Supreme Leader Says Enriched Uranium Must Stay in Iran

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
He has spoken, The Supreme Leader has spoken, and he
has said the uranium stays. Supreme Leader has issued a
directive that the country's near weapon grade uranium should not

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be sent abroad. No no, no Ayatola komany to electric boogloo,
so we call him uh has said that it's staying here.

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Now we have touched on this, that nauseam and what
look the frustration level that I have with this, there's many. First,
we should be frustrated that we're in a war that

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we shouldn't be in. Secondly, we are doing a weird
negotiation where we are negotiating something, but the final decision
may be made as far as if it's a good
deal or bad deal by Israel. And let's be honest,

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even if they don't go along with it or do
go along with it, who's to say that six months
from now, we're not right back here. So this is
an ugly situation that, by the sounds of it, is
about to get uglier around Stop. Officials said they believe

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sending the material abroad would leave the country more vulnerable
to future attacks by the United States and Israel. There
you go, Israeli's Prime Minister Benjamin now Yahoo Wu. Trump
and them had quite a how should I say this,
a terse phone call the other day and that lasted

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quite a while because he wants Trump to continue the attack.
So that didn't go very well. So there's that. And
as all that's playing out now, we start asking the

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question of fish or cup bait, fish or cut bait?
What is your move, mister president? Are you going to
stay the course? Are you going to and by stay

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the course maybe mean do nothing continue the blockade, which
is weird because you let a whole bunch of ships
over the last couple of days leave that we're bound
for China, play in chess? Or are you going to
say we've had enough? This isn't going anywhere. Here's the

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problem now though, and this is again, this is all
coming from me, and I talk to people on a
daily basis. I love how people say tell me who
your source is. That's not the way sources work. For
those of you guys who apparently don't understand, let's just
leave here. I'll break it down for you. That's not
how secrets work. If somebody tells you a secret, you

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don't tell everybody the secret and tell everybody who told
you the secret, because guess what happens, they don't tell
you anymore secrets. And I will say this, and I
was having a conversation with somebody the other day. I'm
in this business a long time. There are things that

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administrations want to get out, and they'll come at you
with a wink, wink, nudge, nudge, like you're you know,
here's a little tidbit for you, but they wanted to
get out. They're fine with it, everybody's on board with it.
Then there are leaks. Those are different where people are

(04:45):
feeling like they're not being heard or the people that
they're talking to aren't quite getting what's going on, and
that if everybody else knew, maybe that could spark them
to make a at least pivot into I'm only going
to do this. I'm never going to listen to anybody
to well, hold on a second, Maybe I need to

(05:06):
take a look at it from another point of view.
That's all I'm saying. So, like I said, I've been
in this business a while, and some of the people
that I have talked to who we have a good relationship,
have been very honest that Trump is worried that if

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we were to potentially say we're done with this, that
that may cause Israel to potentially react in a way
that nobody wants them to react. So that's not good either.
So we're now in this position where and this is

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a Trump issue. You put us in this, you did
You didn't listen to your advisors. You listen to BB.
Now BB has dragged us here, and now we're in
a position where this isn't helping you or I pay
our bills any easier. This isn't making healthcare more affordable,

(06:13):
housing more affordable, this isn't making us safer, and this
sure in the hell isn't making us that beacon on
the hill. So the question is going to be are
you worried that they may do something? Is it possible?

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And I think we know what we're talking about. Are
you going to attack again or are you going to
go nothing I can do? We got a step and
we're going to move away. You got some choices, all
bad options. The question is what's the best bad option

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at this moment in time? We will find out, no
doubt about that. Yesterday a lot of you were trolling
me and not you out there there's people out there
that troll. This is what they do, right. You've got
a lot of these these Trump maga people who it's
Trump period, case closed at all costs. They're taking marching

(07:29):
orders from a lot of the people in the administration,
and you know, coming hard at the whole, you know, well,
what do you think of this? Now that Massey lost?
He got steamrolled and things of that nature. And I
just started laughing, and I'm like, you do realize it's

(07:50):
a primary now Massy whoever won that one was going
to win. But across the board, somebody said, I think
Trump's thirty eighth oh in his picks. I said, that's great,
But that's like scrimmaging your team and then saying, well,
we won the World Cup. No, you haven't played a

(08:11):
game yet. You just scrimmaged your own team. And in
some cases, let's be real, it was tilted in such
a way, especially the amount of money that was poured
into it, and let's not pretend that there wasn't a

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lot of money poured into the whole Massy thing. People
keep also saying, do you think Massy is going to
run as an independent? Here's a weird thing. He can't.
And that sounds odd, right, Like, what do you mean
he can't? So Kentucky is a sore loser law which

(08:57):
will not allow him to run as an independent, which
means the only way he could, in theory run, which
he can do is if it's right in only And
I don't know if he's going to run. I have
to be honest with you, even because there's a lot

(09:18):
of push, you know, for him to run for president.
And it's funny because the great stewards of the MAGA
world who are like you guys, think he should run
for president. He lost a primary. He's a loser, and
I'm like you guys, ever heard of Abraham Lincoln? What's

(09:40):
Lincoln got to do with it? Lincoln lost eight times
eight times twice for the US Senate. So losing in
this scenario with what was up against him is not
something that he should be worried about. If he's thinking

(10:05):
about a bigger office, I don't know if he's going to.
He has made it pretty apparent that he doesn't want
to do any more politics. If he was to lose this,
that he would be done and just I know, go
live on his self sustaining farm, which is I think

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what he has with his wife. It's possible that's what
he does. It's also possible that, you know, a lot
of people say he's going to have a podcast. That's
always possible. And it's also possible that he becomes a
person who throws his hat in the ring for something bigger.
All of those things are a possibility, there's no doubt

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about that. But the thought, because he lost a primary,
of which is the most expensive primary in human history,
that he should never run again, and that he's a loser,
that's it's a little much just saying three two, three, five,
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A lot of stuff to get to today. Talk a
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shocked he settled. He should have gotten more. And it
has to do with a meme and free speech. We'll

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discuss that also Cuba, Raoul Castro and our buddy Jim Kennedy,
he's gonna join us. Well, we're going to talk about
a little bit about Thomas Massey. But we're also going
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Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (13:10):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
The party was on in South Beach yesterday. They're coming
for your Raul Castro big announcement. Todd Blanche and everybody
comes out. Raul Castro ninety four years old, indicted for
the shooting down of an er plane in nineteen ninety six.

Speaker 3 (13:30):
What we heard from Todd Blanche is that this indictment
was built on the backs of years and years of
not only prosecutorial work, but work by the intelligence community
that they say proves and was able to prove to
a grand jury by probable cause, that Castro was involved
in coordinating when he was a defense minister at the
time and eventually ordering that those that basically planes that

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were being flown by that group could be shot down.
And that is what they say drove the pattern that
led to the shootdown of those planes.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Shoot Down, if you will, came in nineteen ninety six,
February of that year, and it was for a nonprofit
that is against the Castro regime. And they're called Brothers
to the rescue. Four people in the aircraft were killed,
Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Mario de Lapagna, and Pablo Morales.

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The shooting down drew widespread condemnation, as it should, But
this is a win for South Beach. This was a
win out if you saw any of it. But you know,
they were there, you know, giving this big press conference
in Miami, and people were there celebrating what was going on. Obviously,
the community there, the exile community, is massive, no doubt

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about that. Here's my question, I mean, how are you
getting him here?

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Right?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
How are you getting him here?

Speaker 3 (14:52):
Although we heard Todd Blanche say over and over again,
this is not just an indictment in their words for show,
they do intend to somehow bring him to the US
to face these charges in a Miami federal courtroom. But
the undertones of this are unmistakable. This is, in Todd
Blanche's words, the highest level indictment that we've seen of
a Cuban figure from the US in terms of federal

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charges in essentially a generation.

Speaker 2 (15:16):
And I go back to how are you getting him here?
And what shape is he into? Let's just say, for
the sake of argument, you go and you get him
and you bring him back, they turn him over. I
don't know, because we're offering them what one hundred million
dollars to help them and you know, as the kind
of hope to eventually transition them from the insanity of

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being run by the communist castros and whatnot. Three two, three, five,
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Show is your ex and your instant? Are you in
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a democratic society? I guess who knows what he'll end
up being. But let's say, okay, fine, you can have him.

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What shape is he in? I mean, he's ninety four.
I don't know how spry he is. So this will
be interesting, no doubt about that. Let me know what
you think. Memorial Day weekend kicks off really right now.
I'm off tomorrow, Buddy Craig is in. Are you traveling
by the way, because guess what it begins today?

Speaker 5 (16:22):
Delta Airline says, so rush begins today. In fact, over
this entire Memorial Day weekend, Delta says today will be
its peak day of travel. American Airline says its busiest
day will be tomorrow. Triple A Report's top destinations his
holiday weekend domestically will be Orlando, Seattle, New York, and
Las Vegas. Those heading out of the country are going
to Rome, Vancouver, Paris, and London.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Now that's in the air, what if you're on the ground.

Speaker 6 (16:47):
Triple A says this holiday we'll see a slight increase
in road travel compared to last year, but also higher
gas prices. The national average is now four dollars and
fifty six cents a gallon. Traffic data company in Rex
says there's the worse time to drive will be Thursday
and Friday afternoons, especially between three and six pm, with
major backups expected in cities like New York, Boston, Denver,

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and Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Prices are up to obviously you know that the pump
when we had like four fifty six a gallon, give
or take, so more expensive. But people are still going
to be out there doing their thing because they were
probably thinking about doing this before the war started and
they thought, well, maybe the prices are going to come down.
They have not, but hopefully before Labor Day they will

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start to come down. Coming up. Jim Kennedy Kennedy answer
to Public Policy Research joins the program. Talk about Colbert
last night, Tonight Chad Benson.

Speaker 7 (17:39):
Chow, then Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (18:01):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 8 (18:04):
That's out of the week.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
Our good buddy, Jim Kennedy, Kennedy in Public Policy Research,
joins the program. I'm off tomorrow, so that's why we're
doing it now. And Jim, let's just jump really quick
into Thomas Massey, obviously the most anti semitic human beings
since Adolph Hitler lost the other night. The reality is

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is he's not and I find it. Look, this is
the first time I look at our system in a
long time. I think, Man, you know, I'm not thrilled
by what took place there. They bought him out of
his position because he stood on things that made the
president uncomfortable and he didn't like. Yet I think he's

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pretty principled and that to me is not a good
place for us to be.

Speaker 9 (18:53):
Oh no, absolutely, And we're you starting to get down
at the last couple weeks of the various people that
were taking sides and who endorsing who I mean he
was endorsed.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
By asan piker.

Speaker 9 (19:03):
If I'm not mistaken, at the end of this thing,
and said we, I mean, where we are as a niche,
we start getting these kind of you know, Lauren Bobert
was out there campaigning for him to which isn't nearly
as bad as this's on Piker, but still, you know,
she's another one of these who's not who currently I
would believe is not on Trump's Christmas cardinalis. But yeah,
he lost fifty five forty Yeah, fifty five to forty five.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
And his comment though at the end about.

Speaker 9 (19:27):
Having to go call Tel Aviv that can congratulate his
opponent wasn't you know even some of the people I
watched that and some of the people were kind of
cringing in the in the crowd, thing, Wow, that was
really not called for. Did that make him Rosanie smanic? No,
but it's like he could have handled that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
They did spend twenty million dollars to beat him. And
when the front page of Haretz says this is the
most important republican election in the history of Israel and
it's the Massy election, you can understand why a lot
of people think that feels a bit odd.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
You are one hundred percent right, Yet I believe this
is going to turn out to be the most expensive
house primary in history with I believe it's thirty five
million dollars as the total that's going to have been
spent on this on this campaign, between the both sides
on media and all of the different direct mail and
all the different events.

Speaker 4 (20:18):
So yeah, that's not a good statement for it all.

Speaker 9 (20:20):
For spending that kind of money. We could do more
productive things with it above and beyond that. But one
of the things that I've also seen the last couple
of days is people coming out and talking that are
in the media that knew him, that aren't really necessarily
pushing the agenda, talking about they really saw a change
in him unfortunately after his wife had died back in
June of twenty four that he kind of really went

(20:41):
down a very strange path after that. And I'm afraid
that I think that maybe some of this just might
be because of that unfortunately, so it's not really something
that's really core to his beliefs, is just because of
events kind of got you know, kind of piled up
on him.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Possibly that well, the way they attacked Hi, which is
kind of more sad than anything else, but the way
they went after him when you've got Laura Lumer. When
you've got Trump's confidant, lor Lumer, who is out there
talking about, you know, he did this and he's had that,
and you know, and asking questions about alluding to whether
or not he did something to his wife and all

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these kids, I'm sorry you, that is insane. And he
was the only one that stood up and said, we
can't fiscally continue to go this way. We're going to
fall off a cliff. You promised everybody the Epstein stuff.
And by the way, in twenty i think nineteen, he
was tweeting and talking about the Epstein stuff. And he's

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been pretty straightforward with a lot of the stuff that
he has done. And yeah, at some point in time,
when the entire country, including the president and the Republican
party's coming down down you maybe you get a little bitter.

Speaker 10 (21:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (21:48):
Absolutely.

Speaker 9 (21:49):
And I've said, you know, whenever we've talked about the
Epstein files, turner all loose, don't care, let the chips
fall where they may, and just you know, yeah, just
turn everything loose. I don't have any issues with that,
Just like same thing on maybe they also on the
Alien files.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Just turn them all loose too.

Speaker 9 (22:04):
But yeah, again, I think You know what, I think
the bigger takeaway from that statement is is Laura Lumer
Trump confidant. That's kind of to me this carrier's statement
of what we were talking about on this That's a
whole different conversation.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
That is just the point that is that that right
there shows me all the judgment anymore I need to
know about what's going on in our White House. Speaking
of that, talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public
Policy Research, we got to talk about Trump's got up
seventeen because seventeen seventy six slush fund, the one billion,
seven hundred million, six hundred or seven hundred and sixty

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thousand dollars whatever slush fund, which is again seventeen seventy six,
and the no, the irs can't look at anything you've
done in the past period. It's it's it's done and dusted.
How do people, right, Jim, you're a big supporter, you know,
maybe not as big as you used to be. How
does no Republican look at this and say, yeah, I
feel like this is nothing that we stand for.

Speaker 4 (22:59):
It it's problematic to say the least.

Speaker 9 (23:03):
You know, there's lots of ways to kind of defend
it in a sense, but yeah, there's a lot of
unanswered questions with it as far as you know, as
far as the ethics and morozon. I'm kind of surprised
that the left has not jumped on this more than
they already have. I would think this would be some
sort of like you know, low hanging fruit for them

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to go absolutely apoplectic over, and I haven't really seen it.
Maybe I'm just not looking at the right media sources.
I've seen more people in the right that have been
talking about scratching their heads going.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
Well, yeah, because I think the people on the right
are like, we've got to answer all these questions, and
people are looking at us, going, you guys are complicit
in this, and then some people are starting going the
reason you guys aren't really raising as many questions you'd
be is because some of you think you're going to
get some of this money.

Speaker 9 (23:46):
Yeah, no, absolutely, and it is something that's yeah, it's
it's problematic. I don't really have a better explanation for
it because I don't know enough and it just doesn't
look good.

Speaker 4 (23:57):
I certainly can't defend it.

Speaker 9 (23:58):
I'd like to know about the civic of it, and
what And you know, it doesn't seem like what if.
If I'm looking at it from a business perspective, this
does not strike me as an arm's length transaction. This
seems to be a very influenced transaction, which is something
that is not really what the President's supposed to be doing.
The president is not supposed to be in the office
to not necessarily that he's going to get any money
from this, but that he's you know, I could still

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see the worries technically enriching himself because again, we don't
know exactly where the money's going, or who's going to
get or who's gonna sit on the board. Because I'm
pretty sure it's not going to be Rachel Maddow will
not be on that board.

Speaker 4 (24:31):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm going to guess Rachel Maddow
is probably not going to be on that board, nor
world Jay Bay or Joy Behar either. I'm going to guess,
so Keith Hoberman probably not gonna be on the board either.
Now I'm gonna guess it's going to be pretty much
loyal Trump loyalists. So yeah, until that comes out, though, yeah,
I can just say that I'm not really thrilled by this.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
This.

Speaker 9 (24:51):
We need to do better than this. And I would
say the same as Joe Biden of course too. And
then they put Hunter on the board or something because
you know there's going to be a Trump kid on
that board.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
Know that, but I know that.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Yeah, I think we all understand that. Talking to Jim
Kennedy Kennedy Institue Public Policy Research tomorrow night, Colbert is gone,
it was take Trump out of it. I mean, let's
be real, these things don't matter anymore. Nobody watches late
night television like they used to. People watch stuff on demand.
They probably get more views on their shorts than they

(25:24):
do on their actual show. But this is going to
be interesting to see the way that he signs off, because,
let's be honest, he's been a huge thorn in the
side of Trump for quite a while.

Speaker 9 (25:36):
No, absolutely, one of the kind of things I look
at this from, you know, you know, from the perspective
of what has he done to the late night talk
show genre. And I'm gonna be fairly heart to set
he's kind of ruined it by going out and doing this.
You're given that, You're you're given that opportunity, you're given
that time slot to go out there and entertain people,
not the push a political agenda. I go back to Leno.

(26:00):
You didn't know who Leno voted for. Lintle might have
been a Republican. I don't really know. And even in
all of his additional materials I've seen him with all
of his car stuff that he's done since then.

Speaker 4 (26:08):
I don't know what tway.

Speaker 2 (26:08):
I gotta be honest. I don't think Leno feels like
he even cares about politics.

Speaker 9 (26:13):
I don't think he does, because he's had George George W.
Bush on, he's had Joe Biden on. He treats them
exactly the same, just about everybody.

Speaker 2 (26:21):
If you like cars, we can have a conversation.

Speaker 4 (26:24):
Absolutely yes, And I agree with you.

Speaker 9 (26:25):
I don't think he cares about their politics as long
as they're going to make good content with them, or
it's going to be good comedy.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
He's out there. Johnny Carson, you never knew where Carson would.

Speaker 9 (26:33):
He made it fun of Republican presidents, He made fun
of Democratic president Jimmy Carter got the you know, we
would get this shift from him, just as Richard Nixon did,
just as Ford did. But nowadays it's like it's everyone's
got an agenda out there. I mean, we see the
same thing with Jimmy Kimmel too with this where they're
just pushing their political agenda. And one of the basic
tenets of journalism it's not about you.

Speaker 4 (26:54):
You are out the story.

Speaker 9 (26:56):
Okay, you were out there to either tell a story
or you're entertain people educated in hertain. Is what I
always kind of belief is a basic tenet of what
at least what I do when I'm talking to you
or I'm doing my own content or whatever. Okay, yes
I'm doing political stuff, so I may have a political
bent to what I'm doing. Those guys really aren't because
they have it in the past. And there's a great
interview with Carson from the mid seventies with Mike Wallas

(27:18):
where he goes like, he goes like, well, why don't you, you know,
Mike Walker, why don't you hit the tougher political story.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
He goes it looks at him, but why would I
do that. I'm not there.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
People aren't watching me at eleven thirty to be lectured about,
you know, the you know, about the policy of nuclear
power in America, whether we should get.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Rid of it after Three Mile Island or not.

Speaker 9 (27:35):
It wasn't something that Johnny Carson would do because you
were there to be entertained. It was eleven thirty a night,
you'd had a long, stressful day, You're trying to go
to bed, and you just want to be entertained before
you fall asleep and go on and start your next.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Crappy day the next day. Yeah, and that's exactly what
they're there for.

Speaker 9 (27:50):
But nowadays it's got to be about them, about pushing
their agenda about you know, basically telling you why the
president is horrible.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
I'm telling you why Joe Biden was the.

Speaker 9 (27:57):
Greatest president since sliced bread. And I just think it's
a it's a sad thing. I don't know, because you
CBS is replacing it with the Byron Allen Show, who
he's done for I think twenty years.

Speaker 4 (28:06):
He's done that show. Yeah, on various.

Speaker 9 (28:08):
Different networks and syndication deals, and he's and Alan has said,
we are talking one percent, sorry, we're talking zero percent
about politics. All of the comics have been instructed there
is to be zero political content on this show. It'll
be interesting to see the over the term. Is it
going to get better? Ratings to what Colbert did, and
certainly for a much cheaper show than what The Colbert

(28:29):
Show costs.

Speaker 4 (28:30):
But yeah, you're right.

Speaker 9 (28:31):
I mean there are fewer and four people watching network television,
certainly fewer and fewer watching network television at night at
the eleven thirty timeslot.

Speaker 4 (28:39):
So yeah, so that is that, you know that that
does change it. And maybe this is the end of it.

Speaker 9 (28:43):
Maybe if when Kimic goes off the air, there won't
be there won't be any but thing like that on
the air. At that's not because times have the times
they are change in and they're just not regardless of
even how bad Kimmel is on his or not bad,
but how much he pushes a political agenda on this show.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
That is just because of.

Speaker 9 (28:58):
The of the new models and the way things are,
they're just that show doesn't really that type of show
doesn't really have a place at eleven thirty. You need
to run something cheaper that cost you know, that cost
less to produce.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Yeah, you know what, And I tell people it wouldn't
work on you know, if it was a hardcore righte comedian,
it's not gonna work because oh yeah, no, no, it
has nothing to do with the politics anymore. It has
to do with the fact that we just don't consume
the media the same way that we used to, and
that especially includes this. Remember Johnny had no competition.

Speaker 9 (29:30):
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, they were he was at because
CBS didn't have a CBS and have a show. The
Letterman brought over in yeah wherever it was ninety two
or something, and ABC tried a couple of things that
Cavan had a show for a while. There was a
little bit of competition, but that came and went. And
yet yeah, I mean he was the king of late night.
And then when Leno took over, Leno was a king
of late night. The Letterman came along because Leno didn't.
Letterman thought he was going to get the cars at

(29:51):
gig and then he was competition, but he was still
I don't think he ever really passed or passed love.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
He he led Leno for the first couple of years.
And then and when Leno got Hugh grant On after
his arrest, Oh yes, he never. Letterman never I think
beat him again.

Speaker 4 (30:09):
Very good.

Speaker 9 (30:09):
Yeah, so that's probably right, that's probably right. Yeah, But
Letterman had his group of people that liked him. Yeah,
May we come out. Originally, you know, he was a
tall thirty Armies.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Letterman was a little bit of the younger crowd.

Speaker 4 (30:21):
Yeah, yeah, a little edgier.

Speaker 9 (30:22):
Showlanto did Leno did a Carson s show just down
the Middle.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
They would play you play the Middle of America.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
And you know what, You're gonna see Celine Dion as
the musical guest tonight and Letterman may have social distortion.

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Yeah, exactly. No, very very good way to put it.

Speaker 9 (30:36):
He was going after a younger crowd and most of
it he was going after the kids that would watch
Saturday Night Live on you know, on Saturday Night type
of thing.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Talking to Jim Kennedy. Kennedy instituted Plug Policy Research. Last question, brother, uh,
Trump doesn't have any There's no good options here. And
that's the way I feel about the whole thing with
Iran and we talk about the midterms and he says
today I've got all the time in the world. Some
Brett Hume come out, brit him safe Key's lying. Isn't
all the time in the world. I haven't seen anybody
say yeah, it's totally yeah, this is great. The reality

(31:05):
is and even my clients, our military analysts this week,
said there is only bad options at this point in time,
and I don't think there is an option where we
bomb them into submission. And I don't think we're any
in any position to put one hundred to two hundred

(31:27):
thousand men onto the shores and storm the castle, if
you will.

Speaker 9 (31:33):
Yeah, like I said, there are very few good options
for Trump of this situation, so he's going to have
to pick one of the bad ones. And again, I
don't think their Ranians are ruling to cave at this
point unless they're literally getting people back in the streets,
and without that happening, it just isn't going to happen.
For as far as regime change, they're politically as stud
enough to wait it out and they know there's been
terms coming up and it doesn't affect them as much.

(31:54):
So I would like to see us figure our way
out of this within the next ninety days to basically,
you know, for for us to get for us to
get ourselves out of it before I get become a
political suicide for Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
Absolutely. Jim Kennedy Kennedy Answer, Public Policy Research. Good talking
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Speaker 2 (33:26):
Hollywood's changing. We're getting ready to see a movie called
back Room coming out and this may be directed by
the youngest person outside of maybe Spielberg to helm a
Hollywood backed, studio backed movie.

Speaker 12 (33:44):
A twenty fours new musty horror film was directed by
a twenty year old YouTube creator, and on May twenty ninth,
you'll be able to see the power in Hollywood shift
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maverick with more than three million subscribers. As a teenager,
Parsons adapted creepy internet mythology into the viral horror series Backrooms,
and since twenty twenty two, his eerie short films have
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(34:06):
Backrooms is making the jump to the big screen without
losing its essence. Parsons teamed up with a twenty four
and producers James Wan and Sean Leevy for a feature
based on his shorts, and that makes him one of
the youngest filmmakers to ever helm a major studio feature,
which is a huge deal because it shows the power
in Hollywood is shifting to younger visionary directors, many of
whom cut their teeth and hone their skills online and

(34:26):
Parsons is plenty skilled backrooms. Looks to be bold, intense
and downright horrifying.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
What Hollywood is doing is what music has done now
for a while, which is screw it. Why not just
go find some people that are making good material and
let's give them the opportunity to either expand on something
they've done and turn it into a Hollywood like project,

(34:52):
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an actual studio with a budget to shoot this thing

(35:14):
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here The Chat Benson Show coming up, hour number two
of the program. Could Texas Go Blue? Is that a possibility?
We're going to discuss that, the differences between Betto and
the cruise race and Tallarico and whoever he takes on.

(36:00):
We're gonna discuss a little bit of that. On top
of that, talk a little World Cup. We'll start breaking
down some of the groups in this World Cup as
we're what twenty days away, twenty one days away now
from the kickoff of the World Cup. Pretty pumped about that.
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Speaker 1 (36:25):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Good Texas, the Great State of Texas. Could it go blue?
It's possible? It is now. When I mean go blue,
I mean a Senate se. Let's everybody slow your roll,
slow your role. I mean a Senate seat. It's like,

(37:19):
could California see a Republican who's governor?

Speaker 4 (37:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:25):
And it's happened before. It's possible. But could Texas see
a situation in which they lose a Senate seat? Ooh,
it is possible, now, Harry Engineer, good friends over at

(37:47):
C and N gonna break this thing down for you.
I'm gonna give you my two, four, eight, ten twelve
cents worth of stuff. But I have been saying this
for a while. As Trump has endorsed now Paxton because
he's Maga and that's what matters. And as everybody celebrates

(38:07):
like Massy being the thing that everybody celebrates on the
Maga side, that you know, Massy lost because you can't
defeat Trump. I remind everybody primaries are not the generals.
And you celebrating beating your sparring partner or scrimmaging against
your team, it's not the real game. It's not go

(38:30):
time yet. And yes, Massy loss. Whoever wins that race
is going to win. It's a safe district. But when
it comes to serious and I do mean serious races
where there is going to be competition in the general,
Trump has had an issue with the quality of candidates

(38:50):
in big things before see Kerry Lake, see oh herschel Walker,
and now the question is him getting behind Paxxton. Is
that going to be something that will potentially cost him.

Speaker 13 (39:09):
The idea that Democrats can't win in Texas, I want
to put that terrest.

Speaker 8 (39:13):
They could very well do it. James tell Rico could
very well win in Texas.

Speaker 13 (39:16):
And I want to use a comparison point with twenty
eighteen because there was all this talk about better o' rourke, right, Oh,
could he be.

Speaker 8 (39:22):
Tech Cruz, he could beat tech Cruse.

Speaker 13 (39:24):
The numbers at this point in that campaign simply put
that not support that conclusion. But the numbers at this
point absolutely support the conclusion that James Tallerico can win.
So take a look Texas Senate polls in May of
the election year, when you matched up O'Rourke better or
Rourke versus tech Cruz, tech Cruz was up by seven points.

Speaker 8 (39:39):
He was clearly ahead. Well, look at the polling average.

Speaker 13 (39:41):
Now when you max up Ken Paxton versus James Tallerco,
it's actually tall Rico that's.

Speaker 8 (39:46):
Ahead by four points and Johnny B.

Speaker 13 (39:48):
I was looking back at every single Texas Senate race
that I could find, and at this point in the campaign,
James Tallerco is pulling better than any Democrat in at
least twenty four years. You have to go all the
way back to two thousand and two to fine a
Democrat even pulling anywhere close to where Tall Rico is
pulling right now. Texas Democrats have dreamt about turning it blue.

Speaker 8 (40:11):
This time.

Speaker 13 (40:11):
The numbers actually support the idea that they may actually
be able to do it.

Speaker 2 (40:15):
Now. Is that a possibility? Could it actually happen? Yeah,
I think there's a possibility. Tell Rico's different, and I've
been saying this. He's still a little wokish, you know.
But a few things first, and I think we all
need to recognize this. There is an exhaustion factor with Trump, okay,
and many people realize that. Secondly, tell Rico, while he's

(40:36):
a bit left, he's also a person who is a pastor.
He doesn't come out and attack and go after people.
He is smart. He is Again, do I think he's
got this thing in a slim dunk? No, I don't.
But it's not the same thing as the Betto or

(40:56):
Rourke phenomenon that people for a lot of reasons.

Speaker 8 (41:01):
The idea that Ted Cruz was not that popular.

Speaker 13 (41:04):
That's a falsehood that is simply put a falsehood.

Speaker 8 (41:06):
You go back again. Just look at these differences right here.

Speaker 13 (41:09):
Okay, Texas GOP candidate net favorability. Ted Cruise's net favorability
was actually plus seven points in my average polls. Look
what Ken Paxton is the complete inverse of that. He
was seven He's seven points underwater.

Speaker 8 (41:21):
So look again, you just look at the numbers.

Speaker 13 (41:24):
In twenty eighteen, Democrats had this dream of turning Texas
with the numbers didn't support it, in large part because
Ted Cruise was actually decently popular. But Ken Paxton is
anything but. In poll after Paul, after Paul, he is underwater.
No wonder Republican centers are running scared, especially after that
Trump endorsement of Paxton yesterday.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
Mm hmm. Yeah. See, Ted Cruise is a lot of things,
but he was somewhat popular. Better Rourke was running around right.
You know, he's the guy's skateboard and he's the cool
hip uncle who's skateboard and barefoot and wearing Hawaiian shirts.

(42:05):
And you know that he's the trust fund. You should
give me the opportunity. Let me tell you why. You know,
guns are bad and I'm all of these. He was.
He was a shiny object that was better than the
alternative for the left in Texas, but there was no

(42:28):
real substance behind him. He was, you know, as they
would say, he drove for show, but he didn't putt
for the dough. When it comes to Taller Rico, it's different.
I think there is something there, and I've been saying
and I'll continue to say this, and we've talked to

(42:48):
several people about this, including on our midterm Mondays with Kennedy.
The reality of the money now that you're going to
have to spend. Think about how much money was just
spent on the Massy Race, the most expensive race in

(43:09):
human history for a primary. Think about what's going to
be spent by the GOP to try to hold this
Senate seat if Paxton wins the primary runoff against Cornyn.
Think about that. Think about the amount of money that

(43:30):
is now going to be spent to try to hold
on to this And money now is going to have
to be diverted from potentially other races because you don't
have a choice.

Speaker 13 (43:43):
All politics at this point funnel down from up top
and then drop down to the state level.

Speaker 8 (43:48):
And you can just see it right here. Okay.

Speaker 13 (43:50):
Back in May twenty eighteen, Trump's net popularity in Texas,
he was.

Speaker 8 (43:54):
At plus four points. He was above ward.

Speaker 13 (43:56):
Again, we're looking at the inverse of that Trump is
considerably less popular in Texas, which of course matches what
we're seeing nationally, which is that Donald Trump is less
popular now than he was at this point in term one.
You put it all together, you look at the general
election polls, you look at the popularity of the potential
Republican candidates that will be running for Texas Center, you
look at Donald Trump's popularity as well, and you go, Okay,

(44:17):
Texas is absolutely in play. Does that mean that Democrats
will finally win their first Senate race since nineteen hundred
and eighty eight, Mooy Benson. I'm not saying that, but
it is a real possibility.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yeah, I think it is a real possibility. I think
it is absolutely a real possibility. Plus Cornyn, while boring here,
he is wei stay.

Speaker 14 (44:37):
In this race.

Speaker 15 (44:39):
Well, because only Texans get to vote, and we've had
two days of early voting, it looks very encouraging. And
I believe that we still have a very good chance
for winning in the race.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Because Trump just said that he believes that that packs
they could win.

Speaker 15 (44:56):
I think it's a toss up Keith, and I also
think he's going to be there's going to be a
drag on down ballot races that are important for us
to keep majorities in the state House and keep our judges.

Speaker 2 (45:11):
Yeah, so let's not forget the fact that we are
currently in the midst of rising fuel prices, inflation, an
unpopular police action, excursion war, not quite sure what we're

(45:31):
supposed to call it. There is a lot that goes
into just I mean, take out all of the people
that are running and if it does really filter down
and Trump is making suring that he is getting involved
in all as many races as possible to the detriment

(45:54):
of some and to the benefit of others, that come
November it's going to be different. And if things are
where they feel like they're going, which is going to
be an economy that's not firing on all cylinders, frustration
over promises made and nothing seems to be kept. I

(46:19):
think you could see a backlash in several ways for
the Republicans and they recognize that. So making it harder
potentially is that really what you want? Will tell you
what the Democrats want it big time, and then you
can you know, start breaking out. They're going to say, oh,
you're for transgender surgeries or whatever they're going to say

(46:42):
to him. Paxton is impeachment, bribery charges Okay, he was acquitted,
but still that's hanging out over there. Securities, fraud, indictment. Okay,
he agreed to pay nearly three hundred dollars in restitution.
You had the issue with uh let's see here, uh

(47:04):
divorce an adultery for somebody who runs around and screams,
of course about you know, Christianity and things of that nature.
The election overturn results, and all you with him comes
baggage and weed. Let's not forget the weed. I say
this because I think it's much more of a mover

(47:29):
for some people than you realize. And see what happened
last year, right when Dan Patrick and and all of
them came out that they just want to you know,
oh my god, if you take any of these gummies,
you could walk in front of a train and just
these zero tolerance and Ken Paxson is a zero tolerance guy. Yeah,
he's not running for an office that you know, like

(47:51):
governor or something of that nature. But there is a
big deal in the weed. Situation marijuana that it is
sticky the devil's lettuce that will still play on people.
So this you can't discount that. And speaking of the weed,

(48:12):
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Speaker 2 (49:53):
You know what if I was James Comy and Letitia James,
I would apply to Trump's slush fund and say I
was wrongly attacked and by a weaponized DOJ. You need
to give me money, Parison, What are you making this one?
Point seven billion dollar fun.

Speaker 10 (50:12):
Per that is we're gonna try to kill it.

Speaker 4 (50:15):
We're gonna try and kill it.

Speaker 10 (50:16):
Yeah, okay, and how.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Well, we're considering legislative options.

Speaker 4 (50:20):
We're going to write a letter.

Speaker 2 (50:22):
To the AG to start, but we're considering a legislative option.

Speaker 4 (50:26):
Okay.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
So we're trying to unpack exactly you know what the
legal machinations are.

Speaker 10 (50:31):
But can't do that, right. Have you ever heard of
any other Americans like other than Trump is an association
we have it, who are unauditiable.

Speaker 4 (50:38):
By the IRS.

Speaker 8 (50:39):
I've never heard that.

Speaker 10 (50:40):
Okay, So would that be part of the legislative of course?
Of course, yeah, you can't do that, got it?

Speaker 4 (50:45):
Thank you? Yeah, I appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
I don't know what's going to happen with it. My
assumption is there's no way. I don't know how you're
going to allow this to proceed legally. I don't know.
I mean, I sit here and I think to myself,
first of all the irs. Thing they snuck in at

(51:09):
the end where none of him, his families, his family's businesses,
adjacent businesses that may work with him but not related
to him, any of this stuff can be audited ever Again,
which again fascinating, But how does this slush fund work?

(51:31):
Five people on the board, he picks who gets to
decide who gets money? Just out of curiosity. I'm curious
about all of that. So the slush fund, by the way,
ends December twenty twenty eight. Todd Blanche said, almost anybody

(51:53):
can apply. That's why I said, should totally do it.

Speaker 4 (51:58):
Right.

Speaker 2 (51:58):
It's James Comy Sin's in this huge bill, right, so
why not? I mean, you know, anybody who alleged that
the government weaponized the Department of Justice or used law fare.
And a lot of people are saying, well, here comes

(52:18):
to January sixth, folks, they're going to get a bunch
of money. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
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Benson Show. I don't know how that's going to work.
They've been all kind of you know, the people that
are for this have been universal. Though, if you attacked

(52:39):
the cop er, you did something horrific to you know,
to the Capitol, you don't get the opportunity to get money.
What do you think? Meanwhile, Trump's ballroom is not very bally,
if you will. Two quick things here. First, the ballroom.

(53:00):
He is out of the Immigration enforcement funding bill, which
it should be because not quite sure what that has
to do with immigration enforcement funding. Secondly, here's my conspiracy.
He thinks the aliens are coming. He wants this ballroom
built with drone attack like launch pads. He wants it

(53:23):
several stories below because he knows they're coming. That was
my conspiracy yesterday. It isn't going to happen. And a
lot of this again internal internal. A lot of this
very internal, meaning it's Republicans who are saying this, Yeah,
this doesn't make sense.

Speaker 9 (53:45):
There's no architectural plans, there is no environmentals, there's no engineering,
there's no.

Speaker 12 (53:53):
Sense of when we ask how did it happen to
cost exactly a billion?

Speaker 14 (53:58):
In my mind that is it.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
Could cost a lot less, it costs a lot more.
I just don't get it. I don't think anybody does.
Bill Cassidy, by the way, I don't think he's gonna
be on board with a lot of stuff Trump is
doing here, just pointing that out there. Three two three
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Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
It is getting closer and closer and closer. You smell that.
Oh baby, it's the world's biggest sporting event and it's
coming to America. It's time to talk cup.

Speaker 4 (55:04):
Whoa how about that?

Speaker 10 (55:07):
Or prahit.

Speaker 8 (55:09):
Ago?

Speaker 16 (55:11):
What are the rights sharia right across to.

Speaker 2 (55:18):
We haven't been able to control the play in midfield?

Speaker 4 (55:21):
Why the Maradona has been able to do they's had to.

Speaker 2 (55:24):
Be It's all them at L can win the World
Cup for Urgentina with this kick. Yes, Oh, the World
Cup coming here. June eleventh, kickoff, first game Mexicole versus
South Africa, June eleventh, two pm. Thanks Central. Really excited

(55:52):
about this. We'll let you guys know that. So we've
broken down all these World Cups, starting at the beginning,
going all all the way up till now. So we're
gonna give you a snapshot of what this World Cup
is going to look like. And we're gonna talk to
our buddy from KRLD about the bowlavirus and what role
that could be playing when it comes to fans and

(56:17):
even one of the teams abuddy over there, Eric Bushman
from krol D. Before we do that, though, let's break
this Down's the biggest World Cup in history. So let
you guys know, forty eight teams are participating. Forty eight teams,
three hosts, Canada, Mexico and US Massive. Massive. This World

(56:43):
Cup is unlike anything we have ever seen. It takes
place from June eleventh through Sunday, July nineteenth, so it's
going an extra week because there's so many teams. The
way the teams are broken down brackets. Okay, so forty
eight teams, twelve groups of four. Each team plays three

(57:06):
group matches. Top two teams from each group automatically advanced,
so twenty four teams. The eight best third place teams
also advance. So going into the knockout round, you're gonna
have thirty two teams. So that's something that's new and
huge that we're gonna be looking at. So the way

(57:29):
this is gonna break down starting on Tuesday is I'm
gonna go group by group, give you my predictions who
to watch for, and we're gonna go all the way
and I'm gonna give you my full prediction of not
only how we'll do, but also who's gonna win this
thing and the players to watch out for, so be

(57:51):
prepared for that. It is here. It is here, my friends,
and it's getting closer every single day. Speaking of closer,
the ebolavirus, is it getting close through to us every day? Well?
With the World Cup being here, fans from all over
the globe showing up. You worry about you know, we
saw a COVID, but now the ebola virus that is

(58:11):
broken out people are paying attention to. And one of
the reasons is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which
is where the ebolavirus is is in the World Cup.
And the other day Trump suspended the Trump administra administration
suspended visas from adjacent countries as well as the Democratic
Republic of the Congo. Joining us now is somebody I

(58:34):
thought we could absolutely talk to because he's got a
little first hand experience in covering some of this stuff.
But Eric Bushman from KRLD, people like to be scared Man,
and the ebolavirus Eric, it gets people thinking.

Speaker 10 (58:46):
Yeah. And the thing is is that we need to
go back in time. So follow me, if you will,
back to the wonderful world of twenty fourteen and the
way September October, Dallas had what I call its Ebola situation.
It wasn't an outbreak, it wasn't an emergency. In hindsight,

(59:07):
it was the Dallas Ebola situation. And that's because there
was someone now, unlike the Democratic Republic of Congo, that
outbreak that occurred that was in Western Africa, and there
was Thomas Eric Duncan was his name, and he came
to the United States. It came to Dallas. He was
famously sent home from the hospital, thank you very much,

(59:29):
into the Dallas community when he went in complaining of
the symptoms, and he ended up going back to the
hospital and he was diagnosed with ebola. And the only
people who got infected from that patient zero were two
nurses who treated him, and they were very successfully treated
and they have moved on with their lives. Unfortunately, patient zero,
mister Duncan, did pass away. But the reason I share

(59:50):
this story is ebola is not like COVID. It is
so hard to catch. You have to be very close
to the person. If there's an ebola affected patient that's
you know, fifteen feet away from you, and he or
she coughs or something, you're not gonna I shouldn't say
you're not going to but it's very hard to get
It's not a respirator airborne the situation like COVID or

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the common cold or the flu or what have you.
And so but still it's a concern because we have
this very deadly virus outbreak somewhere in the world right
before this huge influx of tourists and fans dedicated to
their country, dedicated to their sport are coming to the
United States and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It's not

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going to be in Dallas for a base camp, but
they're base camping in Houston. So there are some people
in Texas who may have some concerns. But again, like
I said, the last time anything close to this occurred,
it was contained. Ebola is not something that can get
out of control, like you know we lived through six
years ago.

Speaker 2 (01:00:52):
Talking Eric most for you talked about the World Cup.
As we get closer and closer twenty one day's way,
what else is going on? Like because I'm sure that
you know you and I were talking quickly before the
show about not just ebola, but you've got a lot
of health you know, what's going on with the health
departments what's going on with the security. People are starting
to Okay, it's getting real now. We're starting to see

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not just the posters, but we're starting to see action.

Speaker 10 (01:01:17):
Right, and just just driving around Dallas, you know that
I noticed that the banners with the logo the twenty
six with a FIFA World Cup trophy right in front
of it, those vertical banners. They're going up all over
the city, and I'm sure similarly on to the other
eleven host cities within the United States. And so yeah,
things are getting real. We're going to start having the
different countries, different teams start coming in. Of course, Dallas

(01:01:40):
is base camp to Sweden and to Chechia, and that
would be in Mansfield and Frisco, respectively. And so yeah,
besides the situation with the Ebola outbreak and the Democratic
Republic of Congo and possible fans that may be coming
to the Houston area for that, there were a number
of health organizations that held a teleconference last week and

(01:02:02):
they just kind of talked about, you know, the different
health concerns that people, you know, should be aware of
when you have you know, a whole bunch of different
places from around the globe converging onto one area being
the United States, Mexico and Canada. What's that going to
leave behind? So there are some conversations that are being had,
but as of now, there really aren't any major concerns

(01:02:22):
about seeing any major sicknesses or any health risks associated
with this event that you know, literally kicks off in
just two or three weeks.

Speaker 2 (01:02:32):
All right, Eric, let's talk about the controversy. There was
a mural, it got painted over and controversy and this
has to do again with the World Cup.

Speaker 10 (01:02:41):
Yeah, and you know, I guess the easiest way to
explain this someone stepped in it and this was this
backfired and there is some incredible reporting coming out from
Robert Willanski over at the Dallas Morning News and he
was able to get some emails. He was able to
speak with Monica Paul with the with the North Texas

(01:03:05):
FIFA World Cup Organizing Committee, and the breakdown of this
is basically, there was a suggestion and it looks like
as of now, it came from the head of Downtown Dallas, Inc.
That this could be a potential site. She wanted to
confirm with the City of Dallas that it wasn't a
protected site under Dallas's I guess three hundred or so

(01:03:27):
works of art that are throughout the city, and the
city said, you know, you know that that's not one
of ours, but it's there. It's this mural as Whaling
Wall as they call it, the life sized Wales celebrating
that has been on this building at five O five
North Ackered for almost thirty years, and no one really said,

(01:03:51):
you know, maybe we shouldn't do this because it's beloved
by people of the community. And it appears that there
were members of the organizing who did say, this might
not be a good idea, you know, we might get
some backlash. But before anyone knew anything, boom, there are
painters at this building painting over it and it sent

(01:04:13):
shock waves through the community. So it's gonna you know,
they can't really do anything else to it. Robert Wiland,
who just simply goes by his last name Wyland, the
artist who painted the mural. He wants to take legal action.
There's some federal protection for the artist, which is, you know,
more than just having the building owner gibb, it's permission,

(01:04:36):
you have to contact the artist in this situation. And
so what they're looking at is does the artwork have
recognized stature and from the reaction from the community, from
the media coverage, my bet is yes. And so what
will be interesting what Wyland can do legally moving forward.
The sad thing is, regardless of any legal outcomes, that mural,

(01:05:00):
with the exception of one side of the building, that
mural is gone.

Speaker 2 (01:05:05):
Man, the it is again because the average person probably
you see it and you may appreciate it, Eric as
you recognize. Sure a lot of people don't know who
the artist is, especially in something like that, and then
all of a sudden it's gone. First of all, there
had to be a shock. But what has been there?
Like take on this like it was an oopsie? I mean,

(01:05:26):
how did they defend any I saw somebody try to
defend it.

Speaker 4 (01:05:29):
The other day.

Speaker 2 (01:05:29):
It's like, well, we really didn't know what it was,
like who we were supposed to go. It just feels
like a lot of communication was lost because somebody got in,
you know, over their head and just decided to do something.

Speaker 10 (01:05:41):
Well, it does appear that there was a meeting earlier
this week with the North Texas Organizing Committee, and the
reporting is I did not see this for myself, and
there it doesn't appear to be footage of this. But
the reporting is is that Monica Paul, again the president
of the committee, was very emotional discussing it, basically saying

(01:06:01):
this was not what we wanted this. Now, I'm not
saying that she didn't want the mural replaced. We don't
really know where the organizing committee fits in this, but
it's certainly the backlash was not what they wanted to
just she did say, you know, if we could do
it over again, we would, And obviously, I mean, I
think you have no everyone kind of agrees with that.

(01:06:22):
At this point. No one expected the kind of backlash
it got. But but you know, it really is interesting.
But at the same time, and I'm not surprised by this,
I did see some social media comments that basically said,
people living in Dallas. I was today years old when
I discovered there was a mural of Wales in downtown Dallas.
So how many times would someone be downtown, they passed

(01:06:43):
by it, they notice it, but it doesn't sink in.
But on the opposite part of the coin, I can complain,
as someone who loves music and art myself, I completely
understand feeling like you're attached to a piece of art.
So if it suddenly without notice, goes away. It can
be devastating.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
Hey, what's Weiland's you know you said he could sue
or something. What's his recourse in any of this? I
mean there's an opportunity to go now and to maybe
bring attention to something. Paint whales, do something new. Does
he want compensation? What is he thinking?

Speaker 10 (01:07:18):
From what I understand, if he gets any compensation, he
wants to donate it to his causes. He doesn't really
want to pocket it. But like I had said about this,
about this mural, I mean it was painted over. This
was not a situation where a tarp was put down
or some sort of large canvas was put down to
cover it. They've covered this mural before. But then those
coverings go away and the whales are back, you know,

(01:07:39):
those whales are gone, and so he can't do anything
to remove that paint. So really, what he would do
if he is successful, is this would protect similar artwork
in other cities, because if whoever, you know, gets the blame,
whether it's Downtown Dallas, Inc. The Organizing Committee or FIFA
itself over this, if they in a sense get away

(01:08:00):
with this and can put up this new thing without
any any backlash or any legal remedy. You know, other
cities may go, Okay, well, this one's forty years old,
we want to get rid of it. This one is
twenty years old. It's had it's time in the sun.
Let's get rid of it. So his goal here really
is just to stop this from happening again to someone else.

Speaker 2 (01:08:18):
Eric Bushman, k RLD, appreciate you. Coming on man, We'll
talk to you soon.

Speaker 10 (01:08:22):
All right, sounds good.

Speaker 2 (01:08:22):
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Speaker 14 (01:09:45):
Show, serving up Talk Radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
It's add then sent.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Alrighty, alrighty.

Speaker 16 (01:10:04):
It's that portion of the program where we move away
from certain words and move to other words, words that
the youth of America use, and you too, can slowly
but surely work them in to your daily vocabulary.

Speaker 17 (01:10:22):
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 (01:10:34):
I used this yesterday and several people text me, go,
what does that mean? Maybe maybe you need a little
refresher every once in a while. It's okay to have
a refresher. Boat race boat raced, Okay. Now, that's an
urban word or phrase that people use when something an

(01:10:57):
opponent of something. And I used the yesterday because I said,
Thomas Massey got boat raced means he get beat bad.
Can be anything, could be an election, could be sports.

Speaker 15 (01:11:08):
Right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
You'll often hear as they say, you know, sports commentators going, man,
these guys just got boat raced, meaning they just got smoked.
That might be another thing, but boat raced is something
you will hear, especially in my vernacular, when it comes
to certain things like getting aswhooped in an election. Boat

(01:11:31):
raced is your urban word of the day. That was
the urban word of the day. Now you know and
he did get boat raced. I'm not afraid to admit it,
and I think he would tell you the same. He
got boat raced, although I will say while he had
a nice boat as far as the money he had

(01:11:53):
raised and stuff, the reality is the people he went
up against, their boats and engines were bigger. So that's
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(01:12:15):
By the way, right here on the Chad Benson Show.
Coming up, our number three of the program, my last
hour of the week. As I am off tomorrow, be
back here on Tuesday. We're going to talk a little
bit about how Hollywood is finding directors and it is fascinating,
but we shouldn't be shocked because it is a change

(01:12:36):
in fast. We're also going to talk a bit about
a settlement that happened where a gentleman was in jail
for a meme. He got some money, but I think
he deserved a lot more. We will discuss that as well.
Some news on Iran or Buddy Jim Kennedy. Kennedy instead
the Public Policy Research joins the program. All that ends
so much more straight ahead as we look at our

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number three of the Chad Entry Show.

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

Speaker 2 (01:13:34):
Freedom of speech is Moui and Portante. Absolutely absolutely, And
last year something quiet happened here that god not as
much as attention as it should have. A man was

(01:13:57):
arrested in Tennessee, Perry County, a few days after Charlie
Kirk was killed. He posted a meme on Facebook. He
was then arrested because they thought it was a threat

(01:14:23):
to their high school. It was bizarre, to say the least,
because it was something that Trump had said that had
become quite a popular meme and Larry Bushnell put it
on his Facebook, and he's a liberal kind of trolling

(01:14:49):
the gun advocates, the Second Amendment advocates in a situation
where people were tense because of what took place with
Charlie Kirk, and he was arrested.

Speaker 18 (01:15:01):
Larry Buschard's time in jail began on September twenty first,
twenty twenty five, the day he made a series of
posts critical of President Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:15:13):
Then a war for you.

Speaker 10 (01:15:14):
Okay, so you're gonna have to come with us.

Speaker 14 (01:15:17):
We'll be booked in, we'll get all this figured out.

Speaker 18 (01:15:19):
In this body camera video, you see Buchart being arrested
for sharing a meme in a Perry County, Tennessee Facebook
group days after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie kirk NaNs.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
And it's just yeah, it's right amos stage.

Speaker 10 (01:15:34):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:15:35):
The meme includes ah from President Trump saying we have
to get over it, referencing the twenty twenty four school
shooting in Perry, Iowa.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
That's just horrible, so surprising to see it here, but.

Speaker 1 (01:15:49):
I have to get over it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:50):
We have to move forward. Wow. And so this guy
didn't put it out there, didn't make it up. This
was something Trump said, and he didn't really share it
in like a he put it on his Facebook, but
it's the Perry County that's where he lived. There was
a shooting in Perry, Iowa at a school. They assumed

(01:16:21):
that he was threatening Perry County. So you could say, okay,
you know what, maybe I could see that a smich maybe,
but then you explained it to me and it goes away. No,
and instead, they arrested him.

Speaker 18 (01:16:41):
According to the Perry County Sheriff's Office, the post caused
quote multiple reasonable citizens to be in fear of their
children's safety at school.

Speaker 15 (01:16:51):
This is.

Speaker 10 (01:16:54):
Threatening mass violence at a school.

Speaker 19 (01:16:57):
Like many Americans, he enjoys participating in political discourse on Facebook,
and he knows his rights, and he knows that those
rights were violated.

Speaker 2 (01:17:09):
You think they were violated. They were absolutely violated. And
I love how they say reasonable residents believed. Now Perry
County is about what forty to fifty miles outside of Nashville,

(01:17:29):
give or take. When we touched on this originally, and
this happened last year, and we touched on it again
yesterday we found out the settlement came out. I got
plenty of texts from the locals here. If you will say, hey, Chad,
you ever been out to Perry County. No, let's just

(01:17:49):
say it's a place for the not so sharp and
the people who decide that wearing shoes should never happen.
That your and this is them texting me that the
family tree is a stick. That's all I'm saying. Now

(01:18:10):
here's the thing, okay, And I want you guys to
understand this This wasn't the end of it. Like they
took him in. They booked him thirty seven days in jail.
Reason magazine picked it up. Then we picked it up
locally and went off. Then the local station here WSMV

(01:18:34):
picked it up as well, and it exploded. His bail
was two million dollars had he not had the focus. Okay,
so this happens. I think that he was arrested right

(01:18:55):
before Halloween, missed thing giving and everything else. He's in
jail for a meme of something Trump said. Had this
not if you will blown up, he wasn't going to
have a hearing until this year early January. He would

(01:19:19):
have spent Christmas and everything in jail over a meme
of which the sheriff readily admitted, maybe not so much.
Where First of all, the sheriff needs to go. Secondly,
the DA needs to go, and the judge. Where's the

(01:19:41):
judge going? Jeae, I'm throwing this out. If you guys
can't understand that Perry, Iowa and Perry County are two
separate things, you are idiots.

Speaker 18 (01:19:49):
Perry County denied any liability or wrongdoing in the settlement.
Bushard's attorneys hope his case sets a precedent for similar
cases and hopes nothing like this happens again.

Speaker 19 (01:20:00):
This is the time when our free speech protections are tested,
and it's the settlement reaffirms that in America we don't
jail people for political speech, and that is crucial to
our freedoms and to living in a free society.

Speaker 18 (01:20:15):
Mister Bouchard says he has pleased his First Amendment rights
have been vindicated. While he was in custody, he lost
his post retirement job, missed his anniversary and the birth
of his grandchild. Now, Buschart says he is looking forward
to moving on and spending time with his family.

Speaker 2 (01:20:31):
I'm going to say this right now, I was a
little pissed that he took the settlement. The settlement was
like eight hundred and sixty seven thousand dollars. He should
have got two million for the bail. That should have
been it, And many people are saying, yeah, they should
have actually just named the county should be Larry's county
at this point in time, which by the way, he

(01:20:52):
doesn't even live in the town in the area, he
lives next door to it. He's a former cop. This
was insane and the sheriff also did interviews and he
sounded like an idiot. It was scary. It is absolutely
scary that this happened over a meme that even the

(01:21:16):
sheriff goes. Well, I could see how, you know, it
could scare people, but you know, you know it wasn't
you know. I don't think he was a threat, but
I could see that. Sorry, that doesn't cut it. Sorry,
And I again, like I said, I was shocked. He
took what eight hundred and sixty seven thousand? Should it
took more? Should it took more?

Speaker 4 (01:21:38):
Three?

Speaker 2 (01:21:38):
Two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty three
atch had Benson shows your ext your insta YouTube and
more movies. You know I like him. Hollywood is a changing.
Why is that? Because there's a new movie coming out
called Backrooms.

Speaker 12 (01:21:49):
A twenty four's new mussy horror film was directed by
a twenty year old YouTube creator, and on May twenty ninth,
you'll be able to see the power in Hollywood shift
before your eyes. This is Kan Parsons. He's a YouTube
maverick with more than three million subscribers. As a teenager,
Parsons adapted creepy internet mythology into the viral horror series
The Backrooms and since twenty twenty two, his eerie short
films have a mass more than two hundred million views,

(01:22:12):
and now Backrooms is making the jump to the big
screen without losing its essence. Parsons teamed up with A
twenty four and producers James Wan and Sean Levy for
a feature based on his shorts, and that makes him
one of the youngest filmmakers to ever helm a major
studio feature, which is a huge deal because it shows
the power in Hollywood is shifting to younger visionary directors,
many of whom cut their teeth and hone their skills online.

Speaker 2 (01:22:34):
Now I have seen some of what this guy has done.
And why this is very interesting is Hollywood is changing
right before our eyes the way the music industry has changed.
So the music industry now no more are you going
out and discovering bands the way they used to with
some small little dive bar. Now what do they have

(01:22:56):
three or four people that are scouring every place they
can on insta TikTok, finding people who've already got songs,
who've already got followings. And it's plug and play that
takes the risk away from the music executives, which is

(01:23:22):
good for them, but it also gives the power to
the artist. The same thing's happening now when it comes
to movies and television. So last week Obsession came out
new movie, horror movie done by a guy named Curry Barker.

(01:23:43):
It's him and his roommates. They had a pretty decent
following online. And it's the same thing here. It's a
plug and play because equipment is cheap, editing is cheap.
You can do all of this stuff now in a
way that you never could before. And people have freedom

(01:24:07):
to come in now as a director or actor any
of these things in ways they never had before. So
instead of the studio or the executives in the music
business having a huge advantage, that advantage is gone. Now
they're risking less. But now to get something made, you

(01:24:29):
don't have to spend as much. You can take more
risk with an unknown studio director, but somebody who's got
three hundred million views like back rooms. It's crazy and
it is changing every day. And my uncle and I
talk about it because he's in all these meetings and
hearing how much that they're looking for that next director,

(01:24:52):
and they're not looking inside of the business. They're looking
on the Internet and the next huge haul wood blockbuster
may come from three guys in the middle of the
country who've never been to Los Angeles. Crazy crazy cool
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Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

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Signed James Dean.

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That's and I was trending on this Thursday. By Friday,
my Friday. Sorry, folks taking some gam off like a
day and a half. Very bizarre. Survivor fifty one trending
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out more and more about Supergirl. So she rarely wears
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drinks and she swears, and the best line I've heard

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in it any of the movies that are superhero movies
was because you know, was it her cousin Superman? And
she says Superman sees the best in people. I see
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Kentucky Bezos, the Boys, apak wemby Betty Boop all trending.
In the Magical World of X, people are very excited,
especially throughout parts of you know, Palm Beach, Miami, because
you know what's going on with Cuba now, right there,

(01:29:44):
people are chatting about Marko Rubia, who will soon be
the king of Cuba is my thought is what they're
going to install him as. But yesterday the big announcement
he's been indicted.

Speaker 3 (01:29:56):
Although we heard Todd Blanche say over and over again,
this is not just an indictment in their words for show,
they do intend to somehow bring him to the US
to face these charges in a Miami federal courtroom. But
the undertones of this are unmistakable. This is, in Todd
Blanche's words, the highest level indictment that we've seen of
a Cuban figure from the US in terms of federal

(01:30:17):
charges in essentially a generation.

Speaker 2 (01:30:20):
So they've indicted Raoul Castro at the spry age of
ninety four, Raoul was indicted along with five others for
the nineteen ninety six shooting down of Brothers to the Rescue,
which was a three point thirty seven Skymaster there were
an organization opposed to the Cuban government, killed four men

(01:30:41):
on board, and they announced yesterday they're indicting him. How
they're going to get him here is going to be
very interesting. But Cuba looks a lot easier to take
right now than Iran just saying that coming up. Our
buddy Jim Kennedy Kennedy into the Public Policy Research joints
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Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
Chat Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:23):
That's out of the week. Our good buddy, Jim Kennedy
Kennedy instrute Public Policy Research joins the program. I'm off tomorrow,
so that's why we're doing it now. And Jim, let's
just jump really quick into Thomas Massey, obviously the most
anti semitic human beings since Adolf Hitler lost the other night.

(01:31:43):
The reality is is he's not and I find it. Look,
this is the first time I look at our system
in a long time. I think, Man, you know, I'm
not thrilled by what took place there. They bought him
out of his position because he stood on things that
made the president uncomfortable and he didn't like. Yet, I

(01:32:08):
think he's pretty principled and that to me is not
a good place for us to be.

Speaker 9 (01:32:13):
Oh no, absolutely, and we're you started to get down
at the last couple of weeks of the various people
that were taking sides and who was endorsing who I mean,
he was endorsed by Son Piker if I'm not mistaken
at the end of this thing and said, we I
mean where we are as a nache, we start getting
these kind of you know, Lauren Bobert was out there
campaigning for him too, which isn't nearly as bad as

(01:32:33):
this on Piker, but still, you know, she's another one
of these who's not who currently I would believe is
not on Trump's Christmas cardinalists. But yeah, he lost fifty
five forty Yeah, fifty five to forty five. And his
comment though at the end about having to go call
Tel Aviv that can congratulate his opponent wasn't you know
even some of the people I watched that and some
of the people were kind of cringing in the in

(01:32:54):
the crowd thing, Wow, that was really not called for.
Did that make him the Rosanie Semanic? No, but it's
like he could have handled that a little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
They did spend twenty million dollars to beat him. And
when the front page of Haretz says this is the
most important republican election in the history of Israel and
it's the Massy election, you can understand why a lot
of people think that feels a bit odd.

Speaker 9 (01:33:21):
You are one hundred percent right. Yet I believe this
is going to turn out to be the most expensive
house primary in history with I believe it's thirty five
million dollars as the total that's going to have been
spent on this on this campaign, between the both sides
on media and all of their different direct mail and
all the different events. So yeah, that's not a good
statement for it all. For us spending that kind of money,
we get to do more productive things with it, above.

Speaker 4 (01:33:42):
And beyond that.

Speaker 9 (01:33:43):
But one of the things that I've also seen in
the last couple of days is people coming out and
talking that are in the media that knew him, that
aren't really necessarily pushing the agenda, talking about they really
saw a change in him unfortunately after his wife had
died back in June of twenty four that he kind
of really went down a very strange path after that,
And I'm afraid that I think that maybe some of

(01:34:05):
this just might be because of that unfortunately, So it's
not really something that's really core to his beliefs, is
just because of events kind of got you know, kind
of piled up on him.

Speaker 2 (01:34:15):
Possibly well, the way they attacked him, which was kind
of more sad than anything else. But the way they
went after him. When you've got Laura Lumer, when you've
got Trump's confidant, Laura Lumer, who is out there talking about,
you know, he did this and he's had that, and
you know, and asking questions about alluding to whether or
not he did something to his wife and all these guys,

(01:34:36):
I'm sorry you that is insane. And he was the
only one that stood up and said, we can't fiscally
continue to go this way or we're going to fall
off a cliff. You promised everybody the Epstein stuff. And
by the way, in twenty i think nineteen, he was
tweeting and talking about the Epstein stuff. And he's been

(01:34:57):
pretty straightforward with a lot of the stuff that he
is on. And yeah, at some point in time, when
the entire country, including the president and the Republican Party's
coming down down, it maybe get a little bitter.

Speaker 4 (01:35:08):
Yeah. Absolutely.

Speaker 9 (01:35:08):
And I've said, you know, whenever we've talked about the
Epstein files, turn it all loose, don't care latiships fall
where they may, and just you know, yeah, just turn
everything loose. I don't have any issues with that, Just
like same thing on. Maybe they also on the alien
files just turned them all loose too. But yeah, again,
I think you know what, I think the bigger takeaway
from that statement is, is Laura Lumer Trump confidant. That's

(01:35:29):
kind of to me this carrier's statement of what we
were talking about. Oh yes, that's a whole different conversation.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
That is just all some point that is that that
right there shows me all the judgment anymore. I need
to know about what's going on in our White House.
Speaking of that, talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of
Public Policy Research, we got to talk about Trump's got
up seventeen because seventeen seventy six slush fund, the one billion,
seven hundred million, six hundred or seven hundred and sixty

(01:35:56):
thousand dollars whatever slush fund, which is again seventeen seventy six,
and the know, the I R S can't look at
anything you've done in the past period. It's it's it's
done and dusted. How do people, right, Jim, you're a
big supporter, you know, maybe not as big as you
used to be. How does no Republican look at this
and say, yeah, I feel like this is nothing that

(01:36:17):
we stand for.

Speaker 4 (01:36:18):
It's problematic to say the least.

Speaker 9 (01:36:22):
You know, there's lots of ways to kind of defend
it in a sense, but yeah, there's a lot of
unanswered questions with it as far as you know, as
far as the ethics and morizon. I'm kind of surprised
that the left has not jumped on this more than
they already have. I would think this would be some
sort of like you know, low hanging fruit for them

(01:36:42):
to go absolutely apoplectic over, and I haven't really seen it.
Maybe I'm just not looking at the right media sources.
I've seen more people in the right that have been
talking about stretching their heads going.

Speaker 2 (01:36:51):
Well, yeah, because I think the people on the right
are like, we've got to answer all these questions, and
people are looking at us going, you guys are complicit
in this, and then that some people are starting going
the reason you guys aren't really raising as many questions
you'd be is because some of you think you're going
to get some of this money.

Speaker 9 (01:37:06):
Yeah, no, absolutely, and it is something that's yeah, it's
it's it's problematic. I don't really have a better explanation
for it because I don't know enough and it just
doesn't look good. I certainly can't defend it. I like
to know about the civis of it and what and
you know, it doesn't seem like what if. If I'm
looking at it from a business perspective, this is not
striking me as an arm's length transaction. Seems to me

(01:37:27):
as a very influenced transaction, which is something that is
not really what the President's supposed to be doing. The
president is not supposed to be in the office to
not necessarily that he's going to get any money from this,
but that he's you know, I could still see the
worries technically enriching himself because again we don't know exactly
where the money's going or who's gonna get or who's
gonna sit on the board. Because I'm pretty sure it's

(01:37:48):
not going to be Rachel Maddow will not be on
that board.

Speaker 4 (01:37:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 9 (01:37:50):
Maybe I'm crazy, but I'm going to guess Rachel Maddow
is probably not going to be on that board, nor
World Jaybay or Joy Bahar either. I'm gonna guess so
Keith Hoberman probably not gonna be either. Now I'm gonna
guess it's gonna be pretty much loyal Trump loyalists. So yeah,
until that comes out, though, Yeah, I could just say
that I'm not really thrilled by this. This we need
to do better than this, And I would say the

(01:38:12):
same as Joe Biden of course too. And then they
put a hunter on the board or something, because you
know there's gonna be a Trump kid on that board.

Speaker 4 (01:38:18):
You don't know that, but I know that.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
Yeah, I think we all understand that. Talking to Jim
Kennedy Kennedy Instue Public Policy Research. Tomorrow night, Colbert is gone,
it was take Trump out of it. I mean, let's
be real, these things don't matter anymore. Nobody watches late
night television like they used to. People watch stuff on demand.
They probably get more views on their shorts than they

(01:38:43):
do on their actual show. But this is going to
be interesting to see the way this that he signs off,
because let's let's be honest, he's been a huge thorn
in the side of Trump for quite a while.

Speaker 9 (01:38:55):
No, absolutely, one of the kind of things I look
at this from, you know, you know, from the perspective
of what has he done to the late night talk
show genre. And I'm gonna be fair the heart to
say he's kind of ruined it by going out and
doing this. You're given that, you're you're given that opportunity,
You're given that time slot to go out there and entertain.

Speaker 4 (01:39:15):
People, not the push a political agenda.

Speaker 9 (01:39:18):
I go back to Leno. You didn't know who Leno
voted for. Lenna might have been Republican. I don't really know.
And even in all of his additional materials, I've seen
him with all of his car stuff that he's done
since I don't know which way.

Speaker 2 (01:39:27):
I gotta be honest, I don't think Leno feels like
he even cares about politics.

Speaker 9 (01:39:32):
I don't think he does. Because he's had George George W.
Bush on, he's had Joe Biden on. He treats them
exactly the same, just about everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
If you like cars, we can have a conversation.

Speaker 4 (01:39:42):
Absolutely yes, And I agree with you.

Speaker 9 (01:39:44):
I don't think he cares about their politics as long
as they're going to make good content with them, or
it's going to be good comedy.

Speaker 4 (01:39:49):
He's out there.

Speaker 9 (01:39:50):
Johnny Carson, he never knew where Carson would. He made
it fun of Republican presidents. He he made fun of
Democratic president Jimmy Carter, got the you know, we would
get the shift from him, just as Richard did, just
as Ford did. But nowadays it's like it's everyone's got
an agenda out there. I mean, we see the same
thing with Jimmy Kimmel too with this where they're just
pushing their political agenda. And one of the basic tenets

(01:40:12):
of journalism it's not about you. You are out the story. Okay,
you were out there. Do either tell a story or
you entertain people educated, entertained. Is what I always kind
of belief is a basic tenant of what at least
what I do when I'm talking to you or I'm
doing my own content or whatever. Okay, yes I'm doing
political stuff, so I may have a political bent to
what I'm doing. Those guys really aren't because they have
it in the past. And there's a great interview with

(01:40:34):
Carson from the mid seventies with Mike Wallace where he
goes like, he goes like, well, why don't you, you know,
Micha Walker, why don't you get the tougher political story?

Speaker 4 (01:40:41):
He goes it looks at it, but why would I
do that. I'm not there.

Speaker 9 (01:40:44):
People weren't watching me at eleven thirty to be lectured about,
you know, the you know, about the policy of nuclear
power in America, whether we should get.

Speaker 4 (01:40:52):
Rid of it after Three Mile Island or not.

Speaker 9 (01:40:54):
It wasn't something that Johnny Carson would do because you
were there to be entertained. It was eleven thirty a night,
you'd had a long, stressful day, You're trying to go
to bed, and you just want to be entertained before
you fall asleep and go on and start your next crappy.

Speaker 4 (01:41:06):
Day the next day. Yeah, and that's exactly what they're
there for.

Speaker 9 (01:41:09):
But nowadays it has got to be about them, about pushing
their agenda about you know, basically telling you why the
president is horrible, of telling you why Joe Biden was
the greatest president since sliced bread.

Speaker 4 (01:41:18):
And I just think it's a it's a sad thing.

Speaker 9 (01:41:20):
I don't know, because you've CBS is replacing it with
the Byron Allen Show, who he's done for I think
twenty years.

Speaker 4 (01:41:25):
He's done that show.

Speaker 9 (01:41:26):
Yeah, on various different networks and syndication deals, and he's
and Alan has said, we are talking one sorry, we're
talking zero percent about politics. All of the comics have
been instructed there is to be zero political content on
this show. It'll be interesting to see over the term.
Is it going to get better ratings what Colbert did?
And certainly for a much cheaper show than what The

(01:41:48):
Colbert Show costs.

Speaker 4 (01:41:49):
But yeah, you're right.

Speaker 9 (01:41:49):
I mean there are fewer and four people watching network television,
certainly fewer and fewer watching network television at night at
the eleven thirty timeslot. So yeah, so that is that,
you know that that does change it. And maybe this
is the end of it. Maybe if when Kimic goes
off the air, there won't be there won't be any
but thing like that on on the air. At that's
not because times of the times, they era changing and
they're just not regardless of even how bad Kimmel is

(01:42:12):
on his Paul or not bad, but how much he
pushes a political agenda.

Speaker 4 (01:42:15):
On this show.

Speaker 9 (01:42:16):
That it is just because of the of the new
models and the way things are, they're just that show
doesn't really that type of show doesn't really have a
place at eleven thirty. You need to run something cheaper
that cost you know, that costs less to produce.

Speaker 2 (01:42:27):
Yeah, you know what, and I tell people it wouldn't
work on you know if it was a hardcore right comedian,
it's not going to work because oh yeah, no, no, it
has nothing to do with the politics anymore. It has
to do with the fact that we just don't consume
the media the same way that we used to, and
that it especially includes this. Remember Johnny had no competition.

Speaker 4 (01:42:49):
Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, they were. He was at because
CBS and have a CBS and I have a show,
the Letterman and brought over in yeah wherever it was
ninety two or.

Speaker 9 (01:42:55):
Something, and ABC tried a couple of things that cavan
Hat a show.

Speaker 4 (01:42:59):
For a while, there was a little in a competition,
but that came and went, and yeah, yeah, I mean he.

Speaker 9 (01:43:03):
Was the king of late night. And then when Leno
took over, Leno was a king of late Night. Then
Letterman came along because Leno didn't. Letterman thought he was
going to get the cars a gig, and then he
was competition, but he.

Speaker 4 (01:43:12):
Was still I don't think he ever really passed or
passed love.

Speaker 2 (01:43:15):
He he led Leno for the first couple of years.
And then when Leno got Hugh grant On after his arrest,
Oh yes, he never. Letterman never I think beat him again.

Speaker 9 (01:43:28):
Very good yeah, so that's probably right, that's probably right. Yeah,
but Letterman had his group of people that liked him. Yeah,
Mary come out. Originally, you know, he was a twell
thirty Armies.

Speaker 2 (01:43:37):
Letterman was a little bit of the younger crowd.

Speaker 9 (01:43:40):
Yeah, yeah, a little edgier show Leno did. Leno did
a Carson s show just down the middle. They would play,
you played the Middle of America.

Speaker 2 (01:43:46):
And you know what, You're gonna see Celine Dion as
the musical guest to night and Letterman may have social distortion.

Speaker 4 (01:43:52):
Yeah, exactly. No, very very good way to put it.

Speaker 9 (01:43:55):
He was going after a younger crowd and most of
it he was going after the kids that would watch
Saturday Night Live on you know, on Saturday Night type
of thing.

Speaker 2 (01:44:01):
Talking to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute Plug Policy Research, last question,
Brother Trump doesn't have any there's no good options here.
And that's the way I feel about the whole thing
with Iran and we talk about the midterms and he
says today I've got all the time in the world.
Some Brett Hume come out. Brett Him's like he's lying,
isn't all the time in the world. I haven't seen
anybody say yeah, it's totally yeah, this is great. The

(01:44:23):
reality is and even my clients, our military analysts this
week said there is only bad options at this point
in time. And I don't think there is an option
where we bomb them into submission. And I don't think
we're any in any position to put one hundred to

(01:44:45):
two hundred thousand men onto the shores and storm the castle,
if you will.

Speaker 9 (01:44:51):
Yeah, like I said, there are very few good options
for Trump of this situation, so he's going to have
to pick one of the bad ones. And again, I
don't think the Ranians are ruling to cave at this
point unless they're literally getting people back in the streets,
and without that happening, it just isn't gonna happen.

Speaker 4 (01:45:06):
For as far as regime change. They're politically as stuid
enough to wait.

Speaker 9 (01:45:09):
It out and they know there's mid terms coming up
and it doesn't affect them as much. So I would
like to see us figure our way out of this
within the next ninety days to basically, you know, for
us to get for us to get ourselves out of
it before I get becomes.

Speaker 4 (01:45:21):
A political suicide for Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 (01:45:23):
Indeed, my man, indeed Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public
Policy Research. Talk to you soon, brother, Thanks Chad. We're
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Speaker 1 (01:46:49):
Welcome to Chat No not the Country, the Institution, the
Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
It's Memorial Day weekend again. I'm off tomorrow. Craig's in
for me. We're back on Tuesday, but kind of. The
unofficial kickoff to the summer has begun.

Speaker 5 (01:47:06):
Delta Airline says, so rush begins today. In fact, over
this entire Memorial Day weekend. Delta says today will be
its peak day of travel. American Airline says its busiest
day will be tomorrow. Triple A Report's top destinations is
holiday weekend. Domestically will be Orlando, Seattle, New York, and
Las Vegas. Those heading out of the country are going
to Rome, Vancouver, Paris, and London.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
So those are the airplanes because yeah, they're still traveling too,
despite the expense. What about the CA a little bit
more expensive, but we're still driving.

Speaker 6 (01:47:38):
Triple A says this holiday we'll see a slight increase
in road travel compared to last year, but also higher
gas prices. The national average is now four dollars and
fifty six cents a gallon. Traffic data company in Rex
says the worst time to drive will be Thursday and
Friday afternoons, especially between three and six pm, with major
backups expected in cities like New York, Boston to Denver

(01:48:00):
and Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
So there, you guys go lots of travel out there,
and I expected that, as did many of us. It's
going to be quite a travel like weekend for a
lot of you. So it's going to be more expensive,
and as always, it's going to be busy. And on
top of that, we haven't even factored in the chaos
and craziness that could potentially be. The weather, which looks

(01:48:25):
like in certain parts of the country is going to
be ugly as well. So that's why I continue to
tell you the best advice.

Speaker 8 (01:48:33):
I have is.

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
Stay home. It's always my advice. What are you doing
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(01:48:57):
Solid fun show today again. We're off tomorrow and back
on Tuesday as Memorial Day. Of course, we're off. Speaking
of Memorial Day. Shout out to all the families and
all the men and women out there who gave so
much and sacrificed for us to live this amazing and

(01:49:19):
incredible life that we live, and to our men and
women around the globe who are still sacrificing day to day.
God bless each and every one of you and keep
you safe. And to my uncle who fought in Vietnam
and struggled for many years, rest in peace. God bless
you all. You have an amazing, incredible Memorial Day weekend.
We'll talk to you on Tuesday as always, Night night Jack.

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