AWS Cloud Service Back to Normal After Outage Disrupts Businesses Worldwide

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yesterday, AWS was attacked. That's right, AWS, that is the
web services from Amazon. Why it matters is because if
I was Russia China, I would be going, oh my god, America.
They can't get on their Starbucks, their McDonald's, or roadblocks.
We could easily win this war based on the fact
that we can inconvenience them. Up until last night, I

(00:35):
was still having issues with some of the websites that
I've used or use currently. It was frustrating as hell.
Now I'd be okay because I am a gen X kid.
We grew up in the beforetime, before the Internet, so
we'll handle a little bit better. But it was a

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bit of a nightmare, there's no doubt about that. And
if we're honest with ourselves, we are ill prepared at
this moment in time when it comes to the interwebs
and being inconvenience and the fact that we do everything
and depend on everything for the most part via electronics

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to handle business. If things get sideways.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Amazon blames the initial outage on a domain name service.
This is a technology that basically takes human language what
you or I would type into a web browser where
it be Facebook dot Comabcnews dot com and translates that
into something that a computer could understand, an IP address.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Amazon does say that they were able to patch that
initial issue, but started to see some additional issues crop
up throughout the day, kind of a domino effect. One
thing goes wrong and it breaks a variety of other systems.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
Last night, we were going to do our live and
we couldn't do it. We had to wait. Weitwait, and
it just it was a nightmare trying to figure out, Okay,
what the hell's still going on? There's still some stuff
out there that's slow or it's not fully functioning. And
I bring this up and why it's important is a
again where a nation of convenience, This inconvenienced a lot

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of people. And b when you think about security, when
you think about where the next battle is going to
come from, it's all online. That's how you hit them first.

Speaker 4 (02:20):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
It used to be Dominate the air, and you're going
to win the war well with AI, with all of
this stuff, Dominate the innerwebs and you're off to a
great start.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
Amazon accounts for about thirty seven percent of the cloud
computing market right now. Another third of that can be
accounted for by Microsoft and Google. Many critics of this
industry say that we've consolidated too much power into the
hands of just a few companies, and when something goes wrong,
you see an outage like today happen where major cross

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sections of the Internet are knocked offline.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Convenience not just convenience. I mean, the fact is, if
you were trying to travel, you had issues. If you
were trying to bank in certain areas, you had issues.
If you're trying to do a lot of work, you
had issues where for a day it's a pain in
the ass. Over a time period that could last longer.
We know what happens that domino effects. I mean, how
many times we see this when it comes to the

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way that we do just say travel, it goes fast, fast,
it goes south. Just so. Yes, while this was an
issue that was inconvenient, look at the bigger picture, and
the bigger picture says we better start figuring out how
we're going to do some stuff to protect ourselves in

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the event that something may go sideways. You know, we
should do we should get our government on it. We can't, though,
because they're not working because of the whole thing where
they're not working because of the thing where they're not
working because he said, and then you said, and then
there was about you, and then over there you were
like no, and then oh my god, over there, and
you know what I mean.

Speaker 5 (03:57):
And the Democrats are making some very costly history here.
Don't lose that in all that's happening. This is now
the third longest shutdown in history, and when you look
at it carefully, it is now already the longest full
shutdown of all time. You had an example in twenty eighteen,
and you had one back in nineteen ninety five that

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were longer, but they were partial shutdowns because they only
affected a part of the federal government.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Well, we have that weird shutdown where everybody continues to
work that needs to, but they're not getting paid, except
for portions of the government where you're like, we got
to pay them because it looks bad that we may
send them out to war or something like that, and
they're not getting paid.

Speaker 5 (04:43):
This is the first time in history that any party
has had the audacity to shut down the government over
a totally clean, non partisan, continued resolution. This is a political.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
Stunt, not really. There have been other shutdowns, nothing has
gone on this long and right now, there's no need
for either side to actually do anything. For the most part,
the average American isn't feeling it yet. And until it

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becomes as we say, we're a nation in convenience, until
it becomes inconvenient to us and we have to say already,
it's your fault. We're going to hold the line and
just live our lives.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
This was never about a solution, It was about creating
an issue. Now the Democrats have had their protest and
publicity stunts. I just pray that they come to their
senses and end the shutdown and reopen the government this week.

Speaker 6 (05:41):
Republicans are waiting. The American people are waiting. We are
ready to act.

Speaker 2 (05:46):
Are American people really waiting? I have gone a bunch
of places over the last several days. I've yet to
talk to a human being that's asked me about the shutdown,
minus one person who happened to be taking as kid
to He's a buddy of ours out here, and he
was for a big plumbing company. And his kid is

(06:07):
kind of like my little brother Spencer, but a much
better shape. If you guys know doing about Spencer, my
little brother is has a lot of issues, but he's
in a little bit better shape and he wants to lobby.
That's his goal to lobby to help with certain things
for kids who are disabled, especially young adults. So he

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was excited because they were going to DC and the
shutdown cause basically a bunch of chaos when it came
to the things that they were going to do because
they're just not open and nobody was going to be
around outside of that. Nobody's asked me about the shutdown.
Nobody has, So you're overthinking maybe your importance to the

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average person in saying that we need to get back
to work. There are issues, and one of the big issues,
if not the biggest issue, is cost. And several people
have said to me over the last couple of days, Hey,
guess what, our open enrollment started early. I'm not thrilled.

(07:11):
First of all, it's confusing AF, even more so than
ever before. And on top of the confusing AF, my
premiums are jumping fifteen to twenty percent and they're working
with large companies. So this is a big deal. There's

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no doubt the end of the day, we're still a
checkbook society. We could talk about Venezuela. We could talk
about all of the things, right, you know, Ukraine, Israel,
all of the things we talk about, all of that stuff.
We're still a checkbook based society and we will vote
that way. And we're looking around going are we getting
everything that we should be getting from our government? What's

(07:53):
the next thing? Because they're not working and is life
about to get a lot more expensive? Damn Skippy? Is
right or wrong? Subsidies are a big issue. The expensive healthcare,
as we've been talking about, is a big issue. The
confusion of healthcare is a big issue. And as I said,
some of my friends had are open enrollment that started early.

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They're looking and going, are you kidding me? So wait,
I'm spending more and getting less Exactly.

Speaker 7 (08:21):
The first date to look at on the calendar is
November first, and that date is important because that is
when open enrollment begins on these healthcare marketplaces, the Obamacare
marketplaces in the States. And that is important because this
whole shutdown fight started when Democrats demanded Republicans act to
preserve expiring subsidies, subsidies that help make health insurance more

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affordable for people buying healthcare on these marketplaces.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
It's expensive, man, it is so damn expensive, and whoever
we deem to be the ones that have caused this
will pay the price, and that price will come at
the ballot box, because no matter what anybody says, yes,
we are a nation that is a checkbook based, money

(09:13):
based society, and if we feel that you are the
ones that we need to hold responsible because you couldn't
get something done, you will pay the price at the
ballot box. And right now, nobody's feeling that.

Speaker 7 (09:27):
What usually happens is that these end because the political
temperature gets turned up so high that the members of
Congress start to boil and one side feels the heat,
one side feels the pressure, and they fold and they
come to the table. And in this case, Democrats are
the ones who agitated, who started this fight with the Republicans.
But many Democrats that I talked to looked at the

(09:48):
nationwide protest this weekend in defiance of Trump and against
his agenda, and they're feeling emboldened to take a stand
against the President and Republicans.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Great do that, except for what do you have in place?
Because if your only thing in place is we don't
like him, that's not a strategy at all. That's just
you stating something that you believe in your heart that
he's a bad person. That doesn't fix the problems. That's

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just you telling me something about somebody you don't like.
Doesn't fix anything. We touched on it yesterday. Some of
the fixes are available, and there's plenty of them out there,
but you have to have the political courage to address
those things, and most people just don't. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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(10:38):
of you not keeping score, there is a World Series
about to be played left field aside up.

Speaker 8 (10:53):
What is it going?

Speaker 2 (10:57):
It starts Friday. The Dawyers will be in Canada take
on the Blue Jays. So the Dodgers the Blue Jays
Game one. Otani, bring your passports for both you and
the potential of the ball that you hit back across
the border. Oh, Chada, like what you did that?

Speaker 9 (11:19):
Right?

Speaker 2 (11:20):
That was pretty awesome. It's gonna be a hell of
a series. It is. Everybody looks at the Dodgers as
the Juggernaut, as the beast that they are, and they
are those things. At the same time, I do understand
that the Blue Jays wouldn't be here hosting the World
Series if they weren't good. But at the end of
the day, I'm a Toyer fan, and don't you forget that.

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Speaker 1 (13:11):
You're listening to The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
The tariff battle continues and China upping the ante with
the rare Earth battle that's going on. We'll get to
that in a second. Trump yesterday was asked about tariff
because you got to think about this. We are in
the home stretch of the year. Christmas. Time to make
hay toys. Santa Santa Slag gonna be a little lighter

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this year. Santa Slag gonna be a little bit more expensive.

Speaker 10 (13:37):
China's paying a fifty five percent and a potential one
hundred and fifty five percent come November first, unless we
make a deal and a meeting with presidency. We have
a very good relationship. We'll it be meeting in South
Korea in a couple of weeks.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Okay, China's not paying anything. They may eat a little bit,
but the so they distribute it, so we're purchasing it.
When we purchase it. Whoever gets it here right on
our shores, who has decided to import whatever the hell
it is that person pays it. Does that person think that, hey,

(14:13):
you know what, Trump's right, I'll eat this. No, they're
not going to eat this. They're not gonna eat this
at all. Now they ma et a little bit of it,
but they're not going to eat it all. They're going
to pass it on to the consumer.

Speaker 10 (14:23):
We have a tremendous power, and that's the power of tariff.
And I think that China will come to the table
and make a very fair deal because if they don't,
they're going to be paying US one hundred and fifty
seven percent in tariffs.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
They don't pay tariffs. We do. Don't trust China. I've
been saying that for a long time, nobody buys into
it but me. That's all I'm saying. You've got that,
then you've got, of course, the rare Earth battle that's
going on right now. So the rare Earth battle is
a big deal. Considering all of the things that we

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use on a tab daily basis that is rare Earth based,
what would those be, Chad, I'm glad you asked other Chad. Smartphones, laptops, evs, hybrids, television's,
computer monitors, led lighting, headphones, earbuds, homespeakers, renewable energy tech,
wind turbine, solar cameras, optical lenses, hard drives, data storage,

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everyday appliance is oh, I see what you're saying. It's everything.
So we went to Australia. We said, Australia, you want
to be pals with us.

Speaker 11 (15:29):
Even more, China is the world's largest producer of those minerals,
and right now, there are of course, very significant trade
tensions between the Trump administration and China, and those rare
earths are a big part of those tensions.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
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Speaker 11 (15:51):
So they're looking for Australia to potentially step in and
become a big exporter of this.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
Except for it takes a long time to build up
the things we're going to need, including building the facilities
to excavate said rare earth minerals. From trade wars to
law fair, what's next? Komy year up to bat.

Speaker 12 (16:16):
The attorneys for James Comy are calling on the judge
overseeing the case to dismiss the charges against him on
grounds of vindictive and selective prosecution, declaring President Trump ordered
the Department of Justice to prosecute mister Kobe because of
personal spite and because mister Kombe has frequently criticized the
President for his conduct in office.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
I will be interested to see how this goes. Letitia, James,
that's not going to happen. Comy probably not going to happen.
The whole thing with the mustachioed bolton, that is going
to happen, And he's going to face some serious charges.
The more I read into it, it is yes, yes,
he is. He is going to face The charges he's
facing are serious. He is going to be in a

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lot of trouble these two mm and of course they're
looking around to see who else could be next. We
were trying to figure that out last week. Who's next?
On the price is wrong, Bob? I don't Bud remember
that Adam Sandler is that happy Gilmour when he fought
with Bob Barker. So the price is wrong, Bob. So
I think they call me. I wouldn't be surprised if

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to throw it out. Do you think here's the perfect
thing that Trump would do. Trump would have this go
all the way through, have him convicted, and then Trump
would then decide, Hey, I'm gonna commute your sentence. You're welcome.
Coming up next, every buddy, Mike Lan's going to join
the program. We're going to talk about all the things
going on militarily Ukraine, Israel, and obviously what potentially could

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happen in Venezuela. This is the Chad Benson, Chad.

Speaker 13 (17:41):
Son, Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
The Chad Benson Show, that time of the week, talk
to our guy, tired major in the Army and the
best damn military analyst period. Case closes. He's all dressed
up today because it's doing a whole bunch of TV,
but it took some time for us. Mike Leons joins
the program, Mike, before we jump into the military side
of stuff, with the you know, the violence and the
hardware and whatnot. Yesterday we had outages with the web

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services of Amazon, but it did get a lot of
people thinking if China or Russia was to come hard
at us through our really bad infrastructure. When it comes
to our internet, Man, that's a scary thing because the world,
and you and I've talked about this, AI is a
huge part of what the military is going The world
of information is going to become as important as winning

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the air war.

Speaker 14 (18:49):
At the beginning, she had no question in the information
spaces the battleson already, frankly, and I think we are
kicking the can down the road when it comes to
trying to deal with it. That outage yesterday never should
have happened. I mean, you know, Amazon has had these
kinds of averages before, but it impacted everything from airlines

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to social media to the way people get food. And
so while we think that there's resiliency within our let's
say grid structure of how we get electricity and water
and build those basic needs, the internet has become just
so ubiquitous with regards to our lives, and perhaps we've
relied on that that's been outsourced to these commercial venues

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that we really don't know what's going on there.

Speaker 6 (19:33):
So that was maybe a little bit of a warning sign.

Speaker 14 (19:36):
We don't know what else you could happen over the road,
but you look at Hollywood and the movies they made,
and it's you can imagine some pretty horrific conditions if
we don't create more resiliency, at least on the commercial
side of the internet.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Let's go from there to Ukraine. Briday Zelensky's here. Trump
talks to the powder last week, and apparently Zelensky and
Trump got into it a little bit on Friday, kind
of hind closed doors. Wasn't addressing down like before, and
it was more of a give and take situation because
he wants tomahawks and Trump feels like, no, no, you
shouldn't get.

Speaker 14 (20:06):
Any Well, I don't believe that Trump thinks that tomahawks
are difference makers every issue. Donald Trump looks at through
this lens of leverage, and he is looking for leverage
with this Ukraine situation, and he sees that he doesn't
really have any he gave away the story earlier in

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the year when.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
He said you don't have the cards.

Speaker 14 (20:29):
Well, Trump is trying to find out what those cards
are for Ukraine, and he believes, I think that the
cards are territorial gains that Russia has made and to
give those back, and that's the leverage that he could
possibly use in order to get Russia to the table.
That's a non starter for Zelensky, and in a lot
of ways, he doesn't want to lead with that. And
Zolensky still wants logistics, he wants tomahawks, He wants things

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European nations that will continue to help and support him.
But Trump, in his again view of leverage, wants to
get to a solution quickly recognizes that it's not going
to happen quickly. The only way it does is if
he concedes the land, which I think is why he
doesn't think those tomahawks are a game changer.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Do you think they would be a game changer? Who
would just make this thing even worse and he would
double down, putin on something even worse than he's already doing.

Speaker 14 (21:20):
They would be a game changer if we gave them
hundreds of tomahawk missiles. It is a system that is
not normally fired from land, it's fired from sea based platforms.
I'm not sure what that modification looks like. Raytheon says
they have a modification. They would come under targeting from
Russia should they all of a sudden appear on the battlefield.

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But we would have to give them hundreds, not like
the Patriot missile batteries where we gave them four and
five and six. I mean we're caviling over just small
amounts of weaponry. Ukraine needs two hundred main battle tanks,
they need one hundred and sixty Bradley fighting vehicles, they
need hundred thousand artillery rounds a month, they need so

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much logistical support. That is the only real leverage that
Donald Trump can give to Ukraine in order to try
to get Russia to the negotiation table.

Speaker 6 (22:12):
So on the surface, now, the amount of Tomahawks they.

Speaker 14 (22:14):
Would need, I don't believe a game changers because I
don't think we would consider giving them that amount of
dub weapons.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
And the one thing you left out there that maybe
the most important thing is they need human beings to
fight this. That's the one thing that Russia has that
they at some point in time, you're going to run
out of bullets before they run out of men.

Speaker 14 (22:29):
Yeah, and that's right. And in fact, Russia has recalled
more reservists. They could bring fifty to one hundred thousand
new troops to the battlefield. Now, whether they have the
will to fight remains to be seen. We haven't seen that.
We haven't seen Russia mass fires and fight in a
combined arms way that we do in our country, for example,

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and how we practice and how we train.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
But they don't. You're right, the bodies are just not there.

Speaker 14 (22:55):
In the Ukraine military, they still refuse to conscript some
of the younger people. And at this point they're trying
to have a country at the end of this, and
so that remains advantaged Russia. That will always remain advantaged Russia.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
Talking to my clients military analysts, we break down all
things going on globally when it comes to the military stuff,
and there's plenty of it. We moved from there to
Israel Hamas I've said this all along this, there's going
to be ebbs and flows, They're gonna be start stops.
There's going to be three steps forward, two steps back,
five steps forward, ten steps back, this was never going
to be easy, and last week it you know, within

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a few days it bubbled up again. And then you know,
Israel said, you guys, you blew up our bulldozer and
then come to find out that really wasn't true. And
you and I have talked about BB and them. Would
still I think, like to get this thing going forward,
But there's going to have to be people the Gulf
States participate in this before we can even decide if
this thing has a shot of working or not. It
can't just be okay, there's the paper, Okay, go right.

Speaker 14 (23:53):
I think Egypt is the indispensable nation at this point.
Phase two will mean a international secure force that's on
the ground inside of Gaza, that is keeping both sides separated.
We've got the deal in place for the seas fire,
but whether it holds or not remains to be seen.
Hamas needs to give up its governance, give up its weapons,

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its ministry positions and the like, and it's going to
take other countries to come in and reinforce this face too.
We know JD Vance and there's a group on the
way to the Middle East today to try to reinforce that.
But if it doesn't work out. Then all that really
has happened is a pause in the action as Israel.
As Trump has said that they will be decimated, Israel

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will continue to fight and continue to go after the
very last person.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
One of the things that's not brought up is you
have several militias inside of Gaza who don't like Hamas
that are fighting with Hamas, and you know that the
Israelis are totally fine with that. Before they lay down
their arms, they are going to need some sort of
peacekeeping group just because of not only the militias but
also the pirates and stuff like that that are going
to be out there trying to deal everything for their

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own good. What kind of force are they looking at
to try to slow that down and get control there.

Speaker 14 (25:08):
The only force that would have legitimacy would be some
kind of combined Arab state force, again led by Egyptians,
perhaps Jordanians, Saudi's others within the region, as the Israelis
would not be considered a legitimate force to do that.

Speaker 6 (25:22):
We don't want to send Americans there as well.

Speaker 14 (25:25):
It's a very difficult mission house to house, block to block,
similar to how it was being fought.

Speaker 6 (25:31):
You'd have to defend it the same way.

Speaker 14 (25:33):
So those international countries getting in there controlling the humanitarian
aid and the like, we know that will lead to
more things that we'll see, unfortunately, gangs going after individuals
that they think have helped the Israelis along the way.
So we're at the beginning a project plan that's got
a thousand steps. We're probably at step eight. So there's

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so many more things that have to happen, so many
more points on a critical path to see whether or
not this peace deal will hold.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Talking to my client's military analyst, all right, Columbia, Venezuela,
we're building up with Venezuela. I think we know something's coming.
What is it, I don't know. And now we're looking
at Columbia going all right, now, you guys are are
going to be a part of something. And this is
feeling very neo Connie in some ways, like we're reliving
some stuff from the sixties and seventies in South America.

Speaker 14 (26:21):
I'm concerned that Trump feels again the leverage he has
is just purely economic over Columbia. Columbia is the United
States is the number one trading partner for that country,
and we all know the amount of drugs that are
stationed there that come from there. The main cartels are
in Colombia, but we still have to have relations with Bogaton.

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I have to have relations with that country if we're
going to do anything at all from the narco terrorism
side of things. Trump is looking for a fight there,
and again he feels that leverage is coming from economic side.

Speaker 6 (26:53):
I think the is still a bridge too far.

Speaker 14 (26:57):
To think troops and marines are sol will do beach
landings there. I think there this is more or less
trying to impart that and that economic leverage on these
countries in order to get their houses in order to
help with the narco terrorism. But the amount of demand
that still happens in the United States for these drugs
will still make it beneficial for those cortels to continue

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to produce their products.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Mike, when you see the amount of troops that we have,
I mean, because it's it's now really grown there. Obviously
we think something's coming. And then you get Maduro even
last week said I'll give you guys whatever you want.
You want oil, you want, whatever rare minerals we have,
and Trump basically said, blanket, we don't care. I mean
that to me just says, Okay, who's running this situation?
Is it Marco Rubio or are there other people inside

(27:42):
this administration that are saying that we need to go
and take this guy out, because it's feeling like even
if they he surrenders today, they you know, and says,
all right, well, I'm not going to do anything else.
You guys, come and take the oil. They want him gone.

Speaker 14 (27:55):
It's not in our best interrist to do any kind
of regime change there. The CIA does not have a
great track record of doing this in Central America, in
particular South America, and obviously across the world. I don't
know where that is coming from. Maybe is coming from
Marco Rubio on the inside. But again I look through
this lens of leverage and Trump sits there and figures

(28:17):
that he can take this to a certain point where
he can get what he'll say is a deal. He'll
declare victory, and that will be something tangible. This is
how he views power, and this is how that power
shifts in that part of the world. It is a
high risk type proposition because if he's wrong and there
is upheaval there and we have regime change, and who

(28:38):
knows what the next person there looks like so it
is a situation that it is very tenuous. This administration
is claiming it's taking care of America first in our hemisphere,
but we're really picking a fight, i think, without any
real strategy of what's going to happen over the horizon.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
When you saw the Amerril go down there and then
he design, what'd you think about that? Because it was
it was almost like he went down there, he looked
around and said, all right, I feel like we're getting
into something we don't need to and I don't want
to be a part of this.

Speaker 14 (29:07):
Well, first and foremost, he resigns has the courage because
if he doesn't feel that the mission is important enough
and can't support it, he has the courage to do that.

Speaker 6 (29:15):
I think, frankly, a lot.

Speaker 14 (29:16):
Of military leaders in the past didn't do that, and
they were half engaged in their mission, and because of that,
the mission suffers, and so the troops know it, people
know it, and so I think that was a good
thing that he decided he couldn't support it, but it
should have happened. It could have happened for the past
twenty to twenty five years, go back to the eighties,
and the fact that you know, this isn't the first

(29:37):
time the American military hasn't been involved with the drug
interrediction problem. It did the same thing with Ronald Reagan
in the nineteen eighties, and maybe that's where Trump's getting
this playbook from.

Speaker 6 (29:46):
But it was much more under cover back then.

Speaker 14 (29:48):
But we sent our best and brightest military assets down
there to try to do the same thing.

Speaker 6 (29:54):
This is just more public. This is Pete Hegseth.

Speaker 14 (29:57):
Making sure it winds up on the front page of
paper when they make these attacks on these votes, for example.
So I'm glad that the General of the Addmorald felt
he couldn't do the mission, decided to retire.

Speaker 6 (30:08):
Good on him.

Speaker 14 (30:09):
Let's find somebody in there that wants to do that
mission that's going to take it forward.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
Right on. Mike Lion's best damn military analyst in the business, tried, Major.
We appreciate you coming on as always, man, you and
the man, and we'll do it again next week.

Speaker 8 (30:19):
Chat.

Speaker 6 (30:19):
Thanks very much, thanks for having me.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
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Deep States.

Speaker 1 (31:46):
No Deep doo doo eah The chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (31:53):
It's time. We're kind of down to number one. Scariest
movies of all time. This one is super scary, especially
for back in the day, and it spawned many, many,
many things. Let's get to it.

Speaker 4 (32:06):
The time has come, so prepare yourself for a journey
of fear from the darkest corner of cinema, the most
bone chilling tales ever told.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
It's the countdown you've been waiting for?

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Are you ready?

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Number nine? Number nine today dominates a day of the week, Friday,
and at number thirteen. The movie was incredible. It spawned
everything you could think of when it comes to the
modern slasher films. Made on a shoestring budget, five hundred
and fifty grand Sean Cunningham put this movie together and
it is awesome. And they counted down from one to thirteen.

(32:44):
The kills are amazing. And the interesting thing about the
first one is was it Jason that did this? Because
when we think of Friday at thirteen, we think of Jason.

Speaker 15 (32:57):
Hello, I'm doing on this miss.

Speaker 16 (33:03):
One, two, three, four, five, six.

Speaker 8 (33:17):
Seven, Can I help you alone?

Speaker 16 (33:21):
Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Friday the thirteenth.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Now, if you watch the movie, Jason doesn't appear in
the movie until the end. It was actually shot after
they had filmed the movie and thought we needed to
give a scary like atmosphere, kind of like the movie Carry.
So Tom Servini and Sean Cunningham went back and they
filmed Jason coming out of the water. Sean Cunningham, who
developed Jason and was the director, did all the stuff.

(33:56):
He said, Look, I went I saw Halloween, and it
was kind of a ripoff. But it was a different
kind of ripoff because this wasn't so much about a
shape as it was about a dude who we didn't
see until the second movie. People forget that if you've
never seen the movie. Spoiler alert, Jason's mom does all
the killing in the first movie. The movie itself, though,

(34:18):
spawned so much and as a kid growing up, the
cultural impact that Friday Thirteenth had in the subsequent movies afterwards.
In the Hockey Mask is incredible the amount of money
it made, and unfortunately there's too many damn lawsuits at
time to get this thing back off the floor, which
is what they're hoping to do because the announced they're

(34:38):
going to do another movie. But there was tons of
lawsuits tied up in this. Who got money, who didn't
get money, Everybody got a day rate, nobody got any
big money for this movie that went on to spawn
so many great things. There was no residuals, there was
none of that stuff, and instead who got paid the lawyers, which,
as we all know, is always a scary thing. But
there's no doubt when you think of horror movies, when

(34:59):
you think of sleep away camps and the camps themselves,
nothing brings that to your mind like Friday to thirteenth
and Jason Vorhees. But remember in the first movie, it's
not Jason but his mom that does all the killing.
Our number nine today, in our scary movie Countdown to Me,
one of the ultimates characters and one of the ultimate

(35:23):
icons of horror, even though oddly enough he's not in it.
It is Friday the thirteenth. If you any suggestions for
what movies you think we should watch, let us know.
Reach out to us across all of our social media.
Hit us up at three, two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four to twenty three right here on The Chad
Benson Show. Coming up, hour number two of the program,
we're going to talk a little bit about the government shutdown,

(35:45):
but also the effect that is coming November first, because
this is going to start getting people to pay think
more and more attention. Speaking of paying attention is travel
time at least when it comes to purchasing tickets and
getting ready for the holiday travels. Not even a Halloween yet,
we're already talking about travel time. But yeah, we're gonna
talk about that as well. Plus we've got some wacky,

(36:06):
wacky crazy stuff that will make you laugh because of
course we do. And of course your urban word today
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson show.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
The government is closed, but some of it's working. Which
parts the part where they're bulldozing certain areas of the
White House so Trump could build his ballroom. Not lying.

Speaker 17 (37:07):
Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White
House to make room for President Trump's new two hundred
and fifty million dollar ballroom. Bulldozers ripping away parts of
the East Wing, despite the president's earlier pledge that construction
would not impact the existing structure.

Speaker 2 (37:22):
What Trump said something that may not be true. He's
just going ahead with it. He don't care.

Speaker 17 (37:28):
The redesign has moved forward despite lacking approval from the
federal agency that oversees such projects. The White House says
no permit is needed for the demolition phase, only for
new construction. The official in charge of approvals, who was
appointed by Trump, agrees. A government website says a White
House inspection is scheduled today.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
He's very excited about it. Looks like Gaza is all destroyed,
but we're going to fix it, just like Gaza.

Speaker 17 (37:53):
The remodel has been met with criticism from some Democrats,
one senator writing quote, seeing the White House torn apart
is really implematic of the times. We're in the White House,
firing back, saying, quote, losers who are quick to criticize
need to stop their pro clutching and understand the building
needs to be modernized.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
Well that's true. I mean, let's let's be real. If
you've ever been to the White House, it is what
you have in your mind. If this is the White House,
is not really it's an old building, right, it's it's
not modernized. It isn't. It isn't that thing you pictured

(38:32):
in your mind, you think of like the greatest place,
a palace like no other.

Speaker 10 (38:36):
It's not.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
It's a house. It's got its quirks. It's I'll be honest.
I was more impressed with with the Winchester Mystery Mansion.
That had been interesting. If that would have been our
white House, the Winchester Mystery Mansion. People are showed up here.
What the hell's wrong with these people? Don't mess with
them because that must lead to something that we don't
know about. They've had renovations before. But it's just it

(38:58):
is not a the awe inspiring thing that it once was.
It used to be that kind of thing. It's not
because that's why it was built. When they built the
White House, it was going to be modern with a
bit of a palace feel, but not overwhelming, because the

(39:20):
thing was they wanted this to be the people's house, right.
This was a symbol of who we are, of legitimacy.
It was, you know, refine, and it was opulent, but
not to a point of craziness that you saw in
other palaces.

Speaker 8 (39:36):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
And now it just needs it does need it a
kick in the pants. It does need a lick of
paint here and a lick of paint there. Now do
I think maybe this is the best time to do
it where we're shut down. No, but Trump's gonna do
what Trump does. So there you go. I can't wait
for the ballroom. It's gonna be great at the ballroom,
the Trump Ballroom. You know they're gonna name it the
Trump Ballroom. There's gonna be all kinds of teas all

(39:59):
over that thing. You know it, You absolutely know it. Meanwhile,
we're still in the midst of a government shutdown for
those of you not keeping score, and that in changing
anytime soon. So what's next.

Speaker 7 (40:14):
The first date to look at on the calendar is
November first, and that date is important because that is
when open enrollment begins on these healthcare marketplaces, the Obamacare
marketplaces in the States. And that is important because this
whole shutdown fight started when Democrats demanded Republicans act to
preserve expiring subsidies, subsidies that help make health insurance more

(40:38):
affordable for people buying healthcare on these marketplaces.

Speaker 2 (40:42):
And it's never affordable. And remember, you're not buying healthcare,
You're buying a card that gives you access to somebody
who may be a healthcare provider. So let's go over that.
There's a difference. You're not buying healthcare, you're buying access
through a card to somebody who may help you win needed.

(41:05):
This is really interesting, so our buddy Jim Kennedy send
this to me. This is the entire Obombacare premium increase
paid by the tax payers. Now, COVID credits further shifted
the cost from enrollees to taxpayers. So premiums increase from
twenty thirteen and fourteen, So this was the increase from
that was forty seven percent of the original Bombacare effect.

(41:26):
The increase from twenty fourteen to now is five four
hundred and sixteen dollars the taxpayer share of that was
forty eight ninety one, or ninety percent of the cost
is being borne by the taxpayer, which I don't want.

(41:48):
I don't think you want. At the same time, you
can't see everybody lose their healthcare because that's not a
win either, and you can't just say we'll fix it later.
We just wanted to show everybody how bad Obamacare is.
That isn't going to work either, So it's the where
is the people who are willing to honestly take this

(42:10):
thing on. I don't know. We talked about it yesterday.
I think the model that the Swiss and the Dutch
have and their happiness with their healthcare is a model
that we should be looking to emulate, which is kind
of a hybrid model where everybody's enrolled and you're all

(42:34):
going to get the basics, and then through your companies
and through purchasing on the private side of things, you'll
have a chance to get other care if you want it,
but that would be up to you. But when you
look at this, I mean, the cost is insane, is

(42:56):
absolutely insane, and it's not going to change anytime soon.
November first is also a big deal because of snap Now,
people were already bracing for the work requirements for some
of these things, but now with the shutdown, there could
be a delay in snap benefits across the board. Some
people are already feeling stuff because the work requirements are

(43:18):
out there. This lady, she's not happy.

Speaker 18 (43:22):
I went from having eleven hundred dollars a EBT every month,
and that was just with foul.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Children, to zero.

Speaker 18 (43:30):
Now, how the fool am I gonna feed my children?
Was the first thing that came to my mind. Then
my inner voice was like, girl, you've been feeding children
with or without food stamps before you got food stamps,
so you could still do it. Like I told you,
I was gonna take you to a food bank with me.
When I tell y'all, I just left a community event,
I'm about to go to another one. I came home

(43:50):
to take a break because baby.

Speaker 8 (43:51):
It's hot out dere.

Speaker 18 (43:52):
I told my children to google some food banks that
may be open or maybe open next week, you know,
so I can take y'all with me. When I tell you,
they googled it and they was taking me there. They
was GPS to me. Tell me why I pulled up
at the food bank in with no food bank, So
y'all gotta be careful what the GPS take you out.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Now she is funny with her children, but not to
poke fun at her, to listen to the fact that
she's come to the realization. All right, I gotta I
gotta figure something out here because this stuff isn't going
to be coming in, and potentially when it does come back,
it's not gonna be what it once was. So I've
got to pivot and to figure something else out. And

(44:34):
she figures out, Oh my god, there's all kinds of
places I can go.

Speaker 18 (44:37):
They'll help me, because I went to the full bank
and it was nothing there but abandoned building on the
other side. But what the pen where the full bank
is supposed to be. It it looked like what Pennywise
live at. Wasn't a church that said she's funny. It
wasn't a building, wasn't a house. It was a tunnel

(44:58):
with trees and stuff. Will I just knew I was
about to bring me a box of food on the day.
But I promise you them cheer and get a meal
every night, whether it's a lonely sandwich, some noodles. Y'all
aint like y'all know how to make it scruggle meals?
Do I need to start a series on how to
make a scruggle meal? I think I'll do that.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
I'm not quite sure where the scruggle meal is? Is
it a struggle meal? Continue?

Speaker 18 (45:25):
Ma'am aw books, y'all say tuned, cause I'm gonna show
you goa the event we went to earlier, and I'm
gonna show you'all the one we're going to tonight. And
all I did was google events is going on in
this state today's day? And they popped up. They had
a clothes drive and they also had the trick or trunk.
It was so hot out there. After they trick or trunk,
I had these bathroom The building was closed, so I
didn't go to the clothes drive. And when y'all go

(45:46):
to them clothes drives next, y'all watch them clothes. It's
just like good Will also Salvation Army. We'll give you
vouchers for clothes if you need clothes, so check with
your local Salvation Army.

Speaker 2 (45:57):
She's very funny, but the this is what I wanted
to get to because behind the humor and stuff, she's realizing, Hey,
you know what, I gotta do something different and I'm
going to when.

Speaker 18 (46:09):
I come back later, I will post all the Greenville,
South Carolina resources because it's all I know that's home
for me. So if you're in Greenville, South Carolina and
you need help, make sure you tune in tonight. Maybe
I got a boohool list of stuff the miracle. He'll
give you furniture for your house if you don't have it.

Speaker 8 (46:27):
They give you food, they give you clothes, vouchers.

Speaker 18 (46:30):
There's no way anyone should be home or without anything
with all the resources is out here, babe, we just
got to find them and put that pride to the side.

Speaker 2 (46:39):
We all struggling.

Speaker 18 (46:40):
Everybody need help in some kind of way.

Speaker 2 (46:42):
I'll tell you what. She went from pissed off to
walk through, Hey, I got to figure this out. I'm
gonna and because of kind people, because of good people
who give. That's amazing it is. But she realized, Okay,
I'm nobody's coming to rescue me. I better figure this out.
I've fed my kids before I can do it again.

(47:04):
I can't. There's a lot of people out there, though,
that are struggling, and this is going to get worse
before it gets better. And so both sides though are jockeying,
not about the worse. I don't think they care, but
now they care more about who's going to get blamed
for it when it comes to politics, not how it

(47:24):
affects you. But am I the one that's in trouble?
Oh I'm not well? Then that's fine? Three, two, three, five, three, eight,
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saw it last night. I don't know how real it is,
but TMZ has it, which makes me go, uh, oh,

(47:45):
Trump's considering commuting Diddy sentence could be as early as
this week. Now, how real is that? Again? If it
was Anyboddy, but TMZ, I would think, Eh, there's two
The Hindus still stay in Times and TMZ for whatever reason,
they're both absolutely into the news and they get it first.

(48:10):
And when I see it, I'm like, I could take
this seriously. Ah, it's a possibility, And people are telling
Trump don't do it, but I'll tell you what it
He might And as one of the people said, who's
imploring him on the White House staff saying don't do it?
He said at the end of the day, Trump's gonna
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Speaker 1 (49:49):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Man. We're not even at Halloween and we're already talking
about travel for the holidays. It comes fast, doesn't it. Now,
here's the thing we'd like to make sure that you're
taking care of when it comes to making sure when
you book your flights, things of that nature. How we feeling,
Is it time to start thinking about jumping on those.

Speaker 19 (50:11):
We're in the perfect sweet spot time. So you want
to have all your flights for the holiday's booked at
the latest buy around Halloween. You have a little bit
more time if you're booking for Christmas. But I would
really be tracking prices now and if you see a deal,
jump on it now.

Speaker 2 (50:24):
That's if, of course, we have many air traffic controllers
you never know. I'm not trying to be mean. I'm
just being honest. There. I mean, I heard Mike Johnson
say we could go to Thanksgiving. I would like to
think we wouldn't. But at that point in time you
may have to. They may have to google what's going
on in the air at that point in time.

Speaker 19 (50:45):
If you fly on the holiday, if you fly on
a Tuesday or Wednesday, sometimes you'll see cheaper prices. Also,
check those early morning flights. But when you book what
time of day, If you wait till midnight on Tuesday,
that's total trash, not true. Don't worry about it. Just
monitor prices with something like Google Flights Tracker.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
There you go see speaking of Google chie, what do
you mean google it? Well, I mean if there's no
air traffic controllers, they're gonna have to go on that
flight thing when they fly around themselves and go all right,
here's the deal. Uh what runway are we gonna go?
We're gonna go seven. Are we good with that? Is
anybody else?

Speaker 1 (51:16):
Ut?

Speaker 2 (51:16):
We get some spotters out there looking going all right,
I say it, We're good. You should be able to
land here. No, they've got to be back by then.
You don't know now. One of the things though, this
travel extuer was asked about fuel. Will fuel being down
across the board lessen the blow to your wallet when

(51:36):
it comes to travel, especially flight.

Speaker 19 (51:38):
Not this year, but maybe for next year. It's a
lagging indicator, so the airlines don't really take that current
price into account and ticket prices. But if the prices
stay low, which is great news for a long period
of time, you could see cheaper airfare next year.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
But what about this year? And of course fuel being
where it's at now, gas sitting pretty across the there's
no doubt about that. Less of course you're in California
or Hawaii. But still those are taxes and other silly
things that they put on those things.

Speaker 19 (52:07):
I think we're about at the bottom right now, because
you'll start to see an uptick as more and more
people start planning their trips home to drive for the holidays,
so you will see an increase in demand that increases prices.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
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(52:40):
already offered you can come take all the oil you want.
And they're like, nah, because they want you gone, bro.
That's why it doesn't matter that you've offered everything. Meanwhile,
what's going on on the lover? Was it an inside job?
What kind of job was it? Do we have any
information anything new? Where are the jewels?

Speaker 20 (53:02):
About eighty nine or ninety percent of Wall museum hes
have some sort of insider component to them. That doesn't
mean to say that this was an inside job that
was done by you know, someone at the loop, but
we also have found it about ninety percent of the
time there is some insider component, and it might not
be you know, something is done on purpose. It could

(53:22):
be that someone mentioned something at a t shop or
you know, at a cafe and it's overheard.

Speaker 2 (53:29):
Oh oh oh, Robert Whitman there talking about the the
insider job. Yes, no, maybe you said something potentially somebody
heard it and they're like, uh, I've seen so many
people say planned by amateurs. But efficient is probably the
best way to describe it. Planned by amateurs, but the

(53:52):
way they ran it was efficient.

Speaker 20 (53:55):
Throughout my career, I recovered three hundred million dollars where
they're stolen art and cultural property. The most important thing
was recovering the art because ultimately that's what people are
really looking at one hundred years from now. It's not
who stole it when, it's more important about getting it
back for future generations.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
We'll find out if they do. You're missing the show
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Benson Show, then.

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Speaker 2 (54:44):
China, which we don't trust. Yesterday, Australia in town and
the Battle of rare Earth sound like a band Ladies
and Gentlemen rarer No, the Battle of Rare Earth is
happening and China has the upper hand to deal with Australia, Katayda,
it'll be fantastic. The reality, though, is as quickly as

(55:05):
we sign this deal, this is going to take time.
Europe is going to sign as well because China is
trying to dominate the globe. They're not interested in being
pals of friends. No matter what anybody says.

Speaker 11 (55:14):
China is the world's largest producer of those minerals. And
right now, they are of course very significant trade tensions
between the Trump administration and China, and those rare earths
are a big part of those tensions.

Speaker 1 (55:27):
So they're looking for Australia to.

Speaker 11 (55:29):
Potentially step in and become a big exporter.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Of this, which would be phenomenal, except that takes time. See,
at the end of the day, these things take time.
It's not a snap of the finger. It is something
that is going to take time for us to put
into effect. And China is going to do what China
wants to do, which is dominate everything. They use the

(55:52):
Belton Road initiative to get into places everywhere on the
globe to dominate, and they just handed money out. And
so because of that, we didn't take the opportunity to
do some of the things we should have done. And
we've talked about this at nauseum. When it comes to

(56:13):
the way that we went after the tariffs in the battle,
I think Trump was very willy nilli ind. I think
he didn't come at this in a way that he
should have come at it. And it's funny because you
say that it was like, well, you don't know anything,
You're an idiot. Okay, that's fine. How are things going?
Are we just? Are we rocking or rolling? We've got
all these deals? Do we have all these deals? All

(56:33):
these deals mean very little if nothing is happening. And
one of the big things is the battle that China's
decided to embark on, and they have their problems. Is
one to screw you, I don't care. We finally have
enough of this to make a dent in your world,
and we will not capitulate or bow down. You want

(56:54):
to think they will. We want to think we have
the upper hand. But when it comes to and by
the way, when it comes to I'm gonna go over
this again. They got a lot of stuff in the
rare Earth world and we use it for everything. Let's
roll through this again on your market set smartphones, tablets,
electric and hybrid vehicles, ooh, flatscreen TVs, monitors and LEDs, headphones, earbus,

(57:19):
audio equipment, wind turbines and green energy laptops, hard drives,
data service, lighting, LEDs, CFLs, consumer appliances, gaming consoles, VR equipment, defense,
and aerospace, just to name a few. So this battle
that's going on is real and China is not backing down.

Speaker 21 (57:41):
He is certainly looking at the US Australia relationship as
a counter to China, and he is looking to get
the United States away from relying on China for those
rare earth minerals which are so critical for electronics, for semiconductors.
And he talked there at length about the trade tension
right now with China, saying that the Chinese are using

(58:03):
those rare earths against the United States.

Speaker 11 (58:06):
But he can use tariffs in reverse.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Don't trust China, correct sir, correct? Can he use in reverse? Well,
you know, he talked about, Oh, we're going to have
all of these these huge, massive tariffs on China if
they're not going to play bowl. Well, those tariffs, as

(58:32):
I remind everybody, those tariffs are tariffs on the American
people and the consumer.

Speaker 10 (58:38):
We have a tremendous power and that's the power of tariff.
And I think that China will come to the table
and make a very fair deal, because if they don't,
they're going to be paying US one hundred and fifty
seven percent in tariffs.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
I want to go over this again for everybody who's
a little slow, no matter how many times you say it,
mister President, that's not that's true. They're not paying us billions.
They're paying us virtually nothing in tariffs. We the consumer,
the importer are the ones that are paying the tariffs.
Ninety plus percent of all costs through Chinese consumer goods

(59:19):
have been paid by importers, which are passed on to consumers,
not the Chinese exporters. So I just want to reiterate.
You can say tariffs all you want, and the goal,
I guess was to make it so we don't buy
their goods and then they'll manufacture it here. Let me
tell you why that's not gonna work because the stuff

(59:42):
that we buy is usually disposable goods. Okay, vast majority
of them consumer goods, disposable goods. So we're not going
to set up a giant factory to build socks and
T shirts. That isn't going to happen. So what then, Well,
anybody who's going to build a factory here wants to

(01:00:04):
know that those tariffs are going to continue to stay on,
because why would I build a factory that may take two, three, four,
five years before it's ever up and running, no matter
what I'm doing, only for the next person to come
in and decide, you know what I'm done with tariffs,
and all of a sudden, I built this massive factory
and it's going to sit heer empty because I'm no
longer competitive. We decided to be a consumer based country

(01:00:25):
and export not goods like we used to, but we
export services and people. And if you don't think that's
something big, travel, it's one of the things we export.
In fact, it's our number one export. Financial and business services,

(01:00:45):
intellectual property royalties, things of that nature. Things we create
over here and we license them out it and computer services,
transportation to the tune of about a trillion dollars a
year of exports in services, and we a surplus every
year on that. But cheap goods. We're not building stuff

(01:01:06):
for cheap goods, So what you're gonna do is you'ren't
gonna make it. So people just aren't gonna get those things.
And maybe they turn the stuff here, maybe they do,
but in many cases they're just not gonna get those things.
It's not that we don't want stuff made in the USA,
it's just not who we are. That's not what we

(01:01:28):
are anymore, and that angers some people. But China decided
that's who they were gonna be. And now they're growing
in other ways, and this is a trade war, and
they had the upper hand and still do when it
comes to rare earth. And even though we sign this
deal with Australia, it's not everything close to what China has,

(01:01:49):
and China already has infrastructure in place in certain areas
that's gonna take time for us to build up to
you seem down. No, I'm just being honest, right. We
like honesty. It's what we value here in the Chad
Benson Show. All right, honesty doesn't mean that I don't
want us to win and beat China. Of course I do, deey.

(01:02:11):
That being said, I don't want to be lied to
and stop saying that, Oh, well, you know who's gonna
pay that China? They're not. They're not paying that. We
move from there to the National Guard. So the national
Guard going into Portland. Oh, how exciting is that? Tina
cotex governor. I still urge the Trump should there really

(01:02:31):
be a governor called Tina? That feels like something that
shouldn't happen. She she's a lovely woman, but Tina just
not trying to be mean.

Speaker 5 (01:02:45):
I still urge the Trump administration to send all the
National Guard members home, both the Oregon National Guard and
the California National Guard.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
Okay, let me call him really quick. No, he said, no.
What about the Supreme Court? What are they saying?

Speaker 22 (01:03:02):
I think that it is very likely that the United
States Supreme Court will side the same way that the
Ninth Circuit did in Portland, and they will say that
Congress gave the President the power to decide this, and
it cannot be the role of judges to second guess
his decision on what the facts mean in terms of
whether he is able to enforce federal law, which is

(01:03:25):
what Congress told the president he had to make the
decision based on the Judges don't get to decide whether
the president is able to enforce federal law.

Speaker 2 (01:03:32):
No, they don't. They don't get to decide that. And Congress,
they've already given up so much of their power over
the years, so this isn't a shocker.

Speaker 23 (01:03:40):
Does a judge get to look at the facts and say,
what is a reasonable determination or is it just up
to the president to decide whether the city needs the
National Guard and whether he is unable to enforce federal
law in these cities.

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
And I go back to and I'll continue to do
this over and over again. Okay, so is it crime
or are you protecting ice? This is what I want
to know. Is this crime? Because no, on crime, I
don't want the the National Guard anywhere handling crime, as

(01:04:21):
bad as it may be in some areas. This goes
back to elections have consequences, and so you've got to
figure out how you guys are going to fix this issue.
And no, I don't want guys rolling around in you
in Camo on the streets. I don't think that's a
good thing. If it's to protect ice at a time
where tensions are high and we've seen Dallas and stuff. Okay,

(01:04:45):
that's a different story. But the crime side of it, No,
I've not been a big fan, but I think with
Trump and the way that he has this Supreme Court
set up that yeah, he's going to win a vast
majority of these not all of them, but I think
a vast majority of them. And Congress set it up

(01:05:05):
so he had the right to make that decision, and
so while lawsuits may slow it down in some areas,
he's going to win a vast majority of these. He is.
And the funny thing is, as much as I am
against the deployment of National Guard for law enforcement. The

(01:05:31):
reality when you look at the numbers, most people look
at the Democrats and say, you guys fail when it
comes to dealing with crime. You've decided to have a
not just as soft on crime at times almost I'm
going to ignore it and or make an excuse on crime.
And in doing so, you've allowed your cities in certain

(01:05:54):
areas to become cesspools. So even people that are I'm
about the cost institution, but I look and see what's
going on in Chicago or Portland or somewhere like that
and say, you got to get in what you get
you are, So we'll see. We're going to see how
this plays itself out and how long it lasts too,
because remember everything will only last as long as the

(01:06:17):
political cycle that any administration benefits from it. And once
that is we're bored with it, we're moving on, and
then it'll dissipate. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty
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They're going to put you in some that's going to
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(01:08:06):
know who's playing in the World Series Baseball Super Duper Championship.
Talk about that as well. This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:08:20):
Welcome to Chess che No, not the country, the institution,
the Chad Vnson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
We got a World Series and it's a battle of
countries Canada America. Who will win? I know who win?
The Dawyers and I hope.

Speaker 24 (01:08:38):
So the.

Speaker 2 (01:08:43):
Rough field, our roadside.

Speaker 13 (01:08:46):
What is it go?

Speaker 2 (01:08:52):
Last night? Down three to one spring your Canada bat
hits a home run in Toronto, ah sending the Blue
Jays to the World Series Big Game seven. Win last
night for them over the Mariners. So you have the
Doyers and the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays will host
Game one of the World Series on Friday in Canada.

(01:09:13):
Let's call Doyers. You know, yesterday I said that what
Shoheo Tani did on Friday was the best performance ever
in the history of baseball and that he's the greatest
player in the history of baseball. And the pushback by
some people, older people. First of all, you're paying attention to baseball. Secondly,

(01:09:36):
all right, Babe, Ruth, we can all admire him. He
never did anything that show Hay did, never, not to
the level that show Hay has done it, not even close.
He pitched at a time when he didn't play against
an integrated league, right, so there was no brothers there.
There was also no Japanese players, no Dominican players, no
Cuban players, and a fastball like eighty miles an hour,

(01:10:02):
you know, and Lefty Smith is on the mountain. He's
only picks nine hundred and sixty five straight innings. It's
like a little dead arm, right, So it is not
the same. Now. It's not to say that if given
the opportunity, Babe couldn't have gone on and done amazing things,
because he absolutely revolutionized the game but the anger that
some people had as if I had taken away there. Oh,
and then that got from Pete Raw. He's nowhere near

(01:10:23):
what Pete Rose is. He blows Pete Rose out of
the water. He blows Peter Rose out of the water.
Bye bye, that's how far he blows Pete out of
the water. No offence to Pete. Charlie hustle, but still
nothing compared to Sho heo TONI just otherworldly. Which brings

(01:10:44):
us to today. Now it's time for the urban word
of the day. The young have a vocabulary all their own,
and we break it down for you. It's called the
urban word of the day, which, by the way, has
nothing to do with baseball. I just thought i'd throw
that in there. Big yikes. It's your urban word of

(01:11:06):
the day, Big yikes. Can I use it in a sentence? Yeah,
I'm gonna use it in a sentence. I'm gonna use
it in something that's going on now. Paul and Gracia,
President Trump's nominee to head the Office of Special Council,
said on a GOP text chain last year he's got
a Nazi streak in him from time to time, and

(01:11:28):
he admits that the Martin Luther King Junior holiday should
be tossed into the seventh circle of Hell. Big yikes
that you said that in front of anybody. Not a
good thing there. That is your urban word of the day.
That was the urban word of the day. Now you know,

(01:11:49):
I'm always curious. Did you think that was a good
idea on a text change? It wasn't even your buddy
where you just said something stupid and inappropriate. I'm sure
everybody's done that. I'll hold my hand up. We all have,
but on a chain where there are many people. And
by the way, I am not and nor will I
ever be put in charge of anything, let alone the

(01:12:10):
Office of Special Council. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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We're going to talk about the cyber outage yesterday. Was
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We're also going to talk about Venezuela, Colombia, Israel, Hamas

(01:12:32):
and of course Ukraine, all the things that are going
on over there. We've got more on the government shutdown.
We got our number nine scary movie countdown as well,
plus the latest from the White House. How's the renovation going.
We're building a ballroom. What does that look like? And
when will it be done? And what are we serving

(01:12:52):
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Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
The government still shut down? When will it reopen? Good question?
Could we be looking at after Thanksgiving? Which I saw
some and I'm like, no, is it possible? Of course,
it's possible. Anything in today's modern politics is absolutely one
percent possible, because we live at a time now where

(01:13:57):
it's about the show more than it is about all
the other stuff.

Speaker 24 (01:14:01):
Time is running out. Obamacare open enrollment starts November first,
less than two weeks away. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries telling.

Speaker 15 (01:14:10):
Me by that point, tens of millions of people across
the country will realize that their health insurance premiums copays
and deductibles have skyrocketed.

Speaker 24 (01:14:21):
Republicans refusing to negotiate on healthcare while the government is
shut down.

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
Now, let's look at the ACA. So the ACA comes in,
that is the Affordable Care at aka Obamacare. So COVID
credits shifted more of the costs from rolling taxpayers. We
understood that. Okay, the COVID credits came in in twenty
one and they're still there. Now get ready for this.

(01:14:50):
So in twenty thirteen, when it kicked off twenty fourteen,
forty seven percent was the cost of the taxpayer in
the subsidies that we were paying. Forty seven percent. Then
it jumped in fourteen to sixty eight percent, and then

(01:15:13):
it's continually steadily moved up minus twenty nineteen into twenty twenty,
where it came down a little bit. Then COVID hit
and it jumped huge, came back down, and then steadily
has been on a climb. In fact currently and again
there are caveats to this. You're looking anywhere between sixteen

(01:15:33):
and eighty percent, maybe a little bit higher in some
areas that are eaten up by the taxpayer. That is
quite a growth from forty seven percent, especially in some
areas where it's since COVID came is way higher. So
we have to be real about this, right, We don't

(01:15:55):
want the taxpayer eating up everything. At the same time,
if you've got nothing else and you're just like, we're
not going to negotiate, there's nothing we're going to do,
so just deal with it. We are a society that
is checkbook based when it comes to our voting, and
if we feel that you've wronged us, that things have

(01:16:17):
gotten expensive under you, the things have gotten unaffordable under you,
that you are the problem, we will make a switch.
That's when I try to talk to people about this
and try to get them to understand it's whether it
is the things like tariffs perfect example. Well, yeah, in

(01:16:41):
the long run, tariffs may be better because we will
shift manufacturing to either places that we are much more
aligned with, or we'll move some of it back here.
The problem is, I said the word long run. Politicians

(01:17:01):
don't think long run. Politicians think day to day, week
to week, month to month, election to election. Trump doesn't
have several years to find out if the tariffs work,
and the same thing goes for this, the Republicans can
sit there, am I a big fan of I'm not

(01:17:21):
a big fan of government being involved at all in
what we're doing when it comes to our insurance. We
talked about it yesterday. You can draw a parallel from
when they got into the business of insurance, the government
started overregulating and becoming a part of it, and then
the just massive, just straight line up in the cost

(01:17:43):
to the same thing that happened when they got involved
in college and decided to guarantee everything, and the costs
went through the roof. So so many things to think
about here, but long run isn't one of them. And
if twenty two million Americans face a three to five

(01:18:06):
hundred to one thousand dollars jump in their premiums at
a time when they're barely getting buy so you could
say we just wanted to show everybody that Obamacare didn't work,
and you don't have an alternative to try to fix
it outside of saying, well, we'll just slip the free market.
The problem with the free market is there is no
free market when it comes to this. Fifty states doing

(01:18:29):
their own things, and people will say, well, why don't
you just let them sell across state lines. They can't.
They can sell across state lines. Now they don't because
this state over here, they've got the way they're doing things,
they've got the regulations over here. Our state has the
way we do things. We have our own regulations. Nobody's
taking anybody up on it. So that's the issue. The

(01:18:56):
issue is government. You got into it, you broke it,
and now you think making sure that everybody knows how
broken it is is going to fix it. That is
not a fix. That is a disaster, no doubt about that.
Then you move from there to other things that the
government and the shutdown are going to cause some serious

(01:19:19):
issues with.

Speaker 9 (01:19:21):
The officials are warning time is running out for critical programs. SNAP,
often called food assistance, which serves more than forty million Americans,
is set to dry up in most states by the
end of this month.

Speaker 2 (01:19:34):
Now why is that important Because more and more people
are already seeing their SNAP benefits change and then they're
starting to realize they may not be there at all.
And I want you to listen to this one. We
played her last hour and this is not to make
fun of her, because it starts out kind of First
of all, she is funny, and it starts out kind
of funny. But where she goes with this, I find

(01:19:54):
to be admirable.

Speaker 18 (01:19:55):
I went from having eleven hundred dollars EBT every month,
and that was just with four children, to zero. Now,
how the fool am I gonna feed my children? Was
the first thing that came to my mind. Then my
inner voice was like, girl, you been feeding these children
with or without food stamps before you got food stamps,

(01:20:16):
so you could still do it. Like I told you,
I was gonna take y'all to a food bank with me.
When I tell y'all, I just left a community event,
I'm about to go to another one. I came home
to take a break because maybe it's hot out there.
I told my children to google some food banks that
may be open or maybe open next week, you know,
so I can take y'all with me. When I tell you,

(01:20:37):
they googled it and they was taking me there.

Speaker 2 (01:20:39):
They was GPS to me.

Speaker 18 (01:20:40):
Tell me why I pulled up at the food bank
and with no food bank, So y'all gotta be careful.

Speaker 6 (01:20:44):
What a GPS take y'all.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
And she's hilarious. She walks you through the whole thing.
But then she does something, well, she starts to realize, Okay,
you know, what. I've done this before, I fed make
its before. I gotta do this again.

Speaker 18 (01:20:58):
But I promise you them cheering get a meal every night.
Well there it's a lonely sandwich, some noodles, y'all like,
y'all know how to make it scruggle meals? Do I
need to start a series on how to make a
scruggle meal?

Speaker 8 (01:21:11):
May God do that?

Speaker 2 (01:21:12):
Maybe? I I is it a struggle meal or a
struggle meal? I wasn't sure, but maybe maybe you should
for you know, just for the audience out there. But
then she talks about where she lives and the help
that's available. She realizes help isn't coming. Okay, it's not coming,
So I got to do this myself. Luckily, there are

(01:21:34):
great people out there that do help, and we'll put
people in positions of opportunity to better themselves, which I
think is amazing.

Speaker 18 (01:21:44):
When I come back later, I will post all the Greenville,
South Carolina resources because it's all I know that's home
for me. So if you're in Greenville, South Carolina and
you need help, make sure you tune in tonight.

Speaker 2 (01:21:57):
Maybe I got a boohool.

Speaker 18 (01:21:58):
List of stuff the miracle you'll give you furniture for
your house if you don't have it, they give you food,
they give you clothes, vouchers. There's no way anyone should
be homery or without anything with all the resources is
out here.

Speaker 8 (01:22:11):
Maybe we just.

Speaker 18 (01:22:12):
Got to find them and put their pride.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
To the side. We all struggling.

Speaker 18 (01:22:15):
Everybody need help in some kind of way.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
How about that started out with I normally am getting this.
Now I'm not getting any of that. It's the reality
of what's going on, and this battle is not going anywhere,
and there are going to be people out there who
are going to find out in the coming days. Not
only is it not coming, but in many cases it

(01:22:39):
may not be coming back. So how do you do it?
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps, that's one way to
do it, but also know there are people out there
to help. And I just thought that was fascinating watching
her because she did start out And by the way,
there's some stuff in it that is hilarious when she
talks about where she went the first time to try
to find food, and she's pretty sure it's where Pennywise lives,
which I thought was hilarious. But just again, this is

(01:23:02):
what's coming. High cost of living. You're going to see
a huge jump in premiums. On top of all of that,
people who realized this snap may not be here and
may not be coming back in the way that they're
used to three two, three, five, three, twenty four to
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That's Amazon Web Services and it cause chaos, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (01:23:34):
Amazon blames the initial outage on a Domain name service.
This is a technology that basically takes human language what
you or I would type into a web browser where
that be Facebook dot com, Abcnews dot com, and translates
that into something that a computer could understand, an IP address. Now,
Amazon does say that they were able to patch that
initial issue, but starting to see some additional issues crop

(01:23:57):
up throughout the day, kind of a domino effect. One
thing goes wrong and it breaks a variety of other systems.

Speaker 2 (01:24:03):
And the question is was it the Chinese or was
it not? Was it them? Every day they're trying to
do something, But it showed us how vulnerable we are.
And we're gonna talk to Mike Liones or military analysts
coming up at the bottom of the hour as everybody
talks about Israel and Hamas, Ukraine and Russia and Colombia

(01:24:25):
and Venezuela, all things that we need to talk about.
Yesterday was a tiny, itty bitty sliver of something that
caused a domino effect that was a nightmare for a
lot of us. So something to think about for sure.
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Speaker 1 (01:26:29):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

Speaker 25 (01:26:37):
James Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sero.

Speaker 17 (01:26:56):
What trupping?

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
That's fine. It was of the old internet. On this
beautiful Tuesday. We'll start over in the Yahoo world. Donald Trump,
this meeting yesterday with the Prime Minister of Australia. Major
League Baseball playoffs. We have a world series. I repeat,

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we have a world series set up. It is American
versus Canada, NFL Power Rankings Comy. Yes, he's trending Snap.
What happens was Snap? People talked about that because you know,

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with the government being shut down, what will happen with Snap?
What's open? What's not open? Who gets paid? Who doesn't
get paid? Over to Google? Then were training thing. It's
football baby Seahawks, Bocks, Lions Aws. We've talked about that
throughout the day. George Springer. Then more training thing. The
last ten hours home run last night seventh inn put

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the Toronto Blue Jay's ahead. They went on to win
the game. They will take on the Doyers, the Doyers
Bucks government shutdown. Mike evans Man I saw that, I
thought he was out cold. I was like, it does
not look good when he fell does not look good.
And it's one of those things where if you saw

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the hit, it's not the hit. It was the going
down to the ground and the head hitting the ground
that caused him to look completely unconscious. Over to X
Keith Poinkin no kings US gas price is full Brexit Trump,

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c J. Stroud Sney Takichi. She is very conservative, ultra conservative.
She is the Prime Minister now of Japan. Three two, three, five,
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And she is not a fan of some of the
stuff that the former Prime minister promised. Trump Gibbs hell
of a game last night Astros Aws, which of course
was big Nightmary yesterday. Those were all the thanks trending
in the magical world of X as well. And I
will tell you, I mean, the AWS thing was an

(01:29:31):
absolute if you're not paying attention, shows you how easy
things can go sideways here for us.

Speaker 3 (01:29:38):
From what we understand, more than a third of the
global cloud computing market goes back to Amazon Web Services again,
the service that saw this major outage today. Another third
of that is accounted for by just two companies, Google
and Microsoft. So we've really centralized a lot of power
in the hands of just a few companies.

Speaker 2 (01:29:58):
And think about this for a second. If if this
was a situation where it was a cyber attack, they
whoever they would be, probably China, Russia. They've spun everything
upside down for us because we do not handle stuff
like this well. We're used to convenience, we are used
to ease, and if stuff that we like goes.

Speaker 3 (01:30:20):
Away Starbucks and McDonald's, roadblocks and Fortnite, this really cuts
a huge cross section of the Internet down.

Speaker 2 (01:30:28):
We will throw a fit. And it was a Nightmary yesterday.
There was no doubt about that for a lot of people.
In fact, last night we were going to do a video.
We didn't end up doing it until later because the
restream still was having troubles with AWS late into the night,
so we ended up doing a much later than we
wanted to in our stream three two, three, five, twenty
four to twenty three at jet VNSA shows your extra
insta YouTube and more coming up. My clients, military analysts,

(01:30:50):
We're going to discuss it all Venezuela, UKRAIND, Russia and
of course what's going on in Israel. Technicity show Brad
the podcast. This is the Jet Benson.

Speaker 13 (01:30:57):
Show, Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
That's time of the week. Talk to our guy, tired
major in the Army and the best damn military analyst,
period case clothes. He's all dressed up today because he's
doing a whole bunch of TV. But it took some
time for us. Mike Lions joins the program. Mike, before
we jump into the military side of stuff with the
you know, the violence and the hardware and whatnot. Yesterday
we had outages with the web services of Amazon, but

(01:31:44):
it did get a lot of people thinking if China
or Russia was to come hard at us through our
really bad infrastructure. When it comes to our internet, Man,
that's a scary thing because the world, and you and
I've talked about this AI is a huge part of
what the military's going The world of information is going
to become as important as winning the air war at

(01:32:06):
the beginning.

Speaker 14 (01:32:07):
Chad, no question in the information space is the battlesone
already frankly, and I think we are kicking the can
down the road when it comes to trying to deal
with it. That outage yesterday never should have happened. I mean,
you know, Amazon has had these kinds of averages before,
but it impacted everything from airlines to social media to

(01:32:28):
way people get food. And so while we think that
there's resiliency within our let's say grid structure of how
we get electricity and water and built those basic needs
of the Internet has become just so ubiquous with regards
to our lives, and perhaps we've relied on that that's
been outsourced to these commercial venues that we really don't

(01:32:49):
know what's going on there.

Speaker 6 (01:32:50):
So that was maybe a little bit of a warning sign.

Speaker 14 (01:32:53):
We don't know what else you could happen over the road,
but look at Hollywood and the movies they made, and
it's you can imagine some pretty horrific conditions if we
don't create more resiliency, at least on the commercial side
of the Internet.

Speaker 2 (01:33:05):
Let's go from there to Ukraine. Friday, Zelensky's here. Trump
talks to the powdher last week and apparently Zelensky and
Trump got into it a little bit on Friday, kind
of hind Closed Doors wasn't a dressing down like before,
and it was more of a give and take situation
because he wants tomahawks, and Trump feels like, no, no,
you shouldn't get any.

Speaker 14 (01:33:23):
Well, I don't believe that Trump thinks that tomahawks are
difference makers every issue. Donald Trump looks at through this
lens of leverage, and he is looking for leverage with
this Ukraine's situation, and he sees that he doesn't really
have any He gave away the story earlier in the
year when he said you don't have the cards. Well,

(01:33:45):
Trump is trying to find out what those cards are
for Ukraine and he believes. I think that that the
cards are territorial gains that Russia has made and to
give those back, and that's the leverage that he could
possibly use in order to get Russia to the table.
That's a non start for Zelensky in a lot of ways.
He doesn't want to lead with that. And Zolensky still

(01:34:06):
wants logistics, he wants tomahawks, he wants things European nations
that will continue to help and support him. But Trump,
in his again view of leverage, wants to get to
a solution quickly recognizes that it's not going to happen quickly.
The only way it does is if he concedes the land,
which I think is why he doesn't think those Tomahawks
are a game changer.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
Do you think they would be a game changer? Who
would just make this thing even worse and he would
double down putin on something even worse than he's already doing.

Speaker 14 (01:34:35):
They would be a game changer if we gave them
hundreds of Tomahawk missiles. It is a system that is
not normally fired from land, it's fired from sea based platforms.
I'm not sure what that modification looks like. Raytheon says
they have a modification. They would come under targeting from
Russia should they all of a sudden appear on the battlefield.

(01:34:57):
But we would have to give them hundreds, not like
the Patriot missile batteries where we gave them four and
five and six. I mean, we're caveling over just small
amounts of weaponry. Ukraine needs two hundred main battle tanks,
they need one hundred and sixty Bradley fighting vehicles, they
need one hundred thousand artillery rounds a month. They need
so much logistical support. That is the only real leverage

(01:35:20):
that Donald Trump can give to Ukraine in order to
try to get Russia to the negotiation table. So on
the surface, no, the amount of tomahawks they would need,
I don't believe our game changers because I don't think
we would consider giving them that amount of dub weapons.

Speaker 2 (01:35:34):
And the one thing you left out there that maybe
the most important thing is they need human beings to
fight this. That's the one thing that Russia has that
they at some point in time, You're going to run
out of bullets before they run out of men.

Speaker 6 (01:35:44):
Yeah, and that's right.

Speaker 14 (01:35:45):
And in fact, Russia has recalled more reservists. They could
bring fifty to one hundred thousand new troops to the battlefield. Now,
whether they have the will to fight remains to be seen.
We haven't seen that. We haven't seen Russia mass five
error and fight in a combined arms way that we
do in our country for example, and how we practice

(01:36:05):
and how we train. But they don't. You're right, the
bodies are just not there. In the Ukraine military. They
still refuse to conscript some of the younger people. And
at this point they're trying to have a country at
the end of this, and so that remains advantaged Russia.
That will always remain advantaged Russia.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
Talking to my clients military analysts, we break down all
things going on globally when it comes to the military stuff,
and there's plenty of it. We moved from there to
Israel Hamas I've said this all along this there's going
to be ebbs and flows. There's gonna be start stops,
there's gonna be three steps forward, two steps back, five
steps forward, ten steps back. This was never going to
be easy. And last week it you know, within a

(01:36:44):
few days it bubbled up again. And then you know,
Israel said, you guys, you blew up our bulldozer and
then come to find out that really wasn't true. And
you and I have talked about BB and them. Would
still I think like to get this thing going forward,
but there's going to have to be people the Gulf
States participate in this before we can even decide if
this thing has a shot of working or not. It
can't just be okay, there's the paper, Okay, go right.

Speaker 14 (01:37:06):
I think Egypt is the indispensable nation at this point.
Phase two will mean an international security force that's on
the ground inside of Gaza, that is keeping both sides separated.
We've got the deal in place for the ceasefire, but
whether it holds or not remains to be seen. Hamas

(01:37:27):
needs to give up its governance, give up its weapons,
its ministry positions and the like, and it's going to
take other countries to come in and reinforce this face too.
We know Jadie vance and there's a group on the
way to the Middle East today to try to reinforce that.
But if it doesn't work out, then all that really
has happened is a pause in the action as Israel.

(01:37:47):
As Trump has said that they will be decimated, Israel
will continue to fight and continue to go after the
very last person.

Speaker 2 (01:37:53):
One of the things that's not brought up is you
have several militias inside of Gaza who don't like Hamas
that are fighting with him. You know that the Israelis
are totally fine with that. Before they lay down their arms,
they are going to need some sort of peacekeeping group
just because of not only the militias but also the
pirates and stuff like that that are going to be
out there trying to steal everything for their own good.

(01:38:15):
What kind of force are they looking at to try
to slow that down and get control there.

Speaker 14 (01:38:20):
The only force that would have legitimacy would be some
kind of combined Arab state force, again led by Egyptians,
perhaps Jordanians, Saudi's others within the region, as the Israelis
would not be considered a legitimate force to do that.
We don't want to send Americans there as well. It's
a very difficult mission, house to house, block to block,

(01:38:40):
similar to how it was being fought.

Speaker 6 (01:38:43):
You'd have to defend it the same way.

Speaker 14 (01:38:45):
So those international countries getting in there, controlling the humanitarian
aid and the like, we know that will lead to
more things that we'll see, unfortunately, gangs going after individuals
that they think helped the Israelis along the way. So
we're at the beginning. We're at a project plan that's
got a thousand steps. We're probably at step eight. So

(01:39:07):
there's so many more things that have to happen, so
many more points on a critical path to see whether
or not this peace deal will hold.

Speaker 2 (01:39:13):
Talking to my client's military analyst, all right, Columbia, Venezuela,
we're building up with Venezuela. I think we know something's coming.

Speaker 8 (01:39:20):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:39:20):
I don't know. And now we're looking at Columbia going
all right, now, you guys are are going to be
a part of something, and this is a This is
feeling very Neo Connie in some ways, like we're reliving
some stuff from the sixties and seventies in South America.

Speaker 14 (01:39:33):
I'm concerned that Trump feels again the leverage he has
is just purely economic over Columbia. Columbia is the United
States is the number one trading partner for that country,
and we all know the amount of drugs that are
stationed there that coming from there. The main cartels are
in Colombia, but we still have to have relations with Bogaton.
I have to have relations with that country if we're

(01:39:55):
going to do anything at all from the narco terrorism
side of things. Trump is looking for a fight there,
and again he feels that leverage is coming from economic side.
I think the is still a bridge too far to
think troops and marines are sol will do beach landings there.
I think there this is more or less trying to

(01:40:16):
impart that economic leverage on these countries in order to
get their houses in order to help with the narco terrorism.
But the amount of demand that still happens in the
United States for these drugs will still make it beneficial
for those cortels to continue to produce their products.

Speaker 2 (01:40:32):
Mike, when you see the amount of troops that we have,
I mean, because it's it's now really grown there. Obviously
we think something's coming in. Then you get Maduro even
last week, said I'll give you guys whatever you want.
You want oil, you want whatever rare minerals we have,
and Trump basically said, blanket, we don't care. I mean
that to me, just says, okay, who's running this situation.
Is it Marco Rubio or are there other people inside

(01:40:53):
this administration that are saying that we need to go
and take this guy out, because it's feeling like even
if he surrenders, they you know, and says, all right, well,
I'm not going to do anything else. You guys come
and take the oil. They want him gone.

Speaker 14 (01:41:06):
It's not in our best centrist to do any kind
of regime change there. The CIA does not have a
great track record of doing this in Central America, in
particular South America, and obviously across the world. I don't
know where that is coming from. Maybe it is coming
from Marco Rubio on the inside. But again I look
through this lens of leverage, and Trump sits there and

(01:41:27):
figures that he can take this to a certain point
where he can get what he'll say is a deal.
He'll declare victory, and that will be something tangible. This
is how he views power, and this is how that
power shifts in that part of the world. It is
a high risk type proposition because if he's wrong and
there is upheaval there and we have regime change, and

(01:41:48):
who knows what the next person there looks like. So
it is a situation that is it is very tenuous.
This administration is claiming it's taking care of America first.
In our hemisphere, we're really picking a fight, I think,
without any real strategy of what's going to happen over
the horizon.

Speaker 2 (01:42:05):
When you saw the admirl go down there and then
he resigned, what'd you think about that, because it was
it was almost like he went down there, he looked
around and said, all I feel like we're getting in
something we don't need to and I don't want to
be a part of this.

Speaker 14 (01:42:17):
Well, first and foremost, he resigns has the courage because
if he doesn't feel that the mission is important enough
and can't support it, he has the courage to do that.
I think Frankly, a lot of military leaders in the
past didn't do that, and they were half engaged in
their mission, and because of that, the mission suffers, and
so the troops know it.

Speaker 6 (01:42:35):
People know it.

Speaker 14 (01:42:36):
And so I think that was a good thing that
he decided he couldn't support it, But it should have happened.
It could have happened for the past twenty to twenty
five years, go back to the eighties and the fact
that you know, this isn't the first time the American
military hasn't been involved with the drug interreddiction problem. It
did the same thing with Ronald Reagan in the nineteen eighties,
and maybe that's where Trump's getting this playbook from.

Speaker 6 (01:42:56):
But it was much more under cover back then.

Speaker 14 (01:42:58):
But we sent our best and briders, military assets down
there to try to to do the same thing.

Speaker 6 (01:43:03):
And this is just more public. This is Pete hegg Seth.

Speaker 14 (01:43:06):
Making sure it winds up on the front page of
the paper when they make these attacks on these boats,
for example. So I'm glad that the general of the
admiral felt he couldn't do the mission decided to retire.

Speaker 6 (01:43:17):
Good on him.

Speaker 14 (01:43:18):
Let's find somebody in there that wants to do that
mission that's going to take it forward.

Speaker 2 (01:43:21):
Right on, Michae Lion's best damn military and listen to
the business tried Major. We appreciate you coming on as always, Man,
you and the Man, and we'll do it again next week.

Speaker 6 (01:43:28):
Chat, Thanks very much, thanks for having me coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
We got your Scary Movie Countdown number nine today. It's
gonna be a little bit shorter than normal because we
had Mike and that was absolutely valuable information that we're
getting there. But this one's gonna be a little bit shorter,
but it's definitely one of the greats of all time.
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Speaker 2 (01:45:06):
As we wrap up the show today, we continue our
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Speaker 4 (01:45:18):
The time has come, so prepare yourself for a journey
of fear from the darkest corner of cinema, the most
bone chilling tales ever told.

Speaker 2 (01:45:30):
It's the countdown you've been waiting for. Are you ready?
Number nine? Number nine today dominates a day of the week, Friday,
and at number thirteen. The movie was incredible. It spawned
everything you could think of when it comes to the
modern slasher films. Made on a shoestring budget, five hundred
and fifty grand. Sean Cunningham put this movie together and

(01:45:52):
it is awesome. And they counted down from one to thirteen.
The kills are amazing. And the interesting thing about the
first one is was it Jason that did this? Because
when we think of Friday at thirteen, we think of Jason, Hello,
what is that you're doing on this men?

Speaker 8 (01:46:14):
One, two, three, four, five, six seven?

Speaker 2 (01:46:30):
Can I help you?

Speaker 8 (01:46:30):
Helone eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, Friday the thirteenth.

Speaker 2 (01:46:46):
Now, if you watch the movie, Jason doesn't appear in
the movie until the end. It was actually shot after
they had filmed the movie and thought we needed to
give a scary like atmosphere, kind of like the movie
carry So Tom Servini and Sean Cunningham went back and
they film Jason coming out of the water seaw Cunningham,
who developed Jason and was the director, did all this stuff.

(01:47:06):
He said, look, I went I saw Halloween, and it
was kind of a ripoff, but it was a different
kind of ripoff because this wasn't so much about a
shape as it was about a dude who we didn't
see until the second movie. People forget that if you've
never seen the movie. Spoiler alert, Jason's mom does all
the killing in the first movie, and the movie itself, though,

(01:47:28):
spawned so much and as a kid growing up, the
cultural impact that Friday Thirteenth had in the subsequent movies
afterwards in the Hockey Mask is incredible. The amount of
money it made, and unfortunately there's too many damn lawsuits
at time to get this thing back off the floor,
which is what they're hoping to do because I announced,
sure they're going to do another movie, But there was

(01:47:49):
tons of lawsuits tied.

Speaker 8 (01:47:50):
Up in this.

Speaker 2 (01:47:51):
Who got money, who didn't get money, Everybody got a
day rate, nobody got any big money for this movie
that went on to spawn so many great things. It
was no residuals, it was none of that stuff. And
instead who got paid the lawyers, which as we all know,
is always a scary thing. But there's no doubt when
you think of horror movies, when you think of sleep
away camps and the camps themselves, nothing brings that to

(01:48:14):
your mind, like Friday to thirteenth and Jason Vorhees. But
remember in the first movie, it's not Jason but his
mom that does all the killing. Our number nine today,
in our scary movie countdown to me one of the
ultimate characters and one of the ultimate icons of horror,
even though oddly enough, he's not in it. It is

(01:48:36):
Friday the thirteenth. If you have any suggestions for what
movies you think we should watch, let us know. Reach
out to us across all of our social media. Hit
us up at three, two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,
twenty three right here on the Chad Benson Show. I
absolutely love Friday thirteenth. It is one of my favorites
of all time. And I will watch it. And if
there's a Friday to thirteenth weekend, which usually happens once

(01:48:56):
or twice a year on AMC, I will watch a
vast majority of the movies. It's just what I do.
I love horror movies. You guys know that. Let us
know what you think. Love hearing from each and every
one of you. Solid fun show today as always, and
I'll tell you what we got some good stuff. One
Hit Wonder Wednesday is tomorrow. If you've got any one
hit wonders we'd like to cover, let us know we'd
love to hear from you. Reach out to uscross all

(01:49:18):
our social media. Check us out tonight. We're gonna be
live around seven o'clock Eastern. You have a blessed rest
of your Tuesday.

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As always, Night Night Check.

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