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February 17, 2026 110 mins
Robert Duvall and Jessie Jackson pass away. Olympic update. Mike Lyons, military analyst, talks about the US sending more ships close to Iran. Stephen Colbert says CBS banned him from interviewing James Talarico on ‘The Late Show’. Georgia father Colin Gray on trial after son's deadly high school shooting. Another letter to TMZ claims to know where Nancy Guthrie is. Piracy boxes are back. AI taking over Hollywood jobs. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has sparked online ridicule after appearing to struggle when asked whether the US should commit troops to defend Taiwan if China invades. Girl sells record number of Girl Scout cookies. 
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
They say it comes in threes. Yesterday during a local show,
Robert Duvall passed away, one of the great actors of
our time. He was ninety five years young. I say
that because that's not young. What a hell of a
life he led. And we were going through all of

(00:34):
his incredible movies and characters that he played, and everybody
that I talked to had a character or a movie
they loved.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
And if you just hold the letter, baby, I climb.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
To the.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Besides whiskey, I think will require a little respect. I'm
Captain Augustus mccry.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
This is Captain moodrou F Carr.

Speaker 7 (01:08):
And dear God, protect our supreme commander on the field
and our commander in chief in Washington, d C.

Speaker 5 (01:15):
And nobody has ever gone down a New York police captain.

Speaker 8 (01:18):
Never.

Speaker 9 (01:18):
It would be disastrous.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
All the five families would come out to you, Sonny,
the Corleone family would be outcast.

Speaker 9 (01:25):
Even the old mass political protection would run for COVID.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
Tell some my fault if the tires blow, yes he
sold the part. Well, hell, yes, it's your fault.

Speaker 7 (01:32):
There's forty other pultures out there who manage to finish
the rights on their tires.

Speaker 6 (01:38):
I love the spell of light pup in the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:41):
What we're really here for is to single out who
we think is the best for that given year. And
if that's what I'm to be this year, then I
appreciate it with accept it with an honor.

Speaker 6 (01:49):
And I'm very moved because of that.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
That was his acceptance speech for Tender Mercies.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
So we were going over againsterday. The some of the
younger folk that work with our local show loved secondhand Lions.
That's where they knew him from. They didn't know him
from the Godfather or from any of the stuff that
we would sit back and go, oh, I remember you
know this, or that they had falling down, which was amazing,

(02:19):
and for me, it's weird. All right, I'm gonna shell
you guys this. I'm sharing little some with you. The
Killer Elite. What the Killer Elite? It was a movie
he did. I think it was nineteen seventy five with

(02:41):
James Kahn. Sam Peckinpah directed it and it was about
two mercenaries who ended up being on the opposite side
of a proxy war in San Francisco. And it was
the first time that ninja's were on the main screen

(03:03):
in America in an American movie, and my dad and
I watch it when I was younger, and I was
aw ninjas ninja's. But he was an amazing actor. He
was He was incredible. He was funny, but as great

(03:24):
as Killer Eleate was, and it was. He was a
Western guy. My favorite character he played was in Open
Range right when he paid. He played Boss alongside Kevin Costner.
And his name was his name was Blue Bonnet Spearman,

(03:45):
and I just thought, what a great name. But he
was just an amazing actor. And he died, his wife said,
surrounded by family. Interestingly enough, he said, I shot blanks.
He never had kids, five years old, passed away, never
had kids, and he acted up until two thousand and

(04:07):
I think twenty two was his last appearance in something,
but just a brilliant actor. And then today waking up
and finding out that a man. And you know, there's
gonna be a lot of people out there in my
industry of long they're gonna say this, They're gonna say that,
here's what I'm gonna say about this gentleman who passed
away today, eighty four. And that gentleman was Jesse Jackson,

(04:30):
and he was a lot of things. He was an activist,
he was a civil rights icon. He was a guy
that got himself into trouble. You know, he ran for president.
He was all of the things and redefined himself in
a lot of different ways. And remember in eighty four

(04:52):
he ran, and a lot of if we see here
to talk about Kamala Harris, he blows Kamala Harris out
the water. In eighty four, he ran, he got votes.
In eighty eight, he was potentially the favorite. I mean people,
he was. He was absolutely the favorite at that time.

(05:16):
But they didn't think they could win with a black
American that was so progressive. But you know, it's what
you know, we sit here, we look at all the
civil rights leaders of today. The one thing you could
say about Jesse Jackson is he lived it. He lived it.

(05:42):
He was there with Martin Luther King when he got shot.
He lived it. But he also was a pragmatic businessman
in some ways. Because one of the things that people
accused him of, including Abernathy who ended up taking over
really the movement, was he went straight home to Illinois,

(06:04):
to Chicago and said, everybody, this should be about me.
Now right this, I should be the one to pick
up the torch and be the torch bearer and carry
it because the young they respond to me, a miracle
will get better and better. Keep hope alive, Keep hope alive,

(06:27):
Keep hope alive. I love you very much.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
I love you very much.

Speaker 2 (06:34):
So passed away today at eighty four. He'd been struggling
at Parkinson's disease through the years. He had struggled, you know,
And it's it's easy to jump on the stuff that
happened in the past, and you can't ignore it, you know,
the things he said about the Jewish people, obviously his

(06:56):
association with Farakhan. He had a kid out of wed
Locke and his son, Jesse Jackson Junior, who was a
hot mess. And apparently it's going to run for office again.
After being in jail for what thirty months for robing
his campaign of seven or fifty grand, he's going to

(07:18):
try to win back his candidacy. It's like anything, right,
you got to go through the entire lifespan of somebody.
And he was born in the South right. His mom
was what sixteen when she had him. It was the
neighbor next door. It was thirty three that got her pregnant.

(07:40):
She got remarried to a guy and that she met
at a barber shop and his name was his name
was mister Jackson, and he adopted him, like fourteen years later,
he adopted him, and then he sent him off to
his paternal graham mother to kind of raise him. And
you know, she stuck him out in you know this

(08:00):
like lean to in the backyard where he lived, went
off to college. Then you know, became a reverend and
an icon and had a troubled time as well. So
the movement he wanted to be that, you know, the
leader when time came. So just an interesting life both

(08:26):
of them lived. Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
twenty four to twenty three. Actch had been to schows,
your extra, insta YouTube and more. Now I'm setting the
record straight. I don't buy it. He said it over
the weekend. Are aliens real?

Speaker 10 (08:41):
Uh, they're real, but I haven't seen them and and
they're not being kept in Uh what is it? Fifty one?
There's no underground facility unless there's this enormous conspiracy. And
they hid it from the President of the United States.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
Now that was a lightning around right there. Now here's
my thing. You said it, then you try to walk
it back yesterday because you're like, well, I just look
at vastness of our space and how can we be
the only ones here? But we really haven't proved it
and I haven't seen it too late. You said it.
We know it, So don't walk it back. Stand strong,
say it, say it like you mean it. They're out there.

(09:20):
The fact that he had to walk it back though,
do you think he stood up? And you know, he's like, eh,
you know, it's good to be on your podcast and everything.
And as he's walking out, his assistants like, hey, mister president,
you told everybody about the aliens. I don't think you're
supposed to do that. He's like, ah, yeah, i'll fix
it later, we'll fix it in post oh. So just
a he's trying to walk it back. I continue to say, still,

(09:43):
the biggest story you're telling me that there's aliens out there,
it's the biggest story. I'm sorry that is that changes
everything in humanity. Everything right there speaking of humanity or
lack thereof. So the Epstein stuff, I continue to tell

(10:04):
you this, it's not going anywhere. It is not going
anywhere at all. Okay, Jeff Sessions earlier today talking about
Pam Bondy, who's the worst. If you could fire her twice,
that wouldn't be enough.

Speaker 11 (10:21):
I quite honestly will tell you she's in a tough circumstance.
And I give Pam Bondy the credit for walking through
this difficult tunnel.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Difficult tunnels. She knows she's not going to get fired.
Reports out of Channel four in the UK, as well
as now the BBC and several others. Here is the
three million they released, which we're half asked, and the
three millions that are there that are still being redacted
or whatever's going on there. The two hundred thousand that

(10:55):
have executive privilege are nothing compared to the other potential
forty terabytes of stuff, meaning this would be two percent
of what is released. This is going to haunt Trump
and his presidency continually, and everybody knows it. They can

(11:24):
sit here and pretend that it's not going to It
didn't work in that way. It isn't three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four twenty three. Atch had been to
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(11:45):
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Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
No, No, the Olympics today. Some stuff the snow is bad,
so stuff they've already had to delay today, they had
to postpone stuff yesterday. Currently, we said at nineteen total

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medals in the United States of America six gold, eight silver,
five bronze. Italy has eight gold, four silver, eleven bronze.
Norway leads the pack twelve gold medals, seven silver, nine bronze.
And remember what matters most is the gold, right, So

(14:01):
you could have twenty golds and people could have fifty
total medals, but as long as you get more than
they do, you're in the lead. We're not doing too bad.
We could have done better. Obviously, are skating. We've struggled
a little bit. But that being said, we're going to
write the ship yesterday or women's hockey. They're into the
final take on Canada, who they've already played once and

(14:22):
beat them. Yeah, they did look rented. Mule curling going
on today. I'm not giving anything away, you guys know,
all right, figure skating, the women's singles qualifiers, freestyle skiing today,
all of those things so far have been canceled. The
hope it can get off a little bit later and
then hockey's going on. The US is not in action today,

(14:45):
so we're doing all right. These are the playoff qualifiers
because we're so good. We crushed it. Now let's talk
money for a second. So the top money makers here
are mostly women. By the way, hot women. Just let
you guys in sex sells. Hot women. Eileen Goo, who
was actually she's skiing for China. She's got a silver

(15:09):
but she she made one hundred thousand dollars last year
from skiing, but you made twenty three million dollars from endorsements.
She was born and raised in America. I think San
Francisco to be exact. Austin Matthews is the highest male
and this is just his contract for playing hockey. But
Lindsey Vaughan eight million mikolas Schiffrin seven million, Chloe Kim

(15:34):
she's four million. Scottie James, the Aussie snowboarding he hits
three million. And then you go down to you the
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Speaker 13 (15:50):
Heading to the line you the lear Damn, when's don
She loures the Olympic record and the dutchgo on.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
She also lowered her speed skating suits so you could
see her Nike brawl, which they said could net her
a million bucks. Oh oh yeah, the Olympics in full effect.
I'm following this influencer who's so she's just this normal woman.
She's in her mid twenties. Just she's just over there

(16:26):
trying all the sports, right because everybody talks about, well,
you know, the average person could do it. I was
impressed though. She did the skeleton. Now, this is just
a regular person who's never done this before. They let
her do the skeleton. She got up to ninety five kilometers.
I thought, damn, I'm not doing that. I'm fifty four.

(16:47):
Look at twenty four? Was I doing that? Oh? Hell
yeah all day. You want to shoot me down something
a chance to go to the to the Olympics, go
for it, not now, no, no way. And that we
were talking this the other day. Skeleton or louge. I'm like,
I'm doing the luge, man, I'm doing the luge. If
I crash, right, it's legs first. I got a chance, right.

(17:10):
You know what with the way that medical technology is,
Abbie eye, you hit that thing head first. Yeah, yeah,
your head's in your butt. You're not gonna be eyed.
Coming up, our buddy, Mike Clions, military analy is gonna
join the program. We're gonna talk about obviously Ukraine, but Iran.
We've got another giant ship there. Conversations are going on.

(17:32):
Are we gonna do something? Are we not gonna do something?
We're gonna talk about that, among other things. All straight ahead,
Chad Benson.

Speaker 14 (17:39):
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Speaker 2 (18:04):
That's time of the week. We talk to tired major
in the best damn military analysts in the business, Mike
Lyons Mike first, before we jump into the military military
side of stuff, Marco Rubio, everybody who's a hopeful for
twenty twenty eight, for the most part, was over in Munich.
Rubio great speech, you know, you know, going back to
the old a strong speech. We're going to you know,

(18:25):
fill the little colonize. He like, We're going to go
around crushing everybody, taking whatever we want. But I thought,
I thought he did a really you know, a really
damn good job. And to me, I think he still
sets himself up as the leader when it comes to
twenty twenty eight, and that speech definitely helped him.

Speaker 15 (18:42):
They don't want to get too deva into politics, but no, agree,
he gave a real politique speech from a military perspective
that commanders could understand the intent there and what the
United States is, how it's going to project power. And
I think it was a warning shot also to those
European nations about just don't lose their call. I mean,
we talk about it, we see it's happened. You know,

(19:02):
if you visit Europe, if you visit Germany in particular,
in some of these places, you're just surprised. Having lived
in Germany for six years when I went back, I
just was surprised about how much they've allowed their culture
to kind of win him away. So I thought he
gave the kind of Reagan esque speech we haven't seen
in a long time, not apologizing for America, not apologizing

(19:22):
for what we're doing. And then the follow on comments
were the same. So there's no question him a different
speech than last year with Jade Vance. Also, it gave
a little bit more of a darker, you know, kind
of message. But Marco Rubio seems to be a steady
hand right now, especially at the Secretary of State level,
and kind of the guy that Trump is probably glad
as in the spot.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Let'sh him be the Secretary of State. Obviously, this big
week Ukraine, everybody's trying to get something done. I continue
to say, there's no I don't see a reason why,
you know, the pooter would want to stop at doing anything,
because why should he.

Speaker 15 (20:00):
Ukraine is getting hammered right now. On the infrastructure side,
they continue to Russia continues to just escalate the levels
of attacks as they try to continue to pin America
Ukrainian civilians, you know, in a deeper and deeper hole
because of what's taking place, you know, the going after this,

(20:20):
the heat infrastructure in particular, just adds that humanitarian aspect
to it, and it's going to sharpen any kind of
negotiations that they have to play, and they seem to
be kind of witting them out. There's not any any
real movement to your point on Russia's side to change
because of the battlefield calculus.

Speaker 6 (20:37):
So I don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 15 (20:39):
We've been talking about this for a while and there's
still no tipping point. The Ukrainians continue to hold on.
But but until there's more pressure put on Russia to stop,
I just think you're going they're going to continue to
continue this way.

Speaker 2 (20:49):
Talking to Mike lines military and also we talk about
all things military. You know, it was reported of the
last couple of days that the whatever was the the
the over growing, the kidnapping of Maduro, that that's you know,
anthropic and Claude played a very interesting role in that.
For those you guys don't know, that's like think of

(21:10):
chat Ebt or something of that. Open Ai. It's a
it's a large language model and there's a battle going
on at the Pentagon because of of this. Pallenteer played
a role as well. It is weird though to think
that they're using this right when they're going out to
do something, you.

Speaker 15 (21:28):
Know, I think they're using it for Red Team, Blue Team.
I think that's what we all think at AI is
doing for us. It's filling in gaps, as we all know,
try to use it. Great article this you know this
week released it's called something Big is Happening. It's gotten
eighty something million views on the unit. You've probably seen it,
and the bottom line is it's just, you know, you

(21:49):
need to get more integrated into your life if you
if you want to, you know, you move forward and
stay relevant because you're not gonna like irrelevance if as
things move forward. But as I suspect, they're using it
for alternate thinking and alternate ways of how things could
go wrong and just creating courses of action that they
could do very quickly, spin up very quickly as they

(22:11):
teach these models. What the kind of the doctrine is
itself anyway, So it's a tool that I'm not surprised
that we're doing that, and especially using multiple different models which.

Speaker 6 (22:22):
Allows them to you know, kind of bounce one off
the other. So this is modern warfare.

Speaker 15 (22:26):
I think soldiers when they get to their units are
going to have to deal more with it as well.
As this is this is the way the world in
terms of how creativity is enhanced, especially on the battlefield.

Speaker 2 (22:37):
You know, you talk about that, and it's because you
and I have talked about AI, and it's we are
a big proponent of it. We understand it's not going anywhere.
I think China is doing it in a much better
way when it comes to the actual day to day
life in but you know, I think we have the
lead when it comes to obviously what's going on on

(22:58):
the military side of stuff. This stuff is a game changer.
It's the future, but the future is now. But there's
also they've got guardrails up, right, because they want to
make sure that Claude knows that at any given time,
it just can't decide to destroy the world, right.

Speaker 6 (23:13):
That's the thing.

Speaker 15 (23:14):
And what what what From a military perspective, what AI
does is is it shortens the kill zone. It short
it shortens that that that that time and place it
takes to make a decision about what military decision and
what use of the military will be will be happening,
so to speak. And I you know, again, you we'd
be crazy not to use it. We're not going to

(23:34):
let AI completely have every decision. There The only there's
one weapon system, that iron Dome system for example, that
Israel has is all AI when it comes to decision
making about going after those rockets that are coming in
that it decides it's not a human because a human
couldn't decide fast enough as to what what's a threat
and what's not a threat.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
So there are guardrails that have to be put in place.

Speaker 15 (23:55):
AI doesn't get the the final deciding choice as to
whether or not they're going to engage at target in
some ways, but a little short in the velocity and
that kill zone and that kills chain. For I'm sorry
that that decisions are made from a military perspective about
engaging targets.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Talking to Mike c Lions milit channels, we talk about
all things military. All right, let's move on to Iran.
We're moving yet another I mean, what do we have
how much of our actual navy and fighting forces as
far as our navy goes, is in the region now
that we moved from the Caribbean, we're moving it back.
I don't even know which one is this the Ford
we're moving back now?

Speaker 15 (24:31):
Yeah, so some number like a third of our naval
forces are there, which is just insane when you think
about it, given all the other threats that are taking
place in the world. We've have economy of force mission
right now in the pacifics so to speak. Maybe there's
likely just under that that's there as well, because any

(24:51):
given time, a third of our military still and Navy
in particular, is in dry dock preparing. So that's why
we have ten eleven carriers, because not all of them
are up at the same time. No, No, We've got
tremendous amount of assets in the region against Iran in
the Middle East and historically our country. When we move
those kinds of assets into the area, they just don't
sit there where they get used. And so that's the

(25:12):
warning that's been given to Iran right now to basically
submit to our objectives or we'll start firing. I don't
know what the target is yet still, but you're it's
you know, we're going to see who fires first. But
there's no question that the amount of firepower that's there
could be there for the long haul.

Speaker 2 (25:30):
The amount of firepower is tremendous and more and more,
and I'm sure you're hearing it. This is what you
do for a living that you know this could be
more than just we're going to fire some stuff. This
could be a bit more prolonged, maybe, you know, several weeks.
There's always this nervousness when I hear this stuff because
I don't want a nation build. Brother, I don't want
a nation build at all. And it feels like, you know,

(25:54):
Israel really wants this. I saw bb Net and Yahoo
out there, you know, just I've felt like he didn't
get what he wanted when he came out here to visit.
By the way, he should buy a condo. He's out
here so much, but I feel like he didn't get
what he wants. He's out still out there, you know,
pitching this. He put up the most absurd stuff, like
you guys can't have any nuclear you can't do this,

(26:14):
you can't, like it's so out of reach. You're not
trying to be serious about trying to stop this, You're
just trying to set something up that to me seems
so ridiculous that it gives everybody no choice based on
that but to go in.

Speaker 15 (26:28):
There's no question Israel wants regime change in Iran. They
feel that given what's happened in the Middle East right now,
given where they are, with the abram Accords, with the
Saudi Arabian given where Siria went that this is the
only solution, and that is to take the mulas out
and take you know, create a new situation inside the country.

(26:49):
Maybe they're confident that they can do it because they've
infiltrated masad As. Maybe we've got this a leader there.
You know, there's a lot of information we just don't know.
The playbook would be what happened with Maduro. It's not
the worst thing in the world to keep the current
people in place as long as they understand this is
how it's going to go. And maybe that's what's happening here.

(27:11):
Maybe we just don't know. I think the Iranians have
one shot. I think they could fire thousands of missiles
at Israel. It can create a lot of damage, But
then that would be it. From a military perspective. They've
been winnowed down since that last attack that took place
last spring and don't have the capability that they had
in the past. But this is Metnyejo was saying, we're
pushing this store over right now.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
What does it look like? If you know, Trump's saying
it could take weeks or whatever you know potentially like
is that do we have boots on the ground in
that situation.

Speaker 6 (27:39):
I don't see that at all.

Speaker 15 (27:41):
I think that this president does not want to see
the same mistakes of Middle Eastern policy if over the
past twenty five years that both Republicans and Democrats have made.
I think that he looks to find the trusting of
the Israeli Mussad on the inside of Iran in other countries.
Turkey talked about as being that indispensable nation that can

(28:03):
help tip this over. But they'll be, they'll be, they'll
be down wind problems of oil, the price of oil
will spike, there'll be there'll be some economic issues that
will take place that we have to be aware of
if something does happen like this. But but I don't
see boots on the ground. I see us just kind
of strangling out the Iranians side, the United States playing

(28:24):
the heavy and possibly maybe the Israelis doing something internal.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
Yeah, you and I were chatting right before this, and
you're like, yeah, I don't think they're going to do it,
you know, like before the end of the Olympics.

Speaker 15 (28:34):
Right, you know, this is all spotlight is on that
right now on the Olympics, and that would be you know,
we saw the Russians waited until the end of Sociate
in twenty fourteen before they invaded Ukraine. It's just you
know that from a foreign policy perspective, it's it's not
it's not the time to do it right now. But
but again, the element of surprise is going to always

(28:55):
be on the side of the United States, and it's
hard to say whether we would do that or not.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
So your gut, I mean, my gut feeling is where
something is going to happen. I just don't know when.
And then of course you've still got Gaza that's sitting there.
And once again, man, we talk about it every week.
I've yet to hear anybody like Turkey, anybody else go Okay,
you know, we'll come in there, we'll play the peacekeeper role.
We'll help Amas disarm and get rid of their weapons,
but we'll also make sure that they're not going to

(29:18):
be slaughtered by the other militia groups and you guys
can start to rebuild. I haven't heard any of that.

Speaker 15 (29:24):
We haven't seen any pictures come out of there either
as to how the people are there, you know, two
million refugees or so to speak, if they've gone back
to their houses, and what specifically is Israel.

Speaker 6 (29:34):
Doing in that in that environment, we haven't seen any.

Speaker 15 (29:37):
World a Peace Corps or a Red Cross or anybody
in Gazas that still remains one of the most dangerous
places on the earth. So that's that's a status quo
doing nothing as Israel it continues to just you know,
surround that out and not give it any opportunity to
try to try to rebound or try to have the
Hamas regroup and refight, because they haven't given up their

(30:00):
weapons to haven't given up the ministries, they still control
the land.

Speaker 2 (30:02):
It's a crazy world we're living in. He is the
best damn military analyst in the business. Client Major Mike
Claentes appreciate you coming on, brother. We'll do it again
next week. Thanks Chad Talk then three two, three, five,
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Speaker 1 (31:50):
It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (31:52):
We're in the midst of a kind of government shutdown.
There's like eight people in the government that aren't getting paid.
TSA is one of those. And look, I give TSA
a lot of crap because they deserve it. That being said,
I am going to give you guys a little something
now that is going to help you when dealing with

(32:14):
TSA and is going to help them. So you're not
a Richard Okay, okay, these are the most annoying folks.
According to the TSA, are you a line skipper? Depending
on the airport, passengers may be surprised learn that there
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(32:36):
are you a line skipper? So sometimes people just will
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they always tell you. Make sure you have enough time
to get there, okay, make sure you have everything you
need in your hand, and don't jump ahead of people.

(33:04):
Number two, This from the TSA Rule breakers. What okay Now,
A lot of times it's from people who don't know
the rules, right, So the ass TSA go on, make
sure you know the rules of what's going on flying wise,
and there's and trust me, you know what, there's a

(33:24):
lot of rules. And there's probably rules that you think
you know that we're fine that aren't, and stuff that
you thought I can't do anymore that you can. This
one right here in noise, not just TSA, but everybody,
including husbands. The overpacker like, are we moving? Honey, Charlie

(33:44):
pack It was awesome. She's like a rock with two
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we're doing good. We're doing good. Two shoes, just different shoes, right,
that's but you know, I obviously we put other stuff way,
but I let a pack her own thing. And of
course you gotta take your favorite dolls. But the overpacker, okay,

(34:08):
get organized when you're in the line, have your ID
and everything ready. Don't be that person. We're helping you out.
This one, the one who refuses to take their shoes off.
This should be everybody. Sorry, enough with the stupid shoe thing. Okay,
enough with that. Can we just get Oh, I'm you know,

(34:30):
I'm surprised, you know, they really wanted to try. It's
like whether it was an underwear bomber, shouldn't we have
them take there? No, No, you don't think so. Uh.
The traveler with too many liquids is another annoyance to them.
It's crippicable cold. They say, you'd be mindful with your liquids,
all right. TSA's hard and fast packing rule. Oversized liquids

(34:52):
and gels, aerosols and their carry ons potentially slow the process.
So don't be that person. So those are the most
annoying people, according to them, that they run into every
single day. The shoe thing still just the dumbest thing.

(35:12):
We just all admit it is so stupid. But somebody
many years ago was a shoe bomber. They tried to
be it didn't happen, And nobody's blowing their shoes up. Okay,
I mean you can't pick it up on the X
ray machine or whatever else we're doing. Good goodness, good goodness,
I say three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
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(35:35):
YouTube and everything else. Ready on the Chad Benton Show.
Coming up our number two of the program, more on
the life of Jesse Jackson, Robert Duvall. So we talk
about them, the latest from the Savannah Guthrie Nancy Guthrie disappearance,
the family TMZ's reporting there are people reaching out saying

(35:59):
that they know where she is. Is she even alive.
We're gonna talk a bit about that, plus AI and
how fast it's moving in the entertainment world, and it
is moving fast. And we're going to talk about piracy.
Are what kind of piracy? Not that kind of piracy,
among the other things. All of that and so much
more straight ahead. This is the Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (36:52):
You guys want to know how crazy it is. It's
early voting in Texas already for the primaries. What yeah,
I mean, that's you know, we talk about two thousand
and twenty six, the midterms. They're here already, Hello America.
Last night, Colbert was supposed to have James tell Erico

(37:15):
on who You Know Shocker. I kind of rate him highly?
Does mean, you know, would you vote for him? I mean,
I think I think he is uh, I think he's interesting. Right,
I do? Right, you got him against Jasmine Crockett and
you know Jasmine Crockett. Somebody asked me yesterday about you know, Jasmine.

(37:38):
We had a conversation about Jasmine, and I said, she's
a pelebrity, right, So my buddy Chris, I said, she's
a celebrity. I said, she is somebody who enjoys the spotlight,
and she enjoys being, you know, part of the squad
or thorn in the side of Trump. But she's a peleprity, right.

(38:02):
She enjoys it. She enjoys saying stuff where she gets
the attention. Uh Taller Rico I think is serious about
the GID. But he was supposed to be on last
night with Colbert.

Speaker 7 (38:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (38:12):
You know who is not one of my guests tonight.

Speaker 17 (38:15):
That's Texas State Representative James Talerico. He was supposed to
be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms
by our network's lawyers, who called us directly, that we
could not have him on the broadcast. Then then I
was told in some uncertain terms that not only could
I not have him on, I could not mention.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
Me not having him on.

Speaker 17 (38:39):
And because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk
about this, let's talk about this.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
So probably heard that's SRD. You did then, So the
rule is okay, the rule is it's equal time. So
and this is only for broadcast television and radio. So
we'll try to get James on, you know, we'll try
to get Jasmine on. We'll try to get it. But

(39:05):
I offered up to everybody, I don't care if you're
right or left, let's have a conversation. Don't care where
you are, We're gonna have a conversation. It's got to
be equal. Now, if you choose not to come on,
that's a you problem. So you can't go, well, I
wasn't invited on. No, if you're invited on and you
don't come on, that's a you thing. And I've had

(39:27):
that in several places, you know, at the local level
where the one of the candidates didn't want to come
on until late and they griped about it. But you know,
that's a you thing. So what he did last night
was he brought James on for the live studio audience
and then put it on the YouTube channel, which cable.

(39:49):
You can do that as much as you want, so
you can have if you just and let's be real
nobody on the right is ever on Colbert. But the
difference is if you're running in a race, which is
what's going on currently, they're running in a race, so

(40:11):
you would have to have you know, equal time, so
Crockett and then what they're going to say is, well
you need to have Paxton on and Corning and you
know whoever else has thrown their hats in. I don't
know what the level is. I think it's everybody. And
usually the only time you'll you'll get you'll get that
one person is like one percent. Is I love to

(40:33):
come on? I bet you would. I bet you would.
So I thought that was just interesting because you know
it's early days because you can vote already in the
primaries for the twenty twenty six mid term. What three, two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three atch you hadventson show?
Is your ex your insta love hearing from every single
one of you. We move from there to a I mean,

(40:59):
this is a huge case that's going on in Georgia
and if you guys know nothing about it, this is
a father who is standing trial for his son's actions
at school. His son will also face trial, and it

(41:21):
got a lot of attention, as it should. His son
cult went in and killed two teachers and two students,
and his father is now standing trial facing twenty nine counts,

(41:44):
including murder in the second degree for the death of
the children, as well as involuntary manslaughter for the death
of the two teachers, and a myriad of other things.
But I have some questions both about pops, who should
face some serious you know, time, as well as the

(42:10):
school itself. So we'll take you back to the day
when this happened. It was September fourth, twenty twenty four
colts came in, shot two students and two teachers, injured
nine others during the mass shooting, and then everything started

(42:34):
to come out about cold Gray. Who is this kid?
What is he about? Well, first of all, what the
hell's he doing with guns? Because and I can also
say what the hell's he doing at school? So this
kid was an absolute hot freaking mess, and his dad

(42:57):
continued to contribute to his hot freaking mess. He had
on several occasions been more than red flagged even though
he was eleven and twelve about disturbing things, like one
thing he searched online for how to kill your dad,
which prompted the school resource officer to visit his home.

(43:22):
So I'm thinking to myself, hey, Dad probably shouldn't give
him a gun. Dad did. Top of that, he had
a shrine of the Parkland shooter, Nicholas Cruz in his room.
He had suffered from anxiety, anger, and panic attacks. He
believed that the teachers and everybody at school were talking

(43:44):
about him all the time. I mean, this was a kid.
There couldn't have been bigger red flags. It's the kind
of red flag where when you drive down the street
right on the highway, there's always one in every city
where the biggest car dealership has the biggest American flag. Ever,
it was bigger than that. It's the kind that covers

(44:07):
the NFL stadium right when they roll it out for
the National That's how big the red flag was. And Pops,
what the hell are you doing?

Speaker 18 (44:19):
The defendant, seven months after he was told by Jackson
County Sheriff's Office of possible school shooter threats and being
asked to restrict cults access to guns, the defendant buys
and gives thirteen year old cult that six hour and
four hundred as his Christmas present.

Speaker 2 (44:40):
Yeah, that's the prosecution there then, by the way, just
to let you know, on top of all of that,
he got a made larger magazine they recognized in school.
Which is my question here they're already being sued by
one family for twenty five million dollars. What the hell
is he doing in school? Why is he anywhere near
a school at all?

Speaker 19 (45:04):
The evidence will show a teenager who's struggling mentally, a
teenager who was deceptive, a teenager who hid his true
intentions from everyone, from his family, from his counselor from
his siblings, from defects from law enforcement, and most especially
from his father.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
Yeah, nice try. I mean, when you go down this
list here of stuff that this kid had been accused of,
had struggled with, had threatened to do. He shouldn't have
been near a butter knife, he shouldn't have been in
a near a nerf gun. And one of the questions,
obviously some people like, well what about his mom? So

(45:47):
pops had I don't know how bad mom has to
be to not have custody, but Pops had main custody essentially, right,
he had the primary custody. But she was the one
who had learned the school about what might be happening.
He'd also texted dad certain things that should have alerted

(46:08):
again more people to what might be happening. He had
FBI involvement twenty twenty three. Oh yeah, his mental health
and anxiety were getting worse, and the morning of mom
said there was an extreme emergency that needed to be

(46:29):
dealt with because she worried that much. This is one
of those things where you see some of these school
shootings where sometimes the parents, no matter how hard they try,
no matter what they do, something goes wrong. Sometimes there
is zero warning, like there's two faces to the kid

(46:52):
and then they go down that nihilistic thing. This was
not that. There were so many damn red flecks across
the board in this situation, and people lost their lives
from it. Very sad, very sad. But watch this because
I think more and more we're going to see this.
Parents are going to be held accountable for their kids' actions,

(47:17):
and in some cases it's absolutely warranted. I have to
say in this case, after going through and reading all
kinds of things, it was warranted. Now he will not
be facing trial for a while, and judging by everything
I've also read, there is no reason that this kid
was not well. There was nothing about him that was

(47:39):
well in the head. And once look I got news.
Once if my kid searches how to kill dad, we
have a serious issue. And the first issue is no
guns in the house, period, case closed, no knives in
the house, and you need to get help. Not I'm

(48:02):
going to reward you by getting you a high powered gun.
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Speaker 1 (49:49):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
So as the hunt continues for Savannah Gunthrees Mom. Yesterday
TMZ started off early that they got a letter from
but who says they know where she is?

Speaker 20 (50:02):
It is Monday, morning, we have received a fourth letter
from the same person who says that he knows where
Nancy Got three is and he wants money in return
for the information.

Speaker 2 (50:16):
Nobody just does anything for the right reasons. So are
you involved, sir? Or you you just want money? Like
I know where she is, but you're gonna have to
fatten that reward. Essentially, he wants the reward.

Speaker 20 (50:29):
So I have something to say to you, and I
have already talked to the FBI about this, that if
you are not real, you're committing a crime.

Speaker 2 (50:44):
And you should know that. Do you think he cares?
People are stupid? Recognize that? And this case is a
mess already because you've got a pissing match on the ground. Okay,
I probably could have said that better, but let's let's
just go with that. You've got the FBI and the

(51:06):
PMA County Police and and you know, the share of
everybody that is associated locally is frustrated in what they
see as an absolute joke by the FBI. So it
is so bizarre and it's funny, and like I mean,

(51:28):
you want to wish and hope for the best, but
based on the fact of her age and how sick
she was I don't you know, God willing, she's still alive,
but you've gotten this giant, huge mess of a group
of people. Right the FBI who comes on in takes

(51:49):
everything over, and as you know, the Pema County sheriff
has said, they just kind of stopped around and made
a mess. And now what they don't don't trust them.
They didn't even send the DNA testing off with the FBI.
It's like it's two different things that seem to be
happening here with this case, which is the local investigation

(52:14):
and the FBI investigation three two, three, five, three eight,
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Benson Show. Now the people in the powers to be
locally say, oh no, that's that's that's that's not true,

(52:36):
that this this rift is it's a rumor. It's not real.
It feels like it's real. It feels like it because
it looks like it, because that's what people are hearing
on the ground. So people are you know, the people
I talked to out there say that it does feel
like there's two separate investigations going on. What do you
think let me know, And I guess the local police
and the FBI have ruled out now completely anybody in

(53:01):
the family because there was a thought maybe I was
one of them. I didn't say for sure, but you know, maybe,
because you never know. Now, I still think it has
to be somebody with some sort of ties to the family.
So somebody who could be close enough with the family
to know who she is. You know, that they've got

(53:23):
some money and that they may be willing to pay
or who knows whatever. But it kind of had the
layout of everything, and maybe that person took advantage of
those people not knowing that, you know, what they were
learning was going to come back to haunt them. And
that's good that it's not the family. I mean, that's
the last thing you need, right if it was, you know,

(53:44):
and thank god, by all accounts now it looks like
nobody in the family is any kind of suspect, although
they could be saying that to rule it out just
in the public while looking at you don't know. This
whole case is crazy. It's just a bizarre case from
Could it have been a robbery gone wrong too? Is
this really a kidnapping in a ransom? I don't know again.

(54:08):
This is a sad situation. As the world watches three two, three, five,
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Speaker 14 (54:18):
Benson Show, then Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
Well, the f scene stuff is awful and horrible. It's
a blight on the Trump administration. It's going to be
a blight on his legacy. A lot of people don't
want to hear that. I'll tell you the truth. That's
what I do. There are some people trying to make
things better by finding another to have a file with,
if you will, this is kind of he He goes

(55:06):
to all of these city council meetings all over and
he just does wacky stuff. And have you ever been
to a city council meeting? They're insane at times. Doesn't
matter what it is, there's always somebody up theres some
nine year old woman talking about any easement. This guy
wanted to talk about the Epstein files. What up, council.

Speaker 6 (55:20):
My name is Chad Kroeger.

Speaker 21 (55:21):
As you may have probably already heard, Jeffrey Epstein's list
was unwailed this past week. I'm stoked to see that
none of you were on it, but I was super
heartbroken to see many of my idol's names pop up,
namely Stephen Hawking, which I think we can all.

Speaker 6 (55:35):
Agree none of us saw coming.

Speaker 21 (55:37):
Trust in the American institution has officially bottomed out and
hit dry reef. At the moment, it feels like our
country is run entirely by pervy douche nozzles, and I
for one, am no longer stoked on listing bad dudes.
The American people need something to kickstart our engines and
revamp our stoke. That is why I'm requesting Council that

(55:58):
you released the Keanu Reeves lit celebs, politicians and world
renowned astrologists who have kicked back with Keanu and exemplify
his moral fortitude, altruistic and hot. It's time we have
some heroes to guide us back home.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Thank you, And he's totally coming out like a surfer.
Just it was, it was just every one's while. I
gotta laugh. I mean, it's a hard thing to laugh at,
but he went with the whole Keanu. We need a
list because Keano is such a good guy. If you
know anything about Hollywood, Keanu's one of those people that
everybody tells you is like what you hear about him

(56:38):
is true, and then some just just a good dude,
Just a good dude. Indeed, Uh, I hate to do
this to you, Keanu and everybody else. Now. I talked
about the article that was in I think it was
a ver last week about these piracy boxes, and a
lot of you reached out to me. In fact, this weekend,

(56:58):
I went and did an event for one of my
local clients and just hung out with them for a
couple hours at a home show. We're just hanging out
talking and I had so many people come up and go, dude,
shut your mouth about the boxes. And I'm like, what
are you talking about the boxes? Man? Well, it's not
a secret. I mean, they're real. And the article that

(57:20):
came out was about the fact that these piracy boxes
are everywhere. And guess what, it's your fault, cable companies.
It's your fault streaming companies that these things are popular.

Speaker 13 (57:36):
So six months ago I told you piracy was coming
back because subscriptions went through the room. You remember when
cutting the cord meant saving money. Now every platform is
literally bleeding us dry. You've got Netflix, Hulu, Disney, and
they keep charging us more for less and with ads included.
Binge watching is no longer a thing. Now they drip
feed you episodes and the moment you find a show its.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Split across five platforms.

Speaker 13 (57:59):
Cutting the Horde was about convenience and saving money, and
now it's not. People have just had enough and that's
why piracy is booming right now.

Speaker 2 (58:07):
Yes it is, and these boxes are. But no, here's
the weird thing. You could get them just a lot
of places go out Craigslist, Facebook market. It's not illegal
to own the boxes, and at first I was skeptical.
The several people that came up to me this weekend said,
it's the most amazing things ever. I have, like fourteen
thousand channels, I pay for nothing anymore. You buy a

(58:30):
one time thing. I'm not saying you go and do
that because that is not cool, but do I get it.

Speaker 13 (58:36):
The two boxes often come up with these discussions is
the VC box and the Superbox G seven Ultra. Now
I had the chance to review both. The VC boxes
practically plug and play. It comes preloaded, literally ready out
of the box, and that simplicity is why people gravitate
towards it.

Speaker 18 (58:52):
Now.

Speaker 13 (58:52):
The superbox, on the other hand, is more of a customization.
It might take a little bit more of a setup,
but it offers more in options like networks or advanced features.
It's absolutely clear why these boxes are popular a promised
simplicity or control depending on what you want.

Speaker 2 (59:08):
And they they do. So this guy was talking this weekend.
It's like, you know, don't say anything, and I'm like, okay,
I won't, but I totally am because now there's you know,
this is being talked about more and more. It's not
just me, it's all over the place. I mean it's yeah,
kind of me mostly, but you know, all over the
place in the sense that it's the quietly untalked about
thing that has got some articles written about it and

(59:29):
will become bigger. And so the plug and play so
I'm like, so explain it to me. You just literally
plug it in. You' say, yeah, just plug it in
and that's it. And it's got all the stuff. You're
just flipping around. You're like, oh, okay, there's there's a
you know, there's Netflix, there's Hulu, there's this, there's there's HBO,
there's all of the things. Oh you want to watch this?

(59:51):
They don't have it. There's all the channels in the
world you want to watch, you know, every football game
in history, yeah, soccer game in history. Everything you've ever
wanted to watch it, It's there at a one time. Faith.

Speaker 13 (01:00:02):
Now, these aren't cheap. They run from three hundred and
fifty to four hundred and fifty dollars. But consider this.
I mean, if you're already paying two hundred dollars a
month on subscriptions, that upfront costs could break even in
a couple months. And of course there is chatter about
the privacy. Are these risky? Could they have malware? And
let's be honest, if you're already sailing these waters, you
know the risks. But as a tech person, I can

(01:00:24):
tell you proper network setup reduces that exposure. Now listen,
I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just telling
you what's out there and why these boxes have caught attention.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Now, what I do know is, so let's say you
have three TVs in the house. Okay, you got three
TVs in the house, you'll need three boxes because for
whatever TV it's on, that's the box it lives on. Okay,
So you take that box and you're like I'm putting
it in the front room. That's where it is. Okay,

(01:00:53):
so it lives on that TV. I guess you could
take it to the other room if you wanted to
do so. But whatever TV that you have the box on,
it's the only TV that can get it. And I
was you know, look, I was skeptical. And you know,
several of you've reached out to me and said, look,
it's real, and I'm like, okay, I mean, I don't again,

(01:01:13):
I you're it's the theft of stuff. But do I
see why it's you know, popular, Yeah, I mean the
amount of money I spent on subscriptions is shameful. But
to get the things that I want to watch, well,
I want to watch you know, the Premier League, Well
I gotta have Peacock. Okay, then you know, but then

(01:01:34):
I also have to have you know, I want to
watch the Champions League. I got to have you know,
I've got to have a Paramount Plus as well. And
you know, then they've got to have Hulu because you know,
for this, and then I've got to have uh, you know,
Amazon Prime I've got, but I've got Prime because of Prime.
But you know, then well, you know, I like westerns, Well,
then you gotta have stars and if you you know,
I'm like, oh, I gotta have hb. It becomes all

(01:01:56):
of a sudden, you know, six bucks here, eight bucks there,
nine bucks there. And then the other side of it
is you're paid for you know, subscriptions and a lot
of these things is like, okay, well remember how you're
paying for this. Yeah, well we're gonna also run ads.
You're like, oh, okay. By the way, it's not just

(01:02:18):
people looking for a way to get around from the
subscription side of stuff. How about this when it comes
to video games and a I don't know, you've know
how somebody found the back door into this.

Speaker 22 (01:02:29):
A random ass Star Wars video game just became crazy
valuable for a kind of a legal reason. So here's
a fun fact. There are more than one hundred and
thirty Star Wars video games total, with a library that large.
Some of them are more popular than others, and one
of the biggest Star Wars games of all time is
Episode one Racer, released in nineteen ninety nine alongside The
Phantom Menace. The pod racing game moved more than three

(01:02:50):
million copies, becoming the best selling sci fi racing game
of all time? But did you know it spawned a
PlayStation two sequel in two thousand and two, Star Wars.
Racer Revenge didn't really make much of an impression back then,
but it did get a physical re release for the
PlayStation four by Limited Run Games back in twenty nineteen,
and those discs from twenty nineteen are now going for

(01:03:11):
hundreds of dollars on eBay.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Yes, well, why is that? Hmm, there must be a reason.

Speaker 22 (01:03:18):
But here's the thing. Buyers don't want to play this
game or even have it as a collectible. It's become
a hot commodity after hackers discovered that those discs hold
the key to jail breaking the PlayStation five. Basically, the
Racer Revenge disc has some code that can be applied
to a PS five that allows hackers to bypass the
official software and install their own stuff on the system.
So demand from hackers plus the scarcity of this specific

(01:03:39):
disc has driven up the price. Jail Breaking is a
legal gray area. While it's not against the law to
tinker with a device that you own, jail breaking a
device to play pirated games or circumvent copyright protection is
illegal anyway. If you just wanted to play Raser Revenge
on your PS five. It's only ten dollars in the
PlayStation store.

Speaker 2 (01:03:57):
But that's not what people want. They want to jail
break it all. Always looking for something are we doesn't
matter if it's video games or cable subscriptions. We're looking
for something, something that can give us an advantage. Just interesting, interesting, indeed,

(01:04:18):
still got a lot of stuff to get to. We're
going to talk about AI coming up and what it's
doing to the industry and in itself. Hell, maybe in
a few years you'll be your own streaming service. I
wouldn't put it past the way that things are going
for that to happen sooner rather than later. We're gonna
talk a little bit about that coming up, as well

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as your urban word of today that also has to
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Speaker 23 (01:06:31):
Deep Stinks not deep doo doo. Yeah, the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:40):
In the ever changing world of language, we must learn
to cope with the youth of America and the language
they use, because while it sounds familiar, in many cases,
it is totally different. That's why we do this every
single day. It's about learning. Now it's time for the

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urban word of the day. The young have a vocabularity
all their own, and we break it down for you.
It's called the urban word of the day. All right,
this urban word again. Obviously it's the urban word. There
could be it just maybe letters, right, like, oh, what's
that mean? You know, it's just we're giving it to you.

(01:07:23):
But this is going to be something you're going to
hear a lot and I do mean a lot more.
You're going to see it a lot more. Okay, So
this is something that will pay off for you no
matter how old you are. AI dr Artificial intelligence didn't
read meaning the post right, whatever it is, it was

(01:07:48):
generated by some AI and whoever you use the phrase
didn't read it was for that reason, right, So it
gave you something super generic that you knew was written
by a human. Very very boring and computer like artificial
intelligence AI. Dr didn't read that was the urban word

(01:08:14):
of the day now, you know, speaking of we've been
talking about it. I brought it up to you guys
last week. It's getting more and more attention.

Speaker 24 (01:08:24):
At first glance, it looks like an epic fight scene
starring two Hollywood heavyweights. But this Tom Cruise Brad Pitt
battle is AI generator by Dance, the Chinese tech company
behind TikTok, just rolled out their new AI video generator,
seed Dance two point zero. The viral video sparked yet

(01:08:44):
another round of backlash and despair in Hollywood. RTT Reese,
a screenwriter behind the Deadpool movies, posted, I hate to
say it, it's likely over for us.

Speaker 2 (01:08:55):
Now I will tell you this. So my uncle and
I we have our company and we are doing a
ton of stuff with AI in Hollywood. My uncle went
up the other day to a very large, very large

(01:09:16):
company production company, studio. He said there was maybe fourteen
people in the office. I said really, He goes, yeah,
And I asked him was that normal? He said, We asked,
He said, they have a few more usually, but yeah,

(01:09:38):
this is kind of what it's like now. This is
kind of what it's like. Artificial intelligence is going to
give us opportunities to become our own director, our own
you know, writer, our own everything we've ever dreamed of,
but at a price when it comes to the studios,

(01:10:01):
and that is and by the way, the studios in
Hollywood in particular, they're dead. There's nobody's doing anything there.
It's too expensive. They're in Europe, right, They're in Eastern Europe.
They're in Bulgaria and Estonia and anywhere like that where
they can go shoot a movie, shoot a television show,

(01:10:23):
by the way, a game show for America, because it's
cheaper than doing it here. And they're in Georgia. They're
in any place that's going to help give them a
tax break, Canada being another one of those. But now
you may not have to do any of that.

Speaker 24 (01:10:41):
In a statement, SAG after the Actors' Union called the
video unacceptable and said it undercuts the ability of human
talent to earn a livelihood by Dance responded saying they
are now taking steps to prevent the unauthorized use of
intellectual property and likeness by users. Why do you think
the reaction was so intense, I.

Speaker 9 (01:11:02):
Think because it was so brazen. Hollywood is going through
a lot of difficult changes.

Speaker 24 (01:11:09):
What does this type of technology do to entertainment jobs?

Speaker 9 (01:11:13):
In the next year, there will be fewer jobs in Hollywood.
There already were fewer jobs. And the shame of it
really will be that the below the line people, the craftsman,
the camera people, the catering people, those are the people
who are going to be affected the most.

Speaker 3 (01:11:28):
Don't leave me.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
That was so funny. That was when Rose is on
the raft thing or whatever it was, the trunk and
Jack is getting ready to go below and he kind
of wakes up and it looks real and it's happening,
and it's going to get better and better every single day.
It's learning and the stuff is amazing and opportunities abound.

(01:11:55):
But yes, at the local level, it's going to be
a serious issue. And if I'm a star today, I'm
going to get in my name, my likeness, my voice.
Everything copied and copyrighted three two, three, five, three eight,
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(01:12:18):
on the Chad Benson Show. Coming up, our number three
of the program Little What's trending. Our buddy Mike Lines
Military An, it's going to join the program as well.
We're going to talk about Iran. Are we going to
do anything? Are we not going to do anything? Is
this just, you know, is everybody bluffing or well, cooler
calmer heads prevail listening to the likes of bb net Yahoo.

(01:12:41):
I think he doesn't want that to happen. We're also
going to talk about Epstein obviously, the loss of two
high profile people we'll touch on as well. Robert Daval
passed away yesterday ninety five, and earlier today, Jesse Jackson
passed away at age eighty four. We'll talk about that
among other things. Our number three straight ahead, This is

(01:13:02):
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Yesterday and today we lost two famous heavyweights. Jesse Jackson
passed away earlier today, age eighty four.

Speaker 18 (01:13:45):
Asking him, I said, doctor King, do you hear me?
Doctor King?

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
Do you hear me? And he didn't say anything. Civil
rights activists a person you know, we sit here and
you know, we talk about these activists today, these wackadoos
in a lot of places that go out there. I
was watching something yesterday. You know, just some of the

(01:14:11):
wackies outside of Seattle, who are you know, attacking people
who are filming them and they're all out there protesting
and these kids have been put up to it and
he just like this guy lived it right like this.
You know, you go and look at his story. Born
in the South, poor af mom sixteen, next door neighbor

(01:14:34):
thirty three, got her pregnant, right, she marries another guy.
He takes his last name when he finally adopts him,
get shipped off to grandma's house, and you know, just
it just struggles with a lot and thinks that he's
going to go up north, right, gets a scholarship to
go play you know sports, I think football, and you know,

(01:14:59):
he says, he gets up there and it's, you know,
the same stuff he's heard in the South. He hears
up north, and he you know, eventually becomes somebody who
sees what's going on, not happy with it, and starts
to participate, and then eventually becomes somebody's very close to

(01:15:22):
doctor Martin Luther King and ends up being there next
to him the night he's killed. And there's different stories
about whether or not he lied about did he hold
his head, this, that and the other. I mean, Jesse
was a complicated you know, Jesse Jackson was a complicated man,
but he walked the walk next to King. He did,

(01:15:45):
and he thought that he should be next in line
to take over, which caused a lot of issues. Eventually
ran for president and at one time in you know,
eighty four surprised everybody. In eighty eight he was one
of the favorites. He was the Democrats are like, We're
not gonna win with a black progressive man. It isn't

(01:16:09):
gonna happen. It just isn't thought about running again, didn't,
but struggled the last few years at Parkinson's. I mean,
you know, it's like anything. He's a human being. It's
a complicated figure, but one that was giant. I mean,
the Rainbow Coalition, push all of the stuff. He had
a kid out of wedlock. I mean, there was a

(01:16:29):
lot of things. Again we can look back and say, yes, flawed,
But did the good outweigh the bad? I would say, yeah,
you know, I mean I may not like some of
the tactics, but he lived in a different time, came
from a different place, and eventually, unfortunately, I think he
became a caricature of himself at times, but it doesn't

(01:16:51):
it shouldn't take away from what happened when he was younger,
in the fight that he fought. That shouldn't take that away.
And I know people in my business like, I can't
believe you're talking good about Jesse Hamil, Like I sorry,
I mean, I'm looking at the whole, you know, scope
of work, and the whole scope of work to me says, yes,

(01:17:14):
there were things that you sit there and go, okay,
you know, you can't ignore some of it. But he
was I think, overall a person that loved this country,
that wanted to see the good in this country and
fought for that. And then over time things become a business.

(01:17:36):
And once that becomes a business, then there's all kinds
of stuff. And we're seeing right now with Charlie Kirk, right,
you know, you can point to the what we're seeing
with the death of Charlie Kirk and the battle going
on at TPUSA and who should be the next person
to take it over and all of this stuff to
what happened when Martin Luther King was killed. He went

(01:18:00):
straight back to Chicago and thought he should be crowned
as the next and that everybody she get behind him,
and that didn't happen. And so you know, it's it
once it becomes a business, and then you see what
happens you do. And then yesterday one of the greats died,

(01:18:23):
arguably one of the greatest American actors of all time,
Robert Duvall, passed away at age ninety five, surrounded by
his wife who was forty years junior, born on the
same day, by the way as well, but forty years apart.
And he never had kids, said he always wanted kids,
but he said he shot blanks. That was his his

(01:18:45):
process in his mind as he broke it down, was
it must be me. But what a hell of an actor.

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
And if you just told the letter thing.

Speaker 1 (01:19:00):
Line to the.

Speaker 5 (01:19:04):
Besides in Whiskey, I think will require a little respect.
I'm Captain Augustus mccry. This is Captain mudro F Carr, and.

Speaker 7 (01:19:13):
Dear God protect our supreme commander on the field and
our commander in chief in Washington, d C.

Speaker 5 (01:19:20):
And nobody has ever gone down to a New York
Police captain.

Speaker 2 (01:19:23):
Never it would be disastrous.

Speaker 9 (01:19:25):
All the five families would come after you.

Speaker 11 (01:19:27):
Sonny the Corleone family would be outcast.

Speaker 7 (01:19:30):
Even the old mess political protection would run for cover.

Speaker 2 (01:19:33):
Tell us, so my fault at the tires blow, Yes,
it's so the part Well, hell, yes, it's your fault.

Speaker 5 (01:19:37):
There's forty other Poultuers out there who manage to finish
the rights on their tires.

Speaker 3 (01:19:43):
I love the spell of plight, palm of the morning.

Speaker 5 (01:19:46):
What we're really here for is to single out who
we think is the best for that given year. And
if that's what I'm to be this year, then I
appreciate it with accept it with an honor, and I'm
very moved because of that.

Speaker 2 (01:19:57):
Just an amazing actor born in San Diego, Go and
Robert Duval was so many different things, and you know,
one of the things they could talk about is he
always was able to to essentially be a chameleon, to
get into a role to the point where he, as
Robert Duval, was unrecognizable. And I was saying earlier, one

(01:20:21):
of the great memories I have with my father was
there was a movie that you know, Sam Peckinpah did.
It was not a western, It was an action movie
came out in seventy five. It was called Killer Elite
and it was him and James Cohn, and there were
mercenaries and they were on the opposite sides of it,
in the Proxy War. And it was the first time
Ninja's were on the big screen in America in a way.

(01:20:46):
But we watched that. But he was just amazing. He
said his favorite role ever, his favorite role ever was
Gus McCrae, Gus mccraye in Lonesome Dove. He said that
was his favorite. He said if if he didn't work again,

(01:21:11):
he retired right then and there, he said, he would
have achieved his career pinnacle. And he played so many amazing,
incredible you know. But Radley he played, you know, he
played in one of my favorites, The Boss in an

(01:21:32):
open range with Kevin Costner. But he played he played
Frank in you know, in mash Is that crazy you
think about Larry Linnville who played him in you know,
Frank Burns in the TV show, but originally it was

(01:21:52):
played by Robert Duvall. And then he won an Academy
Award for tender Mercies. Just a brilliant actor, ninety five
years healthy for the most part, man, sign you up
for that, right. He worked up until a few years ago.
I think it was twenty twenty two, is the last
time he worked, but did a lot of television early

(01:22:18):
on as well. Just brilliant. So God rest their souls.
Two men who I think left the world better. Three, two, three, five, eight,
twenty four, twenty three act she had Benson show is
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hearing from every single one of you. Somebody who I
don't think can say the same thing Hillary. The whole

(01:22:41):
thing with Epstein isn't going away. And I've told you guys, this,
this is Trump's this right here is a legacy, potential ruiner,
and it's not going anywhere. As the news comes out
more and more every day, you know, them handing everybody.
Here's three hundred names. You're like Elvis, Presley, Jobson, right,

(01:23:02):
Marilyn Monroe, what what is this ridiculousness about? And they're
gonna you know, they're coming after Hillary, right and the
Clinton's And I've told you guys, I don't That's why
Trump's like, well.

Speaker 12 (01:23:16):
I don't think they should depose you know, the Hillary,
and they don't want that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Trump doesn't want it because Hillary's like, Okay, we're gonna
do this. Let's go scort her.

Speaker 25 (01:23:26):
The committee controls the setting. But as part of that,
Hillary Clinton said everyone should be deposed in some form
and in particular in a public setting. Look, it doesn't
appear likely that Prince Andrew is ever going to testify
before the US Congress, even if he were to be subpoena,
even if he were to be held in contempt of
Congress for defying a subpoena.

Speaker 2 (01:23:46):
And that's a big if.

Speaker 25 (01:23:48):
That would not have any force of law overseas on
Prince Andrew, who is not a citizen.

Speaker 2 (01:23:54):
He's a clown and he needs to be investigated and
arrested if they find stuff. But here's the other side
of it. It's come out through several different outlets, right
Channel four in the UK, the BBC, I think, the
Atlantic here and the New Republic, and now it's being

(01:24:15):
imported in several different places. That the three million other
pages that were redacted and the two hundred thousand that
are executive privilege, those are nothing compared to the other
forty plus terabytes of information that is still out there.
And that would mean it's about two percent, is all

(01:24:37):
we've gotten so far? Yeah, right, three two, three, five, three,
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Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:33):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

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Sign James Dean, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Serene.

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Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
Alright, a Ronnie, I find out what's running in the
old interrouebs on this festive yet sad Tuesday yesterday, no
more trining. Thanks really over the last twenty four hours.
Robert d vol passing away age ninety five, and then
earlier today, Jesse Jackson, the activist, the politician, the former

(01:27:25):
presidential nominee, the man who was there when Martin Luther
King got shot. He passed away today at age eighty four.
Keeping in the ex world. More on Epstein, Money of that,
Rhode Island at a horrific shooting at the hockey game,

(01:27:47):
Civil rights movement, Keep Hope Alive. Then Jesse Jackson, President's Day,
Lonesome Dove, great movie. That was a great show, right,
it was, it was it, you know, he played that
character several times. He said he loved loving some Dove.
And then over to the magical world of Google, number

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one trending thing in the last twenty four hours. Robert Duvall,
Rhode Island shooting, Jesse Jackson, Tyreek Hill, Yeah toare Fat Tuesday.
Every Day's fat for you, Chad Shish Anderson Cooper, It's
going to bounce at a sixty minutes. Lots of turmoil

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over there in the old CBS, Canada, New Zealand, lots
of sports, the Olympics, AOC. She did not do well
yesterday in Munich. Finally over to Yahoo, Rhode Island hockey shooting,
Jesse Jackson, Robert Duvall, Nancy Guthrie three two, three, five, three, eight,

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like there's two investigations going on at the local level
and with the FBI is also very interesting. California embracing
for a massive storm over the next several days potentially
also trending. One of the people that has been trending
and not in a good way, was AOC yesterday. So
all the twenty twenty eight hopefuls right over there in

(01:29:39):
Munich right the big Security conference are doing their thing,
and AOC, being AOC, has been thrust into that limelight.
And one of the things they asked her about was Taiwan.
What should we do if they attack?

Speaker 4 (01:29:53):
To all of you and Congress mull start with, you
would and should the US actually commit US troops to
defend Taiwan if China were to move?

Speaker 2 (01:30:04):
You know, I think that.

Speaker 1 (01:30:08):
This is such a you know, I think that, yes,
this is a.

Speaker 8 (01:30:16):
This is of course a very long standing policy of
the United States, and I think what we are hoping
for is that we want to make sure that we
never get to that point, and we want to make
sure that we are moving in all of our economic
research and our global positions to avoid any such confrontation.

(01:30:39):
And for that question to even arise.

Speaker 2 (01:30:41):
Well, if you guys get that, because nobody else did. Okay,
she's fun, speaking of fun and you know war stuff.
Our buddy Mike Lines military analysts, He's going to join
the program straight Edad talk about iron Is it going
to happen? Isn't it going to happen? What's up with That's?
And so much more.

Speaker 3 (01:31:00):
Chad Benson, Joe, Chad Benson Show, The.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Chad Benson Show is That's how the Week could talk
to tired major in the best damn military analyst in
the business, Mike Lyons Mike first, before we jump into
the military military side of stuff. Marco Rubio, everybody who's
hopeful for twenty twenty eight, for the most part, was
over in Munich. Rubio, great speech, you know, you know,
going back to the old a strong speech. We're gonna

(01:31:44):
you know, filled the little colonize. He like, We're gonna
go around crushing everybody, taking whatever we want. But I
thought I thought he did a really, you know, a
really damn good job, and to me, I think he
still sets himself up as the leader when it comes
to two thousand and two, and that speech definitely helped him.

Speaker 15 (01:32:02):
I don't want to get too defenitant politics, but no agree,
he gave a real politique speech from a military perspective
that commanders can understand the intent there and what the
United States is, how it's going to project power. And
I think it was a warning shot also to those
European nations about just don't lose their culture.

Speaker 6 (01:32:20):
I mean, we talk about it, we see it's happened.

Speaker 15 (01:32:22):
You know, if you visit Europe, if you visit Germany
in particular, in some of these places, you're just surprised.
Having lived in Germany for six years when I went back,
I just was surprised about how much they've allowed their
culture to kind of win them away.

Speaker 6 (01:32:34):
So I thought he gave the kind of Reagan.

Speaker 15 (01:32:37):
Esque speech we haven't seen in a long time, not
apologizing for America, not apologizing for what we're doing. And
then the follow on comments were the same, So there's
no question him a different speech last year with Jade Vance. Also,
it gave a little bit more of a darker, you
know kind of message. But Marco Rubio seems to be
a steady hand right now, especially at the Secretary of

(01:32:58):
State level, and kind of the guy that Trump is
probably gladys in the spot.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
Let's uh him being the Secretary of State. Obviously, this
big week Ukraine, everybody's trying to get something done. I
continue to say, there's no real I don't see a
reason why, you know, the pooter would want to stop
it doing anything, because why should he.

Speaker 6 (01:33:20):
Ukraine is getting hammered right now.

Speaker 15 (01:33:22):
On the infrastructure side, they continue to Russia continues to
just escalate the levels of attacks as they try to
continue to pin America Ukrainian civilians, you know, in a
deeper and deeper hole because of what's taking place, you know,
the going after this. The heat infrastructure in particular, just

(01:33:43):
adds that humanitarian aspect to it, and it's going to
sharpen any kind of negotiations that they have to play,
and they seem to be kind of witting them out.
There's not any any real movement to your point on
Russia's side to change because of the battlefield calculus. So
I don't know, I don't know, we've been talking about
this for a while and there's still no tipping point.
The Ukrainians continue to hold on. But but until there's

(01:34:05):
more pressure put on Russia to stop, I just think
you're going they're going to continue to continue this way.

Speaker 2 (01:34:09):
Talking to Mike Liones military and uls, we talk about
all things military. You know, it was reported of the
last couple of days that the whatever was the the
the overthrowing, the kidnapping of Maduro, that that, you know,
Anthropic and Claude played a very interesting role in that.
For those you guys don't know, that's like think of

(01:34:30):
chatch Ebt or something of that. Open Ai. It's a
it's a large language model, and there's a battle going
on at the Pentagon because of this. Pallanteer played a
role as well. It is weird though, to think that
they're using this right when they're going out to do something.

Speaker 15 (01:34:48):
You know, I think they're using it for Red Team,
Blue Team. I think that's what we all think at
AI is doing for us. It's filling in gaps as
we all try to use it. Great article this you know,
this week release is called something Big is Happening. It's
gotten eighty something million views on the unit. You've probably
seen it, and the bottom line is it's just, you know,

(01:35:09):
you need to get more integrated into your life if
you want to you know, you move forward and stay
relevant because you're not going to like irrelevance as things
move forward. But as I suspect, they're using it for
alternate thinking and alternate ways of how things could go
wrong and just creating courses of action that they could
do very quickly, spin up very.

Speaker 6 (01:35:30):
Quickly as they teach these models.

Speaker 15 (01:35:33):
What the kind of the doctrine is itself anyway, So
it's a tool that I'm not surprised that we're doing that,
and especially using multiple different models, which allows them to
you know, kind of bounce one off the other.

Speaker 6 (01:35:44):
So this is modern warfare.

Speaker 15 (01:35:46):
I think soldiers when they get to their units are
going to have to deal more with it as well.
As this is this is the way of the world
in terms of how creativity is enhanced, especially on the battlefield.

Speaker 2 (01:35:57):
You know, you talk about that, and it's because you
and I have talked about AI and it's we are
a big proponent of it. We understand it's not going
anywhere we think. I think China is doing it in
a much better way when it comes to the actual
day to day life in But you know, I think
we have the lead when it comes to obviously what's

(01:36:18):
going on on the military side of stuff. This stuff
is a game changer. It's the future, but the future
is now. But there's also they've got guardrails up, right,
because they want to make sure that Claude knows that
at any given time, it just can't decide to destroy
the world, right.

Speaker 6 (01:36:33):
That's the thing.

Speaker 15 (01:36:34):
And what what what From a military perspective, what AI
does is is it shortens the kill zone. It short
it shortens that that that that time and place it
takes to make a decision about what military decision and
what use of the military will be will be happening,
so to speak. And I you know, again, you would
be crazy not to use it. We're not going to

(01:36:55):
let AI completely have every decision there. The only there's
one web and system, that iron Dome system for example,
that Israel has is all AI. When it comes to
decision making about going after those rockets that are coming
in that it decides it's not a human because a
human couldn't decide fast enough as to what's a threat
and what's not a threat.

Speaker 6 (01:37:13):
So there are guard rails that have to be put
in place.

Speaker 15 (01:37:16):
AI doesn't get the final deciding choiceys to whether or
not they're going to engage at target in some ways,
but a little short in the velocity and that kill zone,
that and that kills chain. For I'm sorry that that
decisions are made from a military perspective about engaging targets.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
Talking to Mike Clions MILI channels, we talk about all
things military. All right, let's move on to Iran. We're
moving yet another I mean, what do we have how
much of our actual navy and fighting forces as far
as our navy goes, is in the region now that
we moved from the Caribbean, we're moving it back. I
don't know even know which one is this a ford
we're moving back now?

Speaker 15 (01:37:51):
Yeah, so some number like a third of our naval
forces are there, which is just insane when you think
about it, given all the other threats that are taking
place in world. We've have economy of force mission right
now in the pacifics so to speak. Maybe there's likely
just under that that's there as well, because any given time,

(01:38:12):
a third of our military still and navy in particular,
is in dry dock preparing. So that's why we have
ten eleven carriers, because not all of them are up
at the same time. But no, no, we've got tremendous
amount of assets in the region against Iran in the
Middle East and historically our country. When we move those
kinds of assets into the area, they just don't sit
there where they get used. And so that's the warning

(01:38:33):
that's been given to Iran right now to basically submit
to our objectives or we'll start firing. I don't know
what the target is yet still, but it's you know,
we're going to see who fires first. But there's no
question that the amount of firepower that's there could be
there for the long haul.

Speaker 2 (01:38:51):
The amount of firepower is tremendous and more and more.
And I'm sure you're hearing it. This is what you
do for a living that you know this could be
more than just we're going to fire some stuff. This
could be a bit more prolonged, maybe you know, several weeks.
There's always this nervousness when I hear this stuff because
I don't want a nation build, brother, I don't want
a nation build at all. And it feels like you know,

(01:39:14):
Israel really wants this. I saw bb Net and Yahoo
out there, you know, just I felt like he didn't
get what he wanted when he came out here to visit.
By the way, he should buy a condo. He's out
here so much, but I feel like he didn't get
what he wants. He's out still out there, you know,
pitching this. He put up the most absurd stuff like
you guys can't have any nuclear you can't do this,

(01:39:34):
You can't do like it's so out of reach. You're
not trying to be serious about trying to stop this,
You're just trying to set something up that to me
seems so ridiculous that it gives everybody no choice based
on that but to go in.

Speaker 15 (01:39:49):
There's no question Israel wants regime change in Iran. They
feel that given what's happened in the Middle East right now,
given where they are with the abram Accords, with the
Saudi Arabian, given where Syria, and that this is the
only solution, and that is to take the Mullas out
and take you know, create a new situation inside the country.

(01:40:09):
Maybe they're confident that they can do it because they've
infiltrated masad As. Maybe we've got this a leader there.
You know, there's a lot of information we just don't know.
The playbook would be what happened with Maduro. It's not
the worst thing in the world to keep the current
people in place as long as they understand this is
how it's going to go. And maybe that's what's happening here.

(01:40:31):
Maybe we just don't know. I think the Iranians have
one shot. I think they could fire thousands of missiles
at Israel. It can create a lot of damage, but
then that would be it. From a military perspective. They've
been winnowed down since that last attack that took place
last spring and don't have the capability that they had
in the past.

Speaker 6 (01:40:47):
But this is Metnejo saying, we're pushing this store over
right now.

Speaker 2 (01:40:50):
What does it look like if you know, Trump's saying
it could take weeks or whatever, you know, potentially like
is that do we have boots on the ground in
that situation.

Speaker 6 (01:41:00):
I don't see that at all.

Speaker 15 (01:41:02):
I think that this president does not want to see
the same mistakes of Middle Eastern policy. If over the
past twenty five years that both Republicans and Democrats have made.
I think that he looks to find the trusting of
the Israeli Mussad on the inside of Iran.

Speaker 6 (01:41:18):
In other countries, Turkey.

Speaker 15 (01:41:20):
We've talked about as being that indispensable nation that can
help tip this over. But they'll be they'll be They'll
be down wind problems of oil, the price of oil
will spike, there'll be there'll be some economic issues that
will take place that we have to be aware of
if something does happen like this. But but I don't
see boots on the ground. I see us just kind

(01:41:41):
of strangling out the Iranians side, the United States playing
the heavy and possibly maybe the Israelis doing something internal.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Yeah, you and I were chatting right before this and
you're like, yeah, I don't think they're going to do it,
you know, like before the end of the Olympics.

Speaker 15 (01:41:55):
Right, you know, this is all spotlight is on that
right now, on the Olympics, and that would be you know,
we saw the Russians waited until the end Associate in
twenty fourteen before they invaded Ukraine. It's just you know
that from a foreign policy perspective, it's not the time
to do it right now. But again, the element of
surprise is going to always be on the side of

(01:42:15):
the United States, and it's hard to say whether we
would do that or not.

Speaker 2 (01:42:18):
So your gut, I mean, my gut feeling is where
something is going to happen. I just don't know when.
And then of course you've still got Gaza that's sitting there,
and once again, man, we talk about it every week.
I've yet to hear anybody like Turkey, anybody else go Okay,
you know, we'll come in there, we'll play the peacekeeper role.
We'll help Amas disarm and get rid of their weapons,
but we'll also make sure that they're not going to

(01:42:38):
be slaughtered by the other militia groups and you guys
can start to rebuild. I haven't heard any of that.

Speaker 15 (01:42:45):
We haven't seen any pictures come out of there either
as to how the people are there, you know, two
million refugees are so to speak, if they've gone back
to their houses, and what specifically is Israel doing and
in that environment, we haven't seen any World Peace Core
or a Red Cross or any anybody in gazas that
still remains one of the most dangerous places on the earth.

(01:43:05):
So that's a that's a status quo doing nothing as Israel.
It continues to just you know, surround that out and
not give it any opportunity to try to try to
rebound or try to have the Hamas regroup and refight,
because they haven't given up their weapons to haven't given
up the ministries, they still control the land.

Speaker 2 (01:43:23):
It's a crazy world we're living in. He is the
best damn military analyst in the business. Kid, Major Mike Laes,
appreciate you coming on, brother, We'll do it again next week.

Speaker 6 (01:43:30):
Thanks chat Tuck.

Speaker 2 (01:43:31):
Then, I love talking to Mike and God willing, there
is nothing that happens crazy, But I just I think
I think he's right about the Olympics. I think they're
gonna make every quote unquote effort to figure something out
with Iran and then they're going to do something. And
God willing, we don't have boots on the ground. Three two, three, five,

(01:43:51):
three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show.
That is your ex Insta, your YouTube and everything else.
We'll go wrap it up with a great story, a
story that should make us smile. We need more of that.
Too much negativity out there, too much. Just we got
a story, honestly that is so awesome that you know,

(01:44:14):
we had the monks in their march, which was incredible.
This is another one of those stories that I just
think is incredible. We're going to do that straight ahead
as we wrap it up on this Tuesday. It is
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 23 (01:44:33):
Welcome to Jeste, No, not the country, the institution, The
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:44:42):
As we wrap up this show on a Tuesday. You know,
there's a lot of negativity out there. You know, we
try to have fun. We'll bring you the news, We're
honest about it. We have a good time talk about
wacky stories and stories that affect your life every day.
But I, you know, my old coach when I played soccer,
if you knew the show, I went over to Europe
when I was young to try my hand at pro

(01:45:03):
soccer and was able to be an apprentice and had
you know, a cup of coffee in the lower leagues
over there, and I was very blessed to do so
on this way back in the day. And but one
of my coaches used to always say, let's end it
on a good Okay, let's end it on a good
So if you were shooting, you want to score a goal.

(01:45:24):
If you're a goalie wanted to make a save kind
of thing. Let's end it on a good and I
think we need to do more of that, because there
are stories out there that are great like this one.
It is Girl Scout cookie time of year. My wife
got several of them this weekend. She's a pushover. I
try to stay away from them because they're so darn good.
This girl's out out selling everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:45:45):
And my name is Tim doing a nice little Girl
Scout cookie.

Speaker 4 (01:45:48):
She's only six, but pen Neil is already doing what
no Girl Scout has seemingly done before. In one single season,
the kindergartener has sold over one hundred thousand boxes of cookies.

Speaker 2 (01:46:01):
What are you holding, Pim?

Speaker 6 (01:46:03):
Cute cookies.

Speaker 4 (01:46:05):
Pim has wanted to be a Girl Scout and sell
cookies since she was three, but getting into a troop
took time because of her age and because she needed
to find the right troop for her special needs.

Speaker 1 (01:46:16):
Being somewhere now that she has loved and wanted it
just makes us so happy.

Speaker 4 (01:46:21):
Pim's dad, Luke interak Neil, explained that together they rallied businesses,
friends and family to purchase cookies, and then took to
social media.

Speaker 1 (01:46:31):
And how many Girl Scout cookies are you trying to sell?
Ten thousand, ten thousand, that's a lot of cookies.

Speaker 2 (01:46:37):
That's a lot of thousands of cookies. I'll take them
off you don't mind. How cool is that? Again? The
story that makes us smile. She's out there hustling and
doing it and selling a lot andoo else is great.
People are getting behind her, which I also find to
be awesome in a world where we're all so divided,
we all don't like each other, don't listen to the

(01:46:59):
crap in the outlgorithms.

Speaker 4 (01:47:00):
That video went viral, bringing in some twenty thousand boxes
in a day, and the support only grew from there.
Now she's on track to sell the most cookies ever,
the apparent record one hundred and eighty thousand over a
Girl Scouts career.

Speaker 1 (01:47:17):
We got asked along the way, well haven't you sold
enough boxes? Is that enough? My favorite response was do
you think they sold?

Speaker 6 (01:47:23):
Michael Phelps that he swam enough laps?

Speaker 4 (01:47:26):
And like a true business woman, she's already chasing her
next sale.

Speaker 1 (01:47:31):
You know, what do you want to say to all
the people who have boxies?

Speaker 2 (01:47:34):
Cookies?

Speaker 1 (01:47:34):
Thank you cookie?

Speaker 21 (01:47:37):
Nice job.

Speaker 2 (01:47:38):
I love it. I love it. Dad, Right, there is
what we need. We need more stories like that. And
I know in the algorithm world it doesn't sell. And
I know in the world of everybody wants to be
pissed and angry about everything, that just ah, but that's awesome.
I mean that makes you smile. I've got a little
one and she's thinking about going to Girl Scouts next year,

(01:48:00):
and I just I sit there and think, no, don't
because we're gonna end up eating all those damn cookies.
But still, what a cool story. And it goes back
to also showing how many people go, Look, I let's
rally behind that. Let's let's do that. Let's let's get
behind that, and let's let's let's see what we can do.

(01:48:22):
And I just think that's great. Let me know what
you think. I love hearing from each and every single
one of you. You love, you hate, and all that
kind of stuff. Reach out to us across all of
our social media three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,
twenty three at Chad Benson Show. That is your ex
that is your Insta and your YouTube will be live

(01:48:44):
later on tonight on the old YouTube. If you have
a chance, check it out. I think you might find
it to be fun because we tend to have some fun.
We'd take on some stories in a much different way
than we would hear on the radio because we have
a little bit more time, if that makes sense. Right
here on the Chad Benson Show, solid fun show. Today,
we talked the Olympics. Great story to end it right.

(01:49:05):
We did talk to Epstein the horrible situation in Georgia
with the trial. We talked about that, the piracy. Remember,
all right, if you guys didn't hear it, we did
last hourgrad the podcast. I'm not saying you should pirate,
but do I understand why people do? Yes? I do,
But maybe that's a no for you, Okay, But we

(01:49:25):
just wanted to put it out there that people are
doing that and you shouldn't do that. But if you did,
and you shouldn't, don't tell them I sent you. That's
not nice. Okay. You guys have a blessed the amazing
rest of your Twoday.

Speaker 1 (01:49:39):
I'm not really a fan of Tunesday Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:49:42):
We'll do it again tomorrow. It's always night night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:45):
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