LA Mayoral Election Today

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Who will win Spencer Bratt or Nythia Rahman or Karen
Bass or who me? No, I'm not running? So let's
talk about this. Why does this matter? America's looking at
this race kind of like they did at Mindanni, second

(00:35):
biggest city in America. But the way that California has
gone about business is really bad, very bad. Homelessness, crime, debt,

(00:59):
all of the things. And then some and people are
looking at LA because they're saying, Okay, what's going to
come out of this? Could somebody and remember this is
supposed to be nonpartisan, Could somebody actually unseat the Democrats?

(01:20):
Again nonpartisan, but you guys get we're going Could that happen?
Somebody who is quote unquote from the red side of
the aisle? Could they do it? Could they go and
actually win? So, the way it works in California jungle primaries,
top two voke getters if nobody gets over fifty plus one.
So if somebody tonight gets fifty plus one, let's say

(01:42):
Spencer Pratt, he's the mayor, he wins, he wins, chances
are it's going to be split. It'll probably be Spencer
Pratt and Karen Bass. Although it could be Nithia Rahman
and Spencer Pratt. It could be Karen Bass and Nitia.

(02:04):
It's the top two, doesn't matter party, even though quote
unquote there's no parties in this. You guys get where
we're going with this. Pratt has taken anger and frustration
and turned it into what modern politics is. I mean,

(02:25):
the reason Trump became president the first time is, yeah,
he was saying a lot of things people wanted to
hear when it came to jobs and things of that nature.
But he harnessed the anger of the everyday person who
felt like academia and Wall Street weren't listening to anything

(02:46):
they had to say. Especially on the left side of
the aisle. They were just the flyover states and he
was the big FU to them, which I get. Spencer
Pratt is taking some of that, but he's also taking
anger from the people, not just him, and not just

(03:09):
because of the fire. Here's another ad, and there's so
many of them out.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
There, Honey, we need to talk.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
We saw the things you've been searching online.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
Spencer Pratt.

Speaker 3 (03:23):
Really in this house, we don't believe in Spencer Pratt.
He's maga. What about Spencer Pratt is maga?

Speaker 6 (03:32):
You know those streets downtown, the ones that are full
of piss and homeless people, he wants to clean them up.

Speaker 4 (03:38):
And those neighborhoods that burn down the Palisades Malibu, he
wants to rebuild them.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
You know how people inject heroin in front of children
at the park, he wants to stop that.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
And that's Maga.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Yes, it's a very dangerous ideology.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
And it's funny because he's not Maga, and he's made
it known that he's not all of those things. And
every time they try to direct their attacks at him
that he's this or he's that, he just keeps moving forward, saying,
I'm here for the people. I'm here to do this.
I'm here for the people to fix the problems. And

(04:17):
those problems are real. What you heard was real. My
mother and I were talking the other night. So my
little brother, Spencer, used to go to Chalk Children's Hospital
of Orange County then for special spine surgery, I had
to go up to Los Angeles. My mom's like, I'll
never take him up to Los Angeles. I'll never go
to Los Angeles again. I'll never go there again. It's disgusting,

(04:41):
it is vile, It smells like crap and piss. You
can't go anywhere without being accosted. It has become a
dystopian hell hole in many areas that you have to go.
And I think he has taken and harnessed a lot
a lot of that frustration and anger that people are feeling.

(05:02):
But he's done something else that's different in this. Not
only has he taken the ads that he's used, right,
the AI ads that have been brilliant. Not only has
he done that, he's also gone to places that you know,
if you maga Republican Democrat, even though again it's nonpartisan,

(05:23):
and gone places that others in particular in the Republican
Party wouldn't go. Last week, he's in La, deep in
La right what side. He's hanging out at a barbecue
mostly black Americans, LA residents that probably aren't used to

(05:47):
having a Republican, let alone a white Republican show up
and have conversations. That was powerful and they all said
the same thing. He showed up. He's listening. He's listening.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
Now.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
On top of all of that, you've got Karen Bass,
who has had so many mistakes and again we consid
here talking about the fire. All you want, which was massive.
She was supposed to fix a lot of this, or
at least make an attempt to fix a lot of this.
We're talking about massive debt in LA. We're talking about

(06:27):
the fact that crime, homelessness, all of that stuff, all
the stuff she was quote unquote brought in to at
least make an effort to fix, hasn't gotten any better.
Is she paying attention?

Speaker 7 (06:38):
Well, she should be very worried.

Speaker 8 (06:40):
No matter who's in the runoff right now, there are
people very angry. She's acknowledged those mistakes. She's got to
prove to people that this election is about the future,
not the past.

Speaker 7 (06:50):
When I run campaigns, I say.

Speaker 8 (06:52):
To people all the time, these voters want to know
where you're going to take them, not where you've been.
And she's having a lot of problems with that. I
know a lot of people we'll watch him this morning,
are a little freaked out about another reality star rising
in American politics. But if you look at Spencer Pratt's
social media, lily, it's the best I've ever seen.

Speaker 7 (07:11):
I'm not saying he would be a good mayor.

Speaker 8 (07:13):
I'm not saying he's a great candidate, but he's really
taken over this race with some really eventive ai outreach
that I think all campaigns on both sides of the
aisle can learn from. We'll find out tonight if it's
enough to get him to the runoff.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
And that right, there's Jim Asina right, used to be
White House Chief of Staff for Barack Obama. Like we
talked about the AI ads, all that stuff has been brilliant.
It has been brilliant the way he's done it. Now,
does it translate in Los Angeles outside of across the country,
because we've seen a lot of that where people are
very popular across the country, But in reality, inside of

(07:53):
where they are and where people are can be voting,
maybe that doesn't translate. But Karen, again, this isn't all
on her. The mess was there before she got there.
She was brought in to fix the mess. It didn't
get better, it got worse. Then the fires came, and

(08:14):
we can go on and on about her. But across
the board, their big thing now is well, you can't
give this guy the opportunity, right because he doesn't have
any experience, and his thing is can I do worse?
I don't think so. I don't think I do worse
at all. People are frustrated and angry, and he's harnessing that.

Speaker 8 (08:37):
And when you look at it, grievance and anger is
bigger in American politics than money. But part of what
I wanted to say is it's not just about these
big national races. People's money goes much further in the
races in the House and the governor's races. House races
are sixteen times more effective if you give in these
congressional races because they're not as well funded, and so

(09:00):
money is really important in some of these down ballot
races that Barnacle and I stay up until you know,
the wee hours of the night following, and especially in
governor's or mayor's races.

Speaker 7 (09:13):
When you look at tonight in.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
La Pratt has really made his own luck, and he
did it using social media and not a lot of money.
And it is proof that a little anger still drives
American politics.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Because it's emotion and he's taken that anger that's real
and he's channeled it. But he's done it in a
way where he's reached out, he's got people to notice
at times he's entertained, and he's talked about the issues
rather than turning into a usual thing that we get

(09:48):
into the modern politics, which is name calling. Tonight's going
to be very interesting, and I think it's a snapshot
of can big city Democrat one party rule continue to
be that way and be successful or is it going
to continue to fail like we've seen in San Francisco, Seattle,

(10:10):
Los Angeles. Gonna be really interesting, no doubt about that.
We'll be covering it all today. We're gonna do a
live tonight. It was gonna do it last night, just
didn't have the time. Plus my machine broke, as you
guys well know. We've talked about it last week, and
new one's coming tomorrow, which makes a lot of stuff
extra crazy. We're gonna have my clients on in a

(10:31):
little bit. We're going to talk about what's going on
with the Middle East, because it's frustrating and I don't
want to trump. It's all over the place. We all
recognize that we shouldn't be surprised he's all over the place.
But so much of that, as I've been telling you
guys for months, has to do with the nightmare of

(10:53):
him having to negotiate in a way where BB and
Israel seem to have to sign off on it, and
Iran knows that. And yesterday the contentious phone call that
allegedly they had, although there's been many reports out about it,
that was simply in the midst of it. He basically said,
everybody effing hates you. You'd be in jail if it wasn't

(11:15):
for me. You got to knock this off. We're going
to talk to Mike about that, among other things today,
because I think it's important that we get a snapshot
also of what it would look like, not just to
go in there if we had to to get the
uranium and to do whatever we're gonna need to do,
but the logistics of it all. I think it's super

(11:37):
super interesting. We need to know of these things. Don't
you think we need to know these things, because everybody's like,
we should just knew and we should just do this,
that and the other. Let's find out for Mike, our
military analysts, what we should do. Talk about that, among
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coming up sixty minutes. The battle very interesting, among other things,
Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Joe, you're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
It's usually the biggest non sports show year in and
year out in America. Sixty minutes and there is a
battle going on at sixty minutes. That is interesting. I
can see both sides, because that's what we need to do.
Take a look at this thing in into tirety. So
Barri Weiss comes in, right, she was at the New

(13:32):
York Times. Barri Weiss leaves the New York Times because
they bring her in because after Trump won the first time,
everybody at the New York Times was shocked, like what huh?
And they're like, we need somebody else who can go
out and talk find out where these people are the
vote for Trump. They bring her in. She finds out
it's a liberal nest of you know, just she's never

(13:53):
going to get anywhere there. Right, she realizes that she bounces,
starts her own thing, and then of course from there
her own thing becomes something that CBS buys. They put
her in charge of all the news and everything. And
now she's in charge of sixty minutes. And it has
gotten ugly over there. And sixty minutes has had its
trouble in the past. Let's not pretend it hasn't. Let's

(14:15):
not pretend it's you know, for the most part, it
doesn't cover politics all the time. But yes, there's a
left lean to it. Is it as big as the
right wants to make you think it is? No, but
there is a left lean to it. She comes in,
she wants to change everything up, and it has got ugly.

(14:35):
I mean it is got ugly. It's the kind of
ugly that is screaming and yelling kind of ugly. So
the latest is Scott Pelley and they have this huge meeting, right,
so everybody's there, right, you know, editor in chief Barie Weiss.
They bring in the new guy who's gonna run everything,
and his name is Nick Bilton, who has no z

(15:00):
zero experience in this kind of situation. And Scott Pelly
and them get into it and he basically tells her, yeah,
you're murdering sixty minutes. Wants to do it in front
of everybody. Now. Her thing is, I'm trying to overhaul
this and make this more modern, totally understandable. His thing is,

(15:24):
it's not broke. Why are we fixing it in this way?
Why are you reshaping it? And that's a very interesting
thing as well, because Yes, there's been some stuff that
she is pulled back on, especially if it's critical of
Israel and of the administration three two, three, five, three eight,
twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show. She recks

(15:45):
your insta, YouTube and all the other things right in
the Chad Benson Show. And these are all questions we
need to ask because we need a free press. But man,
this is going to get ugly. I mean, this is
the go look outside of the NFL and college football.
This is usually the number one show weekend and week out.

(16:05):
What do you think? Let me know. Speaking of journalism criticism,
Chank Huger was supposed to go to the UK. I
think they were going to do a debate. If you
don't know who he is, the young Turks he and
Hassan Piker who's got a lot of controversy. I think
it's his nephew. Actually, they're supposed to go to the
UK do some debates. He was going to be on

(16:27):
with Piers Morgan, the stuff you know that he does.

Speaker 9 (16:30):
And I've been banned from the United Kingdom for criticizing Israel.

Speaker 2 (16:35):
Just happened.

Speaker 9 (16:35):
I was at the airport and they said the British
government has rejected your visa. I already had a visa
and they apparently pulled it. They had nothing on me
that is in violation of British law in any way,
shape or form. They couldn't even charge anti semotism, but
they said my criticism of Israel is by definition anti Semitic,

(16:55):
and hence I must be banned. So I didn't get
banned for criticizing the United Kingdom. I got banned for
criticizing Israel in.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
The United Kingdom.

Speaker 9 (17:03):
And ironically, they said, well, the way you criticized Israel
was that you said it controls the American government, and
since we're the British government, we're not allowing you to
criticize Israel. So you see how we are not controlled. No,
I don't see that. Actually, that's deeply ironic. It sounds
like you are. And I hadn't said you. I said
the American government. That's because ninety four percent of Congress

(17:23):
has taken contributions from the Israeli lobby.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
That is true.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Scary, that is scary. Talk a little bit more about
this later on in the show. Absolutely Crazy. Coming up,
My client's military analyt's going to join the program. We're
going to talk about what's next when it comes to
Iran Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Joe then Chad Benson Show, The Chat Benson Show is

(18:03):
that time the week talked to our goverybody one and
only Mike Lines tired major in the best dam military
analysts in the business, and you are, Mike.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
I'm sorry. I've seen a lot of people, they're all
a bunch of blowhards, and just fuck, you're the best abound.
I said yesterday, I was going to ask you this
question because you get this weird world now where everybody's like,
we got to finish it, and you got the markle
of ends of the world. We've got to do something.
And I said, you know what, let's ask Mike the
real question. If we were to finish it and we're
not going to bomb our way into this thing, what

(18:34):
does it look like, how many boots on the ground,
How long is this going to take? What does this
really look like? Not just the bologne that's out there and.

Speaker 10 (18:42):
Shed great to be back.

Speaker 11 (18:43):
Yeah, finishing it means probably another month of military operations
of sustained campaign on infrastructure targets. If we're going to
the military route infrastructure targets, commanding can control. That likely
means some kind of invasion of karg Island, taking away

(19:05):
the Iranian capability to generate revenue. And if Trump is
interested in having the US possess that enriched uranium, that's
a twenty five so fifty thousand troop mission inside of
Iran with maybe other countries with airplanes and creating runways
and bringing engineering equipment and figuring that out to get that.

Speaker 10 (19:28):
Out of there.

Speaker 11 (19:29):
So there's still a very heavy lift that has to happen.
That remains if we're going to quote finish it, and
you know, short of regime change there, short of some
other visual sign is that is a really long road.
It's likely takes us through the end of the summer,
and it doesn't still guarantee that it's finished.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
You know, you talk, You and I have talked about this.
We talked about it first with Ukraine and Russia something
like this. The heavy lift thing is said twenty five
to fifty thousand maybe more. And if you're going to
to be there for a while, you're probably gonna have
to bring you know, any kind of occupation situation, right
you You've always said this occupation is different than going
in and conquering.

Speaker 11 (20:09):
Right, Yeah, I mean occupation means you got to feed
and water the troops you bring there, and to tail
ratios all those things where logistictions when wars come into play.
And when you look at the terrain in Iran, it's
surrounded by mountains. You know, it's a very challenging situation.
There's it's not like Saudi Arabia. It's not like the
other side of the of the channel there where everything's

(20:31):
pretty flat and easy to kind of get to. Things
will have to be flown in that, and there's you're
not going to forage the land, you know, you know
back from the Civil War days.

Speaker 10 (20:40):
Those days are over.

Speaker 11 (20:41):
So it would be a very very you know, logistical
challenge that we haven't seen in a really long time.
And there's just the amount of equipment, have you equipment
you have to bring in there that that of itself
and maintaining it and all those things.

Speaker 10 (20:57):
It would be a very very long mission.

Speaker 2 (20:58):
Talking to Mike clients best military analyst in the business. Uh,
you were talking about the whipsaw. Who do we believe?
Who don't we believe? That's a great question. I think
Trump a lot of what he's saying is more for
the market trying to get it too calm down, more
than it is in reality. The reality is I don't
think either side believes each other totally understandable. That's part

(21:19):
of this negotiation. Who would you believe? But that being said,
a lot of people, I think now are getting very
frustrated because it is a oh good, it's over, oh
good's and then it seems to be even from Trump,
it's one minutes over, the next minute it's like I'm
bored with this. The next minute is like we should
bomb them. The next minute it's like we It just
feels exhausting.

Speaker 3 (21:40):
No, it does.

Speaker 11 (21:41):
The Friday, for example, Trump announces the deal is imminent.
The market factors that in it. It has a rally.
The price of oil drops and crew drops, and things
are looking good. Literally over the weekend, the Iranian president
decides to retire, resign whatever he's doing, you know, writes
a letter and says he can't deal with it anymore.
The i ergyc has complete control of the government. We

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don't even know what the.

Speaker 10 (22:04):
Eye told of things of that, I mean, he's not
he's not been seen or heard of.

Speaker 11 (22:08):
And and so the whole thing, and then the Iranian
the urgy.

Speaker 10 (22:11):
He says that the whole thing's off.

Speaker 11 (22:13):
We're not even talking anymore because of what's going on,
and it's real in Lebanon. So I don't know how,
you know, Trump wakes up Monday and says, not all
everything's okay, be calm about it.

Speaker 10 (22:21):
So it is.

Speaker 11 (22:22):
The whip song going back and forth is very difficult.
I think, you know, from the military's perspective, it kind
of weighs on your mind because you kind of lean
forward with a certain course of action that you think
is going to happen. And right now the president has
unfortunately created a lot of uncertainty amongst the troops and
amongst the situation there. Now they're you know, they're paid
to stand by, they're paid to do all that stuff.

(22:44):
But you have the spendality in the military about go
no go, and if you think you're going, then you're
you're leaning towards something way. But right now, this whip
song back and forth I think is not going to
do the military very well. If we had to now
all of a sudden flip the switch, which which as
I said, as I kind of read the tea leaves
right now, he's going to let this go at least
another week to ten days.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
What's it like. So in a military situation like this,
like you said, the Go No Go, the whip song,
it has an effect on them because they feel like
it almost feels like like they're they're they're not a
part of this. It's just over their head. It's like
they're playing tennis or something.

Speaker 11 (23:20):
Yeah, you know the thing is in the military, you
kind of whind your fist the fist up. I mean,
I haven't been to combat. That's kind of what we did.
We you know, we got everybody in position and we
wind everything up and then and then we got to
the spot where we had to sit and wait because
we thought a couple of things were going to happen.
And you saw, you know, I was watching a movie
on the Pressure over the week and in dd same thing.

(23:41):
You know, they put these troops all out there, and
it really takes a toll on you. It takes a
toll on the fight. So from when when the time comes,
if if it won, it does come, let's hope the
military can get off to a good start. You know,
whatever that means, it's likely going to mean likely going
to mean tacking COMMANDIC controls and maybe they go off
to carg Island again. But the more I'm looking at

(24:04):
this now, and I think the military is resigning themselves
to the fact that Trump is really going to delay
a long time. We're more in a ceasefire mode now
than we've been in the wartime mode. Right, thirty eight
days of combat and we're fifty nine days or something
of this ceasefire, so it's almost like he's turned it Off's.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we talk about all things,
what's going on in the Middle East. We'll get the
Russia here in a little bit. Mike. I give Trump
a lot of crap because I think sometimes I think
he makes his life way more difficult than he needs
to be. We consider and talk about all that kind
of stuff. But on the political side, I've said this
over and over again. Trump's stuck between well, instead of
a rock, Iran in a hard place, He's negotiating something

(24:43):
that he helps we get all this stuff. He's also
negotiating gets time when it comes to the market, which
he worries about, but also midterms, and with all of
that going on, he's also got bb and Israel and
there is no doubt in my mind, and I've said
this before, is Reel has heard itself in a way
that cannot be done. Generational kind of stuff. And I

(25:05):
feel like even if we got a deal that's great
and Israel doesn't want it, that's going to pose a
problem for us in this negotiation.

Speaker 11 (25:14):
Yeah, I think you're right, And you see the Uranians
trying to tie the situation in Lebanon now as hes
Belah is their last remaining proxy. If so, what is
the Ranians get getting out of this? If they have
to give up nukes and if they have to give
up the enriched uranium, well, they're going to want to
keep that political that avenue open. They're going to want
to keep that channel open with Hesbalan and other organizations

(25:38):
that are used that they used in order to export terra.
So I think the Israeli Is, on the other hand,
are looking at this as an existential threat, looking as
this is now is to solve this problem, and you're
seeing more attacks. We saw attacks come from the north
from Hesbela into Israel yesterday. But the Israel you know
there's really military is not stopping. So their view this

(26:00):
is still this extension of October seventh, they took care
of Gaza. They want to fix Lebanon right now, and
they're upset whatever the word is that the Ranians are
getting involved.

Speaker 10 (26:10):
But in this case, the United States.

Speaker 11 (26:11):
Interrists are going to take a little bit of a
higher priority than what Israel' we're trying to do.

Speaker 7 (26:15):
You know.

Speaker 2 (26:15):
The frustrating thing because we've heard, you know, supposedly the calls,
you know, not out there, but it's been leaked that
he and he basically read Bibe the Right Act and said,
everybody effing hate you.

Speaker 10 (26:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:25):
No.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
And on top of that, even yesterday the president of Lebanon,
who is a Christian, came out and said, you guys
are moving into Bay Roots. That's what do you think
you're doing. That's a no go. And Trump has been
hardcore Beirut is off limits, but Bbe seems to want
to do his own thing. And I do think Bbe's
got Ben Gavie and a bunch of these other people

(26:47):
who are like, let's get this done.

Speaker 7 (26:49):
It is.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
It's a weird situation. And again this is where I
feel for Trump because I know he's trying to I
think he wants out of this thing. I think he
realizes this did not go the way we want. I
need to get out of this, and all that's left
is bad options.

Speaker 10 (27:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (27:04):
What what has to be surprised though, again bringing back
to the military side of it, is how much capability
has blot still has And how's that happening?

Speaker 2 (27:13):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (27:13):
They just the incredible amount of storage and and and
supplies that they seem to have to support themselves. To me,
is you know, kind of be on the pal It
just shows you how much the Uranians had funded that operation,
how much the Uranians had deeply ingrained inside the you know,
the Lebanese culture there. But but it's it's all for naught.

(27:33):
As as the President is trying to get a deal
with the Iranians, as they as they tied to that,
the hardliners are not going to stop right. The moderates
are on the sidelines right now. This is all about
the IRGC negotiating with Trump and they recognize that they
need they they're going to need has Bala when what's
this is over, if they're going to have any hope
to try to rebuild their operation.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Talking to my clients, Bill Jams, we talk about all things.
When it comes to mil j what's going on globally.
Ukraine touched on that really quick day, just massive explosions
and key in certain places. It is weird. Man where
is Putin? Because he han't really been seen a lot.
The voices are getting louder and louder over there. The
frustration level must be coming, and he's got to be

(28:15):
hidden in the bunker somewhere making sure that he got
twenty people eating tasting his food.

Speaker 10 (28:21):
It has to be.

Speaker 11 (28:22):
You saw overnight though, you had some pretty deadly missile
strikes inside of the Ukraine and Kiev and Dnepro, which
is that city that's to the to the to the west,
and those those strikes are getting deeper and the Ranians
are saying ten people killed.

Speaker 10 (28:37):
They're all civilians at this point.

Speaker 11 (28:39):
And you know, this is where Russia does have this
this advantage of just launching bigger, faster, long range missiles.
The fact that the drone technology that the Ranians keep
up with, they're manufacturing something.

Speaker 10 (28:52):
Close to a million drones a month.

Speaker 11 (28:53):
It's just incredible what they've been able to to, you know,
take out of this, you know kind of situation. But
who's really running that war now?

Speaker 3 (29:03):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (29:03):
The generals is it putin what is specifically is going
on because there's no there's no maneuver, there's no forces
that are that are looking to take ground anymore, so
that that's all over. This is just two sides is
slugging at it right now at this point.

Speaker 10 (29:16):
And let's and putin you're right, what's going to happen
to him?

Speaker 12 (29:20):
Uh?

Speaker 11 (29:20):
If if the Ukrainians can get some kind of breakthrough,
I think then his days are number.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
Then when you look over there and you see all
this going on. We've talked about the drone technology. AI
technology is coming as fast as the drone technology. They're
trying to outfit, well, they've outfitted many of these drones,
but not just AI technology. There's this sense of when
are we going to turn over the kill no kill
to the AI, which is really kind of that's to me,

(29:48):
it feels very much robocopy.

Speaker 11 (29:51):
Yeah, No, I think I think it's this generation's nuclear war.
And if we don't do this and get some kind
of salt agreements, tategic arms limitation agreement, I think we're
in big trouble and and we have to do it
not only with the Russians, but with the Chinese and
these countries that have this capability. I guess I'm not
too worried about the one off drone that can do that.

(30:11):
But if you swarm those drones and they can have
they have killer capability, and then you have a real
challenge there. But bringing that AI and putting it on
a nuclear weapon and just firing and forgetting it, basically,
I think that that creates a problem if you use
it in the offense to target that. That's really where
the hard line is. And right now those decisions are
not being made by diplomats. They're being made in you know,

(30:34):
corporate boardrooms that are just increasing this technology and trying
to sell it to the different governments. So this is this,
this genie's well out of the bottle, and it's we
need to do to a summit specifically on this, and
will Russia will try to you know, it's it's still
trying to overcome its challenges in Ukraine. It still has

(30:54):
this this this capability because of the industrial alikes that
they have and and the intellectual capital they have to
use AI to springboard their military advantage.

Speaker 10 (31:04):
At some point, does that make you nervous?

Speaker 2 (31:06):
I mean, you've been in the military for a long time.
You've got families in the military, sons in the military.
Does that make you nervous when you see these This
AI capability is coming along, and like you said, at
what point in time does it become skynet?

Speaker 10 (31:18):
You know what?

Speaker 11 (31:19):
What what makes me nervous is I think that we're
doing well. I'm kind of got somewhat of an inside
information on that. I'm working, you know, at the military academy.
I see what the technology is. I've seen what they're
capable of working with the you know, working with a
guy the other day, for example, he's got this really
need drom drone swarm technology and how it talks to
each other. So there's a lot it's it's just like dynamite, right,

(31:41):
This this technology could be used for the good. It
could help forward mankind, it can help us find people,
can help us do a lot of things. But but
you always have to look at the defense and the
military aspect of it. So what just gets me worried
is is whether or not what is exactly going on
the other side. You know, what specific technology do they have,
And I just leave with the confidence that other countries

(32:02):
end up copy in the US.

Speaker 10 (32:04):
What ends up happening.

Speaker 11 (32:04):
That's our technology leaks out and they get eighty percent
of the solution. If you see the Iranian drones for example,
or just copies of things that we've done in the past.
So that's the only thing that would get me nervous,
just to make sure that the United States is still
well ahead on this and we have politicians that recognize
the importance of that.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Best damn military analysts in the business and retired major
in the r My clients as always good talking to
your brother. We will do it again next week.

Speaker 10 (32:29):
Thanks Chav, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2 (33:48):
We talked about AI. We talked about how cheap it
is to make movies. Now there's something coming out that
is fully AI with a budget that's two grand fully AI.
And the director said, I can't do this without AI.
There's no way for me to go get million dollars
to make this film.

Speaker 13 (34:06):
Director Ashkusha says the film costs just two thousand dollars
to produce and two months for AI programs to generate
all of the film's imagery, no cast, no crew, and
a fraction of the money and time in take with
traditional movie making.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Yeah, tiny amount of money to make this. On top
of that, there's supposed to be a whole bunch of
cartoons and stuff coming very soon. Not a shock or AI.

Speaker 13 (34:31):
But Amazon MGM Studios this week announced three new kid
series written and voiced by humans but animated with AI tools,
but after facing backlash, the creator of one of the series,
Punky Duck, pulled out just two days later, posting I
am absolutely understanding the concern of using AI to assist
an animation pipeline, and Lauren Brandts, the creator of another character, CuPy,

(34:56):
sharing on Instagram that she's horrified and disgusted that the
AI series is moving forward without her input. It's kind
of that balance of how can it cut costs, which
a lot of people hope it will do in some avenues,
but also not impinge on creativity.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
It's not about impinging on creativity. It's a fact that
jobs are going away because something has come along technology
wise that makes it simpler, easier, levels the playing field,
and that is frustrating and scaring a lot of people. Understandable,
understandable but at some point in time people are going
to take that step. Who's going to be the first.

(35:34):
It's going to be interesting and we'll be right here
for it. On The Chad Benson Show. All right, coming
up our number two of the program, A lot of
stuff to get to. Obviously, California. All lies on a
mayor's race in California, and I think people around the
country are curious, can California continue to put people in

(35:56):
places of power that seem to have no idea that
the world's laughing at their insanity when it comes to
things like I don't know the way that the homeless
population has dealt with or the fact that people have
to have poop maps just crazy. When we talk a
bit about that. More on Iran, Hezbolah, Israel, all of
that stuff as well, plus more World Cup stuff. If

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

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Everybody is watching Los Angeles. Why mayoral race? You're thinking
of mayor's race Los Angeles. Spencer Pratt pissed, angry, He's
come out of nowhere, not really, because he was a
reality TV show host born and raised in Los Angeles.
Of course, he appeared on the Hills, did all this
kind of stuff, married Heidi montagu and then his house

(37:16):
burned down and he got pissed. But it was before that.
And by the way, there's a lot of people that
are pissed and angry, not just at Karen Bass of
the establishment. That's why people are paying attention to this.
People are paying attention to this because of the establishment

(37:38):
and how it has failed Los Angeles, because it has
become a cesspool, a place that, like I've told you
guys last hour, and I've told you guys for years,
my mother will not go there anymore. She won't go
there at all anymore because it's disgusting. It smells like piss.

(37:59):
My friends come over for a year ago, We're gonna
go to Holywood, and I'm like, don't. It's gross. It's disgusting.
Do you want to be accosted by homeless people? Is
that the goal? Is the goal to step in crap
and see people do drugs. All thought we was gonna
see stars. Now that's not gonna happen. You want to
see stars, you go to Malibu, right, That's where you

(38:21):
go you got to Montana, you go to Tennessee, Nashville.
But if you think you're gonna see stars, you're not.
What you're gonna see is absolute decay. You might think
it's it's escape from New York or Los Angeles meets

(38:42):
mad Max And the question does does he have a chance?
Harvey level?

Speaker 14 (38:49):
Well, I mean, I think he's gonna be in the runoff,
and I think it's gonna be between Karen Bass and
Spencer Pratt. And a lot of this really just has
to do with the fact that La is a mess
right now. You know, I have an employee here who
was in his car down in downtown La two nights

(39:09):
ago and was shot at and the his car got hit.
He's thankfully okay. But ten years ago, fifteen years ago,
downtown had this renaissance and people were moving down there,
Restaurants were opening up, businesses opening up, and it was
really a place to go. It was a destination. And now,

(39:29):
you know, the sense people have outside of that area
is you're crazy to go downtown. Why would you do that?
So that is a kind of a glimmer of what's
going on in this city.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yes, a glimmer, and my little sister Hunter used to
work at a very high end salon near downtown, and
she got attacked and chased, and now she is working
in another heind slaw in Orange County because she refuses

(40:03):
to go back to the place where she built a business,
because of how dangerous it was, how disgusting it has become.
When I grew up, there was skid row. Okay, there
was an area you'd go buy it. The homeless people,
it's not that way. It's fanned out. It has become everything.

(40:27):
The homeless industrial complex has allowed this to become something
that is dystopian like. It is just and if you've
never been to a place where you and again we
can sit here and have this discussion about mental illness
and drugs and those are all things that we need
to have, But how do you handle those things? Those

(40:50):
people have issues. It's how are you going to handle it?
You haven't handled it. You know what's happened. People have
been enriched themselves on the whole homelessness. People have taken
tons of money and have had zero results, and nobody's
held them accountable for their failures. You've overspent building apartments

(41:14):
like insane apartments one bedroom, one bath apartments for homeless
people who were unstable, who were unwell, who were hooked
on drugs, and what has happened That place turned into
assesspool within days, within days, and he's had enough. And

(41:38):
we're not even getting to the point of the fire
and the incompetence there and how much they've run the
budgets into the ground with their sweetheart deals to all
the the likes of the unions and whatnot. We're just
talking about the everyday, average thing that the average person
sees and has to deal with in and around the
second biggest city in America.

Speaker 14 (41:58):
Homelessness is terrible right now. We just have a real
problem here. And then when you hear people say, oh,
it's gotten better, you know, it's sort of like who
you're going to believe me.

Speaker 7 (42:09):
Or your lion eyes. But this city is a mess.

Speaker 14 (42:12):
And I think that Spencer Pratt has struck a chord
that said. I will say this, I do think experience matters,
experience of running a big organization. He doesn't have that,
and I think that is something people should think about,
but they don't. They think about campaign ads, they think

(42:34):
about sizzle, and they think about their upset. But right
now this city is not functioning well.

Speaker 7 (42:41):
Period.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
No it's not. And the campaign as he has used
have been awesome. He's harnessed the anger of people, and yes,
does experience matter to a certain extent. Look, here's the thing.
You could put people around you you who can help
you handle the things you need to handle. That's what

(43:07):
you can do. That's what you should do. If he
is to win. And tonight it's a again, it's a
jungle primary. Top two. If nobody gets over fifty plus
one tonight percent, then the top two regardless of party,
even though there's no party affiliation. But this is across
the board in California. Go to November. I can find

(43:29):
somebody to help me navigate the day in and day
out stuff. The vision that I have is, I want
people to stop crapping in our streets. I want to
stop people from shooting up. I want to stop people
from living on the sidewalks. I don't want my city

(43:51):
to smell like piss. I want to prosecute crime for real,
not pretend that we're doing something. I'm gonna be pride
back to the city. You can do that and have
people go all right, this is how we have to
do these things. You have to have people around you

(44:14):
that can do those things because you're gonna navigate in
the world. Also where you're dealing with people again on
the council if you were to become mayor, that are
all on the left for the most part, not even
if there's anybody on the right, And so yeah, you're
gonna have some issues there. But the status quo isn't working.

(44:38):
It isn't And you can't blame everything on Karen Bass,
as useless as she's been, because the status quo has
been the status quo for a while. She's just the
latest in a line of failures. Let me know what
you think. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
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(44:58):
instat YouTube and more me while you know, we're kind
of still sort of maybe kind at war.

Speaker 12 (45:05):
Ninety five days into this war and with talks on
the brink of collapse, President Trump declaring negotiations are back
on track. Complicating the deal Israel's incursion into Lebanon, advancing
deeper in the region to fight Iranian backed hezblood Aaran,
threatening to call the talks with the US entirely off.
The President initially said he couldn't care less, saying the

(45:27):
talks started to get very boring. But hours later he
was on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Nettan Yahoo.

Speaker 2 (45:34):
Yes he was, and during that not so fun a
phone call, as I have been telling you for a while,
I can have some sympathy with Trump in the sense
of the negotiations, and the negotiations look like we're negotiating

(45:56):
with Iran, probably the IOGC for the most part. As
that's all going on, Israel's got their saying this, and
bb and the hardliners in Israel, who are extremely unpopular
right now, the fact that they went into Beirut, into
the suburban areas, which pissed Trump off, who not just

(46:19):
yesterday but for months have said that's no, you're not
doing that. That's off limits, it's off limbits, you're not
doing that. And he told bbe this, you're fing crazy, right,
So the reports out he called them efing crazy. Top
of that, he said, everybody effing hates you. You'd be in

(46:41):
prison if it wasn't for me. I'm saving your ass.
Everybody hates Israel because of this, which is what I've
been saying nobody wants to tell them the truth. The
truth is because of what has happened over the last
several years, people are frustrated. Younger generation wants no part

(47:03):
of Israel, no part of it, and that's not good.
If you're a supporter of Israel, you think that that's good,
you're insane. You are. So there's the part where I
sympathize with Trump, But the reality is simply this. You

(47:23):
got this into this thing with Iran, you saying it's boring,
you fighting with BB You've got to decide what are
you gonna do? What bad deal are we probably gonna
have to take to get ourselves out of this because
I don't see a good deal. I want to see
a good deal, and you tweeting, well, everything always works

(47:44):
yourself out in the end, isn't people are buying it anymore?
They're not, and they're frustrated. They're frustrated because gas prices
are not going down. Thank god, they're not jumping through
the roof just yet. But I think we all expect
at some point in time there's going to be some
sort of come to Jesus moment with that. And that's

(48:07):
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Speaker 1 (49:38):
Chad Benson, Joe, you're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Did the courts bail out Trump? It's very interesting. So
if you're not paying attention to the slush fun, right,
the weaponization fun. Courts on Friday said no, this isn't
gonna go forward. The reality is they may have bailed

(50:11):
him out. Now they're gonna They've come out and said, ah,
we're gonna get We're gonna what Trump normally doesn't say
is we're gonna comply with all that's going on right
according to what the courts say, We're gonna do that.
Why that's important, it's because his party, right, MAGA itself,

(50:34):
and I'm just talking about MAGA. They're pissed, they're unhappy.
They look at this and say, this is no boy,
no sorry, Americans are struggling. We're in the midst of
this ridiculous war and you're talking about handing out money
potentially to people. And I'm not saying that we shouldn't

(50:55):
have serious questions about the weaponization. I think there's a
time and there's a place, and the way this was handled,
I think we all admit, if we're honest with ourselves,
just feels skeazy.

Speaker 15 (51:08):
The court proceedings are moving forward, but what's really happening
is open revolt in Congress over this fund and the
President I think by coming out and saying I'm going
to abide by the court's rulings on this is trying
to forced all an effort to kill it in Congress.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Yeah. Absolutely, one hundred percent saved him because I don't
think he thought he was going to get the back
lash He's getting and he's getting a ton of it.
People are pissed because they're going back and their constituents
are saying, what the hell is this all about? Essentially,
he sued himself and settled with himself. Well, it's not
like that. It's pretty much like that. It's pretty much

(51:49):
like that, right there is what happened. Well, I mean
it's not a well, yeah, okay, I see what you're saying. Yeah,
this and again we could sit here and talk about
the weapon is a lot of the stuff that happened
prior to Trump become president the first time. A lot
of the things that have been done since then, and

(52:10):
I'm not saying there's not some And of course now
Trump is also in his administration is using it as well.
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four, twenty three
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everything else. Love hearing from me right here on the
Chad Benson Show. But that being said, there's some serious,

(52:32):
serious issues with this right here, and people weren't having it,
and I think he looked around. He has always been
great in his first term and when he was running
of reading the room, it's kind of gone away. But
this one. I think he read the room. What do
you think? Let me know. Meanwhile, nobody wants to play

(52:53):
the Great American two point fifty birthday State Fairs celebration
Thingking b bober So Tim Burchant here in Tennessee has
an idea.

Speaker 16 (53:01):
There's plenty of acts in Nashville, people that are trying
to get on, you know, get on a big stage
like this is the world's stage, be the largest stage
in the world. Everybody in the country will be watching
this dead gum thing. And let some of those musicians
get out and sing a few songs. All we'd have
to do is pay for their that gum airfare, most
of them, just to get them up there, and they'd

(53:22):
love it. And then of course have Kid Rock. Nobody's
more patriotic in the rock and roll world than he is,
and he's awesome. And then I know you got his number,
got been with him when he's called you. And then
the finale would be cool to have Lee Green would
come out and sing He's got a bunch of great songs.

(53:42):
But of course the ending would be God bless the
USA and have all the other acts come out and
sing along with him, and maybe they could do a
single verse. Kid Rock or John Rich or something could
do one of the verses, and I think that would
be awesome. Have all those great stars up on stage.

Speaker 2 (53:59):
I think that to be absolutely awful. That's what I think.
Who's that for? It's gonna be the biggest audience in history.
No it's not. It's not gonna be the biggest audience.
Nobody's gonna be watching it. Let's just say this didn't
work out the way we thought, and we move on.
Coming up, we talked the World Cup, so we get
closer and closer. Chad Benson Chat, then.

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

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Nine days and counting. Girl, it's the world's biggest sporting
event and it's coming to America. It's time to talk.
Would come.

Speaker 7 (55:00):
Parra?

Speaker 2 (55:05):
What are the rights Sharia? Right across too?

Speaker 17 (55:11):
We haven't been able to control the play in midfield
right that Maradona has been able to do.

Speaker 2 (55:16):
They's had to get the gun solo. Montiel can win
the World Cup for Argentina.

Speaker 18 (55:26):
With this kick.

Speaker 2 (55:28):
Yes, nine days counting, World Cup. Excited. We're getting closer
and closer every single day. I do think just about
every team is here now now today, the rosters have
to be finalized. So twenty eight or twenty six players

(55:51):
excuse me, have arrived with the teams. You can carry
twenty three on the roster. Some teams have already made
their final announcements, are going to make it later on today.
So this is going to be interesting, no doubt, because
there's going to be some people that maybe traveled here,
you know, for the last week, been training thinking they

(56:12):
you know, fringe, have the opportunity to get on the
team and won't make it. Man, that's got to be devastating.
It's no doubt. That just has to just eat at you,
especially if you're that last person and knowing that you

(56:33):
didn't get the call. That's just I mean, you know,
they come around once every four years. It's not like
these things are here all the time. They're just not.
So we'll go over those final rosters tomorrow. Some of
the things is very interesting. First and foremost, we've talked

(56:54):
about it with our good buddy Eric Bushman from ker
L D. They've opened up now the spaceship that is
the broadcast and it is all of the things you
could think of like there. I've never seen anything like it.
Looking at the pictures and the videos of the broadcast area,
as far as the mothership that will be handling.

Speaker 19 (57:15):
This definitely is the most technologically advanced and top of
the art international broadcast center that the world has ever
seen and probably will ever see.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
Yeah, Infentino, the guy who runs everything FIFA, Yeah, I
think so. There's no doubt in my mind that it's
never seen anything like it.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Without this facility here, nothing goes out to the world.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
It is an event solely limited to the stadium.

Speaker 2 (57:51):
What does that mean? Means because of this, we all
can see it. You know, we're talking last hour to
Mike clients, and Mike and I chat and he said, hey, Jet,
just explain the World Cup to me. Explain. You know,
he's a football guy, and you know he's an American
through and through guy, and you know soccer is you know,

(58:13):
it's this is an ayso kind of thing. And he said,
so explain it to me. And you know, he got
excited learning about some of the stuff. We had a
nice chat about that and I get a lot of that,
you know, my local show in particular, you get the
usual people, right, the Boomers was like, ah, it's a
comedy sport. Uh, one, nothing for ninety minutes. No, thank you,
You're like, okay, whatever, I mean, I'm not gonna at

(58:36):
this point. You're not changing some people's minds. But a
vast majority of people are excited, like anything we get
excited for, Like do we pay attention to gymnastics outside
of the Olympics now, But the difference is soccer has
grown to the to the point now with the MLS
and everything where it has gotten much bigger and with
the likes of the Premier League that is massive globally.

(59:01):
People pay a lot more attention of it, even in
your local area, which is awesome. Now, as far as
the World Cup security goes, there's a lot of things
going on, including the bolavirus. People are worried about it.

Speaker 20 (59:12):
If you'll say, immigration agents will be involved in security operations,
but their focus will be on counter terrorism, not immigration enforcement.
The Games are expected to draw up to seven million
visitors to the US, raising concern about the possible spread
of ebola from Africa. Americans returning from the DRC, Uganda
and South Sudan must now re enter the US through

(59:34):
four designated airports for mandatory screenings.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Which is I mean, you're not coming back to America
to watch the World Cup. If you're in Ugan, the
chances are you coming back. He so, but there's seven
million visitors. I don't know how the DRC is going
to do it. Iran has had issues. One of the
reasons that they're training currently in Tijuana rather than in Tucson,
where they were originally going to train, is because some

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of the people that are on their staff. Right, so
you're bringing you're not just showing up with your coach
and the guy who carries the you know, a bag
of balls with him. You've got an entire group of
people that arrives with you. Uh. Some of them were
you know, were at one time part of the IRGC.
So they've been denied visas. So it'll be interesting to

(01:00:21):
see if they can make their way up to Seattle
when they play, or if they're just kind of going
to be stuck in Mexico for the time being. So
be on the lookout for a bola, and they're going
to be looking out for drones, so that were the
things people gonna be flying drones around. They'll have their
drones as well. So I mean, this thing's going to

(01:00:45):
be absolutely security zoned, like you could not believe understandable
right in today's world. It's unfortunate that we have to
say that that's how we have to be. But if
you're thinking about the potential of doing something horrific, you know,

(01:01:08):
and you want the world to see it, well, the
world's watching the games. They are. The world's watching the games,
and because of that, there's going to be extra security.
And I'm glad that I don't want the focus to be,
you know, because there is this this worry that you
don't have the Rice visa and they stop you going.

(01:01:29):
I don't want to see any of that. I think
anybody does well if they're here legally, I think anybody
should be asked you're going to the games. I just don't. Okay,
there's no reason to turn this into a political battle
or any of that stuff. There just is. Let's just
enjoy the games and then we'll resume fighting with each

(01:01:50):
other afterwards. What do you say? Sound good? All right,
let's break down the last three groups now of the
World Cup, starting with Group J Jordan, Austria, Algeria, Argentina.
Obviously we know about Argentina because of Messi. Another stacked

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team this year. Yeah, they're good. Do I think they're
going to defend. I think they've got quarterfinal, semifinal kind
of you know team that's team makeup. Do I think
they're going to defend. I just think that that Spain
in France, as far as that goes is, they're just

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just a class above right now. Absolutely. I think in
this group you're gonna see Austria. They're pretty decent. I
don't think Jordan or Algeria are gonna do much. So
this might be one of those group where only to
get through on a group k Okay, Columbia, who's Bekistan,
DRC and Portchugau. So Portugal, Ronaldo this is his final

(01:02:57):
chance to lift the World Cup. I don't think Portugal
is gonna do it. I think they're okay. I don't
think they're great, but you know, again, you know, you
get to the quarterfinals, all bets are off because you
just never know. DRC, we've talked about them, We're gonna
go see them. I think they're They're interesting because the

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vast majority of the players from the DRC were born
and raised not in the DRC but in Europe, so
they've got some very familiar names. I've watched the Premier League.
They're stacked full of guys who play in the Premier
League in the French, you know, first division league. Uh So,
I think I think they'll be interesting to watch. Who's

(01:03:38):
Bekistan we're joking about is Bekistan? But the guy who
scored the winning goal to help them get here born
in Appleton, Wisconsin. And finally Columbia. Columbia is always a
wild card. They could go to the quarterfinals. They could
lose every game. I think Portugal gets through. I think

(01:03:58):
dr C it's Bekistan and Columbia fight it out for
number two. And I think somebody like Who's Bekistan and
DRC actually pip Columbia. I could be wrong. I could
be wrong again. And finally to the last group Group L.

(01:04:21):
Here we go Panama, Ghana, Croatia, England, Panama. If they
get a point, I think they'd be stoked. Ghana hit
and miss with the African nations. They could be on
fire if they could melt down. Ghana's got tons of talent.
Croatia semifinals in the last two World Cups. That's not

(01:04:45):
happening this time. And England always thinking they're bringing it home.
They won't be bringing it home this time. I think
England is quarterfinals and then again once you gets the quarterfinals,
all bets are off. Anybody can win it. But I
just they've got the best striker, Harry Kane, but can

(01:05:07):
they do it on this level? And they have had
their opportunities to win tournaments semifinals and finals. Do I
think they're going to do it this time? No? No,
I don't because I still think France and Spain are
a cut above everybody else. So I'm pomped. I'm excited.
The World Cup nine days away and it is going

(01:05:29):
to be you know, I'm just I'm excited. I know
you guys can hear it. I keep telling my wife
I will talk to you in July. So first game,
two games, Thursday of the eleventh Mexico, South Africa, South Korea, Chechia.
The next day Canada takes on Bosnia. The United States

(01:05:52):
of America takes on Paraguay. And that's how we kick
it off for the World Cup. Pumped baby, Yes indeed
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You know, crazy right, Chad Benson.

Speaker 17 (01:07:44):
Joe serving up talk radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (01:07:59):
It's Chad, is that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:01):
Time of the pro Graham where we go into the
urban word of the dead. We talk about this because
I get a lot of text messages people say do
people really like this? And said, people enjoy it. I
think a lot of it is because you can you know,
you can learn what the kids say. But part of
that is also because you can learn what the kids say,
and if they're your kids or your grandkids, you can
cringe them out, which always makes us laugh. All right.

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I mean cringing them out is spectacular, making them go,
oh god, I can't believe you said that, because I
know when I do that with with my daughter. She's
not thrilled when I do some of the stuff that
I do because it's funny. Now it's time for the
urban word of the day. The young have a vocabularity
all their own, and we break it down for you.

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It's called the urban word of the day. All right,
your urban word of the day today. If you guys,
hear my dogs in the background, crazy. They're down here
with me right now, and I'm about ready to do
what the urban word is today. Was just crash out
on them because they're driving me so crazy.

Speaker 18 (01:09:10):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
But as my family's getting ready to head back across
the country for a couple months to help Grandma, they're
in here, which is driving me chouraging. But the urban work,
said to our good buddy who follows the show s Jones,
Jacks and crash out, It's like i'd never heard this
for sweet at me. Last night, I just heard a

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new slang. At a restaurant. The young servers were talking
about a prior manager. They said he was such a
crash out. Crash Out is when you lose it, Okay,
when you're you just melt down, you crash out, you
go all in screaming and yelling, and it doesn't mean
you're a loser. It just made you crash out as

(01:09:51):
anger goes, lose your freaking mind right, crash out to
your urban word of the day. That was the urban
word of the day. Now, you know. Always good to know.
Now when I give you guys the text message, I
tell you guys to call me. I love hearing from
all of you, the good, the bad, and all of

(01:10:13):
the other stuff. Got several calls. I try to go
through as fast as postle. By the way, if you're
gonna cus it just drives me crazy because then I
got to slow down and I got to try to
put the beeps on it in the whole nine yards.

Speaker 1 (01:10:23):
Just be.

Speaker 2 (01:10:25):
Just be aware of that.

Speaker 18 (01:10:26):
Hello, Chad, this is Greg. I listened to you regularly
on KRLD, former radio engineer. I've been a Pyro guy
for thirty years. Your show is great. I'd let you
Messa years before today. The background bed on your Urban
order of the day was honking loud. I almost couldn't
understand what you were talking about. But keep up the

(01:10:47):
good work. Love listen to you, cheers.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
Appreciate that, Greg. And like I said, we had a
bit of an issue with our big board that we had,
So the new board will be here tomorrow, so we
should be back to normal on Thursday.

Speaker 10 (01:11:02):
Hey, love your show and love that you speak out.

Speaker 3 (01:11:06):
Thanks for doing what you do and keep on doing it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
Thank you. It's always nice. It's always nice to get
some good stuff. People ask me, like, do you get
a lot of hate? I said, you know, it's funny.
I used to get some anger, you know, because politics
has become a tribal sport and a lot of people
in the in the Maga world would come after me.

(01:11:34):
You tend like I get a lot of that on
my local show. But that is also shrunk tremendously. You know.
I was telling you my producer the other day that
seven months ago, eight months ago, you know, if I
talked about the bs that was going on in our politics,

(01:11:54):
the lies that were being told, the Maga folks would
attack me. It'd be ninety against ten four. Now it's
the opposite because they're frustrated too. So there you go.
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on The Chad Benson Show. Coming up, our number three
of the program, more on the mayor race today in
the Los Angeles as well as all of the other
races that are going on. But obviously a lot of
people are paying attention to that. We're gonna touch on that.
Top of that, the latest from the Middle East. So
we're getting a deal, We're not getting a deal. It's happening,

(01:12:39):
it's not happening. It's possibly going to happen, could happen
sooner rather than later. Talk a bit about that. Plus
we get the what's trending going on in our buddy
Mike Lions military analyst is going to join a said
program as we talk about Iran, what would it really
take for us to go into Iran? All that and
so much more, straight ahead Chad Benton Show.

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

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
It's primary day across the country, all right, with New Mexico. Correct,
It's going to be one that's going to be interesting.
We've talked about it here, got a few other ones
South Dakota, but everybody's really paying attention to what is
going on in Southern California for good reason. Spencer Pratt.

(01:13:53):
He's just a reality show host. That's all he is. No,
it's not all he is. He's also a husband and
a father. It's also a disgruntled, angry los Angelein who
lost his home in a fire. Because incompetence rules the day,
it seems to be in LA And I think he

(01:14:14):
has run a very interesting campaign considering what he's going
up against, which is a stack deck for Democrats in
a city that has been run by them, almost like

(01:14:34):
the mob. They've mobbed up. If you will, they control everything.
And this guy speaking for a lot of people. Does
it mean he's gonna win. No, but I think he
has got a lot of people paying attention. And first
of all, you got Karen Bass.

Speaker 7 (01:14:52):
Now I haven't always got it right.

Speaker 2 (01:14:54):
There's more work to do, and with your help, I'll
keep fighting for LA. No, I can't blame everything on
Karen Bass. And some people earlier said how could you not?
Because this is an issue long before Karen Bass got there.
She just helped make it worse. But it wasn't like

(01:15:15):
she made the problems. She said she was going to
address the problems and instead she has made more problems.
But I can't blame her holy for that. So what
if they've done They've come hard for him. You know,
he's mega, he's all of the things. And of course

(01:15:38):
he in one of his videos, he made it look
like he was living in an airstream and a.

Speaker 5 (01:15:42):
Vocal critic of the mayor since his Pacific Palisades mansion
burnt down in the fires, but he's drawn criticism for
campaign ads implying he's since been living in an airstream trailer,
later clarifying he's actually staying in a luxury hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Who cares that his home is it? Because if it's
not his home, who cares? Where's his family? Oh, they're
up in Santa Barbara, I think with her family. So again,
who cares that's not his house because his house burned down? Why?

(01:16:22):
Because of incompetence, That's why. Because of incompetence. And they've
also come after him by trying to make him seem
like he's all about Mecca.

Speaker 3 (01:16:37):
Honey, we need to talk.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
We saw the things you've been searching online. Spencer Pratt
really in this house?

Speaker 3 (01:16:47):
We don't believe in Spencer Pratt. He's maga? What about
Spencer Pratt is maga?

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
You know those.

Speaker 6 (01:16:53):
Streets downtown, the ones that are full of piss and
homeless people, he wants to clean them up.

Speaker 4 (01:16:59):
And those neighborhood that burn down the Palisades Malibu, he
wants to rebuild them.

Speaker 6 (01:17:06):
You know how people inject heroin in front of children
at the park. He wants to stop that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:12):
And that's maga.

Speaker 3 (01:17:13):
Yes, it's a very dangerous ideology.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
That is what they're trying to do to them. Now,
what he has done that has been brilliant is, first
of all, he's use social media in.

Speaker 15 (01:17:29):
A very.

Speaker 2 (01:17:32):
Interesting way with AI ads. And a lot of these
ads people think they're him that he's retweeted and put
out there, they're not. Some of them are things that
people have done because they're so frustrated and they feel like, oh,
we might as well take advantage of it. So again
he is used those ads. He's used as anger, but

(01:17:52):
he's also used anger of other people. There are plenty
of people out there that are pissed and angry about
the way that things are going in Los Angeles, the
high cost of living, the fact that the high cost
of living, the higher the cost, the less chance there's
going to be urine everywhere. But you know, what are
you going to ask for. I know I got to

(01:18:14):
pay eight million dollars for a no bedroom, no bath home.
But if you could get this person to stop urinating
in my front yard, to be fantastic. And the homelessness
issue is massive.

Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
What are your plans for the over forty thousand homeless
in Los Angeles?

Speaker 2 (01:18:30):
Yeah, it's well, they're not homeless.

Speaker 7 (01:18:32):
They're drug addicts.

Speaker 2 (01:18:36):
That was him last week. They are mentally ill and
drug ass Now what came first mental illness of the drugs.
Don't know, but to say that they're anything other than that.
And when I hear people out there who are like,
but Chad, it's people dismiss the paycheck. No, No, that
guy crapped in in in the yard, right that guy

(01:19:03):
he is doing the sway. That lady over there has
no teeth. Okay, she has got needle marks all over
her arm. She didn't miss a paycheck. She didn't. There
were issues that brought her to this situation. Nobody misses

(01:19:23):
a paycheck is like missed the paycheck of nowhere to say,
and I you know what I should do fentanyl? Nobody
does that. Nobody does So enough of that? Enough of
that is he is challenging the establishment, and that's the
way he's come at this. You guys are seeing what's

(01:19:44):
out there. You guys are seeing all of the things
that have gone on. Nothing has changed. It is nasty,
It is continuing to be nasty. It is more expensive.
People are cracking down on crime. You've got issues up
and down the coast, but here in Los Angeles you
only have to go out to your front yard in

(01:20:06):
some places to see the issues. That's all you got
to do. Sick and tired of being broke and watching
everybody take advantage of a system and watching people not
do the things or even try to do to things
that they promise, he's harnessed that anger. And the thing

(01:20:28):
that he has done outside of all of that is
he's gone into areas where normally Republicans wouldn't go. They
can be mad at me, but that's the reality of it.
He's in the inner city. He's going to street fairs
and barbecues. He is there talking to people that normally,

(01:20:49):
let's be honest, Republicans are like, eh, they're never going
to vote for me. He's like, no, this is not
about right or left. This is about right and wrong.
This is about rebuilding a city that should be one
of the cities of the world. And now when my
friends come here, I'm like, oh, you don't want to
go to Los Angeles. It's disgusting. I won't take you.
Take an uber, have fun. That's what I used to

(01:21:11):
tell my friends when they go to visit. I'm like,
nobody I know is going to take you there. It's disgusting,
it's gross. I went a feet star go watch them
on TV. Okay, go to Malibu, but you're not going
to see anything. The only stars you're going to see
are stars on the Walk of Fame with crap and

(01:21:34):
piss on it. That's it. That's disgusting, I know. Meanwhile,
we moved from there to the magical world of what's
going on in the Middle East. So you got Lebanon.
So Lebanon is in play? What yeah in play when

(01:21:55):
it comes to negotiations and it's a very weird situation
in Lebanon. We talked about it yesterday. I've been talking
about it for weeks. In my mind, there are zero
doubts in my mind that bib Net, Yahoo and Smodrich

(01:22:15):
and Ben Gavere and all these people in Israel want
any kind of deal with Iran. They don't. They don't
want anything to do with it outside of whatever it
is that suits Israel, period, even if it hurts the
people of Iran or it hurts us, that's what they want.

(01:22:38):
So Trump yesterday got into a how should we say this,
a bit of a tiff with Bibi net Yahoo. I
give Trump a lot of crap. We're going to talk
to my clients, our military analysts coming up here in
a little bit about what Iran and what we could
do there. But I give them a lot of crap

(01:22:59):
the the administration. But I have said, he's got a
tough First of all, we should never be in this war. Secondly,
how do we get out of it? Well, let me
tell you how We're not gonna get out of it
by allowing Israel to do whatever it is they want
to do to Lebanon. So Trump and Bbie get into

(01:23:22):
a a bit of a tiff, and Trump says what
I've been saying, which is everybody hates Israel because of you,
essentially because of what has happened. I mean, he went

(01:23:43):
off on him expletives and all beep, beep, beep, you're
affing beep beep beep. I mean it was that everybody
hates you, everybody hates Israel, and it's because of stuff
like this going into the suburban area of Beirut, which
Trump has already said what weeks and months ago, No,

(01:24:06):
that's off limits. So it'll be interesting to see how
this plays itself out, because as we say, Trump is,
he's negotiating with Iran, He's negotiating with his ego a bit,
let's not you know, in the ghost of Obama past,

(01:24:26):
but he's also negotiating with Israel when it comes to
trying to get a deal that they're going to be
happy with that they're willing to go, Okay, We're fine
with this, so who lordy lording. And then let's not
forget you're negotiating with time when it comes to midterms
and people don't want to see five dollars gas five

(01:24:48):
oh two. That is the number right there, five oh two.
That five oh one is what Biden got to at
the highest level. If we reach two is a national average. Ooh,
gonna be ugly. We recognize that. Let me know what
you think. Three two, three, five, three, twenty four to
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Speaker 1 (01:26:28):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:30):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

Speaker 12 (01:26:35):
St James Dean.

Speaker 21 (01:26:43):
Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia?

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
Ser what truping? Right?

Speaker 17 (01:27:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:27:00):
Riady already soight I was trending on this Tuesday started
with the Yahoo alphabet raising eighty billion for a huge
AI infrastructure. Scott Pelly, CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss,
Apparently there's a big staff meeting yesterday. They got into
it pretty good and he said, you're murdering sixty minutes?

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Will she do it in fifty nine or sixty one?
In Nvidia America two fifty Vanilla Ice, Israel, Israel, Yes, Lebanon, Russia.
All things trending in the magical world of Yahoo. Over
to Google. Miles Scarrett yesterday traded to the RAMS because yeah, massive,

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I think it's a go for it kind of year
for the Rams. They were play away from going. Last year,
Seattle got the win, eventually won the Super Bowl. This year,
the Rams are going to go for it in a
major way. I think they think this is the time
and they're gonna try it. Master's Lottery chance to get
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after the data Center's good to know that she's out
there doing her thing, doing her thing. Aj Brown traded
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things trending, magical world of Google, finally over to X

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Thomas Massey trending, Matt Walsh trending as well. Vanilla ice
because you need some vanilla ice.

Speaker 21 (01:28:48):
Taco Tuesday, It's gonna be a great taco. It's a
Tuesday time, Tacos Days, DIYCE, Pride Month, trending, Euphoria. Just
a few of the things trending in the magical world
of the Internet today right here on The Chad Benson Show,
Sean Ryan, Dave Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
And Jack Pasobic clashing, CBS News, Karen bass La Mayor's Race,
Steve Hilton Pratt. Which is funny because if I said
that in the UK, people say, ah, that's a bad thing.
You shouldn't say Pratt. So LA's mayor's race. A lot

(01:29:33):
of people are watching it. I think a lot of
people are watching it for several reasons. One because obviously
Spencer Pratt, but also what happened last year, massive fires.
But you look at California. California in in itself is
kind of the Petri dish of a lot of stuff
and whether people want to admit it or not, out

(01:29:54):
there in the Red States, as far as revenue and
size of economy, it is it. What is it? The
fourth largest economy on the planet. And people are looking
around going, how do you have the fourth largest economy
on the planet. Think about that, the fourth largest economy.
It's a state. And at the same time, Texas kicks

(01:30:19):
your ass in just about every metric when it comes
to building and freedoms and things of that nature. What
the hell's going on? And I think people are looking
and saying, are you guys going to do the same
thing where you put somebody back in charge who has
failed you? Gonna be very interesting to see, very interesting,

(01:30:41):
all right? Coming up our good buddy Mike clients military analysts.
I'm going to join the program. We're gonna ask him
what's the next steps where they're on and if we
were to go in and actually have to have boots
on the ground, what does it really look like? Talk
to him straight to had Chad Benson Show Fun Chad
to show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:19):
The Chat Benson Show, because that's how the week's talk
to everybody one and only Mike Lines tired major in
the best.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
Dam military analysts in the business, and you are, Mike.
I'm sorry. I've seen a lot of people, they're all
a bunch of blowhards, and just fuck you're the best abound.
I said yesterday I was going to ask you this
question because you get this weird world now where everybody's like,
we got to finish it, and you got the Markle
events of the world. We've got to do something. And
I said, you know what, let's ask Mike the real question.

(01:31:47):
If we were to finish it and we're not going
to bomb our way into this thing, what does it
look like? How many boots on the ground, How long
is this going to take? What does this really look like?
Not just the bologne that's out there?

Speaker 11 (01:32:00):
And she had great to be back, Yeah, finishing it
means probably another month of military operations of sustained campaign
on infrastructure targets. If we're going to the military route
infrastructure targets, command and control, that likely means some kind

(01:32:20):
of invasion of KRG Island, taking away the Iranian capability
to generate revenue. And if Trump is interested in having
the US possess that enriched uranium, that's a twenty five
so fifty thousand troop mission inside of Iran with maybe
other countries with airplanes and creating runways and bringing engineering

(01:32:43):
equipment and figuring that out to get.

Speaker 10 (01:32:46):
That out of there.

Speaker 11 (01:32:47):
So there's still a very heavy lift that has to
happen that remains if we're going to quote finish it,
and you know, short of regime change there, short of
some other visual.

Speaker 10 (01:32:59):
Signs that is, that is a really long road.

Speaker 11 (01:33:02):
It's likely takes us through the end of the summer,
and it doesn't still guarantee that it's it's finished.

Speaker 2 (01:33:08):
You know, you talk, you and I have talked about this.
We talked about it first with Ukraine and Russia something
like this. The heavy left thing is said twenty five
to fifty thousand maybe more. And if you're going to
be there for a while. You're probably gonna have to
bring you know, any kind of occupation situation, right you
You've always said this occupation is different than going in
and conquering.

Speaker 10 (01:33:27):
Right yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:33:28):
I mean occupation means you got to feed and water
the troops you bring there, and to tail ratios all
those things where logistations when wars come into play. And
when you look at the terrain in Iran, it's surrounded
by mountains, you know, it's a very challenging situation there.

Speaker 10 (01:33:45):
It's not like Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 11 (01:33:46):
It's not like the other side of the channel there
where everything's pretty flat and easy to kind of get to.
Things will have to be flown in that, and there's
you're not going to forage the land, you know, you
know back from the Civil War days, those days are over.
It would be a very very logistical challenge that we
haven't seen in a really long time. And there's just

(01:34:08):
the amount of equipment, have you equipment you have to
bring in there that that of itself and maintaining it
and all those things. It would be a very very
long mission.

Speaker 2 (01:34:17):
Talking to Mike clients best and military analysts in the business, Uh,
you were talking about the whipsaw. Who do we believe?
Who don't we believe? That's a great question. I think
Trump a lot of what he's saying is more for
the market, trying to get it to calm down, more
than it is in reality. The reality is I don't
think either side believes each other. Totally understandable. That's part

(01:34:37):
of this negotiation. Who would you believe? But that being said,
a lot of people, I think now are getting very
frustrated because it is a oh good, it's over, Oh good,
it's and then it seems to be even from Trump,
it's one minutes over, the next minute it's like I'm
bored with this. The next minute is like we should
bomb them. The next minute it's like we It just
feels exhausting.

Speaker 3 (01:34:58):
No, it does.

Speaker 11 (01:34:59):
A Friday, for example, Trump announces the deal is imminent.
The market factors that in it, it has a rally.
The price of oil drops and crew drops, and things
are looking good. Literally over the weekend, the Iranian president
decides to retire, resign whatever he's doing, you know, writes
a letter and says he can't deal with it anymore.
The IRGC has complete control of the government.

Speaker 10 (01:35:22):
We don't even know what.

Speaker 11 (01:35:22):
The eye told of things of that, I mean, he's
not he's not been seen or heard of, and and
so the whole thing. And then the Iranian the urgyc
says that the whole thing's off. We're not even talking
anymore because of what's going on. And it's real in Lebanon.
So I don't know how, you know, Trump wakes up
Mondany and says, not all everything's okay, be calm about it.

Speaker 10 (01:35:39):
So it is.

Speaker 11 (01:35:40):
The whipsawn going back and forth is very difficult. I think,
you know, from the military's perspective, it kind of weighs
on your mind because you kind of lean forward with
a certain course of action that you think is going
to happen. And right now the president has unfortunately created
a lot of uncertainty amongst the troops and amongst the
situation there. Now you know, they're paid to stand by,

(01:36:00):
they're paid to do all that stuff, but you have
to spend tality in the military about go no go,
And if you think you're going, then you're you're leaning
towards something way. But right now, this whip song back
and forth I think is not going to do the
military very well.

Speaker 10 (01:36:14):
If we had to now all of a.

Speaker 11 (01:36:15):
Sudden flip the switch, which which as I, as I
kind of read the tea leaves right now, he's going
to let this go at least another week to ten days.

Speaker 2 (01:36:22):
What's it like? So in the military situation like this,
like you said, the Go No Go, the Whip song,
it has an effect on them because they feel like
it almost feels like like they're they're they're not a
part of this. It's just over their head. It's like
they're playing tennis or something.

Speaker 11 (01:36:38):
Yeah, you know the thing is in the military, you
kind of wind your fist the fist up. I mean,
I haven't been to combat. That's kind of what we did.
We you know, we got everybody in position and we
wind everything up and then and then we got to
the spot where we had to sit and wait because
we thought a couple of things were going to happen.
And you saw, you know, I was watching a movie
on the Pressure over the week and in dd same thing.

(01:37:00):
You know, they put these troops all out there and
it really takes a toll on you.

Speaker 10 (01:37:04):
It takes a toll on the fight.

Speaker 11 (01:37:05):
So from when the time comes, if it won, it
does come, let's hope the military can get off to
a good start. You know, whatever that means, it's likely
going to mean likely going to mean attacking command control targets,
and maybe they go off to carg Island again. But
the more I'm looking at this now, and I think
the military is resigning themselves to the fact that Trump

(01:37:26):
is really going to delay a long time. We're more
in a ceasefire mode now than we've been in the
wartime mode. Right, thirty eight days of combat and we're
fifty nine days or something of this ceasefire.

Speaker 10 (01:37:35):
So it's almost like he's turned it off.

Speaker 2 (01:37:39):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we talk about all things,
what's going on in the Middle East. We'll get the
rushier here in a little bit. But Mike, I give
Trump a lot of crap because I think sometimes I
think he makes his life way more difficult than he
needs to be. We consider and talk about all that
kind of stuff. But on the political side, I've said
this over and over again, Trump's stuck between well, instead

(01:37:59):
of a rock Iran in a hard place, He's negotiating
something that he helps we get all this stuff. He's
also negotiating gets time when it comes to the market,
which he worries about but also midterms, and with all
of that going on, he's also got BB and Israel.
And there is no doubt in my mind, and I've
said this before, Israel has heard itself in a way

(01:38:21):
that cannot be done generational kind of stuff. And I
feel like even if we got a deal that's great
and Israel doesn't want it, that's going to pose a
problem for us in this negotiation.

Speaker 10 (01:38:34):
Yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 11 (01:38:35):
And you see the Uranians trying to tie the situation
in Lebanon now as has Belah is their last remaining proxy.
If so, what is the Ranians get getting out of this?
If they have to give up nukes and if they
have to give up the enriched uranium, well, they're going
to want to keep that political that avenue open. They're
going to want to keep that channel open with has

(01:38:55):
Balan and other organizations that are used that they use
in order to export terra. So I think the Israelis,
on the other hand, are looking at this as an
existential threat, looking as this is now is to solve
this problem, and you're seeing more attacks. We saw attacks
come from the north from Hesbelah into Israel yesterday. But

(01:39:16):
the Israel you know, there's really military is not stopping.
So they're viewing this is still this extension of October seventh.

Speaker 10 (01:39:22):
They took care of Gaza.

Speaker 11 (01:39:23):
They want to fix Lebanon right now, and they're upset
whatever the word is that that the Ranians are getting involved.

Speaker 10 (01:39:30):
But in this case, the United States.

Speaker 11 (01:39:32):
Interrists are going to take a little bit of a
higher priority than what Israel's were trying to do.

Speaker 2 (01:39:35):
You know. The frustrating thing because we've heard that, you know,
supposedly the calls, you know, not out there, but it's
been leaked that he and he basically read Bebee the
Right Act and said everybody effing hate you. Yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:39:46):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:39:46):
And but on top of that, even yesterday the president
of Lebanon, who is a Christian, came out and said,
you guys are moving into Beiruts. That's what do you
think you're doing. That's a no go. And Trump has
been hardcore route is off limits. But BB seems to
want to do his own thing. And I do think
BB's got Ben Gaverer and a bunch of these other

(01:40:08):
people who are like, let's get this done. It is.
It's a weird situation. And again, this is where I
feel for Trump, because I know he's trying to I
think he wants out of this thing. I think he
realizes this did not go the way we want. I
need to get out of this and all that's left
is bad options.

Speaker 10 (01:40:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:40:26):
What has be surprised though, again bringing back to the
military side of it, is how much capability has Belost
still has And how's that happening?

Speaker 3 (01:40:35):
Is it?

Speaker 11 (01:40:35):
They just the incredible amount of storage and and and
supplies that they seem to have to support themselves. To me,
is you know, kind of be on the pal It
just shows you how much the Uranians had funded that operation,
how much the Uranians had deeply ingrained inside the you know,
the Lebanese culture there.

Speaker 10 (01:40:53):
But but it's it's all for naught.

Speaker 11 (01:40:55):
As as the President is trying to get a deal
with the Iranians, as they as they tied to that,
the hardline are not going to stop right. The moderates
are on the sidelines right now. This is all about
the IRGC negotiating with Trump, and they recognize that they
need They're going to need Hasbala once this is over,
if they're going to have any hope to try to
rebuild their operation.

Speaker 2 (01:41:15):
Talking to my clients, mill jams, We talk about all
things when it comes to militay what's going on globally.
Ukraine touched on that really quick today. Just massive explosions
keyve in certain places. It is weird. Man where is
putin because he hadn't really been seen a lot. The
voices are getting louder and louder over there. The frustration

(01:41:37):
level must be coming, and he's got to be hidden
in the bunker somewhere making sure that he got twenty
people eating tasting his food.

Speaker 10 (01:41:45):
It has to be.

Speaker 11 (01:41:46):
You saw overnight though, you had some pretty deadly missile
strikes inside of the Ukraine and Kiev and Dnepro, which
is that city that's to the to the west, and
those strikes are getting deeper and the Ranians saying ten
people killed. They're all civilians at this point. And you know,
this is where Russia does have this this advantage of

(01:42:08):
just launching bigger, faster, long range missiles. The fact that
the drone technology that the Ranians keep up with, they're
manufacturing something.

Speaker 10 (01:42:16):
Close to a million drones a month.

Speaker 11 (01:42:18):
It's just incredible what they've been able to to to
you know, take out of this, you know kind of situation.

Speaker 10 (01:42:25):
But who's really running that war?

Speaker 6 (01:42:27):
Now?

Speaker 11 (01:42:27):
Is it the generals? Is it putin? What what is
specifically is going on? Because there's no there's no you know, maneuver,
there's no forces that are that are looking to take
ground anymore, so that that's all over. This is just
two sides is slugging at it right now at this point,
And let's and and putin.

Speaker 10 (01:42:42):
You're right, what's going to happen to him? Uh?

Speaker 11 (01:42:45):
If if the Ukrainians can get some kind of breakthrough,
I think then the days are number.

Speaker 2 (01:42:49):
Then when you look over there and you see all
this going on. We've talked about the drone technology. AI
technology is coming as fast as the drone technology. They're
trying to outfit, well they've outfitted any of these drones,
but not just AI technology. There's this sense of when
are we going to turn over the kill no kill
to the AI, which is really kind of that's to me,

(01:43:13):
it feels very much robocopy.

Speaker 7 (01:43:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:43:15):
No, I think I think it's this generation's nuclear war.
And if we don't do this and get some kind
of salt agreements, tategic arms limitation agreement, I think we're
in big trouble and we have to do it not
only with the Russians, but with the Chinese and these
countries that have this capability. I guess I'm not too
worried about the one off drone.

Speaker 10 (01:43:34):
That can do that.

Speaker 11 (01:43:35):
But if you swarm those drones and they can have
killer capability, then you have a real challenge there. But
bringing that AI and putting it on a nuclear weapon
and just firing and forgetting it, basically, I think that
that creates a problem if you use it in the
offense to target. That's really where the hard line is.
And right now those decisions are not being made by diplomats.

(01:43:57):
They're being made in corporate boardrooms that are just increasing
this technology and trying to sell it to the different governments.
So this is uh, this, this genie is well out
of the bottle and it's we need to do a
summit specifically on this. And while Russia will try to,
you know, it's it's still trying to overcome its challenges

(01:44:17):
in Ukraine. It still has this this this capability because
of the industrial alikes that they have and and the
intellectual capital they have to use AI to springboard their
military advantage. At some point, does that make you nervous.

Speaker 2 (01:44:30):
I mean, you've been in the military for a long time,
You've got families in the military, sons in the military.
It make you nervous when you see these This AI
capability is coming along, and like you said, at what
point in time does it become skynet?

Speaker 10 (01:44:43):
You know what?

Speaker 11 (01:44:44):
What what makes me nervous is I think that we're
doing well. I'm kind of got somewhat of an inside
information on that. I'm working, you know, at the military academy.
I see what what the technology is. I've seen what
they're capable of working with the you know, working with
the guy the other day for example, it's got this
really neat dr drone swarm technology and how it talks
to each other.

Speaker 10 (01:45:03):
So there's a lot.

Speaker 11 (01:45:04):
It's just like dynamite, right, This technology could be used
for the good. It could help forward mankind, it can
help us find people, can help us do a lot
of things. But you always have to look at the
defense and the military aspect of it. So what just
gets me worried is whether or not what is exactly
going on the other side. You know, what specific technology
do they have, And I just leave with the confidence

(01:45:25):
that other countries end up copying the US. What ends
up happening is our technology leaks out and they get
eighty percent of the solution.

Speaker 10 (01:45:32):
If you see you know, the.

Speaker 11 (01:45:33):
Iranian drones for example, or just copies of things that
we've done in the past. So that's the only thing
that would get me nervous, just to make sure that
the United States are still well ahead on this and
we have politicians that recognize the importance of that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
Best damn military analysts in the business and retired major
in the r my clients, as always, good talking to
your brother. We will do it again next week.

Speaker 10 (01:45:54):
Thanks Chav, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1 (01:47:25):
Running with Scissors sounds great compared.

Speaker 2 (01:47:27):
To this, say, as we wrap it up tonight, everybody
that likes politics, pays attention to politics or even some
people who pay attention to what is going in Los
Angeles because of Spencer Pratt is going to be doing

(01:47:49):
exactly that tonight for a lot of reasons, and we've
talked about it. There's other primaries going on, but this
is going to be very interesting to see outsider who's
not really an outsider when it comes to born and
raised in southern California, not really an outsider, lost his home,

(01:48:09):
has seen all that LA has gone through. Can he
pull an upset in a blue area? Can he make
it so it's a two person race and he's one
of those two people taking on the establishment. I think
he can. It's gonna be interesting, There's no doubt about that.

(01:48:29):
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