Venezuelan Gangs Are Trying to Recruit Children from Migrant Families

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

Speaker 2 (00:45):
This is the Chat Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about out there in the world. Let's
start with this. The NPR CEO said something hilarious. I
thought this was amazing. I don't think that she's aware
that it's hilarious. It seems that she was giving some
sort of talk. I'm not even sure if this was
recent or if this is old, but this is definitely

(01:08):
going viral right now. Here is the CEO of NPR,
Catherine Mayer, saying that truth is a distraction. Darn it.
We hate the truth sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
But one of the most significant differences critical from moving
from polarization to productivity is that the wikipedians who write
these articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth. They're
working for something that's a little bit more attainable, which
is the best of what we can know right now,
And after seven years there, I actually believe that they're

(01:40):
onto something. What are they go on to are most tricky disagreements?
Seeking the truth and speaking to convince others of the
truth isn't necessarily the best place to start. In fact,
I think reverence for the truth might become, might have
become a bit of a distraction that is, prevents from
finding consensus and getting important things done.

Speaker 2 (02:03):
Ah darn it. That distraction of the truth, that distraction
of what matters most of what actually we care about
or should care about, et cetera, et cetera. That is
hilarious to me. That's one of my favorite things I've
heard from anyone in a position of power at any
company that tells us news or at least claims to
do news for us, is that truth is a distraction

(02:23):
from getting things done. Just think about that for a second.
Out of everything we've talked about and everything that can
be talked about, I think in the world of politics
right now, all the discussions, all the celebrating on a
certain side, or you know, dunking on the other side,
whatever it is that's going on, one of the most
arrogant things you could say in the place of news

(02:46):
media is that we don't want to tell you the
truth anymore because we don't like what you decide to
do with it. That's amazing to me. And I think
that all of these reactions that are coming from MSNBS
being afraid of Elon Musk buying it, or whatever you
see out there or hear out there that you think, wow,

(03:06):
that's a bit of an intense overreaction to what just
occurred to who was elected president a little while ago.
It's not because people want to do a better job
of giving us more information. They want to do a
better job of controlling what information we have. That's their
reaction to this, and it's probably the most terrifying thing
that I've seen out there. Not that I think it'll work.

(03:29):
I think that there's way too many places to get
information now, to get news, to get whatever you want,
So I think that this will fail. But it's just
so interesting to see the quiet part being spoken out
loud so often now, because that is indeed the case,
and they're doing it pretty constantly here where they're telling us, hey,
this is what we want to do, this is why

(03:50):
we want to do it, and we're upset that it
hasn't worked so far. All right, let's keep going. I
have some other pieces of audio that I think are
pretty interesting. This is the Washington Post. This is Jennifer Ruben.
She is upset. She's on MSNBC, which might soon be
owned by Elon Musk, but she is upset about the
Trump cabinet positions for a specific reason. It's not a

(04:11):
good one.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Because many of these people, including Pulsey Gabbard, have backgrounds
that would never make them eligible for any government post,
let alone for secretaries of these important government agencies. But
I do think there are a couple of things going on. First,
I have to comment when you put up all those faces,
it was a thousand shades of white.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Have you noticed that?

Speaker 6 (04:35):
Remember, we should certainly circle a few of them so
that we can say this is the one I'm talking about.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Now, Yes, exactly, So here we have a little clayte.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
So the commentary is that white people all look the
same because he's got a circle which one he's talking about? Now,
that's a weird mention. And then also the fact that
Jennifer Rubin of the Washington Post is mad that there's
not enough diversity there. Although as they put the picture up,
it's not exactly what you think it is or picturing
it described as. But that's not the point. You should

(05:07):
not put people in positions of power because of what
they look like. That should be the quiet part, being
set out loud and being obvious to everyone. This shouldn't
be a thing we do. However, Democrats often do tell
you that they're going to put someone in a position
of power because of what they look like, and they
want you to be happy about that. They celebrate it,

(05:29):
You celebrate it. It's the oddest well, not all of us.
Some of us. It's the oddest thing we do because
it even takes away from the candidate themselves. But I
just love that this is the complaint because the more
consistent complaint is the one she also started with that
people don't have experience. That's a joke, because that's not new.
There are people that have been put in charge of

(05:50):
things by Democrats, by Biden, by you name the politician
that had no reason to be in charge of that thing.
This is not a practice that we haven't seen before
as far as cabinet positions. Let's hear a little bit
more of this from MSNBC, because this is inherently raisist.
I don't need to throw the race card up to
be upset with this, but it just is. And it's

(06:11):
it's amazing how acceptable this form of it is in
our society. It's okay to crap on the idea that
white people don't deserve jobs because they're white, and everybody
else does because they're not white. That's so strange and
yet so prevallege a.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Bit more diversity in the slide that you're showing, but
the first one, which was the major characters, Yes, it's
a thousand shades of white. Secondly, there is a certain
level of dysfunction and catastrophe that will sink these people.
What happens if there is a terrorist attack, god forbid,
what happens when there is a pandemic? Home with being extreme, irresponsible,

(06:51):
ignorant is when bad stuff happens, there's no one to
blame but you. So the good news is that these
people may not get every thing they want. The bad
is is a lot of bad stuff may happen to
a lot of innocent people.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
Okay, now this is something we hear all the time.
This is the tried and true version of let's go
after Trump, or now let's go after his cabinet, let's
go after anyone and say that because of this inexperience,
because of this recklessness, because of whatever they want to say,
the decision making is they will in fact cause harm.
There will be something somewhere down the line that damages

(07:27):
us somehow. You know what's fascinating about that. There's two things. First,
the fear bongering before the actual bad things happened is
something that you have to take with the grain of
salt that they don't want you to take it with.
And the second one, and the more important one, is
look at where we are right now. Look at how
dangerous the world is today in this moment. And the

(07:50):
people in charge, according to the MSNBC's of the world,
are supposed to be the people who deserve their positions,
not the people who will come in and replace them,
but the people act right now. Vladimir Putin gave a
speech the other day where he essentially said that if
the United States continues to allow Ukraine to strike Russia
inside Russia with US weapons, that that could cause a war,

(08:15):
a war between US and or war between NATO and
them at least that they will strike with hypersonic missiles
someone other than Ukraine. That's where we're at right now.
And that's just one example. There's a tremendous amount of
additional examples that show you how this or that seemed broken.
Not just the amount of money that stuff costs and

(08:36):
the inflation problems that we face every single day. That's
a tried and true discussion point that's been happening for
a while now. But even say the transportation industry and
the amount of challenges that you've seen there, doors flying
off of planes and Pete Bootage Edge, who is not,
in fact someone who's terribly experienced in that world, someone
who was a mayor and not even really a terribly

(08:59):
experienced poler aetian before being given that job. He's in
charge and he's done a bang up job of that industry.
That's just one of again, several examples out there. It
is amazing to hear them say that they think things
will get worse, not better, because how could they. The
reason that people voted so overwhelmingly for one side of
the aisle is that they think things are pretty bad

(09:21):
right now. All right, let's change again. Let's transition to this.
I do love this too. The mature people, the important people,
the smart people. They're in positions of power, that's what
you're being told. So what are they doing in these
positions of power? Well, most of them are on vacation.

Speaker 7 (09:39):
The vice president has taken time off to go spend
time with her family. I don't think there's anything wrong
with that. I think she deserves some time to be
with her family and to have some downtime. She has
worked very hard over at last four years, and her
taking a couple of days to be with her family.

Speaker 2 (10:01):
Good luck, Good for her. Look at how great it
is that she doesn't have to work anymore. That most
people in this administration probably don't work anymore. No one's
running the country. It's the typical reaction to this, But
I love how upset people get to actually when you
ask these kind of questions of them, when you say
these sort of things, Because, in all honesty, I think,

(10:22):
if you raise your hand and you're a press person
in some sort of press room talking to anyone that
you elected into a position of power, or at least
some people elected into a position of power, ask them
why they're not working? That should be like the easiest
question to ask. That should be right at the top, Like, hey,
right now things seem bad. People should probably be at

(10:43):
their desks. Why aren't they working? I know the holiday
is coming up, it's not today. Is there any chance
that we can get people back to work? That seems appropriate?
That seems like the most appropriate thing. Essentially, I'll say
it this way. We are the bosses of the people
in these positions, so like any other boss, you want
to ask them, hey, why aren't you doing your job

(11:05):
right now? That's all it is. It's the basic assumption.
There By the way, there is one other piece of
audio I will play. I'll get to it a little
bit later on. Today it is Sonny Houston discovering that
her ancestors owned slaves. She seems shocked by this information,
and this information is probably challenging for her to accept.

(11:25):
But it is interesting because of all the people, especially
the ladies in the view, who do this kind of
stuff as often as they do, they say these, you know,
very arrogant things. It was something that you think would
humble her. But instead I think she gets more mad
at the messenger than anyone else, which of course she does.
Why not? But all right, as I said, this is

(11:46):
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Speaker 1 (13:18):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Greig Collins,
filling in just before the holidays. Chad will be back
next week. White Castle made a lot of people laugh,
and actually, I think this is awesome as it connects
to a different story that's out there. But people said
that for a date, two out of three women would
accept fast food as a move. You make two out

(13:43):
of three ladies is like, that's totally fine with me.
A Chick fil A came in at number one. Number
two on a date was McDonald's, which is amazing. I
don't understand this. These are not the kinds of people
that I had the privilege of dating before I got married.
So I don't know, but two out of three ladies
said totally fine for a first date, not just any date.

(14:03):
I don't think you can do an anniversary move. I
think there's a lot of dates where this would probably
be in. All the dates to me seem again like
this would be inappropriate, unless maybe it's before like a
movie or some if you're swinging through and grabbing some
food before something else. If the date is just go
to Chick fil A. That feels like that can't happen,
but apparently it can now. The reason I love this

(14:25):
so much is because of White Castle saying that their
burgers make great stuffing for Thanksgiving. So another move you
could make is also to do this.

Speaker 10 (14:34):
Did you know if you take original White Castle sliders
with no pickle cut or tear them into small pieces
at finely, dice celery, black pepper, thyme, and sage, pour
in chicken stock, and toss all of that together really
well now, then spread it into a cast rouleape.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
Don't do that.

Speaker 10 (14:53):
Get at three hundred and fifty degrees for thirty five
minutes until done, you get the most unexpectedly delicious stuffing
and the dish that will disappear first at your Thanksgiving gathering.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, don't do this, don't do any of this. I'm
sure this is a terrible idea. I love it in
those really nice, you know, musical background ways. You can
make anything sound like a good idea, but this is
not a good idea. Do not do this, Please, please
do not do this, no matter how hilarious it is.
This is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

(15:26):
And if you do decide to go these white Castle
Thanksgiving road, I don't know why you just do stuffing.
I think you got to go beyond that. I think
you stuff the turkey with things. I think everything is
white Castle at that moment. And again, as I said,
two out of three women apparently would be okay with this,
because they're the same ones that I assume are totally
fine with taking them to any sort of fast food
restaurant on a first date. By the way, if you're curious,

(15:50):
the average American will consume just over two thousand calories
during Thanksgiving dinner. The average twenty ninety two calories. I
don't know why either telling us this. This feels like
the kind of thing that could just leave and not
inform us on. I mean, for anyone that actually cares,
anyone that's trying to like count calories and whatnot, this

(16:10):
is just ruined part of your holiday. I feel like,
and I think that that person is also very annoying
at the kitchen table on Thanksgiving, like, oh, I can't
have very much of that. Oh no, not much of this.
It's Thanksgiving, people, this is the day where you check
the diet to the snide and you just enjoy, baby, enjoy.
At least that's how I approach this holiday. Some people

(16:30):
will eat over three thousand calories. A good job on them.
By the way, it did say that some on the
list might have five thousand calories. And that's where the
coma comes in. After the meal. That's when you're watching
the football and you've fallen asleep during the first quarter
and you're not waking up till Friday morning. Baby, And
that's totally fine due no judgment here, all right. This

(16:52):
is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.
More coming up in a bit.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Su Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (17:38):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there for us to discuss. Let's start in
New York. Shall we uh Venezuela Venezuelan TDA gang members
are actually recruiting migrant kids out of shelters to help
with violent robberies in New York City. This is real.

(18:01):
I'll play the audio from CBS two in New York
that discusses this problem and how big of a challenge
it is to deal with the fact that these kids,
these migrants who are here legally of course, illegal immigrants,
whatever you want to call them, much like a lot
of other people that stormed into the country over the
last few years, are now turning to violent crime because

(18:23):
gang members are asking them or you know, tempting them
into that life, a life that they were probably being
tempted into wherever they were before, I imagine, because this
is the kind of thing that the people who get
you into the country are usually these same individuals. Here
we go, oh wait, hold on, I got to fix

(18:45):
that just a second. I'm not I here's one little
quick technical thing, and now let's play it here.

Speaker 6 (18:51):
They swap out their IDs. We have no way of
tracking or knowing who they are when they enter the country.

Speaker 11 (18:57):
The NYPD's a Chief of Detectives says documented criminals as
young as eleven years old, are carry out retail robberies
and committing crimes on scooters, snatching people's jewelry, watches, and
cell phones at gunpoint and knife point. Over three hundred
incidents last year, more than eight hundred so far this year.
They've brazenly shot at police officers too.

Speaker 2 (19:16):
Well, okay, eleven years old. They're saying, some of these
people are look, I saw a viral moment. I don't
even want to play it. I know I have the
audio sitting here, but I just have no interest in
it where some woke more on goes on TikTok or
something else and says it's the woman asking why she
should care about illegal people coming into the country. It's real,

(19:39):
it's real audio. She asks her followers, her people to
tell her what the problem is. This is the problem,
This is in fact the issue, and it's all over.
It runs rampant and no, it doesn't mean that every
single person that comes into this country is going to
commit a crime, although they are committing that crime by
coming into the country illegally. But I mean another one.

(20:00):
So that's not how you discuss these issues. That's not
what you need in order to decide that illegal immigration
is bad. You need to find enough examples of bad
things happening. Eight hundred incidents of children of people under
the age of eighteen being recruited by gangs to steal stuff,
to mug people at gun and knife point. And honestly,

(20:21):
you're seeing this in a lot of society in general,
which is also very odd. You're seeing younger people partake
in sort of violent crime in certain communities. In some
of the communities I've lived in, there have been discussions
about the amount of people under the age of eighteen
or just past the age of eighteen who are committing
these violent offenses. So this is something that seems to

(20:44):
be a unique challenge in a couple ways. But even
more so, something that say benefits the gangs benefits others,
because I imagine the assumption is that the young person
will have more leniency thrown their way, or you know,
somehow something else will occur that'll make it easier for
them to continue to commit these sort of crimes. But

(21:06):
this is why you should care, and this is why
a lot of Americans do, in fact care to The
moron who asked the question went viral and social media
over the weekend and even beyond that, I guess the
other thing I will say is not allowing people into
a country where they know they're there illegally, where they
know they don't have a lot of options, actually protects them.

(21:28):
And it's a tried and true version of the discussion
that people hate and dismiss on a certain side, but
it is accurate. Even just the journey itself to a
country from where people live before they get here is
fraught with dangers and fraught with dealing with people who
are cartels or people who are drug traffickers, people who

(21:49):
are bad, and they have a unique time to discuss
and plan things, would say, the people that they're bringing
in with them, who might be willing to do more
than just sneak into the country illegally as we're seeing here.
So all of these things cause the problem that needs
to be fixed and will be fixed by the next administration.
And this is why people will also wind up getting deported.

(22:11):
A whole lot of people that are illegally in this
country will get asked to leave. On This is to
try to fix a problem by making a macro level
solution to it that should exist in the first place.
But nonetheless, how stark or how scary, how significant of
a story is that to hear out of New York
City that young people eleven years old are you committing

(22:34):
crimes armed with certain weapons? Let's move on. This is
MSNBC again. I don't know why I find so amusing.
I do like this topic, and it's probably Elon Musk
and the amount of tweets and things he's put up
making jokes about buying MSNBC. Some of these things have
actually now been changed. There's some videos that have gone

(22:55):
viral that are not Rachel Maddow, for example, crying about
Elon Musk, but seem like they are because they've been edited.
But this is this is real. This is MSNBC complaining
and Stephanie Rule about the chance that Elon has to
buy them because of how much damage he did to
X to Twitter. Which is amazing that she feels that way,

(23:15):
or anyone feels that way. And I'll discuss in a second,
but here let her give her point first.

Speaker 12 (23:20):
Elon Musk bought X and turned it into a you know,
the social media arm of the MAGA movement, and we
all sat there right in the middle of it during
the campaign, possibly not realizing that we're sitting there like
fat chickens, just getting attacked all day and just being
part of this maga messaging.

Speaker 5 (23:36):
However, the elections wrong.

Speaker 13 (23:38):
Everybody's getting smarter and better. I'm not sure that the
right idea is to leave Twitter and just go to
Blue Sky, a friendlier place, because then we remain in
our echo chamber. I don't think that you should necessarily
stay in Twitter every day and.

Speaker 10 (23:51):
Battle it out.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
I love that she says we can't stay in our
echo chambers. We have to fight because Twitter is no
longer an echo chamber, no longer a one sided discussion.
It's no longer something that allows you to just be
on that part of the equation. You have to hear
from the people who disagree with you, which many social
media platforms were silencing those individuals and calling them things

(24:15):
like racists or whatever. But I love that that's essentially
what people on MSNBC are saying to describe Elon Musk
and saying would be the problem if he buys MSNBC,
because if he does do that and he puts the
independent journalists that he's worked with when he was releasing
the Twitter files, some of which are people that had

(24:36):
tremendous amounts of respect inside their industry. Matt Taibe's of
the world that people said, you know, this is a
journalist doing journalism and not really caring about what side
of the aisle they're on. That would be amazing. It
just frankly would be And to hear more of that,
to see more of that throughout, say a lot of
news media, and allow these individuals who are making headway

(24:59):
and changing what is mainstream media to me. I had
this discussion over the weekend, and I wonder if you'll
agree with it. There's this thing that happens a lot.
It happens in talk radio, it happens other places where
people call television legacy media or mainstream media, the you know,
not just MSNBC's of the world, not the cable news organizations,

(25:23):
but even like NBC, ABC, the you know, typical the
ones that you turn to for news, say years ago
that you've really stopped turning to news for now. And
so I had a discussion with someone about what is
mainstream media today, and I think it's actually quite different.
I think the Joe Rogan's of the world are truly
mainstream media because of the amount of influence they actually have.

(25:46):
And if you watch someone like that, if you hear
from them on their platform, however it is, you do it,
or you just see them on whatever platform it is
you choose to be on. Because snippets, you know, highlights
of everyone's content is all over the place. Now, that's
the other thing that really amazes me is I'll talk
to someone who sounds like they're a Joe Rogan podcast

(26:08):
listener or viewer because they know all the things going
on recently with Joe Rogan's show or the really newsworthy moments,
but they haven't consumed a moment of any of his podcasts.
They've just seen it on social media, on TikTok or
whatever platform they're on. That, to me is a level
of reach that television used to have when everyone would

(26:29):
sit in front of the same shows and talk about
the next day at the water cooler or if that's
even what we really did, what those news items were.
Now we're all seeing them in different places, but they're
the same things, and so putting those individuals, all of them.
I don't know about Joe Rogan, I don't think he
would take a gig at MSNBC, even if elon Musk

(26:51):
owned it, but nonetheless, putting all those individuals on places
where they could have more reach seems good. I don't
think it's going to be something that really truly turns
the table for them. A lot of them can just
get their message to the public anyway. But that's what
Elon Musk said about it about buying MSNBC, is that
essentially what he would do is he would put more

(27:13):
of the honest conversations that he's seen develop on x
Onto television to reach those who aren't going to the platform.
He's already you know, had as much influence as he
had over it.

Speaker 14 (27:24):
All.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
Right, there's one other thing I want to play now.
Granted this is old, this is like seven eight months
old when it first happened, but it's making the rounds again,
probably because of the election, probably because a lot of
the discussion points over the last couple of weeks since
Trump won. But Sonny Hostin discovered again. I think she
sat down with PBS when she did this that she

(27:45):
was a slave owner, well, her family, her ancestors owned slaves,
and her reaction to it was interesting. And the reason
I think that it's going viral even now is the
amount of takes on the view. I think what Pee
Goldberg had one last week about how everyone that Trump
has nominated is a sex offender, which is not true

(28:05):
and something that's probably going to cause her to face
a lawsuit. But it's just amazing when people can get
on whatever, you know, a pedestal they want to get
on and yell and admonish everyone else, and then they
find out that they're also in some way connected to
the things that they say are a problem, that they've
been the victim of their entire life. It is interesting,

(28:26):
and so I imagine for that reason it's gone viral again.
But I'll go ahead and play it because it just
popped up the other day X on Twitter, and people
are reacting to it for the first time. So if
you haven't heard it before, here it is.

Speaker 5 (28:37):
Wow. I'm a little bit in shock.

Speaker 15 (28:41):
I just always thought of myself as Puerto Rican, you know,
half Puerto Rican.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
I didn't think I was.

Speaker 15 (28:48):
My family was originally from Spain and slaveholders.

Speaker 5 (28:53):
How are you feeling?

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Fake? Laughter? I love how like angry her laughing is right.
There's like, ahha, I'm so upset with this. How are
you feeling right now? She's not feeling great, Although she
doesn't exactly say that.

Speaker 15 (29:06):
I just I think it's actually pretty interesting that my
husband and I have shared roots. Yeah, so I do
appreciate that, and I think it's great for our children.

Speaker 2 (29:19):
Yeah, and you should also pay some people reparations. Please.
You have the money, so go ahead and throw it
out there. That's what you should do. That's your own logic,
that's your own way of dealing with the discussion. Points
of today is this group of people are guilty of
being bad people because people that they are related to
from you know, generations ago. We're bad people by the

(29:40):
context of today's society. That's how it works usually, that's
how these sort of things go. So why not just
go ahead and dive into it even deeper. And she's
not going to do that, but I do love that
that popped up and went viral all over again on
social media because the internet also has a perfect memory.
I just one real quick thing before I take a break.
A lot of people we'll get an extended vacation or

(30:02):
extended holiday since they'll have a couple days off before
the actual weekend. If you feel like your weekends fly by,
This is a weird recommendation, but I guess it happened
from a happiness researcher. Her name is Cassie Holmes. I
didn't know that was a job, but she said that,
in order for your vacations to feel like they last longer,
or excuse me, your weekends to feel like they last longer,

(30:24):
call them many vacations. Every week, as you're getting closer
to your Saturday and Sunday off, say that your mini
vacation is coming up. I don't know why anyone would
do this, It would annoy me if people did. But
sleep in a little longer, have more fun. Those are
some of the recommendations. And also just call it a
mini one and you get a little extended one the
next few days, so enjoy that one too. This made

(30:47):
me very mad when I read this because of how
stupid it is and how a happiness expert is essentially
just saying you need to lie to yourself, lie to
yourself as much as you can, and that'll hopefully make
you happier. Not exactly the best advice in my opinion.
All right, well, take a break. We have a lot
coming up today on the show. Craig Collins filling in
on the chadbentson show.

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Speaker 2 (32:32):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. I love this story for a
couple of reasons. Married men tend to age slower than
single men for women more complicated. My wife actually sent
me this topic to talk about today because of course
you did. Why not married men do better in a

(32:54):
lot of health ways? And I imagine one of the
reasons why, if I'm guessing as married dude, is just
the fact that sometimes for these relationships, the missus starts
to take over some of the same food decision making
that I make personally, some of the health related decisions
that are things that I go a certain way on

(33:17):
when the missus is around. I might be a little
more responsible when she's not around. I wonder if that's
a part of it. They also say that men are
just in less stress if they're married as opposed to
not being married, which I'm not totally sure we'd all
agree on. However, I wonder if going from one relationship
to another relationship is a unique kind of stress for
say a single person, that isn't as stressful for a

(33:40):
married guy, because you get used to whatever the things
are that gets you in trouble, the things that get
you yelled at. So maybe that's the issue or the
fix there. I'm not sure, but I do love this
for women. As I said, there's no real definitive answer
as to who age is slower, the married one with
a single woman. There have been a bunch of studies
over the last I don't know how long, but few

(34:02):
years certainly, that have seemed to say that the happiest
people late in life for single women. Out of all
the different groups of people, the ones that seem to
enjoy the most things are people who were never tied
down and are in fact female. So I wonder what
that is. I wonder what the issue is there. I
don't know. My wife sometimes calls me an adult child,

(34:22):
so maybe that's part of the problem too. I'm not sure,
but these are things that I can fix. I'm sure,
I should, actually, honey, this is something now that's just
a direct message to you that I'll do to do
better to make sure that you have as long of
a life as I do. I don't know now, I'm
just kissing up for the holidays. One last thing too.
I do love this too. A travel writer said that

(34:44):
there are certain tips you need to follow in order
to prevent yourself from having a bad Airbnb experience. I'll
tell you what those are, and just a little bit,
I'll get into it. But there are a lot of
bad Airbnb experiences, so I understand the need for this
type of advice. But all right, that and many other
things coming up in just a little while. This is
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show just

(35:05):
before the holidays. He will be back just after Thanksgiving.
But it's so much more to talk about, including, of course,
as I said, these travel tips from this writer. And
I love when someone even tells you that they're a
travel experts, because do we know that Tammy Barr is
any more experience than the rest of us are in

(35:25):
this world? Full time travel expert and traveler who says
that these are the five things you need to look
for on the Airbnb listing I wanted them. By the way,
is pretty obvious if it looks too good to be true,
if the price is too low and the place is
too nice, that's not real. Thanks for that advice, Tammy.
I'll have the other ones in just a bit. As
I said, Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show,

(35:53):
this is.

Speaker 9 (35:53):
The Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Greg Collins,
filling in. I'm thrilled to be with you just before
the holiday. So many great discussions are in store for you,
for me, for everybody as you sit around family members
who may want or not want to discuss things like
well politics. Before I get to that, because I have
some audio that dives into that world, I do want

(36:46):
to play this. This is a high school I think
she must be a sophomore. She's sixteen years old. She's
a young woman who went in front of a school
board and said very simple, rational, everyday kind of thinking stuff.
That is stuff, she said. She gets attacked for thinking
and saying in her own school or by her own peers,

(37:06):
because our world is broken ideologically. This is again very simplistic,
the kind of stuff you'd absolutely expect someone her age
to say and believe, and something that a whole lot
of other people that are not her age but older
than her would say and believe. But just crazy that
this is now a debatable issue in our society because

(37:28):
of well, some people's you know, incorrect I think, belief
that it makes us the better or you know, a
more accepting a world when it's obviously a problem. You
know what I'm talking about properly already, But here we go.

Speaker 17 (37:41):
I have been around the females and just my team
in general who have felt almost silenced to speak out
about it because the whole LGBTQ is shoves down our throat,
is put in our face, and we live in a
society where it is almost impossible to speak out on
it without facing the repercussions of it. In going into

(38:03):
locker room and seeing males in there, I don't find
that safe.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Uh huh.

Speaker 17 (38:07):
I don't find going to the bathroom safe when there's
guys in there.

Speaker 18 (38:12):
It's not okay. I'm a sixteen year old girl.

Speaker 17 (38:14):
There's girls around me where we do not feel safe
having boys in our environment and it is okay.

Speaker 18 (38:20):
It isn't okay to have them on our team.

Speaker 2 (38:22):
It's amazing that she has to say that like that,
because I just want to take a step back. This
isn't a person trying to make a political statement. This
is actually someone who knows that by saying this, she
has friends that she's going to deal with at school
that are going to be mad at her. And she
went viral. She was all over the internet. I think
over the weekend, Fox News and other places covered this story.

(38:42):
A lot of places did, but just again, I almost
want to play it again because it's the matter of
factness with which these issues are being presented in our society,
but actually in a fearful way because of the discussions
going on around them. This is a young person, a
kid who wants to go to school and go to
the restroom and go to the locker room and not

(39:04):
feel at all like someone in there is someone that
makes her feel utterly uncomfortable, if not, as she says,
not safe. This is the kind of thing that our
society was really good at discussing just a short few
years ago, and now our society is incapable of discussing it.
Because anyone who says anything like this, or I guess

(39:25):
some people that say things like this, they get accused
of being horrible, hateful, terrible people by a certain side
of the political aisle. This is nuts, this is crazy,
And again I want to play it because the thing
that really strikes me in the way that this young
person is delivering her plea to her school board to
stop with the madness, is just how scared she is now.

(39:48):
She's not shaking in her words, she's strong in her words,
but how scared she is of the retribution that's coming
to her, the people that will treat her crappy for
saying the thing out loud that she knows a lot
of other young girls in those locker rooms. But here
we go.

Speaker 17 (40:01):
I've been around the females and just my team in general,
who have felt almost silenced to speak out about it,
because the whole LGBTQ shoves down our throat, is put
in our face, and we live in a society where
it is almost impossible to speak out on it without
facing the repercussions of it.

Speaker 18 (40:20):
And going into locker room and seeing males in there.

Speaker 17 (40:25):
I don't find that safe, right, I don't find going
to the bathroom safe when there's guys in there.

Speaker 18 (40:31):
It's not okay. I'm a sixteen year old girl.

Speaker 17 (40:34):
There's girls around me where we do not feel safe
having boys in our environment.

Speaker 2 (40:38):
Yeah, and she says that last part about how it's
not okay powerfully to the adults in the room who
are supposed to be making the decisions to protect kids,
as if she's actually so upset she has to say it,
And I agree that she should be that upset she
has to say it. This doesn't mean that you're a
hateful person. I know that I'm probably preaching to some
members of the choir and saying it this way that

(41:00):
obvious of a take, But it really is where our
society is at that you have to say out loud
after a sixteen year old girl goes viral for not
wanting boys in her locker room, that she's not in
fact hateful for saying that, that she's being rational and
she's doing exactly the kind of thing that most of
us grew up expecting to be the rule and not
expecting for there to be a discussion about that sort

(41:22):
of stuff. All Right, something else I want to play.
I just thought this was interesting again, this is about
the types of conversations or the things that will be
happening during Thanksgiving in a lot of houses where say
people have differing viewpoints on politics and whatnot. I do
love this woman for putting this up on social media, though,
and asking the question to the internet. It's probably not

(41:44):
going to fix her situation with her husband and what
he thinks and what she thinks for her to tell
him that the internet voted with her, which they did.
But here's what she put up on social media.

Speaker 16 (41:54):
Okay, TikTok, I need you to weigh in on this.
I've had this flag up in my living room since
election night and I don't really know what I'm going
to take it down, but that's not important because we
are hosting Thanksgiving. My husband says he wants me to
take the flag down because one of his relatives that
is coming is a liberal.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
By the way, it is a Trump flag. If that
part isn't clear, it's our house, it is.

Speaker 16 (42:23):
She knows we're Trump fans.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
Uh huh.

Speaker 16 (42:25):
I don't want to take the flag down. So what
do you think? Should I take the flag down just
to appease one person?

Speaker 2 (42:32):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (42:34):
Or leave it up?

Speaker 2 (42:34):
You can leave it up. That would be my discussion
or my point, because you're not putting it up to
make somebody mad. You're not finding out that a liberal
is walking into your house or someone who voted on
the other side is walking into your home being like, oh,
I got to put a Trump flag up in the
middle of the living room. It's something you're already deciding
to do. But here's the thing, and this should be
more important than anything else. And I guess this is

(42:55):
a recommendation that I almost hate making. Just don't talk
about it, you know, just let it go. Just sit
at the table with people who vote for people that
you didn't want to vote for, whoever they are are,
and just just let it not be a discussion point,
because it's almost like you can't make headway now. And
that's a shame because the place where you should probably
most be able to find common ground is among a

(43:17):
group of you know, family members or people that you
could have like an honest discussion about it, not throw
around and accuse each other of being a racist or
sexist or whatever it might be. Honestly, that's probably the
place where these discussions had the most value some time ago,
and now sadly don't anymore. But it's just amazing to
me because again, the more effective probably solution to that problem.

(43:41):
Although I again would not take the flag down. I
wouldn't appease the person in that way, but it would
be to just move on to just talk about other
things and deal with other stuff. And if they get
mad at your flag, be like, look, that flag's been
up since he won, and we're happy about the fact
that he won, and we don't want to take it down.
So it's on you how you would deal with that,
how you address that issue. It's not really an US thing,

(44:02):
it's a youth thing, is how it feels to me.
All Right, One other big deal discussion out there, probably
much more important than how many people will handle political
conversations well. At the Thanksgiving table, NATO has called on
businesses to prepare for wartime scenarios. This is after Vladimir
Putin gave a speech the other day in which he

(44:23):
essentially said, if you keep allowing Ukraine, something that Biden
recently approved, to attack inside of Russia with US or
British weapons, that Russia will defend itself by starting to
fight more than just Ukraine, and to essentially warn NATO
countries that this fight may be coming to your shores.

(44:46):
This is exactly the thing that we've been afraid of
for quite some time, and exactly the discussion point where
most people have said that you want cooler heads to prevail.
And it's kind of amazing. I'll just say it this way.
For whatever does happen over the next few months in
the world of that conflict or anything else, I can't

(45:06):
predict it. You can't predict it. Strong words don't always
mean strong actions, thank god. But nonetheless, the thing that
I think is most amazing is that Donald Trump is
more likely to come in and usher in a version
of peace between those countries than Biden is. For all
the things that you said about Donald Trump, all the

(45:27):
negatives that existed no matter what time he ran for office,
that he was you know, crazy and willing to use
nuclear weapons and would throw us into a war that
we're apparently on the doorstep of every so often with
some of the rhetoric going on out there. And the reason,
by the way, I'm not trying to be an insane
Trump fan right now. I'm not trying to tell you,

(45:48):
you know, like someone who loves every decision that's ever
been made by that individual. The reason why is utterly
and entirely him, but it's partially because he's not going
to be as willing to give you crane whatever the want.
That that does put a screeching halt on the discussion here.
It doesn't mean that Ukraine has to unilaterally lose this
war or you know, have their country taken over by Russia.

(46:12):
But some of the contested areas that Ukraine has not
wanted to give in to Russia that have long been
the discussion point and why this this war has now
waged as long as it's gone because it could have
been over much sooner. It could have been something that
ended because the people supporting Ukraine's ability to wage a

(46:32):
counter strike or a counterfeight against a much more powerful
country actually had requirements for what peace would look like
and we have not. But the incoming president will. He'll
have certain positions and he'll be accused of being a
putin friend or you know, pro Russia or whatever it is.
But to be honest, if you get to the point

(46:53):
that we're at right now where the NATO you know,
leaders are calling on business, is to be ready for
a full on conflict. You will look back in history
and say, why wasn't it God forbid anything horrible happens.
You'll look back in history and say, why wasn't there
an ability to resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine

(47:15):
because of, you know, inability for anyone to tell Ukraine
that it can't retain all the things it wants to retain.
It's not the kind of fun discussion point that you
want to have with someone, but it's the kind of
thing you say when you're funding their counter offensive and
you're saying the contested areas in the middle of both
of those countries that have long been fought over on

(47:37):
things the United States would not have wanted to help
Ukraine defend just a few years ago before they were
invaded by Russia. Is the kind of thing that you
have to give in on to prevent the conflict from escalating.
But nonetheless, that's something that Trump is likely to do.
All right, quick break a lot more. Craig Conin's filling
in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Deep states, No, Deep do, don't e the chat Benson show.

Speaker 2 (49:16):
This is the chadventson show. My name is Craig Collins,
stilling in Thrilled to be with you. I drink energy drinks.
My wife tells me that they're bad for me. I
don't know if she says they're as addictive as it
seems they are for at least this one guy, a
thirty three year old guy in Missouri apparently got arrested
after stealing a shopping cart full of just red Bull.

(49:37):
He went to a grocery store, he loaded up on
red Bull, and he left. He then was chased by
cops a high speed chase. I'm not sure why that
was a element of the discussion or an element of
the story. Here's the thing that I love the most
about this though. This guy has done it before, all
of this stuff multiple times. He is shoplifted at the
same establishments in his own community. It's always red bull.

(50:00):
That's the only thing he wants. He's stealing a whole
lot of it. Theft, fleeing, driving on a revoked license.
All these are the current most recent charges for him.
But the dude is addicted. I addicted in a very
bad way, I would assume to the red bull. I
don't know why he thinks like that's my favorite part
of the story too. Actually he thinks he's eventually going
to get away with it, Like you've failed to steal

(50:22):
red Bull effectively how many times now from the grocery store.
The police know know who you are, so much so
that if there's a theft in the near future and
somehow the police aren't called, they'll just show up at
your house and look for you with the red Bull there.
Because if a whole bunch of red Bull gets stolen,
they know who did it. But this guy, he keeps
attempting it thirty three years old. As I said, now,

(50:43):
probably going back to the jail for a little bit
and then going to get out and then going to
go back into the red Bull thing. I don't know.
I've never thought again that the argument that my energy
drinks were bad for me was all that strong, even
though I know they're bad for me. But now that
at least one person is this obsessed with at least
one of the energy drinks out there, not that I
drank red Bull, I might be second guessing it a

(51:05):
little bit more. All Right, Another story out there that
I love, the first wedding chapel to also have a
liquor store in it just open in New Orleans. It's
called Chuck's Chapel, which is the best name ever. The
liquor store is just called Chucks. But as you're in
the liquor store, you can look to the back and
be like, Hey, what's going on back there? Oh, that's
the chapel. If you want to get married while you're here,

(51:27):
for five hundred bucks, you can get married next to
the Grab and Go cooler, which to me is a
uniquely hilarious thing. I think there's some audio that I
can play on this the you know people in there,
you know, liquor store, just hanging out, enjoying themselves and
then deciding, you know what, you know, what's better for
me at this point, I getting hitched is better for me.

(51:50):
But I'll save that audio. I'll play it in a
little bit because it's mostly just people reacting to how
bad of an idea this is. This is Craig Collins
filling in on the Chad Benson Show. Uh, and uniquely
terrible idea. You know what, Actually, let's go ahead and
play a little bit of the audio, shall we.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
We just love the drink.

Speaker 19 (52:06):
They didn't figure it in perfect but no Vince came.

Speaker 1 (52:08):
Out and told us about it, and he was like, yeah,
let's do it.

Speaker 18 (52:10):
I know, wedding, no wedding.

Speaker 9 (52:13):
Anybody won't get married like that.

Speaker 17 (52:15):
Mornilocked lie here because it's awesome.

Speaker 19 (52:17):
We're all about wealth here, We're all about family and
New Wallace is the greatest city in the world.

Speaker 2 (52:20):
Quick, mettal city in the world.

Speaker 19 (52:22):
To get married.

Speaker 18 (52:22):
You're welcome to get married at Chucks.

Speaker 2 (52:24):
You're welcome to get married a Chucks. Those are the
people behind it. Those are the people who own the
place and the people who work at the place. Talking
about the discussion of being pitched this by some of
their regulars. Hey, I'd love to get married at Chuck
since I come here all the time to buy my liquor.
This is amazing. I love it. I want to play
this audio one more time. Love the drink. They didn't
figure it in perfect, but no Vince came out and

(52:44):
told us about it, and he said, yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 9 (52:49):
Anybody won't get married like that. Mornilocked lye here because
it's awesome.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
We're all about wealth here, We're all about.

Speaker 18 (52:54):
Family and New Wallace is the greatest city in the world.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
Quick mettal city in the world to get married.

Speaker 18 (52:58):
You're welcome to get married at Choe.

Speaker 2 (53:00):
That's so awesome if you can't tell. By the way,
the first two people that are talking are people who
actually took them up on the offer and got married
at Chuck's. I should say that too. And they're just
so happy about it. They're so thrilled. They're like, Hey, what,
we can get married here, now, let's do it. I
love that the wife keeps saying, not an ordinary wedding, No,
it's not. If you got the invitation to go to
the liquor store to see somebody get married after they've

(53:22):
grabbed their stock of forties, you certainly would think that
that was not an ordinary wedding. You might have some
advice for your family member, but darn it, who cares.
It's family friendly. You heard it from the owner himself.
Quick break a lot more. Craig CON's filling in on
the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:08):

Speaker 2 (54:13):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Winter storms are
said to likely impact your holiday travel. This Thanksgiving millions
of people. Actually, the TSA is setting up for a
record amount of travel for this Thanksgiving holiday upcoming. But
some storms, some areas of cold weather may actually be

(54:35):
a problem for US, may be a problem for a
lot of the country. So good luck to you if
you're traveling and you're starting that travel out as early
as today potentially. Also just other quick news out there
to touch on. The US says it believes that in
Israel Hesbel a ceasefire deal has been reached. Not Israel
and Hamas, but hesbela a different organization operating in Lebanon.

(54:58):
So this is something that's good new if it's true.
Axios I think was one of the first to report
on this. According to senior officials, Israel has rejected some
of the involvement of certain countries in a potential ceasefire.
I think France's part in some of that was something
that Niahu was not comfortable with for whatever reasons. But

(55:19):
Israel says it is moving forward with Elebanon ceasefire as
the latest information there. So that's good news and that's
out there in the world. As far as Russia and
Ukraine goes. One of the other conflicts, not as good
of news has been given over the last few days.
After President Biden decided that it would be okay for
Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia with US and uk

(55:42):
created weapons, Russia said that it saw that as a threat,
and I think Vladimir Putin over the weekend said some
things about what he's likely to do, and he warned
NATO countries of what that could be. So we are
on the precipice potentially if something very scary in our society,
something we haven't seen in a very long time, and
something that most pundits before he was elected, even the

(56:05):
first time, I warned that Donald Trump would be the
person the catalyst that would create it, not the Democrats
in between administrations by Trump and someone who is I
think more likely than not, as I've said before, and
I'll say again to actually end the conflict, because without
unilateral and blank Czech support from the United States, Ukraine

(56:29):
is in a position where it will have to negotiate
a peace agreement with Russia that won't give Ukraine everything
at once. And just real quick, I'll say something else
about that. I don't want to dive too deep into that.
I have some other things to play on this Monday,
but it's an ongoing discussion that the matters, and it
should be set out out loud before any of this occurs,

(56:50):
Before any of this conflict occurs. There's contested areas between
Russia and Ukraine that Ukraine owns but were being fought
by proxy fighters. Certainly not up parts of the country
say that anyone was going to be visiting anytime soon.
Those are areas that Russia is likely to desire to win,
to take in order for a peace agreement to exist

(57:11):
with Ukraine. And if that conflict happened without any involvement
from US whatsoever, that's probably what would have occurred at
some point much sooner than now how long this fight
has been going on, and the US would not have
helped Ukraine defend just those areas since they were already
places where fighting occurred. People don't know this when they

(57:31):
don't know what a potential peace agreement from those countries
would look like and what it would be. They just
think that giving in in any way, which Ukraine doesn't
want and rightfully doesn't want, but doesn't really have the
power on their own to prevent, is the kind of
thing that is giving in to Russia. But I'll just
say it just now, and I'll move on after saying

(57:51):
it that hopefully that's the end agreement that we see.
I'm projecting it to be the end agreement we see
in a few months, if cooler heads prevail now, even
though we are a uniquely dangerous time in that conflict.
All right, some other things out there in the world
to move on to it, so that I don't talk
about that the whole time. I like this. I know
this is probably older to some people, although some of
these are now going viral again because with the holidays

(58:14):
coming up and the amount of people you're going to
sit down at the kitchen table with and have certain
discussions with, there's a likelihood that there might be some disagreement.
But a young woman went viral for saying that the
red heart emoji is dead. According to her, she thinks
it's something that she can't use anymore because darn it,
Maga took it.

Speaker 20 (58:31):
Does anybody else feel like the red heart emoji has
been totally ruined for them? After this week? I did
not realize until Wednesday that I have a habit of
ending every text, DM, email, etc. With a red heart emoji.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
All right, that's annoying. I'm just going to put that
out there first. If she ends every sentence that she
sends to everyone on every platform that you chats with
people on with a red heart emoji, you, in fact, lady,
are annoying.

Speaker 20 (59:00):
And now I feel like a red heart emoji implies maga,
and so I no longer know how to punctuate my sentences.
I guess I'll have to go back to using like
an exclamation mark. What emoji are we using now in
lieu of the red heart?

Speaker 2 (59:18):
I love? I love this discussion. I don't know why
I love this so much. It's so stupid, it's so
dumb that it's it's great. What punctuation mark are we're
using instead of the red heart? We're not using it, lady.
The rest of us aren't doing that anyway in the
world of ending all of our sentences with it. Go
back to the exclamation point, go back to whatever you want.
But this is this is hilarious, And honestly, if I

(59:40):
want to take a bit of a like serious shot
at this and use this as an entry to a
different discussion, the amount of people that would be afraid
that anyone else would think that they support someone they
don't support, like not just being mad that people voted
someone into office you didn't want to win. But essentially,

(01:00:01):
what she's saying is that by using a red heart
emoji in her warped brain, she will now maybe make
some people think that she may have voted for Trump,
and she doesn't want that. She wants to prevent that
at all costs. She wants it to be something that
she's as far away from as humanly possible. This is deranged.
It's the Trump derangement syndrome. The way people talk about

(01:00:22):
it right like, you know that you hear that in
her voice, because if you know this person at all,
you know that she's not a supporter of the current
well the former and going to be a next president,
the incumbent president of the United States. So her red
heart emojis won't say whatever she thinks they're saying. I
hate that I'm making this argument by the way. I

(01:00:43):
hate that I'm playing within the rules that she created
to convince her that it's okay to keep ending her
texts annoyingly by putting in emoji at the end of
all of them. But it's simply true. The amount of
people who want this thing or that thing to be done,
or the blue bracelet people out there. I don't know
if you know about this, but people are wearing those
to show that they are, you know, supporters of say,

(01:01:08):
racial things that go on in our society that they,
you know, think that other white people are the Probably
it's a white thing, I guess. I don't know much
about it, and it's mostly white women from what I've
been told, that wear these bracelets to try to show
minorities that there's someone who supports them, who stands with them,
who wants to fight for them, as opposed to the
other people who aren't wearing the bracelets, who are I guess,

(01:01:30):
horrible people. But to me, these sort of stupid things
in society that we do or don't do that convince
us that we're essentially making a Facebook post level, you know,
show of something to the world itself. Like I feel
bad for the person this is the way I should

(01:01:51):
say it. I feel bad for the person that walks
around every day that can't use a red heart emoji
anymore and wears a blue bracelet around their and thinks
that they're a good person because of those things. Like
I feel bad for them. That's the difference I think
sometimes in these discussions and how things will go at
your dinner table or you know, over the holidays within

(01:02:14):
your family, is the people that are so up in arms,
that are so angry at their fellow American for the
decision making of their fellow American. That's a uniquely one
sided version of this discussion. It's the kind of thing
where the people on the right or the conservatives do
make fun of or I guess maybe some feel bad

(01:02:37):
for the people who say and do the things they
do because that can't be a healthy way to live.
It just can't. It can't be a healthy way to
wake up in the morning and you know, think about
what's going to happen throughout the course of the next
few days or the next few years of your life,
I guess in this scenario. And so it makes me
just think that they have to find something else to

(01:02:59):
discuss that hopefully becomes more important than these things are.
And for that reason, I guess I have empathy when
maybe some others don't, because what is truly shocking, and honestly,
you know, there's one other thing I just thought of this.
I'll say this too very quickly. Joe Rogan, it must
have been like a week ago, relented on something he's

(01:03:22):
said before. Joe Rogan has called Barack Obama his favorite president.
It surprises people to say that, but it's true. He's
done it multiple times, but recently said he recently he
said he took it back. He said that watching Obama
and I can play this audio campaign for Kamala Harris
and say that, you know, certain things happened when they're evident,

(01:03:43):
lies that can easily be disproven, things that tried to stoke,
you know, fear and hatred of Donald Trump, if not
other people who support Donald Trump. Those things convinced Rogan
that Obama's just a liar, and so he finally no
longer believes that Obama was one of the best in
the history of our country. I find that really powerful,

(01:04:05):
not because I agreed with Rogan about it, but because
I think a whole lot of young people, a whole
lot of voters saw the lying of their side. They
finally held accountable the people on the side of the
aisle that try to convince them that they're the honest
people and the good guys that they in fact are
liars who don't tell the truth, and it's not a

(01:04:25):
thing that shocks the rest of us. It's something the
rest of us knew quite well going in. But it's
just the kind of moment or the kind of discussion
I guess that does start to create change in society.
Maybe not change in the political world, as politicians continue
to blame other things beyond just their messaging for why

(01:04:45):
they didn't get the result they wanted. But nonetheless, it's
just something that's fascinating to me and can't be overstated
because of what it hopefully means for the future. And
by the way, as I say that, I can play
audio of yet another lie that a politician is telling.
This one would be our president saying how much better

(01:05:07):
he's left the American society or economy since he took office.
This is not true. Most Americans don't feel this is true.
But this is a deranged and detached version of reality
that he's telling himself and also telling us. But here's
Biden over the weekend saying that his proudest accomplishment is

(01:05:28):
doing a good job and leaving America in a better place,
something that again, a whole lot of voters obviously disagreed.
With and how they went to the other side of
the aisle, not just in the presidency, but in a
whole lot of other races.

Speaker 19 (01:05:41):
I believe we can be proud we're leaving an America
in a better place today. We came into office four
years ago. This country has let me through the worst
pandemic we've seen in over one hundred years. Our economy
was in a tailspin. Witness something we thought we'd never

(01:06:02):
ever see in America, a violence direction. Oh gosh, on
January the sixth, so much more come a long way
since then, fast historic legislation offered with some bipartis and
support laws that are literally going to change America, not

(01:06:22):
just not but for decades and decades to come.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Yeah, people are actually worried about that. Their people are
afraid of some of the changes he wanted to make.
But we're leaving America in a better place today than
when we came into office, is one of the things
he said. And again it's amazing for him to think
that on the heels of what just happened, on the
heels of how voters echoed the exact opposite sentiment loudly

(01:06:44):
to a lot of people and will now cause some
Thanksgiving dinners to be stressful. I just think this is
probably what's going to keep causing more and more young people,
are more and more voters who've always voted a certain
way in their lives to wake up and say, all right,
my team isn't exactly the good guys, and the people
that vote the other way aren't exactly evil. Not just

(01:07:06):
the politicians, but the individuals that I sit across the
kitchen table with. They're actually, you know, good people, nice people,
and not people I need to hate for some reason
that brings us into a different world. Yes, koumbaya moment.
I believe it's coming because of the lying of the
left more so than anything else, and their stubbornness in
continuing the lie in the face of being told they

(01:07:27):
should be doing something different, at least somewhat different, after
you know, again, the resounding losses that they took. All right,
quick break, A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in
on the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 9 (01:08:44):
Fronting with scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 2 (01:08:47):
Say this is the Chad Benson Joe. My name is
Greg Collins filling in. Will you be traveling this holiday
with kids? If you'll be taking your kids on the
road with you somewhere, which a whole lot of families,
of course, will be doing. I love that someone studied this.
This comes from a couple different places, but the peak

(01:09:08):
moment of stress will be three and a half hours
into the travel into the trip, wherever it is you're going.
Sixty percent of people said traveling with kids is the
most stressful part of the holiday. Yes, I imagine that that's true.
The most stressful aspect of keeping them from annoying you
is making sure that they're entertained, dealing with any tantrums,

(01:09:29):
finding bathrooms as often as is necessary, and hearing lines
like are we there yet, which is going to happen
a lot. Twenty eight percent of parents would also rather
listen to Baby Shark on repeat for an entire trip
than deal with a screaming child. Thirteen percent would rather
get a root canal than deal with their kids on
the trip. That's hilarious to me. You know what this

(01:09:51):
reminded me of just quickly. I remember as a kid,
we used to take long road trips as a family.
I was raised by a single mom and I have
three so it would be one parent and four kids
in our van as we drove to see family several hours,
like fifteen sixteen hour car rides. I'm talking from one
part of the country to a different part, say from

(01:10:13):
the Midwest to the East coast or vice versa. Those
kind of things. And what I really love about those
memories is the inevitable trip itself. But what I hated
and what everybody hated, was the car ride to get
there as a group of people, because you know, you
got four younger people, however old they are in the car.
My sister was probably a teenager at the time we

(01:10:35):
started doing this regularly, my oldest sister, the rest of
us were younger than that. And there's a lot of
bathroom breaks, there's a lot of stops. I guess essentially,
the one thing you can't want as a parent if
you're going to take a trip like that is to
get somewhere quickly. You have to have a whole lot
of time to get where you're going to do it
in as you know, nonchalant away as you possibly can,

(01:10:58):
so that all the temper tantrums and crazy things and
finding of bathroom breaks they don't make you mad, because
it's also taking so much longer to get there, and
you need to get there on a timeline. I think
that's probably the biggest part of it. If you can
leave much earlier than you should in order to get
somewhere with kids, it's going to reduce your stress a
lot to leave there with a whole lot of extra time.

(01:11:19):
But a poll of parents with kids under the age
of twelve found that absolute peak stress exists three and
a half hours in So that's a tip too. Go
ahead and pay attention to that part as you're getting
into it, and say to yourself, this is the moment
where it's gonna get crazy. This is the moment where
it's gonna get crazy, and have some sort of plan
for something you're gonna do. In response to that, I
guess that seems like the right approach to me. And

(01:11:39):
then also, darn it, the holidays will be fun once
you get where you're going. This is Craig Collins. As
I said filling in on the Chad Benson Show, I
would never listen to Baby Shark by the Way for
an entire trip, no matter. That sounds horrible. That sounds terrible.
That sounds like the kind of thing you do instead
of waterboarding someone to get them admit some sort of

(01:12:00):
deep state secrets that you want them to tell you.
I know the kids crying is annoying. I know I
don't have any children, so that's probably why I feel
the way I do. And I'll put that out there.
I'll out myself and lose credibility with all the parents
out there. But I can't imagine the same song and
repeat is any better, because the kid's eventually going to
shut up, right, even an hour in? Eventually, all right,

(01:12:21):
we'll take a break. More coming up in a bit.
Craig Collin's filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 9 (01:12:29):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
This is the Chan Benson Show. My name is Creig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Let's talk a
little bit about the cabinet positions that Trump has chosen
people for. All of the different discussion points around the
cabinet itself have been how unqualified or out of touch
or just disconnected some of these individuals are. And I

(01:13:21):
love a few of the headlines that are out there.
The New York Times, for example, has a headline that
says Trump's cabinet many ideologies behind the Veil of America. First,
some of the things they say within that article dive
into the amount of individuals that The New York Times
believes are going to be seeking revenge along with Trump

(01:13:42):
against whoever it is that they're trying to get vengeance against.
And then other people who have very different objectives as
far as their cabinet positions go, people like Robert F.
Kennedy Junior being in charge of certain departments and how
he cares about his health and your health, and what
he'll say about even a vaccines and whatnot. There's different

(01:14:03):
agendas that go into this. Some people might be after vengeance,
some people maybe not. Also, the AP and I like
their headline too, not because I agree with them necessarily,
but I just think it's interesting. Trump two point zero
has a cabinet and executive branch of different positions and
eclectic personalities, meaning a lot of crazy people is one
of the things they want to say. By and large,

(01:14:26):
what I do think is interesting about these picks is
how different some of these people are and how they're
taking up of whatever handling of the department they'll be
put in charge of potentially, and a lot of these
cabinet positions I think will successfully be appointed to said positions.
I don't think there's going to be a lot of resistance,
because darn it, I don't think it would make all

(01:14:47):
that much sense to have that much resistance. And the
exception to the rule that people like Matt Gates seem
to realize that he was going to fail on his own,
so he got out of this whole thing. But here's
the thing that I do think is good, and just
like universally good, this should be good on both sides
of any sort of political argument doing the same thing.

(01:15:08):
The thing that's been going on for years in the
world of politics has been bad for us. You know,
it's been bad for you. You know it's been bad
for me. You know it's been bad for everybody around
you for quite some time. Washington, d C. Is an
animal that operates on its own to benefit its own
quite quite often now, and so just having that change,

(01:15:29):
or having the fear of that change actually strike the
individuals who are in these bureaucratic places that they've been
a long time, would inevitably be good for us. No
matter how much the mainstream media arm of the Democratic
Party is going to tell you that it's dangerous and
bad these positions of power, even the people like Elon

(01:15:49):
and of a vag Ramaswami who will be given a
brand new a DOGE organization for them to be in
charge of, which might just essentially be a whole bunch
of recommendations that don't get done. I want to be
realistic about the odds that, say, the recommendation to dismantle
a whole lot of the bureaucracy of our government, which

(01:16:11):
wouldn't be a bad thing necessarily coming from DOGE, the
Department of Fixing our Government essentially is what you could
call it, and then nothing actually occurring because those recommendations
are too strong. What would still be interesting for us
to see and interesting to have the amount of Americans
that potentially support it be an on the record kind

(01:16:33):
of moment for us because our system is evidently broken.
It's ridiculously broken, and it's been broken for so long.
And one of my favorite examples to point to is
the amount of fraud during COVID when they just started
sending blank checks all over the place, not just within
the United States but outside of it, and then we
found out, oh yeah, millions and millions of taxpayer dollars

(01:16:54):
got spent inappropriately because the government is inept at this stuff.
Operating better is good, and that seems to be the
design of the appointments in a lot of places. Is
that you want to operate better maybe by tearing down
first and then rebuilding. And the Department of Education or
whatever department it is that people are most afraid could

(01:17:14):
fall to the wayside first because of a Trump, you know,
presidency or the cabinet positions made during a Trump presidency
to me is hilarious. You know, the pete hegseeths of
the world, who seem to not have the appropriate amount
of experience, according to mainstream media, to be in charge
of the positions they'll be put in charge of feels

(01:17:35):
no different than the people who were put in charge
by the previous administration and highlighted for being you know,
different looking as opposed to people that actually deserved their
jobs any more than anyone else did. There is a
celebration of dei or what have you that does fly
in the face of actual qualifications for said job. I mean,

(01:17:57):
there's viral video after viral video. Now people put in
charge of you know, transportation or other things where they
don't even know any of the rules of the land
in which they're going to serve. So it's not new,
I guess I should say first and foremost, so what
I'm trying to say, And so if these people come
in and try to upend the departments that they're put

(01:18:19):
in charge of or the places they're put in charge
and Hegxeth is a great example as someone who could
definitely have some pushback in some of the things that
have been happening more recently within our military. This isn't bad.
A challenge from the top is not bad when the
system is broken. And this is actually the thing that
a lot of the left advocates for all the time,

(01:18:41):
which is amazing to have them advocate for that as
often as they do and then see it in action
and hate it because they want the upending of all
the things they think are unfair too. It just seems
that they're willing to trust the guy that's telling them
that they're the good guy, when that guy is the
one causing all the problems in the first place, being
the position of government that's in charge right now. I

(01:19:03):
don't get a part of it, but I do, and
I don't want to talk about it for much longer. Granted,
with the holidays coming up, I'd rather move on to
other things. It's just fascinating to me that as you
put people in positions that will eventually cause more conflict
than say, business as usual, in all the different elements
of our government that we would want to have challenge,

(01:19:25):
there are people who think that this is somehow inherently bad.
A challenge should actually always be considered good, as long
as the end result of it is something better, which
I do think is the goal. All Right, I want
to play this. I know I've been talking about Russian
and Ukraine a lot, and I can't help it with
Vladimir Putin essentially trying to raise the stakes, at least
verbally over the weekend with things that he said. This

(01:19:46):
was a really interesting conversation a few days ago from
Tucker Carlson. He talked to one of the Kennedys, and
he even quoted her right at the beginning, a person
who spent ten years in the CIA before she ran
Bobby Kennedy Junior's presidential campaign. What I think is so

(01:20:06):
interesting about this, and I'll play first the reading of
the tweet and then some of the reaction to it.
Is how succinct you make the discussion and how obvious
the position becomes that what has happened over the last
however many months, in the fight between Russian and Ukraine,
has put that entire conflict in a worse place, not
a better place. And here is exactly what.

Speaker 21 (01:20:27):
So this is a tweet from it. I don't normally
read people's tweets, but in standing with Ukraine, the Biden
Harris administration convinced them Ukraine to abandon a peace deal
that would have seated only half of the territory that
Russia now occupies, and for that opportunity to lose twice
as much of their homeland, they paid with tens of
thousands of innocent lives. We did this to control the
eleven trillion of minerals under the Dambas. We did it

(01:20:50):
to grind down the Russian war machine on the grist
of Ukrainian teenagers. We did it to hand out hundreds
of billions of dollars to US hedge funds, who are,
as we speak, carving uprights to rane fertile soil and
vastmental resources. The truth is the United States has never
stood with the people of Ukraine. That is simply a jingle,
an ad campaign broadcast to those who have never been there,
designed to sell taxpayers on the appeal of prolonging war

(01:21:13):
for profit. We have cost Ukraine her territory, we have
cost Ukraine her children. The warhawks and the bankers are
no friends to Ukraine.

Speaker 2 (01:21:21):
That is a powerful, powerful tweet, as I'm sure you
will agree, and I agree, and many many agree. And
then Carlson continues with Fox Kennedy talking about exactly why
she feels the way she does. And there's a point
of levity right at the beginning of this interview that
I thought was really interesting because of how serious of
a tweet or discussion point that is, because of how
many people say, deny or reject this assessment of the

(01:21:45):
ongoing conflict. There here's little wit. I mean, it's a horror.

Speaker 14 (01:21:48):
It's a horror, and we are we just allocated another
one hundred billion. I mean, it's and where is the endgame?

Speaker 21 (01:21:55):
How did you get here? How did you get I mean,
I you're we're from the same city basically, and you
were a CI officer, and you're just from a world
in which that is an extremely unpopular, never uttered sentiment.
How did you get to that.

Speaker 14 (01:22:14):
Well, part of it is pattern recognition, right, I'm in.

Speaker 9 (01:22:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:22:20):
Here, I want to pause it for a second and
explain why they find that so funny is how consistently
this version of behavior comes from, say, the military industrial
complex again, another thing that Pete Hegseth has actually talked
about and said is bad for us and bad for
our country and bad for the world. But essentially the

(01:22:41):
desire to be in these positions where you have these
ongoing conflicts that never end, that harm people in places
that are not us for whatever the benefit is to say,
you know, certain companies and organizations and just the machine
that exists. And so I find that pretty interesting that
they laugh about that, that that padd recognition is the

(01:23:01):
same all along. But here let's play a little more.

Speaker 14 (01:23:03):
We have done this before, and you know, it's just
how many times can you wage through years and years
of war with absolutely no stated endgame?

Speaker 2 (01:23:16):
Right? And that is truthfully, and I'll cut it off there. Truthfully,
the big problem is that a while ago a conflict
could have been resolved, and the desire was for it
to not be resolved. And it becomes more and more
evident that desires for this to go on long form
without becoming a fight that escalates beyond the places that
are waging it currently, which is exactly what Putin is

(01:23:38):
threatening to do now. He's threatening to, you know, widen
the conflict. And when that happens, a lot of really
bad stuff happens. And so we are of course worried
and afraid of that. But nonetheless, the truth is, and
the point that matters is we are perfectly fine, at
least some of us within this world, within this country,

(01:23:59):
in positions of power, least with this just going on
and on forever and continuing to give whatever supplies are
necessary to let this war continue and to let those
profit who want a profit from it. But taking parts
of the Donbas region away, giving them to Russia is
something that Ukraine would have done a long time ago
without the support of the United States. And I just
thought it was so eloquently said. And then the fact

(01:24:20):
that there's you know, even laughter about how this happens
and has happened before, is something that is interesting too
for those that are closest to it. But the average
American maybe can't handle that discussion had in that way.
So for that reason, they just don't really have it.
So anyway, that's one of the bigger topics out there,
not the only thing we'll discuss. We will take a
quick break. We'll talk about more than that, some holiday

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Speaker 2 (01:27:20):
That's crazy. This is the Chad Benson Show. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in Thrilled to be with you.
I saw this story. This was weird. I think BBC
News reported on this. South Korea is one of the
places that requires people to serve in our serve in
their military, something I actually think we should do here.

(01:27:40):
We should have a military service be a requirement for
a whole lot more of us, just because I think
the values that instills from knowing a lot of veterans.
I'm not someone who served in our military, by the way,
So I'm saying this in a way where even I
probably should have done something that I didn't do because
of the impact it seems to have on you later
in life. For a whole lot of the veterans that

(01:28:03):
I know, in the way in which they just conduct
themselves day to day, the things that they're successful at
that a lot of society right now seemed to struggle
with even just having conversations. Seems like something that is
differently handled by our military men and women than it
is by the rest of us in a much more
valuable way, and the rest of us can do it.
But anyway, in South Korea, a guy was told that

(01:28:24):
he had to do his military service. He didn't want
to do it, so instead he dodged it by binge
eating so that he would get so overweight that they
would eventually reject him. That feels worse than just you know,
going into the military to me, especially at a time
when you're not necessarily going to be put in a
conflict situation. So that makes no sense. I just thought

(01:28:46):
it was interesting and viral, and I wonder what our
society would do. This was a real question that ran
through my mind. If a bunch of young people were
asked to serve in our military for even a short
amount of time, if that service was a requirement, would
our own society try to prevent themselves from being in it?
Would binge eating be a road they take. I assume

(01:29:07):
it wouldn't. I hope it wouldn't, but I don't really know.
It might be another story out there that has made
a lot of people mad, and rightfully so, certainly a
lot of parents. Is a school bus driver in Colorado
who certainly deserve to get fired and did, but could
actually face charges for leaving forty kids elementary school students

(01:29:28):
on the side of the road in freezing weather. This
person was filling in for another bus driver and said
they didn't know the stop. But I don't know how
an adult person can let kids out of a bus
in the freezing cold and think that's better than just
letting them stay on the bus until you find maybe
parents waiting outside, figure out the stop, or even take

(01:29:49):
the kids back to school, since you don't know where
to leave them and coordinate what's going on. That way,
you'll freak out parents, but at least you won't leave
their kids outside in the freezing cold. Here's a bit
of I think these are elementary school kids reacting to
just being left on the side of the road.

Speaker 22 (01:30:07):
We got on the bus and there was a substitute
and he wouldn't let us leave the school until we
stopped talking. And he was skipping. All the kids stopped
and we felt like when he was driving and missing
our stops, like we were getting kid out. So he
stopped right here at this intersection and he said, everybody
get off my bus, and then everybody was like stressing,

(01:30:28):
like crying, and we forgot our jackets on the bus. Well,
me and my little sister, we live like two miles
away from here. We had like no idea what to do.

Speaker 2 (01:30:37):
What is crazy is the eloquence of this child. You know,
in all honesty, it's crazy to me to listen to
him because he sounds like a you know, a small
adult already describing a lot of it, like missing our stops,
things are going bad, making us all get off, and
we forgot our jackets. It is horrible and obviously, as
I said, this bus driver deserved to be fired and

(01:30:58):
also probably deserves some charges coming his way that will
hopefully happen in the near future. But the thing that
is just ridiculous to me, or insane to me, or
whatever you want to call it to me and probably
many others, is how any human being, any adult, could
do this. How could any adult willingly allow kids out
of a bus in that situation. I just don't understand

(01:31:22):
that part, like any actual person could behave that way.
It makes no sense. All right, quick break a lot more.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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With Raycon.

Speaker 1 (01:31:47):

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filling in. Chad will be back after the holidays. Are
president of the United States. Everybody that's just one one
hundred miles. Takes sixteen point five hours through it all.
They stayed calm, They gobbled on. I'm still gobbling they were.

Speaker 19 (01:32:14):
They were stayed crushing to their favorite music. But your
parently re cruise a song, living out a prayer.

Speaker 2 (01:32:27):
I love that people are laughing at those jokes, because
that has to be a very uncomfortable thing to hear
Biden stumble through as the warbling of a turkey apparently
is too much of abstraction for him to stay on
message for just a few minutes. He is still in
charge of the country, at least we think he is
for a little while longer. Here pardoning the turkeys, the

(01:32:47):
Thanksgiving tradition that often happens. I don't know why, but
that's going viral because of how terrible it is. Other
things out there that I think are interesting. Just quickly,
if you were watching football at all over the weekend
and you caught the final three minutes of the Cowboys
Commander game, you would say to yourself that that was
one of the most nuts football three minutes you've ever

(01:33:08):
seen in your life, even though the end result is
Dallas still winning the game. I'll play a little bit
of some of the highlights of it, but there's something
I want to say even before I hit play on this.
I have a rule in my adult life. I think
I've actually also followed this rule when I was a kid,
because I would ask adults who I went to sporting
events with to stay. But I never leave any sporting

(01:33:29):
event early. I never have and I never will because
on the off chance that something amazing happens at the
end of the game, I'll be mad that I missed it.
No matter how much my team is down, no matter
how much the game seems like it's inevitably over, I
refuse to leave. And this is a streak that will continue.
I might even put it in my will that if
something horrible happens to me medically during a sporting event,
you got to just weakend at Bernie's me until the

(01:33:51):
end of that event. So I stay there because I
can't leave early, because this is one of the examples
of stuff just going crazy. Here's some of the calls
toward the end of this game.

Speaker 5 (01:34:01):
Line drive to Terpin. It a bounce, his throws lights.

Speaker 1 (01:34:04):
Here it comes Toronto Turpin spitting fae.

Speaker 5 (01:34:08):
Here he less.

Speaker 1 (01:34:12):
Come out day, Turpin takes it all the way.

Speaker 5 (01:34:15):
Touchdown, dulls.

Speaker 2 (01:34:19):
Not for a minute, no time out.

Speaker 23 (01:34:20):
S Daniels throws down the side. Times are turned to Dwine.
He struts twice.

Speaker 1 (01:34:30):
He st on.

Speaker 2 (01:34:31):
This is unbelievably believable.

Speaker 23 (01:34:35):
Cybric's gotta have butterflies here.

Speaker 5 (01:34:38):
For the tide. Lo snap.

Speaker 18 (01:34:40):
It is good.

Speaker 23 (01:34:44):
And the last Special Teams Day in history does a
fitting finish.

Speaker 2 (01:34:50):
I'm not gonna share what we just watched. I love
that reaction to the end. I'm not even sure what
we just watched if you don't know what happened. With
three minutes and six seconds remaining, Washington was behind twenty
to nine. They scored a touchdown, they got a two
point conversion. Now it's twenty to seventeen. The Commander's kicked
off to Dallas and the ball went through the legs
of the returner, who turned around, picked it up on

(01:35:12):
the one yard line and ran it all the way
into the end zone for a touchdown. Dallas goes up
twenty seven to seventeen. Fast forward, only thirty three seconds
left in the game. Washington on their own fourteen yard
line and they have a play that goes all the
way into the end zone to again to get within
a touchdown. This time, Washington goes for an extra point
to tie it up, and they miss the extra point,
which was crazy. Added to that madness that then Washington

(01:35:35):
tried an onside kick and a Cowboys safety took it
to the house for another touchdown instead of just falling
and letting the clock run out, which meant that Washington
had one more shot to win the game, which they
inevitably did not do. But noneth the last the last
three minutes and six seconds involved a whole lot of scoring,
and a game that was twenty to nine ended thirty
four to twenty six, which is just insane. And obviously,

(01:35:59):
as you hear the call in that game go, they
have no idea what they just watched because of that insanity.
But so I stand by my rule, man, But I'll
stand by it in the face of any kind of
you know, in jest or even somewhat not, in just
ridicule from family and friends who say, why would you
stay in the pouring rain or stay in this situation
or that in situation? It doesn't matter this game is over,

(01:36:22):
because sometimes it's not over, and sometimes even if it
does end the way you don't want it to end.
It's just sort of ridiculous how long these things go
and how many of these things happen. All Right, One
other thing I do want to touch on. It's not
a fun topic, but I do want to discuss it
a little bit today, as I have already. Venezuela's a

(01:36:43):
TDA gang is recruiting children from migrant shelters in the
United States to be involved in violent robberies in New
York City. There's a couple of reasons why the gang
is doing this. Of course, one of those reasons is
that the young people are willing to do it. Another
one is that they think that the young people will
be more successful at getting away with these crimes and

(01:37:05):
also not being say, charged as extensively by law enforcement,
which is sort of scary and ridiculous too. But i'll
just play some of the CBS two in New York
reporting on this before we discuss it. These are the
reasons that in open border and unchecked people into our
country become a bad thing, not just the desperation of

(01:37:27):
certain individuals, but also the bad actors who wind up
here in the country among those who come in illegally,
and then the things that wind up happening. It's not
just the violence and the people who've been hurt or
killed by people who are here illegally, which you hear
about a lot, it's many of the lawless behaviors, especially
in like a New York City. They now see an

(01:37:49):
overwhelming amount of those things being done by people who
are not allowed and should not be in our country. Mostly,
I assume, and this doesn't make anyone more innocent this behavior,
but I assume because they believe to have that ability.
You're already here legally, you're already breaking the law, so
why not go ahead and break it more? Seems like

(01:38:09):
the thought process to some. But again, here's CBS two
in New York reporting on this.

Speaker 6 (01:38:14):
Have no fingerprints on file for them, we have no
photographs on file for them.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
We have no prior criminal.

Speaker 15 (01:38:19):
History on them.

Speaker 6 (01:38:20):
They swap out their IDs. We have no way of
tracking or knowing who they are when they entered the country.

Speaker 11 (01:38:26):
The NYPD's a Chief of Detectives says undocumented criminals as
young as eleven years old are carry out retail robberies
and committing crimes on scooters, snatching people's jewelry, watches, and
cell phones at gunpoint and knife point. Over three hundred
incidents last year, more than eight hundred so far this year.
They've brazenly shot at police officers too.

Speaker 6 (01:38:45):
When we do make arrests and we're able to charge
them on four five six incidents, when they go before
a judge in New York City and their record, their
arrest record is run, they show no prior criminal history,
they're released on their own recognists than not offered bail,
and they're released back into the public house.

Speaker 2 (01:39:01):
Some think about that released back in the public eleven
twelve thirteen year old armed robbery, multiple different occasions where
they wind up saying that this person is responsible for
this attack and that attack, and the places like New
York City who think they're doing things for woke reasons
like changing bail systems and whatnot, Illinois doing some of
those same things. I wind up having more and more

(01:39:23):
instances eight hundred this year after three hundred such instances
last year, and who knows how many other ones that
are not actually being caught or reported on. These are
the reasons that policies like this are bad. These are
the reasons that people stand up and say I can
no longer tolerate or vote for a certain side of
the aisle that doesn't care about the fallout from a

(01:39:46):
lack of just simple controls that need to exist in
our society. But this is uniquely horrible and a part
of this, and this becomes a thing that oftentimes I
hear a one side attack the other side for saying
but it is true and it deserves to be said.
Having a better border policy would protect these young people

(01:40:08):
from being in a country that they don't have any
legal right to be in feeling as though they don't
have any sort of path to success and said legal country,
and then being preyed upon by gang members of the
TDA or any other cartel or organization that is going
to get them to do things that will change their
life forever. They will inevitably have these decisions wind up

(01:40:29):
costing them something. I don't know what that is, but
this is not the kind of thing where I think
these young people will wind up living happy lives. Nonetheless,
maybe that's just naive thinking in my part, but protecting people,
even the people who wind up being the perpetrators of
such violence, is partially done by having a deterrent that

(01:40:52):
works in the first place. And obviously the deterrents that
are no longer in place in New York make it
even more likely for more people to turn to these
sort of things. Especially, say you're a kid in a
shelter and you don't know what you're going to do
over the next few months, and you're angry at who
knows what. A lot of young people in general, not
just people here illegally, but people in general that are younger,

(01:41:14):
seem mad at certain things in our society, And so
what do you do. And you see a kid that
comes into the shelter, steals some things, gets away with
some things, gets caught for some things, but winds up
right back in the shelter with you again and again
and out on the street, and you are being tempted
by those same individuals to do the same thing. How
many times do kids in that situation say no to

(01:41:35):
that before doing something themselves. There are a lot of
people who are doing this. Again by the CBS two
news reporting in New York telling you that there's eight
hundred instances where last year there were only three hundred,
and more and more, these things continue to go up.
The amount of carjackings just alone, and I'm doing this
irrelevant to just say, you know, people here illegally, but

(01:41:57):
the amount of young people who are stealing cars from
something they watched on TikTok and joy riding and getting
in car accidents and you know, obviously getting in trouble
for that sort of thing has skyrocketed as well. It's
one of many things that several parts of our community
would say, our country would say, is a newer problem
we're seeing that we hadn't seen before, and we are
essentially allowing more of this by having an open boarding

(01:42:20):
policy that will finally end and people that will be
deported back to their country, back to where they're supposed
to be from, or at least not here anymore, who
will inevitably make whatever decisions they make then in those places,
but at least won't be tempted to make certain decisions
here in this country because that opportunity won't be afforded
to them, and the opportunity for people to pray on

(01:42:41):
them I won't be afforded to them. I'm not saying
that an eleven and twelve year old who's willing to
commit these crimes is innocent. They're not. But they are
being put in a situation where bad actors who are
also here, who might have actually brought them into the country,
are capable of influencing them even more than they would
if this was not happening in the first place. So

(01:43:02):
this is part of the reason to stand against these
things and to wind up in support of, say a
mass deportation policy that gets things back to normal in
our country, that gets things back to whatever version of
normal we actually have before trying to fix any of
the issues that we want to face, and it does
not mean that you're against people coming into this country legally.
I just want to make sure that's reiterated as many

(01:43:24):
times as I can say it, because for some reason,
it seems like you have to say that part for
some to not accuse you of just hating everybody that
doesn't look like me or sound like me or whatever.
All right, quick break a little bit more coming up
on the holidays. We'll try to have fun before we
get out of here. This is Greg Collins filling in
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filling in thrilled to be with you. Coca Cola has
an AI generated Christmas commercial that is terrifying and creepy
and a bunch of other things. People are calling it
a dystopian nightmare, which I enjoy because it's actual faces
of humans that don't exist. I think magic AI is

(01:45:52):
a real. Magic AI is the thing that created it
not magic at all, In fact, the kind of thing
that if you actually believe it. Here's the thing. If
AI gets to a point where it does stuff convincingly
well and not disturbing, to where we know, like it's
not real, but where we think it is real people
acting in genuine ways, and then you find out it's AI,

(01:46:13):
you're never going to feel good about that. I'm not
gonna like, you know, say at some point in the
dystopian future that this I love that sentence that this
Coca Cola commercial creates. You have like famous people, actors
and actresses who are AI, and we don't know it
for years, and then we find out that they don't exist.
They're not real because they've never made any public appearances

(01:46:34):
anywhere or anything like that. They're not showing up and
doing you know, interviews and places that make sense. None
of us are going to feel good about that. There's
no scenario where you find out something as a computer
that you thought was a person where you're going to
be like, ah, that's cool, Oh I like that. We're
never going to be happy. That's why AI. I don't
think we'll ever have the reach that they want it
to have. In some places, because we're never going to

(01:46:57):
feel good about the thing that is essential replacing us
in some way, shape or form, And then Arnold Schwarzenegger
has to travel through time and defeat himself. I think
that's a part of it. I assume that's a part
of it somewhere in there, because that's what we're barreling toward.
But I love that people are very uncomfortable in watching
this add mostly because of how ridiculous it is. Another

(01:47:17):
thing I love that went viral out there. A father
in Nashville, Tennessee, had the Internet going crazy. That's the
words of the New York Post, not me necessarily, because
he read the list of things his wife has said
to him that would be highly offensive if he were
to say them back to the missus. Things like your
butt is sagging is one of the ones in the

(01:47:39):
list that I love. The pieces of clothing that he
chooses to wear, the outfits he puts together are not
things that are great. One of them. Change your pants
before you know you look any fatter is the kind
of sentiment that he gets. Fix your hair, you look
like an axe murderer is another one. He says he's
been told before that's intense, fix your shirt so your

(01:48:00):
belly stops hanging out, et cetera, et cetera. And he
said all of these things, if I were to, you know,
just forbade them repeat them to her, would get me
put in the doghouse for an extended period of time.
I love this. Any married guy knows this. Yes, you
will eventually take some sort of a one sided version
of a thing that's supposed to make you improve something

(01:48:22):
you know, like say it is wardrobe related or however.
And it's not mean when they say it, but if
you set it back in the same terms, it would
be terrible. But again, we're tougher, we can handle these things.
I think that's totally fine. I just I'm so amused
by this, and I love that this guy went viral
for doing it. He also said that he does sit
ups and push ups every day for years and doesn't
believe he has a belly, even though the missus is

(01:48:44):
telling him he's has one. I'm not going to be
the judge of who does and doesn't have those sort
of things. I'm not weighing into that world. One last one,
and I just thought this was interesting. A family will
sign a code of conduct before their Thanksgiving dinner. This
also went viral Reddit, where someone asked who is the jerk?
Who's the you know bleep? Which is something I love

(01:49:04):
that goes on Reddit all the time. Not only will
it be about behavior and conversations that you ken or
can't have, but it will actually also be about wardrobe.
This person who's hosting Thanksgiving wants all the family members
to dress nice for the occasion. I love that. I
don't hate that part at all. I do think, however,
the part about code of conduct is just not going

(01:49:25):
to go well. It's just you're not going to succeed
as much as you want to in that world, and
that's too bad. It's not you know, the fault of say,
anybody who willingly signs this paper that doesn't live up
to it, because I don't think you're taking any legal
action for people who break this thing. But it did
go viral all over Reddit. A twenty nine year old
who said that her sister is the one that gave
it to her. I was the one complaining in the

(01:49:45):
first place, asking if she should just not go to Thanksgiving.
My vote is go and just don't follow the rules, baby,
and no one will care all right, that's it for me.
Craig Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show, Thrilled
to be with you, see you guys again tomorrow. Chat
is back next week.

Speaker 1 (01:50:08):
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