The Best of Chad Benson

The Best of Chad Benson

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to the best of Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
If you're the Republicans, you know that quality matters because
you've seen you know you can lose a few races
because you didn't have the quality that you needed in
the candidacy. Doctor Oz, I'm looking over there at you,
herschel Walker, Carrie Lake, like all of those candidates, if

(00:44):
you saw who they beat in the primary, Carylke is
a perfect example, okay, because Carrie Lake went up against
a woman by the name of Karen Tayler Robson. She
would have won. She would have been Hobbes, the current governor,
by eight to ten points. She couldn't get out of
the primary. She couldn't get out of the primer. And

(01:08):
yesterday the Republicans had to be jumping for joy when
they heard these magical words.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
When Texas turns blue, it won't be because of any
one candidate, but because of each and every one of
you doing your part. Turning Texas blue is what I
want to talk to y'all about today. Now there are
those that say, ain't no way, we didn't try it

(01:35):
at fifty kinds of ways. Let me be clear, y'all
ain't never tried at the JC way. We used to
telling us what I can't do, but they have no
idea what Crockett's crew will do. So I just want
to be clear for all the Haitas in the back
listen up, real loud. We gonna get this thing done.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
Oh that's right, Jasmine Crockett. Now you have your moments
of what I could do. Look, Jasmine has made a
brand of being that a firebrand. But now she is
throwing it all into the ring. Which if you are
the Democrats, and you're in the Democrats and your goal
is to win, not to make noise, but to win,

(02:18):
you gotta be shaking your head. I'm gonna show you
something here. This is This is a perfect example. So
the recent state white survey done by the Democrats found
that those who recognize the names James tall Rico and
Jasmine Crockett, you're trying to win in a blue state. No,

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you're trying to win in a red state. Oh. Tall
Rico favorability he is a Democrat, very moderate Democrat. His
favorability plus thirty and his name recognition is up. Okay,
that's Texas voters, not just Democrats. Jasmine Crocus Crockett favorability

(03:05):
forty unfavorable forty eight minus eight. On's plus thirty, the
other's minus eight. Now here's the thing when it comes
to likely Democrat voters. Can remember, primary voters are different
than the general election. The hardcore show up at the primary.

(03:31):
You don't have to. You're not casting a wide neck,
you're catching a certain net. I am certain I can
get these people to come out, and I know for
a certain that they probably can't get this many to
come out. So if we win here, we've got a
clear path that we're going to win. If that was true,

(03:52):
she's up by about four according to this one from
likely Democrat voters. Few other Republicans. You were jumping up
and down, Chris Saliza.

Speaker 5 (04:04):
I mean, if Jasmin Crockett winds up as a Democrat nominee,
I will tell you that political wisdom would suggests she's
not going to win a general election. Stranger things have
happened like two terms of Donald Trump, so it's not impossible.
But I would say we could well look back as
if Democrats make a run at the Senate majority and
they have the people in place in theory to start
doing that we may look back at this day, assuming

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Jasmine Crockett runs in announces that she is running in
the center race, look back at this day and say,
this is the day where that opportunity in Texas got
a little less appealing. And if Crockett is the nominee,
I don't know that National Democrats spend any money in Texas,
whereas I think if tel Rico is a nominee against s. A.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Paxton, then I think they would spend money.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
So this could be a tough day for Senate Democrats' chances.

Speaker 3 (04:49):
Of retaking that majority.

Speaker 5 (04:50):
And you know, I think she is probably a slightly
better than even odds chance at being the Democrat nominee.
And I think she has an under ten percent chance
of winning the j role election.

Speaker 3 (05:01):
Political journalists and pundit Chrysaliza right there, So what are
they vying for? First and foremost? Again, this is the
stuff that matters when it comes to next year. It's
not just about where things are. That does matter as
far as the economy and stuff, We'll get to that
in a second, but also who you're running. It's already

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going to be a tough road for any Democrat. Now,
remember this has nothing to do with the redistrict need.
This is statewide. So what's up for grabs is John Accornant, right,
he's running for a fifth term, and he's already being
primaried by Ken Paxson and Wesley Hunt. I really like
Wesley Hunt. I think Wesley Hunts a good dude. I

(05:44):
like him. If it was my choice, I would like
to see Paxton Mai. But I think Paxson has a
real good shot at this. And as for who she's
running against, well, there were three and then now there's
only two. Colin already dropped out and he would not

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endorse her. But it's not just always about what the
issue is that's out there, because let's be real, the
economy is always going to be there. But in certain states,
in certain situations, it is also about the candidate, all
things being equal. Let's say things all things are equal

(06:27):
next year and it's close. Let me tell you what
happens in closer situations like this. The candidate that is
the firebrand, that says the stuff that's insane, that says
the crazy stuff because they want the likes, the clicks,
the whole nine yards. People don't see that as real,
and what ends up happening is you win the primary,

(06:48):
but you lose the general and there's still issues out
there like affordability.

Speaker 6 (06:53):
We inherited a mess affordability. But you can call it
affordability or anything you want. But the Democrats causes the
affordability problem, and we're the ones that are fixing it.
So it's a very simple statement. And they caused it,
we're fixing it. And they have a tendency to just
say this election is based on affordability, and nobody questions them. John,

(07:17):
you know, nobody says, well, what do you mean by that?
But they just say the word. They never said anything
else because they caused the problem.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
But we're fixing the problem.

Speaker 3 (07:28):
That's not true because people recognize affordability is an issue.
So that's not true. You have to recognize the affordability issue.
I wish both sides of the isle in the media
world would push back and say, you're right, affordability does
seem to be asue, what can you point at that

(07:49):
The people that you're talking to find that the issue
is with affordability, and then if they're well researched and understand,
you get to well, you know, say, well, it's just everything.
Everything you know gas is you know two ninety five
lois has been on average nationwide in the last five years.
That's great, Okay, what else can we talk about? And

(08:11):
then you see it break down like that, which is
what you want to hear. You've got to take the
opportunity to get the people to say, look, this is
the issue affordability. Why rent still too damn high? Mortgage
rates and the cost of housing still ridiculously high. You

(08:33):
have people now who are worried about healthcare, and let's
not pretend that that's not an issue, because I'm not
sure that the Republicans are going to do anything about
the ACA the healthcare. I do not think they are.
One minute. I think they're going to have a vote
A next minute, I don't. I saw John Thune yesterday.
I say no. And here's the issue, Republicans. At what

(08:55):
Trump said, the affordability thing. You're going to fix it. Great,
say you're going to fix the problem. How do you
fix it? And stop gaslighting to people that's what they want.
Don't tell them they're stupid, don't tell them the reality
doesn't exist. Go after it in that direction. You watch
what happens things and people give you more slack when

(09:19):
you act like you're in it with them. And that's
why next year, because these races are so important, because
Trump understands there is the real worry that he's going
to get boat raced in the House because it is
his party and he is the leader. Susie Wiles, the

(09:40):
lady that is the Quiet's iron lady behind him, has
told him, yeah, you better get your traveling boots on.

Speaker 8 (09:48):
He's going to have a fun next year. But we're
going to put him on the campaign trail too. Typically
just a little bit of campaign speak if I may. Yeah,
typically you in the midterms, it's not about who's sitting
at the White House. It's you localize the election and
you keep the federal officials out of it. We're actually
going to turn that on its head good and put

(10:10):
him on the ballot because so many of those low
propensity voters are Trump voters. Yes they are, and we
saw a we could go tuesday. What happens when he's
not on the ballot and not active.

Speaker 7 (10:21):
So I haven't quite broken it to him.

Speaker 8 (10:23):
Yet, but he's going to campaign like it's twenty twenty
four again. Oh for all these people that he helps,
he doesn't help everybody, but for those he does, he's
a difference maker and he's certainly a turnout machine. So
the midterms will be very important to us. He'll work
very hard.

Speaker 7 (10:40):
To keep the material.

Speaker 3 (10:43):
Now here's the issue. Much like with Jasmin Crockett. The
reality is we'll see how much he does because he
may not be the turnout machine they want, because if
things are going sideways, he may be Pisana Nograda. We

(11:05):
don't want you be seen here because they're gonna blame you,
and you standing with me is gonna get me in trouble.
This whole thing's going to be really interesting the way
this thing plays itself out. But it's just as much
about the candidates at times as it is about the issues.
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stuff going on, including Venezuela, among other things. This is
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (12:56):
This is the best of Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (13:08):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (13:10):
We love hearing from each and every one of you.
That's why we give you the number three two, three, five,
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to you as fast as possible. Mark called yesterday talk
about affordability.

Speaker 9 (13:31):
Oh yes, I just wanted to make a comment on
Chad's section about affordability in the Trumpan administration. I was
at the grocery store yesterday and I was shopping for
I had carrots on my list, and carrots had gone
up fifty percent five zero percent. Does that sound more

(13:55):
affordable or less affordable? Does that sound like in question
is going up or down? And this was not during
the Biden administration. This was yesterday, and the reason that
people are out shopping is because we have.

Speaker 10 (14:09):
To have food.

Speaker 9 (14:10):
So thank you for taking my comment.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
A lot of people feel that way and the perception
of reality game, because that's what we're at now, Trump's
getting ready for a world win economic barnstorming tour to
go and tout economic wins. Susie Wiles is pushing him
to do so. She even said he doesn't know what's coming,

(14:36):
but he didn't have a choice. He doesn't. He's got
to do something to talk to the people and show hey,
I'm here with you. It's not a right or wrong.
It's a reality thing. And in some things in life,

(14:57):
you can twist a little perception make it bigger than
the reality. But when it comes to the financial side
of things, it's the one thing that you can't change
people's reality. You may be able to do something with
a meme or spin something a certain way in a

(15:17):
cultural issue or things of that nature, but when it
comes to dollars and cents, what's in your bank account,
what's going in and what's going out, that's just truth.
That's just well there it is. And that's the problem
Trump is having right now because what's going in isn't
as much as what's coming out. Three two, three, five, three, eight,

(15:41):
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show, is
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the Chad Benson Show. Despite the fact that yes, gas
is under two ninety five, that's phenomenal. First time in
five years. Some things have come down. It's not an
overnight thing. The issue people are having is there be
being told that everything is great when obviously it's not

(16:06):
as much as it is not being great. If that
makes sense, let me know what you think. And you're
saying yourself, what do you mean, Chad? The issue is
people are frustrated that prices are high. People are frustrated
that inflation is sticking where it's sticking. And yes, some
people expected it to happen overnight. That's ridiculous, But it's

(16:33):
the constant. No, things aren't bad. It's the constant. It's
the media's fault. It's the constant. It's Biden's fault, it's
the constant. Everybody blames everybody else but taking personal responsibility
for the fact that things are happening in your world
and the things that you have done have not made

(16:53):
things better and in some cases made things worse. Look
at tariffs yesterday. Old is this big thing. It's giving
out twelve million dollars to farmers. It's one time thing.
They'll start getting in February. But why does he have
to do that because of well, the tariffs in China
and by the way, our trade deficit with China first

(17:13):
time ever, it's at a trillion dollars. People, if things
don't go the way that people expected things to go,
that you hoped it would. If you're honest with them,
they're with you. If you start to say it's everybody
else's fault and you have no responsibility, you'll pay the price,
especially at the ballot box. You're missing the show. Shame
on you. Grab the podcast. Up Next, Mike Lyons joins

(17:34):
the program. Talk about all things when it comes to
the military and war. Chad Benson, Joe Son, Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
You are listening to the best of Chad Benson, the.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
It's out of the week, sit down and talk. Too
tired to major and the best damn military analyst in
the business. Mikelines joins the program. All right, Mike, First
and foremost, the whole thing, the saga. I think it's
the best way to describe the boat strikes in Venezuela.
There is so much noise out there. I think the admiral,
in my opinion, was a bit thrown under the bus.

(18:27):
I do have a lot of issues with the lack
of transparency, but your take as a former you know here,
you are, you in the military, this is what you
do for a living. You understand it more than anything else.
Give us a sense of what the military folk are
feeling about this situation.

Speaker 11 (18:44):
Well, chat, I think at fifty thousand feet this is
not a war crime, okay. I think that after talking
to some people that were in similar positions over the
past few years, they felt that this position or this
situation just wasn't Workingmed was the first one.

Speaker 10 (19:00):
It was the first shot that they took.

Speaker 11 (19:03):
And I think that it's going to be important from
a transparency perspective that this video gets released, but the
context still won't be there what it was like in
the room to decide, because it looks like there was
time between that first strike and Stecond strike. But from
a war crime perspective, it looks you know, they have
the mission, they knew it when they ran it.

Speaker 10 (19:21):
By JAG.

Speaker 11 (19:23):
It's going to come down to whether or not Emma
Bradley should have taken that second shot. And I think
that's where people are questioning right now. That's where he's
getting thrown into the bus. It's not the initial strike,
but I think that everyone's watching closely.

Speaker 10 (19:36):
I'll tell you right now, the special forces.

Speaker 11 (19:38):
Community is watching closely because if this does happen, he
does get thrown under the bus, the professionals that are
already there doing this are going to be really shaking
their heads now going forward and going to be very
hesitant because this mission. I think overall this Caribbean is
going sideways from the perspective of what's the endgame for
the military here, what exactly are we doing? And I
think that's really going to come into question if that happens.

Speaker 3 (19:58):
Mike. You know, you talk about the mission and a
lot of people have this thought that it's Venezuela. This
is going to be a breeze. You know, we could
send one guy over there and he'll take care of business.
You've been very you know, open and saying, look, don't
think of this as one of these situations. We're gonna

(20:19):
drop a few bombs and that's it. If we get
into this, they have got stuff to make it. I
saw somebody say turn this into a bit of a
Libby or Vietnam.

Speaker 10 (20:27):
No question, they have military capability.

Speaker 11 (20:30):
And this is not Panama nineteen eighty nine, this is
not Noriega, this is nothing like that where we had
fifteen thousand US troops, Army troops there. Like I've said before,
if the army's not involved, we're not invading anybody, and
they're not. They're not They've not been deployed, they've not
been activated. And I'm just just trying to figure out
what's this about. If we're going to think we're using

(20:51):
hard pressure to remove Meduro, I guarantee he's got consultants
telling him the United States is never going to do it.
The Peace President is not going to invade Venezuela. So
and if if that, if it goes to that level,
they have plenty of resources to make things very difficult
to kind of porcupine themselves, so to speak, uh, from

(21:13):
US forces. So I we're watching this closely and seeing,
you know, what's going on here. You know, we saw
this this Hunduras person getting pardoned, and I'm not sure
it's about the drug. It's definitely about regime change. And
we better have a great plan on what we're going
to do because this is this is you know, the
thing about Venezuela was. It was a country that was

(21:34):
one haide democracy and I think this administration thinks to
easy fixes. Once we take the leadership out, it'll kind
of revert itself back to the mean and also revert
itself back from being support of the United States because
it's in the in this hemisphere. But a lot of
assumptions being made there.

Speaker 3 (21:49):
Talking to my client's military analysts talk about all things
when it comes to the matter of war and the military. Uh,
the switch from there to what's going on with Ukraine Russia.
You know, there's so many moving parts, so many people
feel like they're putting, you know, their two cents in,
and you know what is really going to happen from here,

(22:10):
And you've been very vocal. Look, until Pooter needs an
offer amp, he is not going to take anything outside
of whatever it is he ends up grabbing until it's
just too much to consume.

Speaker 11 (22:22):
The math hasn't changed on the battlefield, Donald Trump hasn't
changed the math for the Ukrainians on the battlefield. There's
no additional leverage that Ukraine has has right now since
some time yesterday actually with a veteran of the war,
Ukraine citizen it's here in the United States trying to
get support for their military there. They're hanging on for

(22:44):
dear life. For sure, they're concerned about the drone technology
that Russia now has. It's much more advanced, and they
continue to grind down the Ukraine military in the front lines.
It is a situation that Russia, though like to your point,
does not have to do anything because that hasn't changed.
Those tomahawks have never arrived, the sanctions have never been
put on.

Speaker 10 (23:04):
There's been a lot of talk about them.

Speaker 11 (23:06):
There's no air defense platform that helps Ukraine and protects
Kiev in places like that at night. So I believe
that they'll be forced into this deal that they won't like,
and it'll be what we're seeing in Gaza right now,
and that it'll look like it's a deal.

Speaker 10 (23:21):
It'll be very performative.

Speaker 11 (23:22):
But I don't believe you're going to see any peace
anytime soon. I think there'll be this frozen conflict I
wrote about it and real clear defense. There'll be this
frozen conflict, but that will start up very quickly. It
won't be seventy years of frozen conflict because one side
or the other, mostly likely Russia, starts the whole conflict
over again.

Speaker 3 (23:39):
You know that's interesting you say the frozen conflict because
Ukraine You've always said, Look, Ukraine is going to have
to give up land for peace. So they go and
do that, but they want something in return, which I think, look,
as a good leader, you would want something in return,
and that's something in return. Is all right, if we
give up some of this stuff. We already did this
with our nuclear weapons. If we do some of this now,

(23:59):
we've got to have some guarantee from somebody that you
guys are going to be here if he decides, oh,
you know what, I want some.

Speaker 11 (24:06):
More well as a minimum, they want to be able
to have a military of seven hundred and fifty thousand soldiers,
developed some navy operations. They want potentially having European forces
stationed there as a trip wire, so to speak. You're
seeing this conflict now between you know, the EU has

(24:27):
NATO partners in it too, and it acts differently as
then it acts on the defense side. I think that's
going to be one of the challenges of whether or
not at Ukraine gets submitted into the EU, whether that's
that will help them on rebuilding Putin is not going
to agree to anything that leaves Ukraine with the potential

(24:47):
of growing further away from Russia. So until again, until
there's more leverage that shows he can't win, he won't
agree to anything like there He's got you know, his
Jared and cop are you know, negotiating this thing again
to real estate guys who recognize that still the Ukraine
doesn't have any leverage.

Speaker 3 (25:07):
What is the Europeans there over there? Because look, I
understand they're closer to it, and you know, you know,
Trump and a lot of people have said, look, you
guys need to take a little bit more responsibility in this,
but they're going to want to have a say too,
because the closer Russia gets, the closer they worry about
what might be next.

Speaker 10 (25:25):
They are concerned right now.

Speaker 11 (25:26):
The United States just put out its a Strategic Overview,
and in that it basically says we're going to move
away from Europe. Let Europe start defending himself a little better.
It's an interesting document. It just projects a lot of
what Donald Trump has been talking about. Not necessarily designed
to reset. It would be fantastic if Europe decided it
was going to take more responsibility for it's security positions

(25:49):
and posture. It's relied on the United States nuclear forces
for a while. We've got a great partner in Poland
right now. I wouldn't mind moving all of our troops
out of Germany and sending a war was worth the troops.
Let's say forty thousand US troops put them in Poland.
That would make a big difference to Russia as well,
protect Latvia, protect all those other countries there that recently

(26:11):
have joined NATO in the last twenty years. So that's
a security process. I think we need to have stay
close to Poland, but the Europeans are still a long
ways from figuring out they're gonna be able to protect anybody.

Speaker 3 (26:21):
If we did that. Mike wouldn't putin look at this
and say, okay, here's an active war. You guys are
moving your soldiers closer to the conflict and closer to
our border, because that's always his thing, right, that everybody's
moving closer to him, The West is moving closer, and
while he moves towards the West, he always threatens if
the West moves closer to him. Wouldn't that he look

(26:42):
at that and go, this is an active war.

Speaker 11 (26:45):
He already can say that because we have the logistics
spaces already in Romania as well as Poland, and we
send the eighty second Airborne, we send them one of first.
We've got military advisors there all the time, so we're
conducting somewhat of a I don't know if it's a
dark army of operation, but there's an invisible hand taking
place from the United States because of our relationship with
Poland that's already there. And if we had, you know,

(27:08):
a Pentagon, it felt more strongly about it.

Speaker 10 (27:11):
We would move more forces there.

Speaker 11 (27:14):
I think if you put a core there, you decide
to go that route, that would have to be part
of the negotiation. So Russia knew that was going to happen.
But active war, you want to start a fight there,
let's go, let's kind of figure that out. Maybe that
would be catastrophic on some level, but sometimes you have
to do that if you're going to deter the other side.

Speaker 3 (27:31):
Talking to my client's military eltlests, we talk about all
things military globally. What's trying to think of all this Venezuela,
seeing what's going on still in the Ukraine and whatnot.
Their interest around the world obviously and obviously Taiwan as well.
Are they looking around going, we're just waiting for the
next shoot to drop and then we're going to decide
what we do with Taiwan and everything else.

Speaker 10 (27:52):
Yeah, you know, what's going on is really quiet.

Speaker 11 (27:56):
There's you know, China just keeps up this kind of
naval pressure, naval a presence there. They're still actively patrolling
around Taiwana. Know that the United States Japan has conducted
a recent combined maritime operation there. The OP tempo is high.
That's the pace at which the military is running there.
And if you look at a graft Abraham Linken, there's

(28:18):
an incredible amount of US Navy resources out of there.
It's impacting families here. I can tell you this because
their deployments are being extended. Things are going a lot longer.
I don't know if you saw, but Cambodi and Thailand
are having a border skirmish now as well, and I
guess Cambodi is more aligned with the Chinese there, so
the Chinese continue to exert their influence. I don't think

(28:40):
this pivot to the Pacific has still not happened yet.
I know that this administration feels that they want to
let China. You know, want to keep them somewhat contained.
But they've got, you know, the home field advantage right now,
given what they've built up in the military in the Pacific.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
If we were to do something in Venezuela, something you know,
next thing you know, you turn around, you see that
we have how many how much by the way, force wise,
army wise, if we were to go in for real,
what are we looking at? Size wise?

Speaker 11 (29:08):
So you have a marines offshore right now, maybe you
have twenty twenty five thousand marines. If you were planning
an offensive operation to go into Venezuela, you would need
eighty thousand US Army troops at some point somewhere ready
to force a maneuver land. You'd have kind of like
a I don't want to see a d DA kind
of invasion. I remember I had that presentation once in

(29:29):
my life about what that would look like. But you know,
how do you get there? You drop the eighty second in,
you drop paratroopers in. You would try to do a
quick strike. But in order to get long, you know,
to get the kind of equipment that needs to get
in there, you'd have to have you'd have to build
off shore. You'd play you have to come in from
the sea. So that's why this is just this mission
doesn't make any sense at any level. When we did Panama,

(29:51):
we had fifteen thousand again Army troops inside of the
country that we were.

Speaker 10 (29:54):
Able to mobilize and use.

Speaker 11 (29:56):
But you would need sixty to eighty thousand US Army troops,
and that includes the war fighters, the tooth, the tail,
the logistics, you know, the ash, the trash, everything that's
coming from what would come from that kind of operation
order to secure success. But there will be casualties, you know,
Commanders expect losses.

Speaker 10 (30:13):
There'll be casualties.

Speaker 11 (30:14):
And I'm not sure again, I just don't see the
Peace president putting up without any for any length of time.

Speaker 3 (30:20):
And if we did do something like that and you
saw a movement like that, would that be an impetus
for China to say, all right, Taiwan, we're going to
do this.

Speaker 11 (30:29):
Well, it would, It could, because then it would have
the clear distraction of the United States. Taiwan is strategically patient.
They've always been, or the Chinese have been strategically patient
on what they're doing with Taiwan. And I think that
the Chinese don't feel the Americans are fully distracted in Ukraine,
nor fully distracted in the Middle East, but if they

(30:50):
if there's any possibility of that whole opening there, and
it's because we've decided to do something in our own
hemisphere and devote these kinds of races. Normally we've got
carriers deploying other places we don't necessarily have to protect
our hemisphere. But when you take the kind of military
assets that we've put now in our hemisphere to do this,
then you're robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Speaker 10 (31:11):
They're not They're not someplace else projecting power.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
I love it, Love talking to best damn military analyst,
tired measure in the Army Mike, clients, appreciate you coming
on today as always, Go Army beat Navy this weekend
in a very cold Army Navy game and happening is Saturday,
and you'll be there right.

Speaker 10 (31:28):
Yeah, ched, go or be beating Navy. I've been going
to Army Navy my whole life.

Speaker 11 (31:31):
I've been going since before I was at West Point,
while I was at West Point, after I was at
West Point, I've watched it my whole life. So it's uh,
it's the biggest game on the calendar. It's on circle.
My my son's in the Navy, so it's the one
day we're on opposite sides of the fields. But it's
it's always a big game for us, and let's let's
see if army can pull it out. Navy is very strong,
you're a very good quarterback. It's hard not to like

(31:52):
their team. But but we'll see what happens. We'll show
up and we'll we'll help. We'll give them a good game.

Speaker 3 (31:56):
I appreciate you coming on there. We'll do it again
next week.

Speaker 10 (31:58):
Sounds good, brother, so'll talk to I love.

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This is a very lat Nina pattern where the west
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Speaker 3 (36:53):
There's an old saying, if you have to explain the
joke over and over again, the punchline, then it wasn't
that funny. The GOP and Trump needs to learn going
out and telling everybody everything is great doesn't make it so.
Telling the same joke over and over again and then
having explained the punchline over and over again doesn't make

(37:15):
it so. So what does that mean? You pivot? It's
that simple. You pivot. People are feeling it. I'm not
somebody making something up because you don't like Trump chet, No,
it's because the reality is I know the numbers, okay,
but I talked to people yesterday. If you guys want
to see it, go on Twitter. I would say, excuse me,

(37:38):
ex I'm sorry. I was out doing a toy field
for Salvation Army one of my stations, local station here,
and so we're out there and I'm dressed up, you know,
because you know me, there's a mix. I'm kind of
like Johnny Depp. If there's a chance to dress up,
I'm probably gonna do it. So I go out there

(37:59):
and I talked to so many people, some that were
coming to donate toys, some that were there to help,
but they were talking about the struggles this year that
people are having. Trump last night at Pennsylvania kicked off
what is going to be a tour that he feels

(38:21):
this is an interesting thing too. Trump is having to
take it upon himself. Now he feels like, yeah, I
got to go out and explain this. Well, you've kind
of done that to yourself because everybody in your party
is terrified to address some of these things. So because
they're afraid that you're gonna feel like you've been thrown
under the bus. So now you've got no choice but
to go out there. We touched on yesterday. Susie Will says,

(38:43):
this next year, twenty twenty six, he is you know,
he's already on the ballot. The party in power is
always on the ballot. The leader is in the midterms,
and Trump absolutely is the same joke you're telling that
isn't going overwhell that worked maybe years ago, right, And

(39:05):
the clubs it's tired. They want to hear some new material,
and the new material is, Yeah, things aren't as affordable
as they should be. We're going to get there. This
takes time. Yes, it is going to get better, but
it isn't going to happen overnight. Yes, you are going
to feel a pinch in some areas. Some areas are

(39:27):
going to improve, but we're going to get there, and
we're putting things in place, things in place that both
in the midterm and not talking about the mid term,
but you know, you know in the next you know
several months are going to improve tremendously and the long
term it's going to be a win. But these are
changes we're making that are at times generational, and as

(39:50):
we all know, generations don't happen overnight. So going out
and saying we're the greatest, it's the best, it's never
been better, you should thank me for how amazing things are.
We were a dead country one year ago. We were
dead as a door nail.

Speaker 6 (40:06):
We were going down the tubes, and now with the
hottest country anywhere in the world.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
Is nobody close. There's nobody close. It's never been hot.
They were dead. It's because of me that everything's great
and nobody wants to hear the joke that doesn't work anymore.
That got you famous, Right, Like if you went today
to see one of your favorite comedians and they were
telling the same joke they were years ago, and it

(40:33):
was funny then, but now you're like, ugh, well, do
something new. That's what people are asking for, something new.
The economy is the hit. Play it, but you're going
to have to update it. The economy is the joke,
update the punchline. This isn't going to change the way

(40:59):
that reality is for people who are feeling. And it's
also very generational. Right you look out in the crowd.
What do you see. I see a lot of people
in the crowd last night, some of their fifties, few
and their forties, a couple thirty year olds, a lot
of people in their sixties and seventies who are retired. Well,
guess what, you're retired. You own your home, You've got

(41:21):
a nice four to one K, maybe a pension. I'm
on a fixed income. You're on a fixed income, but
you're drawing off a very large, doing great stock market. Okay,
and that's great for you, But when the rest of
the country is having to go to things like this.

Speaker 15 (41:42):
Usually when people turn to go fund me, it's for
medical emergencies or maybe they're trying to start a new business.
But according to the platform's annual report, there's been a
twenty percent increase in fundraisers for basic needs like food
and housing. And at a time when affordability seems to
be the word of the year, one of the fastest
growing categories in twenty twenty five was monthly bills.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
That isn't going to get you over the line, So
you go and you change, you adapt. Yes, the economy
is the thing that's the hit, right. They came for
the hit, but you have to be able to adapt

(42:28):
to keep them coming. And that's really what it's all about.
How are you going to keep them coming? Because if
you can't, you're going to pay the price at the
ballot box. Not just you, but many other Republicans. And
one of the big things is healthcare. Where are we with healthcare?
Could not tell you where we are with healthcare Thursday something.

(42:52):
Chances are they're going to vote on something they do
not think they have the votes to get it across
the line. And as I have talked to several of
you who say, well, I don't really care, let it flounder,
let it fail. That doesn't fix the problem. What fixed

(43:14):
the problem is everybody going, all right, this is the
mess we're in. This is the nightmare we have in
front of us, This is the issue people are having.
How do we fix the problem? We fix the problem,
buy and then address it in the way that you
think it Because I have no idea what they're gonna do.

(43:35):
I've been promised for a long time by the Republicans,
long before Trump was there, and then when Trump was there,
that they know what to do with healthcare, that they've
got healthcare down, that they can fix healthcare, and they
all have a plan. I have seen zero plans, zero

(43:56):
plans when it comes to healthcare. Nancy Mace wrote an
op ed by the Way blasting the current speaker. Talking
about healthcare again, where is the plan?

Speaker 16 (44:09):
Do you think the Speaker Johnson has a healthcare plan?

Speaker 17 (44:12):
Well, we haven't seen any language yet, but I would
say the first thing that we should do to address
healthcare in this country is look at how government has
contributed to the problem. We have overregulation in many markets.
We have states that still have certificate of need programs.
We don't have price transparency. Trump is working on that now.
But because of the lack of competition in the market,
because of government subsidies, because of over regulations, the cost

(44:35):
of healthcare is exponential today. It is unattainable and unaffordable
for most middle class Americans. And thank god, there are
businesses who have come on board that pay for healthcare
premiums that at least partially are in full when you're talking.

Speaker 18 (44:48):
To small businesses.

Speaker 17 (44:48):
But there are a lot of government regulations we have
to remove and also quantify. We have in South Carolina,
for example, doctors when they leave a hospital system to
start their own practice, I can't compete with the hospital
within a certain mileage. I mean, it's just crazy what
we're doing to the healthcare market.

Speaker 16 (45:04):
So you're a Republican and you're saying you have not
seen our Republican plan, I've.

Speaker 18 (45:08):
Not seen any langue. With no langue, there's no language.

Speaker 17 (45:10):
It's been out. If we're going to vote on healthcare
next week, which is a rumor, no one has seen
the plan. We haven't read it. I would like to
see it. I would like to put my teeth into it.

Speaker 3 (45:18):
Yeah, I don't know what plan there is. I mean
I think the plan is we're going to give you
the money directly. I don't know what that means. And
then you can go out and shop around. What does
that mean? I can buy kocher PEPSI that's it. I mean,
that's my shopping around. Because of the monopolies, because of
the way that these things have and the amount of
money and the lobbies have thrown into this, there is

(45:41):
very limited places for me to shop my healthcare. So
what exactly does that mean? She also went on to
talk about a lot of other things about the Democrats
and the Republicans and how weak Mike Johnson is and

(46:03):
I get it. I get it. And she's able to
say this now because she's not going to be any
more part of the DC politics, right She's running to
be governor in South Carolina, So this is not something
that she has to pay that much attention to the
way that others do. And you're going to see in
the retirements coming in the weeks and months that that's

(46:23):
going to change. As well, because I think when people
get out from the fear factor of Maga and Trump,
you're going to see people go Okay, now, let me
tell you what's going on.

Speaker 16 (46:36):
Because you had an opinion piece in the New York
Times that made a lot of headlines and waves here
in Washington, and part of it you said, Republicans have
a governing trebecta, the House, the Senate, the White House.

Speaker 18 (46:46):
You said, if we fail to pass.

Speaker 16 (46:47):
Legislation that permanently secures the border, addresses the affordability crisis,
improves healthcare, and restores law and order, we will lose
this majority.

Speaker 18 (46:55):
And we will deserve it.

Speaker 17 (46:57):
We just saw President Trump on his policies and win
in a landslide in November, and we have yet to
implement and codify as executive orders his agenda in the
US House.

Speaker 18 (47:10):
Well, that's a great question.

Speaker 17 (47:11):
I mean, one of the couple things that I cited
in my op ed was that they're massive.

Speaker 18 (47:15):
There's massive support.

Speaker 17 (47:16):
For banning stock trading from members of Congress, massive support
per terminalm, it's massive support for voter id et cetera.
But we can't get Republicans or Democrats. By the way,
it's not just a Mike Johnson problem. Akeem Jeffries too.
Everyone says, we're all for these things in eighty to
ninety percent of America's War two, but we won't bring
these things to the floor.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
Yeah help, Yeah, well a team can't bring it to
the floor, but Mike doesn't. And live by the pen,
die by the pen. And this is Congress's issue. Trump
is the one who is doing everything. Congress has decided
that that's okay, that the President's going to do everything
by executive order in today's world. And the good news

(47:57):
for them is they're never on the record for anything,
especially if it could hurt them when it comes time
for them to stand trial if you will with the voters.
So it's just great to say, eh, we'll let him
handle it. Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five,
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We Love Ourselves. Some Wednesdays, as you guys know, it's
White Woman Wednesday. This is where white women Kylie and jest.
They like to tell us all the bad things that
we as mostly white, heteroonormative men then that ruined the world. Jess,
what do you got for us today?

Speaker 19 (50:03):
Might be a hot TAKEE, but being your authentic self
primes you for bullying, and that's why more people don't do.
White supremacy rewards those who acts the same as those
around them at rewards conformity. You step two outside of that,
or you're too eccentric, or you defy societal expectations in some.

Speaker 7 (50:18):
Way, that makes you a target.

Speaker 19 (50:20):
That is why women who authentically embrace being single or
don't want children are the target of a lot of
attacks online or in person. Always someone who has tried
to live authentically, and I believe that is what primed
me for such intense.

Speaker 7 (50:31):
Bullying because kids could tell that in some way I
was different. I wasn't acting like them. I didn't care
about the same things that they cared about.

Speaker 19 (50:39):
Obviously, there was a certain level that I did care
because it bothered me a lot at the time. But
I remember one time we all went to the beach
and it was me and one other friend. It was
like a group of ten girls in high school. My
friend and I went into the water and we turn around.
The entire group of girls has gone. They had completely
ditch us and left. We're getting intensely cyber bullied online
as a high school student. We're in college when men
would talk about me, say that they did me, or

(51:00):
say that they didn't. When your presence is controversial, that
means you are being authentic because you are giving people
something to critique.

Speaker 3 (51:07):
There you go. When your presence is controversial, I don't
really get while your presence will be controversial, that's that's interesting.
Usually the controversy comes and then there's a presence. So
you do something that is seen as quote unquote controversial,
and then you show up somewhere and I can't believe

(51:28):
that person's here. Can't believe that you showed you you
showed up here. I can't believe that.

Speaker 20 (51:37):
No.

Speaker 3 (51:38):
And by the way, being authentic absolutely important. We live
in a world where, you know, very few things are
authentic anymore, very few things. But if we're going to
do the thing about controversy, usually you have to do
something controversy controversial. Then the presence of you being somewhere

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I just want to want to set that straight.

Speaker 12 (52:27):
Now.

Speaker 3 (52:27):
Look, I'm not a white woman, so I don't know,
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I don't know. Speaking of presence in a locker room,

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it's nice to see that grandfathers can still do something
physically active. Philip rivers, you're doing what you're back where huh?

Speaker 21 (52:58):
When he last played in the Edi Fell he led
the Colt to the playoffs. That was five years ago. Well,
he has some impressive on the field stats. His off
the field stats are pretty impressive too. Rivers is older
than the Colts's head coach and twelve other NFL head coaches.
He has ten kids, including a two year old. His daughter, Hallie,
who gave birth to his grandson, is two months older

(53:19):
than the Colts's backup quarterback who recently got hurt. And
despite all his commitments, Rivers famously avoids using swear words.

Speaker 3 (53:27):
Yeah he does. There's a famous thing that happened inside
the locker room of at the time, the Chargers, where
they were all pulling their money together and they had
got up to like ten thousand dollars cash or something
like that. It was just ridiculous for him to just
say one bad word, and he refused to do it.
And he, by the way, is a not only a grandfather,

(53:47):
he's still the king of trash talking in an aw
shucks kind of way. Forty four years old, and he
was eligible for the Hall of Fame. But now him
unretiring means he's got to start the clock again, and
he does retire, so welcome back, Welcome back. Indeed, Grandpa,
you can use some re leaf factor right there. Hey,

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Speaker 3 (54:42):
Australia is doing what if you guys haven't heard. Australia
is doing something. They are looking at the social media
companies and they're saying, nope, not here, not to our kids.

Speaker 7 (54:56):
Of course, we have the special chicken noodles.

Speaker 22 (54:58):
For fifteen year old Demmy social media is more than
just a hobby or a place for mindless scrolling.

Speaker 23 (55:04):
I ll float my daily routines on social media so
that many years on Instagram TikTok can see.

Speaker 21 (55:09):
What I do.

Speaker 22 (55:10):
Didn Me owns a food stall at a market in Sydney, Australia,
where he posts videos online showing off his cooking skills
and signature chicken noodle dish and the word.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Is not defined.

Speaker 23 (55:19):
Customers coming in and they're like, oh, I've seen you
on TikTok. Some people even get photos with me here
and their selfies. But I do have I can't feel
the impact of social media with my business.

Speaker 18 (55:28):
But growing is fan base. We'll have to wait.

Speaker 22 (55:30):
Starting today, Australia's ban on social media for anyone under
the age of sixteen is now in effect.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
In effect social media. Nope, you are sixteen, you can
you're under sixteen. Even if you've been on it, it
is overdone, dusted, gone bye. No social media for you,
you or you or you or you, No X, no insta,

(55:57):
nothing Facebook. Hah, Well, you don't have to worry about that.
You tell the kids you go on Facebook. You still
talk to your grandparents on Facebook. No TikTok uh Oh
it's this is a big deal. I mean this is
massive when you think about it, Like social media is
such a part of all of our lives, and everybody's

(56:19):
trying to figure out, well, how do we fix social media?
We got all kinds of look, I would like to
see the band go well over sixteen. I'd like to
see it go to one hundred. With the way that
we act. Should be a test to get on the
damn thing. Are you insane? Are you going to believe
everything you see? Tweet everything you see? Retweet everything you see.
Are you going to be wackado or or are you

(56:43):
going to understand the responsibility put in front of you.
That'd be good for all adults, but the last this
is just kids.

Speaker 22 (56:52):
The law, the first of it's kind in the world,
means potentially a million accounts across nearly every major social
media platform TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Reddit, Facebook, x and Snapchat
are being deactivated, a shocking change for so many kids.
The Sweeping band was first passed last year with bipartisan support,

(57:13):
result in the affirmitive. It requires tech companies to take
what they call reasonable steps to prevent kids from creating
accounts or else face up to thirty two million dollars
in fines. How the tech companies will do this has
been the big unknown. The platforms may ask to verify
a user's age with their bank account, a government photo ID,
or by using what's called age inference technology, which estimates

(57:36):
a user's age based on their other online activity tools
That may also raise other privacy concerns.

Speaker 3 (57:42):
Okay, well there's a lot going on there. But first,
to the social media companies, I don't blame you, I
don't I don't blame you. In a situation like this,
and I get there's been tragedies, been awful things that happen,
by the way that happens everywhere. React as if kids
weren't depressed prior to social media. I'm not saying there

(58:03):
aren't issues that are somewhat exacerbated because of this at times. Yeah,
but this also goes back to parenting. That's also a
big deal. Remember that sometimes you got to talk to
your kids. I know it's crazy, but how do you
enforce something when you know these kids are going to
do everything in their power to do what to figure
out how to get around the band and they're smart

(58:27):
enough to do it.

Speaker 22 (58:28):
But supporters of the measure say the law will help
protect young people from the negative developmental and mental effects
of social media.

Speaker 8 (58:35):
Things like unrealistic body image, for example, or exposure to
bullying or predators online.

Speaker 22 (58:42):
In Australia, Wayne Holdsworth says a sundive by suicide after
a s extortion scam.

Speaker 8 (58:47):
Anyone that says that this is not a good idea
has not lived through my life.

Speaker 22 (58:55):
As the band went into effect, Australia's Prime Minister urging
children to find other activities.

Speaker 18 (59:01):
Starting your sport, learn a new instrument.

Speaker 10 (59:03):
I'll read that book that's been sitting there on your shelf.

Speaker 18 (59:06):
But some teens are pushing back.

Speaker 24 (59:08):
I think they should be removing the harmful content instead
of just keeping it there and removing us.

Speaker 3 (59:14):
Which is interesting. I mean, she's right, but what's the
harmful content? Right? Should we have a rated R version
of social media? If you will? Should we have a
And they try to do stuff, but it still gets
by only so much that they can do. And look,
I'm not giving them a pass on any of this,
but I also have to be honest and recognize that

(59:37):
you can't blame all of the world's ills on the
social media company. Now the algorithms, you know, with us fighting,
and I'm not just talking about us, but I'm talking
about us as human beings in the world of politics
and all the stuff you see, that's an algorithm issue,
but that's also an issue of the things that we
consume because you know, go like Fluffy. So if you're

(59:59):
all abo about politics, find a Fluffy cat video, something ridiculous.
Fat cats are hilarious, like it once, like another one.
Watch what happens now on your feed. It feeds you
what you want. But for the kids. Yes, I think
it's a good idea. Do I think sixteen's too old? Well,
here's the problem. It's not about whether or not it's

(01:00:20):
too old, it's whether or not they're going to be
able to get around it. I would go with thirteen.
I think that's fine. I think thirteen is. I mean,
you can't I can't blame social media for predators. They're
always out there. I can't blame them for all things.
I think they have a responsibility, but I think we're

(01:00:40):
also asking them to be perfect when in reality they're not.

Speaker 22 (01:00:44):
Two fifteen year olds are now challenging the law in
a country's highest court.

Speaker 23 (01:00:48):
As a young Australian, we as a whole have our
constitutional right taken away from us, and we will also
be invisible with this band.

Speaker 22 (01:00:58):
Some critics also say the band and may push kids
to join unregulated apps that take them to darker corners
of the Internet. Elon Musk, who owned Zack's, previously slamming
the law, saying it seems like a backdoor way to
control access to the Internet by all Australians. According to
a national study commissioned by the Australian government, ninety six
percent of children ages ten to fifteen, we're using social

(01:01:20):
media and seven out of ten had been exposed to
harmful content and behavior. Australia as a Safety Commissioner says
she believes the country's law will serve as a template
for other countries and the European Union, which despite pushback
from big Tech, is now eyeing a similar ban.

Speaker 17 (01:01:34):
I've always referred to this as the first domino, which
is why they push back.

Speaker 22 (01:01:39):
For Dimmy, he's now counting down the days until he
turned sixteen.

Speaker 23 (01:01:43):
Full people that are still twelve years old, thirteen years sold,
they're going to restart their whole journey again once they're
turned sixteen. I think that's a bit of a pain.

Speaker 18 (01:01:50):
Point, a live experiment that the world is watching.

Speaker 3 (01:01:53):
Yes, so for other countries New Zealand, Denmark, several others
are looking they're going to propit p BNX. And I'm
not saying it's it's not a good idea to have
some restriction, But what I am saying is I it's
like when I was a kid growing up. Okay, and
I talked a bit about this last night in the video,
but snapshot I remember in Hollywood right like there was

(01:02:16):
a different strokes everybody went Dana Plato right went crazy.
You had what you're talking about, Will it's you know,
bridges that had issues And everybody's like, well, it's cause
of Hollywood, and I'm like, I don't know. I got
a lot of friends that are wacky. I got friends
who have serious problems or drugs. I have friends who
who unfortunately committed suicide. They weren't anywhere near Hollywood. They weren't.

(01:02:41):
So there's a lot to go into this. And the
other part is parents. We have to be responsible too,
in the sense that we've allowed kids to get on
social media, we didn't regulate it our own selves, and
we allowed it at times to be a babysitter. It's
blamed to go all around here. It's going to be
interesting to see how this plays out, and it's also

(01:03:03):
going to be very interesting to see what other countries
are going to try to adopt something similar to this.
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Speaker 12 (01:04:47):
Welcome to chest No, not the country, the institution, the
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:04:54):
Now, as you know, we do want to hit Wonder
Wednesday every single Wednesday. But it's Christmas time. So I
said to self self, we should have some one Hit
Wonder Christmas as well. But then we're also doing the
worst Christmas songs of all time, the top five according
to about nine hundred different charts and surveys out there.

(01:05:16):
So I decided, Hey, you know what, let's put them
both together. It's gonna sound weird, but here we go.
Now it's time for another edition of One Hit Wonder Wednesday.
You may not remember the name of the band, but

(01:05:41):
you definitely know the song. This Bruiser, this is one
Hit Wonder Wednesday. All right, now, I'm gonna tell you
guys this I don't hate this song once a year,

(01:06:04):
and by that I mean one time I hear it
and that's enough. My daughter, she thinks it's hilarious. She's seven.
We don't have the same taste of music. But do
I understand why people hate it? Absolutely? And do I
understand why people also at times loved it? Yes. The

(01:06:25):
song itself was recorded by a young lady. They believe
she was ten at the time. She's born and raised
and just outside of Tulsa, Okay. So she records the song.
She goes to New York. She records the song. It
becomes a smash Hits nineteen fifty three. Her name is
Gayla Peevey. The song is about a hippo because that's

(01:06:47):
all she wants for Christmas. You see, is a hippo.
That's it. She was like ten. They flew to New York,
she went in, she sang the song. She even changed
the words, she said, of the song to give it
more of a you know, a kid feel.

Speaker 20 (01:07:00):
And I kind of took the song and did some
things with it that were different than what you know,
they had intended. But I think it turned out good
because it was a march. It is a march and
it's a marching band, and so I kind of got
into that, and you know that I wanted, you know,

(01:07:21):
that was kind of my thing. And then stuttering on
the hippopotamususes that wasn't in there, and I didn't know
if they would like that or not. And Mitch Miller said,
keep it, keep it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:33):
I like that. Well, you liked it. A lot of
other people did. It charted that year number twenty four,
Ladies and Gentlemen. She was ten at the time, still
live living in San Diego, California. The One and only
Gala Beavie. I want a hippopotamus is this is for Christmas.

Speaker 24 (01:08:00):
I wanta hip for bottomus for Christmas. Only a hip
for bottomus will do. Don't wanta doll do.

Speaker 20 (01:08:11):
Dinkydink or toy.

Speaker 24 (01:08:12):
I wanta hip for foutamus a way with and enjoy.
I want a hip for bottomus for Christmas. I don't
think Santa Claus willmind you. He won't have to use
a dirty chimney flu just bring him through the front door.
That's the easy thing to do.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I'm telling you, guys, I don't have a disdain for
the song, but then I do. It is both catchy
and annoying and Gala. By the way, Uh, we spoke
to her several years ago and uh, very nice. And
again I see why people hate the song, and it charted,

(01:08:59):
It was a big hit, comes around each and every
single year and still does its thing. The interesting thing
about the song itself is what they did right. Kids
and parents back in the day fell in love with

(01:09:19):
it to the point where they said, oh my god,
and they fell in love with her. She was on
the Ed Sullivision show, did all the things. She never
had another hit. And by the way, I was just
watching something from her the other day. She sounds when
she sings exactly like this kind of I mean, you know,
she's a little older, but it sounds almost identically the same.

(01:09:40):
One of the interesting things that happened, though, is they decided, hey,
you know what she needs. She needs her own hippo.
Wait what Yes, that's what they decided. They decided we
should buy her her own hippo. You mean like for
the zoo, No, like for her? Wait what there?

Speaker 24 (01:10:02):
I wanted a bottles chrismus only.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
I'm not lying. They decided to do that. They went
and raised a bunch of money to buy old Gala
peev there at the time, not so old, aged ten,
her own hippopotamus, not a pigmy one either, not one
of those pet ones they have pet ones. They don't
have pet ones, unless, of course, you're Pablo Escobar.

Speaker 20 (01:10:31):
They started running ads in the paper and telling kids, hey,
you know, let's send in your nickels and dimes and
we can raise enough money to buy Gala Hippo. And
it was called the Gala Peevy Hippo Fund with and
they were able to buy Matilda and ship her in
on Christmas Eve. She came in a crate and I

(01:10:53):
was the first one to peek in and see her,
and it was quite exciting.

Speaker 3 (01:10:57):
Yeah, she uh, she said. Nobody asked me if I
wanted a hip hop She gets asked all the time, though,
she says, and you can hear in her voice while
she still sounds the same. Do you make any money
off this? I mean it is you know, we always
talk about it, having those big songs, especially around Halloween,

(01:11:19):
Monster Mash or you know, Christmas in particular. That's got
to make you some money.

Speaker 20 (01:11:25):
Oh, people really think I'm just raking in the money
and royalties and everything. Not not true. I wish it
was that. Probably the writer of the song is getting royalties,
but the artist I got nothing. I got nothing, zippo.

(01:11:46):
But just the fun of, you know, having people hear
the song and know that it was me singing it,
I guess is going to be it?

Speaker 3 (01:11:54):
That is it your one hit wonder on this Wednesday
and the number five worst Christmas song of all time?
One and the same gala pv I Want a Hippopotamus
for Christmas? Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty four
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Benson Show. Coming up hour number two of the program venezuela.

(01:12:17):
What's going on there? Also? Do you guys know who
pantone is? Not to be confused with panteene. I already
did that big mistake. Not the same. One is about colors, right,
naming colors? So this I don't know what they're but
they're apparently rather popular. The other is for hair. This
has nothing to do with hair, but all to do

(01:12:38):
with colors, and it's causing Dare I say, controversy speaking
to controversy? So you want to come to our country.
You better have your social media handle ready to show us.
Oh yeah, wait, you hear this so much other stuff.
It is coming straight up. Hour number two is straight
ahead Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:12:58):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:13):
You're listening to the best of Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (01:13:27):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:13:30):
It's the economy. The numbers say it. The numbers always
say it. When you ask voters what's the most important thing,
it's the economy. It's the economy. It's number one or two,
it's never number eight. We don't really care about that.
What we really care about is how panda bears are
doing in the wild. Nobody, it's the economy, stupid. It's
always the economy. And Trump has to get out and

(01:13:53):
he has to sell the economy. He has to. They
talked about it last hour. What you're telling everybody, what
you're saying isn't working. So what do you do? You
pivot right, You're you're on stage, you're doing your stuff.
Your old material is bombing. It's bombing. Oh jeez, it's

(01:14:16):
not working. It's not working. So now you have to decide, Okay,
what am I gonna do for Remember, how am I
gonna pivot. How am I going to make this something
the audience wants and he's trying everything. The economy isn't great,
It's not horrible. See, this is the thing. Saying the
economy is not great doesn't mean it's horrible. Saying people

(01:14:38):
are stressed out. We're always stressed this time of year, okay,
I mean that doesn't change why it's Christmas. Yesterday I
was out at an event and I'm out there and
it was a for you know, the Angel tree where
you go through a tree and like in the mall
or something, you take it off from the Salvation Army.
And this was a like a toys we call it Hoyfield,

(01:15:01):
and this was all about the people who didn't get
picked on the Angel Tree, okay. And I was talking
to a lot of the sponsors, the Salvation Army that's
putting it on. We were chatting and it looked normally
this time of year, it's a stressful time. Parents never
want to tell their kids no. They get stressed about
a lot of different things. It's the end of the year.

(01:15:21):
You're looking ahead to twenty twenty six. It's the busy
time for a lot of play. There's a lot going on,
but it is different this year. Inflation is still high.
You sold everybody that this was the fix. Bring me in,
I fixed the problem, Bring me in, and I sort

(01:15:42):
this out.

Speaker 1 (01:15:43):
And now.

Speaker 3 (01:15:45):
People are going, Okay, we're waiting, we're waiting. And then
you're telling everybody no, no, no, no, no no, you
don't understand. Everything is great, everything is amazing. You're just
listening to the media and they're liars. No, they're not.
They're listening to the people. They're listening to polls. They're
also people who consume much like me, I know how

(01:16:09):
expensive life is, you know when I talk about this
and people are like, I can't believe you said. No,
I know how expensive life is because I live it
every single day like everybody else does. But it doesn't
mean it's horrible. And this is the problem. Fix the issue.
It's not that hard to have a conversation with the

(01:16:31):
American people and to fix this and change the narrative,
as opposed to continuing to tell everybody, yeah, you guys
are a hot mess. You don't even understand how bad
things are elsewhere. People don't care about elsewhere, right, Like
we don't care. It's like when we were a kid
it's like Johnny does in the street. I don't care

(01:16:53):
what Johnny does. I care about here. It's the same thing.
So now what do you do?

Speaker 9 (01:16:57):
You have to.

Speaker 3 (01:17:01):
Move the narrative from the problem is real. Okay, not
that it's not real, let it's hope. But with the
problem being real, I am the person that's going to
help you fix it. And we're gonna do this by X, Y,
and Z, and it is going to take time, and
there's going to have to be some lean times, but

(01:17:21):
it's gonna be a generational fix because that's what we're
going for. And everything that we're trying to do is
not for just today. It's for tomorrow, it's for next month,
it's for next year and beyond. But those things don't
come easy, and we're all gonna have to tighten our
belts at times.

Speaker 25 (01:17:38):
In a new Reuter's ipsos pull out fifty six percent
disapprove of how Trump is handling the cost of living
just thirty one percent approve. The president himself has acknowledged
he won in large part because he promised to bring
down prices on day one, but he now calls the
issue of affordability a quote Democrat hoax, The price of

(01:18:00):
groceries is up from a year ago, including products impacted
by Trump's tariffs. Coffee up forty one percent, sirloin steak
twenty percent.

Speaker 3 (01:18:10):
You listen to that there are things that are down.
Gas is down, right, I mean, it's not super cheaper
than it was last year, but it is down, and
it stayed steady. We haven't had big bounces all over
the place inflation start out the year three, drop down
to two and a half, back up the three. But
that's okay. Look, some of these things are going to happen,

(01:18:35):
but you have to be with the people, and you
have to recognize honesty with the people absolutely matters. And
when you treat them like adults, they're willing to give
you the opportunity to do what to fix the problem.
When you start blaming everybody else, people get a little
bored with that. They do this right here, I just

(01:19:00):
clipped this and this was a longer segment, and it's
not taking out a context. They were talking about Batya.
You know, Sargar was talking about this on News Nation.
The reality of how that yes, you know what, things
are a little bit more expensive, but wages are starting
to rise with the wages starting to ride, So guess
what happens, stuff is going to be a little bit

(01:19:21):
more expensive. It's kind of that, you know, you're going
to have to take some of that with the fact
that maybe wages are going to grow and do certain things.

Speaker 26 (01:19:29):
But then she said this, their wages are going up,
and so to a certain extent, they cannot expect food
to get that much cheaper. This is not a message
you can say and win elections, and so part of
the truth here has to be a little bit massaged.

Speaker 3 (01:19:45):
Translation. You've got to lie or you and remember lying
in this case in some in politics and the media
in today's world is not always about just old face lies.
Trust me, I've heard a lot of them over the
last several months and over years of following politics.

Speaker 8 (01:20:06):
But it is a.

Speaker 3 (01:20:09):
Lie. By omission gases down, it is energy's down, natural
gases out, big time offsets kind of that. You're gonna
see a lot of these data companies with AI coming
in that are going to soak up a lot of
stuff there. I mean, again, it's not doom or gloom,
but you have to message it better. You've got to

(01:20:34):
message it better. And then blaming everybody because that's what
he kind of he went on the greatest Hits last
night of it's everybody else's fault. And because that because
if you've ever seen a comic who maybe struggles, they'll
do that, right, they'll do that. They'll they'll maybe things

(01:20:56):
aren't going well. So what do they do. They go
into their raunchy blue stuff. They go into like the
certain kind of greatest hits that they know are going
to work over and over. It's not gonna, you know,
change anything, it's not gonna win any new hearts. But
it's just to keep the crowd happy.

Speaker 25 (01:21:15):
The President launching into vicious attacks against Somali immigrants, calling
them lazy and garbage, and continuing to go after Democratic
Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, who is a naturalized US citizen,
The President rousing the crowd with demands she leave the country.
Trump then veering into an anti immigrant tirade.

Speaker 3 (01:21:36):
So this will be you know, that works for a
certain group. Remember, and this is what I try to
tell everybody, is a generational issue. Right now, you're in
your sixties, seventies, late fifties, you own a house, you've
got money in the bank, you've got a situation where
you've got a four to one K or a pension.
You love the fact that we've got this K shaped

(01:21:58):
kind of economy because you don't really care about all
a lot of the other stuff. What are you looking at.
You're looking at the four to one K and it's
rising and it's great, and you're taking more money out
of it, and you're living your life and you've got
money in the bank and you don't have a housepayman,
Oh my god, it's a wonderful day. You're forty five,
you're thirty five, you're living with your parents, but you're

(01:22:22):
still making good money, and you're hoping to buy a
house in the next year, and you're saving up, but
you still have all these other things to pay your
A husband and wife are spending in two thousand, twenty
five hundred dollars a month on childcare. Right, so you're
spending twenty five hundred bucks a month on childcare and
your wife and you are looking going is even worth it?

(01:22:44):
Because after everything's said and done, I mean, we're not
spending time with the kids and half of our salaries
eating up by the child care. You going into a
rant about immigration isn't going to fix that problem. They
want to hear about what are you going to do
to be the solution to the problem when it comes

(01:23:05):
to the economy three two, three, five, three eight, twenty
four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show is Your Acts,
Your Insta, YouTube, Facebook, and more. It's interesting. I was
talking to my uncle last night. We were joking about
immigration because he's like, look, if he gets immigration, that's like, Paul,
I love you, brother. But if he gets immigration fixed,
that's great. But by the way immigration's fixed, what we

(01:23:27):
do with the people here and the deportation method and
that kind of stuff, that's that's that's different. I mean
that takes you know. He's like, well, I think people
are fine. I said, people aren't find seeing how the
sausage is made. No, they don't want to see people
arrested who aren't criminals. Right, the little lady down the
street is making your tamalies for Christmas. They don't want

(01:23:48):
to see her arrested by a bunch of dudes in
mass They don't she shouldn't be here. We need to
figure out what to do, and we need to do
it in a way where we show some compassion. But
they don't want to see that again, the sausage being made.
But I did tell him this. I said, you know
what though he should do, is he should go. And
he said, Look, everybody who's either wants to come here

(01:24:09):
and applying to work here for something, or who's already
here and on a green card, right and you'd like
to make that permanent and or become a citizen, come
work for ICE, help us out. You've got better connections
in the community. You can do it in the right way.

(01:24:32):
And after two years or whatever an ICE, after three years,
we will give you a pathway to citizenship. They would
never do that. I just said it. It's a thick
outside the box thing. We do that with the military.
Want to be a citizen, Come serve in the American Military.
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You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:26:24):
The controversy of Venezuela continues and people are looking around
going what the hell is going on? I don't know.
I will say this though, I'm still trying to figure
out where's Pete Hegseeth, as is everybody else. Apparently the
Gang of eight right during these hearings, they got no
opportunity to see the video. And there's a certain you know,

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let's be real, the way that this has been played.
And we talk about both Mike Liones, our military analysts,
who is very much a fan of this administration, but
he has said they are fumbling the ball. This is
not to say again, I'm gonna call it as they
see it. They're fumbling it. I think Pete Hegseth is
in over his head. I do not think he should

(01:27:06):
be in this position. I think he had a chance,
and he has been. He has failed, he has But
we better figure this thing out because as I've been saying,
and I will continue to say, don't do what Obama did.
Obama drew a red line in the sand. Remember that

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Syria Asad the red line was crossed, nothing happened. That's
what he said. I don't do whatever the hell I
want now, because I know you have no spine.

Speaker 27 (01:27:41):
We've seen significant military build up. I mean, we've been
in this position for a long time, and of course
everyone is looking at President Trump and really asking what
is your endgame? What is your plan? He is feeling
the heat from his own party on this. Keep in mind,
if President Trump backs off from these threats against Nikolas Maduau,
the president of Venezuela, it could only really embolden him

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because if the United States has put this pressure on
him and he stays in power, you know, people will
see him as somebody who looked the devil in the
eye and survived.

Speaker 3 (01:28:13):
You can't have that. You cannot have that. You cannot
be in a position where you do nothing now, which
means we're going to do something. Now. Does that necessarily
mean a ground invasion? No, I mean we have talked
about it anywhere between what do we have fifteen to
twenty thousand there, and Mike lyons our military analysts, as

(01:28:34):
has several other analysts, said you're going to need anywhere
between another sixty to one hundred plus thousand if you're
going to think about a ground invasion, and then you've
got to think about the afters Okay, is there going
to be a civil war? Even if you remove Maduro
now or he decides to leave. What happens at that
point in time? Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,

(01:28:57):
twenty three at Chad Benson shows your ex right here
in the Chad Benson Show. Is there going to be
a civil war. There's going to be a fight to
take control. There's going to be his people left behind
that were loyal to them who are going to want
to make sure they stay in power because their ass
doesn't want to be in trouble. So there's a lot
on this, but we have now made it priority number

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one to get this guy, and I think we're going
to do it at some point in time. It's not if,
but when, let me know what you think. Meanwhile, speaking
of foreign things, this is being reported today. I hope
it's not true. What the hell are we doing? But
we plan to scrutinize foreign tourist social media history. That's

(01:29:39):
what we plan to do. We plan to look back
five years so to get a visa, even if you're
not getting a visa, so from France and Britain, they
don't need a visa to come here and visit. But
even if you don't need a visa, you have to share.
I don't even know how you do this. How do
you share five years?

Speaker 8 (01:29:58):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:29:58):
Who are you sharing that with? Like? Do I get
an officer? You come into the country and you go
over and you're like, hey, here, here's all the stuff
I've posted on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok YouTube for the last
five years. What the hell are we doing? Travelers visiting

(01:30:19):
United States from countries like Britain, France, Germany, South Korea
could soon have to go undergo a review of five
years of their social media history. This is being proposed.
It was filed yesterday by the US Customs and Border
Protection Agency. The change would affect visitors eligible for the
Visa Waiver program, which allows people from forty two countries
to travel to United States for up the ninety days

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without a visa, as long as they obtained electronic travel authorization. Yeah,
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That's why Woman Wednesday. This is where white women tell us.
And by white women, I mean not one, but two
Jess and we'll do her in a minute. Boys, She's
got a great one for us and the other one
our good friend Kylie. She likes to tell us heteronormative
cist male gender identifying he him's like me hee him.

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So let's find out what do we need to work on. People. Remember,
I don't do this because I want to. I do
this because I know we have to put in the
work if we're going to be better. And there are
a lot of frauds out there, and I don't like frauds.
I'm fine with frogs, but frauds. Know.

Speaker 19 (01:31:56):
Yesterday I met a men's rights activist and she admitted
to it not being I was walking around the downtown
area and ended up talking to this girl.

Speaker 7 (01:32:02):
She was super nice and she's like, oh my god,
I do content. I was like, oh, me too. She
showed me her accounts and my jaw drop.

Speaker 19 (01:32:08):
She has seventy or eighty thousand followers on TikTok, and
when she saw my face, she was like, oh, don't worry,
Like I don't actually believe this stuff.

Speaker 7 (01:32:14):
I just do it so that men send me money.

Speaker 19 (01:32:16):
So she'd be like, yeah, women are way too choosy.
Women have high standards women are the reason that everything
is going wrong in society right now plays into their
sexism and misogyny so that her videos go viral, she
gets money for the Creator Fund, and men send her
money for being one of the good. One problem is
I have zero respect for her or her job. I
don't care whether she believes it or not. What she's
doing is she's creating a platform that legitimizes their misogyny.

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The craziest part was that she still seemed interested in
being friends despite that being her job as a grifter.

Speaker 7 (01:32:45):
And this should just show you that a.

Speaker 19 (01:32:46):
Lot of people who are spouting this conservative nonsense they
don't believe it. They are just doing it for a
check because these ignorant and hateful people need someone to
validate those feelings.

Speaker 7 (01:32:55):
And it seems like it pays quite well too. Please
don't do this, thank you?

Speaker 3 (01:32:59):
Okay? Well bah, that's also why though I don't grow
the way that others do, because I don't play the
game of insanity and lunacy. But I will say this, okay.
The insane things that happened happen not just on the
left but the right as well. Both sides use social

(01:33:20):
media and say crazy things right, hot takes things like
that where they'll say stuff that's ridiculous because they're looking
for clicks, they're looking for likes, they're looking for all
the things. If you will, so, am I surprised that
you know that may or may not have a true
she does the same thing. Do I think she believes
all of this stuff? And she's young, she's twenty three,
she might believe a vast majority of it. Do I
think she is? You know your ideal at that? Dad?

(01:33:42):
You should be You should be ideal? Shouldn't be Jai?
I was very jaded. I've always been that kind of way, right,
I've always had that kind of attitude. And it's I
don't know why. Well, probably because of the life I
led when I was young and the things that happened
to me and stuff, and it was tough. But I
just you should have a little bit of that, right
that that idealism. That being said, it's a business. An

(01:34:06):
influencer is a business. It's like I said, with politicians,
it's a business. Go look at their mission statements if
you will. Is I like to joke, you go to
the Democratic headquarters or the Republican headquarters, doesn't matter which
side they got there there. You know, you should have
that mission statement up there, right, And so the mission

(01:34:27):
statement is whatever they think they're supposed to be for,
for limited government and the quality and blah blah blah
blah blah. You know, I'm joking about the mission statement,
but you get where I'm going to the ideals of
what it is that built these parties. In reality, it's
just a uniform. Are there some that wholeheartedly believe this stuff? Yes,
but a vast majority of them lands somewhere in the middle.

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It's a business. This is just the side I'm on.
If I had to flip the script and go more
this direction or that direction to get reelect did or
face losing one hundred percent, I'll flip. It's a business, baby,
it is. Speaking of that, yesterday, I was flipping around

(01:35:12):
as I do, and there was this lawyer talking about
as a female lawyer. Excuse me she maybe they then,
but I'm pretty sure she's she is. She's a woman lawyer.

Speaker 8 (01:35:26):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:35:27):
And she was talking about ladies, do not marry for love, Okay,
do not marry with somebody who's going to give you
all the things you want, because love will never work.
Love will it's not going to work, right, it's a
business arrangement and all the things that that the woman
should tick off. And I commented back, I agree, one

(01:35:49):
hundred percent. Sounds great. Now does the man have a
say in this? Well, what's that supposed to me? Well,
I mean does the man have to say?

Speaker 20 (01:35:57):
So?

Speaker 3 (01:35:58):
If if you want this and this right, whatever it
is that you want that you're demanding, is a must
have in your world, then does that man also get
to have his must haves? So if you want somebody

(01:36:18):
to be uber successful and you want to stay at
home and you want to wear the yoga pants and
do pilates and go out with the you know, and
have brunch in the middle of the day, if that's
what you want, is does the man have a right
to say that sounds fine. I'm willing to do that.
By the way, you will be doing pilates every day.

(01:36:41):
You asked, better be banging it hot. If you put
on twenty or thirty pounds. There's going to be issues
outside of a child. But the minute the child come,
you know, does the man have the right And a
bunch of people attacked me and I'm like, well, see,
you guys all want to say, this is what I want.
I demand this, this, and this. If a man demands

(01:37:04):
something back, it's wrong. Don't get cheated, fellas. That was
one of the other things she said, though, But Fellas,
make sure you get everything pre nup wise and I said, ooh,
look at that. There, Oh look at that. Speaking of women,
you guys can be cruel as much as men can be.
This lady if you don't know who she is. We've
talked about her before, but now she's she's blowing up,

(01:37:25):
as the kids would say, because of how many people
are awful to her. And I think now a lot
of it is because people want her to read her
their stuff on the air and they're trying to make
her laugh as horrible as it is. And deell.

Speaker 18 (01:37:41):
And that's with this anchor.

Speaker 15 (01:37:42):
After viewers trold her about her weight, she hit back
by reading the meanest comments on social media.

Speaker 8 (01:37:49):
She spoke with our Anne Ricagliano.

Speaker 27 (01:37:52):
I'm cursa Codell.

Speaker 28 (01:37:53):
This news anchor is fighting back against trolls and their
insults about her weights. In her news anchor voice, Carissa
Codell is reading the meanest comments.

Speaker 29 (01:38:04):
As you guys can see from this graphic here, pig
emoji built for breeding.

Speaker 28 (01:38:09):
Tonight at five, and she's doing it with a sense
of humor.

Speaker 29 (01:38:13):
I ain't never worked as hard as them ankles.

Speaker 18 (01:38:17):
She just can't stop laughing over this rude comment.

Speaker 2 (01:38:20):
She's like, the only fat nine I've ever seen.

Speaker 3 (01:38:25):
What happened to?

Speaker 7 (01:38:25):
Just you look nice?

Speaker 3 (01:38:28):
I liked that that was funny. She was laughing about
the I never see anything work so hard as those ankles.
It's not very nice. She laughs about it, because what
it does is it takes this thing off. Now I've said,
I think now people send stuff into her because they
want them, you know, to be read on the air.
But the fact that anybody would do that at first,

(01:38:50):
and I look, I've got a friend. She has since
retired from the news world, and she was a very
big news anchor. When she got pregnant, people blasted her
for putting on weight. Was insane.

Speaker 28 (01:39:05):
I spoke to the anchor with KOLRTV and Missouri, which
calls itself ozarks.

Speaker 18 (01:39:10):
First, you're laughing about them now, right? Did it hurt
at first?

Speaker 7 (01:39:13):
Honestly, no, it never really really got to me. I
never lost any sleep over it.

Speaker 18 (01:39:18):
Are you shocked by the insults? Does it surprise you some.

Speaker 15 (01:39:22):
Of them do.

Speaker 7 (01:39:23):
Yes.

Speaker 17 (01:39:24):
I get shocked by the people that seem genuinely angry
that continue to comment things about my weight.

Speaker 7 (01:39:31):
Well, I have bake news. When you can have cake news.

Speaker 28 (01:39:35):
I bet she's thick and tired of reading these comments.

Speaker 20 (01:39:41):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (01:39:42):
Oh that doesn't make me laugh. You gotta be able
to laugh, because what does it do? It takes the
sting out of the bullies. I always remember the M
and M movie eight Mile two thousand and two, phenomenal movie.
Do you remember the Last Rap Battle? Spoiler alert? But
it's twenty almost twenty four years old, where he all
the things the guy was going to say horrible about him,

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He beat to him and then tore him up. What's
that do? It took away the sting and that's how
he won. And when you can laugh at yourself, that
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Serving up talk radio, medium, rare and dripping with irony.

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It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 3 (01:41:37):
It's Wednesday. So you know what we do we have
a lot of fun with the liberals. White woman Wednesday.
This is where these young women Jess and Kylie tell
us men and anybody who's conservative or libertarian, leaning conservative
or just whatever, how bad everything is and how it's
all white people's fault. And speaking of white Jess as

(01:42:00):
she's gonna tell some stuff, so be prepared.

Speaker 29 (01:42:02):
Pantone can call this choice a political but the culture
it reflectses anything.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
But I just want to talk. We're gonna go back
to a second. If you don't know what Pantone is,
this is the new controversy in the world. Pantone apparently okay.
It is a limited liability company headquartered in karl Stadt,
New Jersey, and it's known for the Pantone matching system, right,
So it's all about colors with them. So and they've

(01:42:28):
named their color of the year. No, no, the color
like a color. Wait do you hear the color of
the year.

Speaker 29 (01:42:35):
Pantone can call this choice a political, but the culture
it reflectses anything but. Pantone named cloud dancer Akay white
as color of the Year, while insisting it has nothing
to do with race or politics, saying that skin tone
did not factor into this at all. But claiming white
as neutral as a political statement in itself. It's the
aesthetic version of I don't see color or I love jeans,

(01:42:56):
and their description of it as a whisper of calm
in a noisy world is the obvious question.

Speaker 18 (01:43:02):
Calm for who?

Speaker 29 (01:43:03):
Because this color only reads as calming if you ignore
the socio political context, not makes whiteness culturally dominant, or
if you actively align with it.

Speaker 7 (01:43:11):
Let's be direct.

Speaker 29 (01:43:12):
Elevating whiteness is the ideal aesthetic in twenty twenty five
mirrors the political moment. We're living in, a moment defined
by ice rates, nativest rhetoric, and a mainstream conservative push
towards order, purity and a return to traditional values, the
same values appearing in the esthetics and color palettes dominating
your feed.

Speaker 3 (01:43:30):
You got all that from a color. It's cloud dancer. No,
it's just white. You guys can call whatever you want
to call it, lovey cloud. Oh my god, No, Chad,
you don't get it. Okay, you know this is yet
another symbol of racism. This is yet another symbol of evil.

(01:43:50):
This is yet another symbol of all of the bad
things that are going on in the world based on
a color like a palette. First of all, when I
heard about Pantone in this, I thought, don't they do shampoo?
Isn't that who this is? Found out it's not, that's panteen.

(01:44:12):
This is Pantone, totally different Panteen, pantone two separate companies.

Speaker 29 (01:44:17):
Fascist movements have always relied on esthetics that glorify simplicity, restraint,
and homogeneity. Nazi Germany famously promoted natural textiles, muted color palettes,
and visual uniformity the signal racial purity and ideological control.
It's an aesthetic that strips away individuality. Don't be too much,
too loud to found it into black, too queer, in
favor of a conservative performance of taste and self expression.

(01:44:40):
I reference this all the time. But in Cabaret, the
flamboyant KitKat Club dancers of Act one finish Act two
in all beige suits, representing the rise of fascism in Berlin.
This exact dynamic that's showing up in culture and commerce.

Speaker 3 (01:44:52):
Again, this is a color Pantone. If you're not paying
attention here, I know it's hard pantone, which is not
p Do not get them confused. I did it. It
was a mistake. They specialized in naming colors, and they
announced the Cloud Dancers the color of the year, calling
it a symbol of calming influence in a frenetic society.

(01:45:13):
You and I would call it white, oh, because of
the racism. Now it's just it's just it's it's what
how did we get here? Just wait? How how did
you say? Hey, look, this is very calming, it's very soothing. Right,
it's very you know, very a political. And then it

(01:45:34):
became anything but a political because Pantone is once again
showed everybody the evil that is in color tones.

Speaker 29 (01:45:43):
So when Pantone says this color is a political that
framing is actually the real tell. Framing whiteness is the
absence of politics is exactly how politics rooted in whiteness
gain power from turning point USA is white Christian nationalist
talking points being framed as the harmless opinions of a
family oriented Christian man. To brand seeing this and adopting
the same aesthetics because the only thing they care about

(01:46:03):
is their bottom line, which is why, ironically, Pantone may
have picked the most honest color of the year, yet
Cloud Dancer perfectly captures a moment where brands speak in
the visual language of authoritarian nostalgia, while insisting it's nothing
more than good taste.

Speaker 3 (01:46:18):
This is a color. I just want to remind your
body pantone cloud dancer. If you don't know what it is,
look at a white piece of paper and go, that's
cloud dancer. Is it crazy?

Speaker 9 (01:46:28):
Do you perfork?

Speaker 24 (01:46:29):
Like?

Speaker 3 (01:46:29):
How did you get to this point? And you wonder
why guys are like a gain wait to those hot
robots are ready to roll? Is there anything else you'd
like to tell us about? It's a color. You're overthinking this.
I mean, it's spectacular. I don't know how you get
to these things. I don't. I mean, I you know,
my wife and I we talk about this all the
time because she's very invested in the Timpoole Candice Owens

(01:46:51):
battle that's going on, but as well as as a
whole thing with turning Point and everything. And I'm not
And I'm like, and I wonder. I always joke about, like,
how does Candace get to all this stuff? You ever
notice though, that some people they get to things in
a grayish area. Oh great, that's another one right there.

(01:47:11):
You hate aliens, But I'm saying this. You know a
little joking, But reality is you get to this situation
here where you put stuff out there in a very
kind of just you know, simply asking a question, kind
of finishing got a high, and then let everybody else

(01:47:34):
make up their minds for it, and then you start
a conspiracy. That's how you do it. And this is
a conspiracy here. Do you guys like cloud Dancer, Well,
somebody was sitting there, go what could go wrong with white?
What could go wrong? We honestly, what can go wrong
with white? It's cloud dis They weren't even calling it

(01:47:55):
white anymore. We're calling it something else. To make everybody
feel better. You gotta understand something. We see the blue
skies above and you see the white puffy clouds. Those
represent the klu Klux Klan. What no, those are the
Klue Cloud Clan. It is amazing that people can get
to those places. God bless you, good good for you.

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economy is. We're gonna talk some immigration as well, speaking
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