Trump Turns to Blockade — and Tolls — as U.S. and Iran Battle Over the Strait of Hormuz

Trump turns to blockade — and tolls — as U.S. and Iran battle over the Strait of Hormuz. World Cup update. Military analyst Mike Lyons talks about the US and Iran. Colombian national killed by ICE agent during operation in Maine.

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The war Ish quagmire ish kerfuffling is continuing to go on,
and I want everybody to understand this. Apparently, now we're
going to charge We are going to charge people for
for for going through the straits of the hor moves.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
We're we're going to do it.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
We we are going to That's that's it, and the
blockade is back.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's all back on, and it's.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
A blockade not for anybody but Iran. In other words,
anybody doing business with Iran can't go through.

Speaker 5 (00:44):
Everyone else we'll be able to go through. So it's
a blockhead. It's a verst long blockhead.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
The blockhead was probably more effective even than hitting them,
but I think the combination is the thing that that
really doesn't.

Speaker 3 (00:56):
But if you get heel, it's still polly.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
You think they'll return to it? Yeah, I think you
des wesso than I do.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
So the blockade is back on, and now we're going
to to I just want to go over this again.
We're going to charge X amount of percent apparently, so
from what we understood, Iran and potentially the Omani's we're
going to charge two million dollars a ship. We may

(01:24):
charge twenty percent, according to Donald Trump, to escort them.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
I want to be reimbursed because we're protecting a very
rich portion of the world. We're spending money, and so
what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed
for protection we're protecting by the countries that we're helping.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
That's absolutely insane. So overnight we're hitting them. It's all
back on. We hit military targets across Iran, and you know,
the naval blockade slash. I don't even know at this
point in time. I don't think anybody really knows. We're
going to talk to my clients, our military analysts coming
up in here in the little little while. But when

(02:07):
you go look at oil, the jump in prices.

Speaker 4 (02:11):
Is big.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
It's big, the jump up it went.

Speaker 6 (02:18):
The markets are reacting to the uncertainty. Oil prices just
saw the biggest one day jump since the pandemic, and
analysts predict average gas prices in the US well once
again top four dollars per gallon within a week.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Within a week.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
So I was talking to my buddies yesterday, so their
creatures have it much like me, which I love. So
Bell and Ken, who work on my afternoon show.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
So we were chatting.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Bell goes Sunday, Ken goes Monday to get there to
get their gas. One got a ten cent saving because
he goes to like a supermarket. So we said last
week he paid three fourteen, he paid three forty nine
with a ten cent discount. Buddy went a day early
because he was worried about this, and he said, I
paid three fourteen like Bell did, and this time I

(03:08):
paid three forty four. So thirty cents forty cent jump.
It's happening, and it's probably going to get worse. The
question is what are we doing going back to this
over and over again. What in God's name are we
doing when it comes to the Straits, when it comes
to Iran, I feel like we got zero plan in place.

Speaker 7 (03:30):
That seems like we're almost back to where things were
on February twenty eighth to the middle of April, when
every day both Iran and the United States and back
then Israel were conducting hundreds of strikes against each other.
And I think what we're seeing now this is a
battle of wills. Months into that post February twenty eighth,

(03:53):
opening Salvos, I'm.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Trying to figure this so We're back to where we were.
I just want to get this word back to where
we were. Prices are jumping, largest price we've had in
six years. As far as the jump goes, prices are
going to go up. It's going to cost us more
in our pocketbooks. And I continue to ask the question,
freaking over and over again, what are we doing?

Speaker 3 (04:16):
What is the end game? Where are we heading?

Speaker 7 (04:18):
There would be a significant risk to those US ships
that are now coming more directly into the line of
fire of Iranian drones and cruise missiles and other types
of weapon system, attack boats and mine. So this is
the thing that the Trump administration is going to have
to think carefully through if this is an accurate reflection

(04:41):
of where the President wants to take the policy.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
If it is, If it is, and if we're going
to be charging that's the other side of it. What
are we charging for? Well, we're going to protect them.
So I feel like it's the mob like we're showing
up on like, hey, you want to.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Go through here. You know it's a dangerous place. What
you could use is so protection.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
I'm just saying maybe a little bit of help over
here may get you through a little smoother maybe it won't,
but who do you think that gets passed on to?
And look, the reality is they're probably never going to
be able to collect any of this. They're probably never
gonna be able to do any of the things that
he says. He says stuff that's just ridiculous at times,

(05:22):
but the reaction of the market itself just goes to
show you that you're what are you doing? I mean, honestly,
what's going on? And then you take that and couple
this with something that wasn't talked about, because again, certain
things we talk about, certain things we don't. This needs
to be talked about. Saudi Arabia hit Yemen. So the

(05:43):
Saudi back yemity forces on Monday hit their international airport
and the reason was they said it that they wanted
to stop Iran from landing any airplanes there. So the
uties now have gotten back involved, and this has kind
of been a four year frozen kind of seiz fire.

(06:07):
And because of that, now the Huti say, we'll fine,
come over here, come by the Red Sea, even think
about crossing here, and we're gonna make your life help,
which is going to cause prices to continue to write.

Speaker 3 (06:18):
I mean, these are all of these things.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
We've had the escalation going on here and it's happening,
and I don't think it's going to get any better
anytime soon. And normally Trump would have come out yesterday
and said, ah, you know what, we're back at the tables,
we're talking.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
He didn't seem to be uh in that kind of mood.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
And the reason I have no idea because normally he
tries to balance that where he does stuff over the weekend.
Price you shoot up a little bit, people get nervous.
He says, everything's okay. Price has come down as he
tries to talk his way into controlling it. Not this time,
apparently not this time. So gonna be interesting. Were to
talk more in detail about the military side of it,

(06:57):
coming up in a little bit with our buddy Mike
Lions our military ann Before we get to that, though,
we've got a new senator from the great state of
South Carolina taking over for the late Lindsey Graham, and
that would be his sister, Darlene Graham.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Nor Done.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
But first, I just want to say one thing I've
never heard lindsay described as is irresistible. So okay, we'll
just start with that. But first I would like to
thank everyone who has called and reached out over the
past couple of days. I can't tell you how much

(07:40):
it's meant to me and our family. I know Lindsay
was loved and respected by many, and I greatly appreciate
the memories and even the funny stories that have been shared.
These shared experiences, along with our faith, have gotten us
through these past two very difficult days. Next, I want

(08:04):
to thank the governor for selecting me to serve the
remainder of Lindsay's term and is such an honor.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
So she's going to be taking over. She's got no
political experience outside of being.

Speaker 3 (08:18):
His sister. Will she run again or won't she run again?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Don't know. McMaster says it honors Graham's legacy while giving
Republicans time for a competitive special election. So the term
is only until the winner of the special election takes
office in January twenty seven, because remember he was campaigning
again because he just got through the primaries, which he won,
and he was probably going to win again. Who is

(08:45):
she never had an elected office position. She's a license
optician by profession. She work for South Carolina state government.
She worked for the Disability and Employment services, you know,
I mean she's close to him, very close to him.
In fact, their parents died when she was young, so

(09:10):
his mom and her mom died from Hodgkins lymphoma. Fifteen
months later, their father died of a heart attack. She
was only thirteen, Lindsay was twenty two. Took full custody,
became her legal guardian. So they were very very close,
very very close. Eventually he formally adopted her, but which

(09:31):
says a lot about him. That being said, she says
she intends to continue her brother's work, support President Trump's agenda,
and represents South Carolina until the voters can choose the
next senator. Chances of her running probably not, But in
today's world, you never say never.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
You just can't.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
You can't say, oh, she's not going, because you don't know.

Speaker 9 (09:58):
She may.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
She may run, but I doubt it. There's too many
people out there who would like to have that position.
And I think this is her way of honoring her.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
Her brother.

Speaker 2 (10:10):
And you know, this was sput through quick because a
lot of people looked at the governor and the lieutenant governor.
The masters and the lieutenant governor, both of them had
been eyeing different positions and there was speculation that he
was going to step down, she would take over lieutenant
governor and then appoint him and then he would run.

(10:32):
But Trump said, now I endorse her. Let's get this
done and go from there. So interesting. Indeed, a lot
of stuff we're going to get today. Coming up, a
little World Cup first semi final Spain and France. Talk
a bit about that. Also, our buddy Mike Celine's going

(10:52):
to join the program. I'm going to talk to him
about the military aspect of it. And as we focus
on this, what is going on in Ukraine and what
is going on in Russia and the battle there is huge.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
And when you talk about the loss of life.

Speaker 2 (11:07):
The Middle East right now, as far as between us
in Iran and Israel, it compares, it's a small comparison
to what's going on in Eastern Europe.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
Talk to him a little bit about that.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Plus Trump's making a special speech on Thursday about election
being stolen in twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (11:29):
We will discuss that as well.

Speaker 2 (11:30):
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Speaker 2 (12:55):
We discuss it straight ahead. The first semifinals today Chad
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Speaker 1 (13:10):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (13:14):
We are down to the final four.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
The first one kicks off today and I'm gonna tell
you who I think's gonna win. It's time to talk.

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Come.

Speaker 11 (13:26):
How about that.

Speaker 5 (13:28):
Blora Parra hit?

Speaker 3 (13:32):
What of the rights Sharia right across too? We haven't
been able to control the play in midfield right that
Mara Donut has been able to do.

Speaker 5 (13:44):
He's hard to be able to get.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
Tall them Monti lul win the world come for Argentina
with this kid. Yes, it is time for the final four,
the first of two semi finals. Remember the finals to
meet Sunday in New York, New Jersey Stadium. It is
a rivalry that over the last couple of years has

(14:11):
really heated up, and I'm pumped. Some people say this
is the final You've got France, and you have Spain.
Spain's number two, France number three in the world according
to their rankings. Right now, nobody is playing like France's

(14:32):
except for maybe Spain. And I say that because Spain
has the thing that many people say wins championships, that's defense. Now,
France's defense is through their offense. They swarm you, they
overwhelm you. They make it difficult for you to get
on the ball and to go forward and score. Their

(14:55):
defense is just otherworldly, it really is. That being said,
France likes to control the ball, but they're okay giving
it up too, because Spain loves the ball. When they
have the ball, it's used to be death by a
thousand cuts. It's not that way anymore. But they still

(15:16):
like to have the ball at their feet and control
the game. Today's game is going to be ebbs and flows,
and there's going to be times in each half where
each team is going to be on top of the
other team. And of course France, led by killing in
bape Olise demballe up front, that is their offense and

(15:37):
defense because they're so good. Three two, three, five, three
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On the other side of you got La Miga Mal
and Kubasi and Pedrie and this amazing defense when it

(15:59):
comes to Spain. But today, I believe that France is
going to get over the line and I think they're
going to beat Spain two to one to play in
their third straight World Cup final. Let me know what
you think, and I'll be honest with you, guys.

Speaker 3 (16:15):
I was in my head.

Speaker 2 (16:17):
I'm like, God, you know, I don't know. I just
the Spanish defense. They're just something about them that's so awesome.
But I'm not a big fan of their goalie. I'm
not a huge fan of, by the way, France's goalie either,
you know. I think both of them have some weaknesses.
And I'm curious about Spain because they have David Raya,
who just won the Premier League, but they choose not

(16:37):
to go with him. He's an Arsenal player and I
think he is one of the top at least playing
right now at this level, one of the top four
or five keeps on the planet. The keeper they have now,
I'm just not a huge fan of So there's gonna
be some opportunities. There's no doubt about that. It is
going to be crazy because both of these teams when

(16:58):
they last played last year in the Nations League semifinals,
it was five to four. And I think Lemon and
Jaml is going to have a hell of a game today.
And I also think the winner of this game and
the winner potentially of the World Cup, but this game
in particular is probably going to get the Molendor which
is the Player of the Year award. So if lamin

(17:19):
Ya mal can get over on Mbope in them, I
think he has a good chance. But I just feel
like there's too much offense. They're gonna get ahead and
then they're gonna stretch the game, and once they do that,
that's where it goes right for France. Coming up, my
client's military Anals Joints the program we talked to him
straight ahead.

Speaker 3 (17:37):
This is the Chad Betson Show, The Chad Benson Show, The.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
Chat Benson Show, and is a portion of the program
talked to our gooduddy Mike Client's military analysts, best dam
military analyst in the business, tired major in the Army. Mike,
you and I were chatting right before we came on air,
and you said, we're in a new phase of what
is going on in the fight in Iran? What phase
are we currently finding ourselves.

Speaker 12 (18:20):
In the military actions last three now four days, hundreds
of targets last night in particular, it looks like they
were along the coastline under.

Speaker 13 (18:29):
A very wide stretch.

Speaker 12 (18:30):
I mean, the data States has figured out tactically they
have to take away the Iranian capability to go after
these ships with their drones, coastal batteries and the like.
And so if you look at where the target list
was last night in particular, it focused on that, and
you know, you take it to the next level. The
administration has notified Congress, so the war powers act. Now

(18:51):
that clock has restarted again, so it's another you know,
kind of sixty days once again. And so the military
is looking at this and saying, you know, we've got
to go back look at some of the targets that
we missed the first time. And then there's one in particular,
this Pickax facility, we can talk about in that the
Trump administration is talking about going after one of the
nuclear facilities that they haven't hit yet, and we can

(19:13):
talk about why that's going to be important.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
Yeah, that is interesting because you know, we're seeing it
ramp up again, Mike, and here we are. Okay, Now
everybody's like, okay, so what does this mean? Because we
care about like what's this mean for us?

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Like you and I know what it means.

Speaker 2 (19:25):
Gas prices are going to go up, especially after that
we're going to take control of everything, and now we're
going to charge a toll, which I think is kind
of insane.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
That's just a political move right there. But what do
we have left to hit over there?

Speaker 2 (19:37):
Because you know, all this being said, and I talked
about it earlier, nobody's talking about the fact that Saudi
Arabia and the Yemenes and the Hooties are going back
at it again, which is also going to be an issue.

Speaker 13 (19:48):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 12 (19:49):
In fact, the Hoothi's fired on Saudi and that second
front now is open when you think about it, militarily,
the threatening to close that port that they have, not
a port that's strait that they have that exists at
this the south tip of the Red Sea. If that
choke point closes that that really shuts down any you know,
Saudi Arabian oil that's been going in that direction.

Speaker 13 (20:10):
That's a difficult task.

Speaker 12 (20:11):
I'm not sure that they can do that with the
same capability that the Ranians can. But it will have
this economic impact and the insurance and all the things
that go through that, and then that does does make
it and make an impact.

Speaker 13 (20:24):
But you got to look at these Gulf countries.

Speaker 12 (20:26):
They're all getting attacked, Bahrain, Qatar, They're they're all Jordan,
you know, the Iranians are have opened up the floodgates.
I still don't understand how the rest of the world
doesn't recognize that this is a very big threat and
we can have this Iranian regime controlling the straits. I mean,
Trump's saying he's charging twenty undred percent whatever that is.
However he's calculating that, you know, I think that's just

(20:48):
a matter of just trying to trump over the Iranians
and trying to say that they don't have that capability.

Speaker 13 (20:53):
I'm not sure we'll actually, you know, do that.

Speaker 12 (20:54):
We're not going to hold the world hostage there, but
but it's just a matter of you know, getting back
at the Iranians.

Speaker 2 (20:59):
I think, you know the whole because we were joking yesterday,
I'm like, well, that seems like something the mob would do. Hey,
you know what you want to pass through here, you
probably need some protection. All joking aside, though, if we
were to do that, that's going to put us in
much closer range than we are currently right now, and
that puts our men and women in much more peril

(21:19):
than they find themselves in, at least at this moment in.

Speaker 13 (21:22):
Time, no question.

Speaker 12 (21:24):
That's because the targets are much closer and the standoff
is much shorter. What that means is that their capability
to fire at us and us to pick it up
is a lot more challenging, and there's you know, commanders
expect losses. There will be this potential higher rate of
combat casualties in track because of this, and it's not
always something you can hit what you know, these targets

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over the horizon with We've seen a helicopter go down
a month ago, and we saw the challenges that they
have and because in some ways we've got the wrong
weapon systems on the battlefield. We've got we brought helicopters
to this fight that we're designed to blow up tanks
and you know Western Europe and not necessarily fight drones
that are coming at them and swarms. But there's the

(22:06):
military is looking at all of the different targets and
you know, or past a strategic level on the targets.
What I mean by that is, you know, they still
can't attack anything at scale but the but they still
have this capability of the one off drone, the ten
or so ballistic missiles that are still you know, creating
the kinds of problems in the streets that we still
have today.

Speaker 2 (22:25):
Talking to my clients, military analysts, best and military lit
is in business all right, Mike, So I said it earlier,
but we didn't really get chance.

Speaker 3 (22:31):
What is left to hit over there?

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Because I think a lot of people are starting to see, Okay,
are we really going to hit their nuclear facilities? Are
we going to take out so much infrastructure that you know,
because we want to do enough that maybe gets the
people to start to make a move and they capitulate,
but we don't want to overdo it to the point
where then the people turn and it becomes chaos.

Speaker 12 (22:52):
Well, they've got to look for what I think I've
been calling repair able to terrens, find things that if
they do hit that take things down, but then can
quickly be repaired, you know, the different components of some
of the refineries that they have there in particular. But
I think this Pickax facility, coming back to that is
something that will be a challenge militarily. It's it's a
it's an area that's not been hit yet. It's one

(23:13):
of the nuclear facilities that the Ranians have that it's
top top, highly top secret, well buried in the mountains.
I think that's the key here four to oh the
original place where most of those centrifuges were that's been
buried for all practical purposes as at a lower altitude.
This is going to be a really difficult military mission
to try to bury. There's no there's no saying that
it can even be completely destroyed. But I think that

(23:35):
that's where one of the focus is going to be.
We don't know what they're doing there. We believe that
it's it's a centrifuge assembly point, but it could be
the last vestige of a hedge that they're using to
keep to have this nuclear program go. I also think
you're going to see them take out the military, our
military take out their maritime command.

Speaker 13 (23:54):
And control facilities.

Speaker 12 (23:55):
I saw some targets who were hit yesterday had to
do with their their kind of case ability to control
what they see in the streets. And I think that
that's another anything that's going after the IRGC right now
that you know, they're obviously the ones that are ConTroll
of the's the you know, the moderate soft liners that
are on the foreign policy desk that are calling Trump
saying we want a deal, we want to deal. Those
are not the guys that are that are firing at

(24:16):
us right now. And the disconnect one side it ran
perhaps this military pressure will cause this, you know, the
country to finally implode internally.

Speaker 13 (24:25):
We can only hope.

Speaker 3 (24:25):
So so what's the end game?

Speaker 2 (24:28):
I mean, at the end of the day, I think
a lot of people now are going, Okay, so we're
back in it. You know, it's a kerfuffle. It's not
a kerfuffle, it's awards, is the any other I think
a lot of people just like to like, what is
the end game? Because I've heard a lot of people
over the last several days, people that I work with
who are always behind Trump, have said, now you know what, dude, fish,
you get off the pot. I mean, there's like Visuer
do something or because this we can't continue to do this,

(24:52):
and you know, then you got to think about as
you've talked about the men and women who are out there,
they're you know, one minute is yeah, we're doing something.
The next one and it's like that's got to drive
them crazy.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
It is.

Speaker 12 (25:03):
I mean I've always you know, think about combat is
it's fifty nine minutes of boredom in one minute of
terrast sometimes and no question. You know, you deploy a unit,
you can't you know, they like bayonetch, you can't sit
on them. And you know, three carrier strike group's been
out there. We're trying to get I believe ones trying
to get back to the Pacific to help that that theater,
which I believe still could explode.

Speaker 13 (25:23):
In a couple of years.

Speaker 12 (25:24):
And then you know, getting a carrier back out an
orfolk that get deployed, that's going to be another you know,
six to eight weeks. So the military op tempo it's
called that pace remains very high.

Speaker 13 (25:34):
But what are we going to do? I think it's
going to be continued.

Speaker 12 (25:37):
Military pressure, economic leverage and and just everything from all
the levers of national power are going to go. Now
will the strikes We're not. It's it's disproportioned, I'll give
you that, but it's not you know, ten strikes a day.
It's been sixty seventy eighty ninety. But it's also not
eleven hundred. It's not epic fury level. So they're they're consistent.

(25:58):
The Ranians, you know, have got to keep their heads down.
They've got to be concerned about command and control. You've
got Israel, it is chomping at the bit to get
back into this fight.

Speaker 13 (26:07):
You can't. You know, nothing comes out of there on
a daily basis that says we're ready to go. And
you know what they're going right after command and control.

Speaker 12 (26:14):
They're going right after you know, you know who's next
on the on the podium that's going to decide to
say that, you know, we want to make a deal
and not make a deal. So I think that's what
they're going to do. I think that's the Rubio influence
right now on this White House. Vance has been kind
of sidelined. This whole thing about you know, trying to
get peace with them with the Moderates is over, and
you're going to see military pressure, economic leverage pressure, and

(26:35):
potentially other countries.

Speaker 13 (26:36):
Is getting involved. And I think that's going to it
could go on for months, and.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
That right there is the thing I was going to
ask you, how long could this thing go on? Because
we all know going on for months, Because the way
I've looked at it is, we're going to do this
kerfuffling as I call it, back and forth up until
a couple of weeks before Labor Day, where Trump will
probably goes, oh, we got to calm this thing down
because we need gas prices to come down. Then after
that pick it up again up until about two or
three weeks before the mid terms, and then calm it down,

(27:02):
and then after that, God only knows what will happen.
I feel like that's kind of what we have going on,
and I don't think there's going to be anything steady
because you got to look at the politics, and the
politics is going to be at the gas pump.

Speaker 12 (27:12):
Yeah, you know, again, if we can take a couple
of pieces off the board and swap out a carrier group,
that'll help the military fight.

Speaker 13 (27:19):
But I think you're right. I think the politics are
way heavy in this.

Speaker 12 (27:23):
And I guess gases or oil is of about ten
percent overnight because of what's what happened here and because
of the fact that you know, the shooting started and
that that has a lot to do with insurance. It's
got all the factors that go into it and fertilized
or all the other you know, downstream market you know,
products and commodities that come out of there all factor

(27:44):
in there as well. But again the President is this
is going to be a marketing challenge for him too,
because at the end of the day, you know, the
United States should be resilient enough to itself in order
to sustain the energy side of this, and if we're not,
then it's just kind of shame on us.

Speaker 13 (28:02):
And again I've said this from the very beginning. This
is the war. This is the conflict we have to
have right now. This is one we have to fight.

Speaker 12 (28:08):
You know, I was talking to somebody yesterday or up
at West Point and talking to folks there, and we're
just so concerned that we think the country once again
has been psychologically disarmed because of Iraq and Afghanistan. And
you know, jade Vanci even said he's like, you know,
forever wars, This is not a forever war. This is
one that should have been fought. You know, this is
the time to fight it. And this is the one
that's going to have an ending to it if we

(28:29):
just keep going at it.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
Talking to Mike Lines are military analysts, we talk about
all things military and the conflicts. Let's go over to
Eastern Europe. It's getting crazy over there, There's no doubt.
And you know, I mean they went on TV last
week the Russians basically say, hey, skip putin some more time.
Let's not worry about overthrowing him. It feels like he
is is caged, and he is in a corner, and

(28:54):
he is desperate, and I think that is a scary
place all of the world to be. And when you
have somebody who is that that has all the access
you could think of to really bad things.

Speaker 12 (29:08):
Yeah, I think the issue is this, you know, this
anti ballistic missile coalition that you know that's trying to
be formed, and you know, the ballistic missiles are just
gonna besides the drones, the blistic missiles or the other
lesson learned from this Ukraine Russia war. But but Russia
still has that capability and even tac nukes and the like.

(29:32):
But but you know, with with Ukraine their capability right
now to deep strike into Russia attack their naval fleet,
you know, the Sea of asof for example, I saw
some strikes that took place, and what's going on in Crimea,
Crimea was this whole was the reason why in some
ways that Russia started this conflict.

Speaker 13 (29:52):
That had to have that, they had to have the warm.

Speaker 12 (29:54):
Water port for the Black Sea fleet, all that stuff,
and it's just it's just falling all off the table.
Their catas there are casual he rate remains catastrophic when
you think about it, it's you know, over a million,
a million and a half soldiers, Russian soldiers. And again
so they're cornered, no question about it. But they still
have a capability to reach back out on the ballistic
muscile side, and you know everyone doesn't no one else

(30:16):
to talk about it. But the tactic side that the
Russians could bring to the battlefield could be devastating as well.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
If, if God willing, they didn't explain to people how
a tactical nuke would work and what it would do
to a key for somewhere like that.

Speaker 12 (30:29):
Yeah, I mean, so attack nuke lower killoots, you know,
you know kill it's on percentages as opposed to a
ballistic you know, missile on nuclear war. And in most
cases they were really designed for the for the defense,
or they were designed for the retreat. But Russia could
do is get close enough where they are in the
Domebass region and use them to isolate and further cut

(30:54):
off forward Ukrainian troops. And so it wouldn't they wouldn't
not as necessarily threaten the capitol. I would I wouldn't
say that they would get the closer that however, they
could cut They could they could fire behind Ukrainian troops,
cut them off, make make areas, you know, places where
you can't go, you know, technical new kids, a place
you've got radiation there. The Ukrainians wouldn't be able to defeat.

(31:17):
So it would box in some of their their military
box in a lot of their the soldiers that are there,
so that that's probably how they're monitoring that very closely
to see if they've been released or if they've even
into the country.

Speaker 13 (31:30):
But that's still some that's a tool in the toolbox
you can still use.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
If you were to be a betting man by the
end of the year, which one of these conflicts is over.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
If either.

Speaker 12 (31:43):
I don't think either, I think that I think I
don't think the I don't think the if unless the Iranians,
you know, we wake up and get some surprise that
the Iranians have imploded from within and they've decided to
you know, create a real MoU that they decide not
to stop start firing at the Straits and the like.

(32:03):
I think this is the hardliners are baked in, baked
in there. The irg is completely baked in. They're going
to have to be hammered for a while. But in
Ukraine and Russia, that's just this is going to be
a fight to the death there. And you know, the
same thing's got to happen. There's going to have to
be some internal thing that happens to either Zelenski or
to Putin in order for them or each side to stop.
The thing is there's no question that you momentum is

(32:26):
right on the side of Ukraine right now. We've been
what's happening in Crimea. The Chinese have got to manage
putin very carefully. And and the bottom line is the
Ukrainians have this capability to reach deep with their naval
assets as well as their ballistic missile capability.

Speaker 13 (32:42):
So it's that both of them are going to go
on for a long time.

Speaker 2 (32:44):
I think his name is Mike Lion's tired major from
the army and of course the best tame military analysts
and the businessman is always great talking to you. We're
going to do it again next week.

Speaker 13 (32:52):
Chat sounds good to look forward to it.

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Speaker 14 (34:18):
The Chad Benson Show where we reach across the aisle
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Speaker 2 (34:25):
We've got an update on the grandfather who got attacked
by the bison in Yellowstone. He is severely injured, looks
like he's going to be okay. And they're asking the
question again because normally when we talk about stuff like this,
it comes with the caveat of not only is nature

(34:47):
messing you up, You've done something stupid to nature. You went,
you tried to pet something you should never have pat it.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Oh, look it's a bison. He knows that I only
vegetarian stuff, so.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
He's gonna be no no, you're an idiot. I want
to get the good picture that's going to be on.
Everybody said the same thing. The grandfather and grandson. They
were walking along. It was a picnic area. They were
well over one hundred yards away, and the bison was
laying down. They took a couple of pictures, so they're
a good distance away, and there was nothing they could
do because they I guess they had gone to the
bathroom and then they were walking on a road and

(35:18):
then the bison had by then appeared and it was
just laying down, and the next thing you know, it
took off. They're still trying to figure out exactly what
took place to trigger it, but there was no fault.
It was just a reaction and once it started moving,
it closed that one hundred yards quickly. Crazy nature. Kids,
be careful. Even when you don't do something stupid, nature

(35:41):
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friends right here on the Chad Benson Show, coming up,
our number two of the program, do I I live
in the worst state in America? We're going to discuss
that the cost of kids' sports. We've discussed it, but
there's a lot of questions out there when it comes

(36:01):
to the World Cup as it's ended, Why do our
women do so well and our men don't? Is it
really a price thing? And how expensive are some of
those sports? Plus we're going to talk a little bit
more about Iran and we get your urban word of
the day, just to name the future mentioned the show.
Make sure you grab the podcast hour number two straight ahead,
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Speaker 1 (36:23):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
Oil prices will continue to rise. Energy prices are going
to get higher and higher, potentially if we continue on
with the kerfuffle. We'll talk about that in a second,
but I want to talk about this data centers. This
is kind of the battlefield that we find ourselves in
currently in the world of politics, and nobody's really sure
whether you should like data centers hate data centers. What's

(37:15):
gonna happen with data centers? That's all that's to do
with AI, But we're seeing it across the country. We
have a battle going on here in Nashville. They want
to put a data center right next to the zoo.
The zoo doesn't want it. They're they're threatening eminent domain
because they've already signed the contract, it's gone through for
the most part, a vast majority of the planning commissions

(37:36):
have ocated it. Now that it's become a political issue,
the city Council's like, oh.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
God, no, what do we do?

Speaker 2 (37:45):
And look, we need to have a conversation about data centers.
How much is it going to cost you and I
when these data centers going to go. Are we gonna
see it a massive jump in everything from and I'm
not just talking about your electricity? What about the water usage?
Is that going to start to cost us? Are we
going to be forced into blackouts but the data center

(38:07):
gets to stay on during really really busy times of
the year. All of those questions are very real. It's here,
it's not going anywhere. I think people understand that. We
talked last week about Oregon saying, look, here's the deal.
You guys are going to pay more data center so
everybody else can pay the same or less. We're not

(38:29):
going to give you everything you want. You come in here,
see prices go up, and you're fine and.

Speaker 3 (38:34):
Everybody else hurts.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
But more and more of these stories you're going to
start to hear.

Speaker 15 (38:39):
I think I was five or six when this was built,
When you talk about what being on this property means
to you. Yeah right, it's y'alls, it's ours, it's our family.
We belong here.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Not anymore you don't, and they're going to move you out.
And it's been a long time since we've seen eminent
domain in play like we're seeing it now. You would
hear sporadically about a story here, a story there, but
now you're finding it more and more and more because
technology is here and this is the new railway. This

(39:13):
is the new I mean, this is the expansion that's
going on. And guess what you got. No choice is
what they're saying. They don't want to do that, they say,
but they're saying it.

Speaker 16 (39:25):
But Ansley Brown's childhood home likely won't be here much longer.
That's because the state's largest utility, Georgia Power, says it
needs the area to make way for a thirty five
mile long transmission line. Georgia Power says increasing demands has
outpaced the capacity of its existing grid, and building a
new transmission line requires acquiring more than three hundred parcels

(39:47):
of land, including residential properties.

Speaker 13 (39:50):
What did your mom tell you she wanted for this
property to.

Speaker 15 (39:54):
Be generational wealth? True generational wealth was the idea, and
now it's being stripped from us.

Speaker 2 (40:01):
It's your generational wealth is being not so much stripped
from you in the way that you think, as it
is just moving somewhere else, and it is frustrating. And
these are the stories that piss people off. Look, here's
the thing. AI is not going anywhere. The consumption that

(40:22):
it's going to need, the nourishment, if you will, power
wise right now is great, and it's going to continue
to grow. So the question is how long will it grow?
How long is it going to take us to feed
this thing before it decides it doesn't need to eat

(40:43):
this much? And it can slowly, but you know, surely
over time change its dietary habits of consuming so much power.
And I think that's a question that really is the
thing that should be at the heart of a lot
of things, because a lot of what we hear is

(41:03):
understandably worrisome and at the same time not always one
hundred percent correct, because like everything, it gets lost in
the conversation because it's either oh my god, they're coming.
It's going to wipe everything out, They're taking everything, which
would piss everybody off. I think for the most part.
You know, some people are like, I'm glad I'm out
of this place. But at the same time that you're

(41:26):
hearing that, it's not always like that. There's two sides
to the store. The issue has been the way that
things have gone about for the last several years. These
data centers have gotten some good tax deals. They've consumed
more energy than they said they were going to. They
promised that they were going to create all kinds of

(41:47):
jobs and do certain things, and they haven't done. They've
caused people to spend more money on energy and maybe
just maybe not being upfront about it has cost some animosity.

Speaker 17 (41:59):
Georgia Power told us that they feel as if they've
done this process responsibly.

Speaker 13 (42:03):
What would you say to that.

Speaker 18 (42:05):
I disagree.

Speaker 15 (42:05):
You can't tear down thirty five miles of rural Georgia
and it not hurts something or somebody, And to say
that you're doing it in the name of data centers
is a slap in the face to us, our community,
our animals.

Speaker 16 (42:21):
Brown's mother recently came to an agreement with Georgia Power
to sell Brown says if she didn't, the utility could
have sought to acquire her property through eminent domain, a
legal process that allows private property to be taken with
compensation for projects determined to serve a public purpose.

Speaker 2 (42:39):
Yeah, and that's where it gets really uncomfortable, because it's
the big batty versus the little person. And to say
it's only data centers is discounting it. Because what potentially
could come in areas as we're finding out more and more,
or breakthroughs and things like cancer and disease, eases in

(43:01):
quality of life, things that are happening with this, the
potential for defense, all of that stuff is a part
of that. So it's it's what comes out of there.
But it's the way it's been handled. It's been piss poor.
It has, and you can't say that it's been good
because it has.

Speaker 6 (43:18):
It.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
DC blocks here, who's doing the one next to the
Nashville Zoo. They have not come forward at all in
any real way outside of going to a few of
the meetings and saying we've already signed the contract. It's
a done deal. You can't stop us. We've got the contract.
That's not the way you endear yourself. I would like
to see some of these companies who become nameless, faceless

(43:40):
and you see one or two people that maybe you
recognize in the world of tech, and it feels like
all they're doing is money grabbing and that's not going
to win the hearts and minds of people.

Speaker 14 (43:50):
And domain is always, you know, a last resort for us,
and it's something we never want to do to us.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
It's theft.

Speaker 15 (43:58):
It's literally a billion dollar company stealing land from smaller people,
people who can't fight back. We don't have the money
to fight Georgia Power.

Speaker 16 (44:08):
So that's why a few months ago, Ansley took her
story to TikTok.

Speaker 18 (44:12):
My childhood home is being taken by Georgia Power.

Speaker 16 (44:15):
She began sharing stories of others in similar situations.

Speaker 1 (44:19):
What is it taking from her?

Speaker 19 (44:20):
Look behind me is taking this entire backyard.

Speaker 17 (44:25):
What do you say to someone who will push back
on any sort of offer that's out there and say, well,
the price tag can't replace memories.

Speaker 14 (44:34):
Oh gosh, you know, it almost makes me emotional because
I have those memories in like my house, and I
get how deeply personal people's homes are.

Speaker 1 (44:43):
I would just say that.

Speaker 14 (44:46):
We see you, and we hear you, and we want
this process to be respectful and transparent, and that is
going to ultimately benefit.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
You, but it's not because you're tak the thing.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
That money is not gonna be able to replace because
you're not giving him that much money. It's not like
it's worth a million, but we're gonna give you seventy million.
You're not doing that, so that will replace the memories,
but that will take some of the edge off, if
you will. And you know that's a Look, it's a
tough job, but it's something that has to happen. And

(45:21):
this is part of when we grow as a society.

Speaker 3 (45:26):
Things like this come.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
We've talked about how the importance of AI and what
it's going to do, and that's still years and years out.
So I just a quick breakdown of how long they're
talking about before data centers start to become somewhat of
its own power source, before it eventually potentially goes to space.

(45:49):
And we broke it down for you last week, but
I want to give it to you because we can
hear more and more of these stories, especially as we
get closer to the midterm. So as of now, it
is going to be.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Very much.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Energy consumption heavy. The way we see it's power crunch
starting in a few years through about two thousand and
thirty four thirty five. This is when AI will become
part of the solution. It'll better predict electricity demand more accurately,
it'll balance the grids better in real time, design better batteries,

(46:24):
things of that nature. Cooling that's going to happen by
thirty five to forty five. You're gonna have small modular reactors.
You're gonna have all kinds of things that are going
to help create a stable and more inexpensive and smoother
grid for the demand. But that is a ways a way.

(46:47):
So the frustration it sucks. I think a lot of
us feel that way. But this is something that is
coming to just about every town across the country in
some way, shape or form. And don't be fooled by
the data centers that are already out there. And I
hear a lot of this, Well, we've got data centers already.
Why should this be any difference because the amount of

(47:10):
power needed to generate, right, So think of it this way. Okay,
the data centers that are currently out there, those things
those are get your emails, send a text, Spotify, right,
they're storing some stuff. Air conditioners run that. These are
much different. One of them is creating intelligence, and in

(47:33):
doing so they need more electricity, anywhere between twenty to
one hundred times more electricity per rack. You start adding
that up and you get to a point where a
mid sized data center one gigawatt can consume up to

(47:54):
a million homes electricity. Think about that. That's a much
different scenario than something storing your data somewhere. They're two
separate things, and a lot of people want to, you know,
conflate to do It's not. It's totally different, and that's

(48:16):
why people are worried and it's understandable. What do you
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Speaker 1 (49:49):
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Speaker 2 (49:53):
With the World Cup winding down, people are asking the
question because now there's a big debate over you know's
the women's team so much better of the men's team.
We know that's a ridiculous debate, right, we understand it's
not the same playing field women and men when it
comes to sports across the board.

Speaker 19 (50:12):
Since the US lost in the World Cup, I've seen
one hundred and one thing piece is about why we
are so much worse than the rest of the world
at soccer. And I'm a newer fan, I'm just kind
of tapping in now. But the general consensus seems to
be that around the world it is a very accessible
sport for kids of all classes to play, whereas in
the US it is a very expensive sport to play
along with every other youth sport.

Speaker 1 (50:29):
And that kind of makes sense, But none of.

Speaker 19 (50:31):
That explains by the women's team is so good, like
our parents more willing to invest in their daughter's sports
over their sons. The only thing I can kind of
think of is there are less women's sports played at
a higher level, so maybe when a girl is choosing
to play a sports, she's more inclined to choose soccer,
and there's kind of just like a wider pool. But
I don't know if that's enough to explain why they're
so successful. Is there an explanation there?

Speaker 2 (50:51):
And if you know it, can you tell me yes,
I can. First, let me say this awesome that our
women are goodeen seventy to title nine. Huge win for sports,
women's sports accessibility through the roof. You know what, the
rest of the world wasn't doing that. Our women have
an advantage because as far as we're behind, a lot

(51:13):
of that is because of decades and decades of us
not getting the proper coaching. There's a lot that goes
into it. We promote young girls and women to play sports.
When I lived in Europe, you know how many girls
played soccer?

Speaker 3 (51:29):
I couldn't.

Speaker 2 (51:30):
I couldn't even tell you one. I lived there for
on and off for a decade. I never met a
girl that played soccer outside of indoor kicking around with
their friends. Never met one. They didn't play basketball. They
played netball, that's a different version, but even then they
didn't do anything like that. There was no thought of

(51:52):
playing sports. And when you go and look at the
early World Cups that we started paying attention to for
the women, go see how many any women for other
teams were Americans who Grandma, grandfa, whatever it was, got
them the opportunity to become a citizen of that country

(52:15):
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Speaker 3 (52:25):
Let me know what you think.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Want to hear from you right here in the Chad
Benson Show. And go see how many of those women,
even if they were born and raised in that country,
played D one soccer here in America. And that's how
they've got chosen. We promote, We gave opportunities and pushed
young girls to participate. The rest of the world didn't.

(52:48):
They are now, but they didn't then. And yes, money
is an issue. And to talk about money, and I'm
going through this with Jack my son, and I'm blessed
that he can play sports. But I want you guys
to get a feel and an understanding if you don't
know how expensive certain sports are.

Speaker 20 (53:05):
Hockey, for instance, what does ten and under Triple A
hockey cost in Pennsylvania. Let's look at one family's reported
season registration sixty eight hundred dollars, team assessments one hundred
and fifty dollars, tryout fees two hundred and fifty dollars,
rink life three hundred dollars, private coaching four hundred and
fifty dollars consumables things like tape, laces and skate sharpenings,

(53:26):
five hundred dollars local travel, eight hundred dollars mandatory team gear,
one thousand dollars, two thousand dollars for equipment, thirty three
hundred dollars for development, tournament travel, twelve thousand, five hundred
dollars for a total of twenty seven thousand, nine hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
Think about that for a second. Twenty eight thousand dollars.
So those are nine and ten year olds twenty eight
thousand dollars to play sports. Now, if you're playing Triple
A there's a very good chance that some of these
kids this may be all they do. They may be
homeschool because you're at that point where you're playing Triple
A hockey, that's the highest going to go. You're looking
at scholarships things of that nature. But still twenty eight

(54:03):
grand that's expensive and you know it, and some of
you have paid that for baseball several other things.

Speaker 3 (54:08):
Let me know what you think.

Speaker 2 (54:09):
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Speaker 1 (54:17):
Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:43):
According to CNBC, I live in the worst state in America.

Speaker 3 (54:48):
What yes.

Speaker 15 (54:52):
New?

Speaker 2 (54:52):
A poll came out yesterday, study or whatever the hell
you want to call from CNBC and it says, Chad,
you live in the worst state in America, And I say, no,
I don't.

Speaker 18 (55:03):
When it comes to quality of life, the Financial Network
CNBC ranks Tennessee at the very bottom.

Speaker 13 (55:10):
I don't know that we deserve it, but we're pretty
close to the bottom. I can tell you that.

Speaker 18 (55:14):
In the weaknesses category. The study points to FBI data
claiming Tennessee has one of the highest violent crime rates
in the nation.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Yes, we've had some issues, but Nashville seen a precipitous
drop in violent crime. Memphis obviously had an issue where
there was a big battle going on there. But we've
got an issue. A lot of big cities have issues.
But I look everything at a hole, right, I think
you got to look at it individually, but also as
the sum of it all. Can't just be well, you

(55:48):
guys are mean, because that's kind of what this came
across as more your mean and you target specific groups.
And I'm not saying that there's not something to that.
I'm not saying that, and we talk about that. I'm
just saying there's a lot to it.

Speaker 18 (56:07):
CNBC also gave Tennessee a poor score for its inclusiveness,
citing laws targeting the LGBTQ community, including the state's bathroom
law requiring transgender people to use facilities designated for their
sex at birth, and a resolution signed by Governor Bill
Lee designating the month of June, which is otherwise known
as Pride Month, to nuclear Family Month.

Speaker 21 (56:29):
I believe that I have met some of the kindest,
most inclusive people ever in Tennessee. But in terms of policy,
in terms of what our government focuses on, we have
to be near the bottom. If we're not number fifty,
we need to be close because we do not have
the government we deserve in this state. There's no question

(56:51):
about that.

Speaker 2 (56:52):
Now, I will say this, there's a lot of crap
that Tennessee does when it comes to culture wars, right,
just like the left has theirs right, California loves the
culture wars, loves to turn everything into LGBTQ plus ia
and you know, oh, it's that, it's this or there
is a lot of ridiculousness. You know that goes on here.

(57:17):
The bathroom thing I have again, I mean just common sense.
I'm not going to get into the game of just insanity,
but this should be about the quality of life across
the board.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
Continue.

Speaker 18 (57:30):
The reports also argues Tennessee ranks low in workplace protection,
including livable wage policies, paid leave, and rights to organize.

Speaker 22 (57:39):
The system has now been set up so that wor
can people have no voice, that dedication between the worker
and the company. It's kind of gotten out of hand
and it's been skewed to the point that that you know,
they much like a lot of things. They feel like
workers are expendable. But then it complained they can't find
somebody in the workforce.

Speaker 2 (57:58):
Well that's the that's true. I'm not going to pretend
that that isn't true, because it is.

Speaker 3 (58:05):
I mean it is. I mean we get that. I
mean it's it's it's not as.

Speaker 2 (58:13):
Unionized and friendly as you get to some of the
other places, no doubt about that. It's an at will state.
And you know so, I mean again, you got to
take the good with the bad, and we're going to
get to the good because you know, these are all
the things that are evil and bad about Tennessee, which
I'm here to tell you it's not true.

Speaker 18 (58:27):
CNBC's rankings listing Tennessee as the worst are also facing pushback,
Florida Governor Ronda Santis posting to x saying if Tennessee
was really the worst state to live in, people wouldn't
be moving there in large numbers, which they are.

Speaker 3 (58:42):
That right there.

Speaker 2 (58:43):
The very important part of it, and the reason is
it's affordability. So when you go and look at the study,
it's bizarre. Okay, what we do do well? Apparently what
you do do well is air quality.

Speaker 3 (58:59):
We're really good with the air quality.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
Apparently that was that was kind of the methodology is
so whackadoey because it takes into things like health healthcare
access absolutely something we need to talk about. Crime rates, yeah, absolutely,
you know, and if it's good because everyone's returned to
a red blue then we go, okay, where are all
the crimes happening?

Speaker 3 (59:19):
Is it Nashville a blue city?

Speaker 23 (59:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (59:20):
Is Memphis of the blue city? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (59:21):
Okay, so then well we don't want to do okay, uh,
air quality, We're great at that. Worker protection, But then
they start talking about some of the other stuff, and
he's like, I'm not really buying some of this.

Speaker 3 (59:36):
And what you don't talk about is something that may be.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
At the highest point for the average person, which is affordability,
because if you can afford to live, it makes life
a little bit easier, right, it does. It makes life
a lot easier. And why you're saying all of these
things about Tennessee and CNBC and everything about oh, it's

(01:00:03):
not good and it's not this, it's not that. What
you're not talking about is outdoor recreation, business climate, home affordability,
job growth, low cost of living, no state income tax. Tennessee,
by the way, ranks in the top five or ten
in all of those things on CNBC's other studies and polls.

(01:00:25):
So it doesn't take in everything. And you can take
these things and twist them how you want. I will
tell you this, every place has it's great and every
place has its warts. I've been fortunate enough to live
all over the world, Okay, from Scotland to London, Choring
and Denmark, lived in a law of places Texas, California, Arizona, Nevada,

(01:00:53):
now it here, and I will tell you does it
have some warts? Everywhere does does it have beauty, gorgeous
out here.

Speaker 3 (01:01:04):
The people are you know this this thought that you know?

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
And I joke around sometimes about it because you know,
the station I'm on in the afternoon very maga. As
you guys know, I'm not very maga. I'm not really
very anything. And I you know, you'll get some people
that that you know and their attitudes and you start laughing.
But you also know, look they're older, that that attitude
is dying away. With that, You've got a lot more

(01:01:33):
diversity than people realize here. And I said the same
thing about Texas. When I moved to Texas. My friend said,
you know, oh man, you moved to Texas.

Speaker 3 (01:01:42):
You gonna go out there. That's the most racist place
you're ever going to go to.

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
This day, San Antonio was arguably the most diverse city
I had ever lived in. Because yes, you can look
at Long Beach, California or Los Angeles say we also diverse.

Speaker 3 (01:02:00):
No, it's not.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
It's a puzzle piece of diversity. But everybody's got their quadrants.
In San Antonio it wasn't that way.

Speaker 3 (01:02:10):
It wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
So every place has their attitudes and their biggestues. California's
got it. They do I get called every day, Oh,
we don't want you people out here from the blue stuff. Like,
first of all, I live in Arizona for the last
eight years, so settle down. Secondly, uh, people are coming here,

(01:02:36):
you want that. It's funny both. You know, everybody wants.
We want the money you bring and the businesses you bring,
but we don't want you and your politics. Well, a
lot of people moving to places like Texas, like Tennessee,
like Florida. They're moving to places because their politics don't
chive In a place like southern California, northern California outside

(01:02:57):
of Bakersfield, it's too damn expensive and too much tax says,
too much wackiness. I mean, how many times do we
see you know, half Oregan wants to break off and
become its own place.

Speaker 3 (01:03:06):
Same thing with.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Upper part of California. And you know, Washington State's going
through with their stuff that they've got going around. There's
a lot of that. Every place has its good and
it's bad, there's no doubt. And some places, yeah, they
don't offer the same kind of things that you're used to.
Protection wise, and everybody gets this, that and the others kumbaya,

(01:03:30):
but they offer other things that are amazing that take
pressures off certain things.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
So, but it's funny. It's the worst state. Oh, I've
been to several states. Let me tell you some This
ain't the worst state by close. It's an amazing state.
And I will pick.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Nashville over Los Angeles every day of the week as
much as I am from LA and I love Los Angeles.

Speaker 3 (01:03:55):
That Los Angeles that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:56):
I love doesn't exist anymore, doesn't three two, three, five, eight,
twenty four to twenty three Atchad Benson Show, sharec's your instant,
your YouTube and all of the other things. Meanwhile, did
you guys know that there's a war going on. We
like to call it a kerfuffle because it's kerfuffling, and.

Speaker 5 (01:04:12):
It's a blockade, not for anybody but I ran.

Speaker 4 (01:04:14):
In other words, anybody doing business with Iran can't go
through everyone else we'll be able to go through I show.
It's a blockade, a very strong blockhead. The blockade was
probably more effective even than hitting them.

Speaker 5 (01:04:25):
But I think the combination is.

Speaker 3 (01:04:26):
The thing that that really doesn't But you need a
deal to still follow if you think they'll return to it.

Speaker 5 (01:04:31):
Yeah, I think you jails Bossom shoot I do.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
So we're now blockading and threatening to take twenty percent,
which we won't do because I don't think there is
if there's a mechanism for us to do something like
that at this point in time. So I think Trump
has gotten to the point where I think he's going
to surrender the politics of this for the most part.

(01:04:55):
So prices, you know, when it comes to oil gas,
expect to see him go up. Is that have the
knock on effect, the domino effect that's going to cost
us more, not just at the pump, but also it's
just about every store we go to.

Speaker 24 (01:05:09):
Prices right now at the pump are up eight cents
over the last week. The national average is now three
dollars eighty two cents, and analysts are forecasting that we
could see four dollars gas in the next seven to
ten days, if not sooner. And this all comes back
to the strait of horror moves. It is not returning
to the old normal. Fewer ships are moving through there.

(01:05:30):
Just ten of them crossed through overnight. For reference, during
the MoU when that was happening, you were seeing seventy
ships through.

Speaker 2 (01:05:39):
We're not seeing that anymore. We're seeing very little ten
here fifteen twenty, and even those seventy ships were not
what normally goes through. So expect prices to continue to
climb unless something drastic happens, and you know, Trump likes
to talk drastic into you know, being if you will,

(01:06:00):
Is that possible? Anything is possible. But I think we
recognize that this situation that we find ourselves in it's
going to be a while and we better get used
to higher inflation, higher prices.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
For the foreseeable future.

Speaker 24 (01:06:19):
The trouble with gas prices going higher is that it
drives up so many other costs. Think about your groceries.
It's more expensive for farmers to grow, more expensive to
transport them, and more expensive to the grocery store, which
means you also pay a higher price at checkout. And
then when you take this inflation collectively, what it does
is it drives up interest rates. Right now we are

(01:06:39):
looking at a situation where interest rates could go higher.
That means mortgage rates, the price to get a loan
to buy a home that's now near high for the
year six point seventy five percent, So it's much more
expensive to buy a home.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
And when you're buying a home, as she talked about there.
Well you got a home, like to my co just
moved into new homes in the last ninety days, one
over the probably two months ago, the other one over
the past seven days. Well what do you get when
you when you when you go, when you get a
new home, Well, you want new stuff. You know what,

(01:07:16):
your old junkie stuff that worked that that other place
doesn't work here. I mean some of it's okay, but
not all of it. And I want new stuff, and
I want this, and I want that. I want to
look like this, and that's that's going to cost more.
So it again, as I like to say, the knock
on effect is real and the other side of it.
And this is something you know when you when you
look at Trump and when you look at all of
this stuff. Remember, gas prices are very much a visual

(01:07:42):
thing because you see them every single day. Same thing
with the stock market. This other stuff, you're going to
feel it, not so much see it. Yeah, yeah, And
is there an AI bubble that's gonna pop. We're gonna
find all of those things out and more, and we're
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Speaker 3 (01:09:04):
Trap it up. Urban word of the day would do
it straight ahead. This is the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:09:18):
Irreverence, Like, yeah, so what it's the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 5 (01:09:25):
All right.

Speaker 11 (01:09:26):
It's now that portion of the program where we break
it down for you and give you a little bit
of the slang that kids and the peeps are using.
And we're doing it right now World Cup style because
the soccer is going on and we're getting close to
the end. We got the semifinals here number one kicking
off here today and I'll give you my prediction coming

(01:09:47):
up in a bit.

Speaker 25 (01:09:47):
But first 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. All right, your urban word
of the day. Somebody asked me about this the other day.

(01:10:09):
So when you see a foul on the field, but
the referee continues to let the game play and he'll
hold his arms out, it's playing an advantage. An advantage
meaning that even though there was a foul, and it
may be a bad foul, that the referee could come
back and punish the player because the ball's moving in

(01:10:30):
such a way that the team who had the ball
and got fouled, it's an advantage for them. They will
play that advantage and let the play play itself out.
So if you hear that today, and you may hear
it a few times, advantage, now you know exactly what
it means.

Speaker 5 (01:10:46):
That was the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Now, you know, as we like to say, it's always
good to know, my friends, it's always good to know.
I'm excited about today game. But I tell my buddy,
you know, it's depressing. And be honest with you, we've
we've we've had this amazing last several weeks, really two months,

(01:11:12):
the run up to it, in the whole nine yards,
and now that it's getting closer and closer to the end,
I'm like, what am I going to do with myself?
I mean, I work a lot, but this was really
you know, this got me to take some time and
relax a little bit.

Speaker 16 (01:11:26):
Oh my lord.

Speaker 2 (01:11:28):
And you know, several of the cities that have seen
the teams come and go, you know, the their excitement,
you know, because you build up to this and then
it's like it's over and.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
You're like, WHOA, that's crazy. I know, I know it is. Uh,
it is crazy, but I'm pumped.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
Big game today, be game tomorrow, three, two, three, five, three, eight,
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Speaker 3 (01:12:00):
Love hearing from.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
Everybody on the YouTube side of stuff. We will be
live tonight right around eight o'clock. If you have a
chance join us. We really really appreciate when you do
that right here on the Chad Benson Show. Coming up,
our number three of the program, more on Iran Buddy
Mike Clines Military and it's going to join the program.
What does it mean going forward when it comes to

(01:12:26):
what phase we're in? Is it NonStop attack? Is it
going to be fits and starts. We're going to ask
him that question as well as what's going on in Ukraine.
Could putin do something crazy which is important to know.
By the way, We got a little What's trending coming
up as well.

Speaker 3 (01:12:43):
Love it when we do that. Plus, AI is fooling
people and we want to make sure that you're not fooled.

Speaker 2 (01:12:48):
When it comes to a lot of stuff you see
on the internet, got a bunch of other good stuff
on the way. If you're missing the show Shaman, you
grabbed the podcast. Hour number three is straight ahead. This
is the Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Another shooting by Ice yesterday in Binford, Maine, killing a
twenty six year old man who Ice has come out
Deja said, Look, he was not the target of the investigation.
Trying to figure out what his actual status is. Nobody's

(01:13:54):
quite sure, but it looks like he had the right
to be here security card and he had a work
from it to be here. Originally they weren't quite sure,
but from what everybody understands, the person who Ice was
targeting used to live in the house and something happened.

(01:14:18):
What happened, nobody knows because there's no body camera DHS
and everybody says that we don't have the money for
all the things we need right now, and we're getting it.
These things take time to purchase, to get out into
the you know, out into the field. Now, this comes

(01:14:38):
on the heel of the shooting of the Mexican National
last week in Houston. So this is a look, let's
be real, this is not a good look. This is
not a good look. And to the point where even
Mark Wayne Mullen, who has spoken with Angus King, who
is the independent Senator from as well as Susan Collins, says, no,

(01:15:02):
we need to get to the bottom of what took
place here.

Speaker 3 (01:15:06):
So and it's it's causing another firestorm the you know
when you go back and I think we need to
do this too, And this is.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
Where we need to put our heads on and not
lose our minds because Trump's in office and everything becomes emotional.
Is there there there or is their hype there because
of Trump because of the words and the hyperbole and
the big talk and the controversy that comes with it
and the pushback and the advocates and all of this stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:15:40):
Is there more.

Speaker 2 (01:15:43):
Or is this a situation where things like this happened
in the past, but now the Trump's in the office,
people are paying attention. So let's get serious, shall we
when we talk of this, because I care about facts
and data before we lose our mind. Do we have

(01:16:03):
a systemic problem within Ice right now where they feel
they can go out and do what they.

Speaker 3 (01:16:10):
Want to do or is this overblown? It's not overblown.
It's not.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
It's not overblown at all. At least twenty nine to
thirty shootings, depending on where you're reading DHS, ICE, FBI,
because not all of them were a singular action, meaning
it was just ICE a loan, sometimes was FBI, police
and everything, and some of them could be attributed to that.

(01:16:39):
In saying that, now, I think this is eleven deaths.
So if you go back from January twenty one to
January twenty five, that's Biden's years, publicly reported shootings and
killings directly attributed to ICE agents were low, likely near
zero fatal shootings. If we go from twenty fifteen to
twenty one, Obama, Trump one point zero, and early Biden

(01:17:02):
documented fifty nine ICE shootings total across seven years, resulting
in twenty three deaths and twenty four injuries. So during
the Biden years where he let everybody in and told
them not to enforce anything, you got that. But with
Obama and Trump one point zero, you had some shootings,
you had some issues. So one of them enforced, the

(01:17:24):
second did not. The reality is simply there seems to
be an issue. If we're honest with ourselves, there seems
to be an issue. Now, is it the issue where
you know, you get the likes of Morning Joe going
it's becoming a killing zone because that's what they do, no.

Speaker 5 (01:17:40):
Doubt about it.

Speaker 26 (01:17:40):
They are turning hometowns in America into kill zones. They're
turning neighborhood streets in the kill zones. They were supposed
to make us safer. These are the people that were
some Susan Collins funded all of these people to make
main safer.

Speaker 13 (01:18:02):
System.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
Scene settle down there, sir. It's not obscene.

Speaker 3 (01:18:06):
It's what it is.

Speaker 2 (01:18:07):
It's politics, and I do think we have a issue
that needs to be talked about in a real.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
Way, not men to boish Ayce. What do you think
is gonna happen?

Speaker 2 (01:18:20):
When I was a kid growing up, we didn't have ice, right,
we had lamigre immigration so lemigra, lemigra we did. We
didn't have that, but we had enforcement mechanisms we did.
There was no doubt in my mind because I remember
we had enforcement mechanisms under Obama. It you know, it

(01:18:41):
didn't start under Obama, but it grew under Obama, and
he played a part in enforcement. I mean, it's it
called a deporter in chief. But this whole like, let's
abolish it. Okay, let's just say, for the sake of argument,
we're gonna do that. Okay, we're gonna abolish it. What
are we gonna do just out of curiosity? Are we
gonna have no border protection whatsoever? We're gonna have no

(01:19:03):
enforcement of immigration laws whatsoever. Tell me what we're going
to do. What is your reimagining of this, because you
never say that. It's the same thing with we're going
to bawlish the police. This is why you guys on
the left lose everything because you're out your freaking mind.
You're out your mind. One doesn't work that way.

Speaker 3 (01:19:27):
It doesn't. So the question is what do we do?
See Tom Holman is not thrilled by this.

Speaker 2 (01:19:35):
I can almost guarantee you he's pissed about what took
place in Houston last week and what took place here.
Because when you get your job done correctly, nobody knows
about you.

Speaker 3 (01:19:47):
Everything is good.

Speaker 2 (01:19:48):
It's like fotball, basketball hockey. If they're talking about the referee,
there's a very good chance something's gone sideways. It's the
same thing here. For years, Ice has been doing work,
but nobody paid any attention to it because it wasn't
a political issue. It has become a political issue. And
there's no doubt there are some serious issues here.

Speaker 3 (01:20:12):
That need to be.

Speaker 2 (01:20:15):
Absolutely investigated. But before we throw the baby out with
the bathwater, let's get the real data. Let's get the
real information, and let's actually figure out what needs to
be done and then approach it that way rather than
just going they're turning it into the killing fields or

(01:20:35):
the killing zones or whatever. He said Morning Joe three, two, three, five, three, eight,
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you can leave a voicemail as easy as a text.

Speaker 27 (01:20:52):
Take cat, I want to leave a little comments. I
love your show. That's my comments. The question that I
have is is how can conglue the both side watch
this current administration do so many things that are ethical illegal,
and let's how you start talking about the moral value
of it all. I mean some of money that are

(01:21:13):
changing hands to pay for play. He's got the first
one to do that, for sure. For sure, Biden did
it with his son Hunter. But this is so great
it's just so obvious, just we don't care.

Speaker 5 (01:21:25):
We're here.

Speaker 27 (01:21:25):
Take a thing. When will this administration larrence and listen
to this military commanders and not the Fox News command
the JD. Then this whole thing has gotten out of
places here. How they manage to.

Speaker 5 (01:21:40):
Straight hor moves?

Speaker 27 (01:21:42):
How they manage bombing? I don't know what well Bob
had the running out of both unport saint. They're running low,
depleting the stockpile of ever. So tell the rut thing
you know you can talk about or whatever, good choice,
Thanks so very much.

Speaker 2 (01:21:59):
I'll tell you first and foremost about what's going on
with the administration and the amount of money they've made.
That is a absolute value question that I brought it up,
and a lot of people go, well, biteen it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:13):
At least they're doing it in the open. There is no.

Speaker 2 (01:22:17):
Let's not even conflate the two them. Then come on,
we're nowhere near we're not even in the same zip code.
And yes, pay for play the games that happen. The
crony capitalism, it's there. It drives us all crazy. We
recognize this.

Speaker 3 (01:22:35):
We're not even in that world anymore. They're just lots
of issues that are going to have to be addressed.

Speaker 2 (01:22:45):
Because of well, I don't know the vast amounts of
money he's making, his president his kids are making, as
you know, as presidential sons, even though they have nothing
to do with him, yet magically they're getting massive contracts
and everything from rare earth minerals to drones. Yeah, those

(01:23:05):
are serious questions. And as far as what goes on
with the military, I it's hard to have a plan.
We're gonna talk to Mike Lines, our military analysts coming
up here in a little bit. It's hard to get
a real plan when every day, hour by hour, that
plan could change depending on how Trump feels about it

(01:23:27):
and who's telling him at that moment in time what
they should and shouldn't do. So that's gonna be tough.
It's gonna be a tough thing. I mean, I think
Mike's gotta you know, I mean, I've given you guys
my What I think is gonna happen is is he'll
ramp it up until a couple of weeks before Labor Day,
shut it down for a little bit, you know, gas

(01:23:49):
prices go up a little bit, and then after Labor Day,
ramp it up again, and then the closer we get
to midterms and he'll get away from it and hoping
gas prices come down and the market's strong, and he
could say, look, the economies are made and then after that,
who knows. But I mean, I think that's kind of
where we are at this point in time. But we'll
ask Mike about that coming up in a little bit.
And again you can reach out to us across all
of our social media. Love hearing from all of you.

(01:24:13):
So the game today, France Espania. I've picked France just
their offense is their defense, if that makes sense. Sometimes
it can be overwhelming, and there's no I don't think
there is a better d in the World Cup than

(01:24:37):
what Spain has. That being said, you can't discount the
defense that France has, not like you know, France just has.

Speaker 3 (01:24:48):
Oh all we do is play offense. We have no defense.
You can't. That's not the way that works.

Speaker 2 (01:24:52):
Their defense is pretty damn good as well, But there's just,
you know, something special about Spain's and going far forward,
nobody right now is anywhere near what France is when
it comes to the offensive side. So I got France tomorrow,
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Tuesday showed the Magical World of X which, of course
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Speaker 3 (01:27:24):
They're gonna bring him out. That's what I think.

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Bonix Hayley, Merry Christmas, and we'll talk about that in
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Sam Neil all trending in the Magical World of X
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to pouring in from around the acting world and also
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Henry old Hank there said hey, you know what, this
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Trump, Trump, James Franco Trending, Cameron Brink, Bryce Harper, Britney
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It's AI. Okay, I want you to listen to this. Christians.

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It's offensive to us Muslims. That's not real.

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That is completely AI. And how many people have gone
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and what's not. If you're unsure, don't get involved. It's
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quotes from people that never said them about Islam, Christianity,

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whatever it is. You just sit there and you go, oh,
so hard to deal with it really is coming up.
Our buddy Mike Liones military analyst's going to join the program.
We're going to talk about, obviously the death of Lindsay Graham.
What's that going to do. When it comes to Ukraine,
which is the bigger of the two wars, but the
one that affects us to the most obviously is Iran,
We're going to discuss that as well. If you mis
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Speaker 6 (01:30:54):
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Speaker 2 (01:31:18):
The Chad Benson Show, and is that portion of the
program talked to our goodbody my client's military analysts, best
dam military analys in the business. Retired major in the Army, Mike,
You and I were chatting right before we came on air,
and you said, we're in a new phase of what is.

Speaker 3 (01:31:33):
Going on in the fight in Iran?

Speaker 2 (01:31:35):
What phase are we currently finding ourselves.

Speaker 12 (01:31:38):
In the military actions last three now four days, hundreds
of targets last night in particular, it looks like they
were along the coastline under a very wide stretch. I mean,
the data States has figured out tactically they have to
take away the Iranian capability to go after these ships
with their drones, coastal batteries and the like. And so
if you look at where the target list was last

(01:32:00):
night in particular, it focused on that, and you know,
you take it to the next level of the administration
has notified Congress, so the war powers act. Now that
clock has restarted again, so it's another you know, kind
of sixty days once again. And so the military is
looking at this and saying, you know, we've got to
go back look at some of the targets that we
missed the first time. And then there's one in particular,

(01:32:22):
there's this Pickax facility we can talk about, and that
the Trump administration is talking about going after one of
the nuclear facilities that they haven't hit yet, and we
can talk about why that's going to be important.

Speaker 2 (01:32:32):
Yeah, that is interesting because you know, we're seeing it
ramp up again, Mike, and here we are. Okay, Now
everybody's like, okay, so what does this mean because we
care about like what's this mean for us?

Speaker 3 (01:32:41):
Like you and I know what it means.

Speaker 2 (01:32:43):
Gas prices are going to go up, especially after that
we're going to take control of everything, and now we're
going to charge a toll, which I think is kind
of insane.

Speaker 3 (01:32:50):
That's just a political move right there. But what do
we have left to hit over there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:55):
Because you know, all this being said, and I talked
about it earlier, nobody's talking about the fact that Saudi
Arabia and the Yemenes and the Hooties are going back
at it again, which is also going to be an issue.

Speaker 13 (01:33:06):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 12 (01:33:06):
In fact, the hoots fired on Saudi and that second
front now is open when you think about it, militarily,
the threatning to close that port that they have not
a port, that's that's strait that they have that exists
at this at the south tip of the Red Sea.
If that choke point closes that, that really shuts down
any you know, Saudi Arabian oil that's been going in
that direction. That's a difficult task. I'm not sure that

(01:33:29):
they can do that with the same capability that the
Iranians can. But it will have this economic impact and
the insurance and all the things that go through that,
and that does does make it and make an impact.

Speaker 13 (01:33:41):
But you got to look at these Gulf countries.

Speaker 12 (01:33:43):
They're all getting attacked, Bahrain, Qatar, they're all Jordan. You know,
the Iranians have opened up the floodgates. I still don't
understand how the rest of the world doesn't recognize that
this is a very big threat and we can't have
this Iranian regime controlling the Straits. I mean, I'm saying
he's charging twenty ndred percent whatever that is. However he's
calculating that, you know, I think that's just a matter

(01:34:06):
of just trying to trump over the Iranians and trying
to say that they don't have that capability.

Speaker 13 (01:34:11):
I'm not sure we'll actually, you know, do that.

Speaker 12 (01:34:12):
We're not going to hold the world hostage there, but
it's just a matter of, you know, getting back at
the Ranians.

Speaker 2 (01:34:16):
I think, you know, the whole you because we were
joking yesterday. I'm like, well, that seems like something the
mob would do. Hey, you know what you want to
pass through here? You probably need some protection. All joking aside, though,
if we were to do that, that's going to put
us in much closer range than we are currently right now,
and that puts our men and women in much more
peril than they find themselves in at least at this

(01:34:39):
moment in time.

Speaker 13 (01:34:41):
No question.

Speaker 12 (01:34:41):
That's because the targets are much closer and the standoff
is much shorter. What that means is that their capability
to fire at us and us to pick it up
is a lot more challenging, and there's you know, commanders
expect losses. There will be this potential higher rate of
combat casualties in track because of this, and it's not
always something you can hit what you know, these targets

(01:35:02):
over the horizon with We've seen a helicopter go down
a month ago, and we saw the challenges that they
have and because in some ways we've got the.

Speaker 13 (01:35:09):
Wrong weapon systems on the battlefield.

Speaker 12 (01:35:11):
We've got we brought helicopters to this fight that were
designed to blow up tanks in you know, Western Europe
and not necessarily fight drones that are coming at them
and swarms. But there's there's the military is looking at
all of the different targets and you know or past
a strategic level on the targets. What I mean by

(01:35:31):
that is, you know, they still can't attack anything at
scale but the but they still have this capability of
the one off drone, the ten or so ballistic missiles
that are still you know, creating the kinds of problems
in the streets that we still have today.

Speaker 2 (01:35:42):
Talking to Mike Clones, military analysts best on military lint
is in business all right, Mike, So I said it earlier,
but we didn't really get a chance what is left
to hit over there, because I think a lot of
people are starting to see, Okay, are we really going
to hit their nuclear facilities? Are we going to take
out so much infrastructure that, you know, because we want
to do enough that maybe gets the people to start
to make a move and they capitulate, But we don't

(01:36:04):
want to overdo it to the point where then the
people turn and it becomes chaos.

Speaker 12 (01:36:09):
Well, they've got to look for what I think I've
been calling repairable to terns, find things that if they
do hit that take things down but then can quickly
be repaired. You know, the different components of some of
the refineries that they have there in particular. But I
think this Pickax facility, coming back to that is something
that will be a challenge militarily.

Speaker 13 (01:36:28):
It's a it's an area that's not been hit yet.

Speaker 12 (01:36:30):
It's one of the nuclear facilities that the Ranians have
that it's top top, highly top secret, well.

Speaker 13 (01:36:36):
Buried in the mountains. I think that's the key here.

Speaker 12 (01:36:38):
Four to oh the original place where most of those
centrifuges were that's been buried for all practical purposes as
at a lower altitude, this is going to be a
really difficult military mission to try to bury. There's no
there's no saying that it can even be completely destroyed.
But I think that that's where one of the focus
is going to be. We don't know what they're doing there.
We believe that it's it's a centrifuge assembly point, but

(01:37:00):
it could be the last vestige of a hedge that
they're using to keep to have this nuclear program go.
I also think you're going to see them take out
the military, our military take out their maritime command and
control facilities. I saw some targets who were hit yesterday
had to do with their their kind of capability to
control what they see in the streets. And I think

(01:37:20):
that that's another anything that's going after the IRGC right
now that you know, they're obviously the ones that are
ConTroll of this, the you know, the moderate soft liners
that are on the foreign policy desk that are calling
Trump saying we want a deal, we want to deal.
Those are not the guys that are that are firing
at us right now, and the disconnected one side it
ran perhaps this military pressure will cause this you know,
the country to finally implode internally.

Speaker 13 (01:37:42):
We can only hope.

Speaker 3 (01:37:43):
So so what's the end game?

Speaker 2 (01:37:46):
I mean, at the end of the day, I think
a lot of people now are going, Okay, so we're
back in it. You know, it's a kerfuffle. It's not
a kerfuffle. It's awards as any other. I think a
lot of people just like to like, what is the
end game? Because I've heard a lot of people over
the last several days, people that I work with who
are always behind Trump, have said, now, you know what, dude, fish,
you get off the pot. I mean it's like viser
do something or because this, we can't continue to do this.

(01:38:10):
And you know, then you got to think about as
you've talked about the men and women who are out there,
they're you know, one minute is yeah, we're doing something.
The next minute's like that's got to drive them crazy.

Speaker 6 (01:38:21):
It is.

Speaker 12 (01:38:21):
I mean, I've always you know, think about combats. It's
fifty nine minutes of boredom in one minute of terrast
sometimes and no question. You know, you deploy a unit,
you can't you know, they're like bayonetch you can't sit
on them. And you know, three carrier strike groups but
out there we're trying to get I believe one's trying
to get back to the Pacific to help that that theater,
which I believe still could explode in a couple of years.

(01:38:41):
And then you know, getting a carrier back out an
RF folk that get deployed, that's going to be another
you know.

Speaker 13 (01:38:47):
Six to eight weeks.

Speaker 12 (01:38:48):
So the military op tempo it's called that pace remains
very high.

Speaker 13 (01:38:52):
But what are we going to do?

Speaker 12 (01:38:53):
I think it's going to be continued military pressure, economic leverage,
and and just everything from all the levers of national
power are going to go. Now, will the strikes were
it's it's disproportioned, I'll give you that, but it's not
you know, ten strikes a day. It's been sixty seventy
eighty ninety. But it's also not eleven hundred. It's not

(01:39:13):
epic fury level. So they're they're consistent. The Uranians, you know,
have got to keep their heads down. They've got to
be concerned about command and control. You've got Israel it
is chomping at the bit to get back into this fight.

Speaker 13 (01:39:25):
You can't.

Speaker 12 (01:39:25):
You know, nothing comes out of there on a daily
basis that says we're ready to go. And you know
what they're going right after Command and Control. They're going
right after you know, you know who's next on the
on the podium that's going to decide to say that,
you know, we want to make a deal and not
make a deal.

Speaker 13 (01:39:39):
So I think that's what they're going to do.

Speaker 12 (01:39:41):
I think that's the Rubio influence right now on this
White House vance has been kind of sidelined. This whole
thing about you know, trying to get peace with the
with the Moderates is over, and you're going to see
military pressure, economic leverage pressure, and potentially other countries getting involved.

Speaker 13 (01:39:54):
And I think that's going to it could go on
for months.

Speaker 2 (01:39:57):
And that right there is the thing I was going
to ask you, how long could this say go on?
Because we all know going on for months? Because the
way I've looked at it is, we're going to do
this kerfuffling as I call it, back and forth up
until a couple of weeks before Labor Day, where Trump
will probably goes, oh, we got to calm this thing
down because we.

Speaker 3 (01:40:12):
Need gas press to come down.

Speaker 2 (01:40:14):
Then after that pick it up again up until about
two or three weeks before the midterms, and then calm
it down, and then after that, God only knows what
will happen. I feel like that's kind of what we
have going on. And I don't think there's going to
be anything steady because you got to look at the politics,
and the politics is going to be at the gas pump.

Speaker 13 (01:40:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 12 (01:40:31):
You know, again, if we can take a couple of
pieces off the board and swap out a carrier group,
that'll help the military fight.

Speaker 13 (01:40:37):
But I think you're right. I think the politics are
way heavy in this.

Speaker 12 (01:40:41):
And I guess gases up or oil is of about
ten percent overnight because of what's what happened here and
because of the fact that you know, the shooting started
and that that has a lot to do with insurance.
It's got all the factors that go into it and
fertilize or all the other you know, downstream market, you know,
products and commodities that come out of there all factor

(01:41:01):
in there as well. But again, the president, this is
going to be a marketing challenge for him too, because
at the end of the day, you know, the United
States should be resilient enough to itself in order to
sustain the energy side of this, and and if we're not,
then it's just kind of shame on us. And again
I've said this from the very beginning. This is the war,

(01:41:23):
this is the conflict we have to have right now.
This is one we have to fight. You know, I
was talking to somebody yesterday or up at West Point
and talking to folks there, and we're just so concerned
that we think the country once again has been psychologically
disarmed because of Iraq and Afghanistan. And you know, jade
Vanci even said, he's like, you know, forever wars. This
is not a forever war. This is one that that
should have been fought. You know, this is the time

(01:41:45):
to fight it. And this is the one that's going
to have an ending to it if we just keep
going at it.

Speaker 2 (01:41:48):
Talking to Mike Lines or military analysts, we talk about
all things military and the conflicts. Let's go over to
Eastern Europe. It's getting crazy over there, There's no doubt.
And you know, I mean they went on TV last week,
the Russians basically say, hey, skip Putin's more time, let's
not worry about overthrowing him. It feels like he is

(01:42:08):
is caged, and he is in a corner, and he
is desperate, and I think that is a scary place
for all of the world to be. And when you
have somebody who is that that has all the access
you could think of to really bad things.

Speaker 12 (01:42:26):
Yeah, I think the issue is this, you know, this
anti ballistic missile coalition that you know that's trying to
be formed, and you know, the balistic missiles, there's just
gonna besides the drones, the bilistic missiles or the other
lesson learned from this Ukraine Russia war. But but Russia
still has that capability and even tac nukes and the like.

(01:42:50):
But but you know, with with Ukraine their capability right
now to deep strike into Russia, attack their naval fleet.
You know there the Sea of asof for example, I
saw some some strikes that took place. And what's going
on in Crimea, Crimea was this hole was the reason
why in some ways that Russia started this conflict. That

(01:43:10):
had to have that, they had to have the warm
water poor for the Black Sea fleet, all that stuff,
and it's just it's just falling all off the table.

Speaker 13 (01:43:17):
Their casual herate remains catastrophic.

Speaker 12 (01:43:20):
When you think about it, it's you know, over a million,
million and a half soldiers, Russian soldiers and and again.
So they're cornered, no question about it. But they still
have a capability to reach back out on the blistic
missile side. And you know, everyone doesn't know one else
to talk about it. But the tactuke side that the
Russians could bring to the battlefield could be devastating as well.

Speaker 2 (01:43:38):
If if God willing, they didn't explain to people how
a tactical nuke would work and what it would do
to a key or somewhere like that.

Speaker 12 (01:43:47):
Yeah, I mean, so attacked nuke lower killoot, you know,
you kill a ton percentages as opposed to a ballistic
you know, missile on nuclear war. But in most cases
they were really designed for the for the defense, or
they were designed for the retreat. But what Russia could
do is get close enough where they are in the
Domebass region and use them to isolate and further cut

(01:44:12):
off forward Ukrainian troops. And so it wouldn't they wouldn't
not necessarily threaten the capitol. I would I wouldn't say
that they could get.

Speaker 13 (01:44:21):
That close to that.

Speaker 12 (01:44:21):
However, they could cut they could they could fire behind
Ukrainian troops, cut them off, make make areas, you know,
places where you can't go you know, technical new kids
a place you've got radiation there, the Ukrainians wouldn't be
able to defeat. So it would box in some of
their their military box in a lot of their the
soldiers that are there, so that that's probably how they're

(01:44:43):
monitoring that very closely to see if they've been released
or if they've even into the country. But that's still
some that's a tool in the toolbox you can still use.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
If you were to be a betting man by the
end of the year, which one of these conflicts is over,
if either.

Speaker 13 (01:45:01):
I don't think either.

Speaker 12 (01:45:02):
I think that, I think I don't think the I
don't think the if unless the Iranians, you know, we
wake up and get some surprise that the Iranians have
imploded from within and they've decided to you know, create
a real MoU that they decide not to stop start
firing at the Straits and the like. I think this
is the hardliners are baked in, baked in there. The

(01:45:25):
irg is completely baked in. They're going to have to
be hammered for a while. But in Ukraine and Russia,
that's just this is going to be a fight to
the death. There and you know, the same thing's got
to happen. There's going to have to be some internal
thing that happens to either Zelenski or to to putin
in order for them or each side to stop. The
thing is there's no question that momentum is right on
the side of the Ukraine right now. We're doing what's

(01:45:46):
happening in Crimea. The Chinese have got to manage putin
very carefully. And and and the bottom line is the
Ukrainians have this capability to reach deep with their naval
assets as well as their ballistic missile capabilities. So it's
that both of them are going to go on for
a long time.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
I think his name is Mike Clins, tired major from
the army. And of course the best tame military analyst
in the business man is always great talking to you.

Speaker 3 (01:46:08):
We're going to do it again next week.

Speaker 13 (01:46:10):
Chat sounds good and look forward to it.

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Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
Stink like fear and white male privilege.

Speaker 2 (01:47:40):
To me, I do often out myself verbally as a younger.
My pronouns are they them?

Speaker 20 (01:47:47):
And I'm proud to be a gender.

Speaker 11 (01:47:51):
Are you so bid?

Speaker 19 (01:47:57):
It's not a great way to use your white privilege.

Speaker 5 (01:47:59):
Some people.

Speaker 2 (01:48:01):
Some people don't.

Speaker 1 (01:48:02):
You're listening to the chat Fancy show.

Speaker 3 (01:48:05):
Well, it's some news from Washington.

Speaker 28 (01:48:06):
After weeks of speculation about his health, Senator miss McConnell
just released a photo of himself in the hospital to
prove that he's okay.

Speaker 13 (01:48:13):
Take a look here.

Speaker 28 (01:48:14):
You know, I'm not sure how okay he is because
that's actually a video and nothing says perfect health like
having someone hold you up when you're already sitting.

Speaker 3 (01:48:27):
It looks like a husband and wife. Ben Trillo cliss act.
That's not very nice. Although can we be honest? Are
you buying it?

Speaker 2 (01:48:36):
Because several people pointed out look at the newspaper. Several
people have also pointed out, even Republicans, that they think
that's an older picture. All of it is again everything
in today's world, is open for conspiracies. Everything is. So
would I be surprised if maybe that is not real?

Speaker 3 (01:48:55):
I would not. I would not.

Speaker 2 (01:48:56):
You don't know, But what I do know is and
one thing I am I'm certain of is don't trust
what they're telling you. Trust, but verify. No, don't trust,
double verify, and then always come at it in a
very skeptical way, if that makes sense. Three two, three,
five three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson
Show is your extra insta been live tonight on YouTube

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right around eight o'clock Eastern, So if you have a
chance to check us out, you guys have a blessed
and amazing rest of your.

Speaker 16 (01:49:22):
Two I'm not really a fan of Tuesdays.

Speaker 2 (01:49:25):
Tuesday, and we'll do it again tomorrow. You need to
be quiet, sir as always, Night night Jack.

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This is the Chad Benson Show.