The $20 Burrito

The $20 burrito. Oil prices slide toward weekly loss as Iran-Oman Hormuz talks stall. Friday Sound Salad. Jim Kennedy breaks down the week's top stories. Latest jobs numbers. Flock controversy grows. Sophie Cunningham addresses the fallout over her stance on trans athletes not belonging in women's sports.

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Twenty dollar barrito? What it is the question that is
currently flying around the internet, the twenty dollars burrito. Really,
what it's about is a four tobility, affordability. That's it.
I know Trump thinks it's made upward it's not, but

(00:34):
you know you do you? But I will tell you.
This started out the other day as something that a
few people were talking about, the affordability twenty dollars brito,
And it all stemmed from is it still a tweet?
I think it's still a tweet.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
It's the tweet that set off a political debate over
the price of burritos.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
We're going to bring you up to speed on the
great burrito debate of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
A spokesperson at Turning Point USA spilled the beans, posting
that a college student recently complained to him about the
rising cost of food, telling him a burrito shouldn't cost
twenty dollars. That post had a nerve among conservatives discussing
food prices, which are up more than four percent since
President Trump took office.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
A burrito shouldn't cost twenty dollars? How's the kid? Wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
Prices are out of control? People can't afford it.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's undeniable, just undeniable, undeniable. Dave Smith, right there, absolutely true. Look,
I notice what stuff cost. Not to be obnoxious here,
I'm doing okay, right, But I'm not ready to quit

(01:53):
and just go live in my mansion somewhere because it
don't have one and I got and they need to eat,
and I know expensive they are. But this whole, this
whole thing, And I'm telling you, guys, Republicans, I'm giving
you guys a bit of free advice. Take it for
what it's worth. Keep hammering a younger generation and making

(02:17):
it a a Somebody will say it's not class warfare,
it's generational warfare. And you're going to lose. I'm telling
you this now, you were going to lose gen Z
and especially and the millennials. Guess what, Yes, the the
white women millennials are for the most part, very progressive.

(02:40):
But gen Z and not all millennials. Well, I'm very independent,
not sold to one party. And when you insult them
and tell everybody, hey, they're lazy, they're lame, they're don't
want to work you, you are fooling yourselves. And play

(03:03):
that game at your own risk. You want to know
why the DSA is rising? Do you want to know why?
It's the thing we talked about. They're talking about the
issues that matter, which is affordability. You can sit here
and talk about how amazing the economy is. Trump the
other day it's the greatest economy in the history of economies.

(03:25):
We all know that's not true. For some it's doing well.
But when you discount and you turn it to a
US versus them, know who the biggest voting block is
not the boomers anymore. They're looking at this going you know,
the twenty dollars brito is for me, it's more of

(03:47):
an amalgamation of things. An expense.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
President Trump has insisted that prices are coming down, but
even some of his own supporters are raising concern like
this person whose email was read on a Charlie Kirk show.

Speaker 4 (04:01):
We have five kids. Groceries are unaffordable. I am a
Trump guy, but he is not turning this around. Doesn't
matter how often he brags about eggs truth.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
The other day we on my local show, we talked
about that lady who talked about how expensive her daycare was. Now,
I want you guys to understand some I was talking
about the ridiculousness of the fact that you see your
kid to college for the cost of daycare in state,

(04:38):
tuition's cheaper, and the boomers started attacking me. And it's
always the same thing. First of all, stop your whining. Okay,
you talk about how much the kids whine. Stop your whining. Secondly,

(04:58):
it's a different time.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
It is.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
Well, in my day, I raised nine kids. We bought
a house for a gooselberry. Okay, well you're not. First
of all, it's five billion goozleberries now to buy a house. Secondly,
you know you working at the filling up station and
being able to purchase a home. Those days are gone, sir,

(05:26):
Those days are gone. Okay, kids have a mortgage in
a lot of places. They're coming out of college with
a mortgage. And I tell this to my Republican friends
all the time. Be careful because you are. You know,
you are pushing away and demonizing over and over. And

(05:49):
I'm not saying there's not kids out there that aren't lazy.
Of course, kids are lazy.

Speaker 5 (05:53):
In my day.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
Hell I was lazy at times. Hello, nothing new, and
remember they didn't raise themselves.

Speaker 3 (06:02):
Others say young people should stop complaining Republican Congressman Dan
Crenshaw posted, stop whining, get a job, eat Ramen like
the rest of us did. In college, conservative columnists Mark
Beeson wrote, kumea River, the burritos and the college cafeteria
are included in your meal plan, saying that a burrito
only costs twenty dollars. Quote when you buy it on

(06:23):
door Dash. Vice President Jade Vans taking the student side
and firing back at THESA and saying, I'm surprised to
hear Mark say this. If you've ever met him in person,
it's quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Oh JD understands it. It is it. I'm just telling
you at your own risk. You know, at your own risk.
I don't think people understand that. And it's not about
the problem is you know. And I was talking to
somebody yesterday who goes, you know, well, my fur away

(06:57):
one ca is doing great. I'm like, okay, I said,
so you're living off your four one k? Well, no,
I said, so, so that's great to your four one k.
By the way, my four one k did well under Biden,
and we forget that did well under Trump the first time.
You know, and and even through some of the hiccups

(07:18):
with COVID. I mean, you know, so we can that
means what, Yeah, it's great if you are drawing from
your four oh one k in your retirement, it's great. Then,
but you sit here and you demonize, and I keep

(07:41):
telling everybody, keep demonizing them. Find out what happens when
voting comes around. Find out what happens. And it's it's
this is Affordabilly's the real thing. It is, it is,
And you know what what's happening? What are the kids
are moving home? Kids are moving home, Kids are moving home.

(08:03):
And in many places, kids are moving home and they're employed.
They just can't afford to live. Listen to this lady.

Speaker 6 (08:12):
To be able to afford that on top of like
your student loans, a car payment, it's really hard to
function off of anything.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
I believe, like less than eighty five k.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
She makes over sixty thousand a year, and where she lives,
and you know what I hear all the time. I'll
talk about this and people say she needs to get
a second job, Like, okay, that's my day. I know
in your day, you raised forty seven kids on you know,
a nickel a week. And you guys resorted to cannibalism,

(08:42):
but you wanted to show everybody how tough you were. Whatever.
That's not good. That's not a winning argument, by the way,
not a here's here. If you're going to tell me
how great everything is in the economy, it's the greatest
economy of all time. It's never been better. I can
believe how great the economy is. It's never been better.

(09:03):
And then somebody's like, well, I make seventy grand a
year and I can't afford to live. We'll get a
second job. Well, obviously, maybe the first part is having
a bit of a struggle. Maybe you don't know, I
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(09:25):
of those other good things out there, Let you guys know,
straight to hor Mooz. Trump says they can't go on
any longer. That's Iran, and Iran says, no, we're fine,
We're okay, We're okay. I don't know, you know what's
what's coming out of this because at this point in time,

(09:48):
start stop. I'm over it. Let us know when all
is well. And by the way, Trump came out yesterday
he said, we have massive amounts of munitions, even though
everybody else is saying, no, we don't. And I think
we all know, no we don't. And this has nothing
to do with the attack side of stuff. This has
to do with the defense side of things. Those are
two separate things, two separate things. So as far as

(10:14):
we know, at this moment in time, status quo, it
looks like deal's going to get done that has nothing
to do with us and all to do with Iran
and Oman. And even at this point in time, what
does that deal look like? If we get a deal done?
Who trust? Who was it? Whom? Trust? Whom? A lot
of good stuff to get to today. Last night it

(10:35):
was out at an event because it was the midterms
here in Tennessee, Tennessee, and went out. There's a lot
of people, there's not five hundred people plus, you know,
the station was out there doing stuff. It was really good,
met some listeners and being out here in Tennessee, which
I love is gorgeous, amazing state. Because I am not maga.

(11:00):
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things about me, you know, the keyboard Warriors stuff, and
then they'll come out and you know, like a couple
of them wanted to debate last night, and I'm like,
we're at an event, you know, And I always keep saying,
if you guys want to come yell at me, that's fine,
but you know, be semi respectful. And but it was
some of the stuff that people worry about is it's well,

(11:27):
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five hundred and seven hundred people there and a lot

(16:59):
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talk about you know, politics, pop culture and stuff like that.

(17:35):
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Speaker 1 (17:40):
Son, Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
It is that time of a week talk goverybouty Jim
Kennedy of the Kennedy Institute of Public Bolozi Research, Politics,
Bob Cultrid all of the fun stuff that we talk
about here. Jim, we're going to start with the fact
that we can be honest about the Iran thing really quick.
I guess when I told everybody over and over again
that we were running out of material and we didn't

(18:24):
have enough weapons to defend people, that wasn't the lie
that everybody said I was making up.

Speaker 5 (18:30):
Oh no, not at all.

Speaker 18 (18:31):
I'd heard that about almost a month ago from some
of the military experts that I watched, that they were
saying we're running low on We're running low on missiles
and various things.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
And one of the things that you had mentioned before
though on the missiles is the thing is.

Speaker 18 (18:44):
Is is because we don't normal I mean, we don't
normally burn through a lot of those, We don't usually
use a lot of those. Sure, they're going to use
thirty to fifty a year in training exercises, but they
don't have a because the fact that they're used to
replacing thirty or fifty a years, they just can't go
out and replace five hundred of them and just ramp
up the production and then and and and they you know,

(19:06):
the way that they make them, it'll take time. And
they just passed a bill about two weeks ago from
what from I remember hearing that they're basically going to start,
you know, they're gonna They've given them more money to
ramp up production, to move the production line along to
where they can start making one hundred a year. But still, yeah,
we're looking at two or three years till we can
really fully replace our stockpiles.

Speaker 5 (19:27):
And it also depends upon what.

Speaker 18 (19:29):
Other engagements we wind up in and whatever else we
use them for, I mean, whatever other places we have
to use them. If there's other problems in the world.
You never know when someone's gonna when a bad guy's
gonna pop up and try to try to take on America.
So yeah, that's those are those are things that you know,
they're not they're not ready to be replaced quickly because
they just simply haven't been doing in fact, the last

(19:49):
ten years, like I said, they've used thirty to fifty
a year, and.

Speaker 5 (19:52):
Now we need five hundred and more of them.

Speaker 18 (19:54):
And it's a problem, and it kind of you know
it's not a good time to let China know that
we're running low on AMMO or on strategic missiles, because
you never know when they're going to try to make
a run on Taiwan or something else in their area,
in their sphere of influence in Southeast Asia.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Talking to Jim Kennedy the Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research.
All right, Jim, so this week Abdul al Sayed won
or l say ed I might have said that wrong,
and I apologize for that. That was not on purpose.
But he is an interesting guy, you know. I mean
he said some things in the past, obviously, but a
lot of politicians say things in the past. Both sides
want to go, well, he said that, so this must

(20:32):
be and the right says they said, He's going to
be interesting to see how this thing plays itself out,
because Stevens played much better in the general and you
and I have talked about quality of candidate matters, and
he has angered a lot of people on the establishment
side of the left, and there are some people out
there that may not be thrilled with him that would

(20:53):
normally vote for a Democrat. And Mike Rodgers might have
an easier run here potentially than the squeaky boy Stevens.

Speaker 5 (21:01):
Yeah, no, absolutely, most definitely not.

Speaker 18 (21:04):
They had a yesterday, they had a Unity summit where
there's a picture that they love there. They're pushing all
over social media of Stevens hugging l said on the
stage and you know, endorsing him and you know, holding
the old hand up type of situation. But yeah, no,
he's got a lot to answer for for something. From
what he said, he is he is not quite Bundami

(21:26):
suave as far as his his ability to speak and
influence and persuade people. But he's good, yeah, and he's
going to do his best.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
And he's a bit more alpha, you know, Mundannie's very smooth,
but there is something about this guy that is a
bit more like, you know, alpha ish.

Speaker 5 (21:43):
Yeah, that's you know what, that's a that's a very
good that's a very good thing to put on it.
You're right, I mean, that's that's very accurate.

Speaker 18 (21:48):
And in that sense that that is a difference between
the two of them, and so he will maybe appeal
to a little bit more to the men than maybe
Mandami does or did appeal to. The question is going
to be, is you know there were two ways to
look at this primary. So if Stevens had won, would
the Muslims in the Dearborn, in the other areas of
Michigan that have a large Muslim populations, would they have

(22:11):
come out if l Said had not won to support Stevens.
The other side of it is Stevens was endorsed by
many black leaders in BACP, etc.

Speaker 5 (22:19):
Etc.

Speaker 18 (22:20):
And now will the African Americans, which is one of
the most core groups of Democratic voters, will they come
out and vote for l Said? Because they're going to
be critical if they're going to keep that seat. And
we've talked about the whole dynamics of the Senate and
the Democrats' desire to take it over and what they're
going to need to do to do that, and Michigan
is not a seat they can lose and be able

(22:42):
to probably be able to take over unless there's some
other odd results coming out of some other states that
are not expected.

Speaker 5 (22:51):
That don't go the way that we expect them to.
So they desperately need Michigan.

Speaker 18 (22:55):
I expect to be a lot of money thrown at
Michigan by both sides because Republicans know that this is
going to be a lot easier race for Rogers than
it would have been against Stevens because she's a traditional Democrat.
I would have pulled in the traditional voting blocks and
Rogers may be able to get after those or just
maybe a difference to where they just don't show up
at the polls. So it also can affect the gubernatorial

(23:17):
racer because there also is a governor's race in Michigan,
and if there're going to be enough enthusiasm for John James,
who was an African American Republican who is their nominee
running for the governorship, if he can generate some interest
that could help. That could help Rogers down ticket, it
could help the whole thing down ticket to basically bring
out the voters to basic vote from the top down

(23:37):
on that.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
So it'll be interesting.

Speaker 18 (23:39):
The numbers that Rogers had put out late last week
had him ten points up on lsaeed they paid for
the poll ticket for what you want, and that he
was running tied with Stevens. So I don't know if
that was just kind of propaganda they put out there
thinking that oh they would maybe scare the Democrats in
the voting for Stevens.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Hard to say. Like I said, I can look at
this two ways a lot of people have.

Speaker 18 (23:59):
It's going to be in a much more interesting race,
I think now than it would have been if Stevens
had won.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
You know, it's going to be again, It's no doubt
it's interesting. And his tagline, if I'm correct, that is
going to be hard for the Republicans money out of politics,
money in your pockets, health care for all. And you
sit there and go, man, that's a hard thing right
now for Republicans, you know, to combat. He's got that

(24:27):
kind of little saying. And I was even watching Mark
Halpern talk about it today, going, you know, he goes.
Originally I thought he's going to lose. He goes, But
I think this guy's got a chance and could surprise.
He goes. And in that three little line, you know,
like money out of politics, money in your pocket, and
health care for all, that thing that he chants, he goes.

(24:48):
That screams to a lot of people out there that
are very very frustrated.

Speaker 5 (24:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 18 (24:52):
No, that resonates to a lot of people a lot.
It resonates a lot to working class voters. There is
an interesting breakdown. There was something about like a about
fifty eight percent of the voters that voted for l
said had college degrees, and on the other side, about
fifty eight percent of the voters that voted for Haley
Stevens did not have college degrees so or only had

(25:12):
high school degrees. So that was basically kind of the
breakdown on that. And right now, the way that the
numbers have been running for Republicans is they tend to
get non college educated more than they get college educated,
and the Democrats, you know, vice versa, are getting more
college educated people. So to be interesting to see if

(25:32):
those Democrats that were that were not college educated, that
voted for Stevens, where do they go. Do they go
to l said or decide or do they decide they
want to go to Rogers because they think he fits
more and they just don't trust el said.

Speaker 5 (25:46):
But yes he is. He is going to be I
think going to be, as you've.

Speaker 18 (25:48):
Said, more formidable than was first looked at because he
is persuasive and he does do well on the campaign trail.
So again, it'll be an interesting race because a lot
of people are watching it, and you know, you've got
Hassan Piker out there who supports LSAID, and anytime that
you know basically, if you don't vote for l said,
you're in an islamophobe and silly things like that, and

(26:10):
that's gonna be that's gonna be broad in already seen
lots of social media posts. Mike Rodgers first First Kim
First commercial came out today and a lot of the
left are criticizing it as being racist, but they don't
understand the racism application. You could say it maybe as
maybe islam atphobic, or maybe it doesn't frame Islam in
a great way, but I don't know exactly that I

(26:31):
would call it racist. So that's gonna basically that one's
off to the races already. They're not waiting for their
digital Labor Day start in Michigan, they're already at it.
I mean, probably had that, probably had that commercial in
the can for ten days waiting for whoever was going
to win. They probably had a similar one for for Haley,
for Stevens if she had won too.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
It's gonna be interesting, no doubt about that. Talking to
Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute Public Policy Research, What matters though
to the average person's the economy and despite Trump coming
out saying it's the greatest economy in the history of
every economy in the history of the world. You and
I both know that doesn't land with the average person
because they're just feeling it. You know, the economy may
be somewhat okay for some, but for a lot of

(27:10):
people it's four more expensive and they're struggling. And then
I brought it up today about the tariffs, which people
forgot about because that's come and gone and between then
we've had twenty five thousand crises. But they're getting money
back these companies, and the people are going, okay, So
you're giving back money to the companies and some of

(27:30):
them ate originally some of the tariffs. But it cost
the average family seven hundred dollars for the tariffs. And
where's that coming from. Why aren't they getting that back?

Speaker 5 (27:41):
That's a darn fine question. I had the same one.
I did more. I did some research on it.

Speaker 18 (27:44):
So the tariffs are the Trump tariffs are Actually he
tried to claim that under the International Emergency Economic Powers
Act that he was allowed to go ahead and declare tariffs. Well,
the Supreme Court back in February said no, you are not.
You went beyond the bounds and we don't think that applies,
so you got to give the money back. And now
we're five months farther down the road and we're beginning

(28:08):
to give the money back. It's one hundred and sixty
six billion dollars in total. And yeah, so the money's
been going back to basically, Apple computers got two point
two billion, Walmart is expect to get about two billion
dollars back, Nike eight hundred ninety or eight hundred nine
hundred and eighty six million, Ford one point three billion,
GM five hundred million. Okay, Now, some of the companies

(28:31):
I know, I know some of the car companies we're
keeping we're eating the thing. So I don't mind them.
I don't really know that Apple did. I didn't buy
an Apple product in that timeframe. I know Walmarts seem
to have prices that were going up. I didn't hear
anything about them eating, eating the money and where it
should go back to them. But yeah, I think some
of that should definitely go back rather than to the companies.
I think a lot of it should go back to

(28:51):
the consumers. Maybe split it down the middle, give give
the average household three hundred and fifty dollars back, and
give the you know, and give the other half back
on a proarada basis whatever they paid to the corporations,
because you know, this is you know, this is the
type of thing that that's going to irritate a lot
of people because you are talking about affordability and a
lot of people think, and I don't necessarily agree with it,

(29:12):
but a lot of people feel that corporations are doing
them dirty and are basically ripping them off in many cases,
are overcharging them, and and they're just not happy with
with with you know, corporate income in general.

Speaker 5 (29:24):
Now, many of them work.

Speaker 18 (29:25):
For corporations, or almost all of them work for corporations
and their companies. Maybe they don't like their companies or
maybe they feel their companies are different. But yeah, I
would say we've split it down the middle, get half
of to the companies and halfa back to taxpayers, because
I'm sure, you know, nothing else in an election season
getting a check back from the government would not be
something that would definitely hurt the Republicans. And it's a

(29:46):
little bit more justified than just trying to throw a
check out there. Because Trump's trying to buy people off
and trying to get their vote. This is a legitimate
thing that that that household should get back.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
Yeah, and we'll see again. It's I think it's it's
that's a superfair question about some companies I know ate it,
but they didn't need it forever. And some companies we
know that they passed it along and they probably think
they didn't think they were going to get the money back,
and they probably thought, well, you know what, you paid
an extra three bucks for this or an extra but
you know, so it's going to be you know, there's

(30:18):
a lot of issues. I mean, even Trump this week
comes out, you know, of all the things, it kind
of did make me laugh because he comes out and
he screams, oh, the oil companies are making too much money.
You need you give some of that money back. And
I'm thinking to myself, dude, the reason they're making so
much money is because you started a war.

Speaker 5 (30:34):
Yeah no, I know. Yeah that was kind of chuckled.
Yeah I did. It's like, do you not understand how
this works? Why are their profits hired?

Speaker 18 (30:43):
President Trump? Because exactly like you said, you started a
whore and you basically took a worldwide commodity and almost
doubled the price of it over about three weeks. That
is why, because it is simply, like you know, very simple.
I used to work in the oil industry, understand how
it works. It's basically a margin in volume business. And

(31:04):
as your margins go up and your volume say the same,
you make more money. That's basically what it comes down to.
It is not as complex as you want to think
it is. Okay, maybe the people drilling the oil out
of the ground and finding it that's complex, but the
but the finding and marketing side is simply a volume game,
making sure your fineries don't blow up, making sure you've

(31:24):
got product when you need it. The more you pump
out at a better margin, the more you're gonna make.
It's very simple. It's not a problem, and it's not
something that's hard to calculate. So yeah, that's exactly why
they you know, exactly why they did, you know, make
those moneys is going after Chevron and Exon Mobile, I believe,
which are the two of the larger US oil companies.
And yeah, it's just a little common sense there, President Trump.

(31:46):
This is why you were in this, This is why
this happened. But it's you know, I think it's interesting
from another aspect, is how many Republican presidents, which you
think would stand up there and complain about oil company profits.
I don't think George HW Bush, not George W. Bush
or with from Texas would have stead up their complain
about oil company profits who are simply just basically making

(32:07):
that extra margin because of the fact that the product
went up that they already had in the they already
had in their tanks, that they already paid for. So yeah,
and that's not something that's very republican of Trump to do.
But again I've said since he was nominated, he's you know,
he'll go out there one day and say something as
a Republican you love, and I'll go out there the
next day possibly say something as a Republican you hate.

(32:29):
Because he's not a Republican and he's not a Democrat.
He's Trumpion and that's what he is. He goes off
of his own agenda, which sometimes is republican. Sometimes it's
a little bit less Republican than it is.

Speaker 2 (32:39):
No doubt about that. Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of Public
Policy Research. Brother, it is always awesome talking to you.
We'll be back here on Monday to midterm Monday. He's
got a lot of stuff still to talk about. Appreciate
you coming on and we'll do it again on Monday.

Speaker 5 (32:52):
Yep, thanks chat, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1 (34:15):
Running with scissors sounds great compare to this.

Speaker 2 (34:22):
You know, every once in a while we've got to
be reminded that camping is ridiculous.

Speaker 15 (34:26):
It's like a holiday, but you sleep on the ground.
You start on an air mattress and finish on the ground,
and instead of a room, you're just kind of surrounded
by material. Now, the bathroom's either a hole in the
ground or a communal shower block that requires shower shoes
so you don't get foot fungus. And either way you're
going to feel dirty pretty much the whole time and
have sand in every possible nook and cranny. Now, in
terms of things to do, you can drink or do nothing,

(34:47):
or go to a secondary location near your campsite and
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the nighttime, that's when things really start to come to life.
Mostly the mosquitos and the sand flies. You don't really
want to go to bed because the sleep keeping situation sucks,
but you do want to get an early night because
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crack of dawn by whatever the loudest animal in the
nearest tree is.

Speaker 1 (35:07):
And should we make it weirdly expensive?

Speaker 2 (35:09):
For some reason, I love that guy. Oh what he
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Australia that is spectacular, And some of you camp are like,
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number two of the program. A lot of stuff to
get to. Last night, I was out and about at
an event. Talk a little bit about that. It's interesting
because the way that you know, I do my show

(35:52):
here on the national side, but then a local show
I do, and how people perceive people. It's very interesting.

Speaker 20 (35:58):
It is.

Speaker 15 (35:59):
It is.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
It's an odd thing at times. So I'm not gonna
lie to you on that. Talk a little bit about
that bunch of other stuff. Now we got something else
trying to kill us. We got the flesh eating virus.
Now we get all kinds stuff trying to kill us.
We talk a bit about those things as well, the
latest aut iran and of course the Red Scare with
all the communists being here. Oh and I heard about
that last night. If you're mistening the show, we say,
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(36:21):
will number two straight ahead chat Benson Training.

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

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Last night, I went to an event. Now, normally I
don't go to events because it causes me to do
something thing I don't want to do, which go outdoors.
I'm just kidding. I do enjoy that usually by myself
for hanging out with my family. But it went to
event last night. And you guys know I do several shows.
My local show station is very Maca. I mean it's

(37:17):
pretty Maca. As you could tell which one of these
don't fit, which one of these are different?

Speaker 5 (37:24):
It's me.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
And I you know, a lot of people always want
to debate me, and I'm like, I'm totally fine with that.
Let's let's do it.

Speaker 7 (37:34):
And it is.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
It is funny because and I'm noticing this more and more,
the fear. It's just so much easier to strike fear
into people. And so last night people wanted to debate
me on Israel. I mean, we're supposed to be an event,
which you know, you know, Tennessee Primary. It was nice,

(37:57):
a gorgeous place, hop Springs, just stunning, great food, lots
of people and by the way, a vast majority these
people salt of the earth, just good people. But what
I noticed is having a conversation with them at times
because it's really about consumption. And for some of them,

(38:20):
you can't say that because they're old enough to remember
actual consumption. So you say the viewing of the news
the echo chamber they live in. And that was you know,
last night was one of those things where I was
talking to a few people and about the fear they have,
and one person says, Chad, you know I text you
over the last couple of days. He goes, I think

(38:42):
you're a pretty smart cookie, but you you don't understand
how much Sharia law is taking over America, and I said,
I do understand, and that would be zero. No, no,
it's happening. And I said, well, okay, then just you know,
you got your little and they're pulled up and show me.
Well that's what I heard. And I said, the reason

(39:04):
that you hear that is because the goal is to
scare you. It's never to inform you, to get you
to react on something and keep you in a constant
state of the world's coming to an end. So we
better be hyper vigilant about all of this stuff. And
we had a very good conversation, by the way, and
I said, it's not happening. I said, I said, it's not.

(39:26):
I said, most Muslims, by the way, don't want any
part of Sharia law the way that it's portrayed to you,
which is everybody's going to be wearing the you know,
the beekeeper outfit and you know it. I said, they
they show you things because they want you to react.
And he says, well, I don't see it. On the right,

(39:47):
we don't have that kind of crazy. And I said, well,
listen tomorrow and I'm going to show you what it's about, right,
you know, it's it's about getting you to react to
certain things. Case in point here, I want to play
a couple of things which I think you guys will
One of them we've played before, but that's why we
do White One on Wednesday with the crazy audio. I
think you guys will like this.

Speaker 9 (40:05):
You just don't get it.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
They were groomed in to be in Mega, they were
groomed into it.

Speaker 21 (40:09):
I don't care.

Speaker 1 (40:10):
That excuse will never fly with me.

Speaker 12 (40:12):
It will never fly with me because I have grown
up in a life long Republican now Maga family in
Southern Bible Belt, Texas, and I knew since I was a.

Speaker 1 (40:22):
Child what they were trying to instill in my head
was wrong. I knew it was wrong.

Speaker 12 (40:28):
I have never wanted to be a racist, transphobic, homophobic.

Speaker 1 (40:33):
Hateful bigot in my life.

Speaker 12 (40:35):
Regardless of how much how many family members I've lost
because of it, how much I've gotten from my own family,
my own blood family, I have still chosen to not
go down that route.

Speaker 1 (40:48):
I'm sorry, but you let money talk you into that?

Speaker 9 (40:52):
You did?

Speaker 1 (40:52):
You let money talk you into that route? And it's
hold up and I don't have sympathy.

Speaker 2 (40:57):
And you hear that and you're like, oh, that person,
I said, that's you know, she's just got the look,
pink hair, the nose ring, the whole nine yards. And
that's every Democrat. Check because they're all communists. It's every democrat.
I said, no, it's not, it's no. I said, first
of all, do you even know a Democrat? I said, secondly,
that's that's not And well, it just doesn't happen on

(41:19):
our side of the aisle because everybody is their dirty
laundry is hidden. If you will, Oh, Chad, no, you
don't understand. Oh I do understand.

Speaker 22 (41:28):
Joe Biden was never our president for a single day
because no people have two different ear lobes. Okay, so
Joe Biden in nineteen ninety six had two loosier lobes, right,
Supposedly when he was a president, he had a loosier
lobe and then attached to your lobe.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
You don't think you don't think he just got a facelift.

Speaker 22 (41:47):
Who who would get two different ear lobes to fix themselves?

Speaker 2 (41:51):
Okay, oh, well that's just one person. There wouldn't be
another person like that. Oh, there's plenty, I can do it.
I mean, the goal is to stir the chaos and
the crazy reason that these people go out because they're
not looking for somebody to have a conversation about the issues.
They want crazy so they could show it to their audience,
so their audience goes, oh my god, that's crazy. This

(42:11):
is what they're all like, that's what it's about. And
if you don't believe me, this one is. This is
just grade A one. What's what I heard.

Speaker 21 (42:19):
From a very good military friend of mine. And I'm
ashamed to say this because I am Italian. Okay, the
Pope and his Leonardo satellites up in space. If you
remember when mister Trump first got in, he launched SpaceX

(42:39):
and space Age up there, and he put the biggest
satellite up there. Well, it caught all the votes that
were pinged up from him and sent back to Earth
for Biden.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
They got all that, They got.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
It all what geg?

Speaker 5 (42:57):
Where's this information from? So sending votes to space?

Speaker 1 (43:03):
They they sent the votes to Italy and Berlin for what.

Speaker 21 (43:08):
Well, they shot them up there and then they brought
them back as Biden's.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Oh well yeah, because the goal is to brandish the
other side as evil, stupid, whatever I mean, ignorant, all
of the things and that's the goal, and that everybody
on that side because it's about fear. Right Like, as
we were talking, I just got a text, stop putting
your head in the sand. They want Sharia law, Islam everywhere,

(43:40):
and it's happening now in Dearborn. They're marching for Sharia law.
It's not real. It's not real. The picture is not
even from Deerborn. I mean, we have a constitution. You
could want all the things in the world you want,
but it ain't happening. It's about fear and I and
I and I and talking to people last night, I

(44:01):
could realize that they're in a you know, we've had
our buddy on from leaving Maga, you know, and we've
had our buddy on before when it comes to walk Away,
the walk Away campaign, Brandon with the Democrats, and you
know that everybody's a Nazi and everybody's this, and everybody's that.
It's what happens is you get into an area where

(44:24):
the consumption of news, that's consumption again is all about
fear and anger. It's about reaction. It's not about reality
I want because reality is kind of a he and
then you move on. Reaction is oh my god. Even
last night my uncle sending me stuff. I'm like, it's

(44:46):
not true. I said, dude, come on, it's not it's
not true. It's not that it's true. It's like you serious.
I'm like, I'm serious you. And the thing is, once
you get into that mindset of this side is evil
or they want Sharia, that's all you see. That's it. Look,

(45:09):
do I think there are people here that would love
to impose sharilah? Oh, I'm sure there's a few. I'm
sure there's a few, but it's a tiny minority. There's
also people here, one of which lost yesterday in the
governor's race on the Republican side, who wants to ban
all religions that aren't Christians. And by the way, he

(45:31):
couldn't tell me, and he's a very nice guy. He
couldn't tell me which Christian religion that we were going
to keep. We're not keeping the Catholics.

Speaker 14 (45:40):
Wait what.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
Mormons? They're not really Christian.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
I mean.

Speaker 2 (45:45):
So it's again, it's fear based. It's what it is.
So and last night was in a situation to sit
down and talk to people, and I had a great
time doing it, because you know, it's yes, it's not
about right. And as I kept telling you, look, this
is this is not me versus you. This is me

(46:08):
just giving you a different viewpoint that maybe you're not
getting somewhere else. And aren't you curious about that? Aren't
you curious about a different viewpoint when it comes to
maybe the news you consume? You should be What do

(46:29):
you think? I'd love to know? Three two, three, five,
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is your ex your insta? Yeah, last time we were
talking about the twenty dollar burrito, and somebody sent me
this the other day. This is the parody of young
people day and how they view the world. And the
first one is it is a shanty It's a shack
like a shanty town. And it's a video. But the

(46:53):
rest of it you'll be able to see. I told
you my budget is five hundred thousand dollars, right, yep.

Speaker 12 (46:57):
This house is five thousand, only two hundred thousand dollars
in debt, and now I have no job offers.

Speaker 1 (47:02):
We're giving you a three percent raise.

Speaker 3 (47:05):
I'm sorry, but inflation was five percent this year.

Speaker 23 (47:08):
Well that's not our problem.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Your total is nine hundred and seventy five dollars.

Speaker 19 (47:14):
I couldn't figure out what's wrong with you, but we'll
still need your ten thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (47:18):
Cope at the front desk. I finally have some money
put away. Life is good.

Speaker 8 (47:23):
Stop crying back in my day, I bought a house,
two cars, and supported a wife and two kids with
one pay check.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
You kids just don't want to work anymore. Guys.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
If we split this one bedroom apartment between the ten
of us, it's only going to be like three thousand
dollars each.

Speaker 17 (47:37):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (47:39):
I'll tell you what.

Speaker 2 (47:40):
I'll knock the price down. You can have this beauty
for only eight hundred and fifty dollars a month for
ninety six months.

Speaker 24 (47:46):
We do have part time, unpaid internships, but we require
at least ten years of experience.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Oh that's what young people feel like today. It's going
on in their world, the struggles they have, rightly or wrongly.
Some of it is true. And the housing thing is
very true, especially California, that house would be easily half
a million dollars. But rightly or wrongly, and you know

(48:14):
in their thoughts and there's some there's some thoughts that
you know they overdo it in their minds, and there
is some stuff that the that a lot of people
out there go, oh, it's no big deal. You know,
I'd work nine jobs and eat top rahmen. Okay, okay,
but I just thought that was funny. Three two, three, five,
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(48:35):
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You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:50):
Are you guys ready to eat salad again?

Speaker 14 (49:53):
Are you?

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Because I'm hearing it's okay.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Health officials in Michigan, the epicenter of the parasite outbreak
linked to lettuce, say it's okay to eat bag salad
again they see the contaminated produce. It's likely no longer
available for consumption. But food safety attorney Bill Marler, who
has litigated outbreaks for more than thirty years, says it
should have never gotten this far.

Speaker 2 (50:14):
This outbreak should have been caught a month and a
half ago.

Speaker 3 (50:18):
And many Americans are still concerned. The salad chained Sweet Green,
which was never linked to the outbreak, just slashed its
sales forecast for the year blaming customer's fear of fresh produce.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah, I'm not sure I'm there yet, to be honest
with you, not quite sure I'm there yet. And I
told you a couple of weeks. Well, I go in
every so I'm kind of a little creature habit and
certain things. So tomorrow'll get up and go, i'n go
play pick a ball, and I'll do my stuff. And
then I go on the way home and I stop
and I shop. And the last two times I've been
in there, the salad area is very, very quiet. There's

(50:53):
not a lot going on over there. And a couple
of weeks ago I went and I was looking at something,
and the guy that was working there and kind of
looked at me, and I shook my head and you
kind of shift. Didn't know, So I don't know if
people are are there just yet. Now you go from
there too, that's something different. Now we've got salmonilla.

Speaker 25 (51:10):
What well, food borne illnesses are common, although we started
to see a rise through a couple of different factors
of warming, climate advances, and testing, but also there's a
decrease in regulation in terms of sourcing back the exact
sources of these food borne outbreaks. The current largest food
borne outbreaks include salmonella like we're discussing now, and also cyclosporiasis,
which is big in the headlines. Both of them are

(51:31):
food borne illnesses, but the root and the way that
they get into contaminated food is a little different. Regardless
of that, the contamination happens somewhere between the farm and
the table, and at this point, right now, unfortunately, no
food is zero risk. So you want to make sure
that you're being mindful of food safety precautions, washing your hands,
cleaning high touched surfaces. And remember half of all food
borne illnesses come from fruits and vegetables, so you want

(51:53):
to make sure that you rent those fruits and vegetables,
including bag lettuce, and keeping up to date with recalls.
That's the best way to reduce your risk.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Or or ding dongs, donuts, twinkies, those those right there
seem to be they'd say, they seem to be okay,
they seem to be all right. So you got the
salmonila with Gelapio's that is going on right now, and
the potential for those three two, three, five, three eight,

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we've got the flesh eating virus apparently is back out
in the news. I mean, it's nature is doing nature things.
It's trying to kill us. Okay, you got to be

(52:42):
aware of stuff. Hence the reason why I look at
the old Twinkie and I say, you're gonna do all
right for me, aren't you. Oh and while that is
something we're talking about right with all the food born illness,
Stanford led research team using generative AI, they designed a
synthetic virus. They're already trying to kind of kill us,

(53:04):
but not kill us. So the first time ever AI
has been harnessed to create an organism that's never been
seen in nature. I want you guys to understand that
they created something that's never been seen in nature. And
as somebody out there said, this is the first step
towards the nightmare scenario. AI experts have already warned about

(53:27):
deadly pathogens that can't be stopped because the only thing
that probably could stop them is the thing that created them.
So yeah, so, now as we've talked about, AI is
going to have a lot of medical breakthroughs. I mean,
this kind of stuff that we're going to see with
the medical breakthroughs is gonna be awesome. But that's kind

(53:49):
of unsettling. AI's like, hey, check this out. I created
something that could kill your species. Why'd you call us
a species?

Speaker 21 (53:58):
Ooh?

Speaker 9 (53:59):
Lord?

Speaker 2 (54:00):
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other stuff that's not as scary. We'll do that straight ahead.

Speaker 26 (54:17):
This is the Chad Benson Show, then Chad Benson Show,

(54:40):
The Chad Benson Show, The.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
Battle of the cameras, well cameras, license plate readers, the
flock cameras, the flock We've been talking about it, flock
cameras man. Yesterday on my local show, we did a
little bit about flock cameras because there was the midterms,
the primaries, I mean, and the interesting thing about the

(55:13):
people that say, well, you're complaining too much about flock cameras,
look at all the great it's doing, the safety it brings.
And I said, how did you feel about doctor Fauci
and wearing the mask. Oh, I thought it was stupid,
And I said, okay, all right, you know, staying indoors,
stopping the spread. You thought it was stupid because that
would bring safety potentially. Everybody wants to look at things

(55:35):
in a different way. This isn't about whether or not
it is a good thing in spirits, in the spirit
of it. It's whether or not it actually will be
used in that way. And while it is in some cases,
in many cases that we're finding out more and more,
it's and it's not a perfect system, and we should

(55:59):
you know, we have another invasion of our privacy, if
you will, so we should be a little bit concerned.
I would hope that you care about your data. I
would hope that you care about all of the stuff
that you have when it comes to your privacy, that
you button it up as good as possible, because everybody's
trying to get at it. This is totally different.

Speaker 5 (56:21):
Though.

Speaker 17 (56:22):
Citizens across the country are slamming these devices. They're called
flock cameras, and they are considered one of law enforcement's
most effective tools to fight crime, like reading license plates. Recently, now,
concerns of our misuse are leading to officers being kicked
off the job, raising questions about who has access to
all of this data it collects. In Minnesota, residents are

(56:43):
taking matters into their own hands to get rid of
these devices. Police say eight of the cameras around the
city have been sawed off and even stolen. And in Michigan,
Democratic lawmakers are calling on the Michigan Department of Transportation
to end all contracts that allow federal access to install
surveillance technology on state property, and that includes FLOCK cameras.

(57:05):
So the company four O four Media says cities are
ditching flock and they're replacing it with axon license plate readers.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
So a lot going on there. First of all, one
of the big questions is who owns the data? Who
owns the data? Well, it's not the city that it's
in the municipality, it's not. It's Flock and they can
kind of do whatever they want with it.

Speaker 27 (57:32):
Now.

Speaker 2 (57:32):
They say it erases every thirty days, and they say
they don't share data with you know, DHS or ICE
or the federal government. But we have found out that's
not true. They had contracts, contracts that expired, but they
continued to do what to hold onto the data and
to give it to them. Now this new camera thing

(57:54):
is interesting. This is the guy who runs four oh
four media the camera that they're going to get using
in other places.

Speaker 27 (58:02):
So flock license plate readers. They are usually on a
stationary pole and they constantly record the license plate, the color,
the brands, the model of every vehicle that drives past them.
Now this is not vehicles at a suspected of being
linked to a crime. It is literally every vehicle that
goes past these cameras. Then with that data, law enforcement

(58:25):
is able to search through that information, usually without a warrant.
And that's one of the main reasons that people and
communities around the country are, you know, so passionate about this, and.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
They should be. So that's what it does. And you know,
because people aren't really sure exactly, okay, how does block
work because they hear license plate reader and they think
you're just driving through and it's and it's in a
you know, everybody's like, well, there's cameras already. They've got
the red light cameras. Red light cameras are at the
red light. They're not up the street, they're not around

(58:59):
the corner. They're all over the place, these flock cameras are,
and you shouldn't damage them, right, you fight a different fight.
So when you hear the license plate, really they always
try to out well, it's just it's only doing this,
when in reality it's collecting everything.

Speaker 27 (59:16):
So Flock on one side, has a national network, which
means that a cops, say in Texas, can search cameras
all over the United States, including ones in Illinois or
California or wherever. That's a very powerful tool for law enforcement,
but that's also very controversial where some states are going
to police other crimes differently to other states, and another

(59:37):
reason why people are so against flock cameras in general.
Axon meanwhile, does not have a national network. That doesn't
mean that law enforcement agencies may not share access with
other agencies such as ICE or local sheriff's departments or whatever,
but there isn't a national database. And that's why some cities,

(59:57):
according to our reporting, a ditching flock and then going
to Axelent instead, which.

Speaker 2 (01:00:02):
Is interesting, but still it goes back to who owns
the data. To me, that's the most important thing because
it's your data, right, Well, Chad, once you're in the public.
You you know, you you lose that right to to
have private No. No, there is a difference between being
in the public and seeing what's going on. It's one

(01:00:26):
thing if you're you know, you drive by and you're filming.
These people are holding on to that for days, weeks,
months at a time. They're sharing it with other people.
They're making assumptions, as we heard yesterday that lady say,
they assumed that she had stolen a package because she's
driven through this little town on a few occasions. And
who gets the data? How so you can share with

(01:00:48):
different states? People could just go in and look, well
why is that? Because the question about the data. Everybody thinks, well,
you know, the municipality. So if you're in you know,
if you're in Texas and you're in data, well Dallas
as they have their flock cameras and they'll that's where
it's at. Now you could be in Georgia and look,
oh that's a different story. Yeah, that's uncomfortable.

Speaker 9 (01:01:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 27 (01:01:10):
So last May we reported that local police were performing
look ups in flocks system for Immigration Customs Enforcement HSI
as well and also search as that simply said immigration.
That obviously started this national conversation about flock cameras and
whether people actually want these sort of cameras in their communities.

(01:01:32):
We also found that a woman who's self administered an abortion,
she was tracked with these cameras as well. And there
is this national conversation. As I said, there are city
council meetings nearly every day or every week where communities
are saying do we actually want these or not? And
in some cases cities do agree to keep the cameras.
In some cases they decide to switch to ACX on.

(01:01:54):
In other cases they say we don't want to have
these sorts of cameras at all, and they get rid
of them entirely.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
Now I don't think that they're going to get rid
of him entirely. I think that's just something that they're
not interested in doing. In a lot of these places,
they have contracts and they'll come out and they'll say,
look at all the good it does. But we as
citizens of this great country, should ask the certain questions
that need to be asked on not just this, but
many things. You know, from the data centers, all this stuff.

(01:02:21):
It's not that these things are all boogeymit. Remember, like anything,
it's a tool it's how the tool is used that
matters and who's using it, and we need to start
asking more questions and better questions. But I think and
I fear that it's too late in a lot of places.
What do you think? Let me know three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three actch had Benson

(01:02:41):
shows your extra insta. Meanwhile, one of the things we
talked about over the last couple of days is the
whole chaos going on with the WNBA and even you know,
like they have they have messed this thing up with
the whole trands think they've dropped the ball, if you will,
on this, the whole thing with the Sophie Cunningham and

(01:03:01):
the controversy with it, and one of the things that's
happened is, you know, I think with Sozophe Cunningham came
out and said, nobody cares about the basketball. Nobody cares
about what's going on in the court. It's now just
about the controversy and the drama. And let's be real,
there's a lot of drama even before this. The whole
thing with Caitlin Clark. I mean, everybody's looking around going
how is she like not the face of the league.

(01:03:23):
How is you know, several prominent people who are in
and around women's sports said, well, she's done her part,
now she needs to go. I mean, it's it's ridiculous,
and you sit there and go. If you think that
you're going to move women's sports ahead by making everything
the Real Housewives, it's going to fail.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
It is.

Speaker 23 (01:03:47):
Things are heating up in the WNBA right now, largely
off the court. After Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham voice
support for banning transgender girls and women in female sports
in a recent ESPN interview, then doubling down.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
When it comes just to protecting young girls in sport
and women in sport. I feel very strongly about that.

Speaker 23 (01:04:09):
Protests popped up outside her next game against the Seattle Storm,
both in support and against her. Other fans wore T
shirts printed with xx and x Y chromosomes on them.
Cunningham and the Fever went on to win that game,
but not before Seattlestorm co owner so Lest Keaton got
into it with fans who were holding signs supporting Cunningham.

(01:04:31):
A day later, Keaton was suspended from going to the
team's next five home games and fined an undisclosed amount
by the league, the team apologizing to fans for the confrontation.

Speaker 2 (01:04:42):
Yeah, I mean it's embarrassing that being said, people are
asking questions about the WNBA, but it's not the questions
that you hoping for, right because you're losing the culture
war here and it's become the culture war now. And
we know that there's been culture wars and sports over

(01:05:03):
the last several years.

Speaker 23 (01:05:04):
Then at Sunday's game in Minnesota, Links coach Cheryl Reed
let her short do the talking with trans kids belong
written on it. She and Cunningham speaking on the court
before the game, keeping things civil readdressing the conversation with
the press afterward.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
I think both of us understand that we you know,
we have platforms, and you know, we both talked about,
you know, wanting to weren't anything educate, it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
Was it was nice to be in person, for sure.

Speaker 23 (01:05:31):
And Cunningham's teammate superstar Caitlin Clark, played a diplomatic in
response to the controversy.

Speaker 27 (01:05:38):
Related specially have in our locker room.

Speaker 23 (01:05:39):
But it's not preventing tons of less civil chowder online.

Speaker 2 (01:05:44):
So let's get something straight.

Speaker 12 (01:05:45):
Sophie Cunningham can make publicly transphob a comments, triple down
on them, and continue to play without facing any real consequences.

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
Yes, because it's it's free speech. And she didn't say
she hated a group of people. She says, I value
being a woman, I value women's sports. I value the
fact that for decades America has been the leader with
Title nine and things of that nature, and I think
we need to protect that. And at no time did

(01:06:13):
she come out and remember this, it doesn't matter in
today's world. If you stand up for something, somebody automatically
thinks you hate the other something. So you stand up
for hey, I think you know it should be only
women in women's sports and in women places, you know,

(01:06:36):
the women's locker room and stuff. At no point did
you say I hate this. But that's the perception in
today's world and we and part of that is because
people want to give their hot takes on stuff and
it moves the needle. Let's be honest, it moves the needle.

Speaker 23 (01:06:57):
Of course, it's not the first time sports in clouds
with the political arena. When some players take stands, a
firestorm can follow.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
Would you love to see one of these NFL owners
when somebody disrespects our flag to say, get that son
of a off the field right now out. He's fired.

Speaker 23 (01:07:16):
So keep the political commentary to yourself, or as someone
once said, shut up and dribble.

Speaker 2 (01:07:22):
He is not vaccinated. That is a stunner. That is
a bombshell. I've got some strong opinions.

Speaker 23 (01:07:30):
But the debate in the WNBA is all coming to
a head as the country grapples with the rights of
transgender and female athletes, and NBC News poll shows most
Americans oppose trans women competing in female sports, but supporters
say bans on trans athletes, especially in youth sports, encourage bullying,
discrimination and even violence. That trans people represent an extremely

(01:07:54):
small percentage of competitors across all levels.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Now we have talked about it, how small all of
a group it is, especially at the elite level. But
it's not just about the game on the field. It's
not just about that. It's one side is asking everybody

(01:08:19):
to just accept the fact that this person over here
is going through something says that they now identify as this,
and okay, and that, oh, by the way, you need
to disregard any advantage I have from being this and
I want to be in the space and you know,
I know there's fourteen year old little girls in there
and you're a fourteen or fifteen year o little boy
and underneath it all still and that's that is There's

(01:08:45):
a lot that goes into this. It's not about the
kids or the individual. It's about the fact that everybody's
shouting over them because they're trying to win an argument
and they're not trying to solve a problem where you
treat people kindly because we're not interested in that, because

(01:09:05):
we live at a day and age where the only
thing that matters is the algorithms, and the algorithms do
what the algorithms do, and you know what that is.
They find the anger, they feed on the anger, and
they make sure that you're fed enough. Three two, three, five,

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To it now.

Speaker 1 (01:11:23):
It's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you. It's called the urban word
of the day. Alrighty, alrighty. RB Moore Day comes from
eighty one forty six Chatter's a candidate for urban word today.
Crashed out crashed out to lose one's temper. The thirty
year old son of a close friend shared that with me,

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and it's funny. My uncle sent me a kid crashing
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took her phone away, and it's funny that they're filming
on a phone of her crashing out and it is
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out is your urban word of the day. That was

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the urban word of the day. Now you know, we
love hearing from all of you right here on the
Chat Benson Show. Coming up our number three last hour
oh the week, the twenty dollars burrito, the question that
has taken over the Internet. We will discuss that, we

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got watch trending a little Finally, Friday Sounds as well,
talk a little bit about Iran and last night the
primaries here in Tennessee. Something surprising happened with one candidate
and we'll discuss that as well. Kind of made me
laugh too. He is not a fan of mine, So

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that's what I have to say. There a bunch of
other good stuff that's will promise make you laugh. And
we'll ask the question what did the miss go with
Carolina Lady do Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Before we get to the jobs, jobs, jobs numbers, which
weren't great, great great. There was something that was great
the other day and I missed it. And every once
in a while we got to remember before we arrived
on these lands and stole them, t Rex was here
and t Rex likes to race.

Speaker 20 (01:13:55):
Welcome to the epicenter of Reptilian races. ESPN once again
kicks off its annual celebration of the world's most eccentric
sports with a four day event.

Speaker 2 (01:14:06):
Known as the O Show.

Speaker 20 (01:14:08):
The Stella is The competitions range anywhere from pillow fights,
gee wrexes away to an annual event known as the
t Rex World Championship Races. You can hear Why you
won for the second year in a row. I flew
out to Seattle to serve as the on air host
of the broadcast while grabbing behind the scenes footage of

(01:14:31):
the roughly three hundred competitors who traveled to Emerald Downs
Racetrack last month.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Oh my god, look at Nina.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
I love that. See once in a while you have
to have a smile. The pillow fights were awesome because
they got dressed up in real boxing gear. Right, So
they're in real boxing gear and think of like the Olympics,
so they're not there. They have their shirts on, so
one would be blue, the other one b red. They
have the full boxing outfits on, but instead of gloves,

(01:15:00):
their hands are taped but they can move their fingers
and they're holding onto a pillow and they're going at it.
And it is hilarious. It is Yeah. Again, every once
in a while, we just have to laugh because if
we don't, we're gonna cry.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
We're gonna cry.

Speaker 5 (01:15:17):
We don't want to cry.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Jobs reports out, Let's talk about that. Jan what's that
look like? Is what that looks like? They expected eighty
three thousand and instead they lost twenty three thousand. That's
not the real story. That's not a great story. That's

(01:15:40):
not a great story. It's not the real here's the
real story. The revisions, the revisions were big. Took out
another one hundred thousand plus jobs during the revisions, because
that's what they do. And this is an interesting thing too.
The labor force participation rate for all ages drop. A

(01:16:01):
bigger concern is that June's large drop and participation rate
for people in their prime working age twenty five to
fifty four did not fully reverse. It's now eighty three
point four percent, which is down, so hourly wages up
a smidge, but lower than the annual rate needed and

(01:16:25):
not keeping up with inflation. I mean, that's just it.
It's not keeping up with inflation. At the end of
the day, it's about the economy. Stupid. We talked earlier
today about the twenty dollars burrito that is causing, you know,
a conversation around the old water. Does anybody even have
a water cooler anymore? We've got the Wally's bean machine.

(01:16:46):
It's pretty cool. They make really good coffees and stuff.
I don't treat coffee, but he did put stuff in
there for tea for me, so I appreciate that. But
the conversation about affordability, right, it's the greatest economy of
all time, it's never been better. Say it a thousand
times is not going to make it happen. People are
frustrated and struggling, and I continue to say this, It's

(01:17:08):
not that the economy is dead. It's that there are
issues and it's expensive. And when you do the same
thing Biden did, and Biden one of his biggest mistakes,
and there were plenty, and just the administration itself first
and foremost that he wasn't all there, but you know,
and the open borders, that's a big deal. But telling

(01:17:31):
everybody over and over again how amazing the economy was,
you just don't see it, you just don't feel it,
you just don't get it did not play out the
way that they thought it was going to it's the.

Speaker 3 (01:17:46):
Tweet that set off a political debate over the price
of burritos.

Speaker 4 (01:17:50):
We're going to bring you up to speed on the
great beat burrito debate of twenty twenty six.

Speaker 3 (01:17:54):
A spokesperson at Turning Point USA spilled the beans, posting
that a college student recently complained to him about the
rising cost of food, telling him a burrito shouldn't cost
twenty dollars. That post had a nerve among conservatives discussing
food prices, which are up more than four percent since
President Trump took office.

Speaker 2 (01:18:13):
Burrito shouldn't cost twenty dollars? How is the kid wrong?

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Prices are out of control.

Speaker 5 (01:18:19):
People can't afford it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:21):
It's undeniable, just undeniable.

Speaker 2 (01:18:24):
Yeah, it is Dave Smith right there, and he's not
wrong once again. And this is the thing I see
with well many in the political world, but just in
general even in the business world. Are you asking the
right question? And the question should be how is that

(01:18:46):
a twenty dollar burrito? Well?

Speaker 5 (01:18:48):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
DoorDash?

Speaker 5 (01:18:49):
Was it this?

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
But still, I mean, look, I go to Chipotle, you know,
maybe once every couple weeks, you know, and trying to
stay away from fast food and Thursdays, you know, my
wife I don't have the door dash on I think
because I might DoorDash stuff, but you know, because I
tried to. I'm working so much, you know. But once
a week on a Thursday, usually she'll door dash me

(01:19:11):
something because it's what I call my busy day. I
have four or five interviews I do. I have two
radio shows, I have videos and all this stuff. So
I will get up at two in the morning. And
sometimes I don't like last night because I had to
go out and do stuff. I didn't get home till eleven,
and my cat who loves to wake me up because
his whole job in life is to play until seven am,

(01:19:35):
where he has to take his five and a half
hour nap. But because I try not to eat out
that much, you know, and I eat like a five
year old. So for me, peanut butter and jelly sandwich
and top ramen I'm totally fine with. But I've noticed
over the last several you know, really several years, but
how expensive stuff is, how overly expensive things are that

(01:19:57):
shouldn't be. You know, take the way the brito put
in the big mac meal, I mean, so expensive and
this isn't a knock on you know, m It's just
it's across the board. And when you go and you
tell everybody, ah, you should just deal with it. No,
that's not the answer they're looking for. That's not And

(01:20:17):
everybody's like, well, what can government do? Well, government creates
inflation because you and I can't print money. They created
the mess in the Middle East. You and I didn't
do that. You and I didn't decide one day, you know,
we should do totally bomber Ran.

Speaker 5 (01:20:31):
We didn't get to do that.

Speaker 27 (01:20:32):
That was not us.

Speaker 2 (01:20:34):
So we didn't cause the nightmare of the oil prices
up and down. We didn't put tariffs on stuff.

Speaker 15 (01:20:39):
Was that you or No?

Speaker 2 (01:20:41):
It was none of us, right, none of us zero zilch.
Speaking of the tariffs, we talk to you, Jim Kennedy
coming up here a little bit about that and the
amount of tariffs that companies are getting and seeking and
how virtually none of the money's getting back to the customers.
But we get back to the burrito debate.

Speaker 3 (01:20:58):
President Trump has insisted that price says are coming down,
but even some of his own supporters are raising concern
like this person whose email was read on the Charlie
Kirk Show.

Speaker 4 (01:21:08):
We have five kids. Groceries are unaffordable. I am a
Trump guy, but he is not turning this around. Doesn't
matter how often he brags about eggs.

Speaker 2 (01:21:17):
Truth and you know what I hear from people. This
is the thing. People on the right. I want you
to understand this. Okay, God bless you. Our goal here
is to unite people, so we can all go to
the t Rex races together and it'll be awesome. Right,
find our common commonality. You gotta stop blaming Biden. That's past,

(01:21:39):
all right. Did he play a role in inflation? One
hundred percent? Did Trump play a role inflation?

Speaker 5 (01:21:43):
Trump?

Speaker 2 (01:21:44):
Remember Trump did two of those giant, huge hand everybody stuff.
Remember one of them. He wanted to put his own
face on the checks, right, and then Biden supersized it.
So so I'm telling you guys right now, you got
to stop.

Speaker 5 (01:21:59):
Though.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
At what point does has it become an issue?

Speaker 5 (01:22:01):
Period?

Speaker 2 (01:22:01):
I don't care who's in office, right, that's doesn't matter. Right,
you're the president. You're the one who said you're going
to bring everything down. People are looking at you right,
As my old boss used to say, don't bring me problems.
Brebey solutions, and that's what people are looking for.

Speaker 3 (01:22:17):
Others say young people should stop complaining. Republican Congressman Dan
Crenshaw posted, stop whining, get a job, eat Rahman like
the rest of us did. In college, conservative columnists Marked
Beeson wrote, kriimea river, the burritos and the college cafeteria
are included in your meal plan, saying that a burrito
only costs twenty dollars. Quote when you buy it on

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door Dash. Vice President Jade Vans taking the student side
and firing back at thees and saying, I'm surprised to
hear Mark say this. If you've ever met him in person,
it's quite obvious the man has never missed a burrito.

Speaker 2 (01:22:50):
Ooh, that's a mic drop. How about this guy right here,
right this is an Ohio voter, Trump voters.

Speaker 5 (01:23:00):
That was what we wanted to hear to vote them
back in.

Speaker 21 (01:23:01):
Every time you promised us you would lower prices, bring
back what it used to be.

Speaker 6 (01:23:06):
I was hoping that gas was going to go down
so I could do something. You know, you can't do
anything with gas prices, and you just can't. You can't
afford to breathe at this point.

Speaker 2 (01:23:22):
Those are Trump voters. Those are Trump voters, but really
what those are Those are Americans who are frustrated because
they thought all these things were going to happen and
they have it. It doesn't mean it's not going to
happen in the future, but discounting the turmoils and the
trials that people are going through now doesn't help you.
It doesn't. And by the way, twenty dollars brito is

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it possible? It is possible to have a twenty dollars brito.
There are so many amazing burritos out there that don't
that don't even close to twenty dollars. I'm just letting
you guys know that my go to burrito when I'm
in the West still Taco combination burrito. When I'm out here,

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I'm gonna be honest, Tennessee is not We got a
place called Oscars. It's as close as I can get
to to, you know, the local place. Because when I'm
at in Arizona, we got a place called n Eco's
just the best and out here though at place called
Oscars is close to it, and I'm not ashamed to

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say it. I will fly my taco bell flag high.
I have taco bell every couple of weeks too. I
will get a couple of burritos because they're pretty inexpensive.
Throw some ground beef on there with it, and yum
yum yum. Still staying away from the lettus though. At
Chad Benson Show, is your ext your instat coming up?
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important is it? Well? It should be important because anybody
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Oh that's silly, no, because they're going to try to

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Alrighty, alrighty, it's a Friday. We're gonna find out what's
trending on the Friday. As we added to the weekend.
By the way, Spider Man will be the number one
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Haines King trending because last night the NFL back This
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it's crazy. You know what else is trending? Primetime movie?
If you've not seen the trailer for it, it is
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a chance check out the trailer for that. Andy Ogles trending.

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Miss Carolina's trending because she lost her crown. We touched
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Man does whatever Spider can will be the number one
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quite sure what that means. And yes, you heard it
right at the beginning. Miss North Carolina is not Miss
North Carolina anymore that didn't last long.

Speaker 24 (01:29:37):
Twenty seven year old Britney Bolton House was set to
compete in the Miss USA pageant Leader this month, recently
sharing on Facebook one of the reasons she signed up
for the pageant.

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I wanted to look back in my life and be
like I absolutely tried.

Speaker 24 (01:29:51):
But Bolton House dethroned after what state contest organizers say
was a thorough review of recently surfaced information with Miss
USA sie conduct over an extended period of time.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Now I've looked, I haven't found it yet, and I
don't always trust what the Internet tells me. So apparently
from what I gather though, there was other accounts that
she had set up and I don't know if she
was trolling or whatever, but apparently she had done and
said some stuff. You would think at this point in
time that these events would do their due diligence and

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these people who have some stuff out there would say
to themselves, this is going to come back and haunt me.
So maybe I'm not going to do this.

Speaker 5 (01:30:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
I don't know, and I'm not saying everything that's out
there is true. It's just very interesting in this day
and age, especially in the world of politics, but politics.
We don't apologize for the stuff we do in politics anymore.
Coming up Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute in Public Policy Research.
He joins the program. We're going to talk about some politics,
a little pop culture, and a bunch of better things
that my friends is going to happen. Straight to Ahad

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Chapin's Check Chad Benson.

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Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
It is that time of the week, talk every about
Jim Kennedy of the Kennedy Institute of Public Followsy Research.
All right, Jim, so this week Abdul al Sayed won
or l say ed. I might have said that wrong,
and I apologize for that. That was not on purpose.
But he is an interesting guy, you know. I mean
he said some things in the past, obviously, but a
lot of politicians say things in the past. Both sides

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want to go. Well, he said that, so this must
be and the right says he said, He's going to
be interesting to see how this thing plays itself out
because Stevens played much better in the general and you
and I have talked about quality of candidate matters, and
he has angered a lot of people on the establishment
side of the left and there are some people out

(01:32:04):
there that may not be thrilled with him, that would
normally vote for a Democrat, and Mike Rodgers might have
an easier run here potentially than the squeaky boy Stevens.

Speaker 5 (01:32:15):
Yeah, no, absolutely, most definitely not.

Speaker 18 (01:32:17):
They had a yesterday, they had a Unity summit where
there's a picture that they love. They're pushing all over
social media of Stevens hugging l said on the stage
and you know, endorsing him and you know, holding the
old hand up type of situation.

Speaker 5 (01:32:32):
But yeah, no, he's got a lot to answer for
for something. From what he said, he is.

Speaker 18 (01:32:37):
He is not quite Bundami suave as far as his
ability to speak and influence and persuade people.

Speaker 5 (01:32:45):
But he's good and he's going to do his best, and.

Speaker 2 (01:32:48):
He's a bit more alpha, you know, Mundannie's very smooth,
but there is something about this guy that is a
bit more like, you know, alpha ish.

Speaker 18 (01:32:56):
Yeah, that's you know what, that's a that's a very
good that's a very good thing to put on. You're right,
I mean that's very accurate. And in that sense, that
is a difference between the two of them, and so
you will maybe appeal to a little bit more to
the men than maybe Manami does or did appeal to.
The question is going to be is you know, there
are two ways to look at this primary. So if

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Stevens had won, would the Muslims in the Dearborn, in
the other areas of Michigan that have a large Muslim populations,
would they have come out if l Said had not
won to support Stevens. The other side of it is
Stevens was endorsed by many black leaders in do BACP,
et cetera, et cetera. And now will the African Americans,
which is one of the most core groups of Democratic voters,

(01:33:39):
will they come out and vote for l Said? Because
they're going to be critical if they're going to keep
that seat. And we've talked about the whole dynamics of
the Senate and the Democrats' desire to take it over
and what they're going to need to do to do that,
and Michigan is not a seat they can lose and
be able to probably be able to take over unless
there's some other odd, you know, results coming out of

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some other states that are not expected that don't go
the way that we expect them to.

Speaker 5 (01:34:05):
So they desperately need Michigan.

Speaker 18 (01:34:08):
I expect them to be a lot of money throw
it at Michigan by both sides because the Republicans know
that this is going to be a lot easier race
for Rogers than it would have been against Stevens because
she's a traditional Democrat. I would have pulled in the
traditional voting blocks and Rogers may be able to get
after those or just maybe a difference to where they
just don't.

Speaker 5 (01:34:26):
Show up at the polls.

Speaker 18 (01:34:28):
So it also can affect the gubernatorial racer because there
also is a governor's race in Michigan, and if there're
going to be enough enthusiasm for John James, who was
an African American Republican who is their nominee running for
the governorship, if he can generate some interests that could help,
That could help Rogers down ticket, that can help the
whole thing down ticket to basically bring out the voters

(01:34:48):
to basic vote from the top down on that.

Speaker 5 (01:34:50):
So it'll be interesting.

Speaker 18 (01:34:52):
The numbers that Rogers had put out late last week
had him ten points up on lsaeed they paid for
the poll ticket for what you want, and that he
was running tied with Stevens. So I don't know if
that was just kind of propaganda they put out there
thinking that, oh, that would maybe scare the Democrats in
the voting for Stevens.

Speaker 5 (01:35:09):
Hard to say, Like I said, I can look at
this two ways. A lot of people have.

Speaker 18 (01:35:12):
But it's going to be in much more interesting race,
I think now than it would have been if Stevens
had won.

Speaker 2 (01:35:18):
You know, it's going to be again, it's no doubt
it's interesting. And his tagline, if I'm correct, that is
going to be hard for the Republicans money out of politics,
money in your pockets, health care for all. And you
sit there and go, man, that's a hard thing right
now for Republicans, you know, to combat. He's got that

(01:35:40):
kind of little saying. And I was even watching Mark
Halpern talk about it today, going, you know, he goes.
Originally I thought he's going to lose, he goes, But
I think this guy's got a chance and could surprise.
He goes and in that three little line, you know,
like money out of politics, money in your pocket, and
health care for all, that thing that he he goes.

(01:36:01):
That screams to a lot of people out there that
are very very frustrated.

Speaker 18 (01:36:05):
Yeah, no, that resonates to a lot of people, a
lot that resonates a lot to working class voters. There
was an interesting breakdown. There was something about like about
fifty eight percent of the voters that voted for l
Said had college degrees and on the other side, about
fifty eight percent of the voters that voted for Haley
Stevens did not have college degrees so or only had

(01:36:25):
high school degrees. So that was basically kind of the
breakdown on that. And right now, the way that the
numbers have been running for Republicans is they tend to
get non college educated more than they get college educated,
and the Democrats, you know, vice versa, are getting more
college educated people. So it to be interesting to see

(01:36:45):
if those Democrats were that were not college educated that
voted for Stevens, where do they go. Do they go
to l Said or decide or do they decide they
want to go to Rogers because they think he fits
more and they just don't trust l Said.

Speaker 5 (01:36:59):
But yes he is he is going to be I
think going to be, as you've.

Speaker 18 (01:37:01):
Said, more formidable than was first looked at because he
is persuasive and he does do well on the campaign trail.
So again, it'll be an interesting race because a lot
of people are watching it, and you know, you've got
Hassan Piker out there who supports L Said, and anytime
that you know, basically, if you don't vote for L Said,
you're an islamophobe and silly things like that, and that's

(01:37:23):
gonna be that's gonna be broad in. I already seen
lots of social media posts Mike Rodgers first first came
first commercial came out today and a lot of the
left are criticizing it as being racist. But I don't
understand the racism application. You could say it maybe as
a maybe islam atphobic, or maybe it's doesn't frame Islam
in a great way, but I don't know exactly that

(01:37:44):
I would call it racist. So that's going to basically
that one's off to the races already. They're not waiting
for their digital Labor Day start in Michigan. They're already
at it. And they've probably had that, probably had that
commercial in the can for ten days waiting for whoever
was going to win. They probably had a similar one
for for Haley, for for Stevens if she had won too.

Speaker 2 (01:38:02):
It's going to be interesting, No, doubt about that. Talking
to Jim Kennedy Kennedy Institute of Public Policy Research. What
matters though, to the average person's the economy. Despite Trump
coming out saying it's the greatest economy in the history
of every economy in the history of the world, you
and I both know that doesn't land with the average
person because they're just feeling it. You know, the economy
may be somewhat okay for some, but for a lot

(01:38:23):
of people it's four more expensive and they're struggling. And
then I brought it up today about the tariffs, which
people forgot about because that's coming gone and between then
we've had twenty five thousand crises. But they're getting money
back these companies, and the people are going, okay, So
you're giving back money to the companies and some of

(01:38:44):
them eight originally some of the tariffs. But it cost
the average family seven hundred dollars for the tariffs. And
where's that coming from. Why aren't they getting that back?

Speaker 5 (01:38:54):
That's a darn fine question. I had the same one.
I did more. I did some research on it. So
the tariffs are the Trump terariffs.

Speaker 18 (01:38:59):
Actually, he tried to claim that under the International Emergency
Economic Powers Act that he was allowed to go ahead
and declare tariffs. Well, the Supreme Court back in February
said no, you are not. You went beyond the bounds
and we don't think that applies. So you got to
give the money back. And now we're five months farther
down the road and we're beginning to give the money back.

(01:39:21):
It's one hundred and sixty six billion dollars in total.
And yeah, so the money's been going back to basically,
Apple Computers got two point two billion, Walmart is expected
to get about two billion dollars back, Nike eight hundred
ninety or eight nine hundred and eighty six million, Ford
one point three billion, GM five hundred million. Okay, Now,

(01:39:43):
some of the companies I know, I know some of
the car companies were keeping we're eating the thing, So
I don't mind them. I don't really know that Apple did.
I didn't buy an Apple product in that timeframe. I
know Walmarts seemed to have prices that were going up,
and I didn't hear anything about them eating eating the
money and where it should go. But yeah, I think
some of that should definitely go back rather than to
the companies. I think a lot of its should go

(01:40:04):
back to the consumers. Maybe split it down the middle,
give give the average household three undred and fifty dollars
back and give their you know, and give the other
half back on a pro ude of basis whatever they
paid to the corporations. Because you know, this is you know,
this is the type of thing that that's going to
irritate a lot of people because you are talking about affordability,
and a lot of people think, and I don't necessarily

(01:40:24):
agree with it, but a lot of people feel that
corporations are doing them dirty and are basically ripping them
off in many cases or overcharging them, and and they're
just not happy with with with you know, corporate income
in general.

Speaker 5 (01:40:37):
Now many of them work.

Speaker 18 (01:40:38):
For corporations, or almost all of them work for corporations
and their companies. Maybe they don't like their companies or
maybe they feel their companies are different. But yeah, I
would say we've split it down the middle, give half
of to the companies and half way back to taxpayers,
because I'm sure, you know, nothing else in an election
season getting a check back from the government would not
be something that would definitely hurt the Republicans. And it's

(01:40:59):
a little bit more just they're just trying to throw
a check out there because Trump's trying to buy people
off and trying to get their vote. This is a
legitimate thing that the household should get back.

Speaker 2 (01:41:09):
Yeah, and we'll see again. It's I think it's that's
a super fair question about some companies. I know ate it,
but they didn't need it forever. And some companies we
know that they passed it along and they probably think
they didn't think they were going to get the money back,
and they probably thought, well, you know what, you paid
an extra three bucks for this or an extra but
you know, so it's going to be you know, there's

(01:41:32):
a lot of issues. I mean, even Trump this week
comes out, you know, of all the things, it kind
of did make me laugh because he comes out and
he screams, oh, the the oil companies are making too
much money. You need to give some of that money back.
And I'm thinking to myself, dude, the reason they're making
so much money is because you started a war.

Speaker 18 (01:41:47):
Yeah no, I know, yeah that that that was kind
of chuckled, Yeah I did. It's like, do you not
understand how this works? Why are their profits hired? President Trump?
Because exactly like you said, you started a whore and
you basically took a worldwide commodity and almost doubled the
price of it over about three weeks.

Speaker 5 (01:42:07):
That is why, Because it is simply, like you know,
it's very simple.

Speaker 18 (01:42:10):
I used to work in the oil industry. I understand
how it works. It's basically a margin in volume business.
And as your margins go up and your volumes say
the same, you make more money. That's basically what it
comes down to. It is not as complex as you
want to think it is. Okay, maybe the people drilling
the oil out of the ground and finding it that's complex,

(01:42:31):
but the but the finding and marketing side is simply
a volume game, making sure your fineries don't blow up,
making sure you've got product when you need it. The
more you pump out at a better margin, the more
you're gonna make. It's very simple. It's not a problem,
and it's not something that's hard to calculate. So yeah,
that's exactly why they you know, exactly why they did,
you know, make those moneys is going after Chevron and

(01:42:52):
Exceon Mobile I believe, which are the two of the
larger US oil companies. And yeah, it's just a little
common sense there, President Trump. This is why you were
in the this is why this happened. But it's you know,
I think it's interesting. From another aspect is how many
Republican presidents would you think would stand up there and
complain about oil company profits. I don't think George HW. Bush,

(01:43:12):
certainly not George W. Bush it was from Texas, would
have instead up their complain about oil company profits who
are simply just basically making that extra margin because of
the fact that the product went up that they already
had in the they already had in their tanks, that
they already paid for. So yeah, and that's not something
that's very Republican of Trump to do. But again I've

(01:43:33):
said since he was nominated, he's you know, he'll go
out there one day and say something as a Republican
you love, and I'll go out there the next day
possibly say something as Republican you hate. Because he's not
a Republican and he's not a Democrat. He's Trumpion and
that's what he is. He goes off of his own agenda,
which sometimes is a Republican. Sometimes it's a little bit
less Republican than it.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Is, no doubt about that. Jim Kennedy, Kennedy Institute of
Public Policy Research. Brother, it is always awesome talking to you.
Will be back here on Monday to a mid t.
Monday's got a lot of stuff still to talk about.
Appreciate you coming on and we'll do it again on Monday.

Speaker 5 (01:44:04):
Yep, thanks chat, I appreciate it.

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We'll do that straight ahead Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:45:33):
Irre like, yeah, so what it's the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:45:41):
As we wrap it up on this fryay baby, I
think we need to take a deep breath and they
listen back to the chaos, the craziness, the lunacy, plenty
of that always that that was this week, and you
know what, thank god, finally Friday.

Speaker 7 (01:46:02):
Accountability is not vengeance. Accountability is what stands between the
American people and a repeat of the mistakes and the
very real consequences of the past.

Speaker 8 (01:46:11):
I urge my colleagues to protect this committee, protect the
Senates institutional powers, and oppose this resolution.

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You know, I think beating an independent is all about
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Speaker 2 (01:48:12):
I shut polls today on television. I say Donald's Trump
polls on the economy aren't good. The economy is the
greatest economy we've ever had by far.

Speaker 17 (01:48:20):
I think it's the most disastrous decision any American president
has made in my lifetime.

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Man.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
There's a lot of stuff right the chaos going on,
the DSA, communism, it's here, crazy, but it's true. St
furiating Iran. Is that deal done?

Speaker 16 (01:49:16):
Yay?

Speaker 2 (01:49:16):
Nay? Maybe are we gonna see something happen from here
on out that we do not know. And of course,
another big one is can Spider Man continue to dominate
the answer to that question is simple, Yes, Yes Spider Man.
Can You guys have a blessed and amazing rest of
your Friday. We'll be back here on Monday for more,

(01:49:37):
for volity and chaos. As always, Night night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:42):
This is the Chad Benson Show.