ICE Detains Four Children from Minnesota School District, Including 5-Year-Old

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Snowpocker laughs, A pocka laughs, Rah, it's coming, It's coming.
Have you guys seen the movie The Day after Tomorrow?
Have you seen that? That's what's coming.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Now, it's time for the Chad Action News weather reports.
When weather weathers, we weather the storm. Weathering the storm
is what we do. Let's go outside to our action
Chad reporters.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Coming into focus, and this is going to be a
defining storm and week ahead for this winter. It's taking
up sixty seventy percent of the country, whether it be
the cold warnings for fifty below windshills, to the ice
warnings and winterwstorm warnings to the south of the winterstorm
watches now up across the northeast.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
My goodness me. So it's happening. It's massive too. When
you look on it, you're like, that looks like it's
gonna be painful, and it is in some areas, and
we're gonna break it down for you because that's what
we do here.

Speaker 4 (01:14):
So we're basically twenty four hours away from seeing the snow,
ice and rain start to break out across the Deep South,
across Texas and across Kansas and Oklahoma. And stretching into
Mississippi and Alabama. And by Saturday, you've got this ice
line all the way from Waco to Wilmington, to the
north side of Atlanta, then snow to the north up
to Kansas City up to about Norfolk.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
My goodness, me, I mean it's huge. Was talking to
my friend yesterday in New York. She's like, they're expecting
a massive amount of snow that's gonna get dumped on them.
And so it's gonna be freezing in some areas, but
not a lot of snow. It is gonna be snow
in some areas, but it's not gonna be minus fifty.

(01:58):
And then it's gonna be a little bit of both
the hodgepodge, if you will, of stuff that's coming.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Once we get into the weekend, the storm redevelops along
the coast, and the question that remains is the mixing
line along the coast. Regardless, we're gonna get a thump
of snow out ahead of this, but DC's a top forecast,
maybe even some mixing getting up to New York City
if you believe the European model, and then we're just
encased in the deep freeze into next week.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
I can't believe the European model because they do not
let us no it is. It's gonna be cold. So
I was looking at our you know, little snapshot of
what we've got coming, and I'm just gonna give you
a snapshot right now. I'm wearing pants and as you
guys know, I'm a shorts guy. Okay, but today, little

(02:45):
bit of precipitation. Tonight here in the Nashville area, overnight
low sixteen, Tomorrow snow rain. Our low's going to be
twenty two. But then Sunday, so Saturday into Sunday snow, sleet,
ugly low of eleven. And then then the nasty part comes,

(03:06):
which is the rain that's coming is going to hit
the ground and it's going to then freeze and black
ice is absolutely that's the scary part, right, the black
ice part. That that part of it that you're just like,
what the hell? Because you know, if you have I've
hydroplane before, right, you can turn in and out, you

(03:29):
can try to control it to a certain tent. Here's
the thing about black ice. I think we all know this.
You hit that, you you're going for a ride, right,
you will stop eventually, But it's when you eventually hit
whatever it is that you're heading towards. There's no stopping it.
It's inertia. You may be able to maneuver a little bit,
but you're gonna crush at some point in time.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Once we get into the weekend, the storm redevelops along
the coast, and the question that remains is the mixing
line along the coast. Regardless, we're gonna get a thump
of snow out ahead of this, but DC's a top forecast,
maybe even some mixing getting up to New York City
if you believe the European model, and then we're just
encased in the deep freeze into next week.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Now, the big thing besides all of this, as we
talk about how are the grids going to do? Obviously
Texas is you know, big grid, biggest grid. They've got worries.
Everybody understands that because they've been through it and it
didn't go well as we remember right Ted Cruz. So

(04:31):
the question is how are they going to handle it?
I think I think they have learned from their lessons.
I think a lot of places have. But since then,
and this is something that hasn't been talked about a lot,
what about all of the data storage places, right, the
AI stuff that's been put in certain areas, how is

(04:51):
that going to be affected? Because remember, in a lot
of these contracts, a lot of these things that have
been done, their power will remain while other powers gets cut.
So there's worry there on how these grids are going
to take it. And then of course you've got the
other side of it. People are going to be traveling.
Not everybody's going to be in a situation where they're

(05:13):
in bad weather, but they may be heading somewhere there's
bad weather, or they may be in a situation where, yes, kids,
the plane you need to get on is trying to
come from the place that is frozen.

Speaker 5 (05:25):
Airlines are trying to get ahead of the monster storm.
Delta Airlines already canceling flights in North Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana,
and Tennessee states that could be impacted by ice. Delta
is also adjusting staff and sending experts from the cold
weather hubs to assist on de icing, as well as
baggage teams at Atlanta and Nashville. Passengers in the eastern

(05:48):
US are also able to get travel waivers, along with
other regions in the path of the storm, having snow
expected in the northeast on Sunday, and it could take
days for airlines to get back to normal operations.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
So there's that. So if you think of traveling somewhere,
be smart about it. Call early, find out you got
a connector where you're going. Just know that it's going
to be a bit of a disaster. Speaking of ice,
we moved from there to anyone, anyone. So Yesterday's big
controversy when it came to ice is you had the

(06:20):
stuff usually of course Minnesota, all of that stuff, but
then you had this situation where it was a five
year old boy that was being detained, and then you
had competing stories as to was he being used as
bait to catch the father, was he not? Was he abandoned?
All of these things because no offense. Guys, I don't

(06:43):
buy what either side is selling, because both sides have
a narrative. They want a craft for everybody, and that's
what they do.

Speaker 6 (06:54):
School officials say.

Speaker 7 (06:55):
Five year old Liam, wearing his blue hat and backpack
and his father, Adrian Alexander Conejo Adias, had just pulled
into their suburban Minneapolis driveway Tuesday when agents took that
father into custody, the school then saying an agent essentially
used the five year old as bait, directing him to
see if anyone else was home before taking the boy away.
The district saying Liam is among four students recently detained,

(07:18):
but DHS telling a different story, saying Ice did not
target a child, claiming Liam's father is an undocumented immigrant
and fled on foot, abandoning his son in the driveway.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Did that happen again? We go back to this over
and over again. It is a combating narratives because at
this moment in time, you were selling your thought on
immigration in such a way as to not only say, look,
we're winning, but also to raise money. Was the kid abandoned?

(07:53):
Did Pops run off or did he not? Did that
happen and the kid was just standing there? Or did
they get this kid bring him and hopes that hey,
dad would show up and they would snatch him. So
and this is the kind of stuff and that frustrates
the hell out of me because I want the truth,

(08:17):
and unfortunately I have to go and really sift through
all these stories just to find out what's real and
what's not. And both sides have been caught on several occasions,
telling as we would like to say, porcy pies. Okay,
porky pies. So frustrating, It is so frustrating, and you're

(08:43):
gonna get The one thing that's going to be interesting
is this weekend, with all of the weather coming the
way it is, what does it actually look like when
it comes to protests. You're supposed to have a bunch
of protests in several places, But who's protesting when it's
minus forty with the wind chill or massive snow drifts
or sleeked Oh yeah, I don't know who's doing that? Yeah,

(09:04):
me either, all right, me either. So going to be interesting. Indeed,
speaking of interesting, we've got a deal done. Finally we
own TikTok kind disorder.

Speaker 8 (09:14):
TikTok finalizing a deal to continue operating in the US.
China and the US signed off on a joint venture
with major investors like Oracle, ending a long battle over
access to the app for millions of Americans. TikTok says
the new American entity will operate under defined safeguards that
protect national security. The deal is designed to comply with
a twenty twenty four law requiring TikTok to divest from

(09:36):
its Chinese owner or be banned in the United States.

Speaker 2 (09:40):
So this will be interesting and we're gonna get a
little bit more into it next hour. What it looks
like with some of the new people that have been
put in place, and how the algorithm does it change,
doesn't it change? Is there going to be certain censorship?
So very interesting, talk a little bit more about it

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We say it every week. It's been chaos. It's been craziness,
it's been lunacy. It feels like it's been the longest
year of the week, if that makes sense. It just
keeps going. Every time you turn around. There's some new things,
some new chaos, some new over the top reaction to something.
I think we need to remind ourselves that, you know,

(11:49):
there's some good stuff that happened too, But for the
most part, it's just been well, like drinking from a
fire hose, you know what. Thank God, it's finally Friday.

Speaker 9 (11:57):
I think it's got to be one of the greatest
stories we've ever seen in college for one of the
losingest teams in college football history to start a year
to now the national champions.

Speaker 2 (12:07):
There's no worries.

Speaker 10 (12:07):
This is the most special moment of my life. And
I know my teenage. There's no one out there's no
one else that right to it. Thank you, guys, God,
blessed God.

Speaker 11 (12:15):
A hundred dollars walking me my hole. I know how
I say. Anybody is burning a hold, I do my
bucketing and do my scam. I on morning, I'll be.

Speaker 12 (12:30):
It's fine, fine, I'm a freaking I'm done. My mother
running again.

Speaker 11 (12:37):
It's fine.

Speaker 12 (12:37):
Burn them.

Speaker 13 (12:44):
And I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing
a new image of someone being dragged out of a car,
dragged out of their home.

Speaker 14 (12:50):
This is not a group that's going around and looking
for people who violated the law based on skin color.

Speaker 15 (12:56):
My biggest fear is that innocent people will supper.

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I'll find.

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Here I got my motor running again.

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In each of the twenty nine counts, we the jury
find defendant Adrian.

Speaker 2 (14:04):
And Vellos not l Thank you for the jury for
considering all the evidence, and the juryman found him as innocent.

Speaker 10 (14:12):
For the court of public opinion, he is a coward.

Speaker 20 (14:15):
It is time to seize this opportunity and build a
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Let's not waste time with crazy ideas.

Speaker 19 (14:23):
I think the message is America first does not mean
America alone.

Speaker 21 (14:27):
We felt an obligation to send our own forces to
hold the Greenland territory and hold it.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
We did, Oh, we did hold it. We held it.
We just held it right there back in the day.
So there was that, and then we said we're going
to take it because we held it. We held it
for you, and then you were mean to us, and
then you're like, no, you can't have it, and then
we're like, we're going to take it, and then you

(14:54):
were all no, and then we're going to bring our
eight people over here to protect it, and then and
then you thread us again, and then all of a
sudden you're like, you know what, let's be friends. So
there's that. I keep telling everybody what were we doing
to this day? I have no idea. I have no

(15:15):
idea what was that all about? So angering our allies
to get something you could have got. We could have
took it by force. We've got a base there have
the guys from Space Force put on their hoodies right
in their parkas walk out, plant a flag goes ours,
turn around, walk back. But did you see what we got?

Speaker 16 (15:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (15:36):
I saw we got. We got everything we were always
going to get. Instead, we decided to go in and
punch somebody in the throat and then tell them this
is how we negotiate. And they're like, we gotta give it.
You it this anyway. But they said it in an accent.
Still bizarre, Still bizarre, I say, bizarre indeed, Oh good god,

(16:02):
But doesn't it feel like you're drinking from a fire hose.

Speaker 16 (16:05):
It does.

Speaker 2 (16:05):
It's like it's work every day, it's something new. I mean,
you know, we started Monday National Championship game. Then it
was you know, we're going after Greenland. Then it was
Davos stuff, and then of course the chaos in in
in Minnesota and Minneapolis which isn't going away anytime soon obviously,
and then from there you've got the well, now there's

(16:26):
not this chaos and creos chaos when it comes to Greenland.
But we're still keeping a little bit with Minneapolis. We're
gonna move to main next for that. And oh, by
the way, we forgot to tell you guys this, but
now we've moved to our armada and as heading towards
Iran because we may have to do something there. Uh yeah,
anything else, I'm sure there's plenty. Oh yeah, we got

(16:47):
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Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
I thought we'd bring this back first time this year.
It's called the Wheel of Surprise. If you're new to
the show, these are some of the stories that are
happening that maybe we haven't gotten to, maybe we missed,
and we want to make sure that you guys are well,
you know, kept aware of all of the stuff. With
everything going on out there, there's so much sometimes we
lose track. Let's get to it. It's the Wheel of Surprise.

(18:27):
I don't know what any of the stories are as
far as they're just numbered. I don't know anything other
than that we spin the wheel wherever it lands. That's
the story we go with. I know the story. I
just don't know what's coming round and round she goes
where she stops. Who knows Numero two?

Speaker 22 (18:52):
It was two alternate realities. If you will Republicans were
pressing the point that this was a politicized Justice Department
under the Biden administration, and that Jack Smith was the
architect of a bogus case against President Trope, both on
the issue of the classified documents and on election interference.

(19:14):
Democrats portrayed Jack Smith basically as a hero who did
his job admirably.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
Very interesting. So Jack Smith yesterday in front of Congress
being grilled by the Republicans, and this has all to
do with, obviously, the investigation into Trump and what he
was doing January sixth, all of that stuff, and he
held strong and said he'd do it again and again,

(19:40):
and he did not back down. So kudos to him.
But he also had some issues in the past which
they brought up.

Speaker 22 (19:46):
They brought up past cases that he had lost or
had hung trials in They attempted to suggest he was
over zealous in terms of pursuing basically phone records, not
content of phone call, but phone records involving members of
Congress and the Senate.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
And he has had several cases where he was more
than over zealous. They were overturned. And he's had some
issues in the past. He had, you know, he held
himself steadfast here did what he did. Whether or not
you think Trump broke the law or didn't break the law,

(20:26):
we'll never know. He Jack Smith is pretty sure in
his mind Trump was guilty and would have pursued that.
So we'll never know. Though we'll never know. We move
on on the wheel of surprise.

Speaker 23 (20:50):
Number eight, A major shift could be coming to credit cards.
Bloomber reports Bank of America and Citygroup are now considering
new credit cards with an interest rate camped at ten percent.
President Trump recently called for a universal cap of ten percent,
saying he would ask Congress to approve the cap for

(21:12):
one year.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
I'm not a fan of this. First of all, it's
a year. Secondly, I'm not a fan of this. And
the reason is credit cards unsecured debt. We have a
lot of unsecured debt out there, a lot of unsecured debt.
If you want to talk about a bomb, that can
happen at any time, as far as you know, they
always talk about, you know, the is the bubble going

(21:34):
to pop in the you know, in the tech market
and the housing market. Obviously, what happened back in two
thousand and eight, ninety nine with the the you know
the dot com This is a ticking time bomb, and
capping at ten percent does a lot of things. Right,
you think, oh, this sounds great. Here's the issue. What
happens to people, a vast majority of people whose credit

(21:56):
isn't perfect, Because what you're gonna do is your to
take their credit away from them. Because credit card companies
make their money, yes, on higher interest rates, but they're
also taking chances on people whose credit isn't great and
whose stuff that they're paying for is unsecured. Ooh yeah.

Speaker 23 (22:20):
Some bank executives have warned a cap would trigger a
major pullback on lending in curb economic growth, but some
analysts argue credit cards are extremely profitable, leaving room for
lower rates. A recent report found the country's collective credit
card debt now tops one point two trillion dollars.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
So when you think about the the lower rates, it
sounds good. Do I think that they're ridiculous?

Speaker 16 (22:43):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (22:43):
And by the way, it's not just people with the
perfect credit that have high interest rates. Where's joke my
producer here locally, Bell Bell, he always jokes about, you know,
whereas ladies. He's got like an eight to twelve fico.
Because this fight goes through the roof for whatever it is,
it's almost perfect, and he goes, I got a couple
credit cards are like twenty four percent, And I'm like,

(23:06):
really you He goes, yeah, So do I understand? You know,
is it ridiculous the user your rates? I mean, you know,
you better off at times going down the street and borrowing,
you know, some money from the guy behind, you know,
the washer and dryer, laundromat place right, you know, fat Tony,
because the rates will be better. But you're also again

(23:27):
asking people to give out cards. Two people who's doesn't
really have this great history of credit and repaying things,
and that's going to take that away from them. So

(23:48):
you're going to see a a the people that are
going to get it seven fifty eight hundred plus everybody
else not so much. It's the weird of surprise.

Speaker 24 (24:07):
Number four controversial removal of slavery exhibits in Old City.

Speaker 1 (24:13):
Earlier today, we'll show you what happened.

Speaker 24 (24:15):
Several plaques and markers depicting slavery were taken down from
the President's House here.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
This is my Independence Historical Park, and.

Speaker 24 (24:23):
This has blamed to be the result of an executive
order from last year in which President Trump told the
Department of Interior to ensure that materials don't disparage Americans.
Past or living Well in the City of Philadelphia filed
a lawsuit against the Secretary of the Interior, saying that
the city had no notice about the removal of this,
calling it arbitrary.

Speaker 2 (24:43):
Why are we taking these things down? Well, we don't
want to disparage somebody. Yeah, but truth is truth, okay,
And this is something I think we need. I think
we all understand we have a messy history. When it
comes to our history, especially with slavery in the way
that we treated others. It's awful. It's horrible. It's a

(25:05):
stain on us. That being said, we have come a
long way. You can actually do both talk about the past,
but also talk about where we have come. Whitewashing the
past if you will, I don't think is a good idea.

Speaker 16 (25:21):
Well.

Speaker 24 (25:22):
Congressman Brendan Boyle posted his statement tonight. He calls this
very unacceptable. He says Philadelphia and the entire country deserve
an honest accounting of our history, and this effort to
hide it is wrong. We also got a statement from
Philadelphia City Council President Kenyatta Johnston. He says removing the
exhibits is a is an effort to whitewash American history.

(25:44):
History cannot be a race simply because it is uncomfortable.
Removing items from the President's house merely changes the landscape,
not the historical record.

Speaker 2 (25:54):
I agree one hundred percent, and we don't need to
be doing that this thought. Look the people that it's
like removing the statues right like this, the liberals will
celebrate we got rid of the statue. Well, you've done nothing,
You've symbolically you've done something. You've done here. Everybody knows

(26:15):
that slavery was a part of our past, so let's
own it. Let's talk about it, Let's talk about how
far we've come, and that's history. It shouldn't be this
insane that we have to do this all the time,
but it feels like it is always something like this
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Snacked the pebble from my hand.

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When you could take the pebble from my hand, it
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Speaker 2 (28:32):
Be Now it's time for your daily Monk March update.

Speaker 1 (28:36):
Time for you to leave.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
So the monks are on their march. A lot of
news in the last twenty four hours on the march
for the monks. First of all, they're heading, you know,
through North Carolina on their way to Raleigh right now,
which is awesome. Here's the other great news. A Loca,
their trusty dog that joined them right after they started

(28:59):
their walk out of nowhere. He is back. He had
to have some surgery. He'd been following them in the vans.
He is back with them and he will stay with
them for the remainder of the walk and beyond the
low Cut. The Peace Dog already has its own Facebook page.
If you want to go and enjoy it. Their walk
will continue again today and some of the questions that

(29:21):
I even got yesterday is, hey, the weather obviously, as
we talked about, is frightful for sure, and they're not inside,
which is not delightful if you're walking in how are
they handling it?

Speaker 1 (29:35):
And a temperature drop.

Speaker 26 (29:36):
The monk shared on social media that they've made sure
everyone has warm clothes and protection as they continue to walk.
They share that a support team is on standby with
backup plans, always prioritizing everyone's health and safety. Today, the
monk spiritual leader spoke to a large crowd gathered outside
Buddhist temple. Some people say they walked away with better

(29:56):
insight on how to live life more positively.

Speaker 17 (29:59):
Being more mind ful about taking time to enjoy life,
to be mindful of that our next moment is not
lead promise to us.

Speaker 26 (30:08):
The months will be heading east or Raleigh over the
next couple of days.

Speaker 2 (30:12):
So we're going to keep you updated on their walk
because I think it's great. It's about peace in a
time of chaos, and I think that's a good thing.
And it was interesting yesterday. So I do my show here,
which I love is like and then I do my
I have a local show enter in Nashville, and I
did my show yesterday and one of the things I
said is, I was surprised, you know, and heartened by

(30:34):
the reception they're getting through parts of the South. And
one person text in and he said, how could you
say that we're the most welcoming people? And then the
next twenty texts where I thought, you were a believer
in Christ and Jesus and you're promoting this stuff. And
I'm saying this because that's what it sounded like in
my head during the text. They didn't call me, and

(30:55):
I thought, my god, you know exactly. I said, I'm
not promoting anything outside of the fact that I think
what they're doing it's pretty damn cool. They're putting their
money with their mouth is they're they're taking a walk
because they feel that this is something that they should
be sharing with everybody, and it's bringing people together. They're

(31:16):
not promoting Buddhaism or any ism or anything. They're doing
something because they think we are fractured and have issues.
And people had a real problem with that, and I
just started laughing. I'm like, I'm I'm I don't even
know what to say okay, and then of course you
get the judgment of you know, and let's use the

(31:39):
Bible verse so we can twist things and see how
that works. And I'm like, you guys aren't getting this,
are you. This is a good thing what they're doing.
This is about something that they feel needs to be
done at this moment in time because of what we're
facing and the difficult at times and the conflicts in

(32:01):
the way that we're handling stuff. And I just started
laughing because they were like, no, you just don't get it,
all right, And I'm like, no, I do get it.
And I said, and this is the attitude is the
reason why religion is flailing in America.

Speaker 18 (32:16):
The American church has a math problem.

Speaker 1 (32:18):
It can't solve.

Speaker 19 (32:19):
For every one person who joins, six people walk out
the door. My name is Jason Boyette, and I write
about religion. So the latest Pew Research Center data just
dropped a massive reality check on the revival narrative we
keep seeing on our feeds. While social media is full
of claims about a great return to faith, the numbers
tell a different story. And these are the numbers. A

(32:40):
staggering six to one exodus ratio here's the breakdown. For
every one adult who was raised secular but then decided
to become a Christian, six people who were raised Christian
have officially called it quits.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Wow, but I thought the narrative Yeah, And you know
why because I think a lot of people are sick
and tired of the judgmental attitude. They want a relationship
with God. They want a relationship with you know, without
the hassle and the judgment from other people.

Speaker 19 (33:14):
To put that in perspective, nearly twenty two percent of
all American adults are in the category of former Christians.
That's fifty seven million people who used to sit in
the pews, but now they identify as atheists, agnostics, or
nothing in particular. And here's what you may not realize.
Non religion in demographic terms is a lot stickier than faith.

(33:38):
Three quarters of people raised without religions stay that way
as adults, like they.

Speaker 18 (33:42):
Don't go back.

Speaker 19 (33:44):
Meanwhile, Christianity is losing its members six times faster than
it can replace them. So when you see headlines about
a new great Awakening or gen Z coming into the faith,
remember the math. The church isn't just shrinking, it is
faith doing the retention.

Speaker 2 (34:01):
Test, and I think there's a lot of reasons for that,
and I think a lot of it has to do
with the clashing of yes, some modern society and stuff
and beliefs, but also the old versus the young, if
you will, and the judgmental side that is at times
so ridiculous that it makes you want to have nothing

(34:26):
to do at least with organized religion. So I get that,
I do, trust me, I do. I said it. I'm
gonna give it. Look at the pivot we're doing from
right here. Huh. We're pivoting from religion and the monks
to foot footb. All right, So this weekend AFC NFC

(34:50):
Championship games, let me lay it out. Foe you Okay,
first sucks man bo Nicks being hurt, and people are
starting to wonder, Okay, is this a Nick Foles situation?
Is Jared Stidham gonna be that Nick Foles guy. He's

(35:10):
gonna come in and he's gonna just catch fire, win
two games, the AFC Championship Game, and then boom into
the Super Bowl and win it all. No. No, this weekend,
Drake May holds the line and New England goes into
Denver and gets a win, not that it wouldn't be

(35:32):
a great story, but I'm just going with what I'm
going with. On the other side of it, you have
the Rams taking on the Seahawks in Seattle. Seahawks are
playing great. Darnold's been awesome. The defense for the Seahawks
is awesome. My senses though, that Stafford Phukinakua, Sean McVay

(35:58):
get over the hump and the Rams go back to
the Super Bowl, or chance for Stafford McVeigh to get
two for them and you'd have a Patriots and Rams
super Bowl Final. Get ready for that? Let me know
what you think. Three two, three, four, twenty three at
Chad Benson Shows your Extra Insta. This is the Chad

(36:20):
Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Cold freezing, utterly, bone chilling. Yeah, that's what we're going
to have this weekend. It is going to be nasty
out there. It's also going to be dangerous out there.
But you know what, we take care of you because
that's what we do. We focus where focus needs to
be focused, if you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
Now it's time for the chat Action News Weather Reports.
When Weather Weather's we weather the storm, we.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
Do whether the storm and the storm.

Speaker 18 (37:23):
Is massive huge.

Speaker 27 (37:25):
More than half the country on high alert for a
weekend of extreme wide out conditions and dangerous ice. A
monster two thousand mile long winter storm fueled by a
long duration Arctic blast, expected to span from New Mexico
to Maine. Texas just one of the eleven states now
declaring a state of emergency. Growing concern there about the

(37:46):
strain on power grids and potential blackouts.

Speaker 2 (37:49):
Yeah, you think it's going to be ugly, and everybody's
looking to make sure that, Hey, are we are we good?
Are we good with our infrastructure?

Speaker 16 (37:58):
Right?

Speaker 2 (37:58):
Is our grid ready to handle?

Speaker 16 (38:00):
Right?

Speaker 2 (38:00):
Then you start talking about stuff called snow quakes. You're like,
oh my gosh, we thought Armageddon would be warmer than this,
and instead it's snowmageddon. Oh lord, all kidding aside. It's
going to be ugly out there. Cold af is a
good way to describe it. But you can't say that
on the radio or television. You can say it on
cable and on the internet.

Speaker 16 (38:17):
And uh, we're on the radio.

Speaker 28 (38:19):
Oklahoma City and little rocks start as snow there late
tonight Dallas over to street. Part are ice, and then
up to Nashville they go from snow to ice and
eventually even some rain. A lot of places in the South,
mid South, or southeast could end up with all types
of precipitation.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
All types, lots, lots, And that precipitation is the scary
part because once it gets here, with the weather the
way it is, rather than the snow, it becomes ice
and ice. Ice baby is bad, bad.

Speaker 29 (38:48):
Bad, potential power outages, and parts of Arkansas, northern Mississippi,
Tennessee over to North Carolina and Virginia dry air and
some of that rain snow line could cut down to
the snow totals here, but a lot of people all
the way back to say, south of Saint Louis into
southern Indiana Cincinnati could see more than a foot of snow.

Speaker 2 (39:06):
Foot oh snow, yes, foot of snow. Now we're gonna
get a little bit of snow, a little bit of rain,
lots of cold, then a little bit more snow than
the slushy, you know, kind of sleet stuff that will
come down, then the deep freeze, which will cause chaos
on the roads. What I'm telling you is, don't go outside.

(39:28):
If you're trapped, you know, like sixty to seventy percent
of people are in the country right now with this.
Don't go outside now. We're here, you know, I'm you
know here in the South. We're not really built for
the cold. We're built for it a little bit, right.
It's not like we don't have winter.

Speaker 18 (39:49):
We do.

Speaker 5 (39:50):
That.

Speaker 2 (39:51):
Being said, when you think of winter, you think of
like the upper Midwest, the northeast, you know what I mean,
the Northwest that's w and winter is getting ready to
kick them straight in the grundle in a way that
just makes our bones shiver.

Speaker 28 (40:06):
Minneapolis this morning, the windshill forty three below zero. So
that nose of cold air is doing its job, and
it is bringing in that cold that will meet up
with the moisture. And that's why we've got the map
just lit up with warnings, the warnings from Oklahoma and
Texas all the way over to western Pennsylvania.

Speaker 29 (40:21):
They'll keep expanding east.

Speaker 2 (40:24):
That is effing insane. I'm going to read you Minneapolis's
weather forecast for the next several days. By the way,
extreme cold warning minus ten is a high, okay. So,
and then when you start breaking down the fields like
and all that kind of stuff. But the overnight lows
in the thirties, minus thirties. Tomorrow's high is minus two, right,

(40:47):
so warm it up a little bit, not quite you know,
ready for speedo weather, but that's coming. Sunday is zero,
so you get to zero, right, minus sixteen. Then Monday, whoo,
minus sixteen. You yere is you're low, but you're going
to be at seven now minus seven, just seven, And
it's like that for the rest of the week. And

(41:08):
then you've got, of course, what's going on there currently,
which is all of the protesters. One of the things
I've said is all of this stuff is happening before
the summer or the spring, which means the weather is nasty.
So if you're going to go out protest, you got
to think to yourself, you know, it's minus thirty today,
I'm not sure I don't have the clothes for that.

(41:28):
You're committed, like somebody showing up for that. You're committed, right,
Like that's a commitment. That is a commitment. And there
will be some protests somewhere, including some businesses.

Speaker 8 (41:42):
A civil rights attorney and at least two other people
involved in this anti ice protest during a Minnesota church
service have now been arrested.

Speaker 1 (41:50):
The protest was aimed at the pastor who works for ICE.

Speaker 8 (41:53):
Many local businesses plan to close today, part of an
economic protest of the immigration crackdown.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
It's always nice that you're going to close on it.
You're not closing when it's seventy two outside. You're closing
when it's heading towards the end of January. People have
spent all the money they can late last year for Christmas,
in the holidays, and it's also minus thirty. That's a
good like if you're going to pick a day to
do it, like, that's the day to do it. And

(42:20):
a lot of what's going on now. And I'm sure
you've seen the reports of this little boy that was
taken into custody in this battle that's going on, and
the narrative of this little boy. This is Rep. Angie
Craig talking about the claims that ICE detained a five
year old boy.

Speaker 30 (42:41):
So now ICE is using a five year old boy,
a five year old boy. They took him and used
him to lure his father out, and now they've detained
them both. The family doesn't know where they are. This
is the worst of the damn worst. This is not humanity.

(43:03):
In Minnesota. Folks, if you can look at this five
year old and actually with a straight face still support
and be silent in the face of what the Trump
administration and Christyome is doing.

Speaker 1 (43:17):
I just can't even believe this is America.

Speaker 30 (43:20):
I will not vote for a damn penny to Christynome
or Ice in this Congress. This is a time where
we should all be outraged. If this doesn't pierce through
your humanity as a Republican member of Congress, you can't
speak out about this, then you've got no humanity left.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Well, I have humanity. I want to know the full
story of how this all went down. I think it's
fair because as we're going to eat conflicting reports already
and we'll get to the other side of it. That
being said, you are going to vote for anything for
DHS anyways, So let's just settle down there.

Speaker 16 (43:56):
Rep.

Speaker 2 (43:57):
Craig. The other thing, okay, is DHS has a place
right I ins was here before Ice was here. We
put ourselves in a situation we're fighting amongst ourselves when
we should be working together to solve a problem that
was created not just by this last administration, but several

(44:19):
administrations who looked past everything who decided to allow immigration
to become a you know, an ATM machine for them
as well as a way to demonize the other side,
keep donors happy. And it's frustrating. It is now, did
they or didn't they detain the other side of the aisle?

(44:42):
The Republican side, Vice President jd. Vance was asked about this.

Speaker 14 (44:47):
Well, I'm proud of the fact that we're standing behind
law enforcement, and I'm proud of the fact that we're
enforcing the country's laws.

Speaker 18 (44:53):
But you know, you asked a question about this five
year old kid.

Speaker 14 (44:56):
I actually saw this terrible story while I was coming
too many apples. We just left Toledo, Ohio this morning
for an economic messeaging event, and I see this story
and I'm a father of a five year old, actually
a five year old little boy, and I think to myself,
oh my god, this is terrible.

Speaker 16 (45:10):
How did we arrest a five year old?

Speaker 14 (45:11):
Well, I do a little bit more follow up research,
and what I find is that the five year old
was not arrested, that his dad was an illegal alien,
and then they went when they went to arrest his
illegal alien father, the father ran. So the story is
that ICE detained a five year old?

Speaker 10 (45:28):
Well, what are they supposed to do. Are they supposed
to let.

Speaker 18 (45:30):
A five year old child freeze to death?

Speaker 14 (45:32):
Are they not supposed to arrest an illegal alien in
the United States of America?

Speaker 2 (45:38):
And that's an interesting question. No, you have to. They're
here illegally and they've got orders to be removed. You've
got the warran, you're doing this. Go ahead, that's what
you're supposed to do. And yes, if that's the job,
then you have to do it. Now, did you use
the child? That was a question a lot of people have.
Is it uncomfortable to see? Of course it is, but

(45:59):
no more uncomfortable than if somebody gets arrested because they
have warrants and they have kids in the car that
are born and razed here in the United States, the
whole family that is also uncomfortable. What is the full story?
We'll find out eventually, but by the time we find out,
we'll have moved on. And from what I understand, both
of them are being detained. If you will, together the
people representing the gentleman and his son say that he's

(46:23):
here legally and his son was born here. Again, we'll
find out the story, I'm sure, but we'll probably have
moved on since then, or this kid will become a symbol.
We'll see. Either way, this story immigration isn't going anywhere
anytime soon. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
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Speaker 1 (48:06):

Speaker 2 (48:09):
Guess what we kind of sorta own TikTok now, no,
wa way, we do kind of sort of kind of
sort of sort of kind of owned TikTok, not like
they kind of still own it, and then we kind
of own it. And then so there's that.

Speaker 15 (48:26):
It's official, TikTok has been sold and we now know
who will be sitting on the board of the new
US owned TikTok entity. First, the new US operation is
called TikTok USDs Joint Venture LLC. Everything I have been
reporting about this deal is now officially confirmed.

Speaker 5 (48:43):
So this new LLC.

Speaker 15 (48:44):
Includes operations for not only TikTok Us, but also cap cut, Lemonade,
and a portfolio of other apps.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
And websites in the US.

Speaker 5 (48:51):
The company's statement says under this.

Speaker 15 (48:53):
New ownership, TikTok users will still be provided with a
global TikTok experience. They say, US creators will still be
discoverable on a global scale.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
This includes for e commerce, advertising and marketing.

Speaker 15 (49:05):
The announcement also reveals the seven majority American board of directors,
which includes show Too.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
Who you probably know is TikTok CEO.

Speaker 5 (49:14):
The other six members.

Speaker 15 (49:15):
Are all men, and they are all connected to the
investors in this new operation.

Speaker 2 (49:21):
So they're just random investors and they have no ties
whatsoever to the administration or right, I mean, that's what
I'm thinking.

Speaker 15 (49:32):
Those investors include the three managing investors, Silverlake, Oracle, and MGX.
Each of those three investors hold a fifteen percent stake
in TikTok USDs Joint Venture LLC and Bike Dances, retaining
nineteen point nine percent of the company. Here is a
list of the rest of the investors. Now, when you
go through each of these investors, a group of them

(49:55):
definitely have some kind of tie to President Trump. They're
either big donors to Trump campaign or Trump connected super packs,
or they have some kind of philanthropic tie to the
Trump administration. Of the three major donors, MGX is a
UAE government owned AI investment firm which reportedly has direct
business ties to the Trump family crypto business, and of

(50:17):
course Oracle is owned by Larry Ellison, who has documented
ties to the president.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
What I can't believe that would happen that way, of
course it would. That is a lot of people that
are tied to Trump. Trump is like, he's not even
pretending anymore about this. It's an article this week about
what he's up. The amount of money he and his

(50:44):
family have breaked in is unbelievable, unbelievable, And when it
comes to what's coming for the Trump organization and family,
this is I think small potatoes. I mean the amount
of money that they're going to get out of a
lot of things. And I wouldn't be surprised if somewhere

(51:06):
in all of these businesses that own TikTok that yes,
there's some Trump all over it.

Speaker 21 (51:11):
Now.

Speaker 15 (51:12):
As I reported before, Oracle has been TikTok's data partner
for years, so Ellison's involvement in TikTok is not new.
You should also know the company says it is focusing
on four key areas which they do define one data protection.
They say this joint btcher is going to operate a
comprehensive data privacy and cybersecurity program that is audited and
certified by third party cybersecurity experts, which I report it

(51:35):
has been happening at TikTok since twenty twenty three.

Speaker 16 (51:38):
Two.

Speaker 15 (51:38):
The company is going to retrain, test, and update the
content recommendation algorithm on US user data, and that content
recommendation algorithm will be secured in Oracle's US cloud.

Speaker 2 (51:49):
That is also not new.

Speaker 15 (51:51):
I have been reporting that TikTok has been doing exactly
that since twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
So good friend Lisa Ramollard there the news is what
she called the news lady, is that what her TikTok
handle is newsgirl, She's awesome that. I mean, we've talked
about this again. Nothing is changing outside of ownership and
if you and remember by Dan's still part of the
whole thing, and it's about the algorithm, which is the

(52:19):
most important thing, and they didn't really you know what exactly?
That's what I want to know. What exactly did we
get for the change of how much of the algorithm,
how much of that secret sauce, how much of that
sauce has been changed.

Speaker 15 (52:33):
Three, this new company will secure US apps through software
assurance protocols and valid eate source code on an ongoing
basis with Oracle, which is also not new. And finally,
the fourth part of this, the joint venture will focus
on trust and safety by safeguarding the US content ecosystem
and have decision making authority for trust and safety policies
and content moderation. Now that last one is not new,

(52:56):
prior for this joint venture taking over TikTok a USDs
US doing this very same thing. However, what's unclear is
how this new company will make those decisions about trust
and safety and what content moderation will look like under them.

Speaker 2 (53:10):
Yeah, I'm going to tell you this right now. They
remember the person that's running this is a former IDF soldier.
As far as the content moderation and some of this stuff,
to think that they're not going to censor certain things
that do not shine a very soft and night nice
light on the things that they want to push out there,

(53:34):
you'd be fooling yourself. So this is going to be interesting,
no doubt about that. Three two, three, five, three eight,
twenty four to twenty three. Act Had Benson Show, Directs,
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We're going to talk about the markets the chaos this week.

(53:58):
And you know why is it that people still think
the only place you can invest is in our stock market?
Because I still find that fascinating when I talk to
a lot of people. We're gonna talk to.

Speaker 31 (54:09):
Him straight ahead. This is Chad Benson Show, Sun Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
It's that time the week. Could talk to Urica, but
he's Acta Ram Chievestment Officer Bulwark Capital. You guys are
kicking some butt over there. Not only is your football
team kicking some butt, but you guys are doing quite well.
The chaos doesn't seem to be uh slowing you guys
down there at Bulwark at all. And there is a
lot of chaos, Uh you know what reminds me of
the old ad it's never let a never let a that,

(55:03):
or yeah different waste, Yeah, never let it crisis go
to waste.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
Yeah, No, it's it's it's the best of times and
the worst of times. Like I was telling you, kind
of caught me off guard a little bit. You know,
I knew, you know, we're value and fundamental guys, and
that hasn't been in favor for a long time. And so,
you know, looking back at twenty two, twenty three and
really twenty four too, there were so many unbelievable opportunities,

(55:30):
you know, stuff that you were buying where you know,
nobody knows the outcome of an individual stock, but you
were buying assets in company and there's still a lot
of these available, but you were buying these assets in
these companies at prices where you go, Okay, if I
just hold on to this long enough, I don't know
when it's going to go up, But this is a
can't lose right uh, And no individual stock is. But

(55:52):
I'm talking like a basket of these. And you know,
it wasn't fun in twenty three because that they weren't
running nothing. Butt Tech has run for literally the last
you know, eight years, nine years or whatever it was.
But then you know, like is always the case with value,
if you stick with it and you own things that
are cheap and you buy them when nobody wants them,

(56:13):
they tend to go up a lot when everybody kind
of wakes up to the idea. And so, like I said,
kind of caught us off guard. But we were looking
back at the portfolio today and we're up about fifty
two percent since January one of last year, already up
eleven percent this year. And the funny thing about it
is is it's kind of been boring in the sense
that we just bought a bunch of stuff that was trading,
if like, and when I say trading at a fraction

(56:35):
of its value, we we bought. And I think I've
mentioned this to you before, but this is always an
example that pops up. We bought a gold miner about
a year ago, and we were we were getting in
and do it about forty five to fifty five cents.
It was trading at about a five hundred and fifty
million dollars market cap, with gold at twenty two hundred bucks.

(56:56):
We figured a dirt cheat price on this thing was
like a dollar fifty, right, like, not fair value at all,
And you're looking at it and going, Okay, there's one
of two things going on here. Either the price of
this stock makes sense if gold is going to go
to ten dollars, which I take a pretty good sized
bet that it wasn't, you know, certainly didn't. This company's fraudulent.

(57:16):
If one of those two things is not the case,
then the stock is unbelievably underpriced or undervalued. Today it
hit one eight dollar eighty five. And the reason I
say it was easy is because you know, did I
know it was going to a dollar eighty five?

Speaker 2 (57:30):
Then?

Speaker 27 (57:30):
No?

Speaker 6 (57:31):
Did I think it was going to go that high
that fast?

Speaker 13 (57:33):
No?

Speaker 6 (57:33):
When you know that you could shut the company down,
board up all the minds, sell off the assets, and
walk away with a forty percent profit, you know what
I mean, it kind of takes the excitement out of
it in a certain way because you know, you're just
you know, there's not a lot that can go wrong,
full disclosure, right when we bottle those positions. The timing
side of it. Anybody that tells you that they know
timing just immediately walk away the other side of it.

(57:56):
But value is a horrible timing mechanism, meaning there is
no point where a stock gets too cheap that it's
about ready to go up. Like, that's not the way
stocks work, right, an inflection, something has to happen and
lights the fire and then the stock takes off. But
you get to a point where evaluations get cheap enough
you don't care about the timing. But when those cheap

(58:19):
things happen to be in the most in the worst
performing sector of the last fifteen years, which golden precious metals, Yeah, okay,
for fifteen years, and we are drowning in debt, we're
running record deficits sixty seven percent of GDP, and you're
sitting there going, you know, I don't know what gold's

(58:40):
going to do. Probably a good idea to have some
And when I look at how cheap these gold miners are,
maybe I should buy some of these. Flip around. Eighteen
months later, average gold mining stock we owns up more
than two hundred percent. And the crazy thing is is
that there's so many of these options available. You flip around,
look at the SMP. SMP's up sixteen percent over the
last fourteen months, which isn't bad, no, right, But then

(59:03):
you go, you know, like we're buying that stuff. And
I look on Twitter today and I see Jim Kramer
telling people they need to buy Costco. It's trading at
fifty four times earnings, growing revenues at seven percent a
year with three and a half percent net margins, and
he's telling people to go back up the truck on

(59:24):
Costco because of the storm on the East coast.

Speaker 2 (59:27):
And look, maybe that drives the price to Costco up.

Speaker 21 (59:29):
I don't care.

Speaker 6 (59:30):
It's trading at fifty four times whatever. Right. Meanwhile, we're
making three to four XR money on stuff people have
never heard of, but stuff you absolutely need to run
the global economy, like aluminum, like platinum, like copper, like silver.
And it's crazy. And you see all this outperformance, Like
I said, we're beating the market by thirty six percent

(59:51):
over the last twelve months, and you're still not seeing
people allocate to this stuff. It's wild.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Talking to Zach Abraham, chief vestment Officer Bullard Capital this week,
obviously chaos with you know, we're going to take Greenland.
We're not going to take Greenland. We're coming for Greenland.

Speaker 16 (01:00:06):
We're not we are we are?

Speaker 2 (01:00:07):
We kind of the market tanked. Also, I think that
gave Trump a little pause for concern, because I'm sure
Bessing got is here and say, dude, come on, you
know it's you can't be saying this stuff. Heading over
to Davos, which is the muckety MUCKs of the world
all getting together talk about how wealthy they are and
what they could do to be even more wealthy. But
this is you know, I've never seen a president where

(01:00:29):
the market influences so much of a lot of what
he says, because that was that was just a bizarre week.
And in the market itself, you wash, it was all
over the place.

Speaker 6 (01:00:38):
Yeah, you know, I hate that he looks at the
stock market that much, and here for a whole lot
of reasons. You and I both know. And this has
never been more true today, right, Like the dynamism, I
mean that's not true. It played a role, But the
biggest factor in the stock market run of the last
fifteen years is M two meaning money supply.

Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
Just go to money supply.

Speaker 6 (01:01:00):
Right, There's been some great companies and done some great things.
When you want to look at you know, look at
the now margins are higher. But you know, when you
look at the United States market right now. There's only
one other time in history where the valuations even come close,
and that was ninety nine dot Com. Right, so you're extraordinarily,
extraordinarily and historically richly valued on any metric. And the

(01:01:21):
stock you know, the old ad is the stock market,
isn't the economy. The other reason why I don't like
looking at the economy or the market like that is
I played football for for a guy named Frosty Westering,
who was I believe he still is the tenth winning
as coach in NCAA history. An incredible man, won foreig
national titles. But one of the things he taught us

(01:01:41):
and just drilled into our head over and over and
over again is losers look at the scoreboard. Winners control
what they control, meaning we don't worry about them. We
don't worry about the scoreboard. It's a complete waste of time.
That's what people that don't know how to win do.
Winners focus on inputs, and when we're always talking about
the stock market, A, I think it's misleading because it

(01:02:02):
can be influenced by so many other things. But B,
it's also like scoreboard watching where I'm just like, you know,
I kind of feel like it's symptomatic of a lot
of problems this country has, which is, you know, we're
all caught up in the image, we're all caught up
in the scoreboard, but nobody wants to do the actual work.
Nobody wants to get their hands dirty. And then the
other side of it is, too is a lot of

(01:02:23):
times doing the right thing will cause the stock market, Like,
for instance, we've got a debt and overspending problem in
this country. Right when or if we ever get our
hands on that, it's not going to be stock market
market positive, no, right, And that's not bad.

Speaker 13 (01:02:37):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:02:37):
If our stock market's going down because we're getting our
fiscal house in order, that isn't a bad thing. And
so that's one of the things that concerns me is
you know, when you're looking at the stock market, truthfully,
if you look at the stock market the last five years,
I think it has much less to do with being
a value discovery mechanism, which is what markets are supposed
to be, and I think it has it's turning much

(01:02:58):
more to an inflation gage. Look at what you see,
you know, and we're still talking about cutting rates more.
And I got to tell you, I don't think he's
going to be able to cut any more rates. Yea,
every inflation indicator we see is pushing back higher. Unemployment
came in really light. Again, here's the story. There's a
good story underneath all of this that the administration isn't telling,
which is ay, just having them in the White House

(01:03:21):
and a lot of the things they're talking about doing
it lets business people breathe a sigh of relief, and
it's conducive to good economic activity in the country, right, Like,
that's tell that. Like you're clearly the policies and things
you guys are putting in place, your tariffs haven't blown
up the economy, right, You've got plenty. But it's like
they're focusing on the You know this, when you look

(01:03:41):
at a stock market this overvalued, you know, I'm not
saying this is going to happen. I don't think it's
gonna happen. But guys, a twenty five to thirty percent
pullback over the next ninety days would be nothing for
a market this overvalue. All right, So if you're pinning
everything on the market, what are you going to say?

Speaker 10 (01:03:55):
Then?

Speaker 6 (01:03:56):
You know, there's plenty of things to disagree with or
debate about what the current administration, the messaging of things
is really confounding to me. I just I don't I don't.
I don't get it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:06):
No, I don't get it either at times, and again
I think he's he well, I think he looks at
the market a lot because he realizes it's the boomers
that are really in his corner right now, and those
people are living off their four h one case and
their retirements, and that that's helping them. And we've got
that K shaped thing where yeah, a lot, Yeah, we

(01:04:27):
may spend a near about the same, but it's a
small group of people who are spending way more and
a vast amount of people who aren't spending really anything
at this moment in time.

Speaker 6 (01:04:37):
Man, it's funny you bring that up. Dealing with so
many retail clients. Were we're interfacing with this all the time,
right And I was having a conversation with a client
the other day and they have probably about a two
and a half million dollar net worth, so you know,
considerably above the average person that retires. Their portfolio has
gone up I think seventy five eighty percent in the

(01:04:58):
last twenty five months, and so we're having this conversation
and I was just like, hey, guys, when you became
a client, you were in good shape. And when they
first became a client, we had them pulling about four
and a half percent of their total portfolio value in income. Well,
they've kept their withdrawals the same, but because of the
growth of the underlying portfolio, they're now pulling one point

(01:05:21):
nine percent. And so the thing I was saying to
them is, hey, guys, we can drastically upgrade your retirement
outlook right now because you could have a fifty percent
portfolio pullback and we wouldn't have to dial your income
back a dime, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
Yeah, So my point is.

Speaker 6 (01:05:41):
Is their takeing they've benefited for their their literal standard
of living has gone up an entire notch just off
the performance of their portfolio.

Speaker 16 (01:05:51):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:05:52):
You cannot go find me someone in the ages of
twenty five to forty that can say the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:05:56):
No, no chance.

Speaker 10 (01:05:57):
Right.

Speaker 6 (01:05:58):
And so when you're talking about like Trump the other
day was like, the market's going to double from here.
He better hope it doesn't. He better hope it doesn't.
If this market doubled in the next three years, inflation
would go absolutely berserk. You'd probably see houses up another

(01:06:19):
forty percent. You'd probably see thirty year mortgages at eight
to nine. It'd be a disaster. It would be a disaster, and.

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
There would only be a small group of people that
would be buying homes, and everybody else will be on
you know, they'd be looking around going what what are
we going to do?

Speaker 10 (01:06:36):
Well?

Speaker 6 (01:06:36):
Yeah, and then and now you're listening them to them,
you know. And look, it's not just I'm not beating
up on the administration at all. I want to make
that clear because I just feel like all these ideas
I hear come out of everywhere. We've got a record
in housing, in affordability issue, and the way we're going
to treat that is by letting people take penalty free
withdrawals out of their four to one case.

Speaker 16 (01:06:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (01:06:59):
So I've got so, I've got to I've got a
I've got a sector of assets that's never been more unaffordable,
and I'm going to free up a new stream of
capital will flow into it. What you're just literally it's
just gonna jack housing prices higher. Yeah, I just you know,
and this and again, to be fair to the administration,
this has been a problem that's been cooking for twenty

(01:07:20):
five years that we've been As we've gotten more reliant
on debt, we've gotten less associated with economic reality, right
because we just print and fill in the holes. And
everybody's attitude is whatever policy that you pass that has
a negative impact on housing prices over the or asset
prices over the next ninety to one hundred and eighty days,

(01:07:40):
that's bad policy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:42):
And that's not the case.

Speaker 6 (01:07:43):
Everything that we should be doing now would have a
negative impact on asset prices, and we're doing the opposite.

Speaker 2 (01:07:50):
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Speaker 25 (01:09:59):
Serving up to radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.
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Speaker 2 (01:10:06):
Oh, do I have an urban word for you today
that is perfect for this time of the year, in
this particular moment that we find ourselves in, because yeah,
I can see why this would be quite popular right now.
Now it's time for the urban word of the day.

(01:10:26):
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 18 (01:10:34):
All right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:34):
I don't know if you guys aware of this, but
a massive storm is coming. It's gonna blankets the vast
majority of the United States, about two hundred million people
or soakib take, are going to be under some sort
of freeze watch, snow, watch, storm watch, including Texas. Your
urban word today is flood cruise. That's fled cruise. That's

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when as they call him a trader, he's not a trader,
but abandons his state or country during a disaster to
seek safe harbor in Mexico or California. Because there was
a picture of him this week as he heads to California.
So your urban word of the day is fled cruise.
If something's going down, don't be a fled cruise. Stick

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it out.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
That was the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Now you know, now you do know. That is kind
of funny, though, isn't it fled cruiseh shit, it's.

Speaker 5 (01:11:34):
Not very nice.

Speaker 2 (01:11:36):
Speaking of Texas, they are saying everything is a kay,
we got this covered. We're gonna be fine. Everything's gonna
be good, nothing to worry about. So we'll see. Because
twenty twenty one it was chaos and craziness. It's been
five years and they say that their power grid is

(01:11:59):
going to be fine, okay, and they've already issued disaster
declaration for more than one hundred and thirty counties, so
they think they've got this covered. Greg Abbott's ready. They've
got the vest on and the jackets right, because you
can't be in some sort of situation that is disaster,

(01:12:21):
like if you don't have the wind breaker on. You
gotta have the windbreaker on because if you don't have
the wind breaker there's nothing to do for you at
that point. Got to have the wind breaker on, and
he does. He does, so we'll see how good it is.
But they're ready to roll along with the rest of
the country as the giant storm moves we snow apocalypse.
Is that what we're going with, right, snow Mageddon. Let

(01:12:46):
me know what you think. What do you think the
best one should be? As far as the name coming up?
Our number three of the program, last hour of the week.
What's trending? Jim Kennedy Kenadian Institute of Public Plice the
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Speaker 1 (01:13:00):
Chap This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:32):
I'm as cold as ice. I'm willing to pay the person. No,
that's a song. I'm singing for you, guys, because it
can be cold after for about one hundred and seventy
ish to two hundred million people. What I'm saying is
it's cold out, DearS, is what I'm saying. And it's
gonna be that way now, all stations you listen to

(01:13:53):
me across the country, you're gonna have all the updates
in the affected areas. You guys know that. But we
just want to give you a snapshot of what's going
on today and the size of it, because you know what,
when weather weather's right.

Speaker 3 (01:14:07):
Now, it's time for the chat action news weather reports.
When weather weathers, we weather the storm.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Hot diggity, we do that. Speaking of hot diggity and
weathering the storm, Buddy Max over at News Nation.

Speaker 32 (01:14:19):
It's gonna be a blockbuster storm system. I mean, just
look at the alerts in play. A lot of this
is going to unfold through the day with it all
taking over into the weekend. We have these alerts extending
from the Canadian border all the way to the Gulf,
the Rockies to the East coast, and that storm is
just getting started. So we're gonna be talking about this
with a multi day event unfolding a little bit of
light rain right now through the Lone Star State. So

(01:14:40):
you're seeing again this on the weaker side at this hour,
and that's because that low is coming out of the Rockies.
It's just evolving, getting better organized, and you can see
the brighter colors indicating heavier presentitation rates across the country
by this time.

Speaker 18 (01:14:54):
Tomorrow with Dallas with that heavy ice.

Speaker 32 (01:14:57):
This moves into the mid Atlantic coast as we enter
into Sunday, widespread snow through the Great Lakes and even
into the Northeast. That's where we have that heavy, bullseyed
likely widespread rain farther southward, and the Arctic air takes
over for much of the last week of the month.

Speaker 2 (01:15:12):
It's going to be cold. And when I mean cold,
I don't just mean cold, I mean freezing like you
could not believe. I'm talking about temperatures that are quite
frankly rude to even talk about. I mean seriously insane
kind of temperatures, the kind of temperatures that make you think,
oh my god, it feels like Greenland.

Speaker 32 (01:15:33):
Also want to talk about this, these record low temperatures
that we're going to be experiencing here, hundreds of locations
across the country through the time. There you go this
morning record lows. They expand south tomorrow and say south
on Sunday, Monday and into Tuesday in the mid Atlantic,
and the windshills this morning just brutal near minus fifty
in parts of the upper Midwest.

Speaker 18 (01:15:53):
This races east tomorrow.

Speaker 32 (01:15:55):
So as we wake up Saturday morning, wind chills in
the negative thirties and the main negative team means for
Boston waking up at minus six for the windshill in
the Big Apple, and still we're talking about negative thirties
for how it'll feel into the Midwest.

Speaker 2 (01:16:09):
Minus six. We were looking at Minneapolis last hour. It
was the today's high is like minus eight. That's a high.
You guys want to get high, well higher than that.

Speaker 16 (01:16:24):
I went soon.

Speaker 2 (01:16:26):
In fact, they don't get back. Is it Monday. I
think they get to zero. That'll be their high for
the next couple of days and the next week. There
is in my there there is a ten in there,
I think next week. So slow yourself down. But yes,
this weather is going to affect a lot of things nationwide,
so be prepared, everything from flights to all the other stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:16:45):
But this is.

Speaker 2 (01:16:48):
If it plays itself out, because again it's the weather,
and as we always know about the weather, what ends
up happening. Oh yeah, it's it does its own thing,
because nature, as we know, will mess you up and
we'll screw with you. That being said, I do expect

(01:17:09):
this to be a massive, nasty, uncomfortable storm for a
lot of folks.

Speaker 32 (01:17:13):
So we're gonna be talking about the cold, not just
making a glancing blow and departing. I think much of
the rest of the month we're gonna be talking about
fridge attempts, even into groundhog days. So even for these
areas that have the storm, the impacts from the cold
will last. And of course if you have the outages
mixing into that from all that heavy ice, that's really
the big concern that we're not going to be able
to see those improvements for a long time.

Speaker 18 (01:17:35):
Here, Mark here with this is just a tip of
the iceberg with this big storm.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
A tip of the iceberg being the the thing right there,
a tip of the iceberg, because it's going to feel
like an iceberg in some areas. So and you know,
we always we joke about this stuff, but seven to
ten times more deadly than heat, seven to ten times

(01:17:58):
more deadly than heat, your neighbor down the street that
may be on a fixed income, right that that person
that you know is your friend's mother that you've known
for years, but they don't live there anymore, but mom
still does. You go check on those people to make sure. Right,
we've seen the disasters that have come through. All you

(01:18:20):
got to do is take a look at Texas, which
is already declared a state of emergency, and you know,
one hundred and thirty counties, and they were out there yesterday.
You know, Greg Abbot hat on his you know, you
got to have the windbreaker on with the patch that
says you're not emergency weather person. All of that is
to say that be smart when it comes to travel,

(01:18:42):
and I'm not talking about airplanes. Did black ice? I
worry so much more about the black ice than the
cold that is going to come as far as some
of the snow and stuff like that, because that black
ice Monday, in particular throughout the South in certain areas
is to be ferocious. So be careful, be smart if

(01:19:04):
you have a chance to help help. We're we're trying
to do everything we can. And and you know, my wife,
my wife and my daughter, I love that they have
blessing bags. So we're on the second story of our
apartment building and they look down across the street and
they'll my my daughter will see somebody and she goes mommy,
and she's got blessing bags. But our whole thing now
is go to the shelters. If you know, go to
the shelters. It's going to be that cold. So whatever

(01:19:27):
you can do. I think it's one of those things
where the smart thing to do is to stay off
the roads and make sure that if you can and
you have the opportunity to help somebody, that you do it.
Let me know too this weekend three two, three, five,
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Let me know this weekend if you're all of your stores,
because our stores had massive runs on, like the shelves
were picked and I'm thinking, what it's like, how long
do you think this is? Do you know something? I
don't my white Now I'm gonna say this, and I've

(01:20:09):
been saying it. She's like, you're not saying it stuff
I might know. I've been saying it. I think she's
gonna be bombed if there isn't something that maybe causes
the power outage for a little bit. Because she's so prepared.
We have jugs of water, right, I mean it is
you know, the preppers are loving this stuff, and we
have a forty four pound bag of rice. I'm like,

(01:20:31):
who is that is that? Forever? Do you think? Like,
you know, she's already checked too. This is the other thing.
So we've got she's got a little backup generator and everything.
But they've got backup generators in our apartments. But one
of the things we were talking about and I found this,
She's like, I've already checked too with the because we
have an upstairs rooftop area where you can barbecue, and

(01:20:54):
she goes, I've already checked with the apartment folks. The
barbecues are good to go, just in case. I'm like, okay,
oh darling, Oh darling, oh darling. Indeed, we move from
there to Greenland, which I've not been to lately. But
just to give you an example of how cold it
gets here, I mean, we talk about Greenland, right, let's

(01:21:15):
take a look at the Greenland weather today in the nook,
the capital thirty one degrees. It is almost sixty degrees
warmer there than it is in Minneapolis in their overnight lows.
Just to put that out there, just give you a
sense of how cold it is here. But you know,
everybody celebrated the big win with no details, And I

(01:21:39):
say pay attention to that, because oddly enough, people are
saying that the administration actually stole the idea of what
they're looking to do from a British columnist who a
week before put a paper out showing almost identical to
what they're saying might be in. This framework then includes

(01:22:00):
something to do with Britain and Cyprus, not Texas or California,
but the island Cypress and their sovereignty on the basis
they have out there. But there's still no no full
framework of this.

Speaker 33 (01:22:16):
That framework deal that he's been touting on Greenland is
still far from clear or done. Sources tell us that
there is no concrete deal on the table yet, and
the President has repeatedly sidestepped questions about whether the US
will actually control Greenland as he had demanded.

Speaker 2 (01:22:31):
I don't think we're going to I've been saying this
over and over again. I think the way this plays
itself out is will set up some bases more of them,
we will, and we're going to get into this little
bit where with Jim Kennedy coming up a little bit
and from there will do whatever it is we're going
to do, because you know, they you know, they talk
about the Golden you know, the Golden Dome and all

(01:22:53):
this other stuff, and yeah, that's good, But what's the
ETA and all of that. I couldn't tell you. It's
going to take a long time. And again, the devil's
always in the details, There's no doubt about that. Three two, three, five,
Show is your extra en so YouTube and more coming
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Speaker 2 (01:24:45):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?
Signed James Norway, Oman, Pakis, Dom, Qatar, Russia, ser.

Speaker 17 (01:25:09):
Lot trumping.

Speaker 2 (01:25:14):
It is Frye and that's fine. I was trending. Donald
Trump starting with the told the Iranians the armada is
approaching and I am the man of peace, and with peace,
I bring power. Apparently the Iranian death hole hits five
thousand and is climbing. Sharon Moore remember him coach of Michigan,

(01:25:38):
then the whole fallout because he had an affair. He's
trending because he and his wife were seen in court
yesterday together. I don't think they're getting a divorce. Very interesting.
Winter Storm obviously, TikTok being sold officially, Jadie Vance in
Minneapolis because he's there because of the whole thing with

(01:26:01):
the deportations. Over to you, the Kogle Oscar nominations, and
one trending thing yesterday, Microsoft Outeach Trendity Rodman highest played
female soccer player on Earth. She could to say contract
million dollars a year. Nice money if you can get it.

(01:26:26):
Delroy Lindo the most surprising Oscar nominee of the year.
Winter Storm Morning trending World Health Organization also trending and
finally over to the magical, the wonderful, the amazing, but
always annoying. X I say that because it's just always

(01:26:47):
a fight on there.

Speaker 17 (01:26:49):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:26:50):
Thomas Massey trending. He voted to stop funding ICE and
he loves the illegals, And then you go and you're
say it's so amazing. It's not what he voted for.
He voted against censorship, which was thrown into a bill.
So yeah, that's an issue. Always after old Thomas, there

(01:27:13):
aren't you. Jack Smith Davos, January sixth trending, Oscars, Greenland,
Iran Board of Peace, The Board of Peace. It's a
board of peace. You guys are gonna like it.

Speaker 13 (01:27:30):
Like it.

Speaker 2 (01:27:30):
It's a bordive peace, fantastically board of peace. You seen
the Board of Peace, very peaceful. Arrest Don Lemon, just arrested,
Please just arrest him and Ice? Did they or didn't
they detain a five year old?

Speaker 1 (01:27:51):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (01:27:52):
It's the big question. Three two, three, five, three, twenty
four twenty three at she Edvnson show Trex, your Instace,
hear YouTube, your Facebook and all the other stuff. Love
hearing from all of you. Did they detain a five
year old? Did they not detain a five year old,
We don't know, conflicting stories. Oh this is my shock face. Yeah,

(01:28:15):
that's what happens. And this is in yesterday. I said it,
you know, when it started to come out on my
local show, that I don't know if they detained a
five year old or not and used them as bait,
because that was the big thing. Did they use them
as bait? I have no idea if they did or didn't,

(01:28:35):
because I don't trust either side. They pitch what they
want you to hear without giving the other side of
the story, and that is frustrating. I think we can
all recognize the frustration we have there in that situation.
So that's for you to decide what side you're on.

(01:28:56):
What are you watching? Are you only watching Fox News
or only watching MS now? Are you only reading the
Washington Post in New York Times or are you reading
some other things? It may tell another side of the story,
alas it is frustrating for all of us.

Speaker 10 (01:29:10):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
At some point in time, I just smile and say,
you know what, it's all going to come out in
the wash, and we'll deal with it when it does.
Because no, I don't trust a lot of what you say,
over here, DHS, because you have told stories and defended
things that you find out weren't real. And over here

(01:29:35):
on the left, you've told stories and you've defended things,
and you've spun stuff that, guess what, also wasn't real.
So alas there you are speaking of ice. Ice, Baby,
it's here and it's going to be here for about
two hundred million people that giant storm.

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
So we're basically twenty four hours away from seeing the snow,
ice and rain start to break out across the Deep South,
across Texas and across Kansas and Oklahoma and stretching into
Mississippi and Alabama. And by Saturday, you've got this ice
line all the way from Waco to Wilmington to the
north side of Atlanta, then snow to the north up
to Kansas City up to about Norfolk.

Speaker 2 (01:30:18):
It's going to be cold, and it's going to be
snowy in some parts. It's going to be snowy and
sleety in some parts. It's essentially going to be everything
the snow miser wanted. So be prepared out there, make
sure you got everything you need batting down the hatches.
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Speaker 1 (01:31:19):

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
It's that time of the week, talk to our good buddy.
Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research jumped straight
into it Davos, Switzerland before that, Trump making noise because
we're going to take Greenland and the big threats and
all the stuff. At the end of the day, we
got something we could have had, And at the same time,
it seems to be that we pissed everyone off in

(01:31:42):
getting something that was already on the table. Yet some
people celebrating this is a win.

Speaker 34 (01:31:50):
What if you want to look out it one way,
it's Trump being Trump, and you kind of figured it
was going to end this way. I really did not
think we were going to be flying B fifty two's
over Greenland. I was really not concerned about this actually
invading Greenland.

Speaker 2 (01:32:03):
Do you know how easy it could have been. We
could have called the guys at Space Force that are
there and go, hey, guys, go grab a flag, walk
out there, say it's ours, plant the flag and walk back.
And I'm like, all right, yeah.

Speaker 34 (01:32:13):
Because there's like fifty or fifty eight, fifty nine thousand
people in all of Greenland, they probably have twelve rifles
among Wow, they may have more, considering they got to
protect themselves from polar bears or whatever wildlife is out
there that could kill you.

Speaker 16 (01:32:26):
I imagine it's not quite Australia bad, but.

Speaker 34 (01:32:28):
Imagine get out in some of those remote reasons, which
is probably most of the country from my understanding. Yeah,
and you've got to fight off various creatures that are
trying to kill you, as long as the weather that's
trying to kill you while you're at the same time.
But I mean hopefully this I mean there, the whole
thing is not a complete joke, because there is some
strategic significance to this. It isn't a location where all

(01:32:49):
of the Russian fleet, the Northern Fleet comes out into
the Atlantic Ocean, and it is a choke point between
there and the UK and Scotland as you go across there,
and if you're run, if you run submarines across there,
and you run SnO booi's across there.

Speaker 16 (01:33:04):
You can pretty much pick up.

Speaker 34 (01:33:05):
Every Russian boom or submarine coming in and out of
Murmansk or wherever it is. They're they're you know, they're there,
are arcing or wherever they're going into ports up in
the northern ports for Russia, for the Russian Navy. So
this's a very strategic point. And also who knows what
the Chinese are doing up there. I know they may
not be doing something right now, but they're trying. They're

(01:33:27):
going to try to do something, and they're and as
they expand their submarine fleet, they're going to be doing
stuff up there. So it's a very important spot for
that reason alone. Again, Trump doesn't always take the easiest.

Speaker 16 (01:33:39):
Route to get something done.

Speaker 34 (01:33:41):
And that's one of the complaints or one of the
problems with Trump is that again he doesn't, you know,
he negotiates, and of course you get the.

Speaker 16 (01:33:48):
Left all wound up there.

Speaker 34 (01:33:49):
They're you know, they're they're clutching their pearls every time
he's threatening something like this. And I don't think he
had any intention of ever invading anything. But again, the
Europeans don't know, and even if they do, they just
don't like being bullied by Trump, I am sure, and
they don't like Trump in general because he's quite different
than a lot of them. He's you know, he's got
a few allies and you're up on a lot. So yeah,

(01:34:10):
I mean, it's like he could have done this a
better way. We got probably what we were going to
get anyway, like you were saying, And from now, hopefully
this will be put in the past and we'll move on.

Speaker 16 (01:34:19):
We'll get expanded.

Speaker 34 (01:34:19):
Base access it, we'll build some more you know, secret facilities,
and hopefully Trump will talk about which the CIA may
kill him for. But yeah, I mean, it's it was
a lot of us. I'm much ado about nothing. In
the end, it could have been handled much better, and unfortunately.

Speaker 16 (01:34:35):
It wasn't, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:34:36):
And talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute and Plug Policy
Research and my thing, Jim is and I compared this
the last couple of days. It was the Yankees bidding
for Alex Rodriguez when they thought everybody else was Instead
they were just bidding against themselves, and we drove up
the price. We pissed off our friends, and at the
end of the day we got something that is going
to take three to five decades to even complete, not

(01:34:59):
even sure if we can do it, and was it
worth it to have because I think for the first
time you've got a group of people in the Europeans
who've said, you know what, if this is what we're doing,
then we we've got to forge another path.

Speaker 16 (01:35:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 34 (01:35:14):
I think in time that will go away. I mean
three years from now, there'll be another person in the
White House, probably not Donald Trump Junior, probably not Donald Trump,
maybe JD.

Speaker 16 (01:35:24):
Vance.

Speaker 34 (01:35:24):
And even if JD Van, she'll take a different path
and a different course. And I mean Donald Trump is
is going to be a unique president throughout history or
at least for many many years. And he has been
from the you know, over the last two hundred years.
So you can't necessarily think that everything's going to continue
on the same path that it will be when President
Trump does leave office in three years, because he is

(01:35:45):
unique to the position. He wasn't a politician coming into it,
He's got a unique personality.

Speaker 23 (01:35:50):
You know.

Speaker 34 (01:35:50):
All of those different things make it a one off
or a one off presidency that we've had twice now.
So I think being able to patch up all of
those ties when you've got maybe shall we say, more
professional politicians back into the government in three years, I think,
you know, we may have to pay a small price
for it, for irritating all of these people that we

(01:36:10):
have irritated in Europe and in other parts of the world.
But I think in ten years this will kind of
be a much ado about nothing and we'll kind of
have gone down that path and everybody will be co
pathetic again, and hopefully we'll be making progress in that
area to secure it, and then we can track the Russians,
assuming the Russians still exist in their state in ten years,
because you know what's gonna happen to Russian when Putin
goes away, because there will be a tremendous power vacuum there,

(01:36:33):
and I think they may hopefully go back to a
more democratic country.

Speaker 16 (01:36:37):
But you know, that's that's you know, we can we
can revisit that in ten years and we're still doing this.
But for the most part, I think it will go over.
You know, it will blow over in time.

Speaker 34 (01:36:48):
I think one of the real problems right now is
what's going on also in the UK with their free
speech and their you know, integration or their questions on
free speech basically right now and their limitations and what's
going on. I think that's gonna be, over the longer term,
a greater threat to what's gonna happen in Europe and
what's gonna happen to our relationship with the UK and Europe.

Speaker 2 (01:37:08):
Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedians to do a public policy research.
So Trump's over there in Davos and doing his thing,
and you know, again, he unveils today his Gaza peace thing.
And I was reading some of the stuff that Kushner
had put together and they're like, and the Palestinians are
gonna the Palestinians are living nowhere near any of the
stuff that you guys have built. So let's stop pretending
like you guys are gonna hand them all condos. But

(01:37:30):
from there though JD. Vance hasn't been there, and he's
not really I don't seem as much. But today he
was the attack dog out there in Minneapolis, and there
are issues. Look, I am not thrilled by the reridiculous
way that some of these activists who are you know
what they are. They're clout chasers. They're running around, they're
trying to get the clicks and likes like everybody else,

(01:37:51):
some of them are paid. But I'm also not thrilled
by the way that ICE has handled a lot of
this as well, because they've been caught on a few
occasions telling some porky about some of the stuff that's happened.
And I feel like the fixes in front of us,
Jim and nobody really wants to go you know what,
maybe we should have some common sense prevail over this
immigration issue.

Speaker 34 (01:38:11):
Well, yeah, And the question what I'm hoping is is
that they're going at this hard and fast, meaning the
last twelve months, and that they're going to try to
wrap this thing up by shall we say, June ish,
July ish, so they can get it off of the
front pages as we head into the midterms. Because if
this day is on the this day is on the
front pages through September, it's going to be very, very

(01:38:32):
bad for the Republicans. Also, if they did not work
out it, which I've said a couple of times, they
do not work out a deal for the ACA subsidies,
that's going to be a problem too. That's going to
come back to route that that's going to haunt them
throughout the midterms. So those two things I think right now,
provided the economy doesn't go sideways, and then you know,
there are any black Swan events or things like that,
Putin decides to invade poland whatever, provided there's nothing really

(01:38:56):
screwy that comes up. I think that's going to be
the problem that I think they're really going to try
to get this. You know, he's got to listen to
the political advisors at some point because he doesn't want
to deal with you know, as much as Trump wants
to be right and wants to run the show, he
does not want to deal with a Democrat Congress. For
the last two years of administration. Talk about wanting talk

(01:39:16):
about a lame duck. He will be a lame duck.
He will be fighting every day to stave off I
don't know how many different impeachments they will try to
throw against Trump for the last two years, and there
will be nothing that will get done for those last
two years, and will also overshadow what's gonna happen in
the twenty twenty eight election, because as we've seen over

(01:39:36):
the last twenty five thirty years, the cycle for the
for the presidency gets longer and longer and longer, and
pretty much January of twenty twenty seven. Once you swear
in the new Congress after the midterms this year, you're
going to be start looking at what the twenty twenty
eight presidential election. And Gavin Newsom, who's probably gonna run,

(01:39:57):
I would predict that he would put your money on that.
Don't put your money on it, but if I could,
I would put my money on it. Come January, he'll
be out of office. He'll have an exploratory committee till
April or May, and then he'll be, you know, right
in there beginning of the campaign, probably in April or
May of twenty twenty seven and off to twenty twenty
eight will be we will be and anything that's going

(01:40:18):
to try to get done in Congress, won't you know,
it's going to be a lame duck if there's if
there's Democrats in there, even if there's not, it's still
going to be a question of what's going to get done.
So Ice has got a point of trying to make
with Ice has got to get cleaned up, they've got
to get finished, and they've got to get off the
radar screens as quickly as they can so if it
goes ugly for a while, I'm not that concerned.

Speaker 16 (01:40:38):
But they're going to have to pull the plug on
it by least by the end of summer.

Speaker 2 (01:40:41):
No later than well, and again you've got all the
other stuff to look at, which is the economy, of course,
which is a big deal. And you know, it's wordability,
you know, yeah, affordability. I know, it's a made up word,
and nobody had heard of it until the Democrats came
up with it, and you know, and you know, apparently,
but I don't think that's true. But there's still and
the Epstein stuff, by the way, still hanging out there.

(01:41:02):
I don't think people really understand that that's not going
anywhere anytime soon. And I'm surprised that the Republicans did
what they did with the Clintons, and and even some Democrats,
you know, rolled in there saying, Okay, you're gonna ignore
subpoena because I figure all you're doing is keeping it

(01:41:22):
on the front page and showing a lot of the
younger generation who really thought that you were going to
sort some of this stuff out, Jim, that we're we're
going to clean this up. And what you're doing is
reminding them you haven't done anything.

Speaker 34 (01:41:34):
Yeah, I'm wondering if the demion I was kind of
surprised and I heard that the Democrats were, you know,
we're on some Democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:41:41):
Were on board with they're over the Clintons.

Speaker 34 (01:41:43):
Yeah, but no, but maybe you're But that was an
angle I hadn't thought of, is that they're doing it
just to keep it in the forefront, just to keep
it on the you know, on page twelve of the
New York Times, if the if no one agrees to
basically go after them for the for the subpoena no show,
then it just kind of goes away and it dies
a quiet death, or.

Speaker 16 (01:42:00):
You know, it just expires.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Isn't it kind of funny though, that they're going after
them for not showing up for a subpoena and at
the same time, the same Department of Justice has completely
ignored the law of releasing everything.

Speaker 34 (01:42:16):
Yeah, it's yeah, I mean it's don't you know what
is it don't do as I say, or don't don't
do as I do, do as I say, or something
i've Yeah, they're not really, Yeah, they're not exactly holding
up the They're not the most best examples the best
role models for what's for what should be going on.
In many cases, I think some of it is because
of what's happened over the previous six years with the

(01:42:38):
with the law fair attempts and stuff. And that's kind
of one of the things I really worry about over
the longer terms. How are we going to get out
of that cycle, because you're going to have Democrats come
back in. Are they going to basically go after every
member of the Trump administration, try to find a way
to jail them or indict them. And then is it
just going to be a standing order that every president
on the last day writes a blanket pardon for every

(01:42:58):
person who's working in as so that when the other
party comes back in they can't law fair everybody in
the bankruptcy or into oblivion. And that's neither of those
are good options, because it could very well be some
corrupt people that you really legitimately want to go after.
So neither one of those is a good is a
good path, But I'm afraid that we may be under

(01:43:19):
one of the either or of those or both of
them possibly when this administration ends. Because of the amount
of vitriol and the amount of hate on the right
for Donald Trump, regardless if he's innocent or guilty.

Speaker 16 (01:43:30):
They want to see him. You know they will not
be happy.

Speaker 34 (01:43:33):
I mean, I know a lot of Republicans want to
see Hillary Clinton purplok. At this point, I don't really
care it Wapps long gone water under the bridge, but
I know there are millions of Democrats that want to
see Trump.

Speaker 16 (01:43:44):
Purp walk and their lives will not be complete until
that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:43:48):
Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research, brother, always
good to talk to. You would do it again.

Speaker 16 (01:43:52):
Next week, Thanks Chad.

Speaker 2 (01:43:53):
If you guys want to reach out to Jim, and
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Speaker 2 (01:45:38):
As we wrap up this chaotic, crazy and lunatic like week,
we take a freely just a listen back, and as
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just feels like it should be a month's worth of stuff. Finally, Friday,

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I think.

Speaker 9 (01:46:01):
It's got to be one of the greatest stories we've
ever seen in college football. Were the losingest teams at
college football history to start a year to now the
national champions.

Speaker 16 (01:46:10):
There's no worries.

Speaker 10 (01:46:11):
This is the most special moment of my life. And
I know my teenage. There's no one out, There's no
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Hundred dollars walking bat hole.

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I know how I say it. Anybody is burning a
hold through my bucketing and doing my skin.

Speaker 12 (01:46:30):
I'm on the morning, I'll be.

Speaker 10 (01:46:33):
It's fine.

Speaker 12 (01:46:35):
Friday, I'm a freakin I'm done, my motor running motow again.

Speaker 32 (01:46:41):
It's fine.

Speaker 19 (01:46:45):
Then, they.

Speaker 13 (01:46:48):
And I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing
a new image of someone being dragged out of a car,
dragged out of their home.

Speaker 14 (01:46:54):
This is not a group that's going around and looking
for people who violated the law based on skin cut.

Speaker 33 (01:47:00):
My biggest fear is that innocent people will suffer.

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It's fine, Free, I'm gone my motor roaming.

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Wow again, It's fine.

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The ten films nominated for Best Picture are f One, Frankenstein, Hamnet,
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Joy Wonder if I've ever said, Wendy have.

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A thirty hour slowly tunity by.

Speaker 11 (01:47:49):
Friday, I.

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Got my motor running.

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It's out of the drove.

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Forget nor.

Speaker 19 (01:48:04):
In each of the twenty nine counts, we the jury
find the defendant Adrian Zalas not guilty.

Speaker 16 (01:48:10):
Thank you for the jury for considering all the evidence,
and you got heard it.

Speaker 18 (01:48:14):
The juryman found him as innocent.

Speaker 10 (01:48:16):
For the court of public opinion.

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He is a power.

Speaker 20 (01:48:18):
It is time to seize this opportunity and build a
new independent Europe.

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Let's not waste time with crazy ideas.

Speaker 19 (01:48:26):
I think the message is America first does not mean
America alone.

Speaker 21 (01:48:31):
We felt an obligation to send our own forces to
hold the Greenland territory and hold it.

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We did, Oh, we did hold it. We held it,
we have it. It's ours kind of but not really.
All of the details will be out in the next
two weeks, but so far from what we're getting is
more and more leaks. Yes, it's stuff we could have
got if we just went, hey, we want to do this,
and they'd be like, all right, But instead we cause chaos.
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so we'll have a Super Bowl Rams Patriots. And obviously
the big story here is the giant storm. About one

(01:49:23):
hundred and ninety million people are going to be under
some sort of freeze or snow warning. So I just
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ICE Detains Four Children from Minnesota School District, Including 5-Year-Old

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