Fear of a Recession Growing

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
It's on again, it's off again, it's on again. We're back. No, yes, no,
maybe kind of sort of. I couldn't tell you what's
what's what's what When it comes to tariffs, I I
don't even know at this point, you know what. We'll
just play it by air, you know how. I'll know
if they're if they're on, if stuff's more expensive, Which

(00:36):
stuff exactly which stuff?

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Kristen Trump's administration exempting smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronics
from his latest round of tariffs amid fears that Trump's
one hundred and forty five percent tariffs on all Chinese
goods would send prices of key products skyrocketing. UBS had
estimated those steep tariffs could increase the cost of the

(00:58):
iPhone sixteen pros by nine hundred and fifty dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
No big deal, right, you got that covered now. Within hours,
he had kind of reversed himself and said, no, they're
going in, they're going to They're just when, right when?
This is gonna be surprise.

Speaker 4 (01:17):
So you're saying that the big tariffs on things like
smartphones and laptops, iPhones, all those iPhones built in China
that those tariffs are temporarily off, but they're going to
be coming right back on in another form in a
month or so or what are you saying?

Speaker 5 (01:34):
Correct, that's right.

Speaker 6 (01:35):
Semiconductors and pharmaceuticals will have a tariff model in order
to encourage them to re sure to be built in America.
We need our medicines, and we need semiconductors and our
electronics to be built in America. We can't be the
holding and rely upon foreign countries for fundamental things that

(01:55):
we need.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
Howard Ludnik there not Howard the look the COVID taught us.
We need to be able to make sure that we
get the medicine and the things we need, so that
that's something. But reality has taught us. We like stuff cheap.

(02:17):
We're consumer based nation, and if our confidence is waning,
and it is absolutely waning, we'll slow down in our spending,
which could send us into a situation where you use
the R word, not that our word. I'm talking about recession.
And so why are you pausing this? If this is
how you feel, why are you pausing it? Get it done?

(02:40):
Is it because you've talked to Apple and several other
of these companies. They're going to do everything they possibly
can to move their manufacturing completely out of China.

Speaker 6 (02:49):
And our semiconductors need to be built in America. Donald
Trump is on it. He's calling that out. So you
should understand these are included in the semiconductor tariffs that
are coming, and the pharmaceuticals are coming. Those two areas
are coming in the next month or two. So this
is not like a permanent sort of exemption. He's just
clarifying that these are not available to be negotiated away

(03:12):
by countries. These are things that are national security that
we need to be made in America.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Okay. By the way, Trump has dinner with the president
of Nvidia. Those chips, the ones we really are these
are national security. Guy spends a million bucks and basically
Trump goes, oh, yeah, if you want to export those
now to China, you can't. Not a fan of that.
Not a fan of that. I don't think any of

(03:41):
us should be. The confusion doesn't how many times do
I say this, We as human beings want stability. We
understand there's going to be a bit of chaos here
and a bit of chaos there, but we want a
little bit of stability. And without that stuf ability, the
worry is things are going to go sideways because nobody's

(04:05):
going to know what to do. Nobody's going to know
how to approach this, nobody's going to have any idea
of where we should be heading or shouldn't be heading
in any of these situations when it comes to spending, investing,
et cetera. This is Ray Dalio, pretty successful, worth about

(04:26):
fourteen billion, started the biggest hedge fund in the world,
talking about do this right, could be okay, do it wrong,
things get a little sideways, far worse than a recession.

Speaker 7 (04:42):
I want to ask you about something that's on a
lot of people's minds, your predictions for the future, and
I want to start with the R word. I know
you think this is just a piece of it, of course,
I'm talking about a recession.

Speaker 1 (04:54):
Do you think it.

Speaker 7 (04:55):
Is likely that the United States will dip into a
recession because of President Trump's tariff?

Speaker 8 (05:00):
Right now we are at a decision making point and
very close to a recession, and I'm worried about something
worse than a recession.

Speaker 5 (05:10):
If this isn't handled.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Well, that's not good. Worse than is not good.

Speaker 8 (05:18):
A recession is two negative quarters of GDP, and whether
it goes slightly there. We always have those things. We
have something that's much more profound. We have a breaking
down of the monetary order. We are going to change
the monetary order because we cannot spend the.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Amounts of money.

Speaker 9 (05:36):
So we have that problem.

Speaker 8 (05:37):
And when we talk about the dollar and we talk
about tariffs, we have that. We are having profound changes
in our domestic order, how ruling is existing, and we're
having profound changes in the world order.

Speaker 10 (05:52):
Such times are very.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
Much like the nineteen thirties.

Speaker 8 (05:55):
I've studied history and this repeats over and over again.
So if you take TERRFF, if you take debt, if
you take the rising power challenging the existing power, if
you take those factors and look at the factors that
those changes in the orders the systems are very, very disruptive.
How that's handled could produce something that is much worse

(06:18):
than a recession, or it could be handled.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Well, much worse than a recession. And you start thinking
depression two thousand and eight stagflation statue where it's worse
than a recession. People say, well, stag you know, stagnation's
tactically what's that Prices are eye. Nobody's mobile anymore. As

(06:41):
far as work, there's no real raising of wages, and
nothing happens. It's just eh an, it doesn't move. It
is bad for us. It is cost Japan a decade plus.

(07:04):
That's scary.

Speaker 7 (07:05):
Well, very very quickly, because I want to be very
specific about what you mean. You're saying worse than recession,
You're saying this is reminiscent of the nineteen thirties. We
should tell our viewers you correctly predicted the two thousand
and eight financial crisis. What is your prediction for where
the country is headed right now?

Speaker 8 (07:23):
Right now, we're at a juncture.

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Let's take the budget.

Speaker 8 (07:25):
If the budget deficit can be reduced to three percent
of GDP, it's about it will be about seven percent
if things are not changed. If it could be reduced
to about three percent of GDP and these trade deficits
and so on are managed in the right way, this
could all be managed very well. I believe that members

(07:47):
of Congress should take the pledge, what i'll call the
three percent pledge, that in one way or another, that
they will get that budget deficit down to that number.
If they don't, we're going to have a supplied demand
problem for debt at the same time as we have
these other problems, and the results of that will be
worse than a normal recession.

Speaker 2 (08:07):
We don't want worse. We don't want a recession, but recessions,
as I've talked about, it is a normal ebb and
flow of life and the economy. You will have a
slow down. You will love times when prices reset themselves.
People hold on and eventually, over the space of you know,

(08:29):
six months or so, they start to spend a little
more and away we go. We have to make some
you know, some changes. Little tweak here, little tweak there.
He's not talking about that, He's talking about some way worse.

Speaker 7 (08:44):
And just to follow up on that point, worse than
a recession, you're talking about the nineteen thirties, What specifically
are you warning of. Are you saying that it could
be as bad as a depression? What's your biggest fear?

Speaker 5 (08:55):
The value of money?

Speaker 8 (08:57):
What is a storehold of wealth that is bond In
other words, one man's dead is another man's assets bond holders.
And so we're going to be in a situation where
if that storehold of wealth is in jeopardy because there's
too much supply and demand and so on, and we
have a monetary inflation, we will have great disruptions. And

(09:21):
that could be like the breakdown of the monetary system
seventy one, it could be like two thousand and eight.
It's going to be very severe. I think it could
be more severe than those. If these other matters simultaneously occur, we're.

Speaker 2 (09:35):
Going to find out. There's no doubt it's going to
be interesting. But if you're a president who is saying,
I've got this handled, this is going to be great,
this is going to be awesome, it's going to be
the best thing ever. You put your faith into him
that this is going to pay off, and he deserves

(09:56):
the opportunity to prove himself right or for this not
to go in that direction. What I do know is
politics is going to be a huge part of this
because if things go south, even if the short term
pain sucks, but the long term gain is great. But
that long term gain comes when you lose power, meaning

(10:20):
the Republicans suffer in the midterms. How many people are
willing to go through with that if the long term
gain is better for the US overall, but people lose
their jobs and those people have a chance to save
their jobs by getting the president to pivot and none
the direction we'll see, and they'll get him to pivot

(10:46):
if stuff gets too expensive. You will know when tariffs
are affecting you when you go to the store and
it is not like the egg thing somebody said it's
about to No. No, not like the egg thing where
there's bird flu causing that, and that happened pre tariffs,
pre Donald Trump. I'm talking about stuff that you knew

(11:08):
was five dollars is now eight dollars, and all of
a sudden you're seeing it and feeling it in your pocketbook.
When you're standing in line to pay for something and
you realize, oh, I might have to put a few
things back. That's when the noise will get so louder
to become a roar, and you will feel it, and

(11:29):
I will feel it. We all feel it. And I
don't want to feel anything when it comes to that.
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Well, I watched all of the golf this weekend and
quite frankly, it was riveting. It was amazing, and Rory
did it. So McElroy, the seventeen time he tried to
win the jacket, gets his victory and also becomes the

(13:57):
sixth man in history to win the Slam career Grand Slam.
So he's got a career Grand Slam now. Talked about
it afterwards, the relief on his face. This is the
thing that's been eating him up for years, the thought
that he was never going to get here again, never
going to have this opportunity or even have it even

(14:18):
just something inside of his brain when he was never
going to win this thing.

Speaker 12 (14:22):
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Are we all going to talk about next year?

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You know, there were points in my career where I
didn't know if I would have this nice garment over
my shoulders.

Speaker 9 (14:52):
But I didn't make it easy today.

Speaker 12 (14:54):
It's been fourteen long years, but plankfully, I got the
job done.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
Job done, indeed, and it was like one of those things.

Speaker 9 (15:03):
It was.

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It weighed on him. You could see, I mean, this
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could win a bunch of other tournaments, including other majors,
but you didn't win this one. It wouldn't have mattered.

Speaker 9 (15:18):
Yeah, today was Today was difficult.

Speaker 12 (15:20):
I was unbelievably nervous this morning, really nervous on the
first hole, as you witnessed with the double.

Speaker 9 (15:28):
But as I said, that sort of calmed me.

Speaker 12 (15:30):
Down, and you know, I was able to bounce back
and show you know, that resilience that I've talked about
a lot.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
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the ground and he's just he's crying. And Justin Rose,
who came in second, I felt for him because he's

(16:00):
he's ten years older, so it's like forty five, forty
four to forty five, and you don't get too many
bites at the apple at that age. Outside of that,
not a lot going on this weekend, Ah, Chad, how
could you say that?

Speaker 5 (16:14):
Now?

Speaker 2 (16:15):
There's plenty going on a lot of what we're going
to talk about today. Talked about tariffs, which you and
I both know can be boring. It's the reaction of
tariffs and how the markets react and how we react
that is interesting. Well, so more on that in a
little bit as well, plus a lot of other good
stuff still to get to, and yeah, we're going to

(16:36):
talk a bit about Bill Maher this weekend. On his
show Friday Night, talked about his dinner with the president
and what the president's like behind closed doors, which I
think a lot of people kind of have a feeling
of what he's like behind closed doors, but Bill lays

(16:58):
it out. And of course the react action has been mixed.
The left gets angry, how dare you sit down with
this evil sob. The right gets mad, Oh my god,
I can't believe you have this liberal looney on there,
and the average person, you and I, the exhausted majority,
is like, good, So what we need we need to
have these conversations. There's nothing wrong with having conversations. Talk

(17:22):
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Speaker 13 (17:39):
Son Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (18:01):

Speaker 2 (18:04):
So Bill Maher sat down with Donald Trump, President of
the United States of America. Very interesting, indeed, think about
it with Trump. Trump goes and he's the UFC over
the weekend, He's doing all these things, but he sits
down with Bill Maher to do what, have a conversation.

(18:25):
Bill has been one of his biggest critics, but to
sit down with him and have a dinner and a
conversation with him is incredible.

Speaker 14 (18:34):
Okay, As you know, twelve days ago, I had dinner
with President Trump, a dinner that was set up by
my friend Kid Rock because we share a belief that
there's got to be something better than hurling insults from
three thousand miles away. And let me first say that
to all the people who treated this like it was
some kind of summit meeting. You're ridiculous, like.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
I was going to sign a treaty or something.

Speaker 15 (18:56):
I haven't.

Speaker 5 (18:59):
I have no power.

Speaker 14 (19:00):
I'm a comedian and he's the most powerful leader in
the world. I'm not the leader of anything except maybe
a contingent of centrist minded people who think there's got
to be a better way of running this country than
hating each other every minute.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
So ad a men, Amen, and Bill was very honest
and open about their conversation, and it was everything you
think Trump is behind closed doors, two separate people. At times.

Speaker 14 (19:33):
I had my staff collect and print out this list
of almost sixty different insulting epithets that the President has
said about me, things like stupid, dummy, low life dummy
or sleeves bag six said, stone cold crazy, really a
dumb guy, fired like a dog.

Speaker 5 (19:51):
His show is dead.

Speaker 14 (19:52):
I brought this to the White House because I wanted
him to sign it, which he did with good humor.
And I know as I say that, millions of liberal
sphincters just tightened.

Speaker 5 (20:04):
Oh my god, Bill, are you.

Speaker 14 (20:05):
Going to say something nice about him?

Speaker 2 (20:08):
Yeah, it's gonna say something honest about him. Who he
is as a person outside of being the President of
the United States, which I think at times is more
persona than it is reality.

Speaker 14 (20:18):
What I'm going to do is report exactly what happened.
You decide what you think about it, and if that's
not enough, pure Trump hate for you, I don't give.

Speaker 5 (20:27):
A just for starters. He laughs.

Speaker 14 (20:30):
I've never seen him laugh in public, but he does,
including it himself, and it's not a fake. Example, in
the Oval Office, he was showing me the portraits of
presidents and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness,
you know the best thing about him his hair. I said, well,
there was also that whole bringing down communism thing, but no,

(20:50):
he laughed.

Speaker 5 (20:50):
He got it.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
He laughed, he got it because it's a human side
of him. I think Trump has gotten to the point
where he has built up such a persona, such a character,
that he's painted himself into a corner, and he knows
that now. I can't even move in a direction that's

(21:21):
this way, a little bit more away from my magabase
because if I do, they'll come after me, and that's
my base, and I can't let them down. I can't
even think about that.

Speaker 14 (21:35):
We were walking through his amazing It is an amazing
tour of the whole house. And I don't remember exactly
what we were talking about, but it must have been
something with the twenty twenty election, because I know he
used the word lost, and I distinctly remember saying, wow,
I never thought i'd hear you say that.

Speaker 5 (21:51):
He didn't get mad.

Speaker 14 (21:52):
He's much more self aware and he lets on in public.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
Look, I get it.

Speaker 14 (21:57):
It doesn't matter who he is at a private dinner
with a comedian. It matters who he is on the
world stage. I'm just taking as a positive that this
person exists, because everything I've ever not liked about him was,
I swear to God absent, at least on this night
with this guy.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Now, I'm not saying Trump doesn't believe some of the
stuff he says, but he puts mustard on it. He's
a showman. I think at times his persona is a character.
I think the genuine Trump, and I think it's very real.
I think he believes of this stuff, But to what
extent does he believe it? And because you build up

(22:40):
a base of fanatics that follow you, that love you,
even for him to say something that may not jive
with the base. It's a worrisome thing. And I remember

(23:02):
when I first got my show, went national Rush. Limba's
advice kind of thing was be careful putting yourself into
a situation where where he said he had gotten himself
into a position where he couldn't deviate then from being

(23:24):
this hardcore conservative to even have fun that had nothing
to do with politics, because if he did that, they
would slap him down, and he felt he had painted
himself in new corner. And I think at times Trump's
feels that way. Again, I believe he believes a lot
of this stuff, but I also think there's a character

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and a persona that goes with it that I think
puts a lot more mustard on it than should be.

Speaker 14 (23:52):
When I hit him with a joke or contradicted something
and no problem. At dinner, he was asking me about
the nuclear situation in Iran in a very genuine, hey,
I think you're a smart guy. I want your opinion
sort of way, and I said, obviously your private things
about it, I'm not. But for what it's worth, I
thought the Obama deal was worth letting play out because
we made a ran destroying ninety eight percent of the

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uranium and they were fifteen years away from a bomb.
And then I said to him, but we got rid
of that. You got rid of that. He didn't get
mad or call me a left wing lunatic.

Speaker 2 (24:23):
He took it in. Yeah, very interesting.

Speaker 9 (24:26):
Took it in.

Speaker 2 (24:28):
They're still going to get a bomb. We're going to
talk a little bit more about that later. The reality
is is we can make him destroy a lot of
different things, but with what that thing actually was was
a piece of paper to make people feel like something
got done more than it was actually stopping them from

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getting a bomb.

Speaker 14 (24:50):
I told him he was wrong when he tweeted the
night before that I was critical of all things Trump
moving Israel's embassy to Jerusalem. Loved it. The border did
need to be controlled. I'm glad that cops are getting
them a role back. Dei had gone too far biological
men shouldn't be playing women's sports. Europe should pay for
their defense. And of course it makes sense that Arab

(25:11):
country should take in Arab refugees like the million Syrians
who wound up in Germany. When Saudi Arabia took none.
He said to me, you're right, they took none.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Very so far. I just I love the conversation. You know,
people ask me because I do both of my shows.
I do a local show and I do a national shows.
My national show, you guys listen to that right now. Okay,
bless you. But my local show, the audience is a
lot more maga. They get mad at me all the time,

(25:46):
not just because again I'll call balls and strikes all
that stuff. With Trump does something great, I'm gonna praise him.
Does something stupid, I'm gonna say so. But I like
talking about everything. I mean, the other day we're talking
about the Masters. I want to talk about a little
bit later. People freaked out, this is not a sports station.
Don't dare you talk about anything that's not this? And

(26:08):
I'm like, because that's life. Can't self awareness? Do you
sit there and talk to you to your wife or
your husband twenty four to seven politics? If you do,
that's not a healthy relationship. So gonna let you guys know.

Speaker 14 (26:22):
That I never felt I had to walk on eggshells
around him, And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama,
but I would never feel comfortable talking to them the
way I was able to talk with Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
That's just how it went down. Make of it what
you will me.

Speaker 14 (26:37):
I feel it's emblematic of why the Democrat is so
unpopular these days. But I also think he now understands
I have a job to do, or at least he
did on this night, because he said to me early
on that he'd seen our last episode, which was the
Friday before this dinner, and he said, I thought maybe
you'd be nice, but you hit me really.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Hard because you have a job to do. Make people laugh.
Any talk politics, damn skippy, So what you do, they'll
be afraid to poke fun. For all the greatness of
journalism back in the day, and I mean back in
the day, comedians hold politicians and powerful people's feet to

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the fire in a way that others just never do
and can't. Even as great as an article may be,
there's just something about comedy and how it breaks things down.

Speaker 14 (27:37):
My favorite part of the whole night was we were
standing in the b and he said, you know, I've
heard from a lot of people who really liked that
we're having this dinner.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Not all, but a lot, And I said same.

Speaker 14 (27:58):
A lot of people told me they love but not all,
and we agreed. The people who don't even want us
to talk, we don't like you don't talk as opposed
to what writing the same editorial for the millionth time
and making twenty five hour speeches into the wind. Really,
that's what liberals have. He takes the piss out of
everybody else and we can hold ours. Okay, that's my report.

(28:24):
You can hate me for it, but I'm not a liar.
Trump was gracious and measured. And why he isn't that
in other settings, I don't know, and I can't answer,
and it's not my place to answer. I'm just telling
you what I saw, and I wasn't high.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
I like it. We need more conversations. Like I said
my other show, Very Maga. When I say we need
more conversations to people, it is funny to see the reaction,
well the text line, and it is funny how you're
not a patriot. These people are evil. And I just

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sit there and I say, and I say this here
right now, we're the exhausted majority. You're listening to my show.
You may be leaning a little bit right, a little
bit left. We're the exhausted majority. The more conversation we
have with one another, the more we strengthen who we are.
We're not always going to agree on things, nor should we.

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But the more that we do that, the better it
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Speaker 16 (31:05):
Show, serving up talk radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (31:20):
It's Chad Benson, the Woman to fire Patrician.

Speaker 17 (31:24):
The Minecraft movie has once again topped the weekend box office.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
The family film inspired.

Speaker 17 (31:28):
By the popular video game earned eighty million dollars in
its second weekend in theaters. It's already the biggest money making.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
Film of the year.

Speaker 17 (31:36):
A knocked king off the Christian movie The King of
Kings was number two, making nineteen million dollars.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
You everyone know what they'd do with all the stuff
you take up for them?

Speaker 17 (31:45):
In third, The Amateur starring Robmie Mollick, the spy thriller
made about fifteen million at the box office.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
What quite a weekend in the movie world. It's awesome.
Can't wait to go see the I'm gonna go with
the kids and I and my wife, We're gonna go
see The King of Canes. It's I think if you
have kids, it's free trying to get kids there, which
is awesome. And on the other side of it, Minecraft,

(32:12):
can't wait to see Minecraft. Cannot wait. I like to
let stuff die down and then go see it. All right,
I don't want to see any more of that chicken
jockey stuff, you know what I'm talking about. This weekend,
a lot of stuff was going on, including Coachella, which
add some fire festival vibes to it. People were not
thrilled the expense. What did I read about? How many

(32:35):
people actually finance their tickets. It's so expensive, So they
financed their tickets because it's a festival. It's not just
you go you buy a ticket. It's in your hometown.
You got to get out to Palm Springs, the Indio area.
So the tickets are expensive. People finance their tickets. And
you know, if you're gonna go see a bunch of

(32:56):
people sing, you might see Bernie Sanders, please give it
up for Senator Bernie.

Speaker 18 (33:02):
Senator, this country faces some very difficult challenges, and the
future of what happens to America is dependent upon your generation.

Speaker 10 (33:20):
Oh, you got a president of the United States.

Speaker 2 (33:24):
Boo, I agree, I agree. Boo him boo boo. I
love the fact that people are at Coachella, right, So
they're at Coachella, and the cost of Coachella is insane.

(33:47):
So you're the So you're there's Oligark. He's bad, all
the people are bad. All of this stuff is bad.
It's eleven hundred dollars for a VIP ticket, four ninety
nine for the general admission ticket. That doesn't include the food,
the drinks, all of the stuff. The cost of park

(34:09):
I mean going there is gonna cost you. Probably if
let's say you fly in for the weekend. Okay, so
you're flying for the weekend. You's got general mishets. We're
just gonna call it straight five hundred bucks. Flights three
hundred bucks, so you have eight hundred and I'm being
generous there, rental car two hundred bucks. Right, So you

(34:30):
start adding this up. Then you've got the parking passes, hotels.
Next thing, you know, you're up to fifteen hundred to
two thousand dollars for your weekend. Let's destroy the oligacky
in this ridiculous capitalism.

Speaker 18 (34:43):
He thinks say climate change it's a hoax.

Speaker 10 (34:50):
He is dangerously wrong.

Speaker 18 (34:53):
And you and I, You and I are gonna have
to stand up to the bustle fuel industry tell them
to stop destroying this fly.

Speaker 2 (35:04):
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up hour number two Ukraine, Iran. We talk a little
bit about that bunch of wackado fun stuff as well,

(35:51):
because we've got a lot of wackados out there, there
are plenty of them, and you guys love to put
yourself on the Internet. We'll talk a little bit about
that autism. Last week, the big announcement that by August September,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Is going to figure out where
it's originating from. What are the causes of it. Pluss

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is being thin, racist and some immigration. What's going on
with immigration and the mood Khalil and the others. We
talked about those, among other things.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
Chad Benson Child, this is the Chad Benson Show, The

(36:51):
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Speaker 19 (36:52):
Terriffs, more tariffs, tariff Falusa, it's on, it's off, it's on,
it's on, it's it on. Maybe it's on, it's it off,
it could be off, could be on again, not quite sure.
Somebody asked me today new station I'm on and said, hey,
when do you think tariffs will matter?

Speaker 2 (37:14):
I said, would you feel it? That's when it matters. Wait,
what when you feel it? When you feel the tariffs?
Meaning you go to the store, something in your mind
that costs this, now costs this. It went from X
to y, And that's when you go, oh okay. Now

(37:36):
there's some one offs obviously, but you know when you go,
oh yeah, I feel these things. Now I feel these things,
that's when tariffs will matter. Right now, it's a lot
of noise. I said it last week for lack of
a better term, it's a pissing contest. But how do

(37:56):
the people feel? Harry Inton so.

Speaker 20 (37:58):
A CBS News you got Paul came out earlier today
and put it in stark terms. I believe this is
the worst poll that Donald Trump has received in his
second term. Let's talk about the economy, right, think the
economy is getting worse. Back in November it was forty
two percent of Americans. You don't have to be a
genius to follow this timeline. By February was forty nine percent,
March fifty one percent. Look at where we are now,
fifty three percent. The clear majority of Americans think the

(38:21):
economy is getting worse, and.

Speaker 10 (38:22):
That number is rising.

Speaker 20 (38:24):
When Trump, of course won that second term, it was
forty two percent. Now we're up eleven points. The clear majority,
fifty three percent. This poll, and this number in particular,
is no wenno for the President of the United States.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
No bueno when politics will be a huge player in
this going forward. If you feel that America is ready
to have a tear for and to potentially suffer at
the register and in their pocketbook for a little while,

(38:58):
because the rate off is going to be awesome then
people are going to go for it and say, yes,
we're behind you.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
I'm not that worried.

Speaker 9 (39:09):
It seems like Trump knows what he's doing.

Speaker 1 (39:11):
I think he's got a plan bigger than what people
see it as.

Speaker 21 (39:14):
I do think it was part of the plan. He's
not stupid, right, like you know, is what he's doing.
He's gotten to this point.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
I think the United States needed some tightening. I think
we're going to see something positive from these changes.

Speaker 21 (39:26):
A little short term pain for some long term gain.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
All right, those some Trump supporters short term pain, long
term gain, if indeed that's what it is. But there
are a lot of people out there worried, rightly so,
worried about the our word, not that our word, Worried
about maybe this thing becomes way uglier than we thought,
Worried about a lot of stuff that has to do

(39:50):
with their business. I will say this always is we
live in a how does this affect me?

Speaker 12 (39:54):
World?

Speaker 2 (39:55):
If it affects you, you'll pay attention. If it doesn't
affect you, you don't care. It might be interesting to
look at how does this affect me? It doesn't, well,
I don't care. Then how does this affect me? If
this happens. This is how it affects you. Oh, I
care that, like everybody's all about. Yeah, let's bring manufacturing back. Yeah,

(40:18):
let's do this. Let's do that. This will be great
for America. Uh yeah, But we could see a downturn
in the economy, the potential for there to be stagnation, inflation, growth, recession,
potential loss of lots of jobs, of which one could
be yours. Oh, hold on a second, I didn't want that.
Of course, you didn't.

Speaker 20 (40:38):
More responsible for the state of the economy or the
economic state. In March, CBS News asked about inflation, and
thirty eight percent said it was Joe Biden who was
more responsible. Compare it to thirty four percent who said
Donald Trump. Let's jump forward to now in the month
of April, look at this number. Fifty four percent of
Americans say that Donald Trump is more to blame for
the state of the economy than Joe Biden. Donald Trump

(41:01):
may tried to blame Joe Biden for this, and maybe
that was working a month ago, in the month of March,
but since the tarafor has begun, it's not working anymore.
Americans are not buying what Donald Trump is selling them.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
And I would neither not in that situation. Sorry, you
you own the tariff battle. You do? You own the
tariff battle. What matters most consumer confidence.

Speaker 22 (41:29):
The uncertainty over tariffs has also rippled over into consumer confidence,
fueling the biggest hit to confidence among consumers in over
a decade except for March twenty twenty.

Speaker 1 (41:40):
And that's when COVID hit.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
And you and I both know this. As goes the
confidence in your life, i e. Spending, how you feel
about your job, your business, Are you invest more into it?
Growth has been real, et cetera, et cetera. As goes that,
so good the economy. All the other stuff, the CPI
report and those things are just indicators of certain things.

(42:08):
But it's really the driving force is us in the economy.
As go your business, your spinning habits, so goes the economy.

Speaker 21 (42:23):
I think something had to happen, and now it actually is.
So I'm excited for the future.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Sounds like he knows what he's talking about. He is
a businessman at the end of the day, so we.

Speaker 21 (42:31):
Knew he's not a politician. He's gonna ruffle feathers, He's gonna,
you know, bump all boys.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
I think a lot of people didn't respect Biden. So
hopefully Trump is laying down the law a little bit
harder so that those other countries respect him more.

Speaker 23 (42:45):
Our allies are our allies.

Speaker 21 (42:47):
I think they're actually going to support us and.

Speaker 7 (42:51):
Stick with us because we are probably I believe we
are the superpower of the world.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
Well we are. China would like to be our allies.
Are our allies. Thank you for that solid on that one.
But that being said, they're also in a position of
how does this affect me? Meaning if it affects them

(43:20):
in a negative way, While they still may be our
allies if it comes to battle, they may not be
our pals when it comes to trade, at least short term.
There's no doubt something had to be done in some
of these cases. But what I hear is short term
pain for long term gain. And I keep asking the question,

(43:43):
and I will continue to keep asking the question. What
is the endgame in this? What is the endgame? Is
the endgame we're going to bring back all this manufacturing,
because we know that's not going to happen, So what
is the endgame? Is it to get all of these

(44:03):
countries to understand the risk The China postes and to
get as many as possible to decouple from them. Okay,
I understand that is the endgame, to put tariffs on
other countries that are our allies and some are acquaintances,

(44:24):
because we want them to understand that. You must make
a decision between us or them. Okay, I understand that.
But if it's just about disruption and flexing, it's interesting.
I don't think it's worth that.

Speaker 20 (44:39):
Obviously, the big thing when it comes to the state
of the economy right now for Donald Trump is tariff.
So let's take a look here, all right, the tariff plan,
new tariff's on important goods, a post versus favor.

Speaker 10 (44:51):
You go back to January.

Speaker 20 (44:53):
Look at this, forty eight percent said they favored these
new tariffs, these Donald Trump tariffs, compared to forty six percent.

Speaker 5 (44:59):
Of a post.

Speaker 10 (45:00):
Look at where we are now in the CBS News.

Speaker 20 (45:02):
You got Paul a switcher Root a switcher Root a
clear majority fifty eight percent of Americans oppose these new
tariffs compared to just forty two percent who favor them.

Speaker 2 (45:14):
And that's simple. People started to see what the outcome
might be, and that outcome would be a downturn potentially
in not just the market, but main Street, and that
it would affect them, and in a time when we go,
how does this affect me? And that's the world we

(45:35):
live in, And then you tell them this is how
it affects you. You change. It sounds great. It's like
being invited to a party and it's like a month
and a half, we oh, yeah, we'll go. I'd love
to be there, and then it just shows up being like, ah,
I don't want to go. It's kind of what tariffs are.

(45:55):
It sounded good at the time, but now I don't
want to go. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty
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on in Pennsylvania.

Speaker 11 (46:10):
Last night we experienced an attack not just on our family,
but on the entire commonwealth of Pennsylvania here at the
governor's residence. We do know that this attack was targeted.
We don't know the person's specific motive yet, but we
do know a few truths. First, this type of violence

(46:32):
is not okay.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
Amen, go to Shapiro a frickin' men. So this guy
who is a lunatic attack the Governor's mansion, had a plan,
wanted to burn it down.

Speaker 24 (46:51):
The fire black and damage evident. Part of the mansion
left uninhabitable. The governor and his family were gathered Saturday
evening with two dozen others lebrating the first night of Passover.
At two am, that very room was engulfed in fire.
The governor and his family were asleep inside, police rushing
in to rouse them. Authorities now charging thirty eight year
old Cody Balmer of Harrisburg with aggravated arson, attempted murder,

(47:15):
and terrorism.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
Damn Skippy, throw everything you can at this guy. He
clearly had a plan.

Speaker 25 (47:21):
He was very methodical, and his approach without a lot
of hurry.

Speaker 24 (47:25):
I thinks say the suspect confessed and told them he
would have attacked Governor Shapiro with a hammer had he
found him inside. Law enforcement sources till ABC News Balmer
has posted disdain for Democrats.

Speaker 2 (47:37):
Throw the book at him. Let the conspiracies run wild
as well. Both sides will position themselves as see, you
guys are evil. Read one thing this weekend where he
was mad because apparently they had seized his property and
sold it. I don't know if that's true or not.
I don't know what's true, because no what he's interested

(48:00):
in the truth anymore. They're just interested in scoring points
with their tribe. What I do know is he tried
to burn down the governor's mansion with the governor in
it and said he would beat him with a hammer.
That's pretty nasty. I think we could say three two, three, five,

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Speaker 26 (49:50):
As many people were outmarking Palm Sunday death and destruction
in the streets of what is typically a celebration, a
car dash camp captured the devastating strike in northeastern Ukraine.
Emergency services says more than thirty people, including two children,
were killed and another one hundred and seventeen people were injured.

Speaker 27 (50:08):
Rosiska Balistika, Ukraine's president Zelensky, calling for international pressure on
Russia to end the war.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Well, that's not happening right now. Day one, I thought.
Day one, I know a lot of people thought that
I think they're moving in the direction that's right, But
right now Russia's going to keep doing what they feel
they need to do to fix this problem. That quite frankly, yes,
you know what, did we overreach at times? Yeah, But

(50:40):
the reality is that this is all on Russia. Still,
This is all on Russia, and this is going to
be something that over the next several weeks gets sorted out.
Probably I would assume by the end of summer there'll
be a deal. So we'll see what it actually looks

(51:01):
like when all is said and done. But you can
put all the pressure you want on Russia. At this moment,
he feels like he's got the momentum because he knows
they're desperate for a deal. Meanwhile, the other conflict that's
going on in the Middle East, that's not getting any closer.
But could we be getting closer to sorting out a

(51:23):
deal with the Iran No, No, I don't think we will.
I think we'll sort out a deal, but I don't
think they'll ever stick to it.

Speaker 26 (51:31):
Both the US and Iran have signaled that Saturday's talks
were positive. The meeting took place in Oman and lasted
about two hours, and it's significant because it marks the
first direct contact between these two nations since President Trump
returned to office. US Envoy Steve Whitkoff led the discussions,
which were primarily focused on Iran's nuclear program.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Which is the only thing anybody cares about. I want
to care about the rest of the crap that you
guys do, because you guys are just you know, you're
the biggest exporter of terrorism. That's not going to change
over now until there's a regime change. But I don't
care what anybody says, even Trump, you think you get
something done with them. You and I both know their
goal is to get a nuclear weapon. That is their goal.

Speaker 26 (52:15):
Much of the discussion yesterday was done indirectly, with each
delegation in their own room.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
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Speaker 26 (52:30):
We understand that at the end, officials did meet briefly
face to face, and so much is at stake surrounding
these talks, not least the stability of the entire region.
The delegations plan to meet again.

Speaker 2 (52:42):
Next Saturday, and we'll see what it looks like when
all is said and done, and if anybody feels good
about what's going to happen with this kind of deal
and whatever they write on paper, because much like North Korea,
and quite frankly because of North Korea and because of
of what took place with Ukraine, getting a nuclear weapon

(53:07):
is the gold standard of despots around the globe for
their country. When you have a nuclear weapon, it changes everything.
And if Iran was to get a nuclear weapon, it
changes the Middle East in ways that we have never
seen before. Then we have to make a decision about

(53:32):
how we go about handling it, and who else gets
one that's not Israel because we know they have them,
but who else gets one as to be a deterrence
of Iran's then aggression, because that's what it would be,
an aggression whenever they want, and everybody would be terrified

(53:55):
to strike back. So yeah, it's kind of a big
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Speaker 1 (54:40):

Speaker 2 (54:42):
The immigration battle continues. So and there's so many different
twist and turns with the immigration. You've got the college
campus kids, You've got the people that are here legally
that have been rounded up and sent to El Salvador.

(55:05):
Maybe a mistake or two in there, maybe.

Speaker 15 (55:09):
Before the Supreme Court weighed in, President Trump said he
would comply with their decision.

Speaker 10 (55:13):
If they said to bring him back, I would help them.

Speaker 15 (55:16):
To Kilmara Brego Garcia, the attorney, speaking with ABC's Pierre
Thomas Friday.

Speaker 1 (55:22):
Of course, the.

Speaker 10 (55:22):
Government gets to make those decisions, but they have.

Speaker 5 (55:24):
To actually do it.

Speaker 15 (55:25):
Trump later appeared to backtrack, suggesting the US doesn't have
the authority to bring up Brego Garcia. Back Trump wrote, quote,
they are now in the sole custody of El Salvador.

Speaker 9 (55:36):
Yeah, can you again?

Speaker 2 (55:39):
It goes back to can you bring him back? Bringing
him back would make Trump, in some people's minds, look weak,
like the court forced you to do something, and the
court didn't explicitly say or else. They just said, you
have to do everything you can in your power to

(56:00):
try to bring him back.

Speaker 15 (56:01):
Abrego Garcia had a court order barring his deportation to
El Salvador after escaping political violence there in twenty eleven.
Lawyers representing the husband and father are asking the administration
be held in contempt, that the government fly him back immediately,
and requesting he'd be granted parole. The DJ now says
Obnego Garcia is alive and secure in the prison, but

(56:22):
it's still unclear what steps they have made to facilitate
his return.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
We're going to try. We asked him what they say, Well,
it's going to be interesting because the President of El
Salvador is going to be here today.

Speaker 28 (56:42):
I anticipate that the press is going to ask President
Mukla questions about mister Abrego and whether or not he's
willing to return him. So I'm interested to see his
responses there. I mean, since he was coming up from
El Salvador, he could have put him on the plane
with him. But obviously that I mean, that's not going
to happen.

Speaker 2 (56:58):
Now, it's not going to happen. How do you guys
know he's okay?

Speaker 28 (57:01):
Because they said so, I would say probably they're getting
that verification from the Salvadoran authorities. I mean, again, we're
glad to hear that information.

Speaker 10 (57:09):
I was very concerned.

Speaker 28 (57:10):
I was a little worried that when the government was
disclaiming knowledge of where he was, that something might have
happened to him, and that that was sort of their cover.
But you know, like I said, since the government has
gone on record that he is alive and well and
they know where he's located, I'm a little more heartened.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Then we'll be able to get him back. I don't
know about well, it's not like he's running around doing
all kinds of fun stuff as a hellish place to be,
as a hellish, hellish place to be. We'll see if
they get him back. I just you have to make
an effort. Doesn't mean you have to bring him back.
There was nowhere else it was. You have to make

(57:46):
a reasonable effort to get him back. That's where that went.
We'll see if there is a reasonable effort made, because
the reasonable effort simply is, hey, can you bring this
guy back? It's that simple, Suzui is find him for us,
bring him back. Thank you. There you go. No, what's
Bouquela going to say? No, No, he's not going to

(58:09):
He's not but saying if we want him back, and
then Bouquela can come out today and say, yeah, you
know what, X, Y and Z, and he did this,
and he's that, and we have it on good authority
that he's all of those things, and he'll get his
due process there. So we'll we'll see if that happens
reasonable effort. Meanwhile, Mahmood Khalil.

Speaker 29 (58:30):
Guy, what's your reaction to the Louisiana judge ruling that
Khalil can be removed from the US.

Speaker 30 (58:35):
Well, I think this ruling, of course, is far from
the end of the story. There is another case pending
where the court will have to grapple with the real
constitutional issues here. This is an administration that is weaponizing
the US government against people in this country that are
exercising their First Amendment rights. Khalil's attorneys are raising that

(58:55):
issue in the other case that is pending, and so
I think this is really far from the end of
the story.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
Far from the end of the story. Okay, so they
ruled that he can be deported, but there has to
be some sort of process. You can't just snatch and go.
Got to allow him to defend himself and you have
the right to deport him, and there's going to be
a lot of people that deported. They're looking around. If

(59:25):
you've done some on social media that goes against Israel,
you are going to be scrutinized heavily, especially if you
were here from another country on a visa and you
have been a person who is very vocal against Israel

(59:48):
and the war in Gaza and you are not pro Israel,
you are anti Israel. Because anything that's not pro Israel
is anti You can't just say I want there to
be I mean, they're looking for anything. You can't say,
you know, October seventh was awful, but what's going on
in Gaza is awful. Any negative thing that you may

(01:00:13):
have thrown at Israel online or pro Palestine, you're probably
going to be how should I say this talk.

Speaker 30 (01:00:25):
To But what's important for all of us to focus
on is the steps that this administration is taking to
silence people, to threaten people, and they really can't even
produce much evidence. I mean, this is a two page
memorandum from the Secretary of State. So I think you'll
see much more in this case as it proceeds in
the other court on the constitutional claim.

Speaker 2 (01:00:46):
It's going to be interesting, it really is, because there
is no doubt that there are powers that be who
are big lobbyist, who can move mountains, who will get
this administration to hunt down and find anybody who is

(01:01:06):
not pro Israel and who even has a neutral position
as being anti Israel. I am pro Israel big time.
But do I think that they're perfect? I do not.
Do I think that they have at times overdone it,
if you will absolutely Now, I'm an American citizen born

(01:01:28):
and raised here. But these college kids, yeah, there, they
know time is nigh for them.

Speaker 29 (01:01:36):
So Secretary of Rubio's basic argument here is that if
you're here on a student visa, that's not you don't
have a right to be here in the United States,
and that these individuals, a lot of these students have
said things that are pro terrorism, pro Hamas, anti Semitic,
et cetera. I'm looking at an article in the New
York Times from last October in which the group that
he was a member of, Columbia University Apartheid I've asked,

(01:02:01):
expressed support for armed resistance by hamas he is part
of the leadership of that group.

Speaker 2 (01:02:08):
Is that not enough?

Speaker 29 (01:02:09):
Under Secretary of Rubio's definition.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Now, that's a great question. You saying you are a
supporter of Palestine and you want a two state solution
or any you know, there's all kinds of things you
could say that is not supporting of Hamas, the group
that this guy was involved with, not just by the

(01:02:34):
way Hamas he wanted the downfall of capitalism in the West.
There's a lot of things that this guy had advocated
for that is going to be his undoing, but he
deserved the right to have his day in court.

Speaker 30 (01:02:49):
The point here is that the First Amendment in this
country protects people that are here in their political expression.
And Khalil has said he has not engaged in violence,
he doesn't support violence. I believe that he's made a range,
and his lawyers have made a range of really delved
into the evidence about his own particular views. But the
real thing that we all need to remember here, getting

(01:03:10):
out of the made for TV moments that this administration
is trying to create around immigration and deportation in this country,
is that our First Amendment freedoms for all of us,
including American citizens. We're seeing is something that the administration
is not taking seriously and is not protecting. And I
think that's what you'll start seeing in the companion.

Speaker 2 (01:03:29):
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Speaker 1 (01:04:55):
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Speaker 25 (01:05:00):
Now we're going to turn out to a mystery that's
happening in South Jersey. Okay, something falling from the sky
ripped through the roof of an auto body shop. The
owner found it when he arrived for work on Wednesday.
His security cameras captured a fireball as something crashed through
that ceiling. We don't know what, leaving piles of debris.
Other cameras caught the same thing. Astronomers actually say it's

(01:05:21):
possible that whatever it was came from utter space.

Speaker 2 (01:05:26):
Right outer space. What could it be?

Speaker 23 (01:05:34):
The fireball tearing through the building, leaving a gaping hole
in the roof.

Speaker 1 (01:05:39):
Smashing into the workspace below.

Speaker 23 (01:05:41):
Despite the destruction, there's no sign of the actual object
that caused the damage. It comes just months after hundreds
of drones were spotted in the skies.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
Across New Jersey. What the heck?

Speaker 23 (01:05:54):
The sightings shutting down airports and sparking conspiracy theories.

Speaker 2 (01:05:59):
I have no idea. Could it be something from outer space?
It's possible. Could it be a I would find it
hard to think it would be a drone because there's
nothing left. They couldn't find anything. So something came through
right through the roof, tore a bit of the place apart,

(01:06:20):
and then there's nothing left. There's no remnants of it.
So I'd find it hard to believe a drone would
hit that hard and leave no remnants. So it's gotta
be aliens. It's gotta be. Speaking of that interesting story
I came across this weekend about aliens. So this was
a story that you know, because there's a lot of

(01:06:41):
stuff out there, but it's declassified now. Cold War CIA
files said that, and this is after nineteen ninety one,
any of the collapse of Soviet Union. The CIA acquired
a two hundred fifty page KGB report recounting the events
that transpired after a platoon fired at a flying saucer
over Ukraine and apparently they got into a bit of

(01:07:05):
a clash the saucer and the soldiers, and the soldiers
were turned to stone. That's crazy. During the encounter, one
of the Soviets fired a surface to air missile which
struck the UFO and sent it crashing to the ground.

(01:07:26):
Sh They said, it fell not too far away. Five
short humanoids with large heads, large black eyes emerged from it.
This is what the report claims, not me. After escaping
the debris of their ruined ship, the beings huddled together.

Speaker 13 (01:07:42):
All right, guys, let's do this.

Speaker 2 (01:07:43):
We could do this, merged into a single object that
acquired a spherical shape. So one of the surviving soldiers said,
in a few seconds, the sphere grew much bigger, exploded
by flaring up with an extreme bright light. And at
that very instance, twenty three so who had watched the
phenomenon turned into stone poles. Now, there were two soldiers

(01:08:07):
who stood in the shade and were less exposed to
the luminous explosion. They survived it. KGB allegedly took custody
of the petrified soldiers and the ruined spacecraft, which were
transported to their secret base in Moscow. Mystery. Speaking of
mystery last week, the person who's running all of our

(01:08:36):
health now Bobby Kennedy Junior, j Junior Junior. He said,
the next couple of months he's going to sort out autists.
I don't say fix it. See I think a lot
of people think he's going to fix it now. No, No,
his thing is he wants to find out what's causing it.

Speaker 31 (01:08:55):
The challenge is that we've had billions of dollars of
funding and work over decades that have gone into autism research.
And what we do know at this point is that
it's a complex condition. There's a variety of genetic factors,
like the environmental factors, prenatal factors, all combining together to

(01:09:16):
cause this disease. And we know, of course this spectrum
of disorders.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
And they're growing. The spectrum is definitely growing, which means
there's more people that are diagnosed and in some way,
shape or form with something on said spectrum. We have
a better understanding of people who have certain characteristics that
maybe when we were kids were like, hey, kid's kind

(01:09:42):
of weird. You know, it talks a lot about trains,
but we got on with ourselves, plays kickball, so we
like it. But now that we have an understanding of
a lot of these things, now the spectrum has expanded.

Speaker 31 (01:09:52):
A large part of that is because of awareness and
because of the incredible work to raise awareness around autism.
We've also had changes in our diagnostic tools and that
has expanded in the number of cases that are identified.
And so with new awareness brings, you know, in our
ability to identify additional cases. Not all of it is
necessarily driven by a potential cause and actual disease.

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
But can he do it that fast? I think there's
a lot of factors to go into it, so it's
just not one simple thing. I think everybody wants to think, well,
it's the vaccine, or it's you red dye forty or
something like that.

Speaker 31 (01:10:30):
We want more research and more resources into this space,
but we've been working on this since the sixties and
so the idea that we might find a single cause
in five months is definitely ambitious, but I think unfortunately
very unlikely when it's done with solid science. Science hasn't
moved that fast.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Science doesn't move that fast. Old school science moves fast
because of AI, and faster than we've ever dreamed. So
do I think there's going to be opportunities for these
things to do stuff that scientists could never think of
in they might think that we could get done in
a lifetime, But things have changed and with AI in

(01:11:13):
the way that AI can be not just a helper
in science. AI can do things that you know. It
used to be short, narrow, Now it's deep and wide.
That's what science can be. Twenty four seven, three sixty five.
Science is going to be working on things that we

(01:11:34):
couldn't even imagine. And because of how fast it's improving,
I think we'll find a lot of things quicker than
we've ever dreamed of, whether it be situations where why
is autism growing at such a right? What is the

(01:11:54):
cause to I think certain sypes of diseases, and not
only what is the cause of these diseases, but potential
cures and or effective treatments when it comes to these
things in ways that we just never dreamed of. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson
Shows your Twitter tweet as texta program right here in

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the Chad Benson Show, coming up our number three of
the big program. I've got a little what's trending? Well,
find out what's trending. I have a feeling and this
is just me Rory McElroy may be trending, just putting
it out there. Something about that master's golf tournament we've

(01:12:36):
also got more looks at tariff. What's it look like
this week? Start? Stop? Or we now figuring out Okay,
this is what it's going to be like, because yes,
there's a bit of confusion. I'm not going to lie
to you there. As well as Bill Maher and his
dinner with the President, we'll talk a bit about that.
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Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
I pride myself as being a person who likes to
talk about us, the exhausted majority. We're tired, we're tired.
We have a voice, but we don't use it. We're
not center where we have no beliefs. But what we

(01:13:57):
are a people who don't live in the extremes. So
what I hear people say, oh, you just are a
flip flop or you this and the other. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no no no. I have my beliefs based on facts
and data. I don't live in the extremes. I understand
nuance and not everything is black and white having conversations

(01:14:20):
is a wonderful thing. Case in point. Friday night, Bill
Maher talked about his trip to see El Presidente Donald Trump.

Speaker 14 (01:14:30):
Okay, as you know, twelve days ago, I had dinner
with President Trump, a dinner that was set up by
my friend Kid Rock, because we share a belief that
there's got to be something better than hurling insults from
three thousand miles away. And let me first say that
to all the people who treated this like there was
some kind of summit meeting, You're ridiculous, like I was going.

Speaker 5 (01:14:52):
To sign a treaty or something.

Speaker 9 (01:14:53):
I haven't.

Speaker 14 (01:14:55):
I have no power, comedian, and he's the most powerful
leader in the world. I'm not the leader of anything
except maybe a contingent of centrist minded people who think
there's got to be a better way of running this
country than hating each other every minute.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
So you love that. And that is the difference between
being quote unquote a centrist. You're saying, I'm not a centrist.
You know where I stand on everything I tell you,
but I don't stand the same place.

Speaker 32 (01:15:28):
For every issue. One issue, I may be over here
to the right. The other issue, I may be over
here a little bit to the left. One issue, I
may be far to the right. One issue, I may
be neutral.

Speaker 2 (01:15:42):
Agnostic because it's something that doesn't affect me, so it
don't put much time into it. We all have a
lot of those, you'd be surprised. But where I don't
live is the extremes. And so Bill Maher sat down
with the President of United States. Bill Moore has been
a person who's been a third in the side, a

(01:16:02):
critic of this president even before he was president. This
time or the time before. He has been somebody who
has been absolutely one hundred percent critical in just about
anything to do with the person, not always the policy,
but the person. But Kid Rock said, you got to
come meet the guy, and so they broke bread and

(01:16:23):
it was interesting what he had to say and who
Trump is, because I think all too often and I
know some people out there don't want to hear this.
Trump is at times playing a character that is far
more right and maga than maybe he is in real life.

Speaker 10 (01:16:41):
No.

Speaker 14 (01:16:42):
Yeah, I had my staff collect and print out this
list of almost sixteen different insulting epithets that the President
has said about me, things like stupid dummy, low life dummy,
or sleezbag Sick said, stone cold, crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:17:00):
Dumb guy fired like a dog. His show is dead.

Speaker 14 (01:17:02):
I brought this to the White House because I wanted
him to sign it, which he did with good humor.
And I know as I say that, millions of liberal
sphincters just tightened. Oh my god, Bill, are you going
to say something nice about him?

Speaker 2 (01:17:18):
Are you? Bill? Or You're just going to tell us
truth about what happened a dinner meeting tween you guys
sitting down breaking bread.

Speaker 14 (01:17:24):
What I'm going to do is report exactly what happened.
You decide what you think about it, and if that's
not enough, pure Trump hate for you, I don't give
a just for starters.

Speaker 5 (01:17:35):
He laughs.

Speaker 14 (01:17:36):
I'd never seen him laugh in public, but he does,
including it himself, and it's not fake. Example, in the
Oval Office, he was showing me the portraits of presidents
and he pointed to Reagan and said, in all seriousness,
you know the best thing about him his hair. I said, well,
there was also that whole bringing down communism thing, but no,

(01:17:56):
he laughed.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
He got it because a lot of what you see
in most politicians. By the way, Trump's not the first one.
I think what you get behind the scenes is very
real Trump. I think what you get in front of
the camera all too often is a bit more of

(01:18:19):
a character. Like we were talking earlier about whether or
not they're going to bring this guy back from El Salvador.
Trump can't afford to do that, not because it has
nothing to do with money. It's the principle. It's the look.
Can't afford to go against the look and the brand,

(01:18:42):
and the brand is never say you're sorry, never give in,
ever continue, sir.

Speaker 14 (01:18:54):
We were walking through his amazing is amazing tour of
the whole house, and I don't remember exactly what we
were talking about, but it must have been something with
the twenty twenty election, because I know he used the
word lost, and I distinctly remember saying, wow, I never
thought i'd hear you say that. He didn't get mad.
He's much more self aware and he lets on in public. Look,

(01:19:16):
I get it. It doesn't matter who he is at
a private dinner with a comedian.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
It matters who he is on the world stage.

Speaker 14 (01:19:23):
I'm just taking as a positive that this person exists,
because everything I've ever not liked about him was, I
swear to God, absent at least on this night with
this guy.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
And I want Trump to pervey the strength that a
president should pervy because I don't think the last president
did any of that. I think he was a lot
of things. I think Trump has built up a certain image,
and that image he has to continue to push forward.
That includes the I'm the greatest. You know, this is

(01:19:55):
part of the scene that I'm a part of, which
is I've made this maga world. I've got to continue
to push forward. I mean, he gets booed talking about
the vaccine for God's sakes, that was on your watch.
He understands that, but he also understands it's about conversation.

(01:20:16):
Getting a read of people is something that Trump as
a politician is arguably second to none at. He is
the best at understanding people, at reading people, at knowing
what makes them tick.

Speaker 14 (01:20:34):
When I hit him with a joke or contradicted something,
and no problem. At dinner, he was asking me about
the nuclear situation in Iran in a very genuine, hey,
I think you're a s mark guy. I want your
opinion sort of way, and I said, obviously your privative
things about it. I'm not, but for what it's worth,
I thought the Obama deal was worth letting play out
because we made Iran destroying ninety eight percent of the

(01:20:55):
uranium and they were fifteen years away from a bomb.
And then I said to him, but we got rid
of that, You got rid of that. He didn't get
mad or call me a left wing lunatic.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
He took it in because he's an adult and it's
between you guys. As long as he portrays a strength
in the public for his hardcore supporters, that's all that matters.
Behind the scenes is where stuff gets done. It sucks

(01:21:28):
that we have to live in this world where you
paint yourself into a corner and you're not allowed to pivot,
and the extremes have too much of a voice. But
I think this is great that we have these conversations,
and we need to have more of them, and you
and I, as the exhausted majority, need to be a
voice that talks about the power that we have, which
is eighty percent are with us, not the extremes. We're

(01:21:54):
about getting stuff done. We're about the betterment of America.
We are not about winning points. So the tribal cheer
you on were about results.

Speaker 5 (01:22:06):
I told him he was wrong.

Speaker 14 (01:22:07):
When he tweeted the night before that I was critical
of all things Trump moving Israel's embassy to Jerusalem. Loved it.
The border did need to be controlled. I'm glad the
cops are getting them a rale back. DEI had gone
too far. Biological men shouldn't be playing women's sports. Europe
should pay for their defense. And of course it makes
sense that Arab country should take in Arab refugees like

(01:22:30):
the million Syrians who wound up in Germany when Saudi
Arabia took none. He said to me, you're right, they
took none.

Speaker 2 (01:22:38):
They didn't take any of them. Pretty crazy that they
didn't do any of that. How about those apples? Huh.

Speaker 14 (01:22:44):
I never felt I had to walk on eggshells around him,
And honestly, I voted for Clinton and Obama, but I
would never feel comfortable talking to them the way I
was able to talk with Donald Trump.

Speaker 5 (01:22:55):
That's just how it went down. Make of it what
you will.

Speaker 26 (01:22:57):
Me.

Speaker 14 (01:22:58):
I feel it's emblematic of why the demo is so
unpopular these days. But I also think he now understands
I have a job to do, or at least he
did on this night, because he said to me early
on that he'd seen our last episode, which was the
Friday before this dinner, and he said, I thought maybe
you'd be nice, but you hit me really hard, and.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
You should and I will. If Trump does something that
I think is ridiculous, I'm gonna say so. I'm not
gonna be hyperbolic about it, even though they gets more
clicks and likes. If Trump does something good, I'm gonna
praise it, say great work. More of that. Holding their
feets to the fire. That's what I want to do,

(01:23:39):
their feet or feets, either or both. Maybe that's what
we should be doing. And I love how he ended
this on a show about Trump and him and their dinner.

Speaker 14 (01:23:52):
My favorite part of the whole night was we were
standing in the work and he said, you know, I've
heard from a lot of people who really liked that
we're having this dinner. Not all, but a lot. And

(01:24:12):
I said same. A lot of people told me they
loved it, but not all. And we agreed. The people
who don't even want us to talk, we don't like
you don't talk as opposed to what writing the same
editorial for the millionth time and making twenty five hour
speeches into the wind. Really that's what liberals have. He

(01:24:33):
takes the piss out of everybody else.

Speaker 5 (01:24:35):
And we can hold ours. Okay, that's my report. You
can hate me for it, but I'm not a liar.

Speaker 14 (01:24:42):
Trump was gracious and measured, and why he isn't that
in other settings, I don't know, and I can't answer,
and it's not my place to answer. I'm just telling
you what I saw and I wasn't high.

Speaker 2 (01:24:56):
More of that place, more adult conversation, more about what
binds us and finding the things that we have commonality
with makes us better. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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Show, Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
No, it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

Speaker 33 (01:26:35):
James Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Serene.

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Lot trending.

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
That's fine on the old interwebs on this most festive Monday.
Where do we start? How about Yahoo? The Masters, Blue
Origin sending people into space. Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania,
The Arson on the Governor's mansion yesterday. Rory Meet the Press,

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Tariff exemptions, gen Z and accounting bringing back a boring job.
It's kind of funny. What job is coming back would
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one trending thing. Who won the Masters? And Rory McElroy
That's who won the Masters. By the way, do you
want to know? If you need to know, that's who
won the Masters. Not a shocker. It was fun. I
have no doubt about it. I watched it all day
Saturday and Sunday. My wife was thrilled, was she Nah?

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Not really, although she enjoys the golf, Not gonna lie
to you, she enjoys the personalities. Master's payout. Cody Balmer
Bronnie James. You're wondering who Cody Bomber was. He is
the guy accused of starting the fire the Governor's mansion
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Post Malone, jim Nantz, all things trending in the magical
world of Twitter slash Acts. There was no doubt big
story of the weekend that wasn't tariffs, but more people
were probably paying attention to it than tariffs was the
Masters Boy, How's his master piece? Yep? Roy wonted in

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a playoff, did everything he could to not win it,
but finally did beat Justin Rose in a playoff, said
he woke up in the morning a little bit nervous.

Speaker 9 (01:30:07):
Yeah, today was Today was difficult.

Speaker 12 (01:30:09):
I was unbelievably nervous this morning, really nervous on the
first hole as you witnessed with the double. But as
I said, that sort of calmed me down, and you know,
I was able to bounce back and show you know,
that resilience that I've talked about a lot, and yeah, no, look,
it was a it was a heavy way to carry
and you know, thankfully, no I don't have to carry it,

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and it frees me up, and you know, I know
I'm coming back here every year.

Speaker 2 (01:30:34):
Which is lovely, lovely. Indeed, he becomes the sixth man
in history to win the career Grand Slam, so he's
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Joe the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
Democrats on the Struggle Bus. Yes, yes. In fact, the
common Man as we were listening to earlier, where you
had somebody like Bill Maher, comedian at the White House
with Trump, somebody he doesn't agree with in the way
he handle stuff. There are more than a few points
of agreement in certain things. But one of the things

(01:31:46):
that Bill Maher talked about is the fact that while
he's at the White House and he's having these conversations
with him, and he's b esing with him and they're laughing.
He said, I can do that with Trump. I know
that I couldn't have on that with Clinton or Obama,
which is very interesting. The common man approach.

Speaker 20 (01:32:07):
This to me is one of the most shocking pieces
of poll data that I truly truthfully have seen this year,
maybe in any prior year. Yes, really, because cares more
about the needs for people like you. Even after this
terrifar had already started split between Democrats and Republicans on
how people feel which party cares more for needs of.

Speaker 10 (01:32:26):
People like you? And why is that so surprising? Because
I want you to take a look at prior years.

Speaker 20 (01:32:30):
Democrats always lead on this question. Back in twenty seventeen,
before the twenty eighteen mid terms, thirteen point lead, twenty five,
a twenty three point lead for Democrats, nineteen ninety four,
which was a big Republican year, a nineteen point lead
for Democrats, and now all of a sudden, a.

Speaker 2 (01:32:44):
Tie, a tie?

Speaker 31 (01:32:47):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
Yeah, because the Democrats decided academia people with college degrees
were far more important than the working man and woman.

Speaker 20 (01:33:01):
All of a sudden, the Democrats, who are the party
of the people, no more, no more, We get a
tie on this question on a question that has traditionally
overwhelmingly been a Democratic advantage people for party, which party
cares more for the needs of people like you. It's
truly something I would not have expected to see, especially
after this tarafor had begun.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
I don't know why you would think that. If you
think about it, what is Trump talking about middle class?
Restoring the middle class, bringing mac manufacturing jobs that can
be good jobs without having to have a college degree,
rebuilding the middle class the way it used to be.
So I would expect it to be stronger because he's
talking to the common man and woman Again.

Speaker 20 (01:33:43):
You talk about party of the people. Look at this
cares for the needs of people like yourself.

Speaker 10 (01:33:48):
That is, the gains have.

Speaker 20 (01:33:49):
Been concentrated, at least within the last decade, among voters
without a college degree, the working class. That is where
Republicans have gained. Even since the beginning of the Donald
Trump administration, the Democratic base is now those with a
college gree, among the working class those without a college gree.
Republicans have overwhelmingly gained on this all important question of

(01:34:09):
which party cares more for people like yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:34:14):
And that's why they're struggling. The Democrats decided college was
going to be the base for everything, their crazy, uber
left leaning, looney ideas they push out there, their dei initiatives,
all of that stuff that really became a fixture of

(01:34:36):
Now what is left leaning politics. And I say left leaning,
that's progressive, and we I'm not talking about the average
Democrat that is pro choice, fine with gay marriage, but
wants a solid border, the old school Democrats that we
used to just think, well, they're just Democrats. No, we're
talking about how they went and catered to the extreme
lunacy and they lost the touch of the common man.

(01:34:58):
That's why Steve Smith and I've been saying, who's the
leader of the Democratic Party for quite a while. Stephen A. Smith,
whether he likes it.

Speaker 27 (01:35:05):
Or not, just want to let y'all know where I'm at.
Not interested in running. Hope it doesn't come to that,
but I was told I owe it to all of
us to at least leave the door open.

Speaker 2 (01:35:21):
That's what I did.

Speaker 27 (01:35:24):
By the way, this week, this Sunday, I'm scheduled to
be on this week with George Stephanopolis on ABC, and
practically every other network is called. They're apparently taking it
very seriously, so I have no choice but to do so,

(01:35:46):
and said, come down to that.

Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
It just comes down to that. And yes, he was
on with Stephanopoulos and everybody has called because they look
and they think this guy speaks the common man. We've
lost a touch. We have no idea how to speak
to the common man. They've got dirt under their fingernails,
they've got kids. They speak in this language that we

(01:36:11):
don't quite get. They're not talking about apple teenies and pilates.
They're talking about mortgages and trying to make ends meet.
We don't understand these things. Steven Does Stephen A.

Speaker 4 (01:36:25):
Smith, host of ESPN's First Take. He's one of the
most maybe the most listened to sports commentator in America. Lately,
he's been talking a lot about politics, and this week
he opened the door to a possible run for president
in twenty twenty eight. We'll get to your possible political
future in a second. But who said when Trump got
elected we should give him a chance?

Speaker 27 (01:36:44):
How's it going in this old Terearfoard situation is otherly ridiculous.
My attitude was is that he should have immediately targeted
China and not every nation on the planet for crown
out loud. Just throwing tarists at everybody to applaud them
for is for trying something here here.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
Been saying that for a while. I'm not quite sure
what the whole thing is with everybody, but there might
be a method to the madness of which we're going
to find out sooner rather than later. Continue, sir.

Speaker 27 (01:37:10):
We've lost over five million manufacturing jobs over the last
twenty plus years or so. I don't know if that's
coming back, particularly with the age of AI CHAT, GPT
and other things coming into the forefront. I just can't
see that happening. But again, if that's the song that
you want to sing to the American public, to the
constituency out there that you think is going to vote

(01:37:30):
for you, he seems very convincing and letting people know
what he feels and getting them to see his way
of thinking. But I think it's a product, a byproduct
rather of the Democratic Party and the fact that they
don't seem to have any mission, any vision none.

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
You think about the last decade, the mission of the
Democrat Party has been we don't like Trump. The vision
has been Trump's evil and band. That's been the only
thing they've had. They haven't had anything else. Biden didn't

(01:38:06):
win because people are like that vision is the vision
that I see for America now. Biden won because Donald Trump.
That's it. People voted against Donald Trump, not for Joe Biden.

(01:38:27):
Not for a vision, because I couldn't tell you what
their vision is. Their vision is all over the place.
Their vision is all the things that are that we
talked about earlier. This academia world of very feels like
out of touch with the average person, an average voter
in this country. The uber progressive, uber to the left

(01:38:48):
think tank arguments they make towards everything from DEI to
anything in between is bizarre to me considering they used
to be the quote unquote working person's party, right building
the middle class, unions, this, that, and the other. Trump
has been able to reach out to all of the

(01:39:12):
working class and even people. You know, it's funny about
the union side of stuff, because you remember when Trump
and Biden were fighting over who's going to get an
endorsement here, in endorsement there for the unions. One of
the things that most Sean Fayne and several other set
is we may endorse Biden, but I don't think our
members will vote for And a lot of that has

(01:39:34):
to do with a bunch of social issues that were ridiculous.
They jumped the shark on social issues, tried to gaslight
America and lost touch with the common person. And for
that they lost a lot of support, as they should have, and.

Speaker 27 (01:39:51):
Then now it's at a point where they're getting mocked religiously,
and so as a result of that, you're going to
look at him and regardless of the troubles that you
think he might bring four unless things become disastrous economically.
The fact that the matter is the American people have
already said during the last election he's a bit more normal,
or closer to normal than the Democratic Party. And that's
where the real problem lies.

Speaker 2 (01:40:12):
It's out of two.

Speaker 27 (01:40:13):
It might be a two party system, but there's only
one party run in this country right now because the
Democrats have no muscle whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (01:40:19):
Because they don't have any common sense. Common sense wins
out the day. Common sense wins out on a daily
basis for the average person. Meaning you tell me that

(01:40:41):
boys can get pregnant. Common sense says, now that can't happen,
and you telling me that is a bunch of bs.
I will not buy anything you're selling me because you're
living in a world of insanity, so you've lost your
way with me. That's the beauty of common sense, and

(01:41:04):
that's how you reach people with common sense saying no,
that's not true. None of that's true. This is what's true,
simple and easy. But the left continues to do what
they do and they continue to lose. That's why those
numbers are down. As bad as numbers may look right now,
for Trump, the reality is you couldn't tell me who

(01:41:26):
the leader the Democrat is a Democratic party is, and
you couldn't tell me what their message is because you
don't know what their message is because quite frankly, they
don't know what their message is. And how many times
have we said this. If you find the worst possible
issue for the Democrats, they will find in that the

(01:41:51):
worst possible position to take and they will run at it.
And that is their is no common sense, can't read
the room, aka the country. They have fallen off in
a major way and left themselves vulnerable by placating to
the furthest extremes of insanity when it comes to common sense,

(01:42:15):
things like anybody who wants to cross the border can
and while there's eight, ten, twelve million people a crossing
the border, it's totally secure. You should believe me, or sure,
he's got a penis, but that's all woman. People don't
buy that.

Speaker 27 (01:42:31):
And that's why somebody who's a sports analyst for crying
out loud is in the dagone polls. It's not somebody
big up in me. It's an indictment against a Democratic
party that doesn't have leadership and doesn't have a vision.

Speaker 4 (01:42:44):
Are you really thinking about running for president?

Speaker 27 (01:42:46):
I have no choice. I'm not a politician. I've never
had a desire to be a politician. Here's the reality. People,
literally people will have walked up to me, including my
own pastor, for crying out loud, who has said to me,
you don't know what God has planned for you. At
least showed a respect to the people who believe in you,
who respect you, who believe that you can make a
difference in this country, to leave the door open any

(01:43:07):
possibilities two to three years down the line.

Speaker 2 (01:43:10):
And that's what I've decided to do. There you go,
We'll find out if he does. Who knows what'll look like.
If everything goes sideways on this tearf battle that's going on,
and the wars continue to rage on and we go
into some sort of depression kind of situation, recession, and
it's just becomes an absolute debacle, then yeah, whoever the

(01:43:34):
Democrats run may not matter. But if things are strong,
or at least midland, if you will. Some good, some bad,
as tends to be most of the case in life.
And the Democrats continue not to have a message that
resonates with I don't know anybody that's not insane. I

(01:43:57):
wouldn't put it past him. I wouldn't. And for the Democrats,
you better figure it out sooner rather than later. Because
as much as I'm sure he thinks, man, that's crazy,
do anybody think about me being the Democratic nominee? He
must also think it's pretty sad that they got to
come to me because they got nobody else. Three two, three, five,

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Speaker 1 (01:45:37):
Running with scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 30 (01:45:41):
This is all going to happen so fast, in just
a few minutes, about ten or eleven minutes from launch
to landing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:48):
And launch to landing. It went blue origin sounds like
it should be a peanut, but it's not. Our pistachios
are one of those. That's the thing that Bezos fires
off into space, and he did it today.

Speaker 31 (01:46:07):
By four.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
Two one, off they went. Who were they? Women? Six
of them? You ready for this, Amanda Win, Katie Perry,
Gail King, Aisha bo and Carrie Anne Flynn along with
Lauren Sanchez, the soon to be missus. Bezos fired off

(01:46:35):
into space and away they went. And guess what they
came home.

Speaker 15 (01:46:43):
I saw that screaming inside the capsle and all three
parachutes leaving and they will slowly inflate.

Speaker 2 (01:46:51):
Man, that's a true test to love right there. Well,
if you really love me, you'll try my rocket ship home.
They came home. They they go up really quick, right
and they're up there for a little bit and they
turn around to come right back down. You get to space,
and you get right around there where you get some weightlessness.
But it's not like SpaceX. Were flying around actual space,

(01:47:15):
if you know what I mean. Pretty cool though, they
will not need a real ID, I will tell you
that right now, which you and I are both going
to need if we want to go anywhere. Ever, if you're.

Speaker 34 (01:47:24):
Flying anywhere in the US out of a US airport,
you will need to show TSA agents a real ID,
driver's license or another form of complying ID. It pretty
much looks like you're old ID, just with a little
star on it.

Speaker 9 (01:47:37):
And it must have by May seven.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
By May seven to go anywhere. Now, if you have
a passport, that can override this. But getting your real
ID is becoming a pain for a lot of people.

Speaker 34 (01:47:47):
According to federal documents, as of January of last year,
only fifty six percent of driver's license we're real IDs.

Speaker 9 (01:47:55):
If you still need to get.

Speaker 34 (01:47:56):
Yours, check the Department of Homeland Security website to see
your state specific requirements for your documents. And if you're
a Triple A member, you can get help getting an
appointment as well, because.

Speaker 2 (01:48:07):
You're gonna need it. It's a nightmare because I've talked
to several people's like every time you go there, it's
like I thought I had the right stuff, I didn't
have the right stuff, or this didn't match. Oh geez.
And we've put it off for so long because this,
remember came in a few years after nine to eleven.
We were supposed to have these real IDs. Twenty years
later when they were supposed to go into a fact,

(01:48:28):
we're just now really starting to push it.

Speaker 34 (01:48:30):
DMVs are working over time and just to accommodate. Some
in New York will stay open on Thursdays. Out in California,
they have eighteen offices that will be open early, four
days a week. In Illinois, they've actually created a real
ID super center.

Speaker 2 (01:48:44):
Feels like this is going to be something they're going
to have to lay again. I have a feeling maybe
they don't. Who knows. Three two three, five, three eight,
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