Republicans Barely Won in a Trump-Friendly Tennessee District

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well that was close. Last night, Tennessee had an election.
Mark Green's retiring taking the money getting out of Dodge
and so special election Matt Van Epps aft In Bane
Aften by the way, and I'm going to talk about

(00:36):
this a little bit more next hour. I spent yesterday
with her for about an hour. Aften is very, very nice.
She believes wholeheartedly in what she's doing. And because of that,
I'm an evil person because she's an evil progressive, etcetera.
Said like again, we're going to get into a little
bit more. And I've spent time with Matt. By the way.

(00:57):
Matt is a great guy. And even Aften said, hey,
you know what, his service is amazing. He is a
good guy. He's actually one of her constituents in the
state legislature. And so there's no animosity or hatred there.
But the right came hard for Afton and they elevated
her brand. And I told her yesterday when she sat down,

(01:19):
so they elevated your brand. You should be thankful for that.
But they want the Republicans. But they didn't win big.
This was a area a district where Trump won by
twenty two points.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
And Republican Matt Van Epps won the special election for
the state seventh congressional district, keeping the seat red, but
he only won by nine points in the district that
President Trump carried by twenty two points last year, and
Republicans spend big money on this race.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Democrats say their writing is on.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
The wall for a blue wave next year, one party
official saying Republicans should be quote shaking in their boots.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And by the way, I've talked to several Republicans, I've
told you, do not be surprised between now and the
end of the term that you don't hear there's gonna
be a few more retirements, and potentially a lot of
retirements next year, up to fifty I'm hearing. I don't
know if that's true, but would I be surprised. I

(02:21):
would not be surprised. The Republicans need to figure out
what they're going to do, and they need to do
it quick cause time is not waiting for you, and
you don't seem to have the urgency. Yesterday, I'm gonna
play this is Stephen Moore yesterday talking about something that

(02:46):
is very similar to Oh, I don't know, it's transitory.
Do you remember that Yellen, Janet Yellen? Remember her? And
do you remember Biden? Which is transitory in transitor do
you remember that? Oh? You people, you just you're not
getting it. Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
You know, the first term of Trump, which you're looking
at there on the chart, saw enormous gains and income,
and especially look at that compared to what happened under
Biden in the blue bars. I mean, so Trump family
saw a big increase in their incomes under Trump. And
by the way, that doesn't even include the value of
their four to one K plans that went up very considerably,

(03:27):
both in Trump's first term and so far in the
second term. So so far, in the first ten months
of this year, the median family income is up by
about twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (03:39):
That's after inflation, Lauren.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
So that means that their wages and salaries have gone
up faster than inflation. So to some extent, this affordability
crisis is a mythology.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
People can afford more.

Speaker 4 (03:50):
And incidentally, we know that, Lauren, because look at what's
happening with the amount of money people are spending. Look
what happened on Black Friday with the ten percent. If
people don't have the money, how can they go out and.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Be spending this kind of money on Christmas presents?

Speaker 4 (04:03):
So I think to some extent, there's an exaggerated affordability crisis.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
Keep saying that, and you're going to keep finding out
why things are close or you're going to lose, and
why you lost a couple tuesdays ago. Affordability crisis. It's
a crisis. No, it's not a crisis overblown. It is
not overblown. If you're living in it, the messaging shouldn't

(04:32):
be this freaking hard. So just to give you guys
an example, shopping numbers wise flat or up one or
two percent, Well, that's better except for the fact that
with inflation being what it is, and we know it's

(04:54):
greater than three percent, understand that people are spending about
the same and they're getting less. And when you dive
into the numbers, when it comes to age groups, gen
X and baby boomers spending a bit more. Millennials and
Gen Z the largest group of voters struggling, and they're

(05:19):
a big group and they're not swayed by they're not
Grandma and grandpa. Where we vote this way or that way,
we don't vote any other way. There's no crossing lines.
There's none of that that whole Reagan thing with the
blue dog Democrats that's a long time ago. No, they're

(05:40):
not loyal to party. They're loyal to person themselves. Which
that's kind of everybody. We're all voting for the group
that we think is going to help us the most financially.
But when you look at this, Okay, so gen Z
and Millennials together, there are about fifty percent of the

(06:03):
US electorate, so they are combined the biggest block. And
you telling them that everything is okay. What go look
at Millennial and gen Z. Sixty seven percent of them
are drowning in debt, drowning in debt. They are struggling.

(06:31):
So telling them this over and over isn't going to
win you any friends. And you sound much like the
last administration that is pushing off their concerns, their worries,
their reality as if it's some sort of you know,
media lie. You know, when I do my local show,

(06:56):
I've got probably a younger listening group as I do
across the nation than most hosts by far. I don't
want to pat myself on the back, but you know
what I do, My group on average is younger than
a lot of the others. Well, you know, because I

(07:17):
have a lot of Gen xers that listen, and I've
got some older millennials that listen, and yes, i've got
baby boomers listen. But when I do my show here,
the baby boomers will text in and they will absolutely go, well,
these kids are stupid, or they're ridiculous, or they're whiny,

(07:39):
or they're this, And I say, yeah, who owns a
vast majority of the wealth in this country? Almost sixty
percent baby boomers. So you're retired, you're living off your
four oh one K, you're happy the stock markets through
the roof. It's great because you're no longer living in
the world where you work in main street, and so
you've got your house paid for it, You've got money,

(08:00):
You've got disposable income. Baby Boomers number one, number two,
my generation. We have about thirty percent of the wealth
from the nation. Okay, millennials five to six percent of
the wealth. No home ownership, student debt, wages are stagnant.

(08:23):
Did I mention that they're the largest voting block. You know,
when I talk about this stuff, everybody's like, why are
you hard on the Republicans? Because get out of your
freaking little sphere that you live in. Get out and
talk to the people, touch grass, and stop dismissing, because

(08:44):
otherwise you're going to pay for it in a major
way at the ballot box. That's why everybody else will
sit around and they'll tell everybody what they want to hear.
How about some people start telling everybody else what they
need to hear. Punch Bowl News last night. Tonight's results

(09:06):
make it clear no House Republican reelections should be considered
safe next November. Spokesperson for the Democratic line House majority
Pack said of the Tennessee special election, what did the
Republicans say? Yeah? Next year is going to be ugly.
Probably if they don't get their act together, it's going

(09:27):
to be way worse it is. They need to get
out there and start actually talking to people, start looking
them in the eyes, start trying to have at least
in an understanding. I'm not saying you had to have
the empathy, but at least an understanding of what's going

(09:48):
on and how people feel, and how that feeling which
is not make believe, which is real, is resonating in
their life or otherwise you're going to feel it at
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Speaker 6 (10:15):
The President announcing a new kind of investment for the future.

Speaker 7 (10:18):
This will give millions of dollars, millions of children, middle
class families, a stake in American prosperity, a benefit from
the rising stock market, and a better shot at the
American dream.

Speaker 6 (10:30):
The new so called Trump accounts are a key part
of President Trump's signature tax and spending legislation passed earlier
this year.

Speaker 2 (10:39):
Who wants them money, Well, I would like some now.
That is the thousand dollars that go into your account.
You know. There's also yesterday the Michael Dell and his
wife announced I'm going to give two hundred fifty dollars
for kids who are under ten to go into two

(11:00):
an account as well. And this is to be spent
on school, you know, in the future when you're eighteen,
which is great. You know, we're trying to encourage birth.
And I continue to say this, if we don't get
our act together, the reality is is our country's going
to be a lot of trouble because we as a
nation aren't reproducing. Immigrants who are coming here, both illegally

(11:22):
and legally are but we as a nation, much like
a lot of the westernized, modernized societies around the globe,
are not reproducing. And it's not the kids in the
future that need the help who aren't born yet. It's
the parents or the people you're hoping become parents that
need the help. Now, that's why I say it's the economy.

(11:43):
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Wait, what it's gonna be cold? Out there. I mean
cold as it gets very cold and took the dogs
out earlier days twenty seven, twenty seven freaking degrees outdoors.
What the hell is that all about? It is a
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Speaker 9 (14:01):
Treacherous driving conditions as a powerful nor'easter dumps up to
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Yeah, a lot of it hit earlier today. And remember
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Speaker 10 (14:43):
The heaviest fell just about an hour or so southwest
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to down East Main and that's where we've got an
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Luigi Mangioni, What did I see? There's a huge article

(16:14):
Luigi's cougars. These forty something year old women that are
into Luigi Mangioni because they're sane. But he was back
in court.

Speaker 11 (16:25):
Now.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
Remember these are pre trial hearings, as the defense is
trying to get some stuff tossed out before the trial
ever begins.

Speaker 12 (16:33):
Mangioni today tilted his head toward a courtroom screen watching
body camera footage from his arrest as his lawyers fight
to get key evidence tossed out, including the alleged murder
weapon and writings that said the target is insurance. It
checks every box.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, and there was a cop there testifying about when
he first encountered Luigi.

Speaker 12 (16:55):
Officer Joseph Dettwiler testified that when he responded last December
to a tip about a male who looks like the
NYC shooter, he was so skeptical he didn't even turn
on his police siren. But as soon as the man
pulled down his mask, the officer said, I knew it
was him immediately. The officer said MANGIONI gave him a
fake name and ID for a Mark Rosario and claimed

(17:15):
I'm homeless, but the officer didn't buy it. He's heard
telling a supervisor I'm one hundred percent sure it's him.
He's nervous as hell.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
I saw his fingers shaking. We'll see what comes of this.
If they can get that stuff tossed out, their case
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
You guys didn't pay attention because of the holiday week
and whatnot. There was an issue in Minnesota. Okay, you
know Minnesota with fraud, a massive amount of fraud, not
an anybity, not a teeny winnie, a large, enormous amount
of fraud. Now, the kind of fraud that we're talking

(18:26):
about is the kind of fraud that you're like, wow,
that is a lot. It is the largest COVID era
fraud case in US history, and it had to do
with the program called feeding Our Future and apparently our future. Well,
let's just say there wasn't a lot of feeding going on,

(18:49):
and Tim Walls useless as I like to call him,
he is the heat miser or the governor of minister.
It was on Meet the Press this weekend talking about it.

Speaker 14 (19:02):
Well, speaking of the Somali community, President Trump is targeting
them and your state and party's citing fraud is the
reason for his crackdown. Dozens of people of East African
descent have been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more
than a billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs
during COVID. As you know, Governor, that is more than

(19:24):
Minnesota spends each year to run its Department of Corrections.
So I want to give you a chance to respond
to this. Do you take responsibility for failing to stop
this fraud in your state?

Speaker 15 (19:34):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to just talk theoretically. We have to
solve problems. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous days, a
well run state or triple A bond rated. But that
attracts criminals. Those people are going to jail. We're doing
everything we can.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
They're doing everything they can. Obviously you weren't paying attention
because this was a geoak An absolute jokes. So are
you ready for this? One site claimed they were feeding
thousands of children per day. Once I claimed five thousand
kids per day out of an office building were being fed.

(20:17):
Another claimed two thousand kids from a small storefront were
being fed. They submitted invoices for meals that were never
served because there wasn't any kids. They then inflated if
there was kids the attendance numbers. Some printed fake sign
in sheets with random names, repeated names, or named generators.

(20:37):
I want you to understand that, well, Trump's going after
the Somalis in this situation here.

Speaker 15 (20:44):
But to demonize an entire community on the actions of
a few, it's lazy. And as you heard Senator Kelly say,
this president has cut a lot of inspector generals. He's
cut programs that could help us tackle us on.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
So we are we'll take it on.

Speaker 15 (20:58):
We'll put folks in jail. I don't care what your
nameality is, I don't care who your religion is, your color,
if you're committing crimes. These are programs that were meant
to serve students with autism, to housing and to making
sure people had enough to eat.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
There's a reason Minnesota ranks.

Speaker 15 (21:13):
As the top lowest childhood poverty, best place for children
to live. People are taking advantage that they're going to prison.
That is totally disconnected with demonizing an entire group of
people who came here fleeing civil war and created a
vibrant community that makes Minnesota in this country better. But
that's Donald Trump deflect demonizes, come up with no solutions.
He's not going to help fix anything. On fraud, my god,

(21:36):
there's a big difference between fraud and corruption, and corruption
is something he knows about.

Speaker 2 (21:41):
Oh you got him there, by the way, just to
let you know. I think there so far seventy plus
people have been indicted or charged in some way, shape
or form, like ninety plus percent of them or smallly
right so down there that he's just demonizing a singular

(22:03):
Does Trump do that? Is that the case here where
he's lying about it? No, And this continue to push
the Hey, everybody wants to be here. It's an amazing place.
It's an incredible place in America, and everybody wants to
come here for the freedom. You know, I got news
for you. It is it's it's not what you think.
In a lot of places, it isn't. Emmy Horowitz, who's

(22:26):
a filmmaker, was out in this area talking to we'll
see all the hubbubs about And this was prior to this,
to see what all the hubbub's about, you know, with
all the Somalies and everything. How do you feel do
you like the country? Don't you like the country?

Speaker 16 (22:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (22:44):
And he asks a lot of and he's a fair
straight up the middle in a lot of ways. Yes,
does he lean wright and a lot of stuff, Yeah,
but he also hammers both sides and yes, can you
cut stuff up and make it so well? This is
all they say. Do I think all Somalies feels way?

Speaker 11 (23:00):
No?

Speaker 2 (23:00):
But do I think there are a lot of them
that do feel this way. And it's not just small.
There's a lot of people. They would rather be in
their homeland. They don't look at as America as as
a place they would want to be. They are fleeing
a nightmare. They come here, they make a community. They
don't want to be a part of America. They want

(23:23):
to be who they are just here. We can't have
that not long term. You guys recognize that, but these
people were honest.

Speaker 17 (23:33):
Do you feel more comfortable living under American law or
do you feel more comfortable living under sharia.

Speaker 18 (23:39):
Lah ah.

Speaker 17 (23:42):
Shari a lah.

Speaker 18 (23:44):
I'm a Muslim, I prefer.

Speaker 17 (23:47):
Yes, then you prefer sharia lah over American law?

Speaker 5 (23:52):
Of course, of course.

Speaker 17 (23:55):
And do you find most of your friends say I
feel the same way?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 18 (23:59):
Of course?

Speaker 2 (24:00):
For me?

Speaker 17 (24:00):
It try make his daughter marry so much?

Speaker 14 (24:02):
Yeah he can, Yeah, he can.

Speaker 5 (24:04):
He has the authority yeah to do that.

Speaker 2 (24:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (24:07):
So here, how young do you think it's okay?

Speaker 19 (24:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 15 (24:10):
Fifteen?

Speaker 17 (24:11):
Is it right to kill somebody who sold Mohammed?

Speaker 8 (24:13):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Because she's just she had the religion, I understand, but
she shouldn't pick up the prophet.

Speaker 17 (24:19):
You know, you understand why people would want to attack her.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
Yeah, you had a choice.

Speaker 17 (24:23):
Would you rather live here's life or live in the
mother country. I'd rather live in a Muslim country with
my people. Would you prefer to live in America or
prefer to live in Samoya? For to me, I think
he's somnia. I would rather live in somebody. I'm not americanized.
I just I just speak fluent and I'm you know
what I mean. I'm articulate. I can articulate what I'm
trying to say, you know what I mean. That's about it.
Rather than that, I mean.

Speaker 20 (24:41):
As far as my culture and my prefaces and everything,
and still Somodi you know what I mean.

Speaker 17 (24:46):
Yeah, yeah, even though here you have other freedom and
stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
And even though I have all the freedom, I.

Speaker 17 (24:50):
Think life might be better in Somaria than he is now.

Speaker 21 (24:54):
You have the then freedom of it of pacting your religion,
working and doing other things.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
Okay, well you can do that here, but it's not
the same. It's not. And yes, there are a lot
of people here in this country and the left doesn't
want to admit this because they want to make sure
that everybody understands that. You know, everybody who comes here
only wants the American dream. That's not true, it's not
that is not true. The reality is a lot of

(25:25):
people look at us as hey, you know what, you
got a lot. We can come, We'll take what we want,
and we'll do we want. We're going to stay in
our own little zones and we want to be left alone,
and we don't want to be a part of your culture.
That's not everybody. It isn't. Immigrants make up an amazing
part of our nation. But let's stop pretending that all

(25:47):
of them want to be here. They would like to
be back at their home, but that isn't going to
happen for a lot of them. And it's good to know. Hey,
this is how you feel, okay, And this is the issue, right,
we have a culture where people say, it's not a
race issue, it's a culture issue. It is a culture issue.

(26:11):
You don't want to be part of my culture, then
guess what what are we supposed to do here? You
want to come here, right, and this is what Europe
is finding out. You want to come here. You want
all of the safety and the safety net that these
countries like ours and theirs provide, but you want none
of what everybody else has, which is our culture. We

(26:34):
don't have a culture. We do have a culture. No,
we don't know. We do have a culture, despite what
some people said, Like this guy, now, this guy right
here is interesting. This is a New York Times op
ed writer who doesn't really dig America, a Jit Ali.
And he says the quiet part out loud, and yes,

(26:56):
some of it is rage bait. I understand that but
do I think some of what he's saying, he believes
one hundred percent you have lost. You lost.

Speaker 16 (27:08):
The mistake that you made is you let us in
the first place. That's the thing with brown people. I'm
gonna say this as a brown person. There's a lot
of us, like a lot. There's like one point two
billion in India. There's more than two hundred million in
Pakistana's one hundred and seventy million in Bugngledah. No, are
just the people there. I'm even talking about the folks
who are expats or immigrants. There's a bunch of us,

(27:28):
and we breed. We're a breeding people. And the problem
is is you let us in nineteen sixty five, there
was a few. There were a few of us beforehand.

Speaker 2 (27:35):
So he's saying the quiet, Hey, we come here, we breed,
you let us in. This is what happens when you
let us in. We're gonna breed, We're gonna do all
that doesn't matter how much money Trump hands out, how
many thousand dollars accounts, et cetera, et cetera. It's funny
that he goes and says that we're coming here, we're
taking everything over and we're gonna breed you out of here.

(27:57):
It's kind of what is he he's eluding at?

Speaker 16 (28:00):
Watch you like one of us in You know what
happens with bron folks. Our grandmother comes, our grandfather comes,
our uncle comes, our aunt comes, our cousin comes, our
second cousin comes, our third cousin comes.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
Then we have kids, a bunch of kids. And then
guess what.

Speaker 16 (28:11):
Some white women, you know, the Western civilization women, the
pure women, the American women, quote unquote, the rost belt women,
the real women. They like some of us brown folks,
we don't take them. They come to us. So we're embedded.
We are everywhere. We are everywhere. I've traveled this country
almost speak as a brown person. Brown people are everywhere.
There will be a Patel motel, or there will be
a Daisy restaurant everywhere.

Speaker 2 (28:31):
Patel. I will say, here's his side. Note. When I
was trading commodities and I got you know, I first
started growing my book, it was hilarious. The guy that
was kind of my mentor said, you are not a
true commodity broker till you trade a Patel. And sure

(28:52):
enough I got a Patel. I had two or three
of them, and they all owned hotels, little motels. It
was hilarious. Uh continue, sir. This is what jid A Lee,
who is a New York Times op ed writer, kind
of a speaker, talking to about America. How bad it is.
No culture, brown people are here, We're not going anywhere.

Speaker 16 (29:13):
I want you to realize this.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
You have lost.

Speaker 16 (29:15):
Your story is a story filled with misery. It's filled
with bland chicken. It's filled with terrible, terrible, dry ass meat.
Your music sucks, all your culture sucks nobody. That's why
the kids like listening to black people and their music.
That's why the kids love Latinos. Your parties suck because
they're monochromatic. Our parties have better food, better music, better

(29:36):
looking women.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Here's what I'll say about that. If our culture sucks
and our society sucks and all those things suck, then
why does everybody want to come here? Why aren't there
Americans beating down the doors to get into Somalia, to
get into Venezuela, to get into a lot of the
other places. Why isn't that happening? Because our culture, now,
the color of the skin to our culture is what matters.

(30:00):
It's what gives everybody the want to come here at
the liberty, the freedom, the thing that protects us, that
constitution and the spirit is the culture, not the food.
And yes, Mexican food is awesome. It's my favorite. Of course,
my grandfather is Mexican. Maybe that's why. But still it

(30:24):
is funny to see how all of this is breaking down.
And again there's a culture battle going on right now
between the right and the left and between the powers
that be in the White House and a lot of
other people who are pushing back. But to say we
don't have a culture is an outright lie. And to

(30:45):
say that everybody wants to be here, that's come here
and they're embracing everything about America is also a lie.
So at least they're saying the the quiet part out loud.
That's why he keeps saying when it comes to immigration, right,
you can hate Trump for all you want. And the

(31:06):
way I think he's going about the deportations is not
a good look. But we need to find out who
wants to put a ring on it, Marryott, And we
need to find out who out there looks around and says, yeah,
you're just a booty call. We don't want to be
here and we don't want to be a part of
what you've got. We're here to hit it, split it

(31:26):
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A hashtag me too, hashtag immigration reforms, hashtag help, I'm
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Speaker 2 (33:03):
It's Wednesday, so you know what that means. Oh baby,
that one Hit Wonder.

Speaker 19 (33:10):
Now it's time for another edition of One Hit Wonder Wednesday.

Speaker 22 (33:21):
You may not remember the name of the band, but
you definitely know the song. This bruiser, this is One
Hit Wonder Wednesday.

Speaker 2 (33:44):
All right, One Hit Wonder Wednesday, where we revisit a
song that was a hit for a briefit of time.
These bands were big. Sometimes they stuck around and they
relived this hit over and over again. Others they disappeared
into obscurity, which is where we find this one today
from nineteen seventy two, only got to number thirteen. But
this band that was formed in Ithaca, New York, recorded

(34:05):
this in Paris and they did it one night. That's right, kids.
It is truly a one hit wonder. The band's called
King of Harvest and this song, Oh my Lord, Let's
go dancing in the moonlight.

Speaker 21 (34:35):
We get it almost every night when that moon gots
a big bride and supernajo row every border with dancing.

Speaker 23 (34:47):
And the song was written by a guy who was
attacked in the Caribbean named Sherman Kelly.

Speaker 2 (34:57):
Here is outside surviving the attack. He wanted to write
a song where the world was free of fear and violence,
and that's where this dreamy song came from. Auto It's

(35:19):
been re recorded on several occasions. Top loaders did it
in two thousand, became a massive hit in the UK
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(35:39):
one hit wonders, well you just let us know about that.
We would love for you to send him to us.
And I've gotten this thing several times send to us,
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A lot of stuff to get to charm it up,
including after in Vain. She lost yesterday the Tennessee special election.

(36:04):
But we're going to talk about it because I talked
to her yesterday. It spent some time with her. Top
of that, we got a bunch of other good stuff Venezuela,
when will we won't. We will talk a bit about that. Also,
we're going to talk about the high cost of travel,
sports and what is doing to parents, plus a bunch
of other stuff. You're missing the Joe sham on you.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
You have the podcast Our Mother tep Straight Chad Show,

(36:49):

Speaker 11 (36:53):
Last night in Tennessee, Tennessee, Tennessee set Tennessee, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (37:04):
Lord, there's a special election. Mad Van Apps won. Oh
my god, he did. Yeah, he did. Good for him.
By the way I've said this, I've met him. He's
a very nice guy. But that being said, the message
I think is cleared Republicans. You better get your act
together or else you're going to pay a price. Next year,

(37:27):
you are you're gonna pay a price. They spent a
lot of money. By the way, in the last I
would say ten fifteen days, like you could not believe
the amount of money that they spent. It is insane.
At the station I work out here locally, I was
talking to the big boss day, don't you and yesterday?

(37:49):
And she said the day before or Sunday because yesterday
was Tuesday. She said the weekend she got sixty eight
phone calls from all of these groups and people either
wanting to spend money or I mean, it was insane,
she said, And I said, I believe it. In fact,

(38:12):
in the last week and again this is the seventh
district in Tennessee, shows you how close the margin is
in Congress. Had the Republicans lost, Mike Johnson could lose
no more than one or they were screwed. It was

(38:34):
razor thin. And they got Matt Van Epps, who exactly
over the line. Now, the lady they ran up against
her name is Afton Baane. She was the first politician
I met when I came here, and I talked to
on the national level Birchan and several of the others before,
but the first one locally that I had met, super

(38:58):
lefty progressively exactly what you would think, very nice, right,
not full of hate, not full of evil. So I
had her on yesterday when nobody else could get her on.
She decided to do you know, no other radio, no
the local media could have her on. She did a

(39:19):
couple of hits, I think early in the morning, but
she came on our show in the middle of the day.
Two o'clock was her scheduled time. She came in at one.
She popped in early, and she knew she wasn't going
to win. She thought there was a glimmer of hope,
but she knew she probably but she wanted to make
it close. They won by nine in a place where

(39:42):
Trump won by twenty two points a year earlier, and
they had to pull out all of the stops to
get to that position. I normally don't talk to politicians.
You guys know that, because when you talk to politicians,

(40:02):
what happens is you might become friends with them, and
they get perturbed and piss off if you criticize them.
So I said, you know what, I want to be
able to criticize people without that. I criticize her but
I don't yell at her. And that's the thing that
I've realized in the last several years. Everyone's like, your

(40:24):
interview style is not aggressive or mean. I'm like, well,
what do you want? Well, you should yell at her.
People were texting and saying, you know, if she was
on the Guy before Me show or the Guy after Me,
she'd be in hysterics and tears right now. I'm like,
what what are you talking about? Well, they would be

(40:48):
yelling at her. I'm like, okay, so you want me
to yell at her for what, Well, because I don't
like her politics. Why don't you like about her politics?
And then, of course nobody ever had any answer. And
by the way, yesterday, I would say, in the space
of the sixteen minutes we had here on maybe eighteen minutes,

(41:13):
we got seven hundred text messages, a vast majority of
more awful, some of them about me, which I don't
care about, you know, because none of you fool me.
By the way, you calling me a pos and then
texting me the next day after you're saying you never
listen to me again. I know who you are, okay,
And there's no hard feelings. But as we talked about yesterday,

(41:38):
the rage bait thing. This whole thing with her was
a push to make her the new AOC. Right, This
whole thing was a push to make her the new Mandani.
She even joked yesterday, they want me to bring sharia
law here, That's what they keep hearing. I go, really,
so a progressive woman wants to have sharia law? Were

(42:00):
her rights in is going to be? Are they're gonna
be stripped away? Is that what they're hoping for? I said,
they make no sense because they live in fear. So
I'm telling you guys, get out of your bubble and
stop living in fear. Challenge your beliefs because your beliefs
will be stronger when they're proof right. And if they're

(42:24):
not right, find out why they aren't right. Were you
lied to where you told only portion of the story
it was lied by omission? Did you only get enough
data that they had at the time and you went
with it. I knew she wasn't going to win, and
I don't agree with a vast majority for politics, but Republicans,

(42:48):
you better figure this out. And we have to stop
looking at people that we disagree with in the political
sphere as enemies. I was told yesterday by probably fifty people,
she's our enemy. No, she's not. She's an American who
has a different belief than I do when it comes

(43:12):
to a lot of politics, And she's not my enemy.
She's actually very nice. And you would find that out
if you just sat back. But you're so living in
this delusional world of I'm right about everything, because I
know I'm not. I was not my wife last night.

(43:33):
You know what I've learned, the older I get, the
moral knowledge I have, the less I know. And some
of that is by design, as far as people are
only giving you a portion of a program that they
want you to look at, portion of the data that
they want you to look at, a portion of the
story that they want you to look at. But it's

(43:54):
also the understanding that, man, there's so much out there,
got to go challenge it if you care enough. But
I got a lot of other people out there that say,
you know what, I won't vote for her, but I'm
assure in the helling voting for this guy. And I
felt bad for Matt because Matt basically is they went
into a room, they printed out a guy that is

(44:16):
everything that you know, Patriot, All these kind of things
that he said Patriot like eighty times when he's on
my show. And again he's a great guy. She had
nice things to say about him, he had nice things
to say about her. There was no hatred or animosity
out there amongst the two. They disagree with each other.
We need more of that where they go. I don't

(44:36):
believe in your politics. I disagree with you on that,
but I think you're a good person. Well they're not
a good person. Why because you can't tell me why?
Why are they a bad person? What have they done
to you? What have they done? Have they come over
to your house and made you become gay, made you
become trans, made you go a legal immigration has to
be legalized, no different opinion, And that's a good thing.

(45:03):
It is because if we can't differ, didn't you know
what we're gonna have as a cult And we don't
want that, we don't. But I felt bad for Matt
because it was evident, first of all, whoever was running
his campaign was not doing a great job. And I
met that guy. He's very nice. He's like twenty four
years old, and he was not a part of the

(45:25):
campaign matttt Epps. It was Trump it was other politicians
with bigger names. It was also Mike Johnson coming out
here and being on the phone on numerous occasions to
push him over the line. And nine points is not

(45:45):
something to celebrate. It isn't. And remember this only for
this year. He'll be sworn in, but next year he's
got to run again. And Republicans, you better figure out
we talked about the last hour. You better figure out

(46:06):
what the hell that you're going to do when it
comes to your messaging, because the messaging can't be Hey,
this affordability crisis is not a crisis, it's a myth.
You continue to do that, you're going to continue to
get kicked in the grundle at the ballot box. You

(46:31):
won last night, but it wasn't convincing. And it took
Yeoman's job to get this guy across the line. It
really dig It took Trump. It took all of the
kingsman to get this guy across the line in a
place that should be safe, where Trump won by twenty

(46:54):
two points. Because people are mad. Affordability is an issue
and we haven't even talked about the ACA because I
saw a lot of that yesterday when she was on
my show how many people are like I don't know
if I could vote for but I'll tell you what.
I got my new numbers for next year. I'm going

(47:15):
from five hundred to twenty two hundred. One person said
from four hundred to twenty five hundred. That is an issue.
Address the issues that matter. That's how you'll win. And
right now, it's not a cultural crisis that you keep pushing.

(47:38):
Right like that message, you can go back to it
when there's a reason to. Now the message is finances, affordability, pocketbook.
Let me know what you think three two, three, five,
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don't like the rhetoric. I mean, it's fun to goof
around sometimes to have a laugh, But there's a difference
between being full of hate and anger as opposed to

(48:19):
and lying as opposed to laughing at some stuff that's ridiculous.
Those are two separate things. Sarcasm sometimes I have a
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Speaker 1 (49:47):

Speaker 2 (49:49):
If you're having a baby, some free money's available, but
you better hurry up because it could dry out. I
don't know. All I know is we're handing out money
to people who have babies. But there are rules to
getting the money, not to the babies. They're rules to
that too, But as far as getting the money for
the babies, they're rules.

Speaker 6 (50:06):
The new so called Trump accounts are a key part
of President Trump's signature tax and spending legislation passed earlier
this year. They start with a thousand dollars deposit from
the Treasury Department into accounts for children born January first
of this year through twenty twenty eight. When they turn eighteen,
they can withdraw the money to put towards their education,
a home, or a business. The White House says the

(50:29):
funds must be invested in an index fund that tracks
the stock market, so dollar bills.

Speaker 5 (50:36):
Yo.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
President very excited about it.

Speaker 7 (50:40):
This will give millions of dollars, millions of children, middle
class families a stake in American prosperity, a benefit from
the rising stock market and a better shot at the
American dream.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
Absolutely, it's great. So let's just break it down before
everybody gets mad. Agay hay camp No, I think it's great. Now. Look,
we're doing everything we can to incentivize people to have kids. Okay,
let's stop pretending. And it's not just us. Globally in
the modern Western world if you will, which oddly enough

(51:15):
also includes Asia and whatnot. We're doing everything we can
to have kids, have kids, have kids. So if we
were to take those dollars yo and invest them, say
average index fund sp returns ten percent, okay, after inflation
seven percent, If you invested one thousand dollars for eighteen years,
you'd have fifty five hundred bucks give or take. Okay,

(51:41):
if it was seven percent return, you'd have thirty three
one hundred dollars. So it's great. I mean, let's let's
not look a gift horse in the mouth. That's great,
that that that's available. Is it enough, though, because it's
not about look the gen X, gen Z all this

(52:04):
kind of stuff. It's not just about their affordability right now.
It's about people who can't afford kids, or a house
or a lot of other things. At this moment in time.
That's the frustration that people are having three two, three, five,
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Show's your Extra Insta YouTube and more right here in

(52:25):
the Chad Benson Show. So does this incentivize enough people
to go out?

Speaker 5 (52:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (52:31):
Absolutely? I don't know. Is it nice?

Speaker 1 (52:34):
Eh?

Speaker 2 (52:35):
Does it feel like it's more of a headline grabber
than anything else? I would say yeah, not to poo poo,
just being honest. Let me know what you think. Now,
that's the Trump Accounts. The Dell family are going to
do something else as well. They're throwing money at it

(52:57):
dollars again.

Speaker 15 (52:58):
Yo.

Speaker 24 (52:58):
The Dell donation will build on what's being called Trump Accounts,
which will give one thousand dollars in federal money to
every baby born between January first, twenty twenty five, and
the end of twenty twenty eight. The money will be
invested until the child will be eighteen. The gift from
Michael and Susan Dell will expand that program to cover
older children by depositing two hundred and fifty dollars in

(53:21):
individual investment accounts for kids ages ten and under.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Charlie's gonna get one of those. I had to look
at the kids last night, Jack and them says, you
guys are screwed. Charlie's getting the two fifty. You're not
getting anything. She's now the captain of the house. She's
our She's got the most favored nation status in the house.
You're done. It's again, if you want to figure out

(53:49):
how to incentivize people to have more kids, which we
have talked about here on numerous occasions, being maybe outside
of the debt, the single biggest issue when it comes
to our future. It's about affordability. Now, it's not about

(54:10):
what the kid make it in eighteen years. Let me
know what you think can miss you the show, sham
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Speaker 13 (54:18):
Then Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:39):

Speaker 2 (54:42):
It's time for what Woman Wednesday? I should make that
a jingle, but I haven't done it, but I will,
but not right now. White Woman Wednesday? All right, this
is where we listen to our two favorite girls, by
the way, who I love Kylie right, I love her,
Chess love her. Both progressive, both telling us what to
do how we need to work on ourselves because we

(55:03):
do right that's who we are. We're working on ourselves.
We're trying. We're listening, right, We listen with our ears.
We also listen with our heart. Really, no, not really,
because that'd be weird if you had an ear on
your heart and be like, what's wrong with him? Now
he hears with his heart. Oh, that seems so nice.
Let's do the work, shall we.

Speaker 25 (55:22):
Unfortunate part about living in America is that we like
to pretend that everything is fine and everyone supports black
people or women or people of color in general, and
it's just not true. You just look at what happened
when Obama was elected. Obama was elected, and we have
not seen even another person of color nominated except for Harris,
which again was an exception because Biden dropped out last minute.
It's almost like once they see a person of color succeed,

(55:43):
they want to punish people of color generally speaking, so
they will not allow someone else to become president, and
they elect someone like Donald Trump in his wake. That's
exactly what happened, and that's what would.

Speaker 24 (55:53):
Have happened with Harris.

Speaker 25 (55:55):
If Harris got in, she would have been in and
they would have been incredibly misogynistic. Towards women, but then
after she got out of office, they would never let
another woman come in. There would be another Trunk type
figure that would have probably emerged that would have gained
support with people on the right, because what they hate
is seeing people succeed that they view as lesser than themselves, right,

(56:16):
And that is why we constantly see this pendulum swing
back and forth, because anytime we make that sort of progress,
all they want to do is take it away because
they're miserable.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Did you guys do the work? Did anybody do the work?
Or was it just me? It was me? Again? Ah,
forgot guys. It can't just be me that does all
the work. So did you guys get that America sucks?
White people suck, especially men, and were misogynistic? You guys
need to be better by the next commercial break or
we're going to be in a lot of trouble. Okay,

(56:45):
speaking of a lot of trouble. All joking aside. You
guys know I played soccer at a pretty decent level.
I mean, look, the kids nowadays are a gazillion times
better than I ever was. But they also have coaching
that we never had. They have all of the stuff
that we never had. What we had was creativity and
fun because we just ran around and dribbled and kicked
the soccer ball, did all those kind of things. And
you know, we didn't have what these kids have nowadays.

(57:07):
And yes, it was somewhat expensive even when I was
a kid, which is a problem in our sports world
that the rest of the world doesn't understand how damn
expensive it is for parents. And I'm talking to you
parents and grandparents. You recognize this. The cost of youth
sports in today's world is radiculous and the eye is

(57:31):
really being shown on soccer. We have the World Cup
coming here next year. We just had the World Club
Championships sixty minutes just at a huge piece on Le
minham Al. And we'll talk about him probably tomorrow. If
you don't know who he is. He is an eighteen
year old who's been a star for three years that
arguably the biggest team in the world, Barcelona, and he

(57:53):
wears braces on his teeth. On his teeth, not braces
on it. Yeah, I mean, this is crazy, but he
would be a youth player over here. He probably wouldn't
play because his family doesn't have a lot of money.

Speaker 26 (58:06):
The opening ceremony for the Target USA Cup in Blaine,
Minnesota is quite the scene. A youth travel soccer tournament
billed as the largest in the Western Hemisphere. It hosts
over twelve hundred teams and sixteen thousand players.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
From all over the world each July.

Speaker 26 (58:22):
It's the ultimate example of how big the youth sports
travel team culture has grown in the US. There are
thousands of club and travel tournaments each year across the country,
and parents who can afford it will spend on average
between two thousand and twenty thousand per year to take
their children. But the soaring cost of these weekend trips

(58:43):
is leaving parents without the means on the sidelines.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
And that is true. I was talking to my buddy
the other day. It's like, if I had the money
right now, this is what I would do. I'd start
a club team. Nobody pays a dime. We are only
going to have players who we think to be a
part of what we're doing. Parents don't have to fork
it out that way. Kids who don't have a lot
of money, but who have a talent to maybe go

(59:09):
and get a college scholarship or made a partial scholarship
or to that they could play, but to I would
do that in a heartbeat. The cost of youth sports
is in freakingsane. Okay, I just I don't think for
some of you out there, no, and I've talked about
this sport. My little brother, who coaches hockey by the way,

(59:31):
he coaches for the Ducks, played in the minor leagues.
Was kind of a stud. But too many concussions and
he already was in the sharpest God bless you, Trista,
and I love you. But come on, man, but his
last two years of hockey cost my mom probably one
hundred thousand dollars with coaches, privates, travel and team fees.

(59:53):
That's for ice hockey, which is totally different because you
need ice. But that is insane. They're not paying that
in Canada. Oh they may pay some, but nothing like that.
When it comes to soccer. All of these kids that
are playing at these club levels, they're paying a crap
ton of money to play. I'm it's insane.

Speaker 5 (01:00:18):
I pay.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
We made a deal with my son this year. God
bless him. I love him. You guys know that. You hear
me talk about Jack. He played club ice hockey down
in San Diego and his team V's and it was
probably about ten grand. Now this is ten grand for
a kid. God bless him. He's played hockey for five years.

(01:00:42):
He still can't skate very well. Oh he'll knock you out,
he will. He's a beast on the ice. My little
brother said, if I can get him a skate half,
you know, well, he'd have a shot at going to
the first round. He's gonna be six to two hundred
and forty pounds of steel. Got a cannon for a shot.
He can stick candle, a pretty damn good, great defender,

(01:01:04):
not afraid of anything, just can't skate. So I told
him this year, look, dude, I don't want to throw
you into something because now it seemed to be more
expensive if you're not totally sold on it at this
point in time. And he got sold into bike life
where he likes riding around on his electric bike and
doing all those kind of things because he's really mechanical

(01:01:25):
and likes that stuff. But he's back playing hockey again
because the high school ask him. And that's still costing
me money and he didn't even have to pay for
a portion of it. We are pricing parents, the average
parent and their kids out of stuff. It is crazy.

Speaker 26 (01:01:43):
A recent study published in the Journal of Sport and
Social Issues found that club and travel sports participation has
steadily increased over generations. Four percent of surveyed adults born
in the fifties participated, compared to thirteen percent of those
born in the nineties. The Aspen Institute estimates that seventeen

(01:02:03):
percent of kids in twenty twenty four played on club
or travel teams, and the trend is not slowing down.
Chris Canuster, a sociology professor and researcher at the Ohio
State University, is the lead author of the study.

Speaker 18 (01:02:17):
Part of the rise in private club and youth sports, right,
is this confluence between parenting expectations and really a booming
in the youth sports industry full of people who are
selling services and are essentially youth sport entrepreneurs, you know,
making the case that they can aid skilled development and

(01:02:37):
offer improved experiences.

Speaker 2 (01:02:40):
And they're selling that. I've got friends who most of
my friends who were serious about soccer, they coach at
the college level, some at the pro level, but they
coach at club levels. And let me tell you some
at the club level, they're all making six figures plus
My little brother twenty five years old, barely graduated high
school thanks to my mom and aunt who to for him. Basically,

(01:03:03):
I'm gonna tell you guys what. I'm just gonna throw
you around about number what he makes. So he works
for the Ducks, runs the beer League, which he thinks
is hilarious, and he also plays in it, which again
he thinks is hilarious because he's His beer league team
is so stacked. He's like the other night he see
because we have two guys who's Stanley cups. They're fat
and slow, but we're still awesome. But he probably makes

(01:03:25):
one hundred and fifty one hundred and seventy GRANDI year
coaching hockey. She gets to think about that. Club directors
make quarter of a million, half a million dollars soccer.
I mean, I got friends who run clubs in California
and they're making two privates. My little brother's like, did

(01:03:50):
I do private lessons fifteen hundred dollars hour or two work?
It's insane? And why is that? Well for when you're
at my and here's the thing. When you're at my
little brother's level and some of my friend's level, if
you're playing on these teams, yes, you are not a

(01:04:14):
person who is just going along for the ride, hanging
out hope that something comes. You've got somewhere to go.
My you know, I was talking to Tea the other day.
He's got five or six kids in the last couple
of years that he worked with from the time they
were six all the way up to their first second
round picks. I mean, so you were talking serious, serious money.

(01:04:37):
But it's just but there's a lot of people that
are being sold to bill of goods for their kids
and the expense is ridiculous. My best butt in the world, Kenny,
He's this is the way he used to do it.
And when he coached soccer, and and he coached again
at a high level. Lots of guys he's coached playing
in the MLS. But he would tell me. And because

(01:04:57):
I got out of it, I said, I still want
to do anymore. So the kids, the parents unreal expectations.
They think, because they pay you a ton of money
that their kids should be a star. But can you
tell me this is what I want to do? Hey,
your kid loves the games. Passionate about it, sir, Yes,
mister Smith, super passionate about it. Oh, by the way,

(01:05:18):
not the greatest. We can work on that, but what
can you do to get on the team. See these
three kids over there that aren't very well to do,
Yeah they need a scholarship. Okay, I'll cover their cost.
That's what he had to do. Sometimes we are pricing
kids and parents out of this. There are kids who,

(01:05:42):
I mean, I'm just blown away by that have opportunities
that are amazing. But at the same time, the amount
of money you're spending. My mom jokes, she goes, I
could have sent him to Harvard for the money we spent. Yeah,
he got a high school diploma that was barely it,
and yeah he would have had D one offers, but

(01:06:04):
he knew he was never here. He was already told
him I'm not going to college, and there was a
reason for that. But that being said, we are pricing
parents out of the U sports world where kids deserve
an opportunity, and it is frustrating. It is because I
remember as a kid, I got offered three or four
of the biggest clubs in the country to come play

(01:06:27):
and there was no way. My mom's like, we can't
afford it. It was not you know, you just can't.
We cannot afford it. I had to do everything to
pay for my club stuff, and my mother had to
do everything, work two jobs, and that was nothing compared
to today. And sports are important because it gives you
something that is amazing. You build. I always tell this

(01:06:51):
to my son Jack. I don't really have any friends
from high school. Again, I wasn't there but like a
year and a half and then I was over to Europe.
But I said, almost every one of the kids I
grew up playing long term club with i'm friends with
I talk to almost on a daily basis. I said,

(01:07:14):
you build a relationship, you build something that's special, teamwork, overcoming.
Those things are great. But we're pricing people out of this,
and we're also selling parents stuff that's a pipe dream
that I can get your kid to a college scholarship,
I can get your kid, you know, to play pro something.
I mean, it's just it is insane and the stress,

(01:07:37):
oh my lord, the stress of the travel and whatnot.
But I think we need to rethink sports. And I
also think too, we're putting kids in a system where
we're telling them they're going to be great at this.
These things are going to happen. All of this stuff's
gonna be perfect, and we build a system and it
takes the fun out of it. And you can't do that, man,

(01:08:01):
the minui you take the fun out of it. You
watch what happens. Kids have too many choices nowadays, it's
gotta be fun. When I was a kid growing up, yeah,
I eventually got to play club because my grandma and
everybody kicked in and stuff. But I will tell you this,
before the club thing came around and I got super
serious about soccer, I played baseball for a couple of years,

(01:08:23):
and I played football, and I played basketball and I
because those were the seasons. Now you got kids that
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Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
This time of the program where we help you out
with the youth of America. This is where we give
you some of those urban words. Yesterday we did something
bigger because of rage bait being the Dictionary Oxford Dictionary
word of the Year. But today it's just back to
the regular role the youth of America and their vernacular.
You know what time it is. Now, it's time for

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the urban word of the day. The young have a
vocabulary all their own, and we break it down for you.
It's called the urban word of the day. All right,
your urban word of the day. I love this struggle dog.
I'm talking about financial stuff. Struggle dog. What's that your dog? Struggled? No, no, no, no,

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this is where you have a hot dog. You're like,
I'm gonna make a hot dog and you put it in.
You realize, I don't have any buns. I don't have
any money for buns, but I do have a slice
of bread. I have done that a gazillion times. And
what happens is you put like all your stuff on
it and then you kind of squeeze it together and
then like the bread starts to evaporate. It's just so true.

(01:11:10):
Oh my lord, struggle though he is your urban word
of the day. That was the urban word of the day.
Now you know, you do know several of you have
been texting in and I encourage you guys to do that.
Three two three five three eight twenty four twenty three.
That is the text line. It's also a line where
you can leave voicemails if you want to about the

(01:11:31):
cost of sports and whatnot. It is insane the cost
of sports in today's world. And I'm not saying it
should these people shouldn't volunteer, but there's got to be
a better way of doing some of these things because
we were pricing people out of the market that would
have a great opportunity to maybe do something. I'm talking
about being a pro but something you know, potentially now

(01:11:54):
we make friendships and grow, but also have an opportunity
maybe go to college or something. And it's just it's ridiculous,
you know what you think? Three two three five three
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Chad Benson Show. Coming up our number three of the program.
More on last night's Tennessee seventh special election touch on that.
We'll also talk a bit about Venezuela. We haven't really
got to Venezuela for the last couple of days, but
there's a lot going on. I mean, yes, we talked
to Mike Lyons yesterday and he was pretty you know,

(01:12:36):
he was pretty honest about the way that the administration
is handling this, and uh, I'm not a fan of it,
and I think there are some serious issues and I
think heg Seth is fumbling the ball and it is
putting people's careers in jeopardy. We'll talk a bit about that.
We got what's trending as well in One Hit Wonder Wednesday,

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The MISSI Show grabbed the podcast hour number three of
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Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
Menis swear? What will happen in Vena? Swella? I don't know.
Are we going to go in? Possible? Are we going
to probably bomb some stuff and not go in? Also possible?
Could we see troops on the ground. White House hasn't
ruled it out. But before any of that happens, what

(01:13:54):
the hell happen with these air strikes? The things that
we have talked about all right. It is hard to
defend some of this stuff, like the fact that we're
going after Maduro while we let Juan Orlando Hernandez, the

(01:14:15):
former president of Honduras, walk out of jail yesterday after
being one of the biggest drug kingpins according to our government,
because you see, we had him arrested and tried and
he got forty five years and Trump say, well it's Biden. Okay,

(01:14:36):
Well where's the evidence of that. Where's the evidence? And
then of course we've got these air strikes and get
ready for those lawsuits. Some stuff's already starting to happen there.
But ched are you This is what people will say.
So you want the drugs to win. The drugs have won.

(01:14:57):
I'm fifty, but you say, Chad, I'm fifteenth. When I
was a kid growing up, we were saying nope to
dope and ug to drugs. We had a war on drugs.
Guess who won. The drugs and blowing up boats twenty
four hundred miles from our shores is not going to

(01:15:19):
stop the crisis. And it's sure in the hell isn't
going to stop the fentanyl crisis. So stop buying into
that bs. Okay, But let's talk about did we at
the Department of War the Pentagon order a second strike? Yes? No,

(01:15:43):
maybe on two dudes floating in the.

Speaker 24 (01:15:46):
Water under mounting pressure.

Speaker 27 (01:15:48):
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisting the decision to launch a
second strike was not his call, but that of the
mission's commander, Admiral Mitch Bradley.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
He was the right call. We have his back.

Speaker 27 (01:16:00):
Heg Seth was asked if he saw survivors.

Speaker 28 (01:16:03):
I did not personally see survivors, but I stand because
the thing was on fire.

Speaker 27 (01:16:08):
The secretary claims he didn't hear about the second strike
until an hour or so later.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
War it's called the fog of war. I feel like
dude is going to take a dive for you, is
what you're hoping. And that's what yesterday Mike Leins talked
about the worrysome things that may happen, which is the
Republicans lose next year in the House and maybe the Senate,
and all of a sudden, you've got all kinds of

(01:16:34):
investigations going on about lawful unlawful, What did we do,
what didn't we do? Who knew what? Who ordered? What?

Speaker 11 (01:16:43):
This is?

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
I mean the fact that he's like well, we're going
to stand behind our people. Dude, the bucks should stop
with you. It should. I have to be honest with
you guys, and I'm going to say it. He's a
freaking cl Pete Hegzath is a clown. I thought he'd
be better. I was wrong. Cutch, you know what time

(01:17:07):
to go. Dude. You're a clown. You're an absolute clown.
You running around And I will tell you I talked
to a lot of military people because I have connections
the beauty of being this business for thirty years, and
they all echo the same thing. He's a clown. He

(01:17:28):
is not ready for prime time, and throwing your admiral
potentially under the bus is something that I find to
be not as how should we say this, not as
stand upish as you would like everybody to think you are.

Speaker 29 (01:17:48):
International law will say you cannot kill an enemy combatant
if they are defenseless, basically if they no longer pose
a thread. We don't know exactly what was happening on
that boat where the survivors were. The Washington Post reported
they were clinging to the side.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
Of the boat.

Speaker 29 (01:18:07):
So that is still an outstanding question.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Yeah, outstanding indeed. But Chad, what if they could pick
up the phone and call somebody. Oh, like, really, is
that what you guys think? What do you think they're
gonna do? Do? What do you think they're merman? You think
they're aquamen? Ahamen, No, there, it wasn't gonna happen. It

(01:18:34):
wasn't this willy nilly recklessness. I have a problem with
We should all have a problem with it. This is,
by the way, nothing says, hey, you know what, I'd
like a Nobel Peace Prize, But first I would like
to invade Venezuela. And I'd also like to let the
other drug dealer, who he actually convicted of drugs. I'd

(01:18:56):
like to let him out. I think let's let that
guy out. It will go after this guy. Let me
tell you how much I care about Venezuela. I don't.
I don't care. It's not my country. I don't care.
But they got cocaine, small amounts that they move through.

(01:19:22):
But come on, enough with this and now it's a
fog war here it is, you, guys, he's a fog war.

Speaker 28 (01:19:32):
Watch that first strike life. As you can imagine, the
Department of War. We got a lot of things to do,
so I didn't stick around for the hour and two
hours whatever where all the sensitive side exploitation digitally occurs.
So I moved on to my next meeting. A couple
of hours later, I learned that that commander had made
the which he had the complete authority to do. And
by the way, Admiral Bradley made the correct decision to

(01:19:55):
ultimately sink the boat and eliminate the threat.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
He sunk the boat, sun the boat and eliminated the threat,
and he was the right call.

Speaker 28 (01:20:04):
We have his back and the American people are safer
because narco terrorists. No, you can't bring drugs through the
water and eventually on land if.

Speaker 2 (01:20:14):
Necessary, I have to do to the American people. We
will eliminate that threat, and we're proud to do it. Okay,
you're a clown. Sorry, you're a clown. I I don't
know what else to say. By the way, Admiral Frank
Mitchell Bradley is described as stoic and cerebral seal, known

(01:20:38):
as Mitch to his peers, and he doesn't like any attention.
So I, well, Chad, they pose the threat if they
bring drugs in. Okay, ceeiazos, Yeah, don't bring drugs in.

(01:21:02):
Don't compete with us. Who do you think you are?
Just insane? I'm sorry, I find the whole thing ridiculous,
and I think a lot of you do as well.
And this has nothing to do Look, we could sit here.
This has to do with the fact that you promise
no more wars and now you're looking to get us

(01:21:23):
into something you can't back off. And now you've got
this contingent of Marco Rubrio and several others who were
there in South Florida who've been pushing this, these neo
cons that we should go in and get that oil
and get rid of these bad folks and then we'll
move on to Cuba. It's okay, just crazy, let me

(01:21:47):
know what you think. Three two, three, five, three eight,
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show, is
your ex your Insta YouTube and more November payrolls. So
there's a private payrolls because remember the Bureau Labor Statistics
person was a liar, so they fired them. And now
these are the private numbers that we would get anyways,

(01:22:07):
but we'll you know, God only knows what's gonna if
we're gonna get any more of those because of the
evil Democrats shutdown. So private payrolls fell by thirty two thousand,
So businesses over fifty people saw about ninety thousand new jobs.
Add it, small businesses saw one hundred and twenty thousand

(01:22:31):
jobs lost. Getting a snapshot, but a little unsettling. So
we'll dig deeper into these numbers, either later today or
tomorrow and talk about this because again, it's it's the economy.
It's the economy. It's the economy that is the number

(01:22:56):
one thing. And you know, when we talk about the economy,
it's not just about wages. It's about whether you can
find a gig, because the gigs matter as much as
the economy does. Cause if you can't find the gig,
you can't earn the wage. Oh yeah, that's true, that's true, Jed.
I know right, several of you just texting really quick

(01:23:20):
talking about how can you say that about hag Seth,
and several of you will one or two of you
said that, but several of you are saying, yeah, it's
time for him to go. In fact, this, by the way,
what I'm talking about here, this has all to do
with the fact that hag Seth has dropped the ball

(01:23:41):
from jump Signal Gate. He has been a bit of
a mess, that whole thing where he brings all the
generals and everybody ins and he's like, we're going to
do push ups and no more chicks with wieners, and
it's you know, it's like, okay, the raw Rath thing,
he is just he is, He's not done well, he's not.
And even Judge Apolitaniano, who's a huge supporter of Trump

(01:24:07):
and this administration, said oh, should absolutely be prosecuted for this.
This was a war crime. So this is just throwing
it out there because I think it needs to be
thrown out there, that it's time that they look to
move on. You know what, what's the old saying? Higher, slow,

(01:24:28):
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Speaker 2 (01:26:29):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?
Signed James Dean Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Sir where
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Speaker 24 (01:26:53):
What trumping?

Speaker 2 (01:26:58):
That's fine. I was treading on the old interwebs on
this Wednesday, short weeks. I do like them. I'm not
gonna lie to you guys. Start with Yahoo Tennessee special election.
Number one trending thing pretty much everywhere. Juan Orlando Hernandez,
former hon Duran president and drug dealers slash criminal who's

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been freed, been pardoned by Trump because Biden out of it.
You know, at this point in time, Michael and Susan
Dell they're going to donate about six billion dollars. Talks
a bit about that. They're gonna be handing out money
as an incentive to people who have kids, right so
you can start investing right away. That's going to go

(01:27:45):
into a trust. It's very interesting. Mike Tomlin, Lane Kiffin
Man Lane Kiffin. It's very interesting. The whole LSU from
Ole Miss to LSU just crazy, totally crazy. Overdue to Google,
Susan Dell, Michael and Susan Dell, Barcelona and Athletico Madrid.

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over thirty, just barely. Sugar Night, Sabrina Carpenter and over
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Yes he was a pretty big deal yesterday. Aberdeen US
Football Vanepps. It's the guy who won in the Tennessee
special election. One of the other things that was trending
is Amazon Now, because I can't wait till tomorrow to
get my stuff. I want it.

Speaker 26 (01:29:38):
No.

Speaker 30 (01:29:39):
Amazon is testing this new program in Seattle and Philadelphia,
where customers get their deliveries in about thirty minutes or less.
Amazon wants to stay competitive with other services like Uber
Eats and Instacart, which offer similar services already, but they
go to the surrounding shops to fulfill the orders. Amazon
is going to do this by being smaller facilities close

(01:30:01):
to where Seattle and Philadelphia area customers live and work.

Speaker 2 (01:30:06):
Amazon No, when you need stuff, you want it.

Speaker 24 (01:30:10):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:30:12):
I mean, look, I like the fact that, like my
wife will do a Walmart order a cost order, and
the reason simply is it's just saves us way more money. Yes,
time is important. Not gonna lie to you, but going
to those places, well that's when impulse buys happen. And
Amazon is already that place, if that makes sense. So

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We'll tell you guys, every day you can reach out
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(01:31:40):
Phil's doing nine things and it's just me outside of that.
So I'm a one man band doing the best that
I can.

Speaker 31 (01:31:46):
Yes, Chad, you always throw fire fuel on each side
point you neglect. It's always I can understand you going
for a bigger audience and going for that. But when
you talk about, oh, we don't know what's going on
with Maduro, when you made the statement that oh, he

(01:32:07):
doesn't do this. His generals, every one of his major generals,
have over a billion dollars. And the thing is is
you said, and they're trying to get some lady and
you didn't even know her name. She was a democratically
elected person. You just need to I'm just I've listened
to you forever, and the thing is that you just
always pick each person, each side, each side positions, and

(01:32:33):
you just throw stuff, and you're always picking on Trump
and you say you don't believe in God, but you
always say, oh, well, I'll pray for the people. Make
up your mind. I mean, I can understand you want
to do good, and you're not stupid, you're very smart. Anyway,
take care of it.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
Well, let's unpack that Sholley again. I love hearing from
all of you. Trump's in power. So Trump's going to
get slings and arrows, and I won't back away from
that because I care about truth. I don't care about
anything else. When Biden was there, I went after Biden
all the time because deservedly so. And if Biden did
something good, whether it was the Chips Act or some

(01:33:11):
of these other things that I thought were pretty good,
including some of the infrastructure stuff, although it went too far,
I gave him credit for it, but it was very
little because Biden didn't do a lot. We know that,
and Kamala Harris don't even get me started awful. Now
that being said, the lady Machado who he's talking about,
did not win the last election because she didn't run
Marina Coriina Machado did not, But Edmundo Gonzalez Urdilla did

(01:33:37):
run and win allegedly. Maybe he did, maybe we didn't.
I don't know. But the reality is he's not there.
And no, I don't care what happens in Venezuela. I
don't care what Maduro does or doesn't do. It doesn't
impact my life. It doesn't impact anybody's life here outside

(01:33:59):
of a few groups of people. It just doesn't. And
the reason is the drug thing that they're pushing is
not about drugs. Can we just stop with that nonsense.
It's about oil, it's about precious minerals, rare earth minerals
underneath then it's about a lot of those. It's not

(01:34:21):
about the drugs, because if it was about the drugs,
they wouldn't have kicked to the curb and pardoned a
guy who got forty five years from our prosecution from Honduras,
who was the former president of Honduras, who was not
just well we think he maybe did some stuff. No,

(01:34:42):
there was all kinds of crazy evidence. This guy wasn't
even just tied to stuff. A, he was closer here
to America, and B he was tied up with the
Siniloa cartel. So stop with the drugs thing. I mean,
tell me somebody, somebody explained that to me, me how
letting this guy go somehow is justified and going after

(01:35:07):
a guy who has far less power drugs wise than
Orlando Hernandez did in Honduras. Somehow those who are what
well you got understand because of the thing with Honduras
and Trump, and by the way, Trump basically threatened their
country saying if you guys don't vote for the right person,

(01:35:30):
there's going to be hell to pay. I mean, it's look,
I give it to you as it is and it's real.
And some people don't like that, and I'm okay with that.
And people in power will always get more slings and
arrows because you are the one in power, so you're
the one with the responsibility. So yes, I've had some

(01:35:50):
issues with the way that Venezuela has been handled. So
has a lot of people on the right, and not
just over the way the boat strikes have happened, and
this thought that we're going to go in there and
magically we're going to By the way, the legitimate president
elect Gonzales he wasn't even allowed to run in theory,

(01:36:12):
but he got full. It got to the point where
there was like seventy percent of the vote in and
Moduro people said, oh, we got fifty one percent. We
want nobody can stop us. The opposition party got a
hold of everything and said, no, we have about eighty
percent of the votes. But I want you guys to
think about this, the repercussions we get rid of Maduro, Well,

(01:36:36):
this other party's going to come in and everything's going
to be fine, eh. Because the powers that be, in
particular the military, we don't know what's going to happen
with them. We don't know what's going to happen with
the Boulevars, which are the kind of the freedom fighter
gorilla army he has. We don't know what's going to
happen with them. We don't know if it breaks down

(01:36:59):
and goes SOS and all of a sudden you've got
warring factions because they're fighting over the oil and the
money and everything else. So as we've talked about, we're
great at the first part of the coup. It's the
deta that we're not great at. Instead of going tada
we go oh three two, three, five, three eight, twenty

(01:37:22):
four to twenty three, atch had been to show as
your extra a stuff YouTube and more. Meanwhile, last night
in Tennessee.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
The Republican Matt Van Epps won the special election for
the state seventh congressional district, keeping the seat red. But
he only won by nine points in the district that
President Trump carried by twenty two points last year, and
Republicans spend big money on this race. Democrats say their
writing is on the wall for a blue wave next year,
one party official saying Republicans should be quote shaking in
their boots.

Speaker 2 (01:37:50):
I've talked to several Republicans over the last several weeks,
even before this, and the feeling was some of them
are going to retire, and a lot of their colleagues
are gonna retire. I wouldn't be surprised we see a
few before the end of the holiday, before they get
to holiday recess, which is coming up in what two weeks,

(01:38:14):
and then I think at the beginning of the new year,
you're gonna find a not just a few, I think
a lot of Republicans, especially if the numbers come out
and they're not great on the fiscal side of stuff,
just say I'm done because they're gonna go I don't
want to get boat raced next year. I don't want
to get primaried. So I'm I'm gonna step away. And

(01:38:37):
so they've got to figure out what they're gonna do.
Let me tell you something started the show this way.
I'm gonna tell you this affordability. It's not some sort
of myth or some sort of monster under the bed.
And as we started the show, several of you text

(01:38:58):
in and go, what is that guy saying this? Stephen Moore,
he was the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He
writes for the Wall Street Journal. He has been on
every single talking head show you can think about. He
has also worked with the former administration, not Biden, but
Trump's administration, advising him on the tax cuts, remember the

(01:39:23):
Tax Cut and Job Act, as well as been in
several I guess you would say, not positions officially, but
inside several meetings advising the president, and definitely somebody who's
out there speaking on behalf unofficially of the President and
the administration. And first he told, hey, young people, you

(01:39:49):
want affordability, you want stuff, you better go get a job. Well,
there you go. That was nice, okay. And the second
thing he said affordability.

Speaker 4 (01:39:59):
You know, the first term of Trump, which you're looking
at there on the chart, so enormous gains and income,
and especially look at that compared to what happened under
Biden the blue bars. I mean, so Trump families saw
a big increase in their incomes under trumpet By the way,
that doesn't even include the value of their four to
one K plans that went up very considerably, both in

(01:40:19):
Trump's first term and so far in the second term.
So so far, in the first ten months of this year,
the medium family income is up by about twelve hundred dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:40:30):
That's after inflation, Lauren.

Speaker 4 (01:40:32):
So that means that their wages and salaries have gone
up faster than inflation. So to some extent, this affordability
crisis is a mythology.

Speaker 5 (01:40:40):
People can afford more.

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
And incidentally, we know that, Lauren, because look at what's
happening with the amount of money people are spending. Look
what happened on Black Friday with the ten percent. If
people don't have the money, how can they go out and.

Speaker 5 (01:40:51):
Be spending this kind of money on Christmas presents.

Speaker 4 (01:40:54):
So I think to some extent, there's an exaggerated affordability crisis.

Speaker 2 (01:41:00):
Remember this hit from the Biden administration. It's transitory, it's transitory.
It's transitory. It's transit dory, it's transitory. Fleshen is transititry,
It's transa dory. It's gonna be going on. How that
go is how it went. That is not a message

(01:41:23):
that you want to send the first Trump administration, those
first two and a half years, they were great. You
know what, I was thirty pounds lighter, okay, But now
I live today and I'm thirty pounds heavier. Okay, So
I'd love to be thirty pounds lighter, and I'll get
there again. But I'm just saying, we can't live on
yesterday's victory. We got to go with what we have now.

(01:41:46):
And what we have now is a young group of
people that are more than fifty percent of the voting
power in this country, in Gen Z and millennials, and
they didn't spend crazy style. Sixty seven percent of the
youngsters are in some form of debt, credit card, or

(01:42:08):
otherwise not talking house or car. On top of that,
as you're talking about how great the four oh one
K is, that's fine. If you're living off your four
to one k, it's amazing. But I'm gonna throw this
out there. If you have to borrow against your four

(01:42:28):
oh one K so you can pay your bills, that's
a struggle. The messaging has to be better, That's what
I'm saying. Make the messaging better, or you will pay
the price. It's not hard and it's not mean. It's reality.

(01:42:51):
You can't tell people, hey, I know your credit cards
are maxed, and I know that you're working two jobs,
and I know you've got your student loans, but you
you think you're broke, but you are living in dreamland.

(01:43:11):
That's a myth, a fairy tale. You can't tell people that,
especially people who vote in numbers and are the largest
voting block that doesn't live in a world of super conservative,
super liberal no matter what the media says. They're a
lot more of a chameleon, right, which is, Hey, I'm

(01:43:35):
feeling this right now because I think they're going to
offer me a better opportunity. Nope, they're they're they're failing.
I'm going to go this direction your messaging has to
be clear. There has to be some understanding. I'm not
saying empathy, but I'm saying understanding of the situation. Let
me know what you think. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four to twenty three. Etch you had, Benson Show,
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Speaker 20 (01:45:27):
Joe serving up talk radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (01:45:41):
It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (01:45:43):
We're wrapping up the show and we're doing one here.
It's Wonder Wednesday.

Speaker 19 (01:45:49):
Now it's time for another edition of one Hit Wonder Wednesday.
You may not remember the name of the.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
Band, but you definitely know the song.

Speaker 12 (01:46:15):
Even this bruiser.

Speaker 2 (01:46:17):
This is one Hit Wonder Wednesday. All right, want to
hit Wonder Wednesday, where we revisit a song that was
a hit for a brief at a time. These bands
were big. Sometimes they stuck around and they relived this
hit over and over again. Others they disappeared into obscurity,
which is where we find this one today. From nineteen
seventy two. It only got to number thirteen. But this

(01:46:40):
band that was formed in Ithaca, New York, recorded this
in Paris and they did it one night. That's right, kids.
It is truly a one hit wonder. The band's called
King Harvest, and this song, Oh my Lord, Let's go
Dancing in the moonlight.

Speaker 21 (01:47:12):
We get it almost every night, and when that moon
gets a big and bride, it's supernatjo roll the light.
Every bod of dancing in the moonlight. Yeah, everybody here

(01:47:34):
is south Side. They don't bar, and they don't buy.

Speaker 2 (01:47:39):
They keep things loose, they keep things alive.

Speaker 21 (01:47:43):
Every bard of dancing in the moonlight, dancing in the longelight, everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:47:52):
An absolutely fun song that jammed the roller raches back
in nineteen seventy three again heaked at thirteen. Sherman Kelly
wrote the original song, so nineteen sixty nine he got
beat up in the Caribbean, and you want to write
a song that was fun and said hey to the world,

(01:48:12):
Let's have a world free of violence and fear. He
wanted to dreamy, fun vibe and he got that with
Dancing in the Moonlight. It is a fun one hit wonder,
truly a one hit wonder and it wasn't until FM
radio picked it up that it took off. Your one
hit wonder today the gone too quick. But thanks for

(01:48:36):
the song, King Harvest and Dancing in the Moonlight three two, three, five,
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show. Is
your extra insta you Chairman, mar If you have a
one hit wonder, we would love to hear from you.
You can hit us up at Chad Benson Show. We
appreciate that right here. On the Chad Benson Show, Salid

(01:48:56):
Fun Show. Today, kids, we got you over the hemp.
Talked about the Tennessee seventh yesterday, the big battle that
went on there. We talked about the economy, We talked
about kids in sports, Venezuela. We talked about so much stuff.
There was so much stuff I didn't get to but
you know what, I will try to get to it tonight.
Plus We're gonna post some videos a little bit later

(01:49:18):
talking about rage bait. If you have a chance, check
that out on our YouTube. And I'm gonna be doing
a podcast tonight with I think we're called punk rock
in Politics. I'm not quite sure, but I'll post it.
You guys, though, have a blessed and amazing rest of
your day, Keep yourself safe, and you know what, God
bless each and every one of you. As always, Night

(01:49:38):
Night Chat.

Speaker 1 (01:49:40):
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