Friday the 13th Superstitions

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Happy Friday the thirteenth. You know, that's a great way
to start the show because we could start with all
the other stuff, the chaos, the craziest, the lord to see.
We don't do that here. We have fun. Friday is

(00:36):
Friday the thirteenth. I find us humans to be rather
interesting when it comes to things like superstitions. And you know,
when you dive deep into the psychology of everything, whether
it's politics, love, you know, any of the stuff, it's

(01:01):
you know, we're humans. We are a bizarre creature at times,
and that includes things like Friday thirteenth. So doing a
deep dive because first of all, I love Fridays right?
Who does love Fridays? Right? And thirteen has always been
my lucky number. But you do wonder it's like, okay,

(01:25):
how did we get here? How did we get to
to now? I'm going to try to say this, and
maybe you are this person para skivia dek tria phobia
periskevia dka trivia phobia. I probably screwed that up. That

(01:46):
is the fear of Friday thirteenth. Why is it called
that periskivias Friday or periskivie it's Friday, and Dekatria is
thirteenth Greek, so Friday thirteenth. So I was like, okay,
is there any validity to the lunacy at times of

(02:07):
our superstitions? And why are we superstitious? You know, something
happens like being an athlete. I was superstitious. You know.
I if I ate a certain food and I played, well,
I'm going to eat that food same time, kind of
you know, you can kind of get into that thing where,

(02:27):
you know, and I play with guys who are that
were so superstitious? What if I will tell you one
of my big superstitions when I played during warm ups,
if I shot a ball and it went up into
the corner and it was like the greatest shot in
the world. I turned to my buddy and I go,
I'm not scoring today. And if I put one thirty

(02:50):
rows deep into the crowd, I'm like, dude, I'm going
to score a few. But it was It's just it's
the mind thing, right, How do we get here? Why
is thirteen EO? Why is Friday?

Speaker 3 (03:02):
He?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Let's find out, shall we? Is there something to it
or is it all psychological? That's for you to decide.
First of all, it's a bunch of old fears mashed together. Okay,
Friday was considered unlucky itself. The number thirteen was considered unlucky.

(03:27):
You put them together. Over time, things started to merge together. Friday,
for instance, the fear and the of that came from
a lot of different things, right, misfortune. Jesus was crucified
on Friday, Good Friday. Some medieval traditions thought, you know,
Adam and Eve, they were kicked out on a Friday.

(03:50):
The Great Flood started on a Friday. In fact, sailors
for years would not launch a ship on a Friday.
Then you get, dude, the more religiously type things. You know.
Upon the superstitions Last Supper, there were what thirteen guests?

(04:12):
Who was thirteen judas? Okay? Oh? In medieval Europe it
became widely believed if thirteen people sit at a table,
one will die within a year, which is back in
those days. Okay, how about this one twelve gods were

(04:34):
dining in Valhalla. Thirteenth one showed up was Loki the trickster. Oh,
and what happened? Chaos? And then at one of their
beloved gods, Balder died, And then you get into things like,
you know, the Knights Templar were executed and tortured after

(04:55):
King Philip the Fourth in France ordered them all arrested.
When did it happen? October thirteenth, thirteen oh seven, And
then you get the movies and all of these things.
It's just a it's a unique look into the psyche
of human beings, and you wonder why we still go
off and live in a world of fear at times,

(05:17):
whether it's politics or whatever it is. I mean, my gosh,
there are people that you know, have done study after
study about the fear of Friday the thirteenth and whether
or not there's anything real to it. It's like one
of the things I always talk about in uh, you know,
in when there's a full moon. Is there really more
crime when there's a full moon?

Speaker 4 (05:39):
Maybe?

Speaker 2 (05:40):
Maybe, I don't know what they've done studies about. Is
there really more crime when it's hot outside compared to
when it's cold. Yeah, well maybe because it's cold, nobody
wants to go outside. Maybe because it's hot people go outside.

(06:01):
So it's just a psyche to me, I just found
I always find this stuff fascinating comparatively to us talking
about all the other insanity, because that insanity is always here.
And if you think, oh, well have they really done studies,
they haven all kinds of studies. U came Medical Journal
did a study comparing traffic between the sixth and then
a week later the thirteenth, so both Fridays, and what

(06:22):
do they find, Eh, few roads on the car, but
hospital missions traffic accents a little bit higher. Dutch insurance
company also looked at several years of claims and found
fewer accidents on the thirteenth. But they suggested because people
were superstitious, they traveled.

Speaker 5 (06:41):
Less.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh they say, people tend to be more cautious and
many people avoid travel altogether. And it's not just airplanes.
For many years there was no road thirteenth. How many
elevators have you been in where you're looking to go?
It goes twelve to fourteen. Oh, that's interesting. And then
the stock market was another big one. They looked at SMP,

(07:05):
Dow Jones and European markets. They analyzed it no consistent
pattern of losses and in fact, some long term analysis
says there was a slight gain. So there's all kinds
of stuff that this plays into. But I just find again,
it's the mind of us that is that always interests me.

(07:29):
Let me know what you think. Do you have any superstitions?
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quite frankly, was all of our nightmare. You know exactly
what I'm talking about.

Speaker 6 (07:50):
The thousand over fifty thousand.

Speaker 7 (07:55):
So.

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Oh my god, it is just so incredible that that happened,
you know just what he thought. I mean. And that meme,
by the way, was everywhere yesterday. You could not go
anywhere on the internet and not see that meme. People
playing jokes on each other. You know, you didn't take

(08:17):
out the garbage that Tao was over fifty thousand. Okay,
it's over fifty. I had people sending me stuff joking about,
you know, the cops showing up at their house. Do
you have a permit for that? And the permit just
says that Tao is over fifty thousand? Does that have
this the answer to everything? But I'll tell you this answer,

(08:42):
she's awful. She needs to go. This entire situation is
not going to go anywhere. It's not a laughing matter
to the people that this happened to. But how can
you in any way, shape or form think that this

(09:02):
isn't a big deal. You know who. It's not a
big deal to people who are who sit there and
watch you know, Fox News all day, right, so this
watch Fox News all day. In fact, Fox cut away
from the hearing. That's how bad it was the other
day cut away from the hearing because it was so
bad and it was embarrassing, and Maga wing the hardcore.

(09:30):
They're starting to break away. I don't know if I
want this. Uncomfortable, I don't know if I want this.
I don't like this, and it's becoming a real issue.
And I continue to say the issue is not going
anywhere anytime soon. It is only going to get louder
and louder. And they can do a lot of different things.

(09:51):
And Trump could call it boring and a lie, and
he could attack Thomas Massey and all. He could do
all of those things. But if I have said, one
thing thing about Trump that has always frustrated me is
when there's big things going on, you know, his whole
election claim and oh it was stolen from me, all
this stuff. Don't send the clown, the jester to be

(10:13):
the person representing you. And the other day that was it.
It was an embarrassment and the calls for her resignation.
Then he comes out yesterda and he fully backs her,
and I'm like, well, there you go. You're gonna get
what you get on this one, kids, And if that's
what you think that is going to serve you well,
because that was for an audience of one who thought
she did a fabulous job. But what it did do

(10:34):
was it pissed off people that are stamp supporters of
this president. And you're starting to lose people because of this.
Yesterday during my local show, I was listening, so we
did our curling, which was another adventure of fun and

(10:56):
we'll talk about that later when we get into the Olympics.
But the guy that comes on before me, Chris Hand,
great guy, damn good host. He is like, look, we're
losing and this administration is failing in a serious way
and people aren't buying it. And you're not just losing

(11:19):
the you've already lost, as he said, you already lost
the Libertarians, which I've already said, you've lost the independence
what I've already said. But now you're starting to see
a fracture in a way that I don't think they
thought it would happen. I think they thought this would
be a nothing burger to quote Hillary, and it would
go away. It's not. And I agree with Thomas Massey

(11:42):
and Nancy Mace this is his biggest watergate, if not bigger,
Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five,
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God, it is awful. It's like nails on a chalkboard.
Isn't it crazy to think we're kind of weak? We
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the controversy of halftime, the lunacy of did he or
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(16:28):
I probably it's a possibility. But you know, there's a
lot of radio edits the stuff I've seen so far, well,
the stuff I've seen, I said, is it really stuff
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is it stuff that you have seen translated by the
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and more. The paycheck to paycheck is now paycheck to plasma.

Speaker 3 (18:51):
What America's newest side hustle isn't your usual gig, and
it tells a prickly story about the US economy. People
selling blood just to get by. It was out of necessity,
like Ian Pleasant, who started donating at this center outside
Philadelphia after being hit by a car and breaking his leg.

Speaker 5 (19:08):
It was a life saver. He'd even paid my rent.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
A lifesaver for him and the patients on the other end,
With researchers saying the US provides around seventy percent of
the world's plasma, that guy substance that transports the essential
cells and nutrients our body needs. Ian is one of
an estimated two hundred thousand people that walk into plasma
centers like this every day across the country to sell
their blood plasma for money.

Speaker 17 (19:34):
People will come in and use this money to supplement
their income. For a lot of people, it's their lifeline
to afford that little thing that's extra.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
My buddy has done this, so he is over the
last several months gone and sold his plasma because he's
you know, the paycheck to paycheck isn't going, you know
the way that you know, he thought it was going
to go, and it is. You know, he's frustrated. But

(20:03):
it's a trip because as I go in, they give
me a card and he makes money selling plasm to
make ends meet. That's why I keep telling everybody, let
us sell our kidneys or portions of our liver so
you can get yourself out of debt. How like, what

(20:23):
would the kidney be worth? We always talk about this,
but you're selling plasma. It's weird, right, Will it regenerates
so it's your kidney? But there's more risk, I get it,
But there's also more reward.

Speaker 3 (20:34):
A booming market worth more than thirty billion dollars now
pumping through the veins of American households, collections up about
thirty percent in the last three years. There are now
more plasma centers than costcos across the nation.

Speaker 17 (20:48):
The US has a really incredible demand for this product
that because it saves a lot of lives and helps
a lot of people.

Speaker 3 (20:54):
Filling that demand are cash strapped Americans, ranging from college
students who told Rolling Stone they were looking for some
extra cash to afford Harry's styles tickets to middle class
workers struggling with rising costs and a slowing job market.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
So for some people, maybe it's just you know, a
little struggle here, a little struggle there. I need little
something some But there are other people out there that
this is becoming a you know, of that gig economy.
Part of your gig now is your blood.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Jill Chamberlain and Scottsdale, Arizona, used to make eighty seven
thousand dollars a year overseeing the finances for a local
business until she was laid off in August twenty twenty four.
Now she works more than eighty hours a week to
barely cover her bills. Twice a week before work, she
sells her plasma.

Speaker 7 (21:43):
Everything that I get from here or the other time.
Overtime jobs is food, it's power, it's gas in my car.
It's car insurance.

Speaker 1 (21:52):
One day, it will fix my sun roof.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Chamberlain makes about four hundred dollars a month from her plasma,
but she says that leaves her exhausted and straighted.

Speaker 7 (22:00):
I chickened out for the first two months. I went
and then like backed out and went and backed out,
and it was just too scary.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
You were afraid to do it.

Speaker 7 (22:08):
Yeah, there's a lot of stigma attached to it, and
I wanted to find other solutions before I went that far.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
It's when my buddy told me he was going to
do it. I was like, dude, I'll help you out.

Speaker 17 (22:20):
But he.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
It was so weird because you would, you know, I'd
see him and his arm wrapped, and I wanted you
what happened. I saw plasma today, and I'm like, man,
that is it. It's a big business, right And if
you're a kid, right, yeah, and by kid, I mean
you're in your early twenties or whatever. The concert tickets

(22:44):
some of that stuff. That's what these people are doing
it because it's a necessity to live, to pay their bills.

Speaker 18 (22:53):
Damn.

Speaker 3 (22:54):
Critics say the plasma sellers getting about fifty dollars a
session isn't enough and point out that the u US
is one of the few countries that allows payment for
plasma and for people to sell as often twice a week.
But plasma companies say they're meeting a critical need.

Speaker 12 (23:10):
Yes, the companies make billions when they collect plasma, but
guess what. Donors receive billions in return. And the other
nice thing about this is that these plasma centers are
located in the communities that need that money the most.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Peter Gerarski is a researcher at Georgetown University studying the
ethics and economics of blood plasma collection. He says compensation
is key to the system working.

Speaker 12 (23:32):
If we did not compensate donors, the whole world would
have a massive shortage.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
That's again, it's weird. So I can sell my plasma,
You can sell your your seed, right, donate your seed
if you will. You can freeze your eggs or or
even you know you can. It's it's this weird thing
where we if we're honest about it, it's like, okay,
so if you want to be a surrogate, okay, right know,

(24:01):
to carry you know, somebody's kid, you can. There's just
like we go kind of only so far you want
to donate your blood or any doesn't we it's only
so far because we don't want to really go all right,
here's the deal. This guy needs a kidney's wanting to
give you one hundred grand for it, and you're like, okay,

(24:22):
I got two kidneys. One he'll be fine, Oh oh okay.
And it's the same thing with plasma.

Speaker 4 (24:28):
It's like.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
We're gonna give you a little something. You know, they're
gonna make some. You're gonna make some, and there's a
need for it, obviously, but it's the weird way that
we pick and choose what we deem to be. This
is we'll put a stigma on this one, as if
you're you know, you're own drugs or you're a hot
mess or whatever. It's just I I continue to go

(24:52):
back to let us sell our kidneys.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Selling plasma is generally considered safe, but side effects include fatigue, dizzyness,
and in rare cases, severe reactions, and there's limited data
on what frequent, long term donation does the body. But
for Jill, it's not just about the physical effects. It's
about working more than ever and still coming up short.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
We always heard it middle class was disappearing, but really
really quickly, the richer getting richer, and the rest of
us are sinking quickly.

Speaker 3 (25:20):
A rapidly growing industry built on life saving science and
the blood of financially stretched Americans.

Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah, yeah, that's no doubt about that. There's a lot
of people out there. And the fact that I now
know people that are doing this, it's an odd thing.
I've got to be honest with you. It's an odd
thing because I never thought of it, Like I'm sure
like you guys did how many you know? This is
just something that a young person would do with strap

(25:49):
for cash, maybe needed to make the rent or this
was one of those situations where you know, you've got
somebody out there who is yeah, maybe had some issues
and are you know, close to being homeless kind of thing,
and so it's not it's the average person now. And
that's my buddy said, man, He's like, dude, you'd be

(26:11):
surprised who's there, and you'd be surprised that they're they're
not walking up looking like they've been sleeping in the park.
They're driving cars and you know, was showing up and
it's not just and I'm like, I guess that's what
people have to do and that sucks. That sucks. Let
me know what you think and what was you if

(26:31):
somebody came to you. I want your honestpenny day. Somebody
came to you and said, I'll give you one hundred
thousand dollars for your kidney right now, both kidneys, so
he still you know you might pee more, but you're
gonna get one hundred g's what'd you do it? Let
me know? Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four
to twenty three atch had Benson show That is your ax,

(26:53):
your instant and all the other things. Meanwhile, this story
I find to be interesting. And also we go from
people selling their body parts to people using the Internet
to create a career. So this guy is a trip.
He is twenty three years old and he's taken it

(27:17):
upon himself to revive dead brands.

Speaker 19 (27:21):
How I'm reinventing a two hundred and fifty million pound
brand from my bedroom. After I started posting about my
mission to reinvent Slazenger, Phrasers Group backed my ideas and
strategy for how we should push the brand forward. I
was pushing through with my first ideas until I got
an email from the Great grandson of the actual founder
of Slazenger. At first, I thought it was just a
pissed take and someone trying to wind me up. But
I realized this was actually real and there were some
things he needed to make clear to me before I

(27:42):
went any further. I set up call with him straight away.
I wanted to understand how he felt about the project,
and honestly I hadn't fully clocked until that conversation that
Slazenger basically was sport in Britain.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
Yes it was so. His name is Lexi Hamblin twenty three.
He goes to lives in Britain and he'll go, like
find brands that are still out there, but they're they're
dead right, you know, you know, like Pony Dunlop, and

(28:12):
he tries to revive them on his own without, you know,
just doing his own thing, trying to turn and make
him cool. But Slaszenger said, which And if you guys
know anything about slast Ginger, they were you know, he'll
explain here they were it. But like you tennis like
it was there, that was it, like you everything you

(28:33):
saw at Wimbledon and all these things, it was all Slastenger.

Speaker 19 (28:36):
When organized sports first started becoming a nationwide thing tennis, cricket, golf,
Slazenger was right at the center of it. They weren't
just sponsoring tournaments, they were building them. They even made
the football for the nineteen sixty six World Cup. Back then,
owning a Slazenger racket actually meant something. It was a
symbol of discipline, excellence, the kind of thing the top
players were going to use. He spoke about how it
grew from a small sports equipment company into something that

(28:57):
pioneered the entire industry without even posting any TikTok. We
spoke about how at one point the brand carried so
much weight that you could literally put the logo on
anything and it would sell. But there's only so long
you can do that for. And that's what got me
interested in the first place, that a new chapter needs
to be written.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yes, And so what did he do. He goes out
and he posts this thing, I'm going to revive Slastinger
from my bedroom kind of thing, you know, talks about
that because this is what he does Umbro, which is
once a great you know, soccer brand, And and and
he goes and he's like, I'm going to do this,
and it's going to be fun and again it is

(29:32):
an influencer type thing where Slassinger came and said, no, no,
we want you.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
To do it all.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
We don't want you to do it as you doing it.
We're willing to turn it all over you the design.
We're willing to allow you to be it for us
and market the hell out of it for us.

Speaker 19 (29:56):
After a long conversation about my plans and what I
wanted to do with the brand, he backed me to
help forced that next chapter. I still want to keep
that reminiscent feeling, so a lot of the art direction
and graphics I'll be hand sketching to have that nineteen
fifties British illustration feel. For the T shirt graphics and campaigns,
I'll be using the ideas of someone spectating at the
matches and endowing what they're seeing to keep the new
lines feeling premium. I'll be using high quality nets across
polo shirts, jackets and crew necks, and instead of standard

(30:17):
embroidery froster collection, I'm going to be using a chain
stitch to time to the rope used on tennis nets.
I've put together the first full capture now and I'm
sending it off for sampling. I'll go over how they're
coming out in the next video.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
So I love that. To me, is brilliant what they did.
And I remember his story being a broker back in
the day. One of the things that was very interesting
to me is the kind of my mentor, Bobby. He
handled a lot of big clients and one of them

(30:50):
was a guy who designed Massimo clothing. And if you're
thinking Massimo sounds familiar, him and his wife, Lori Laughlin
were part of the college bribery scandal, so just putting
that out there. But Massimo himself when he designed the clothes,

(31:11):
this is interesting. So he started with a small loan,
I think, right, and he dropped out of college, goes
and does all this stuff. The first thing that he
started to do was go to high school kids, find
the most popular high school kids and take them to
the warehouse and say take whatever you guys want. The

(31:32):
first influencer like situation. And then he started to I
mean just make sure that there was a volleyball movie
called Side Out that was kind of big, and what
he do hear all the clothes for you guys. He
did this in such a way that it was it
was really such a brilliant thing before the internet. He

(31:52):
was making sure I'm giving these kids everything for free
because it's going to come help me in the long run.
And that's what this guy's doing with Lassenger, And they're
looking at this twenty three year old guys like this
guy's got reach, but also he's got ideas and we're
stale and we want to do what grow our brand
with who a younger generation who has no idea who

(32:15):
we are? So why go to somebody who recognizes the brand,
knows the brand, because their ideas most likely are going
to be for other people who recognize the brand and
know the brand. That's why they said, no, we want
somebody who recognizes this once was a great brand. I

(32:36):
guess I want to make a great again and you
want new customers and I'll deliver that smart three two, three, five,
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If you like talk radio like Chad Benson likes his meals.
You've come to the perfect place for takeout.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
The Olympics that are going on so far. Okay, we're
doing okay, but we were robbed in ice skating from
what a lot of people are saying. We might get
into a little bit later because apparently it looks pretty
robbery ish. But our hockey team got off to a
good story yesterday. The men's the women's are rolling. But

(34:48):
the men they took on Latvia. I beat him five one.
The NHL players are back. Finland and Sweden are going
at it Slovakia, Italy. Today, Canada takes on Switzerland and
Chechi Sweden. On the women's side get at it a
little bit later as well. Then you've got a curling
going on, which I did yesterday. By the way, it's

(35:09):
a lot longer than you think. It's about fifty yards
and it is a lot longer than you think. And
controlling that stone, you're either I was talking to a
guy there, JP, who was one of the guys who
was teaching everybody said I said, dude, it's either you
throw it way too hard or do you don't you know,
get it going hard enough. And he goes Yep, it's
pretty much what it is. Three two, three, five, three eight,

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twenty four to twenty three at Chat Benson Show is
your ex, your Insta, your YouTube and more love hearing
from each and every one of you right here on
the Chat Benson Show. Coming up our number two. You know,
we talked a little bit about Friday thirteenth. We'll have
some more fun facts with that. Coming up. Our buddy,
Zach Gabram, chievestment officer Board Capital, is going to join
the program. Plus, your urban word of the day is

(35:53):
very interesting. It may be the hottest slang phrase thing
being used right now now, and some people are using
it and actually making money doing it, which is weird,
right because you think the best mean thing going on
out there would be, you know, the dows at fifty k.

Speaker 5 (36:10):
But whatever.

Speaker 2 (36:11):
We're also going to talk about Valentine's Day, Where did
it come from? The myths, the origins, all of that.
Stuffed straight ahead, Hour number two of The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
Straight ahead, this is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad

(36:52):
Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
I will say it's over and over again, and I'm
hearing more people in my industry start to move in
my direction, and that is this Epstein stuff is not
only bigger than you realize. I think the legs here
are just starting to get going. I I really do,

(37:16):
and I think there is more than just a little
bit of trouble for this administration. Powerful people are starting
to not only disassociate themselves from this mess, but they're
being disassociated from their business of which they work. Case

(37:38):
in point.

Speaker 20 (37:40):
So, now this morning a major shakeup right at the
very top of Goldman Sachs. Kathy Rumler, the bank's chief
legal officer, says she is resigning. This comes after documents
released by the Justice Department revealed the extent of her
ties with Jeffrey Epstein. From Leer and those around her
have insisted she had a professional relationship with Epstein and
has done nothing wrong.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
I'm not saying she did or didn't do anything, but
it's all happening. The fallout is big, and it's going
to get bigger. Somebody asked me the other day, honestly, jed,
how big do you really think this is? And I'll say, look,

(38:21):
at first, I didn't take much of it seriously. I
didn't follow it closely at all, right, And then I
paid a little bit of attention when Epstein died, but
I'll be honest, I didn't follow it that much. And
then the crazy got a hold of it right in
the ping pong pizza and all that stuff, and he
was like, Okay, you know I can't this is lunacy.

(38:46):
But I'll tell you, while not everything that was going
on over there was true in the world of conspiracies,
there was a lot more fire than just smoke. And
I agree with what Thomas Massey said, absolutely bigger than Watergate,
absolutely bigger than Iran Contra. Why and not just for

(39:12):
this administration. It is a shame because it has gone
through four administrations, through Obama, through Trump, through Biden, and
now into Trump. This is a Molti administration cover up
and it is disgusting.

Speaker 4 (39:35):
It is.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
And I think what makes me even more frustrated with
a lot of this stuff is yesterday, you guys know,
I went curling. I'm not saying I'm good at it,
because I'm not. But when we broadcast my local show
from this really cool place called Tea Line out here
in Nashville, and as I'm setting up, right, so they're

(40:00):
setting up our news guy Ken, He's like, my sidekicking stuff.
He's already there. He's because he starts doing the news
an hour before we go live.

Speaker 10 (40:09):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
And a guy walks up to me and he goes,
are you Chad? I said yeah. He goes, okay, good,
he goes, you got a lot of people are pissed off.
I'm your bodyguard for the day. I thought, wow, why
is that? Because the more that I have talked about this,
the more angry people have gotten because they've decided to
make this about them and to make this about Trump. Now,

(40:35):
how much involvement does Trump have as far as you
know the did he do anything or did he not?
And we're gonna talk to Jim Kennedy a little bit
more about this next hour. But the more you hide it,
the more you're a part of it. The more you
hide it, the more you become part of the story.
I said yesterday, you ripped the band aid off, right,

(40:58):
and you deal with what's there, rather than allowing it
to fester, become infected and then starting to realize you're
trying to save yourself before it becomes septic and kills you.
This is a nightmare of their own making, though, because remember,
for how long did they push. How long did they talk?

(41:21):
How long did they become this? We're so transparent, we
are going to release this, We're going to do all
of these things. How long? Long enough? And when you've
got Pambondi talking about, you know, the market, when you've
got which we didn't touch on yesterday because Pambondi was

(41:43):
so insane, when you've got the likes of Nancy Mace
and several others coming out going that they are monitoring
your keystrokes and what you're searching when you're in side
looking at the unredacted files, which is orwellian an insane.

(42:06):
This is an issue. They're worried about it. Why the
want to protect Trump? And you know, somebody said, well,
you know he was vindicated because he did make the
phone call. I said, yeah, he did, by the way,
that was after he was arrested, not before. And oh

(42:27):
by the way, what did Trump say? Oh everybody knew
what he was doing? Really, yeah, we all did. She's
awful too, She's maybe even worse. Why weren't you a
part of bringing it down? Then I got news for you.
If my friend's doing something like this, oh yeah, it's

(42:47):
going to end. I'm not gonna wait until somebody else
ends it. So there's all kinds of questions surrounding this.
It's not going anywhere, and this week made it worse.
Rather than coming out and saying what should have been
the easiest thing to say, which is we failed. We

(43:11):
did not just this administration, but the administration before that,
our administration at first, and yes, the Obama administration at
the local level. We failed. We failed these girls, and
we failed our country, and we need to rebuild trust.
But instead she just well we know what she does

(43:34):
because she is who she is.

Speaker 6 (43:37):
That is over fifty thousand yep.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
Sad, very sad.

Speaker 4 (43:44):
Let me know what you think.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four, twenty three
at Chad Benson Show. Is your ex it's your insta,
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We love hearing from all of you. Today's is Friday thirteenth,
and we're going to get into a little bit more
about the creepiness and you know, the superstitions and all
of those things. But it's also Valentine's weekend, So first

(44:10):
of all, did you get that special somebody of Valentine's
You should? I just want to make sure that you
guys know, that's something you should do. Secondly, how do
we even get to Valentine's Day? Well, big card, obviously,
big candy. But the history of it is fascinating. So
the history of Valentine, and there's a lot of different

(44:31):
you know, folklore and origin stories. You know, ancient Rome,
you know, they would talk about for Valentine's Day, they celebrated. Okay,
I'm gonna.

Speaker 4 (44:39):
Screw this up.

Speaker 2 (44:41):
Looper Sila, looper siala. It's a fertility festival. Okay, young
man sacrificed animals. Back in the old days, they used
to like to kill animals, like, hey, hey look at this.
You like me? Now I cut its head off? No,
that's gross. They used strips of animal hide and rituals

(45:03):
believed to promote fertility. Then we get to who was
the Saint Valentine. Well, he was a Roman priest. Emperor
Claudius the Second banned young men from marrying, believing single
men made better soldiers. Valentine secretly performed marriages, and for
his doing such, he was executed February fourteenth, round two

(45:26):
sixty nine AD. One legend said he signed a letter
before his death from your Valentine again legend, and then
you get to where we are in this world where
you know, we've become candy and cards. So in the
eighteen hundreds, mass produced cards became super popular. Esther Holland

(45:49):
helped commercialize Valentine's card in the US, and by the
nineteen hundreds, printed cards replaced handwritten notes. Although that has
made quite a comeback. We've talked about that through gen
Z that and in an alpha that they enjoy writing
to people, which is kind of cool. So today it is,

(46:09):
you know, I mean, Valentine's massive, biggest card sending holiday
in the US. Outside of Christmas cards, love notes, roses, chocolates,
et cetera, et cetera. Over one hundred and forty five
million cards are exchanged annually. Billions of dollars are spent
on gifts, flowers, and dining. As we all know, twenty

(46:31):
six point two billion dollars. But we're not the only
ones to do it, kids, Okay, all right, So in Japan,
what do they do? Well, let's talk about that. On
February fourteenth, women give chocolate to men. It's about damn time, Geary,
Choco obligation chocolate. I'm obligated to give this so this

(46:53):
is for your co workers and bosses. Like when you
were a kid and you had to bring everybody right,
you could just give your favorite girl a card or
your favorite boy. You had to give everybody something. Okay,
now Homeo Chucko, which is romantic chocolate for someone special.
So you've got two of them. On March fourteenth, White Day,
men return the favor, often with bigger gifts, because you know,

(47:15):
that's it. Philippines big time to get married. Okay, so
the government often sponsors huge mass weddings on Valentine's eight
hundred sometimes thousands of couples marry at once. It's romantic
and of course practical. In Denmark, people send gacabrev funny
anonymous poems. The center signs with dots instead of their names.

(47:38):
And yes, it's kind of a thing where if you
guess correctly, you get an Easter egg later. I don't know,
don't even ask me. Just lots of fun stuff, right,
it's a big deal for a lot of people, and guys,
we know this. If we forget, we'll if we give
something amazing, it's expect if we forget, and by the way,

(48:02):
it's expected and probably won't be talked about anymore. If
we forget, it'll be talked about forever. Three two, three, five,
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the way, six million couples get engaged on Valentine's Day
on average. How about apples? That are those apples? Kids? Oh?

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Speaker 1 (49:49):

Speaker 5 (50:04):
Friday Care Care.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
It is Friday the thirteenth. Oh my goodness. We're going
through the day finding out more and more about Friday
thirteenth and why we're so freaking scared of stuff A
lot of its superstition. As we know, we are stupid
creatures at time. Why is it unlucky? How did it

(50:29):
become unlucky? Depends right on who you ask. The storians
say there's little evens, I mean, very little evidence that
people have feared Friday thirteenth outside of our modern times.

(50:50):
They've taken things that happened on the thirteenth that was
a Friday and said because an incident happened, and it
has to be bad. It's not true. Here's some interesting
things though. Many buildings skipped the thirteenth floor. Airlines will
skip the thirteenth seat, you know, the row, so it'll

(51:13):
go twelve to fourteen. Spain and Greece, the unlucky day
is actually Tuesday, the thirteenth. In Italy, thirteen could be lucky.
Seventeen is the scary number. So and when you start
adding it all up, right, you've got obviously modern times
of the movies. We've been talking about the movies. We
count a little of them down, which one's good, ones
what's bad, and we're having fun with that. But you've

(51:35):
got the Norse the norsemen, right, the mythology in Valhalla.
There was twelve dining at the table in Valhalla, and
what happened? Loki showed up and boom. Judas was the
thirteenth guest. Oh what happened?

Speaker 21 (51:53):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (51:53):
I see right. So but it's all myth I mean,
they've broken it down, even to the point where large
corporations did studies. UK Medical Journal did a study in
ninety three compared traffic data three, two, three, five, three eight,
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(52:16):
ex it is your Insta, it is your YouTube and more.
I want to hear from you. Let me know if
you have any superstitions, or you'll worry about something like
Friday thirteenth, Right here on the Chad Benson Show. Friday
sixth Friday thirteenth. Fewer cars were on the road on thirteenth,
but hospital admissions from traffic accidents were slightly higher. Conclusion risk,

(52:37):
maybe increase staying home is recommended kidding. A Dutch insurance
study two thousand and eight looked at several years of
claims found fewer accidents on Friday thirteenth, suggesting that people
may be a little bit more cautious. Are you cautious?
Do you worry? Do you have any superstitions? Let me know.
I remember when I went over to Europe to play soccer,

(52:58):
and this was back in the day when you could,
so you could. Only now if you watch soccer, they'll
have six or eight, ten subs on the bench. You
get a squad number. When I this is how long
ago I played, You carried thirteen players total to a game.

(53:19):
Nobody got a squad number, and it was numbered one
through eleven was the starting and then twelve and fourteen
were the substitutes, which is thirteen. To me, it has
always been my lucky number. So it was a you know,
it was bizarre, you know that first of all that

(53:39):
we only hit we had very few subs and secondly
that they did twelve and fourteen and not thirteen. Superstition's real,
and sports superstition is extra real. I mean, players will
do and I had a little superstition every now and
then as well. I think baseball players are pretty superstitious.

(53:59):
Hot hockey players are crazy superstitious. But everybody's kind of
got their own, you know thing when it comes to
the superstition, and in sports, there may not be another
group of people that are more superstitious. He's not superstitious,
he joins us straight ahead. Zach Abraham, Chief Investment Officer,
Bulwark Capital. This is the chat that'sn't shows a Chad.

Speaker 22 (54:21):
Benson show, the Chad Benson show that's out of the

(54:44):
WEE can talk to her about the Zack Abraam, Chiefvestment Officer.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
Bulwark Capital. We talk about the economy. Uh okay, I
want to start with jobs because I found it interesting
the bonds really did nothing. The market didn't do anything
too crazy, even though it's over fifty thousand, but not really.
I looked at the jobs and I say, okay, one
hundred and thirty thousand, that's better. But then the revisions
were ugly for last year, down what almost nine hundred

(55:11):
thousand from where they thought, Eh, that's a tough thing, man,
it is.

Speaker 5 (55:17):
We've got to take a lot of the job duta
though right now with a grain of salt.

Speaker 23 (55:21):
So if you look at the headline number, what everybody
got excited about was that it beat expectation when you
consider what's going on on the immigration side right now.
I actually thought that number was pretty strong, right. You
got to go back and counterbalance it with our old friend,
the revisions, like you brought up. When was the last
time you saw a revision?

Speaker 2 (55:40):
It was plus nine hine, I can't remember.

Speaker 5 (55:42):
Isn't that funny?

Speaker 23 (55:44):
No matter who's announcing the data, whenever there's a mistake,
it always is on the side that makes things look better.
You never come out and be like, oh, man, we
missed nine hundred thousand jobs.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
That we had last year. It's actually way better than
we thought. No, it's oh yeah, by the ways, a
hundred thousand less every time.

Speaker 23 (56:02):
So it's kind of like the inflation expectations, right, like
you know, the FED would have you believe right now,
inflation's running at three and a half.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
Like I want to look at anybody and go, does
it do anybody feel like three and a half out there? Reality?

Speaker 23 (56:15):
You're probably running at six I think that kind of
seems about right, you know. Like, and then if you
go back and look at holiday sales numbers, remember everybody
was there going Holiday sales numbers were up seven very
flatten up well, right because transactions were down, yes, slightly.

Speaker 5 (56:31):
So what does that say?

Speaker 23 (56:32):
It says you had seven percent If that seven percent
increase was just inflation, just increase the cost, right.

Speaker 5 (56:38):
Or the majority of it.

Speaker 23 (56:39):
Anyway, my guess is on a real basis, you're running
about five and a half six six percent inflation right now.

Speaker 5 (56:44):
And that feels about right, you know what I mean?

Speaker 2 (56:46):
Yeah, that feels you know, the the you know, the
sales were flat. But it goes back to the K.
Every time I read something that you know, it's the
K economy, the K economy. Then you find out what
is it the top ten percent of the earners are
spending fifty percent of the money or what it's a
minus school compared to the rest. That shows you how
top heavy and reliant people are on the upper middle

(57:10):
to high earners. It's it's almost like the you know
when they talk about taxes, you know, the top ten
percent to fifty percent of tax It's the same way
night now with spending.

Speaker 23 (57:19):
And there's a scary dynamic that we're starting to see
play out here in the state of Washington. You're right,
the wealth is so concentrated. If the wealthy quit spending, you.

Speaker 5 (57:27):
Got a massive problem.

Speaker 20 (57:28):
Right.

Speaker 23 (57:29):
This is kind of what scares you about this political
environment because I mean, looking at current events, things don't
look too good for the Conservatives coming up in the midterm, right,
So you got to think that there's a strong possibility
you get a hard pivot to the hard pivot to
the left here, and if that happens, Look, our friends
on the left hand side of the aisle, they're just

(57:49):
not very smart.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
I think we all know that.

Speaker 23 (57:51):
And you look at the legislation they're passing here in
the state of Washington. They're going to chase so many businesses.

Speaker 5 (57:56):
Out of the state. And if you start.

Speaker 23 (57:58):
If you've already got economic growth problems, and you start
passing legislation that inspires or encourages wealthy to start leaving
your state, you're slit in your own throat. And that's
what they're doing here. And they're going to try to
pass this income tax that's on millionaires. So anybody earning
over a million dollars, anything over a million, they want

(58:20):
a tax eleven percent. Well, look, I'm not a rich guy,
but I run a business. We manage a billion dollars.
My business qualifies in that in that level, I paid
three hundred and fifty thousand dollars last year and B
and O and excise taxes. That money's leaving. I'm not
going to stay here and pay it. You're not going

(58:41):
to It's illegal what they're doing in the state. Our
constitution specifically says the only way you can pass an
income tax is if it's level across the board, If
it's a flat percentage across the board, you cannot target
different classes of people. So they're going to try to
pass an income tax that's completely illegal. Washington State Supreme
Court will uphold it because they are totally bought and

(59:03):
paid for and owned by one party, and a bunch
of guys like me are going to leave, and you're
gonna lose all of that B and O tax, all
of that excise tax. They're just slitting their own throats,
and it's it's uh. And the tough part about it
is it's not the guys that they're targeting that are
going to pay yeah, right, the guys with money can leave.

(59:28):
It's the small family businesses that have you know, the
plumbing company, plumbing company, construction companies, the guys that can't
go anywhere. None of the rich people, the Amazon execs
aren't going to pay it, the Microsoft execs aren't going
to pay it, none of them. You're gonna You're hitting
the local, small family businesses. And you know what a
lot of them are going to do. They're going to
sell to a multinational, right, a conglomerate, and that conglomerate

(59:52):
can operate in the state. So if you're in all
fifty states, maybe that tax just applies to one fiftieth
of your revenue. So you literally look at them and go, okay,
you're passing. And I'm just saying this because I think
Washington's a preview for other states. You're passing a deal
that is unquestionably especially in the in the connected age
of the Internet. You know how hard it is for
me to move my business to Arizona. It's as easy

(01:00:14):
as putting a laptop in a suitcase and just move it. Yeah, right,
like and just filing a couple of paper. My clients
wouldn't even know, right, We do it all over zoom
and phone and all that kind of stuff. So what
you're gonna do is you're gonna chase a bunch of
tax revenue out of the state. You're going to encourage
small businesses to get bought out by larger business And
all you're gonna do is increase the wealth gap and

(01:00:34):
increate lower tax revenue overall, and increase your poverty rates.
And it's so simple to see, and yet here they go.
And that's why I'm just looking at this whole thing, going, well,
they're doing it. You know, they's doning in California. I
saw that Zuckerberg he bought a two hundred million dollars
home in Florida. And you know, you've already had several
others who said I'm leaving. You know, if you get

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to just come after us and and Now this all
about let's get after unrealized gains. Let's get after under
realized gains.

Speaker 2 (01:01:01):
This want to They think they can tax their everybody
to equality, and all you end up doing is as
I tell everybody, Wealthy people are mobile people. They don't
need you, and they don't need your area. They'll go
somewhere else.

Speaker 5 (01:01:16):
Well, and it's simple economics, right, So take a look
at me.

Speaker 23 (01:01:20):
So when this and I say when because I just
can't see a scenario which it doesn't pass. But when
and if this tax in Washington passes, by me moving
somewhere else, I save a half million.

Speaker 5 (01:01:30):
Dollars a year.

Speaker 23 (01:01:30):
Yeah, that pays for Like, that's a large incentive to leave.
That pays for a lot of stuff, right they And.

Speaker 5 (01:01:38):
So you're that's the thing they like.

Speaker 23 (01:01:41):
The savings on your tax is enough for me to leave, right,
I don't even need to save up or plan for it,
right Like.

Speaker 5 (01:01:48):
And that's what they don't get is no, no, no,
it's not that they might. It's that why wouldn't they?

Speaker 23 (01:01:55):
Yes, right, and well, because the summers are here, beautiful, great,
they'll keep a home here and they'll spend four months
out of the.

Speaker 5 (01:02:00):
Ear ear Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
It's all you need to do. That's and you don't
get any other tax revenue. Yeah, so they're gonna they're
gonna be able to eat their dessert and eat their
their their dinner. And I don't think they understand it.
It's crazy. Talking to Zach a Ram, chievestment officer Bold Capital, Uh,
I feel.

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Like we're.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
The AI world's getting weird, right, Like, first of all,
you know, you've got the anthropic guy who's like their head,
you know, guy that's supposed to be protecting everybody. He says,
you know what, I'm out. I'm gonna go write poetry
and good luck with what's coming.

Speaker 20 (01:02:32):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
You've got several others of their ethical team who've said
this is getting weird, and it's just it feels you've
got money going in weird directions. I mean, it just
feels like something is happening when we're thinking about maybe
this could be terminator right Skynett and at the same
time also a bubble.

Speaker 5 (01:02:53):
I'm so glad you brought this up. So funny you do.

Speaker 23 (01:02:55):
I'm having a conversation with a client of mine today
and he happens to be I'm not going to say
the company for obvious reasons. But he happens to be
on a team of thirty people that are like the
tip of the spear for a major tech company on
the AI team, And I go, what's new? And he goes, Zach,
with each creasing increasing day, and he goes, it's not
just me us on the team, We're all talking about it.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
And he goes.

Speaker 5 (01:03:17):
The capability of this stuff is unbelievable.

Speaker 23 (01:03:20):
And he goes, but we are nowhere closer to figuring
out how to monetize this than we were a year
and a half. Yeah, and he goes, so the spend
isn't continuing and he goes, he goes, I am telling
you no matter what they're saying publicly, he goes, we
have no idea how we're going to get any money
back on this yet.

Speaker 2 (01:03:37):
Well, I go say, one point three trillion? Is it
open AI trillion.

Speaker 4 (01:03:42):
For the Yeah.

Speaker 23 (01:03:43):
Well, and the capex numbers that came out this year
looking at the big tech companies, it's over a trillion
of capex, over a trillion dollars of capex, And so
what's happening? And it's really if people like markets, this
is the thing that's fascinating about markets.

Speaker 5 (01:04:00):
So I love markets.

Speaker 23 (01:04:01):
No matter how great a trend is, right, it always
ends up reversing on itself.

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Right.

Speaker 23 (01:04:09):
So if we look at what made those big tech
companies so incredible, First of all, they're basically monopolies, right,
and they're incredibly capital light. They have extraordinarily and sustainably
high margins, and because of that, they're None of them
carried me debt. And if they carried debt, it was
because they wanted to and they could get it for
ridiculously cheap prices and then turn around and use.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
It to buy back their stock.

Speaker 23 (01:04:32):
You know, when your revenues are growing at fifteen percent
and you can borrow money at two you know, buying
back your stock's probably a pretty good idea.

Speaker 18 (01:04:40):
Right.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
Okay, well, now what are you doing now?

Speaker 23 (01:04:44):
You've invested so heavy an AI, which at this point
is a black box. Someone's gonna win, someone's gonna make
some money, but we have no idea how and what
is that investment?

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
That investment is risk, right.

Speaker 23 (01:04:55):
You have loaded the balance sheet of these companies up,
which and the companies are some of the most incredible
economic flywheels in history in terms of being money machines, right,
but you're getting rid of one of the biggest advantages
they had, which is no delution, no debt on the
balance sheet, and capital light. And now you're entering this
mat And look, I'm not saying it won't pay off,

(01:05:18):
but when you've got a single sector spending one point
two trillion dollars in cap X in a single year,
that is a massive amount of liability on those balance sheets.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
So then you look over and look at the price.

Speaker 5 (01:05:30):
Of the stocks and they haven't really dropped, not in
a significant way.

Speaker 23 (01:05:34):
And what I'm telling you, and I know you know this,
but for the listeners, if you want to know whether
this market is healthy, look at that.

Speaker 5 (01:05:40):
That's absurd.

Speaker 23 (01:05:41):
The more uncertainty you enter into a securities price, the
lower the price goes. Right, security prices a hate uncertainty. Well,
what do you call an extra two hundred billion dollars
of debt and dilution on the stock That's not added
liability and risk to your balance sheet?

Speaker 5 (01:05:57):
Of course it is. It's just it's madness.

Speaker 23 (01:05:59):
But you know, this is why we haven't liked that
US equities for the better part of the last year
and a half.

Speaker 2 (01:06:04):
And we still don't.

Speaker 23 (01:06:06):
Look, I think a lot of these Meg seven companies
are in trouble, and not in trouble like existential trouble.

Speaker 5 (01:06:11):
But I don't want to own their stock here, No,
I mean I can't figure out a reason why you'd
want to.

Speaker 21 (01:06:15):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:06:15):
And the reality is, do I think all of them
are going to be around in the next twelve to
twenty four months. Probably not. Some may gobble up, some may.
You can't bring in. You can't bring in thirteen to
fifteen billion dollars with three to five hundred million dollars
a year and spend and think soon it's gonna happen,
because I don't know what soon looks like.

Speaker 5 (01:06:36):
Well, and like you said too.

Speaker 23 (01:06:37):
I mean you've got you know what, we're anthropic and
chat GPT like Remember if we go back in a
year and a half ago, they should.

Speaker 5 (01:06:45):
Be swimming in profits already. Yeah they're not. No, they're not.
And and here's the part of it that I think
that everybody kind of forgot.

Speaker 23 (01:06:53):
This isn't the second generation of VR, this isn't the
second generation of social media. And those companies were so
powerful is because they had an economic edge on everybody
else that allowed them to accumulate and stack the greatest
technology talent coders. They collect up all the coders and

(01:07:14):
that was effectively their moat around their business.

Speaker 2 (01:07:18):
Right, they had all the best coders in the world.

Speaker 23 (01:07:20):
You don't, They're going to come up with the coolest
stuff and that's how they maintain their supremacy. Well, now
everybody has the best coder in the world in their pocket.
So I look at a lot of these tech companies
and I go, hey, guys, you just created your downfall.
Not for all of them, I'm not saying that, but
for some of them, they're gone.

Speaker 5 (01:07:39):
Yeah, yeah, they're gone.

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Speaker 1 (01:09:54):
Fronting with Scissors sounds great compared.

Speaker 2 (01:09:56):
To this same Those kids use funny words, and sometimes
those words are words we used to use in other
times their words, quite frankly, that they made up, which
is one person said the linguist, you know what, it's good,
We need more words. Well, they're making up words, and
so we better learn those words. Otherwise we're going to

(01:10:18):
be in a lot of trouble.

Speaker 24 (01:10:20):
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.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
All right now, this one, kids, is in fuego. Not
the word in fuego's not the word, but as far
as it's hot, it's the word. It's the thing that's
going on right now on the Internet. It's called jester maxing, right,
one of the things they called Gester maxing. It comes

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from the world, the looks maxing world. Those were people
trying to always look their best. Well, Jester maxing isn't
about looking your best. It's about kind of being an
idiot for everybody else, being a jester. Oh so people
look over and go, oh, look at that, you know,
look at Chad over there being wacky and crazy making
everybody laugh. He's jestermaxing for the camera. Oh yeah, jestermaxing

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is the hot new thing going on. And you're gonna
see tons of this because this is kind of becoming
a situation where not only is it the hot word,
but clippers, people who will clip certain things and put
it all over the Internet to try to get people
to watch other content, are gestermaxing right now, so you
put out the absurd. It's like a live action clickbait,

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if you will. Gestermaxing is your urban word of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:11:45):
That was the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Now you know it is good to know. I just
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Helps us out right here on the Chad Benson Show.
Coming out our number three of the program, the last
hour of the week. We continue talking about Friday, thirteenth,
Valentine's Day, having fun with that. Probably got some mapp

(01:12:30):
scene stuff we might throw in there, speaking of unlucky
for anybody's associated with it, is what I'm trying to say. Plus,
we got your What's trending and our buddy Jim Kennedy
from the Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research is going
to join the program. We talked a little bit about
the Save Act. What did he think of Bondy, who,
of course laid an egg. We'll find out what he

(01:12:53):
thinks about it. And also we're going to talk a
little bit about the immigration with him. Our number three
of the program is straight ahead Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
You know, if you thought him picking up a dead
bear was interesting or having worms in his brain, then
you don't know real interesting. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.
Maha make America healthy again. Robert Kennedy Junior. And I said,

(01:13:54):
I'm not scared of a germ.

Speaker 14 (01:13:55):
You know, I used to smart cocaine off the toilet seats,
and yeah, I know this disease will kill me.

Speaker 2 (01:14:04):
Oh what's the context they use that in? Yeah, I
don't really think it matters what the context is. He
was on with THEO Vaughn So used to snort cocaine
off of toilet seats, So you don't care about germs?
Oh okay, Oh how did we get here between.

Speaker 6 (01:14:25):
That and the Dow was over fifty thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
It's not it doesn't it's just it's not. It's not
a good look. It isn't. I'm sorry, it isn't. Just
I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats. Was
there nowhere else to do it? Or was that your
lucky toilet seat?

Speaker 17 (01:14:46):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
It was my lucky toilet seat. Okay, I just want
to make sure right was there someplace you could have
gone elsewhere?

Speaker 4 (01:14:52):
Like was?

Speaker 2 (01:14:53):
You know, I'm trying to figure this out. I'm trying
to piece it together. Oh, ladies and gentlemen in entity. Indeed, meanwhile,
several of you have texted program. I appreciate you when
you do that. You can leave messages as well. Three two, three, five,
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That is your ex and your Insta. But when you
text the line, we try to get back to everybody
as fast as possible. I'm a one man band here, okay. Uh,
several of you chiming in about Yes, the one and
only Pam.

Speaker 6 (01:15:30):
BONDI the dow was over fifty thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:15:33):
So one person seven O seven seven. Yes, she's awful,
so in professional embarrassing to me as a female in
law enforcement. Oh, the dow was over fifty thousand. Soundbit
is hilarious.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
What the Dow is over fifty thousand, Thank.

Speaker 4 (01:15:51):
You very much.

Speaker 2 (01:15:52):
Appreciate that.

Speaker 18 (01:15:54):
Uh, just.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Hilarious. Forty sixty two says Dow's over fifty five, fifty thousand.
You know the bit we're playing and stuff. Because she
said it, she says not to mention that the people
actually benefiting the most from the stock market are the scumbags.
I see what you're going with that one.

Speaker 3 (01:16:16):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
And finally, nice take on Pam BONDI Chad, Yeah, thank
you very much. I appreciate that. I mean, it's it's
insane that we're we're talking about it. And I want
to say, you know, we sit here, we talk about
all kinds of stuff. We're gonna get to the Valentine's Day,
Gallantine's Day coming up in a bit. But can I

(01:16:39):
just say, yesterday I retweeted something about Thomas Massey. Okay, Now,
if you don't know Thomas Massey, he is a thorn
in Trump's side because he says no all the time

(01:17:00):
to spending more money. He's not an interventionist. He's kind
of like what an realistically, he's kind of like what
an old school Republican would be, smaller government, less, restriction less, spending,
no interventions in foreign wars, no adventures over there. So

(01:17:24):
he's you know somebody is he's libertarian. I think he's
a Conservatorian, as I call him small c. But he's
the one that has been on this from jump. And
I will never give money to a politician, but Trump
is going after him so hard. I said to myself
the other day, you know what, I might donate to Thomas.
I might. I might donate to him because I think

(01:17:47):
he is doing it for not the clicks, not the likes,
not to be a pain in Remember he voted with
Trump ninety one percent of the time. But he's doing
because it's the right thing to do. And the maga

(01:18:08):
folk go after him all the time. And he was
asked about, you know, like it was this kind of
the easy thing to do.

Speaker 4 (01:18:12):
You know you're doing this.

Speaker 21 (01:18:13):
I always find it laughable when people say I'm just
doing this for the politics. Look, I'm getting the crap
beat out of me politically for doing this. But I
you know, the most popular politician in my state, who
is President Trump. Obviously it'd be a whole lot easier
politically to get re elected if I just did what
he wanted and ignored the Epstein files and called them

(01:18:36):
a hoax. But I'm not willing to do that. You know,
I've met with the survivors. This is personal to me now,
and so you know it's true that my political career
is on the line, my political life, but my own
health and well being could very well be too. I've
upset a lot of billionaires who obviously aren't of high

(01:18:58):
moral character and have it's done some really shady stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:19:02):
Yeah, and I love the fact that he's doing it
regardless of his political outcome. He's doing it. He's doing
it regardless of what might be the end of his
political career, because he chose to do the right thing.

(01:19:24):
And we need more of that in politics. Less show
voting less protecting, more transparency and putting aside the right
and the left and going with right and wrong and
what's best for the people. Let me know what you think.
Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four to twenty
three at Chad Benson Show is your ex It's insto

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all the other things. We love hearing from all of you.
Like I said, I try to get back to every
single one of you. A lot of you tweet at
me and text at me and hit me up on
the DMS that I do try to get back again.
I am a one man band, kids, I am a
one man band. Valentine's Day is this this way again?
As you guys know, we've been talking about Valentine's Day
and Friday thirteenth. Who was Valentine? Say, Valentine was a

(01:20:08):
Roman priest. Emperor Claudius the second did what banned young
men from marrying. So what happened, Well, he thought singles
dudes better soldiers, So Valentine secretly performed marriages, right, And
there was the lore of He was executed on February fourteenth,

(01:20:29):
around two sixty nine eighty. And one of the big
legends was he signed a letter before his death from
your Valentine. How much of that's real? How much of
that's folklore kind of thing. But he was a martyr,
and so that's why he Saint Valentine patrons Ate of love.
So here's some of the interesting stuff, okay, and I

(01:20:51):
and I went through a little bit earlier. But I
just want to give you guys the numbers of how
big Valentine's Day is. Twenty six point two billion. This
year's gonna spend candy, jewelry, flowers, dying, and dining will dominate. Okay,
Hallmark produced Valentine cards starting in nineteen ten. Candy companies

(01:21:13):
jumped into the Valentine's party early in the nineteen hundreds,
and we are looking at so many engagements. Up to
six million engagements tomorrow is what they expect. And guess what, kids,

(01:21:35):
we spend hundreds of millions of dollars on our pets
for Valentine's Day. Stee, if you as a snapshot having
fun with it, what was your first Valentine? I remember
like it was like, you know, the first Valentine Valentine,
I was like fifth grade or something, and it was

(01:21:56):
one of those ones where everybody, you know, we still
bring candy, you know, known cards for everybody, and the
card that that you would, you know, give everybody, it's
just those cheesy cards. And they had the you get
that horrible you know Valentine candy that said you're the best,
or you know, I like roses, or you're sweet, that

(01:22:17):
horrible chalk candy. But I remember, uh, a girl named Shannon.
She gave me. She gave everybody else regular cards, and
she gave me a big card with a big giant candy.

Speaker 4 (01:22:29):
Bar on it.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
I was like nice, I'm in oh yeah, oh goodness me.
I just it's crazy, right when you think about we
spent twenty six point two billion dollars. It's not just us.
Other countries to have something like that, something a lot

(01:22:51):
more of. It's like this, This Scandinavian country is a
little bit more playful. They send you poems and and
funny you know, love letters and stuff and ship letters.
But they do it and they kind of do it
in a way where they don't sign their name. The
whole thing is you're trying to guess who sent you
that stuff. And it's just it's so interesting the way
that others do it because we take it, you know,

(01:23:12):
Hallmark with all the movies, Hallmark the cards. How many
guys are gonna beat off the freeway today and realize,
oh my god, tomorrow's Valentine's dy I got to figure
out how to get flowers or something like that. And
what do they spend on See, here's my thing. What's
the breakdown of guy spending versus women on men? Okay,

(01:23:35):
so we have a bit of a breakdown. So on average,
and there's a few surveys here, men spend far more
than women, not a shocker, one hundred and seventy five dollars,
says one of the surveys is what a man spends

(01:23:57):
compared to a woman will spend less than one hundred dollars.
An older survey out of the University of Texas said
a man will spend about one hundred and seventy six
bucks in change on a woman. The woman, on average
spends about eighty nine bucks, so men will outspend women

(01:24:21):
by more than double. Men are more likely to get jewelry,
take them for upscale dinners and experiences, which drives up
the average. Women give smaller gifts, experience they share together,
mindful celebrations, Yeah, yeah, yeah, three, two three, five, twenty four,
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Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?
Signed James Dean.

Speaker 25 (01:26:44):
Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Serlot.

Speaker 2 (01:26:55):
What trupping? I right our right out right? What's trending?
And only is Friday? The Olympics are trending because there's
controversy at the Olympics. Top of that. Epstein trending, Pam

(01:27:17):
Bondi trending, Vote Yes trending, Friday the thirteenth trending. All
these are on acts. It's just funny the whole vote
yes if we don't know what that's about. That's about
the Save Act. The Republicans are just just gotta have
gotta have the Save Act done. Got to do everything

(01:27:39):
we can to get the Save Act through. I'm a
big proponent of voter ID. But you know what they're
trying to do is they're trying to make it harder.
They are because they have it in their mind that
there's this massive fraud going on. Yet every time they
do an investigation or a study, nobody can find it.

(01:28:02):
Net Yahoo trending because he's here or was here, should
probably just get a room, right your hears so much?
Oh lowerty Loerty over to the giggle uh Winter Olympics trending.
Kathy Rumler. I think how she was Goldman Sachs like

(01:28:24):
the I think she was the top lawyer. Apparently she
had some sort of relationship. She's in some of these emails,
so she is no longer the top lawyer at Goldman.
I've got enough issues. Spider Noir, which is a Nicholas
Cage no R version of Spider Man and the trailer

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debut yesterday. Thing's to be on Netflix. That is trending
Friday thirteenth again, Yes, John Wick Game three, two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four, twenty three at Chet Benson Show, is your
ex insta YouTube and all the other things right here
in the Chad Benson Show. Finally over to Yahoo. Jim

(01:29:10):
Ratcliffe apologizes, claiming Britain has been colonized by migrants touched
on him yesterday, limpic figure skating, Boomer Sias and DHS funding.
Nancy Done three is also trending as well. And why
is there a tent in front of the entrance of

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her home? Again? It is Friday to thirteenth people like,
where do we get the weird stuff with Friday to thirteenth. Well,
let's have some fun with it, as we have been
throughout the day. In Christian tradition, Friday was linked to misfortune.
Jesus crucified on Friday, Good Friday. Some medieval traditions claimed
that Adam and Eve were kicked out on a Friday,
the Great Flood began on a Friday. In fact, sailors

(01:29:53):
long avoided launching ships on Fridays. The Last Supper thirteen
people at the table Judas the Betrayer was traditionally considered
thirteen guest. Oh, I see where you're going. In Norse mythology,
twelve gods we're dining in Valhalla. The thirteenth was low key.
Oh yeah. On October the thirteenth, which was a Friday.

(01:30:14):
In thirteen oh seven, King Philip the fourth of France
ordered the mass arrests of the Knight's Templar. Many were
tortured and executed. But again a lot of this is
folklore and whatnot. So the reality is some people just
think the number thirteen is unlucky. I find the number

(01:30:35):
thirteen to be very lucky for me. And if you
want to know how to say it. The Fear of
Friday the thirteenth. It is Parah Skevia dka tripophobia, Perry
Eskevia d trip of phobia. I probably said it wrong.
That's supposedly what the name is coming up. Jim Kennedy.
Kennedy It's stud of Public Policy Research, joins the program.

Speaker 22 (01:30:56):
It is the Chat Bent to Check Sun Chat Dentson Show,

(01:31:20):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
It is that time of the week. We're talking to
our good buddy, Jim Kennedy. The Kennedy Institute of Public
Policy Research is thousands. Oh god, Pam, stop it. So, Chad,
where is the dow? Well? I heard and this is
just what I heard.

Speaker 6 (01:31:36):
The dow is over fifty thousand.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
That's what I heard. How do you not fire her?
How do you not fire Pam Bondi.

Speaker 18 (01:31:42):
I don't know if Bondi's going to stay or not.
I thought she had done a good job in Florida.
Clearly she was not ready for the national level, because
this is not the first you know, whatever you want
to call it. You know that has happened. And it's like,
I don't really know. I'm kind of thinking through. Is
Chad give me examples the thing she's handled.

Speaker 2 (01:31:59):
Well, I can't, I can't. I mean, you know she couldn't.
You know, she's the one person on the planet, her
Department of Justice, who can't actually get an indictment to stick,
even if you go to a grand jury.

Speaker 18 (01:32:10):
Yeah, and it's so it's like, what are you doing?
I mean, if you can't make it stick, don't try
to charge him.

Speaker 2 (01:32:16):
You look like you're silly, which is what I've been
saying all along. It looks vindictive that you do all
these kinds of things. And what do you do today?
Already what happened that judge just excoriated Pete hegseth over
you know what, you know what he did going after
Mark Kelly and all the other ones. This is not
the first time from you know, every one of these

(01:32:38):
things that we've seen is all going to get tossed out,
except for maybe Bolton. Bolton might stick because you never
know what that guy. But at the same time, you know,
but outside of that, all of these are going to
get thrown out. And what do you have You look
like a fool.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
You don't think any of the lemons are going to stick?

Speaker 2 (01:32:53):
No, at this point, it's becoming an embarrassment and Trump's
revenge to or whatever you want to call it, because
that's what the media is calling it is falling flats.
And I look even at Georgia right, like this whole
thing with you know, Georgia, and why is kel you know,
why is Tulcay Gabbett there? Why is the the intelligence

(01:33:14):
director who's supposed to be focusing on intelligence in other
countries not here. Why are you at the place that
the FBI is going into in rating.

Speaker 18 (01:33:24):
Well, yeah, considered we may bee invading Iran at any minute.
I would think she would have obligation, you know, things
that would keep her busy, that would be more on
the world stage than would be on.

Speaker 4 (01:33:33):
The whole thing. And by the way, last time I checked,
I know she's not just and I.

Speaker 18 (01:33:37):
Know she's not the CIA director, but CIA doesn't have
doesn't have a a portfolio that says spy in the
United States. No, we've been through this about fifty years ago.
They got their handslapped for spying on Americans. I don't
really know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
Talking Jim Kennedy Kennedy Instroude pug Policy Research Holman, Remember
he was an Obama guy did a whole bunch of
stuff there. Then he they stayed on with Trump and
he did some stuff there. Then he left it some
private sector stuff, came back and then took the bribe
or whatever allegedly remember that when he got the money
in the bag from like, yeah, whatever that was about.
But let's not forget he was out there the other

(01:34:13):
day and he said, we can't do this. We look
like fools. This is not helping anything. And it's like
he seems to be the only adult in some of
these situations. I was even brazing at one time, Sean Duffy,
but that wasn't until they decided to use a laser
over an airport and then they closed it down for

(01:34:34):
ten days. That lasted three minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:34:36):
Yeah, and that thing.

Speaker 18 (01:34:38):
I want to know more about that because that seems interesting.
I've seen a lot of people in the intelligence and
our military world postulate on what exactly that was about.
And you know, it sounds like this may be regardless
of what you know, how long it is, this may
be a sea change with the cartels as far as
their willingness to be aggressive and do you know across

(01:35:01):
border type of activities. May this may have been a
one off, but they may be, you know, they think
about how this pans out. They may be you know,
gearing up, and I don't know because of Shine Bloom's
you know, connections are not connections with the cartel. I
don't know how you get to be president in Mexico
without having some sort of you know, I would say deal,
but agreement in a sense with the cartel.

Speaker 4 (01:35:23):
Yeah, do run the country? Yeah.

Speaker 18 (01:35:25):
And as much as her dislike for Trump is, I'm
really curious of how that all ties together. I'm not
a conspiracy theorist here because I'd like to, you know,
have to see what's going to go on.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
But well, apparently it was a balloon. From what we
can get, it was a balloon, Jim. It was a balloon.
And I'm not even sure when they fired it off
because but what they're saying is that Border Patrol were
the ones who fired it off. And nobody's really sure
why they were first of all, why they even have it.
But one general I saw with Ali Bradley the other day,

(01:35:55):
and I love Alice. She's on News Nation. She says
the general told her there's about a thou and drones
a month. Incursions a month from Mexico. Most of them cartels,
not all of them, but most of them are cartels.
And for the most part, they're there to jam. They're
there to see if the coast is clear, if you
will yea and or deliver some stuff. They're not there for,

(01:36:18):
you know, to blow things up or do what about there.

Speaker 4 (01:36:21):
They're they're basically reconnaissance.

Speaker 18 (01:36:24):
Yeah, yeah, basically doing recon so and then and they
tend to go overlook and then go back. They don't
necessarily linger for large amounts of time across American border.
But yeah, I saw some people that were saying that
this was so I guess if it was a blue
then that they were incorrect. They were saying that they
it was their understanding that there was a larger group
of drones that represented more of a threat. So if

(01:36:45):
that's incorrect, and they somehow turned the drone you know,
balloon into drones in the you know, as they were
trying to identify the object, that I that I that
I will back down from that comment from earlier.

Speaker 2 (01:36:56):
Well, I mean I just got to say this. You
shot the blue down faster than Biden, Faster than Biden
because Biden would have let it float around for several
months and then eventually fall out to see you know,
after the Chinese said, ah, we didn't take anything except
for the part, well, you took everything that you could,
you know, as far as information wise. Talking to Jim

(01:37:16):
Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research, let's talk about
the I want to talk about the Save Acts because
I am sure so. I went through the Heritage Foundation
and their report, which was arguably the biggest investigation into
voter fraud in history, and they found that in like

(01:37:40):
four billion votes, there was like twelve hundred cases of
voter fraud, of which a vast majority had nothing to
do with people that were here illegal. They were felons voting,
or people that steal somebody's identity or fell at grandma's thing.
And then the Brookings Institute went and grabbed it, then
the Brandon Center, they all did their own and there's
virtually none of this. And I have some questions about

(01:38:04):
the way that that they're going about doing this, because
you know what, there's twenty one million plus people out there,
myself being one, who do you know where you're if
you don't have passport, do you know where you're you know.
Let's say you need to go and do this, and
they said, hey, Jim, we need to see your birth certificate.
Do you know where it is?

Speaker 4 (01:38:24):
Yes, I do because I went through this last year.

Speaker 18 (01:38:26):
If you remember when I came down to Nashville to
visit you, I did not have a real ID and
I basically signed up thinking and got a I got
my passport renewed after that, and I could not find
my bridge to get at the time and had to
get another copy from the county of which I resided.
So yes, I do know where mine is because I've
just gotten fresh copies of everything within the last twelve months.

Speaker 4 (01:38:47):
But if you needed to register, but I'm an outlier,
I am sure.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
Well no, but if you need if you were going
and they said, oh, Jim, you need to register and
you need to go home and find a birth certificate
and you hadn't traveled you it would be tough for
you to do, like to immediately snap and do it.

Speaker 18 (01:39:04):
Yes, because I thought I knew where mine was once
I looked for it and where I thought that I
had put it, which which was a very odd place,
and I went to look for it in that location,
it was not in there.

Speaker 4 (01:39:14):
Which is why I was a little perplexed.

Speaker 18 (01:39:16):
And unfortunately I had not renewed my passport in a
timely manner when it expired a number of years.

Speaker 4 (01:39:21):
Ago, and I had to you know, they would not
let me do it. I had to go get a
new and to go through the whole process and get
a photo and YadA, YadA, YadA. And it's not cheap.

Speaker 18 (01:39:28):
It was one hundred and eighty five dollars for both
the passport and the ID card, which kind of looks
like a driver's license ish card if you don't want
to carry the actual, you know, hard the actual book passport,
which I don't think they stamp as much anymore as
they used to.

Speaker 4 (01:39:43):
I mean, the first one was cool because I've.

Speaker 18 (01:39:44):
Got like a stamp for China and Tibet and a
bunch of you know, semi cool countries that I went to.
But yeah, no, no, But you're right, and for the
majority of people, they can't lay their hands on their
passport immediately, or they certainly can't lay their hands on
their birth maybe their passport if they travel a lot,
and there's a lot of people in Americans that don't
have passport. I think it's something like only.

Speaker 2 (01:40:03):
I think it's fifty percent of America doesn't have a fast.

Speaker 18 (01:40:05):
Yeah, I could remember the number that that sounds about right,
And then that doesn't really surprise and there's lots of
people that haven't traveled.

Speaker 4 (01:40:11):
The thing is the left usually does is they usually
find this corner case.

Speaker 18 (01:40:15):
Of course, an African American woman who's in her late eighties,
who lives in a small town in Mississippi, who never
is driven and has never had a bank account, and
the courthouse where all the records restored burned down in
nineteen fifty three during the during the Civil rights right
or you know, during the civil rights you know, start
of the civil rights era, and they've never been you know,

(01:40:36):
she can't get a copy of her passport and she'll
have no way to vote. Now, yeah, they'll find that
is that's the that's their typical case, and that is unfortunate,
and I think you have to do something to where
you are able to, you know, make sure that that
that that poor lady doesn't get disenfranchised. The problems those
are what you call corner cases that are just you know,
one in ten thousand and one and one hundred thousand

(01:40:57):
and one and a million types of cases.

Speaker 4 (01:41:00):
I don't see a problem with making see.

Speaker 18 (01:41:04):
The other argument that comes up with this also is
the same Act makes you required to do this at
the time of registration, which is good, but I also
want id at the time of voting to verify that
you are that person so that somebody isn't coming up. California,
you know, we've got the problem with all the mail
in ballots, and it leaves lots of room for potential fraud.

(01:41:27):
Not saying there has been any, but there's lots of
elections that I watched, and you know how we usually
go through our election coverage and our post election coverage.
California is infamous for those races where a Republican may
lead on election night and it takes us thirty five
days to count votes in California for some bizarre reason,
and come, you know, the end of ten days, miraculously

(01:41:50):
that Democrat that was, you know, twenty seven hundred votes
down is now two hundred votes up after fourteen days
of counting votes. And it happens time and time again
in a lot of districts. Not saying they're doing anything wrong,
it just never seems to go the other direction in
a lot of these races, especially here in California. So
I really want to make sure that all the ballots

(01:42:11):
got some sort of an ID tied to them and
they and that there's a solid chain of command on
it and or it's sorry chain of custody on it.
And that is kind of where I'm more concerned about,
you know, proving identity along with proof of citizenship in
California and in every state in America. Now, the thing is,
I'm going to be curious how that the Save Act

(01:42:32):
is going to be implemented because the Constitution gives the
states the right to set criteria for registration and voting.
So I'm not sure how they're going to make that
stick when it's not a federal duty to safeguard elections.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
Unfortunately, and I just you know, I look at this,
this is a big deal. I get it. Showing an ID.
I don't think it's a big deal there. This whole
like got to go jump through the hoops, suspecially for me,
which has become a NYM error where because when my
dad died, my mom we changed our name back to
my mom's name, you know, just my mom wanted to

(01:43:06):
be kind of done with the whole mess, and so
my sister and I my mom, we changed our name
are the last save. They told me I can get
my birth certificate, but to get my name change, I
actually have to come in. And I'm like, well, can
I sign over like power of attorney for my mom
to come into. No, you have to do yourself. And
I'm like, they said, it's probably easier if you just
change your name back, Like that's how stupid this is,

(01:43:29):
and I'm like, you know what, you know it's easier.
I sud want to vote at this point in time.
First of all, I'm unhappy with everybody that's doing it.
And the second, the only person I'd like to vote
for was Thomas Massey at this point, and he's not
in my district or my state.

Speaker 18 (01:43:40):
Yes, you'd have to move again and show idea, buy
a residence, forget another apartment.

Speaker 2 (01:43:45):
So frustrating. It's so frustrating, man, just nuts, I said
Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research. Jim, we
love having you on because you make us laugh. Brother,
you make us laugh, and we love that. We'll do
it again on Monday because we've got midterm and there's
a lot of midterm and stuff going on. We will
do that sounds a good man. I'll talk to you
then make sure you join us Monday as always on

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Speaker 1 (01:45:34):
No Deep Doo doo, Yeah, The Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
As we wrap up this wonderful week of chaos of
and loving to see and all the usual stuff that
seems to happen weekend and week out in the world
of politics, pop culture, in life, let's remind ourselves what
exactly happened this week.

Speaker 8 (01:45:57):
Fett rains above them all the other fell, the Seahawks,
super Bowl Chickions for the second.

Speaker 9 (01:46:05):
Time to get up there and perform the whole The
whole show in Spanish is a middle finger to the
rest of America.

Speaker 10 (01:46:13):
I'm not one hundred dollars walking fifle. I know how
I said, anybody burning, I do my bucketing my.

Speaker 6 (01:46:23):
Skin, I mo morning, I be brock fine, I'm.

Speaker 10 (01:46:30):
I'm my motor run again.

Speaker 9 (01:46:34):
It's fine.

Speaker 11 (01:46:39):
The first crowd was in uh Mississip, Georgia. A lot
of people that is overwhelmed, and that is when I cry.

Speaker 5 (01:46:49):
It's a beautiful thing, honestly bringing people together.

Speaker 1 (01:46:52):
Such a great message.

Speaker 13 (01:46:53):
We need it now.

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
Being able to be a part of this movement is
just an amazing thing.

Speaker 18 (01:46:57):
It's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:47:00):
Here, I've got my motor running. Wow again, it's fine.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
Working or time.

Speaker 6 (01:47:12):
We believe our mom is still out there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:14):
We need your help.

Speaker 14 (01:47:15):
And I said, I'm not scared of a germ. You know,
I used to snort cocaine.

Speaker 13 (01:47:20):
The toilet seats YouTube says we're buy young people with
a safer, healthier experience.

Speaker 2 (01:47:24):
Has always been core to our work.

Speaker 8 (01:47:28):
Be hurting in my.

Speaker 10 (01:47:31):
Judy wondered if ever so Wendy and a thirty hours
slowly tunity Browny.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
Off, Fay. I'm free here, I've got my motor running.

Speaker 10 (01:47:48):
It's time out of control forgetting the work.

Speaker 15 (01:47:56):
I just wanted to ask you have your chance to
review any of the unred acted files over at the
DJ the Epstein put I did you did?

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:48:03):
I just came from there.

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
What can you tell us?

Speaker 1 (01:48:05):
There's a bunch of six.

Speaker 3 (01:48:07):
This is the rotting, infected wound in the center of
the Trump movement.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
It is going to kill it. That's why I say
this is going to go down as one of the
greatest cover ups in American history.

Speaker 16 (01:48:18):
The dow, the dow right now is over. The Dow
is over fifty thousand dollars. I don't know why you're laughing.
You're a great stock trader, as I hear raskin.

Speaker 2 (01:48:28):
Oh so cringey, shrieky. Still don't know how she has
the job. It's spiraling the White House. I told you, guys,
I told you, but you not to listen to me.
It's a shame. You should have three two, three, five,
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Solid fun week of shows. It's really weird. It's've got
Valentine's Day tomorrow. Okay, make sure you get your loved
one something and ladies that goes for you too. Okay,
it's not just about you, all right, Okay, so make

(01:49:16):
sure always feels like it's just for the ladies. What
do we always talk about just for the ladies. As
we're talking about earlier how much money we spend on
Valentine's Day, I can guarantee you a vast majority of
it is just for the ladies. Nothing wrong with that,
A little reciprocal, It's all I'm saying. You guys have
blessed an amazing weekend. We'll do it again on Monday

(01:49:36):
as always, Night Night Chat.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):
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