Putin Critic Alexei Navalny, 47, Dies in Arctic Circle Jail

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Independent thoughts, Independent life. Thisis Chad Benson. So we got breaking
news out of Russia. The oppositionwho's been the loudest, most vocalist to
Putin, Alexi Navali, has diedin prison age forty seven. Oh my
goodness, Tucker, are you goingto do something about that, Chad?

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You're not being very nice. No, come on, now, I'm not
a fan of the Pooter. Ijust want to let everybody know that it's
so weird because I think, well, you talk on the radio, so
you've got to be ultra weird,and conservatives, you've got to be a
huge fan of the Pooter. Now, I'm not. This guy kills his
opponents, his critics. This guywas a thorn in the side of not

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just Putin, the oligarchs and thepowers that be at the Kremlin, and
he died for it. Apparently hewas out on a walk today when he
suddenly fainted. They rushed to helphim, and they could not resuscitate him.
His attorney said he had spent theday before with him and everything seemed
to be fine. By the way, if you're wondering where it was,
was it in his home that hedied. No, it was forty miles

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north of the Arctic Circle in ajail that he was being held at.
A lot of people hit me upthis week about the Tucker thing. I
said, look, you watch ityourself and make a decision on whether or
not you think it was a goodinterview or not. I mean, Tucker's
come out this week and talk aboutit's the cleanest place I've ever seen,
and blah blah, Look at allthe food. Have you never been to
a grocery store in America? Mygod, dude, if you love it

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so much, stay stay there now. If you come home and say,
look, the only reason I saidthat stuff is because that guy's nuts and
I thought he was going to killme. Okay, okay, fair it
is. It's incredible. This washis opponent. This was a guy who
was his rival. It has gottento the point in Russia now it's like
being a mayor in one of thesetowns near the border in Mexico where you

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promised to stamp out corrupt and thecartels, and you get sworn in and
by the time you say you know, yes I do, they shoot you
dead. So but breaking news,Opposition leader Navalney dead age forty seven,
died in prison. He was sentencedremember to nineteen years under a special regime.

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That's right, that's what he wassentenced to. Three two, three,
five, three eight twenty four,twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
is your Twitter? Meanwhile back herein these here United States of America?
Yesterday Fanny Fanny Willis, she's theDA in Georgia. Georgia and Fanny.

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There's some issues there with Fanny andmaybe one of the people that are helping
her prosecute this case, and peopleare starting to bring up some of these
issues, and it's gotten to thepoint now we're saying, hey, maybe
she should be on the case,and maybe she's that needs to recuse herself
or she might be removed. TheFulton County District Attorney in Donald Trump's election
interference case, Fannie Willis, choosingto testify Thursday in a surprise move.

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You're confused. You think I'm ontrial. These people are on trial for
trying to steal an election. Intwenty twenty, the questioning turning into sharp
exchanges between Willis and lawyers of clientsshe's trying to convict. Mister Wade is
a Southern gentleman. I mean,not so much. Willis calling the lawyer
who called her to the stand aliar. That southern gentleman thing is interesting

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because she is playing the race card. It's a big thing for her.
She's playing the race card. Shedid it a couple of weeks ago out
of church. If you guys rememberhearing this, and if you're going to
you know, what's the old saying, If you're going to hit the king,
you better kill the king. You'regoing after the president of the United
States of America, Okay, orthe former president, well in his mind

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the president, but the former presidentof United States America, so you're going
after him. Understand that race hasnothing to do with this. You being
a female has nothing to do withthis. You're now under the scrutiny of
scrutinies when it comes to I mean, the spotlight has never been bigger and
will never be bigger in your lifethan it is right now. And they're
going to look for every nook andcranny that they can find something. And

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you're being accused essentially of doling outall the money you want to your boyfriend
who you brought on the case.And when they questioned you about it,
you got well angry, and thenwhen the first everything started a service,
it became a racistue. And that'swhy she said, Oh he's a Southern

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gentleman. Me not so much.They'll need to long. I hired one
white woman, a good personal planand great bully, superstar ted. I
hired one white man brillied my flameand a great bully. And I hired
one black man, another superstar,a great flame and a Oh lord,

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they're gonna be mad when I callthem my home is not so this first
thing? They say, Oh,she's gonna play the rats car man,
But no, good, isn't itwho's playing the race car? When they
only question one because you're the onewho did something, that's it. If
the white woman was having an affairwith you, I would expect them to
question both, but they're not.You did, and you hand it out

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money, And that's the question theyhave. And you've got to look at
it in two ways. Do Ithink this from a optics situation? And
we live in a time of optics. Okay, let's let's truth. We're
in a post truth world. Opticsmatters a lot. The optics side of

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this. With Fannie, I callit Fanny with Fannie Willis. The optics
of it is she's corrupt. She'shanding out money. She's using this as
a situation where she can give outmoney to her boyfriend who was married at
the time, and I still thinkthey're married, but you know, was

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having an affair and she was handingout tons of money, going places,
doing things with him, and usingthis as her own personal piggy bank.
So if she's doing that, what'sto make me think she's clean at all?
So while this may not, intheory stop her from doing her gig
in a way that is right andgood, she may be doing a great

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job at it. This is abouta jury. You got to think about
this. This is about the juryside of it. And the jury looks
over there and go, well,she's she's she's totally corruptible. Why should
I believe her in the case thatshe's making. See, if you're going

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to prosecute something big, if you'regonna do something big like this, if
you're going to be you've got tomake sure that you've got you've checked every
box. This person is pure asthe day is long, that there is
nothing here. Do not give thejury the opportunity to say, oh,
this person's corruptible, so and youwant me to believe that they corrupted something,

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but you're also corrupting and the way, So that's an issue. Do
I think it would stop her fromdoing the job or making the case?
I don't what I do think though, If you're a jury, you're sitting
there, you're saying, it feelslike she is, uh, maybe as
bad as the person that they've goton trial, whoever that person is,

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because remember there's a bunch of them. When I met him, Judge Reeves
introduced us. He handed me hisbusiness card. I'm unsure if I handed
him my business card, but weexchanged information. He said, if you
ever need any help, give mea call, and he walked to the
parking lot. So after that,you started dating. Shortly thereafter, crack

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a line. That's one of yourlies. That's one of your lies.
It's a lie. Well, atsome point in time, you guys started
dating. This is the reason we'rehere. You're a woman and you go
on a date with a man,you better have two hundred dollars in your
pocket, so if that man actsup, you can go where you want
to go. So I keep cashin my house I don't keep cash as
good in my purse like I usedto. When you go on a date,
you should have cash in your pocket. So my question was where did

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that cash originally come from? Ifit had came out of the bank.
Cash is fungible. You take cashfor years in my house, So for
me to tell you the source ofwhen it comes from. I took out
a large amount of money on myfirst campaign. I kept coming with the
cash of that. Again, allof these little things. This is putting
doubt into potential jurors who would besitting there going you want me to convict

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these people of some sort of ricostatute. Yet you see that your corrupt
is well, this isn't for youand I if you're not in Fulton County,
this has nothing to do with us. We're looking at it at a
distance, but the people there aregoing, well, hold on a second,

(09:09):
how am I supposed to take youseriously that you're above reproach when in
reality you're not above reproach. Youstole a woman's husband. It's the way
that they'll make it out to be. You took the opportunity here to prosecute
the president, turned it into yourown piggy bank. So maybe I got
a problem with that case. Casethat you may make, maybe right,

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but I also feel like, ifyou're willing to do those things, are
you willing to do other things tomake your case? Three two three,
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Navalny is dad. He is theperson who was the biggest thorn in
the side to the now president rulerof Russia Putin talk about that. Three

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listening to the Chad Benson Show.Open Ai has announced Sora, the new
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it says outside researchers and academics arelooking at ways it could be misused.
This is the game changer so farof game changers. I mean,
obviously chat GPT came along changed everything. But I will tell you this right
now. So we've been fortunate enoughto test it and my other company,
my uncle and I and I willtell you it is incredible. It is

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this when you talk about things thatare going to change stuff, and we've
talked about AI, how it isgoing to change things in ways that people
don't understand. And the people thatare using it now are starting to see
this. If you have an understandingit, and that's the big thing.
A lot of people don't. They'reafraid. It's always tell my you know,
I work with a couple of peoplewho I mentor them and when it

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comes to you know, they wantto learn radio and voiceovers production, and
I mentor them and one of thethings I always tell them is the machine,
the digital audio workspace, the DOWSthey call it. Play around with
it. Well, what if Ibreak You're not going to break it.
You're not open AI, this sorething. You're not going to break it.

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You're not going to break AI.You're not going to go on there
and figure out how you adapt anduse it in your life. Obviously,
if you're a dishwasher, probably notreally need it. If you're a mid
level manager, this thing could helpyou, or it's going to eliminate you.
Oh that's not very nice now,But there are other things coming and

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this, Sora, this text tovideo is so freaking insane. One of
the big reasons that you see whenthere's any pushback from corporations or industries,

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and it doesn't matter what it is. I mean, you see right now
in the political world, the hugepushback for the No Labels Party. Why
is that because these people are cominginto my business. Both Republicans are Democrats,
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The television industry, the entertainment industry. The pushback on this in front of

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the camera, if you will,in front of the people is large.
Oh my god, you're gonna drink. Behind the scenes, this changes everything,
and it also levels a playing fieldthat somebody in let's just say Kansas,
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absolutely going to match a lot ofwhat you see in major Hollywood studios because
that person has now become a player. Look at the media industry, especially
the journalism side of it, howmuch they go after all these people that
are quote unquote journalists, not journalists, their opinion media pieces. And you
guys have become that way. Soyou don't like it, you make fun
of somebody like Tucker. Who knowshow many people are watching Tucker. Remember

(14:39):
when they made fun of him becauseof his interview with Putin, which,
by the way, Tucker is insome ways become somewhat of a useful idiot.
We talk about that a little bitlater. But the snark that came
with the white because new platforms havemade it a level playing field and this
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playing field in ways that are incredible. And this is just the beginning of
where this is going. Now.The fear is obviously, oh, people
are gonna come and make That's whereyou and I have to do our due

(15:24):
diligence on things. Okay, that'swhere you and I And I'll tell you
this right now. I get youknow, I'll get text messages from a
lot of you guys. I'll getphone calls from my family and friends.
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if it's real? Because people don'tknow if it's real or not. One
of the things that any going hereand there is a a and you do

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all this by a prompt. Sowhat does that mean? It means that
there is a ten second thing inhere of Lagos, Nigeria. You would
swear it's a drone in the middleof a street fair. Here was the
prompt, A beautiful homemade video showingthe people of Lagos, Nigeria in the
year twenty fifty six, shot witha mobile phone camera. That's all it

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took to make it, and itwas insane. Be prepared, man,
It is here and it is awesome. But yes, people are going to
do bad things with it because peopleare stupid. You and I both know
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A lot of stuff still to getto. More on Fanny Fanny Fanny
Willis also I talk about it whenothers don't. Yesterday, the FBI informant
that was supposed to be so amazingfor the Republicans when it came to the
Hunter Biden Joe Biden thing, misterSchmirnoff, was arrested and he was one

(16:56):
of those big FBI informants that wasgoing to help in this case against Biden.
And I don't think a lot ofpeople on the right are going to
talk about it. I will becauseI've said this for a long time.
I think going after Biden is awaste of time. You're not going to
prove anything that tracks are covered.Talk a little bit about that. A
lot of other things to get tothree two, three, five, three

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is the Chat Benson Show, TheChad Benson Show, Independent Thoughts, Independent

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Life is Chad Benson. Putin's harshestcritic no longer with us, Alexina Follney
dead. What Putin's like, it'smy birthday? How exciting is That's not
his birthday. This is the guywho got hundreds of thousands to march in

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the street against corruption, who gottwenty seven percent of the vote when he's
running for mayor of Moscow, whenthere was no doubt there was cheating going
on. Oh, what you're sayingis that it's not the safest election ever.
Do we really need I mean,come on, we could sit here
and we can have conversations about ourelection. How safe were they are?
Weren't they? Let's not pretend rightthat Putin was ever in a situation where

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he was going to lose a racethat was never going to happen. But
now the guy that was his biggestcritic, and not just the critic of
Putin, the entire Kremlin, theoligarchs, the corruption, all all of
that stuff. It's crazy, it'snuts dead. This guy's dead. Scary

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Tucker didn't ask should have asked,what about your critics out there? You
know, sky Navalni. Well hewas corrupt according to who, according to
you, because you're going to makethe rules. Lexing the Valney has been
one of the most prominent critics ofRussia, one of the most prominent critics
of Russian President Vladimir Putin, andjust this morning the Russian prison system announced
he died. They claim it happenedduring a morning walk. When he lost

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consciousness, authorities were unable to nesuscitatehim. The Volney was serving a nineteen
year jail term for offenses that arewidely considered politically motivated. You think you
think they're politically motivated. So hewas poisoned and then he went to Germany
to get treatment. How is hepoisoned? I don't know. There's a

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lot of people that are against thepooh they get poisoned, there is,
So this dude was poisoned, thenhe went to Germany, and then,
against everybody's wishes, he went back, was promptly arrested. He's given an
eleven year sentence for corruption and fraud, and then my favorite thing is they
tacked on another nineteen for good measure. Then he disappeared. Remember when he

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disappeared, Like, where's that guy? I don't know. His lawyer's like,
his family's like, we have noidea. Then they moved him forty
miles from the Arctic circle. Nutsnuts to go back, But a guy
thought he had the thing that hehad to do for his country, looking
at the corruption, seeing all thethings that are going on. Yet another

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person around the pooter has died.His biggest critic, the guy who was
great on social media. It wasslick, it was all those things.
And man, so what are yousaying we should fight against Russia and Ukraine.

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No, what I'm saying is,understand who you're dealing with this week,
and I put it out there.I said I wanted everybody to take
a peek at the whole Tucker thing. Absolutely, you should be talking to
foreign leaders like that. Then Tucker, you know, walking around and if
you guys have not seen it,it's kind of all over social media just

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talking about Oh, Russia's beautiful andoh my god, look at all of
this stuff here. It's incredible.There's no crime, there's none of these
things. I can show you placesin America where there's none of that stuff,
and I can show you places inAmerica where it's awful. Twenty percent
of Russians have no indoor plumbing.They spend forty percent of their salary on

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groceries. We spend eleven. Wecan go on and on, but the
dude is corrupt and he's a killer. Doesn't mean that we should give all
the money we have to fight forUkraine. But we can have honest conversations

(22:06):
about it, you know, thisweek the whole like they're gonna put space
lasers and stuff in space, andit's just, you know, can't have
honest conversations anymore because nobody's interested inthat. Nobody is Everybody always wants to
attack somebody because that's the only thingwe know how to do nowadays. Is

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yell three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
three at Chad Benson shows your Twittertweet had us text the program Kansas City
shooting not a shocker. We willnever discuss what really went down. Why
is that because politically it's not niceKansas City probably you say it was not
an orchestrated attack on attendees of thechief celebration. Instead, they now know

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it was street crime with innocent bystandersimpacted. Chief Stacy Graves. This appeared
to be a dispute between several peoplethat ended in gunfire, specs who were
detained or juveniles. She says,a few guns were recovered. Half of
the victims are under the age ofsixteen. Yeah, and also the shooters
are under the age of seventeen.I think one seventeen one is sixteen,

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uh what? Yeah? And willwe hear a lot about this. No.
The only reason any the only reasonthis even got people talking the other
day is it was a celebration ofthe Chiefs and their Super Bowl victory.

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And we've got a group of youngmen in this country who now love having
Johnson measuring contest with their guns.One of the witnesses said, the person
just spun in a circle and wasshooting. Are you blanking kidding me?
Now? I'm not because this ishow apparently young men decide nowadays that they're

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going to do something. I canalmost guarantee that somebody bumped into somebody,
somebody was wearing something somebody shouldn't havebeen wearing, somebody gave somebody a look,
and they decided to turn this intochaos. And then they come out

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and go, we need better,better gun laws. Okay, answer me
this question. What gun law wouldbe in place that would stop a seventeen
year old gangster from getting their handson a gun if they have money,
so they got the means and thewant to do so tell me what was
going to prevent that? Because I'mall ears now. The solution for a

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lot of what ails a situation likethis is something nobody wants to talk about
no fathers in the home, Iget pretty sh I can almost guarantee single
mom, maybe being raised by grandmother, maybe in and out of juvenile detention
and foster care. No dad around. If there is a dad, he's

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either incarcerated or is not participating inthe child's life. And I say child
because what they did was an adultthing, in killing somebody and shooting people,
but they're still children. So tohave the conversation about what the solution

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is is uncomfortable. So the bestthing that we can do is talk about,
well, it's the tool. It'sthe tool, and the tool is
the gun. My god, threetwo, three, five, three eight,
twenty four to twenty three Act youhad Benson Show? Is your Twitter?
Tweet at as text a program?Love hearing from every one of you,

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some text messages. Somebody just textsme and said, f putin.
Yep, No, I don't thinkhe'd say that to his face. Some
of you are mad because I questionedTucker Carlson. I'm okay with that.
Should be able to question Tucker,we should be able to question you know,
I watched some of that stuff.I mean, you know, you

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know Alwa, He's a useful idiotand stuff, and everybody got mad.
No, I wasn't mad that heinterviewed and the interview was kind of a
softballs it gets and whatnot. Butthat being said, I wasn't mad that
he interviewed him. But then thepropaganda of look, oh my god,
they've got all this food and everything'sgood. You're a standing if I took
you to Beverly Hills, right orScottsdale out here in Arizona showed you all

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these amazing things, Oh my god. Come on. But has he been
a useful idiot as some people callor a propaganda machine? Yeah, there's
no doubt. And the interview wasn'tit. Some of the stuff afterwards has
been I think worse than the interview. Somebody said, hey, Chad,

(27:08):
why do you always bring up whopeople coming here illegally are going to vote
for. They can't vote. It'snot who they are going to vote for
now, okay, it's if agroup of politicians give you a pathway to

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citizenship, they are more likely tobe the people in the future you will
vote for because you will see themas the people that helped you stay in
this country, even if that meansyou're only here for financial game. You
have to ask yourself the question,why are they allowing it so much?

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Why are they allowing so many peopleto come here? Years ago, it
was yeah, it wasn't a bigdeal that somebody, you know, that
some people had come here, andwe know it was cheap labor. But
a lot of people were only here, as I like to say, for
a booty call. Then they weregoing to go home after they made some
money. It's totally different now we'llget into it a little bit deeper,
especially when it comes to the Chinesecause. The number of Chinese people that

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are coming here right now as agroup is one of the largest, and
not the largest at the southern border, and their asylum claims it's it's big
when it comes to the amount ofpeople are allowed to stay here asylum ois.
And when I look at all thenumbers and I see all the people,
I don't see a lot of families. I see a lot of Chinese

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people who are coming here fighting agemen. And yes, I can have
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(31:18):
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beer sales in the state in anattempt to cut back ontouis, but some
say it could destroy businesses in theprocess. There's only a handful of accounts
that put our beer on a warmshelf, which is why Drew Barton,

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head brewer at Memphis Made, isconcerned after a new bill could prevent cold
beer sales. The package sales aresomewhere around forty to fifty percent of our
sales, and you know if ninetypercent of that is cold, I'm still
trying to figure out does cold beerdo something to you? Because I don't

(32:42):
drink. If you guys ever listenedto the show, I appreciate that for
a while. If you listen toit, I'm a teetotalers, they would
say, so does cold beer makeyou want to drink more? You know?
I mean, it's why again dowe need this? Senate Bill twenty

(33:05):
six thirty six aims to cut backon drunk driving incidents and fatalities. This
is an opportunity to bring out thecurrent to those bad actors that want to
go into a convenience store, retailstore and conveniently have access to cold beer.
The Tennessee Department of Transportation says oneout of three fatal crashes involves a

(33:25):
dui, and Representative Gant says theevidence shows this to be a factor.
Alcohol is found in the car,you beer can beer bottles, and we
also see it on the side ofthe road. Okay, so I'm still
trying to figure this out. Howmany people are going you know what,
I got to stop, get abeer, drink it on the way home,

(33:46):
drive drunk. All we got swarmbeer? Oh well then I can't
drink it. I mean, I'mstill like, what if are you gonna
I'm trying to wrap my head aroundwhy the is and again we're blaming something
else. It's like the shooting we'vebeen talking about today. Everybody's talking about

(34:07):
gun legislation. Everybody's talking about allof these things. What more can we
do? All of these things,we're not addressing the real issue. Somebody
decided to make a decision based ona tool that was in front of them
to do something bad. The gundidn't lure these kids and do being ass
hats, just no more than thebeer lured somebody into drinking it because it

(34:28):
was colder. But Barton is notso sure. While Memphis Made does not
condone drunk driving. He's not surethe availability of cold beer is the issue.
I think our next plan would bedefinitely get with the Tennessee Birds Guild
and form a plan with them.They've been very proactive in helping craft brewers
across the state, working with biggerbreweries and figuring out a way to work

(34:51):
around this or however you want tolook at it. Yeah, I'm still
trying to figure that out. Becauseit's a beer and it's cold like in
Europe. You know, you goto Britain, their stuff's pretty much room
temperature. I don't think they're going, well, make it cold and they
won't drink it. Make it hot. I don't just trying to wrap my

(35:12):
head around because I think people feeldesperate like they need to do something.
I'll say this, drunk driving isawful. Last year, good friend of
mine doing the right thing on NewYear's Eve, her and her husband at
seven pm, she was killed bya drunk driver. She was in an

(35:37):
uber. They hadn't even started going. They were going out to have drinks
and to celebrate the New Year's Itwas not a situation where there's three in
the morning and they were driving becausethe cold. It was an action of
somebody else who caused that. Andwe have this bizarre world of blaming something

(35:57):
on anything but the person, tryingto take away the responsibility in some ways,
which I find to be just bizarre. Three two, three, five,
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(36:40):
Independent Thoughts, independent life, thisis Chad Benson. He's a killer,
straight out. That's all you needto know about the pooter. If
you are against the pooter ideologically,you make any noise, there's a chance
that you're not going to survive,especially if you have a high profile.

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On a plane traveling from Siberia toMoscow, Navalny became deathly ill. He
fell into a coma and was puton a ventilator. While recovering in a
German hospital, investigators revealed he hadbeen poisoned with noviachok, a Soviet era
neurotoxin. Navalny blamed Putin for theattack, acclaim the Kremlin denies. Miraculously,

(37:27):
Navalny recovered and participated in the investigationinto his own poisoning, documenting the
whole thing on social media. Despitethe threats against his life. In January
twenty twenty one, Navalny and hiswife Julia voluntarily returned to Moscow, where
he was immediately arrested, ostensibly forviolating the terms of a twenty fourteen embezzlement

(37:52):
case. Once in jail, hewas tried and sentenced to more than nine
years in a maximum security prison.Navalny said the arches were politically motivated,
but even behind bars, he foundways to make his voice heard, using
social media to protest the Ukraine Warand needle those in power. His legacy
is one of defiance, a constantthorn in the side of the Kremlin and

(38:16):
the powers that be. Putin beingthat one and dead man the luck of
Putin right. I can't believe thatall my rivals die. It's just wow.
It's so weird, Like they're hereone day, did the next.
It's crazy. He never thought thathe happen. This is Michael McFall,
who was the Ambassador to Russia,a good friend of Navalney, earlier today

(38:39):
talking about this and the impact thatthis guy had. Guys I don't know
what to say. I'm not gonnatry to be analytic, but I want
you to know, Alex Say,Navalney was my friend. I was with
his wife last night. I'm herein Munich talking to her. His daughter,
Dasha, goes to school at Stanford. So this is a pretty emotional
time for me. Putin killed Navalney. Let's be crystal clear about that.

(39:01):
I don't care about any negotiation,you know, investigation, his ill arrested,
had him in solitary confinement. Hehas put him in a cell which
was designed, and today he isdead. Putin killed Navalne. And why
did he? Because Putin is weak. You don't kill people if you're strong.

(39:22):
Putin killed Navalne because Navalney was theone opposition leader in Russia that Putin
feared the most. So this isa really tragic day for me, and
it should be a tragic day foranybody who cares about democracy. Navalny,
in my view, I put himin the same ranks of Mendela and Valenca
and Hovel, but with one tragicdifference. Now Navalni is dead. Probably

(39:46):
crickets from all those people out therewho support Russia in this Ukraine thing his
support Putin. I will tell youthis right now. I don't think we
should be flooding, you know,billions of dollars in New year crane.
But the reality is this is afight that you know, everybody's gonna taste.

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Yeah. See here's the deal.They're gonna use this now. It's
more reason to you know, justlike they are with the satellites, more
reason to put money into it.Now. Russia is a bad actor in
particular, Putin is a bad egg, as the kids would say, and
he kills his rivals the corruption theyfound in the powers that be. By

(40:29):
the way, do we really needto have an investigation of whether or not
their elections are fair? No,it's all corrupt, you know that.
But it is amazing because I've gotpushback because I talked about Tucker last hour,
Chad Tucker, that interview. I'vesaid this about the interview with Putin.
I have no problem with the interviewwith Putin. Did he ask him
some harding questions? Not really?Was it kind of a fluff interview A

(40:52):
little bit. That being said,he asked a few questions that were okay,
what do you have? Asked differentquestions on neutral territory. That's a
different story. But then the daysof him walking around going, look how
beautiful Rush is, Look how amazingit is. Look at it. There's
no crime, there's no graffiti,there's none of that stuff. Here in
Moscow, eighty percent of people haveplumbing. That means twenty percent don't.

(41:14):
Forty percent of the money that theyearn they spend on groceries. We spend
eleven percent, which is still toohigh, but you know, it's it's
hilarious. The way that you knowthere has been propaganda out there doesn't mean,
though, that we should give billionsof dollars to Ukraine. Willy nilly.
Doesn't mean that we should be inthe situation where we're continuing to support
a country with no end in sightin their war and us not having a

(41:37):
real plan on what it is thatwe're going to do to help them exit
this situation. So two can beyou know, two things can be right.
Pooter is awful, he's horrible.Everybody knows it. And we don't
need to spend billions of dollars inUkraine. I'm glad that we have weakened

(41:58):
them. I'm glad we've shown thatmiss paper Tigers. I'm glad that they'll
think twice about making a move somewhereelse. That being said, enough is
enough Because I'm getting both sides offrom you guys right now, and I
love hearing from all of you.Feel free to tweet and text at me
three two, three, five,three eight, twenty four twenty three X,
at me gonna give it to you, X gonna give it to you
at Chad Benson show. Love hearingfrom all of you. Yesterday Fannie Willis,

(42:23):
she was on the stand because wellthere's some corruption issues. Talked a
bit about it last hour. Understandthat what you're seeing with Fannie Wilson,
this is the lady who is prosecutingthe Rico case in Georgia against Trump and
his many of his followers that gotinvolved in that and all this is important

(42:47):
to people of Fulton County. Andthe reason is simple for us. We
look at this thing as a politicalthing, right you know, Like I
mean, it's hard not to lookat a lot of this stuff as a
polytical test that is going on inthis country. And we just talked about
Bootin what he does to his rivals. It's a fair question to ask some

(43:07):
of these things absolutely, if there'swrongdoing in the election, and you're gonna
have a chance like never before toprove it to the world, fantastic.
But if you're going to prosecute acase against Donald Trump, the eyes of
the world are gonna be seen andstaring at You's the eyes of the world
are on you. Everybody's gonna bestaring at you. Okay, you want

(43:30):
to have the cleanest person above reproachThere Fannie Willis. There's some questions about
corruption in her office, about thefact that she's taking tons of money and
giving it to a guy that shestarted dating that she brought on the case.
There's all and this isn't for us. I've been saying this. This

(43:52):
is for the potential jurors in thecase, because if you've got a bunch
of jurors out there who can lookand go, I think some of these
people are guilty. But you knowwhat, it's hard because the lady that
is bringing this case also seems tobe a little bit corrupt, and she
seems to be dipping into the pocketsof the taxpayers, of which Fulton County

(44:14):
jurors are are the taxpayers. It'shard to get everybody to buy in and
the damage has been done. There'sno doubt yesterday, understand, mister Wade
visits you at the place you laidyour head? Has he ever visited you
at the place you laid your head? So let's be clear, because you've
lied in this this let me tellyou which one you lied in right here?
No, no, no, no, this isn't true, judge,

(44:35):
and did you they lie? Mistersay, I thank you, We're going
to take five minutes back and fine. Yeah, it got heated big time.
And this is one of those situationswhere could she prosecute the case in
a way that she could just goout there, prosecute, cute the case,

(44:58):
get it done in a row rightway. Yes, I don't think
this inhibits her from doing her job, but it puts in the mind of
potential jurors the Hey, you're potentiallycorrupt as well. You are taking taxpayer
money and giving it to your boyfriend. You are doing things that I don't

(45:20):
agree with. So what's to makeme think that you're not corrupt? Even
further away from this situation of youand your potential boyfriend, whoever he is,
the guy you're having an affair with, who happens to be on the
case with you. That's what thisis all about. That's the doubt in
the minds of the jurors. Didyou listen to any of the test on
it? And in my office,pacing man, did you listen to any

(45:43):
arguments? I did hear that thearguments this morning. Is ridiculous to me,
that the you glide on Monday andyet here we still are. And
I did listen to that argument,all right, So that was it?
Just the argument, no's astronomy.And I listened to the argument this morning
where Adam Abadi, I thought,did in an from a job pointing out
how it's honest you are with thequote on Monday. And I'm actually surprised

(46:07):
that the hearing continued, But sinceit did, here I am yeah.
And here's the other thing. You'reexposing her to the fact that she's kind
of unlikable, and likability is ahuge thing, especially when you're looking at
jurors. There's a lot that goesinto this, and it's smart, no

(46:27):
doubt about this. You know.I don't think this prohibits her from doing
a job. The thing is,does it make it harder for her to
do her job? Yeah, absolutely, and does it put doubt in the
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You're listening to the Chad Benson Show. Caitlin Clark becoming the all time
leading scorer in women's Division I collegebasketball, and she did it in style?

(48:00):
How will she go for history?Catching nothing but net on a three
pointer from nearly half court? Andnow there's another record in sight. She's
only ninety nine points away from theall time Division one record men's or women's,
a record that has stood for morethan fifty years. Wow. I

(48:22):
got breaking news alerts about that lastnight. Do you know Caitlyn Clark is?
I mean, I do because Ifollow sports, But really is that
breaking news? Well? She brokethe record. Who held the record?
I don't know she does now whoheld her before her? I don't know

(48:45):
who holds the record for men.I couldn't tell you. But it was
just pushed out everywhere and they're like, you know, Caitlyn Clark business is
real good. I'm like, isit? Is it really good? Is
it Caitlyn Clark business really good?Was the nil business good? Is it
Olivia Dunne? Well, it's notOlivia dunn good. No. I didn't

(49:07):
think so many of you are OliviaDunn. Oh, the LSU gymnast.
You can't even tell me what disciplineshe competes in. Hot it's the discipline
she competes in. Jed, congratulationsto Caitlin. She hit a three to
set the record. She'll break therecord probably, I'm assuming in the next

(49:30):
three four games she has scored likeforty six last night, So good for
her. It's just I don't knowif that was breaking news kind of stuff.
That's just me. Maybe I'm ajeric. I don't know. Kids,
Hey, are we headed towards therecession? When we talked to our
buddy a little bit, Zach Abraham, chief investment officer of a Board Capital,
a little bit about recession about wherewe're going because retail sales is very

(49:51):
interesting because we talked a bit aboutit yesterday. Down we got another read
on the health of the consumer today. It wasn't particularly good. January retail
sales were seven hundred point three billion. Okay, so that is down zero
point eight percent from December. Itwas significantly worse than expected, though the
street was looking for a drop ofroughly zero point two percent. Now we

(50:13):
knew auto sales would drop quite abit. Even if you strip that out
those sales, that's this without auto, we're down six point zero point six
percent, which is significantly more thanexpected. And then auto sales you can
see here we're down a whopping onepoint seven percent. General merchandise was unchanged.
Two things though, I want tonote here these numbers are not seasonally
adjusted or sorry, they are seasonallyadjusted. They're not adjusted for inflation.

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So the read here is that spendingis lagging how quickly prices are rising.
Yeah, there is definitely some issuesthat we're heading to. We're going to
talk to Zach about that, aboutthe credit card debt, the boom that
is happened over the last couple ofyears, and you know the reality of
where we might be headed this year, because it's not just us. Globally,

(51:00):
we bounced back better than everybody elsewhen you look at what happened after
the you know, the pandemic andwhatnot. But if you look globally what's
going on, they're feeling something thatwe're not quite feeling yet. Japan's economy
slipping into a recession and losing itsspawn as the world's third biggest economy.

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Japan used to be the world's secondlargest economy until twenty ten, when it
was overtaken by China's. This comesas the UK also slips into a recession,
raising concerns of possible ripple effects acrossthe globe. Yeah, there's no
doubt that I think we're headed fora slowdown. When will it be city
banks? I think Second in Chargecame out yesterday and says by summer we

(51:43):
could be in a recession. Andthe numbers that you're seeing, you know,
remember they change those bars all thetime. I don't want there to
be a recession. I want thereto be a great economy. But when
you go and look at the numbers, and remember, lying with numbers is
very real. Every administration, RepublicanDemocrat does it. They'll add something to
something that wasn't there before. They'lltake away something that was needed for a

(52:08):
full understanding of stuff. It's likeall the jobs, look at the jobs.
Well, then you go and youlook and you break it down.
You're like, hold on a second, we really only created this many jobs
because the vast majority we're created byeither auto workers coming back or It's like
when he comes out and the presidentsays we've created more jobs than anybody,
No, you haven't. First ofall, Americans create jobs, not government.

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Although if you go and look ata lot of jobs that over the
last several months have been government jobs. But well, I talk private sector,
not public sector. When you lookat the numbers, they're not as
hot, if you will, assome people would love you to believe.
And you go and you say,well, look at where unemployment is.

(52:50):
Well, then you go and youfind out, well, look at vast
majority of these jobs were part timejobs were created, or their government jobs,
or their people returning to work havingbeen whether it was the auto industry
not in work because they're out onstrike and so them returning, you didn't
create anything. And then you lookat while inflation is down, here's the

(53:15):
snapshot of reality of inflation. You'veseen wages over the last few years rise
thirteen percent, and this is againa snapshot of inflation. And a vast
majority of those wages that have risenarn't because you got a raise at the
place you're at, is because youwent somewhere else and got a raise.

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So thirteen percent, well, that'sgood inflation on average since Biden took overs,
up seventeen percent. You're down fourpercent, your spending power has been
reduced. Those things matter three two, three, five, three eight,
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(53:58):
this in the investment world. Wherecould we be headed. It's a Chad
Ben's job son, Chad Benson,Joe, Independent Thoughts, Independent Life.

(54:30):
This is Chad Benson. He isa friend of the program. Every Friday
we sit down and we talk businessand I'm talking about the economy. I'm
talking about investments and talking about allthis stuff. Zach Abram, chief investment
officer at Bulwark Joe and said,program, all right, Zach, two
things. Japan no longer number threewhen it comes to the economy in the
world, and the Brits are sayingwe're already in a recession. Yeah,

(54:54):
this is the most unique wild anlandscape we've ever looked at. And it
really when you look at the economicimpulse going around the world. When I
say the word economic impulse, justlooking at growth right. Look, it's
going to be very hard for theglobal economy to grow in any in any

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meaningful way until the China economy andthe Chinese economy gets on track, but
that really bears watching because they areinjecting significant amounts of stimulus in the Chinese
economy. It has yet to takeeffect, and that's going to be a
concern in China because of the propertyoverhang, meaning you've got a debt property

(55:37):
bubble in China that I do notthink it is hyperbolic at all here.
I think it's a perfect way toput into perspective kind of how crazy it
is there. We have a twentythree trillion dollar economy, and I believe
like our entire real estate real estatein this country, residential real estate in

(56:00):
this country, I believe is worththirty trillion combined. And that might forgive
me chat it might be residentially,that might be all of it together.
China's economy is about eighteen to twentytrillion in size, so smaller than ours.
Their real estate sector is worth eightytrillion. Okay, you don't have

(56:20):
to be a mathematician or economists torealize. Wait a second, that's a
bit of a mismatch, right,So when you look at what's going on
now, this situation in China's existedfor a long time. But when you
look at rising inflation, rising interestrates, that obviously makes any type of
bubble, especially a bubble in realestate, more acute. When you combine

(56:43):
that all of those things to aslow and global economy, that's more interesting.
Now we're not really seeing the feedbackinto the US economy at this point.
But again, you know, wecan get into there's another chart that
I had up that we were lookingat the other day. You can look
it in many different ways. Youknow, all we hear about is how
strong the US economy is and howrobust the you know, the the the

(57:07):
employment numbers are, and how strongthe job market is. We're looking at
hours worked, so you know,rather than looking at the jobs numbers and
unemployment numbers, which can be wildlymisleading at times for a variety of different
reasons. Hours work kind of givesyou a little bit of a look through.
If we look at ours worked rightnow, you are at levels that

(57:28):
we have only seen at the beginningof recessions. Right, So very juxtapost
view. Now that's on the bearersside. On the flip side, you're
running two point one trillion dollars deficits. Okay, you and I have talked
about this before, but I thinkthat's what you're seeing right now. I
think you're seeing an economy that ispointed in recession, and it is a

(57:50):
tug of war between that and thatunbelievable wave of spending right and you know,
at this point you're getting into areally, really, really fascinating situation
right now where if you're looking atgrowth numbers, a rate cut seems like
insanity right now, right for theFED, But when you're looking at the

(58:15):
wave of commercial defaults that are headingour way, regardless of what anybody does
now, I don't want people topanic. Commercial defaults in the commercial real
estate sector is not like, oh, eight to nine. It doesn't have
anywhere near that big of an impact, or it's not that nearly that big
in size is the entire housing market. So I'm not saying that this is

(58:37):
going to be the thing that blowsup the entire economy. But it's hitting
us at a very unique time whenbanks are already under substantial stress, which
is why the FED needed to launcha three hundred and fifty billion dollar vehicle
last year to buy to buy treasuriesoff the bank balance sheets at par Because
it's blown a hole in their balancesheet. Well, you got a wave
of commercial real estate defaults coming andI don't want to say, look,

(58:59):
it's pretty spread around, but whenyou look at the size of the banks,
it is accurate to say that adisproportionate amount of that paper is sitting
on bank balance sheets. Okay,Now, the FED already eliminated the BTFP,
the Bank Term Funding Plan, Sothat means that we've got rising inflation
and an economy that, as theirstating, is growing at four and a

(59:21):
half percent. But because of what'scoming down the pipe, they need to
cut rates. So I think you'relooking at a scenario where the FED is
going to be forced to cut ratesinto a hot economy where inflation is setting
up. Do you know the lasttime the FED was forced to cut rates
in a hot economy? No,nineteen ninety eight, when long term capital

(59:44):
management blew up. You know whathappened after that? Ninety nine? Yes,
then ASDAK doubled. Okay, So, as crazy as this all is,
and I am not telling you andyour listeners that a double what I
am saying is that in this environmentwhere clearly nobody cares about fundamentals, and

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you've got inflation picking up again.If they cut into this, I think
you're looking at a scenario. Here'sanother creepy thing. This just happens to
be coincidental. Do you know whatthe FED funds rate was in nineteen ninety
eight when long term capital blew upand they had to cut rates? Well?
Was it five and a half?Exactly where we're at today. So
just you know, again doesn't makeit, doesn't mean it's going to happen.

(01:00:27):
But just looking back at that,you're like, boy, this this
sounds familiar, right, So andthen, and think about the backdrop,
right, Chad. Everybody was alreadyInternet crazy at that point, right,
I mean the Fed was literally throwinga Molotov cocktail into a bonfire. Right,
If they do that this year,I think the outcome could be similar
man. So and yet, andyet, I think all of this could

(01:00:50):
happen in the backdrop of a realrecession that doesn't look like a recession on
the face of it, because thegovernment is spending so much more money.
You know, talking to Zach A. Rahm, chief investment officer, you
know, I'm looking today, Isee that was it? The City banks,
one of their big guys came outthis week and said, look,
this feels recessiony. You've got largedefaults. On's now starting to come to

(01:01:15):
the thing I worry about, what'sthat credit card bomb that's sitting out there
because people have run their race,their credit cards are going to start going
into a fault race are still stayinghigh? You saw consumer spending down.
I think it's slowly the shine iscoming off, and I think the reality

(01:01:35):
is underneath. It's not what theythink it is. I think that's impossible
to argue. And if you lookat like, look, there is no
economic indicator that has one hundred percentaccuracy, but what you know, So
anecdotal information I think can be valuablewhen we're looking at economies. So just
anecdotally, I would ask anybody outthere, does it feel like a four
and a half percent in growth environment? I think most people say no.

(01:02:00):
You know that most people might evenlook at you and say, well,
can you add some context that?And I'm like, well, do you
remember oh four to oh six?They're like yeah, and I'm like,
that was like four three and ahalf to four percent? Girl, Okay,
They're like boys, you know,I remember think back to oh five
and oh six? Man, Itwasn't what suv or you gonna buy,
it's how big are the wheels you'regonna put on it? Right? I
mean, you know everybody was everybody'smaking money hand over fist, right,

(01:02:22):
that that was a that was alegitimate, you know, booming economy.
This certainly does not feel me,and I think most people would agree.
So there's that. Then you youknow, then you look at hours work
and I will just tell you thatit is in stark contrast the unemployment number.
Right. So anyway, I thinkthat what you're saying is irrefutable because

(01:02:44):
even the data backs you up right, it's not all horrible, but it
isn't this booming economy that they wouldAnd even the people that say, yeah,
but it's such a strong economy,my answer to them is, hey,
guys, go dump two point onetrillion into any bloody economy and it's
gonna feel hot for crying out loud, right, That's like, that's like,
hey, you know what kind ofreminds me of Chad kind of reminds

(01:03:06):
me of passing out five to tenthousand dollars checks to everybody and going,
oh, consumer spending is up right, what a boon? You go,
well, no, you just gaveeverybody five grand. So anyway, I
think what you're saying is irrefutable.There's just at the very least, it's
nowhere close to what's coming us.No, no talking to Zach Abram,

(01:03:28):
chief investment officer. Let's look atthe investment side of things here. You
are your bullwark, you're the guyyou got money under management. What are
you guys looking at? What aresome of the places Let's just say that
the dominoes start to fall, maybenot as fast as some people think,
maybe faster than some people think.What are you guys looking at the investment
of What are you thinking to yourself, Okay, we need to maybe we
need to sit in cash for alittle while, we need to put ourselves

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somewhere short term. What are youguys feeling like is going to be a
safe harbor for a lot of people? Yeah, So, so I'll just
kind of give you the outline ofexactly where we're positioned. So if people
want to copy that on their own, they certainly can. But none of
these are recommendations. Also, soit's a very tough situation because of what
I've just said to you. Youknow, you're looking at a market that

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is extraordinarily overvalued. You're looking atan unbelievably insensitive market as it comes to
fundamentals. So all of those thingspoint to a very nasty market and potentially
a big crash. Right on theflip side of it, you have the
government situation. They're spending, they'regoing great guns. Here's the other thing
when you look at the economic picture, They're not going to stop. They

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can't afford to, okay, SoI think it really puts us in a
very unique position. We need tobe worried about big events on both ends
of the spectrum, and there reallyis only one way to play it in
our mind. You have a coreof your portfolio that is very high quality,
preferably income producing things that are goingto be around and survive no matter

(01:04:56):
what. Be protections against inflation meaningthey and to fit from it in the
long run, but also protections againstdeflation. I either balance sheets or strong
enough where they can continue paying dividendsand income even if the price of their
stock were to drop, regardless ofthe scenarios. You would pair those with,
you know, some short term USgovernment bonds paying nice interest rates,

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and then you address the tails ofthe portfolio, meaning the potential of extreme
drops or extreme rises. We aregoing we are actually in the middle of
working on launching a new portfolio thatincorporates the uses of options. And here's
what it's going to allow us todo. It's going to allow us to
keep the core of the portfolio incomerelated, inflationary related, and very conservative,

(01:05:45):
and we can use options on theedge of the portfolio to make massive
amount huge gains if the market goesway up or the market goes way down.
So the idea is, if themarket goes through the roof and looking
at a ninety nine scenario, thatoption scenario or that option part of the
portfolio should keep us close to,if not up to pace with the overall

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market while still having the vast majorityof the portfolio very conservatively position. Conversely,
on the flip side, we reallydon't need a whole lot of downside
protection. We will use it ifwe see that starting to happen, but
the core of the portfolio should beone broadly speaking, that will at least
hang in, if not profit inthe event of markets falling. For instance,

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if we have a core holding,let's say, of short term US
treasuries and the market crashes, thosetreasuries are going to make significant amounts of
money. So in this environment,Chad is risk managers. That's all we
know how to do because we're lookingat a market that doesn't care about fundamentals.
So to sit there and be strictlyfundamentally positioned, I think is the

(01:06:53):
right thing to do over the longrun. The problem is, you know,
if you're looking at a potential fiftydred percent blowoff and tech right,
that is extraordinary inflationary and we needto make a chunk of that to protect
ourselves. So that's the way we'repositioning it because we just don't we just
don't feel that there's any We don'tfeel like there's any other rational or responsible

(01:07:15):
way to manage money in this market. I love it, man, I
love the fact rational responsible, that'swhat you get at Bullwark. People want
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Yeah, pretty easy, just lookfor us, you know Google, Know
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(01:07:59):
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do often out myself verbally as ayounger. My pronouns are they them?
And I'm proud to be h?Are you so bid? Fuck? It's
not a great way to use yourwhite privilege. Some people got to some
people don't. You're listening to thechat Fences show. The trailer for Deadpool

(01:10:16):
and Wolverine drops Sunday during the SuperBowl in your little cinematic universe is about
to change forever. Full of RyanReynolds, Deadpool, snark, and very
little actual Wolverine, but fans ateit up a record three hundred and sixty
five million views online in the firsttwenty four hours of release, the most
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one Spider Man No Way Home,which had three hundred and fifty five million

(01:10:40):
views in its first twenty four hours. Deadpool and Wolverine will be in theaters
July twenty sixth. WHOA can't waitto see it? I saw the trailer,
went and watch it. I'm like, oh, I got to see
it. Because you see the thirtysecond thing that they roll out at the
Super Bowl. What you don't seeis the full two and a half minutes
of it, and it's pretty awesome. You see shadows of the Wolverine,
you see a few things like this, but you don't see the full effect.

(01:11:01):
So it'll be neat to see theway that happens because there's nothing else
going on. There's no football,right, geez, there's golf, and
you guys know, I love ofgolf, probably gonna play some today.
We'll tell you this. I watchedsome of the golf yesterday. It is
the Genesis Open, so it's oneof the signature events on the PGA Tour,
which means that there's no cut.The purse is twenty million dollars.
It's you know, like the topfifty in the world who qualify because they

(01:11:27):
played the PGA Tour, not tolive Golf Tour, and then some of
the new winners and things of thatnature, and a couple sponsor invites.
But it's the Genesis Tour presented byTiger Woods. Tiger was there yesterday,
played pretty well through most of theday. Shot a seventy two, So
that's even at the Riviera Country Club. The thing is, though the last
three holes little struggle. Well,my back was pausing in the last couple

(01:11:48):
holes and I was locking up,so I came down and it didn't move,
and I presented Hazel first and shankedit. Yeah, Tiger with a
shank. His back was hurting,And he's talked about the fact that he
hasn't played a lot of golf,like golf golf, it's been a while.
It's definitely been a while, otherthan trying to hit flop shots and
other kind of weird shots around thegreens. Not from the position I was

(01:12:13):
at. It was a hozzle rocket, as the youth would say. I've
hit a few of those in mytime, where the connection isn't with the
blade, it is with the hozzleand it shanks and it goes far and
it goes fast. But he shotat seventy two yesterday, So wouldn't we
all like to be that bad fora moment but still walk away on one
of the tough, demanding courses ingolf with a seventy two? I think

(01:12:38):
so three two, three, twentyfour to twenty three ap Chad Benson Show.
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He's dead and Putin killed him.Everybody knows it. Everybody around Putin who
opposes him in some way, shapeor form, disappears, falls out of
a hotel window, happens to bepoisoned, or has an allergic reaction to
something in a tea you know roomin London. I mean, Navalney is

(01:13:38):
dead and the Pewter killed him.Period. Case closed, end of story.
And if you don't know who Navalneyis, he is the really loudest
voice of opposition for Putin in thelast decade, A thorn in his side,
a pain in his ass, allof the things. A man who
pointed out corruption on everybody, notjust Putin, but everybody at the Kremlin,

(01:14:01):
all of the oligarchs, got hundredsof thousands of people to follow him.
And then, well, then whathappens in a place where you've got
a dictator who mask around as aperson who's the leader of freedoms that person
dies mysteriously because the person who isquote unquote protecting everything is really much weaker

(01:14:28):
than people realize. And now Navalnyis dead, brutally dead. How did
he get to this point because rememberhe was in Germany. Well, how
did he get to Germany? Whywas he in Germany? Well, he
flew there. But during the flightthis happened. On a plane traveling from
Siberia to Moscow, Navalni became deathlyill. He fell into a coma and

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was put on a ventilator. Whilerecovering in a German hospital, investigators revealed
he had been poisoned with novachok,a Soviet era neurotoxin. Navalny blamed Putin
for the attack, acclaim the Kremlindenies. Miraculously, Navalny recovered and participated
in the investigation into his own poisoning, documenting the whole thing on social media

(01:15:15):
Lamazan. Despite the threats against hislife, in January twenty twenty one,
Navalny and his wife Julia voluntarily returnedto Moscow, where he was immediately arrested,
ostensibly for violating the terms of atwenty fourteen embezzlement case. Once in
jail, he was tried and sentencedto more than nine years in a maximum

(01:15:36):
security prison. Navalny said the chargeswere politically motivated, but even behind bars,
he found ways to make his voiceheard, using social media to protest
the Ukraine War and needle those inpower. His legacy is one of defiance,
a constant thorn in the side ofthe Kremlin, as it should be.

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Hooter lovers out there, anything anythingto say? Are you gonna come
up with? Oh, he justslipped on ice, right, Look,
and I'm gonna say this. Idon't think we should be giving billions and
billions and billions of dollars to Ukrainethe way we are. And let's go
over how we give billions of dollarsto them? Do they actually get billions
of dollars? They've got a fewbillion dollars. Most of it never leaves
this country. It goes and doeswhat pays for the weapons that are being

(01:16:24):
sent over there. So oddly enough, we're writing checks to ourselves. But
he's a bad dude, he is. And it's it just shows you what
you're dealing with the amount of moneywe've poured in Ukraine. Could it be

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worth it in the long run?Well, the jobs. We could sit
here and talk about all the stuffthat you know behind the scenes and the
industrial war complex, et cetera,et cetera. Here's the other side of
it. Exposing the weakness of theRussian military, though, was a win.
Exposing how truly weak they were wasan absolute victory in the long run.

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And the fact that we did thatwithout putting boots on the ground is
great. But we still need anout. And yes, he is a
dictator who is awful and horrible,and when given the chance, we'll take
you out. That's facts, Jackand he took Navallney out out for a

(01:17:29):
walk and the beautiful sun show.Wait wait, he was forty miles from
the Arctic Circle. That's where hisprison was. And now he's dead.
You knew it was a matter oftime. He got sentenced originally nine years,
then they tacked on what another elevenyears for good cause. You think

(01:17:50):
it was political, I'm assuming itwas political. He got twenty seven percent
of the Moscow mayor vote when heran, when there was so much corruption
that like, and still managed toget a third of the votes almost and
the Cow. You don't need sport. We need special data influencers to go

(01:18:14):
in there and look at see whathappened. The corruption in Russia is nuts.
It is it's it's it's on ascale like politically that we we could
sit here, we could talk aboutwas it stolen or wasn't it stolen?
Did certain things happen here? Allof that stuff that we've talked about,
because every nation on the planet Earth, including ours, has some sort of

(01:18:38):
corruption or something, but their corruptionis otherworldly. We're not talking about a
third world country in the middle ofAfrica or parts of Southeast Asia. We're
talking about a nation that is prettydamn modern and he rules it with an
iron fist. Said it earlier atyour own peril. You're better off becoming

(01:19:02):
a mayor of some Mexican town thatis fighting corruption when it comes to the
cartels and maybe lasting longer than runningagainst the pooter three two, three,
five, three eight, twenty fourto twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
is your Twitter, Fannie Willis,Let's talk about that money, Fani.
So you're running a scam. Itfeels like for the people of Fulton County

(01:19:27):
that need to hear the scam thatyou're running because you've hired a guy to
help you prosecute Trump, and indoing so, you seem to have funneled
a lot of money to him,And you're making it about a race and
being a woman. But I'm hereto tell you it has nothing to do
with any of those things, andit really has nothing to do with us.
And whether or not they should orshouldn't prosecute this has all to do

(01:19:51):
with their jurors hearing whether or notthey think this woman is doing stuff on
the up and up money that youpaid mister Wade the cash in October of
twenty twenty two. You do notknow where that money came from. I
do know where it came from.It came from my foot in two years.
You know which job it came from. Did it come from Fulton County

(01:20:12):
or did it come from in private? It came from I don't, I'm
not a what are you talking about? So it could have come from a
private job, because before I wasDA, I was in private practice,
So I earned money during that timeperiod. That's probably in man. Yeah,
okay, it could have. Itcould have. It's possibility. But
here's where she goes off the rails. And I mean this because I want

(01:20:33):
you to listen to what she talkedabout. Here, you're a woman and
you go on a date with aman, you better have two hundred dollars
in your pocket so if that manacts up, you can go where you
want to go. So I keepcash in my house. I don't keep
cash as good in my purse likeI used to. When you go on
a date, you should have cashin your pocket. So my question was
where did that cash originally come from? If it hadn't came out of the
bank. Cash is a fungible.We had cash for years in my house,

(01:20:57):
so for me to tell you thesource of when it comes from.
Took out a large amount of moneyon my first campaign. I can't swim
with a cash of that. WHOAwait a minute here, So as a
jur I'm hearing that the guy you'rehaving an affair with, who you didn't
date previously to this, who you'vebrought in who has no real kind of

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courtroom experience, en rico, andyou started having an affair with the guy
previous to this and the abroad aman, and now you're funneling him money.
And then we ask you, andthink about this, if your a
jur, where'd you get the moneywell my previous campaign. Well wait a
minute, your previous campaign. Youtook the money out of your previous campaign,

(01:21:44):
and now you're funneling it to otherpeople. I don't think that's legal
in Georgia. Hmm. That's aninteresting thing. And this again is about
the jurors, because if I'm ajursitting there thinking, Okay, I'm going
to hear all of this information aboutthese people who are on trial for RICO

(01:22:08):
election interference, et cetera, andthey're corrupt all the while in my mind,
I know that this lady is funnelingmoney to a lot of different people,
and she got it potentially from thevoters of Fulton County as well as
her own campaign. That feels alittle corrupt as well. So you plant
that seed, and I think shedid a good job of planning that seed

(01:22:32):
on herself. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
to twenty three at she had BensonShow it's your Twitter tweet as text the
program little what's trending straight ahead andthen we got a little sound salad things
we missed during the week that willjump into Bulwark Capital and we're just talking
to Zach last hour about what's goingon recession in Japan, recession in Britain.
Could we be next? What's goingon in the market, the overvalue?

(01:22:54):
How are you protecting yourself? LetBulwark show you how you could be
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(01:23:15):
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(01:23:40):
performance is no guarantee of future results. It's the Chad Benson Show. You're
listening to the Chad Benson Show.Now it's time to find out what's trending.
What's trending? Signed James Norway,Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia,

(01:24:12):
Serena lot trumping. Let's find outwhat's treading on the old interwebs.
Start with Yeah, Donald Trump,Taylor Swift, Ukraine, Russia war,

(01:24:33):
Russian economy, Caitlin Clark trending.I'm talking a little bit about that.
How amazing was that? I don'tknow I'm gonna watch college basketball, let
alone women's college basketball. I knowshe's very good. I know that the
powers that be would want you tothink that she's probably the greatest basketball player
male or female, in the historyof the world. But she broke the

(01:25:00):
record yesterday for most points scored bya female college basketball player. Congratulations to
her. What did I see that? Pat mcaviss say, the Caitlyn Clark
business is good? Is it?Is it Olivia dunn Good? Well,
no, it's not Olivia dun Good. If you don't know who she is,
and many of you do, you'relike, I don't know who Caitlyn

(01:25:21):
Clark is. She plays basketball forIowa. What is that about Olivia Dunno?
Oh, I know she is whoshe is. She's a LSU She's
a gymnast. I think she doesgymnasts. I don't know she's hot.
It's not very nice. Chad Mannywillis trending as well. Head over to

(01:25:41):
the magical world of Google. Iowabasketball because of Kaitlyn Clark, Fanny Willis,
Tiger Woods, Tiger even Parr.Yesterday, Genesis open says it's back.
Had some spasming in the last threeholes. He did hit a hozzle
rocket. As the kids would say. It's where you shame on Open Ai
Sora and we'll talk about that ina little bit. That is the new

(01:26:04):
Open Ai from uh chatchpt open Ai. It is a video prompt and I
will tell you this now. We'vebeen playing with the beta for a while.
You guys can't. You can gosee what it can do, but
you guys can't play around with ityet. But we have been fortunate enough

(01:26:26):
because of our company to work withthis stuff and we're using a lot of
the things that we do. Itis otherworldly. Talk about the game changer
of game changers. The Europa LeagueEnter Miami Oasis. Isaiah Stewart The Desert
Dune Dude called one of the greatestsci fi movies in the history of sci
fi movies. Head over to themagical world of Twitter. Earthquake, Sam

(01:26:48):
Bernardino, Clarence Thomas, Amy Schumer. People were wondering what's up with their
face? Da willis Georgia. That'sbecause of Da Wills, Otani the baseball
superstar taking bad adding practice pictures andcatchers and pretty much everybody reporting right now.
Megan Fox corrupt, DeAndre Ayton takingdown Trump. That's what matters.

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Take that Trump guy down, gethim. And Sora also trending. Man,
I'll tell you what the Sora thingis. Insane if you don't know
what it is. It is thelatest incarnation of AI. This time it's
video based on texts prompt and itis other worldly. Open Ai has announced

(01:27:33):
Sora, the new tool that usesthe company's artificial intelligence model to generate short
videos. Early samples put out bythe company show photorealistic wooly mammoths walking in
front of a snowy mountain. Anothershows a fluffy animated monster that looks like
it could be from a children's movie. The company's not yet releasing Sora to
the public right now, it says, outside researchers and academics are looking at

(01:27:56):
ways it could be misused. Everything'sgoing to be misused. Given the time,
everything is going to be understand that. I mean, it's it's this
is what we've got to deal withnow, the deep fakes and things of
this nature. The bigger issue hereor the best issue here, depends on
how you look on it. Youknow, glass half empty, half full?

(01:28:17):
Is what is this going to dofor the movie industry? And if
you go to open Ai Sora rightnow, it has stuff on there.
There is a gold rush, Soa California gold rush town like eighteen forty
nine or something like that. Itsays in twenty words or thirty words.
The text prompt was and again thedifference is this isn't photo real pictures.

(01:28:40):
These are videos. So you typein whatever you want to type in,
give me a California gold Rush eighteenforty nine town, what it might look
like, and just kind of thing, and just the whatever propt because you
still need people to do this.They're not thinking of itself. It looks
like it's a movie. It lookslike it's a movie. This is going

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to change the way that things aredone in the film industry, especially in
the situation that a smaller film companyisn't going to have the budget to do
a forty fifty one hundred million dollarmovie. Now they are and they're not
gonna have to spend fifty million dollarsto get there. This makes it.

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This makes everybody a player in theindustry. And it also makes budgets smaller
if you want it to be makingfilms, especially if they're decent, because
you're gonna be able to fill inthe ancillary parts of movies that cost a
lot. Oh, it's incredible.It is awesome telling you, I mean,
our stuff that we've got as wellthat we're working with them on is

(01:29:46):
ridiculous. And how fast it turnsover it is, it is. It
is amazing, It really is,and I'm excited. I know a lot
of people out there freaking, Ohmy god. Everyone's gonna lose their job.
They're not learn how to embrace itand adapt to it, and it
will change your life. If youdon't want to do that, well that's
gonna be a struggle for you becausethe people around you are going to use

(01:30:10):
it and they're gonna grow, andthe people who don't, they're gonna be
left behind. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
to twenty three at Chad Benson Show, to Twitter, your Instagram, A
lot of other stuff still to getto on this gorgeous Friday. It's gorgeous
where I am. It's gonna belike seventy three here. I don't know
where it's gonna be with you are, but gorgeous. Pick a ball and
golf weather day. It's a doublerfor me. Ah, what do you

(01:30:32):
think of those apples? Chad BensonShow, The Chad Benson Show, Independent

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Thoughts in Life. This is ChadBenson, all right. Every single week
we like to enjoy all of thesounds that we didn't get to this week.
Maybe some stuff came out yesterday,some stuff we just didn't get to
earlier in the week. This wasfrom yesterday. Though. For all of
you are hoping that they're gonna getBiden, the corrupt Biden. They've got
a guy that is absolutely one hundredpercent above board, has not done anything

(01:31:25):
wrong, is an FBI informant,and they've got him Special Counsel David Wise
has had died an FBI confidential informant, Alexander Smirnev, charging him with making
false statements and obstruction of justice.Wise claims that Spinoff lied giving false derogatory
information concerning Hunter Biden and President Bidenin twenty twenty, after Biden had announced
his bid for the presidency. Helied. What did he lie about?

(01:31:47):
An FBI informant lied? Are youkidding me? Well? It wasn't he
a business confidant? What was it? I mean? He he lied?
Didn't they get all this money?The alleged lies concerned whether Biden was ribe
by officials with Ukrainian energy giant Barisma, Sources telling ABC News the Smirnoff is
the confidential informant that House Republicans havecited repeatedly against President Biden, But the

(01:32:11):
FBI recently confronted Spirinoff about his claims. The Special Council flatly says his stories
fell apart and amalgalm otherwise unremarkable businessmeetings. Oh that isn't good. Guys,
By the way, that's not good. They were super excited about this.
Remember this, there was a fivemillion dollar payment made to Joe Biden,

(01:32:31):
not Hunter Biden. Joe Biden.We now know through the FD ten
twenty three form that we read todaythat Joe Biden was paid five million dollars.
The confidential human source who provided informationabout then Vice President Biden being involved
in a criminal bribery scheme. Isa trusted, highly credible informant who has

(01:32:54):
been used by the FBI for overten years and has been paid over six
figures. Well, doesn't sound likehe was as trusted as you guys needed
him to be. Sounds like,and this is a part of the problem
with witnesses. And if you youknow, it's funny when you go and

(01:33:14):
watch like I love watching all themob shows, like on Saturday at the
Mobsters, and and they'll talk toguys, mostly guys, meen some gals
who flip and become witnesses for thestate. One of the things they always
talk about is them singing or puttingon an act. They want their handlers
to be so happy with them thatthey'll turn up the mustard, if you

(01:33:40):
will, the sound, they turnup the charm and the and the oh
my god, let me tell youanother story, and let me tell you
this, and oh, I justthought of something. And they're they're putting
stuff together that maybe isn't there.As I said, it's a little extra
mustard on that hot dog, ifyou will. That even made sense I

(01:34:00):
mean what you're talking about, Jed. I'm just saying they sing a little
too loud that maybe it isn't true. Now I don't know. I mean,
do I think that their corrupt family. I think a lot of people
in politics get into it for onereason and end up being corrupt and corrupted.
A lot of people throw this atme, yes said, look at

(01:34:20):
that Chad. They got no.Look I never cared about I don't think
they're going to catch Biden none anything. I think the impeachment inquiry is just
ridiculous. I think the impeachment inquiryon my orcus is ridiculous. I understand
that you're trying to make this apolitical thing when it comes to my orcus,
keeping it in the press for aslong as you can. But show

(01:34:43):
me your ideas are better, havea plan of how your ideas are better
for the country. Win with yourideas because the ideas are better, And
like anything, no matter how goodthe ideas are, you've also got to
implement those things. But this isyou know, so many people yesterday look
at that, Jed, and youthought that Hunter. I said, look

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the Hunter Biden thing too. Itwas never about whether or not the the
and this is where the left missedit. It's not about his laptop and
what's in there. It wasn't inthere. It's about the fact that the
media and people with inside government signedon to tell everybody how fake the laptop

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was because they're want to destroy Trumpand stop him at all cost. Is
so strong that they're willing to goout and say, hey, this is
absolutely real. And their justification iseven if it's not real, it doesn't
matter because he's so bad, I'mwilling to go that extra length and show
you how bad he is, andI'll put my reputation at risk for that.

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That's what it was about. Soundsolid, do it every single Friday,
all the stuff we missed during theweek because we like to have fun.
Shooting Kansas City, we know nowwhat it's stemmed from is that preliminary
investigative findings have shown there was nonexus to terrorism or homegrown violent extremism.

(01:36:10):
This appeared to be a dispute betweenseveral people that ended in gunfire. During
the overnight hours, we learned thereare twenty three victims of yesterday's shooting.
The twenty two victims ranged between eightyears old and forty seven years old.
At least half of our victims areunder the age of sixteen. We have
subjects detained, two of which arejuveniles. We are working to determine the

(01:36:33):
involvement of others. Yeah, thestory will quietly go away because it doesn't
fit a narrative of terrorism, bothhomegrown, domestic or otherwise. And instead
it shows the real issue that's outthere that will never be dealt with because
it is politically uncomfortable for people totalk about, which is black youths killing

(01:36:58):
each other. So instead we'll blamethe weapon and instead of going, hey,
maybe there's a real problem here,what is it? Oh, young
black men who are out there runningaround settling disputes with guns, no families.
It is frustrating, but alas thiswill disappear slowly but surely. Ah

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three two, three, five,three, twenty four to twenty three At
Chad Benson Show is your Twitter?We move on speaking of crime and stuff
like that. Whose fault is it? KJP in DC? Homicide? Throughout
crime is a car Director Spike,simple question, does the president believe the
nation's capital is safe for Americans fromacross the country to come visit? I

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mean, look, we hear thereports and see the data as well.
Everyone in every community in this countrywants the same thing. They want their
families to be safe. And we'renot seeing that from Congressional Republicans. We're
just not They continue to get inthe way. The President has taken action,
he puts he puts that in hisbudget every day, make sure that
we make communities safer, and we'rejust not seeing that from Republicans. What

(01:38:04):
the hell are you talking about?First of all, Congressional Republicans have nothing
to do with the safety of DC. How about stop running around screaming,
defunding the police. Once again,I go back to what do you think
is happening in DC? Fatherless homes, young black men running around with guns,

(01:38:24):
settling their differences and disputes by shootingat each other, opportunities for crime,
petty and otherwise where there's very littledeterrent because there is zero repercussions for
their action. How is that thefault of Congressional Republicans. It's not.
But anytime you can blame them,you might as well. Immigration, here's

(01:38:46):
stuff that's not being talked about.About. Who is actually coming across the
border in large numbers as groups migrantsfrom China are now the fastest growing group
of people entering the United States illegallyfrom Mexico. Why are we seeing these
growing numbers? Here's what we know. New York Customs and Border Protection reported

(01:39:08):
more than twenty four thousand Chinese migrantencounters at the southern border last fiscal year.
In twenty twenty one, that numberwas just four hundred and fifty.
Did you just arrive here in theUnited States? The migrants previously told NewsNation
reporters that they are escaping the ChineseCommunist Party and planned to seek asylum in
the United States. Shaw's you yearningfor American freedom. Some fly to Ecuador,

(01:39:33):
where NOVISA is needed, and thentravel north blam. Others are flying
into Tijuana Airport before being guided acrossthe border by smugglers. The Chinese migrants
are reportedly willing to pay cartels ofthe thirty five thousand dollars for smuggling services,
and for a lot of them itpays off. More than fifty percent

(01:39:56):
of Chinese asylum applications were granted inthe twenty twenty three f fiscal year.
That's much higher than the average acrossall nationalities, which is only fourteen percent
that is huge, and so it'sfamilies now it's mostly middle aged and young
men coming here and a fifty percentclip that's you know, we talked to

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Gordon Chang earlier this week, andI'll tell you this. You're a Chinese
national and you're living here, andyou even become a citizen, you're never
not Chinese. First understand that,and that to me is something that we
need to pay attention to. Ohno, no, no, no,

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let's be real. Some of themare coming here because they do yearn for
freedom and they want opportunities. Butsome of them are coming here with the
blessing of the Communist Party, andthey're not here to make friends. Three
two, three, five, threeeight, twenty four to twenty three at
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deep doo doo. Yeah. TheChat Vizent Show. I think I'm seeing
the future, Madam Webb swinging inthe theaters this weekend. Dakota Johnson's Stars
and the Spider Man ter set filmfrom Sony and Marvel. The reviews have
been terrible and it's looking like it'llbe another superhero box office bomb. Getting
a little more loved. Reggae isthe peep of music. Bob Marley One

(01:42:27):
Loves Stars Kingsley Bendeddiere's the legendary reggaesinger. The reviews are better and it's
looking like Bob will easily top thebox office. And new on streaming Jennifer
Lopez's This Is Me Now, acompanion film to her new album that's on
Prime video. Ooh, Madam Webb, I like that. And the reviews
are in and it's awful. Thereviews are in. It's the worst movie

(01:42:49):
ever made, absolutely horrible. Wouldwatch it even if it changes my life
for the better. It's gotta suck. Oh my god, what a horrible
thing. I I don't know whatit is. I'm like, is it
is it a chick? Is it? Is it a chick? Spider Man?
But she can see the future?Why okay, why why are we

(01:43:15):
doing this? You know? Notevery single comic book needs to be a
movie. I just want everybody tounderstand that not every single comic book needs
to be a movie. Okay,just letting you guys know. Speaking of
movies, it's not snakes on aplane. Enough is enough. I have
had it with these mukeet Fike snakeson this Monday to Friday. Pray,

(01:43:38):
everybody's stepped in about to open freakingwindows. By the way, that was
the TV edit. It's not reallywhat he says, but it's hilarious.
How about maggots on a plane?I saw eventually that there were maggots on
the chair. He was very freakedout, especially when I actually saw a
maggot fall on her. She gotespecially freaked out. Everyone around immediately pinched

(01:44:02):
their nose because there was clearly avery foul odor emanating from this bag.
At that point, the pature explainedwhen he opened it that there was fish
in there. First of all,fish smell in an airplane not good.
Secondly, maggots and fish horrible,horrible. What are you guys serving tonight?
A maggots and fish fantastic? Iwas five rows back. By the

(01:44:24):
time that we actually got to landing, one of the maggots had already made
its way to my robe. SoI can only imagine what it would have
been like if we'd been on thatplane for seven more hours. One of
them has made its weight down.Here comes the maggot. Would you rather
be on the maggot plane or theplane where part of the fuselage decided it
wasn't going to stay there? Thatis a great question, Chad, A

(01:44:46):
very good question. Rip, Let'srest in peace. You may scream for
ice cream, but probably not chocolatechip. The International Dairy Foods Association,
and yeah, there is such athing, says the f is no longer
among its top ten ice cream flavors. The reason tastes change as our palettes
get more adventurous. Now, vanillastudded with plenty of dark chocolate chips,

(01:45:10):
a staple at places like Baskin Robbinsand Howard Johnson's for decades, is taking
a back seat to things like cookiedough, salted caramel and banana pudding.
Daria Albinger, ABC News, it'ssad. I like chocolate chip ice cream.
I never see it anywhere anymore.I don't it's a trip. I
don't see it anywhere anymore. Ilike cookie dough. It's okay. I'd

(01:45:34):
like vanilla because I kind of makeit look like a shake, feel like
a shake. I don't eat muchchocolate, and right now, for Lent,
I gave up ice cream because Iused to like have a little bowl
of ice cream for something at night. I gave up ice cream for Lent.
And it's it's not that hard,it is it. But I didn't

(01:45:55):
realize how much ice cream I waseating. But one thing for sure,
I was talking to my wife aboutthis the other day because we went to
I told you, guys went toMcDonald's and the kids wanted the shamrock shake
and they're like, it tastes likea mint chocolate chip. And I looked
at her and I said, God, I don't. I can't even remember
the last time I saw chocolate chip. It in a like when you go
to the ice cream aisle. Theyjust don't have it anymore. And is

(01:46:16):
there is it seasonal? Are theygrowing it? And it's only seasonal?
It is not, by the way, it is not just not selling.
Sad, very sad. The Presidenttoday will be going to Palestine. That's
Ohio, That's where the train derailed. It only took him three hundred and
seventy eight days to get there,and he's going there today to survey the

(01:46:39):
damage that was done, just intime for what I don't know, areas
that we're excavated, we're restoring those, We're filling them with clean backfill.
So when we get done, theproperty owners that were affected they can go
back to using that property. Youknow, a pre existing condition. Would
you feel comfortable going back there thedamage that was done there is kind of

(01:47:00):
putting their own spin on things andit you know, they're not always getting
the facts right. So I thinkthat's been unique to this response. Social
media being a problem. Yeah,I think social media is a problem in
a lot of different ways. ButI also think you'd be a helper,
And I think social media raised alot of very serious questions and a lot
of concerns about what was going onbecause I think without it people wouldn't have

(01:47:23):
paid that much attention to what wenton there. It was a trained derailment.
There's some stuff, it's a littlecontaminated. Everything will be okay.
It wasn't if it wasn't for socialmedia. I don't think people to realize
how big of a deal this was. The majority of the soil removal work
you know, cleaning up the trackwork, removal of that soil. That's
all been done for a few monthsnow. We wrap that up at the
end of October, but a fewmonths so for like ten months, those

(01:47:46):
people this I mean, you know, they're living in hotels and going back
to like do you want to drinkwater from there? I mean, would
you want to go drink water fromthere? I don't. I'm thinking no,
right, I'm thinking probably not right, probably not. This is Kareem

(01:48:12):
Jean Pierre. But are you expectingthe optics of the president drinking water tomorrow?
I can say this that the Presidenthas no concerns with drinking the water
in East Palestine. The EPA isconfident that the drinking water is safe.
I'm sure some of you might rememberwhen the EPA administrator Reagan was there one
of the many times that he's visited. He drank the water there last year.

(01:48:35):
So we have no concerns different drinkinga glass of water, taking a
sip, and living there. Ithink we realized that three two four twenty
three at Chad Benson Show's your Twittertweeted at is Texas show? Solid fun
week of shows? No football thisweekend? Back no football for like a

(01:48:56):
lot of weekends, so it's onthe Gulf. My wife's a great deal
with it. We're having fun Tigersplaying this weekend. You guys have a
blessed rest of your weekend. We'llbe back on Tuesday. We're taking Monday
off a little time to relax,refresh, and get ready for the big
push because I don't know if you'reaware of this, there's an election this
year. As always Night Night Check, this is the Chad Benson Show.

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