Tanker Attacked in Strait of Hormuz as US Strikes Iran for Tenth Consecutive Night

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Revenge. Trump wants revenge. The question is when what kind
of revenge. We're gonna talk to Mike Clines, our military
analysts coming up here in a little bit. But I'm
going to tell you this right now. We care about what. Yes,
we care about the fact that we lost soldiers. We
care about the fact that we're in this and the
cost of it, not just the human lives and the injuries,

(00:33):
by the way, which they have hidden from all of us,
which are not a few, which are hundreds of injuries.
What we care about the cost of life because we're
still trying to figure it out. What the hell are
we doing there? Again? Stop nukes, dude, what do we
really think we're gonna do that? The question is going

(00:54):
to be are we going to get boots on the ground.
I think at some point in time it probably has
to happen if we are to try to control the
straits of hor Moves. It's how much is that going
to happen? Is it going to be a one off,
small area. I don't know, And that's why we're going

(01:16):
to talk to Mike Lyons coming up a little bit.
But you know, on top of all of those things.
Now you've got the Hooties out there going, yeah, we're
going to shut down the Red Sea.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Those Irunnian backed armed factions like in Yemen. The Hooties
said they would impose a blockade on any kind of
Saudi ships. So this could be a whole new front
in the Middle East conflict, and again, very bad news
for global energy markets, bad news for gas prices.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
And that's what we care about. I mean, we could
pretend that we what do we do. It's out of sight,
out of mind. You know, it's not out of sight
the cost of life. It's that simple. We could pretend
they were like huh. I mean I've talked talked about it,
telling Blue in the face. The vast majority of you

(02:08):
are like, yeah, that's true. I just need to know
what's going on with gas prices. They're gonna go up
barring some magical thing, which you know, are we going
to get a ten day you know, seize fire, because
everybody's you know, pulling for that. We need a ten
day season fire. We need ten day what's that going
to stop. Iran's goal simply is make it to the midterms.

(02:33):
Make it to the midterms, make it to the midterms
will make their life miserable. If we can make it
to the midterms, that is their goal. They think if
they can inflict financial hardships on the American people and
maybe globally that they'll get a win. That is their
that is their absolute goal. And we're going, all right, well,

(02:54):
what do we do here again, Like, what's what's what's
the game plan? How's this thing play out? Because we're
not thinking about that portion of it. And it sounds horrible,
but most people I talk to aren't thinking about Iran.
They're not, but you know what they are thinking about
cost of life. At least for now.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Gas PRIs arising in virtually every state for gasoline and diesel.
It's not a surprise given the new developments over the
last week as the US and Iran returned to escalations,
and it's hard to know how long these escalations could last.

Speaker 2 (03:28):
Nobody knows. I think this is you know, as Mike
said last week, I think we've got to start stop
indefinitely kind of thing going on here, and that is
causing life to become more and more and more and
more expensive.

Speaker 5 (03:41):
As soon as I like try to start filling up
my car, I looked up at the price, I'm like,
oh my gosh, gas went.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
Up again, Yes, up again, just like that. I don't
know how many times I have talked to people in
the last couple of days who are driving and they said,
you know, an hour ago, I drove by the gas
station you go this direction, and it was you know,
three point fifty two. I drove back and it's now
three seventy one, and that was less than an hour.

Speaker 6 (04:07):
I try to start taking the l or bus because
I live right on the bus, but I have so
many appointments, medical visits where I need my car, so
I just I can't, like, I can't change, I just
have to spend more money and basically max out my
credit cards.

Speaker 2 (04:25):
There you go, max and are your credit card people
putting putting food the necessities of life on their credit
cards insane? That is not a winning strategy.

Speaker 7 (04:38):
It's not enjoyable to fill up the gas anyway. But
like it makes it worse.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, makes it a lot worse. I mean, sit
here and pretend that, oh you know, it's like this
is necessary, Chad, you don't even understand. Hey, I got
a text a little while ago from somebody said I
got to ask you, Chad, when you say this RBS
is self inflicted? In what way? How should it be handled?
Just pretend they don't want to do what they do.

(05:05):
Don't spend all their money trying to acquire nuke or
nukes to kill the people that hate and is not
Christian nations, namely, So I just want to get this right.
According to our agencies, eighteen of them, they were never
trying to get a nuclear weapon. But then we went
in there and we have turned. We've shaken the hornet's nest.

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And now that we've shaken the hornet's nest, we're not
quite sure what to do with all the damn hornets.
And now we've given them a financial nuke in the
straits of horror moves. And for us to take it
back now we may have to put boots on the ground,
risk more lives, and in doing so, see the everyday
average Americans. You know, life become way more expensive at

(05:47):
a time when inflation is still doggedly higher than we
were promised it was going to be. And I'm not
just talking about the pure energy prices when it comes
to the you know, the gas pump. Look at energy
across the board and well, all of that is going on,
and you're still trying to fight to fight from nineteen
seventy nine, they're gonna get nukes. They weren't trying to
get nukes. And what do you think is gonna happen

(06:07):
now they know they have a financial nuke. Do you
think that they're gonna give everything up now and say, well,
we're never ever going to try to get a nuke.
Hell no, you and I both know now that's the
first thing they should be thinking about doing. If it
was you, you'd be like, we need to get a
nuke so this doesn't happen again. It is self inflicted. Absolutely,
I absolutely, one hundred and ten percent believe it self

(06:29):
inflicted here, Huberris, whatever you want to call it, lies
told by Israel, No, lies told by Israel. It was
all Trump, whatever you want to do. We got into it.
Are we ever going to get out of it in
a way where we get all of the things that
we think we're going to get? An apology, regime change,

(06:50):
They're gonna love the West, no nukes, free their people.
Do you think that's gonna happen? I love to know
three two, three, five, three eight twenty four to twenty
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and all the other good things. Like I said, Michaeline's
going to join us. When we talk about the military
aspect of it coming up in a little bit. Speaking
of war, they got two civil wars going on inside

(07:13):
of parties. The Maga civil war right, and there is
a Maga civil war. They're not quite sure what to do,
who's running what, And I'm talking about the future. And
then of course you've got the bizarre situation of the Democrats,
and it's a full blown civil war. So if you
guys are not paying attention, the Democrats are being in
their minds, the establishment Democrats what I would call the

(07:35):
normal Democrats, just the average run of the mill, you know, liberal, union,
pro choice, but not ridiculous, doesn't really do the pronouns thing,
and none of that stuff is They're just and the
war that is coming and we're seeing it is this
battle between the uber progressives and the Democrats, the average Democrat,

(08:02):
the establishment of the party. And they're taking the wins
in primaries as they're defeating the incumbents in some cases
or in other cases the establishment pick and or some
of the elections they have won, as if this is
the future of the Democrats and it's socialism, and it is,

(08:27):
we're going to sell it across America. And I keep
telling everybody certain corridors you can win with that in
a large setting, with what they're saying in the extreme
side of stuff, you have no chance of selling that.

Speaker 8 (08:45):
Well.

Speaker 9 (08:45):
Look, the Democratic Party is in the middle of the
Civil War right, and you have moderate mainstream Democrats such
as myself, which have been challenged by the far left extremists.
The Democratic Party always had a far left, like the
Republican Party always had a far right. But this far

(09:05):
left from the Democratic Party basically has been energized by
the opposition to President Trump. You have a lot of
young people who are now engaged in the political process.
You have guys like Bernie Sanders saying that the future
of the Democratic Party should be a socialist party, which

(09:26):
is suit of ironic, says Bernie Sanders is an independent
in the first place, He's not even a Democrat. He's
telling us what the Democratic future should be. But socialism
has not worked anywhere on the globe. Maria promises of
free lunch, free buses, free rent, free everything, there is

(09:47):
no such thing as free. Someone always pays. This is
a dream, this is nirvana, this is utopia, and they're
selling to young people who are buying it.

Speaker 10 (10:01):
But it's not going to work.

Speaker 9 (10:02):
And this socialist movement is the best thing the Republicans
have going for them.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
Former Governor Cuomo, governor touching me Peey. The best thing
I keep telling my friends who are Republicans, it's the
best thing you guys have going for you is the
fact that, as we have pointed out on numerous occasions,
the Democrats who get in front of the camera are wackados.

(10:36):
And I'm not talking about the John Ossoffs, right, I'm
not talking about those people. I'm not talking about you know,
the Shapiros in Pennsylvania. It's the Establishment's just the run
of the mill Democrat. I'm talking about the wacka doos.
There's plenty of them out there, and they're out there thinking, well, yeah,

(10:59):
these young kids want this, this is the future. It's
not the future. If I'm the Republicans, I want every
one of them who are uber progressive, especially in Middle America,
in certain parts like that where you know it's not
gonna fly outside of what's in the room when reality hits. Yeah,

(11:21):
I want them to win if I'm the Republicans. And again,
it's not like the Republicans aren't going to their own
We're gonna delve in deeper later on about the civil
war ish thing that's going on in both parties. But man,
we got civil wars here and we got wars around
the world. Welcome to America. Apparently we love fighting. Three two,

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One coming up the Tate Brothers. We discussed that, among
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Speaker 1 (13:08):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
We are finding out more about the Tait brothers and
what the potential crimes they committed were and what they face.
And of course their pushback is it's all political. They're
coming after us and because they don't like what we
have to say, and you know the usual things. It's

(13:35):
interesting because, as I was reminding people yesterday, this isn't us.
We as America did not arrest them. So the war
that came from Britain and it was served by the
US and they were being investigated even in Florida.

Speaker 12 (13:52):
Andrew Tait has often been called the King of toxic masculinity,
and he and his brother Tristan are kind of the
archetypal man sphere influencers. They became famous for viral clips
talking about how to dominate women, attacking feminism, saying things
like a man should own a woman in a relationship,
and they've also claimed to teach young men how to
get rich. Now, it's also important in the context of

(14:15):
all these legal cases to know that for years the
Tates ran erotic webcam studios, both in the UK and
in Romania, and during that they've been accused of recruiting
women and then mistreating them while working for them. And
so they've faced years of accusations as well as criminal
investigations in the UK as well as Romania over alleged

(14:36):
abuse of women, charges that they have always denied.

Speaker 2 (14:39):
They have denied them over and over again. Remember, they
were in jail or under house arrests in Romania and
somehow roh was that Richard Grenell managed to get them
released into his custody and get them back to the States,
and they left the UK in twenty seventeen when the
heat got on them. Then they came and they went

(15:02):
to Romania, and then accusations cropped up again. Then they
came to the US and now they're currently facing extradition,
and the question is are they going to be extradited.

Speaker 12 (15:13):
Obviously, if they are extradited, they will face these very
serious charges and almost certainly this time it will go
to trial. Now, the Tates have been basically avoiding the
UK after this similar case in Romania effectively stopped. I
think one thing important to note as well is that
there are questions about the Trump administration's possible role in
lobbying on behalf of the Tates with the Romanian government

(15:36):
when they were facing that criminal case and after they
were able to leave Romania. Trump's sons are, you know?
Publicly they've said they're big fans, and a number of
other Trump figures have expressed support previously for them. Now
the question is will we see the brothers extradited. They're
in court today, It could take days, it could take weeks,
but obviously something to follow, and.

Speaker 2 (15:57):
We'll be following it. I think they're absolutely as hats
and clowns, but that's just me what do you think?
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four, twenty three
at Chat Benson Show. That is your ex instant. All
the other things right here on the Chad Benson Show,
and yesterday when we talked about them, several people tried
to bizarrely defend the Tate brothers by saying, well, what
are they doing with the grooming gangs? I'm like, I

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have no idea. That's not my country. Well, did they
do anything wrong here? I again, I have no idea.
I know that they were being investigated. That's why they
came out and said the age of Florida, it's got
low t But again, does it matter? Well, they need
to take care of the grooming gangs first. You're trying
to defend these guys, not based on whether or not
you think what they did was right or wrong, or

(16:41):
they're being you know, unfairly treated. The I'm not saying
that they're guilty of anything. The only thing I've I
do know the evidence and all this stuff. The only
thing I said they're guilty of is taking advantage of
young males who are looking for something and are subceptible
to this kind of griff. But you're trying to fight

(17:01):
the argument with well, Britain's evil and bad. Look at
what they're doing. They allow the grooming gangs. Why bring
these guys over here for that? And it has a
lot to do with the manuscrier, but also has a
lot to do with Trump, your support of him, and
because his kids like them, and because that's kind of
the manisphere world that they live in that oh well,
this has got to be another persecution of men. Now,

(17:24):
sometimes people are just not great people. I've never once
said they were guilty, though that's a trial if indeed
it goes that far. Coming up my clients. Military analyst
joins the program. We're going to talk about what's going
on in the Middle East? Are we going to see
boots on the ground? Chad Benson shown Chad Benson Joe.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
The Chad Benson Show is that time of the week.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
We talked to the best dad of military analysts in
the business and tired major in the army. Michael Lyons
joins the program. All right, Mike, First of all, we
lost four soldiers. The reality of they no longer have
capability to do anything doesn't seem to be the truth.
And I think people are starting to go not just US,

(18:24):
but our allies over there are going, hey, what's going
on here, because they're starting to reach us.

Speaker 10 (18:29):
I think a couple of things are taking place here.

Speaker 13 (18:31):
First of all, we're just not doing a good job
of communicating what our strategy and what the intent is here.
And most people believe that the strategy is just aligned
on these airstrikes. And yes, the soldiers were killed and
strikes made by an Iranian military that the President said
was destroyed, but clearly is only degraded because they still
have capability to fire a missile a thousand kilometers and

(18:54):
hit a target in Jordan that you know, kills Americans,
and that's really something that that's got to be fixed
right away. But if you combine a strategy of the
bombings plus the blockade, plus sanctions, plus all those things,
then you have a coherent package there that you should
be able to sell other nations. And I don't just
think for whatever reason, this administration hasn't focused on that.
Maybe Marco Rubi has tried, but at this point all

(19:17):
the focus is on the military side, and it's going
to take more than that.

Speaker 2 (19:20):
You know, it is going to take more than that,
the HUTI said yesterday and you know a lot of
people think, oh, this is the Proxy's fighting again. It's
somewhat is and this you can even remove us and
the Israel out of this, because the Yemenes and Saudi
Arabia have been fighting for a while. They said now
that they're thinking about, hey, you know what, we're going
to close the Red Sea, so you guys, Saudi Arabi

(19:42):
aren't going to be able to export a ton of oil.
And it goes back to this just feels like this
thing is starting to spread now everywhere throughout the Middle East.

Speaker 13 (19:51):
You know, the Israelis are on the sidelines right now,
and I know they're itching to get back into this fight.
And then when the Huthis made that comment about blockading
their yesterday, that could be just bluff because they don't
really have the capability to do this. But in the
past Israel has done a tremendous job against the Houthis.
As when they were you know, kind of dumb enough

(20:13):
to fire a missile at Israel, they responded tenfold, and
they you know, a few months back to got an
incredible amount of their capability. So I don't know, I
think the Houthis are a little bit of you know
of just a lot of fluff right now. I'm not
sure they have that capability to do that. If they did,
if they were able to make a blockade on that

(20:34):
straight there, then you're talking much more significant, almost as
much significant as the Straits, like seventeen percent, because as
the oil has been rerouted already to the Red Sea,
they would kind of try to bottle that up. I
just don't see it. I just think that this is
Aron trying to get them in the game, that they're
not there yet.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we talk about all
things going on militarily. Obviously with the death of our soldiers,
this thing feels like, you know, we're at a standstill
in the Straits and people are You see a lot
of people out there saying, well, is it going to
be boots on the ground, Are they going to go
take a carg island or one of those things. I
think there's a sense now that something like that, if

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it's going to be militarily, is going to have to happen.
And we always turn to you and Sarah, what's the
point that we should be looking? Where we go, Okay,
something real is going to happen.

Speaker 10 (21:21):
Well, a couple of things.

Speaker 13 (21:22):
First of all, they are sending more fighters to the region,
but still not troops, and there's no army troops. You know,
I always say that nothing really is going to happen
significantly until the army shows up. And really, the army
in total is not there, as an armor armored division
is not there, and infantry divisions not there. You've got
elements of the eighty second small marines that are on

(21:43):
some of the ships there. But I said, the military
mission right now is what's called a siege, and that
the Iranians have just got to keep their heads down
and the United States pounding away on a nightly basis
anywhere from one hundred and twenty one hundred and forty
air strikes. It's not epic fury levels. It's not eleven
hundred sorties a day, a twenty four hour basis, But
this is a siege. In his history, you look at

(22:05):
Vicksburg and other places where the military just pounds away
at the enemy on a daily basis.

Speaker 10 (22:11):
It's kind of like, you know, if you're saying like
we had.

Speaker 13 (22:13):
Enough, I think that if we did send troops and
small operations that they would be called raids.

Speaker 10 (22:19):
We wouldn't send large scale invasion for US there. We don't.
They're just not there. They're not coming. The raids would
be for a very specific things. They're talking carg Island.

Speaker 13 (22:28):
I think that gives Trump a visual sign of leverage.
But I think more importantly of these coastal batteries and
those are the ones that are threatening the straits, those
are the ones that have the most military significance. And
if we did send troops, I think we go after
some of those those installations.

Speaker 2 (22:42):
You know, when you look at carg Island. Let's say
they go and take carg Island. Will they try to
take carg Island? Because I don't know what Iran. You know,
Iran is built in a different way than we're. You know,
they're used to seven hundred percent inflation and stuff of
that nature, and you know, everybody's like, well, they're going
to eventually get well. Their people may have to make
them give in because we've seen what they do to

(23:03):
their people. So I don't think that they would just
go okay, you guys get it. My fear is they
go take carg Island and then they blow it up.

Speaker 13 (23:12):
That's a real possibility. And you know, Iran has got
a geography similar to Switzerland. What I mean by that
is it would be virtually impossible to invade. You know,
there's no ground force in today's world. In the past,
the last two times, both Desert Storm and then a Rock,
you know, we telegraphed the world we were coming, and

(23:33):
you know, nothing happened where the enemy didn't do anything,
they didn't pre attack. We were real concerns about that
back then. So but in this case that that couldn't
take place.

Speaker 10 (23:41):
But that's right.

Speaker 13 (23:42):
The Iranians sitting on Cargo Island, they might have some
troops there obviously, but they could just do just that.
They could do the same damage themselves right now. Their
oil industry is there, you know, their nuclear weapons, so
to speak, it's the only strategic asset that they have.
And I you know, from from my perspective, I think
we have to go after the IRGC, go after their way.

(24:04):
The center of gravity is there, the iergc's revenue capability.
It's not the military, it's not the military targets. It's
the way that they're generating revenue right now. And I
think that's that's what the pivot is towards the IRGC.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
That's an interesting because man, everybody's like, why don't we
just take out the IRGC, And you've explained it to us,
to give everybody a snapshot of what they're working with
militarily and starting with the IRGC, even downwards because it's
not just them, but I mean, it's not like there's
only five guys in the IRGC.

Speaker 10 (24:31):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 13 (24:31):
They've spent the last forty seven years infiltrating every aspect
of government, every aspect of commerce, and they decentralize in
terms of.

Speaker 10 (24:40):
Their their operations. And this is why we can't get
a deal with them.

Speaker 13 (24:44):
Because while the foreign ministers are desperate to make a
deal and you know, we start bombing and they are
calling Trump, please, let's make a deal, the IRGC, on
the other side, is controlling all the military assets and
they've powered down to people along the coastal batteries and
there's why they're firing on the ships there because they
don't care that they've been told to fight to the

(25:05):
death here and that's that's there. You know, they're they're
dying in place right now, so they're not going to stop.
There's no connection between the Foreign Ministry, Department of Iran
and the military there, and that's what they're controlling it.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
So how do we have how do we get a deal?

Speaker 14 (25:18):
Man?

Speaker 2 (25:18):
I mean, that's the thing. I'm sitting there going, okay, well,
just because you're negotiating with somebody, right, you know, it
doesn't mean that that person's going to have any say
on We could get a deal that is diplomacy wise,
seems great, But the reality is, if the IRGC has
the guns and the power, then what are we doing.

Speaker 13 (25:35):
Well, they still don't really have the capability of attack
at scale. They still and and the chance again, the
fact that they can hit you know, a target one
thousand kilometers away is concerning, and this is why the
siege needs to continue. But I think eventually, if we
continue up the strategy of sanctions, blockade, and the military strikes,
that you'll eventually erode them from within. That that to me,

(25:58):
is the most coherent strategy. I think that gives us
the best chance of minimizing casualties. And I've said this before.
If the rest of the world does not think that
the Iranians are a threat, I don't get it. I mean,
the the what would have the Uranian what would around
look like? If they had a nuclear weapon right now,
if this is how they're acting in this manner, if

(26:19):
they had a nuclear weapon, they would surely use it.
Israel's the wildcard. I still believe that they're going to eventually.
I think the President has put them on the sidelines
for right now. I think he's trying to give some
political cover to b B. But you know damn well
that the Israelis know where all the IRGC center gravity is.
That decapitation strategy would start up right away, and that's

(26:39):
what's what Israel's good at.

Speaker 10 (26:41):
And so that might be the last kind of straw.

Speaker 13 (26:44):
If this does not go for a couple of weeks
and we're not really seeing any progress, you'll see the
Israeli military unleashed.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Talking to my client's military analystst'll switch from there to Ukraine.
It is every day we turn around and we read
something new. The growing voices inside of Russia seemed to
be getting a little bit louder and louder. He has
surrounded himself with god knows how many men. We've heard
up to eight hundred men. The pooter is feeling the heat,

(27:12):
and the Ukrainians seem to be, you know, full, you
know full dron forward if you.

Speaker 13 (27:17):
Will, I don't see, you know, every single day in
social media you see another video of the technology advantage
that Ukraine has over Russia with their drone capability. They're
they're they're sighting there, they're targeting technology. It's just to me,
it's off the charts, and this is what's you know,
this is what's on the public sites. Obviously the classified

(27:40):
information is even better. And you know, they've clearly held
their own, no question about it. From a and from
you know, from a defensive perspective, what they've done will
really go down. It's one of the most historic, you know,
defenses of a country, you know, given the fact that
twenty percent was really lost during Obama.

Speaker 10 (27:57):
Let's let's put it that way.

Speaker 13 (27:58):
I mean, the initial the initial land mass was taken
in twenty fourteen, and that's because we know nothing was
happening then. But what's happened since their ability, their capability
to defend it has just just been incredible. And yeah,
Russia is not is still much on its back legs,
and you're seeing more and more people inside the Trump
administration looking to support Ukraine. Whether that ends this year

(28:21):
or not remains to be seen, but no question about
the or Ukrainians, of the of the upper end.

Speaker 2 (28:26):
The there's you know, like you talked about with Trump,
and I think more and more people are saying, hey,
we need to get on you know this and start
to help them push back. I always go back to,
you know, I don't worry about Iran the way I
worry about a madman like Putin with a nuclear weapon,
because you know, you and I both know a dude
who is in the corner with nothing to lose, thinks

(28:47):
the whole world is going to cave down and he's
done for. He didn't feel like the kind of guy
that wants to go out quietly.

Speaker 13 (28:54):
You know, that would be historically world changing, and we're
monitoring closely. We can use satellites to determine whether those
that equipment is moving towards the front, so to speak,
even the tactical nukes. I think there were reports a
few years back, but we haven't seen any since, so

(29:15):
that that's a that's a more than a game changer.
That's a you know, a world altering event that you know,
you've got to think that a sane person wouldn't do.
But depending on how far backed up they are until
you talk about escape paths, right or soun sou in
the Golden Bridge and trying to figure out a way
out of this conflict, Russia hasn't doesn't have one. They
they're they're all in there. They're looking for unconditional surrender.

(29:36):
So they're they're much in a much worse position to
try to take some kind of deal.

Speaker 2 (29:41):
You know, you talk unconditional surrender, I'm like, I don't
think that's happening. I mean, they're they're they're absolutely draw
you know, just droning after drone. At what point you know,
you know, I always go back to you go look
through history, and it's the guys closest to the guys
they get arrested and executed. But the those guys who
arrest him go, we could be next, So let's go

(30:02):
after the guy. I feel like, is that something that
could happen with Putin?

Speaker 13 (30:07):
You know, that's a great point, I you know, because
there is nobody around him that can figure out a
deal that saves any face for him, and that's really
what has to happen here, and that's that's a real possibility.
But you're probably gonna have to get rid of a
few more layers, as he's pretty good at at you know,
keeping himself away from those people, and defections could start

(30:31):
taking place. I mean again, it'll it's going slow. That
old expression would go slow and then all at once,
and we just were not to the all at once
spot yet. But but historically someone around him would you know,
would likely you know, lead that charge. And they're only
going to do it when they can assure their own survivability.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
I think last question talking to Mike Clones, military analyst, China,
China sit around. What are they They're looking around, They're seeing,
you know, Russia's kind of getting not so much boat race,
but definitely getting kicked in the grundle. They're looking over
here and understanding our struggles because the struggles are we're
we don't even seem to have a clear understanding of
what exactly one hundred percent is that we're doing, and

(31:11):
they're sitting there doing what.

Speaker 13 (31:12):
Well, see, no one's talked about this, but China has
been set back significantly by the US action in Iran,
and that is this Belton Roads initiative that they're trying
to do with their supply chain going through that part
of the world. In through the Middle East and then
into Africa, and Iran was a key part of that.
Now also, China has likely been providing the Iranians intel

(31:33):
on where US targets are and we should probably recognize that.
And we also know that part of the eight billion
dollars that the Iranians were able to get released during
the MoU during that when the MoU Is signed, and
then once the fighting started, it's likely that China use
third world countries and other other organizations to get supplies

(31:56):
into Iran, especially for the air defense system. So you know,
China's clearly line, you know, trying to be under the
covers in this. But but they're losers in this as well.
I think no one's talking about that because for whatever reason,
we still believe that this is the century of the
China of China and the Chinese and their dominance.

Speaker 10 (32:12):
It ain't happening yet.

Speaker 13 (32:13):
We're a quarter of the way through the century and
if if Marco Ruby has anything to do it, it
won't happen at all. But we're letting China, you know,
off the hook there. But they've been set back significantly.
Their proxy in Russia is, like you said, on their
heels and then what's happening in Iran is really destroyed
their belt and Roads initiatives, and I think that's a
pretty big setback for them.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
He's retired major and the best damn military anils in
the business, mikel iine appreciate you coming on. We'll do
it again next week.

Speaker 10 (32:36):
Hey, thanks, Chet, thanks for habbing me.

Speaker 2 (32:38):
I love talking to Mike. He's got a new op
ed coming out tomorrow. I'll post it as soon as
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Speaker 1 (34:11):
Serving up talk radio, medium, rare and dripping with irony.
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Speaker 2 (34:18):
Look, I am not a huge fan of this guy,
but I will tell you I think what happened when
yesterday it was kind of a Richard move. So Ryan
Clark works for ESPN. He is taping NFL Live and
Mike Lines and I were talking about this off the air,
and he's not you know, he's kind of a Richard
I'm not gonna lie to you. Guys. He comes across
that way. Don't know him personally, could be a wonderful

(34:39):
human being. I hope he is. But he's taping an
episode of NFL Live on ESPN, and in the middle
of the broadcast he's gone. Did not finish the show
because he was told in the middle of his broadcast,
your services are no longer needed.

Speaker 5 (34:57):
What now?

Speaker 2 (34:59):
He was apparently at the Super Bowl that he may
be in danger along with several other people. ESPN has
let go of losing his giggy. He's making two million
a year. But there's gotta be a better way of
doing stuff, guys. I'm just saying, there has to be

(35:20):
a better way of letting somebody go. Maybe wait till afterwards.
I mean, you know, I mean that's to me, it's
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Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four, twenty three
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number two of the program, talk a little bit more

(35:43):
about Iran. Also, AI is changing Hollywood, It's changing the
entertainment world. Micro dramas which are already changing the entertainment world.
We're going to talk about the impact they are having globally.
Plus should you still worry about lettuce? We're gonna talk

(36:03):
a bit about that as well. What lettuce can I eat?

Speaker 7 (36:06):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
You can't eat a donut? Nobody's all there? Oh god,
I had a donut? Now what am I gonna do?
It's got cyclospur or no it doesn't?

Speaker 8 (36:13):
You know what?

Speaker 5 (36:14):
I know it?

Speaker 2 (36:15):
What's about the good stuff on the way as well?
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Is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
The war is getting spice here. We moved into the
tenth day and it's now threatening to spread about the region.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
With traffic in the Strait of Horror Mooz already slowing
to a crawl. Cutting off the Red Sea could cause
oil prices to spike even further and gas crisis now
more than four dollars a gallon as well. This has
overnight the US launching the tenth straight night of strikes

(37:21):
on Iran, while Iran launches strikes far beyond its borders.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
Which we talked last hour to Mike Lines, our military
analysts is still surprised how much capability that they have,
because we've been saying that we think they have more capability,
and the Administration's like, dah, we've got nothing. They got nothing.
We defeat them, we destroyed them. They got nothing. Zero

(37:47):
Zelt's not a nothing. But it doesn't seem to be nothing.
It doesn't. And Mike readily admitted, you know that, Look,
there's a chance that they got more than we thought.
That being said, I said to him, Mike, what about
the hooties. Are they going to do anything? Aren't they
going to do anything? First of all, heighties not what
the capabilities are of the hooties, but they have threatened

(38:10):
to shut down the Red Sea in an area where
Saudi Arabia has a lot of their oil, and in
doing so would send prices higher. As we were already
seeing this morning, prices have stepped up again. Brett Crude
over ninety West Texas Intermediate at eighty four. That's the

(38:31):
future's price, that's on paper. We're probably closing in near
to one hundred of the physical, which is not good.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Those Iranian backed armed factions like in Yemen. The Hooties
said they would impose a blockade on any kind of
Saudi ships.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
So this could be a whole.

Speaker 3 (38:50):
New front in the Middle East conflict, and again very
bad news for global energy markets, bad news for gas prices.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
News for gas prices, because that's what we care about.
What's going on with the gas price, So that's what
I care about. Well, you got to throw something else
in there for gas prices. Now you got Bertha, tropical
storm Bertha moving and you're like, well, what's that have
to do with gas. I'll tell you what it has
to do with gas. Hurricanes baby shut down things, not
just the waterways, but also refineries have to shut down.

(39:24):
There's a potential of something going sideways.

Speaker 4 (39:26):
It's a reminder of Mother Nature's impact on gas prices
that we could see in August and September as hurricane
season starts to find its stride.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
So while it is.

Speaker 4 (39:36):
Geopolitical factors primarily pushing prices up, there are other factors
that could become active in the weeks ahead, because.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
Nature will mess you up. In nature, by the way,
is damn expensive. Oh it is. It is. There's no
doubt about that. Now the question is where do we
go from here? And I don't think anybody really knows
what kind of money are they asking for another seventy
billion that the administration is asking for because the Pentagon
seems to be running out of money. So, uh, yeah,

(40:03):
there's some issues, kids, there is. There's gonna be uh
it's gonna be a little bit of expensive summers what
we're saying here. Hopefully we get it sorted out. Do
I think it's gonna happen anytime in the next couple weeks.

Speaker 15 (40:15):
I do not.

Speaker 2 (40:17):
That being said, we'll see what takes place in the
coming days. If they can get at least a ten
day seas fire, which I predict, this is my prediction.
Write this down. It could be wrong, been wrong before,
will be wrong again because I'm a human being. At
some point, gas prices will get a little bit unbearable
for the United States of America, and Trump will go

(40:38):
in and do what he does, orders them to take
a ten day seasfire, which will calm the markets, or
markets will calm back down. Iran will back off for
a bit, The markets will calm down, stuff will get through,
and then I think it heats up again. That's what
I think is gonna happen. Could be wrong, could be right,
three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
three at Shedman to show is your acts, your Insta,

(41:01):
your YouTube and all of the other good things going
on out there. Meanwhile, today cross Arizona, you've got primaries
and it's very interesting what's going on because Arizona now
is looking at their first dsay like candidate who has

(41:25):
come to take on four term incumbent Greg Stanton. And
on top of that, you know, look politics, as we
all know, kids, it's local. Top of that, we also
know that with what we're seeing out there that there
is a lot, a lot of issues on both sides
of the aisle. When it comes to their peeps. This

(41:50):
is Katie Hobbs, she is the governor. It's weird calling
her Katie. She sounds like she's like, oh my god,
I mean, you know it is what it is. Hey.
She talking about on the governor's side, Andy Biggs, who
may be her biggest rival if indeed he gets through today.

Speaker 16 (42:10):
And I talk to Arizona to cross the state, they well,
in full understand that the cost hikes were seen are
a result of Washington's agenda and terrace and the war
and Iran, and they're seeing cost go up everywhere from
the grocery store, gas station, doctor's office, everywhere in between.
And Andy Biggs every chance he had to not support

(42:33):
that agenda, he has taken the opposite approach, supported that
agenda and put that agenda above Arizona.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Now, I'm going to tell you guys this. You've got
several people running on the Republican side. And I bring
this up because Biggs was always nice to me, but
he went super crazy, mega like it was. It was whack.

(43:00):
Schweikert's a good guy.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
I like him.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
I mean, I think Biggs probably gets through, you know,
because because remember, as we've talked about, and we've talked
about it here on Midterm Mondays, what is it quality
of candidates matter winning a primary? And this is what
I think the Democrats are about to find out. Winning
a primary is not winning a general. Kerry Lake won

(43:30):
the primary. Karen Taylor Robson I think would have won
the general. But you're going to get the most fervent
support with the MAGA folks coming out, and Biggs has that,
you know, And it's unfortunate that we're in this position
that we're in right now, where you've got this craziness

(43:55):
when it comes to primaries really deciding more than anything,
which way things are going to go.

Speaker 17 (44:06):
Where.

Speaker 2 (44:07):
Yes, if it was just Maga, Biggs is gonna win
in a general if you're voting right just across the
board general, I think Schweikert would beat him. So and
I don't think, you know, I don't know if Andy's
gonna get it done when it comes to the general

(44:31):
and Katie wins it. I do again, it's weird talking
about Katie. And then you've got your first DSA candidate,
and we've talked about these they're entertaining, no doubt, but
they're also wackados. So Greg Stanton run of the mill democrat, right,

(44:52):
you know, I mean, I'm not saying it's just as
a person, but it's just he's a Democrat because what
he is establishment democrat, whatever you want to call it,
part of the machine taking on kay Nwkirk, who is
this you know, new DSA guy, just like Maga has
shown that they can take out the average Republican in

(45:15):
certain areas. The DSA has done the same and are
they going to do it again? Here.

Speaker 15 (45:23):
Stantonm just fundamentally vulnerable because on a lot of really
important issues, he's on the wrong side of the vast
majority of Democrats, whether it's voting for the Lincoln Riley
Act when I'm fighting to abolish ice or opposing Medicare
for all and taking money from United Health Group when
I'm in fighting to guarantee healthcare at all as a
right not a privilege. He's on the wrong side of
most Democrats. And so when we're able to actually talk

(45:44):
to people, they're siding with us. So we knew it
was going to be challenged to reach enough people fast enough,
but all the data that we're seeing shows us that
we've been doing that.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Now he still faces, you know, tough battle, right and
you're trying to pull Mundani. Do I think that's going
to happen. I don't think it's going to happen in Arizona.
Not that it's not possible. Anything is possible. But when
you run radical, you know, it used to be you
ran in a way to win the nomination and then

(46:18):
you came to the center so you could expand the tent.
We live in a world now where you run as
if you're running and it's not about you know, expanding
the tent, it's you continue to run the same way.
So with Kerry Lake, we've seen it with some of
the wakadoos out there in the world of of of
the left, as we've talked about with the progressiveness and

(46:40):
the way that they're coming after the Democrats. These are
civil wars going on inside of the parties for the
heart and mind of the parties. So it's going to
be interesting to see the way this thing plays out.
But every state has theirs because every state is getting

(47:01):
a DSA candidate or two, and some of it's just
to find out can we can we You might be
able to do it in a big city in an area,
but can you do it across the state? That I
don't think you can do And I continue to say
that because the average person Democrat or Republican doesn't want
to get rid of prisons, they don't want to abolishize,

(47:22):
they don't want they don't want any of the craziness
that you're bringing that has no basis of reality. What
do you think? Let me know three two, three, five,
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is your ex your Insta, your YouTube, Facebook and everything else.
And you guys out there on the Republican side, you've

(47:47):
got your own civil war with MAGA. That's not going anywhere.
And with the way things are right now, we're seeing it.
We saw with several primaries already. Trump doesn't like somebody,
he gets them out of there, Thomas Massey and several others.
You've seen John Cornyn, Pil Cassidy. So you're seeing that

(48:08):
continue there as well. So it's not just on the
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Speaker 2 (49:52):
Are we out of the woods and maybe out of
the bathroom. When it comes to cyclospors, I call Uncle
Sam's revenge. It's not apparently it has come from tainted
lettuce from Mexico. That would mean it's month of Zuma's Revenge.

Speaker 18 (50:07):
The FDA now saying while there was a false positive reported,
lettuce from Taylor Farms remains the focus of the investigation.
More than sixteen hundred people got sick after eating shredded
lettuce supplied to Taco Bell in five states. Taco Bell
says it's removed all affected lettuce, but the lettuce recall expanding,
now affecting shredded iceberg and lettuce blend sold to grocery

(50:29):
stores and restaurants in twenty seven states.

Speaker 2 (50:32):
Yes, so I went in the other day to I've
got my little routine to play pick a ball swing
by Walmart Grab. There was no lettuce. There was nothing there.
I know what you're thinking, chat, I know much lettuce
you eat, and you'd be wrong. But normally I get
some of my salads for the week that i'll take
in and need at lunch. You know the ones where
they're prepackaged and they don't give you enough ranch for anything,

(50:55):
for like one little leaf of lettuce. That's why I
have extra ranch at the the office. But there was
nothing there. There was like one tiny bag from some
company I've never heard of there was no prepackaged anything.

Speaker 18 (51:10):
Walmart now pulling its market side brand of lettuce off
shelves Jack in the Box, removing lettuce from locations in Texas, Oklahoma,
and Louisiana, and food supplier Cisco and US Foods halting
deliveries of the affected lettuce. Symptoms from the parasitic illness
can last for weeks and are especially concerning for people
with other medical conditions.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
Yes, and that's a big deal. So we can immune
system things of that nature. Here's the interesting thing. This
doesn't happen with donuts. So there's that. So now you've
learned a little something today. Also that we cut a
lot of funding in certain places and people are asking questions, Hey,
the place that usually covers this, we went to that office.

(51:50):
It's a storage unit now, so there's nothing in there.
So what are we gonna do? How are we gonna
fix this? How are we gonna fix the situation here?
Remember when you hear that the government's cutting they're cutting programs.
They're not cutting money, they're spending more money. They just said, hey,
this program, we don't need it, and our buddies over

(52:11):
here they need it more. Oh, going to the.

Speaker 19 (52:15):
Grocery store was not an easy tasks. The other day
when I was with my children.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
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Speaker 19 (52:28):
I usually know the things that I'm going to buy,
But this time I was like, all right, We're gonna
actually stay all the way away from these foods and
these foods just because.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
Just because a lot of people were saying that. Even
the other day, I was going to go to McDonald's
and get the lat like the World cup meal, and
I was like, a it's got lettuce all over it.
And while I ate at Taco Bell, I remembered, oh, yeah,
nothing I get has lettuce on it. Meanwhile, while all
of that is going on, good news, We're about to
pay more money from stuff from Canada. Maybe kind of
who knows.

Speaker 8 (52:56):
The list of affected Canadian products is wide ranging, dairy products, alcohol,
and honey, along with a range of other grocery items,
also construction materials, clothing, furniture, and electronics. Canadian Prime Minister
Mark Carney says the tariffs violate the free trade agreement
between the US and Mexico and Canada.

Speaker 2 (53:15):
That's what Trump said, You guys did you made it
unfair for our businesses to do stuff there, So we're
getting back at you. Why does this matter to me
because this morning I wake up and my son's mom
had texted me and said, we better buy all of
his hockey stuff. They're putting tariffs on all this damn stuff,
and sure enough, hockey sticks and equipment tariff fifty percent.

Speaker 8 (53:38):
To impose these tariffs in the wake of a Supreme
Court decision against him earlier this year, President Trump is
citing a never before used provision of a nineteen thirty
trade law, which could also face legal challenges.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Yeah, so there's that. We'll find out another fifty percent tariffs.
It's working? Is it? Is it really working? Is it
promises made, promises kept? Is it really working? Is manufacturer
flying back here like you could not believe? So we'll
find out if this actually even ever goes into play

(54:14):
or if this was another bluff. You're missing the show,
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Speaker 2 (54:43):
AI is growing every single day. You guys know that
my other company with my Uncle. We have an AI company.
We do entertainment stuff, a lot of it, and one
of the things we've been pushing ourselves into is micro dramas.
Now they've been around a while in China and you're
seeing them now more and more. But they're now going

(55:06):
more and more towards AI. It's still not perfect, but
it will suck you in, it will. It is crazy
how good these things are getting and how fast they're
getting good. Unfortunately, some of these things suck, not all
of them, but some of them kind of suck because
of how fast they try to pump them out. Some
of them are very good. But micro dramas, that was

(55:29):
that whole thing with Quibi. You guys remember that Quibi.
They dumped all that money into Quibi, and Quibi was early.
They had the right idea with micro episodes of stuff.
They just were way too early in the game. Not
so much when it comes to micro dramas.

Speaker 20 (55:46):
Now, I think drama on demand with episodes lasting minutes.

Speaker 1 (55:52):
On platforms build for the scroll, But I at a.

Speaker 20 (55:56):
Micro dramas or drawn jew are short form video series
made to be watched on a phone with rapid twists
and over the top storylines. They've become addictive viewing in China,
show so much all like love triangles and secret lives
and you're way or an assistant who transforms.

Speaker 2 (56:17):
Into a kitten.

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Wait, I can't go with them.

Speaker 20 (56:20):
These snack size videos are part of a fourteen billion
dollar juggernaut in China and just as binge worthy in
the US. We're according to eMarketer, audiences will triple to
forty five million viewers per month by twenty twenty eight. Here,
the vertical industry has its own booming ecosystem of studio

(56:41):
factories like this, catering to production with an assembly line
of ready made sets.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Now we've got, is it, Dharman? That's ours? If you've
seen any of those, these kind of the same fifteen
actors doing stuff and they're they're all kind of the same.
They pump them out, and we've pumped them out, not
so much in the way that they have. They've turned
these things into factories over there and they are. Look,

(57:10):
I'm not gonna lie to you. I woke up this
morning and I watched one. It was a stupid one.
It was like a Game of Thrones E one that
was like ten episodes and they were like two minutes
long and I kind of watched it, and you know,
the writing's not great, but the effects are pretty darn
good and it was all AI generated. And by the way,

(57:31):
I'm just gonna say this, guys, uh, your heroes, you
got to stop making them look like Henry Cavill. They
all look like Henry Cavill, all of them do. Continue.

Speaker 21 (57:44):
It's not just the plot twists that are moving fast.
So is production, with crews able to move between time
periods and transport people to different scenes all under one roofs, meaning.

Speaker 20 (57:57):
Cruise can shoot dozens of episodes in a scene day.
But earlier this year, a new player entered the picture
and started to change everything. Artificial intelligence is transforming how
microdramas are now being written, produced.

Speaker 1 (58:17):
Even performed.

Speaker 20 (58:18):
Tens of thousands of AI only titles are being added
to platforms every month.

Speaker 6 (58:23):
People who watch many drama actually they can easily change
to watch any drama.

Speaker 3 (58:29):
And they don't care.

Speaker 20 (58:30):
They don't make the distinction between real people and AI characters.

Speaker 7 (58:36):
Most of them, they don't care.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Most of them they don't. And because they're getting better,
it is, and you don't see many of them that
are just regular dramas like the Little Dynasty dramas or
any of those things. A vast majority of the ones
that are the AI are well, quite frankly, they're fantasy.
They're kind of a horror, you know, months and stuff

(59:00):
like that. That is changing, there's no doubt. But you
can tell the difference. And it's not ready for prime
time across the board. But guys, this is here and
when she said something right there, they don't care. A
younger generation doesn't care. If it's somewhat entertaining, they don't care.

(59:21):
Can you tell the difference? Yes, Is there a need
still for actors, Of course there is, and you're seeing
more and more actors get into this and it's starting
to grow their business as well. But it's changing a
lot of things, and has to do also with sets
and how fast you can produce some things like that.

Speaker 20 (59:40):
With AI, filmmakers who used to hire a production crew
can now create an entire series on a computer in AI.

Speaker 7 (59:48):
If you want to happen like a sunny day, it's
going to be a sunday. If you want to rain outside,
it's going to rain. O.

Speaker 21 (59:52):
Say, you create the character, you create the locations, you
control everything.

Speaker 7 (59:59):
Yeah, so I'll ask you have the image in your hat.

Speaker 20 (01:00:02):
If AI generated actors like Chilly Nor would point to
entertainment's future. China's microdrama industry is showing how quickly it's unfolding.
In Jung Jo, considered the vertical filming capital here, studios
built inside office towers and shopping malls, often with government subsidies,
are now doing less much. Woolkong Being says, compared to

(01:00:25):
last year, his studio business is down nearly seventy percent
because AI is cheaper than using human actors in real location.

Speaker 11 (01:00:33):
You woman the kanji.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
We're a bit worried, he.

Speaker 20 (01:00:36):
Says, but not panicking yet too.

Speaker 2 (01:00:39):
Let me tell you something. If you guys want to
know about how long it takes to do this, let's
just say, for the sake of argument, you're going to
do one of these AI dramas and why Hollywood's going yeh.
As we sit here and talk about Hollywood, as they're
trying to figure stuff out and to show you that
Hollywood can be absolutely successful. We'll see this weekend right

(01:01:01):
Doomsday trailer came out yesterday. You can't tell me that
thinks not heading towards god knows what. During the holiday season,
so a quick template AI episode time per episode twenty
to ninety minutes. Okay, so a decent published episode two
to eight hours. Polished episodes with the consistent characters one
to three days. So if you were to do a

(01:01:23):
complete sixty to eighty episode AI roughly two to six
weeks with a tiny team. Some of these things are
not you know, long form, and that's like the whole seat,
that's like everything the entire show from start to finish.
So the computer is going to generate each shot minutes,

(01:01:44):
all right, but you've got a thirty to sixty minutes
of dialogue, you gott to create all that character storyboard,
several hours of generating, regenerating video shots. All of this
stuff takes, you know, a few days comparatively to what
it would be just to shoot a couple minutes of

(01:02:05):
filming something live and with the you know, the Darman
and a bunch of the other things that are out
there that do use live actors, doesn't These things don't
take that long either to do. So a one minute
episode may contain ten to twenty separate shots, so depending

(01:02:26):
on what you're looking at, you know, so let's just
compare that. So if you were to do conventional live
action vertical series six to one hundred episodes filmed at
eight to ten shooting days, followed by all the other production.
It's insane how long it's going to take you to do.

(01:02:48):
What AI can do now is acting better. And this
is where I think they get it wrong on the
acting side of stuff with this. For me, when we're
doing stuff, I prefer to if we're gonna use even
some AI voices to act out it and then have
the AI voices take it and then turn it into

(01:03:14):
whatever you've acted out with a different voice. But the
money's big, and this is what we talk about. This
is the decentralization of all entertainment. Now it's everywhere. You
sitting at home listening right now, could spend a weekend
and go, oh, I've got a great idea. We should
do this. Absolutely it is awesome. And as I keep

(01:03:35):
telling some people that I know who are who are
interested in AI, don't be afraid of it. Embrace it.
Know that you're not gonna blow it up. You're not
gonna kill it right, you're not gonna go oh, got it, hey,
Embrace it. If your thing that you're trying to do sucks.
It is what it is. Keep going, keep going. It's

(01:03:57):
changing everything, and Hollywood better take notice sooner other than later.
And the problem with Hollywood is you're dealing with powerful actors,
you're dealing with powerful groups, You're dealing with agents, you're
dealing with unions and all of this stuff. While behind
the scenes production companies want to embrace it, even if

(01:04:19):
it's only a portion of what they do right now.
But it doesn't mean that all of it is going
to go away, because we tend to do that. It'll
be shiny and new for a while. It'll get really good,
but then people will crave going back to you know
what once was, and you'll have a mixture three two, three, five,
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Benson Show. That is your ext your Insta, your YouTube lads,
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of you. Speaking of AI the Internet. It's not AI,
but it is.

Speaker 1 (01:04:54):
The funniest boy I ever see.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
Please tell me, very honestly, Jimothy the raccoon is running wild.
And if you've not seen Jimothy, Jimithy is a raccoon
that was born with a bit of a deformity, and
everybody's trying to figure out exactly what Wait, what is
this thing all about? Where is it? Is it in

(01:05:18):
neighborhoods because people have seen it at first, like, what
is that as an alien? It's not an alien, it's
a raccoon with a bit of an issue.

Speaker 22 (01:05:27):
Well, we looked hard, but he did not turn up.
Probably sleeping right now because raccoons are, after all, nocturnal.
But just because we didn't see him doesn't mean he's
not out there, because he is all over social media.
Take a look. An Instagram post launched the animal into fame.
It sits at more than three hundred thousand likes. Since then,
other people have taken to the web to post their

(01:05:49):
sightings of this animal they called Jimithy, like this clip
of the raccoon walking around on someone's deck. We spoke
to neighbors who are eager to soon have a sighting
of their own.

Speaker 23 (01:05:59):
Kind of has sinsart of physical abnormality. Kind of looks
a little bit like a cryptid, but very cute.

Speaker 22 (01:06:07):
Keep hearing that word about this cryptid. Tell me what
does that mean to you?

Speaker 6 (01:06:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:06:11):
Kind of almost a little supernatural, kind of like bigfooter,
a yeti or something kind of becoming infamous really quickly.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
It does look creepy. If you were if you were
in the dark and you saw something like that scurry
by you and you had no idea what it was,
you'd be like, oh God, what the hell was that.
It's a raccoon. It's got a little bit of a
short spine syndrome. I think there is a bulldog or
a pit bowl that also has one. They look exactly
the same. Little Quasimoto askue.

Speaker 22 (01:06:40):
How he reached out to the Washington Department of Fish
and Wildlife about this animal. A spokesperson says, it's not
clear why it looks the way it does, but because
it appears to get around just fine on its own,
people should leave it alone and not feed it now.
They also said you really shouldn't ever feed any raccoons.
We'll let you know when they find out exactly what.

(01:07:00):
But people online are saying that this could be a
disorder called short spine syndrome, and that's what.

Speaker 2 (01:07:07):
They're thinking at short spine syndrome. Don't feed Jimothy, although
Jimothy's cute and it's hard not to because you want to.
You just want to take Jimothy home.

Speaker 5 (01:07:15):
You do.

Speaker 2 (01:07:16):
Raccoons, man, they're changing the world and they're trying to
become domesticated. We did that story a few months ago.
If you guys not paying attention raccoons, especially in urban areas,
according to scientists, not Chad Benson show, but scientists are
altering their appearance. Their snouts are becoming shorter, they are

(01:07:37):
becoming a little bit fluffier. In doing so, they are
moving towards in science, mind domestication. And yes, I'm going
to get one, cause yes, cause that's me. I have

(01:07:59):
several friends who have some now and there. They're pretty awesome.
They are, man, you gotta watch them. Though. I think
the cat and him or her, depending on I think
they'd be in cahoots to get into things more because
you're like, look, you got fingers and thumbs and whatnot,
and you could just do stuff. So you do stuff
and I'll run cover for you, and the raccoon's like totally.

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Speaker 24 (01:09:53):
Hashtag me too, hashtag immigration reforms, hashtag help, I'm trapped
in a hashtag factory and I can't get out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
The Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:10:03):
Well with the world, come God, we're back to the
regular old words. And I heard one yesterday, oddly enough.
If I was going into work and I offered to
help somebody, and she said, I got it. And then
she said something. I'm like, I've never heard that before.

Speaker 23 (01:10:17):
Heard.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
Now, it's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:21):
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you. It's called the urban word
of the day. Alright, already alreadie the urban word of
the day. So yes, I went into work and one
of our promo one of the new promo people, she

(01:10:43):
held the door open, and I offered to help her
because she had her hands full, she had all the
stuff right, and she's that I got it, I got it.
She goes girl grip. I'm like, oh, oh, I never
heard that before. So girl grip is the ability of
a girl or woman they developed to hold several items
at once in one hand, okay, and usually it's because
they lacked pockets. So she had bags, she had her phone,

(01:11:06):
she had keys, she had everything in her hand, and
I thought, oh, I get it. I get it. You
got the little bit of the girl grip there, just
like guys have guy grip when it comes to grocery
because we don't want to go back to the car.
Girl grip. You're urban word of the day. That was
the urban word of the day. Now, you know. It's

(01:11:27):
always good to know my friends, always good to know
some of you have chiming and the wow cups over.
I'm like, okay, was it really that bad? What's it?
What's it so bad? Did you think you were going
to turn gay? If you watch the game, let's see,
that's going to become a comedy chat. You don't understand

(01:11:51):
shockers a communist sport. I was gonna end up being
a commie if I continued to go on any longer. Okay,
So yeah, there you go. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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other things we love hearing from all of your right
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in Ukraine, China and of course Iran. We're on to
day ten now and we're gonna ask them the important stuff.
Are we gonna have boots on the ground. When should

(01:12:32):
we think, oh, it's coming boots on the ground. I
don't know. We're gonna find out. On top of that,
a little bit more about what's going on when it
comes to the civil wars inside both parties as a
jockey for power each side, the uber Progressives and MAGA
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(01:12:55):
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Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
This is the Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:31):
The cost of life that keeps you up at night.
It's not whether or not you're going to be attacked
by the IRGC or any of that stuff. I'm just
being honest with you. We're worrying about the cost of
life and that number one thing that we see every
single day when we're out and about is is Yeah,
it's it's gas. Gas prices on the rise, at least
for now.

Speaker 4 (01:13:50):
Gas prices are rising in virtually every state for gasoline
and diesel. It's not a surprise given the new developments
over the last week as the US and Iran returned
to escalations, and it's hard to know how long these
escallations could last.

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
That's the big thing, right there, Patrick Dehan, Right there,
gas buddy guy, I'm going to continue to go up.
Listen to this lady. She goes to a gas station.
And what happens.

Speaker 5 (01:14:13):
As soon as I, like China, start filling up my car,
I looked up at the price. I'm like, oh my gosh,
gus went up again.

Speaker 2 (01:14:22):
What it did, sir?

Speaker 3 (01:14:23):
You have fun?

Speaker 7 (01:14:24):
It's not enjoyable to fill up the gas anyway, but
like it makes it worse.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, people aren't having fun. It sucks some
states worse than others.

Speaker 24 (01:14:35):
While we're seeing prices rise across the country, certain states
are feeling it the hardest. Utah, Colorado, Missouri, parts of Texas.
They are seeing the biggest jumps today. And it all
comes back to the price of oil, which is eighty
three dollars a barrel and rising. With that major oil artery,
the Straight of Horror moves effectively closed off.

Speaker 2 (01:14:56):
Yeah, now the hoot he's thinking about getting into it.
So are things calming down? The answer to that would
be new.

Speaker 3 (01:15:04):
With traffic in the Strait of horr Moves already slowing
to a crawl, cutting off the Red Sea could cause
oil prices to spike even further, and gas prices now
more than four dollars a gallon as well. This has
overnight the US launching the tenth straight night of strikes

(01:15:24):
on Iran while Iran launches strikes far beyond its borders.

Speaker 2 (01:15:30):
Yes, so there's that. Then you couple in something that
isn't being talked about. Yesterday Trump hit our second largest
trading partner with a fifty percent tariff. Thank you very
much for that solid move. Not you couple that with
the fact that we're hearing that he's getting ready to
go on a tariff a palooza again, maybe as early
as today, hitting up to sixty countries with a tariff blitz.

(01:15:56):
Because yeah, so there's that. Who's excited, nobody? That's why
you hear things like this, Maga voter.

Speaker 25 (01:16:05):
So I feel like the focus has been off.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
You're a laser like focus.

Speaker 24 (01:16:09):
In my notes, affordability, housing, education in that order.

Speaker 2 (01:16:13):
Talk to me.

Speaker 25 (01:16:14):
Yeah, well, affordability is number one because if you don't
have housing, you know, and you feel like the price
of food and the price of gas is you know,
stopping you from having a better standard of living, it's
going to be a problem. It's going to influence the
way you vote and how you feel.

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Absolutely, guys, straight up mega voters on Fox and said, look,
look what's getting done. Nothing. They're focusing elsewhere. They're not
doing the things they need to do. We need to
have focus here at home. That doesn't seem to be happening.
The focus seems to be everywhere but here at home.

Speaker 14 (01:16:48):
And what the administration has done that has had an
effect on gas prices, it is not serving the American people.

Speaker 2 (01:16:59):
Do you feel served? I'm not talking about when they're
breakdancing and you're like you got served? I mean served.
Do you feel like you're getting what you want? You
want to know why in some areas the DSA Democratic
Socialists of America, do you want to know why they're
growing when it comes to popularity, Because yes, they're saying

(01:17:22):
they're going to give you all these goodies just any
other But they're also going out the people I've talked
to that have worked against them, if you will, in primaries,
and I'm talking about Democrat on democrat crime here, if
you will, have said they go out, they're dressed to
the nines. It's not the purple hair with the nos

(01:17:44):
ring and you know that they're dressed to the nines.
They look you in the eye, they talk to you,
they're knocking on doors, they're doing the things that win
local elections. And one of the other things they're doing
that people notice. And I talk about this all the time.

Speaker 3 (01:17:59):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
It's it's a little thing, but it goes a long way.

Speaker 4 (01:18:03):
You know.

Speaker 26 (01:18:03):
I'm not exactly thrilled with all of the construction that's
blocking the streets, but I'm happy that the potholes are
being filled. This is a vision that kind of proposes
itself as a way to fix the issues of society.

Speaker 1 (01:18:16):
The socialist mayor's vision.

Speaker 26 (01:18:18):
Yeah, in a way that the private market has not
for the last ten to fifteen years. And I think
it's good to have competition in the idea marketplace.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Yes, but he said something there that goes so freaking far.
Potholes are filled. The potholes are filled. I live in
a city in a state right now where potholes are
nowhere near being filled. In fact, every day there's potholes.
It's one of the few places I've worked and lived

(01:18:47):
where even walking to work, I worry, Am I going
to trip on a pothole? Because it's that bad. We've
got a new building they just put up. I guess so,
I've got a hotel next to us, right it's a
big hotel because I'm downtown Nashville. And then next to
it they just put up a brand new building. And

(01:19:08):
in that fifty yards in front of that building, they
tore up the road and put in brand new concrete
for the road. You drive on crap, and then for
fifty yards it's as smooth as can be, and then
it's back to potholes. It's a little thing affordability. It's

(01:19:29):
a little bit big thing. What is going on, Maga.
You've got to figure out what you're going to do.
There is a civil war with the Democrats. We've touched
on that. Van Jones talked about it just the other day,
about this lunacy of what's going on in the Democrat

(01:19:51):
Party with the DSA, the difference between even a progressive
and an average Democrat and what these lunatics want.

Speaker 10 (01:19:58):
Well, listen, I.

Speaker 27 (01:20:01):
Can I tell you this phone has been blowing up
all day. Governors from both parties, Senators from both parties,
Democrats in the House calling thanking me for saying what
everybody's been saying behind the scenes, which is that this
stuff is going too far.

Speaker 10 (01:20:18):
I am a progressive Democrat.

Speaker 27 (01:20:20):
You want to talk about a prison reform, I've done
it as well as anybody, Republican Democrats in the South
with Trump, I've done prison reform. I never said have
no prisons where you're gonna put the Klan. I've done
police reform. I never said no police where you're going
to put the pedophiles. They're going to grab the pedophiles.
This stuff is going too far. And part of the
thing that has to happen is we saw what happened

(01:20:42):
in the Republican Party when things started going in a
nutty direction and nobody stood up.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
That is correct, And now MAGA is, especially after the
whole voting thing last week, feel a little skeptical about
a lot of what's going on. Kind of the bell
is breaking. People are asking questions, Hey, is there a
difference between you know, the Republicans in Mega.

Speaker 5 (01:21:05):
Do you think there's a difference between MAGA and Conservative.

Speaker 28 (01:21:09):
Yes, MAGA has become more of a cult and it
has gotten away from the original eyed ideology of make
America first or make America great again. That was just
a term being used, and it's a term that Trump
did not originate himself, that was actually brought about during
previous Republican you know, presidents, but it is morphed into
something different. I think that we need to focus on

(01:21:31):
our people in this country. We need to focus on
our veterans. We need to focus on the mental health
crisis that we have with you know, the homeless. There
are a lot of things internal to the borders of
this nation that we can do a lot better instead
of looking abroad all the time.

Speaker 2 (01:21:47):
Amen. And you bring that up though, you do get
those those those stalwarts who are just there Maga to death,
and they will be like, we got to fight this war,
We've got to do these things. We have to do
this peace through strength, no strength, through strength, you know,
all the stuff. But the average person's not thinking that way,

(01:22:09):
the average person isn't looking at the DSA going You've
got all the answers and those are lead with insanity,
right like, let's abolish everything, we'll have no borders and
then everybody else can pay for it, which, as we know,
is foolish. Both sides are having an issue not only

(01:22:32):
heading into this election, but just right now, every day,
and come twenty eight, God only knows what it's gonna
look like. Then it's gonna look interesting, there's no doubt
about that. But when you listen and you know, whether
it's Van Jones or you know, you've got what's his
name out there talking about, well, if BB comes here,

(01:22:54):
we're going to arrest him Mandanni potentially, I'm looking into it.

Speaker 15 (01:22:58):
You have no.

Speaker 2 (01:23:00):
Legal standing to arrest him, so you can take him
in front of the hag and that's in the Netherlands.
You just don't. You've no chance. Sorry, isn't gonna happen.
It isn't. It's just it's people. It is so performative.

(01:23:23):
It is driven by algorithms. It's not based in reality.
And go back to the pothole test. If your city
and state aren't fixing the potholes, there is a problem.
It is the lowest hanging easiest fruit to make people go, oh,
things are okay. If they can't do that, there's a

(01:23:44):
lot of issues there is, and those issues are going
to grow, and the civil war is going to grow
as well. And I'm interested to see what happens when
you combine the disgruntled MAGA aren't really into politics, but
kind of gravitated towards the cults of personality and a

(01:24:05):
lot of what Trump had to say that he has abandoned,
and the likes out there of even some of these
DSA wackadoos who think I can get those people because
a lot of what they're saying Trump kind of echoed,
and there is that kind of you know, crossing of paths.
Can you know? Is that going to be something we'll see?

(01:24:28):
One thing I know though, as I've never seen two
groups of people make something look so difficult when the
answer is right there. But unfortunately the two groups happen
to be driven by two corporations, Democrat Party and Republican Party,

(01:24:51):
who enjoy the algorithms and outrage more than they joy
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What do you think of those apples? That are apples? Kids?
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suing Meta and as it kicks off, my you know,

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I think there's only so much that that these companies
can do. And it goes back to your kids, right,
whether it's the Tate Brothers or somebody, it goes back
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to do that for them. But you've got to be
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your family and friends and thinks, has become something completely different.
And the algorithms are driving this world and it's not
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Speaking of interesting, my client's military analyst joints the program
straight Ahead. We're gonna ask him about what's next, including

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boots on the ground. Are we going to see that soon?
And where would we see that? Carg Island, some of
these other places. What's that mean? We'll talk to amstraight
Ahead Chat Benson, Joe Son, Chad.

Speaker 1 (01:30:59):
Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
It's that time of the week. We talked to the
best dad of military analysts in the business and tired
major in the army. Mike Lyons joins the program. All right, Mike,
First of all, we lost four soldiers. The reality of
they no longer have capability to do anything doesn't seem
to be the truth. And I think people are starting
to go, not just us, but our allies over there

(01:31:44):
are going, hey, what's going on here? Because they're starting
to reach us.

Speaker 10 (01:31:49):
I think a couple of things are taking place here.

Speaker 13 (01:31:50):
First of all, we're just not doing a good job
of communicating what our strategy and what the intent is here,
and most people believe that the strategy is just aligned
on these airstrikes. And yes, the soldiers were killed and
strikes made by an Iranian military that you know, the
President said was destroyed, but clearly is only degraded because
they still have capability to fire a missile a thousand

(01:32:13):
kilometers and hit a target in Jordan that you know,
kills Americans. And that's really something that that's got to
be fixed right away. But if you combine a strategy
of the bombings plus the blockade, plus sanctions plus all
those things, then you have a coherent package there that
you should be able to sell other nations. And I
don't just think for whatever reason, this administration hasn't focused

(01:32:33):
on that. Maybe Marco Rubi has tried, but at this
point all the focus is on the military side, and
it's going to take more than that.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
You know, it is going to take more than that.
The Huti said yesterday. And and you know a lot
of people think, oh, this is the proxy's fighting again.
It's somewhat is and this you can even remove us,
the and the and the is Israel out of this,
because the Yemenes and Saudi Arabia have been fighting for
a while. They said now that they're thinking about, hey,
you know what, we're going to close the Red Sea.
So you guys, Saudi Arabi aren't going to be able

(01:33:02):
to export a ton of oil, And it goes back
to this just feels like this thing is starting to
spread now everywhere throughout the Middle East.

Speaker 13 (01:33:10):
You know, the Israelis are on the sidelines right now,
and I know they're itching to get back into this fight.
And then when the Houthis made that comment about blockading
there straight yesterday, that could be just bluff because they
don't really have the capability to do this. But in
the past Israel has done a tremendous job against the Houthis,
as when they were, you know, kind of dumb enough

(01:33:32):
to fire a missile at Israel, they responded tenfold and
they you know, a few months back to got an
incredible amount of their capability. So I don't know, I
think the Houthis are a little bit of you know,
of just a lot of fluff right now. I'm not
sure they have that capability to do that. If they did,
if they were able to make a blockade on that

(01:33:53):
straight there, then you're talking much more significant, almost as
much significant as the Strait.

Speaker 10 (01:33:59):
It's like seventeen percent.

Speaker 13 (01:34:00):
As the oil has been rerouted already to the Red Sea,
they would kind of try to bottle that up. I
just don't see it. I just think that this is
Aron trying to get them in the game, that they're
not there yet.

Speaker 2 (01:34:10):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we talking about all
things going on militarily. Obviously with the death of our soldiers,
this thing feels like, you know, we're at a standstill
in the Straits and people are You see a lot
of people out there saying, well, is it going to
be boots on the ground, Are they going to go
take a carg island or one of those things. I
think there is a sense now that something like that,

(01:34:30):
if it's going to be militarily, is going to have
to happen. And we always turn to you and Sarah,
what's the point that we should be looking?

Speaker 15 (01:34:38):
Where we go?

Speaker 2 (01:34:38):
Okay, something real is going to happen.

Speaker 10 (01:34:41):
Well, a couple of things.

Speaker 13 (01:34:41):
First of all, they are sending more fighters to the region,
but still not troops, and there's no army troops. You know,
I always say this that nothing really is going to
happen significantly until the army shows up. And really the
Army in total is not there, as an arm armored
division is not there, and infantry divisions not there. You've
got elements of the eighty second small marines that are

(01:35:02):
on some of the ships there. But I said, the
military mission right now is what's called a siege, and
that the Iranians have just got to keep their heads
down and the United States pounding away on a nightly
basis anywhere from one hundred and twenty one hundred and
forty air strikes.

Speaker 10 (01:35:16):
It's not epic fury levels.

Speaker 13 (01:35:18):
It's not eleven hundred sorties a day and a twenty
four hour basis.

Speaker 10 (01:35:22):
But this is a siege.

Speaker 13 (01:35:23):
In his history, you look at Vicksburg and other places
where the military just pounds away at the.

Speaker 10 (01:35:29):
Enemy on a daily basis. It's kind of like, you know,
saying like you had enough.

Speaker 13 (01:35:33):
I think that if we did send troops and small operations,
they would be called raids. We wouldn't send large scale
invasion for us there.

Speaker 10 (01:35:42):
We don't.

Speaker 13 (01:35:42):
They're just not there, they're not coming. The raids would
be for a very specific things. They're talking carg Island.
I think that gives Trump a visual sign of leverage.
But I think more importantly of these coastal batteries, and
those are the ones that are threatening the straits. Those
are the ones that have the most military significance, and
if we did send troops, I think we go after
some of those those installations.

Speaker 2 (01:36:02):
You know, when you look at carg Island. Let's say
they go and take carg Island. Do they try to
take carg Island? Because I don't know what Iran. You know,
Iran is built in a different way than we're. You know,
they're used to seven hundred percent inflation and stuff of
that nature. And you know, everybody's like, well, they're going
to eventually give in. Well, their people may have to
make them give in, because we've seen what they do

(01:36:22):
to their people. So I don't think that they would
just go okay, you guys get it. My fear is
they go take carg Island and then they blow it up.

Speaker 13 (01:36:32):
That's a real possibility. And you know, Iran has got
a geography similar to Switzerland. What I mean by that
is it would be virtually impossible to invade. You know,
there's no ground force in today's world. You know, in
the past, the last two times, both desert storm and
then a rock you know, we telegraph the world we
were coming, and you know, nothing happened where the enemy

(01:36:54):
didn't do anything, They didn't pre attack. We were real
concerns about that back then. So but in this case
that couldn't take place.

Speaker 10 (01:37:01):
But that's right.

Speaker 13 (01:37:01):
The Iranians sitting on Cargo Island, they might have some
troops there obviously, but they could just do just that.
They could do the same damage themselves right now. Their
oil industry is there, you know, their nuclear weapons so
to speak. It's the only strategic asset that they have.
And I you know, from from my perspective, I think
we have to go after the IRGC, go after their way.

(01:37:23):
The center of gravity is there, the IRGC's revenue capability.
It's not the military, it's not the military targets, it's
the way that they're generating revenue right now.

Speaker 10 (01:37:30):
And I think that's that's what the pivot is towards
the IRGC.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
That's an interesting because man, everybody's like, why don't we
just take out the IRGC, And you've explained it to us.
Give everybody a snapshot of what they're working with militarily,
and starting with the IRGC even downwards because it's not
just them, but I mean it's not like there's only
five guys in the IRGC.

Speaker 13 (01:37:50):
Yeah, I know they've spent the last forty seven years
infiltrating every aspect of government, every aspect of commerce, and
they decentralize in terms of their their operations. And this
is why we can't get a deal with them. Because
while the foreign ministers are desperate to make a deal
and you know, we start bombing and they are calling Trump, please,
let's make a deal, the IRGC on the other side

(01:38:13):
is controlling all the military assets and they've powered down
to people along the coastal batteries and they're that's why
they're firing them the ships there because they don't care
that they're been told to fight to the death here
and that's that's there. You know, they're they're dying in
place right now, so they're not going to stop. There's
no connection between the Foreign Ministry Department of Iran and
the military there, and that's what they're controlling it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:35):
So how do we have how do we get a deal? Man?
I mean, that's the thing. I'm sitting there going, Okay, well,
just because you're negotiating with somebody, right you know, it
doesn't mean that that person's gonna have any say on
We could get a deal that is diplomacy wise, seems
great but the reality is, if the IRGC has the
guns and the power, then what are we doing.

Speaker 13 (01:38:54):
Well, they still don't really have the capability of attack
at scale. They still and the chance again, the fact
that they can hit, you know, a target one thousand
kilometers away is concerning, and this is why the siege
needs to continue. But I think eventually, if we continue
up the strategy of sanctions, blockade and the military strikes,
that you'll eventually rode them from within. That to me,

(01:39:18):
is the most coherent strategy. I think that gives us
the best chance of minimizing casualties. And I've said this before.
If the rest of the world does not think that
the Iranians are a threat, I don't get it. I mean,
the the what would have the Uranian what would around
look like if they had a nuclear weapon right now?
If this is how they're acting in this manner, if

(01:39:38):
they had a nuclear weapon, they would surely use it.
Israel is the wildcard. I still believe that they're going
to eventually. I think the President has put on the
sidelines for right now. I think he's trying to give
some political cover to b B. But you know damn
well that the Israelis know where all the IRGC center
gravity is that decapitation strategy would start up right away,
and that's what's what is it's good at, and so

(01:40:01):
that that might be the last kind of straw. If
this does not go for a couple of weeks and
we're not really seeing any progress, you'll see the Israeli
military unleashed.

Speaker 2 (01:40:09):
Talking to my client's military analystslet's switch from there to Ukraine.
It is every day we turn around and we read
something new. The the the growing voices inside of Russia
seemed to be getting a little bit louder and louder.
He has surrounded himself with god knows how many men.
We've heard up to eight hundred men. The pooter is

(01:40:30):
feeling the heat, and the Ukrainians seem to be you know, full,
you know, full dron forward if you will.

Speaker 13 (01:40:38):
I don't see, you know, every single day in social
media you see another video of the technology advantage that
Ukraine has over Russia with their drone capability. They're they're
they're sighting there, they're targeting technology. It's just to me,
it's off the charts and this is what's you know,
this is what's on the public sites. Obviously the classified

(01:41:00):
information is even better. And you know, they've clearly held
their own no question about it. From a and from
you know, from a defensive perspective, what they've done will
really go down.

Speaker 10 (01:41:09):
It's one of the most historic, you know.

Speaker 13 (01:41:11):
Defenses of a country, you know, given the fact that
twenty percent was really lost during Obama.

Speaker 10 (01:41:17):
Let's let's put it that way.

Speaker 13 (01:41:18):
I mean, the the initial the initial land mass was
taken in twenty fourteen, and that's because we know nothing
was happening then. But what's happened since their ability, their
capability to defend it has just just been incredible. And yeah,
Russia is not is still much on its back legs.
And you're seeing more and more people inside the Trump
administration looking to support Ukraine. Whether that ends this year

(01:41:40):
or not remains to be seen. But no question about
the Ukrainians, of the of the upper.

Speaker 15 (01:41:45):
End, the.

Speaker 2 (01:41:47):
There's you know, like you talked about with Trump, and
I think more and more people are saying, hey, we
need to get on you know this and start to
help them push back. I always go back to, you know,
I don't worry about Iran the way I worry about
a madman like putin with the nuclear weapon because you know,
you and I both know a dude who is in
the corner with nothing to lose, thinks the whole world

(01:42:07):
is going to cave down and he's done for He
didn't feel like the kind of guy that wants to
go out quietly.

Speaker 13 (01:42:14):
You know, that would be historically world changing, and we're
monitoring that closely. We can use satellites to determine whether
those that equipment is moving towards the front, so to speak,
even the tactical nukes. I think there were reports a
few years back, but we haven't seen any since, so

(01:42:34):
that that's a that's a more than a game changer,
that's a you know, a world altering event that you know,
you got to think that a sane person wouldn't do.
But depending on how far backed up they are, until
you talk about escape paths right or soun sou in
the Golden Bridge and trying to figure out a way
out of this conflict, Russia hasn't doesn't have one.

Speaker 10 (01:42:52):
They they're they're all in there.

Speaker 13 (01:42:54):
They're looking for unconditional surrenders, so they're much in a
much worse position to try to take some kind of deal, you.

Speaker 2 (01:43:00):
Know, you talk unconditional surrender. I'm like, I don't think
that's happening. I mean, they're they're they're absolutely drawn, you know,
just droning after drone. At what point you know, you know,
I always go back to you go look through history,
and it's the guys closest to the guys they get
arrested and executed. But those guys who arrest him go,

(01:43:20):
we could be next, So let's go after the guy.
I feel like, is that something that could happen with Putin?

Speaker 13 (01:43:27):
You know, that's a great point, I you know, because
there is nobody around him that can figure out a
deal that saves any face for him, and that's really
what has to happen here, and that's that's a real possibility.
But you're probably gonna have to get rid of a
few more layers, as he's pretty good at at you know,
keeping himself away from those people, and defections could start

(01:43:50):
taking place. I mean again, it'll it's going slow. That
old expression would go slow and then all at once,
and we just were not to the all at once
spot yet. But historic someone around him would you know,
would likely you know, lead that charge. And they're only
going to do it when they can assure their own survivability.

Speaker 2 (01:44:07):
I think last question talking to Mike clients military analyst, China,
China sitting around. What are they They're looking around, They're seeing,
you know, Russia's kind of getting not so much boat race,
but definitely getting kicked in the grundle. They're looking over
here and understanding our struggles because the struggles are we're
we don't even seem to have a clear understanding of
what exactly one hundred percent is that we're doing. And

(01:44:30):
they're sitting there doing what.

Speaker 10 (01:44:32):
Well.

Speaker 13 (01:44:32):
See, no one's talked about this, but China has been
set back significantly by the US action in Iran, and
that is this Belton Roads initiative that they're trying to
do with their supply chain going through that part of
the world, in through the Middle East then.

Speaker 10 (01:44:46):
Into Africa, and Iran was a key part of that.

Speaker 13 (01:44:48):
Now also, China has likely been providing the Iranians intel
on where US targets are and we should probably recognize that.
And we also know that part of the eight billion
dollars that the range means were able to get released
during the MoU. During that when the MoU was signed,
and then once the fighting started. It's likely that China

(01:45:10):
use Third world countries and other other organizations to get
supplies into Iran, especially for the air defense system. So yeah,
you know, China's clearly aligned, you know, trying to be
under the covers in this. But but they're losers in
this as well. I think no one's talking about that
because for whatever reason, we still believe that this is
the century of the China of China and the Chinese
and their dominance. It ain't happening yet. We're a quarter

(01:45:32):
of the way through the century. Uh and if you know,
if Marco Ruby has anything to do it, it won't
happen at all. But but we're letting China, you know,
off the hook there. But they've been set back significantly.
Their proxy in Russia is, like you said, on their heels,
and then what's happened in Iran is really destroyed their
belt and roads initiatives. And I think that's that's a
pretty big setback for them.

Speaker 2 (01:45:51):
He's retired major and the best damn military anlest in
the business. MIKEE Line. Appreciate you coming on. Well do
it again next week.

Speaker 10 (01:45:56):
Hey, thanks Chet, thanks for grabbing me.

Speaker 2 (01:45:58):
I love talking to Mike Tomorrow's got his op ed.
We'll make sure we throw it up on all of
our socials. Dude's a good guy. People ask, well, why
don't you guys argue about certain things? Now I go
to him for the military aspect of the politics. Is there.
That's what we discuss, the military side of stuff. He's
the best. He's the best in the biz period case

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Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
As we wrap up this Tuesday, I got several of
you have texted me. I love this one. What's the
fear of soccer? Just out of curiosity? Is the fear
that soccer might become popular? It is popular, but is
that the fear for a lot of people? Thank God
the World Cups over, Chad. It's a commy sport.

Speaker 8 (01:48:00):
Just what do you do with that?

Speaker 2 (01:48:02):
Okay?

Speaker 23 (01:48:04):
You know?

Speaker 2 (01:48:04):
I mean it's Dana why we touched on earlier. You
know his like slap fighting out does it? It's got
a trillion views? I'm like, based on what there's not
a trillion people. Are you really gonna do that? It's
got a trillion views because you've picked and chosen several
different things to throw out there, and then you add

(01:48:25):
up all that stuff and you're like, it's got a
trillion views. So soccer and any other sports only allowed
to take what's on television and you get to take
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