The Issue of Affordability

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
If you're the Republicans, you know that quality matters because
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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

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you saw who they beat in the primary, Carry Lake
is a perfect example, okay, because Carrie Lake went up
against a woman by the name of Karen Taylor 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 primary.

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And yesterday the Republicans had to be jumping for joy
when they heard these magical words.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
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.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
Y'all about today.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
Now there are those that say, ain't no way, we
didn't try it a 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 hate
us in the back listen up, real loud. We gonna

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get this thing done.

Speaker 2 (01:54):
Oh that's right, Jasmine Crockett. Now you have your moment
of wow. Can 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,

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not to make noise, but to win, you gotta be
shaking your head. I'm going to show you something here.
This is this is a perfect example. So the recent
statewide survey done by the Democrats found that those who
recognize names James tall Rico and Jasmine Crockett. You're trying

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to win in a blue state. No, you're trying to
win in a red state. Oh Tallo, Rico favorability He
is a Democrat, very moderate Democrat. His favorability plus thirty
and his name recognition is up. Okay, that's Texas voters,

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not just Democrats. Us Crockett favorability forty unfavorable forty eight
minus eight ones plus thirty. The other's minus eight. Now
here's the thing. When it comes to likely Democrat voters.

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Could remember, primary voters are different than the general election.
The hardcore show up at the primary. 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

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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, 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 (04:03):
I mean, if Jasmine Crockett winds up as a Democratic 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 on 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. Paxton,
then I think they would spend money.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
So this could be a.

Speaker 5 (04:46):
Tough day for Senate Democrats' chances of retaking that majority.
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 general election.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Political journalists and pundit Chris Eliza 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 going to be a tough road for any Democrat.

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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 was 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 Hunt's a good dude.
I like him. If it was my choice, I would

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like to see Paxton Mai. But I think Paxton 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 endorse her. But it's not just always about what

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the itsu 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 next year and it's close. Let me tell you
what happens in closer situations like this. The candidate that

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is the firebrand, that says the stuff that's insane, that
says the crazy stuff because they're with 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,
but you lose the general and there's still issues out there,
like affordability, we inherited a mess.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
Affordability.

Speaker 7 (06:57):
But you can call it affordability or anything you want.
The Democrats caused 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, you know, nobody says, well,

(07:19):
what do you mean by that?

Speaker 6 (07:21):
But they just say the word.

Speaker 7 (07:23):
They never said anything else because they caused the problem.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
But we're fixing the problem.

Speaker 2 (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 of the media
world would push back and say, you're right, affordability does
seem to be issue. What can you point at that

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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 everything.
What is 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 then you see it break down like that,

(08:14):
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 rant still too damn
high mortgage rates and the cost of housing still ridiculously high.
You have people now who are worried about healthcare, and

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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 an X minute. I don't. I saw John Thune yesterday.
I say no, And here's the issue, Republicans and what

(08:56):
Trump said, the affordability thing. 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 the stupid, don't tell them the reality
doesn't exist. Go after it in that direction, and you
watch what happens things and people will give you more

(09:19):
slack when 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,

(09:41):
the lady that is, the quiet iron lady behind him,
has told him, yeah, you better get your traveling boots on.

Speaker 8 (09:49):
He's gonna have a fun next year. But we're gonna
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 him

(10:11):
on the ballot because so many of those low propensity
voters are Trump voters. Yes, there, and we saw a
week ald go Tuesday what happens when he's not on
the ballot and not active. So I haven't quite broken
it to him yet, but he's going to campaign like
it's twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
Again.

Speaker 8 (10:28):
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
to keep the maternal.

Speaker 2 (10:45):
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

(11:07):
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 gonna 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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going on, including Venezuela, among other things. This is the
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Speaker 1 (13:11):
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to you as fast as possible. Mark called yesterday talk
about affordability.

Speaker 9 (13:34):
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.

Speaker 10 (13:52):
Fifty percent five zero percent. Does that sound more affordable supportable?
Does that sound like inflation 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.

Speaker 6 (14:12):
Have to have food.

Speaker 9 (14:13):
So thank you for taking my comment.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
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,

(14:39):
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

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you can twist the 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

(15:20):
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

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as much as what's coming out. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
is your ex your insta YouTube? And more? Right here
in 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 they're

(16:02):
being told that everything is great when obviously it's not
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

(16:23):
that inflation is sticking where it's sticking. And yes, some
people expected it to happen overnight. That's ridiculous. But it's
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

(16:43):
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
things better and in some cases made things worse. Look
at tariffs yesterday olds this big thing. It's giving out
twelve billion dollars to farmers. It's a one time thing.

(17:06):
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
time ever, it's out 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

(17:28):
else's fault and you have no responsibility, you'll pay the price,
especially at the ballot box. You're missing the show. Shame
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the program. Talk about all things when it comes to
the military and war.

Speaker 11 (17:40):
Chad Benson, jef Son, Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (18:03):
The Chad Benson Show, Now Donald of the Week.

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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

(18:26):
thrown under the bus. 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
more than anything else. Give us a sense of what
the military folk are feeling about this situation.

Speaker 12 (18:45):
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 workamed.

Speaker 13 (19:00):
It was the first one.

Speaker 12 (19:01):
It was the first shot that they took, 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,

(19:21):
they knew it, they ran it by jag. 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. I'll tell you right now,
the special forces community is watching closely because if this
does happen, he does get thrown.

Speaker 13 (19:42):
Under the bus.

Speaker 12 (19:44):
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 happened.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
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 going

(20:20):
to 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 13 (20:28):
No question, they have military capability.

Speaker 12 (20:31):
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,
the Army's not involved, We're not invading anybody, and they're
not They're not not been deployed, they've not been activated,
And I'm just just trying to figure out what's just
about if we're going to think we're using hard pressure

(20:54):
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 porcupying themselves, so to speak, from US forces.

(21:15):
So I we're watching this closely and seeing, you know,
what's going on here. You know, we saw this this
Hounduras 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 one side democracy,

(21:38):
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 2 (21:51):
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,

(22:12):
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 12 (22:25):
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 sin
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

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dear life.

Speaker 13 (22:47):
For sure.

Speaker 12 (22:48):
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,
There's been a lot to talk about them. There's no

(23:09):
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, will be very
very performative. But I don't believe you're going to see
any peace anytime soon. I think there'll be this frozen conflict.

(23:30):
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 2 (23:41):
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, we've got to have some guarantee from somebody

(24:06):
that you guys are going to be here if he decides, oh,
you know what, I want some.

Speaker 12 (24:09):
More well as a minimum, they want to be able
to have a military of seven hundred and fifty thousand soldiers,
develop some navy operations. They want potentially having European Forces
station there as a trip wire, so to speak. You're
seeing this conflict now between you know, the EU has

(24:30):
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 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 of

(24:51):
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 Woodcough are you know, negotiating this thing again to
real estate guys who recognize that still the Ukraine doesn't
have any leverage.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
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 13 (25:28):
They are concerned right now.

Speaker 12 (25:29):
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

(25:52):
and posture. It's relied on the United States nuclear forces
for a while. We've got a great partner in Poland.

Speaker 7 (25:59):
Right.

Speaker 12 (26:00):
I wouldn't mind moving all of our troops out of
Germany and sending a corpse worth of troops, let's say,
forty thousand US troops put them in Poland. That would
make a big difference to Russia as well, protect lat Via,
protect all those other countries there that recently have joint
NATO in the last twenty years. So that's a security process.
I think we need to have stay close to Poland,

(26:21):
but the Europeans are still a long ways from figuring
out they're gonna be able to protect anybody.

Speaker 2 (26:25):
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 while
he moves towards the West. He always threatens if the
West moves closer to him. Wouldn't that he look at

(26:46):
that and go, this is an active war.

Speaker 12 (26:49):
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 kind 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,

(27:12):
a Pentagon it felt more strongly about it, we would
move more forces there. I think if you put a
core there, you decide to go that route, that would
have to be.

Speaker 13 (27:22):
Part of the negotiation. So Russia knew that was going
to happen.

Speaker 12 (27:26):
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 2 (27:36):
Talking to my client's military, el lest 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 shoe to drop and then we're
going to decide what we do with Taiwan and everything else.

Speaker 12 (27:56):
Yeah, you know what's going on is really why there's
you know, China just keeps up this kind of naval
pressure and naval 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

(28:17):
the pace at which the military is running there. And
if you look at a graft Abraham Lincoln, there's 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

(28:39):
guess Cambodi is more aligned with the Chinese there, so
the Chinese continued to exert their influence. I don't think
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 2 (29:00):
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 12 (29:13):
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.

Speaker 13 (29:28):
You'd have kind of like a I don't want to
see a d DA kind of invasion.

Speaker 12 (29:31):
I remember I had that presentation once in 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 you have to come in from the sea.

(29:52):
So that's why this is just this mission doesn't make
any sense at any level. When we did Panama, we
had fifteen thousand again Army troops inside of the country
that we were able to mobilize and use. 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

(30:12):
what would come from that kind of operation or to
secure success. But there will be casualties, you know, Commanders
expect losses. There'll be casualties. And I'm not sure again,
I just don't see the Peace president putting up with
that any for any length of time.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
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 12 (30:34):
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,

(30:56):
if there's any possibility of that whole opening there, it's
because we've decided to do something in our own hemisphere
and devote these kinds of resears.

Speaker 13 (31:05):
Normally, we've got carriers.

Speaker 12 (31:06):
Deployed in 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. They're not They're
not someplace else projecting power.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
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 as Saturday,
and you'll be there.

Speaker 12 (31:33):
Right yeah, ched, go or be beating Navy. I've been
going to Army Navy my whole life. 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.

Speaker 13 (31:42):
So it's, uh, it's the biggest game on the calendar.
It's on circle.

Speaker 12 (31:46):
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,
share a very good quarterback. It's hard not to like
their team, but we'll see what happens.

Speaker 13 (32:00):
We'll show up and we'll help. We'll give them a
good game.

Speaker 2 (32:02):
I appreciate you coming on that. We'll do it again
next week.

Speaker 13 (32:04):
Sounds good, brother, So tart then I love.

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Welcome to chest No, not the country, the Institution, The
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Speaker 2 (33:32):
It's cold out there, so you know what that means.
Now it's time for the Chad Attion News Weather Reports
when weather Weather's we weather the storm.

Speaker 15 (33:45):
Chicago slammed with nearly a half foot of snow in
the last twenty four hours, on top of what they
already got last week.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
The combination of like the remelted ice and the fresh
snow and everything was it was kind of like an adventure.

Speaker 15 (33:58):
Almost eighteen inches so far or this season, almost as
much as they got all of last year.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
Yikes, cold af not just there and let's go to
the Midwest. What's it like?

Speaker 16 (34:09):
Big time win Gus sixty to eighty five miles per
hour from North Dakota, parts of Montana down into the Rockies,
and it will come with snow and blowing snow tomorrow
night between Minneapolis and Duluth over to Green Bay. Eventually
that system keeps moving east. It'll make it to Pennsylvania
and New York by Wednesday, a mix or mostly rain
at the coast behind that frigid air, a big push

(34:30):
of it by the end of the week and the weekend.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
Sweet Mother of Goodness and all humanity, What about the
Pacific Northwest?

Speaker 16 (34:35):
This is a very lat Nina pattern where the West
is warm, the east, especially the Northeast and Great Lakes
are cold. Well, there is the warmth with the moisture
that fire hose bringing more than a half foot for
some people from the Olympics through Cascades. We're watching that. Eugene,
Portland and Seattle.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
So cold cold. Talking to a locally here, a meteorologist
and said, look, what we're probably gonna get right now
is an early cold front that normally we'd see in
like a February time, January February, and we're going to
see that through the first of the year. Then it'll

(35:12):
start to warm up and by mid February to March,
we'll see much more mild pattern. So I just looked
at him and said, so it's just going to be
freezing from now until April, and he said probably. What
I'm telling you, guys is bundle up?

Speaker 6 (35:28):
Is okay?

Speaker 2 (35:29):
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On top of that, do nice guys actually finished second
Plus we got a bunch of other stuff to get
to as well, including the World Cup's coming. So they've
decided to have their Pride Day game during the World Cup.

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Speaker 1 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
Sometimes you have to laugh, you do you have to laugh?
And I say that because the World Cup is coming,
not that that's a laughing matter. That's amazing. I'm super
excited about it, but because of the unintended consequences to
be super woke and cool and whatnot. I say that
because the June twenty sixth game in Seattle Lumenfield, it's

(37:21):
the Pride Match. They'd already designated this the Pride Match. Okay,
so rainbow arm bands, all that stuff. They designated this
the Pride Match. It's planned before the teams were selected. Okay,
So of all the teams that you could have as

(37:43):
the Pride Match teams, you would think, oh, geez, you
know Chad, it's a you know, France, that'd be one, right,
you know, America obviously like there, you know, because we're
gonna be playing there, so it's got to be us, right,
Like is that? No?

Speaker 17 (37:58):
No, no, no.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
The June twenty sixth game, the Pride Match game, will
between Iran and Egypt. Come on, now, you gotta laugh
a smidge, don't you, Just a smidge? Iran and Egypt.

(38:22):
And again, this was planned prior to the drawing of
the teams, so it couldn't this wasn't afterwards, and you know,
both of those teams are gonna be like, oh my god,
we don't want to wear this stuff. So the way
it's supposed to be is it's gonna elevate people with

(38:44):
pride events and Seattle across the country. And on top
of that, rainbow armbands, you know, the stuff that they
try to do. And we'll see how that goes. We'll
see how that goes over. My feeling is it's gonna
go over like a like a fart in a Han elevator.

(39:07):
So we'll see what happens there. Oh man, oh man,
oh man. Speaking of you know, immigrants love soccer. The
battle that's going on if you're not paying intention on
what's happening in what do they call Little Mokadishu in Minneapolis.
So there was a huge fraud that was perpetrated. In fact,

(39:30):
the biggest COVID era fraud took place right and it
was you know, this giant, huge, Well why they're at
three hundred million, I mean, God only knows what it'll
look like when all a said and done. But a
vast majority of the people that were part of the
fraud were part of the Somali community, which we shouldn't say, right,

(39:58):
you should be if you want to be here, you
should be embracing the community that you're in, which is Minneapolis.
You should be embracing the community of the United States
of America. But alas, we don't have that. So the

(40:21):
Somali community is the one taking the brunt, and Trump
is doing what Trump does. Doesn't want them here. You know,
they're all evil and bad. That's not true. It's not
but you're gonna get a lot of you know, this
is about outrage culture. Okay, I just want everybody understand.

(40:41):
This is about the outrage culture. Is what you're gonna see. Now,
who's more outraged? How outraged are they? How can you
spend this that everybody who is from you know, Somalia, right,
I'm the captain.

Speaker 18 (40:57):
Now?

Speaker 2 (40:57):
Is that and the outrage machine works? We've been talking
about it, we have now do I think it's nineteen
twenty As some people want to point out, This is
just like nineteen twenty. This is it, and this is
you know, this is exactly what it's going to be about.
Then as soon it's going to be all about you know,

(41:18):
the Nazis, and soon it's going to be about death camps,
and you're like, really, like, this is why we can't
have a normal conversation. And people have been asking me,
why aren't you talking a bit more about this? Because
first of all, I was more pissed about the fact
that it took them how long to catch this? Why

(41:40):
didn't they know what was going on? How much money
he's really gone? I couldn't tell you. I mean, I've
heard two fifty to three hundred million. What is it?
No idea could be more? Absolutely, And if you saw
or read any of the stuff about the way they

(42:03):
you know, I mean it was. It wasn't perpetrated by
hundreds and thousands. It was like eighty people that were
faking feeding children to the point where they were they
weren't even trying at the end, they were like on
a name generator in some cases. That's how insane this was.

(42:24):
So do I think we have a problem. No. I
think the problem was we have communities here that do
not want to acclimate to our society. We have communities
here that do not want to be a part of
our culture. Okay, And when if you look back in

(42:44):
the you know, the twenties, right the turn to the
last century, from eighteen hundred and ninety h er it's
into the twenties and thirties. You had communities that set
up right. You went where you were going to be
able to get along better. So if you go and look,

(43:05):
people landed here where they go. The Italians went where
the Italians, The Irish went where the Irish were, the
Jews went where the Jews were, the Puerto Ricans where
the perto Ricans were. That's the way it went. But
the difference was everybody's goal was to get away, right,

(43:26):
to grow, to expand your financial footprint, and to get
out of the boroughs and the areas where you originally started.
We don't have that anymore. And one thing is interesting
and and look, you guys know me. You listen to
my show, Independent as it comes, not going to be

(43:49):
su But yes, there are communities out there that are
very shut off. They don't want what we have to offer.
They're not interested in acclimating and becoming a part of society.
And that does piss me off. But do I think

(44:10):
it's a vast majority of people. No. I think a
vast majority of people that come here come here because
they want what America gives them. The opportunity for But
what I don't get caught up is, oh, it's all
Somalis are like this. I'm like, I can't do that.
I just can't do I think there's some people that

(44:32):
are bad eggs, absolutely, But is it all Somalies?

Speaker 6 (44:39):
No?

Speaker 2 (44:39):
Do I wish that more Somalis were in a position
where they would acclimate, more become part of our society,
actually integrate into our society. Right, you come here like anything.
Right when I say acclimate, it's going to take you

(45:01):
a while to get your sea legs. You come from
a war torn village and all of a sudden you
got the Minnesota Timberwolves and the mall of America. You
need to kind of get your that. That's a shock,
But then you need to integrate. The reason you came
here is because you knew about stuff like that. Let
me know what you think. Three two, three, five, three eight,

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your Insta, your YouTube, Facebook and more. Got a text
or tweet yesterday from somebody saying, you know the usual
kind of hilarity that I get sometimes with people saying
it's my favorite two about how I am the usual

(45:43):
liberal like I say, you're a liberal, you're you're bad,
you're all the things. And I laughed because, first of all,
listen to what I'm saying. Okay, and this guy he
tweets at me and he says, get this loser off
the air. He supports the anchor baby policy. I don't

(46:03):
support that, but alas, I don't look at as a
child as an anchor, I don't do. I like the
fact that people come across the border and give birth. No, no,
do I understand why they do it. Absolutely do. I
like the fact that you've got people from places like

(46:26):
Russia and China that will actually come here on tourism,
not the thing where they're escaping poverty and violence and
come here because opportunities here and they have a child here. No, no, no,
they are coming here knowing they're having a child, flying

(46:47):
over in first class landing, being whisked off to a
nice hotel where they've got nurses and doctors, and you
spend a couple of weeks here, you eventually have your baby,
you get all the necessary paperwork that baby is now
in America. That's tourism. That's the worst. But this was

(47:09):
all in the context of birthright, citizenship and whatever they're
going to rule on when they hear this will be
interesting because I don't know what they're gonna say. A
constitution says if you're born here, you are a citizen.
Will that change maybe depending on what they say when

(47:32):
it comes to this court. And do I think there's
a chance. I think there is a chance. Do I
know it to be one hundred percent certain? No? I
think on this one it's it's fifty to fifty. And
we're going to talk a little bit about about the
Supreme Court coming up. A lot of good stuff still
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a bit about it straight ahead, Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (49:49):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
Yesterday. A not so exciting, you know, to the average person.
Supreme Court hearing's going on, but it is a very
important hearing when it comes to the power of the president. Essentially,
the hearing is about cause versus at will when it
comes to the federal government. Does the president have the
right to fire somebody at will as opposed to a cause.

(50:19):
There has to be a cause. This person did something
in such a way so egregious that they must be
let go, and everybody would probably agree with that, as
opposed to saying, you know what, we've decided, we're just
going to move on from you.

Speaker 19 (50:31):
This is a case about President Trump's attempt to test
that removal protection at the Federal Trade Commission, specifically, you know,
back in March, he removed Rebecca Slaughter. She's one of
the Democratic appointed members to the FTC, and the FTC
is one of those agencies that has a removal protections.
His presidents can only fire people for cause, and he

(50:54):
said in the case of Slaughter that he simply disagreed
with her on a policy level.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
And so his thought is I want my people in there,
and so I want to build this the way that
I want to build this. Now, a lot of stuff
that Trump does, good, bad, are and different, whatever you
want to call this is not about him as a
human or any of these things are things that many
questions probably sat in the minds of other presidents, but

(51:21):
it was never tested, and Trump, for you know, like
him or not, is testing it. And these will all
be things that the next president, no matter who he
or she is, will be able to use. But there's
a bigger thing here, because a lot of people are
asking is this you know, are we seeing essentially the

(51:42):
president getting the ultimate authority that's the fear in this situation?
And how did the justices respond? It depends on what
side of the iron, whether or not you're happy.

Speaker 19 (51:54):
The government had a lot of sympathetic h justices on
that bench. You know, conserveive see this as a big
separation of powers issue.

Speaker 13 (52:03):
They see a lot.

Speaker 19 (52:04):
Of these independent agencies as wielding executive authority, and so
conservatives think it's simply part and parcel of being the
chief law enforcement officer that the president should be running
those operations with people he chooses.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
I think most presidents feel that way three, two, three, five, three, eight,
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thing about Trump is he's testing it. And yes, he
has a very conservative court that will, in my mind,
probably side with him on this. This covers about a

(52:41):
dozen or so agencies. So this will be very interesting
and a big deal again when it comes to the
separations of power and it's it'll be interesting to see
the way this thing shakes itself out. Let me know
what you think. And sticking with the court world, guess
what happened yesterday Department of Justice. They got a resignation
kind of.

Speaker 4 (53:00):
In stepping down, Alena Hobba says she aims to protect
the stability and integrity of the US Attorney's Office in
New Jersey. A panel of the Third Circuit Appeals Court
ruled against her interim appointment. Attorney General Pam Bondi says
Habba will continue on in the Justice Department as a
senior advisor, and Bondi says the Department will keep challenging
the ruling against Hobba's appointment, saying that she would return

(53:21):
to lead the US Attorney's office if the administration's argument
prevails in court.

Speaker 2 (53:25):
Now, I feel bad for her, and I touched on
this a little bit yesterday in my afternoon show. And the
reason I feel bad for her is because she was
put in a horrible situation. Okay, right, yeah, you go
after Komy and all these other things because these other
people said no, they're not going to do it. And
it was a farce. That is not her fault. You
put somebody in a horrible situation. By the way, she's

(53:48):
not a trial attorney. In fact, there is very limited
trial and she's not done any criminal cases. She was
a civil attorney. But they wanted somebody to go after them,
and in doing so what happened it exposed her and
embarrassed her, and it exposed them. It was not a
good look. Measure twice, cut once, and don't put your

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Speaker 2 (54:44):
Before we get to dating men. The Manisphere Manosphere MANNGIONI
is part of the manisphere in today's world, and he's
had some hearings and continues to do so.

Speaker 18 (54:58):
Defense attorneys say the officer who's search Man Sheioni's backpack
at the McDonald's, skipped steps and violated his rights because
she was eager to help solve a high profile murder.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
Isn't a true.

Speaker 18 (55:08):
Defense attorney said that you were actually searching his back
because you thought he was the New York City shooter.
The officer testified, we're just making sure there's no bomb.
But body camera footage shows customers and employees walking by,
and the officer conceded police never cleared the restaurant.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
That's not a good look, right, like if you think
there's a bomb. So if I always remember as a kid,
one of the most vivid things I remember from one
of my trips to Yure playing soccer. I was maybe thirteen,
one of the first times I was ever there, and
they tell you in the airport's early airport. Now this
is the eighties, mind you, so where back in the
day when there was hijackings and issues like that that

(55:46):
maybe kids didn't think much about, but they would tell
you could hear it over the air of the loudspeaker.
You know, if you leave your backpack or your stuff
unattended for more than ten minutes, it would be blowed
up essentially. And they blew up something like a controlled
little boom, and you could hear it. They'd moved everybody

(56:06):
and stuff, but you could still kind of hear it resonate,
And it was like, whoa. If you think there's a
bomb and a dude's backpack, you're going to act differently
in the Matt Donald's right, So what's not to watch?
People get blown?

Speaker 18 (56:20):
The big mac up from the backpack, The officer is
seen pulling a loaded magazine wrapped in a pair of
wet gray underwear, a hollow point bullet sticking out. Another
officer is then heard saying at this point, we probably
need a search warrant. The officer took the bag back
to the station and resumed searching scene, retrieving a three
D printed gun with a second magazine and silencer. The

(56:41):
NYPD later linked the weapon too the murder of United
Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Speaker 2 (56:46):
And this is going to be important if the defense
can prove that they acted in a way where it
violated his rights. They had no right to search his backpack.
They had no right to go inside of there. They
should have gotten a warrant. They had no right to
do any of these things. Then if that stuff gets

(57:07):
tossed out, if it's it's not, if it's inadmissible, they're
they're they're going to have to come up with some
sort of plea bargain, which is the fear that I
think a lot of people are worried about. Did you
overstep Devil's in the details? Right? But we have these
things for a reason to protect us. Now, one of
the weird things that's happened, I don't know if it's

(57:28):
even weird anymore. It's like, did you ever think that
Ojay was was ever not dating when he got out
of prison for taking those people hostage in a room
over sports memorabilia, which is still the weirdest thing in
the world. But there is the infamy thing, right, we
see it with the likes of you know, the you
name it, right, the Nightstalker, Richard Vermirez Manson. I mean,

(57:52):
we go on and on about this, this infamacy, this
bad boy thing. It's happening now with Mangioni in a
way that maybe it hasn't happened with others because of
the Internet world do we live in, because of the
fact that he's being cheered on as some sort of
hero taking on the man. It's crazy. It's fist pumping.

Speaker 20 (58:14):
Luigi, the accused assassin, looks right at the camera and
pumps his fist in a gesture of defiance at his
pre trial hearing Monday.

Speaker 21 (58:22):
I find it so revolting.

Speaker 8 (58:23):
I have no interest in it.

Speaker 21 (58:25):
I can't watch it.

Speaker 20 (58:26):
To Terry Martin, a colleague of slain healthcare executive Brian Thompson,
it's just the latest outrage that has turned handsome Luigi
Mangioni into a gen Z folk hero.

Speaker 21 (58:36):
I've never understood why there's so much attention on him,
and there has never been any comment on what kind
of person Brian Thompson actually was. This was a very
special life and nobody's even talked about him.

Speaker 2 (58:51):
And most people have no idea who Brian Thompson is.
Most people have zero idea who he is. They just
know he was the CEO, right like if you say,
how the insurance guy that got shot, they won't know
his name, but they will know who Luigi is. And

(59:12):
the women, all the women love him.

Speaker 20 (59:14):
Martin says she is appalled at the small army of
young ladies who call themselves Mangianistas and show up every
day at the hearing. Does it anger you when you
see these large groups of Luigi fans waiting outside courthouses.

Speaker 21 (59:28):
I don't know what they're thinking. I don't know what
motivates them. I can't wrap my head around you know
where their visceral anger comes from.

Speaker 20 (59:37):
We caught up with two of Mangioni's supporters outside court today.

Speaker 18 (59:41):
I think it's cute. It's a very very free spirited,
but I think it's also very hmm.

Speaker 2 (59:46):
It was good to see him in good spirits. That's so.
It's good to see that he's feeling positive about it.
That's insane. Oh my god, he's so And by the way,
these are not house frowser and there's cougars. I mean,
you got all types, and many of them are, for
lack of a better turn, insane, but also easy on
the eyes. If we're just going by looks. Why, I

(01:00:06):
don't know. It's the same reason we talk about the
fact that that one of the Menendez brothers, you know,
they're trying to get out of jail. One of them
is married and apparently he's cheating on his wife with
another woman. You're like, wait, he's in jail exactly. There's
something about it. It's the bad boys, it's the infamy. It's
a bit of everything it is and you know what
else it is too does. I had a friend who

(01:00:29):
used to date prisoners. She did, I don't know why.
She's really smart and it was, but it's the it's
knowing where they are all the time, right that you're
the focus, that you don't ever have worry about them
cheating on you. If you will, you don't have to
worry about them. You know, you were everything in their world.

(01:00:52):
But for MANGIONI I think it's something different. There is
this rock star like appeal to him in a much
different way. And the nice guy thing. We've got actual proof,
real data, backed by pseudoscience. I think we all know
that nice guys. Nice guys finish last until later in

(01:01:14):
life they grow into what women want. They're not what
women want at the beginning. How's that.

Speaker 22 (01:01:26):
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but
as a dating coach and matchmaker who's worked with over
six thousand men, I'm here to report that many of
the traits that go along with being a nice guy
do in fact hinder you in the dating market.

Speaker 23 (01:01:40):
So let's dig into that a little deeper, because is
it that, first.

Speaker 1 (01:01:43):
Of all, what makes a nice guy?

Speaker 23 (01:01:45):
Like what are those traits that you're talking about that
hinder you? And then also is it in the long
run that nice guys do, I.

Speaker 4 (01:01:52):
Mean, do better?

Speaker 23 (01:01:53):
So maybe you're just talking about the dating scene versus
the actual sealing the deal marriage situation.

Speaker 22 (01:02:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Yeah, So like, as I say, you grow into it, okay,
and there are issues that women have. It's really weird.
He's like, what do poor guys, what do you want?
What do you want? What don't you want? I want
you to be tough and mean, but soft and empathetic.
I want you to be caring and loving, but I

(01:02:22):
also want you to be able to smash somebody's head.
And I want you to be all of the things
and then none of the things.

Speaker 22 (01:02:30):
So I want to be clear. Women find kindness and
empathy attractive, but oftentimes the qualities that also make a
man attractive early on dating are at tension with that.
So being confident, not being worried about what other people think,
going after what you want are all very attractive when

(01:02:50):
it comes to dating, and so if you are overly
agreeable and scared of what other people think, that's going
to hold you back. The classic Exams ample is the
guy who's scared to rock the boat at work and
go after that raise is going to be a lot
less attractive to a woman than a guy who does
go after that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:11):
And that right there is important because women, look, we're
still just you know, we're still animals, right, We're still
we've got our animal mind in so many ways. And
do you what do women want? They want somebody inherently
that is going to be potentially a future provider, a protector,

(01:03:32):
somebody that they don't have to worry about if stuff
goes sideways. This person has it. No matter what women say,
no matter what the younger generations say, which they're eventually
going to grow out of, they're gonna this is what
they're looking for. It's just nature, guys. We know what
we're looking for, right, you know, not just a good time,
but we understand that when you meet somebody, you come

(01:03:53):
at it a certain way. And nice guys, right now,
you know.

Speaker 17 (01:03:57):
The agreeability ah geez, so agreeable? Now what they want
to is being agreeable is okay. But what they don't
want is somebody who's who's a jerk, right, so agreeable.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
In the sense that you know what, yeah, you know,
let's have dinner. Oh yeah, I agree, we'll go there.
That's fine. What they don't want is somebody who's going
to be mean to to the waiter waitress, like that's
a big no no no no no no no no
no no no. So niceness, kindness, those kind of things
they do scare the younger women away.

Speaker 24 (01:04:30):
So before everybody goes out to get a neck tattoo
and start dealing drugs, is it possible that most people,
when you think of nice guys, they confuse nice guys
with tryhards, and that maybe what girls really don't like
are tryhards.

Speaker 22 (01:04:46):
Absolutely, And if you are overly nice and you are
afraid of what other people think, that often will hold
you back from approaching a woman in person, for example,
because inherently, if you are approaching strangers, can I hear rejection,
you're going to get people aren't nice to you back.
And so if you're scared of that tension and you're

(01:05:07):
scared of that adversity, then you're going to be less
likely to approach, and that is also something that women
find unattractive.

Speaker 2 (01:05:15):
But women also, I don't know how many times I
see women, you know, flipping around. And there's a famous
one from a few months ago. We have these two
women in their thirties, you're good looking women, and they're
walking there in Florida, right. It's kind of summertime, so
like August, you know, ish time, and they're walking and
she's like, somebody better grab my boob and butt tonight
and buy me a drink. I'm sick and tired of

(01:05:36):
nobody talking to us. Well, you've kind of made it
so it's it's tough to approach people, are you know,
they're thinking, what what do you think? What do you know?
Are we gonna get yelled at? Am I going to
get in trouble for this? Nice guys? Be nice?

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
Ish?

Speaker 2 (01:05:53):
How's that? Oh? I like that. We'll get deeper into
the manisphere, probably tomorrow, because I also find that fascinating.
There's a new report out about the manisphere and what
it says about what's going on in the world of men,
especially young men in today's world, and they break it
down by race as well as the generation you're from,

(01:06:19):
and it is fascinating because everybody thinks the manisphere is
all the same and come to find out, guys, oh
my lord, it's not all the same. At Chad Benson
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Benson Show.

Speaker 25 (01:07:58):
If you like talk radio like Chad Bens and likes
his meals, you've come to the perfect place for takeout.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
As we talk about the youth of America, their vernacular,
the world that they live in, the struggles they have
with things like dating, we also have to remind ourselves
they have a different vernacular. They use words that we're
not quite sure about because they sound familiar, but then
they're like, wait, oh wait, what is that that? That's
not how I use that word. Oh you know what
time it is?

Speaker 6 (01:08:25):
Now, it's time for the urban word of the day.
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you. It's called the urban word
of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:08:36):
All right, this one is gonna be rather popular, Okay,
rather popular coming up now. If you guys know anything,
it's cuffing season. Cuffing season is where you find a
relationship that will last year from you know, the holidays
through till you know it starts to get warm, you know,
say marchish and then you bounce. Well, if you're gonna bounce,

(01:08:57):
there's ways you can bounce. One of those ways, is right.
This is so ghost lighting? What ghost light? Yeah? Ghost lighting. Now,
if you're thinking of yourself, what the hell's ghost lighting? Chat?
This is something completely new to me. It combines ghosting, right,
so that's where you vanished without explanation, but also gaslighting

(01:09:17):
making you question your reality. Okay, So it happens in
a relationship right where you're with somebody and then you
disappear out of nowhere for a couple of weeks. You
don't call, you don't text, you ignore at tax, you
do nothing. Then you show up out of nowhere and

(01:09:37):
they're like, where were you? And like I told you
it's going to be busy when they didn't or you're
being too sensitive when you aren't. Or you said things
like I was going to travel for business and you're like,
you never mentioned that. So ghost lighting is going to
be that new word, be prepared for kids, urban worth
of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:09:55):
That was the urban word of the day, now you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:58):
Know, you know, it's good to know speaking of hip
and cool.

Speaker 26 (01:10:02):
Breaking into a liquor store and getting sousd on ill
gotten hooch is not the typical route to internet stardom,
let alone the real kind of stardom. But drunk Raccoon
is a different breed altogether. Since we brought you his
story last week, he or she I don't know has

(01:10:22):
gotten bigger than six seven, and the Alcoholic Beverage Control
Authority in Virginia is cashing in on all of the fame.
They've launched a brand new line of drunk Raccoon inspired cocktails,
including the Ryer Rascal Sour, described as quote tangy and rich,
like something your favorite trouble making raccoon would proudly recommend

(01:10:43):
after enjoying the good stuff from the top shelf.

Speaker 2 (01:10:46):
The raccoon is samous, I yes, gonna be famous, guy,
Yes you should. I just creek cash it with me.
I'm gonna get myself a T shirt and people are
gonna be like that guy's god, it's hotly viral, and
I'm like this right ideaon, So you guys, remember the story,
crashes through the ABC beverage store, smashes into what sixteen

(01:11:09):
bottles a hooch, drink them all, splat on the ground
drunk as well, this time a raccoon rather than a skunk.

Speaker 27 (01:11:17):
And there's also the trash Panda, old fashioned quote something
a resourceful raccoon would proudly mix after a late night
visit to an ABC store. And finally there is the
midnight masked gin Fizz, described as quote mischievous cocktail that's
equal parts citrus, sparkle and very mischief, all adorned with

(01:11:40):
who else drunk raccoon himself. But this is the real picture,
and you can find all of this little guy's inspired
recipes at ABC dot Virginia dot gov. Do enter raccoon
in the search bar, but don't drink like drunk raccoon.
Just take it from me, not saying I've been exactly there,
but I kind of get it what's going on there?

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
There? You go, drunk raccoon famous, and you're like hut
you everything to go viral? Have you tried to be
a raccoon drunk at a store? You haven't? Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
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The Chad Benson Show. Coming up, our number three of
the program. Mike Line's going to join the program. I'm

(01:12:23):
going to talk about what's going on in Bennett'stulanta. Are
we or aren't we going to do something? Talk about that. Also,
talk a little bit about Jasmine Crockett. She is running
to be the Senator of the Great State of Texas.
The chances of her winning, We will put that out there.

(01:12:43):
Plus we got a bunch of other stuff, a little
watch trending as well. Oh, a lot of stuff trending kids,
a lot of stuff, a lot of crazy things happening
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Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
How many people will retire from Congress? That's a good question.
A lot of people are worried about what is coming
and the potential to see a massive amount of retirement.
And let's never forget. The House has an issue right now,
and that issue is first of all, Trump not as

(01:13:57):
popular as the mega folks would like you to believe. Secondly,
I think Mike Johnson is I don't even know what
he is. I don't even know Nancy Mace and him
don't get along. That's definitely an issue. And uh, she's
spoken up about it. Uh. Stephanic also has spoken up
about it. Several women in particular have spoken up about it.

Speaker 28 (01:14:19):
Republican Congresswoman Nancy Mayce lashing out at Speaker Mike Johnson
in a New York Times op ed, claiming House leadership
has been marginalizing rank and file members and women. Mace writing,
here's a hard truth Republicans don't want to hear. Nancy
Pelosi was a more effective House speaker than any Republican
this century, adding Pelosi understood no majority is permanent. Mace,

(01:14:41):
who's running for governor of South Carolina, claims her House
colleagues are letting politics get in the way of policy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:48):
There is one hundred percent, in my opinion, behind that
one hundred percent. They are they're focused on the popular
and popularity, not policy. But the thing about women was
rather interesting because if you didn't hear Mike Johnson this, Uh,
he gave an interview with his wife and just just

(01:15:09):
gonna throw it out there.

Speaker 12 (01:15:10):
Men and women are different in this way is that
men have can compartmentalize things bad.

Speaker 29 (01:15:14):
Men's brains are like waffles. Yes, they have little compartments
and they can think on one little compartment at a
time and close it. And men actually have a compartment
that has nothing in it. So when you ask him,
what are you thinking about it and he says nothing,
he means it.

Speaker 13 (01:15:31):
He means it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:32):
He really is thinking about it.

Speaker 16 (01:15:33):
I don't thinking about the Roman Empire.

Speaker 13 (01:15:35):
There's a whole compartment of women.

Speaker 29 (01:15:37):
We cannot do that. We are always thinking. In fact,
our brains are like spaghetti.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Yeah, that's actually a book, all right, So relationship book
called men are like waffles, Women are like spaghetti by
Pam and Bill Ferrell, suggesting men that compartmentalize issues into
separate boxes waffle squares, while women's thoughts blend together like spaghetti.

Speaker 8 (01:15:58):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:59):
It's a metaphor for processing, but it's not a scientific
description of the brain. But a lot of people go, oh,
I can see where this is coming, right, And the
Republicans they got the affordability issue. There's no doubt they
can pretend that that's not a real thing. It's not
a thing. It's a thing. Okay, it's a thing. It's

(01:16:19):
a thing, and you can spin it. You could say
it's Obama's fault. You're like yesterday in the farm thing,
it was like, it's Obama's fault. I'm gonna say it's
Biden's fault. No, it is just the reality of what
you got. You wanted the job, you got the job.
You knew what the job was, and the job was this.

(01:16:40):
There's an affordability problem in America. Do I think Trump
and them can turn it around. Yes. By the way,
it's going to on its own at some point in time,
re kind of, you know, settle itself right, and then
we're gonna be fine unless the powers that be do
some insane thing, which is always a possibility to mat

(01:17:00):
who's in office. I don't blame Trabuza, you blame Trump
for this. I don't blame Trump for anything like this.
I don't do. I think some of the efforts that
he has tried like the ridiculousness of terrorists. But I've
been very vocal about that for a long time, long
before Trump was there, that tariffs are a bad idea
because they punish the American consumer and they punish businesses.

(01:17:21):
And if you go and look, we're over at trillion
dollars and are you know, are trade deficit with China,
So we're this isn't going the way that you know,
Trump thought it was. But that being said, at some
point in time, things are going to get better again
unless they do something crazy, which again is always possible.

(01:17:41):
It is, but Trump's got to get out there. The
thing that I got mad at him about and blamed
him for, matt as mad as I can get over
politicians to do whatever the hell they want to do, uh,
is the fact that you can't tell everybody it's everybody
else's fault. You can't send people out there to say
it's this person's it's that person's fault, it's this person's fault,

(01:18:02):
it's this is fault, it's that's fault, and take no responsibility.
Especially after almost a year. You can't tell everybody this
doesn't exist, this doesn't exist, this isn't real, This isn't real,
because again, that's not the reality of the situation. There
are some things you can reality around, all right, there's

(01:18:22):
some things where you can take a story, twist it,
bend it, get people. I mean, that's unfortunately that's the
world we live in. But it doesn't work that way
when it comes to your bank account. It doesn't work
that way. It works that way when it comes to
the meme that you put out because you want to

(01:18:44):
own the Libs and maybe what you're saying isn't real, right,
It doesn't matter what side you're on, left or right.
But when it comes to the dollars and cents of
the world, that's a tougher place. And Trump's gonna have
to go sell it to America that I got this.

Speaker 8 (01:19:00):
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 him

(01:19:22):
on the ballot because so many of those low propensity
voters are Trump voters.

Speaker 6 (01:19:26):
Yes they are.

Speaker 8 (01:19:27):
And we saw a wee could go Tuesday. What happens
when he's not on the ballot and not active. So
I haven't quite broken it to him yet, but he's
going to campaign like it's twenty twenty four.

Speaker 6 (01:19:38):
Again.

Speaker 8 (01:19:39):
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 to keep.

Speaker 2 (01:19:53):
The material and he's going to have to work hard
because it's already an uphill. All right, you're you're you're
the majority. We on average like to flip the script,
especially with things aren't going well. You know what that
can look like. Okay, uh, you've got the big giant

(01:20:19):
ACA subsidies hanging out there. So Thursday, the Senate will
likely hold the votes yeah again I don't and whether
or not to extend the subsidies. And this would be
the last chance, congress wise to avoid the expiration. I mean,
there's always a possibility of twelve hours somebody comes in, so,

(01:20:40):
but the chances are slim. Democrats are pushing the measure
unlikely to pass, which is what I would do if
I'm them, and it's this is an unfortunate thing I want.
I don't want a year extension. I want three years
or nothing. That's what I would push if I'm them,
and if I'm the Republicans. Well, here here's the issue.

(01:21:01):
Go look at the polls. What do the polls say.
They don't care who started this mess with Obamacare. They
care that you're the one in charge and you've got
to clean it up. So I'm still waiting for the
plan because it's the one thing we were all promised,
was the plan. And you know what, I don't see

(01:21:21):
the plan. So we'll see if there is a plan,
because if you fail to plan, then what do they say?
Plan to fail? H Her name Jasmine Crockett. You guys
might recognize her dulces at tones. She likes to be
very popular amongst the youth of America by screaming and
yelling and saying things ridiculous. She's running for Senate in Taos.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
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

(01:22:04):
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. Paul hate us.

Speaker 21 (01:22:20):
In the back.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
Listen up real loud. We gonna get this.

Speaker 2 (01:22:23):
Thing done, all right, Listen up real loud. What what
If I'm the Republicans, I am celebrating this big time
because even if things are a struggle, Texas isn't gonna
jump when it comes to her. They're not. They're not.
She is, and she's running against somebody who is. If

(01:22:43):
I was the Republicans, there's the last person I want
to run against. James Hilrico, who is a pastor who
is on the left, but he's more of an establishment centrist,
common sense kind of of've left. You know, you would
think it an older school democrat, but he's young, he

(01:23:04):
is very charismatic. He is just he's good. He's good, right,
and he's getting noticed now here's the interesting thing. So
they did a statewide survey she and him together favorability.
He's plus thirty, she's minus eight. Almost fifty percent of

(01:23:27):
respondent said they would not vote for Crockett, which was
higher than any other candidate. And this was Texas voters
across the board. Here's the problem in terms of raw
vote intention among Democrat voters. One that of data showed
Crockett thirty one, tel Rico twenty five. Another one showed
something similar but with Beto in there. So it's the primary. Man.

(01:23:53):
This is the issue with bad bad candidates. Primaries are
really where the race is won or loss at this
point in time, especially with the way everything's jerrymandered, the
way certain states are Primaries or where the wins and
losses come states are a little different because it's statewide,
but even inside of your districts, the more extreme is

(01:24:16):
going to get the most extreme to come out because
they recognize it's the people that are energized through emotion,
they're going to come out. If it's a state, state
wide race, that's a little bit different, but still jasmine.
No no chance, no chance, no chance, what say you?

(01:24:39):
Mark Alprin, Emily A.

Speaker 30 (01:24:41):
Democrat has not won a state wide office in Texas
for over a quarter century. And if you're asking me
if Jasmine Crockett will be the Democrat who breaks that streak,
the answer is no.

Speaker 2 (01:24:54):
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Let's find out what's trending on the old innewebs on
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talk about him and his controversial sister because she is
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Okki Over to Google. Eagles Fly, Eagles Fly or Sputter.

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Eagles Sputter lost last night to the Chiadges Philip Rivers.
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you got to feel horrible for. They're backup Riley looks
like he's out for a while. Some weird things still

(01:28:14):
happening with their number one pick from a few years ago,
so they brought in Philip Rivers to workout interesting Javan earthquake.
Jasmine Crockett. We've been talking about that Golden Globe nominations.

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The Globe.

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David Ellison, Justine Bateman, Nick Fuinds, he and peers headed
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(01:29:38):
Bateman and Jason Bateman and a lot of this, obviously
because he's got tootobi out is ridiculous. They say, look,
our relationship's good, you know, we just don't see each
other a lot. And she said the same thing a
few years ago. And unless you're going to talk about
how good my brother's movies are, if you're trying to
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the way that they frame it. Controversial. She's controversial. Why
because she has a differing point of view. That doesn't
make you controversial. She lived through the insanity of COVID
in California a lot of people became controversial then, and
that's a lot of where this started, of course, because well,
you know, how dare you go against them? Whoever them are?

(01:30:28):
Just it's it is ridiculous, it really is. All right,
coming up, our good buddy in yours, Mike Lyons military analysts,
talk about obviously Venezuela, a little bit about Ukraine and Russia.
But we're gonna get his take on the drama around
the Pentagon, the who ordered, what heg sat, all of

(01:30:49):
that stuff. We're going to talk to him straight ahead.
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Speaker 11 (01:31:00):
Chad Benson, Joe, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
That's time of the week. Sit down and talk to
tired major and the best damn military analyst in the business.
Mike Alines 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. I

(01:31:45):
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 f or feeling
about this situation.

Speaker 12 (01:32:02):
Well, chat, I think 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 this
situation just wasn't work amed.

Speaker 13 (01:32:18):
It was the first one. It was the first shot
that they took.

Speaker 12 (01:32:21):
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, they ran it by jag.

(01:32:41):
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 under the bus. It's not the initial striketh,
but I think that everyone's watching closely.

Speaker 13 (01:32:55):
I'll tell you right now, the special.

Speaker 12 (01:32:56):
Forces community is watching closely because if this does happen,
he does get thrown onto 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

(01:33:16):
that happened.

Speaker 2 (01:33:17):
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 going

(01:33:38):
to 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 12 (01:33:46):
No question, they have military capability and this is not
Panama nineteen eighty nine.

Speaker 13 (01:33:51):
This is not Noriega.

Speaker 12 (01:33:52):
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 in aiding anybody. And
they're not they're not not been deployed, they've not been activated.
And and I'm just just trying to figure out what's
this about. If we're gonna think we're using hard pressure
to remove Maduro, I guarantee he's got consultants telling him

(01:34:17):
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 porcupying themselves, so to speak, uh, from US forces.
So I we're watching this closely and seeing, you know,

(01:34:37):
what what's going on here. You know, we saw this
this Hounduras 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 what's we're going
to do because this is this is you know, the
thing about Venezuela was it was a country that was
one side democracy, and I think this administration thinks to
easy fixes. Once we take the leadership out, it'll kind

(01:34:59):
of re vert itself back to the mean and also
revert itself back from being support of the United States
because it's in this hemisphere. But a lot of assumptions
being made there.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
Talking to my client's military analyst, we talk about all
things when it comes to the matter of war and
the military. 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, And you've been very vocal. Look,

(01:35:31):
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 12 (01:35:42):
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. Spent
some time yesterday actually with a veteran of the war
Ukraine citizen. It's here States trying to get support for
their military there.

Speaker 13 (01:36:03):
They're hanging on for dear life. For sure.

Speaker 12 (01:36:05):
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 because that hasn't changed. Those
tomahawks have never arrived, the sanctions have never been put on,
There's been a lot of talk about them. There's no

(01:36:26):
air defense platform that helps Ukraine and protects Kiv 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, will be very
very performative. But I don't believe you're going to see
any peace anytime soon. I think there'll be this frozen conflict.

(01:36:47):
I wrote about it in real clear defense. The will
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 2 (01:36:59):
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,

(01:37:19):
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 12 (01:37:27):
More well as a minimum, they want to be able
to have a military of seven hundred and fifty thousand soldiers,
develop some navy operations. They want potentially having European Forces
station there as a trip wire, so to speak. You're
seeing this conflict now between you know, the EU has

(01:37:48):
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 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 of

(01:38:09):
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 Witkoff are you know, negotiating this thing again to
real estate guys who recognize that still the Ukraine doesn't
have any leverage.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
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 13 (01:38:45):
They are concerned right now.

Speaker 12 (01:38:47):
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 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

(01:39:09):
positions 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 corps worth of troops,
let's say forty thousand US troops put them in Poland.
That would make a big difference to Russia as well,
protect lat Via, protect all those other countries there that

(01:39:31):
recently 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 going to be able
to protect anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:39:42):
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 close while
he moves towards the West. He always threatens if the
West moves closer to him. Wouldn't that he look at

(01:40:03):
that and go, this is an active war.

Speaker 12 (01:40:06):
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 the 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 kind 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,

(01:40:30):
a Pentagon that felt more strongly about it, we would
move more forces there. I think if you put a
core there, you decide to go that route, that would
have to be part of the negotiation.

Speaker 13 (01:40:41):
So Russia knew that was going to happen.

Speaker 12 (01:40:43):
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 2 (01:40:53):
Talking to my client's military el lest we talk about
all things military globally, what's trying to think of all this?
They're looking around, going which just waiting for the next
shoe to drop, and then we're going to decide what
we do with Taiwan and everything else.

Speaker 13 (01:41:04):
Yeah, you know, what's going on is really quiet.

Speaker 12 (01:41:08):
There's you know, China just keeps up this kind of
naval pressure and naval presence there. They're still actively patrolling
around Taiwana. Know that the United States Japan has conducted
a recent combined maritime operation there.

Speaker 13 (01:41:24):
The op tempo is high.

Speaker 12 (01:41:25):
That's the pace at which the military is running there.
And if you look at a graft Abraham Linken, there's
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

(01:41:46):
guess Cambodi is more aligned with the Chinese there, so
the Chinese continue to exert their influence. I don't think
this pivot to the Pacific has still not happened yet.
I know that this administration feels that they want to
let China, you know, I want to keep them somewhat contained.
But they've got a you know, the home field of
vantage right now, given what they've built up in the
military in the Pacific.

Speaker 2 (01:42:08):
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 12 (01:42:21):
So you have a marines offshore right now, maybe you
have twenty twenty five thousand marines. If 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 the 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

(01:42:41):
in 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 have to play, you.

Speaker 13 (01:42:58):
Have to come in from the sea.

Speaker 12 (01:42:59):
So that's why this is just this mission doesn't make
any sense on any level. When we did Panama, we
had fifteen thousand AGAIN Army troops inside of the country
that we were able to mobilize and use. 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

(01:43:20):
what would come from that kind of operation in order
to secure success. But there will be casualties, you know,
Commanders expect losses. There'll be casualties. And I'm not sure again,
I just don't see the Peace president putting up with
that any for any length of time.

Speaker 2 (01:43:33):
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 12 (01:43:42):
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

(01:44:03):
they if 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 resears. Normally, we've
got carriers deployed in 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.

(01:44:24):
They're not They're not someplace else projecting power.

Speaker 2 (01:44:27):
I love it, Love talking to the 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
a Saturday, and you'll be there right.

Speaker 13 (01:44:41):
Yeah, ched, go or be beating Navy. I've been going
to Army Navy my whole life.

Speaker 12 (01:44:44):
I've been going since before I was at West Point,
while I was at West Point, after I was that
West Point, I've watched it my whole life.

Speaker 13 (01:44:50):
So it's, uh, it's the biggest game on the calendar.
It's on circle.

Speaker 12 (01:44:53):
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 see
if we can pull it out. Maybe it's very strong.
You're a very good quarterback. It's hard not to like
their team. But we'll see what happens. We'll show up
and we'll help. We'll give them a good game.

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
I appreciate you coming on that. We'll do togain next week.

Speaker 13 (01:45:12):
Sounds good, brother, So talk then all.

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Speaker 2 (01:46:41):
Have we wrap up the show that I want to
tell everybody that the World Cup is coming. And what
makes me laugh is the fact that they're going to
have Pride Day. Not that Pride Day makes me laugh.
I don't think one way or another about it. You
be who you are boo, and that's okay. But the
World Cup decided, because let's be real, soccer's very inclusive,
a great and they decided they were gonna have a

(01:47:03):
Pride Day game. Okay. Now this was pre the draw
that took place Friday, so we all know what happened
on Friday, Big draw, US, USA, US, we all get
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Day event is going to be in Seattle. It was

(01:47:23):
game they had already pre picked, but they did not
know that teams. It's called Pride Match. The match will
be on the twenty six, and it'll be Group G.
The clash. Now in Group G, kids, Okay, you got
some good teams, Well, you got one really good team
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(01:47:45):
We'll see. Now, Belgium will probably win the group. It's pretty,
it's pretty. I think they're gonna win the group. But
you never know. It's the World Coup. Anything canna happen.
But two of these countries are very much about the
pride thing. They have no problem Belgium of course, New
zeal And absolutely. Who are the other two teams, well,
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(01:48:10):
even think of it this way. Yeah, Egypt in Iran
will be those two teams. So not Belgium or New Zealand,
but Egypt in Iran. And remember this is to celebrate
Pride Month and all of the things and whatnot and
who's the what? Yeah, this hasn't gone over. Well, I'm
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(01:48:32):
like how they're going to because this you're supposed to
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will doesn't really matter, that is what it is. But
they're also going to have potentially the rainbow armbands. And
I don't think either Iran or Egypt will be wearing those.
You let me know three two, three, five, three eight,
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(01:49:13):
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(01:49:36):
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