Oil Tops $98 a Barrel After Houthi Attacks on Saudi Ships in Red Sea

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The war is raging, gas prices are rising, inflations getting hotter,
and who knows what's going to happen. Oh yeah, and
by the way, Saudi Arabia, we're going to help them
out with nuclear stuff.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
While vowing to stop Iran from obtaining the nuclear weapon,
the Trump administration signing a landmark nuclear deal with Saudi
Arabia to allow them to develop a civil nuclear program
and enriched uranium, the agreement sparking fierce backlash among nine
to eleven families who urged the White House not to
move forward with the deal. Will litigation over Saudi Arabia's

(00:52):
alleged ties to the two thousand and one terrorist attacks
remains unresolved in federal court.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Why are we doing this? There's a lot of reasons why.
Love has to do with Trump, right, and how they
treat him. There's no doubt ched you just hate Trump.
We'll get to that stuff in a little while because
we've got some fun emails to read. But why are
we doing this?

Speaker 4 (01:19):
So?

Speaker 2 (01:20):
I just want to get this right. Iran can't have
a nuke or any kind of civil nuclear division or whatever.
I think we're okay with that, but Israel's not. By
the way, Israel's not thrilled by this either. They're not

(01:44):
at all thrilled by this. Why are we doing this? Hmm,
that is a good question, Joe Rubin.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
I could call President Trump right now, the giveaway king.
Let's be clear, he does not needs to do this.
There's no security in this forgiving technology like this to
Saudi In fact, this is diplomatic loss for the United
States because the nuclear program was always supposed to be
an incentive to Saudi Arabia to normalize with Israel, to

(02:14):
have Saudi Arabia join into Abraham Accords. Well that's not happening.
But it's giving them the technology, not only to the technology,
but the idea that they can enrich. That's very dangerous.
We should not be allowing new countries to enrich uranium
on their soil. If anything, it should be like the UAE,
which does not get too enriched but does have a
nuclear technology.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
So, I mean, I'm just trying to figure this out.
What exactly are we doing here, What are we getting
out of this? What exactly is going on here where
we're thinking about giving them nuclear capabilities to a certain

(02:53):
point with the opportunity to enrich. Do you think that's
going to be a good idea. Do you think that's
going to get Iran to give up? Israel's not thrilled
by this. The last thing they want is for them
to have a nuclear weapon too. I mean, come on now, yeah,
what the hell is going on? What is going on?

(03:14):
And then, of course we still have the Iran citiation.

Speaker 6 (03:18):
Overnight, American firepower hit Iran for a twelfth street night
in Iran, striking back at US military targets in Kuwait.
The US Central Command said the strikes are meant to
stop to run from threatening commercial shipping in the street
of Hormuz. Iran's Revolutionary Guard claimed a tanker that tried
to slip through caught fire on a mind route and

(03:41):
warned any ship that defies Tehran will quote meet the same.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Fate, Meet the same fate. Okay, are we getting closer
to getting something done? Earlier? Today? Marco Rubio sir as President.

Speaker 7 (03:56):
Trump, he said on some true social that the US
is going to bomb and Di stry Ridge your power plant.

Speaker 8 (04:01):
Every time that Iran.

Speaker 9 (04:02):
Targets the ship in the street.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
It's talking about civilian infrastructure there.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
And do you think that is.

Speaker 10 (04:07):
This is what he's talking about. Iran is begging us, okay,
both directly and indirectly.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Let's do a deal. Let's talk. Let's talk. Uron is
begging every day.

Speaker 10 (04:15):
The problem with Iran is every time they make a deal,
the people that are in charge there, they either break
it or they want to change it.

Speaker 11 (04:21):
So it looks like they're not ready to make a deal.

Speaker 10 (04:24):
So they're going to continue to pay a price, and
they're going to every night the price gets higher and
higher and higher, and that's what's happening now and until
they maybe in a few days, they'll be ready to
make a deal once they realize that this is not
a winning proposition for them. And that's what the President
is outlining, the idea that this is going to continue.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
It's not going to continue this way.

Speaker 10 (04:41):
The price will continue to get higher every single night
until they come to their senses. Right now, apparently they
haven't come to their senses, and so the Presidence doesn't
see a lot of utility in responding to their overtures
at this point. It's because frankly, Iran is clearly not
ready to make a deal, at least not when they're
willing to live by.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
So we're going to bomb them indefinitely until what. I'm curious.
We're going to bomb them until I just I'm sitting here,
going what are we doing? We have rising inflation, we
have a situation in the economy where people are struggling

(05:20):
to make ends meet. It was the same complaints I
had about Biden. Somebody you're like, why you talk about Trump.
I'll tell you why. Because they're in charge. The Republicans
are in charge. When the Democrats were in charge and
they did dumb assory things, which was a lot. I complained.
You know what, I never heard you call or text
to go. Why are you only talking about the Democrats?

(05:44):
But this promise of no new wars, were in wars
and it's getting worse. And by the way, the goal
for Iran is more than just the Strait of Hormus.

(06:07):
You go and you see what's going on with the Hooties.
They are now firing on Saudi ships in Yemen in
the Red Sea. Their goal is to make sure that they,
being Iran, become the power that controls the flow of oil.

(06:33):
That's what they would like. You want to build a
pipeline around here, Fine, guess what you're gonna take it
out through here. We're gonna make sure you can't. You
guys want to build a pipeline over here, you're gonna
try to take it out of here. You're gonna pay us.
It's more than just a simple Oh they want to
control the straits of hormones. It's more than just that.

(06:59):
But for you and I, gas prices going up, Oh baby,
they're going up. Getting a little frustrated with everything. Oh,
I'm getting frustrated with a lot of things. I don't
care about what Biden did because he's not in office anymore.
He's not. I don't care what Obama did. I don't

(07:19):
care what Trump did in the first term. This is
you right now, and right now, the frustration level is up,
as it should be. And a lot of people out
there get all upset because you even dare on the
right to say something. It's like you're you're going against

(07:39):
what the cult. You know, what's interesting. And we're gonna
get into this a little bit later. Is and I've
talked about this, and let me tell you something. You're
not going to hear too many other on the air.
Many of you are listening to me on stations where

(08:00):
people around me are probably conservative. I'm independent, always been
that way. Nothing has changed, nothing has changed, even off
the air when I talk to some of my friends. Ah,
I wish I could say that, Well, why don't you
because you know the audience. I'm like, so you're willing
to lie to them or not call out something you

(08:23):
see as something you know you should because your fear
is they're going to send you a mean text or
tweet or whatever, and yeah, yeah, you know. And I'm like, Okay,
I mean that's fair. I'm not going to lie to you. Guys.
We're all kinds of promises made very little of them,
have been kept very little. And I ask people this

(08:49):
all the time. Tell me exactly all the things that
he promised to do and he's delivered upon. And I
don't expect politicians to deliver upon everything. No new wars.
How many I was talking to somebody yesterday, I said,
how many countries do you think he is he's attacked?

(09:10):
He goes, well, you know, Iran, I said, well seven.
And of course you guys are not paying attention molly,
which is not the drug but the country. We're wing
our options there to go into there and attack via drones, bombs.
I don't know what the full scale would be that

(09:33):
be eight no, yes, yes, eight promises made, promises kept, Epstein.
I mean, we go on and on.

Speaker 12 (09:44):
He hasn't. He hasn't forged the kind of legislative record
or offered the sort of proposals for his final two
years that may give some grist to his party for
wanting to show up.

Speaker 11 (09:58):
I mean, if you think about it, the.

Speaker 12 (10:00):
Biggest bill that he's signed so far this year is
what he wouldn't even sign, which was the housing legislation
that the Congress passed that he was so angry about
the Save Act he wouldn't even sign it.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
It still became law.

Speaker 12 (10:13):
Other than that, they're running on an extension of the
twenty seventeen tax cuts that they extended last year.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
And there's not much else besides, you.

Speaker 12 (10:22):
Know, obviously, Colin the Democrats extremist or communist, as Trump says.
So he's not giving his base much in terms of
what he's done. He's not proposing a lot to give
them a reason to show up, to give members of
Congress two more years or six more years for senators.
And there's just this trend on as you know, well

(10:43):
from covering it for a decade in which when Trump
is not himself on the ballot, Democrats tend to do
better because they show up with anti Trump enthusiasm and
those who were Trump enthusiasts don't show up without his
name bringing.

Speaker 11 (10:59):
Them out on top of the.

Speaker 2 (11:02):
Absolutely and by the way, the left, it's not like
you've done anything spectacular. Your entire platform, for the most
part has been react to Trump and have a disdain
for Trump. I think we need a whole new shaken
out in the world of politics. Time to get some
people in there that give a rats ass and seem
to want to do the right thing, not the right

(11:26):
thing for themselves, the party and their donors. You're not
going to get everything you want, but my god, what
the hell are we doing? Who knows. We'll see what
happens in November. You never know, but I do think
we deserve better. And when people say, well, you don't
like this party of that party, I don't like either party.

(11:48):
There are two corporations that want to keep the party
to themselves. Let me know what you think. Love hearing
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Speaker 1 (13:09):
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
Hassan Piker, You guys are gonna hear that name more
and more. He is kind of the Nick Fuentes of
the left. He's massive, he's growing. His influence among the
utes of America is also growing. And he says things

(13:35):
that I'm gonna say this guys, a little controversial. What yep, yep,
little controversial. He is absolutely great at rage baiting, great
at rage baiting, big time, big time. Loves to rage
bait and Republicans don't don't do it, don't take the bait.

(13:58):
Do you hear what he said about Yeah? I did.

Speaker 14 (14:01):
I got stopped by a cop who thought it was
like making fun of of Malse Dong, which I never
would and never will. Malse Dong is a is a
one of the great leaders of this world, okay, a
man who changed the entire universe, the entire planet, okay,

(14:23):
for real, for real. Yes, I mean there was a
lot of excesses, let's be real. But the People's Republic
of China would not exist without Malzy Dong.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
So he loves to say things that will rage bait.
All right, that's that's and he's this new version of
independent media that says ridiculously crazy things. That being said,

(14:56):
he lives in a what three million dollar home in
West Hollywood. He has billions of views across all of
his social media twitch, I mean all kinds of stuff
that he has done, and he loves to go out
and rage bait and you can't take the bait. He can't.
But you're gonna hear more and more of this because

(15:20):
the Right is doing what they think they need to do,
which is to say, hey, everything is communist. And every
day he says something more and more outrageous. And every
day he says something more and more I grabbing because
it works, right, it does. I mean even Madonnie. He
told Madonnie to shut the f up over his cautious messaging.

(15:42):
He is a fastir more than anything else. I'm not
saying he doesn't believe some of this stuff. I'm just
saying he knows how to grab the audience. What do
you think? Are you worried about communism? That keep you
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This message is for the Dust Show for Chad. He
made a comment that we've spent thirty eight billion on
the war with Iran and they've asked for another seventy
swinked billion and that equates to one half of a
one point seven trillion dollar budget, which is inaccurate. Now

(16:29):
suggests that he corrects that on aer Thank you.

Speaker 2 (16:32):
It's not what I said. What I said is they
wanted another seventy billion. They've spent thirty eight billion, but
the Pentagon is asking for one point five trillion, So
you've got a trillion and they want another five hundred billion,

(16:53):
which is one half of a trillion. So maybe I
talk too fast for people. I get a lot of that.
You talk too fast? Yes, yes, at times I do.
I do talk fast. There's no doubt about that. I
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A lot of stuff still to get to today, including Jimothy,
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
We are wrapping up the World Cup. We're putting it
to bed. It is behind us. Joining us now from
Carol d Eric Bosman joins the program. You've been with
us from the beginning, my man. As we've really started
to get this thing rolling about a month before it started.
And you've been doing this. When was the first meeting
that you went to for the World Cup coming to Dallas?

Speaker 17 (18:24):
It would have been June of last year, and it
was literally a one year out event that it was
hosted by the North Texas World Cup Organizing Committee, and
you know, all these cities have different committees and FIFA
kind of relies on them to handle all the things
for them.

Speaker 11 (18:42):
And and uh and and.

Speaker 17 (18:44):
It was led by the woman who has just been
front and center for all of this in the in
Dallas and all of North Texas, Monica Paul, who deserves
so much credit for this success story, at least in
North Texas. I know other hosts that he's have had
some issues, and of course there were issues here, but
but you know, for the most part, it certainly was

(19:05):
a success story. And this was this was basically a
one year countdown kickoff. They held it at Toyota Stadium
in Frisco, which is the home of FC Dallas. There's
also a Soccer Hall of Fame in that facility, and
that is extremely impressive that people in the Dallas area.
If you've not had a chance to see it, and
you're falling in love with a new sport, like so

(19:26):
many people are, you know, please.

Speaker 11 (19:29):
Come here and check that out.

Speaker 17 (19:31):
I'm sure Dan Hunt, the CEO and president of the team,
would appreciate me doing that, but saying that, but anyway, yeah,
that was it, and that does not seem like that
was at this point, you know, thirteen months ago over that,
but it was, and it was, you know, one of
those things and I'm thinking, you know, you know, I
I just you know, decided I want to go to this,

(19:52):
and you know, my bosses wanted there and or someone
there for the station, and I thought, you know, I'd
like to follow this through. And I've really enjoyed following
following this all the way through from all the different
you know, marking six months, marking three months and then
unveiling the plans for this, and then to see it
actually happen. It's been wonderful for spectators. I think it's

(20:15):
been a treat for members of local media, whether you're
in Dallas, Kansas City, Philadelphia, wherever, Seattle, and it's been
great to see this through. And now everybody says, Okay,
we're gonna sit here patiently and please welcome back.

Speaker 11 (20:29):
In twenty thirty eight, you know, when you.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
First went there and you saw what Dallas was unveiling,
how like, how much did they have to do from
the time that you were in there, you know, where
you were a year out that they really had to
hustle to get everything done.

Speaker 18 (20:46):
You know.

Speaker 17 (20:46):
The question that I heard that, I don't know who
asked it. Maybe I asked it, maybe a colleague of
mine from the Dallas Morning News, maybe a colleague of
mine from one of the TV stations. Someone always asked
at every single event involving the local media, do you
have enough time? That was I mean, we heard that

(21:07):
a year out, we heard that, six months out, we
heard that, you know, just you know, a month away
in May there.

Speaker 11 (21:12):
Was an event. It was like, hey, this is happening,
you know, are you ready?

Speaker 17 (21:16):
And the officials all basically kind of gave the same
nervous positive response, yes, but you know, we're doing something
we've never done, and the FIFA officials are guiding us.
But we're going to make this happen. And sure enough,
you know, they made it happen. One thing we haven't

(21:38):
talked about today that is important too, was everything involving security.
There was not a single major event to my knowledge
that occurred at any of these one hundred and four matches.
I know in Mexico City there was some tragedy where
there was a fan who died waiting in line ahead

(22:01):
of the first game. I think it was an elderly
man who possibly was overcome by the heat. And then
some people had been trampled in their victory in one
of their matches, that is unfortunate. And then of course
we had all these drones that were confiscated. But you know, security,
it seems like the security was a success story. The

(22:23):
drone the restricted airplace airspace was put in place, and
the FBI sees the drones that violated that. The same
thing for FanFest, and the FBI was very open on
the number of drones that they were able to get
So it really blows my mind how successful this was here.

(22:44):
And I think the United States is long also with
you know, Guadalajara, Monterey, Mexico City, Toronto, and Vancouver. They proved,
you know, we can handle these things on such an
internationally massive stage.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Absolutely. I mean, I think what we did and pulled
off was amazing. Talking Eric Buschman Carrol d As we
talked about the World Cup, wrap it up. Let's get
to some numbers. You know, one of the things everybody
was freaking out about is, Oh, the hotels don't seem
to be adding up things, don't you know. I don't
think people understood the way that this was going to go.
I think a lot of people thought, well, this team's

(23:20):
going to be here, so people are going to be here.
But it changed. But you're looking at numbers, you know, Dallas, Arlington,
and those numbers are actually pretty decent. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (23:28):
Arlington's mayor had said preliminarily, the way that he understood it,
they not only broke records for single day hotel they
I mean they smashed through it like a freight train.
And so there are new records when it comes to
a number of hotels occupied, and he's only speaking for
the city of Arlington. Of course, we had events all

(23:51):
over the entire metroplex, the fourth largest metropolitan area in
the United States. Dallas had the official FIFA FanFest. Dallas
had a number of parks that were utilized for watch parties,
Clyde Warren Park in Downtown Dallas, and then of course
he had Downtown Dallas itself. Downtown Dallas Inc. Put on

(24:11):
a number of events and so all of these things,
people wanted to stay where the action was. It wasn't
just limited to the matches. And also when you talked
about the hotels and people were going, hey, these aren't
being you know, people aren't buying up the hotels. It's
because a lot of the fans who had their plane tickets,
who knew they were coming, they had their visas approved,

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they knew they were going to be able to come in,
but they didn't know where their team was going to
be playing outside of the group stage. And so when
you watch it on TV, a vast majority of the
fans are there supporting their country. Well, they don't know,
you know, who's going to be in the semi final,
they don't know who's going to be in the round
of thirty two, you have a pretty good guess you're

(24:52):
only eliminated sixteen teams, And so those hotels were booked
up as the tournament went. And we don't know one
hundred percent yet if the if, the if, the estimate
became reality, but we're getting a good idea at least.
You know, Arlington is a great example that they certainly
are breaking records and perhaps this economic benefit we were

(25:14):
expecting is going to be the reality of the situation.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
Eric, One of the big things about bringing the World
Cup anywhere, but especially here is when we hosted at
ninety four, there wasn't an MLS. The MLS came a
year later. We now not only have MLS teams, they're
not playing in football stadiums, they're not playing in you know,
Triple A baseball parks. They have their own stadium facilities

(25:42):
that are soccer only. They're amazing. And the thought this
time is we were late to the game and it
took a while for MLS to wrap up. Do you
think there's going to be an overflow of people now
They're going to want to go to games, They're going
to want to get and become part of their local teams.

Speaker 17 (26:00):
I certainly think at the beginning it will I expect,
you know, maybe that interest could die off. But I
also think that if people start going to their local teams,
whether it's FC Dallas and or Miami Sporting KC, what
have you. If they start going to their teams and
getting into it, if they haven't gone before, they may

(26:22):
very quickly, you know, start, oh, you know, that was fun,
Let's go to another one. Or you know, this is
that there's a lot less I have to deal with
than go into an NFL game, you know, And and
I think that we might be seeing that. But I
think you're definitely going to see an explosion of interest immediately.
Some of it might die off, but I think you're

(26:43):
going to have a permanent increase at some capacity. As
as you mentioned, you know, the last time the World
Cup was here, we only got it because a part
of our agreement was we would create Major League Soccer.
It happened, it exists, you know, thirty plus years later,
and now I can only that that will continue, especially
since some of these international stars, Lionel Messi especially, you know,

(27:05):
they play in the United States, and how interesting was
it speaking of him a lot of people knew Messi,
were aware of him, or they were reminded of him,
and you know that memory was stored in their brain.
And here we are in the US thinking, oh, we're
going to watch him break the record for number of
goals scored in all the combined World Cups. And then

(27:28):
as soon as he starts doing it, I believe in
the first game Argentina played in the group stage, he
scored two goals, and so we see that happen. He
ties the record in Kansas City, he breaks the record
in Dallas, and then all of a sudden, Killian and
Bope comes out of nowhere and he holds the record.
So Messi only held the record for a hot minute,

(27:49):
and you know, Imbope comes along.

Speaker 11 (27:51):
So we're learning about him.

Speaker 17 (27:52):
We're learning about Harry Kine, and we're learning about all
these different Earl Holland we're learning about him taking the
taxidermy raccoon back to Norway from a Wild Bills Western
store in the West district of Dallas and the st
request and I should say, and so there are so
many people that we've been introduced to that I think

(28:13):
we might be following even on an international level, let
alone major League Soccer in the United States, so it
will be very interesting to see how the interest expands
in that sport here in the US.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
Last question, brother, what's your Now You've gotten through, it
had a chance to breathe, you look back. What's been
some of your best memories that you're going to take
away from? First of all, really kind of learning about
the game, but also the people.

Speaker 11 (28:39):
Well, I loved seeing the fan bases.

Speaker 17 (28:42):
I did spend some time at FIFA fan Fest at
fair Park in Dallas, and I remember I was just
blown away given the people who live in North Texas
and Texas overall, the fan base for Mexico is huge.
And I went to fan Fest on a day that

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Mexico was playing. They weren't playing, and this is during
the group stage when we had four games a day
and they were the last game. And I got there
maybe at eleven o'clock in the morning, and fair Park
was filled with Mexico jerseys and I'm thinking, my lord
that they don't play for another you know, seven eight hours,

(29:28):
and they were already packed with the lines to get
some of the merchandise. There was a charm bracelet that
was a huge success that the Dallas FanFest put on
and that continued to sell out, and so that is
one thing that really impressed me. I think the US fans,
I'm sure they went to FanFest, but they were at
the bars, they were at home that that is where

(29:51):
they watched.

Speaker 11 (29:53):
But that was one of the things that I thought
was great.

Speaker 17 (29:56):
There was also this Central Pitch pop up store that
we talked about that was in downtown on Dallas. One
of the local T shirt stores decided to put this
pop up store in the middle of the Adolphus Tower
next to the famed Adolphus Hotel downtown and they were
selling jerseys left and right, and they were able to
get all these different artifacts in and patches so you

(30:17):
could make your own jersey as you went. All these
very creative ideas that people came up with, and it
really seemed to me overall a success story, and so
I think taking from that, this was an event where
people can come together. I did speak to Downtown Dallas, Inc.
Who put together some of the Social Saturdays where they
closed down Main Street and downtown to vehicle traffic every

(30:39):
Saturday for a few hours during the day so people
could gather, they could enjoy the World Cup activities downtown.
They could walk around the local vendors, bars and restaurants
without having to dodge the cars that are in that area.
And they said, if there's one thing they learned that
they can do things like this. So there are things
that occurred specifically for the World Cup that might be

(31:02):
reserved for future major events, whether they involve sports or
they involve other things. And so I think this is definitely,
you know, a turning point for all the cities that
hosted the World Cup. Maybe not for the country in general,
but it'll certainly be interesting to see how the different
host cities react to this long term. And then also,

(31:24):
of course, as we keep talking about how, you know,
soccer interest in this country could finally get up there
with what has long been, you know, the big sport
that the United States loves, which is going to be
starting in just a few weeks American football.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
That's right, Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City chief Seattle Seahawks, all
of them in the next few days are going to
be starting to report to training camp and we're going
to move from football to football. Eric Pusher krld Man,
It's been great talking to you, and I'm sure we'll
talk more about politics and stuff in the future. But
this has been a blast.

Speaker 17 (31:57):
Absolutely, Chad, it's been a blast, and we'll I'll be
back on when you need me.

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Speaker 2 (33:25):
Jimothy the raccoon? Is there more than one of them?

Speaker 19 (33:33):
Sneaking across fences under the cover of night? Is Ballard's
biggest little celebrity, Jimothy, And as his videos spread around
the world, people are taking note.

Speaker 20 (33:44):
There's posts now the saying that he was born a
year ago, and then other people.

Speaker 1 (33:48):
With posts that they saw him in twenty seventeen.

Speaker 19 (33:51):
Some even have started asking questions.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
I'm curious now if.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
There are more, there's more than one.

Speaker 19 (33:58):
I needed some answers, so I came out here to
Northwest Trak to talk to the experts.

Speaker 20 (34:02):
Yeah, that seems like a very long lived raccoon to me.
For the while, that would be pretty incredible. H I
miss Bluebell.

Speaker 19 (34:09):
Animal keeper Wendy Mallow spends every day looking after these
two Bluebell and Hickory, who were found abandoned as kits
here at Northwest Trak, they could live up to twenty years, whereas.

Speaker 20 (34:21):
So in the wild three to five years would be
doing really, really well. A lot of raccoons don't even
make it through their first year.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
What it's true, it's true a lot of them don't.
But the trash pand is they're being resourceful. That's why
they are becoming more and more friendly with humans, trying
to look cuter and cuter because they realize, eh, inside there,
inside that house, not only can we look cute, were unique,
but we live longer.

Speaker 19 (34:47):
Whether Jimothy is a rarity or just the first of
many with a spinal deformity, that remains anybody's guess.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
But who knows.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
There's magic in the wild.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
We just got to look for it.

Speaker 19 (34:57):
But Wendy says he's already done something pretty remarkable, turning
a critter many people avoid into one they root for.

Speaker 20 (35:06):
People often don't like animals that are too successful and
that are surprisingly in their backyard. There's definitely a very
visceral response when you see a video of jim Athy.
It's pretty impactful. I'm just again, I'm amazed at how
well he's done, and I'm amazed at kind of the
magic that's in our own backyards.

Speaker 2 (35:22):
I'm going to take an exception there. We do root
for animals. We do. We absolutely root for animals. You
guys know we do root for animals. Not all animals,
but for the most part, we root for animals. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show
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(35:44):
up our number two. We're gonna have a serious conversation
in our number two about the anger that a lot
of people have on both sides, the propaganda on both sides,
the cult like attitude that people building up on both
sides that is crazy and quite frankly, not good for

(36:08):
America and unhealthy for themselves. And talk about that the
latest on Iran as well. If you're missing the show,
shame on you. Grab the podcast. Our number two is
straight ahead. This is the Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (36:54):
We can sit here and say, what's the latest with
the war. Honestly, do we care or do we care
about the thing that hits us in the wall. That's
what we care about. Let's be real. We only pay
attention to the war or what's happening or not happening
because we look at oil prices and then we drive

(37:14):
by a gas station and go, sweet mother of God,
what the hell's going on? I thought this thing was fixed. Yeah,
that's what we care about. That is what we care about.
We care about the cost. We are a checkbook based society.
How's your checkbook doing right now? I say checkbook? Some
of you out there are you are going? Who is checkbook?
But you guys get where I'm going to bank account

(37:35):
society if you will, and currently your bank account is
get a little bit of a kick in the grundle,
because I know mine is.

Speaker 21 (37:41):
The last five months, we've been talking a lot about
the Strait of Hormuz and you just turned Garrett's report there.
The Strait of Hormus is vital for the as a
passageway for oil and gas. But overnight a Yemeny backed
a Yemeny based group backed by around the Huthis said
they carried out attacks on two Saudi oil tankers in

(38:06):
the Red Sea. This is a new front in the conflict.
The Red Sea is responsible not just for the flow
and gas, but a full twelve percent of all of
the world's global trade. The attacks in the Red Sea
were condemned by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And this
second front has the potential not to just disrupt flows

(38:30):
in the Strait of Hormuz, but across the region. So
this is a vital development, has very significant economic consequences.

Speaker 11 (38:39):
And potentially we are just getting started.

Speaker 21 (38:41):
And like the Iranians, the Houthi said that they carried
out this attack on those Saudi tankers in the spirit
of an eye for an eye in conjunction with Iran,
related to the US Iran War, which does seem to
be expanding.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Expanding yay not yea? Why does this matter? A few reasons. First,
let's let's do a big picture here. Okay, let's have
a little fun, do a little big big picture. Iran
wants to be the player. Now they've been kicked. They
feel like it's time for us to be the player.
We've got ninety three million people, let's be the player

(39:17):
in this. We're sick and tired of being the access
of evil. Even though the ruling party over there is
truly the access of a holes. If you look at
a map, the goal for Iran to become the biggest
player in the Middle East, not just the biggest pariah,
but the biggest player. If they can get the Hoho

(39:38):
thies to continue to do what they do, and they
can continue to do what they're doing with the Straits
of Hormuz, that right there changes everything. If they can
control the Red Sea and the Straits, you see, there's

(39:59):
some pipeline that over time they can continue to build
onto that would allow oil to flow in other directions
and get out of the Gulf and those areas to
the point where the Straits wouldn't be the player it is.
But if you can get the Red Sea to become

(40:20):
you know, a nightmare and control somewhat of that using
the houtis you've all of a sudden started to build
up a truly dominant area where even if your oil's
not getting out, nobody else's oil is getting out. You've
now become the player. So it's not just as simple

(40:41):
as well, it's all about you know, what goes on
in the Straits of Hormves. Yes, but some of that
oil was already they already had some pipelines built and
the Saudis were able to take it out to the
red seat. Now with that, oh, that's why you're seeing
oil prices jump again today, which means more money out
of our pocket.

Speaker 12 (41:01):
Cost of link was already too high for most people
in this country before the war.

Speaker 11 (41:05):
But how much worse has this war made.

Speaker 4 (41:07):
There are financial costs on American families for this war indeed,
And you've got oil prices overnight spiking again. And remember
the US has been releasing emergency supplies for some time
from its emergency stockpiles of oil to try to keep
a lid on oil prices. But now that stockpile is
the lowest since nineteen eighty three. So the financial cost here.
Gas prices up thirty seven percent from before the war began.

(41:29):
So you've got gas overnight at four to nine. That's
a lot more than two ninety eight. You put it
all together, between gas and military costs, groceries, higher interest
rates raising mortgage rates to the highest inst almost a year,
and transportation costs, especially for things like diesel. By the way,
diesel is a big is distilled and refined in Russia.

(41:54):
For example, there are two big wars going on right now,
and the potential for a hurricane season in a few
months here. So it's really hard to predict where gas
prices are going to go. But right now, all of
that progress made in June is over and you're back
at late May levels for many of these oil and
gas prices.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
That right there, twelve hundred dollars, that's what it's costing
us as Americans. Every day Americans drive by gas stations.
What do they see gas prices? It's visual. I see
it there. It is gas prices. When they go up,

(42:32):
I know I'm going to have to pay more. Eh.
You start putting one in one together and you go, oh,
by the way, diesel prices are way up there? What's
that mean? Something travels from point A to point B.
I was explaining this yesterday to somebody and they're like, well,
here in Tennessee, I only paid three forty nine. I
don't know what people are bitching about. And I said, well,
diesel prices are up, so who cares. How do you

(42:55):
think your stuff gets there? You do realize there's no
genies that magically bring your stuff to the store. You
understand that, right, So if something is created somewhere else
and it's got to get here via ship or airplane.
That's going to cost a little bit more. If it
does arrive here, Let's say in the Port of Los Angeles.
It's a big harbor there, right, big, pretty big, you know,

(43:18):
and then it gets on a truck. Okay, not a
magical truck full of wishes and unicorn love full of diesel.
Those prices are going to be passed off because they're
paying more to who the consumer ah, that would be

(43:40):
you and me and everybody else. The price is to
make the things that you and I purchase are costing more.
So not only is it costing more for us to
buy the goods, because it's costing more for them to
produce the goods. Then the goods getting to us is

(44:00):
costing more. But we're not seeing that day to day.
That's why the gas prices that you see rise have
an get us to have a reaction because we can
see those see Trump understands that, like he understands the
Dow Jones. People in America think, well, if the Dow's

(44:21):
doing great, everybody's doing great. And you and I both
know that's not true. Wall Street, Main Street are further
apart than they have ever been, but because it is
a visual that people can point to and it's easy
to go, oh, it's over fifty thousand, it's great. That's
a win. So this is going to be very interesting

(44:43):
to see what goes on. I continue to say. I
think at some point in time they're going to do
a ten day kind of ceasefire while they try to
negotiate certain things, and that will calm the market down
a li little bit. But I don't see where this

(45:04):
ends anytime soon overall. And as we know, we talked
to our our buddy Mike Lines, our military analysts every Tuesday,
and he just doesn't see the thing ending anytime soon.
The question is going to be on the military side,
because we're starting to see a movement now of.

Speaker 22 (45:20):
More and more.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
People, including medics and stuff. Are we going to have
to go and actually put boots on the ground, which
is a massive, massive game changer. What do you think?
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four twenty three

(45:44):
at Chad Benson Show is your ex That is your Insta,
your YouTube and all the other things. Love hearing from
all of you right here, and remember you can email
the show as well. Got an email yesterday from Frosty
not the Snowman said the Iran war is a folly
and expensive, all caps and wrong. I agree with you,

(46:05):
we should run away. Well, we're not doing that. And
then you got to throw this in the mix yesterday,
that whole thing with Saudi Arabia and a nuke deal
for nuclear power, with the opportunity for them to maybe

(46:27):
maybe enrich themselves uranium. Oh, made everybody go hm. Even
some Republicans aren't thrilled by this. But most importantly for
context of the Middle East, Israel's not thrilled with this.
And this was all supposed to be somewhere down the

(46:49):
line once they join the Abraham Accords in full signed it,
that they would have the opportunity somewhere down the line.
And instead what they did was tell Trump he's great,
he's wonderful and all of the things. And Trump's like, yeah,
here's a nuclear deal. And I joked yesterday, don't be
surprised that for the next few days that Don Junior
and Eric Trump magically become some sort of part owners

(47:13):
are on a board of some sort of nuclear group
that will magically get a contract, because that's what the
contract and this deal is forced for American companies to
help them with their nuclear facilities in Saudi Arabia, So
we'll see how that plays out. And some people got mad.

(47:35):
How do you know that? I'm like, are you being
serious right now? Are you being serious? Some people are,
they're serious. How would you even? Why would you even?
I said, first of all, it's sarcasm. Secondly, let's see here.
Oh they've got a drone company and I don't know
how good they're. Oh they've just got a mining company
that they've taken a piece in. And then the next

(47:56):
few days they got a big mining deal out of
cost extend for a crap ton of money. I would say,
I feel like that's kind of grifty. But you know what,
maybe I'm wrong? What do you think? Let me know?
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This guy's a remote worker and he's doing it right.
We'll talk about that. We got a lot of other
stuff to get to, including urban word of today Chad
Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
Remote working. You guys remember how big that was during COVID.
This guy's got it down to an art form. From
the skies to the slope scott Merehead. Has I earned
a reputation for taking business casual to the extreme? Why not?

Speaker 23 (50:04):
If I can work from anywhere?

Speaker 12 (50:06):
Work from the beach.

Speaker 24 (50:07):
The popular content creator known as Scotti wants to change
the way people view remote work, setting up unconventional office
spaces in San Diego, first the beach, then the Pottery's ballpark.

Speaker 14 (50:19):
We're going to make Pecko Park the most productive office
in America today.

Speaker 24 (50:22):
Remote workers like Raja Hamasien joined in.

Speaker 1 (50:25):
Does your boss know that you're here today?

Speaker 11 (50:28):
No?

Speaker 25 (50:30):
But why you know?

Speaker 19 (50:31):
Like, I'm still getting my work done, So why does
it matter where I'm doing it from?

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yes, that's true. I agree. If you can get your
work done, that's the only thing that should matter. Now,
obviously a lot of places have gone hybrid, but this
guy goes everywhere, goes to the beach and he sets
up many offices and people come and hang out of
the beach. He's at the ball game, sets up that
he's been on the slopes, and the slopes was hilarious.
He's going down a mountain and he's crouched, but he

(50:58):
has a little desk in front of him and he's
working because he does have a job besides being an influencer.
I love that. I'm blessed. I can kind of do
my gig anywhere from a national show for my local show,
I've got to be in studio, which I also like.
I like that collaboration and being able to do, you know,
have that conversation. So you know, there's the best of

(51:22):
both worlds. But that is the future. Baby flip flops
and a T shirt. You guys know how I do
from your head.

Speaker 24 (51:29):
This isn't just about being an influencer. He's employed as
a sales rep and even got his boss on board
with the antics.

Speaker 2 (51:35):
Let's get out, explore life and still be productive at
the same time.

Speaker 11 (51:39):
So we're all behind it.

Speaker 24 (51:41):
You realize you are not like most bosses or most companies. Nationwide,
only about eleven percent of full time workers are fully
remote as a return to office mandates continue, But for
those who can work from anywhere, there's a trade off.
Researchers say remote work can feel isolation, loneliness and poor
mental health health. And that's what makes these meetups meaningful,

(52:02):
not just viral.

Speaker 2 (52:03):
The one off content videos are fine and silly, but
it's like the idea of bringing everyone together has been
you know, the thing that really makes me feel good.
Now I've been blessed to do remote work when I
was just doing full time voiceovers. I will tell you,
and you don't get out much. You can go stir crazy.
You've got to know what to do because then when
you meet people, you're like, you're like a dog. You're

(52:24):
still working from home. We love hearing from all of
you right here on the Chat Benson Show. It's the balance, right.
That's why you got to make sure that you are
out doing stuff, you know, whether you're playing sports, working out,
getting out of your place, because it could become very
easy to just chill in your jammies all day and
do stuff. What do you think. Let me know. Some

(52:50):
of you might be home now because of you know,
Manasuma's revenge or whatever we're calling it.

Speaker 26 (52:56):
The CDC no tracking at least eleven thousand cases in
forty one states. Many of the additional cases have been
reported by Michigan and Ohio. More than three hundred people
have also been hospitalized. The youngest of those six just
two years old. Well, the oldest was ninety five.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
I get the ninety five year old. Weren't the two
year old you feed and let us to your two
year old kid that's not good, should eat cheerios anything.
I mean, I joke. Obviously you should probably give them
some fruits and vegetables. Eleven thousand cases. And I'm not
sure you know, based on what we know now the

(53:34):
two week incubation period, that it's over at this moment
in time, I have a feeling we're going to see more.

Speaker 26 (53:42):
Health officials urging consumers to wash their produce, wash their hands,
as well as disinfect kitchen surfaces to prevent cross contamination.
With cases of this parasite historically peaking between May through August,
officials say these numbers are likely expected to rise.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
We continue to say it, We'll say it every single day.
Just eat a donut, have a couple other things that
have nothing to do with lettuce at this moment in time,
unless you're feeling dangerous, Because if you're feeling dangerous, have that.
If you're feeling like you know what my luck. It's
rocking and rolling right now, go for it. If you're
missing the show, grab the podcast. This is the Chat Benson.

Speaker 27 (54:18):
Show, then Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
The Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Curiosity killed the cat. But you know what, it should
inform you, should educate you, It should help you grow.
And many of us aren't. Curious of us go to
a singular place to get our news, and we are

(55:07):
given the news the way we want it. That is affirmation,
and it's sad. It's shaping many many things, and it's
easy to see it being done. It really is, but
most people don't see that. What they see is, these

(55:28):
are my beliefs. They tell me my beliefs are right.
Why should I not believe them?

Speaker 28 (55:33):
The news isn't informing you anymore, it's programming you. A
story breaks, A major network frames it one way, another
network frames it the other way, and then your algorithm,
the one that already knows what you believe, feeds you
whichever version confirms it. So you never see the other
headline and you rarely see how the other outlets are
framing it, and so you walk away truly thinking that
you're informed, but really your reality is being curated, and

(55:54):
it's one of the most powerful drivers of the polarization crisis,
because we can't find common ground when we're not a
starting from the same set of.

Speaker 2 (56:01):
Facts, and that's the most important thing, starting from the
same set of facts. For the last several years, I've
complained why is it hard to find out the truth?
Because both sides tell a story they want you to see, Okay,

(56:23):
not the story that is to who, what, when, how
and why? You make up your own mind because for
many people out there, their minds are made up. They're
not looking for information, they're looking for affirmation. And because
they're looking for affirmation, they've got a place that is
going to curate all of what they want to hear

(56:46):
and none of what they need to hear. And that
is a frustrating thing. Tomorrow, we're going to have on
Rich Logis, who is the guy who is spearheading a
thing called leaving MAGA dot org. You're going to start
to see billboards across the country. There's already several in
several states. And I know some of you are like, oh, sure,

(57:08):
it's about MAGA. I will tell you this right now.
Twenty eighteen, one of the first people to have him
on and had him on several occasions. Was Brandon Straka,
what did he do? He started the walkaway campaign and
that was the purpose of encouraging voters to leave the

(57:30):
Democrat Party. So it's not just Maga the left has
thats echo chamber. Both echo chambers are very loud, and
that's frustrating. Yesterday it was hilarious. So on my local show,

(57:54):
I have a guy filling in for my local producer.
He had the week off because he's a weirdo. And
it's funny because he takes You know, you've had those
people that like they take time off and then nobody
else is on vacation and they just text you what
are you doing? I'm working where you should be and
you should We should have coordinated this better. But the
guy that is filling in. His name is Ryan, nice guy.

(58:16):
He is uh, he's just there to push the buttons. Okay.
I mean, you know, normally Bell and I are we
we cop s. We're working together, We're doing all kinds
of stuff. He's part of the show, the whole nine yards.
He handles the YouTube stuff, so streaming live on YouTube,
he'll he'll answer back the comments this, that, and the
other and then I handle the text messages. But I'm

(58:36):
doing both this week, he says to me during a break, Dude,
is this like an ex wife that hates you? The
hate that you get on here? I said, no, it's
just what it is. Why Because I point out something
that they've not heard before, and because it's new and

(58:59):
different and their identity is wrapped up in something that
they've not been told, they become offended and it's hilarious.
And so he was shocked by that. I'm not. I
get attacked every day by the left and the right,

(59:23):
and I'm okay with that because that means I'm doing something.
In my mind, I'm doing something right. Am I always
going to be right? Hell no, I'm a human being?
But am I always looking to find all of the
facts and information and deliver it? And I was talking
to people yesterday on the thing the YouTube chat, going
tell me where I lied, Tell me where I lied?

(59:46):
And all they kept saying is you're a lib tard. No, no, no, no, no,
tell me where I lied. You say you have sources.
What are your sources? Who are they? What's their names?
That's not the way sources work, you dumbass. Tell me
where I lied. See, it's all about crafting something for

(01:00:11):
a specific group. Rage and anger is the driving force
right now in our politics, and it shouldn't be, but
it is.

Speaker 5 (01:00:21):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
So tomorrow we're gonna have rich On and rich is
driving this leave Maga. I want to find out what
it's all about. I want to talk to him. I
do because I don't think he's changed his belief system.
If you will, he hasn't gone from a you know,
hardcore conservative maga person to this super uber liberal, but

(01:00:44):
he got away from narratives that didn't give him the
entire truth. And I keep saying to people, why would
you listen to somebody who is always selling you something
that isn't fully true? And I'm here to tell a
lot of you may catch that properly, that a lot
of your favorite hosts and people out there, they may
not be telling you the truth and they know it,

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they do. And that's a sad, sad, sad thing.

Speaker 23 (01:01:09):
On frightening for me because I knew that leaving would
mean that I was going to walk away from my
second family. And as embarrassed as I am to admit this,
my second family oftentimes took precedence over my own blood family,
and I spent time and money that in hindsight, should
have gone to my family into my business. Maga for me,

(01:01:29):
was an obsession, and I knew that if I were,
if I were going to leave it, not only was
leaving behind a second family, but I had to also
I would have to also acknowledge that so much of
what it was that I believed turned out to be
a live wholehood or conspiracy theory. And I would like

(01:01:49):
to think that. I mean, I'm not the I'm not
the brightest or the dimmest bulb. I'm a college educated
person and I had virtually no curiosity when I was
in Maga, which is saying something considering that I used
to be a newspaper reporter.

Speaker 2 (01:02:09):
Yes, curiosity, I tell you guys, every day, challenge your beliefs.
Challenge your beliefs. If you don't challenge your beliefs because
you think your beliefs can't stand any kind of pushback,
then what are you doing. We all need to challenge
our beliefs. We should all strive to find the truth,

(01:02:35):
and people aren't interested in it. I mean, I've come
to find out that people really just want you to bitch,
wine and moan, because apparently that's what they enjoy. I don't.
I want to know what the truth is. Are you
trying to pull a fast one on me? And the
matter you get and the angrier you get, and the
more that you call me names, the more I realized

(01:02:55):
I've hit a nerve. Here's a perfect example. I joked yesterday.
We talked about it earlier about the brothers Eric and
don you know, starting a nuclear company because they'll get
some sort of thing. This is what somebody, who are
you ready for this? Talk about a cult. Trump's your
daddy is the little handle there. Chad is an Iranian

(01:03:19):
blessing Trump hating pos He ignores the fact that Iran
has vowed to kill Americans. Don't ignore that simply because
he hates Trump. I think he should go to Iran
and get a free flying lesson. You're in a cult.

(01:03:40):
You're in a cult. Where's your proof that they would
do something? I said, first of all, I'm just gonna
tell you this right now. It was sarcasm. Secondly, here's
some of the stuff that they've done, and it still
didn't matter because they're in a cult. If today Trump
came out and said we've decided to be I'm best
friends with Iran. Those people start flying Iranian flags, and

(01:04:04):
it's never about the Republican Party, it's only about Trump.
On the other side, the left, you only care about
destroying Trump. That's it. You care about MAGA and Trump.
You have no other positions on anything. You don't You've

(01:04:25):
allowed craziness to take over your party, and you only
care about what Trump is doing. You don't have any
thought outside of that. For the most part, and for
the media world, Trump's great business. He's great business. It's

(01:04:45):
sad but true, and it is so easy to see
it take place, and it's frustrating. It is like, here's
a perfect example of how I'm gonna tell you how
something's gonna break down. See if you guys can hear
this throughout the day on shows Wisconsin shooting, black man

(01:05:09):
had a knife, maybe several different angles. Definitely there was
a knife there. Did he have in his hands? Did
he not have it in his hands? You know, those
are the things that you're gonna hear. This is what
a lot of people are gonna say he should Well,
you know what, that's what you get, you FDA, you
foed that's what you get. You shouldn't have done that,

(01:05:33):
et cetera, et cetera. You get where we're going with this.
You know, that's what they're gonna say. And they had
every right to do that, and you know, et cetera,
et cetera. The left is going to say, you killed
a black man who was unarmed and you shot him
dead in the streets, and we see it, and this
is it cops killing Americans, especially black Americans. We need

(01:05:55):
to defund the police, et cetera, et cetera. And then
they're gonna paint that picture and it's going to go there.
What's the truth? Don't know. There are several angles. He
was fighting, he was taste, he was still fighting. Did
he have something? Didn't he have something?

Speaker 1 (01:06:12):
You got to see more of the video.

Speaker 25 (01:06:13):
Is it something where he had a knife eventually where
they could have possibly kept a certain level of distance
away from him, or were they trying to arrest him
and then he reached into a certain part of his
clothing and pull that a knife.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
Don't know, because there's several videos, and so people will
take the video that they think tells the story that's
going to help them with their audience. Not the truth.
And here's the thing. We could find out that he
didn't really have a knife that was in his hands
and he was shot and killed, and it won't matter

(01:06:50):
because we'll have moved on from the story because it's
not about the story. It's about the outrage the left.
You could find out he had a knife and a
bomb and the guy did what he was supposed to
do to save people, and you won't pay attention to
it anymore. It'll just quietly go away because it's about
the outrage, instantaneous outrage, not the actual entire story. If

(01:07:18):
you're not curious, get curious. I know for a long
time I wasn't as curious as I should have been.
I'd always look at everything from all sides. But you
know it's I think all of us can admit that
times we're not curious enough. But I think in today's
world we have just given that up. We want our

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Frinding with scissors sounds great compared to this.

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Speaker 1 (01:10:04):
Now it's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you. It's called the urban word
of the day. Alrighty, alrighty, alrighty, your urban word today.
Funny I heard this yesterday are one of our big promotions.
Guy he is Yesterday was his last day, so he

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is becoming a teacher, and he's gonna be a high
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scholarship athlete in college playing tennis, and so he's excited
about that. And somebody said, oh, I guess he's taking
eternity leave. So you know you have paternity you know,
although our paternity leave, it's eternity leave. This is when

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someone resigns or retires from a job, or if somebody
passes away. But you guys get where we're going with this, right,
you're no longer there anymore. You're taking eternity leave. Is
you're urban word of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:11:02):
That was the urban word of the day, now, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
Good to know some more of you chiming in about
the what I was just talking about. If you guys
miss you guy should grab the segment about the lies
we get told by the news organizations out there who look,
it's a business, and I get why some people do it.

(01:11:28):
I understand. Do you know much easier it would be
for me to just find crazy things? Play it all
the time, say that's all there is, and that's what
that is, and you build up a niche. I'm trying
to expand the tent and have conversations. I feel like
I'm part of the exhausted majority, Like eighty to ninety
percent of us don't live in that world of chaos,

(01:11:49):
but I understand why some people do it. I'm just
not that people. But some of you were like, well,
the left or the right, Yeah, just they're not all
communists and they're not fascist. It's time for us to
get back to having conversations with one another. And that's

(01:12:09):
what I hope we're trying to do here every single day.
And that's why I appreciate you guys hanging out with
us right here on the Chad Benson Show. Coming up,
our number three of the program, a little bit more
about Iran and what is going on there. There is
a few things we do agree with, though, and an enemy.
It seems to be that both the left and the

(01:12:31):
right have found togethered and has nothing to do with
another country. But what's going on across the country when
it comes to certain things, we will talk about that.
We got a little what's trending for you as well?
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Speaker 16 (01:13:02):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show America.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Right left, Finally you found common ground data centers and
the evil that is we are watching.

Speaker 22 (01:13:44):
The fight over the future of data centers is heating up.
More than three thousand data centers like these have been
built across the country, each facility requiring a great deal
of land, power, and water.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
It ain't nothing but a poison now.

Speaker 22 (01:14:00):
Today the White House prepared to unveil a plan to
curb this skyrocketing power costs associated with the technology's rapid growth.
The explosion in data centers here in Loudon County, Virginia
is like no place in the country, with two hundred
here already and plans to build at least one hundred
more in the near future.

Speaker 11 (01:14:19):
It is the first thing you see every morning.

Speaker 4 (01:14:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:14:22):
And it wasn't like this when you bought it.

Speaker 26 (01:14:23):
No, when we.

Speaker 11 (01:14:24):
Moved in, it was mostly trees. Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:14:27):
Harry Dewey is the mother of twin nine year olds
she wasn't prepared for this massive, sometimes loud data center
outside her front door.

Speaker 7 (01:14:36):
I am not sure why they chose a very random
place in the middle of a residential area to build
this monstrosity of a building.

Speaker 2 (01:14:49):
I'll tell you why. It was land It was affordable,
and they were able to do it and get it
through all the zoning. That's why we're going through it.
Here in Nashville. There's a huge fight company called DC
blocks who who has purchased a building? The check is cleared,
it's been cashed, all right, so it's cleared, it's done,
and now they want to block it. Why do they
want to block it? Well, it's right next to the zoo.

(01:15:10):
The zoo's not quite sure what will happen? Will there
be nos won't there be noise? They're worried about all
kinds of things. Totally understandable. The problem has become it's
now become emotional. And once it becomes emotional, am I
getting the right information? But yeah, if I'm there and
i'm that lady and I look across the street, I've
gone from trees to a giant building. So much for

(01:15:32):
the not in my backyard.

Speaker 22 (01:15:33):
Harry told us the constant noise from the data center
keeps her kids up at night. She's worried about the
impact on the value of her home.

Speaker 11 (01:15:41):
Who is going to want to come and buy a home?
And this is the first thing you see.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
She is not alone.

Speaker 22 (01:15:48):
As data centers continue to pop up across the country,
so too does the backlash. Prince George's County in Maryland
voted this month on a two year moratorium at a
center construction in Utah. Residents pushed back so hard against
a proposal from Shark Tank star Kevin O'Leary that he
cut the project in half. Oh leary telling NBC News

(01:16:14):
he had no choice given the public's opposition.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
People were angry, they were upset. You guys, remember what
was going on there in Utah and how big that
thing was going to be. Is bigger than Manhattan and
all this kind of stuff and these But what's the
reality of how much water it's going to use, the energy,
the prices are going to rise up. What is the
reality that all those things are going to happen or
not happen, or it could be worse or might not

(01:16:40):
be worse. It's hard to tell because it's become emotional
and look, I understand why it's become emotional. Let me
tell you something. I want to know what's going on
with DC blocks here. I want to know is it
going to affect the animals? I want to know if
it is going to be a situation where prices are

(01:17:01):
going up. Are you being told the reality of what
is going to happen to energy prices. It's one of
the things we talked about in Texas in some of
the surrounding areas outside you know, Dallas and a few
of the other places. What you're seeing is when you
squint your eyes, turn it sideways magnifying glass. In the
fine print tax breaks oooh okay, like the one in Utah.

(01:17:26):
Do you know that anything that they buy, any material,
what's going to be tax free? People were a little
angry about that. So if you want to build your deck,
you gotta be tax on that. They want to build
a giant building, they don't have to. Second thing is
the power itself, not just the cost of power, but

(01:17:48):
are they the first in line for power? Meaning if
there has to be, you know, rolling blackouts because there's
so much pressure on the grid, they're gonna still stay
on while everybody else is suffering. I mean, so these
are all fair questions, but once you get to the
point where it becomes they're evil, They're bad, et cetera,

(01:18:12):
et cetera. You're just now painting pictures and the data
and any information is lost.

Speaker 22 (01:18:19):
But the growth is directly tied to consumer demand for
artificial intelligence. Well, ben AI's Sam Altman believes there is
room to satisfy the demand without interrupting daily life.

Speaker 27 (01:18:31):
With a huge country, and there's a lot of places
we can put data centers and build an electricity that
I think they're pretty to be happy.

Speaker 22 (01:18:36):
Buddy Riser oversees data center development in Louden County. He
points to the industry leading to thousands of construction jobs
and a tax benefit of close to seven thousand dollars
per household.

Speaker 9 (01:18:48):
We've had it over one thousand acres of parks and recreation, transportation,
affordable housing.

Speaker 22 (01:18:54):
Harry admits she is using AI technology a lot, and
she understands the need for data centers. What she's asking
for is better planning.

Speaker 7 (01:19:03):
Obviously, technology moves at you know, light speed, and it's
ever changing, but this needs to be more thought out.

Speaker 2 (01:19:11):
And I think that's what the average person wants, how
can we do this in a way that is responsible,
that does the least amount of damage when it comes
to not just building and building and tearing down trees
or whatever, but as far as you know what it
could do to home values or things of that nature.

(01:19:34):
Because the benefits, as I've said over and over again,
they're eventually going to outweigh what is going on now.
But if you own a house and they put one
across the street from you, you're not going to be thrilled.
You're not. And if it is noisy, and it is
kind of a situation where your price is right now,

(01:19:56):
go through the roof, so you don't care about five
years from now, care about today now.

Speaker 8 (01:20:02):
Vantage Data Centers, which operates the site near Dewey's home,
says that in part it is committed to being a
responsible long term neighbor and that it's in full compliance
with applicable local noise ordinances, but also pledge to work
to address the concerns of local residents.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
And that's I think that's the number one thing. If
if I could give any advice, like anybody would take it.
But if you, if you, if I could, and you
are one of these data centers. Thinking about going into
these places, I think the first thing you need to
do is to do a town hall to talk to
the people. I find the more that you're open with them,

(01:20:41):
the more receptive they're going to be. And in many cases,
what I'm finding though, is a lot of these city
councils and areas have signed off on deals and then
the deals get out and then they start to backtrack.
And we're seeing that here where city council was well

(01:21:02):
aware of what was going on and where this thing
was going to be here in Nashville next to the zoo,
but when it finally got out, now they're backtracking and
trying to figure out what to do. And now the
mayor is saying what we may claim eminent domain, which
is absurd. So there's everybody's got to get let's just

(01:21:24):
figure this thing out. But there's no doubt and I've
been talking about it for a while because we do
work with I work with this every day. My uncle
and I are company. We work with this stuff every day.
AI is what we do outside of this, and he
really does all the AI stuff. I do a lot
of some of the other stuff, but that's what we do.

(01:21:46):
But do I understand the frustration. Yes, and if you
see and Virginia, by the way, their power prices have
gone up, and then you you know, you couple in
the war and all this kind of stuff. It's this
isn't going away. And it's not just Virginia. It is nationwide.

Speaker 8 (01:21:59):
According to it new recent Pew research report, more than
fifteen hundred data centers are currently in the development stage,
and the rural south is the focus of much of it.
Texas and Georgia are the two other biggest states for
new data centers, along with Illinois and Arizona. Almost every
part of the country is dealing with this explosion in.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
Technology, and it is an explosion, and it's going to
continue to explode and move forward, and there's going to
get continued to be a need for it. And right
now it's just at one of those points where people
don't know, so they're angry, they're hearing all these things
could happen in some of those cases, it may be true,
but if it just becomes about emotion, it's going to

(01:22:43):
be hard to get past that. Let me know what
you think. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four
to twenty three. Hatch had Benson Show x instat all
the other things. Guess we should talk about it, eeter
on what's going on there? More strikes, more fighting.

Speaker 1 (01:22:59):
The US bombardment of Iran.

Speaker 3 (01:23:01):
They aren't backing down once again, threatening oil tankers in
the Strait of horn Moos and in Iraq. American forces
on alert after explosions rocked Orbil, President Trump responding with
a stark warning that for every Iranian strike kind of
ship in the Strait of Horror moves, the US will
bomb and destroy one bridge or power plant inside Iran.

(01:23:26):
Deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure is a potential war crime under
international law.

Speaker 2 (01:23:33):
So we'll see if that happens. What we do know
is there, it's ramping up, and it's starting to spread,
and it's starting to feel like it's about to get
a little out of control. And let's not forget the
houties are in play now when it comes to attacking
not the Straits of Hormoos but the Red Sea.

Speaker 3 (01:23:51):
Iranian backed militants in Yemen taking aim at two Saudi
oil tankers in the Red Sea in an attempt to
block international shipping, choking another key waterway that could have
ripple effects for the world economy.

Speaker 2 (01:24:07):
Yes, So just to let you guys know, oil at
least at this time when you're hearing this over one
hundred dollars. So we're heading back towards that four and
a half dollar range. Some of you are already there,
others get ready for four four twenty five. Who knows
how long this stays here, but the pressure is going

(01:24:29):
to continue to grow. Something's got to pop sooner rather
than later. And are we going to see ground forces?
It's unfortunate, but I feel like we're getting to that
boiling point at this moment in time. What else are
we going to do because bombing them over and over

(01:24:50):
only seems to up the ante for them, And I
think their goal is see if the escalation trap works
and they draw us into an invad Is that going
to happen? Unfortunately? I think there's going to be some
boots on the ground where and when. I think it's
going to be sooner than we think. Let me know

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Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

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but investors are worried because rising AI spending. We touched

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on that yesterday. What are we looking at here? Trillion
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Ryan Clark being forced off ESPN. He disputes that even
though he was laid off. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has
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historically accurate AI version of the Odyssey. Okay, This continual

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battle of the right versus left on the Odyssey is hilarious. Absolutely.
Even Ben Shapiro came out and said, this movie was
always going to be hit. What do you people do it?
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Trading Act? Well, why did they do that? A few reasons. One,
they put voter ID in there, right, and most people,
by the way, look, voter ID people don't have a
problem with that, but they put that in there. But
also there was nothing in there for Trump or the
vice president, so they could still continue to trade, so
can their families. And Trump just decided he's going to

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sell early acts, says to his truth tweets, And you're
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So can we all just settle down on the ooh,

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the Democrats want everybody to continue to insider trade. Settle down,
settle down everybody. By the way, they did this on purpose.
Every party does it. They put something inside of a bill,
name the bill, something that if you vote against it,
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We are wrapping up the World Cup. We're putting it
to bed. It is behind us. Joining us now from
Caro l d. Eric Bosman joins the program. You've been
with us from the beginning, my man. As we've really
started to get this thing rolling about a month before
it started, and you've been doing this. When was the
first meeting that you went to for the World Cup
coming to Dallas.

Speaker 17 (01:31:43):
It would have been June of last year, and it
was literally a one year out event hosted by the
North Texas World Cup Organizing Committee and all these cities
have different committees and FIFA kind of relies on them
to handle all the things for them, and was led
by the woman who has been front and center for
all of this the in Dallas and all of North Texas,

(01:32:06):
Monica Paul, who deserves so much credit for this success story,
at least in North Texas. I know other host cities
have had some issues, and of course there were issues here,
but you know, for the most part, it certainly was
a success story. And this was basically a one year
count down kickoff. They held it at Toyota Stadium in Frisco,
which is the home of FC Dallas. There's also a

(01:32:28):
soccer Hall of Fame in that facility, and that is
extremely impressive that people in the Dallas area, if you've
not had a chance to see it, and you're falling
in love with a new sport, like so many people are,
please come here and check that out.

Speaker 11 (01:32:41):
I'm sure Dan Hunt, the.

Speaker 17 (01:32:43):
CEO and president of the team, would appreciate me doing that,
but saying that, but anyway, yeah, that was it, and
that does not seem like that was at this point,
you know, thirteen months ago over that, but it was,
and it was, you know, one of those things, and
I'm thinking, you know, you know, I I just you know,
decided I want to go to this, and you know,
my bosses wanted there or someone there for the station,

(01:33:06):
and I thought, you know, I'd like to follow this through.
And I've really enjoyed following following this all the way
through from all the different you know, marking six months,
marking three months, and then unveiling the plans for this
and then to see it actually happen. It's been wonderful
for spectators. I think it's been a treat for members

(01:33:27):
of local media. Whether you're in Dallas, Kansas City, Philadelphia, wherever, Seattle,
and it's been great to see this through and now
everybody says, Okay, we're gonna sit here patiently and please
welcome back.

Speaker 11 (01:33:39):
In twenty thirty eight, you know, when you.

Speaker 2 (01:33:42):
First went there and you saw what Dallas was unveiling,
how like, how much did they have to do from
the time that you were in there, you know, where
you were a year out that they really had to
hustle to get everything done.

Speaker 17 (01:33:56):
You know the question that I heard that, I I
don't know who asked it. Maybe I asked it, maybe
a colleague of mine from the Dallas Morning News, maybe
a colleague of mine from one of the TV stations.
Someone always asked at every single event involving the local media,
do you have enough time? That was I mean, we

(01:34:16):
heard that a year out, we heard that, six months out,
we heard that, you know, just you know, a month
away in May.

Speaker 11 (01:34:21):
There was an event. It was like, hey, this is happening,
you know, are you ready?

Speaker 17 (01:34:26):
And the officials all basically kind of gave the same
nervous positive response, yes, but you know, we're doing something
we've never done. And the FIFA officials are guiding us,
but we're going to make this happen. And sure enough,
you know, they made it happen. One thing we haven't

(01:34:48):
talked about today that is important too, was everything involving security.
There was not a single major event to my knowledge,
that occurred at any of these one hundred and four matches.
I know in Mexico City there was some tragedy where
there was a fan who died waiting in line ahead

(01:35:11):
of the first game. I think it was an elderly
man who possibly was overcome by the heat. And then
some people had been trampled in their victory in one
of their matches, that is unfortunate. And then of course
we had all these drones that were confiscated. But you know, security,
it seems like the security was a success story. The drone,

(01:35:34):
the restricted airplace airspace was put in place, and the
FBI sees the drones that violated that. The same thing
for FanFest, and the FBI was very open on the
number of drones that they were able to get. So
it really blows my mind how successful this was here.

(01:35:54):
And I think the United States is long also with
you know, Guadala Hora, Monterey, Mexico City, Toronto and Vancouver.
They proved, you know, we can handle these things on
such an internationally massive stage.

Speaker 2 (01:36:09):
Absolutely. I mean, I think what we did and pulled
off was amazing. Talking Eric Bushman Carrol d As we
talked about the World Cup, wrap it up, Let's get
to some numbers. You know. One of the things everybody
was freaking out about is, Oh, the hotels don't seem
to be adding up things, don't you know. I don't
think people understood the way that this was going to go.
I think a lot of people thought, well, this team's

(01:36:30):
going to be here, so people are going to be here.
But it changed. But you're looking at numbers, you know, Dallas, Arlington,
and those numbers are actually pretty decent.

Speaker 16 (01:36:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (01:36:38):
Arlington's mayor had said preliminarily, the way that he understood it,
they not only broke records for single day hotel they
I mean they smashed through it like a freight train.
And so there are new records when it comes to
a number of hotels occupied.

Speaker 11 (01:36:57):
And he's only speaking for the city of Arlington. Of course.

Speaker 17 (01:36:59):
We had events all over the entire metroplex, the fourth
largest metropolitan area in the United States. Dallas had the
official FIFA FanFest. Dallas had a number of parks that
were utilized for watch parties, Clyde Warren Park in Downtown Dallas,
and then of course he had Downtown Dallas itself.

Speaker 11 (01:37:19):
Downtown Dallas Inc. Put on a number of.

Speaker 17 (01:37:21):
Events and so all of these things, people wanted to
stay where the action was. It wasn't just limited to
the matches. And also when you talked about the hotels
and people were going, hey, these aren't being you know,
people aren't buying up the hotels. It's because a lot
of the fans who had their plane tickets, who knew
they were coming, they had their visas approved, they knew

(01:37:42):
they were going to be able to come in, but
they didn't know where their team was going to be
playing outside of the group stage. And so when you
watch it on TV, a vast majority of the fans
are there supporting their country. Well, they don't know, you know,
who's going to be in the semi final, they don't
know who's going to be in the round of thirty two.
You have a pretty good guess you're only eliminated sixteen teams.

(01:38:04):
And so those hotels were booked up as the tournament
went and We don't know one hundred percent yet if
the estimate became reality, but we're getting a good idea
at least. You know, Arlington is a great example that
they certainly are breaking records and perhaps this economic benefit
we were expecting is going to be the reality of

(01:38:27):
the situation.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
Eric, one of the big things about bringing the World
Cup anywhere, but especially here is when we hosted at
ninety four, there wasn't an MLS. The MLS came a
year later. We now not only have MLS teams, they're
not playing in football stadiums, they're not playing in you know,
Triple A baseball parks. They have their own stadium facilities

(01:38:51):
that are soccer only. They're amazing. And the thought this
time is we were late to the game and it
took a while for MLS to wrap up. Do you
think there's going to be an overflow of people now
they're gonna want to go to games, They're gonna want
to get and become part of their local teams.

Speaker 11 (01:39:08):
I certainly think at the beginning it will.

Speaker 17 (01:39:12):
I expect, you know, maybe that interest could die off,
But I also think that if people start going to
their local teams, whether it's FC Dallas and or Miami
Sporting KC, what have you. If they start going to
their teams and getting into it, if they haven't gone before,
they may very quickly, you know, start, oh, you know

(01:39:34):
that was fun, Let's go to another one. Or you know,
this is that there's a lot less I have to
deal with than go into an NFL game, you know.
And and I think that we might be seeing that.
But I think you're definitely going to see an explosion
of interest immediately. Some of it might die off, but
I think you're going to have a permanent increase at
some capacity. As as you mentioned, you know, the last

(01:39:56):
time the World Cup was here, we only got it
because a part of our agreement was we would create
Major League Soccer. It happened, it exists, you know, thirty
plus years later, and now I can only expect that
that will continue, especially since some of these international stars,
Lionel Messi especially, you know, they play in the United States.
And how interesting was it speaking of him? A lot

(01:40:19):
of people knew Messi, were aware of him, or they
were reminded of him, and you know that memory was
stored in their brain. And here we are in the
US thinking, oh, we're going to watch him break the
record for number of goals scored in all the combined
World Cups. And then as soon as he starts doing it,
I believe in the first game Argentina played in the

(01:40:41):
group stage, he scored two goals. And so we see
that happen. He ties the record in Kansas City, he
breaks the record in Dallas, and then all of a sudden,
Killian and Bope comes out of nowhere and he holds
the record. So MESSI only held the record for a
hot minute, and you know, Imbope comes along. So we're
learning about him, We're learning about Harry Kine, and we're

(01:41:03):
learning about all these different Earl Holland we're learning about
him taking the taxidermy raccoon back to Norway from a
Wild Bills Western store in the West District of Dallas.
And so request and I should say, and so there
are so many people that we've been introduced to that
I think we might be following even on an international level,

(01:41:24):
let alone Major League soccer in the United States. So
it will be very interesting to see how the interest
expands in that sport here in the US.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Last question, brother, what's your Now you've gotten through it
had a chance to breathe. You look back. What's been
some of your best memories that you're going to take
away from? First of all, really kind of learning about
the game, but also the people.

Speaker 11 (01:41:47):
Well, I loved seeing the fan bases.

Speaker 17 (01:41:51):
I did spend some time at FIFA fan Fest at
fair Park in Dallas, and I remember I was just
blown away given the people who live in North Texas
and Texas overall, the fan base for Mexico is huge.
And I went to fan fest on a day that

(01:42:14):
Mexico was playing. They weren't playing, and this is during
the group stage when we had four games a day
and they were the last game. And I got there
maybe at eleven o'clock in the morning, and fair Park
was filled with Mexico jerseys and I'm thinking, my lord,
that they don't play for another, you know, seven eight hours,

(01:42:37):
and they were already packed with the lines to get
some of the merchandise. There was a charm bracelet that
was a huge success that the Dallas FanFest put on
and that continued to sell out. And so that is
one thing that really impressed me. I think the US fans,
I'm sure they went to FanFest, but they were at
the bars they were at home that that is where

(01:42:59):
they but that was one of the things that I
thought was great. There was also this Central Pitch pop
up store that we talked about that was in downtown Dallas.
One of the local T shirt stores decided to put
this pop up store in the middle of the Adolphus
Tower next to the famed Adolphus Hotel downtown and they

(01:43:20):
were selling jerseys left and right, and they were able
to get all these different artifacts in and patches so
you could make your own jersey as you went. All
these very creative ideas that people came up with, and
it really seemed to me overall a success story, and
so I think taking from that, this was an event
where people can come together. I did speak to Downtown Dallas, Inc.

(01:43:41):
Who put together some of the Social Saturdays where they
closed down Main Street and downtown to vehicle traffic every
Saturday for a few hours during the day so people
could gather, they could enjoy the World Cup activities downtown,
they could walk around the local vendors, bars and restaurants
without having to dodge the the cars that are in
that area. And they said, if there's one thing they

(01:44:03):
learned that they can do things like this. So there
are things that occurred specifically for the World Cup that
might be reserved for future major events, whether they involve
sports or they involve other things. And so I think
this is definitely, you know, a turning point for all
the cities that hosted the World Cup. Maybe not for
the country in general, but it'll certainly be interesting to

(01:44:26):
see how the different host cities react to this long term.
And then also, of course, as we keep talking about how,
you know, soccer interest in this country could finally get
up there with what has long been you know, the
big sport that the United States loves, which is going
to be starting in just a few weeks American football.

Speaker 2 (01:44:47):
That's right, Dallas Cowboys, Kansas City chief Seattle Seahawks, all
of them in the next few days are going to
be starting to report to training camp and we're going
to move from football to football. Eric push Man, it's
been great talking to you, and I'm sure we'll talk
more about politics and stuff in the future, but this
has been a blast.

Speaker 17 (01:45:05):
Absolutely, Chad, it's been a blast, and we'll I'll be
back on whenever you need me.

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Speaker 18 (01:46:36):
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Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
As we wrap up the show today, it's always good
to remember there are great things out there. We don't
have to fight with each other, and we could turn
to Jimothy the raccoon, a little short spine who has
its own bobblehead.

Speaker 29 (01:46:58):
Alrighty, viral Seattle reck is getting the bobblehead treatment. The
National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum has unveiled a
limited edition figure honoring Jimothy, the unusually round raccoon, who
became an Internet sensation after videos of him are racked
up millions of views. Known for his unique appearance, Jimothy

(01:47:19):
has inspired fan art right there, merchandise, and even a
city proclamation. The collectible bobblehead is now available for fans
looking to celebrate Seattle's newest furry celebrity, I mean he
does have a little bit different body type.

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
But that's okay, Jimmothy, that's right.

Speaker 29 (01:47:36):
We're all made different, that's right, Jimmithy you be you us.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
Yeah, jim you b you like he has a choice. Bob,
thanks a lot, Bob for doing that. I want a
Jimothy bobblehead. You know why, because Jimmothy is every man,
raccoon man, man, raccoon man. That's what Jimmothy is. We
we should know that we should embrace our differences and
realize Jimmothy's, like the rest of us, kind of fed up,

(01:48:03):
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and he's got a bobblehead, and I think we should
we should have just all of us get behind the
Jimothy here, hope that somebody gathers him up, because he's
become a treasure and we need more of that. We do. Absolutely.
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