Iran Says No Talks Are Under Way with United States After Trump Calls Off Attacks

Iran says no talks are under way with United States after Trump calls off attacks. Midterm Monday's w/Jim Kennedy. Weekend movie box office numbers. Trump rebukes Jeanine Pirro over decision to drop Reflecting Pool vandalism case. Smoking regaining popularity. Cost of daycare.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson Show, another weekend another We're not going
to attack anybody, but you knew that was going to happen, right, Like,
we're not stupid.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
We saw that this wasn't going to happen. We weren't
going to do what Trump was saying that we were
going to do because our allies don't want it. Our
allies want no part of what is going to happen
because they know the repercussions are going to fall upon them.

(00:42):
So how exciting is this? We're back to a stalemate.
Trump is like, oh, they want to talk, they wanted
they're begging to do a deal. I can't believe the
kind of deal we're going to get. It's going to
be the greatest deal of all time. It's going to
be a we have no idea what's going to come
out of. What we do know is they don't want

(01:06):
to be bombed. And by they, I mean our allies.
They're over this. Jordan last week their people stood up
and said, get the Americans out of here. Saudi Arabia
is just they know, hey, look if we get attacked,

(01:30):
it's going to be on you. We can't have that.
We're done. We're done. You need to figure this out.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
There's no immediate sign of a breakthrough with Tefran and
also we know that Israel remains on high alert. But
over the weekend, President Trump posted the US forces were
ready for a full scale attack on Iran, but he
was going to hold off on that fire. After the
parameters of this deal emerge with Tehran and other Middle

(01:58):
Eastern countries, would conclude the opening of the straight or
four moves and also an end to Iran's nuclear threat.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
But what does that even mean? Okay, we hear that. Well,
all of this comes from US saying we're opening it.
It's happening, and they're gonna give us all their stuff,
and they're gonna apologize to us, and they're never gonna
do anything again. And all of these great things are
gonna happen, and we are gonna give them nothing. I
don't think that's what's gonna happen to you, because right now,
let's be honest, They've won this. Iran has won this.

(02:32):
You've got an entire area that is on a knife's
edge with anxiety. You've got an entire area that is
being held hostage when it comes to oil, the potential
of war we go on and on starvation the economy itself,

(02:55):
if you even removed oil, because there's so many other
things there. And what are we getting from this? I'm
just curious, Well, we're gonna get a nuclear free Iran?
Are we?

Speaker 4 (03:07):
Are?

Speaker 5 (03:07):
We?

Speaker 2 (03:07):
Is that what we're gonna get? You know what it is?
They're a porcupine. You know anything about porcupines? Yes? Yes,
the lion could kill a porcupine. The question is are
you willing to do what you have to do to
get through to that porcupine knowing the damage that's going

(03:29):
to come to you is gonna be massive and hurts
you long term. And right now, the porcupine is dug in,
it's inside.

Speaker 6 (03:44):
Of a hole.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
All that you see are its quills, and know they
can't shoot their quills. But they're gonna give us everything.
They're not gonna give us anything, not at this moment
in time, because they know they don't have to.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
There are two major sticking points for the US. It's
that the Street of four Moves be be open and
also Iran give up its nuclear ambitions. And frankly, you're
hearing from the Foreign minister who's saying that things won't
return to the way they were before February twenty eighth,
with the Street of hor Moves.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Translation, sure, we'll give up our nuclear stuff, but we
own the straight of horror moves and we're going to
charge a fee and you can deal with that, or
we can do this dance for a while. And what
does that mean to us? Because that's all we care
about at the end of the day, we care about.
What does it mean to us? Well, it means life
is going to still be expensive, and it's going to

(04:37):
be off and on up like a rocket, down like
a feather when it comes to things like inflation, the
cost of goods, et cetera, et cetera. And there's a
new GAO report out. If you don't know the GAO,
it's Government Accountability Office. Okay, are you ready for this?
Fourteen million Americans right around there full time working adults.

(05:04):
So fourteen million full time working adults, people working thirty
five plus hours a week rely on Medicaid. About eleven
million working full time jobs rely on SNAP meaning people
can't afford their life. So working full time jobs and

(05:27):
they can't afford their life. I thought you were gonna
make it better. I thought this was the thing I'm
gonna come in and we're gonna do what. We're gonna
make things better. We're gonna defeat inflation, We're gonna do
all of the things. People are frustrated, People are angry.
You want to know why the DSA is rising in

(05:49):
power and the Democrats are screwed. It's the thing that
may save the Republicans. It's the fact that people are frustrated.
People are angry, People are sick and tired of working
two jobs just so they could be broke af Yeah,

(06:09):
and it's major corporations who are loving every second of this.
I mean, Trump's pissed right now because the oil companies
are making huge amounts of money. Well why is that,
Oh yeah, because we're at war that you started. People
are frustrated and they're gonna continue to be frustrated, and
you're gonna see it continue rise in not just DSA candidates,

(06:34):
but candidates from all walks of life. We need a
third party now more than ever before. An independent party
is going to go in. It's gonna say look this
it ain't working. This two party system isn't working. You
guys are enriching yourselves and everybody else is getting left behind.

(06:58):
That's why you're seeing the rye of the DSA, which
is insane and ridiculous. But also you're seeing a lot
of people who are even people who voted for Trump
in twenty twenty four said yeah, this is not what
I voted for and I want something else. Are you

(07:19):
going to get to the point where you break it
so much that the alternative now is to go whackado?
I mean, is that what's going to happen? Republicans? You
need to pay attention, right, You need to pay attention
to what is happening.

Speaker 7 (07:39):
It is.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
I'm fascinated because when I talk to local candidates here
in Tennessee, talk to local candidates, they'll tell me, oh,
the number one thing is affordability. But they don't want
to talk about that. They want to talk about you know,
we're going to fight to make sure that boys who
identify as girls can't play and girls' sports. We're going

(08:02):
to the girl's bathroom. Yeah that's a you know, that's
one tenth of one percent, right, and common sense says
that shouldn't happen. But we can't have a talk of
common sense anymore because it gets blown out of proportion.
As we all know we're going to talk about all
of these things now evil and horrible they are. It's

(08:23):
about fear right. The Muslims are taken over, Sharia law everywhere,
the gays watch up for the gays, and I just
sit there and I think it is it is ridiculous.
I want you to listen to this lady right here.
I want you to listen to this lady talk about
how much it costs as a working parent along with

(08:44):
her husband, to send her kid to daycare. Okay, think
about this.

Speaker 8 (08:48):
We spent one hundred and thirty six thousand dollars to
all day your tuition for my daughter. I'm a thirty
four ye old mom up too. I have a five
year old daughter and a three year old time and
both of my kids been in full time daycare since
they we're sixteen weeks old, because my husband and I
both work full time. Is heading to kindergarten in August.
So we just paid her last tuition bill ever for daycare.
And I decided to look back over the last five
plus years and see how much we spent, and we
spent a total of one hundred and thirty six thousand,

(09:10):
four hundred and thirty five dollars, which averages to about
twenty two hundred dollars per month for the last five.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Years, twenty two hundred dollars a month, twenty two one
hundred dollars a month. Think about that.

Speaker 8 (09:25):
The most we ever paid on a monthly basis for
her tuition was two five hundred and forty five dollars
a month, and that was back when she was an infant,
which makes sense because there's so hands on at that point.
There's bottles, there's diapers, there's very few kids per teacher. Theoretically,
her monthly tuition should have decreased as she got older
because they move up classrooms they're much less hands on,
so we can have more kids per teacher. But we've

(09:45):
been averaging about a five percent tuition increase per year,
so we have been paying an average of twenty two
hundred dollars per month every month for the last sixty
two months.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
That's insane. It's it's insane. We've talked about it here,
the cost of childcare, Like, what's the government supposed to
do with that? I mean, you're not going to go
and force them, but it's not like they're making a
ton of money. People who own them probably do, but

(10:16):
the frustration level. You can send your kid to college
in state tuition is cheaper in a lot of states
than sending your kid to daycare.

Speaker 8 (10:25):
That comes out to about twenty six four hundred dollars
per year for daycare tuition. And as a reminder, at
the beginning of the video, I said, I have two kids,
So for the last three years, when my youngest started daycare,
we've been spending on average fifty three thousand dollars per
year on daycare tuition for both of our kids. The
average median salary for a woman in the US is
fifty six six hundred dollars per year. So it's no

(10:46):
wonder that forty two percent of women who voluntarily left
the workforce in twenty twenty five cited caregiving or childcare
costs as the main reason for their departure.

Speaker 2 (10:54):
And that's the way it should be, because the Lord
wants you to stay at home with your children, and
also the Lord does I want you to vote. Well,
how crazy is that fifty thousand a year for daycare?
It seems about right when you think about two kids
in daycare, I mean, it adds up. And so you're

(11:16):
working in some ways that two thirds of your net
income goes to pay for daycare. So you have enough
to cover maybe portions of the stuff for the household,
and then the other partner or husband or wife covers
the rest of the bills. And it's only getting more expensive.

(11:39):
Hope your kids don't play sports as your parents out there.

Speaker 5 (11:42):
No.

Speaker 2 (11:43):
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Speaker 9 (13:09):
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
Nature doing what nature does in Washington State. Absolutely ferocious
fire that looks like it's going to get uglier before
it gets better. There's no doubt about that.

Speaker 10 (13:25):
This area was for the first time ever under what
it's called a PDS, which is a relatively new term
used for wildfires, a particularly dangerous situation red flag warning
issued by the National Weather Service. And whenever those are issued,
and they are rare, that is when these typically break out.
If you think of the big wildfires in southern California

(13:47):
in January a year and a half ago, that was
a PDS day.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
Yeah, you know, it's actually a BFD. It is what
it is, and it is it is nasty, and now
they're going to get a break. At least today.

Speaker 10 (14:01):
We've seen firefighters from California. In fact, a management team
from California has taken over this fire of managing it,
of doing the command of it. It's going to get
a little bit hotter as a week goes on, but
today there's a respite.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
But you've got what seven eight thousand acres, sixty thousand
people that have been evacuated, and it doesn't look like
it's going to slow down anytime soon. So it's an
ugly situation. But nature does what nature does, and this
time of year, nature right now is roaring and nature
wants to be a fire. And you couple that with
dry conditions, it's a disaster waiting to happen. Over the

(14:38):
weekend in Idaho, shots fired, three people dead, seven people wounded,
two of them critically wounded. And if it wasn't for
an off duty officer and a person that just happened
to be at in and out. This could have been
a lot worse.

Speaker 11 (14:55):
Thirty five year old Jordan Salinas tells The Idaho Statesman
he had just pulled into the parking lot when he
heard gun fire. He says he drew his semi automatic
pistol and saw a suspect lift a rifle to his
shoulder and fire toward cars. That's when Selenas began firing.
Police say an off duty policeman at the scene also
returned fire. Police say the shooter, identified as twenty four

(15:17):
year old Chad Williams, killed three people and injured seven
others before taking his own life.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
Why did he do it? Nobody knows. Was he just
a loser at home right, couldn't get a girlfriend, pissed
off at the world. Usually find out what these people
are all about right in cells wackados because everybody runs
and goes who did he vote for? Is he is he? Islam?
Is it Islam guy? Did Islam guy do it?

Speaker 4 (15:40):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (15:41):
He didn't?

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Was it was?

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Let me guess it was a white guy, probably lonely,
no friends, couldn't get a girlfriend. Or was he just
mad at in and out? I don't think he was
mad at in and out for a week. These guys
are not hard to spot and a ninety nine percent
of them aren't gonna do anything crazy, but that one
percent one percent does stuff like this, which is scary.
What do you think?

Speaker 7 (16:03):
Let me know?

Speaker 2 (16:03):
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Speaker 5 (16:17):
The jackpot rolls over again with no grand prize winners
following Saturday nights drawing.

Speaker 9 (16:22):
So maybe not seven hundred seven million, but the.

Speaker 5 (16:24):
Jackpot has grown to an estimated seven hundred and forty
eight million dollars. That's the twelfth largest powerball prize in history.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
That's a lot. That's a lot of dollars. Yeo. Now,
the question is where do you now? Do you have
a place you go Do you have a place where
you're like, Okay, I'm going to go to this store.
I've won a couple things here before. This place seems
to sell winning tickets. Do you have a place that
you go to or is it just Rando, do you
have numbers you pick? I'm curious about it, right, because

(16:54):
maybe I like steal your ideas. I don't know. I
don't know. Now. If you're wondering, are there stay hates
that are lucky?

Speaker 5 (17:00):
If you're wondering where you should shop for your ticket,
Indiana historically is the luckiest selling thirty nine jackpot winning
tickets since powerball began in nineteen ninety two, which is
more than any other state. However, with this current jackpot,
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drawing made not one, not two, but three Californians match

(17:23):
five winners.

Speaker 12 (17:23):
Each of them took home a million dollars each.

Speaker 2 (17:26):
That's good money if you can get it, good money
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Acts Your instat coming up? Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of
Public Policy Research. It's midterm Monday straight at Jaed Benihow, then.

Speaker 12 (17:41):
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 9 (18:01):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 13 (18:05):
Now it's time for midterm Mondays, where we break down
the biggest races from the midterms.

Speaker 14 (18:11):
Who will control the House, who will control the Senate.
We discussed with Jim Kennedy. Midterm Monday is that time
of the week.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
We talked to our goodbody, Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of
Public Policy Research. We talk about mid terms because Midterm Monday.
We got some big ones this week. First of all,
give us a rundown of who's voting and when, and
I say and when because tuesdates are voting at different times.

Speaker 7 (18:35):
Actually three states are footing.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
I'm sorry, sorry, Yes, you're right. Yeah. We have three
primary elections this week, which I don't know if that's
ever happened before. We have Kansas and Michigan and Virginia
on Tuesday, August fourth. We have Tennessee on August sixth Thursday,
so Chad, you get to go out and vote on
a Thursday afternoon. And Hawaii we have on Saturday, August eight.
So we got three of those going on, all in

(18:59):
the all in the span of a five day period. There.

Speaker 2 (19:02):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. I've still
we were trying to figure out why, but apparently they
did something back in the seventeen hundreds. Is why we
do here in Tennessee on the first Thursday in August Hawaii,
you said, have done it for a long time because
they want everybody to be able to vote. And then
of course the normal Tuesday stuff. So let's start with

(19:23):
the normal Tuesday stuff. Let's start with I mean, obviously
the big one is what's going on in Michigan. That's
what everybody's looking at and focusing on.

Speaker 7 (19:33):
Yeah, absolutely, that's the big race right now is what
it's got the most attention. It's probably got the most
animosity in it too. Between Ailey Stevens and Abdullah l said,
right now, if you look at the presumptive, well if
right now, the polls have l said up nineteen seventeen
and fourteen in the last three polls, so and the

(19:54):
and the prediction markets have him fairly solid that he's
going to win. It's about it's about sixty five thirty
five for him right now. It's been a big battle
over APEX. The is the Israeli lobbying group that the
Israeli American lobbying group that's put a lot of money
into Hailey Stevens as a friend of Israel and l
said is probably not a friend of Israel. He is

(20:17):
full on the DSA platform as far as their things,
but he doesn't really want to stand up and talk
a lot about it other than he wants to help
get people access to housing and healthcare, which actually means
Medicare for all and under his platform. But yeah, that's
the one that's that that's got a lot of money
that's been thrown out that race so far, And it'll
be interesting because Republicans, you know, Mike Rogers is going

(20:42):
to be the nominee for the Republicans in that one.
And if you go back to like March, it was
probably an eighty twenty race for the Democrats who look
like this as solid hole as the current Democrat incumbent retiring,
and now it's sixty eight thirty two. Because some of
the you know, a lot of the Republicans think that
Elsaid is going to be need easier voter. Is it
going to be an easier person to beat in the

(21:04):
general because he will not appeal to a lot of
working class uh mich Michigan Anders. And remember that's the
home of Detroit and there's lots of union members in
the UAW and other areas within you know, within the
Detroit area. So it'll be interesting. Rogers in a poll
last week was plus ten in a hypothetical matchup against
El said so, and uh, Stephen was tied with him.

(21:25):
So it'll be interesting how it works out, because it
looks like it's gonna be l said versus Rogers. And
that may be one the Republicans pick up on that,
and if they can, that certainly is going to hurt
the Democrats on their path to try to take the
centate back.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
Talking to our good buddy, Jim Kennedy Kennedy instud of
Plug Policy Research. All right from there, Uh, the Idaho
thing is very very interesting. You were, you were pointing
it out, how you know Again, age plays a role
in so many of these things nowadays.

Speaker 7 (21:51):
No, absolutely, yeah. Basically, the the current Democrat who won
the primaries is David Roth. He has withdrawn because Todd
k Achilles is an independent and the party up there
thinks that Achilles will have the better chance. He's positioned
more so as a moderate than Roth is to go again.
Senator Sam Richter, who happens to be eighty four years old.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Oh, eighty four years young, Jim eighty four years sorry, eighty.

Speaker 7 (22:16):
Four years young, yes, which would mean he would be
how old Chad when he finished this term?

Speaker 2 (22:21):
If it in seventy three exactly?

Speaker 7 (22:24):
I think it might be a year off. But yes,
you're very close on that one. Yeah, and that may
be something this is not a race has gotten a
lot of attention. I mean, this thing dropped I think
late on Friday night or on Thursday night, and certainly
wasn't something I saw picked up for very much anywhere,
because again it is August, that type of situation. But
this is one to watch for to see what happens
with this because I don't know how much the Democrats

(22:46):
are going to throw money at this race, because the
prediction markets right now have it as fifty three forty
seven for the Republicans. But for Idaho for Republican most
of them are going to run in the eighties or
nineties of the prediction markets because it is a there
very red saved. It might be one of the top
three redd est states in America. And this is going
to be interesting to see what happens. Is this one

(23:08):
where someone has stayed past their sell by date and
you know, is is that going to be a problem
for him over, Senator Richter, we're going to find out.

Speaker 2 (23:20):
We're going to fire you. We're going to find out there,
tell you that right now, Shunny talking to Jim Kennedy
Kenny Institute Plug Policy Research. All right, so obviously you
got Virginia. Virginia's had to do the redo of stuff
because a lot of states started to do stuff, and
then there was stuff that was happening with redistricting, and
then we've got to go to the redo, and so
we're all settled though with those right, we're not going

(23:41):
to get any more. Hey, we're going to redo this.
This is it. We are settled now when it comes
to redistricting.

Speaker 7 (23:47):
Yes, actually, Virginia technically would be the undue of the
redo to get back to where they were because the
state Supreme Court in Virginia said these are unconstitutional and
that therefore they can't make the changes of it because
it was done improperly and it was too late. So yeah,
we are done. We will have no more episodes of
jerrymandering Tuesday now because we are all set now. The
net effect of this is that it's going to make

(24:09):
it harder for the Republicans. And this is all finally
washed out now and all the districts are set because
we are going to you know again, we're the generals
in November. We've got about another five weeks of primaries.
I think about second week of September it will be
the final primaries. I think Delaware goes last. Something with
Joe Biden. I don't know what it is exactly, but
the Democrats path to taking the House has got a

(24:31):
little more complex because Cook's Political Report had said before
this that there were eighty seven districts that were competitive
and the Democrats needed to win fifty seven of them. Well,
ten of those have been taken off the board with
the redistricting efforts, or in Virginia the not redistricting effort.
That's that's been reversed. So now the Dems are gonna
have to win fifty seven of seventy seven seats. So

(24:54):
basically they had thirty seats leeway. Now they're only gonna
have twenty seats, so that up to percentage they're gonna
have to win. It's going to make it tougher for
them to win those seats because again ten of those
that come off the board for the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (25:07):
So I guess we got to talk about old Max
Miller here. If we're going to talk about the chaos
on the left with Graham Platner, it'd be weird not
to talk about Max Miller. And you've noticed that the
odds have moved in a direction with Max Miller. If
you don't know who he is, he is a congressperson
who is former wife is the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno,

(25:29):
who had the fauci who the f do you think
you are? Moment last week? But he had some issues
with his ex wife and apparently with several women.

Speaker 7 (25:40):
Yeah, evidently this is the Ohio seventh. It is a
likely to safe Republican seat, or at least it was
Max Miller's having some problems or basically he's created some
problems for himself based upon his inability to not hit women,
which is not a good thing and something that absolutely
nobody would endorse. Now. Two weeks ago, this was a

(26:02):
basically a sixty forty race for the for the Republicans,
and this has now become somewhere around a sixty eight
to thirty two race for the Democrats because they don't
think that the constituents in the Ohio seventh are going
to like a guy who apparently beat up his wife

(26:22):
and apparently, according to some investigative journalism, has police reports
filed by other women for him not being a good
person to them either. So this may very well change.
And this is you know, this will be one of
those seventy seven seats that the Democrats are going to
have to win, and this is probably one that was
not going to be on their list. And this was
a borderline competitive race. Max Miller had won this race

(26:47):
by fifteen points in twenty twenty four, so it was
not something that was going to really be competitive. He's
got a fairly good lead as far as money, so
he's gonna be able to throw a lot of ads
out there to possibly you know, go up and basically
you know, try to I don't want to say slim
his way out of it, but something along those lines
be able to basically, you know, say it's all untrue

(27:08):
until the point it isn't. If this goes even deeper
on this, I do not know, and I will will
know for next week what the process is in Ohio
to remove somebody because there they already had the primaries
back in May, so that's already a settled seat, then
the people who are in it, Max Miller and Brian Poindexter,
are set. And if Max Miller has to withdraw because

(27:30):
of scrutiny or because it turns out he really is
the possible slime bucket that it sounds like he might
have been or might be, they will need to find
another Republican And I do not know even if that
is replaceable at this point in this because a lot
of these states, remember begin early voting in early October,
if not even maybe even late September, So in a sense,

(27:50):
you're probably six weeks away in some of these races,
six or seven weeks away from ballots going out, So
I don't know if they even have the ability to
do that, to remove people from the ballot. Again, Miller's
got two point has got one point million, one point
four million on hand versus point Exter's got three hundred
and twelve thousand, and you can find that on our
site Midterm Monday dot com www dot Midterm Monday dot Com.

(28:13):
But yeah, those are you know, Miller's raised a lot
more money, but I'm gonna be curious to watch and
you can track this over the next couple of weeks.
Will the Democrats send the blood in the water here
and start throwing money at this race? And basically you
think this is a race you're going to pick up?
Or does it get even worse and Miller has to
resign and the Republicans have to replace him, and which
which might be their best case because it sounds like
he just may drag this whole race down for them

(28:34):
at this point based upon some of the numbers. So
it'll be interesting, but definitely a race will follow. You
can watch it on Midterm Monday dot com. It's the
Ohio seventh.

Speaker 2 (28:43):
Let's talk about money. U Republicans have a lot of it.
Democrats don't have a lot of it. U Republicans, I
think are going to be more selective though than I
think people realize when it comes to who's going to
get what money. You know, we talked about the packst
thing being one of those things where they're saying, you
know what, old old governor there, right, you know what

(29:06):
a habit you throw some money at that. We're not
quite sure want to throw a ton of money at
him just yet.

Speaker 7 (29:11):
Yeah, most definitely the Democrats are short. They've only got
I believe they've got eighteen million on hand for the
DNC and they have a fifteen million dollar loan, so
they're basically have virtually no money. They're packs for both
the House and the Senate are got I think a
little over one hundred and twenty million dollars in them.
But the Republicans have got something in the lawn in

(29:32):
the lines of about three hundred million in theirs. Plus
they have Trump's Patriot Pack I think it is that's
got four hundred million behind it. So Republicans have a
substantial lead. Now where that money is going to go.
It's interesting because if you look at some of the
races where the key races, like we talked about packs
and with Tall Rico Talla, Rico's raised something like sixty
eight million dollars. So the Democrats it looks like they're fundraising.

(29:56):
Their people are sending the money directly to the candidates
that they like in the races that they think are competitive.
The big one is Aweso Off is raised over seventy
seven million dollars in Georgia, and based upon some of
the things in that race, that race may not be
as competitive as the Republicans are going to hope it
will be. So the question will be, as we'll ass

(30:18):
off start sharing that money out because he's a rumored
twenty eight presidential candidate, and he's sure build a lot
of favor with a lot of people to throw some
of that money around in some of the races, some
of the House races, definitely, some of the Senate races,
maybe some of the gubernatorial races. If he's not going
to need that war chest of seventy seven million plus
whatever he will raise for the next you know, roughly
ninety days, he'll have quite a quite a haul because

(30:41):
it looks like he may not have to spend that
much on that, you know, on the on the race,
because it may not be as competitive as we think
it will be.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Talking to Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research.
Last question, brother Dodgers do it again. They get the
best picture in baseball potentially Trek Scoubel for Detroit and
now you know everybody hates the Dodgers. Of course, is
there going to be a lockout and is there gonna
be a salary cap? I mean, are we gonna be
without baseball next year?

Speaker 7 (31:09):
So yeah, it'll be interesting on the lockout thing. I
really think there will be a lockout. Some of the
people don't. There may very well be a salary cap,
and there is a luxury tax right now, so there's
a soft salary cap, but I'm talking a much more
hard salary cap like the NFL has, where it's you
really don't go beyond it because that is it. And
also there will probably be some things. One of the
big hang ups is gonna be probably is the deferred

(31:32):
compensation the Dodgers use so well when they brought in
showing a.

Speaker 2 (31:35):
One point one billion dollars in deferred compensation through the
next decade.

Speaker 7 (31:40):
Absolutely. Yeah, don't forget the uh the Bobby Benia situation
gets paid million dollars every July first because of the
contract he signed like forty years ago. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
It's crazy. It's gonna be interesting, no doubt about that.
But I don't think you could have a salary cap
without having a floor that is highigher than what it
is now.

Speaker 7 (32:01):
Yes, because there are a lot of teams that don't
pay anywhere near I mean, there's a huge discrepancy again
between the top and the bottom and the bottom teams.
Like I think the a's used to be I'm not
sure if the a still are, because they're going to
have a nice stadium coming in twenty twenty eight and
they've got some actually some decent players down of the
question will they be able to keep them going forward?
But A's and the Pirates are traditionally a couple of
the teams that are that have the lowest payrolls in MLB,

(32:25):
and sometimes teams like the Dodger, the match will have
a player that they actually pay more than the entire
A's or Pirates ross. I'm not sure if it is
this year, but it has happened in the past.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
It's going to be interesting. His name is Jim Kennedy
Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research. Brothers always good to
talk to, and we will do it again later on
this week on Friday. You have yourself a good one.

Speaker 7 (32:44):
Thanks Chad, appreciate it again.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
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Speaker 2 (34:21):
Spidy dominated this weekend, and more domination I am sure
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(34:43):
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(35:04):
Doomsday Adventure movie coming this Christmas is going to be massive,
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Speaker 7 (35:25):
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it's so embarrassing. How many times do you guys get

(35:48):
to swing and miss? For God's sakes, talk a little
bit about that. Obviously, what's going on or not going
on with Iran. I think it's safe to say that
this was a giant cluster hump and it has not
turned out the way the President thought it was going
to or probably how it was sold to him as well.
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Speaker 2 (36:54):
In the not a Shocker world. We're not gonna hit
them harder than world will to Nope, not happening. And
the reason is our allies in the region they are like, no,
no more. They're not hitting you. They're hitting us. They're

(37:17):
not threatening you, they're threatening us. They aren't going to
go after you the way that you think they're going
to make the region a nightmare, and that's what they're doing.
And over the weekend, lo and behold, phone calls were
made and it was not from Iran.

Speaker 16 (37:39):
He is I mean, it's really interesting that it was
a call from Muhammed bin Salmon, as you mentioned Jonathan
on Saturday, that persuaded Trump to back off, because Iran
has made it very clear that it is prepared to
strike the energy infrastructure and other other targets out Arabia,

(38:00):
in Gota, in countries that really don't want to see
this escalation. And Irana has been broadening the front of it,
the zone of its activities, you know, to as far
away as Egypt. There was a drone attack and attempted
drone attack on a US ship in Egypt. So Iran
is not backing down at all. They're quite happy with

(38:24):
escalation because they believe that ultimately this will deter Trump
from pursuing this wall. They're not backing down.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
And by the way, Trump's sitting there, we got a deal.
It's immediate, it's a deal. It's close to being done.
It's a deal. And Iran's like, no, no, there's no deal.
We're not giving up all the things you're running around
saying we're giving up our nuclear We're going to open
up the straight or removes, everything's going to go back
the way it was. And that's not happening.

Speaker 7 (38:53):
What.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Yeah, they they no longer buy it. You've talked too much.
Trump always chickens out, And remember the saying, that's what
everybody feels. You've talked, goed too much. You're at the
point now where they just go whatever.

Speaker 16 (39:10):
Which makes it all the more odd that Trump thinks
that these kinds of threats, that this will be the
biggest bombing campaign since World War Two, are going to
deter Iran. It's not deterrible at this point because It's
reading of this war is that the higher the cost
it imposes on Trump and America's allies in the Gulf

(39:33):
and beyond the Gulf and on the world economy, the
less likely this war is to be resumed in full
by Trump. So this this bluster is not working, but
he keeps trying to throw spaghetti against the wall. One
other point is that you know Israel was all locked

(39:53):
and lopid and ready to join Trump in this in
this new attack on Iran, and wasn't informed that he
had decided to cut it off. There's been a real
switch since the beginning of this war. Saudi Arabia is
now more influential than Israel, and that's a huge deal.

Speaker 2 (40:14):
Yeah, let's ed loose right there. From the Financial Times,
there's no doubt. Look, this is a nightmare. It is
not going to change anything. Iron again said today there
are no talks going on. Trump is trying to balance
how do I keep the oil prices down and keep
things rocking and roll over the stock market because that's
what he cares about. That's what he cares about. We're

(40:38):
not going to win this without committing god knows how
many boots on the ground and having our allies with us.
We talked about it last week when others did. Jordan
wants us out of there. I don't think you guys
understand how big that is. Jordan has jailed people four

(41:01):
going after their allies, of which we're supposed to be
like the ally for them. Jordan wants them out, wants
all of us out. Get the Americans out of here.
We're done. We're sick and tired of this. This is
a bad situation that I continue to say, is going
to probably flutter along for months and months and of

(41:25):
course the big sticking point is always the same thing.

Speaker 3 (41:28):
There are two major sticking points for the US. It's
that the straight or four Moves be be open. And
also Iran give up its nuclear ambitions. And frankly, you're
hearing from the Foreign Minister who's saying that things won't
return to the way they were before February twenty eighth
with the Street of Four Moves.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
No, it's not why would they? Why would they at
this point in time, from the moment it happened last
summer right with Operation midnine Hammer, We've done all this
stuff in the twelve Day War. We've been saying on
the show, what the blank are we doing? And then

(42:08):
of course everybody's like, see you said it's gonna be
forever war. We could be in this thing. Let's to
twelve days. We got win. I'm like, okay, good. And
yet here we are over a year later, and what
do we have. We have strengthened Iran in the region.

(42:29):
We have now watch them take the Straits of Hornmoz hostage,
and we're in a position that we have no idea
what it really looks like, because it's a very good
chance that we have people who are throwing money at
the oil market trying to depress the price. What happens

(42:50):
if that breaks out with influence, you know, you know inflation?
The way it is, I mean, come on, what are
we doing? What are we doing? Nobody knows what we're
doing except for President Trump, who every time, and look,
I don't care what anybody says, you're being made him.
I don't give a rats ass. He's the president. He said,

(43:10):
you were gonna get us in any more wars. You're
gonna stop all the wars. That's DUB eighty five. People
can't even name what wars you've stopped. They can't. You
know how many times I hear that, And then you're like,
look what wars he stopped? He's like, well, you know
that was the thing Azerbaijan and Armenia like one, and

(43:31):
then there was that one, and you can't. By the way,
most people don't even know where that is. Most people don't.
But outside of that, now, now you really haven't. You
haven't stopped eight wars. You haven't brought in eighty five
trillion dollars manufacturings, not through the roof. It is just
bs after bs after bs. All you care about is
at this point in time, tell me, because I look

(43:56):
around and if it wasn't for the fact that the
Democrats are such an effing mess, it would be ugly.
But luckily they've got DSA candidates who are insane. Now
they're gonna win the primaries in a lot of areas,
but are they going to win the general It's the
same thing we've talked about all the time of our

(44:18):
good buddy Jim Kennedy. Quality of candidate matters, and you
can't be crazy and win a general election.

Speaker 7 (44:27):
You can't be.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
And it's so funny because I sit here and go,
where's the average person in this Where's the average Democrat?

Speaker 7 (44:41):
Where are you?

Speaker 2 (44:43):
Where are you? Where's the frustrated Republican?

Speaker 7 (44:46):
Where are you?

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Because there's more of us in the exhausted majority than
there is when it comes to the lunacy that we have.
You got one side of the only focuses on culture
war because there's no other story to tell right now.
And you get the other side who wants to abolish
everything and thinks that it's okay that a dude identifies

(45:10):
as a girl or a woman to play in sports
and that somehow that's equal because you called yourself that.
I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way. I mean, we
have lost the plot. And what do we have. We
have crazy taken over we do, and crazy is making

(45:31):
noise and you know, saying wacky stuff. You know, it's
just looks abolish ice. Okay, then what We're gonna abolish
the police? Okay, then what and we're gonna abolish our
our borders and then what so so we got rid
of the police, we got rid of borders, We've got
rid of ice, so we've got no immigration, but doesn't

(45:52):
matter because we have any borders. We're gonna get rid
of jails, which is fine because we have a police,
so it doesn't really matter. What else are we going
to do? And then we're going to take away everybody's
our business and we're gonna give it to the government
because they're gonna do a great job. Okay, Okay, once again,
you're insane. You're insane. That's not gonna work. It isn't.

(46:15):
And the beauty of where the Republicans are as just
awful of a job that they've done. The Democrats are
the people making noise on their side, are people that
you know, the average person's not going to buy in
to whatever it is that they're selling.

Speaker 6 (46:35):
I feel very good.

Speaker 17 (46:37):
The only thing that can derail us, and we could
nominate some of our wrong candidates in the wrong place
and not be as successful as our hope.

Speaker 4 (46:47):
The wrong candidates.

Speaker 17 (46:48):
What you mean by that, let's take in Michigan and
outside it is partly competent, but he's wayleft. I see
challengees from the quote progressive left unquote, and these people
are too hot headed to know that they're not popular.

Speaker 18 (47:09):
People don't like them.

Speaker 17 (47:11):
But if you get a skewed turnout in a primary,
you might end up losing the race that you should
have never lost in the first place.

Speaker 7 (47:20):
When you say progressive left, it's sort of there's a
tone of contempt there.

Speaker 17 (47:25):
Yeah, yeah, so you were very wise hook The camera
was able to.

Speaker 4 (47:29):
Pick up the contempt is high definition.

Speaker 17 (47:32):
Yes, they don't win elections. They never run against Republicans,
They just run against other Democrats. And their only message
is we're going to blow everything up.

Speaker 7 (47:45):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
Then that's not going to work either. It isn't. I'm
telling you, guys, the exhaust majority of you and I
and everybody else, we need to take back the conversation
and the direction of which politics is heading. Real people
solving real problems is what we need to do. What

(48:10):
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Coming up next. Oh we got him right, that guy
who did the thing at the reflecting Oh wait, no, no, no,
so that didn't work out. Talk about that, among other things.
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 9 (49:49):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
The Reflecting Pool. They got their man.

Speaker 10 (49:55):
The evident shows and we will prove beyond a reasonable
doubt that hern willfully destroyed property at the Lincoln Memorial
Reflecting Pool.

Speaker 6 (50:05):
What specific evidence do you have to back up that claim?

Speaker 20 (50:08):
Well, we have the actual cuts that were made into
the industrial liner and and that's a you know, been
measured out, So that's just a fact that that's that's what.

Speaker 6 (50:18):
There's three and fifty fash.

Speaker 20 (50:20):
Well, it's multiple gashes that add up to three hundred
and fifty feet across that and so and again, some
of this happened early on. There was a where we've
installed more cameras.

Speaker 6 (50:33):
But you don't have video evidence of people making those gashes.

Speaker 20 (50:36):
We do, we do have video, and we do have
eyewitness reports and that's that's up to the courts now,
so that that process will go forward in the legal system.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
Yeah, so you got them. So that's it. This is it.
I mean, you heard it's it, But is what happened
because come to find out, you know what, it was
shoddy workmanship.

Speaker 21 (51:00):
But in an email released in court records Friday, a
National Park Service engineer under Bergham's department had already blamed
an overspray three weeks earlier for causing damage to the
reflecting pool. In those same court filings, Piro also doing
it about face, saying the damage to the reflecting pool
was caused by flawed installation by the contractor, not vandalism. Trump, however,

(51:23):
posting Saturday that he disagrees one hundred percent with Jennine Piro,
calling it a pure case of vandalism. Hern's attorney saying
the case should never have been brought, calling it an
abuse of government power.

Speaker 7 (51:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Absolutely. And you know, mister President, if you feel the
Genine Bureau can't do a job, then get rid of her.
I mean, do I think she can do the job? No,
not at this moment in time. I don't. I think
that a lot of people. Here's the problem. It's not
that I don't think they can do the job. The
job which has been tasked to them, which is prosecute everybody.

(51:56):
They're guilty. Go out and you know, we can go
back right, you can go back and look through the
original ag all the way through ags across the country
who have over promised and under delivered because that's what
they're told they have to do. You go out right,
and you just have to talk the talk. We've got them.

(52:18):
They're going to jail. This is it. They're guilty. We
don't even need a trial. We're going to give them
a trial, but weally don't want to give them a
trial because we know they're guilty. Let me know, love
to hear from you right here in the Chad Benson Show,
and they're guilty, and then after the trial, then you'll
see and then they drop charges. It's not a good look.
And this wasn't a good look either, and shoddy workmanship.

(52:39):
Measure twice, cut once, or hire somebody bad, then get
somebody else to do it for double the price. You
saw this coming. It was a disaster, and it ended
up being a disaster. Got a text, Got a lot
of texts, Try to go through as many as possible.
Seventy three to twenty five says So. The thing that
impressed me most about Trump was in his first COVID

(53:00):
just hit. I had mixed feelings about him, but was
glad he was in office versus the alternative, and he
was background. I knew how rich people felt about him.
What I saw blew my mind. Every single day he
stood up in the back of the White House near
the Rose Garden, went on live television and gave everyone
absolute best update on COVID for some time, as much
as an hour, with full questions answered. I said to myself,

(53:21):
this guy actually really does give a blank. He doesn't
have to appear every day, but he does. It was
then that I knew the reason he was doing this
job wasn't for power, wasn't it get rich, But it
was because he actually gave a blank about making America
better and the people that lived here instead of hoping
he gave a blank. I knew he did it based
on actions every single day. With the regard to COVID. Yeah,

(53:44):
that's that ship is long sale long saled. Sorry, that's
that's you know what. You can't you could say that,
And at first he did, but then he tried to
run away from Operation Warp Speed and and you know so,
I think he did care at a time. But I'll
tell you this right now, there's no doubt in my mind.
The swamp has won. And all he did was replace

(54:06):
one crocodile for a bigger crocodile. And that bigger crocodile
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Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Smoking is bad. We know that, But hold on a second,
is it.

Speaker 22 (54:47):
Back dua lipa, Jeremy Allen White, Charlie XCX. What do
they all have in common? They're holding something called a cigarette.
It's been a while since SIGs have been in the limelight,
perhaps thanks to all all the data showing they're very
bad for your health. Now, images of celebrities smoking spreading
because of accounts like sigfluencers, and despite a constant drop

(55:08):
in use among adults over several decades, the habit or
addiction is lighting up social media.

Speaker 4 (55:14):
Here is a list of SIGs that do not count.
I'm a sigfluencer. We toxic, call me old fashioned, I
don't care. I'd love to see the cigarettes are coming
back in style.

Speaker 22 (55:23):
We reached out to these content creators and sigfluencers for
interviews and did not hear back.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Sig fluencers sigfluencers. So these are people who are making
cigarettes cool again. Yuck.

Speaker 22 (55:37):
But it's not just social media cigarettes gracing the covers
of glossy magazines again. It might remind you of a
different era when Hollywood, in the advertising industry fueled by
tobacco company money, glamorize cigarettes for decades, even satired in
the movie Thank You for Smoking.

Speaker 9 (55:51):
The message Hollywood needs to send out is smoking is cool.

Speaker 17 (55:55):
Come know where the flavor is, Come to Marlborough Country.

Speaker 22 (55:59):
But towards it's the end of the last century. Those
ads were placed by these We're gonna leave this here
for you so you could see what twelve hundred people
actually looked like.

Speaker 2 (56:12):
Twelve hundred dead people. Twelve hundred cigarettes are making a comeback.
And it's weird, right because in vaping kind of became cool,
and then cigarettes making the comeback, and it's like the
cool thing to do. Thin and smoking.

Speaker 22 (56:28):
The smoking rate for US adults dragged down some seventy
three percent since nineteen sixty five, thanks to a number
of factors. Cigarette commercials banned on broadcast TV starting in
the seventies, a major tobacco lawsuit and settlement as a
massive public health cost of smoking related diseases like lung
cancer were seen, and new laws against smoking in some
public places, all contributing to the decline.

Speaker 6 (56:49):
I struggled with depression for years.

Speaker 7 (56:52):
I thought I needed cigarettes to cope, but then I
started losing my teeth.

Speaker 22 (56:57):
A long running ad campaign by the CDC called Tips
from Former Smokers and Others like it, funded by the
Big Tobacco Settlement, showed the real life consequences of smoking,
gum disease, throat cancer surgeries, and voice boxes used to.

Speaker 9 (57:11):
Eating only salt foods.

Speaker 2 (57:13):
Oh, some of those commercials where people have no jaws
and stuff. It's just oh, it's the thing of nightmares.
It's the stuff that Stephen King would write about in
your dreams in the other room. Why cause the cigarette?

Speaker 22 (57:25):
The CDC estimates its ads helped more than sixteen point
four million people trying to quit smoking and save some
seven billion dollars in smoking related healthcare costs over the years.
But while cigarette used declined, vaping and pouches serged. E
cigarette use up five hundred and sixty seven percent among
high school students from twenty eleven to twenty twenty two,

(57:46):
according to the American Lung Association, and nicotine pouches spiking
in popularity, almost quadrupling in the last four years, the
FDA recently allowing some to be sold with labels saying
they're safer than cigarette.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Yes, safer than cigarettes. And they've got these ones now
that are supposed to be like kind of like adderable,
like and they're trying to make it cool, right, Tobacco's
got some to sell. They want to make it cool.
Whatever it is that it's all about addiction. It's not
about whatever it is. They don't care. It's about the
addiction side of it. What can I get you to

(58:17):
be addicted to I'd like you to be addicted to
my show, but only if you do it in moderation.

Speaker 23 (58:22):
Getting outside and smoking a cigarette with your friends is
better than frying your brain on social media.

Speaker 22 (58:27):
As young people are more exposed to nicotine products, that
likely seeing fewer ads against them. Some anti tobacco initiatives
like TIPS shut down late last year after the Trump administration.
Sweeping cuts to the CDC's office and Smoking and Health
also pausing what anti spoking groups says critical funding the
state tobacco control programs across the country. We reached out
to the White House and the CDC for commentative, not

(58:49):
heard back. Twenty mostly blue states are suing the block
those cuts and others in a court filing earlier this year,
the Department of Health said many personnel cuts that the
FDA have been reversed, but no mention of the cd
office that runs TIPS.

Speaker 21 (59:01):
I don't want your VP.

Speaker 8 (59:02):
I want to go outside in the cloth and warm
myself up with a cigarette.

Speaker 22 (59:06):
It's all breathing new life into an old habit that
won't seem to die.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
No, but you know what. You know the risk. That's
the thing. You know the risk.

Speaker 7 (59:16):
Now.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
See back in the fifties and sixties and seventies when
the risk was not known and was sold as there's
no risk and it's great for you. Well, that's a
different story. You know the risk. Now you know the risk.
But they're making it cool again, which is not cool again,

(59:37):
if that makes sense. But you know the risk. And
for me, look, you're an adult. As long as you're
not hurting somebody else and you're responsible, you should be
able to do your own thing. But responsibility is a
big deal, and a lot of people aren't responsible. I
think we know that. I think we all understand there's

(59:58):
a lot of people out there that aren't respond. But
I've never been one of these people that has. You know,
my my father, my aunt, my mom, everybody they knew,
they all smoked. I never smoked. I never did a drug.
I never took a drink. I was a teetodler. I

(01:00:20):
grew up around it, so I wanted to know part
of it. My mother she quit smoking and drinking cold turkey.
Obviously it took my dad's life, the drugs and whatnot.
But my aunt vapes but if you you know, I
look at this as as if you're responsible, then yeah,
you should be able to make your own decisions. But

(01:00:42):
that means going out in the cold to smoke a cigarette,
That means not smoking in the house around kids, you know.
And again it's about responsibility. But then you can't you know.
And it's not just lung cancer. Really think it's just
lung cancer. Go look at what smoking contributes to when
it comes to cancer across the board. And the money's

(01:01:05):
got to be huge that they get from the tobacco
industry still to not make it completely illegal, and by
the way, in other countries they've tried to absolutely make
it so if you want to smoke, knock yourself out.
But you're going to spend so much money on cigarettes,
so much money. Some states are that way as well.

(01:01:27):
So in the United States right now, average per pack
nine dollars ninety three cents, okay, so kind of mid level.
Poland it's like four dollars and fifty cents. Romania it's
a little bit less than that. If you're in Southeast Asia,

(01:01:47):
you're going to spend a dollar to three dollars for
a pack. Now let's get to the high end New Zealand,
Norway fourteen to sixteen dollars a pack, the United Kingdom
twenty two dollars per pack, Ireland about twenty bucks give
or take per pack. But then you get to Australia
twenty six dollars per pack, not a carton per pack

(01:02:12):
of smokes. That's you gotta really want it at that
point in time. You got to really want it, no doubt.
It is crazy and those numbers are going up. I
think if you adjust for the duty to get certain
packs into places like you know, taxes and whatnot into

(01:02:35):
place like Australia and stuff, you could see it rise
in certain places as high as thirty five dollars. What
you gotta want it, That's what I'm saying. But if
you're an adult, I you know again, you're not hurting anybody.
I find it weird that people are influencing this, but
that's the world we live in now, no doubt about it.

(01:02:57):
What do you think? Let me know? Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four twenty three at Chad Vintage Show.
Is your ex, your Insta and all those other good things?
Are you one of these?

Speaker 23 (01:03:06):
We need a break.

Speaker 9 (01:03:07):
An entire day with no phones, no screens, no internet.

Speaker 23 (01:03:11):
Move over doom scrolling and say hello to doom jobbing.
It's a full time job. People like Sydney Howell spending
endless hours scrolling through job postings online.

Speaker 18 (01:03:22):
I just couldn't stop thinking about how there'd be a
missed opportunity and someone else would get to it first.

Speaker 23 (01:03:27):
The recent college graduate says she applied to hundreds of jobs,
at one point, forcing herself to set a time or
on her LinkedIn app after spending too much time online.

Speaker 18 (01:03:36):
I'm sure it was in the hundreds. I mean, especially
when you're on one of those social media type job sites.
Some of them have what they call easy apply, where
I mean it literally just asks here's a resume, what's
your name, your age, and you applies.

Speaker 23 (01:03:47):
And often scanning jobs, but never actually submitting her resume.

Speaker 18 (01:03:51):
There's so many other people out here on the Internet.
I can see it, says, over one hundred applicants. Why
would I be good enough to get it if all
these people have applied?

Speaker 23 (01:03:59):
The doom jobbing for the phenomenon is gaining traction and
a challenging job market.

Speaker 2 (01:04:03):
Yeah, thing, it's challenging. It absolutely is. Because first, a
lot of places are always somewhat hiring, so they're collecting resumes. Secondly,
a lot of places are using AI to filter, so
you have to know your way around some of this
stuff AI wise to even get through the point where
you start to have a conversation with the human being,

(01:04:26):
which is important because that's usually how it starts to go.

Speaker 23 (01:04:30):
A recent Gallup poll found fifty two percent of American
workers we're watching for or actively seeking a new job,
but only twenty eight percent of employees said it was
a good time to find one.

Speaker 8 (01:04:41):
Says a lot that people are scrolling for jobs, almost
like for social media at this point, just kind of
desperately going down that rabbit hole.

Speaker 24 (01:04:49):
Yeah, you know it is the doom. Jobbing is just
kind of this vicious cycle.

Speaker 23 (01:04:54):
LinkedIn career expert Katherine Fisher says you should tailor your profile, resume,
and cover letter for each Specif job.

Speaker 24 (01:05:01):
Mass applying is not going to help you, what is
going to help you is being really strategic. You want
to make sure that your skills are matching up to
what the job is looking for. You have the experience,
and you know, a kicker is if you have someone
in your network who can make that introduction.

Speaker 2 (01:05:17):
And that right there is the most important thing. You're
going to get jobs for the most part nowadays, because
somebody you know works there, or somebody you know can
introduce you to somebody who is going to be somebody
who's a decision maker within the hiring sphere that you
need to get to. When it comes to these jobs,

(01:05:38):
it's all about network. It's not what you know, it's
who you know that's it. Reputation obviously plays a big role.
If people know you in an industry, then you're going
to get a little bit further because chances are you
know somebody at the place or they're they're seeking you out.
But for the most part, and especially this younger generation,
you're going up against AI filtering through a lot of

(01:06:01):
different resumes. A lot of these companies are collecting more
than they're hiring. We talked about it last week. It's
a no hire, no fire kind of world right now
when it comes to the job market, and a lot
of stuff that was done by entry level employees. And
I'm not talking about somebody who's I'm just talking about

(01:06:22):
somebody who's you're coming to. You know, you've graduated college,
it's kind of your first job. A lot of that stuff,
even in big places like huge law firms, is now
being done by AI and what used to take thirty
is now being done by five. So you've got to
figure out how you stand out. And the best way
to figure that out is do who do I know

(01:06:43):
that can get me into there so I can have
a conversation. It's the most important thing. How do I
tell everybody? You know, when I go out and I
and I'll speak to kids or whatever, and I just say, look,
the most important thing is your personality.

Speaker 7 (01:06:59):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:07:00):
Obviously, whatever job you're applying for, you know, sometimes they're
gonna teach you their way. Sometimes they want you to
have some experience. But what's going to get you over
the hump is being able to communicate and being somebody
who's pleasant, right pleasant. I like this person, this guy,

(01:07:20):
this gal. They show up, they work hard, but you
know what, they're good people. They like to hang out
with us. They're fun, they don't cause trouble, they make
us laugh. Personality matters more than I think people realize.
And here's something you can't do. You can't teach personality.
And in today's world, especially with a lot of kids
living on the internet only. It's a tough thing out there,

(01:07:40):
no doubt about it. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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Speaker 9 (01:09:03):
Funny with Scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 2 (01:09:06):
Say, I heard this one the other day and I
thought to myself, this is an urban word that we
need to remember because it is hah hilarious. Shall we
Now it's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 13 (01:09:20):
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
It's called the urban word of the day. All right,
summer teeth? What summer teeth? Man? That guy's got summer teeth?
Hell's summer teeth? Summer here, summer there s are gone.
I heard that the other day and I was laughing

(01:09:46):
so hard because there was somebody who was, you know,
on the side of the road asking for money with
a phone, but it one tooth in the middle and
then missing a bunch of other teeth. Somebody said summer teeth,
and I said, what summer here? Some are there summer missing?
Summer teeth is your urban word of the day.

Speaker 9 (01:10:08):
That was the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
Now, you know, speaking of words, this is fun. This
makes me laugh. I see it almost daily. Fun with English.
This guy is hilarious.

Speaker 25 (01:10:22):
So, the past tense of sneeze would be sneezed, which
means the past tense of freeze would be freezed. No,
what would you think it would be froze? You'll see how.
It's because that's why. And if the past tense of
match is matched, then the past tense of catch.

Speaker 4 (01:10:38):
Would be catched.

Speaker 25 (01:10:39):
No, it would be caught, you'll see it's because it's
not catched. That's why. And if the past tense of
make is made, then the past tense of take.

Speaker 7 (01:10:49):
Would be taid.

Speaker 25 (01:10:50):
No, what do you think it would be took? You'll see.
Let's take a step back. So if read is the
present tense, then the past tense of read would be read.

Speaker 9 (01:11:01):
No, what would you think raider road?

Speaker 25 (01:11:04):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:11:05):
We would you think something other than our E?

Speaker 7 (01:11:07):
A D?

Speaker 2 (01:11:08):
No?

Speaker 25 (01:11:09):
What do you think the past tense of read would
be read?

Speaker 7 (01:11:15):
So funny? No?

Speaker 2 (01:11:20):
No, English is a hard language because we have a
lot of stuff like no, N, O, K and O.
Oh Well that that that that's weird, right, I mean
we have a lot of words read and read. Oh yeah,
there's that there's so there are other languages that are tough.

(01:11:43):
Ours is confusing at times, I think is the best
way to describe that. A little confusing. No, oh, lordy, lordy,
tell you what. Just we live in a fun time
kids with urban words like summer teeth because summer here
and summer there and some are just gone. Three two, three, five,

(01:12:06):
three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
is your ex your Insta, your YouTube, Facebook, and everything
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Chad Benson Show. Coming up our number three of this Monday,
talk a little bit about the economy. Obviously, Iran. What

(01:12:27):
are we gonna do the same thing we do every week? Nothing? Nothing,
and then we'll say we're gonna do something and then
nothing is where we're gonna go with that one. Talk
a little bit about that. Also, our buddy Jim Kennedy
from the Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research joins the
program little mid term Monday, Plus we got your words,

(01:12:49):
a wisdom for the day from our good buddy Ronald,
as well a bunch of other good stuff on the
way reach out to us across all of our social
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Speaker 9 (01:13:03):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Life is expensive. You know how I know because I
live it much like you do, each and every single day.
I went to the grocery store this weekend. I got
like three or four bags worth of stuff, nothing spectacular,
and so damn expensive, so damn expensive, like ridiculously expensive.
It's over one hundred and like eight bucks or something.

(01:13:55):
I was like what, And then I get home and
night to look around and go, I know, you have
enough food for the week. It's just nuts how expensive
life is. Now. Couple that with I don't know the
cost of daycare. Several of you said you got to
talk about that again. This is a lady who's breaking
down what she paid four daycare for the last five

(01:14:19):
years or so whatever kids going into kinderagarten. Well, you
shall tell you.

Speaker 8 (01:14:23):
We spend one hundred and thirty six thousand dollars on
daycare tuition for my daughter. I'm a thirty four ye
old MoMu too. I have a five year old daughter
and a three year old son, and both of my
kids been in full time daycare since they were sixteen
weeks old because my husband and I both work full time.
My daughter's heading in kindergarten in August. So we just
paid her last tuition bill ever for daycare, and I
decided to look back over the last five plus years
and see how much we spent, and we spent a

(01:14:43):
total of one hundred and thirty six thousand, four hundred
and thirty five dollars, which averages to about twenty two
hundred dollars per month for the last five Years's.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Uh, that is expensive. That is so expensive. We had
a study done here in Tennessee. You can send your
kid to college paying full freight for less than what

(01:15:15):
it costs to send a kid to daycare. To think
about that. So that's in state tuition. That's insane.

Speaker 8 (01:15:23):
Continue man, The most we ever paid on a monthly
basis for her tuition was two five and forty five
dollars a month, and that was back when she was
an infant, which makes sense because there's so hands on
at that point. There's bottles, there's diapers, there's very few
kids per teacher. Theoretically, for monthly tuition should have decreased
as she got older. Because they move up classrooms, they're
much less hands on, so you can have more kids
per teacher. But we've been averaging about a five percent

(01:15:45):
tuition increase per year, so we have been paying an
average of twenty two hundred dollars per month every month
for the last sixty two months.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
So she's having to work, her husband's having to work.
They got sixteen weeks off, so they got four months
off when their kids were born. Then they had to
go back. And she may want to work, by the
sounds of it, she does, but the cost is expensive.

(01:16:18):
Now think about that from a you know, because they
look like they're doing okay. But I talk to people
who text into the program and who will say, look,
you know what, my husband and I, each of us
have a part time job on top of our full
time job, or one of them is. They're essentially a

(01:16:43):
vast majority of their salary goes to cover for their
kid in daycare, but there's enough leftover to cover things like,
you know, the phone bill, insurance, utilities, and then the
other job covers the rest of the stuff that's life

(01:17:03):
right there. That's what life is. And they're fortunate enough
that they can afford this because it ain't over which
the numbers aren't done yet.

Speaker 8 (01:17:12):
That comes out to about twenty six four hundred dollars
per year for daycare tuition. And as a reminder, at
the beginning of the video, I said, I have two kids,
So for the last three years, when my youngest started daycare,
we've been spending on average fifty three thousand dollars per
year on daycare tuition for both of our kids. The
average median salary for a woman in the US is
fifty six thousand, six hundred dollars per year. So it's
no wonder that forty two percent of women who voluntarily

(01:17:35):
left the workforce in twenty twenty five cited caregiving or
childcare costs as the main reason for their departure.

Speaker 2 (01:17:41):
That is insane, but that's also reality. So even if
you spend three hundred dollars a week, okay, that's going
to be close to fifteen thousand a year. If you
have two kids, that's close to thirty thousand dollars a
year for daycare, thirty thousand dollars a year. So if

(01:18:03):
you make seventy thousand, even eighty thousand between the two
betwixt the two of you. After taxes, you're taking them
sixty five and look what you're spending on daycare. Half
of that's going to daycare. That is crazy. And we
cut down the cost, like I said, I didn't say

(01:18:23):
it was to say five hundred dollars you know per kid.
I was just saying down to three hundred dollars. That
is insane. And that is what's going on. You want
to know what people care about. Do they care about
what's happening in the Middle East only because oil's going
up and it's making life more expensive, But no, they
don't care. The average person doesn't care. They care about

(01:18:44):
paying their bills and having some time left over to
spend time with the family and breathe. They don't care
about whether or not they were going to get into it. Well,
they should care, because it was gonna be It was
never gonna be on our doorstep. It was never going
to be here. Somehow magically you think that they're gonna
get a nuclear weapon and tomorrow they're just showing up

(01:19:05):
and just and nuclear weapon for every state or just
what No, God, it's just insane, it really is. And
the more that prices go up, the harder it's going
to be for the Republicans to win come November. You
promised inflation was going to go down. Eh, you promised

(01:19:27):
you were going to bring back manufacturing. Eh. What do
people see you getting wealthier? You caring about things like, oh, geez,
the reflecting pools not pretty enough, we need to make
it more reflective. And then you go and then you
blame some poor damn olympian who didn't do anything, and
then you have to back out of that. You care

(01:19:50):
about stuff that the average person at this moment. Look,
when all things are equal, right, things are good, then
you know what matters, how the culture war stuff matters,
that does. But we're not in that position right now.
We're in a position where people are struggling day to
day to survive. And that lady is not some sort

(01:20:13):
of anomaly. She's more the norm in today's world than
anything else. And if you don't believe me, well guess
what happened. Kids. They got a new study out from
the old GAO, the GAO the Accountability Office, the Government
Accountability Office.

Speaker 7 (01:20:32):
And you know what that says.

Speaker 2 (01:20:35):
Yeah, people are having to work two jobs to make
ends meet, to survive, to keep their head above water.

Speaker 26 (01:20:41):
And oh.

Speaker 2 (01:20:42):
On top of that, many people who are working two
jobs also have to have the government help them out.

Speaker 27 (01:20:49):
Just because you have a full time job does not
mean it's enough to get by in this economy. According
to a new government report, millions of employed Americans we
have to also rely on public assistance to afford food
and healthcare. In fact, the report found about eighty eight
percent of employed Americans receiving these government benefits also work

(01:21:12):
for private sector employers, including some of the biggest.

Speaker 4 (01:21:15):
Companies in this country.

Speaker 27 (01:21:17):
This report from the Government Accountability Office shows that for
a large portion of working Americans, this economy is simply unaffordable.

Speaker 4 (01:21:25):
And this report names.

Speaker 2 (01:21:27):
Names, names, names. Ooh, I wonder what names could be
on there.

Speaker 4 (01:21:32):
Now, let's get into the names, shall we.

Speaker 27 (01:21:35):
The GOAO looked at data collected in September of twenty
twenty five from eleven specific states Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Nebraska,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Rhode Island, and Washington. Across all
those states, the company that kept coming.

Speaker 4 (01:21:51):
Up was Walmart.

Speaker 27 (01:21:54):
Walmart appears more often than any other employer as the
number one employer of working Medicaid and Snap recipients. Another
one that appears a lot across these participating states is Amazon.
When compared to the same GAO report in twenty twenty,
the number of Amazon workers who also qualify for Medicaid

(01:22:15):
and SNAP has almost tripled, according to the state estimates.

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
That's crazy, so richer getting richer. Look, you know the
job numbers when you took it, okay, and maybe when
you took it things weren't what they were, and now
life has gotten more expensive. You can't blame everything on
them because they are employers and they're bringing jobs and

(01:22:39):
you knew nobody forced you to take that. But it
does go to show you that people are getting priced
out of life, getting priced out of life right now,
having to work two jobs plus to keep their head
above water. Continue.

Speaker 27 (01:22:59):
But it's not those two Fortune five hundred companies who
appear in this report, Soda, McDonald's, FedEx, Home Depot, Target Costco, Starbucks,
Dollar Tree, and Dollar General, and more. Prominently listed in
the new report this year compared to the twenty twenty
report are several ride share and food delivery companies like uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Grubhub,
and Instacart. Now Amazon has pushed back on these findings,

(01:23:22):
saying Amazon is one of the largest job creators in
the country, so looking at raw numbers instead of percentages
is misleading. But Senator Bernie Sanders, who asked GAO to
create this report in twenty twenty and then again in
twenty twenty six, said American taxpayers should not be forced
to subsidize the starvation wages of large corporations like Walmart
and Amazon. These corporations are making record breaking profits, paying

(01:23:45):
their CEO's exorbitant compensation packages, and spending billions of dollars
on stock buybacks to enrich their wealthy shareholders.

Speaker 2 (01:23:53):
Some of that is true, Ken Deny, it does it
mean we blow it up, but you understand the stress.
I mean, this is that weird case shape economy where
people are at the upper side of it are doing
all right, and then some and the rest of everybody
struggling in a major way. And I hear from you

(01:24:13):
guys every single day, and especially you know, think about
the people out there that are also on fixed incomes.
As inflation gets bigger and bigger, the struggle is becoming
more and more real. And when you hear the billions
that people are making, and you know, and part of
that is on us, guys. Part of that's on us
because we want cheap stuff price wise, we want it

(01:24:37):
to be great quality wise too. Can't have both, not
really so and everybody we all know price matters. So
it's a weird world we've created for ourselves. The stuff
we need way more expensive, the stuff we don't need
a lot cheaper. What do you think? Let me know?

(01:24:59):
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Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending Stein.

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That's found out? What's trending in the old innewebs On
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as well as an off duty law enforcement person. Again,
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The Aria to Grande thing is interesting. She's on tour
right now. She's very busy, but she's got a new
video out and if you've not seen it, it looks
like a skeleton is singing to you.

Speaker 29 (01:29:42):
A representative for the thirty three year old says Grande
will take a break after her tour wraps in London
next month, saying she looks forward to finishing the tour
and ending it on a high note, both healthily and happily,
and then taking a much deserved break from public facing
work and appearances which has led to endless ongoing public scrutiny.

Speaker 2 (01:30:00):
Yeah, and somebody needs to feed her. Somebody needs to
get a hold her and say, okay, you need to
eat because it is not just kind of thin, it's
the kind of thin that is terrifyingly thin. It's the
kind of thin where you look and you say, are

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you sick? And you're watching her just fade away. It's
just it's nothing to laugh at. But you're like, what
the hell is nobody saying, hey, how about we you know,
we either seek help or whoever's giving you the advice
that you need to be thinner needs to be fired.
I mean, it's the kind of scary you look at

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and you think, oh, well, we've seen this before, and
Karen Carpenter and it is it is. I mean, she's
that thin. She's the kind of thin that shocks you,
if that makes sense coming out. Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute
Public Policy Research, joins the program mid Term Mondays. That's
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Speaker 13 (01:31:24):
Now it's time for Midterm Mondays. Well, we break down
the biggest races from the midterms.

Speaker 14 (01:31:30):
Who will control the House, who will control the Senate.
We discussed with Jim Kennedy. Midterm Monday is that time
of the week.

Speaker 2 (01:31:38):
We talked to our GOODBDDE, Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of
Public Policy Research. We talk about midterms because midterm Monday.
We got some big ones this week. First of all,
give us a rundown of who's voting and when, and
I say and when, because two states are voting at
different times.

Speaker 7 (01:31:54):
Actually three states are voting you that's right. I'm sorry, sorry, Yes,
you're right. Yeah. We have three primary elections this week,
which I don't know if that's ever happened before. We
have Kansas and Michigan and Virginia on Tuesday, August fourth.
We have Tennessee on August sixth Thursday, so Chad, you
get to go out and vote on a Thursday afternoon.
And Hawaii we have on Saturday, August eight. So we

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got three of those going on, all in the all
in the span of a five day period. There.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
Yeah, that sounds like a lot of fun. I've still
we were trying to figure out why, but apparently they
did something back in the seventeen hundreds is why we
do here in Tennessee on the first Thursday in August Hawaii.
You said, it's done it for a long time because
they want everybody to be able to vote. And then
of course normal the normal Tuesday stuff. So let's start

(01:32:42):
with the normal Tuesday stuff. Let's start with I mean,
obviously the big one is what's going on in Michigan.
That's what everybody's looking at and focusing on.

Speaker 7 (01:32:52):
Yeah. Absolutely, that's the big race right now. It's got
the most attention, It's probably got the most animosity in
it too. Between Aley's evens and Abdullah L said, right now,
the if you look at the presumptive, well if right now,
the polls have L said up nineteen seventeen and fourteen
in the last three polls, so and the and the

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prediction markets have him fairly solid that he's going to win.
It's about it's about sixty five thirty five for him
right now. It's been a big battle over APEX. The
is the Israeli lobbying group that the Israeli American lobbying
group that's put a lot of money into Hailey Stevens
as a friend of Israel, and L said is probably

(01:33:34):
not a friend of Israel. He is full on the
DSA platform as far as their things, but he doesn't
really want to stand up and talk a lot about
it other than he wants help yet people access to
housing and healthcare, which actually means Medicare for all and
under his platform. But yeah, that's the one that's that
that's got a lot of money that's been thrown out

(01:33:54):
that race so far. And it'll be interesting because Republicans,
you know, Mike Rogers is going to be the nominee
for the Republicans in that one. And if you go
back to like March, it was probably an eighty twenty
race for the Democrats. Look like this a solid hole
as the current Democrat incumbent retiring and now it's sixty
eight thirty two. Because some of the you know, a

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lot of the Republicans think that el said is going
to be an easier voter, is it going to be
an easier person to beat in the general because he
will not appeal to a lot of working class Michigan Anders.
And remember that's the home of Detroit and there's lots
of union members in the UAW and other areas within,
you know, within the Detroit area. So it'll be interesting.

(01:34:37):
Rogers in a poll last week was plus ten in
a hypothetical matchup against El said so, and uh, Stephen
was tied with him. So it'll be interesting how it
works out, because it looks like it's going to be
l said versus Rogers, and that may be one the
Republicans pick up on that, and if they can, that
certainly is going to hurt the Democrats on their path
to try to take the Senate back.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
Talking to our good buddy, Jim Kennedy, Kennedy is tou
to Pugbaul research all right. From there, the Idaho thing
is very very interesting. You were pointing it out, how
you know again, age plays a role in so many
of these things nowadays.

Speaker 7 (01:35:10):
No, absolutely, yeah. Basically, the the current Democrat who won
the primaries is David Roth. He has withdrawn because Todd
Achilles is an independent and the party up there thinks
that Achilles will have the better chance. He's positioned more
so as a moderate than Roth, is to go again.
Senator Sam Richter, who happens to be eighty four years old.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
Oh, eighty four years young, Jim, eighty four years.

Speaker 7 (01:35:35):
Sorry, eighty four years young, yes, which would mean he
would be how old Chad when he finished this term?

Speaker 2 (01:35:40):
If in seventy three exactly.

Speaker 7 (01:35:43):
I think it might be a year off. But yes,
you're very close on that one. Yeah, and that may
be something This is not a racists gotten a lot
of attention. I mean, this thing dropped I think late
on Friday night or on Thursday night, and certainly wasn't
something I saw picked up for very much anywhere, because
again it is August, that type of situation. But this
is one to watch for to see what happens with

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this because I don't know how much the Democrats are
going to throw money at this race, because the prediction
markets right now have it as fifty three forty seven
for the Republicans. But for Idaho for Republican most of
them are going to run in the eighties or nineties
of the prediction markets because it is a very very
red save. It might be one of the top three
reddest states in America. And this is going to be

(01:36:26):
interesting to see what happens. Is this one where someone
has stayed past their sell by date? And you know,
is is that going to be a problem for him
over Senator Richter, We're going.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
To find out. We're going to fire you. We're going
to find out there, tell you that right now, Sonny
talking to Chim Kennedy Kenny Institute Plug Policy Research. All right,
so obviously you got Virginia. Virginia's had to do the
redo of stuff because a lot of states started to
do stuff, and then there was stuff that was happening
with redistricting, and then we've got to go to the redo.
And so we're all settled though with those right, we're

(01:37:00):
not going to get any more. Hey, we're going to
redo this. This is it. We are settled now when
it comes to redistricting.

Speaker 7 (01:37:06):
Yes, actually, Virginia technically would be the undue of the
redo to get back to where they were because the
state Supreme Court in Virginia said these are unconstitutional and
that therefore they can't make the changes of it because
it was done improperly and it was too late. So yeah,
we are done. We will have no more episodes of
jerrymandering Tuesday now because we are all set now. The
net effect of this is that it's going to make

(01:37:28):
it harder for the Republican So as this is I'll
finally washed out now and all the districts are set
because we are going to you know, again, we're the
generals in November. We've got about another five weeks of primaries.
I think about second week of September it will be
the final primaries. I think Delaware goes last, somebody with
Joe Biden. I don't know what it is exactly, but
the Democrats path to take in the House has got

(01:37:50):
a little more complex because Cook's Political Report had said
before this that there were eighty seven districts that were
competitive and the Democrats needed to win fifty seven of them. Well,
ten of those have been taken off the board with
the redistricting efforts, or in Virginia the not redistorting effort
that's been reversed. So now the Dems are gonna have

(01:38:10):
to win fifty seven of seventy seven seats. So basically
they had thirty seats leeway. Now they're only gonna have
twenty seats, so that up to percentage they're gonna have
to win. It's gonna make it tougher for them to
win those seats because again ten of those that come
off the board for the Republicans.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
So I guess we got to talk about old Max
Miller here. If we're going to talk about the chaos
on the left with Graham Platner, it'd be weird not
to talk about Max Miller. And you've noticed that the
odds have moved in a direction with MAXI Miller. If
you don't know who he is, he is a congressperson
who is former wife is the daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno,

(01:38:48):
who had the fauci who the f do you think
you are? Moment last week? But he had some issues
with his ex wife and apparently with several women.

Speaker 7 (01:38:59):
Yeah, evidently this is the Ohio seventh. It is a
likely to safe Republican seat, or at least it was
Max Miller's having some problems or basically he's created some
problems for himself based upon his inability to not hit women,
which is not a good thing and something that absolutely
nobody would endorse. Now. Two weeks ago, this was a

(01:39:21):
basically a sixty forty race for the for the Republicans,
and this has now become somewhere around a sixty eight
to thirty two race for the Democrats because they don't
think that the constituents in the Ohio seventh are going
to like a guy who apparently beat up his wife

(01:39:41):
and apparently, according to some investigative journalism, has police reports
filed by other women for him not being a good
person to them either. So this may very well change.
And this is you know, this will be one of
those seventy seven seats that the Democrats are going to
have to win, and this is probably one that was
not going to be on their list. And this was
a borderline competitive race. He'd Max Miller had won this

(01:40:05):
race by fifteen points in twenty twenty four, so it
was not something that was going to really be competitive.
He's got a fairly good lead as far as money,
so he's gonna be able to throw a lot of
ads out there to possibly, you know, go up and basically,
you know, try to I don't want to say slim
his way out of it, but something along those lines
be able to basically, you know, say it's all untrue

(01:40:27):
until the point it isn't. If this goes even deeper
on this, I do not know, and I will will
know for next week what the process is in Ohio
to remove somebody because they're they already had the primaries
back in May, so that's already a settled seat. Then
the people who are in it, Max Miller and Brian
Poindexter are set. And if Max Miller has to withdraw

(01:40:48):
because of scrutiny or because it turns out he really
is the possible slime bucket that it sounds like he
might have been or might be, they will need to
find another Republican And I do not know even if
that is replaceable at this point in this because a
lot of these states, remember begin early voting in early October,
if not even maybe even late September, So in a sense,

(01:41:09):
you're probably six weeks away in some of these races,
six or seven weeks away from ballots going out, So
I don't know if they even have the ability to
do that to remove people from the ballot. Again, Miller's
got two point has got one point million, one point
four million on hand versus point Exter's got three hundred
and twelve thousand, and you can find that on our
site Midterm Monday dot com www dot Midterm Monday dot Com.

(01:41:32):
But yeah, those are you know, Miller's raised a lot
more money. But I'm gona be curious to watch and
you can track this over the next couple of weeks.
Will the Democrats send the blood in the water here?
And start throwing money at this race, and basically you
think this is the race are going to pick up?
Or does it get even worse than Miller has to
resign and the Republicans have to replace him, and which
which might be their best case because it sounds like
he just may drag this whole race down for them

(01:41:53):
at this point based upon some of the numbers. So
it'll be interesting, but definitely a race to follow. You
can watch it on Midterm Monday, the Ohio seventh.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
Let's talk about money. Republicans have a lot of it.
Democrats don't have a lot of it. Republicans I think
are going to be more selective though than I think
people realize when it comes to who's going to get
what money. You know, we talked about the Paxton thing
being one of those things where they're saying, you know what,
old governor there, right, you know what I habited, You

(01:42:25):
throw some money at that. We're not quite sure we
want to throw a ton of money at him just yet.

Speaker 7 (01:42:30):
Yeah, most definitely. The Democrats are short. They've only got
I believe they've got eighteen million on hand for the
DNC and they have a fifteen million dollar loan, So
they're basically have virtually no money. They're packs for both
the House and the Senate are got I think a
little over one hundred and twenty million dollars in them.
But the Republicans have got something in the law in

(01:42:51):
the lines of about three hundred million in theirs. Plus
they have Trump's Patriot Pack I think it is that's
got four hundred million behind it. So Republicans have a
substantial lead. Now where that money is going to go.
It's interesting because if you look at some of the
races where the key races, like we talked about Paxton
with Tall Rico, Talla Rico's raised something like sixty eight
million dollars. So the Democrats it looks like they're fundraising.

(01:43:15):
Their people are sending the money directly to the candidates
that they like in the races that they think are competitive.
The big one is off Off is raised over seventy
seven million dollars in Georgia, and based upon some of
the things in that race, that race may not be
as competitive as the Republicans are going to hope it
will be. So the question will be, as we'll ass

(01:43:37):
Off start sharing that money out because he's a rumored
twenty eight presidential candidate, and he's sure build a lot
of favor with a lot of people to throw some
of that money around in some of the races, some
of the House races, definitely, some of the Senate races,
maybe some of the gubernatorial races. If he's not going
to need that war chest of seventy seven million plus
whatever he will raise for the next you know, roughly
ninety days, he'll have quite a quite a haul because

(01:44:00):
it looks like he may not have to spend that
much on that, you know, on on the on the race,
because it may not be as competitive as we think
it will be.

Speaker 2 (01:44:09):
Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute, a Public policy research
last question, brother Dodgers do it again. They get the
best picture in baseball potentially, Uh Trek Scoobel from Detroit
and now you know everybody hates the Dodgers. Of course.
Is there going to be a lockout and is there
going to be a salary cap? I mean, are we
gonna be without baseball next year?

Speaker 7 (01:44:28):
So yeah, it'll be interesting. On the lockout thing. I
really think there will be a lockout. Some of the
people don't. There may very well be a salary cap,
and there is a luxury tax right now, so there's
a soft salary cap, but I'm talking a much more
hard salary cap like the NFL has, where it's you
really don't go beyond it because that is it. Yeah,
and also there will probably be some things. One of
the big hang ups is going to be probably is

(01:44:50):
the deferred compensation the Dodgers use so well when they
brought in showing.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
A one point one billion dollars in deferred compensation through
the next decade.

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
Absolutely. Yeah, don't forget the Bobby Benia situation. Gets paid
million dollars every July first because of the contract he
signed like forty years ago. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:45:11):
It's crazy. It's going to be interesting, no doubt about that.
But I don't think you could have a salary cap
without having a floor that is higher than what it
is now.

Speaker 7 (01:45:20):
Yeah, because there are a lot of teams that don't
pay anywhere near I mean, there's a huge discrepancy again
between the top and the bottom and the bottom teams,
like I think the A's used to be. I'm not
sure if the As still are because they're going to
have a nice stadium coming in twenty twenty eight and
they've got some actually some decent players down of the
question will they be able to keep them going forward?
But A's and the Pirates are traditionally a couple of
the teams that are that have the lowest payrolls in MLB,

(01:45:44):
and sometimes teams like the Dodger the metch will have
a player that they actually pay more than the entire
A's or Pirates ross. I'm not sure if it is
this year, but it has happened in the past.

Speaker 2 (01:45:55):
It's going to be interesting. His name is Jim Kennedy,
Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research. Brothers always good to
talk to, and we'll do it again later on this
week on Friday. You have yourself a good.

Speaker 7 (01:46:02):
One, Thanks, Chad, appreciate it.

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Spied a man spinde a man does whatever Spider can.
So Spider Man won big this weekend, close to a
billion dollars worldwide. I want you guys to understand that
close to a billion dollars worldwide. They thought maybe a
two hundred million would be good opening here in the US. Yeah,

(01:47:58):
they blew right by that, close to beating the Avengers,
but not quite. Three hundred and fifty five million. By
the way, the Odyssey did fifty one million. It's close
to a billion dollars. I want you guys understand. The
Odyssey is not opened up in China yet, and China
I think has four hundred IMAX screens. Spider Man did

(01:48:18):
one hundred and twenty one million this weekend in China,
So the Odissey will get well over a billion dollars,
and I have a feeling by today Spidy Man will
be over a billion as well. When you put something
out there that people want to watch, they will go
and see it. There's no doubt. And I'm wondering now,
how much will the Avengers Doomsday do? I bet you

(01:48:41):
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week in my producer and I, but we didn't get
a chance to do it because I was busy. As
we leave you today, little words of wisdom as always, Hey.

Speaker 26 (01:49:08):
I don't know how the rest of your day has
been going, but hey, let's take him in right now
and have a nice a nice now, just just doing
me and just hanging out having a nice now. Okay,
that was nice. Thanks for sharing the now with me,
So go go go have a nice now with somebody else. Now, Okay,

(01:49:31):
have a super freaking awesome now and stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:49:34):
Goodbye, there you go, have a super freaking awesome rester
to you, Moddy. We'll do it again tomorrow. It's always
night night Jack.

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