated by Mark Longo, the

(01:09:05):
same man who originally saved the squirrel. But in October
of last year, the New York Department of Environmental Conservation
rated the Longo residents seizing Peanut, citing multiple public complaints
about keeping wild animals as pets and concerns about rabies exposure.
Peanut reportedly bit one of the officers during the seizure
and was euthanized for rabies, testing, results of which later

(01:09:26):
came back negative.

Speaker 2 (01:09:28):
Negative. Indeed, you guys remember the story. If they're all
busted in like swat coming to take down this guy
and Peanut, Peanut be Epinette, and what did they do.
They snatched Peanut up. Then they killed Peanut. They killed Peanut,

(01:09:50):
Peanut who had millions of followers. I killed Peanut and
killed them. Horrible. Finally you might get some justice.

Speaker 33 (01:10:01):
The New York Department of Environmental Conservation defended the raid
at the time, claiming it acted in accordance with state regulations,
but public outcry over the incident prompted the agency to
issue a statement last week about what happened, saying it
initiated an internal investigation of wildlife enforcement procedures, adding we
know we can do better moving forward.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
Yeah, we can do better. Guys. Let's take a deep
breath before we decide to snuff out a very popular
influencer of the fluffy nature. All right, guys, all right,
let's get this together. We got to do better. We
can't afford to have another one of these things riding

(01:10:42):
over our head. What was the other animal? There was
one other animal that he had that they took it
and killed that one too, and nobody cares about because
it wasn't being happy, being up being happy.

Speaker 33 (01:10:50):
In the aftermath of this, a new bill has been
introduced to the New York State legislator dubbed Peanuts Law.

Speaker 34 (01:10:56):
Today, I have introduced Assembly Bill seven one eight eight
Peanuts Law, the Humane Animal Protection Act. Because compassion should
not be controversial and animal welfare should never be a
partisan issue.

Speaker 33 (01:11:13):
The proposed legislation aims to protect the rights of legitimate
animal sanctuaries as wolves, established clearer procedures for the seizure
and euthanasia of wildlife. Longo has voiced his support for
the bill, saying he hopes it prevents similar cases to
Peanuts from happening and ensures animal rights are no longer overlook.

Speaker 2 (01:11:32):
I agree with him. Do you remember he said he
blamed it on his neighbor, said his neighbors snitched on
him because him and his girlfriend or wife do only fans,
and that that was causing an issue, and it was
just it was so bizarre. But for a while we
were captivated here in this country over peanuts. That shows

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number three more on Inflation Nation and tariff time. That's right,
new inflation report out. Did it cool us down? Or
are we heating up again?

Speaker 32 (01:12:32):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:12:32):
Look what you did there? Chat? I know right. Plus
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Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Inflation Nation. With all the talks of tariffs, all the
talks of a trade war, how's inflation doing?

Speaker 6 (01:13:43):
Consumer prices increased by two point four percent in March
compared to a year ago. That's a cool down. Economists
projected a two point six percent increase, but this data
was collected before President Trump's tariff escalation. Economists say tariffs
could leave an inflation high. The two point four percent
reading is still above the federal reserves two percent target.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
There you go, cooling a little bit, but caveat this
is pre inflation. And as we all know, that's what
people are worried about. What kind of trade war are
we going to get into with China? China in the
trade war? Always remind Trump if I see him, what
you don't. But if I did, I would say, always
remind you if you talk to him, we have dinosaurs.

(01:14:30):
We're bringing him back from the dead. See how that
plays out. You know what, you got to use what
you've got. We're America and we've got dire wolves. What
do you think apples? That are those apples? So inflation
cooling a little bit, We'll see what it looks like
next month. You know what people want? Certainty what you're

(01:14:54):
not going to get. Okay, how about predictability, That's what
the markets When you see the markets jitterat and they're
all over the place that I saw one headline today.
They're manic, manic markets. They want some predictability. Down a

(01:15:15):
bunch yesterday, up almost three thousand, down today, all over
the place, wild swings. They want predictability.

Speaker 35 (01:15:23):
That uncertainty trickling down to small business owners like Chris Farley.
He owns five running apparel stores in the DC area.
All of his stock, from shoes to clothing, produced overseas.
We were with him when news of the President's decision broke.
The President appears just announced that he is pausing these
tariffs and lowering them.

Speaker 2 (01:15:45):
This is you know, this is the world we're in now.

Speaker 30 (01:15:49):
What I was hoping for is some predictability of life
and work.

Speaker 29 (01:15:53):
And this is just so challenging that that's great news.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Maybe I should react that that's great news.

Speaker 1 (01:16:00):
But.

Speaker 8 (01:16:02):
What does that mean for tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
There you go, Well, Chris Farley, and I don't think
that's your real name, because there was another one of you,
and he was rather famous, died too early, also not
into running. So just let you know that predictability, that's
what people want, and right now there's instability. China came

(01:16:25):
out today and said Okay, you want a trade war
one point nine trillion dollar trade war come in your way.
That's not immediate and that hasn't been put on, but
that's the threat that that might happen, will it. I
don't know. Look, we should never have been going out
there and tariffing any of our allies. We shouldn't. I'm

(01:16:50):
a big free trade guy. Do I understand why he
threw some of that stuff out there? Yeah, I'm I'm
I understand. I think you were trying to make some
sort of point that you're with us or against us,
which is understandable. We need to know who's with us
or against us. Spain already came out and said, well,
if you guys are gonna be that way, we'll get
closer to China. Do that at your own peril, my friend,

(01:17:14):
Do that at your own peril. But you're not gonna
get certainty. But predictability would be nice. Doesn't mean it's
gonna be certain. But the on again, off again I
think will get exhausting. You know, and I have said

(01:17:34):
this in the past. You know, with Trump, it's a
hard read because some of it is on again, off again,
some of it is I mean, it's we think today,
here it is, it's tariff day, They're gonna go out,
they're gonna do all this stuff. Well, my god, what's
it mean? And then by midday it's like, oh, no,

(01:17:55):
I decided we're gonna go the other direction, and away
it goes in the other direction. Uncertainty doesn't bring calm,
not just to the market, because when you look at
the market, it drops a thousand points, it goes up
a thousand points. Long term, you're going to be fine.

(01:18:17):
Short term, there are plenty of issues. But when it
comes to the consumer. That's a small business owner who
gets his stuff made elsewhere because he couldn't make it here.
It'd be just too expensive, and he could there's no
way he could sell his stuff at the price to
make it worth his while. People want some sort of

(01:18:40):
predictability and certainty that tomorrow is going to be similar
to today in how you operate, and when you don't
have that, it makes it hard to plan for the future.
That includes hiring, spending at the trap.

Speaker 25 (01:18:58):
Well stock sword on Wall Street, at stores, farms and ports.
Still looming uncertainty, financial experts warn higher tariffs on China
means higher prices for Americans Some of the top imported
products from China include mobile phones, computers, electronics, toys, and clothing.
A PlayStation five that now costs four hundred and ninety

(01:19:20):
nine dollars could go up to more than eleven hundred
dollars within a year, an increase of over six hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (01:19:27):
Oh my god, that's a lot. Think about that for
a second PlayStation, right sony developed by an American company
and put together, created, manufactured in China, parts in Japan,

(01:19:47):
probably some other parts, maybe in Korea. Not quite sure
what the manufacturing process is. But that's a big jump, man.
You'll feel that. That's a feeling thing. But that's a
one off. You're not buying them every day unless that's
what you do for business. You buy them and then
resell them somewhere. But you're looking for all kinds of
cheap deals you can get and that's probably not going

(01:20:10):
to help. But when it comes to groceries, people are
gonna be looking at those. When it comes to everyday items,
stuff you'll buy once a month, you know, maybe some
new shirts or things of that nature, dog toy, whatever

(01:20:33):
it is, you know. I mean, when it comes to
certain things you can do, you're not gonna buy a
new PlayStation. It's like, ah, we played four games, didn't
like it, threw it away, Let's go get a new one.
You're not doing that. That's when people start to feel it, though,
when the everyday items start to cause you to rethink

(01:20:56):
how you're spending, and then their consumer confidence comes in.
But part of that consumer confidence is also feeling like again,
not that there's a certainty, but there is predictability that, yeah,
you know, tomorrow, this may be a nickel more or
maybe a nickel less, but it's not going to be

(01:21:18):
five dollars more. So some predictability. I think that's all
people are looking for. And with Trump and with China,
it's a right now. I mean, you know I said
yesterday and I'll say it again. It's a pissing contest,
which is a weird way to decide any kind of

(01:21:39):
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Speaker 36 (01:22:07):
American says several hours into the flight, the man was
upset he didn't get the in flight meal he believed
he'd requested. He also tried taking an exit row, challenging
flight attendants when told he couldn't sit there because he
was traveling with a child.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Wait what now? Wait do you hear why he was
so upset? So this was a flight on American Airline
that took off from New York heading to men On
at seven pm. Four hours into it. He wanted his
meal that he thought he deserved, started throwing a fit.

(01:22:44):
Next thing you know, he's challenging folks to you know,
fisty cuffs and they had to turn around and fly
back to New York, which would have pissed me off.
You're gonna need to come get this body out of here.
As soon as we land.

Speaker 37 (01:23:00):
Three hundred people that were on their way to Milan
got their flight unerupted, got traumatized from actually seeing what
this guy was doing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
Man, just a good old fashioned beat down on the plane.
Just let it go from there. What happened? I couldn't
tell you he was upset. I think he wasn't happy
with the chicken. Next thing, you know, we just got
two black eyes. It's just weird. I don't know what's
in the chicken. I brought my own snacks. So you know,

(01:23:34):
I've often wondered like what would what would I do
if I got four hours into flight and they turned
around and had to fly back. I would be uh,
beyond pissed. I'm one of you know, it's like, ah,
and is it this? Do we turn around and leave
immediately after you get him off the plane? How does

(01:23:57):
this work? Do we all have to get off the plane,
go through the rigormoror again then get back on the plane.
How exactly is this playing itself out? Because especially if
you were in an international flight and you turn around
and he came back, do you have to go through

(01:24:18):
customs if you get off the plane and then come
back in through security? Oh my goodness. Again, it was
he was just not feeling well and then next thing
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All Things trending on the magical world of Twitter. The
Luca thing last night was very emotional. So Luca don
Chik returned to the Mavericks after that blockbuster surprise trade
where the Mavericks are like, you know what, we could
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lot of points against the MAVs. But before the game,
so he's a Laker now sitting on the bench is
to have a tribute video, and it was a real
struggle for him to get through the game. He said, just.

Speaker 23 (01:30:00):
You said that you didn't know what your emotions were
going to be, Like, can I just what were you
feeling out there on the corner.

Speaker 39 (01:30:08):
Oh no, Honestly, everybody saw me the way I reacted
for the video. You know, all this fans, I really
appreciate it. Man, all the teammates I had, you know,
everybody had my back. So I mean, I'm the happy
you know this guy. I love this fans, I love
the city.

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But it passed out to.

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Mowaf and they moved on. Indeed, he scored forty five
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Speaker 1 (01:31:18):

Speaker 2 (01:31:20):
We talked a lot about it the other day, and
rightly so, because I think it is absolutely incredible. You guys,
remember this.

Speaker 8 (01:31:26):
You made a dire wolf.

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
I didn't.

Speaker 37 (01:31:29):
You got our team, our incredible team made three dire
wolves so far.

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
That right there is Ben Lamb. He is the guy
who runs everything at Colossal Bioscience who created the dire wolves.
Now are they really dire wolves? We're going to get
to what he had to say about it. But this
is a scientist who is wants to set the record
straight but also talk about how awesome this is.

Speaker 7 (01:31:58):
So we're just doing asa barknew let's talk about it.
A biotech company has just claimed to have de extincted
the dire wolf using DNA editing technology, But did they
actually in order to truly bring an animal back from extinction,
you need to use ancient DNA samples in order to
reconstruct their entire genome, which is just a fancy word
for all the DNA inside each of their cells. Then
take an egg cell from a closely related living animal,

(01:32:21):
remove its DNA, replace it with the reconstructed DNA from
the extinct animal, and then implant it into a viable
host realm. The animal born as a result should be
genetically indistinguishable from a member of an extinct species, i e.
A perfect clone. The problem is that ten thousand year
old DNA is very difficult to work with. Most of
the time it's basically chromebs. So what these scientists did
instead was take fresh DNA from living modern day wolves

(01:32:43):
use the DNA editing technology chrispercast nine to tweak around
fourteen of their genes in order to give them physical
traits that dire wolves would have had. They figured out
which genes they needed to tweak by comparing that ten
thousand year old direwolf DNA with the DNA of modern
day wolves to figure out what genetically the dire wolves
had that modern day wolves didn't. So in theory, if
you compared ten thousand year old direwolf DNA to the

(01:33:03):
DNA of these puppies that were just born, they should
be genetically indistinguishable. But again, ten thousand year old DNA
is famously difficult to get any good information out of,
so this methodology might be a little bit shaky. These
are not dire wolves per se. They are gray wolves
that have been genetically engineered to closely match our best
estimate of a dire wolf.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
Interesting, oh see it they're not dire wolves. Actually, what
she did was talk about this before all of the
info came out, and as the info started to come out, well,
they did a lot more, and they got a lot
more than just a smidge of DNA from ten thousand
year old tooth because they were able to gather information

(01:33:45):
from a dome a skull.

Speaker 8 (01:33:49):
Is there dead dire wolves that were trapped in permafrost
or is no?

Speaker 37 (01:33:55):
Most of the dire wolf skulls out there. There's thousands
of them in Labretar, So if you go there, they
have this beautiful wall, but because of a heat and acidification,
there isn't anything that's protected, Like, there's nothing you can
get from that. But about six years ago, a group
including Best Shapiro or chief science officer sequenced a tooth

(01:34:16):
that was found in a cave, just a single tooth, right,
and in that tooth they actually found a They actually
got zero point one point five x or coverage of
the genome, so they got about fifteen percent of the genome.

Speaker 2 (01:34:28):
But that's not really enough.

Speaker 37 (01:34:29):
You need to get up to about ten X, meaning
that you can read the entire genome about ten different times,
so that even if there are gaps you understuff. I
understand enough of the core kind of coding regions that
you could bring back that animal.

Speaker 2 (01:34:43):
And that's what that first scientist didn't understand that they
got a lot more than just eighty bit, but it
was an interesting way how they had to go about
doing it.

Speaker 8 (01:34:51):
So you have this tooth, you have one point five.

Speaker 37 (01:34:55):
Yeah point five, so fifteen percent of the genome. And
so I went to Beth, who's only an advisor at
the time, and said, could you resample the tooth? And
she's like, it's like, you know, half an inch long.
She's like it's destructive sampling, like it's going to root.
And now it's like, well, could we scour the other
museums and see if it's even possible. So we lucked out,
and that too thirteen thousand years old. The skull itself

(01:35:16):
is seventy two seventy three thousand years old, not exactly sure,
but it was found in a river bed, and it
wasn't found in a riverbed at the mouth of a cave,
so it wasn't found like in the permafrost, but also
wasn't found in like heat and acidification. So there's a
bone in all of us called the petres bone, which
is insanely dense and it doesn't change a lot from

(01:35:38):
after you're born. It's a great DNA storage, better than teeth,
better than anything. It's on the it's like in the
inner ear kind of head area.

Speaker 2 (01:35:46):
It's in your dome, kids, your dome, and it's the
best place to keep this kind of stuff if you
want to bring something back.

Speaker 37 (01:35:53):
We got permission from the museum to very carefully drill
into the back of the underside of the skull and
remove the petros bone to see if we could get DNA,
and we got really lucky. Between resampling the first and
in the skull, we ended up getting about thirteen to
fourteen x coverage, so that's more than we needed to

(01:36:13):
potentially bring back the Narwolds.

Speaker 2 (01:36:15):
How cool is that? So they got more than they needed,
and the way they did it was just out of
luck gathering because they didn't think they had any anything else.
And the interesting thing is also the distance between So
you have a tooth that's thirteen thousand years old and
then you have something that's like seventy thousand to give

(01:36:37):
or take years old, So the distance between the two
is immense.

Speaker 8 (01:36:43):
My question, if I was going to grill you, if
I was a reporter, it'd be like, what right do
you have to invade the natural process of nature and
to inject your curiosity and your ability to create new life.

Speaker 37 (01:36:57):
I think that we've become the apex part around this
in it and we inject our curiosity and choices. Every
day that we overpitch the ocean, we overhunt something. In
the case of the thylacine, the Australian government put a
bounty on its head and killed it off. Right, And
every time we cut down the rainforest, every time we
drink hydrogenated water, we are, you know, playing God on

(01:37:19):
some level, right, we are changing. Humans are very good
at changing the natural flow of things.

Speaker 2 (01:37:27):
We are we're good at destroying stuff what sucks. We're
also good at creating.

Speaker 40 (01:37:34):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
One of the other things they talked about, and that
other scientists was talking about that they brought a bird back.
Because it's not the first time something like this had
happened where they tried to bring something back. And they
brought a bird back a few years ago that had
only been extinct since twenty ten, I think, and not

(01:37:54):
this company, but another company, So it's not the first
time somebody tried this, and it it e you know,
pretty much within a few days where these these people
here have it what seems to be on lock. Next

(01:38:15):
is the wooly mammoth, the Dodo and the thigh listing,
which is the Tasmanian tiger, which is an interesting creature
and no doubt about that, and there's a debate if
that thing's even extinct. There hasn't been any scene for
god knows how long, but there's tons of eyewitnesses, so

(01:38:38):
we're gonna see what they can do. But I mean,
it's pretty damn amazing. You got to think about how
awesome that is. And yeah, the debate is there, should
we or shouldn't we? And we're going to find out
in the going you know, few years how far somebody's
going to push this, And you know some people will

(01:38:59):
push it. Somebody's going to try to create something. They're
not going to try to bring back an animal that
may even still exist, right, They're going to try to
create something else, Like I took a komodo dragon. Now
it's got wings because we can't stop ourselves. One of

(01:39:19):
the things he also talked about, so nobody knows where
the acreage is, like two thousand acres. Nobody knows where
it is. We've got twenty four hour security and they've
got all this stuff around it. But one of the
things he said is that the amount of phone calls
he gets, especially from people all over the world throughout

(01:39:41):
parts of the Middle East, who are worth billions of dollars,
who would like to inquire about maybe purchasing one. Yeah,
I mean, why wouldn't you if you think about it,
if you had the opportunity to purchase one, would you maybe?
Maybe not? Ladies and gentlemen. We move on from there

(01:40:05):
to something that is near and dear to my heart.

Speaker 33 (01:40:10):
He Hello friends, Hello friends, Hello friends, Hello friends, and
hello friends, Hello friends, Hello friends, Hello friends, Hello friends.

Speaker 18 (01:40:17):
Welcome to this tradition.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Unlike any other the Masters tire, it's going, it's flowing.
It started like this.

Speaker 39 (01:40:25):
Good morning.

Speaker 41 (01:40:29):
My name is Fred Ridley and on behalf of the
membership of Augusta National Golf Club. I'd like to welcome
you to the eighty ninth playing of the Masters Tournament.

Speaker 2 (01:40:39):
Thank you for being with us.

Speaker 41 (01:40:41):
Fifty years after his fifth green jacket, we probably welcome
back our six time Masters champion and one of golf's
great icons. His historic record at the Masters has provided
some of the tournament's most memorable moments. Ladies and gentlemen,
mister Jack Nicholas, Ladies and gentlemen. The twenty twenty five

(01:41:09):
Masters Tournament is now officially underway.

Speaker 2 (01:41:13):
Enjoyed the tournament? Yeah, maybe, all right, it is underway now.
When you go to the Masters, it's very interesting because,
unlike any other this is a different kind of place.
And the reason is it's very much about etiquette. This

(01:41:39):
is not a show up and do whatever the hell
you want kind of thing. You know. Living in Phoenix,
I love the Waste Management Open. It's incredible. You know,
you're talking almost six hundred thousand people over a four
day period watching the Waste Management it's a party, the
Masters not so much. It's a different kind of party.
It's very much an upper crust party.

Speaker 29 (01:42:00):
Masters has rules about what players can wear, what visiting
fans are called, and even what those fans are allowed
to do when.

Speaker 2 (01:42:06):
They're at the course.

Speaker 29 (01:42:07):
Take a look the greens, the azaleas, the leaderboard. These
are some of the iconic things at the Masters Tournament
at Augusta National Golf Club, But there are some unique
things that make this tournament stand out.

Speaker 40 (01:42:20):
It is the first major championship on the golf schedule,
so it really ramps things up for the rest of
the season. It's also very different in the sense that
that's the only major where you play on the same
course every single year, which is.

Speaker 2 (01:42:35):
Cool, right, I Mean, that's where we love it. The
certain the certainty of what the course brings, the feel
of the course, all of the stuff that comes with
is this magical place. How it's greener, and how they
shape the greens and make them, you know, just amazing.

(01:42:56):
But also the entire feel of the place, including how
they do the sand and it's so white. It's awesome.

Speaker 29 (01:43:03):
We all know the iconic green jacket, but if you
win more than once, you don't get another jacket, and
Augusta National has a strict dress code. Caddies have to
wear a white jumpsuit. Patrons and they are called patrons,
not guests. Can't wear their hats backwards, and anyone on
the course or in the practice area can't wear shorts.

(01:43:26):
Arizona State Men's golf head coach Matt Thurman found out
the hard way when he went to say hi to
a former player. Thurman, posting on x strode out onto
the Augusta Range today with my coach badge got removed
for wearing shorts first bogie of the week as a spectator.
Shorts are okay, but on the practice tea they aren't.
Thurman clarified he wasn't removed from the grounds, just reminded

(01:43:49):
he couldn't be on the driving range in shorts.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
Yeah, in shorts. It's crazy. Don't even think about it. Kids.
It's I love the Masters, just gonna watch it all weekend.
I'm super excited about it. But they have the things
that they do. Patrons can't wear their hats backwards, by

(01:44:13):
the way, no phones whatsoever whatsoever on the course period.
Case closed. Every one of those people you see at
the Masters watching the patrons hats on forward and no phones,
which caused quite a stir yesterday with the market all

(01:44:35):
over the place because they do have payphones, but you're
not getting that news instantaneously. And then of course snacks.
Then there is the food.

Speaker 29 (01:44:46):
You can bring food in, but you won't spend a
fortune at the concession stands. Their famous pimento cheese sandwich
is a dollar fifty. Or you can splurge on barbecue
for three dollars incredible.

Speaker 19 (01:44:59):
Or you can get a sandwich at a golf tournament
for a dollar fifty.

Speaker 29 (01:45:02):
Year character in Phoenix, you're talking six seven dollars.

Speaker 40 (01:45:06):
It's this escape to a different time in the game
of golf. All the golfers love it absolutely.

Speaker 2 (01:45:12):
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Speaker 23 (01:46:50):
Chicken Juckie probably had heard about Minecraft long before the movie.
It's a hugely popular video game where players build fantastical
lands and try to protect them from zombies. That built
in audience is bringing fans to the movies in droves
thanks to a social media trend. It's also become something
of an interactive experience, but not everyone is happy about that.

(01:47:10):
It's the latest rallying cry for millions of moviegoers.

Speaker 2 (01:47:15):
Chicken tracker, Those two.

Speaker 23 (01:47:21):
Little words sending teenage fans of a Minecraft movie into
a frenzy, resulting in screaming, popcorn throwing, and soda flying
through the air. In at least one case, the police
have gotten involved, escorting some of the offenders out of theaters.

Speaker 2 (01:47:37):
What the hell are you doing? What the hell's that
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Speaker 23 (01:47:40):
What is a chicken jockey? The official definition the child
zombie who rides a chicken? Of course, this morning that
craze around chicken jockeys, causing one movie theater in New
Jersey to take matters into its own hands, instituting a
new policy miners will now have to have a parent
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(01:48:02):
a statement that a group of boys engaged in completely
unacceptable behavior, including vandalism. They also received multiple complaints from
other moviegoers who were trying to enjoy the film with
their families.

Speaker 24 (01:48:14):
The manager called us and he said that the theater
was in bad shape. He said, well, it's a terrible mess.
There is lotion squirted all over the place and there's
a row of speeds that have been pulled out of
the floor.

Speaker 2 (01:48:27):
What what the hell are you people doing. Listen, go
enjoy yourself and don't break crap. But parents, you may
hear the word Chicken Jockey. And I have to admit
when I saw I haven't seen the movie, but when
I saw the preview for The Chicken Jockey, I thought
that's kind of funny. Three two, three, five, three, eight,

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lot of good stuff. It's Friday, so we'll have your Finally,
Friday Sounds. You know how we like to do those,
don't you. Of course you do. Plus we're going to

(01:49:10):
have or good Budy Jim Kennedy to join the program
as well as Zach Abraham Chievestment Officer talk about the
insanity and chaos going on in the marketplace, so that'll
be good as well. Fall across all of our social
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(01:49:30):
have a blessed and amazing rest of your hold on.
I see you Friday, rest of your Thursday. As always,
night not Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):
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