Senate Approves Shutdown Ending Legislation, Sending Bill to the House for a Vote

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The government finally reopen, right, kind of sortup and not.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
Really On this vote, the eyes are sixty, the nays
are forty.

Speaker 4 (00:22):
The bill as amended is passed.

Speaker 3 (00:25):
A major hurdle has been cleared to reopen the government
as soon as Wednesday. The Senate last night narrowly passing
its bill to keep the government funded through January thirty eight. Democrats,
not up for reelection next year, broke ranks to vote
with Republicans, even though the deal does not include democrats
key demand to extend Obamacare subsidies and prevent insurance premiums

(00:47):
from skyrocketing.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Well, Senate, finally they got that sorted out. Okay, but
it's not over. So now it goes from here to
the House.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
The biggest issue in the House is going to be logistics.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
The House has been out.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Since September eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Johnson has consistently kept them out, consistently kept them on
recess because he didn't want the House to come back
while the Senate was dealing with this funding fight. Now,
because the House has to get back to work, they've
got to scramble all of those members back there, spread
out across.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
The country and there's issues with you know, travel, But
let's be real. Once they get back, one of the
big things they're going to be discussing is subsidies. And
guess what, no subsidies.

Speaker 5 (01:35):
It's notable for what it does not include, which is
it has no increase, no extension of these Obamacare tax
credits that have been the animating issue of this shutdown. Instead,
what these eight Democratic senators got who broke with the
bulk of Senate Democrats and voted with Republicans, is a
promise that there will be a vote in the coming weeks,

(01:55):
it's believed sometime in December, on extending these Obamacare tax credits.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
That vote is not a done deal in the Senate. No,
it's not. And again, even if they get a vote,
the outcome is going to be no subsidies. I would
be surprised. I would be. And this now is the Republicans,
this is yours. Now. You've got to show everybody that

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you are going to fix this nightmare. And Obamacare didn't work.
It didn't do what it was supposed to do. There
was not enough people in the pool that were healthy.
It just didn't do what it was supposed to do.
Plus you had the people that designed it, the insurance
companies always continuingly moving the cost up up in a

(02:46):
way because they could. There was a lot of reasons
why it didn't work. There was now Republicans, this is
where you get involved. This is where you have to
be the front and center in this situation and make
sure that you push and get something done for the

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American people to see and go, Okay, all right, I
can see what you want to do. They've they've thrown
out a lot of stuff. I don't think they're really
too worried about it, to be honest with you. I
think they're going to make a lot of noise, but
I think they're going to see how this thing lands
with people, and if a bunch of people lose their
health care, I don't think it's going to bother them
that much. I really don't. I think for the most part,

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they're fine with this and they're going to just let
it go and see where it goes. They'll throw some
stuff out there that they're going to say, we're talking
about this, we're talking about that, But for the most part,
I don't think they're that bothered by it. I think
they think a lot of this is They wanted to
show everybody is, look, how bad this thing is. Okay,
everybody knows it's bad, but what people want to see

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is well, first of all, I'd like to see them
get out of the healthcare industry all together. It's just
not gonna happen. The regulations, the tape, the Green tape,
the Orange tape, the blue tape, it's just too much
of it. So they're entrenched in there. They're not going anywhere. Now.
The question is, well, what can you do to make
it somewhat more affordable using common sense. That's going to

(04:14):
be the big question moving forward. Speaking of moving forward,
I don't think Schumer is going to be There.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Are serious questions about whether Democrats have confidence in Chuck
Schumer remaining their Democratic leader in the Senate because a
lot of Democrats are looking at this and saying, look,
either Schumer gave his blessing for this deal to go forward,
or he is unable to keep his cack as united
to actually take a stand on an issue that is

(04:41):
so important to Democrats. And that's when we started hearing
questions about whether or not Chuck Schumer is actually effective
leading the Democratic Party in the Senate.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
No he's done. He's absolutely done. I think most people
recognize that it wasn't if, but when and AOC is
coming for that seat. I know she's probably looking and going, oh,
they're thinking about putting You know, she could have a
chance to run for president. Settle down. She has got
a win. When it comes to the Senate, there's no

(05:12):
doubt in my mind she could absolutely take that Senate
seat in New York one percent. I think the opportunity
for her to take that is right there. This is
Roqahanna talking about how bad leadership is in the Democratic Party.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
It's mind boggling.

Speaker 7 (05:28):
It's just people who are out of touch, who don't
understand the political moment that we're in. Look, the good
news is there's a new generational leaders Soroan ma'm Donni Juan,
Abigail Spaanberger one, Mikey, Cheryl jan There are people who
get it. You know, someone jokingly or maybe it was serious,
described me as a backbencher, calling psumers a ouster. Some

(05:52):
people who like me came to my defense saying, no,
he's not a backbencher.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
I said no. The problem is those of us in
the back need to get to the front.

Speaker 7 (05:59):
This party needs a change in the leadership.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Can't deny that. By the way, as for Okahanna, who
is a Democrat but more of a centrist and common sense,
and I think it's true.

Speaker 8 (06:14):
It's true.

Speaker 2 (06:15):
Absolutely, they have lost their way. And the fact is
Schumer had no shot at fixing this situation. He had
to have known what was coming. I mean, the people
that decided to vote for this are people that have
no worry about being voted out next year. And people
like Tim Kaine live in state Virginia where a vast

(06:39):
majority of his constituents are government employees. So alas here
we are. We'll see moves to the House next and
that'll start tomorrow and we'll see where it goes from here.
So this is going to be interesting, very interesting to
see how the House handles it. But don't think for
a moment when it comes to healthcare costs that I
think that the Republicans are going to do anything spectacular.

(07:01):
I think they're gonna let it see what happens. And
as I've been telling everybody for the last twenty four hours,
all of these these rate hikes they're baked in now,
so this isn't going to change. So expect there to
be next year a very steep cost for a lot
of people out there when it comes to the Obamacare pool.

(07:25):
And that's gonna be again. I've heard from a lot
of you that's going to be going from eight hundred bucks,
you know for a family of four to you know,
eighteen hundred or two thousand. Let me know what you're
thinking that happens to you. Let me know what your
price is. Have you seen a rise three two, three, five, three, eight,
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(07:46):
out there, travel is still a nightmare. And there's going
to be more slowdowns today because just because they're headed
back in the near future with the full open of
the government doesn't mean it's going to change anytime soon.
Trump was pissed about the air traffic controllers.

Speaker 9 (08:06):
President Trump threatened to dock the pay for controllers who
don't come to work, warning on social media that those
who called out should leave the profession with no payment
or severance of any kind. But the President said he'd
be recommending a bonus of ten thousand dollars for controllers
who didn't take time off air traffic controllers say some

(08:26):
of their coworkers have to take side hustles.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Yeah, absolutely, What do you expect them to do? I'm
just curious, what'd you expect them not to try to
find a way to make money. And just because again
that this government is going to reopen, there is still
repercussions from this. Not like they get their check tomorrow

(08:51):
and everything's okay, So expect several more delays in the
coming days.

Speaker 9 (09:00):
At Newark Airport, planes lined up as far as the
eye can see.

Speaker 10 (09:04):
I don't really care what your political persuasions, and you
should really call your senator.

Speaker 9 (09:09):
This Southwest pilot sharing is frustration with passengers during the
long wait for takeoff.

Speaker 10 (09:14):
It's really frustrating for me because right now it's going
to cost about two hours of our lives on the
ground before we even take off.

Speaker 9 (09:22):
Air traffic controllers are working without pay.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah they are. And the fact that Trump is frustrated
because there's gonna be tons of flight delays again today.
Airlines required to cut about six percent across forty major
airports today and it is super frustrating. I get it.
But the whole thought of well, we're going to get
rid of you. We don't have enough as is. And

(09:49):
by the way, if you've thought about becoming a air
traffic controller, about fifty thousand applicants a year apply yes,
then ten percent get to the point where they have
a conversation to be accepted in the training course, and
out of all of the applicants and everything, only a

(10:10):
thousand make it to the academy. So you have to
be a citizen under the age of thirty one when
you apply. You have to go through background psychology tests,
all those kind of things, right, physical drug testing. Then
you got to go to Oklahoma City for several months

(10:31):
two to five depending on specialty, tower, radar, en route,
those kind of things. Then from there you go to
to a on the job training as a development of
controller under supervision, gradually working towards full certification. The total
time from starting through full certification is about one and
a half to three years on the job after the academy,

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So in total it's about four years to seven years
if you account for pre employment preparation. So think about
that for a second. Okay, and the fact that Trump's like,
we'll get rid of you. Yeah, settle down, okay, just
settle down. We don't have enough as this. It's not
like they're just growing on trees. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 1 (13:10):
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Speaker 2 (13:12):
Lawsuits incoming. When it comes to the flooding and the
horrific flooding that took place in Texas.

Speaker 11 (13:18):
The families of children and counselors who died in the
historic July fourth flooding at Camp Mystic in Texas are
suing the camp and its owners for negligence. Twenty five
young girls and two teen counselors were killed when the
Guadalupe River rows more than twenty feet in less than
two hours.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Not a shaker, we do. These were coming at some
point in time, and they have arrived.

Speaker 11 (13:38):
A lawyer for the camp said keeping the girls in
their cabins was the right thing to do.

Speaker 12 (13:43):
Do not take nine year old girls who weighed sixty
three pounds on average into raging floodwaters.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
They're going to get washed away.

Speaker 11 (13:51):
In a new statement, a camp lawyer calls the flood unprecedented,
saying no adequate warning systems existed. The camp saying it
empathizes with the families but disagrees with several accusations.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, the legal counsel, Jeffrey said in a statement, we
intended demonstrate and prove that the sudden surge of floodwaters
far exceeded any previous flood in the area by several magnitudes.
One of the things that is going against them Camp
Mystic is they argued that they should be removed from

(14:26):
FEMA's list of that flood zone that they should have
that because they remember there was a FEMA map and
Camp Mystic requested to amend the map to hide the
safety risk is what they're saying from the public, which
I don't think that was it. But the pack lawsuit

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claimed that the FEMA map amended the flood maps in
twenty thirteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, removing the camp's owned
structures along the Guadalupe River in Cypress Lake from the
designated flood zon zones. Yeah, the Eastland family has had
Camp Mistic since nineteen thirty nine. And guess what history

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of flooding? They said there was three other incidents within
the last century in which floodwaters prompted evacuations, damage buildings,
or swept away personal items and vehicles belonging to Mystic
campers and staff. So look, it's a tragedy. It is

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a again once in a lifetime. That's all it takes.
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lot of things done hindsight is twenty twenty. But the

(15:56):
loss of life here cannot be ignored. And you knew
there were going to be low all suits coming. You
absolutely knew there were. The question is did they learn
anything safety wise from here on out from the loss
of life of these young children. We'll see meanwhile, Scotus,

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speaking of cases, taking a listen to stuff.

Speaker 13 (16:19):
We've also heard a case already this term about who
can challenge state election laws? Can candidates on the ballot
suited to challenge the state rules. Another big case that
they heard, of course, is one involving the Voting Rights
Act and whether race can be considered when drawing congressional
districts in a number of states. So this is a
Supreme Court that is not shy about waiting into some

(16:40):
very consequential issues when it comes to elections. And there
will be a number of big decisions coming down.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
Yes or will be on voting. One decision that didn't
need to come down marriage equality, gay marriage. A lot
of people think that this was this petition was a
backdoor way into the Supreme Court to eliminate gay marriage,
and that was from Kim Day. This the frumpy lady
who wouldn't give a marriage license to the couple in Kentucky.

Speaker 13 (17:05):
There has been some criticism about all the attention this
petition got because it was a pretty weak vehicle for
overturning Obergefell for a number of reasons. It was the
first chance that the Supreme Court had to even look
at that question, and it didn't get very far. The
Supreme Court yesterday gave no explanation for denying Kim Davis's appeals.
She'll now have to pay all that money and the

(17:28):
justices won't get anywhere close to looking at marriage rights again,
at least right now.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Coming out our buddy, Michael Lion's Military Analyst, it's going
to join the program. We're going to talk about all
the things that are going on globally militarily wise. We'll
do that through ahead Chad.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
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Speaker 2 (18:04):
It is that time of day. Sit down and talk
to our buddy. He is tired military is a major
in the Army and Happy Veterans Day to the absolute
best military analyst in the business, Mike cllions Man, How
you doing.

Speaker 4 (18:16):
Good, Chad?

Speaker 14 (18:17):
Thanks for having me. Happy Veterans Day to all my
fellow veterans out there. It's a day that I'm glad
we celebrate. Now he didn't always do that, but it's
really a look back on the Vietnam vet the World
War Two vets that have been passing, and Korean War vets,
and then of course our global war on Terror veterans.
So it's I'm glad the country takes this one day

(18:37):
and puts aside at the time too, and to honor
those folks.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Hey, Mike, before we get into the military side of
battles and stuff that are going on. It's interesting because
when we look back at the major wars or conflicts,
we look back at World War Two. Obviously you know
what went down there in the greatest generation. The Korean
War is kind of forgotten, and the Vietnam War was
political chaos and strife, and then those guys were somewhat

(19:05):
tossed aside as part of the problem. What do you
make of that?

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (19:10):
Number one, first and foremost that I never missed an
opportunity to thank of Vietnam veteran for their service what
they did, because it's on their backs now.

Speaker 4 (19:18):
That we no longer hate people from the military. We don't.

Speaker 14 (19:21):
We don't blame our soldiers for the wars that they started.
The Vietnam veteran came home to to just just disgrained
disgrace on some level and and didn't have the appreciation
of the country. I remember when I was a kid,
my dad would we would pick up Vietnam veteran sailors
and service members on the Palisades Parkway.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
Then we needed a ride.

Speaker 14 (19:43):
And again our country learned from that that terrible mistake
by treating those those soldiers badly. They were not volunteers,
they were drafted. So that pendulum has swung again. I
remember when I was in combat, thinking, oh boy, we
better do a good job here because everyone's on our side.
So you know, the Vietnam veteran particular, if you see
one today, thank them for their service because again it's

(20:04):
on their backs.

Speaker 4 (20:05):
Is why we celebrate Veterans Day.

Speaker 2 (20:07):
I think talking to Michael Lioness, military analysts, veteran this
Veterans Day, what do you make of the Syrian president
being here? Will you and I have talked about this guy,
this guy war on terror, he killed Americans, He's killed
pretty much everything that's moved walked. I mean, it's one
of those kind of guys. But politics in today's world

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makes a bizarre strange Bedfellows. I saw him yesterday shooting
hoops out near the White It's so surreal, man.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Yeah, now, chat, I love it.

Speaker 14 (20:35):
I think you know, who would have thought ten years
ago Obama's president and John Kerry and him decide to
somehow allow the Russians back into the Syrian you know,
operation there with their submarine base. Who would have thought
now you'd have potentially the US air base going into Damascus.

(20:57):
I mean this shows you that that capitalism does win
over democracy at some level. They recognize that the Syrian
government wants to be part of the abram Accords. They
want to they want to be part of that growing organization,
growing community.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
So I love it.

Speaker 14 (21:14):
I think that you're right, it does make strange bed Follows.
And similar to what happened the deal we made with
the Vietnamese as Vietnam as a global trading partner, now
with US and everybody else as well. So I think
with a presence of a US air base near Damascus,
which would be an incredible intelligence coup and support that

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security arrangement that is being broken between them and Israel.
I think it's I think it's a tremendous forward foreign
policy win once again for the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (21:43):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we talk about all
things military move from there to what is going on
in the Caribbean down near South America. Saw yesterday that
Columbia and Venezuela or maybe thinking about becoming pals just
in case there's something that goes down and they need
to join forces. And Trump. You know, I saw several
people last week that said, look, you know, now Trump's

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kind of can do what he wants. He's already briefed,
you know, the Senate and Intel community about this, and
I think some of the stuff happening here with the
shutdown has slowed what is going on there, but I
think something's still coming.

Speaker 14 (22:18):
You know, still a lot of performative leverage taking place there.
We saw the Secretary of Defense brief another attack on
one of the small boats there. It's still nothing compared
to the amount of cocaine that travels over land or
in larger containers that's well hidden and brought in in
other ways that you know, I don't see us taking

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out a container ship with all the other things that
are commingled in that, in that organizations and those operations.

Speaker 4 (22:45):
But there's a lot of performative leverage.

Speaker 14 (22:48):
Talked to a bunch of folks yesterday at the Military Academy,
and we all agreed that it's probably not a good
idea to invade Venezuela or take this anytime further. Sovereign
nation United Nations would be involved all kinds of things.
I don't think it would. I don't think it would
be a good idea. But what it's doing, it's also
projecting this power in the hemisphere, and China is going

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to be out in Russia obviously it will no longer
be involved. So I think from that perspective, the Trump
administration is building the blocks to make sure that the
United States remains firmly in control of all aspects of
what happens in this hemisphere.

Speaker 2 (23:22):
Hey, Mike, if we don't do anything, we back away,
what kind of sense of confidence does that give somebody
like Maduro, who will then think I stared down the
giant monster that is America and they blinked.

Speaker 14 (23:38):
You know, I think that that's always in the back
of his mind. You saw that sixty Minutes episode of him,
and he's still kind of in hiding. Hetel has some
support of the people, but this I don't think you'll
see that happen here because I'm still never a fan
of regime change. I'd rather have these regimes come around

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and decide to go democracy and decide to become part
of the international community and those kinds of things, because
there's the chaos that comes with regime change is just
so unpredictable, So I'm never a fan of that, but
it does. It wouldn't power him if the United States did,
you know, again, I don't see this administration doing that though.
I think between Rubio and Jade Vance recognizing, you know,

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their foreign policy chops are grounded in what they've watched,
the mistakes that have gotten made over the past twenty
twenty five years from frankly democratic administrations, and they're not
going down that path.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Talking to my clients military analysts as we sit here
and talk about all things that is military before we
get to Israel and Russia. Africa has what's going on
in Nigeria, but it also has what's going on in Sudan,
which is arguably out of everything going on, the biggest
issue militarily that the world is facing, not just us,

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the world is facing. And I sit here and I
see I mean, my god, Mike, from space, you can
see blood running in parts of the streets in near Darfur.
At what point in time does the u ND get
off its ass and do a damn thing. Why do
we have the little blue helmets if they're not doing anything?

Speaker 14 (25:08):
Yeah, I think never. Frankly, it's just too hard. No
one has that any kind of interest. Those places in
Saadan still like that. They don't have any resources, there's
no economic advantage to do that. That's just something that
we'd have to do morally as a as a population.
But but you know that is quickly again becoming this

(25:30):
terrorst safe haven, and that's going to you know, completely
impact counter terrorism posture, global stability. This this thing just
big bongs around. It's you know, it's in the Levant,
it's in the northern part of Africa, and then it
gets into Sadan Uh driven out of a rock, all
these different places. So again, this is where if the

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United States doesn't take the lead on it, and in
Africa in particular, that command doesn't keep an eye on it,
you're you're going to see this explosion of a tear
or safe haven, and it just doesn't do the world
any good.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Yeah. I keep thinking to myself, shouldn't we be getting
in there in some way, shape or form a just
to save human beings? Because I saw what those I mean,
you know, I mean, you've been around war obviously, but
these these are young kids killing other young kids who
are helpless, and young men and women getting blown to
bits and pieces, and they're posting it on the internet

(26:23):
and it is vile and disgusting, and I'm thinking to myself, again,
this is going to eventually blow up in our face,
kind of like what happened in Afghanistan. We help them
defeat the Soviets, and then we're.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Like bye, yeah, chat.

Speaker 14 (26:36):
I think that this is a good example of the
people surrounding the president, Eldrich Kobe and even Secretary of
War and Heseth, I just don't think that this is
I think this is our fight. They are still burned
by what happened in Afghanistan, and they just don't believe
it's our fight. It'll become our fight when the President
wakes up and maybe sees something like that, sees it

(26:59):
on social media, then all of a sudden, he'll direct
resources there. But until that happens, you know, this president's
focused on the US in this hemisphere and what's in
best interests in the United States, and unfortunately the group
around him doesn't see any assets going there. You'd have
to put a carrier group there, you'd have to have marines,
you'd have to have, you know, a significant military presence

(27:20):
there in order to try to exert any kind of
leverage in that part of the world. And I don't
think it would matter a difference. I think you'd have
to actually land people on the beach, and that's not
going to happen.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
things politics in the world of the military, and now
we move over to Russia. It's gotten kind of quiet,
but they're still fighting, and quiet means we're not talking
about it. Obviously, with the shutdowns kind of taking the
oxygen out of everything. But this thing is still going
on and Russia's made some big advancements.

Speaker 14 (27:51):
Yeah, and what you're seeing is, you know, Russia is
going after its winter now time coming, so they're going
after the power graz Both sides are kind of deny
the other. This logistics and energy, which is, you know,
still all about the territory there. What's the leverage that
Trump would need to impart on Russia in order to
get to the negotiation table. Well, it would be a

(28:13):
NATO based air defense umbrella that's over Ukraine, that would
protect Ukraine from incoming Russian missiles, maybe even a no
fly zone. No fly zone is somewhat of an act
of war though, if a Russian plane is shot down
by you know, some kind of NATO force.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
He hasn't decided to do that.

Speaker 14 (28:30):
He hasn't still moved on sanctions, and so there is
still fundamentally no change in the leverage situation there, which
is why Russia won't come.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
To the table.

Speaker 14 (28:37):
You know, they're pleading again for more Patriot missile systems,
and that's exactly what they need. They need they need relaunchers,
they need the intermediate and the far range ones, the
ones that go deep. The Tomahawks are still looks like
they're still not been fully approved yet, and it doesn't
look like that there would be a difference anyway. I
don't think that's a leverage difference maker. What would make

(28:58):
a difference is an umbrella of air defense systems. Over
in Ukraine that would would protect them from Russian missile attacks.

Speaker 2 (29:06):
And the chances of them getting something like that.

Speaker 14 (29:09):
I think Donald Trump in particular is still searching for
in his fingertips to feel that that would make a difference,
and I don't think he does. And because he doesn't
think it would make a difference, he's he's going to
give Ukraine maybe some more patriot missiles in themselves, but
that's not going to be good enough and Ukraine will
still get pounded. So he's he's backing off. This is

(29:31):
this is his strategic patients. I would call it from
the leverage perspective. He's trying to find it, but he's not.
He's not finding it anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (29:39):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we talk about the
world of conflict, which unfortunately seems to be everywhere we
move from there to the Middle East. Netnyah, who says
the war's not over and the war was never going
to be over like this. The fact is it's still
going to take time. But man, you and I talk
about it. Since this thing got you know, signed, if
you will, I still see no other horses that were

(30:00):
supposed to be in Palestine that was supposed to start,
you know, kind of policing this area. I see and
hear nothing. It was like everybody celebrated Day one and
then they just disappeared, you know.

Speaker 14 (30:12):
And Egypt was going to be that indispensable nation sending
troops there. You had Turkey involved and even troops from Indonesia.
So Jakarta, I thought we'd see that there by now
we don't see movement. And that's because the situation is
still very unstable. The dynamics of the ceasefire still are
not have not been hammered out. I don't think there's

(30:33):
a large scale threat let's say that comes from from Hamas,
but it's still there, and it's not enough where countries
feel that they could send troops in the until Hamas
formally agrees to disarm and formally agrees to give up
some of the ministries that I don't know what they're
controlling frankly, you know, because how flattened the country is

(30:55):
right now, these other countries are not going to get involved.
They no one wants to be part of of something
that will not go well, and they want to be all.

Speaker 4 (31:03):
Part of success.

Speaker 14 (31:04):
It's that JFK is saying about, you know, the successes
got you know, a lot of victors and failure as
an orphan, and I think right now people are still
looking at that situation and still give me an orphan,
and there to be a lot of failures that take
place in Gaza.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I love talking to you, man. You give it to
us straight and that's what I love. Appreciate it. You
have yourself an amazing Veterans Day as always, Thank you
for your service, and thank you for hanging out on
our little show. And we'll do it again next week.

Speaker 4 (31:28):
Thanks Chet, thanks always for having me.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Michael Client's right there. Military analysts, best damn military analysts
around and a VET. And if you see a VET today, guys,
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Speaker 1 (33:19):
Welcome to Chadhe no, not the country, the institution, The
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (33:26):
It was great talking to Mike earlier and again. If
you see a veteran, thank a veteran. My buddy David
put this together. It's a poem about veterans and to
thank you that we should give and how blessed we
are to live in this amazing country.

Speaker 12 (33:41):
As I travel across country, in my mind, I think
of how lucky we are just to be alive, Thankful
for the ground we walk on, in the air we breathe,
to be the person I am today. We're blessed to
have family and friends. Take a close look at the
people around us, thank them for their services in whatever

(34:02):
they may do. We need to thank our soldiers for
putting their lives at risk every day. We need to
thank our first responders, our truck drivers, the server at
the market, the waitress at the restaurant. We need to
just thank God that we have each other.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
Be who you are, for there.

Speaker 12 (34:23):
Is only one you. You are unique in your own
special way. We make ourselves who we are, and there
is no limit to our thoughts and actions. As they
speak louder than words. Let's stand together to make a
better world for all of us. I believe, I believe

(34:44):
you can accomplish anything you set your mind to. I
am in control of my own destiny.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Very nice. My buddy David right there put that together,
and he was truck driver for a long time, and
you know he would see veterans and first response and
just how blessed we are to live in this country.
And we are, and I think that we and so
many people in particular myself included, At times, I think
everybody has taken this country and for granted, and we

(35:16):
need to every once in a while to take a
step back, and I think remind ourselves how absolutely blessed
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Benson Show. Coming up, our number two of the program,
a lot of stuff to get to. Gishline. That's not
her name, I know it's Gallaine Maxwell. Is she angled
for something? Is she getting a little something something in prison?
And not talking about that. I'm talking about some special

(35:58):
kind of treatments. We're going to talk talk about that. Also,
paycheck to paycheck, people are living it. I'm hearing from
the White House. It's the greatest economy in the history
of times. You should just deal with how great this is.
But the numbers don't bear that out. So we're going
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love hearing from all of you. Our number two straight ahead.

Speaker 1 (36:25):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
It's official. Well, the government's still shut down, but it's
gotten out of the Senate, so there's that.

Speaker 6 (37:03):
The Senate officially passing a bill to reopen the government,
putting Congress on track to end the longest shut down
in American history. The bill now heads to the House,
members scrambling back to Washington after being out of town
for more than fifty days. The House will hold its
first round of votes Wednesday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (37:21):
We're getting the banned back together, as we're getting the
band back together. They're coming together. You're going to get
this done.

Speaker 5 (37:28):
The biggest issue in the House is going to be logistics.
The House has been out.

Speaker 1 (37:32):
Since September eighteenth.

Speaker 5 (37:34):
Johnson has consistently kept them out, consistently kept them on
recess because he didn't want the House to come back
while the Senate was dealing with this funding fight. Now,
because the House has to get back to work, they've
got to scramble all of those members back.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
They're spread out across the country. Well, it should be easy, right,
everybody should be able to get back. I mean, there's
no delays at the oh there is delays at the airport.
In fact, Trump basically threatening the air traffic controllers.

Speaker 6 (38:01):
The President calling for air traffic controllers to be penalized
if they haven't shown up for work. The President running
on social media that those who called out should leave
their jobs with no payment or severance of any kind,
while those who didn't take time off should get a
bonus of ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 15 (38:17):
We should not have had people leaving their jobs. And
what I basically did is say the ones that stayed,
of which were there were a lot of them, I'm
sending them a ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Boyre's that money coming from.

Speaker 11 (38:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
I'll get it from someplace.

Speaker 6 (38:30):
So President Trump did sign a bill into law back
in twenty nineteen that guarantees backpay for all federal workers.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
We don't have enough air traffic controllers. You threatening air
traffic controllers isn't going to help the citiation here, just
letting you know that. And what do you expect them
to do? I like how they should get back to work.
Everybody get back to work and work for free, right now.

(38:56):
I know it's tough, but come on, very frustrating, it is.
The whole thing is frustrating at times. Understand sir, you're
part of the government, right, You're like the head of
the government, and the government is been shut down. And
for the most parts, I mean some have declined, but
for the most part, Congress, Senators, right, they've all been

(39:19):
getting their paychecks, and you're telling these people who are struggling, Eh,
you need to get back there and deal with it.
Dat again, falling on deaf ears, falling on deaf ears.
One of the other things that it's going to happen
is will there won't there be any kind of subsidy vote?
What's going to be inside any of the stuff when

(39:40):
the House gets together. It's one of the things that
a lot of people were talking about that this is
not in the sentence bill is subsidies, which has been
this big battle and the will there won't they?

Speaker 16 (39:53):
Well, so you're not committing to bringing up a bill
that deals with the Obamacare subsidies before they expire.

Speaker 9 (39:59):
I'm not committing to it or not committing to it.
What I'm saying is that we do it delivered a
process as a way this always.

Speaker 17 (40:04):
Works, and we have to have time to do that,
and we will in a bipartisan fashion.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
We shall see if you do this in a bipartisan
fashion and if it actually gets to the point where
it is going to be dare I say debated, put
on the floor for a vote? You know, Obamacare. And
here's the thing with the with the Republicans and we've
talked about this, and it's important because health care is

(40:30):
important since Obamacare came to being. Remember, no Republicans voted
for Obamacare. Okay, it was rushed through and the whole
famous saying well, we have to pass and find out
what's in it from Nancy Pelosi. It never addressed any
of the things it needed to. It was an attempt

(40:52):
at some sort of health.

Speaker 17 (40:55):
Thing.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I don't even know what it was. It was just
supposed to be healthcare. But the reality is ever was
what it was supposed to be, and the Republicans made
great hay on it. It was great going on the offense.
They had no way to overturn it. They had no
way to get rid of it. They would pass over
and over these bills to get rid of Obamacare, but

(41:17):
then they would be vetoed by Obama and they were
just show votes. And then when they had the opportunity,
and that's when McCain said, no, The reality is they
had nothing behind it, and I think we're still in
that position where there's nothing behind it. Obamacare failed for

(41:39):
several different reasons. First and foremost, they focused on what coverage,
not cost controls. Well, if you're supposed to be the
Affordable Care Act. You better be affordable, and you weren't. Okay,
so what did it do? Tons of subsidies tell people
afford insurance, but it didn't require insurance, hospitals, or drug

(42:00):
companies to do anything about their prices. In fact, guaring
team coverage to people with pre existing conditions, insurers needed
higher premiums to offset the bigger risk pool of people
that because the vast majority. It was one of the
other things that happened. The pool was not younger and healthier,

(42:21):
it was older and sicker. It never ever went after
the big drivers of cost hospital monopolies, massive specialty pricing.
The US US United States of America, we paid two

(42:41):
to three times more for the same procedure done in
all the OECD nations. Right, So this's the western countries
when you talk about like the big the big nations
that we pay two to three times more drug prices.
No negotiations were done, right for things like Medicare until

(43:05):
the Inflation Reduction Act, So no negotiation authority for Medicare
until twenty twenty three. Fee for service model, what's that mean?
Volume over value? And then they get in the mandates
the minimums drove up, so maternity care, mental health, all

(43:26):
of these things. Is like you, if you're a dude,
you're getting maternity care. If you're a woman, you're getting
prostate care. If that makes sense, I don't want I mean,
that's just the best kind of thing to say. But
you're getting the things that you don't need. What do
we need? Catastrophic? Younger, healthier people want cheaper catastrophic is

(43:47):
what they're looking for. Insurers also had to cap out
out of pocket limits and cover preventative care for free.
What did that do? Raise premiums? So they were paying
for a ton of coverage in this that they didn't need.
And that brings us to this fellow senator who also

(44:08):
happens to be a doctor, Senator Marshall talking about people
who don't use Obamacare.

Speaker 16 (44:15):
I want to turn to talk about fraud just a
little bit more. Get this, thirty five to forty percent
of Obamacare recipients that are enrolled in Obamacare never file
a claim.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Let me say that again.

Speaker 16 (44:29):
There's twenty four million people in Obamacare. Thirty five forty
percent of those people never file a claim.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
These are ghost people.

Speaker 16 (44:37):
They don't even know they're on Obamacare. They've been falsely
enrolled in Obamacare. Now, some people would say, oh, but there's,
but there's there's always some people that are are don't
file a claim. It's usually more like ten percent, more
like ten percent of people in a pool of insurance
products are not filing the claim in this case is thirty.

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Five to forty percent.

Speaker 16 (44:58):
And overall, I think we could say that this group
of people in Obamacare is a high risk group.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Now, he's absolutely right, thirty to forty percent of people
do not file. Now is it fraud, No, it's not fraud.
What it is is you were giving everything of which
you didn't need, so you never filed a claim, which
is what we want people, right, we want because we
want people healthy. The other thing is it was in

(45:23):
many cases, like our case, it was so ridiculously expensive,
Our out of pocket was crazy and our copays in
many cases, even for you know, the drugs we got,
you know, the prescriptions, they were more expensive than just

(45:43):
paying cash for generic. So another issue right there, continue.

Speaker 16 (45:47):
Sir, Your big cities like Chicago pushed people that took
early retirement to push them onto Obamacare. These are typically
sick people that have been pushed off other plans and
they went towards Obamacare, and trust me, want to address that.
That's why we need a high risk pool that would
address those types of folks as well. But the point
here is that some ten million people on Obamacare are

(46:09):
not using it, but the federal government is getting the
entire premium paid. The insurance companies are getting to the
entire premium paid by the federal government. So ten million
people a premium every month is like a slot machine going.

Speaker 2 (46:24):
To big insurance companies. Very much truth subsidies did what
they masked issues. They didn't solve anything. So there's a
lot that went into it. And one of the big
things also is regulatory capture and lobby So hospitals, insurers,

(46:46):
pharma companies, what do they do. They all had seats
at the table. It's one of the things we've talked
about for years. When you allow the people that you
rail against as one of the big reasons there's issues
in the insurance world and the cost of it, when
you allow them to sit at the table and help

(47:07):
negotiate these things. They did what they slanted it towards themselves.
They traded price control for industry buying. That's how they
got the votes. That is a serious issue across the board.

(47:28):
It's not going to be fixed overnight. But the Republicans
now have this to deal with because people are going
to say, Okay, great, you didn't break it, but you
promised for years to be a solver of this issue.
Can you solve it? And they better have some sort
of answer. Doesn't have to be perfect, but if it's well,

(47:49):
we are just going to let it the market work
itself out. Capitalism that isn't going to work because capitalism
has been traded for crony capitalism in this situation. So
you're on the clock three two, three, five, three eight,
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Speaker 1 (49:50):

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Now that the Senate has voted, Speaker Johnson's making everybody
come back, which means Epstein, what, oh yeah, Epstein. See
Grahova and Arizona will be that vote that puts them
over the edge when it comes to Epstein, can we
get the list? By list, I mean the reports, the notes,

(50:15):
the things that we should have gotten that we were promised,
and then all of a sudden those things disappeared and
it became nothing to see here.

Speaker 18 (50:23):
Well, speak of Johnson bringing the House back in session
as soon as Wednesday, it means that at Alda Grahava,
the newly elected congresswoman from Arizona, will be sworn in
more than a month after she was elected. She's expects
to give the final signature to focal vote on releasing
the Epstein files.

Speaker 2 (50:40):
Yes, now there's other things going on when it comes
to Epstein, and that is Maxwell. You see, apparently she's
doing night in her new luxurious, half assed prison. She's
in compared to where she should be as an awful
child trafficker, and now she's trying to to do some

(51:01):
stuff that may help her get out early. What never.

Speaker 19 (51:05):
Congressman Jamie Raskin of Maryland says a whistleblower has come
forward with a laundry list of alleged perks, including customized
meals delivered to her sale. Maxwell was sent to a
minimum security camp in Texas days after that controversial meeting
with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blinch, who was also the
president's former defense attorney. In that meeting, Maxwell claimed that

(51:26):
President Trump was not involved in any illegal activity with Epstein,
but critics say Maxwell was rewarded for that interview.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Yeah, I think everybody recognizes that now when I say
she's trying to put stuff together, by the sounds of it,
she is trying to do what she can behind the
scenes to orchestrate a get out of jail card.

Speaker 20 (51:47):
Their concerns that Raskin states about this whistleblower who allegedly
told them that the meetings that Maxwell has been having
with her attorneys relate to her compiling a clement see
request from President Trump to have for the rest of
her sentence commuted so she is freed from federal prison
and you know. Ra Asking directly pushes President Trump for

(52:10):
an answer on whether he is going to consider freeing
her from the rest of her prison sentence.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
That cannot happen. That cannot happen. It just can't three two, three, five,
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(52:38):
Here's the thing though, with Trump, He's gonna do what
Trump does, which is whatever he wants. Let me know
what you think. Do you think they should give her clemency?
And on top of all of this stuff with her, yeah,
she's getting some goodies. They're treating her kind of like
a queen.

Speaker 20 (52:53):
Some of these perks allegedly include customized meals that staff,
who are now acting as whistleblowers to the Democrats, say
that she's being prepared by prison staff and are being
delivered personally to her cell. They say that she's being
given preferential treatment from the warden of this facility in
the way of that she's able to basically have guests

(53:13):
in private settings and work with her team on a
potential commutation request for her twenty year sentence that she's
still in the midst of serving out.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
You can't allow it. You can't. I'm telling you. If
Trump does this or he commutes Didty, that is just insane.
So I want you to think about this. He commutes
either of these, First of all, I'm done with them,

(53:42):
but think about it from the position of Ditty And
I've said the whole hooker thing is ridiculous, but what
he did to her, beating Cassie Ventura is going to
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(54:05):
the midterms next year. He commuted this guy, Yeah, you can't.
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Speaker 2 (54:44):
For all the talk of what's going on with travel
and then of course finally getting the start right the
beginning of the end of the shutdown, the snap benefits, Well,
they're still out there. Are they coming or are they
not coming? What's going on with the USDA? Are they
pulling the snap benefits back?

Speaker 5 (55:05):
Those tens of millions of Americans who rely on Snap
are still in limbo. Many are only getting partial payments
of their benefits this month as a court battle over
Snap plays out. The USDA now, in a memo, is
demanding states to quote immediately undo any full payments that
were made for the month of November. A federal judge
is blocking enforcement of that memo this morning, accusing the

(55:27):
Trump administration of quote, trying to play vindictive games with
critical food assistance.

Speaker 2 (55:33):
Kind of feels a little bit like it like the
pressure was put on there and I saw him come out.
I think he was on. You know. Laura Ingram will
play plays him of that here in a little bit.

Speaker 8 (55:43):
But the.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
Whole thing with him, well, the only people should get
it are people who aren't able bodied or something to
that nature. And again we'll play a little bit, and
I'm like, that's what about a nine year old? I mean,
we don't allow people to starve. That's not who we are.
That isn't And are there people that take advantage of it? Yes,
By the way, the the waste and fraud that is

(56:08):
thrown out there all the time for everything is so overdone. Yes,
are the people that do stuff that they shouldn't with
those cards. Everybody's got a story. Well I saw somebody
who sold one. Okay, great, we all have a story.
How about the other people who didn't? How about that

(56:30):
doesn't mean that there isn't issues that we need to
clean up. That includes, by the way, the ridiculously wasteful,
inefficient way that so much of this crap is done,
because we have stuff that is still antiquated, not just
with the USDA but across the board. So yeah, we've

(56:55):
got to do better. We do. We absolutely have to
do better.

Speaker 5 (56:58):
Continue even with an end of this record breaking shutdown
in site, food banks across the country say they're seeing
a surge in demand, with lines wrapping around the block.
Organizers in Seattle warning the effects of the shutdown will
linger even after the government is ultimately funded as those
forty two million Americans relying on snap federal food assistance
and the one point four million federal workers who've been

(57:20):
going unpaid for weeks start to get back on their feet.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
It's going to take a while, and we've talked about it,
it is going to take a while for some of
them to get back on their feet as they've got
their second no paycheck. I just want to say when
I hear people say and I got a lot of this,
and I have got a lot of this over the
last several days. Go a month without a paycheck and

(57:44):
see how that goes for a lot of people out there,
that is going to be a tough thing. It is.
Even if you can afford it for a month or
so to kind of get by and you can make
some arrangements, it's still a stressful proposition. Unless you're independently wealthy,

(58:05):
then it's no big deal. You may go months without
a paycheck. It's no big deal. We're not okay, we're
not reptiles. I don't need to eat one giant meal
and go. I'll be fine for the next six weeks. Okay,
So this will be interesting again. Courts. Courts are going

(58:27):
to decide so much of this stuff. Speaking of courts, courts,
of public opinion about trans what the Olympics, what's going on?
Big announcement coming about trans athletes and the Olympics.

Speaker 1 (58:41):
This would be big. It would be a huge policy
shift for the.

Speaker 21 (58:45):
Ile SNE, which until now has led each sports international
governing body set their own policies centered on transgender inclusion.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
It would also mark a big.

Speaker 21 (58:54):
Change from the ILEC's twenty twenty one framework, which said
there should not be a presum of advantage when it
comes to trans athletes. The reported push comes after I'LC
president Christy Coventry about to protect the women's category before
being elected in March.

Speaker 2 (59:11):
I will say this over and over again, to say
that a person who identifies as a woman but lived
as a man for a decent amount of their life,
including through the pre peubescent into the puberty world, where

(59:33):
they have bigger, stronger bone structures, muscles, I mean, everything
is just bigger. To say that they don't have advantage
is an absolute bold face lie. Enough with that crap. Okay,
this is not about saying that you aren't worth anything,
you shouldn't exist. But once again I go back to this,

(59:55):
do the women not have a right to protect their
space and their sports? Should they not have a say
in their sport how it's run? And by the way,
last week we talked about the fact that there was
a young woman who wrote an article, an op ed

(01:00:16):
piece for the New York Post and she plays for
Angel City Soccer out in LA in the Women's Soccer League,
and everybody got on her a she's horrible, she's you know, transphobic,
you know, the usual stuff that people say. I think
if you quietly asked people, without the fear of repercussions,

(01:00:36):
what do you feel about this, I think you get
a much different opinion and more open and honest answers.
As far as now, I'm not again the fear factor
that is that you're going to be labeled something that
you're not. And stop with the phobic thing. Please, cause

(01:00:57):
nobody's afraid of a trans person. Okay, stop with the
phobic thing. But I think it's a fair question to ask,
and not only that, I think it's also been answered
on numerous occasions that yes, there is an enhanced advantage

(01:01:22):
that trans athletes have over women athletes.

Speaker 22 (01:01:30):
What I would like for the IOC to do is
to bring everyone together to try and find a consensus
amongst all of us that we can all get behind
and that we can implement and above anything and everything else,
it's faired and partakes the female categories.

Speaker 21 (01:01:45):
According to the British newspaper The Times, the IOC will
issue the band sometime early next year, citing a new
scientific review that found evidence men have a permanent physical
advantage over women athletes even after hormone therapy.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
What no duh.

Speaker 21 (01:02:03):
However, the Guardian newspaper says the ban could still be
a year out and that the IOC is facing pushback
to a possible ban on athletes who reported female at
birth but have male chromosomes and the same testosterone level
as men, also known as differences in sexual development.

Speaker 2 (01:02:20):
That would include athletes.

Speaker 21 (01:02:21):
Like South Africa's Casser Samena, who won gold at the
London and Real Games before Track and Fields governing body
World Athletics banned DSc athletes from competing as women in
twenty twenty three.

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
And that's one of those once in a bazillion athletes
that have like male somewhat but female kind of undefined.
This isn't somebody who chose to go in a certain
path or not. Those are so rare, so rare.

Speaker 21 (01:02:54):
While the IOC has issued a statement saying no decision
has been made, the reported policy change would bring them
in line with the Trump administration. Back in February, President
Trump signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports,
which he intends to apply to the twenty twenty eight
Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Anna. It's worth noting that

(01:03:15):
despite the talk surrounding the policy, the IOC says, fewer
than one thousandth of a percent of of recent Olympians
openly identify as trans or nine binary.

Speaker 2 (01:03:26):
Yeah, and that's the funny thing where we talk about
the Democrat Party, how they will defend stuff that is,
you can't defend it in the world of common sense. Okay,
now we're not saying again because the minute you say, look,

(01:03:46):
do trans athletes people who are real athletes? I'm not
talking about somebody you just yanked off the street, just ah,
can you run one hundred meters?

Speaker 6 (01:03:54):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
No, no, no? Can trans athlete to really train? Do
they have an inherent advantage? They do, and we shouldn't
pretend that they don't. And enough of that. And that's
what I said. This is where the Democrats fall down
on numerous occasions because they push this insanity over something
that quite frankly loses in the world of common sense.

(01:04:16):
In the world of common sense, says, Look, it's not
about whether or not they should exist. They do. Treat
them as human beings, give them respect. But at the
same time, you have to recognize these young girls and
women are competing, and the fact is there is definitely
an inherent advantage. But what ends up happening is they
make this way bigger than it should be when you

(01:04:37):
consider the fact that, like they said, less than one
one thousandth of competitive athletes identify as trans and yet
at the same time, what happens they make this a
big deal and the Republicans pull them in on this,
and they just can't let it go. They can't learn

(01:05:01):
right this for as bad as a lot of the
other stuff is. Once it gets to the point where
they have any cultural conversations, the Democrats take the most extreme,
ridiculous path, and people go, this is why, why, this
is why Trump, This is why Trump. Let me know
what you think. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty

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Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Fronnie with Scissors sounds great compared to.

Speaker 2 (01:07:24):
This, say, it is that portion of the program where
we have a little bit of fun, learn some new things,
like words. Right, some of the youth of America. They
have phrases that the kids use, the young folks use.
The young folks that are in your office, that are
in your family, and you look at them and you think,

(01:07:44):
what the hell did you just say? You know what
time it is?

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
Now, it's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:07:51):
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you. It's called the urban word
of the Day. Oh, this one and makes me laugh.
And I've seen this and heard this on numerous occasions.
I heard it last night. Okay, So, and just for
reference here, my stepdaughter is lactose intolerant, so she has

(01:08:16):
all kinds of other milk and milk fake milk fake
that is a non dairy milk product like oat or
almond milk that makes a substitute for dairy. I'm dairy intolerant.
Better make it a milk fake because you know, kids,
the milk fake brings all the boys to the art.

(01:08:39):
Milk fake is your urban word of the day.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
That was the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:45):
Now, you know, speaking of knowing, we know about it,
especially if you're gen X. It's called the mall. Guess
who's trying to figure out what goes on at the mall?

Speaker 4 (01:08:53):
Gen Z.

Speaker 23 (01:08:54):
It's a scene right out of a classic teen movie.
Young people hanging out at the mall.

Speaker 1 (01:09:00):
Here is like it's an activity.

Speaker 23 (01:09:02):
After years of decline, retail is now experiencing a renaissance
driven by gen Z. Recent surveys finding that they visit
malls more than any other generation, opting to spend more
in store than online.

Speaker 1 (01:09:15):
So what did you guys buy?

Speaker 2 (01:09:17):
I got two things? Is never about buying stuff. It's
just about the experience.

Speaker 23 (01:09:23):
From dining spots by popular influencers like Mister Beast, to
indoor activities at Dick's House of Sport, even activates life
size video games. Malls are tapping into gen Z's interests.
Nearly doubling the number of experiential offerings in the past decade.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
I love this. I love this. So if you don't
have gen Z's gen Z is nineteen ninety seven, two
thousand and twelve. So I have gen Z Kids, and
Lily and Jack love the mall. They absolutely love to
go to the mall.

Speaker 23 (01:09:57):
Now major media companies are joining the transformation.

Speaker 24 (01:10:01):
Netflix House is our in real life experience for fans
to immerse theirself into Netflix stories.

Speaker 23 (01:10:09):
We got an exclusive look inside the more than one
hundred thousand square foot space where the streamers most famous
titles from Wednesday to Bridgerton are making the leap from
online to irl. The first location set to open this
week at the King of Prussia Mall outside Philadelphia, a
decision Netflix's chief marketing officer, Marion Lee says is strategic.

Speaker 24 (01:10:32):
Why malls, Well, it is a traditional gathering place for people.
There's a lot of nostalgia for kids teenagers to hang
out at the mall, and so we felt like it
was a natural place for us to have our fans
who are already walking around the malls to be able
to stop in.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
I think it's so cool and they're trying to get
away from the fact that they looked at the millennials
and they looked at mom and dad maybe the gen
Z world, and they think, we don't want to live
our entire life online. We want to hang out together,
which is what we used to do in the gen
Z world.

Speaker 1 (01:11:11):
It's a race.

Speaker 24 (01:11:12):
Oh yes, I'm not very good for us to be
inside of a mall where families are coming. You really
need something for everyone, and so you may not have
time to do this for an hour, but you may
have time to play a few arcade games, and so
it was important to have variety in the space.

Speaker 23 (01:11:29):
Retail experts say that malls are evolving quickly to meet demand.

Speaker 8 (01:11:33):
Gen Z has reinvigorated the mall.

Speaker 18 (01:11:37):
There is a desire in this generation to lean into
the physical world because there've been such a big part
of the digital world for such a long period of time.

Speaker 23 (01:11:46):
Bringing back malls and bringing people together.

Speaker 6 (01:11:49):
People are always trying to make up for what we
lost in the pandemic, and I think a great way
to do that is come into the mall and hang
out with each other.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
I think it's so cool. I look forward to it.

Speaker 13 (01:11:58):
I like it.

Speaker 2 (01:11:58):
I like going to the mall, especially Christmas time. It's fun,
but I know my kids love it. They love going
to the mall and walking around and just hanging out,
and they're always fascinated by the fact that that was
like our go to thing in my generation. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chadbentzon Shows
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Chad Benson Show. Coming up our number three of the program,

(01:12:23):
our buddy Mike Clon's going to join the program. Talk
to him about what Veterans Day is. Of course, these
are military analysts. We're going to talk to him a
bit about that and you know, just really what it
means to veterans on Veterans Day and ask him some
questions and in particular about you know, Vietnam and what
those veterans went through, which I think we're going to

(01:12:45):
find very fascinating. At top of that, the economy stupid,
How bad is it? How good is it? Do you
feel you're being gas lit by this administration? We will
discuss that as well a bunch of other stuff coming
up ahead on our number three of The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show,

(01:13:34):
Get your butts.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Back to work. Well, the Senate's done their job kind
of sort of. Now tomorrow Mike Johnson has called everybody
back to Washington. They've been on vacation, but not really
but kind of sort of, and vacation for several reasons,
one including of course the Gallaine, Maxwell slash Epstein stuff.

Speaker 6 (01:13:54):
But here we go, the Senate officially passing a bill
to reo in the government, putting Congress on track to
and the longest shut down in American history. The bill
now heads to the House, members scrambling back to Washington
after being out of town for more than fifty days.
The House will hold its first round of votes Wednesday afternoon.

Speaker 2 (01:14:15):
Okay, so that's when things will kick off and they'll
go from there. What does it look like when it
comes to healthcare, because that's a lot of what it's
all about. How soon can they get something done again?
You know, I have a feeling by tomorrow night things
will be done. But just because it gets fixed, if
you will in their minds where they can reopen everything,

(01:14:38):
doesn't mean that things are going to return to normal.
It's still going to be a nightmare for the next
couple days and maybe a week or so. When it
comes to the airports and things of that nature. Far
as getting funding for snap and stuff, that's still going
to be an issue as well. So it's not going

(01:14:59):
to be the minute it's done and dusted and Trump
signs it everything returns to normal. That's still going to
take a while, but it is. I think the beginning
of the end of this chaos was last night, and

(01:15:20):
now we're just waiting until. I mean, I wouldn't be
surprised if everything's fully open by Thursday. But it goes
back to being fully open doesn't mean everything smooth, so
know that. Okay, speaking of smooth or not smooth. The
economy stupid? How good is it? Or isn't it? That depends?

(01:15:45):
That depends a lot. Is it fake news? Is it lies?
How do you feel about the economy? It was a conjob.
It was a conjob.

Speaker 25 (01:15:55):
Affordability they call it was a conjob by the Democrats.
The Democrats are good at a few things, cheating on
elections and conning people with facts that our troops they said, Oh,
I don't want to talk about affordability. The reason I
don't want to talk about affordability is because everybody knows
that it's far less expensive under Trump than it was
on the sleepy Joe Bidenshus and the prices that we did.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
Okay, hold on first of all, were things cheaper under
Joe Biden? Are they cheaper under you me? Are they
still expensive? Absolutely? It's not a con job, sir, it's not.
And you have to stop doing this, Okay, you have

(01:16:41):
to stop doing what Biden did. Stop telling everybody not
to believe their eyes, not to believe their savings their
bank account, not to believe the prices on groceries or gas,
not to believe any of that. That this is just
the greatest thing in the world and it's transitory and
everything's going to be fine. You have to stop downplaying

(01:17:03):
the way that people feel. It doesn't work and it
makes you seem out of touch.

Speaker 12 (01:17:09):
Then why are people saying they're anxious about the economy.
Why are they saying that, I don't.

Speaker 15 (01:17:14):
Know that they are saying, I think polls are fake.
We have the greatest economy we've ever had. We have
we will have over twenty trillion dollars come into our economy,
and it's largely because of my election, but it's also
largely because of tariffs.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Even the tariff thing, it's such a disgrace.

Speaker 15 (01:17:31):
I'm watching them say, well, no money would have to
be paid back because it's not that much. It's trillions
and trillions of dollars would have to be paid back.

Speaker 2 (01:17:39):
With the Supreme Court rules against.

Speaker 1 (01:17:42):
It, it would be a disaster for our country.

Speaker 2 (01:17:45):
Oh again, tariffs didn't help in the inflation battle. What
inflation chat? It's never been cheaper, it's never been Here's
the one thing I'm never going to do, guys, I'm
not going to b su right. I give it to
you straight. That's what it's all about. I don't care
what side of the eye you're on. If you're full
of crap, I'm gonna call you out kind of full

(01:18:06):
of crap, right. And there's a difference between stretching a
little bit here push you. I mean, that's politics, Okay,
we expect that, but just gaslighting the people is ridiculous.
Who really believes that prices are cheaper?

Speaker 26 (01:18:23):
Do you?

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Because I don't, I don't at all. I'm gonna tell
you this. Last night we went to the movies. So
so my daughter's still here and we're still trying to
figure out what to do because of the airports and stuff.
Is my wife gonna have to drive her home or
we're gonna have to wait several more days to get
her on a plane, because as you guys know, she's
got autism, and there's just we can't have a deviation

(01:18:48):
of plans in a situation where you know, she follows.
This is what she does, and she's really good at it,
and she's gotten great at it. But anybody who's worked
with the kids who've got all you know that this
is the way that things go. I need to go
from point A to point B. If anything happens, the
wheels can come off. So we decided we're going to

(01:19:08):
take her to the movies. So we go to the
movies last night. It was great. The cost of the
movies was insane. It was absolutely insane, and I, quite frankly,
I was like, Holy Mother of Goodness, how expensive it was.
I was shocked. There was five of us. Yes, we

(01:19:29):
got some candies and popcorn, but still at the end
of the day, I was like, Mother of good the
cost of life is more expensive, okay, and telling everybody
that nope, it's not. This the best economy we've ever
had in the world is not working. Our price is
up or down. Prices are up, they are on everything. No,

(01:19:50):
but on a lot of things. Yes, Just like I
didn't believe with Biden when it came to inflation, I
don't believe it with Trump. Grocery prices have increase, not decrease.
And the one thing that was like says eggs, Well,
eggs weren't Biden's fault. That was a outbreak of bird flu,
the destruction of tons of egg laying hens. Okay, so

(01:20:12):
that was not something caused by inflation the way we
would think inflation was cost Secondly, gas prices. Stop telling me.
Gas prices are two dollars a gallon, not even close.
By the way, this time last year was threeh eight.
Right now it's about three oh eight. So it's essentially

(01:20:33):
the exact same as it was. Okay, Oil and gas
prices are down, but the energy prices are up huge,
and we've talked about that, how much energy price has
gone up, and that's an all Trump's fault. But the
data centers, among other things, you've seen increases. So when

(01:21:00):
can you tell me everything's the greatest ever man, and
it's all a lie. I don't buy it. And the
polls are saying they don't buy it either.

Speaker 26 (01:21:08):
Take a look here, this is consumer sentiment, the current conditions.
Consumer sentiment can be the current conditions or it can
be future expectations. We're looking at current conditions. And get this.
According to the University of Michigan, we are dealing with.

Speaker 2 (01:21:20):
The worst ever, the worst ever view.

Speaker 26 (01:21:22):
Of current conditions dating all the way back since nineteen
hundred and fifty one. This is record breaking in the
way you don't want to be breaking records. And get this, Kate.
It is down thirty percent. Consumer sentiment of current conditions
down thirty percent from January when Donald Trump took office.

Speaker 2 (01:21:43):
No bueno, no thirty percent. Well, that's a lie. It's
fake poll. It's all a lie.

Speaker 8 (01:21:48):
It would be.

Speaker 26 (01:21:48):
One thing that President Trump could ignore it if folks
weren't blaming him for it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:53):
But take a look here trump blamed.

Speaker 26 (01:21:55):
Trump's policies have worsened economic conditions in America.

Speaker 4 (01:21:59):
Look at this. We're dealing with a super majority here.

Speaker 26 (01:22:02):
We're talking about more than three in five Americans sixty
one percent, who say that Trump's policies have worsened economic
conditions in America. How about worsened your own finances. Again,
we're dealing with a majority here. Fifty one percent of
Americans say that Trump's policies have worsened your own finances.
This is double trouble for the President of the United States.

(01:22:24):
When you're dealing with consumer sentiment of current conditions being
record breaking in the wrong ways, being record breaking for
the worst ever since nineteen hundred and fifty one, and
you're dealing with the supermajority who say that your policies
have worsened economic conditions in America, and you're dealing with
a majority who say your policies have worsened the folks's
own finances.

Speaker 1 (01:22:43):
That is I corumba, no.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Good, no good. Now, what do I always say throughout
the Republicans throw out the Democrats? What matters the independence?

Speaker 26 (01:22:53):
Well, oftentimes we talk about independence, and sometimes that group
of voters includes folks who lean either the Republican or
Democratic side.

Speaker 4 (01:23:00):
Side.

Speaker 26 (01:23:00):
To look at pure pure independence, those who don't lean
towards either side, and look at this disapprove of Trump
on the economy. Among pure independence, we're talking about four
and five seventy nine percent.

Speaker 2 (01:23:13):
I'm laughing because you rarely ever see a number this high.

Speaker 26 (01:23:16):
Seventy nine percent of pure independence disapproof of Trump on
the economy. How about this? This is no outlier, Kate.
This is no outlier because look at Marquette University, they're
law school. Seventy six percent of pure independence disapprove of
Trump on the economy. When you put it all together
with the approval ratings, it averages out to a net
approval rating on the economy among pure independence of get

(01:23:39):
this minus fifty eight points II They as my mother
used to say, this is the type of thing that
is political nightmare fuel.

Speaker 2 (01:23:51):
And absolutely, Harry Anton, there independence is all that matters.
Gas Lighting America and telling everybody that things are amazing
and not to believe your ears, and not to believe
your paycheck and not to believe your cost of living

(01:24:15):
in your bank account as it goes down and down
and down is not going to win next year and
will cost you a lot more. Get out in front
of it, address it, say you're working on it. Be
with the people. Telling them the same thing over and
over again isn't going to fix this. This is not

(01:24:37):
something that is a cultural issue. This is a dollars
and cents issue. People don't believe the dollars and cents
issue in the economy the way they might a cultural
issue if you tell them the same thing over and
over again. Three two, three, five, eight, twenty four to
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It's fine? It What was trending in the old interwebs?
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trending there, the magical world of Google. Finally over to Twitter.
White House Bill maher Cheryl Hines. Mississippi State student Patrick
McClintock arrested after throwing coins and shouting anti Semitic slurs

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at she hadon show is your acts, your Insta, your YouTube,
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podcast right here. On the Chad Benson Show, just just
absolutely insane. He was doing one of those pizza reviews
and somebody said, effing blake any blank and they threw

(01:29:17):
coins at him. The hell are you doing, you idiot?
Obamacare sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald also trending the BBC
as well, which isn't doing well. Yeah, the BBC's having
some issues. Trump threaten to assume for a billion dollars,
you know on this one, go for it. Absolutely, they'll

(01:29:40):
settle with you out of court. Plus everybody's either resigned
or well, I think they just all resigned. I think
they knew their days were numbered after that absolutely asinine
video that they posted during their panorama, which is like
their sixty minutes segment that you know, was edited in
such a way that made it look like on Janey six,
Trump said let's go down to the Capitol. We're gonna fight, fight, fight,

(01:30:03):
when really he said, no, let's go down there, let
our voices be here heard and cheer on. You know
those patriots down there are senators and whatnot to do
the right thing? Yeah, you know what, BBC, this one's
on you and the other one with the Edmund Fitzgerald
one of the other trending things. Yesterday on my local show,
we were joking about Gordon Lightfoot, who did the song,

(01:30:26):
and I said, all of his songs are pretty much
very morose, and it was so funny, like two people
are so mad at me.

Speaker 17 (01:30:33):
They're like, you're making fun of the death of twenty
nine people. I'm like, do you not listen to anything
that I say in the right way? No, I said,
Gordon Lightfoot kind of morose, kind of a sad songwriter
and singer.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
That's it. He was like, you're so mean. Nuts three two, three, five,
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Shows Your Extra instat Coming up next, Mike Lions Military
Analyst Straight at Chat Benson Chob.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
It is that time of day. Sit down and talk
to our buddy. He is tired military is a major
in the Army and Happy Veterans Day to the absolute
best military analyst in the business. Mike allons Man, how
you doing.

Speaker 4 (01:31:35):
Good, Chad?

Speaker 14 (01:31:36):
Thanks for having me. Happy Veterans Day to all my
fellow veterans out there. It's a day that I'm glad
we celebrate now he would didn't always do that, but
it's it's really a look back on the Vietnam vet
the World War Two vets that have been passing in,
Korean War vets, and then of course our global War
on Terror veterans. So it's a I'm glad the country
takes this one day and puts aside at the time

(01:31:58):
too to honor those folks.

Speaker 2 (01:32:00):
Hey, Mike, before we get into the military side of
battles and stuff that are going on. It's interesting because
when we look back at the major wars or conflicts,
we look back at World War Two. Obviously, you know
what went down there in the greatest generation, the Korean
War is kind of forgotten, and the Vietnam War was
political chaos and strife, and then those guys were somewhat

(01:32:24):
tossed aside as part of the problem. What do you
make of that?

Speaker 14 (01:32:28):
Yeah, Number one, first and foremost that I never missed
an opportunity to thank of Vietnam veteran.

Speaker 4 (01:32:33):
For their service what they did, because it's on their backs.

Speaker 14 (01:32:37):
Now that we no longer hate people from the military,
we don't blame our soldiers for the wars that they started.
The Vietnam veteran came home to just disgrained disgrace on
some level and didn't have.

Speaker 4 (01:32:51):
The appreciation of the country.

Speaker 14 (01:32:53):
I remember when I was a kid, my dad would
we would pick up Vietnam veteran sailors and service members
on the Palisades Parkway than we needed a ride. And
again our country learned from that terrible mistake by treating
those those soldiers badly. They were not volunteers, they were drafted,
So that pendulum has swung again. I remember when I
was in combat, thinking, oh boy, we better do a

(01:33:15):
good job here because everyone's on our side. So, you know,
the Vietnam veteran in particular, if you see one today,
thank them for their service, because again it's on their backs.

Speaker 4 (01:33:24):
Is why we celebrate Veterans Day.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
I think talking to Michael Lioness, military analysts, veteran on
this Veterans Day, what do you make of the Syrian
president being here? Will you and I have talked about
this guy, this guy war on terror? He killed Americans.
He's killed pretty much everything that's moved walked. I mean,
it's one of those kind of guys. But politics in
today's world makes a bizarre, strange bedfellows. I saw him

(01:33:48):
yesterday shooting hoops out near the White It's so surreal, man.

Speaker 14 (01:33:53):
Yeah, no, chat, I love it. I think the you know,
who would have thought ten years ago Obama's president and
John Kerry and him decide to somehow allow the Russians
back into the Syrian you know operation there with their
submarine base. Who would have thought now you'd have potentially

(01:34:14):
a US air base going into Damascus. I mean this
shows you that that capitalism does win over democracy at
some level. They recognize that the Syrian government wants to
be part of the abram Accords. They want to they
want to be part of that growing organization, growing community.

Speaker 4 (01:34:32):
So I love it.

Speaker 14 (01:34:33):
I think that you're right, it does make strange bedfellows.
And similar to what happened to deal we made with
the Vietnamese as Vietnam as you know, as a global
trading partner, now with US and everybody else as well.
So I think with a presence of a US air
base near Damascus, which would be an incredible intelligence coup
and support that security arrangement that is being broken between

(01:34:56):
them and Israel.

Speaker 4 (01:34:57):
I think I think it's a tremendous.

Speaker 14 (01:34:58):
Forward foreign policy. You win once again for the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (01:35:02):
things military. Moved from there to what is going on
in the Caribbean down near South America. I saw yesterday
that Columbia and Venezuela or maybe thinking about but come
in pals just in case there's something that goes down
and they need to join forces. And Trump. You know,
I saw several people last week that said, look, you know,

(01:35:23):
now Trump's kind of can do what he wants. He's
already briefed you know, the Senate and Intel community about this.
And I think some of the stuff happening here with
the shutdown has slowed what is going on there, but
I think something's still coming.

Speaker 14 (01:35:37):
You know, still a lot of performative leverage taking place there.
We saw the Secretary Defense brief another attack on one
of the small boats there. It's still nothing compared to
the amount of cocaine that travels over land or in
larger containers that's well hidden and brought in in other
ways that you know. I don't say it's taking out

(01:35:58):
a container ship with all the other things that are
commingled in that, in that organizations and those operations, but
there's a lot of performative leverage. Talked to a bunch
of folks yesterday at the Military Academy and we all
agreed that it's probably not a good idea to invade
Venezuela or take this anytime further. Sovereign nation United Nations
would be involved all kinds of things, and I don't

(01:36:19):
think it would. I don't think it would be a
good idea. But what it's doing, it's also projecting this
power in the hemisphere. And China is going to be
out in Russia obviously it will no longer be involved.
So I think from that perspective, the Trump administration is
building the blocks to make sure that the United States
remains firmly in control of all aspects of what happens

(01:36:40):
in this hemisphere.

Speaker 2 (01:36:41):
Hey, Mike, if we don't do anything, we back away,
what kind of sense of confidence does that give somebody
like Maduro who will then think I stared down the
giant monster that is America and they blinked, you.

Speaker 14 (01:36:57):
Know, I think that that's always in the back.

Speaker 9 (01:37:00):
Mind.

Speaker 14 (01:37:00):
You saw that sixty minutes episode of him, and he's
you know, still kind of in hiding. He still has
some support of the people. But this I don't think
you'll see that happen here because I'm still never a
fan of regime change. I'd rather have these regimes come
around and decide to go democracy and decide to become

(01:37:21):
part of the international community and those kinds of things,
because there's the chaos that comes with regime change is
just so unpredictable. So I'm never a fan of that,
but it does it wouldn't power him if the United
States did, you know. Again, I don't see this administration
doing that though. I think between Rubio and Jade Vance recognizing,
you know, their foreign policy chops are grounded in what

(01:37:44):
they've watched, the mistakes that have gotten made over the
past twenty twenty five years from frankly democratic administrations, and
they're not going down that path.

Speaker 2 (01:37:51):
Talking to my clients military analysts as we sit here
and talking about all things that is military before we
get to Israel and Russia. Africa has what's going on
in Nigeria, but it also has what's going on in Sudan,
which is arguably out of everything going on, the biggest
issue militarily that the world is facing, not just us,

(01:38:12):
the world is facing. And I sit here and I
see I mean, my god, Mike, from space you can
see blood running in parts of the streets and near Darfur.
At what point in time does the UN get off
its ass and do a damn thing. Why do we
have the little blue helmets if they're not doing anything?

Speaker 14 (01:38:27):
Yeah, I think never. Frankly, it's just too hard. No
one has that any kind of interest. Those places in
Saddan still like they don't have any resources. There's no
economic advantage to do that. That's just something that we'd
have to do morally as a population. But you know
that is quickly again becoming this terrorist safe haven, and

(01:38:51):
that's going to you know, completely impact counter terrorism posture.

Speaker 4 (01:38:56):
Global stability. This thing just bing bonds around.

Speaker 14 (01:39:00):
You know, it's in the Levant, it's in the northern
part of Africa, and then it gets into Sedan, driven
out of Iraq, all these different places. So again, this
is where if the United States doesn't take the lead
on it, and Africammon in particular, that command doesn't keep
an eye on it. You're going to see this explosion
of a terrorist state safe haven, and it just doesn't

(01:39:20):
do the world any good.

Speaker 2 (01:39:21):
Yeah. I keep thinking to myself, shouldn't we be getting
in there in some way, shape or form a just
to save human beings? Because I saw what those I mean,
you know, I mean, you've been around war obviously, but
these are young kids killing other young kids who are helpless,
and young men and women getting blown to bits and pieces,
and they're posting it on the Internet and it is

(01:39:42):
vile and disgusting, and I'm thinking to myself, again, this
is going to eventually blow up in our face, kind
of like what happened in Afghanistan. We help them defeat
the Soviets, and then we're like.

Speaker 4 (01:39:53):
Bye, yeah, chat.

Speaker 14 (01:39:55):
I think that this is a good example of the
people surrounding the present. Eldrich Kobe and even the Secretary
of War in Hexath, I just don't think that this
is I think this is our fight. They are still
burned by what happened in Afghanistan and they just don't
believe it's our fight. It'll become our fight when the
president wakes up and maybe sees something like that, sees

(01:40:18):
it on social media. Then all of a sudden he'll
direct resources there. But until that happens, you know, this
president's focused on the US in this hemisphere and what's
in best interests in the United States, and unfortunately the
group around him doesn't see any assets going there. You'd
have to put a carrier group there, you'd have to
have marines, you'd have to have, you know, a significant
military presence there in order to try to exert any

(01:40:41):
kind of leverage in that part of the world. And
I don't think it would matter a difference. I think
you'd have to actually land people on the beach, and
that's not going to happen.

Speaker 2 (01:40:49):
things politics in the world of the military, and now
we move over to Russia. It's gotten kind of quiet,
but there's still fighting, and quiet means we're not talking
about it. Obviously, with the shutdowns kind of taken the
oxygen out of everything. But this thing is still going
on and Russia's made some big advancements.

Speaker 14 (01:41:10):
Yeah, and what you're seeing is, you know, Russia's going
after its winter now time coming, so they're going after
the power graz Both sides are kind to deny the
other this logistics and energy, which is, you know.

Speaker 4 (01:41:22):
Still all about the territory there.

Speaker 14 (01:41:24):
What's the leverage that Trump would need to impart on
Russia in order to get to the negotiation table. While
it would be a NATO based air defense umbrella that's
over Ukraine, that would protect Ukraine from incoming Russian missiles,
maybe even a no fly zone, no fly zone is
somewhat of an act of war though if a Russian
plane is shot down by you know, some kind of

(01:41:46):
NATO force. He hasn't decided to do that. He hasn't
still moved on sanctions, and so there is still fundamentally
no change in the leverage situation there, which is why
Russia won't come.

Speaker 4 (01:41:55):
To the table.

Speaker 14 (01:41:56):
You know, they're pleading again for more patriot missile system
and that's exactly what they need. They need they need relaunchers,
they need the intermediate and the far range ones, the
ones that go deep. The Tomahawks are still looks like
they're they're still not been fully approved yet, and it
doesn't look like that there would be a difference anyway.
I don't think that's a leverage difference maker. What would

(01:42:17):
make a difference is an umbrella of air defense systems
over in Ukraine that would would protect them from Russian
missile attacks.

Speaker 2 (01:42:24):
And the chances of them getting something like that.

Speaker 14 (01:42:28):
I think Donald Trump in particular is still searching for
in his fingertips to feel that that that would make
a difference, and I don't think he does. And because
he doesn't think he would make a difference, he's he's
going to give Ukraine maybe some more patriot missiles in themselves,
but that's not going to be good enough and Ukraine
will still get pounded. So he's he's backing off. This

(01:42:50):
is this is his strategic patients. I would call it
from the leverage perspective. He's trying to find it, but
he's not. He's not finding it anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (01:42:58):
Talking to my client's military as we talk about the
world of conflict, which unfortunately seems to be everywhere we
move from there to the Middle East, net Yah, who
says the war's not over and the war was never
going to be over like this. The fact is it's
still going to take time. But man, you and I
talk about it. Since this thing got signed, if you will,
I still see no other forces that were supposed to

(01:43:20):
be in Palestine that was supposed to start, you know,
kind of policing this area. I see and hear nothing.
It was like everybody celebrated Day one and then they
just disappeared.

Speaker 4 (01:43:31):
You know.

Speaker 14 (01:43:31):
And Egypt was going to be that indispensable nation sending
troops there. You had Turkey involved and even troops from Indonesia,
so Jakarta, I thought we'd see that there by now
we don't see movement. And that's because the situation is
still very unstable. The dynamics of the ceasefire still are
not have not been hammered out. I don't think there's

(01:43:52):
a large scale threat let's say that comes from from Hamas,
but it's still there, and it's not enough where countries
feel they could send troops in the until Hamas formally
agrees to disarm and formally agrees to give up some
of the ministries.

Speaker 4 (01:44:10):
That I don't know what they're controlling.

Speaker 14 (01:44:11):
Frankly, you know, because how flattened the country is right now,
these other countries are not going to get involved. No
one wants to be part of something that will not
go well. They want to be all part of success.
It's that JFK saying about you know the successes got
you know a lot of victors and failure as an orphan,
and I think right now people are still looking at

(01:44:33):
that situation and still give me an orphan, and there
could be a lot of failures that take place in Gaza.

Speaker 2 (01:44:38):
I love talking to you man. You give it to
us straight and that's what I love. Appreciate it. You
have yourself an amazing Veterans Day as always, Thank you
for your service, and thank you for hanging out on
our little show. And we'll do it again next week.

Speaker 4 (01:44:47):
Thanks Chet, thanks always for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:44:49):
Love talking to Mike Hey is amazing, he really is,
and I appreciate him spending time with us every week
talking about all this stuff. Again. Today you see a vet,
thank you. That's it. It's that simple. We live in
this amazing country with all of this incredible freedoms, and
it's because of veterans who have served before, many who

(01:45:09):
have made the ultimate sacrifice, and people that are still
serving today. If you have a chance and you see
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Speaker 28 (01:46:31):
Chad Benson Joe serving up talk radio medium, rare and
dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (01:46:46):
It's Chad Beenson.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
As we wrap up this show today, I want to
say thank you to the veterans out there, and the
men and women who've worked so hard for us, sacrifice
so much, and their families as well, which I think
is often left out of this, because there are plenty
of families out there that sacrifice as well, missing their
mother and father and their loved ones who are out

(01:47:08):
serving our country. So we can argue about politics and
pop culture. Buddy Dave's voice of a guy before that though.
He was truck driver for a long time, and he
put together this nice poem and I thought, you know what,
we're going to play it today. It's kind of a
thank you to our men and women out there and
even our first responders, yes, but also a celebration of

(01:47:29):
our nation and the things that he saw for years
as he was out and about truck driving.

Speaker 12 (01:47:35):
As I travel across country. In my mind, I think
of how lucky we are just to be alive. Thankful
for the ground we walk on, in the air we breathe,
to be the person I am today. We're blessed to
have family and friends. Take a close look at the
people around us. Thank them for their services in whatever

(01:47:55):
they may do. We need to thank our soldiers for
putting their lives there risk every day. We need to
thank our first responders, our truck drivers, the server at
the market, the waitress at the restaurant. We need to
just thank God that.

Speaker 2 (01:48:12):
We have each other.

Speaker 12 (01:48:13):
Be who you are, for there is only one you.
You are unique in your own special way. We make
ourselves who we are, and there is no limit to
our thoughts and actions. As they speak louder than words.
Let's stand together to make a better world for all
of us. I believe, I believe you can accomplish anything

(01:48:38):
you set your mind to. I am in control of
my own destiny.

Speaker 2 (01:48:43):
Absolutely cool, Oddy Dave, right there, nice little poem, Well done, brother,
three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four to twenty
three at Chad Benson shows your ex your Insta, YouTube, Facebook,
and more. Phamacy Show. Gather the podcast right here on
the Chad Benson Show, solid fun show today on this
gorgeous Tuesday, Veterans Day, and a shout out to my

(01:49:05):
uncle who passed away several years ago. Served in Vietnam
and was a great guy. When he came back from Vietnam,
he was never the same, everybody said, and he loved
his family and he loved serving his country, but he
struggled through life. And I think there's a lot of
men and women out there that still go through that

(01:49:26):
to this day. To see if veterans today and make
sure you say thank you for all that they did.
You guys have a blessed and amazing rest of your Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:49:35):
I'm not really a fan of Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (01:49:36):
Always with that as always my man Night Night Chat.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):

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