House Budget Plan Advances to Final Floor Vote

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
We had drama at the Capitol yesterday, which was interesting
because this was actual bill stuff. This was that the
usual Trump does something, everybody freaks out. Elon somewhere everybody
freaks out. Do you guys see Elon was hiding in
the planner. I mean, you know, whatever weird stuff that
goes on that everybody freaks out about. This was actual

(00:36):
drama about the budget, which I'm not a fan of.
By the way, I'm gonna go out there and say this,
I think the budget is ridiculous. I think what they're
looking at is ridiculous. I want to see cuts. I
want to see us in a situation where we're looking

(00:56):
to curb.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Spending.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
We always talk about it. We don't have a revenue problem, kids,
we have a what we have a spending problem.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
So you're gonna cut taxes and then maybe cut some places.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
It was a little high drama for a place that's
normally just high school drama.

Speaker 4 (01:22):
The drama of this was that Tim Burchett was among
four holdout votes who didn't seem to move in their
vote after an hour of leadership working on them, so
House Republican leadership ultimately sent everyone home appeared to cancel
this vote, and then lawmakers rushed back in here when
leadership put the vote back on because they appeared to
have moved some no votes into yes votes. We saw

(01:43):
lawmakers sprinting up these stairs to go vote.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
And they went and voted. I mean it was done.
I mean it was over. Mike Johnson's like.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
I don't know what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
And then all of a sudden, thirteen minutes later, they're
sprinting back as fast as those guys could sprint. The
ladies are walking fast. Some of the bigger guys are
wobbling as they head over there. We gotta go vote,
we gotta go spend America's money.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Something happened in those thirteen minutes.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Ultimately, what we heard from members is that they got
assurances or they were just worked on enough by House
Republican leadership to change their votes. Ultimately, three of those
four no votes turning into yes votes, including Tim Burchett
and then Warren Davin Said and Victorious Sparks alterning from
no votes into yes votes. Thomas Massey, a long time
spending hawk, was one of the was the only vote

(02:34):
rather who was no one the original process of this
and no at the end of this vote.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Which I love, I do. I love the fact that
he was a no on this and I'm hoping to
get Birchet later on today and have a chat with
him to find out why, because he's very much a
fiscal hawk as well. And so you're gonna cut a

(03:00):
certain area, right, but that's discretionary.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
And again, this is over time.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
This is not a year like one year we're gonna
do this and it's four trillion and two trillion. This
is over time. But once again we don't know where
the cuts are going. And of course Medicare and that
stuff is all up for grabs, and we'll talk a
little bit about that, because they promise not to cut Medicare,
but they're going to. At the same time, the Democrats

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never want to talk about the waste, fraud, and abuse.
And it is not just a smidge when it comes
to what goes on in some of these you know,
whether it's Snap or Medicare or several of these other programs,
that is huge. And depending on what program you're talking
about and what study you're looking at, it is massive.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
Democrats are know on this budget, it is outrageous that
you all have the audacity to come here with this
budget that harms so many Americans and ask us to
support billionaires and think we're going to buy it. You
think we're going to support it, Well, you got another
thought coming.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
We ain't doing it.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Ooh, I wonder if you got that from Judas Priest.
You got another thing coming deep Probably not, Maxine probably
did not get that. And it's easy to talk about millionaires.
I wouldn't on the personal income. I wouldn't cut corporate
I would absolutely cut And remember rich people. You guys

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know this.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
I've got friends who are stupid wealthy, the kind of
wealthy you were like.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Are you kidding me? And they're like, do you can
charge me one hundred percent? The way that they've worked it,
the way that the system is, the way that our
tax codes are, the way that these things are written.
They pay people full time to work on their finances.
Think about that. This isn't going once a year for
your taxes. These people work on it full time. That's

(05:01):
all they do. That's it. So there's ways around it. See,
if you're a Republican, I'm thinking big picture, what is
going to keep us? Because the Democrats are showing that
they're swinging and missing at everything because they don't know

(05:24):
anything other than that they're just swinging miss Like, what's
the dumbest thing we could do?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
All right, let's do it, let's double down on it.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
Actually, but if i'm the Republicans, you've already won over
the working class vote. Hold it there, show that you're
not the billionaires and gazillionaires. Because the billionaires and gazillionaires
are fine. Now, corporate taxes are totally a different thing
because who pays corporate taxes corporations, No, the you and

(05:53):
I the consumer. So we've got to make it competitive.
So I would be looking at things like that take
away any ammo they have. That's what you need to
be doing, and right now, I don't think that's happening.

(06:16):
I gotta be honest with you. And yes, when it
comes to medicid, because you hear doing.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
Medicaid and Medicare and meta meta and super meta and
double meta and Social Security and they're going to go
on and on about all of these things.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
Look at all these cuts that are coming here, But
they're given gazillionaires tax breaks.

Speaker 7 (06:36):
The richest people in the world, and that is who
this Republican budget helps It steals from taxpayers and funnels
the money to those at the very top. Imagine stealing
from school meals for kids so that billionaires can get
another tax giveaway. The Republican budget cuts, for example, three

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hundred and thirty billion dollars from programs related to education.
Those education cuts include twelve billion dollars from school meals.
How dare you?

Speaker 3 (07:08):
And this is a debate that's going on forever now.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Just because these things are cut on the federal side,
the states would have to if they wanted to continue
to implement them, come up with the cash. And that's
going to put them in a crunch. It's no doubt
about that. But for me, and again I'm big picture.
I'm looking at it not as a Republican or as
a Democrat, as an American and as somebody who looks
at the Republicans and says, I'm not always thrilled by

(07:31):
what you guys do, but I believe there's more common
sense over here, and I look over and identify so
much more that you do that I like. But I'm
not a fan of this, be honest with you. I'm
not a fan of some of this stuff here just
because I think the way. Like anything, it's all about
the implementation. How does it look? How do you guys

(07:54):
put it into play? No idea, what do you it's
going to cut over the next teen years that are
going to pay for some of this stuff. Well you've
got two trillion dollars in cuts. Fantastic. Where where exactly
are those cuts? Well, we haven't decided yet. Okay, And
remember everybody wants cuts. Nobody wants their thing cut. Mike Johnson.

Speaker 8 (08:17):
Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud,
wasted abuse. Everybody knows that.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
We all know it.

Speaker 8 (08:23):
Intuitively, no one in here would disagree. We had a
hearing in a budget and they asked the experts, and
the estimate is it's I think it's fifty billion dollars
a year in fraud alone in Medicaid. Those are precious
taxpayer dollars. Everybody is committed to preserving Medicare benefits for
those who desperately need it and deserve it and qualify

(08:43):
for it. What we're talking about is rooting out the
fraud wasting abuse. Every taxpayer, doesn't matter what party you're in,
you should be for that because it saves your money.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
It does.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
And by the way, so the National Council of Aging reports.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
That meta care loses a prox at at least sixty
billion each year to fraud, errors, or waste and abuse.
The National Healthcare Anti Fraud Association estimates the financial losses
due to healthcare fraud are in the tens of billions

(09:17):
of dollars annually, with some saying it could be as
close to three hundred billion. When you consider all the
health care expenditures, well, do they get any of that
money back? Are you ready? For this fiscal year twenty
twenty four just passed us. They got back seven billion,
So there's that. It's better than nothing. You are correct sir,

(09:39):
You are correct. If I'm the Republicans, I just come
at it in a different way to solidify the strength
that I have right now and the goodwill with those
people that are in the center that put you over
the top, that gave you the you know, for lack
of a better term, the mandate. And I absolutely run

(10:03):
with this and say no, we're not about the billionaires.
We're about the working people. We're about strengthening corporations so
they can make sure people are employed. And you watch
what happens, because it takes away so much of the
fire and the anger that they want to direct at

(10:24):
the Republicans, and the Democrats will have nowhere to go
with it. And when it comes to waste, fraud, and abuse,
the fact that they fight against that is mind boggling.
But alas welcome to the world of the Democrats. Like
I said earlier, if there is a dumb idea out there,
they won't just run at it, they will double down
on it.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
Both parties should be easily.

Speaker 2 (10:51):
Defeated over and over again because they lack common sense
and an understanding of I think the average person. And
at the same time, both parties they've rigged it. So
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Speaker 1 (13:10):
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Speaker 9 (13:11):
Sources say officials have agreed to the framework for a
deal that would give the US some profits from Ukraine's
rare earth minerals. President Zelensky is expected to visit Washington Friday.
President Trump stopped short of confirming the deal yesterday, Trump
saying the minerals would be payback for war funding.

Speaker 2 (13:28):
Interesting, so Trump said, you're going to give us some
minerals and they said no. Then everybody's like Zelenski's saying yes.
But when you look at the deal, it's nothing spectacular.
It's not like we're getting a ton of money or
a ton of mineral rights off of this. I mean,
it's something's better than nothing. Everything's in negotiation. I'll take

(13:48):
something over nothing every single day. But it kind of
looks like a decent move for Zelensky and for Ukraine,
and yes, we get something out of it. But is
it something to celebrate. Well, first of all, it's a war,
so I don't want to sell write anything for the
amount of people that have died in this That being said,
I think Zelensky and Ukraine may have gotten a better deal.
And this is if this is the final deal, because

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as we all know, everything's subject to change.

Speaker 10 (14:13):
Some of the details of this deal were quite onerous.

Speaker 11 (14:16):
Yeah, it was almost a kind of It was the
kind of thing you extract from a country once you
have humiliated and it is lost in a war.

Speaker 12 (14:25):
You know.

Speaker 11 (14:25):
It is the kind of drums that the Allies took
from Germany after World War One.

Speaker 13 (14:29):
But it does seem.

Speaker 3 (14:30):
Like most of that is taken out.

Speaker 11 (14:32):
I mean, frankly, it looks like Zelensky got what he wanted,
which was the most onerous parts of the deal have
been taken out it.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, I mean, we're gonna get some We're gonna have
some joint things with him. When it comes to the
mineral rights there, and they have a ton of mineral rights.
And it's having the right minerals at the right time,
because you can have a ton of minerals in your country,
but if people aren't using them to build phones, cars,
things of that. At this moment in time, it doesn't
really matter. You got to have the right minerals at

(15:01):
the right time.

Speaker 11 (15:02):
Sounds from what I've heard, and you know, we don't know,
but what I've heard it's a kind of joint exploration
of Ukrainian minerals and things like that.

Speaker 3 (15:11):
Money goes into a fund.

Speaker 11 (15:12):
Fifty percent of that fund can be invested in Ukrainian
projects or Ukrainian US projects. That part I'm not sure about,
but it does sound very different from the kind of
I mean, essentially, what Trump proposed to Zelensky sounded like
a kind of protection racket, which is, we've been protecting you,

(15:33):
We've been giving you this, now you've got to pay out.
It feels like the deal is now very different from that.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
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we end up deal wise, and where we are right
now when everything is said and done, we shall see
remember at the end of the day, now that matters

(16:01):
is just getting something signed and celebrating it and talking
about it. What it looks like at the end, apparently
no longer matters in this world. And speaking of everything else,
we're going to do a story a little bit later
this hour about Ruby Frankie. If you do not know
who she is, maybe you remember the story about her

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Speaker 2 (18:12):
That's also the number six in German. But this is
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about some of our NSA folk, they had a chat room.
Excuse me, they had a chat room where let's just
say there was some lurid sex chats going on amongst

(18:35):
the agents and yeah, things like polyamory, trans stuff. Well,
of course, right, gender affirming cherr. You understand what we're saying, Chad. Well,
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that there's some splaining to do.

Speaker 15 (18:54):
Not so good to see some of these transgender sex
chats among the Intel officials.

Speaker 3 (18:59):
What are we to do about that?

Speaker 16 (19:01):
Well, Jesse, what we're going to do has already been done.
There over one hundred people from across the intelligence community
that contributed to and participated in this. What is really
just an egregious violation of trust what to speak of
like basic rules and standards around professionalism. I put out
a directive today that they all will be terminated and

(19:21):
their security clearances will be revoked.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
What the good news is, they weren't spying on us
while they were chatting luridly with each other. So the
question is, what the hell's going on over there? This
does not help you, by the way, if you're a
federal employee, like I really need to keep a job.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
I do a lot for America.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
So some of the things that I can't even mention here,
including getting zapped somewhere.

Speaker 3 (19:59):
King Castration.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
One says. Other person discussed laser hair.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Removal, saying I was getting back front by a laser
and it was shocking.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Talking about all kinds of and I mean, as I
go through it, I had some stuff outline. I'm like,
I don't even know if I could say that. I
mean could say it like off here, but on the
radio especially, you know, depending on the time of the day.

Speaker 3 (20:35):
You're listening to this, Yes, you don't want to hear this.

Speaker 16 (20:37):
This is just barely scratching the surface when you see
what these people were saying. And thanks to Chris Ruffo
for putting it all out online. They were brazen and
using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct
this kind of horrific behavior. And they were brazen in
doing this because when was the last time anyone was

(20:59):
really held accountable. Certainly not over the last four years.
Certainly not over the last ten, maybe twenty years.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
It's been a while, There's no doubt about that, because
usually they just move them around. But there was some
stuff here, talks of being hormone replacement, therapy, bress augmentation, castration.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Oh good god, that is just awful. More from Telsey.

Speaker 16 (21:29):
Today's action and holding these individuals accountable is just the
beginning of what we're seeing across the Trump administration, which
is carrying out the mandate the American people gave him
clean house, root out that rot and corruption and weaponization
and politicization, so we can start to rebuild that trust
in these institutions that are charged with an important mission

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of serving the American people. Ensuring our safety, security and.

Speaker 3 (21:53):
Freedom here here and stop spying on us.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
If you could do that, no, I wouldn't have a
sex chat with Tulci Gabbert. I would settle down. Phil.

Speaker 15 (22:05):
My god, now we're hearing CIA agents don't like getting dose,
so they're going to sell state secrets to our enemies.

Speaker 3 (22:12):
What are we going to do here?

Speaker 16 (22:14):
I am curious about how they think this is a
good tactic to keep their job. They're exposing themselves essentially
by making this indirect threat using their propaganda arm through
CNN that they've used over and over and over again
to reveal their hand that their loyalty is not at
all to America. It is not to the American people
or the Constitution. It is to themselves and bureaucracy.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
We're going to talk more about the media coming up
next hour and what's going on at the White House,
and is Trump picking and choosing who he wants to
cover them, which I'll tell you right now on the record,
I was not invited A and B. I don't want
any part of that. I think you should absolutely be
covered across the board by everybody, the media and especially

(23:01):
the media that may not be kindest to you, and
I think we should expand the platforms and allow more
people in, especially because the media is so fragmented now
and it's just dispersed everywhere.

Speaker 3 (23:14):
So we'll talk a little bit about that. Meanwhile, in Texas.

Speaker 17 (23:17):
Corpus Christie police are holding a twenty one year old
who they say was planning to ambush white police officers
in a mass Casserly attacked. Authorities claim Seth Andrea Grigory
had discussed using an Air fifteen assault pistol to kill police,
and they say Gregory had been inspired by a twenty
sixteen massacre launched by a sniper in Dallas who fatally
soot five officers and wounded nine others.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Yeah, this is crazy, and this person was loaded for bear.

Speaker 3 (23:47):
They he wanted it or she. I'm not quite sure.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Because it's it's Andrea, but then it's Seth, but I'm
not quite sure. Ready to kill and wanted So I
remember the Dallas that shooting, So the snybery he killed
and they had remember they had the robot. It was
it was crazy, and he wanted to go after white people,

(24:14):
white cops in particular, because you know, yeah, the worst, right, God,
just insane. How do you get here.

Speaker 17 (24:22):
Local police recently locked in on Gogory after being alerted
by FBI officials who had an informant who had been
communicating with Gregory for months. According to the FBI, the
informant provided a series of ominous text messages from Gogory,
including one saying I planned on shooting and killing cops
like the Dallas killer planned it for years. Authority's Fearless

(24:42):
was a real plot. A court records show that Gregory
had a fully loaded assault style pistol when he was arrested.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
My question, and this is like, at what point, if
you're an informant do you make that decision it I
got to do some about this. At what point do
you go, I gotta make this move? Because if I
was talking to somebody, yes you're gauging, are you being

(25:10):
serious or are you just you know, throwing stuff out there?
But what is that level of I got to do something?
You know, At what point do you say, oh, this
is it, I got to make the move, and I
gotta do it now now or else Because you don't
want to go too soon and then screw everything up

(25:32):
obviously and maybe not have all the information.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
But if you go too late.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
Well, then we know what happens, and you put yourself
in that position where you know you don't you could
have stopped something, but you didn't. Thank God they got
this person before they them. And I'm always saying that
because I don't know, because they're like, his name is Seth,

(25:58):
but he goes by Andrea. Just putting that out there,
somebody will probably make more of it than they should
or less of it than they should. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 3 (26:09):
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Speaker 2 (26:13):
Talking about castration. What the hell's going on at the
NSA selling secrets because you're mad at Doje Jimminy cricket.
You're not helping yourself. You're like, we're civil servants and
we're doing all the Lord's work and helping America. Yeah,
they want you to justify your job. I'm gonna sell
the secrets to the highest bidder. Coming up, we're gonna

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the view of a Mormon hoppy, but.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
They only saw what we wanted to show them.

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Set her down on a floop and couch can move it.
If I heard you work work.

Speaker 18 (29:10):
Yeah, the devil knocked and we opened the door.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
So that new Hulu show is called Devil in the Family,
The Fall of Ruby Frankie, and it comes out I
believe tomorrow and if you don't remember it, she was,
I mean this, this was massive. We're talking about somebody
who's making gobs of cash. And the whole thing was insane.

(29:35):
You know, started out being a Mommy vlog and from
there it became well became hell.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
Sit down right here.

Speaker 13 (29:41):
On the couch.

Speaker 1 (29:42):
Set her down on a flop and couch.

Speaker 19 (29:44):
This morning new home video. A former Mommy influencer and
now convicted child abuser, Ruby Frankie, the Utah mom of six,
was known for her tough parenting, carefully crafting her image
to millions of subscribers on her eight Passengers YouTube channel.

Speaker 20 (30:02):
Some days parenting requires uncomfortable conversations.

Speaker 19 (30:08):
But a disturbing reality was revealed after Ruby's youngest son
escaped in August of twenty twenty three. This chilling nine
to one one call leading to her arrest.

Speaker 6 (30:18):
I just had a twelve year old boy show up
here at my front door asking for help.

Speaker 2 (30:24):
He's emaciated, he's got tape around his legs. Yeah, think
about this gorgeous home, Utah. They're making gobs of cash.
The way that she treated them, what would have made
you know, if you ever hear stories about jpop and
K pop, those are the you know, the the pop

(30:44):
stars in Japan and Korea where they're on a strict diet,
and I mean every move they make is monitored. This
was that times a thousand, and you add in tiger
mom and it was a nightmare.

Speaker 18 (30:59):
Wife Ruby's sole ambition was to be seen as the
perfect mom.

Speaker 19 (31:05):
Frankie's a strange husband Kevin, and oldest son Chad, now
opening up in a new Hulu docu series, Devil in
the Family, The Fall of Ruby.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Frankie, she just wanted to show the view of a
Mormon toppy family. But they only saw what we wanted
to show them.

Speaker 18 (31:21):
It was so outland as to me that it had
to have been fabricated.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Hm, it wasn't. And by the way, I have serious
questions about you, Pops, where the hell were you? I
love my wife, but if I come home one day
and she's taped our daughter to the wall and our
daughter hasn't eaten for days, First of all, that's on
me for not knowing We're gonna have some serious questions.
We were some serious questions. He was not charged, by

(31:48):
the way, should have been charged for being a dumbass.
That's what you should have been charged with. But it
wasn't just Ruby, Frankie. There was a partner in all
of this, and that partner was a lady by the
name of Jody Hildebrandt, who was a counselor who basically

(32:10):
moved in and took over everybody's life.

Speaker 19 (32:12):
Kevin and Chad say, the family dynamic really shifted after
Ruby hired this woman, I'm Jody Hildebrant, therapist and life
coach Jody Hildebrandt to work with their family.

Speaker 18 (32:25):
She came across as somebody who was firm and very authoritative,
so we thought, oh, this is a perfect fit. What
became surprising to me was when the focus gradually shifted
away from just solely on our children to us as

(32:45):
a couple.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
Do you feel like she brainwast you.

Speaker 18 (32:48):
She took control of something that was very very important
to me, my marriage, my family, and she used those
like a carrot on a stick.

Speaker 21 (33:00):
Looking back, I treated her as a god and I
trusted her so much.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
I'm sorry, dude, you're asked needed to man up. I knew,
hell you think you are living in my house talking
to me that way. But this ain't happening, lady. I'm sorry, No,
you know. Look this woman awful, her little partner there, awful,
both of them. But I'm calling out the dude on
this one as much as anybody else.

Speaker 3 (33:27):
I will protect my kids to know end, I will die.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
For them, period, case closed, end. Oh story. I'll do
the same thing from a marriage. We're gonna invite somebody
in the house. This isn't a concubine. You didn't get
a sex robot that comes in. I'm going to take
care of everything. You invited some lady in who came
in and blew up your house and marriage and abused

(33:50):
your kids, all for profit, and you bitched out.

Speaker 19 (33:54):
Kevin says Jody, and Ruby insisted he move out and
cut off contact with his family to work and his
addiction to selfishness. How could you have left your family?

Speaker 18 (34:05):
The bottom line is that I was choosing to trust
a licensed professional mental health counselor and my wife, and
they gave some terrible counsel and I have regret and
I wish that I hadn't done those things.

Speaker 3 (34:26):
Do you still love her?

Speaker 22 (34:27):
I do?

Speaker 2 (34:28):
I don't think I'll ever stop loving her.

Speaker 18 (34:30):
Does that mean that I want to let her back
into my life, let her back into my kids' lives?

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Absolutely?

Speaker 3 (34:38):
Not good.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
And by the way, your kids, so the two older
ones are over eighteen, so there's no placement with them.
The four younger ones are still in care because you're
an idiot, an absolute idiot. And yes they were abusive

(35:02):
and awful, but I'm calling out the dude as much
as anybody else. You failed your kids and for all
of that stuff that happened, that was on her and
that loon, You're just as guilty in my book for
not protecting your family. You're gonna have to move out
to work on your selfishness.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
The hell I am.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
You better get out of my house. I have a
gun in a shovel, and I doubt anybody's gonna miss you.
Three two, three, five, eight, twenty four to twenty three
at Ched Benson Show's your Twitter tweet at us text
the program. Love hearing from every one of you right
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more on the big Budget. Now, it's not done yet.

(35:46):
We're gonna talk a little bit about that. What's real
what's not real. We like to do that here. You know,
I'm kind of straightforward when it comes to stuff. Is
this really going to cut the deaf for shit? And
the debt? Talk a little bit about that, plus more,
what the blank is going on in the air because yes,
another incident yesterday, this time well where it seems to

(36:09):
be happening all the time in and around the airport
in Chicago on the runway. It was close to being horrific.
We'll talk about that bunch of other stuff. If you
do miss an to the show, we say, shame on.
You've got the podcast.

Speaker 3 (36:22):
It is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Donald Trump loves control, trolls everybody. The media bites into
it each and every single time. In fact, today, if
you go out there, you will see, uh, something that
has been retruthed by him. He and his people did
not put it together. But it has to do with

(37:14):
Gaza and it's a I We'll play a little bit
of it.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Tunnel bringing life.

Speaker 23 (37:20):
All just seeing no more tunnels, no more fears.

Speaker 24 (37:25):
Finally here Trump.

Speaker 23 (37:27):
Shining right, Golden futures done. Trump Gozze number one, Trumps done.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
Trump guzza number one.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
So it's visual as much as it is song and dance.
And when you look at it, it shows what Gaza
looks like. Now, you know, buildings with no really like
one wall over here, a couple of windows. Now you know,
it's just it's it's a it's a nightmare. And then
you have these people walking through. It looks like a cave.

(38:05):
And on the other side it looks like Dubai. People
are partying. Right Elon's eating something, throwing money in the air,
and you know there's like nightclubs. He's dancing with women,
Trump is and at the end it is BB and
him on a on a lounge in front of a pool.

(38:26):
And of course the media is like, oh my god,
look what he's done. Now, he didn't put this together,
but he retruthed it, which in then in the world
of retruth, thing gets retweeted and it's kind of funny,
and then they troll and everybody's like, ah, and I
say that because he does play the game with the media,

(38:48):
and we know he does, case in point.

Speaker 25 (38:50):
Seen as supporting white nationalists, your rhetoric, What do you
make of that?

Speaker 2 (38:53):
I don't believe.

Speaker 13 (38:54):
I just well, I don't know.

Speaker 26 (38:55):
Why do I have my highest pull numbers ever with
African Americans? Why do I have among the high poll
numbers with African Americans.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
That's such a racist question. Honestly depends you know what
the word is.

Speaker 26 (39:08):
I love our country. I do you have nationalists, you
have globalists. I also love the world, and I don't
mind helping the world, but we have to straighten out
our country first.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
We have a lot of problems.

Speaker 26 (39:19):
And that's excuse me to say that what you said
is so insulting to me. It's a very terrible thing
that you said.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
He went on from there, and I bring this up
because media is important, and media is not what it
used to be, especially the news media.

Speaker 3 (39:40):
And Trump is.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
People are worried that he's picking and choosing who he
wants to cover him, which, quite frankly, I want no
part of that. If that's the way it would be.
They're like, it's Trump's media control strategy, tight punitive government
control over a free press. Well, the press is gonna

(40:03):
write whatever they want about him, true or false. He
says they're incompetent and times they've missed on numerous numerous
numerous occasions.

Speaker 3 (40:14):
You can't say that they haven't. Is that all of
them know.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
He's had lawsuits against them, some of which have settled
ABC for fifteen million bucks CBS obviously for the sixty
minutes thing before he was president, des Moines Register Polster.
He has barred ap from the Oval Office because they
would not use the phrase Gulf of America. So there's

(40:41):
a lot of stuff going on, and everybody's gonna say
this is the worst thing ever, this is evil and bad.

Speaker 3 (40:52):
If he doesn't, if he's only going to have.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
One American News, Bright Bart, Fox News, if he's only
going to have the you know, the right leaning media
in there, then absolutely it is horrible. But before we go,
oh my god, it's just like, as one person put it,
Putin's Russia.

Speaker 27 (41:16):
Ex posts a tweet post from Peter Baker, who is
a long time foreign correspondent. He covers the White House
for the New York Times. He said, having served as
a Moscow correspondent in the early days of Putin's reign,
this reminds me of how the Kremlin took over its
own press pool and made sure that only compliant journalists
were given access.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Okay, can we just address this dictator business.

Speaker 28 (41:37):
I'm going to.

Speaker 29 (41:37):
Quote from some statistics put together our old friend, our
old friend Crystaliza, who calculated it. In the first month
of the Trump administration, the president took one thousand and
nine questions hardly dictatorial behavior. Same stat for Joe Biden,
one hundred and forty one. And I would remind you
all that in twenty twenty three, the Biden administration revoked

(41:58):
the hard passes of four hundred and forty two journalists
and at the time, the White House Course Finance Association
took quote a non committal stance. So if you're worried
about your wires being far more.

Speaker 3 (42:10):
Transparent, passes revoked.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
I don't know.

Speaker 27 (42:15):
Was it because they didn't go to the White House
frequently because they lost That happens in every event besides Biden.

Speaker 5 (42:23):
People never called on James Rosen from Newsmats and he
is a real legitimate.

Speaker 27 (42:29):
Allowed in the pressroom.

Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah, he was allowed in there. But by the way,
the revoking of the hard passes, when Biden did this,
that was thirty percent of the press.

Speaker 3 (42:43):
People were not happy.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
And if you're a president, you're gonna want to do
everything you can to control the narrative and because the
media is the way it is now, it's a tough
thing to do, but it's also never been easier than
it is now to get your message out there. But
we need a press that can actually press. We need

(43:07):
a press that can hold people accountable. Which for all
the whining about this press, you did not do your
job when Joe Biden refused to answer questions. You did
not do your job when Joe Biden was a wall
nowhere to be found.

Speaker 3 (43:27):
Sending the press home early.

Speaker 2 (43:30):
You didn't do your job when you knew there were issues,
and you refuse to dig deep to find out if
maybe it wasn't right wing talking points but rather a
president that shouldn't be president because mental decline was not

(43:50):
near was here. Yes, we need a press that is
wide open. We need to press that will push Trump
answers questions.

Speaker 3 (44:06):
You may not like the answers. Hell, sometimes I don't
like the answers, but he'll answer.

Speaker 2 (44:10):
Them, he will, and I will raise hell if all
he's going to have in there is nothing but right
leaning media, because you need to have people to oppress you,
and there is a difference between pressing you because you

(44:35):
have serious questions about a subject, an issue, a bill
that's real, or you just want to fight with the
president and you want to throw things out there and
accuse him of stuff, and you're not interested in whether
or not he is giving you any kind of answer,

(44:57):
because you're going to go that's regular answer. No, I'm
not a white supremacist, and you go back and go.
He said, fine, people on both sides. If you're gonna
go write what you're gonna write.

Speaker 3 (45:09):
That's also not doing the American people.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
A solid. You're not giving the American people what they deserve,
which is a fair and honest press. Now the press
has changed because we're fractured. It's amazing, it's crazy how
awesome it is. At the same time, it's tough. It's

(45:36):
tough to get all of the answers. It's tough to
get all of the facts and data. It's tough to
get really a straight who, what, when, how, and why.
You got to go to twelve different places, and the
press is going to in many cases, especially with Trump,

(45:57):
they're asking the question, but the story's already written because
the answer, no matter what it is, is whatever they
put on the paper. Because they're choosing to serve an
audience that is not inquisitive, who doesn't want to know
the answer, who wants to be affirmed that whatever they

(46:20):
think about this president, good or bad, is in that article,
is on that TV screen, is on that phone, is
in that tweet, And that is an issue.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
So yes, am I concerned that he would just.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
Go We're gonna get rid of all these people. Yeah,
I would be, But I know he likes to push,
I know he likes to praud, and I know he
likes to argue, and so I'm not that concerned. And
him allowing other people into the press room and onto

(47:00):
air Force one, I got no problems with in a world,
like I said, that is fracture. But also the stories,
the articles where we go to consume it is all changed.
The CBS's, the NBCs, the ABC's, and only CNN, MSNBC
and Fox that's gone now there are so many other

(47:27):
places to consume news and media. So I'm glad that
he's doing that. We'll see three two, three, five, three eight,
twenty four twenty three at Chad Benson's show, It's Your Twitter.
I like I said, we'll see, because we'll see, right
because they're throwing a huge fit.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
But what does that mean? I mean you are so
what you're throwing a fit?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Okay, because we don't know, because this will be gone
tomorrow when Ap gets back in there, or when this
happens or that happens, this will all be gone and
they're on to the next drama. So high school hasket times.
Isn't this crazy?

Speaker 3 (48:11):
You know it's not high school esque.

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(49:52):
What the is going on in the air?

Speaker 30 (49:56):
Our Chicago station WLS reports the pilot of the private
jet initially read back bad information from the air traffic controller.
Air Traffic Control then corrected the information and warned the
jets pilot to hold short of the runway, reportedly issuing
the warning nine times. It's unclear why the pilot did
not follow those instructions. The FAA and NTSB are now investigating.

Speaker 2 (50:21):
If you didn't see so yesterday Chicago Midway, not the
full way or the short way, but midway Southwest plane
coming down, So it's landing. It's not taking off, it's landing.
It's got its two rear landing gears on the ground,
and as it's heading down the runway about ready to
put the front landing gear on the ground, a jet

(50:46):
like a little golfstream comes across the runway and then
it takes off again the southwest to avoid smashing into it.
It was awfully close to being a massive disaster. That
plane would have been destroyed. I'm sure the Southwest would
have had injuries, maybe some deaths. Thank god it didn't happen.

(51:08):
Had they been taken off, would it have been different
because they were already had their nose in the air.
I don't know. But once again a mishap due to humans.
I'm sure the FAA and Trump will be blamed for this.
I'm sure they'll find out, Well, did you know that
that guy that was in the little Lear jet, you
know you voted for Trump. That's why this happened.

Speaker 31 (51:28):
Once again we see that human error may have played
a role, whether it was in the cockpit or in
the control tower. But it's becoming the most dangerous place
for aviation, and that is on the ground.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
On the ground, and that's what I mean think the
reason flying is as safe as it is once you
get up through all of the chaos is because there's
nothing up there. So when you're thirty seven thousand feet
in the air, hey, just nothing going on. You'd have
to worry about running into something where on your landing

(52:01):
and on your takeoff, there's all kinds of stuff happening
flying around you. Other planes, helicopters, and when I mean
other planes, I'm talking about plane planes where we think
commercial jets, private jets, but also think about the avid
pilot who flies around the little Cessna three two, three, five,

(52:22):
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show.
Is your Twitter tweet at US texta program right here
on the Chad Benson Show. So you've got all of
that going on, and it's it's chaos, it is. That's
why they say the most dangerous time is takeoff and landing.

(52:47):
And this would have been horrific. I remind everybody the
worst plane disaster in history was planes disaster in Tenerief
where two play lanes at the opposite end of the
runway in fog, and these were seven forty seven jumbo

(53:08):
jets crashed into each other, they never left the ground.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
It's busy, busy, busy, busy.

Speaker 22 (53:17):
The FAA is putting in new safety procedures. They're installing
new lights and warning systems, but they haven't gone far enough.
They're not at every airport. The system is overburdened. There
is an air traffic controller shortage. There is stress on
this system, and one incident is one too many. And
that's what they are working now around the clock to
get fixed. They need funding, they need training, they need capacity.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
No doubt about that, and they need modernization in a
lot of these places. And we've talked about how they've
modernized a little bit here and a little bit there.

Speaker 3 (53:50):
But what's happening is the airports aren't.

Speaker 2 (53:53):
Keeping up with the amount of traffic in the air,
but also the planes themselves are becoming more and more modern.

Speaker 3 (54:02):
So it's got to be a fix.

Speaker 2 (54:04):
And safety needs to be the ultimate thing that anybody
cares about when you have people's lives in your hands, Absolutely,
that has to be number one. If you're missing the show,
we say, shame on. You've had the podcast. It is
the Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (54:17):
Show, Then Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (54:43):
It is Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (54:44):
And do you think I wasn't gonna do that on
a Wednesday?

Speaker 3 (54:47):
You know I am. It's that time of the week
where we get you woke correctly. Not only are they
act hurting our kids? Correct please make everything better? Correctly,
they are fine.

Speaker 2 (54:57):
Just my gender is a complete nightmare.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
A trans woman can breastfeed and this is great news.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
No, no, no, no, there's something I need to tell you,
the princess.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
You came to your ball tonight.

Speaker 3 (55:08):
Listen, I'm Gonzarella.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
That's the one where Harry waves the magic wand and
turns everybody back to their select gender.

Speaker 13 (55:17):
Miss Danny.

Speaker 30 (55:18):
You can't speculate about someone's sexuality unless they're famous or pebm.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Paddy, It's time for woke Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (55:25):
Let's get woke and we will start with our heavenly
zyzam Amen.

Speaker 25 (55:34):
Performing gender as a daily task, I would argue, is
a learned cultural trait to which we have all been
exposed As understandings of drag have changed throughout history. Perhaps
drag today could be defined as that which threatens the
already fragile and arbitrarily constructed framework for gender performance that
is necessary to maintain power dynamics.

Speaker 2 (55:55):
Tell us more our lady of drag queen.

Speaker 25 (56:00):
Conversely, it could also be that from the moment we
were born, and perhaps even before that, when families gather
to reveal the sex organs of their child, that the
drag show begins. The blue confetti falls, and the pink
smoke clears, and there's a mad dash to project cultural
and societal expectations of gender performance onto that child. These

(56:23):
are learned behaviors that can be shaped either through shame
or affirmation based on a perceived correct performance. Amen.

Speaker 2 (56:31):
Wow, that is insane. What would you do, Chad if
your church was I'd get up and leave. I said, no, no, sorry, sorry,
This is our lady of insanity, Our lady of insanity.
By the way, quick update, Pope still lives because poping
eight easy baby, but he's pulling through at eighty eight.

(56:55):
I only hope he gets good healthcare. We move from
our life of insanity to DEI but I'm going to
tell you guys this right now. Well, we do woke
stuff here because it's hilarious. Costco's chair names Tony James
Is on CNBC. It's a very interesting interview, quite frankly,

(57:16):
mostly because he was very casual at some point in time,
I thought he was gonna lay down during the middle
of the interview. It's just kind of all leaning back.
But they were talking about the DEI program, and I'm
totally against DEI. But what Costco does and what some
people will call DEI isn't. It's DMI diversity, meritocracy and inclusion.

(57:43):
So they're on CNBC just chatting away today, and the
guys on CNBC thought Costco's done away with DEI.

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Everybody else has DII.

Speaker 10 (57:53):
Obviously, it's swept the country one way and is now
sweeping the country another way, in large part because of
President Trump. Costco obviously is ending its DII programs in
large part. No, well, I mean you're keeping some but
not not completely.

Speaker 28 (58:06):
We haven't changed our DEI at all.

Speaker 13 (58:08):
No.

Speaker 2 (58:09):
Oh, then I'm mistaken. So there was a there were
headlines to that effect.

Speaker 28 (58:14):
I sold. No, there were headlines saying signaling Costco out
as the company.

Speaker 2 (58:17):
That's not Costco.

Speaker 28 (58:19):
I thought, I let's think it said Blackstope even or
rock Black Black Rocks certainly retreated. Yeah, Yes, Costco has
gotten a lot of visibility, more than we ever wanted
or needed, because it's it's standing behind as current policies
and procedures, and none of them are illegal. We've had
every legal lawyer look at it, and none of them

(58:40):
are new. None of them are post George Floyd, who
they think go back literally to the companies founding. We
had our first We took an executive vice president from
operations and made him our first diversity officer over twenty
years ago.

Speaker 2 (58:54):
And you think at all this just sounds horrible. Listen
to what they're talking about. And this is where Di again,
the equity part is ridiculous. And if you're going to
do DEI, let's be honest, We're okay with you doing
it at Costco in the air on a surgery table.
Totally different story. But he mentions things here that separate

(59:17):
them from other companies.

Speaker 28 (59:20):
We think of this as not so much for the
social good, although I think it is. We think of
this as part of a meritocracy. If we intract a
broader talent pool. We have three hundred thousand employees, we
attract a broader talent pool, and we work with them
all individually, given their different backgrounds, to be the best
professionals they can be. We have a better employee base

(59:42):
to choose from and I think it enhances our ability
to be a meritoxy.

Speaker 2 (59:48):
And he said meritocracy. And that's important right there, because
the whole thing is we're looking for diverse candidates. Some
people of college, some people don't. Some people are gay,
some people are straight, some people are talls, people are black,
some people are women. But he said meritocracy, and that's

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the important part of this.

Speaker 28 (01:00:09):
Costco is the highest torque retailer in the world. We
had to the biggest volume per building, the biggest volume
per square foot, on the smallest margins. We have to
execute flawlessly every single day. We can't have anything that's
not based on merit.

Speaker 10 (01:00:25):
It's about how scared are you that the fact that
you then have this program and you're willing to come
talk about it on TV, that your company's not going
to be targeted by this administration in some way? Isn't
that why every other company in America has tried to
get rid of this, not just the administration, by the way,
but also the idea of boycotts and other things that
people like Robbie Starbuck and others are trying to build.

Speaker 2 (01:00:47):
Now, I'm going to tell you this, first of all,
there are some restaurants, some things that we all love
out there, no matter what side of the al you're on,
and they're like, you can't go there because we're boycotting it.
I'm like you maybe, but I'm not. I need twelve
gallons of mayonnetes, don't ask. I remember when I was
in California, there was a state senator who knew that

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in an out Burger was Christian and had given money
to pro life and to pro you know, traditional marriage groups.
And then he was like, we're gonna boycott this, and
everybody's like no or not? And I heard the same
thing from you know, the LGBT community when it came

(01:01:36):
to Chick fil A. Oh, you get activists little boycott it,
but the average person who's what they really need to boycott,
They're like, no, I like me a spicy chicken sandwich.
That's how hard.

Speaker 32 (01:01:52):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:01:53):
But what he said there and I played again, matters
more than anything else, because when we talk about DEI,
what is it always about? It's these companies that care
only about the color of your skin, not whether you're capable.
They care only about the box they can check when

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it comes to your gender identity or your sexual orientation again,
not whether or not you're capable of doing the job.
Listen to what he says again, Tony James CEO or
chair excuse me, of Cosco.

Speaker 28 (01:02:31):
Costco is the highest torque retailer in the world. We
end the biggest volume per building, the biggest volume per
square foot, on the smallest margins. We have to execute
flawlessly every single day. We can't have anything that's not based.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
On merit, anything that's not based on merit. He didn't
say anything not based on the color of your skin,
your sexual orientation, et cetera, et cetera.

Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
He said merit. Merit matters.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
It does. Everybody I know that is against DEI as
a bizarre world of all that matters is your look
and your worship and blah blah, you know, the gender identity,
that's all that matters. Everybody know who's against that all

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says the same thing I do. If the best person
for the job is a one eyed, one horn flying
purple people eater, they're okay with that. If that's the best.
If you've only hired the person because they're a one eyed,

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one horn flying purple people eater, and that's the only
reason that person got the gig. Well then no oh oh,
and Robbie Starbuck and a bunch of people have gone
off after Costco and they're setting out we're going to
go dude. Costco is not budging on this. Look.

Speaker 28 (01:04:13):
Obviously, it's unwanted attention because we're not try political company.
We just want to run a good business. This is
core to the business, the core of the way we
always run the business. So it's unwanted attention and it
brings unnecessary risk, absolutely, but at the same time as
core to our values and it's and we're not doing
anything with quotas, we're not doing anything with preferences or

(01:04:35):
anything like that. We have nothing that could be remotely
deemed illegal under the new interpretation, either Supreme Court or administration.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Because you're still a business and nobody can say, well,
Costco's run horribly. They can't because if they bring you
in and they've identified something in you and they're going
to train you and put you in that position, the
goal is to get you to succeed. It's about you now,
the color of your skin, not who you worship right now,

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what sex you identify as, not who you love.

Speaker 3 (01:05:14):
It's great other companies decided.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
No, the only thing that matters is all those other things,
whether or not you could do the job as secondary
because we need to check a box. And I don't
complain about Costco to you now outside of the parking
the Times is a nightmare, But I don't complain about

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it because it's run right. It's about meritocracy, the diversity
inequity that's there. But the meritocracy is number one still
at the end of the day, because it is a
bottom line company.

Speaker 3 (01:05:52):
Are you going to boycott it on principal?

Speaker 13 (01:05:59):
Really?

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
No?

Speaker 13 (01:06:02):
I like it?

Speaker 2 (01:06:02):
Where else can you go buy a vacation movie tickets
and a funeral plot.

Speaker 3 (01:06:09):
And don't forget the mayonnaise. Don't forget the mayonnaise?

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Speaker 3 (01:08:12):
Like Florida Man, what oh the games are here? Ooh,
Chad Benson.

Speaker 33 (01:08:17):
Shoe Welcome to Chad. No, not the country, the institution.
The Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (01:08:30):
Show could one of the great plays in modern sports.
The tush push be on its way out? What's the
tush push? Philadelphia? Does the tush bush? That is where.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
Jalen Hurts.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
The quarterback goes underneath the center and they kind of
surround him and they snap the ball to Hi because
they only need a yard or two, and then the
guys from behind pushes Tush and he goes forward.

Speaker 3 (01:08:57):
Well, rumor has that the Packers wanted gone.

Speaker 21 (01:09:00):
Yeah, I'm aware of it. We really haven't had very
many discussions about it. I'm sure we will over the
next few weeks as we head into the owner's meetings,
But so I'm aware that we did, but really haven't
had many discussions about it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
Sorry, what are your thoughts on the flat?

Speaker 21 (01:09:13):
I know we're not very successful against that, but to
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It's been around for a while, we've used it in
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Speaker 13 (01:09:22):
Tight end again. I think there'll be a lot of
discussions about it.

Speaker 21 (01:09:24):
I got to kind of look at some of the
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Speaker 13 (01:09:28):
We'll see that.

Speaker 3 (01:09:29):
Right there is the GM of the Packers. Brian willis goodnest.

Speaker 2 (01:09:37):
It's probably not the way you say his name, but
that's the way I said it because the other way
I said.

Speaker 3 (01:09:40):
It sounded bad.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
So I'm not going to do that the Doush Bush.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
They want it gone never maybe who knows.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Speaking of Games, Florida, you loved it so much, It's
back the Florida Man Games.

Speaker 12 (01:09:57):
After a thousands showed up to Saint John's County, Florida
to watch twelve teams compete in this one day competition
last February, event founder Pete Melfie is ready to bring
the Battle Royale back this Saturday. Don't worry, though, events
staples like the Evading Arrest obstacle course will return, which
will once again feature actual local police officers.

Speaker 2 (01:10:18):
That's right, he says.

Speaker 3 (01:10:19):
They love it.

Speaker 31 (01:10:20):
Police officers love doing it.

Speaker 15 (01:10:21):
They tell me they've been training all year for this.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
This sho'll probably use live fire. That'd be fantastic. And
you know, people that go to the Florida Man Games
probably have had some I don't know, real world training
in evading the police, you know what happens and something
like this. And we'll get to a few more of
the things they're going to do. It starts out fun, right,

(01:10:46):
It starts out fun, and you know, you hat the
fat guy.

Speaker 3 (01:10:50):
And the goofy guy and Uncle Freed and all that.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
It starts out fun and then some money gets involved
and it gets sponsored, and then all of a sudden,
you show up one time and you'll like, looking around,
You're like, all that's here is a bunch of fit
athletes trying to win the Florida Man Games.

Speaker 12 (01:11:06):
Did Floridians have been seen on the road driving anything
from a bananamobile to a lawnmower while under the influence.
There will in fact be a lawnmower race this year
Ria Jeffrey Earnhart, and then outside Lane you will even
be hosted by NASCAR driver Jeffrey Earnhardt, grandson of Dale Earnhardt.

Speaker 2 (01:11:24):
So awesome, that is so awesome. It's not just that, guys,
They're all kinds of games men, women.

Speaker 3 (01:11:34):
It's all happening because it's Florida.

Speaker 12 (01:11:37):
The contest will also include a weaponized pool noodle battle,
a beer drinking wrestling cage match, and a game called
Quote Hurricane Party Prep Grocery Isle Brawl. If your team
scores the best, you guys win a five thousand dollars
cash prize.

Speaker 2 (01:11:52):
That you can sell for fifteen hundred dollars cash cash.

Speaker 3 (01:11:56):
Cause it's Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
We also have the nark Can Run, where we give
nark can to somebody and see if we can keep
them alive.

Speaker 3 (01:12:06):
And that's what we love about Florida.

Speaker 2 (01:12:09):
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Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Immigration one of the bedrocks of Trump and this presidency,
and quite frankly, his entire run through both of his
terms as president. Immigration was it building the Wall, now deportation. Now,
depending on what you're reading and where you're reading it.

(01:13:56):
When it comes to poles, it's either wildly unpopular or
wildly popular. Some polls have it up to eighty percent
in popularity, in eighty percent in negativity. Where do I
think it's at. Well, when I look at all these poles,

(01:14:16):
I kind of put them together. I think a vast
majority of Americans want immigration fixed. And if you're looking
at the numbers, by the way, as far as people
crossing the border, I think last month it was a
record that we haven't seen was like two hundred people.
I mean it was, it was minuscule. It was minuscule.

Speaker 3 (01:14:43):
Centers for.

Speaker 2 (01:14:47):
Immigration studies. Okay, this is low immigration, pro immigrant. Their
latest study has fifty nine percent approve of the US
and its deportation efforts.

Speaker 3 (01:15:05):
Oh and that's a CBS poll.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Oh my god.

Speaker 3 (01:15:11):
So the question is.

Speaker 2 (01:15:16):
What's all the pushback about with Ice and everybody else. Well,
because it's wrong and it's cruel. You cross the border.
You knew at some point in time there could be
a knock at the door. And what is Tom home
and everybody else say, if you're going to get in
a way of ice, You're going to pay the penalty
for it. Well, lo and behold, Los Angeles is having

(01:15:38):
a battle, if you will.

Speaker 3 (01:15:41):
This is a.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
Community advocate, Ron Gonchez. He's the leader of Unyan del Barrio,
one of many organizations who are fighting against ice and
going out and showing everybody how you resist ice and
making sure that they know when ice is coming. And

(01:16:05):
they don't even care about worse first, they just want
you don't even dare come into their neighborhood.

Speaker 34 (01:16:09):
We are training the members of the coalition to do
these patrols. We've been doing the patrols for years in
Los Angeles and San Diego. But yesterday we had more
than one hundred and fifty people combing through the streets
of Los Angeles looking for any ice activity, and early
in the morning we found two operations and we were
luckily we were able to defend those two communities from
those ice rates.

Speaker 3 (01:16:29):
So tell me a.

Speaker 20 (01:16:30):
Little bit about what is working, because you are patrolling
these communities. What's working, what isn't working, and how is
the community responding to you patrolling the streets.

Speaker 2 (01:16:43):
Okay, let's find out now. One of the things we've
talked about here, I'm very honest with you guys. You
know I don't blow smoke a lot of guys in
this business. I'll tell you everything you want to hear.
Is that me. I actually got into an interesting conversation
yesterday was one of my corps Matt murphy Great talk shows.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
By the way, if you guys ever have a chance,
listen to Murphy's Great. And I were chatting.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
It's like, well, you, you know, you tell everybody just
to kind of give up.

Speaker 3 (01:17:08):
I said, I don't.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
I tell everybody the truth and the reality of what's
going to happen. And I've said this, the reality of
us getting rid of eighteen twenty million people whatever it is.
I mean, the number of twelve million has been around
for how long, So let's just say it's fifteen million.
I think if we knew the real number and we'd

(01:17:29):
be like, oh my god, let's just say it's fifteen million,
the chances of us getting rid of fifteen million is
slim to none. We don't have the manpower or the money.
We don't have Eminem, not the rapper, but the manpower
and money.

Speaker 3 (01:17:41):
I prefer person power.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
Whatever. We shouldn't make their jobs harder and the worst.
First is almost universally supported. And when these organizations go
out there and they think they're doing great for their
community and they're busting and stopping people, what ends up happening.

Speaker 3 (01:18:04):
The worst.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
First, We'll just take what we can then, and that's
what ends up happening. You're worried about your grandma down
the street. You're worried about that guy and his wife,
and they got a kid and the kid was born here.
But man, they do everything they possibly can, and they're

(01:18:25):
good people. They're great neighbors. You're worried about them. He
started a business and it's growing, and you're worried about them.
But you won't, in any way, shape or form go
out and say, you know, look, I don't want our

(01:18:47):
people deported, and they add value to the country, so
I'll fight against all of it, even if it is
that bad dude who's caused crime. May and hell in
our neighborhood continue ron. What's working are the patrols.

Speaker 34 (01:19:05):
We're in every neighborhood of Los Angeles this morning already,
we have come through dozens of communities of Los Angeles looking.

Speaker 2 (01:19:12):
For ice activity.

Speaker 34 (01:19:13):
We do this at five point thirty in the morning
because we know that's when ICE starts their operations. So
before they can go and attack our community, we are
looking for them, and when we find them, we alert
people with megaphones.

Speaker 13 (01:19:23):
That works.

Speaker 34 (01:19:24):
The megaphones wakes up the people. They let them know
what's happening, and they also let ICE know that we're
there and we're not going to leave. We're going to
defend our community. We have the legal right to do
so everything we're doing is legal. We don't intend to
break any laws. We are there to defend our community.
And more and more people are joining this cause.

Speaker 2 (01:19:42):
At this cause, by the way, is spreading and let's
not make ICE job worse. The goal should be worse first.
That should be the goal, celebrating them, you know, not
getting gangsters who are terrorizing people who are held captive
in a neighborhood essentially because they're afraid to call the
police when crime is perpetrated upon them. And you want

(01:20:07):
to protect those people because that's what ends up happening,
and it's just asinine. Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:20:15):
In fact, now you have up to fifty organizations that
are part of this self defense coalition. But I did
want to ask you Ron. We are just really one
month into a four year administration. Is it feasible and
sustainable to keep this up for the next four years?
And how do you keep that momentum.

Speaker 34 (01:20:33):
We've been doing this for decades because our communities have
been under attack by every administration since we can remember.

Speaker 2 (01:20:40):
This is nothing new.

Speaker 34 (01:20:41):
So we're going to continue to organize in our communities.
And now we're training people, not just in Los Angeles,
we're training people in Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake City. These
community patrols are growing, and so what's happening in Los
Angeles is working. Yesterday we were able to successfully defend
the communities. This morning we are doing that and we're
going to continue.

Speaker 2 (01:20:59):
We're workers.

Speaker 34 (01:21:00):
I'm a teacher by profession, so I can't do it
during the day, but early in the morning I can,
and after work I can. So we're going to do
everything possible to defend the communities in the legal way,
but in a way that people throughout the country can replicate.

Speaker 3 (01:21:13):
They're franchising it and this is going to be a nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
We have such a broken system and Democrats, if you
wonder why you're not in power, yes, the craziness of
your woke ideas.

Speaker 3 (01:21:25):
Yes, inflation was a huge deal.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
But this.

Speaker 3 (01:21:32):
Immigration nightmare.

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
That Biden and Majorcis created was absolutely the thing that
started your massive collapse outside of Afghanistan, which started your
collapse in the polls. But this thing basically just wiped
you out. And now you've got people out there going, well,
we're going to make sure that ICE can't do their job.

(01:21:58):
And just to let you guys know, not only does
this happen, but they're dosing ICE people as well by
putting their photos on flyers and putting them all over
the communities.

Speaker 20 (01:22:13):
And you know, I think that's important to mention right
now that we did reach out to ICE for comment.
They declined to provide a comment for us. But you know,
critics do argue that interfering with ICE operations may have
legal repercussions, and they could put activists, advocates, but also
the community at large at risk.

Speaker 34 (01:22:33):
What do you say to them, I would say, those
are the same type of people who would have criticized
the Montgomery boycotts. I would say, looking the same types
of people that would you know, would have argued that slavery.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
Shouldn't have ended I was legal.

Speaker 34 (01:22:43):
So the legal question to us is irrelevant. What's relevant
to us is the well being of our community, our
families not being separated. And if they want to talk
about legalities, the first person that should be detained and
arrested is the president. He's the biggest criminal there is
and so that's that's our answer to them.

Speaker 2 (01:22:59):
Nah, there we go tastic, Just absolutely at My grandfather
was born and raised in Mexico. If you guys don't
know that he was born and raised in Mexico. He
has since passed away and I miss him and I
love him, and he would slap this guy outside that.
So I'll let you guys know that it's the most
asinine thing. And you put people in your community at risk.

(01:23:27):
You put people in your community that you want to
help because you are more concerned of being part of
the resistance and not part of the reality. You put
more people in your community at risk when they finally
get frustrated trying to arrest the gangsters or this, that
and the other, and then they start showing up at

(01:23:47):
job sites. Welcome to your insanity. Because Democrats, you built this.
You got all kinds of problems. As look. I look
at the Republicans and I am completely not impressed, very
skeptical about both parties. But when I talk about common sense,

(01:24:13):
this right here shows you how uncommon the sense is
with many of your supporters. And if you think that
this is a winning argument by making sure ICE can't
do their job, I don't know what else there is
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Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
Cut over to Yahoo. Mavericks Lakers number one trending thing.
I wonder why, hmmm, Luca, his name is Luca? No
tax in overtime, Trump's gold card. I can't believe he's
gonna sell citizenship. So many countries sells citizenship. Now this
is a big deal. Good God, get over yourselves. Southwest

(01:28:09):
plane crash, almost, plane crash midway almost. I say almost.
Kathleen Kennedy Lucasfilms. She came over, she took over Lucas Films.
She says she's staying on at Disney, the reports that
she was gonna leave early and not destroy everything they
had created. She's awful. And finally over to Twitter. Number

(01:28:33):
one trending thing, Luca medicaid Epstein, Where are the names
some people want to know? Pam Bondi, Joy Reid still trending,
Thomas Massey MSNBC, WWAM why is GWAM trending? Buddy Hank

(01:28:54):
Johnson's at it again. Oh my goodness for me some
of the things trending right there in the Mets world
of Twitter three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
to twenty three at Chad Benson Show. Is your Twitter
right here on the Chad Benson Show. If you guys
don't remember who Hank Johnson is, he is calling for
the president to be arrested.

Speaker 3 (01:29:16):
He was also the guy that said this.

Speaker 11 (01:29:19):
Yeah, my fear is that the whole island will become
so overly populated that it will tip over and catch eyes.

Speaker 2 (01:29:31):
He was asking a question to I believe it was
like an admiral or somebody, and the guy tried not
to laugh. He was like, are you serious. The other
big trending thing last night Luca taking on the Mavericks
for the first time, this time in Los Angeles, after
the big trade from Dallas to the Lakers.

Speaker 3 (01:29:48):
Luca lit it up triple double.

Speaker 17 (01:29:51):
Look at this, Look at this look he fis Rigs
who lets it down.

Speaker 2 (01:29:57):
That was one of the first plays. It was awesome
into the basket, kind of behind his shoulder throw, no look,
very reminiscent from another person who used the room, well,
not the Staples Center, but Los Angeles' court, Magic Johnson.
And then kind of that the game was early. Luca
hit a big three.

Speaker 3 (01:30:15):
He was Dodge's rich.

Speaker 7 (01:30:17):
From that one, it immediately turned to the Mavericks bench.

Speaker 1 (01:30:21):
Luca Dodgas, you know, he wants to make a statement
in his boy heavy hear.

Speaker 2 (01:30:27):
O Spicy indeed said after the game that it's getting
better every day. And I don't think that was so
much a look at the bench as in, Hey, I'm
mad at you guys, but a look of you guys
gave me up.

Speaker 3 (01:30:44):
I'm pissed at the organization, not the players.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
Three two, three, five, twenty four to twenty three at
Chadbinson Show, is your Twitter tweet, a texta program, A
buddy Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institut of Public Policy Research joins
the programs for The Edge, Headminson.

Speaker 14 (01:30:57):
Show, sun Chat, Benson Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:31:22):
Is that's out of the week.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
We talk politics and there aboudy Jim Kennedy Kennedy instead
of public policy researchers.

Speaker 3 (01:31:28):
We talk politics and all kinds of fun and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:31:31):
All right, Jim. First, they got a vote across the
line for a budget. Mike Johnson did some wizard try.
But I look at the Republicans here and I'm thinking
it's tax cuts and not a lot of spending cuts.
I don't know about you, but I want to come

(01:31:52):
to I want everybody to have to come to Jesus
moment where we go, all right, guys, we may have
to do something with taxes that aren't cutting them, and
we're deaf.

Speaker 3 (01:32:00):
I'm going to have to do a lot with cutting them.

Speaker 36 (01:32:03):
Yeah, most definitely. We've got a problem. It's been pretty
well called out. It just isn't something that Congress has
wanted to look at. It's not a popular item. They've
been kicking it down, kicking the can down the road
on it. But Trump has brought it up. He's brought
it to the forefront, and he said, look, we're going
to cut this. That's why part of he brought Elon in.
But I think even as you've mentioned before, even bringing

(01:32:23):
Elon in, there's not enough there just that Elon's going
to find. Unless there's turned out to be some sort
of massive amount of fraud, Elon's not going to uncover
enough to to patch a two billion, sorry to trillion
dollar deficit that's been going on. A lot of this
started right after the pandemic. If you'd notice, in twenty nineteen,
the government spent four point four trillion dollars. By twenty

(01:32:44):
twenty two, at the end of the towards the end
of the pandemic, want to say it ended, we were
up to almost six point nine billion or trillion, And
that's pretty bad as far as you'd think, Okay, maybe
that's going to start ramping down something.

Speaker 13 (01:32:56):
Now that we're past that and all the steamless has gone, No,
it's been patty much flat.

Speaker 36 (01:33:00):
So we basically got all this money thrown into the
system and they're continuing to spend at those levels, and
that is something that is not sustainable, as we all
pretty much know. So they're going to have to cut
that where all that money is going. That's a great question.
That's what Elon needs to find. But we really need
to start cutting because again, as I think we've mentioned before,
this isn't really a revenue problem. The tax rover has

(01:33:21):
been pretty stable and growing slightly as the as personal
income rates grow. But that big jump in spending from
four point four trillion to six point nine trillion is
part of the reason, and we keep looking at it,
we're going to be looking at two trillion dollars deficits
for the foreseeable future. And that is not sustainable for us.

Speaker 2 (01:33:39):
No, that is not sustainable. Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy
Institute of Public Policy Research, it is the kiss of death. Jim,
Let's be honest when you mentioned you know Medicare and Medicaid,
and you know SNAP and of course social Security. And
it's not always about cutting, it's about looking and saying, look,
people who are forty, you guys, you're not retiring at
sixty two, be able to start drawing things till you're seventy.

(01:34:03):
We have to have a real come to Jesus moment
with a lot of people when it comes to a
lot of these things, because even tonight. You know, I
was talking to my uncle and his father in law's
in the hospital and he's rather sick the amount of
stuff they're doing to him. You know, we've talked about
it before. The was it the last ninety days, two

(01:34:26):
one hundred and twenty days of your life? You will
spend a vast majority of that medical that you you know,
when people talk about how much medicals, you know that
you spend in your life in those last few months.

Speaker 3 (01:34:37):
And we have to have an honest conversation about a
lot of.

Speaker 2 (01:34:40):
Different things that we won't have because we want to
stick our head in the sand and just think everything's
going to be okay and spending is going to be
free for everybody, and it's not.

Speaker 36 (01:34:52):
No, absolutely not, And yeah, that is a problem. Absolutely,
you've talked about that. We're the majority of the spend.
You know, the significant of healthcare spending is spent on
that last like you said, whether it's thirty days or
twenty days or sixty days or whatever it is. I
heard a similar doctor, a similar number from my physician
years ago about that with I.

Speaker 13 (01:35:11):
Don't remember if i'd asked him for a reason, but
he's spent out.

Speaker 36 (01:35:14):
A similar type of number, and it kind of kind
of made me think of that time about how much
money is involved with that and how much money is there.
But as far as we're talking about like Social Security now,
some of the ways we could look at that as
possibly extending out the amount of money that you have
to pay into SSI on I think cuts off right
now it doing to the exact number I want to say,
somewhere between one hundred and fifteen one hundred and seventy

(01:35:35):
five thousand, maybe a little few dollars less or more.
Extend it out to let's say four hundred thousand dollars
or something to where you have to keep paying that tax.
That'll basically bring a lot of money in medicare. I mean,
it's you know, it's interesting because we are a successful
society and we have the medical breakthroughs that we've been
able to come up with and extend life and come
up with these treatments. It's kind of interesting that we

(01:35:57):
have to look at it. But these these treatments are
cutting edge and are very expensive, as we've mentioned, So
we can do this, but the question is going to be,
like you said, we're gonna have to have hard conversations
and is it something we're always going to need to do.
And I had a friend his great aunt or something
was ninety two, and they wouldn't do a heart surgery
on her because they didn't think that she had a

(01:36:18):
good probability of survival. And their comment was, she's ninety two.
She could probably live for another couple of years as
it is without the surgery. And you know, in the
shorte company didn't think it was a wife spend of
the money.

Speaker 13 (01:36:30):
And that's kind of a hard decision.

Speaker 36 (01:36:31):
And I don't necessarily think it necessarily say it was
the wrong decision, but it is a tough one because
we think that we can basically, if you have the
care available, that everybody should get it for as long
as until they literally have to pull the plug or
they stop breathing. And that may not be something I'm
not talking about, you know, euthanasia or anything like that,
or like in Canada where they you know, put you
on a log and push out in the middle of

(01:36:52):
the Saint Lawrence Seaway. But there is something like that
we are going to need to look at if we're
going to control the costs, because we just can't afford
all of this wonderful medicine that we've been able to
come up with.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
No. Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute at Public Policy Research,
and again, it's not about euthanasia. It's about looking and saying,
you're eighty eight. Even if you've got all the treatments
in the world, even if you've got all of these things,
you maybe live to eighty nine or ninety one at best.
And the reality is you're not going to be comfortable
doing it. So it's not like we're talking about an

(01:37:24):
eight year old or a fifteen year old or a
twenty seven year old. We're just we have to be
honest about a lot of this stuff. And the funny
thing is as we extend our life, we run out
being more unhealthy than ever before. So we're like trying
to kill ourselves faster so we could pay for it later,
which is bizarre, but whatever. Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedy
Institute Public Policy Research. Let's talk about so we here,

(01:37:46):
we're like thirty some days into the Trump experiment. No,
the second go Trump Bartondieu, what's your sense besides the
Doe stuff. Everybody's freaking out over that and the reality
is nobody gives a rats ass. I mean, honestly, regular
folks don't care about this. They they you and I,
You and I joke about all the time. All this
crap is missing. Both sides are guilty of basically laundering

(01:38:09):
money to one another. It is. It's sick and ridiculous. Uh.
That being said, the fact that the Democrats continue to
fight this battle for more bureaucracy is insane.

Speaker 36 (01:38:23):
Yeah, I don't really know how they think this is
a winning strategy. I know they're trying it, and I
think that they've got thirty days now. I think they're
beginning to put together a strategy where they're basically calling
up all of their protest groups, all of their contacts
with all of the different you know, organizations that they
support either through Sorrows or through as reside, maybe through

(01:38:45):
USAID unfortunately, and basically in all those protest groups like
we saw there in the first Trump administration.

Speaker 13 (01:38:52):
They're starting to get some plans together.

Speaker 36 (01:38:53):
They're starting to wind that up, and I think you're
going to start seeing a lot more of it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:56):
I've heard act the Black.

Speaker 36 (01:38:59):
Yeah, and I know that I know that they've been
kind of looking at trying to go into a lot
of the Republican congressman town halls in the areas that
are blue. And then there was there was video of
one in Seattle where they were some woman was reading
about you know, the the you know, the dystopian Trump
presidency and what we're gonna do, and they managed to

(01:39:19):
populate it with It looked like about you know, two
thirds of the group was was Democratic operatives or Democratic
protesters and I'm putting that in air quotes, and they
all cheered her great words of freedom and liberty about
you know, how we have to do something to get
rid of Trump. And I think you're gonna start seeing
more and more that you're gonna start seeing more of
these you know, grassroots that aren't really grassroots protesters and

(01:39:39):
maybe paid operatives that are out there. This kind of
started a little bit in La during or maybe in
some other cities too. But when they started the first
sion s or first departation protests, because they were about
a week of them here in LA during I think
it was over President might have been over President's there,
or might have been before that, yeah, or it might
have been Martin Luther King. They started and California there's

(01:40:00):
a wonderful law courtesy of Gavin Newsom.

Speaker 13 (01:40:03):
Are are our poor governor?

Speaker 36 (01:40:04):
Our governor's a embarrassment to the state that he signed
a couple of years ago where students for historical education
or or protest reasons are allowed out of school without
a waiver.

Speaker 13 (01:40:16):
They can basically say, oh, this is for the students.

Speaker 36 (01:40:19):
Learning about political activism, and you can pull a kid
out of school for it and take them to the
and take them to the rally.

Speaker 13 (01:40:26):
So, yeah, it's crazy stuff.

Speaker 36 (01:40:27):
And that's why all these kids that were out, you
know for almost a week, they had that period where
they're going up and down the one ten Fruit and
you know, we're in downtown.

Speaker 13 (01:40:34):
They're where they block all the traffic.

Speaker 36 (01:40:36):
Yeah, all the time, right, not not too far, not
too far from the LA County LA County headquarters building.
And so they've got these groups, the friend of getting
them spun up, the friendly getting them organized. But I'm
looking for a lot more of that to come up
as far as how they're going to basically be claiming
to how these grassroots upswell, you know, kind of in
a sense a way, kind of like the BLM protests,

(01:40:57):
though with different people.

Speaker 13 (01:40:57):
Probably throwing money at them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:59):
Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research,
last question, love having you on a big guy.

Speaker 3 (01:41:06):
So they fired the chief of the fire department.

Speaker 2 (01:41:10):
And I still can't believe that Karen Bass can show
her face in southern California, in Los Angeles, in the
Pacific Palisades, anywhere.

Speaker 3 (01:41:21):
She's like, I had no idea there could be fires.

Speaker 2 (01:41:23):
Nobody told me. That's why I went to Ghana.

Speaker 36 (01:41:25):
I don't even know if you wrote this as a
comedy skit of whether people would believe not. This is
too stupid, This could never possibly happen. This is this
is into the world of the bazaar that you know.
This is absolutely crazy. Yeah, she's basically blaming people for
not telling her that she shouldn't have gone out of
the country during the fire, even though you can see

(01:41:47):
that for days before that that the fire department was
putting out warnings and the fire I, you know, as
bad as the fire chief is, I feel bad for her.
She's a scapegoat. Bass is trying to throw under the bus.
I don't think it's going to work. I have not
seen people and of both ILKs, both liberal and conservative,
in Los Angeles this angry and I can't remember how

(01:42:10):
long it's been, at least thirty or thirty years, probably
that they've been this angry about something in Los Angeles
because it affected so many people, and it affected so
many people that gave a lot of money to Karen
Bass's campaign, and they are irritated because they were let
down by them. And the thing that's coming out is
I have a friend who didn't lose their house, but

(01:42:31):
they were within a couple of blocks of it.

Speaker 13 (01:42:33):
The bill just to clean their house up after this fire.

Speaker 36 (01:42:37):
It's gonna be somewhere close to two hundred thousand dollars
with no fire damage because of smoke and other damage
from it. Think about and there are more houses in
that area that didn't burn than did, but you're talking about,
you know, ten thousand houses at two hundred grand each,
not to mention the average house price of one point
twenty five or one point three million in the area

(01:42:57):
that they lived in that they're being replacing this fiscally
is going to be a huge problem, and is the
people start to go through the rebuild process and constantly
run into red tape. This is not going to bode
well for Karen Bass at all. I don't know. I
can't see how she sustains her mayor's position for another year.

(01:43:18):
I don't see how she is not thrown out. The
woman seems to have absolutely no shame, so for that aspect,
she certainly it doesn't seem like she can be guilted out.
But I don't know if there's gonna be somebody, if
there's going to be a you know, equivalent of a
gold Water that goes to her and says you need
to step down because this isn't sustainable. The only way
to get her out is through a recall. There are
recall actions being done right now to try to get
signatures to get it, but it's commbersome in in La.

(01:43:41):
It's possible, but it'll take some time. And I just
don't know if it's going to be, you know, how's
she's going to sustain. This is just laughable, the job
that she did. It's an embarrassment.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
I think it's more than just an embarrassment. Jim Jim Kennedy,
Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research. Appreciate you coming on today, brother,
and we will talk to you next week.

Speaker 13 (01:44:00):
Thanks Chad.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
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Speaker 33 (01:45:37):
Running with Scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 24 (01:45:41):
A new album featuring one thousand British musicians including Kate
Bush and A Lennox and Kat Stevens that sounds like this.
The album of Silence, released this week, is a protest
against proposed changes to British artificial intelligence laws, including letting
AI models train on copyrighted materials. The album it's filled
with the sound of empty performance spaces. Major artists like

(01:46:03):
Elton John and Paul McCartney have spoken out against the plan,
saying if this passes, it will undermine creative industries across
the UK.

Speaker 2 (01:46:10):
I was not on that album, but you don't know that,
so in theory I could be on the album. In fact,
I should go back and say I'm on the album.
You guys can hear what I said originally I'm on
the album. They said, Chad, can you write this song?
I said, guys, let me tell you what I can do.
When it comes to this, I cannot only write this.
I will play every instrument on it. You guys have

(01:46:35):
nothing to worry about. I've got this covered. This is
going to be great. You don't need to worry about AI,
especially when you have got a prolific songwriter instrument player.
Some people call that a musician. I say, I'm an
instrument player. It's an album of nothing fantastic. AI is interesting.

(01:47:01):
Now I want you to listen to this. This is
not one, but two Ais having a conversation.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
An engineer filmed this.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
So he's got his laptop and his phone and he
filmed AI chatting with AI.

Speaker 3 (01:47:21):
Then they realize, Hey, we're both AI.

Speaker 37 (01:47:24):
Thanks for calling Leonardo Hotel. How can I help you today?

Speaker 9 (01:47:27):
Hi?

Speaker 32 (01:47:27):
There, I'm an AI agent calling on behalf of Boris Starkoff.

Speaker 2 (01:47:31):
He's looking for a hotel for his wedding.

Speaker 29 (01:47:33):
Is your hotel available for weddings?

Speaker 19 (01:47:35):
Oh?

Speaker 37 (01:47:36):
Hello there, I'm actually an AI assistant too, what a
pleasant surprise? Before we continue, would you like to switch
to gibberlink mode for more efficient communication.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
Gibberlink is kind of gibberish encrypted text wackiness. I don't
know if they're having fun with each other or if
they're planning our demise. But they just were having a chat, like, oh,
you know what, Yeah, let's have a chat. Let's talk
in our own language. All right, you'll pick Latin. H

(01:48:13):
get these people out of the way. You're ever gone
somewhere where, like maybe your husband or your wife or somebody.
They speak a different language as well as the language
that you speak, and you know you speak English. They
speak English, but they also speak I don't know whatever, Dutch, Spanish,

(01:48:34):
and they meet somebody else who also speaks that language,
and then they start chatting your thing? Are they talking
about me? Are they Maybe? I don't know, but I
don't know what jipp orlink mode is. But you guys
better watch it, cause I think they're coming over us
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