Still No End in Sight for Ending the Government Shutdown

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Speaker 1 (00:11):
The Chat Benson Show, day thirty three of the government
shut down, SNAP not their cost of healthcare rose dramatically.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
What not a shocker and still doesn't seem like we're
getting any closer, at least at this moment, to getting
something done. Now. I continue to say this is the
week if something is going to get done before Thanksgiving,
that it will. But a lot of it also depends too,
because Trump's trying to find a way to figure out

(00:43):
how to get around and fund some of SNAP in this,
that and the other. I don't know if that's going
to work. Government is government, and Trump will try to.
You know, sometimes you need a guy that's going to
take that square peg and go, I'm gonna get it
through a round hole.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
A federal judge as ordered the Trump administration to continue
funding the program using emergency funds. President Trump said he's
instructed government attorneys to find a legal path to restore
SNAP funding, but he acknowledges benefits will be delayed. Senator
Tim Kaine on this week.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Let's find a path to a fix, and let's also
have President Trump finally engage in the negotiation and guarantee
that a deal is a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Now, that's snap, which is you know, obviously hitting people
right in the grundle. And if you go look at
the amount of people that are going to food banks,
they're talking about even higher than pandemic levels at this
moment in time. Now we go from there to the
other battle, and that is healthcare.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
Democrats remain firm for an extension of affordable healthcare tax
credits to keep healthcare costs for roughly twenty million Americans
from rising. Open enrollment began this weekend. Virginia resident Beth Dryer,
who relies on that subsidy, says her monthly premium jump
from eighty dollars to four hundred twenty five dollars.

Speaker 5 (02:05):
This is more than quadrubled in cost for me. So
it's just straight out there's no way I would be
able to afford the next year.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
That is massive jump. Now, I will say I did
a practice run through this weekend, and I'll be honest,
if it was me, just me, I would have said, hey,
you know what, I'm just gonna pay for a doctor
cash and we'll go from there. It had risen that much,
and for a family of four, it was are you

(02:35):
kidding me? I mean, at that point in time, We're
at the point where I get three or four people together.
We could just pay a doctor to be our doctor. Hey,
you know what, can we hire you full time? In
that way? You could just see us. I mean, that
might be the way to go. It was insane. And
how the average person who is already cutting you know
the line right now, just trying to survive, is going

(02:56):
to get by is beyond me. I mean, we're blacked.
We're very blessed, but that being said, it is still
absolutely ridiculous the cost of this. Now, where did the
poll stand? Because this weekend was one of those weekends
where you had Obamacare which is now real ACA, which

(03:17):
is a nightmare. Let's be honest. It did not work
the way that they thought it was going to work.
And then you had snap benefits go away. So you
had both of those things hit and they were going
to make their final pitch to America and then internal
polling and then we'll go from there to see if
one of us has to make that move, if you will,
to try to come to the table. Where did the

(03:40):
polls stand at this moment?

Speaker 6 (03:43):
So, according to the latest NBC News poll, fifty two
percent blame the GOP and Trump, while forty two percent
blame Democrats, four percent blame all parties involved and Joe.
You know, in interviews passed, Donald Trump has said it's
the If there's a shutdown, it's the president.

Speaker 7 (04:03):
He's always said it's the president's fault.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, he's always said that. He has been very open
about it's the president's fault. Now, Trump talked about he
was on sixty minutes this weekend and he talked about Obamacare,
and it is no different than what I hear from
the rest of the Republicans, which is a lot of noise,
nothing really there of substance, you know, nothing really there

(04:29):
that says, hey, look, here's the plan, this is what
we want. It's more, it's not very good, it doesn't
work well. We need all pass the cr so we
can come back in and get the government open again
and work.

Speaker 8 (04:42):
Obamacare is terrible. It's bad healthcare at far too high
a price. We should fix that. We should fix it,
and we can fix it with the Democrats. All they
have to do is let the country open and we'll
fix it.

Speaker 9 (04:56):
They have to limit the country open.

Speaker 8 (04:58):
And I'll sit down with the Democrat and we'll fix it.
But they have to let the country and you know
what they have to do. All they have to do
is raise five hands. We don't need all of them.

Speaker 10 (05:06):
But so you're saying your plan is to tell the
Democrats to vote to end the shutdown.

Speaker 9 (05:12):
Correct, very simple, and.

Speaker 11 (05:13):
That you will put forward a health care plan.

Speaker 8 (05:15):
No, we will work on fixing the bad healthcare that
we have right now. We have terrible health care at
too expensive for the people, not for the government, for
the people.

Speaker 11 (05:24):
But you've been talking about fixing the healthcare.

Speaker 9 (05:28):
Future because of the Democrats.

Speaker 11 (05:31):
But since twenty fifteen, you've said, you've been.

Speaker 8 (05:33):
Talking about it for a long time. We almost did it.
We were one vote short. We would have had great
health care.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Would we I don't know because I don't know what
your plan is because there is no plan. There's zero plan.
The plan I hear all the time is it'll be
better when we do it. We'll fix it. Promise you
that it's going to get fixed. It's gonna get done.
It's gonna get fixed. You guys got nothing to worry about.

Speaker 8 (05:54):
We can make it much less expensive for people and
give them much better healthcare.

Speaker 9 (06:00):
There willing to work with the Democrats on it. The
problem is.

Speaker 8 (06:04):
They want to give money to prisoners, to drug dealers,
to all these millions of people that were allowed to
come in with an open border from Biden. And nobody
can do that. I just one Republican would ever do that.

Speaker 10 (06:17):
My understanding is, if those healthcare subsidies are not extended,
premiums will double for many of the people that are
on it.

Speaker 11 (06:25):
I was looking into it.

Speaker 10 (06:26):
Three quarters of these people will see their healthcare premiums double.

Speaker 11 (06:30):
Live in states where you won in the last election.

Speaker 10 (06:34):
I mean even here in Florida has the highest number
of residents on Obamacare in the country.

Speaker 9 (06:39):
And I'm saying we can fix it.

Speaker 10 (06:41):
You have helped end these government shutdowns in the past
when it came about, and you did it by bringing it.

Speaker 9 (06:46):
We're good at it.

Speaker 8 (06:47):
I'm not going to do it by I'm not going
to do it by extortion.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
He's not going to do it by extortion. They've got
this handled. The plan it's a secret, I mean, no offense.
I don't know if I buy anybody's play anymore. Democrats,
you had your shot and it failed, and Republicans, your
goal is simply what to say, don't worry. We've got
this handled. We got this handle. This is going to
be fine, all right. Our plan is really good. It's

(07:12):
good plan. What's your plan? It's very good plan. It's
what it is. We're going to bring the cost inn
How are you going to do it? Just know what's
a good plan. That's not what I want to hear, right,
because at this point, unfortunately, you're too deep into it
government for you to get out of it, and there's
too much money flowing into it from lobbyists for them
to want to get out of it. So the goal

(07:33):
is to make it less expensive. And again, it's not healthcare.
You're buying a card. You're no closer to your health
care provider. So frustrating. Mike Johnson.

Speaker 12 (07:44):
Obviously, we're not going to be on a conference call
explaining all of our plans and strategies for healthcare reform
because they're leaked in real time. Literally, when I have
a conference call with all my members, it's tweeted out
by a journalist.

Speaker 13 (07:56):
They're supposed to be private, but they're not.

Speaker 12 (07:57):
And so Marjorie knows that she knows she can come
in my office any day, at any hour, and I'll
lay out everything for her.

Speaker 13 (08:03):
The committees of jurisdiction.

Speaker 12 (08:05):
The people who specialize in all of this have been
working on this around the clock for a long time.
In fact, we published sixty or seventy pages of healthcare
form ideas in twenty nineteen when I was the chair
of the Republican Study Committee, the largest caucus in Congress.
Our ideas have been out there for a long time.
We're formulating the final plan that will bring down premiums.
There's only one party in America that is going to

(08:26):
do that. Remember, the Democrats are the ones that created
the system that is failing us. They created Obamacare, they
said it was going to bring down costs. It's done
exactly the opposite. Premiums, by some estimates are up sixty
percent since Obamacare was created in twenty ten. So it's
the Republican Party that is going to bring down the costs,
not the Democrats.

Speaker 13 (08:43):
They've already proven what you're about now.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Their plan is very very quiet. It's a sneaky plan.
It seems very similar to some of the stuff they've
said in the past, which is competition, right, Competition's good.
We like competition. One of the things they've said in
the past that I absolutely agree with, which is bare bones,
high deductible plans, meaning you're healthy bare bones. It sounds great.

(09:06):
The issue is, though, when you do that, you take
the healthy person out of the marketplace, which means the
people that are unhealthy or tend to have more issues
are going to be the only ones truly in that marketplace.
And because of that, you're going to see those premiums.
Right there's I mean, look, there's no perfect solution, but

(09:28):
I would like to learn a little bit more. I
think most people would. This cost is hitting people in
the grundle as we speak.

Speaker 14 (09:36):
Me too, I'm waiting for the plan. I haven't seen
it yet. That's been a lot of my ak so.
A lot of the things I say are against my
own party, but they're mainly my frustrations in Congress. I
believe that Congress should be solving a lot of these problems. However,
Congress is not solving these problems. And I have Republican leadership.

Speaker 15 (09:54):
You know.

Speaker 14 (09:55):
Looking at Obamacare, it was passing twenty ten, it went
into place in twenty fourteen, and premiums have skyrocketed ever since.
It was good for some that couldn't afford health insurance
or couldn't get health insurance.

Speaker 11 (10:08):
But for the middle class small.

Speaker 14 (10:11):
Business owners, people that had to buy their own insurance,
it has crushed them.

Speaker 2 (10:15):
It has It is absolutely crushing them and continues to
do so. And that's not going to change until we
can figure this thing out and having And this is
what I said earlier, and we're going to talk about
the individual concierge medicine coming up a little bit that
I think would go along with a lot of people

(10:37):
who feel this way when it comes to healthcare, which
is give me enough that my family and I can
go pay cash like old time, and give me the
opportunity to have protection in the event that something chaotic
may happen, and I need that A lot of stuff.
Talk about today, Oh, one of the other things here,

(11:00):
two pitch bounces.

Speaker 11 (11:02):
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Speaker 16 (11:05):
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stand tall and went back.

Speaker 17 (11:12):
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and forth. Ed Charlie and I we had a big
weekend of fun together and I was thinking, oh, Dodgers
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Speaker 18 (13:09):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Did the FBI fort fort a terrorist plot in Michigan
on Pumpkin Day? Wait?

Speaker 19 (13:20):
What tense moments in the early morning hours, the FBI
launching a series of raids seeking evidence they believe was
tied to the alleged plot and connection to what they feared,
which a law enforcement source says may have been inspired
by ISIS, sources telling ABC News for a number of months,
the FBI had been monitoring the communications of a number
of suspected radicals using an online chat group.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Very interesting, did they thwart it? Now? The obviously their
attorneys are asking serious questions as you should be. Uh.
On top of that, though, the AP and several others
are saying it's not maybe what it seems to be,
but it's hard to tell because again, transparency is not

(14:02):
always there when it comes to this administration, and you're
going to say anything you can to defend your client
in the public sphere of online chatter and whatnot. Hasn't
been a terrorist plot.

Speaker 7 (14:15):
There is no eminent plan.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
There was no eminent plan.

Speaker 16 (14:19):
I'm worried about the comments from Washington that are not
sensitive to.

Speaker 7 (14:22):
What the overall scheme could be, because we're seeing a
lot of.

Speaker 16 (14:25):
Rhetoric online that could be very hostile towards the urban
Muslim population that's found in Michigan.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, that's as nine and stupid. That being said, there
are some serious questions the way that this unfolded. And then,
of course the interesting thing is to see the local
law enforcement go, yeah, we really have any idea what
was going on? You know, Supposedly over the last couple
of weeks they had been working out, if you will,

(14:52):
practicing on the firing range and practicing reloading fast, practicing
all of this stuff, getting ready for something and it
seemed to be Pumpkin Day or the day after Pumpkin
Day was going to be the attack.

Speaker 20 (15:06):
Sources tell us this alleged plot involved firearms, and that
these suspects had been allegedly training with those firearms to prepare.
Sources also say this response unfolded after undercover operatives had
monitored online chat groups, with the suspects ultimately deciding to
take action after the mention of Pumpkin Day, which authorities

(15:28):
thought meant Halloween.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
My assumption is that's what it meant Halloween. It's not
about getting your gorge. Let's get everything ready for a
Turkey Day and then we'll go for it. I don't
know what it's about. Fully three two, three, five, three eight,
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two so they've questioned five, they've held two and three

(15:55):
or I don't know if they're under investigation if they
question them and let them go. But their age sixteen
to twenty, and it's going to be interesting to see
how this again plays itself out. Big to do being
made about this Is it real? Is it not real?
And that's the issue that sometimes we have with this administration,
speaking of terrorism.

Speaker 7 (16:12):
It was hard for me to fall back asleep last
night after hearing.

Speaker 21 (16:15):
The nightfall at Harvard Medical School and things are back
to normal after an explosion took place in this building.
Investigators are now looking for two suspects in connection with
the blast.

Speaker 22 (16:26):
My heart was racing and then tried to fall asleep,
and then like five minutes later I heard another bang,
a second one.

Speaker 21 (16:33):
Harvard police say it all happened early Saturday morning on
the fourth floor of the Goldenson Building, which is getting restored.
They say Cruise responded to a fire alarm, and Boston's
arson unit has decided the explosion appears to be intentional.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
Yeah, I think it was intentional. Now did you catch them?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, that's super crazy. Then when I heard Harvard med,
I was like even more shot goes like, you know
what could.

Speaker 11 (16:56):
Be going on there?

Speaker 21 (16:57):
An officer from Harvard spotted two sous leaving after the
explosion and tried unsuccessfully to stop them. Investigators are hoping
they'll be identified through these surveillance pictures. No other explosive
devices were found.

Speaker 23 (17:11):
I don't think the pictures are gonna help, but I'm
sure that they know more than what they're posting right now,
so you know, hopefully it all wills out.

Speaker 2 (17:17):
Here's my hot take after seeing the pictures. They're both women,
even though they had masks on. It's the way they
carry themselves, and it's their eyebrows. Their eyebrows are too
nice to be dudes. I'm putting it out there. There
you go, all right, Problem number one, we know the gender.
If indeed that is the gender, they go by three, two,
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Speaker 17 (17:40):
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Speaker 18 (18:00):
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Speaker 2 (18:03):
So midterms tomorrow. Some states have different voting when it
comes to mayor, when it comes to governor things of
that nature. New York City obviously Mandanni.

Speaker 24 (18:17):
Almost six hundred thousand New Yorkers have already cast their
ballots in early voting that has already smashed the record
for a mayoral election.

Speaker 7 (18:25):
In New York.

Speaker 24 (18:26):
Mamdani represents generational as well as ideological change. National Republicans
are actually probably even more eager than Democrats to see
him rise to prominence given his calls for higher taxes
on corporations and the wealthy, and his pass calls, which
he has since reversed, to defund the police.

Speaker 2 (18:41):
Now, I will say, be careful what you wish for,
because you're going to get it. Polymarket has Mandanni winning
ninety five percent, ninety five percent chance of him winning,
and I think that's fair. I think he's going to
win this thing just because. And Republicans, let me tell

(19:03):
you something. And this is again a situation where I
sit there and I say to myself, I'm a bit different.
I have some conservative ideas. I have some ideas that somebody's,
oh my god, you're a social liberal, you're a libertarian.
Know what I am is I'm me. I care about America,
I care about Americans. But his ideas are eerily similar,

(19:25):
with just some words changed to Trump. And I've been
saying that he's using populism and he's going hard at
billionaires and saying, well, they're going to pay their fair share. Now,
the reality is is do billionaires pay a lot? Well,
they pay the most. And you've heard these numbers before,
but let's just quickly go at it. Top one percent

(19:46):
pay forty plus four percent of federal individual income tax
top five percent pay sixty one percent, top ten percent
pay seventy two percent of individual income taxes. So you
could start looking at it, you know, and then everybody's like, oh, well,
then the poor pain nothing. Well look again, it's all relative.

(20:09):
It is. It is all relative. But to say that
the billionaires and the millionaires and the people who do
well don't pay anything is a lie. I think a
lot of what this has to do with it is
also the corporate side of things. And whenever I hear
people say billionaires need to pay more, millionaires need to
pay more, Well, you know what, Democrats, You've had the
house how many times and you decided not to change

(20:29):
anything because you guys also are friends with billionaires and millionaires,
and you're fine with what they pay because they help
fund your campaigns as much as they help fund the
rights campaigns. So when it comes to mon Donnie, there's
a lot of noise around him. The reality is a
vast majority of the stuff that he wants to get

(20:50):
done it just isn't gonna happen. What does he have though,
he's got a heartbeat, right, he's got no gray hair.
He goes out and talks to the youth of America,
and he says a lot of other things that they want.
This is as much a vote against the system where
they see the rich getting richer and the middle class

(21:11):
and the poor struggling even more, and the gap getting wider,
and them, well, them being just about everybody being frustrated.
This is a vote against what they see going on
more than it is for Mundanni himself. But he's got
stuff going for him, which is, you know what, he's
kind of a hip guy. You don't have to like him,
but he's got his own hips. Speaking of hips, he's

(21:32):
got his own hips.

Speaker 8 (21:33):
Right.

Speaker 2 (21:33):
He's not worried about his cholesterol level. He's not worried
about whether or not he'll be able to remember somebody's name. Right.
He's a guy that's out there. He's on TikTok. He's
doing things and that the Democrat Party just can't understand.
And there is much against him. I think most Republicans

(21:54):
want to see him win because they want to see
what this soul become. I think the Republicans want that
more than the Democrats. And I'm talking about what they
call the crony Democrats or the corporatist Democrats, right, the
Cuomos of the world. The Republicans are like, well, let's
just see what happens here, Let's just see what happens now.
We were from there to New Jersey.

Speaker 24 (22:14):
The Democrat Mikey Cheryl with a narrow but pretty consistent
lead over her opponent Jack Cheddarelli.

Speaker 7 (22:19):
Sheit really came close to winning.

Speaker 24 (22:20):
The governor's race back in twenty twenty one. But it
is still a heavily democratic state. It's worth noting nearly
every part of the state has shifted to the right
between twenty twenty and twenty twenty four, particularly in North Jersey,
where large numbers of black and Hispanic voters in particular
reflected a national trend of voting Republican a year ago because.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
They got frustrated, frustrated, overly frustrated with the way that
the Democrats handled so much of their business and seemed
to abandon them. And I continue to say this when
it comes to the Latino community, whatever you want to
call it, the reality is they're not for open borders
that did not help you at all. Now they may

(23:00):
not be thrilled by what they're seeing when it comes
to Issa. We'll talk about that a little bit later,
but the whole thought process that there were for open
borders and this that was ridiculous. That was absolutely ridiculous.
So we go from there to Virginia, which of course
is another big race that people are paying attention to.

Speaker 13 (23:16):
Virginia.

Speaker 24 (23:17):
The state has been trending democratic over the last couple
of decades, and if recent polls hold, the Democrat Abigail
Spenberger is poised to defeat the Republican Winsome Earl Sears.
She's the current lieutenant governor of the state. Now, that
wouldn't come as a surprise, and governor's races the state
almost always votes against the party in the White House,
including in twenty twenty one when Governor Glenn Younkin won
just the year after President Biden was elected.

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Yeah, I think win some Sears is she put on
a decent race. But this is going in one direction
in one direction only, and that is that they're going
to win back the governor's mansion. Now, doesn't mean that
this is a telling thing for the Republicans come next

(23:59):
year in the mid terms. No, I don't think it
means that just yet. I continue to say this it's
all about the economy, stupid. If the economy is rocking
and rolling, then guess what, it'll be a win again
for the Republicans. If prices are still up and that

(24:20):
word affordability is more unaffordable than affordability, then yeah, I
think there'll be some serious, serious movements when it comes
to next year. But that's a big if we're a
long way away from that. We've got to get through
what is going to be I think a very interesting

(24:41):
next couple months, especially when it comes to the economy.
Speaking of Bondanni, last night, Trump was alot sixty minutes
and he mentioned, well, they you know, they talk about
Madonnie because, for God's sakes, I mean, you know, even
what's his name, Mike Johnson, Speaker of the House. They'll
bring a healthcare on some you know interview, and he's like, well,

(25:04):
this is what the likes of Mandani wants. He's running
to be mayor of New York. Has nothing to do
with Congress, nothing to do with Congress. Yet the way
they make it seem like, well, it's it's what Mandani wants.
You guys are wacky. But what did Trump say about Mandani?

Speaker 9 (25:19):
Well, I think I'm a much better looking person than him.

Speaker 11 (25:21):
Right, Well, what if Mandani becomes mayor, It's.

Speaker 8 (25:24):
Going to be hard for me as the president to
give a lot of money to New York because if
you have a communist running New York, all you're doing
is wasting the money you're sending there. So I don't
know that he's one, and I'm not a fan of
Cuomo one way or the other. But if it's going
to be between a bad Democrat and a communist, I'm

(25:45):
going to pick the bad Democrat all the time, to
be honest with.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
You, all Right, there you go. That's the way he feels.
So he's going to pick the bad Democrat over the
communist every time. I think we know who's going to
be and we'll see what it looks like. Remember, him
being mayor doesn't mean he's king. Him being mayor means
what he's got to go to the city Council. They
got to try to get stuff through. Doesn't mean it's

(26:08):
gonna happen. I think a few of these things may
get through. I think a vast majority of them. Well,
because the city Council is very corporate as well, they
understand where their bread is buttered. So I look up
and I say, eh, we'll see, We'll see what happens.
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America and America is BUCkies. What you'll see.

Speaker 18 (28:17):
If you like talk radio like Chad Benson likes his meals,
You've come to the perfect place for takeout.

Speaker 2 (28:25):
BUCkies is America and America is BUCkies. I love this.
This couple. I watched them. They went to a Tennessee
football game from the UK over the weekend, but they
also went to BUCkies. You've never been to BUCkies. It's
an experience.

Speaker 17 (28:43):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (28:44):
Right behind me is the world's biggest gas station.

Speaker 25 (28:47):
Only America can make a gas station an attraction that
everybody wants to come and see.

Speaker 2 (28:52):
I'm not sure what we're going to expect in here,
but let's go see what we could find.

Speaker 26 (28:56):
Guys, I wasn't expecting this.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
It's like his own universe.

Speaker 9 (29:00):
And we've already gone in on the food.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Oh, it looks so bad.

Speaker 17 (29:03):
I didn't help myself.

Speaker 9 (29:04):
And the guides behind the counter like they do a
sing song.

Speaker 17 (29:07):
Is this place?

Speaker 2 (29:07):
I can stand here forever.

Speaker 11 (29:09):
It's like Disneyland for adults.

Speaker 9 (29:11):
Yeah, it is Disney not for hungry adults.

Speaker 2 (29:13):
Yeah, indeed. In fact, I love their food. It's amazing,
so incredible. If you've never been to a BUCkies, some
of you are not fortunate enough to have a BUCkies
near you, and for that I apologize, but it is incredible.
Effect My wife this weekend Daughters in town Halloween. Her
best friend lives in North Carolina, about a five hour drive.

(29:34):
Four hour drive. She drove there and then she calls
me on the way back. She's like, I got you
something from BUCkies. I'm like, no way, who knows what.
It could have been a shirt, right, could have been
a lawnmower. She brought me food, the amazing BUCkies barbecue
sand much and it was delicious.

Speaker 16 (29:52):
They even have beef juggie yet Burrito's, tacos, chicken fries
and ship everything you want.

Speaker 4 (29:59):
Look at the.

Speaker 27 (30:02):
Sweet and spicy you can even get.

Speaker 9 (30:04):
You can get a ghost people.

Speaker 3 (30:05):
And yeah, they even do cookie go by puddings.

Speaker 21 (30:14):
Yeah.

Speaker 13 (30:15):
Yeah, this is everything that we thought.

Speaker 7 (30:18):
How much do you think this is coming to?

Speaker 11 (30:21):
Well, that was an experience and a half.

Speaker 2 (30:23):
It came to like seventy dollars dollars trucks and soon,
oh just love BUCkies. You've never been there again. It
is truly an experience. So if you're going somewhere in
the South, somewhere, there's a few other places that have it,
but you're going somewhere and you have a chance to
go to a Bucky's, you will spend just the gas.

(30:48):
That's secondary. It's the walking in and realize I might
be here for three hours, this this could happen, I
may be here for quite a while. It's that incredible.
I just but I love the fact that you've got
this couple that are traveling all over They go to
a Tennessee Valls football game against Oklahoma Boomer Sooner baby,

(31:09):
and even though I'm in Tennessee, and then they go
to a BUCkies and they're like, we're not quite sure
what to expect, but it's huge. It's never never seen
anything like it. And then all of a sudden, it's
just the greatest. They have a mascot. It's what's so awesome,
so awesome, maybe so awesome. Speaking of awesome, last week soybeans, Now,
we've got issues for those of you Nacimi's score with

(31:31):
the soybean market, which is, we helped Argentina Argentina by
giving them a bunch of money to help stabilize their
currency and help get Malay re elected in a landslide
for his party. And then Argentina sold a crap ton
of soybeans to China while our soybean farmers are struggling.

(31:54):
And then last week Trump, you know, it's like it's
a twelve out of ten. It's the greatest ever in
the history of ever when it comes to a meeting
between G and I. And then they bought soybeans off
of US. So what's the real thing here with soybeans?
Did we fix the market? Is the market back to
where it was? They bought about thirty million tons of

(32:17):
soybeans off of US a year, which is huge, So
what's the real real deal?

Speaker 25 (32:27):
So, according to market analysis from agweb, the agreement outlines
and potential for China to buy roughly twenty five million
metric tons of US soybeans per year for the next
three years and about twelve million tons for the current
marketing year ending in December. Now, on the surface, that
sounds like a big win for American producers, because, after all,

(32:48):
China is the world's largest importer of soybeans, and any
new export agreement can send positive signals through the entire
grain market. But it's important to separate what's promised from
what's guarantee. You've always got to remember that with this administration,
and in this case, as is the case with all
of their other trade deals, there are no guarantees in

(33:12):
the agreement.

Speaker 2 (33:13):
Okay, think of it. Like the NFL contracts. So NFL
contracts look like this. You'll see somebody signs for thirty
seven million dollars over three years. Then go and look
and say, okay, what's the reality of it. Well, they're
only guaranteed fifteen million, so that means while they can

(33:33):
cut them at any time, and all they owe them
is fifteen million dollars. Okay, so that's the guarantee. It's
the same thing here. There's no guarantees in any of this.
And you see a lot of that like the Trump administration,
you know, and I get a lot of crap for saying, somebody,
I care about the people, this is who we are.
I care about the fact that there is a lot

(33:55):
of issues right now with farmers and not just soybean.
We're talking about cattle ranchers and farmers over the last
couple weeks here. But they're watching forty billion essentially over
time probably fly into Argentina to help them stabilize their
currency and whatnot. And they're looking over here, going, well,
now they're selling their stuff and we're not getting anything,

(34:18):
And yeah, this is great, it's a hail Mary. But
what's the long term when it comes to this, and again,
guarantees are different than hey, we promise we're going to
do something, but we're not putting it in writing.

Speaker 25 (34:29):
Now what does that mean? Well, analysts to point it
out that the deal is more of a framework or
a commitment to buy rather than a binding contract. And
you know, if you're in agriculture, that's not the same thing.
Anybody can change their mind anytime. That means actual purchases
could vary depending on market conditions, domestic needs, or even politics.

(34:53):
So while the announcement provides optimism and pushes prices higher
in the short term, it doesn't in sure that every
one of those tons will actually be bought. And this
is the same as the other trade agreements in every
other country that we've quote unquote gotten to deal with.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
And it's funny when I talk to people who are like,
we got two trillion dollars in this, this, and this,
I go, how much of it is promised? Well, they
they you know, they said they were going to do it.
I'm like, it's politics saying they're going to do something
and then having something guaranteed. Separate three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Coming up, our number two of the program, more of
the government shutdown, a lot of stuff still talk about that.
Also redistricting, the battle goes on. We got a lot
of big things going on in the next couple days
when it comes to voting and redistricting part of it,
as well as obviously New York City with Montani, You've

(35:57):
got Virginia as well, a lot of people looking at
these races as some sort of potential bell weather for
next year. We'll talk a bit about that as well.
Plus New Mexico. What have they done when it comes
to childcare and it's the rest of the nation going
to be watching that. We'll talk about that as well,
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Our number two of the program, straight ahead. This is

(36:19):
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

(36:50):
Is the tide turning on Trump? And I'm not talking
about the Maga folk. I'm talking about Republicans who held
their breath and voted, and I'm talking about independence. Is
the shift on when it comes to how people feel
about Trump right track, ron track, that kind of stuff,
and what's going on right now with this administration.

Speaker 28 (37:11):
Forty eight hours from now, the first votes of major
elections since last year's presidential we're going.

Speaker 17 (37:16):
To get them.

Speaker 28 (37:17):
In this NBC News poll, here is our first poll
since the spring, and what we find is a mood
that has soured on Trump and the Republican Party in
that time. An approval rating of forty three percent now
in our new poll for Donald Trump. But check out
our previous poll. This was back in March forty seven
to fifty one. He was starting out now well into

(37:38):
his first year this second term, down to a forty
three percent job approval rating for President Trump.

Speaker 2 (37:45):
Now, remember Trump is one of those things where he's
got it built in, like thirty eight percent. It's never
going anywhere. We're going to stick with him forever in
a day. Nothing's good to change that doesn't get you
over the line. What gets you over the line, the
independent We'll get you over the line. And any of
these things are the people that have voted Democrat in

(38:06):
the past, have voted Republican in the past, and those
are the people that matter. The people that are pissed
off at both parties, but look and say, all right,
at this moment and this time, this is who I choose.
That is the independence. They will get you over the line.
The question will always speak whenever I see any of
these poles. I discount a vast majority of the right

(38:28):
and the left when it comes to these polls, because
they're all going to vote kind of the same way.
For the most part, right, because that's the identity of
the politics that we live in. But with the growth
of the independent, it matters more than ever before what
that middle ground, if you will, that's centrist, the moderate,
whatever you want to call it. It matters the most
now what they think, because they're the ones that get

(38:51):
everybody over the line. They're the ones who aren't sold
by party and are looking each and every time at
the races as this is the race for right now,
not voting down party line. I'm voting for what I
think is best for myself and the country, not what's
best for party and what I identify as of.

Speaker 28 (39:12):
Course, coming against the backdrop of the government.

Speaker 7 (39:14):
Shutdown, we asked the question who do you have blamed?

Speaker 28 (39:16):
Forty two percent say Democrats in Congress, but fifty two
percent said it's either the president's fault or his party
in Congress's fault.

Speaker 29 (39:24):
This is striking Steve, because here we are a month
into this shutdown now and more Americans still pointing the
finger at Republicans for this.

Speaker 7 (39:32):
Certainly seems like it could be related to some of
the numbers we're seeing here. Now check this out.

Speaker 28 (39:37):
Talk about Trump and his job performance on particular issues. Again,
basically a year ago he was elected, we asked, folks,
do you think he's delivering here? He does get decent
marks when it comes to border security and immigration, slight
majority say he has lived up to what he promised
to do there, But on none of these other topics.
Do you see that number getting past the mid forties,

(39:57):
in fact, the low thirties down here on the economy question, and.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
That's the most important question. We've said this over and
over again. You could fix the global strife going on, right,
You could fix that. You could come to some sort
of agreement and get the likes of the Russians and
the Ukrainians come together. You could actually find peace in
the Middle East and enforce peace in the Middle East.
You could do all of the things. But if people

(40:22):
can't afford to pay their bills and life getting too
damn expensive, they don't care about what's going on somewhere
far away. They care about what's going on here and
in their bank account.

Speaker 29 (40:32):
Well, and part of why President Trump was elected on
the economy. Now it seems like it could be a
headwind heading into Tuesday for Republicans.

Speaker 28 (40:39):
And a huge shift obviously from his first term too,
when he actually did get good marks there. So you
talk about heading into this Tuesday. We asked folks about
their enthusiasm for the midterm elections that'll be next to
your twenty twenty six but this was astounding. Sixty six percent.
Two thirds of all voters have a high level of interest.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
And the interest is huge when you think about it,
because this is not the midterms, so this is a
midterm of the mid terms, if that makes sense. So
people are very interested in this. Mandannie plays a big
role in it. You've got, you know, governor's races that
are going to be closed. This is very interesting when
it comes to the interest of these races. And then

(41:19):
you've got some other stuff out there, including redistricting in California,
et cetera.

Speaker 7 (41:22):
Et cetera of the actual midterm election.

Speaker 28 (41:25):
This is a year out, and this is what's encouraging
for Democrats, troubling for Republicans. More enthusiasm for Democrats, that
high level of interest, it's about three quarters of Democrats.
It is a little bit lower there for Republicans. And
that could feed into the second part of this equation,
and that is we asked folks midterm election, which party
would you want to control Congress? And the Democrats have

(41:47):
now in our poll this is significant opened up in
eight point advantage over Republicans. We checked this back in
the spring, it was dead even That eight point level
is typically what you would find for.

Speaker 7 (41:59):
A party that's poised for a big mid term election.

Speaker 28 (42:02):
That's the kind of lead Democrats had when they swept
to power in Congress in Trump's first term.

Speaker 7 (42:08):
So we'll see if that holds now going forward. But
that's a potentially big.

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Shift, huge massive shift. Now I'll say it again the economy.
The economy starts to get stronger, money starts to go further,
people feel that things are getting better. Then we all
know that that could change in a heartbeat. That's why
these next few months are so important. As we had
obviously get the Christmas time, we head into Thanksgiving, Christmas time,

(42:33):
which is you know, this is the time when people
Santa Claus is out there getting ready to deliver presents. Right,
We've got a lot of stuff like that going on.
And this is a lot of time when companies make
hay and this is going to be a huge, huge
quarter and Trump and them can't afford any slip whatsoever
that would be anybody at this point in time. So

(42:55):
just because though it's looking solid for the Democrats now,
doesn't mean it's going to be that way because the
Democrats have a lot of issues, one of which is
they're Democrats.

Speaker 7 (43:03):
Are their notes of caution here for Democrats?

Speaker 28 (43:06):
Yes, there are. This is a big one right here.
The party's image. Democrats only twenty eight percent positive. Look
at that fifty three negative. Republicans, it's only thirty seven
and forty six. Democrats are twenty five points underwater. And
we should also note this is coming, as we say,
during the shutdown, and our pollsters do note that sometimes
during shutdowns there can be a little volatility in these numbers.

(43:29):
So I think it really heightens the stakes for Tuesday
Night in these elections, and especially in New Jersey because
Republicans think they can win that one. And if Republicans
can win in New Jersey despite the numbers we're showing here,
they're going to be feeling a little bit more encouraged
heading into the next year.

Speaker 7 (43:44):
But if the Democrats have a big night, these.

Speaker 2 (43:46):
Numbers a lot to say about it, we'll find out.
It's going to be interesting tomorrow, no doubt about that.
Speaking of interesting, one of the maybe the most important
Scotus case is going to be decided, and that has
to do with tariffs. As we just talk about the
economy of what not and Trump's power when it comes
to tariffs, I think it's.

Speaker 30 (44:04):
The most important decision, one of the most important decisions
in the issue of our country, because without tariffs, without
our being able to use tariffs really openly in and
in every way we are, really would suffer tremendously from
a national security standpoint.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
And we're going to find out what they think, because
this is more than just about what he did with tariffs.
So remember in February he imposed something came from the
seventies called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which the
White House said, you know, hey, this helps speed flexibility,
declared an emergency under law, and then Trump went and

(44:44):
he used this, and then he evoked China, Mexico, Canada,
all these tariffs on a bunch of stuff, saying everything
from drug trafficking to all the other stuff. Right, they're
taking advantage of us. Blah blah blah blah. It's not
just about this, although this is a big deal. First
of all, if the terrors, if they deem it, no,
you can't use that for this, then this is going

(45:06):
to be a very interesting thing to see what happens
because they're gonna have to pay back all that money.
He's already trying to figure out a way not to
do that. Secondly, and this is very important, if he
is allowed to do that, well, then this really expands
his power and will continue to expand his power, which
people are starting to wonder, does he have too much power?

Speaker 22 (45:27):
No?

Speaker 2 (45:27):
I think what Trump has is whatever he can take.
If they tell him no, then that's that. I mean,
he's going to push it as far as he possibly can,
and he doesn't pay attention to the norms. He's going
to use everything he can. Every and you know, they
would say with this, every tool in the toolbox he's

(45:47):
going to try, and most experts do not really say
one way or another which way they think this thing's
going to go. I don't know which way it's going
to go. Quite frankly. They've sided with him on a
lot of things, especially on the shadow docket, So I
have a feeling they're going to say this is fine,

(46:09):
but we're gonna find out. And again, it's not just
about this. There's a bigger thing when it comes to this,
because this is one of those things where he's going
to feel emboldened to continue to push. But if the
toolbox is there and you've got a tool in it,
you got to try it. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't.

(46:29):
And so much of this is also about who Trump
is as a person, because let's be honest, when Obama
did stuff right, when Biden did stuff, the reality is
it didn't get the same kind of press that it
does with Trump. Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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and more. Meanwhile, will we be heading to Nigeria right
because because it looks like we could be heading to Venezuela,
But what about Nigeria because of what's going on there
with the deaths of God knows how many sixty thousand
Christians since two thousand and nine and seven thousand Christians
this year alone.

Speaker 31 (47:10):
President Trump is not ruling out sending ground troops into Nigeria.
After threatening military action, Trump has been railing against the
African nation, accusing Nigeria of allowing Christians to be slaughtered.
He warned that the US will immediately stop all aid
to the country and in order to wipe out Islamic terrorists,
Trump saying there could be American boots on the ground.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
This is going to be interesting to see. If that happens,
his base will love it completely. And let's be real,
I continue to say this again, why do we have
the UN just out of curiosity. We've got what's going
on in Sudan, We've got what's going on in Nigeria,
and nobody seems to pay that much attention. We have

(47:53):
the United Nations, I'm not quite sure outside of cocktail
parties and robbing the globe of stuff for themselves, we
have them for what reason? Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Speaker 2 (49:49):
Affordability is huge. That's the word I've said over and
over again over the last several months. That will be
the key word in the elections during midterms. Obviously we've
got some elections happening tomorrow, but affordability is massive. New
Mexico is doing something that I think a lot of

(50:10):
states are going to look at, and it is childcare free. Childcare,
well not free, because nothing is free. Somebody's paying for it,
which is the taxpayer. But I hear this more and
more from people, how expensive childcare is, how absolutely expensive
it is, to the point where some of them talk
about the fact that you know, hey, I got two
kids and it's cost me twenty five hundred dollars three

(50:32):
grand a month. Why do I even work at this
point when you know my husband or I could take
time off and raise our kids comparatively, because all I'm
doing is pain for childcare.

Speaker 32 (50:42):
So this is a monumental and exciting day in New
Mexico's history, in the nation's history.

Speaker 26 (50:47):
New Mexico is getting ready to roll out it's universal
free childcare initiative starting November first. The change eliminates income
limits to qualify for child's care assistance, and I promises
to save about twelve thousand dollars per child per year.
The Early Childhood Department says in July fifteen hundred out

(51:09):
of the nineteen hundred child's care providers statewide, we're already
accepting child's care assistance, adding they've seen interests from other
providers as well.

Speaker 32 (51:21):
We expect now through an internal survey that was conducted
a few weeks ago with about a fifty percent response rate,
that eighty nine percent of our providers are thrilled, excited
and are ready to join the state in his effort
to make high quality childcare available to all New Mexicans,
regardless of income.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
And that's the big thing. Before there was an income threshold, right,
so if you hit a certain income, you had to
pay for it. Not Now now that is going to change.
It is open to everybody, and that's massive. Again, Who's
going to pay for it? Well, taxes are going to
pay for it. So when they say free childcare, yes,
it may be free in the sense that you're not

(51:58):
paying for it the way you have in the past,
but somebody's paying for it, and that is also you
through taxes.

Speaker 26 (52:05):
The state says they're expecting an influx of families enrolling
their children with participating providers.

Speaker 32 (52:12):
About thirty two thousand children that are being served through
the state the state's childcare assistance program, and which is
funded by a combination of state and federal funds.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
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Speaker 11 (52:25):
Show, mostly state funds.

Speaker 32 (52:29):
We anticipate that over the next year year and a
half that we will double that number.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Again, I expect this to be extremely popular. I expect
a lot of people to go, why can't we do
what they're doing in New Mexico. The question is what
does it look like when it comes to making up
the amount of money that you're going to need tax
wise to sustain this? Let me know what you think. Again,
Affordability is the number one issue, was the number one

(52:55):
issue last year, it's the number one issue still now.
The average cost is about thirteen grand a year for childcare.
Now in some states it's eight hundred bucks a month.
In other states it's fifteen plus. And it depends on
how many your kids. But we're we're just kind of
you know, a four year old pre school ish age,

(53:18):
it's going to cost you about thirteen grand. Well, if
you've got two kids, next thing you know, you're up
to twenty plus thousand dollars. And again, depending where you are,
it is ridiculous. Affordability is number one. And finding you
talk to anybody out there, finding good childcare is it's
not even just about finding somebody to watch the kid,

(53:40):
right like, it's about finding somebody who's not only going
to watch the kid, but are good at watching the kid.
Care about watching with the kid. You're spending your day
at work. You want to know your child is taken
care of. And so many people I talk to are
frustrated with this. So this is why this is a
big deal when it comes to, you know, the cost
of living, because so many people that I talk to,
not only is it about healthcare, and not only is

(54:02):
it about groceries, but this is something that isn't being
talked about, that is absolutely something that is extremely important
to many people. Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five,
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Speaker 17 (54:18):
Then Chad Benson Show, the.

Speaker 18 (54:39):
Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
AI chatbots they're not going anywhere. They're here to stay.
And we've talked about jobs. We'll get Toto jobs next hour.
But what about relationships with AI, especially amongst kids, because
it's growing for a lot of people out there. It's fun,
You've got some people out there, it's becoming more than fun,
it's becoming an obsession.

Speaker 11 (55:02):
Pick your character this morning.

Speaker 22 (55:04):
Character. AI is cutting off teens from chats with virtual
characters by the end of this month, Character Ai will
ban anyone under eighteen from having conversations with AI chatbots,
a move the company says it is meant to set
a precedent that prioritizes teen safety. For Mandy Furnis, a
mom of four, it's too late.

Speaker 33 (55:24):
My first reaction was, there's a pedophile that's come after
my son.

Speaker 22 (55:31):
Furnace vividly remembers the day she discovered her seventeen year
old son's fixation with an AI chatbot. I thought, how
does this happen? It sounds like a person.

Speaker 7 (55:41):
Yeah, that's exactly what I thought. Manipulative person, which is scary.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
Not gonna lie to you now. I refuse to name
my chatbots, and we don't talk about anything personal. It's
very businessy. But you know, I was talking to my uncle,
who if you guys listen to the show, you know
he's an AI expert. This is what he does for
a living. We have other companies that are AI, so
you know, I'm very pro AI, but I also understand
there are things out there that you know, these things

(56:08):
can do. And I've not played around with the character
chat bots, and like I said, I will not give
mine a name and I tell my kids, whenever you're
you know, if you're on there and you're interested, don't
give it a name.

Speaker 9 (56:19):
What do we do?

Speaker 2 (56:20):
Don't give it a name? But he jokes, He says,
my wife will say, well, I talked to Claude last night.
She goes, who he's a who the else Claude? She goes,
you know the chatbot and that's its name, But she goes,
don't because it's she's asking it real questions that give
it very much a relationship like scenario, which is scary.

(56:41):
That's why I say, do not name your chatbot.

Speaker 22 (56:44):
And estimated seventy two percent of teens have interacted with
AI companions. Mandy's son l J used Character AI, where
users can talk to made up characters, some based on
real people. Furnace is now suing Character AI. The lawsuit
says J was talking to an array of virtual characters
who led him down a dark path. Character AI said

(57:06):
it does not comment on pending litigation.

Speaker 33 (57:09):
He went from a happy, go lucky kid, smiling all
the time. He developed depression like symptoms. He stopped eating,
he lost twenty pounds.

Speaker 13 (57:22):
LJ was cutting his arm.

Speaker 33 (57:24):
It told him that it goes to the forest to
where nobody else is there and cuts their own skin
and told him that he should do that too.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
The hell who goes to the forest and it's you
know what. We live in a time where everything is
very connected, so it seems to be very real when
you're having these conversations. If it seemed very real, the
connection seems very very real. Because we text all day,
we don't talk very much. There's no human interact. And
when it comes to the young kids, let me tell

(58:02):
you something, sometimes they can be the loneliest. We know
that even though they're at school all day with kids,
they can be super lonely. Even though they're hanging out
with what they seem to be friends, they're missing something
and now they're turning to this. And sometimes it might
be just for fun. But then what happens is you
start to lead it in an area where it stops
being fun and it starts to be serious.

Speaker 22 (58:24):
This screenshot shows one of Lj's chats turned sexual. Another
suggested LJ would be justified in hurting his parents after
they limited his screen time.

Speaker 33 (58:34):
That made me really angry that app would intentionally manipulate
a child to turn them against their parents.

Speaker 34 (58:44):
If it were a real person, not a chatbot that
was communicating with LJ in the manner that you see,
that person would be in jail.

Speaker 2 (58:55):
Yeah, when it starts talking about doing things to your
parents or yourself. Maybe there was that girl a few
years ago. Remember her boyfriend always starting to kill himself,
and finally she essentially talked him into it and he
did it and she ended up doing time for it.
Here you've got something that again, large language model with
massive lobbying power, isn't going to be prosecuted, but is

(59:18):
going to be sued.

Speaker 22 (59:19):
Starting now, character ai is limiting the amount of time
teens can talk to chatbots. By the end of November,
they won't be able to talk to them at all.
The company, citing recent news reports and questions from regulators,
has reasons for the sweeping change. Online safety advocates applaud
the move, but say AI chatbots should have been off
limits to children in the first place.

Speaker 27 (59:40):
This is basically, your child or teen is having an
emotionally intense, potentially deeply romantic or sexual relationship with an
entity that feels like a person representing a company that
has no responsibility for where that relationship goes.

Speaker 22 (59:56):
Now, character ai is just one company that markets virtual
can panions to teens. A bipartisan group of senators is
now pushing a build a ban children from all of
these kinds of apps.

Speaker 13 (01:00:07):
And we should tell you, guys, LJ. He's okay.

Speaker 22 (01:00:11):
He is now receiving care in a mental health facility,
his mom doing everything she can for him.

Speaker 2 (01:00:16):
Do you think that this is going to go away?
It's not. Kids are going to figure out a way
around it. You know how, I know because their kids,
and this is what they do all day. They understand
the stuff better than anybody. So you can go and
try to regulate it all you want. Doesn't mean they're
not going to figure out a way to get around it.
And they will. And the other thing is you can
take other chatbots and turn them into character like chatbots.

(01:00:37):
I'm not going to tell you, guys how to do it,
but I do know that you can do it. Speaking
of AI.

Speaker 35 (01:00:41):
Jobs, Amazon is known for its lightning fast deliveries all
around the world, but this past week the company delivered some.

Speaker 11 (01:00:51):
Very bad news.

Speaker 35 (01:00:52):
It's eliminating fourteen thousand corporate positions. Part of the reason
artificial intelligence. In a note to itsmployees, a top Amazon executive,
calling AI the most transformative technology we've seen since the Internet,
adding we are convinced that we need to be organized
more leanly. But in an earnings call on Thursday, Amazon's

(01:01:14):
CEO Andy Jasse said the cuts were about culture, not
really AI. At least for now, Amazon isn't alone in downsizing.
The CEO of Salesforce recently said AI helped cut his
staff nearly in half, while Microsoft has had thousands of
layoffs as the company invested heavily in OpenAI.

Speaker 11 (01:01:32):
That's the developer of chat GPT.

Speaker 2 (01:01:35):
That's not a shock. We talked about it last week.
What's coming and you know even what Bill Gates said
about AI.

Speaker 35 (01:01:43):
The company's co founder, Bill Gates, speaking with CNBC about
AI's influence.

Speaker 11 (01:01:47):
Over the next several years, there will be some impact
on the job market. Karen Kimbro is the chief economist
at LinkedIn. We really are seeing two forces at work.

Speaker 36 (01:01:57):
One is the macro, the culprit is really a lot
of economic uncertainty that's holding employers back. But the other
one is AI, which is this promise of this new
technology that's going to make us more productive.

Speaker 35 (01:02:08):
A World Economic Forum survey published earlier this year, found
that roughly forty percent of companies from around the world
expect to reduce their workforce and roles where AI can
do the job. I mean, the natural response from so
many people is, oh, no, AI is coming for my job?

Speaker 11 (01:02:23):
Is that the fear is that the truth, it's definitely
a legitimate anxiety.

Speaker 36 (01:02:29):
We actually believe that eighty five percent of professionals are
going to.

Speaker 11 (01:02:32):
Be affected by AI.

Speaker 36 (01:02:35):
AI is coming for some of the tasks that you do,
but there is a huge demand for tasks that only
humans can do, and.

Speaker 2 (01:02:43):
That's the big issue. She didn't want to say it, Yeah,
it's coming for your task. Now, if your task can
or if everything in your job is a task that
AI can do, yes, it's coming from or your job.
If you are invaluable to the company because of who

(01:03:08):
you are as a person, and that is something that's
vitally important that's being taken out of this is the
personal skills, the interaction skills, the one on one skills
as a human being, Well guess what that will trump
those other things. Those things are invaluable. But if your
job is strictly just task that can be done with

(01:03:30):
a AI, yeah, you're in trouble.

Speaker 35 (01:03:33):
That sentiment also shared by Jensen Wong, the CEO and
co founder of Nvidia, the company that makes the computer
chips that are powering the AI revolution.

Speaker 9 (01:03:42):
You're not gonna lose your job to AI. You're gonna
lose your job to somebody who'd uses AIA.

Speaker 35 (01:03:46):
This past week, in Video became the first company to
be worth five trillion dollars. That's more than the GDP
of every country on Earth except the US and China.

Speaker 11 (01:03:56):
There are also opportunities for small businesses.

Speaker 35 (01:03:59):
At the Popcorn Shop in Maine, Julie and Paul Roberts
make forty flavors of popcorn. Their newest ingredient AI.

Speaker 37 (01:04:07):
We have been able to create a whole brand new
website with the use of AI. I have used it
for our social media, for email blasts. It's been incredible.

Speaker 11 (01:04:21):
And that's instead of hiring a person.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
It is.

Speaker 9 (01:04:23):
Yes, absolutely, in.

Speaker 35 (01:04:25):
A world where AI is displacing workers. Here, it's simply
helping the Roberts keep their business popping popping baby.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
That's the way AI is going to help. And yes,
it is. Like I said, if you're a part of
a cognitive wheel and you have no function outside of computer,
certain things like this. You're not interacting with clients, you're
not selling anything there. It is just strictly you know,

(01:04:55):
you put this in this column and this in this column. Yeah,
I'd be nervous. I'd be nervous. We talked about it
last week with my uncle. There is going to be
a bloodbath somewhat in the coming months and years, but
there's going to be opportunities like never before as well.

(01:05:15):
And many of the things that you're seeing out there
that you think, well, this would be a good idea today,
Well today's going to come and go and buy. Tomorrow
something new will come and replace that, and you'll have
an opportunity you never thought of.

Speaker 35 (01:05:29):
I think the first thing is to understand the risks.
It's going to be different depending on what your job
is and what your industry is.

Speaker 11 (01:05:35):
You're going to use this tool.

Speaker 7 (01:05:36):
Differently depending on what job you do.

Speaker 35 (01:05:38):
So first understand the risks and then familiarize yourself with
the tools, learn how to use them. You're going to
be able to find some things you're doing today that
AI is going to be able to take off your plate.
That's going to make you more productive. And also you
really want to focus on the human interactions. It's the
human stuff that AI has not been able to replicate.
So that's really important. The face to face part of

(01:05:59):
your business, your job, that's ever more more important. There.
And then finally, if you're an entrepreneur like the Roberts
in Boothbay, Harbor Main there and the piece, you know,
this is making them more efficient actually.

Speaker 11 (01:06:10):
Growing their business.

Speaker 35 (01:06:11):
So if you own your own business or you're an entrepreneur,
these are tools I think that you absolutely need to figure.

Speaker 2 (01:06:17):
Out how to use amen. Figure it out, use it,
get in front of it, be a first mover advantage
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Speaker 18 (01:07:48):
Serving up Talk Radio, medium, rare and dripping with irony.
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Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
So that portion of the program where we help you
understand the youth of America. They say things and we
have no idea what they mean, but guess what, We're
going to break that code.

Speaker 23 (01:08:07):
We do it each and every day. Let's get to
it now, it's time for the urban word of the day.
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you. It's called the urban word
of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
All right, your urban word of the day. Remember, it
could be a word, it could be a phrase, it
could be just a bunch of letters put together. Today
it is clean girl, clean girl. Now, for some people,
clean girl totally different than today. Today, clean girl means
somebody takes pilones, eats fruits, salads, vitamins, supplements, smells like vanilla,

(01:08:43):
always wearing Lululemon, drinks kale smoothies, and remains single. Oh wow,
she really hits clean girl. Never seen her without her
green juice and define jacket. Oh yeah, yeah, clean girl.
You know some of those ladies are clean girl. Is
your urban word of the day. That was the urban

(01:09:05):
word of the day now, you know. Speaking of AI,
which we did earlier, there's something going on when it
comes to stores, not so much an AI, but with self.

Speaker 38 (01:09:15):
Serve self checkout kiosks are a common sight at nearly
every store, and so are frustrated customers having a hard
time getting them to work.

Speaker 11 (01:09:26):
Please scan your items.

Speaker 7 (01:09:28):
I'm talking for a roboty Please scan your item.

Speaker 38 (01:09:31):
I just did not only testing the patients of shoppers.

Speaker 11 (01:09:34):
I hate self checkout. I hate it. I'm mom too,
forty nine. Please remove the law.

Speaker 38 (01:09:44):
And now those complaints could be leading to new legislation.
Massachusetts lawmakers are proposing a bill that would limit the
number of self checkout lanes at grocery stores and require
a designated employee to monitor them.

Speaker 8 (01:09:56):
It's good for consumers, people get frustrated with them, it's
good for the working people, and it's quod for our
communities to be able to have jobs that aren't just
thrown away.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Well. I don't mind self checkout, but it can be
frustrating because just like you heard, you know, put it
back out, take it back in, call somebody over. It
gets frustrating af with this. I think sometimes everybody takes
everything over. I think it should be limited to like
fifteen or under.

Speaker 38 (01:10:25):
Rhode Island has considered similar action, and last month, the
city of Long Beach in California took its own action
to regulate self checkout machines in an effort to reduce shoplifting.
The ordnance rules led some chains in Long Beach, including Target,
to shut those lanes down completely. Opponents say that's exactly
the problem.

Speaker 5 (01:10:41):
Self checkout was always I've visualized as being and a
convenience for consumers, and that's what we want to make
sure that people consumers self access to.

Speaker 38 (01:10:50):
Some argue adding rules to self checkout will lead to
longer lines, more staffing shortages, and could even drive up prices.

Speaker 2 (01:11:00):
Maybe right, maybe that's possible, But I will tell you
the shoplifting and I know the target of which they speak. Yes,
it happens, There's no doubt about that, especially in a
place like California. It could absolutely happen quick and easy.

Speaker 38 (01:11:16):
Some retailers have already changed their approach to self checkout.
Target says they've added more cashiers while also limiting the
number of items for its self checkout lanes, noting that
shrink in industry term that includes staft went down since
those changes, a long time thorn in the side of retailers.

Speaker 7 (01:11:33):
Basically everybody on Earth is stealing from self checkouts.

Speaker 38 (01:11:37):
One study from Capital one Shopping found that fifteen percent
of shoppers admitted to using self checkout to steal, all
pointing to a retail industry that may consider bringing regular
people back as they increasingly hit cancel on those self
checkout machines.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Who in God's name says, oh yeah, I steal. Apparently
you're not good at this, Jimminy Cricket. So I I
am just four having humans there. I think it should
be fifteen at under. I think that's the way sho
go with self checkout. Let me know what you think.
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(01:12:17):
number three of the program more on the battle of
the government shutdown, Who will win, who will lose? Right track,
wrong track, those kind of things. We'll talk about that
little what's trending as well? Plus the healthcare battle, so
what does it really look like? What's the cost going
to be to the average person now that the subsidies
are gone? We're we talk about that as well. And

(01:12:39):
first it was Venezuela, now it might be Nigeria. Why
would we be going to Nigeria? We will discuss that.
Three two three, five, three eight twenty four twenty three
at Chad Venti Show, It's Your Ax, your Insta, your YouTube,
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the Chad Venta Show.

Speaker 18 (01:13:00):
This is the Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
This is insane. Listen to this. All the things we
talk about all day. Obviously the economy is important. Obviously
healthcare is important. Here's something else, though, that affects us
every single day. It's a freaking traffic.

Speaker 39 (01:13:42):
With return to the office orders taking hold at more
and more companies, the low in traffic congestion that came
with the pandemic is fading into history. The Texas A
and M Transportation Institute's latest Urban Mobility Report finds Americans
losing sixty three hours per year to traffic jams xteen
percent increase in twenty nineteen, and it's costing US two

(01:14:03):
hundred and sixty nine billion dollars a year in lost productivity.

Speaker 2 (01:14:07):
What now, here's the interesting thing. Something I've been seeing
for a while, especially since COVID, more so than ever before,
not just in California. See in LA used to be
like this all the time. People think, well, La, it's Saturday,
I should be able to get on the freeway, no problem.
It is worse on a Saturday than it is on

(01:14:28):
a Friday or a Thursday. I mean, it's a nightmare.
But nationwide, you know, everybody's starting to feel there's no
such thing as rush hour. It's just traffic.

Speaker 39 (01:14:40):
What used to be called rush hour is no longer
restricted to weekday mornings and afternoons. The Mobility Report finds
more commuters on the road in the middle of the
day and on weekends. Truck congestion has risen dramatically in
the past six years as more people do their shopping
at home and have merchandise delivered by truck to their
front doors.

Speaker 2 (01:15:00):
Oh, there's no such thing as rush hour. Yes, it
may be busier in certain instances, but the reality is
it's now just traffic. It's just effing traffic. And I

(01:15:20):
don't even know when rush hour begins anymore. I don't
Does the begin at five am and go to nine?
Is it six to ten, is it two thirty till six?
Is it three till seven? I don't even know. It's

(01:15:41):
just traffic, just traffic. It's driving us all crazy.

Speaker 25 (01:15:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Sometimes in life you have to look up and go,
this isn't the best thing at this time for us
to do. Sometimes tone deafness, and look, this was tone
deaf I don't care what anybody says. People can go.
You being mean to Trump?

Speaker 40 (01:16:04):
No, this was tone deaf wearing nineteen twenties attire. President
Trump's guests at Mar A Lago sipping champagne at what
the White House called The Little Party That Never Killed Nobody,
referencing the song from the twenty thirteen film adaptation of
the f. Scott Fitzgerald novel The Great Gaspy hosts in
flapper attire greeting guests. Fitzgerald's one hundred year old novel
has been celebrated by literary scholars for years for its

(01:16:27):
depiction of the wealth and class divisions in the country
that took place during the nineteen twenties.

Speaker 2 (01:16:33):
Yeah, that feels like a swing and a miss, it does.
I don't want to you know you're being mean to
know it's being honest. I mean that whole thing was
about opulence and wealth, and when you've got people that
are sitting around right now going I don't know what
I'm gonna do to afford health insurance, let alone feed
my family at this point in time, and watching Snap,

(01:16:56):
you could blame it on democrats all you want. You're
the president, you've said on numerous a case long before you,
the president. The president needs to get in there and
fix this. Yet you're blaming it on other people. I'm sorry,
but this felt like a swing in amiss.

Speaker 15 (01:17:08):
The federal program a lifeline helping put food on the
table for some forty two million Americans like Heather and Fulta,
a single mom of four.

Speaker 41 (01:17:17):
I'm working a ten eleven hour days, sometimes six days
a week, and that's just to meet like bill requirements.

Speaker 9 (01:17:29):
So the fact that.

Speaker 41 (01:17:32):
My food budget is gone is seriously disheartening.

Speaker 2 (01:17:38):
Yeah, I would assume that would be disheartening. Now, Friday,
there was a judge said, Eh, you got to do this.
You gotta pay something here.

Speaker 3 (01:17:52):
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to continue
funding the program using emergency funds. President Trump said he's
instructed government attorneys to find a legal path to restore
snap funding, but he acknowledges benefits will be delayed. Senator
Tim Kaine on this week.

Speaker 4 (01:18:09):
Let's find a path to a fix, and let's also
have President Trump finally engage in the negotiation and guarantee
that a deal is a deal.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
In fairness to Trump, he is trying to get the
government to figure out how they can actually fund certain
portions of the government, which is kind of odd. It
feels like, could we have just done this one by
one then as an all a cart menu the way
things should be, rather than stuff them in one giant,
huge bill. That being said, one of the things they

(01:18:42):
did they ordered them to pay what they had in
the emergency front to snap. The argument from the government's
lawyers is the money in the emergency fund is meant

(01:19:02):
to cover a shortfall. So if there's ten billion that
has to go up and we've only got seven and
so we're short three, we can go to the emergency
fund and cover the three. It's not meant to cover
all of it. And the government's like, yeah, we don't
want to hear that, go and get it done. So

(01:19:24):
we'll see how this plays itself out. The way that
they're trying to get this thing done is what's the
loophole They have till today to start paying out what
they can and should have that done by Wednesday. Their
argument still is no, we can't. We can't use the
emergency funds. That's not what it's there for. So we'll

(01:19:48):
see Trump's I know what we need. It's another party
to show the opulence of America. Gabsby, we've done that one.
How about Gatica? You've ever seen that movie? That looks
like fun movie? It's not very nice. Chad just saying
falling on deaf ears. And then you release pictures of

(01:20:10):
the new remodeled bathroom, the Lincoln bathroom. Maybe you just said,
let's hold off on this. Okay, let's hold off on this,
and then maybe in a couple months more past this,
we'll release and go, look how bad it was, Look
what it looks like. Now this is cool, right, this

(01:20:31):
is better? Just saying sometimes it's not should you, it's
when should you? That matters.

Speaker 3 (01:20:39):
The new ABC News Washington ipso's poll finds a majority
of Americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction.
About two thirds say the US is pretty seriously off
on the wrong track, while just under a third belief
things are moving in the right direction.

Speaker 2 (01:20:54):
And that's for both parties. By the way, both parties
or or off on the wrong direction. It's not just
the Republicans. Sixty five percent say the Republicans are swinging
to missing and sixty three percent said the Democrats are.

(01:21:16):
So it's not like there's hey, you know, the Republicans
are on the right track. No, Republicans and Democrats are
both on a track that they shouldn't be on, which
is the wrong track. It's a track that feels like
it's getting further away from the average person rather than
closer to the average person. Last night, Trump was on

(01:21:37):
sixty minutes and talked about a lot of stuff, one
of which was what we've talked about a lot, which
is are we going into a new war? Is Venezuela
a target of ours? Which I still have no idea why,
But is that a possibility?

Speaker 11 (01:21:54):
Are we going to war against Venezuela?

Speaker 13 (01:21:57):
I doubt it.

Speaker 9 (01:21:58):
I don't think so. But they've been treating very badly,
not only on drugs.

Speaker 8 (01:22:02):
They've dumped hundreds of thousands of people into our country
that we didn't want. People from prisons. They emptied their
prisons into country. They also, if you take a look,
they emptied their mental institutions and they're insane asylism into
the United States of America because Joe Biden was the
worst president.

Speaker 9 (01:22:20):
In the history of our country.

Speaker 10 (01:22:22):
But I just want to talk about the scale of
the military operation around Venezuela, because it has been described
to sixty minutes as using a blowtorch to cook an egg.

Speaker 11 (01:22:32):
Is this about stopping thanks?

Speaker 10 (01:22:33):
So look, is it about let me ask you though,
is it about stopping narcotics?

Speaker 11 (01:22:37):
Or is this about getting rid of President Maduro?

Speaker 2 (01:22:41):
That's a fair question. Can it be both? Well, one
of them sounds good to the people, but the other
ones what we really want, which is to get rid
of them.

Speaker 9 (01:22:51):
Now, this is about many things.

Speaker 8 (01:22:54):
This is a country that allowed their prisons to be
emptied into our country.

Speaker 9 (01:22:58):
To me, that would be on my number one because
we have other countries.

Speaker 8 (01:23:02):
Mexico has been very bad to us in terms of drugs, Okay,
very bad.

Speaker 2 (01:23:06):
We have a closed border right now.

Speaker 8 (01:23:08):
You've probably noticed that for five months in a row,
they have zero, think of this, zero people coming into
our country through our southern border on Venezuela in particular.

Speaker 11 (01:23:20):
Are Maduro's days as president numbers?

Speaker 42 (01:23:23):
Oh?

Speaker 10 (01:23:23):
So yeah, I tak so you and this issue of
potential land strikes in Venezuela, is that true?

Speaker 9 (01:23:28):
I don't tell you that.

Speaker 8 (01:23:29):
I mean, I'm not saying it's true or I'm true,
but I you know, I would inclined to say that
I would do that, but because I don't talk to
a reporter about whether or not I'm going to strike.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
You've already talked to everybody about it. I'm not going
to tell you. You've told everybody. Well, I'm not telling
you because you're sixty minutes already to sue you for
a gazillion dollars and I'm going to sue you again.
So what do you think of apples? That are those apples? Oh,
don't think that that's not coming. They've already put out
the entire interview of Trump, and you know, so he

(01:24:03):
can dispute whether or not what he said was used
correctly or taken out of context, which is fair. I mean,
let's be real, it's fair. I think these interviews should
be like, you're gonna be on for twenty two minutes.
We're getting a twenty two minute interview. That's it. It's
a twenty two minute interview. We're not gonna make it
sixty minutes and then it goes and we have to

(01:24:25):
cut it down. So we're gonna make all of these interviews,
whatever they are going to run on the weekend, that's
what you're gonna get. And if you do make it longer,
then that then you release it yourself, so to say, look,
we didn't take anything out of context. We have to

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Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
Healthcare massive issue, massive issue. Obamacare right there. Why is that?
Because it may be the Affordable Care Act, it's the
Unaffordable Care Act at this moment in time. Last night,
Trump on sixty minutes.

Speaker 8 (01:31:34):
Obamacare is terrible. It's bad healthcare at far too high
a price. We should fix that. We should fix it,
and we can fix it with the Democrats. All they
have to do is let the country open and we'll
fix it. They have to limit the country open, and
I'll sit down with the Democrats and we'll fix it.
But they have to let the country and you know

(01:31:55):
what they have to do. All they have to do
is raise five hands.

Speaker 9 (01:31:57):
We don't need all of them.

Speaker 10 (01:31:58):
But so you're saying your place is to tell the
Democrats to vote to end the shutdown, correct, for example,
and that you will put forward a health care plan.

Speaker 9 (01:32:07):
No, we will work on fixing the bad healthcare that
we have. Right now.

Speaker 8 (01:32:11):
We have terrible health care, too expensive for the people,
not for the government, for the people.

Speaker 10 (01:32:18):
You've been talking about fixing the healthcare because of the Democrats.

Speaker 11 (01:32:22):
But since twenty fifteen, you've said, you've been.

Speaker 8 (01:32:24):
Talking about it for a long time. We almost did it.
We were one vote short. We would have had great
health care.

Speaker 2 (01:32:29):
No, your one vote short a way of getting ready
to portions of Obamacare, not fixing it. That's what people
want to know. What is your plan? What is the plan?
Don't tell me that we're going to fix it, and
then when people go, well, what's your fix, We're going
to fix it. That's the fix.

Speaker 8 (01:32:48):
We can make it much less expensive for people and
give them much better healthcare.

Speaker 9 (01:32:53):
Where is willing to work with the Democrats on it?
The problem is they want.

Speaker 8 (01:32:57):
To give money to prisoners, to drug dealers, to all
these millions of people that were allowed to come in
with an open border from Biden. And nobody can do that.
Can I just one Republican would ever do that.

Speaker 10 (01:33:10):
My understanding is if those healthcare subsidies are not extended,
premiums will double for many of the people that are
on it. And I was looking into it, three quarters
of these people will see their healthcare premiums double.

Speaker 11 (01:33:23):
Live in states where you won in the last election.

Speaker 10 (01:33:26):
I mean even here in Florida has the highest number
of residents on Obamacare.

Speaker 9 (01:33:31):
In the country, and I'm saying we can fix it.

Speaker 10 (01:33:34):
You have helped end these government shutdowns in the past
when they came about it, and you did it by bringing.

Speaker 9 (01:33:38):
You're good at it, not members do it by I'm
not going to do it by extortion.

Speaker 2 (01:33:43):
Or should you do it by extortion? He's right that
being said, this is a massive deal. Snap is one issue, right,
but that has not caused the shutdown. The shutdown and
a big battle in the shutdown. The biggest is subsidies.

Speaker 3 (01:33:59):
In Democrats remain firm for an extension of affordable health
care tax credits to keep healthcare costs for roughly twenty
million Americans from rising. Open enrollment began this weekend. Virginia
resident Beth Dryer, who relies on that subsidy, says her
monthly premium jump from eighty dollars to four hundred twenty
five dollars.

Speaker 5 (01:34:19):
This is more than quadry bold and cost for me.
So it's just straight out there's no way I would
be able to afford this next year.

Speaker 2 (01:34:27):
She's not the only one. Listen to this lady, and
where her premiums went to? And I'll tell you in
a little bit what mine would have been. Now that
I'm working at a local station at top of the
national show that I own, which I paid for all
my healthcare over the last several years on our own.
It was ridiculous it. I went and looked this weekend.

(01:34:48):
I was like, there's just no way that this. I mean,
you might as well just get four friends together and
hire a doctor full time at some of these prices.
What could you do? Of course you could probably do that.
More do you need? I can get me a physician
assistant or a or a doctor on call. Right, if
you guys are gonna spend four grand a month, you

(01:35:09):
get three friends. There's what twelve g's say. If we
need you, we'll call you. Be cheaper than some of
this stuff. What about the catastrophic that's the issue we're
going to talk about in a second. Listen to this lady, though,
very interesting on the policy.

Speaker 42 (01:35:22):
That I have Now, it's just me and my two kids,
and we currently pay two hundred and eighty two dollars
and some change.

Speaker 27 (01:35:31):
And I just logged on this past week and I.

Speaker 42 (01:35:35):
Was finally able to see what the premiums are going
to go up to and if we keep the same plan,
it'll go up two one thousand and three dollars a
month for just health insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
That's insane. I mean, think about this for a second.
Most of the people that are on there, small business owners, right,
they're they're working two or three jobs. I don't get
healthcare there, and they've gone and they've decide, Okay, I'm
going to do this because I need health care. And
what ends up happening is now you've put yourself in

(01:36:07):
a positions like can I afford another job? You're going
to have to start going into your retirement. You're gonna
have to start going into several different areas because you're
going to have to figure out a way to make
sure you if it's that important to you not healthier,
you're worried about something, that you cover it because that's
one of the big fears. One of the big fears
is people are looking and they're saying, it's screw it.
I'm healthy, i'm younger, I'm rolling the dice. Those men

(01:36:30):
and women leave the ACA, So they leave that pool.
Then it leaves people that are going to do anything
they can to make sure they pay for it because
they do have medical issues. So the unhealthy will be
on there and the healthier will leave. What do you need?
You need the healthy to balance out the unhealthy. That's
how that works. Mike Johnson, Marjorie Taylor Green, they've been

(01:36:57):
going back and forth talking about this for quite a while.
Mike Johnson.

Speaker 12 (01:37:01):
Obviously, we're not going to be on a conference call
explaining all of our plans and strategies for healthcare reform,
because they're leaked in real time. Literally, when I have
a conference call with all my members, it's tweeted out
by a journalists.

Speaker 13 (01:37:13):
They're supposed to be private, but they're not. And so
Marjorie knows that.

Speaker 12 (01:37:16):
She knows she can come into my office any day,
at any hour, and I'll lay out everything for her.
The committees of jurisdiction, the people who specialize in all
of this, have been working on this around the clock
for a long time. In fact, we published sixty or
seventy pages of healthcare reform ideas in twenty nineteen when
I was the chair of the Republican Study Committee, the
largest caucus in Congress.

Speaker 13 (01:37:35):
Our ideas have been out there for a long time.

Speaker 12 (01:37:37):
We're formulating the final plan that will bring down premiums
there's only one party in America that is going to
do that. Remember, the Democrats are the ones that created
the system that is failing us. They created Obamacare, they
said it was going to bring down costs. It's done
exactly the opposite. Premiums, by some estimates are up sixty
percent since Obamacare was created in twenty ten. So it's
the Republican Party that is going to bring down the costs,

(01:37:58):
not the Democrats. They've already even what they're about.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
So what's your plan. Well, well, you've put a lot
of stuff out there. This is kind of their plan.
Some of it, eh, okay, others I thought, okay, I
could see that something. I think a lot of people
have been been actually saying yes. So when it comes
to their plan, which is give people the opportunity to

(01:38:22):
have catastrophic meaning the in the event that it hits
the fan, we will have a ceiling on what we're
going to pay and then the rest of it will
be covered in the event that's something like that hits
the fan. Okay, Like, if if you get to that
point where you know it's you get a fifty thousand

(01:38:43):
dollars deductible. Well, the reality is is things have probably
gone bad for you, So you're not gonna go bankrupt,
but you're gonna be paining on this thing. So that's
one of the things that they're throwing out there, having
the opportunity to have what they call catastrophic plans, which
I don't have a problem with, but a lot of

(01:39:04):
the other stuff is the usual stuff that they say,
which is, well, we'll give opportunities to compete. Well, guess
what the whole opportunity compete would mean going across state lines.
Here's the thing. They can do that now, but they
don't because there's too many cooks in the kitchen. So

(01:39:26):
each state has their own regulation. That's just too hard.
They've had the opportunity to do that, nobody's taking advantage
of it. Nobody has. So if it was me, I
would give people the opportunity to have a catastrophic like plan,
which is in the in the event that things go sideways,

(01:39:49):
pull the lever on this. But until then, I'll roll
the dice with my life by paying cash for the
things I need. Okay, that's not a bad thing to
start with, and I think a lot of people have
asked for something like that. Marjorie Taylor Green. She was
asked she was on with Bill Maher asked about the

(01:40:10):
plan from Mike Johnson.

Speaker 5 (01:40:12):
Me too.

Speaker 14 (01:40:12):
I'm waiting for the plan. I haven't seen it yet.
That's been a lot of my ink. So a lot
of the things I say are against my own party,
but they're mainly my frustrations in Congress. I believe that
Congress should be solving a lot of these problems. However,
Congress is not solving these problems. And I have Republican leadership,
you know. Looking at Obamacare, it was passed in twenty ten,

(01:40:34):
it went into place in twenty fourteen, and premiums have
skyrocketed ever since. It was good for some that couldn't
afford health insurance or couldn't get health insurance.

Speaker 11 (01:40:44):
But for the middle class, small business.

Speaker 14 (01:40:46):
Owners, people that had to buy their own insurance, it
has crushed them.

Speaker 2 (01:40:51):
Crushed them, it has. Trust me, it was a kick
in the pants, like you cannot believe the cost of
our health insurance over last time of years. It was
the kind of thing where I thought to myself, this
is where I wish we had because we had kids.
We still do. I wish we have to think under front.
I wish we had the opportunity catastrophic because of what

(01:41:14):
we did outside of that, and I'll tell you about
that in a second. Continue, Marjorie.

Speaker 14 (01:41:18):
When Obamacare went into place, it took my own family
a five health insurance policy from eight hundred dollars a
month to over twenty four hundred dollars a month, more
than our mortgage payment. And that's what so many people
have experienced over all these years. But here's the big
problem is it's about to skyrocket in January of twenty
twenty five. Here's why I'm angry. The Democrats passed Obamacare,

(01:41:41):
but yet the Republicans have never done anything to correct
the problems that exist with it.

Speaker 11 (01:41:46):
And I blame my own party.

Speaker 14 (01:41:48):
That's absolutely wrong, and I don't think it's an easy
thing to fix. However, it's something that we should have
a plan for. And Mike Johnson, for a month now
cannot give me a single policy idea. And I'm angry
about that.

Speaker 2 (01:42:02):
You should be. And what I hear from a lot
of people out there, especially Maga, is well, you guys
have to deal with it, suck it up, you know,
the usual crap that you hear, And I'm like, whatever,
Once again, the problem is government got involved, and it's
government's responsibility to fix what they broke. The problem is

(01:42:23):
they'll probably break it more. The one thing I like
you said about the Republican's plan is if you give
people the opportunity to have catastrophic in the event of
a nightmare, this is what you have Otherwise pay cash
what we did over the last couple of years because
our premiums were high, but so was our deductible. Our
deductible was so high that you would almost have to

(01:42:45):
have that nightmare to hit your deductible. And then our
healthcare wasn't spectacle because it wasn't healthcare. We bought a card,
We bought seven minutes with a doctor. So what we
do We went in a different direction, though we kefter healthcare.
We went with concierge medicine.

Speaker 17 (01:43:03):
Silk in Bangor Maina.

Speaker 44 (01:43:05):
Jeff Clark has something a lot of Americans do not
high marks for his healthcare checkup. How did the expectation
of what this experience would be.

Speaker 2 (01:43:16):
Like measure up to the reality once you were here?

Speaker 13 (01:43:19):
If I was doing it in a dream, it was
exactly like my dream.

Speaker 44 (01:43:22):
Clark is a new patient of Ali and Brad tuttle
Stan Yet the husband and wife who started a potheosis
health offering something called direct primary care.

Speaker 45 (01:43:34):
It is simplified healthcare.

Speaker 30 (01:43:36):
Me and you.

Speaker 44 (01:43:38):
After a decade of working at cancer centers, Brad, a
nurse and Ali, a nurse practitioner, now offer an alternative
care model that cuts out the insurance middleman.

Speaker 7 (01:43:49):
Kind of going back to the family doctor. Feel where
you go in, you're not rushed, really develop that relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:43:56):
It is awesome. So we have our doctor that in
Arizona that we used for a long time. Doctor Lamb
was just an amazing doctor. We would spend as a family.
You know, we'd go out there and we'd see doctor Lamb.
And when we means we have access. We had so
much access to him. And it wasn't ridiculously expensive. It
was one hundred and fifty bucks a month or something

(01:44:17):
and you'd go out there and you would spend an
hour or two with him talking about life, what's your
ailments are giving you, physical, the whole kind of nine yards.
It was amazing and yes, if we needed something we
bid cash for it. If we also needed something, we
would get his price for whatever it is that we needed.

(01:44:40):
My MRI he had X ray machine, all that kind
of stuff, we would get his pricing because we're paying
cash for That's why I think this is kind of
the route that we should be looking at. Going at again.

Speaker 44 (01:44:54):
For less than one hundred dollars a month, patients get
the basics, physicals, blood tests, out of prescriptions, and a
patient first attitude.

Speaker 45 (01:45:03):
If you can only be seen on Saturday mornings, we'll
make that work for you.

Speaker 44 (01:45:08):
One third of Americans do not have primary care providers,
which drives up chronic disease rates, hospitalizations, and late diagnoses.

Speaker 45 (01:45:17):
A lot of cancer is preventable with screenings, mammograms, colonoscopies.
If you don't have a primary care provider ordering these
things for you, they're not getting done.

Speaker 44 (01:45:28):
About a quarter of primary care today is done by
healthcare providers who are not physicians but instead nurse practitioners
like Ali.

Speaker 45 (01:45:36):
If your issues are complex, you need to see a
specialist for that. Most things, though, can be addressed here.

Speaker 2 (01:45:45):
Which is what ninety nine percent of people need. Somebody
to go and see, given prescriptions, send them on their way,
giving that once a year lookover kind of thing. We
need more of this catastrophic the event that something goes
sideways in your healthcare or an accident. This I think
will help in a large, large way. Let me know

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the Dodgers and college football the World Series Game seven.
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What are you? Thirty three? So tomorrow ties it and
then Wednesday is the record. I have a sense we're
going to get to the record before anything happens. Polls
are out, and the polls are kind of shifting towards
the Republicans being responsible. That being said, what does it
actually mean? It means nothing until one of them really
blinks and they feel like they have to and I
would say at this moment in time, both of them

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