Nashville Goes Days Without Power with No End in Sight as Another Winter Storm Approaches

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mother Nature is still doing mother nature y things when
it comes to the weather outside. Now it's time for
the Chad Action News weather reports. When weather weathers, we
weather the storm. We absolutely weather the storm and is
still weathering and it will be for several days.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
We're searching for a splash of warmth across the country.
Nicest weather is in the Southwest, some showers in the
Northwestern snow showers in the bitter Root. It was actually
the least snowpack on record to this date in Colorado
for this time of year.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, that I do know. But for a lot of
other places, it's not the snow. It's the cold that's
kicking everybody in the grundle. And it's continuing to do
that everywhere, including where I am.

Speaker 4 (01:02):
Where there's controversy out here.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It's become a national story with NES, that's Nashville Electric Services,
and they are well, there's a lot of conspiracies and
stuff going around. They didn't have enough people set up.
There's still one hundred thousand people without power in a
major city and they're talking several days to get their.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
Power still back on.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
There is all kinds of issues in several places that
people under scheduled knowing what was coming. I mean, it is,
We're having people die of hypothermia. What the blank?

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Wake up?

Speaker 3 (01:39):
Winchill sub zero from the Great Lakes all the way
into the northeast. He even feels like freezing all the
way down to parts of Florida near Orlando. That's just
scratching the service. It's even worse after this storm passes
over the weekend, so frigid air colliding with Pacific moisture.

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Wait, there's a storm coming.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Watching the storm.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Track of the weekend looks like snow in the Carolina's
col slimpacks in terms of winds and coastal flooding, a
glancing blowie ninety five quarter, although just east of Boston
and New York could be some heavier snows behind the system,
some record code down in Florida, maybe the coldest temperatures
in twenty ten in Orlando and Miami.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yikes, we're gonna have freezes now. It's not dropping down
to what it was earlier this week, but you're going
to see again a massive cold front just kind of
come on in. And that is a nightmare for me,
at least, because I can't even walk towards you guys know,

(02:32):
my venture to walk to work. I can't even do
that because now people are driving and you can't walk
on the sidewalks.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
Just everything here is ice, which sucks, as we all know.
It just sucks.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I mean, it's great if you could skate to work,
that'd be great, but you can't. So just keeping people
appreast of what's going on out there. The weather, missus, nature,
the mother of nature is not done with us yet.
Throughout the Midwest, parts of the Southeast, and of course

(03:09):
the Northeast. We expected in the Northeast and Midwest. Other
parts of the country not so much. Okay, we're not
equipped for this.

Speaker 5 (03:17):
Utility companies are rushing to restore power to nearly three
hundred thousand customers in the South, working to restore high
voltage transmission lines and hard hit Nashville officials say some
outages will last throughout the weekend.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Oh good, that's exciting, man.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
This is And now they're again the controversy on several
of these things about because I was talking to a
couple of the linemen yesterday or texting me and saying
that they didn't prepare enough polls, that they did not
have enough people ready to roll when it came. There

(03:56):
were other small, little municipal power companies who had more linemen.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Ready than a neys. Every year we hear about this,
whether it's PG and E or whether you know.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
And you know out there in California, or there's always
some issue when it comes to the power companies not
being prepared.

Speaker 4 (04:23):
And you're starting to think you did this on.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Purpose and people are asking a question, did you do
this on purpose? Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty
four to twenty three act you had Benson shows your
extra insta YouTube and more loving from all of you. Uh,
nightmare still in Minneapolis. That hasn't changed. I saw yesterday.

(04:45):
So as we all know, Tom Holman's out there now.
They sent you know, Immigration Barbie and the little guy
Bovino somewhere else at this moment. Although Bondi went there
to recipe because that's what she does, because she she's.

Speaker 4 (05:02):
Just swell to.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
And everybody's still trying to figure out how they can
win what took place the other day with Alex pretty
everybody's trying to make it say hey, look look at
what this guy did. Look at how bad this guy was.
You know, he had a broken rib. Did you know
he had a broken rib from from a scuffle earlier? Yeah,

(05:28):
there's a video out there now he kicks a car,
he busted up, screaming and yelling. Nobody's denying that these
protesters are over the top and out of control in
certain areas. That being said, that did not warrant what
happened to him. He had every right to protest, He

(05:49):
had every right to be out there. And people are going, well, well,
you know he got into a scuffle, and in that
scuffle the week before, he got his rib hurt. And
why was he still allowed to be there? Why didn't
they take his gun? Why wasn't he charged? If it
was that bad? That's what I want to know. Whose
fault is that? Because it in his fault that he
was in charge. He gave you every opportunity to charge him.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Why didn't you? Why didn't that happen?

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Trying to make it because he is an out of
control Everything about him was evil and bad. He was
there to do damage and kill a bunch of people,
trying to make it seem like he was this terrorist
isn't working with the American people, and people understand that.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
Looking at these polls first on that issue we just
heard about ICE efforts to deport illegal immigrants. If we
ask folks out there, too aggressive fifty nine percent, not
aggressive enough seventeen about right twenty four percent.

Speaker 4 (06:52):
That tracks with other.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
Polls that we've seen in recent days surrounding a lot
of this video that obviously has come out, and there's
all kinds of people weighing in on all sides.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
Yeah, b I think that's right. It does track with
the other polls, and it suggests that, well, the administration
is within its limits, it's legal limits in this immigration
crackdown and the drag net that's going on, particularly out
in Minnesota. UH, it has hit its political limits. And
the Republic's response to what it is seeing on its
TV screens and reading about in publications and so forth,

(07:25):
suggests that people, you know, they want they want the
border closed, they want criminal illegals rounded up. But they see,
you know, they see these scenes in the street, particularly
the two killings in Minnesota, and they see you know,
people who seem otherwise innocent although they may be here
illegally rounded up. They don't like that. We have a

(07:46):
compassionate people, and UH, and even the illegal immigrants will
not beyond the scope of that compassion. And I think
the administration is being seen as having gone too far
on this, and it pulsately suggests that.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
And it's not helping them. Those at Hume right there,
it's not helping them at all. The look and I
tell everybody this, are the protesters at times out of control?

Speaker 8 (08:11):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (08:12):
Are the protesters at time doing things that quite frankly
you do FAFO. Yeah, but that doesn't mean death. And
people are looking. If this was a incident, I think
it would be different. But this is not an incident.
There have been several of these. Well, they're part of

(08:33):
an anti ice and what discord, right, I mean, it's
the framing and trying to frame everybody is bad. And
you can go back to that shooting in Chicago, you
know several weeks ago. Well, they shot that woman five
times and they said she had a gun, and then

(08:55):
they charged her and then they find out, yeah, she
had a gun and it was in the back, she
didn't have it on her and they dropped all charges.
And of course now she's going to sue. But they
lied about that. That's why people are frustrated. They feel
like they're not getting real answers, and that too many
people are running around who should not be in the position.

Speaker 4 (09:17):
They're in dealing with things. That is hurting the administration.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
But it's also hurting the efforts to deport the bad ones,
which is the original thing that everybody was told. We're
gonna get rid of all the bad people, all the criminals,
and then we're going to sort it out from there.
And so, yes, there's a lot of frustration, and I

(09:44):
hear it every single day. And I will tell you, guys,
I've been texting and talking to my border patrol friends,
you know who are out there in Arizona, because I
have a lot of friends out there. When I was
playing pick a ball, I played in their league. And
they're good people and they're frustrated. They are they're frustrated
because they feel like they're getting put in positions they

(10:06):
shouldn't be in, that they're hiring people that are completely
not being trained the right way, and it's making everybody
look bad, and it takes away from the message of
fixing immigration to a message of look how bad ICE, DHS,

(10:28):
Border Patrol are. They're just a bunch of jack boot
thugs and that's not who they are. But I am
glad that some questions are being asked and that the
administration is looking at this in a much different way
because they can read the tea leaves the room, and
the room says, this is unpopular with the voters, this

(10:50):
is unpopular with the American people. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four to twenty three. At Chad Benson Show, she
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lot more on this throughout the day and yesterday it
was interesting. I so on my local show we do
a crossover and the guy who saw him before me
very maga, like so maga, and he and I got

(11:12):
into it because his whole thing is this guy fad
fo'd And I'm like, he didn't deserve to die. Well,
you know, I don't feel sorry for him. He gets
what he gets, you know kind of thing. And the
guy's my buddy, Chris is a great guy. It's again,
I'd look at a bigger picture. I'm older than him, right,
been around the block a few more times. I look

(11:32):
at a bigger picture too. If you're a Republican, they're
uncomfortable with it, not because they don't want to fix immigration,
or don't want to deport bad people. But they also
look at a picture that is, we need to get
re elected and headlines like this, do not do it.
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Speaker 4 (13:12):
If you don't have a real ID and you're like,
I can't fly. First of all, real ID is absolutely ridiculous.
I think we can all understand that.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
But if you don't have a real ID, can you
get on a plane starting February first, it's going to
cost you.

Speaker 8 (13:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (13:27):
So, first of all, we rolled out real ID in
May of last year, and we still have about six
percent of the populations that are transiting a TSA checkpoint
across the country that do not have a real ID
compliant driver's license or an acceptable form of ID such
as a passport. So one of the things that we

(13:48):
would like to do with TSA Confirm ID is to
give those six percent of the population an option. This
is volunteery, and that option is that you would pay
a forty five dollars fee prior to arriving at the
checkpoint to make sure that we know who you are

(14:09):
and you're compliant with the law. But most importantly, we
want to get the message out to the customers.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
That they know that you know.

Speaker 9 (14:17):
It's really important to block some time with the DMVs
and the Secretary of State offices to get this done
before the February first deadline.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's a pain in the ass for some people. I've
had just ridiculous time where well, I've got my birthcher
to be well, your birth certificate. This is a copy. No,
it's not a copy. It's not the original from when
I was born. We can't find that one. So I
went and go, well, it's.

Speaker 4 (14:38):
Not what we need. It's just it's so stupid. But Dad,
you don't understand. How are we going to know who
you are?

Speaker 8 (14:44):
Right?

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Because well you didn't care last March.

Speaker 2 (14:46):
What has changed, Well a lot of things have changed
because you could have.

Speaker 4 (14:52):
It's just it's so ridiculous, and everybody's.

Speaker 2 (14:55):
Like, well, it's the law.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Why is the law from when.

Speaker 2 (15:01):
It's the Patriots part of the Patriot Act? How long
did that take to go in effect? Twenty plus years,
twenty plush years, and here we are so now you
go and you get you a little star on there. Now,
so you've got everything. And so I'm like, screw, I'm
just gonna get a passport.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
It's just easier.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
It is, just it is. And again, this to me
is just another step, another layer, another bureaucracy of crap.
And then they want to charge you forty five bucks
for it, right to the TSA. And so you go
on TSA, dot Gover or whatever it is, and then
you fill out the stuff early, you pay your forty
five dollars, they give you a receipt, you go to

(15:39):
the airport, you show it to them. It takes an
extra fifteen or twenty minutes, and then you go inside.

Speaker 4 (15:45):
And it's just so ridiculous, it really is. It is.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
It's just it's another layer of bureaucracy. How can we
figure out who you are? Well, you know who I am.
I've got a license is not good enough? Okay, then
why do you give me one? Three, two, three, five,
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Benson Show. Meanwhile, yesterday the rates stay the same. The

(16:15):
Fed's not going to move the rates, and I didn't
think that was a big deal, right, you know, they
were going to keep it the same. And what's that
mean as far as you go as a borrower things
of that nature.

Speaker 4 (16:31):
Not a lot at this moment.

Speaker 10 (16:33):
What this means for borrowers, those rates that you're paying
when you think about your credit card, your mortgage, your
car loan pretty much going to stay where they are,
at least for now that you know we have those rates.
If you look, credit card rates still near a record
high about nineteen percent right now. Mortgage rates have come
down a bit in the last couple months. That's good
news for home buyer's carloans still pretty high too, though.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
My buddy just got a new car and he does
well for himself, and they've got not him and his
wife empty nesters. It's weird to say that a seven
year old, but he was telling me. I mean it's like,
first of all, the cost was you know, like he said,
seventy nine grand or something for something.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
I was like, jeez.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
And then we were chatting and he's like, this payment's
toll like one thousand dollars a month and they don't
have really any bills or for the most part living
quite comfortably, but it's still insane when it comes to
like car rates and things of that nature.

Speaker 4 (17:26):
Sah, I never buy knew and I hate carpins.

Speaker 8 (17:30):
Drives me crazy.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Coming up babies. We're not having them. Shina's not having them.
What's it mean?

Speaker 11 (17:36):
Chad Benson Show, Son, Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Love it when you guys tweet and text at me.
Somebody asked me earlier, Hey Chad, I listen to your
show and see all your social even Facebook, and I'm
gonna tell you guys this, and I've told you guys
this for years. If you guys don't know, I lost
control of my Facebook a long time ago. So my
uncle runs a lot of it. He's super. Maggie puts
crap up there. I pay very little attention to my Facebook,

(18:25):
and when you see a video on there, that's one thing,
because I go through my Insta and my ex if
you go look at my YouTube. So but he runs
that because we build up a lot of followers. And
that's good. But it was a pain in the ass
when I got hacked and drove me crazy and all

(18:47):
of my stuff was connected and they would never let
me get any of my stuff back from Facebook. Luckily
he still had his opportunity to do log in and stuff.
But so if you wonder why it's different, I tell
you guys that it's different. That being said, we'll get
back to immigration because that's one of things somebody who's
asking about yesterday, And I bring this up immigration this

(19:09):
side of it, because you know, right now, without immigration,
we're in a lot of trouble. We're not producing kids,
We're not producing Immigration is keeping us a little bit
ahead of the game. We need a certain amount of
people in the workforce that will add to the cofers

(19:34):
so we can keep up with the Joneses when it
comes to you know, Medicare and social security, things of
that nature. So I bring that up because yesterday they
had a report out about population and the growth.

Speaker 12 (19:50):
The Census Bureau says the US population between July twenty
twenty four and the same month in twenty twenty five
increased by only half a percent, about half of the
previous years.

Speaker 13 (19:59):
Told.

Speaker 12 (20:00):
Environmentalists applaud the trend because it takes pressure off of
natural resources. It kondom has hate it because it can
lead to a labor shortage down the road.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Now, if you guys don't understand, you know, you've heard
Elon talk about this. China, Japan, South Korea, all of
them are in serious trouble. People ask me all the time, well,
what do you think we should do? Well, we need
to fix the immigration problem. But immigration is helping us
in a lot of ways because it is helping keep

(20:33):
some of these things solvent longer. Because without immigration, without
people coming here and adding to the cofers, you're going
to see these things fall apart way faster. And some
of you probably going so you are advocating for legal immigration. No,

(20:53):
I'm advocating for a much smarter, more common sense approach
to immigration because we're not having kids, We're not I
keep telling people, what's the alternative? Do we just let
our population go away? Did we just let it falter?
Did we just let it go sideways? Because you know,
yesterday Trump's out there, you know, touting He's gonna give

(21:15):
a thousand dollars and all of that stuff, you know,
to his Trump accounts, and you can add money to it,
and it's gonna it.

Speaker 4 (21:23):
Has to be in there till they're eighteen.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
They have to invest it in certain kinds of funds,
which is going to help the stock market, which sounds great, right,
But here's the thing. You gotta have a kid. You
gotta have a kid. Guess what young people aren't doing
having kids. So my son, I don't know if he'll

(21:47):
ever have a kid. He and I have talked about
it before. He's only you know, he's gonna be sixteen
in a few months. My stepdaughter Lily and my oldest
daughter Fiona Finn they're never having kids.

Speaker 4 (22:00):
Never.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Charlie's a little princess, so she might. My siblings, Brie
is gonna have enough. She's got a third one on
the way, my other siblings never having kids, all of
their friends never having kids, and a big reason it's
they can't afford it.

Speaker 4 (22:19):
They can't afford it.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
And they were telling me yesterday, that's great, give me
a thousand dollars for a kid I'll never have because
I can't afford it. It's not addressing the real problem,
which is affordability. So there's a lot of you get
back to that. It's affordability, affordability, affordability. You know what,
they are having pets. They're having pets, and by the way,

(22:41):
they're not having pets is if you give birth, they're
getting pets.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
I'm sorry, and it's not just us.

Speaker 14 (22:50):
A growing number of young Americans are choosing to have
pets over children.

Speaker 15 (22:55):
You su the daily, they're my family, they're my children.

Speaker 14 (22:58):
As a fertility rate and in twenty twenty four hit
a record low amid fears of economic instability, some Americans
are stepping outside the box with their family makeup.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
My mom calls my dog's her grandchildren.

Speaker 14 (23:10):
Gravim McGregor, who lives in Atlanta, runs a popular Instagram
page for her two bulldogs, Sonny and Zoe.

Speaker 10 (23:16):
They are a part of the family and we don't
look at it as if they are pets.

Speaker 1 (23:20):
They are truly like little little kids with four legs.

Speaker 14 (23:24):
For her, there is no difference between a furry kid
and a human one, and she is not alone. Forty
three percent of Americans say they prefer to have a
pet as their kid over human children. According to a
recent Harris poll.

Speaker 15 (23:37):
It was simple math. Right now, I'm already stretched, then,
so adding that child, adding that burden is a barrier
for me.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Math The math, don't math when you can't afford to
buy a home, When you can't afford to move out
of your parents' home right now, when you can't afford
to do anything but work three jobs between the two
of you to keep the lights on and not have
five roommates.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
It's easier to have a cat or a dog than
it is a kid.

Speaker 14 (24:08):
On TikTok, West Virginia native Sarah Morris showcases life with
her fiance and their two cats, Sunday and Banana, But
she says even the finite number of partnerships she gets
in addition to her nine to five as a fight attendant,
leaves a little left over.

Speaker 15 (24:23):
When people feel secure, they make long term plans. When
times of instability, they have to adapt. In adapting for
us right now looks like shifting what the meaning of
family looks like.

Speaker 4 (24:35):
Not alone.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
They're not alone when you talk to young people. And
by the way, there's a lot of young people out there,
despite what some people think, that would like to have
a family one day.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
And yeah, that still might be a little bit more delayed.

Speaker 2 (24:49):
Than it was, you know, forty years ago, because you know,
young women are coming out of college and they would
like to have a career. But this thought that they
never want to have kids, I think that's a little
we're done. What they don't want, though, is to always
be so far behind that life is such a stressor
the cost of.

Speaker 4 (25:09):
Owning a home.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
We always talk about the cost of having a car,
of talking about all the cost of childcare, the cost
of childcare, you know, I tell kids, young younger kids,
young adults. You know, we've got interns, We've got people
who work and I talk to them and they'll say, yeah,
I'll ask them about do you want to have a
family and stuff, and they're like, they've pushed it so

(25:31):
far out of their mind, which is, you know, understandable.
And they'll say stuff like that, how my mom and
dad did it because there was a time when you know,
dad could go to work, Mom could stayn take care
of the kids.

Speaker 4 (25:47):
That can't happen anymore. And now when I talk to people.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
They're like, I we make just a little bit off
my salary because the rest of it goes to childcare.
Just insane, it is. And that's why people are going,
you know what, cats, dogs, it's easier.

Speaker 15 (26:05):
Do you want to explain to people while you're in trouble, Yeah,
seventeen of them, buddy.

Speaker 16 (26:09):
I have four cats and I have four kids. And
which one do you think is easier to take care of.

Speaker 14 (26:14):
Jennie Budennick is the cat or cheap of all things
for four legged kids, Saint Louis's largest staff in home
pet care service. Budnick has seen the family dynamic between
people with pets shift in the last thirty years.

Speaker 16 (26:28):
Really it's that shift of they are treated as children.
If you do some of the comparison between what a
healthy pet, what the expenses are during a year versus
a healthy child, I mean you can be ten times plus.

Speaker 4 (26:43):
Yeah, ten times plus.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
I mean our cat is spoiled and our dogs are
kind of spoiled, but compared to our kids, the cost
way cheaper.

Speaker 14 (26:56):
A Brooking study from twenty twenty two found that it
costs about three hundred thousand dollars to raise a child
in the US from birth through age seventeen, which includes
basics like housing, food, clothing, and education. By comparison, pet
calls were roughly twenty seven thousand dollars over eighteen years.
What would be your advice to someone who doesn't know
if an actual human kid or a pet kid is

(27:18):
best for them.

Speaker 16 (27:19):
If anyone has a hesitation about having a human child,
please do not. You have to really be confident in
yourself that that's the path that you want to take
to bring a human into this world.

Speaker 2 (27:31):
I'm going to go with those numbers again. Three hundred
and thirty thousand and twenty seven thousand, three hundred thirty
twenty seven, three hundred and three thousand dollars more. Now,
being a father is the greatest thing in the world
I've never been. I mean, it is the greatest thing

(27:54):
I've ever done, and I wish it would have done
it sooner. But kids aren't doing it at all, and
they're not even thinking about it.

Speaker 4 (28:03):
And that's why we have an issue.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
And it's not just us, okay, but we can't believe
it's it isn't listen to this. See if this sounds familiar.

Speaker 17 (28:14):
Long the world's most populous country, China, is now shrinking
the population in decline here for a fourth straight year,
mainly because more Chinese couples are making a conscious choice
to not have babies, well at least not human ones.
Like people in their twenties and thirties in the US
and elsewhere, China's millennials and Gen zs are often choosing

(28:37):
a different path to parenting doting on dogs, cats, and
other cherished creatures to Google Boom instead of children.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
Does this sound familiar?

Speaker 2 (28:50):
So wait, in China, they're not getting married, they're not
having kids, but they are having pets.

Speaker 17 (29:02):
As compared to raising kids. It costs less for a dog,
she says, more easy.

Speaker 1 (29:08):
China's lowest birth.

Speaker 17 (29:10):
Rate on record, five point six per thousand people, coincides
with an explosion in pet ownership here. The pet economy
hit an estimated one hundred and thirteen billion dollars last year,
and by twenty thirty, Goldman Sachs predicts that Chinese pets
will outnumber Chinese toddlers.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Two to one.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
I wonder what their problem is in China.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Hmmm.

Speaker 17 (29:35):
The reasons behind the declining kids are in part economic,
with rising unemployment, competitive pressures, and unaffordable housing, but the
traditional view of marriage and family has also changed.

Speaker 18 (29:49):
The younger generation. They started to realize, like, what if
this is not the life I want?

Speaker 17 (29:54):
Why are they wanting pets instead of kids?

Speaker 18 (29:57):
Like you have to think about their educations and their futures.
But like my dog, as long as he's hoppy, his
tale is like wigging every day, I'm good, you know.

Speaker 17 (30:09):
The plunge is fueling a demographic crunch as China juggles
in aging population. Fewer children will mean a smaller workforce
in the future, putting the economy at risk.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Oh man, does that sound for? That could be anywhere
USA report about America and our population decline and China,
and they all are kind of feeling the same thing
too damn expensive. Ooh, I'm not quite sure I want

(30:42):
to do this. Dating is not right now because the
economy sucks and we got nothing going on, and that
doesn't seem to be a future.

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Just sounds familiar. Put it out there, folks.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
That's why we are different than the rest of the
world though, when it comes to things like immigration, because
at the end of the day, people want to immigrate
here into our society, and because of that, we have
a much better chance. But we have to do it right,

(31:16):
which is bringing and allowing people to come here that
want to be a part of society, that want to
be a part of this amazing, incredible experiment that is
the United States of America. And add to it, it
can't be we're going to let everybody in. It needs

(31:38):
to be selective and give people the opportunity to come
here in an easier way because you want to be
a part of America and you want to add to
it and not take away from it, and just be
so and so from this country here, and you're going
to live your life still like you were in your

(31:59):
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The monks are on the march as.

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Speaker 2 (33:33):
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Speaker 1 (33:37):
Time for you to leave.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Where are the marching monks? Tell me Chad? Where are they?

Speaker 21 (33:44):
They crossed into Virginia, which, if you're counting, is their
eighth state. Their next stop is Gasberg now. The monks
shared this video in a post last night, thanking a
medical team who came to their rest stop to check
on their health. According to the monks, the journey has
pushed their bodies to the limit. They walk through heat
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(34:05):
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monks could continue safely. The monks call that care a
gift beyond measure.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
That's right. So Day ninety five wrapped up. They're on
the day ninety six. Just about an hour ago they
took off. They're going to head to Gasberg, Virginia, then
to Lawrenceville and Alberta, not Canada.

Speaker 4 (34:29):
That'd be weird if they just ended up there.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
And they're going to continue their journey through Virginia one
step at a time, they say. So people are going
to be out there checking them out, saying hi to them.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
As the monks are motoring for peace. I love it.

Speaker 2 (34:44):
I do this story local, and I love it because
I get a lot of people who are very much
Bible belt, you know, and they're like, why are you
talking about the monks?

Speaker 4 (34:55):
I said, first of all, it's a great story. It's
for peace.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Look what's going on in our country. It's a wonderful thing.
And how are you not curious about people that are
willing to take a step like this in their belief,
which is incredible, like living their belief for peace.

Speaker 4 (35:10):
Out in front of the world. So and the dog
doing fine.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Want to make sure everybody knows that they got their
dog a loca, which is a dog of peace. He's
cruising along doing fine, and they are definitely dressed much
better than when they started.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
They've got a lot more layers. Layers.

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(35:45):
that is going on currently in not just Minnesota and
several other places, but the battle for the optics. How
people are paying attention matters. We're gonna talk a bit
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sweeping Asia, but we're going to talk about that. Should

(36:07):
we be worried about the new what kind of mass
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update on the weather.

Speaker 4 (36:14):
How bad is it going to be? Heading into the weekend.
How bad is it now? Because it's been kind of
bad out there and we're going.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
To do so many other things. Hour number two, Straight ahead,
Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (36:53):
Still cold outside and it might get colder through the weekend.

Speaker 5 (36:58):

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah, they have not covered themselves in glory nes. They
have in fact flailed. That is a Nashville Electric service
has flailed in a major way. And it's not just them,
there are several others. But there's people here about one
hundred thousand plus there are gonna be out power for
several more days. And another coo snap, what do they

(37:34):
call it? A bomb?

Speaker 4 (37:35):
Cyclone? Cyclone bomb coming in.

Speaker 3 (37:37):
Watching a storm track from the weekend looks like snow
in the Carolinas. Coastal impacts in terms of winds and
coastal flooding. A glancing blowigh ninety five quarter although just
east of Boston and New York. Could be some heavier
snows behind the system. Some record code down in Florida.
Maybe the coldest temperatures in twenty ten in Orlando and Miami.

Speaker 2 (37:54):
Yikerdoos, So we got that going on. We don't have
a lot of snow in Colorado. You're gonna have it's
it's still ugly out there. People trying to dig themselves out.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Literally in Austin, Texas, roads turning into ice rinks. Parts
of two interstate highways in Mississippi forced to shut down
as crews try to clear ice and stalled semi trucks
from the roads. Some drivers have been stuck in the
pile up for hours, even days.

Speaker 14 (38:20):
No Moon truck almost ran out a feel I had
to cut it off.

Speaker 4 (38:26):
I've seen some of that, that's for sure.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
We've seen a lot of that, and a lot of
it is not in the cities or even on the highways.
It is in the suburban areas where there are areas
where it is incredible. It looks like a winter wonderland
still because the sun really hasn't come out, the heat
isn't going up, and when they had the freezing rain

(38:51):
come in after the snow and then that cold snap.
It just created this beautiful white streets in a lot
of places that's not melting. So people are getting stuck
in their neighborhoods, which is crazy.

Speaker 4 (39:07):
Speaking of crazy, you know we might have a shutdown tomorrow?
Do you guys were of that?

Speaker 2 (39:12):
Are you aware that we are as close potentially to
another shutdown? But we may be getting closer to making
sure we don't have one.

Speaker 22 (39:20):
The New York Times reporting President Trump and Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer are close to reaching a deal to
negotiate possible new restrictions on immigration agents. It comes after
Democrats threatened to partially shut down the government by blocking
funds for homeland security. I'mid outrage over the fatal shootings
of Alex Preddi and Renee Good by federal agents.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
So now this isn't done deal, but it's getting close.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
And you've got some Republicans that would like to see
some reforms as well, because they're not happy.

Speaker 4 (39:51):
With the look.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
And I continue to say this about the look. It matters. Okay,
it matts. If you don't think it matters, you are
fooling yourself. And Trump gets optics better than maybe any
president in our history, and he surrounded themselves with people

(40:13):
who also care about the look.

Speaker 23 (40:16):
It's interesting you brought up Dan Bongino and Cash Battel,
and they are obviously obsessed with optics. So is Christinome
doing the FBI right along for a video. You know,
we found out that they were pitching a reality show
about her time at DHS. They are obsessed with wearing
FBI ray jackets. They want these TV moments. I was

(40:39):
my mind was blown when I read that account in
the New York Times of senior leaders having to script
a series of tweets about the Charlie Kirk assassination before
they even knew what happened, and that there's just such
an obsession with responding, with tweeting, with maintaining this like

(41:01):
I hate to say it, but like podcaster role that
they had. They don't see themselves as leader. There's another
line where he said Cashpital tells someone who's preparing his breathing.

Speaker 2 (41:13):
I don't read.

Speaker 4 (41:14):
It's a look thing, the optics, and it matters.

Speaker 2 (41:17):
And right now the optics has flipped and everybody understands that.
And people that were on board with Trump right myself included,
when it comes to immigration. He sorted out the border,
and I want him to get the bad people out
of here. And I've said all along getting rid of
everybody probably isn't going to happen by rounding them all

(41:38):
up the way that people think. And if we were serious,
we would look at alternatives to going after anybody who
hires somebody who's here illegally and going after businesses to
do that. But you know, it's how serious are they
in doing that? Also, re emittance was a big deal
that we talked about the other day. Hit him with
re emittance and watch what happens? People, or what do

(42:01):
we always say, they'd rather be broken poor in their
own home than broken poor in a country where they're
not going to get any support. But looks matter, optics matter,
and their sensing things have changed. The tide has turned.
And because of that, even people again who support Trump
have said, all right, maybe maybe maybe this is this

(42:22):
is not what I sent up for.

Speaker 4 (42:23):
We've had enough.

Speaker 24 (42:24):
Let's talk about what happened in Minneapolis. Ice murdered an
American citizen in cold blood, and then the Trump administration
called him a domestic terrorist.

Speaker 4 (42:32):
Yeah that's it, Yeah, like plain and simple.

Speaker 24 (42:35):
Yeah, I see the administration trying to spin it, and
it's disgusting. It's like they didn't even have a moment
where they're like, hey, we're reviewing the footage. We're going
to try to see what's really happening. All of them,
Trump and all the cronies put out collective statements that
immediately blamed an American citizen that was exercising his First
and Second Amendment rights.

Speaker 2 (42:55):
Right.

Speaker 24 (42:56):
He has a right to protest, he's right to carry
a firearm. He's a legal gun owner.

Speaker 8 (42:59):
Right.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
There's no question about this whatsoever.

Speaker 24 (43:01):
And the administration immediately comes out and they try to
gaslight the public, which you cannot do when we have
fifteen different videos of what happened.

Speaker 8 (43:09):
Yes, and it is what they do, though.

Speaker 24 (43:11):
I think this is why there is zero support for this.
I think it's important to speak up because I've spoken
to a lot of people who are seeing it and
they think it's important, and they go, I just I
don't know if I feel comfortable talking about it. I
don't know if they feel like exposure to Trump or
whatever like that. I think those are the moments where
you got to speak up.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
Andrew Schultz right there, who supported Trump who did didn't
support everything, but understands that this isn't going the way
that a lot of people thought it was going to go.
And that hardcore group that wants you to you know,
every protester or it's a domestic terrorist and if you
if the fa FO, that's their fault and deport every

(43:49):
single person, period, case closed, end of story, because that's
what I want. That group is shrinking. And we've always
said the group that matters is independence.

Speaker 4 (44:01):
Because you see how Trump moves. It's like, hey, you
speak up, you're up.

Speaker 24 (44:04):
All right, then you're out?

Speaker 4 (44:06):
And who is it? And that's the problem.

Speaker 25 (44:07):
Everybody in his administration wants to beta.

Speaker 24 (44:10):
Well, then I'm not even talking about people in administration.
I'm just talking about regular people that were sympathetic to,
you know, some of the immigration reform that Trump was
talking about and then are realizing, no, this is not
what they wanted at all, and now they're just kind
of quietu They're worried about like getting licks or getting
a public lashings or criticism on the area.

Speaker 8 (44:29):
Get it, get it.

Speaker 24 (44:30):
And anybody who wants to criticize us for a platform,
one hundred percent that is fair. One hundred percent but
that doesn't mean you just stay quiet, Like if you
see something that you look at and you're like, I
don't think this is America that I want to live in,
and which is the sentiment of everybody right now. There
are a few like ideologues in theirnet that are trying
to defend this. I'm sure you guys have seen it. Yeah,
but I think the majority of Americans are looking at
this and they're going, this is not a country that

(44:53):
we believe that we are, and we can't continue to
support stuff like this, and I think it's important to
talk about it.

Speaker 26 (45:00):
Do as well.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
Again, I absolutely won ever sent you as well. Was
this guy perfect?

Speaker 18 (45:06):
No?

Speaker 4 (45:07):
Did he kick.

Speaker 2 (45:09):
A DHS ice truck and scuffle of them a week ago?

Speaker 4 (45:16):
Yes? Does that mean he deserved to die?

Speaker 8 (45:20):
No?

Speaker 4 (45:23):
Does that mean that.

Speaker 2 (45:28):
They had every right to do what they did, because hey,
you know what, he's a domestic terrorist and we brandished
him that, so deal with it. No, Because first of all,
you started out lying immediately by saying, what, well.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
He had a gun brandish? No he didn't.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
And you've been caught before telling stories about things that
happened that didn't happen, and that's the issue. For me,
among other things. And there's plenty of issues. You know,
Tom Holman yesterday he got onto the you know, he's
out there. He's on the ground now, as they say.

(46:09):
And I saw Tim Wall say, you know, he and
Tom they had a good conversation, and he feels like, look,
I don't agree with Tom and this, but he goes,
he goes.

Speaker 4 (46:20):
I know, he's got a job to do.

Speaker 2 (46:21):
And the way that he comes at this is a
much You get a sense that the adult is in
the room. And they talked about sanctuary cities, and he says, look,
you guys have all these people you know that are
in custody.

Speaker 4 (46:34):
And they broke it down. They said, look, we have.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
Two hundred and like twenty people in custody in the
prisons that have orders to be removed.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
And Wall said, we.

Speaker 2 (46:47):
Are going to make them face their punishment and do
their time in Minnesota.

Speaker 4 (46:51):
And then you have them.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
When they're going to be released. But he felt like
we can get somewhere with this. That's why you send
home in it. There's a reason for this. This is
rand Paul.

Speaker 27 (47:04):
Earlier today, the Secretary of NOME and other top administration
officials initially said alex pretty brandished a weapon. And of
course Homeland and other committee's got to report yesterday from
CBP saying nothing about brandishing a weapon, just saying someone
shout his gun.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
I mean, what do you make of these in conducts?

Speaker 28 (47:20):
Think for people to have confidence in government and confidence
in the law enforcement of government, we have to be
very honest. And I don't think it's on this to
say he brandished a weapon.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
I don't think it's honest to say.

Speaker 28 (47:32):
He assaulted officers. Every American's seen this video now, I
most have it snowed in for three days.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
A lot of people have seen this video.

Speaker 28 (47:42):
At every point in the video, he retreats.

Speaker 18 (47:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (47:46):
I'm not saying he might not have been obnoxious.

Speaker 28 (47:48):
I'm not saying he might have said obnoxious things.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
But he films.

Speaker 28 (47:52):
He doesn't even obstruct the traffic. He waves a car
through in the middle of this. As they approach him,
he retreats. As they approach him again, he retreats. When
a woman shoved to the ground, he goes to helprop
and that's what he is grabbed from behind. At no
point in time do I see an assault, And I
don't think anybody in America believes he was assaulting those officers.

Speaker 2 (48:15):
I agree with ram Paul one hundred percent. He may
have been a dick, he may be of noxious, but
he didn't warrant death.

Speaker 4 (48:25):
Let me know what you think.

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Speaker 4 (49:50):
All right, what kind of mask do we have to
wear on this one?

Speaker 2 (49:54):
Right? Why is this happening again? Is it because somebody
ate it's something they shouldn't have? Of course, you know
what I'm talking about. The latest virus to come from Asia.

Speaker 29 (50:06):
Thailand is among several Asian nations that have stepped up
airport health screenings after India reported two cases of the
deadly neiper virus. But what is NEPA and how concerned
should people be? Neper is a rare viral infection that
comes mainly from fruit bats. It was first identified in
Malaysia in the late nineties. Here's Paul Hunter, Professor in

(50:29):
Medicine at Norwich Medical School in Britain.

Speaker 30 (50:32):
Most transmission events are because of the contact, either with
an infected animal or with something that has been contaminated
by fruit bats.

Speaker 29 (50:44):
It can also spread from person to person, typically after
close contact between the sick and their caregivers, though experts
say that does not happen easily.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
Good So it's a hard thing to transfer, unlike COVID.
COVID was easy. It was airborne, it was quick, it
was easy to do. See where I'm going with this,
this seems to be a little bit hard. First of all,
I've stopped eating fruit bats because they're higher and they
get a lot of gluten. Really, I know, I haven't

(51:14):
eat a fruit bat at all. Actually not anymore. Again,
I told you guys, I've given.

Speaker 4 (51:19):
That up for lent.

Speaker 29 (51:20):
Niper can cause severe illness and can be deadly.

Speaker 30 (51:23):
The death rate varies from outbreak to outbreak, but is
of the order of about forty five to seventy five
percent mortality.

Speaker 29 (51:32):
Rate, though Hunter points out that is based on identified infections.
He says some people get no symptoms at all and
may not be identified as infected. This means NEPA's actual
death rate is likely to be lower. One concern is
that the infection has an incubation period of one to
two weeks.

Speaker 30 (51:52):
And what this means is that it's actually very difficult
to control at airport. If you've got a disease that's
got two weeks incubation perce period for the first two
weeks after somebody's carrying the infection, there's no way you
could pick it up.

Speaker 2 (52:05):
Good I wasn't planning on pigging it up anyways, For
goodness gracious. Now, as bad as COVID was, you know,
this would be a gazillion times worse.

Speaker 4 (52:15):
It just doesn't spread that away.

Speaker 2 (52:17):
So we hear about these, you know, once or twice
every couple of years.

Speaker 4 (52:22):
You know, there's always something like this.

Speaker 2 (52:23):
The good news is, if there is any in this,
and we're pointing this out to you, is.

Speaker 4 (52:28):
That it's hard to spread comparatively.

Speaker 2 (52:31):
So the reason that a bola is it is crushing
globally is because it's hard to catch because it's not airborne.
Just putting that out there once you guys are relax
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(52:54):
So do you have any of these because this could
lead to dementia.

Speaker 31 (52:57):
Having any of these six depressive symptoms in your forties
to sixties could raise your risk of getting dementia by
fifty percent. According to a new study in the UK,
dementia rates were higher in people who had low self confidence,
trouble concentrating, trouble coping with problems, anxiousness, not feeling happy
with wag tasks are done, or feeling socially isolated. Researchers

(53:21):
suspect these six red flags in particular might be early
warning signs of cognitive decline. Other known risks for dementia
include hearing loss, high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking, and inactive lifestyle.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
Now do you have any of those because if you do,
could be in trouble between forty and sixty after that
we really care, well you should care. I know, I'm kidding.
So these things are always kind of so just the
blanket they're looking for something.

Speaker 4 (53:50):
They're always trying to look for something.

Speaker 2 (53:52):
I think some of it is genetic, and obviously some
of it is just healthy lifestyle or unhealthy lifestyle, which
most of us probably lead at times is an unhealthy lifestyle.
I think we can all raise our hands on that.
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No, this has nothing to do with some Molly's and nurseries.
This has to do with ghost students.

Speaker 25 (54:57):
This is fifty eight year old and you're at mayor
of Urban DC, a business researcher for a nonprofit with
a PhD, who has no need at all to take
classes at this community college in Maryland. But as he
and his teenage son discovered last fall when they were
applying for college financial aid, someone had beat them to it.

Speaker 1 (55:17):
So that's what you saw.

Speaker 25 (55:18):
The rats are fake, stealing their identities and signing both
of them up for classes at community colleges across the country.
You're here talking with us. He wasn't as comfortable great.

Speaker 8 (55:30):
He was scared.

Speaker 25 (55:31):
For nearly two years, someone was using their credit to
apply for school loans, and his son, who today as
a high school senior in Bethesda, Maryland, was already listed
as a second year student at this community college in
the middle of Utah.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Now let me tell you something, people, I had this
long before this ghost college. And I've told you, guys,
the story of my sister and some of the issues
she had. Well, she took and sold my information a
long time ago. She had bad drug problems. God bless her.

(56:06):
Hope everything's well with her.

Speaker 4 (56:07):
But and what happened to us.

Speaker 2 (56:09):
People were using my toal security on all kinds of stuff.
And there was a time when I was living in
England where it showed that I had a loan out
for college in America.

Speaker 4 (56:25):
And there was nothing I could do to fix it.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
This was, you know, back before id theft that we
talk about and all the stuff that you see. Now
that's so easy. So they go and they they take
your your info, They get the money, they continue to
apply for stuff, they continue to get the money.

Speaker 4 (56:40):
They don't go to actual class. They just take the
money and run.

Speaker 25 (56:43):
How awful has this been for both of you?

Speaker 14 (56:47):
Very difficult.

Speaker 25 (56:47):
He believes the thieves stole their identities after his wife
died in a tragic car accident and their health insurance
company had one of those massive data leaks.

Speaker 13 (56:57):
It's a huge issue. So, you know, when the pandemic,
everybody went to online learning. By doing that, it really
did open the door. So right now we have about
two hundred investigations open nestionwide.

Speaker 4 (57:08):
That's a lot. That is a lot.

Speaker 2 (57:10):
So they're snagging these things. They're taking off with people's
info in different ways. You know. I mean everybody, I
tell you, guys, do everything you can to protect yourself
when it comes to your ID, when it comes to
protect all of your personal information, especially when it comes
to the medical side of stuff, because that's where just
everything is.

Speaker 25 (57:29):
They call them ghost students, these digital thieves with no shame.
Jason Williams, a federal investigator, says they'll often use AI
to enroll long lists of people in schools, sign them
up for pell grants and loans, and then disappear as
soon as they get the money.

Speaker 13 (57:45):
As you're stilling identities, these loans are not being repaid.
They're being assigned to people they don't even know. They
have a debt with the US Department Education.

Speaker 25 (57:51):
A college in Maryland shared with us this photo of
a would be student applying to their school and we've
blurred his face because he hasn't been charged with a crime.
Here's that same would be student trying to get into
the same school just last week using a different name
and ID.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
And you guys understand that why it's chaos when it
comes to student loans.

Speaker 4 (58:16):
Is they're with you forever. You're not bk in that.

Speaker 2 (58:26):
So that's what makes this even far worse because you
don't find out about it until it's way too late,
and then the amount of money you're spending to try
to figure out how to get out of it is
a nightmare.

Speaker 25 (58:39):
Our owned and operated ABC stations across America are seeing
this up close. Our station WPVII in Philadelphia spoke with
two schools.

Speaker 27 (58:48):
We had nearly five hundred ghost students that actually were
registered in classes.

Speaker 25 (58:54):
How many records are in the database right now? In
suburban Atlanta, former NFL linebacker mo Reee Simpkins and his
wife run a software security company that helps more than
one hundred and fifty schools verify the identities of entering
students to make sure they are real people.

Speaker 4 (59:11):
What's the worst you've.

Speaker 14 (59:11):
Seen once we ran through that was about thirty one
percent of the data that they presented to us was fraudlent.

Speaker 4 (59:17):
Wow, yes, sir, and that was scary.

Speaker 30 (59:21):
You think.

Speaker 2 (59:23):
So this is a big deal, and we're going to
hear more and more about it in the coming weeks
and months, So don't be surprised. Youerinated first, because we
like to be in front of all of this kind
of stuff.

Speaker 4 (59:34):
But it is crazy.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
How easy it is to apply for these things and
get these loans and then just gone with the money,
gone with the money, impersonating somebody that's not good.

Speaker 4 (59:53):
No, it's not speaking of that.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
See that that right there is called a It went
from one point to another point. Right, it's a SA
and we're gonna go into what now a I You know,
it's not going anywhere. It's here, and it is affecting
a lot of things, and it's making a lot of
industries uncomfortable. But the music industry is the first one

(01:00:17):
to really feel the entertainment side of things, because well,
you guys, here, I play my White Woman Wednesday and
a bunch of the you know, you know, the songs
I sing because my voice is so good exactly but
there are already certain legitimate money making artists out there.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
In the music world.

Speaker 32 (01:00:48):
Siena Rose is topping streaming charts and going viral on
TikTok fu, But is she real or AI?

Speaker 19 (01:01:00):
Anyone else heartbroken about Cna Rose being an AI?

Speaker 1 (01:01:03):
Artists the Instagram account linked from Spotify.

Speaker 4 (01:01:06):
These are AI.

Speaker 32 (01:01:08):
On Spotify, Cena Rose is listed as a neo soul
singer with more than three million monthly listeners, and she's
on track to be one of the top new artists
of the year. However, Rose has no verified social media
presence and has never played gigs. She's also never responded
to a request for an interview, including ours.

Speaker 33 (01:01:27):
We detect artifacts traces of a computer doing computer stuff.
If you moundated mathematically, you will see that there are
some patterns that are very very characteristic of how these
generative model work, and you don't find the same patterns
in human creative music.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
Now, she has been described by Spotify as anonymous, and
a lot of people out there, like Deezer Right the
French streaming so did they They tiked that she may
actually be.

Speaker 4 (01:02:05):
Not of this world.

Speaker 32 (01:02:06):
Streaming service dser developed an AI music detection tool that
says many, if not all, of her songs have been
flagged as computer generated. Are you certain that Sienna Rose
is AI?

Speaker 4 (01:02:18):
Yes?

Speaker 33 (01:02:19):
Well, and again we share the science behind it, and
we actually provide tools for other people to verify. At
some point in the creative process, AI was used.

Speaker 32 (01:02:31):
Now many listeners grappling with the fact that they couldn't
tell that this was possibly AI.

Speaker 1 (01:02:36):
I can't believe I felt for an AI.

Speaker 32 (01:02:39):
Artist Raymond Begson says he first listened to Rose his
most streams song, Into.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
The Blue automatically.

Speaker 26 (01:02:44):
I fell in love with the song, and I come
to find out a couple of weeks later that the
song is actually made by AI.

Speaker 4 (01:02:54):
Here's something interesting about this. First of all, how many
albums and whatnot? She has?

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Forty five songs, ten albums to the streaming service was
posted between are you ready for this? September of last year,
so like three and a half months, right September, October, November,
and then December, like three and a half four months.
Forty five songs, ten albums. Now here's the Interwest thing.
Originally white and redheaded singer songwriter, later a brunette and

(01:03:26):
then now where they've kind of settled as a black
female R and B singer. So the other two versions
were removed already from Spotify, but.

Speaker 32 (01:03:36):
One TikTok account claiming to be Sienna Rose herself denies
that accusation.

Speaker 34 (01:03:41):
Well, I feel real.

Speaker 32 (01:03:44):
Many TikTok users now suspecting this account of being AI generated, too,
pointing out disappearing lines, indoors, unnatural behavior of roses, hair,
morphing of teeth, and numbers and letters not looking real.

Speaker 4 (01:03:57):
It is super tough these days, but I'm looking for anomalies.

Speaker 8 (01:04:00):
I'm looking for the texture of skin.

Speaker 2 (01:04:05):
Yeah, I think we all are. And I don't think
that was real either, And they're trying to do everything
they can to figure out.

Speaker 4 (01:04:11):
Okay, because the amount of.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Money being made from this is massive shit four and
a half million Spotify users a month. Let me give
you an idea snapshot of what that means to whoever
created this. So the way Spotify breaks it down is
the payout is point zero zero three to point zero

(01:04:38):
zero five per stream. And this is if you're just
whoever you are, right, that is not you know, Taylor
Swift's going to work out a different deal with Spotify.
Things of that nature, you know, bad Bunny and all
that stuff. According to Spotify, Sienna here has over four
million monthly listeners. Okay, so you see why the mystery

(01:05:03):
they like to keep as long as they possibly can.
That equates to almost one hundred thousand dollars monthly.

Speaker 32 (01:05:12):
While the jury is still out on whether Rose is
or isn't created with artificial intelligence, Billboard says at least
six AI or AI assisted artists have debuted on various rankings,
like Zaniamona with more than forty four million streams, and
last summer's massively viral band, The Velvet Sundown top Spotify's
Viral fifty. The creators behind both Zaniamona and The Velvet

(01:05:34):
Sundown have openly acknowledged that they use AI.

Speaker 31 (01:05:37):
I feel like there are so many talented artists that
deserve their flowers, and listening to AI music just takes
the spotlight away from those artists.

Speaker 2 (01:05:47):
Now, I don't fully agree one hundred percent about that
the art side of things, that it takes away because
somebody is putting these things together, somebody's having to create
these things, somebody's having to do some of this stuff.
So that may not be that it takes away from
others because the beauty of it is, if.

Speaker 4 (01:06:05):
You're good, you have a chance of being discovered.

Speaker 2 (01:06:09):
You do, just like you know how many Sienna Ross
are out there potentially again allegedly, but there's no doubt
that you know, I would say, based on and this
is just me, based on the stuff that I've seen,
that she is AI.

Speaker 4 (01:06:23):
But if her music's good, do you care?

Speaker 35 (01:06:26):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:06:26):
If her music is good, does it matter to you
whether or not she's real or not? The issue becomes
though when she's you know, like it's like they have.
There's several podcast companies now, some that are producing thousands
of podcasts a week on just about anything out there.
But part of also with music and a bunch of
other things is living life, having those experiences, bringing that

(01:06:52):
to whatever it is you're doing that makes us human
that AI can't do. They may see about it, they
may be able to talk about it, but that it
hasn't lived it.

Speaker 4 (01:07:06):
Let me know what you think.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
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Speaker 4 (01:07:14):
More love hearing from all of you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
One of the things we haven't got to and we're
going to get to a little bit more next hour?

Speaker 4 (01:07:20):
Is Georgia not on my mind? Although is stay next
to me?

Speaker 36 (01:07:26):
The search warrant, obtained by ABC affiliate WSBTV, says agents
are investigating possible violations of a federal law prohibiting the
fraudulent procurement, casting or tabulation of balance. An FBI AFFI
David laying out probable cause for the search has not
been made public. It's been more than five years and
Joe Biden's victory in Georgia was validated by recounts and audits,

(01:07:46):
but President Trump has continued to argue there was fraud,
and last week in his speech at Davos, he said
people will soon be prosecuted.

Speaker 2 (01:07:54):
Well are they going to? Are they not going to?
Is it going to be some low level lackey who
didn't lock a box or something. I have no idea
that this is something that you know. This This is again,
where does your focus need to be? If you're trying
to put food on your table, is this something you
care about?

Speaker 4 (01:08:13):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
If you are struggling to pay rent, if you are
struggling in you know, hopefully keeping your job, if you're
living paycheck to paycheck and you feel like things are
getting away from you. Is this top of the mind
at this moment in time. I'm thinking it's not. But again,
we're gonna talk a little bit more about it next hour.

Speaker 4 (01:08:32):
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Speaker 1 (01:09:52):
Welcome to Chat No, not the country. The institution is
the chat Vnson Show.

Speaker 4 (01:09:59):
Today's urban war word is perfect.

Speaker 2 (01:10:00):
And several people ask me over the last couple of
days when I say certain things this word in particular,
like what does that mean? And it's been around a while,
but it's got a new lease on life right now.

Speaker 4 (01:10:13):
So let's get at it.

Speaker 8 (01:10:15):
Now. It's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
The young have a vocabularity all their own, and we
break it down for you.

Speaker 8 (01:10:23):
It's called the urban word of the day, all right.

Speaker 2 (01:10:27):
The urban word of the day is larp or LARPing.
You may hear that, especially when it comes to politics
right now. When you hear stuff like when I say
stuff about immigration, Barbie things of that nature, LARPing or lark.

Speaker 4 (01:10:42):
That's live action role play.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
So the people you see at the park who are
dressed up like wizards and you know, nights and they're
fighting each other.

Speaker 4 (01:10:50):
They're LARPing.

Speaker 2 (01:10:52):
Oh yeah, if you go to those those those you know,
there's a lot of those places you can go that
are medieval, like carnival weekends and whatnot. LARPing live action
role play, and that's becoming quite popular again because of
what we're seeing in some things going on with immigration

(01:11:13):
and stuff. Larp or LARPing, live action role play is
your urban worth of the day.

Speaker 8 (01:11:19):
That was the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:22):
Now, you know, I can't believe you said that about
them LARPing. No, I can absolutely believe it. I would
say that because they are that does feel like they're
LARPing at times. I mean you heard Tara, I played
it earlier, Tara Paul Mary talking about you know how
scripted everything is, how they make the optics look a

(01:11:43):
certain way, you know, from immigration Barbie Christinome riding around
on a horse or making sure that they can film
certain things because they want to try to get a
reality show. That right there feels a little bit of
role play, if.

Speaker 4 (01:11:57):
That makes sense.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
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gonna get better? Is it gonna get worse? How nasty
is gonna be this weekend? Talk a little bit about
Greg Abbott, not the singer, but the governor and what
he wants to do with visas, because that seems to
be something people are going as we talk about immigration
or we're gonna do a lot of those visas.

Speaker 4 (01:12:34):
Is there a fix to stop the visa day lose
that we may see?

Speaker 2 (01:12:40):
Oh oh interesting, I've got some immigration news as well
as what's trending and more news about Bill Belichick. People
are unhappy about that that played in the Niffle the NFL,
and I think rightly. So we'll discuss that so many
more things straight ahead, chat Benshoke.

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

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
Immigration The battle continues as you know it would, and
how do we talk about it today? Here's the thing,
how do we have a conversation for real without ostracizing
everybody and allowing things to become completely emotional. Right, you
guys hear me play stuff all the time with You've
got these.

Speaker 4 (01:13:51):
Crazy people that are out there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
And I say crazy because they're only leading with emotion,
they're only leading with hate, They're only leading with you know,
the world's coming to an and America's a fascist regime,
et cetera, et cetera. You sit there and you go,
I can't have this conversation because you are not in
a mind where you can have a conversation. And on
the other side, how do you have a conversation with
people where you think, you know what. I don't think

(01:14:16):
this was a good look. I don't think what they
did was right. I think what they did was quite frankly,
a bad look, and it was bad. A person died,
two people have died. But it's hard to have that conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Because everybody's living in a world of heightened emotion. I
get it here locally every day. So yesterday, my buddy
Chris who comes on before me, and I just want
to say, Chris freaking amazing guy, absolutely and and a
absolute freaking talent in radio. But he and I get
into it on the air, and it's only love right like,
because I am willing to, you know, go and be

(01:14:56):
the voice of you know somebody, Oh you're just a contrary. No,
I'm the voice of let's let's have a real conversation
about it. Well, this guy did this, and that that
that you know that that pretty guy did this, and
he was already these things and he scuffled earlier. All
of those things may be true, does not equate to
what happened to him.

Speaker 4 (01:15:17):
We live in a country where we're allowed to have
our voices heard.

Speaker 2 (01:15:21):
And sometimes people are decks, and sometimes they're obnoxious, and
sometimes yes, through emotions, they're out of control, it seems,
but it is their right, the First Amendment right to
be those things. And what took place that day has
caused the optics of this to change to the point

(01:15:41):
where they send Bovino home, right, the little guy, And
then and then and then you know, Ice Barbie is
having a big battle, all right, Christinome, I like Ice
Bor'd be better. But they're having an immigration by what
are you gonna call it? They're having a big battle
going on in the White House. She had two plus
hours with Trump and trumpets come out and it's kind
of backed her, but her and Tom Homan do not

(01:16:04):
get along. Tom Holman has gone out there and the
last couple of days we touched on the Last Hour,
He's met with the powers that be there.

Speaker 37 (01:16:12):
In the past few days, I've met with Governor Waltz,
Attorney johnal Ellison, Mayor Fry, numerous police chiefs and sheriffs,
and I have more to me.

Speaker 2 (01:16:24):
So he goes out there, He's like, oh, well, you know,
how did that go? Look, Tom Holman, So you know,
the optics is a perfect example. Right, we were talking
about last Hour?

Speaker 4 (01:16:37):
How did the look? How's the look?

Speaker 28 (01:16:39):
Right?

Speaker 2 (01:16:40):
So the joke about Ice Barbie really is much of
a joke because I do think she'd LARPs around and
where's a urban we're right there. I do think she'd
LARPs around in a lot of things. She does things
that I think are ridiculous, and she does a lot
of for the look, Cash Betel all of these people, right,
you know, the the Gregory mon Vino from you know CBP,
did he not have the look?

Speaker 4 (01:17:01):
For God's sakes? And it's optics, right.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
Tom Holman. Optics is you're a little bit more adult,
You're a little bit more. You know, gruff grandpa, and
he goes in meets with everybody. Tim Wall said, yesterday
we had a good conversation and the first thing he
said is, no, this doesn't look good. This doesn't look right,

(01:17:30):
and we've got to get this thing sorted out and fixed.
It doesn't mean retreat and give in, but it means
this situation cannot go on any longer.

Speaker 37 (01:17:40):
We didn't agree on everything. I didn't expect to agree
on anything. I've heard many people want to know why
we're talking to people who they don't consider friends and administration.
Bottom line is, you can't fix problems if you don't have.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
Discussions, Thank you very much. That's the adult in the room.
That right there is the adult in the room. Optics matter,
no matter what anybody say, optics matter, and the optics
have not been good and it has been building up.

(01:18:16):
And where they've gotten a pass on a few occasions
on some questionable stuff, they're not getting that now and
people recognize that, especially Trump. What makes Trump great and
unpredictable and at times infuriating is how are he reacts
to certain things. And the way that reacted to this
was a much more steadied kind of way than he

(01:18:40):
did when Renee Good was shot. This was much more. Oh,
let's see what happens here. Let's get a feel of
what happens here. I want to understand this. I don't
want to have a knee jerk reaction where we're trying
to paint an American as a domestic terrorist who fa'd
and f o'ed.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
That's why he sent in Tom Homan.

Speaker 2 (01:19:04):
And it matters this week because we're close to a
shutdown again, and I'm not quite sure either side is
excited about a shutdown at this moment in time, because
I think they recognize that this could hurt both sides
in this situation, especially when it comes to the economy,

(01:19:26):
and the left feels like we got an opportunity here
with this, denying ice and everybody money because of how
it looks, and the right realizes this right now has
given them, the left and opportunity to potentially say, no,
we're not going to fund this anymore, We're not going
to allow this to happen. And because of that and

(01:19:47):
the look, they're not going to have the right it's
not going to have the same sympathy they had in
the last shutdown.

Speaker 22 (01:19:52):
The New York Times reporting President Trump and Senate Minority
Leader Chuck Schumer are close to reaching a deal to
negotiate possible new restraintstions on immigration agents. It comes after
Democrats started to partially shut down the government by blocking
funds for Homeland security amid outrage over the fatal shootings
of Alex Preddi and Renee Good by federal agents.

Speaker 2 (01:20:12):
I think it's a smart move that everybody comes together,
and I think Trump realizes, Okay, this situation right here,
the look isn't good, and we cannot win the high
ground in this argument debate based on the things that happened.
We just can't. We can't, ran Paul earlier today talking

(01:20:33):
about the shooting.

Speaker 27 (01:20:35):
The Secretary Gnome and other top administration officials initially said
Alex pretty brandished a weapon, And of course Homeland and
other committees got to report yesterday from CBP saying nothing
about brandishing a weapon, just saying someone shouted the gun.

Speaker 1 (01:20:48):
I mean, what do you make of these inconducting people.

Speaker 28 (01:20:50):
To have confidence in government and confidence in the law
enforcement win en government, we have to be very honest,
and I don't think it's on this to say he
brandished a weapon.

Speaker 2 (01:21:00):
I don't think it's honest to say he assaulted officers.

Speaker 28 (01:21:04):
Every American's seen this video nowur most have it snowed
in for three days.

Speaker 2 (01:21:09):
A lot of people have seen this video. At every
point in the video, he retreats.

Speaker 18 (01:21:15):
Now.

Speaker 28 (01:21:15):
I'm not saying he might not have been obnoxious. I'm
not saying he might have said obnoxious things, but he films.
He doesn't even obstruct the traffic. He waves a car
through in the middle of this. As they approach him,
he retreats. As they approach him again, he retreats. When
a woman shoved to the ground, he goes to help
her up, and that's what he has.

Speaker 2 (01:21:33):
Grabbed from behind. At no point in time do I
see an assault.

Speaker 28 (01:21:38):
And I don't think anybody in America believes he was
assaulting those officers.

Speaker 4 (01:21:42):
No, I don't think. I think the most people in America.

Speaker 2 (01:21:45):
Now, if you're super maga and you want everybody out
and everybody who protests against the administration is evil and bad,
then you saw FAFO. But if you're if you're willing
to look at stuff through objective lens, that yeah, that
that was more than a bit much, and that did
not warrant the.

Speaker 4 (01:22:05):
Death of him.

Speaker 2 (01:22:07):
So the two officers who fired their weapons have both
been I don't know if this is suspension or they're
on leave, because you know, usually when officers fire weapons,
they go and leave. And so, and there's an investigation
being done and we'll find out what happened. And there's
new video out of him, the Alex kicking days before,

(01:22:28):
getting into it with officers and kicking one of their
vehicles and breaking the tail light and screaming and yelling,
and he apparently had hurt his rib in a scuffle
with them, and people are asking the question, why didn't
they rest and why didn't they do those things? Well,
you've got to figure out what was the what what
exactly happened because we see the kicking, we don't know

(01:22:50):
what happened before. And if before was like what we
just saw where he was pepper spray thrown on the
ground but wasn't and the impeding them just was in
their face, then that's hard to get some sort of,
you know, conviction of I me know what you think
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cold again.

Speaker 3 (01:23:19):
Wake up windchill sub zero from the Great Lakes all
the way into the northeast. He even feels like freezing
all the way down to parts of Florida near Orlando.
That's just scratching the service. It's even worse after this
storm passes over the weekend, so frigid air colliding with
Pacific moisture.

Speaker 4 (01:23:34):
That's still cold currently outside.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
I took the dogs down this morning and it was
like seventeen They they're not thrilled by the way. So
lets you know, I don't know if you wonder if
your dogs. My dogs are very much warm weather dogs.
They were born and raised in Arizona, so the winter
has been in a wake.

Speaker 4 (01:23:55):
Up call for them, let's just say.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
And we've got more and more weather coming in here
this weekend, including the potential. So we had a little
bit of ice fog today, which is way crazy, but
we still have tons of outages everywhere.

Speaker 5 (01:24:12):

Speaker 4 (01:24:25):
And there is a yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:27):
I was telling you know, because I do my show
and they do a show locally here, and I was
telling them. I just say, some guys that the NES
outages have become a big story nationwide, people going, why
is it that you still have one hundred thousand people,
some of which will be days and potentially a week
away from getting any of their power back. And I

(01:24:47):
talked to two of the regular listeners who text the
show on a daily basis locally, and Sally, one of them,
seventy seven hours. As of yesterday, she's well over ninety
plus hours without power. But I had a couple that
texts me to ask me if we can give out
the number locally because they're gonna have to be picked

(01:25:09):
up so they can go to warming stations because they
no longer have any more wood and stuff to burn
any of that stuff. And it's it's still gonna be
freezing in this weekend. We're gonna get another you know,
kicking the grundle. And this is this and I think
this was more in competence than the test on the
power grid, because it seemed to be the power grid
held strong in a lot of places, but maybe the

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thing with Belichick, which is still fascinating as NFL players
are saying, Yeah, they're not gonna put him in the
Hall of Fame and I'm there, Maybe I don't want
to be there.

Speaker 4 (01:26:09):
On top of that, we're gonna talk about Artemis two.
When are we going to the moon?

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What trupping? That's fine, it's trending on the old intw
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Speaker 35 (01:27:04):
This week?

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Is it next. I think it next Tuesday. It's like
supposedly the most depressing day.

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Of the year.

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I just want to let you guys know that.

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He is gonna be leaving Milwaukee soon.

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I don't know what, but they said, it's pretty serious
if you just get months to live. Barbie and Ken
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the Belichick thing yesterday picked up steam right in a

(01:29:36):
major way over the fact that this guy's not in
the Hall of Fame as he should be. I think
we all recognize that eight Super bowls, eight super bowls
not in the Hall of Fame. Six as a coach,
two as a coordinator, not in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 38 (01:29:54):
Tom Brady speaking out on the radio station Seattle Sports, I.

Speaker 4 (01:29:57):
Don't understand it.

Speaker 25 (01:29:58):
I mean, I was with them every if he's not
a first ball Hall of Fame or there's really no
coach that should ever be.

Speaker 38 (01:30:04):
The sports world in an uproar, Patrick Mahomes calling it
insane on social media, even Lebron James saying not voting
Belichick in was impossible, egregious and quite frankly disrespectful, and.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
A lot of other people that are in the Hall
of Fame saying, if he's not in the Hall of
Fame they put him in there, then I don't want
to be in there, And I'm like, whoa. I mean,
it's again, you find a lot of times, writers and
certain people that are in these things are very political
in a lot of ways, and a lot of it
is how you treat the writers, right, There's a lot

(01:30:39):
of people that goodwill goes a little bit further. All
this does is diminish the Hall of Fame and makes
those people look petty that didn't put him in, and
it makes him look like a victim of politics because
he was. You're missing the show shame when you grab
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Speaker 1 (01:30:58):
Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 4 (01:31:20):
We're gonna be going.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
Back to the Moon potentially this year. Again, I always
say potentially this year, because you never know what can happen.
Next week Artemis two takes off. But yesterday, fortieth anniversary
of something that we as a nation witnessed together the
Challenger disaster.

Speaker 26 (01:31:41):
Pieces of ice tumble off as the coldest Space Shuttle
launch effort gets underway. Challenger seems to shake herself free
of the ice and goes all five rocket engines burning well.
The first teacher, Christo mccaulloff on her way to space
with six other astronauts on board.

Speaker 35 (01:31:59):
It's still climbing. The shuttle is still climbing, but there
is a problem. There appears to be a serious problem.
What's happening? Not a word from Mission controlled. Everybody here
is open.

Speaker 13 (01:32:09):
Balance rollers here looking very carefully at the situation.

Speaker 35 (01:32:12):
Where is the shuttle that can you see it?

Speaker 13 (01:32:14):
A major malfunction?

Speaker 26 (01:32:16):
There, a major problem, helth function. Something has gone seriously along.

Speaker 4 (01:32:20):
The major tragedies. So it took off, and it was
the coldest ever and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
It was an interesting thing. And I remember it as
a kid because I was what like fifteen sixteen years old.
I was home and obviously the tragedy first of all,
of losing men and women doing something so brave and amazing.
Space Shuttle was still new. It was still a new thing, right,

(01:32:53):
so we still paid attention to what was going on
the Columbia when there was when that.

Speaker 4 (01:32:59):
Disaster had happened.

Speaker 2 (01:33:00):
I was walking into Disneyland when that happened, but I
was at home, and so much of the nation was
watching this because you had, of course Christy mccauliffe, right,
So you had somebody who was picked out of hundreds
and thousands of people who was a teacher. They wanted
to send somebody a just hey, we're sending a civilian

(01:33:25):
into space, and this is going to be great for education,
for schools, for kids, for science and math. And everybody
was watching it, and they'd already been scrubbed a couple
of times, and the reality of how cold it was.

(01:33:47):
But I remember watching it. So I'm sitting there and
I at that time, I was pretty much being homeschools
because I was playing so much soccer and stuff, and
my mom was in the other room, and I'm watching
it as it takes off, and you can see all
of a sudden it starts to you know, it gets
weird because the flames and the smoke and everything come,

(01:34:07):
but it looked different than before.

Speaker 4 (01:34:10):
And then it hit.

Speaker 35 (01:34:11):
I see a very thin contrail VIC on the NASA monitors.
This is indeed a tragedy. There appears to have been
an explosion. Something is wrong. We see contrails dropping. Nothing
from NASA and.

Speaker 26 (01:34:28):
No calm link from the shuttle and no word from
the telemetry that tracks the shuttles progress.

Speaker 13 (01:34:34):
Vision have a report from the flight dynamics officer that
the vehicle has exploded.

Speaker 39 (01:34:38):
We have a major tragedy that we're looking at.

Speaker 13 (01:34:42):
Checking with the recovery forces to see what can be done.

Speaker 26 (01:34:44):
At this point, I.

Speaker 35 (01:34:45):
Got a major tragedy. The Shuttle has exploded. The Challenger
has exploded.

Speaker 2 (01:34:53):
And it was such a big deal, and people forget
Reagan that night delivered an amazing speech that was supposed
to be the State of the Union, but it had

(01:35:14):
become such a huge story that affected everybody. You know,
that emotional thing, you know, you remember some of those things,
and that was definitely one of them. So Reagan talked
to all of his top aides and they said, let's
postpone the State of the Union and let's address the

(01:35:36):
people of America tonight, and Reagan gave such It was
only a four minute speech, but it was so emotional,
and how he ended the speech was was so heartfelt
and strong because he was such an amazing communicator.

Speaker 40 (01:35:56):
There's a coincidence today, on this day, three hundred and
ninety years ago, the great explorer, Sir Francis Drake died
aboard ship off the coast of Panama. In his lifetime,
the great frontiers were the oceans, and a historian later said,
he lived by the sea, died on it, and was
buried in it. Well, today we can say of the

(01:36:19):
Challenger crew their dedication was like Drake's complete.

Speaker 28 (01:36:24):
The crew of the.

Speaker 40 (01:36:25):
Space Shuttle Challenger honored us for the manner in which
they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor
the last time we saw them this morning as they
prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the
surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of God.

Speaker 8 (01:36:45):
Thank you.

Speaker 2 (01:36:46):
And that speech was just emotional and it was real,
it was raw. Then you had all of the what happened,
you know questions and all the studies, but then there
was also the other stuff about.

Speaker 4 (01:36:59):
What happened to them.

Speaker 2 (01:37:00):
You know, everybody wanted to think that they all died instantly,
and two of them at least their connectivity to you know,
to NASA through there, through all the stuff they were wearing.
A monitor said that they were alive after the explosion

(01:37:23):
and the time of separation. So it just shows you
how fragile life is, but also what man can do.
And again, I want to talk about this yesterday and
din't get a chance to do it, but I think
it's important that we you know, as we're getting ready
to go back up there, and we'll get to that

(01:37:44):
in a second. And you know, if you think about
how far we've come right and then out of nowhere,
what happened, Well, we didn't do anything. We didn't go
and and and you know, continue to go to the moon.
And now we're getting ready to go back up there.
And you know, as they talk of it about it yesterday,
that's you've got to be in every one of those
people's mind, those astronauts who are going to go up there,

(01:38:06):
that has to be that we're still continuing to push
the envelope and try to do things. So next week
Artemis two, it's on its way as we get ready
to go this time to the Moon.

Speaker 39 (01:38:20):
I think I'm about to throw a couple of things
at the team.

Speaker 41 (01:38:23):
From this back room at Johnson Space Center's training facility.
You're looking at trial by fire NASA styles.

Speaker 39 (01:38:30):
So let's put in the prop malfunction, Jessica, and then
give it, I don't know, five minutes or so, and
then we'll put yours in a.

Speaker 41 (01:38:36):
Series of manufactured in flight failures Houston. The goal tests
the responses of the Artemis two crew sitting in the
flight simulator down the hall.

Speaker 8 (01:38:47):
It's a stream voltage? Am I getting a stream voltage?

Speaker 31 (01:38:50):
Yeah?

Speaker 39 (01:38:51):
And that's something they're actively working on right now.

Speaker 14 (01:38:53):
Right.

Speaker 41 (01:38:53):
Lisa Oils is the chief training officer for these simulations.
Her team of Gremlin's dreams up the endless Way is
something could go wrong during any phase.

Speaker 30 (01:39:02):
Of the mission.

Speaker 39 (01:39:03):
I think that sounds good to give them something to
talk about.

Speaker 4 (01:39:06):
So what kind of problems are you throwing at them?
That's a good question.

Speaker 2 (01:39:10):
Every problem you could think of, and then most importantly,
every problem you could never think of, right, because you
could think of all of the problems and you could
figure out how to fix those. Fixing the problems you
don't anticipate or don't think are possible, or can't even

(01:39:30):
imagine could happen.

Speaker 4 (01:39:32):
Those are probably the ones that should worry you.

Speaker 39 (01:39:35):
Oh, it could vary anything from you the smallest sensor
failure all the way up to a firecase, an emergency case.
How do you respond to that?

Speaker 41 (01:39:43):
In the capsule, they've been troubleshooting for months during dozens
of simulations, both the crew and the capsule and the
team in mission control.

Speaker 9 (01:39:51):
Looks like we're getting some initial indications as could be
a Bellows failure.

Speaker 2 (01:39:55):
As the simulation is going along, they're throwing problems at you.

Speaker 4 (01:39:58):
Yep, here's a surprise.

Speaker 34 (01:40:00):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (01:40:00):
Do they ever come up with a doozy?

Speaker 18 (01:40:02):
Oh?

Speaker 34 (01:40:02):
Yeah, yeah, they certainly come up. They're very creative.

Speaker 4 (01:40:08):
Yeah, I would hope, So, I absolutely hope.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
So they're very creative because you know, I don't know
if you're aware of this, much like I talk about
with when you're on airplanes, you're not pulling over to
get out and check the engine. One minute to burn.
Jud Freeling is one of the flight directors here. Let's confirmed,
got you lyptoup the.

Speaker 41 (01:40:28):
Second Artemis two lists off. Freeling will sit in the
hot seat nasays, men in charge.

Speaker 2 (01:40:34):
Can you ever truly adequately prepare for everything that could
go wrong?

Speaker 8 (01:40:40):
Not everything?

Speaker 34 (01:40:40):
But I think what the simulations we do teaches us
is how to adapt. Right, If you don't have a
completely nailed down plan, at least you have a straw
man of what the plan might be.

Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
It's why you practice for the big game exactly. That's
absolutely why you practice.

Speaker 2 (01:40:58):
It's like anything when you're you know when you're practicing, don't.
I know the good things that can happen, right, I
want to practice in all the weak things. I want
to practice on the potential mistakes. I want to actually

(01:41:18):
put ourselves in real life potential situations where if something
goes sideways, we have a fighting chance.

Speaker 4 (01:41:27):
In this situation.

Speaker 41 (01:41:28):
Remember the stakes in deep space during an emergency, no
one can call Triple A for a toe back to Earth.
That's why everyone involved understands why these simulations matter. Even
if Artemis two mission specialist Jeremy Henson jokingly calls them.

Speaker 2 (01:41:45):
These sort of.

Speaker 34 (01:41:47):
These evil tests for us, and we'll be sitting in
the sim all our mission controllers are in misig control,
and then stuff will just start breaking.

Speaker 41 (01:41:54):
You're like, oh, come on, really, that yes, that sometimes
several flashing light crisis at once.

Speaker 2 (01:42:01):
Do they really think you're evil?

Speaker 39 (01:42:04):
I think so, Yeah, I think a little bit. You
have to be a little evil, but all for good intentions.
Anybody have any questions about that malfunction. We can't predict
everything that will happen. I think any scenario that you
work through, even if it's not the exact one that
you see in space, all that experience and all that
development together is going to benefit.

Speaker 41 (01:42:23):
Everyone, especially if the crew runs into trouble during its
roughly half million mile round trip to the Moon.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
And that's what it is now. They're not going to
land on the Moon.

Speaker 4 (01:42:38):
They're not. So the way this is working.

Speaker 2 (01:42:44):
Is this is set up for the first mission and
then next year's mission would be the target date to
actually land on the Moon. So this is what's going
to happen as early as Saturday. They're going to do
with the simulation, oh what they call the launch. They're
going to do a dress rehearsal to see how things go,

(01:43:05):
how smooth everything is. Okay, So they get everything up
and running, do what they call the the dress rehearsal,
and then from there they have set a not so
much a hard date, but a launch window from February

(01:43:26):
sixth to April six Now, obviously next week it's going
to be cold over the next several days. So launch
opportunities they say are February sixth through eighth, and February
tenth through eleventh. Launch period two, which would be more
opportunities six to ninth of March and March eleventh, and
then the third period of launch dates potentially would be.

Speaker 4 (01:43:48):
April first.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
Or the third through the sixth, which is so those
are the three target dates that they would lock in
to try and go.

Speaker 4 (01:44:01):
So what happens. They're going up there.

Speaker 2 (01:44:02):
It's a ten day trip, Okay, They're not landing. There's
gonna be no surface operations, none of that stuff. That's
not what this is about. This is about making sure
it's ready for that. So they're gonna go up. They're
gonna test the Orion spacecraft's live support, navigation, and propulsion systems.

(01:44:26):
They're going to perform a lunar flyby, traveling thousands of
miles beyond the Moon, and then they're gonna return to
Earth at high re entry speeds to validate the new
heat shields and recovery system. Okay, then the long term
would be next year with going to the moon and

(01:44:48):
starting to establish a presence from there, starting to build infrastructure.

Speaker 4 (01:44:55):
After that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
And here's always the weird too, because I was talking
to somebody about this yesterday. You do give them cyanide.
I'm like, I don't think they ever gave him siginaide.

Speaker 4 (01:45:04):
They never did. That was never a thing.

Speaker 2 (01:45:08):
There's always that, you know, weird thing where like just
in case you got lost in space and you know,
or something came and tried to attack you. Some era
survival kits contained small amounts of potassium cyanide, but not
as a suicide pill. So in the kids they have
food rations, water, medical supplies, signaling gear. This is for

(01:45:30):
the landing and shark repellent, cause you never know, wouldn't
it be a bitch You go all the way to space,
land in the ocean, get eat.

Speaker 4 (01:45:38):
By shark that suck?

Speaker 2 (01:45:40):
I think that would three two, three, five, three eight,
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thought we've talked about a lot of stuff today. It's
good to have a conversation about us going to the moon,
and it's not a happy again. It's not happening on

(01:46:03):
this trip. We're gonna go near the moon, we're gonna
fly by the moon. We're going to make sure our
stuff works so eventually we can go.

Speaker 8 (01:46:11):
To the moon.

Speaker 2 (01:46:13):
Speaking of good stories, we're gonna wrap it up straight ahead,
and you know what time it is. We're going to
talk about our friends, the Marching Monks.

Speaker 4 (01:46:19):
Where are they? How are they dealing with the cold?
Straight ahead?

Speaker 2 (01:46:22):
Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:46:33):
If you like talk radio like Chad Benson likes his meals,
you've come to the perfect place for takeout.

Speaker 2 (01:46:40):
The Monks are on the march.

Speaker 20 (01:46:42):
As quickly as you can snack the pebble from my hand,
When you can take the pebble from my hand, it
would be time for you to be.

Speaker 2 (01:46:50):
Now it's time for your daily Monk March update.

Speaker 1 (01:46:54):
Time for you to leave.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
Where are the Maring Monks? Tell me Chack, where are they?

Speaker 21 (01:47:01):
They crossed into Virginia, which, if you're counting as their
eighth state, their next stop is Gasberg.

Speaker 34 (01:47:06):
Now.

Speaker 21 (01:47:07):
The Monks shared this video in a post last night,
thanking a medical team.

Speaker 1 (01:47:10):
Who came to their rest stop to check on their health.

Speaker 21 (01:47:13):
According to the monks, the journey has pushed their bodies
to the limit. They walked through heat and cold, through
rain and ice. Their perseverance through it all has been
so inspiring they save The medical team volunteer their time
and expertise to make sure the Venerable Monks could continue safely.

Speaker 1 (01:47:29):
The monks called that care a gift beyond measure.

Speaker 4 (01:47:32):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (01:47:33):
So Day ninety five wrapped up. They're on the day
ninety six. Just about an hour ago they took off.
They're going to head to Gasberg, Virginia, then to Lawrenceville
and Alberta, not Canada.

Speaker 4 (01:47:46):
That'd be weird if they just ended up there.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
And they're going to continue their journey through Virginia, one
step at a time, they say. So people are going
to be out there checking them out, saying hi to them, as.

Speaker 4 (01:47:57):
The monks are motoring for peace.

Speaker 2 (01:48:00):
I love it. I do this story local and I
love it because I get a lot of people who
are very much Bible belts, you know, and they're like,
why are you talking about the monks? I said, first
of all, it's a great story.

Speaker 4 (01:48:13):
It's for peace.

Speaker 2 (01:48:13):
Look what's going on in our country. It's a wonderful thing.
And how are you not curious about people that are
willing to take a step like this in their belief
which is incredible, like living their belief for peace out
in front of the world. So and the dog doing fine.
Want to make sure everybody knows that they got their
dog a loca, which is a dog of peace. He's

(01:48:35):
cruising along doing fine. And they are definitely dressed much
better than when they started. They've got a lot more layers. Layers,
My wife say, layers, got a layer of Chad three two, three, five,
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Speaker 4 (01:48:56):
Another fun show today. Put that one in the books.

Speaker 25 (01:48:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:48:59):
We talk talked about so much stuff, immigration, the economy,
why Americans and Chinese young aren't having kids but instead
are turning to become pet parents, which is a weird thing,
as we already know. We talked about obviously the tragedy
of the Challenger disaster, but also going to the mood
right going to the mood, which is awesome. A lot

(01:49:21):
of stuff on Weather, gave you a crazy fun urban
word of the Day, and a bunch of other stuff.
See we do it here, kids. We covered all all right.
You guys have a blessed and amazing rest of your day.
We will be back to do it again. Tomorrow is
always old on a second, I see you Friday as always,
Night night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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