Members of Congress Rolled Pay Raise for Themselves into Must-Do Spending Bill

Members of Congress rolled a pay raise for themselves into must-do spending bill. Egg Nog only the third most possible holiday drink. Severe weather during the holiday season. Fani Willis disqualified from prosecuting Trump in Georgia election case. 

Episode Transcript

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in prell to be
with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about just
before the holidays.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's become an annual tradition.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
We have a giant omnibus that politicians want to pass
right before they all get to go home for the holidays,
essentially hoping that a whole bunch of people don't read it,
and if they go ahead and rubber stamp it, it
means a whole lot of excess funding that our tax
dollars should not be paying for. Here's what's really interesting
to me, first and foremost, if we have less spending

(00:50):
in the government, if that actually happens, if they stop
throwing one hundred billion dollars one of the examples that's
in this bill to disaster relief that won't actually go
to that. And what I mean by that is they
can earmark funding for one thing and then redirect it
to other places. They're allowed to do that. They do
it quite often. So they know that most Americans would

(01:11):
support disaster relief spending because of all the terrible things
that happened a couple months ago or so, even though
that money would be very late to help with those
issues and not there by the time we actually have
issues to deal with in the future. But that's just
one of the things. There's a lot of other examples.
Of course. I think one of the biggest things getting

(01:31):
attention is that politicians actually think they deserve a raise.
And I have some audio from Dick Durbin that i'll
play in a second that's amazingly entitled, entitled in a
way that you don't see a whole lot. But here's
the thing with any of this, there are many issues. First,
politicians need to stop believing that the only time they'll

(01:53):
do work at all is like now, or when they're
in a big moment of conflict when the budget is
about to be you know, necessary, because otherwise the government
shuts down. They should be working on this months in
advance to not get to the point where they can
dangle the doomsday carrot in front of us to make
us understand why they had to give in and spend

(02:13):
all kinds of money we don't want them to spend.
That's the first problem. The other problem is the idea
that shutting down the government is as inherently bad as
they say it is. And I know that this is
the most controversial at least, I'll admit that it is
to some people out there. To other people, this is
not even remotely controversial at all. And the reason I

(02:34):
say it is we've had a few shutdowns. Of course,
in twenty nineteen we went more than thirty days, thirty four,
I think we had one. In twenty fourteen, we had two.
In nineteen ninety six. We doubled our fund, doubled our
pleasure that year, and so we also survived all that.
And anyone that tells you, like the economy can't, you know,
make it through a government shut down, that it's bad

(02:56):
for all Americans. The thing they leave out, the thing
that they want you to not think about, is that
if we force them back to the negotiation table and
they come up with a package that spends less of
our money, that's actually better for our economy than the opposite.
Then spending thirty days or however many days being shut down,

(03:17):
coming up with essentially the same deal, the same package,
and spending the same amount of money, that's bad for us.
Of course, anyone who tells you that the government shutting
down is going to have a negative impact is assuming
that at the end of the day they don't actually do.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Different stuff in Washington.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
But the only way to force it, the only way
to demand it, is to get to the point where
things actually break because the politicians plan on the last
minute solution. They're basically like that kid in class who's
given the assignment at the end of the year on
like your first day, and they're told, this assignment is
coming up at the end of the year, it's ninety
percent of your grade. You should be working on it

(03:55):
all year long, and they're like, I'll get to it,
and then the day before they do the entire project overnight.
They know it's terrible, but they look at you and
they want you to accept the fact that they waited
till the last minute.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
To do this.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
It should not be on us to say, all right,
that's fine, go ahead and spend a bunch of my
money recklessly like a drunken sailor.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
That's bad for a lot of us.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
But what I did find funny, and I don't often
find Dick Durban to be a person that amuses me
on a whole lot of topics, but he took a
weird shot at CNN will answering questions from CNN.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
Not that I'm upset.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
About it, by the way, I think it's very amusing.
As I said a second ago, he was questioned by
CNN about the pay raise that was going to be
given to Congress, and his response was why are you
making so much money?

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Which I thought was awesome. Here we go, members are
giving themselves a pay raise.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
Do you guys deserve a pay raise?

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Oh, that's news to me. It's good news. You know
what has it been ten years or fourteen years?

Speaker 5 (04:55):
In?

Speaker 4 (04:55):
No Colah charge it all. I think it's about time something.

Speaker 6 (04:59):
Son, here's a piece of port kidding giving yourself there
would I not know there is?

Speaker 7 (05:04):
But I mean, I mean people look at the performance
of come and say, why should we give them more money?

Speaker 4 (05:09):
What about the media? Think about that first second?

Speaker 7 (05:11):
I were not paid by public money.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
I know you're not, but I mean half of your
listeners are not there anymore. You're still getting the same paycheck.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
That is that is brutal as far as a shot
back by Dick Durbin, But think about how mad he
got personally at this line of questioning. You are paid
by our money, sir, and you have not been doing
a job for a very long time that we're happy with, sir.
So we don't want to give you more, We want
to take money away. If it was us who got
to vote about this, you would lose money. You would

(05:40):
not gain more. There's a bunch of Americans who took
pay cuts or lost their jobs because of the challenges
that exist within our current economy, and a whole lot
of people who can't put food on the table still
on a regular basis, that are going into massive amounts
of credit card or you know, loan debt of all
different kinds.

Speaker 2 (05:57):
That's a reality.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
And so you know what's at least in my opinion,
when the politicians show you how little they're in touch
with the issues that every day Americans deal with.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
And this is one of those moments.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
Arguing with CNN of all places and saying that you
deserve more money, and how dare you say you don't
and look at you, you're still making a lot of money.
Is such a uniquely arrogant way to go about saying,
the American people don't think you deserve anything more. Right now,
that that's a very simple Your job performance has been terrible,

(06:34):
You do not get a raise, You do not collect
two hundred dollars, you do not pass go I don't
know why this is an issue that they can't get
their minds around, but they're that out of touch, because
I do think a lot of them are so you know,
delusional that they think that it would make sense and
Americans would be like, ah, that's fine, give Congress a raise.
By the way, they make a well over one hundred

(06:55):
thousand dollars currently one hundred and seventy four. This would
put them up into the one eighties. And this is
just the money they make that we know about, not
the billions of dollars or millions of dollars somehow that
most politicians are worth by the time they leave their
time in working for us.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
It makes no sense. They all can enrich themselves. But
this is just insane.

Speaker 3 (07:17):
And so I couldn't help but react to the idea
that this is somehow offensive to Durban because you don't
deserve our money. All right, let me stop repeating that.
Let's move on to this. Secretary Anthony Blincoln said that
sending troops to Ukraine could be an alternative to allowing
them to join NATO. This seems like reckless rhetoric, to

(07:39):
say the very least, especially when Trump, who will be
in office very soon, has demanded that there's a peace agreement,
and even of Vladimir Zelenski, the president in Ukraine, has
said that he's willing to seede territory now to Russia
to end the conflict, something that he did not say
one time when Biden was in office, because we didn't
demand that they say things like that. And there is

(08:01):
long contested areas within Russia and Ukraine that I'm sure
you know about now, like the Donbas region. The United
States would have never signed up to help Ukraine defend
or take from Russia since it is heavily contested, heavily
fought in areas to begin with, if that's something that
winds up getting surrendered to make this peace of agreement

(08:21):
makes sense.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
It's something that America should have been for a while ago.

Speaker 3 (08:27):
It's not as controversial as it's going to sound to
us here writing the checks and wanting to see the
war end as opposed to it to continue to go.
Because Ukraine has done an amazing job of defending themselves,
but they're not the type of country that can sustain
a twenty year war against Russia.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
And we know that, and so what do we do?
How do we make this end?

Speaker 3 (08:47):
Seems to be a valuable question and one that even
Zelensky is answering differently. But here's Anthony Blincoln on saying,
why don't we just get boots on the ground, which
sounds like the beginning of World War three.

Speaker 8 (08:58):
There are other kinds of assurances, commitments, guarantees that could
be part of any arrangements that are made that I
think would also have that kind of effect. For example,
we have European countries that have talked about the possibility
if there is a ceasefire and a resolution of having
some of their forces along the ceasefire line to patrol it,

(09:18):
to protect it, to ensure it. That wouldn't be a
bad guarantee either. Meanwhile, we put in place, with two
dozen countries now bilateral security agreements between those countries in
Ukraine that are ten year programs, ten year commitments help
Ukraine build its deterrent in defense capacity. As that continues
to move forward, Ukraine will be stronger and stronger.

Speaker 3 (09:40):
I think it's really insane to be saying these things
right now when there still is not a version of
peace that has been agreed upon and makes sense there,
and it is something that you wonder how you could
possibly think that's starting to say these things publicly as
Anthony BLINKLN or anyone else, could be something that other

(10:01):
people are on board with within this administration as they
as they leave power in the next month or so,
because it is exactly the sort of thing that is
begging for a response that further escalates us into this
world of potential tension, potential, you know, world conflict that
we're trying to avoid. It's almost as if this is

(10:22):
my belief in this, because Trump has now called for
the end of this conflict and Ukraine has demonstrated a
willingness to do something different than they've done before. It's
almost like our own politicians for the current administration are
mad about the potential for a resolution to happen after
they leave power, and so their response is to say

(10:42):
the craziest stuff they can say. At least that's my
interpretation of this. It's probably wrong, I accept that, but
just it sort of feels that way, regardless of the
tinfoil hat version of the reality of it, because why
say that, why even speak those words? Into existence right now,
as opposed to maybe responding if there is a cease fire,
if there is an agreement, and even then Russia would

(11:04):
obviously oppose having boots on the ground from European countries
or the United.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
States at that you know border.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
That's obviously something that would cause a whole bunch of
additional tension. So I just don't get it, by the way,
real quick, and I thought this was interesting. There's this
idea out there that might be aligned with what Blincoln
is saying. That's not in the world of politics, per se,
but it's telling a whole bunch of Americans that if
you get into an argument with a family member this
holiday season, the best thing you can do is be

(11:32):
crazier than them. Whatever they say, up the ante, go
go nuts, go go more insane, and it'll end the conversation.
I am not advocating for this. I think this is
an insane idea, and I don't think you should do it,
but it is. It is fascinating that people are saying
that you should fight this sort of thing out by
fighting fire with more flaming hot fire, which always works.

Speaker 2 (11:53):
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Speaker 9 (13:12):
Frondie with Scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Santa Claus helped nab
a thief, an eighteen year old and Alabama stole a
car on Sunday. As cops caught up to him, they
found out that an off duty deputy who was dressed
as Santa Claus had helped stop the thief and make

(13:40):
the arrest.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
I love every part of this.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
You definitely know you're on the naughty list if Santa's
the one arresting you for a crime. Here's a little
bit of audio of Larry Williams, the retired deputy, talking
about it.

Speaker 5 (13:52):
Yeah, it was kind of hard. I mean, the guy
he was young.

Speaker 10 (13:55):
I'm old, I'm sixty one.

Speaker 11 (13:57):
But Dan state Kate, Dan, I just did what I did,
you know, I taste him, I grabbed him. We took
him to the ground, and thankful my cousin was right
there to help, and we put his hands behind his
back and also got on top of him in handcuffed me.

Speaker 3 (14:10):
Yep, and then Santa Claus went back to doing his
Santa Claus stuff, which is even better. I love the
way he also says that he's young and I'm old,
because in that moment, I think age easily one training.
All that stuff easily succeeded, which is absolutely awesome and
probably something that happens a whole lot, and you don't
realize how often it happens, by the way, if I'm
talking about age, I do find this interesting too. One

(14:34):
hundred and six year old woman whose nickname is Fireball
Flow went viral for thanking her family for having a
fun life or having a lot of enjoyable evenings together.
Fireball Flow believes in two things, positivity and whiskey shots.
Here's a little bit of the audio, and I do

(14:54):
love this audio because of how much people laugh when
she references how good of a time of the family had,
because you know, these individuals are the partying type.

Speaker 5 (15:03):
I'm seld Hackeys to steal be here Wall.

Speaker 12 (15:08):
Show you wonderful people and that's a good time. Yeah, baby,
say my family always handle a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
When you bring the house down at one hundred and
six by saying that my family always had.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
A lot of fun, you know you're gonna like these people.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
You know, these are the kind of people that you
hope are getting married to one of your family members,
because the I think the reception itself is going to
be both completely forgettable and all so amazing and a
whole blast but fireball flow, viral and social media amazing.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show, and

(15:52):
this is Craig Collins hanging out with you for the
next few days. Chad will be back just after the holidays,
so thrilled to be here. One of the biggest discussions,
of course, will be a government shutdown and Elon Musk's
influence in politics. I have to tell you that the
thing that I'm most fascinated about, and something that I
planned to talk about more throughout the show today, is

(16:14):
how rare Elon Musk is as a person in our society,
not not himself per se, but the world's richest man
having such an affinity for attacking the systems that could
make him even richer. I remember, he is the guy
behind the electric vehicle, or at least the forefront guy
at it, and a lot of Democrats would love to
be writing him blank check after blank check to get

(16:36):
more people to buy electric vehicles. And he turned his
nose up to that he doesn't care about money. He
actually feels a lot like Ford or anyone else in
our society who really kind of trailblazed. Of course, Henry
Ford famous for giving people five bucks a day when
most people were making like two dollars and fifty cents,
so he doubled their salaries, and he said it was

(16:58):
good for him because it helped me.

Speaker 2 (16:59):
You will buy his cars.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
That is the kind of thing that you seem to
hear from Musk. Maybe not in the wages he's giving
to everybody who works for him. I'm not sure that
that's as big of a discussion point. But his ability
to use platforms like Twitter that he now owns to
go after political corruption, which he would uniquely be able
to benefit from. We'll dive into that deeper and a
whole lot more in a bit. Craig Collins filling in

(17:24):
on the Chad Benson Show, an Chad.

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

Speaker 3 (18:04):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. Look, I enjoy the holidays. I'm
not gonna be a person who's, you know, getting up
in arms if you're less healthy during the next few
weeks than you've been before. However, I do think it's insane,
and this is happening in California, of course, to hire

(18:26):
somebody who's evidently not physically healthy. This woman, Virgie Tillvar,
her name, is overweight by any doctors, although she'd be
terribly upset that I said that that she's fat, but
she is. She's not in good shape. But she's now
an advocate for talking about all of the things that

(18:46):
she thinks are offensive in the world of weight and
weight related discussions, one of the most viral being this
video she put up about getting shamed for wanting a
large piece of cake at a gathering. I don't know
how to say this different. I know it might feel
like a slow news day to put this into our
set of topics, but just listen to the insanity of

(19:09):
this and you know, realize that taxpayer dollars are actually
giving this woman money now to be someone in the
world of politics in California.

Speaker 13 (19:19):
A cake related fat phobic incident or CRFI. Oh no,
is that moment when it's time to eat delicious cake
and it's interrupted by a moralizing impulse. Inevitably, there's always
someone at the party who has to declare publicly that
their slice is too large and that the person who's

(19:41):
cutting the cake. Almost invariably a woman, must do some
disproportionate amount of labor in order to accommodate their need
to feel superior.

Speaker 2 (19:50):
I hate everything I just heard from this person.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
I hate all of that because sometimes the piece of
cake somebody cuts you is too large. You don't want
all of it, if you're watching your weight, if you're
trying not to be you know, a person that looks
like this woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
You know what's crazy to me about this? And I
hate that.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
I'm going to argue the argument by you know, falling
down to the level of a discussion that she's trying
to create with this. But government money is going into
this person's pocket. But if someone wants to be healthier.
That's not somehow bad for someone that doesn't, you know
what I mean. Like, if someone wants to lose weight
and look different, that doesn't mean that you're allowed to

(20:30):
be mad at them because you're not putting in that
effort to do it yourself.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Live with your decisions. If you're someone.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Who's proud of what you look like, and you don't
look like someone who can be a model on a runway,
I'd be proud of that. And when someone says I
want half the piece of cake you just cut me.
I live in a world where you could be like,
I'll eat yours, give me their piece of cake, and
cut them a new piece, and live where you're proud
of that too. What I love about some of these
discussions and it's not designed to crap on people who

(21:00):
look different.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
I'm not exactly a skinny man these days.

Speaker 5 (21:03):
I used to be.

Speaker 2 (21:04):
I'm not anymore.

Speaker 3 (21:05):
I'm someone who gets told by the doctor that I
should do some work on my own health, and I
accept that that that's a thing. But what I love
about this is the idea that you control other people's
opinion of you instead of just not caring about it.
You don't need to have control of their opinion. It
doesn't matter if you don't agree with them.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Live that life.

Speaker 3 (21:25):
Actually, I had an argument with a family member recently,
and I don't want to get into the gist of
all of it. It was an inherently silly thing, which
is kind of funny. Sometimes you might find that people
you're very close with in life, for people that you
care about in life, you can wind up having these
weird disagreements that take on a life of their own
simply because the way they snowball as opposed to what

(21:46):
the actual argument itself was about. But something I noticed
in that moment was how hard it can be for
people sometimes to accept that your opinion isn't their opinion,
more so than it's ever been before, and just walk
away like, yeah, that's fine. I don't think any less
of you, you don't think any less of me. We
both are completely happy with each other, and our opinions

(22:07):
on this issue issued diverge entirely.

Speaker 2 (22:10):
And that's where like the heart.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Of this all is for this individual who's saying that
you can't say out loud that someone cut a slice
of cake that's too big for them because it's going
to make anybody else in the room who wants that
sized piece of cake to feel, you know, judged and
treated horribly.

Speaker 2 (22:26):
It's just it's ridiculous.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Stop allowing other people's brains to influence how you feel.
Just live your life, man, and decide for yourself what's
good and right for you and wrong for you, and
be unapologetic about it.

Speaker 2 (22:40):
I think that's something that would help a whole lot
of us.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
By the way, a government shut down A giant conversation
Elon Musk went viral with a bunch of the things
he said about this government omnibus spending bill that he
and Donald Trump have now effectively killed, which gets as
closer to a potential shut down in the government, something
that they weren't about every single year now, similar to

(23:04):
like the Boy who Cried Wolf. Even when they actually
do it, it doesn't wind up as bad as they
tell us. It's going to be the last time, of course,
in twenty nineteen, when we shut down for like thirty
plus days. But one of the things we'd spend money
on is the Global Engagement Center, which has a unique
stated mission. I'll go ahead and play some audio that's
going viral.

Speaker 10 (23:24):
There is another word for master narratives. It's called history. Basically,
every country creates their own narrative story. And you know,
my old job at the State Department was what people
used to joke as the chief propaganda's job. We haven't
talked about propaganda. Propaganda. I'm not against propaganda. Every country

(23:45):
does it, and they have to do it to their
own population. And I don't necessarily think it's that awful.
And this idea of a of a news cartel. I mean,
I was editor of Time in two thousand and well
during that election, and I remember, you know, you're competing

(24:05):
against cartels and everybody. I remember being on a panel
with the then editor of the New York Times who said,
it's really hard to break through these days. This is
the editor of the New York Times saying it's hard
to break through.

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Yeah, because they lie to us, because they don't tell
us the truth. It's hard to break through.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
But I love the idea that the guy who's in
charge of this, the Global Engagement Center, says that propaganda's okay.
That behavior is what matters more than telling the truth.
And it's become the reason that so many Americans are
obsessed with actually knowing what's going on.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I don't know, honestly.

Speaker 3 (24:37):
The way that I've said it for a while now
is that the politicians have gotten lazier, that their lies
are worse that the you know, way in which you
can prove that what they're saying is untrue or just crap,
or you know, some version of assuming that they're smarter
than you by treating you like an absolute stack of rocks,
and what they say.

Speaker 2 (24:57):
It's probably untrue.

Speaker 3 (24:58):
We just have more of a focus on being critical
of the information that we're seeing because so many places
have been outed as being just willfully ignorant, wrong, lying,
whatever you want to call it, to us on an
almost daily basis. It is incredible to me that that
is a byproduct of the amount of lying that's occurred

(25:18):
in our society, and not necessarily a thing that's happened,
you know, because we've just gotten more cynical as a society,
which is what they tell us, or that the bad people,
the Orange Man bad people of the world have convinced
you that lies are okay and lies are true, even
though they've been out in time and again for being
the ones that told them. Case in point might be

(25:39):
the story out of Colorado, which I do find pretty
important and interesting as well.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
I'm not sure if you've you've heard about this. I'm
assuming a whole lot of people have.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
But essentially one of the places that was often talked
about as you know, not happening as much as they
said it was happening, as far as an apartment complex
that might be taken over by people that were doing
terrible things illegal people here in this country, cartel. There's
now been a bunch of arrests made there. And remember

(26:13):
this even came up during the debate where Donald Trump
made a reference to this and fact checker said he
was wrong and it's not true, and how dare anybody
say any of this stuff as if it's accurate for
us to see and arrest so much later in that situation,
It should make you mad. It should infuriate you that
they think they can lie to you that substantially and

(26:34):
tell you, you know, essentially, the sky isn't blue, and
then when you find out that the sky is blue,
they tell you, oh, it's your fault for believing me,
or some other version of that. But there was breaking
news that people in this apartment complex, the exact one
being talked about before eventually were arrested. And so I
find that so interesting that you, you know, make these

(26:57):
claims that you go the roads you go, and then
eventually you just hope that people stop paying attention.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
And maybe it's that.

Speaker 3 (27:04):
Actually, if I take a second to really think about it,
and I can play some of the audio of the
breaking news story itself, I just sue you if you
didn't hear about this, you're now aware of it.

Speaker 14 (27:14):
Okay, we're at Colorado now, this is a live look.
Now the sun is up there in that state, and
police have now detained fourteen people and reported armed home invasion.
That's the same apartment complex where a lot of people
were complaining about the armed in.

Speaker 2 (27:27):
Venezuelan gang members roaming the halls.

Speaker 14 (27:30):
Reports indicate that investigators said that several suspects entered the
apartment and had two people inside. The suspects then reportedly
moved the victims to another apartment complex, or rather another
unit on the property, where police said they were found
threatened and bound. An adult man sustained a non life
threatening stab wound. At the moment, police say it's unclear

(27:54):
if the suspects are connected to connected rather to the
Venezuelan game trendy a rag.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
Yeah, it's unclear, even though we've had reports that those
are the people who are operating in that area for
some time, and they were moving people to an apartment
where they tied them up and threatened them. Is insane.
This is an insane story. And again, maybe the biggest
challenge in all of this is the fact that the
politicians are maybe hopefully over time, learning that our memory

(28:21):
is longer, that the issues don't disappear from our minds
because the Internet's memory is longer and we have access
to things like Facebook or in this case, X and Twitter,
which do a whole lot less censoring. And actually, you
know one other thing I wanted to mention, and I'll
probably get into this deeper a little later on in
the show. The discussion about TikTok. TikTok is once again

(28:43):
potentially going to be banned in the United States. There's
a lot of discussion about it. Trump a while ago
surprisingly came out against some of this stuff because China
is stealing information and that is bad. We don't want
that to happen. But what's interesting to me about this
topic is people are so desperate. I would assume a
lot of people are so desperate for a more fair

(29:05):
version of information. If you go on TikTok, you will
see people who are both very much against and very
much for conservatives, Donald Trump, whatever you name the politician
or the political side of the aisle. There's not as
much one sided censorship there. And so that's something that
China can use to its benefit to convince the American
people that they can have all of our information as

(29:27):
long as we have more unfiltered versions of people's opinions,
which they would say is dangerous if the opinion is
too much on the right and not on the left
on some social media platforms. I just find that fascinating
that America, America's desire for I don't even need to say,
you know, honest, but just unfiltered information is so prevalent

(29:49):
that a whole bunch of people who say, a year
and a half ago probably would have said that it's
fine if TikTok goes away because it is bad and
it is benefiting the Chinese government, would now be like,
I don't know, it's probably better than just relying on
places like Facebook for all of her information, especially for
younger people who overwhelmingly demonstrated a change in their political position.

(30:11):
A lot more young people voting for conservative, voting for
Trump than we had seen in the past, in a
very long time. And TikTok is probably part of the
reason why that happened. And so I find that very
interesting that this discussion about just unfiltered information is growing
to the level that you would sacrifice your own privacy
and security for it, which is essentially the argument with

(30:32):
t And I know some people are going to say
I'm wrong about that.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (30:35):
A TikTok is stealing your information. It is giving it
to the Chinese government that is occurring. That's probably not good.
But also not good is all the censorship that exists
everywhere else where. We're not surrendering our information to China,
just to Facebook or whoever runs your social media platform.
A choice, All right, quick break, A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins.
Filling in, Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Eggnog is only the
third most popular holiday drink, according to a brand new
list out there. The two things that beat it tried
and true and just better beer and wine. Eggnog's not good.
You know, it's not good. It might be seasonal. You

(33:11):
might have some sort of i don't know, like nostalgia
feeling when you drink it, and if there's enough liquor
in it, I'm sure you can enjoy it, much like
anyone does with anything that you put enough liquor in.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
But it's not good.

Speaker 3 (33:22):
Let's be honest about that. Otherwise we'd drink it all
year round. We wouldn't just drink it during the holiday season.
It'd be something that'd be very prevalent. People would be
ordering it at a bar. But if in the middle
of the summer, your buddy ordered an eggnog with vodka
in it at a bar, you'd feel bad about him,
you'd be worried about him. You'd probably ask him to
get some help somehow. But that's a real stat that's

(33:43):
out there, and I don't know if it's a hot take,
but I'm definitely going to go to my grave saying
to you, eggnog is not delicious, and I don't care.
The average person spent one hundred and ten hours searching
for something to watch and not watching anything. This means
the tea should just come back the way TV used
to be. This is my argument now, and it'll also

(34:05):
be my argument till I go to the grave. I
don't know why everything's this dark all of a sudden
for me in the holidays, But one hundred and ten
hours just deciding what to on demand view on Netflix
or your platform of choice, that's too many. I love
the days of the remote dropper. That's where you're flipping
through the channels and you see a movie that's already
half over that you've seen twenty times, and they're like, oh,

(34:27):
I like this one, so you put the remote down and.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
You finish off that movie.

Speaker 3 (34:31):
That's better than sitting around with the loved ones and
deciding what thing you've never heard of before to watch,
only to be twenty five minutes into it and decide
that it's terrible and you wish that you hadn't chosen
it in the first place. That is what we do now,
and we spend way too much time because of the
fear of missing out, the fear of picking the wrong thing.
Now that the decision is ours and not some television companies.

(34:52):
And again, I think the remote dropper just needs to
come back. It is a good time to be alive.
One last thing, and I do like this, and I'll
play a little bit of audio. A woman went viral
for complaining that every gift guide for men is overly
basic and unnecessary because none of these dudes have none
of these products.

Speaker 15 (35:10):
Gift guides for men always make it seem like there
are four men that have just spawned in like it's
their first an planet Earth. Things like a water bottle,
a wallet, a jacket, perhaps some underwear. I saw one
that was saying, every man needs a good razor.

Speaker 6 (35:22):
Is he new here?

Speaker 4 (35:23):
You know?

Speaker 2 (35:23):
I do need a good Razor. I'll be honest about that.
I've let the old one go.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
But I do love every part of this and love
the fact that the gift guide for men is awful.
Just get me a gift card and I'll be happy
about that, all right.

Speaker 2 (35:35):
Craig Collins filling in. This is the Chad Benson Show, And.

Speaker 3 (35:40):
Honestly, there's a lot of other things. The wallet doesn't
sound terrible, although I have a fancier one. I got
a smart one that has like the little ejector thing.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
I love my wallet.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
This is not a segment that most people need or want,
but I can't help it if it came up in
that video. I've got the little side trigger that shoots
all the cards out, as you see in wallets now,
and there's something that feels great every time I do that.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
So get somebody one of those.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
That's my gift guide for men this holiday season, and
it's overly basic, and yet I'd be thrilled by it.
Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:21):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show, old.

Speaker 16 (36:58):
Right now, in the past thirty or forty minutes here
that they might try to pull this interim spending bill
off the floor and maybe just go with a clean bill.
Unclear what that means for disaster assistance.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
Here's what happens.

Speaker 16 (37:10):
The post on x by Elon Musk sent shockwaves through
the Capitol House. Republicans were trying to see if they
have enough votes to pass the spending bill in the
next hour or two. Musk posted that anyone who votes
yes should lose their office in two years.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
By the way, they didn't. They failed to pass any
sort of a bill.

Speaker 10 (37:30):
There.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
The bill's dead.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show, Here's
what's fascinating to me about this discussion about Elon Musk's
influence or Donald Trump's influence before he's in office in
about thirty days or so or less than that. But
what I think is really important is the whole And
that was Fox News audio was playing like a clean
bill and what that means, because a lot of Americans

(37:54):
know what that means. That means a bill where you
tell us you're funding something, where that's all you fund.
You don't put more money in other places or give
yourself a raise, which is something the politicians were trying
to do. And even then one hundred billion dollars in
disaster relief funding that can be changed in what it
actually goes to. That's one of the biggest political tricks

(38:16):
that exists out there and has existed for some time.
Is not only just the pork the spending that is
inherently stuff the American people wouldn't be behind, but you
put it in these bills, and you put it in
at the last minute because you don't want anyone to
read it and know about it. But it's also the
way they can reallocate funds to other projects or however

(38:36):
they deem necessary. He wants it to signed at a
certain level. To people, sure, one hundred billion dollars for
disaster relief sounds great, but then you start assigning it
places and people have unique power over their own checkbooks
as it goes down the line, and you wind up
with local government that can relocate that into a totally
different fund, often times as they've done in the past,

(38:58):
which is one of the many ways that excess of spending,
even on the stuff they claim they're spending it on,
is a broken part of our political system.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
But that's just one element of it.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
There was a lot of ridiculous crap and spending that
Americans wouldn't support, including the rays that politicians were trying
to give themselves at a time when you would say
they definitely don't deserve one because I don't even know
what kind of work they're doing. But all of this
is the stuff that people want to fight against and
go after that. Trump has said he's tasked Elon Musk

(39:28):
and Vivek Ramaswami with changing in our political system, and
it's not a bad thing. It inherently in and of
itself is not a bad thing to want to spend
less money in the government.

Speaker 4 (39:38):
I know.

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Trump is also called for us to blow through any
sort of deficit spending or get rid of any sort
of you know.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
Debt limits.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
That seems not as good for us in the grand
scheme of things. But the truth in all of this,
at least to me, is that if you're spending money
on the right things, and you stop spending money on
the wrong things, inevitably you actually will save And that's
where the whole discussion about say the Department of Education
going away or being something that gets rebuilt over time.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
I mean it says a lot.

Speaker 3 (40:11):
And I mean this honestly, and I know I'm jumping
around a little bit from position to position on this topic.
Not that I, you know, don't see the same thing
in all these different places, but I know they're not
all as connected to maybe you as they are to me.
But I'll tell you one of the most profound things
I've heard in the last week or so was the
leadership at United Healthcare putting out a statement after the

(40:34):
murder of their CEO by someone who's being weirdly praised
on social media for something that feels very disconnected to
cold blooded blooded assassination. But nonetheless, the thing that I
think is important is even the leadership of United Healthcare
said that our medical system is broken. Our healthcare system is,

(40:54):
you know, a patchwork, I think is to paraphrase what
they said, and no one would design a system this
way because the United States is a country that is
uniquely wealthy but has uniquely bad outcomes in the world
of health care, and has had those for quite a while.
I meaning essentially that we have an overly costly system
that causes a lot of people to go bankrupt and

(41:15):
actually doesn't protect our health as much as you'd want
it to. People aren't all getting better to the degree
that you'd expect them to if our health care was
as premium as the cost of it suggests it is.

Speaker 2 (41:26):
That's profound to me.

Speaker 3 (41:29):
And I'm not trying to be you know, a hardcore
on the other side of the aisle on this, But
for the people in charge of you know, powerful companies
within these worlds to say that they see the brokenness
that the American people see in the system, it means
that we have this all over the place.

Speaker 2 (41:45):
We don't just have this in healthcare, we.

Speaker 3 (41:47):
Have this in DC, we have this in so much
of the spending that goes through our government, and it
only gets worse and worse as we fail to pay
attention to it. So to criticize Musk, or to criticize
anyone for bringing this to the forefront of the American
people's attention, now, granted, you might think that he's got
an overly you know, he's got an over amount of influence,

(42:09):
overly valuable message that he's sharing that people are simply
agreeing with without doing their own homework. But it's profoundly
different than not caring. I will also say this before
I move on to a different topic. I have some
Biden audio to play. I don't think I've ever heard
maybe the last time that Trump was elected it came close,
but I've ever heard as much debate publicly on like

(42:32):
mainstream media outlets about nominations for appointments of political positions
that the American people barely ever care about discussing in
long form. Who's going to lead the Department of Defense
is something that probably has been somewhat of a discussion
point for most Americans, but now seems to be an obsession.
And we're not alone in that every single cabinet position

(42:55):
that Trump is putting out there causes this mass media
debate and this mass media discussion point, which means the
American people, who often don't know who.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Their secretary of this or secretary of that even.

Speaker 3 (43:08):
Is, are now at the kitchen table being like, can
you believe who got nominated for that position, or maybe
the exact opposite, being like, I'm so glad this person
got nominated for that position, a discussion we weren't having before.
So paying attention to these issues in and of itself
is not inherently bad, even though that feels like that's
part of the message from these political places that are

(43:30):
saying that everything's broken.

Speaker 2 (43:31):
All right, let's move on to this.

Speaker 3 (43:33):
Biden gave an interview where he said some things that
were downright hilarious, although he didn't intend for them to
be hilarious, things like how you could look your constituents
in the eye if you make money off of your
political position. Apparently no one has introduced Biden to his son.
I'm assuming that's got to be the case, because it
makes no sense. Biden also said at one point that

(43:54):
will compare his four years in government to the next
four years in government. And I think he was trying
to say, we'll do that negatively. But Biden has the
lowest approval rating of any president in our history right
now is he's about to lose power. Here's another moment
from his interview from the other day.

Speaker 17 (44:11):
One thing that we haven't been able to change yet
it is starting to change, is that you go to
a grocery store, a dozen eggs, a gallon of milk,
pound of bacon still costs more than it did before
the pandemic. That's a lot of money for people. It
is taking time to change that. It is so there's
reason for frustration, but there's gigantic change we made.

Speaker 12 (44:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (44:35):
I love that he says that there's reason for frustration
because the main thing that impacts your life is something
that they failed to get a grip on, not that
they were even really trying to fix that problem, but
that they also did a lot of great stuff.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
I love that position.

Speaker 3 (44:48):
Like the main everyday issue that you've struggled with for
the last four years, we failed to fix it. But
you'll look back on our time in politics fondly because Blank.

Speaker 2 (45:00):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (45:02):
And it's also amazing as you discussed those things to
wonder what parts of you know. The presidential authority in general,
the presidential position can influence it. And one of the
most significant areas where Biden not only campaigned but then
actually did instill via executive action an impact on our
society was energy. He had a war on energy. He

(45:23):
went after it.

Speaker 2 (45:24):
He said he had to go after it. He caused
a lot of costs.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
To go up beyond what amount they might have gone
up without this war on energy by attacking something that
has such an impact on the creation of products, the
transportation of products, etc.

Speaker 2 (45:39):
Etc.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
That war on energy was costly for many Americans and
having a position like Trump or any conservative politician would
of the exact opposite of energy independence.

Speaker 2 (45:49):
It will benefit us. It will be one of the
things that brings costs down. And they know this. They
claim to not know this, but they do. All right,
I want to move on again. I think this is interesting.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
Mayor Eric Adams, who more and more seems to be
a fan of Donald Trump, and Donald Trump, who said
that he might actually pardon Eric Adams, wind up in
these weird discussions. I think Eric Adams was on Fox
News recently where he said that his current positions on say,
the amount of illegal people in New York and how
much money they're costing the New York taxpayer is something

(46:22):
that he wasn't happy with and something that the White
House was mad at him for saying out loud, even
though he's.

Speaker 2 (46:28):
Reflecting the position of the people who voted him into power.

Speaker 6 (46:31):
Reaction that you got at the White House when you
asked for help.

Speaker 18 (46:36):
When we saw the numbers comeing in, we were getting
at one time almost eight thousand a week, sixteen thousand
every two weeks. We could just do the math unsustainable,
and at that time, the right to shelter. We would
be sued by advocates that required us to give everyone
to bed by a certain number of times. We would
get busses two three am in the morning, and we

(46:59):
reached out to the White House, ten trips to Washington,
d C. Asking them for help and securing the border
and stopping his flow. I went down to l Passo
and also went down to the dairy and gat and
I saw the flow and the threat that we were receiving.
We didn't get to support. We got two hundred thousand dollars,
two hundred million dollars out of a six point five

(47:20):
billion dollar of deficit, and so many people believe that, Okay, Eric,
it's in your rear view mirror. It happened already. You've
got one hundred and seventy thousand DoLS. No, the damage
that we are going to see long term from spending
six point five billion dollars, two hundred million dollars could
have gone to those chronically absent children. We could have

(47:42):
put hundred of millions of dollars into the senior care help.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Now, look, I know that what he's advocating for is
a whole bunch of government spending that people would not love,
would not like by any sense of the imagination.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
But nonetheless, him saying that.

Speaker 3 (47:54):
Because of his political position, the city was hurt even
more is the biggest reason that Eric Hadda is now
becoming someone that Trump talks about more positively, or that
Eric talks about Trump more positively, because the system burned him,
and it tried to burn him pretty hard there for
what he stood up and said was wrong. That's not
necessarily a bad thing to be willing to say the

(48:15):
thing out loud that everyone in the political world is
telling you to.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
Shut up about.

Speaker 3 (48:19):
But I just find that interesting that he's doing a
Fox News interview and complaining about the reaction the White
House had to him, saying that New York City was
struggling because there were too many people there for them
to afford to pay housing and everything else. For that
could start to change the opinion for more Americans, I
imagine on that side of the aisle.

Speaker 2 (48:38):
But who knows. We'll see.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
But anyway, that is one of many topics that we'll
talk about as we keep going here. There's also a
lot of storms coming, so good luck with that. This
is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson show.

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Speaker 3 (50:13):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig
Collins filling in. I just thought this was interesting. Paris
Hilton was recently on Capitol Hill, somewhere she's been before.
She was standing next to two Democratic politicians and she
was asked a question about her political future.

Speaker 2 (50:30):
Is real? This isn't like, you know, fake? And the
Simpsons thought of this first here we go, Did you
ever see a future in elected office?

Speaker 5 (50:38):
After?

Speaker 3 (50:39):
Hope not, I don't run after hilarious that one of
the Democratic politicians who's not running for reelection because people
didn't like him, is like, I'm not going to do
it again.

Speaker 2 (50:48):
Go ahead and let Paris Anna answer.

Speaker 7 (50:50):
You're coming here so many times over the past couple
of years, and seeing that my voice really can make
a difference, and I can really shine a spotlight on
things are important around the world to make it a
better place and safer for children.

Speaker 6 (51:06):
I can maybe see that help any one day.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
I could see myself being in politics because I'm going
to do stuff that matters and helps people, and then
also it helps me.

Speaker 2 (51:14):
It's interesting, interesting position you know what's.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
Really odd to me too, and both sides of the
as'll do this. This is an inherently democratic thing, per se.
But they bring in the celebrity to advocate for the
one issue that they think is important, whether it's Kim
Kardashian or Paris Hilton or whoever it might be, and
then that celebrity thinks that they're actually a valuable part
of the discussion when no offense. These issues were probably

(51:39):
ones that politicians were going to green light anyway without
you bringing them to the forefront of the discussion.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
Because I don't know that you even really did that.
I think you're being used as.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
A prop The only person unaware of the prop that
they are, apparently, is Paris Hilton, a sentence I didn't
expect myself to say in twenty twenty four, just before
the Christmas Poliday, but.

Speaker 2 (52:00):
Darn it, it's there. It's out there. By the way.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Another thing just quickly that I also thought was pretty
interesting and pretty stupid. But many, many Americans believe that
their kids have way too many toys and they plan
to buy them even more this holiday season, which seems
disproportionate to not make any sense at all. But darn it,
that's the world we live in, and buy the toys
because you don't want kids on the laptops and whatnot.

(52:24):
This is Greg Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.
I probably should have said the iPad and not the laptop.
I don't know how many kids are whipping out the
old laptop these days, but I do find that interesting
and I actually would love to ask that question to
you Chad's Chad Benson's audience and tell us on social media.
Do your kids actually even have a lot of toys?

(52:45):
Because when I was little growing up, that's all we
had to entertain ourselves with, So we had like a
giant box of them, and they would be littered all
over the room and you'd get in trouble for.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
Not cleaning your room. But today I feel like toys
are less than they used to be.

Speaker 5 (52:58):
Now.

Speaker 3 (52:59):
Granted I don't have any kids kids, so maybe that's why,
because half the time the entertainment is the video game
system or the you know, technology device that you hand somebody,
and it's not necessarily all the physical products we used
to have before.

Speaker 2 (53:12):
So maybe it feels like a lot. But I do
think that we have way less stuff in that regard
than we used to.

Speaker 3 (53:18):
Maybe I'm wrong about that, tell me how I'm idiotic,
because most parents seem to disagree and yet still planned
to buy mostly toys for their children this holiday season,
which I find very interesting because I can't tell you
the last time I was over somebody's house, a friend
or family member and saw the version of you know,
giant box of toys that we used to have as
kids growing up.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
Depending on what generation you are.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
It just feels like it's less, but apparently it's still
too much, because I definitely had too many, by the way,
that's definitely true, and it was awesome at the time.

Speaker 2 (53:49):
All right, On that note, we'll take a break.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
We'll dive into some other serious stuff as we go
here throughout the show, but also silly stuff, because darn it,
the holidays are coming up and I can't take any
more discussion about the government shutting down or not shutting down.

Speaker 2 (54:03):
I don't care. Creig Collins filling in on The Chad
Benson Show, Son, Chad.

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

Speaker 3 (54:42):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to talk to you. A bunch of
stuff out there to discuss. Look, I'm not going to
say the name of the guy who shot and killed
the United Healthcare CEO of Brian Thompson, even though the
name is all over the place, because I usually don't
speak the name of murderers, especially people who want notoriety

(55:03):
for those actions. So I'm not going to do it here.
But you know who I'm talking about. This individual arrived
in court today in Pennsylvania. He will be extradited to
New York City where he'll face those charges for killing
a CEO by shooting him in the back. What's crazy
about this story? And I know you've heard this by now,
or you have some version of this discussion, or maybe

(55:25):
even have somebody in your life who said something that
you don't understand about it. But it seems to disregard
the necessary separation between uplifting a murderer and having a
discussion about something that actually is important in our society
and broken in our society, even according to the people

(55:47):
who run United Healthcare. Since their message that they put
out their press release talking about the tragic loss of
their CEO also discussed how the system itself is broken.

Speaker 2 (55:58):
It is a patchwork that no one would design and
something that does need to be changed.

Speaker 3 (56:02):
It is a hollow sentiment coming from a organization that
benefits from that brokenness.

Speaker 2 (56:07):
I'm not going to pretend that's not true. But at
the same token, it's so odd And now you have.

Speaker 3 (56:12):
This story that ABC News is likely to be the
first to put out a documentary that's going to go
through all the different aspects of the killer and all
the behind the scenes information of the story. It's called
Manhunt the CEO Murderer, a special edition of twenty twenty.

(56:32):
Which is odd because it almost feels like news media
is now going to benefit from the societal interest in
this discussion. But two things can both be true and
both matter. A one that killing somebody in broad daylight
by shooting them in the back is bad, and we
can all acknowledge as a society that that's bad. And

(56:54):
two that there are systems within our country that need
to be overhauled. What I find really interesting about this discussion,
by the way, and I don't know if this is
where my brain should go, but my brain mostly goes
here because of how often this is the conversation in
political spaces is how essentially, the desire to change the
healthcare system to be more fair for more Americans is

(57:17):
the same beginning level of thinking that exists for any
American who wants to see the government change the way
that it behaves or whatever the system is that's inherently
unfair to us, in harming us as a society or
as taxpayers, or whatever you want to call it, is
also unfair. People want to root out corruption across the board.
Democrats want that, Republicans want that. Where we see corruption,

(57:41):
I guess is the disagreement we have from time to time,
but we all want it to go away. We all
want this unfair system that we feel benefits the few
and you know, harms the majority. We want to see
it changed, and we want to see it changed in
a meaningful way, in a way that moving forward can't
be you know, abused or manipulated again. And so I

(58:02):
guess what I'm saying in that is I see a
lot of similar thinking for the people who say the
Department of Education is broken and harming our society and
the people that say that the healthcare system is broken
and harming our society needs to be done better.

Speaker 5 (58:15):
Now.

Speaker 3 (58:16):
Granted, I don't think this means that you shoot CEOs
in the back and then you praise them for doing that.
But the level of anger, I guess is valuable to
you know, see how profound it is in our society.
But I do think anyone that is you know, shocked
by that part of this discussion has just been willfully
not paying attention to how upset Americans have become over

(58:38):
so much of this discussion, you know, in all honesty,
because the level of anger people have at these problems
it's not even close to new, and pretending as though
it's close to new is almost idiotic in and of itself.
But I am not advocating again for a system that
goes you know, deeper into these worlds that democrats seem

(58:59):
to want us in sometime, which basically just sound like socialism.
I just want the issues with any sort of structure
in our society that are broken to not even be
attempted to be fixed, but torn down and rebuilt and
rebuilt over the same basic level of thinking that we
had before when we started all of these different systems
or started all of these you know, goals out there

(59:21):
to And I guess I'll say it this way, just
to be clear, and then I'll move on. If it's
more beneficial for a doctor in the United States to
order a test than to cure an illness, we have
a problem, and that that's true. It's more beneficial for
the test themselves to be you know, ordered and paid for,
than it is to actually make a person healthy. Health

(59:43):
is not the goal of our system right now, at
least not financially. So doctors are going to tell you that.
Of course, that's their own personal goal for their patients,
but it's not the goal of the system. And that
seems bad, and that seems like something you need to fix.
Will also not saying that somebody who killed somebody else
is a hero somehow, which to me again is insane.

(01:00:04):
All right, I'll move on. There are a lot of expectations.
This is a very mild, very different topic than the
one we were just discussing. There are a lot of
expectations of a lot of severe weather throughout the holidays.
Eleven million people may be subject to heavy snowfall, strong winds,
other kinds of stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:00:22):
This is not new either, I guess.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
I'll say, certainly severe weather is a byproduct of the
fact that it's December people, and.

Speaker 2 (01:00:30):
In some places it's going to be cold.

Speaker 3 (01:00:32):
I just love this, and I'll play a little bit
of CBS Morning News because for all the discussions we
have about whatever you want to call it, a global warming,
climate change, all of that, and then people come out
of the woodwork and say, wait a minute, weather and
climate change are not the same thing.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
And there's all these discussions.

Speaker 3 (01:00:50):
These are moments where you'd think that people who are
against spending a whole bunch of money on, you know,
stuff that we don't all think we need to spend
money on, or certainly don't think would actually fix the problem,
would be out there saying, like, see, stuff is cold.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
Weather is bad.

Speaker 3 (01:01:05):
But of course that's not the narrative when things are
excessively hot, even if it's the summer. The secondary part
of the discussion in the world of media is that
obviously we're doing bad things as a society when everything's
real cold.

Speaker 2 (01:01:19):
It's just that, you know, everything's cold.

Speaker 19 (01:01:21):
End of the year holiday travel, the rush is on.
Airports are expected to be the busiest that they're going
to be today, with airlines expecting to carry more than
fifty four million passers between now and January sixth, that
would be a new record if they reach it. And
some of those flights could be disrupted today by a
storm across the northern US. It threatens more than eleven
million people with heavy snow and strong winds.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
And so for more on all of it, and we're
good for more on all of that, let's go to me.

Speaker 3 (01:01:46):
What I love about this again is like I just
want the guy out there who write out and I'm
not trying to be that guy, but after all this
reported on, he's like, say there is no climate change,
Say everything's fine, because they do the exact opposite time,
weather goes the other way. And I don't know why
it's missing here in this conversation other than the fact
that it doesn't make any sense because weather is weather

(01:02:08):
and those discussions are about something different.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
But all right, I want to play this audio too.
I'm so amused.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
You know, I've made that point before, and I don't
know if it's if it's valuable. I don't know if
people care about it. It's just immediately in my brain
every time I hear anybody talk about how there's going
to be snowfall, and you know, record temperatures that are
low is like, why don't we have more of the
opposite version of the discussion we have the other time
and I can't get it out of my brain. All right,

(01:02:34):
let's do this, let's move on for real. Democratic representative
is not happy with Elon Musk and his ability to
influence well, society as a whole or politics.

Speaker 2 (01:02:45):
Here's a little audio from CNN.

Speaker 20 (01:02:46):
We have two unelected billionaires who are telling the American
people are going into Christmas that the government's going to
be shut down, that our air traffic controllers won't be operating,
the TSA won't be there to help you at the
air Force you're traveling to see your loved ones.

Speaker 2 (01:03:00):
Really, who I mean, Elon Musk is a non elected billionaire.

Speaker 6 (01:03:03):
Who's the other ones?

Speaker 1 (01:03:04):
Well?

Speaker 20 (01:03:05):
Donald Trump obviously not in office yet.

Speaker 2 (01:03:09):
Yes, fair enough, I'm sorry.

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
I love that.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Even Jake Tappers like, what are you talking about?

Speaker 3 (01:03:16):
That's representative of Dan cast and by the way, saying
that that one of the two is an elected politician,
elected billionaire, well, not a politician, but whatever. But nonetheless,
you know why this really changed, Why this spending bill
actually was halted because of a concern that the American
people care Elon Musk went all over social media his

(01:03:37):
platform x or Twitter to complain about this, and a
lot of politicians said the phones rang off the hook
at their offices because people were paying attention, and they're
afraid of that because they do work for us, and
our opinion about them does matter to them, and if
they can't get reelected, they care about that and they
have to behave accordingly, it is good for us to

(01:03:58):
be paying attention and to voice our concerns. And granted,
the politicians are going to tell you we're all sheeple
and we're all just following what Elon Musk tells us
to care about or complain about.

Speaker 2 (01:04:07):
But you can do the research.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
You can look into things yourself and see if you
like whatever is available about said spending bill.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Not that that information is as.

Speaker 3 (01:04:15):
Widely available as it should be, but partially because it's
a fifteen hundred page document that even the politicians are
trying to read, or at least their staff is trying
to read, a mere days before it would have to
be passed, which it also failed. But nonetheless, it's just
so interesting to me that the biggest complaint in some
political circles can be boiled down to too many people

(01:04:38):
are paying attention to us, and we don't like that
because of the influence of one or two individuals in
our society, one of them the world's richest man, who
would often benefit by being a person that shuts up
and lets the system help him, and then he helps
the system in return, instead of being someone who's.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
Overly critical of it, which is exactly who Elon is.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
But it's fascinating, to say the least, about this back
and forth and how many politicians might wake up more
because people are, you know, consuming and then reacting to
information in a way that's different than they have before.

Speaker 2 (01:05:13):
And that is not bad.

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That in and of itself is not a negative thing,
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Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
This is the Chand Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. A porch pirate is upset.
A guy in New Jersey stole stuff off of somebody
else's front porch. And because there's a video camera a
ring doorbell out there, and because the dude even twirked
well he was stealing things, he has gone viral, or

(01:07:25):
at least his backside as the owner of the home
and the items that were stolen put his video all
up over social media. So the dude who stole stuff
showed back up and spoke into the camera about how
it wasn't cool, dude, to make me go viral for
being both a thief and a bad dancer.

Speaker 1 (01:07:45):
Cool not cool at all?

Speaker 2 (01:07:52):
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 3 (01:07:52):
That's your stupidity also on the internet, because you're just
stealing stuff from someone else. It's amazing to have a
grievance at all, to be the person who is the
perpetrator of a crime, to be like I'm the victim
somehow because my image went viral and people are making
fun of me. That's amazing. But it's definitely a demonstration
of the victimhood of our society. And that guy, also,

(01:08:14):
I'm very glad, is a moron who stole stuff in
front of a camera. He did actually return money of
the items he took, along with the not cool bro message,
which has also gone viral and shows how much of
a moron he is, and I like that too, all right,
seat squatters might take your position on a plane this
holiday season, More and more social media influencers and other

(01:08:36):
people are praising the decision to just sit in a
seat that's not yours, and because other people don't want
to cause a scene, assume they'll eventually relent and sit
wherever you're actually assigned to sit. You tell them, you know,
I'm in eight B, you go back there, as I'm
going to take your spot in two A. And the
position of the seat squatter is they'll just do it,
and then everybody sits wherever. There's something ridiculous about this

(01:09:00):
that would annoy the crap out of a whole lot
of people, and I think allow a lot of people
to cause a scene. But seat squatters are being praised
on social media as just jerks, which are benefiting from
there being a jerk. And we're seeing more and more
of that in a lot of places, and have been
for years via social media. But I guess this is
just simply a warning. A PSA.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
I'll do two actually.

Speaker 3 (01:09:22):
The first one is that someone might try to steal
your seat on an airplane, and the second one is
nobody better do that to me. And I imagine a
lot of people I will feel the same way about it,
because it's not going to go well. It's going to
be a thing that actually has a scene caused. They say,
the best thing you can do is just report it
to the airline and make the person move, which is annoying,
and if the flight gets delayed, a whole lot of
people will be annoyed. But not your fault, the stupidity

(01:09:45):
of the person trying to steal your seat for whatever reason.

Speaker 2 (01:09:48):
I don't know what that might be, all right. A
couple other quick things out there.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
Apparently being a Jesus look alike is uniquely financially beneficial
during the holidays. I know they're trying to take you know,
Catholicism or Christianity out of the holiday in some way,
shape or form, but Jesus lookalikes can make two hundred
dollars an hour posing for Christmas cards holiday cards. According

(01:10:15):
to The Wall Street Journal, a bunch of people who
either purposefully or trying to do this or just happen
to look like Jesus, I wind up benefiting financially for
quite some time. I've never wanted to take a photo
of my family or me and did Jesus look alike.
That's and I'm a Catholic and it's not something I've

(01:10:36):
wanted to do at all. And actually they're also saying,
whether you're dressing up as Santa Claus during the holiday
season or anyone else, you're actually spending money in you know,
committing to that look by growing out your hair, your beard,
whatever it might be, to look like whoever you're trying
to look like for a said amount of time. And
also you might be causing some people to not understand

(01:10:58):
what that look is when say, or not working in
whatever capacity. But the Jesus model boom is a real
topic that's out there on social media as more and
more people are doing this, which it feels wrong in
a bunch of ways.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
This feels wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
I don't know what else to say about it other
than it's ridiculous and I wouldn't do that I wouldn't
commit to that look just to make some money for
the month of December. One last thing, just quickly throwing
this out there too. There is a gym in New
York that requires everyone that goes there to dress in
all black. Other reason they say they're doing that is
one they think it looks cool and to it removes

(01:11:36):
the need to have a fashionable outfit when going to
the gym, something I've never thought of at any point
in my life as a dude to try to wear
something fashionable. And I'll be honest, I don't totally hate
this idea because if it stops people from taking photos
in the mirror of themselves and then not actually working out,
but being at the gym for social media reasons because

(01:11:57):
they don't like the fact that they have to wear
all black, I'm all for that.

Speaker 5 (01:12:00):
Man.

Speaker 2 (01:12:01):
We can keep that going as much as possible. But
that's another viral story out there in the world. This
is Craig.

Speaker 3 (01:12:07):
Collins filling in in the holiday season. Chat'll be back
just after New Year's Eve on The Chad Benson Show.
And just one other quick thing about this Greenwich Village
athletic place. Apparently one woman complained about it, and she
went viral and a whole lot of other individuals agree
with her that all black at the gym is terrible,

(01:12:29):
even though again it probably is making a lot of
us not get in trouble for looking where we're not
supposed to look.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
This seems good to me. Quick break a lot more.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:57):
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Speaker 3 (01:13:29):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about out there. However, a big story
that broke earlier today involved Fonnie Wellis and her disqualification
from the election interference case that she brought in Georgia
against Donald Trump in Fulton County.

Speaker 2 (01:13:48):
This is a big deal.

Speaker 3 (01:13:49):
CNN was freaking out about it, as only Cian and Ken.
So let's play a little bit of their interview with
one of their talking heads, Jim Acosta's in this audio
as well. And how horrible and terrible this is that
someone has been booted from a case because I don't know,
it looked really really bad that they hired their boyfriend
with no experience, a boyfriend who recently even testified that

(01:14:11):
they coordinated with the White House on these charges to
bring this case in the first place.

Speaker 2 (01:14:16):
That's stuff that seems to matter. This is just coming
in in the last several minutes.

Speaker 21 (01:14:21):
This is a big development, a big development, and a
big development that Donald Trump has wanted for a long time.

Speaker 6 (01:14:27):
That case against him in.

Speaker 21 (01:14:28):
Georgia, the criminal case where it's accusing him and several
others of a racketeering conspiracy related to the twenty twenty election,
it's already been paused.

Speaker 6 (01:14:37):
Now it's not even backburner.

Speaker 21 (01:14:39):
This is a case that will be dead in the
world because the Georgia Court of Appeals is now saying
that Fawnie willis the leader of the prosecution against Donald Trump,
the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, she should be disqualified.

Speaker 6 (01:14:56):
From being able to bring that case.

Speaker 21 (01:14:58):
The Georgia Court of Appeals is saying that it's a
significant appearance of impropriety caused by the conduct of a
public prosecutor. That is, willis, how she behaved, how she
was speaking about the case about Trump publicly, about how
she was having a relationship with the top prosecutor that
was conceived.

Speaker 3 (01:15:16):
I kind of love when they start to go through
all the facts about this case too, by the way,
because they want to get back to the point where like,
how ridiculous is this?

Speaker 2 (01:15:24):
This is terrible? But as you're running through it, all right,
So she publicly campaigned against Trump during an election, she
brought a case against him, and a whole bunch of
other people that felt like it was politically motivated.

Speaker 3 (01:15:34):
Her boyfriend at the time is the person that got
to be the lead counsel in the case and has
admitted that they coordinated with the White House about this stuff.
All of this feels like it's fairly obvious, and it's
amazing it took this long for her to get disqualified
in the first place.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
Built in this a man named Nathan Wade.

Speaker 21 (01:15:50):
All of that previously, the trial level judge had looked
at and said, Fannie Willis can stay on this case.

Speaker 6 (01:15:56):
We're not dismissing the indictment.

Speaker 21 (01:15:58):
But the Court of Appeals is now taking another look
and saying, no, the trial judge was Fannie Willis should
be disqualified.

Speaker 3 (01:16:06):
You know, it's also amazing, whether it's the Trump lawsuit
that says that you can't lie about him on TV,
and George Stephanopolis can't lie about him on TV and
you get fined for that, or this is it's still
going through the legal system. The legal system, by the way,
that a lot of people blame for some of the
issues that we have with say, non understanding claims of

(01:16:27):
election fraud, or of course people say is part of
the problem of having a unfair, unjust society for certain
individuals in our society. All of these complaints about the
legal system, and yet the Trump administration or whoever you
want to say, is still using it in order to
try to win certain cases, win certain fights, and succeeding

(01:16:50):
at doing that. They are, you know, finally getting through
whatever those barriers felt like they might be. In some
of these scenarios, Fannie Willis seemed like someone that absolutely
should not stay on a case and absolutely had political
motivation behind her reasoning for anything she did. And the
fact that it took this long is sort of ridiculous.

(01:17:11):
But now to freak out about it because you say
out loud that before they were letting this thing happen
that they shouldn't have let happen is also kind of amazing.
I wonder if at the end of all of this,
and I mean this genuinely, and I don't mean this
as someone who's a giant Trump fanboy. I know at
times it might sound like that when I fill in
for a chat on the show or whatever. I'm not

(01:17:33):
anti Trump. I'm not going to say something's bad because
Trump's the one who spoke it. And I'm not going
to say something's good because Trump's the one who spoke it.
Because you can never give that level of acceptance to anyone.
You should never give that level of acceptance to anyone.
You should always be a critical and mindful of the
truth versus the narrative, no matter who's delivering the information

(01:17:53):
to you. But as I say all that, I genuinely
wonder if some of the stuff that you go after
over the next four years is political corruption to the
degree that you remove some of it, even if it's
one side, even if it's a lot of Democrats that
get in trouble and not a lot of Republicans, removing
corruption in and of itself and using the court system

(01:18:15):
to fight those battles so that we have definitive information
that we can look up to see all right, why
did they choose here? Why did they go over here?
This seems to be the right way to go. I'll
even say this, I'll take it a step further. Trump's
lawsuit in New York, the one that found him guilty
of the felony charges, the one that everyone says is,

(01:18:36):
you know, the reason that you can call him a
convicted felon or people say he's got thirty plus convictions,
even though a lot of people don't seem to understand
it's just one case and just one accusation against him
that they say he did multiple times, a type of
behavior that's almost always thought of as a misdemeanor and
not a felony, but for some reason in New York
was inflated to a felony, and then they found him guilty.

(01:18:58):
I'm doing all this for a reason, and they found
him guilty, even though the jury was told they didn't
have to decide what other crime he was committing, well,
you know, essentially not putting his business information down correctly, again,
typically a misdemeanor and not something that Trump ever said
he himself did.

Speaker 2 (01:19:16):
But you know, putting in the numbers wrong.

Speaker 3 (01:19:20):
Is something that is so horrible that you can call
him a thirty time convicted felon, And again people don't
realize that's all from one case and one accusation. All
of that is stuff that the American people got to
judge after the fact of the court case and obviously
didn't give a crap about at least enough didn't give
a crap about it, because he still won the election. Yes,

(01:19:41):
there are people out there that you know, use it
as even politicians and media people of course, who do
it as if it's some sort of definitive indictment of someone,
but it didn't prevent them from winning the American people's
support and like winning it astoundingly. It's amazing that he's
the first ever tried and convicted a person that was

(01:20:03):
a president who actually regained the office. Like, there's almost
never going to be a case I imagine again where
someone is capable of running currently running for an office
that they previously held to that level of stature that
also gets hauled into courtrooms and convicted of a thing
that a whole lot of people thought was the weakest
case against him before it was even heard in a
courtroom at all. But I say all that to play

(01:20:25):
this audio, this is a Democratic you know person, This
is a Democratic strategist popping up on Fox News Lindy
Lee saying how bad of a job Harris's campaign did
and how oblivious she is to reality if she thinks
she's running again for any political office anywhere, whether that's

(01:20:45):
governor in California or trying again to be the president
in twenty twenty eight, Here we go, November.

Speaker 22 (01:20:52):
Fifth was a decisive defeat for the Democratic Party. She
lost every single swing state. It wasn't a squeaker like
it was in twenty sixteen. This is a resounding defeat.
And right now Kamala Harris is indulging in delusions of
running for governor of California possibly in twenty twenty six
or even president again in twenty twenty eight. America has
said this is not what we don't want. To be

(01:21:13):
coconut pilled. We do not want Kamala Harris. We don't
want failed border policies. And I feel like I'm liberated
and I can finally tell the truth that the Democrats
complexily failed on the border. Title forty two was a
tremendous mistake.

Speaker 2 (01:21:28):
All right, I got to stop that right there.

Speaker 3 (01:21:30):
How interesting that a DNC National Finance Committee member Lindy
Lee on Fox News says, I feel like I can
finally tell the truth because more Americans are paying attention
to the reality of a situation, not the narrative of
the situation. And again, whether that's true for Trump and
him getting convicted in a courtroom of what should not
have been a felony to begin with, if not something

(01:21:52):
that he shouldn't have been found guilty of at all matters.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
All of this matters.

Speaker 3 (01:21:57):
So if you use the public space to keep going
after people and keep proving what is and isn't true,
you know, and allow allowing the American people to be
uh critical, and you know, willing to look into the
aspects of it, I think that only improves our society,
it doesn't make it worse. And I'll say that till
I'm blue in the face. I want to play audio

(01:22:18):
of Rep. Speaker Mike Johnson. I think he went on
Newsmax of all places, to complain about the bipartisan bill
that would have spent a ridiculous amount of money that
might cost him a speakership and how it went away.
But this is something that again, the American people are
paying attention to because of the the highlight that's been

(01:22:39):
going on, or the the ability to bring this into
the forefront of so many minds because Elon Musk owns
Twitter or owns x Here's a little bit of that audio.

Speaker 23 (01:22:48):
This was the conservative play call. We don't normally like
what's called a continued resolution a CR, but in this
case it makes sense because if we push it into
the first quarter of next year, then we have a
Republican controlled Congress and President Donald J. Trump back in
the White House, we'll be able to have more say
over the funding decisions for twenty twenty five. Now, that
would have been an easier thing to do, but then

(01:23:08):
we had circumstances outside of our control. We had these
emergencies that are required, so we had, as you know,
a record hurricane season. We had Heleen and Milton, and
they just did massive destruction across our red states, frankly
in the southeast and the eastern side of the country.
And then we've had farmers who are in jeopardy of
permanently going under. They've had three lost years in a

(01:23:28):
row because of Bidenomics and inflation and other circumstances outside
of their control.

Speaker 3 (01:23:33):
Here's the problem. With any of this, and the American
people are now wiser to this than they've been in
a very long time. I think is when you run
on just those messages or tell us that a bill
is just about those things, we don't necessarily struggle to
support that. Of course, hurricanes were a devastating issue for
a lot of places over the last several months, not

(01:23:53):
something that currently people are in the same situation they
were in, say, thirty sixty days ago, when more of
that response should have happened then. But it's the fact
that you couch those issues in the giant omnibus spending
bill right at the end of the year that you
hope people don't even read. That's just filled with ridiculous
amounts of fat and also funding for things that if

(01:24:14):
they don't wind up necessary, you can reposition that money
to something else. You can reallocate the funds that have
already been provided to the government and let them land
in another bucket.

Speaker 2 (01:24:24):
We're seeing that with Ukraine a lot.

Speaker 3 (01:24:26):
By the way, if you've been paying attention to the
Biden announcements and how this money, that money is going
to Ukraine without say Congress's approval, you're reallocating funds that
were approved for other things and putting them in a
new bucket, which is something they do all the time
as well.

Speaker 2 (01:24:42):
There's so many issues with the lack of clean.

Speaker 3 (01:24:45):
Bills being passed in DC in general, and they're arrogance
and thinking that that's the only thing they have to
do or keep doing, just passing these bills, you know, ridiculously.

Speaker 2 (01:24:55):
It's amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:24:57):
I don't know how to say it differently, but the
American people pay saying attention is inherently good. It's not bad,
and we're at an all time high because of so
many different aspects of society. The way it works in
this moment, the way it works right now. All right,
I'll take a break. A lot of other stuff coming
up throughout the show. Thrilled to have you with us.
This is Craig Collins filling in for the rest of

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Speaker 1 (01:27:40):
Welcome to chat Chet. No, not the country, the institution,
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:27:47):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you.

Speaker 3 (01:27:53):
A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Your
kids have too many toys is something I mentioned earlier.
Apparently many many adults think yes, Over fifty percent of
parents said that, but yet they still plan to buy
more toys for their kids this Christmas. I do think
that's better than technology. So if I'm wrong that kids
don't have as many toys as they used to have,
which is what I thought about this story, or if

(01:28:15):
I'm right, I don't care buy them toys. Buy them
things that require imagination to have you played with instead
of just technology and video games and whatnot. That seems
a better for us. Also, there is debate this holiday
season as to whether or not you should buy your
boss a gift. This year, twenty percent of people say
they expect to get a gift for their boss as

(01:28:37):
well as get a gift from their boss. Actually, more
people expect to get a gift from their boss. I'll
be honest, man, I don't think it's a bad thing,
but I do think you look like a kiss up
if you're buying a gift for the boss, especially if
you're making an ordeal of it. If you want other
coworkers to be aware of it, that might even be worse.

(01:28:57):
But I think there's other ways to gain favor from
the person in power than to give them something During
the holiday season, but darted a whole lot of people intend.

Speaker 15 (01:29:05):
To do it.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
What's the best gift to give cash?

Speaker 3 (01:29:09):
Just like for everybody else, don't guess, don't try to
come up with something unique, Just give people money. I've
always loved that. Actually, I remember as a kid. This
is one of my favorite memories. And my mother hates
that I talk about this on the radio as an
adult human, but I remember I asked her one year.
I think I was like ten or eight. I can't
remember exactly what great I was in what should I

(01:29:30):
ask my friends for my birthday? And she told me
to get cash from them, and I did it and
every thought but he thought it was insane, But I
loved it. As an eight year old to nine year old,
I got to go to the toy store and buy
things myself and it was great. And I've never looked
back from the desire to have cash as a gift.
So give me cash is what I say to my family,
and I'm sure everyone else agrees with that.

Speaker 2 (01:29:49):
All right.

Speaker 3 (01:29:50):
That is one of a lot of things out there
in the world to talk about. More holiday stuff and
a bit. This is Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show. Although I will be honest if you
go rogue and get me some sort of crazy gift,
as long as you give me a sweet, delicious gift receipt,
I'm gonna return it for something else.

Speaker 2 (01:30:09):
I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

Speaker 7 (01:30:10):
Man.

Speaker 3 (01:30:11):
I know I giggle too much on this show, but
I can't help being honest about that and then finding
it funny. And actually I love this even more. This
is one reason that the missus is so awesome for
me in my life. I bought some stuff for her
for Christmas. She saw what it was and she's like,
now I don't like that. I'm gonna get something different.
I would like something better, which makes me happy because

(01:30:31):
now my money isn't wasted on stuff that she has
to pretend to like and then never wear.

Speaker 2 (01:30:35):
This is stuff that she actually does desire and want,
so I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:30:39):
I showed her that I cared by trying to pick
out items instead of just giving her money, and so
that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:30:45):
I won that battle.

Speaker 3 (01:30:46):
And then she gets to exchange those for things she
actually wants, which means she wins too, and no harm,
no foul. I wasn't emotionally invested in the things I
bought her, so I don't care if we get new things,
things that she likes more. Although anyone that's wondering, I
will tell you the mistake. The mistake was I thought
that she'd want stuff different than the stuff she has.
She has, you know, shoes, she has, purses. I was like,

(01:31:07):
all right, let's get her a belt. That seems like
a good move. And I've been told by several women
that that was not a good move, especially since I've
been married for twelve years. And I still haven't noticed
that my wife barely ever wears belts, which feels like
a thing that maybe a man would have noticed this
point going in, But Donna and I don't notice the
haircut either. All right, quick break a lot more. Craig
Collins filling in. I'm probably in trouble on the Chad

(01:31:30):
Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
Such Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (01:31:49):
Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:32:13):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
Americans are paying a lot of attention because, darn it,
the politicians and also mainstream media are telling us to
to so many things we usually don't pay anywhere near
as much attention to that being, you know, cabinet nominations
and whatnot. One of the more interesting stories that occurred
over the last few days has been the lawsuit Donald
Trump filed against George Stefanopolis and ABC for them defaming

(01:32:43):
him for them saying on television that he was a
convicted rapist when that was not in fact what happened
in a courtroom. So probably an issue. If you're a
journalist who says something out loud that is definitively untrue,
you get fined, You actually come up with a you know,
get fined, you come up with an agreement that gives
the Trump campaign millions of dollars, and then you actually

(01:33:04):
also have to issue him a public apology. What's amazing
about this, and I'm going to be a broken record
on this topic, is how often we're now told that
this is bad if you go through the system that
currently exists in our society, the system in place that
so often is defended by the left whenever a decision
is made that somehow harms conservatives or the right.

Speaker 2 (01:33:26):
Even the fact that Trump was found guilty in a
courtroom in New York of.

Speaker 3 (01:33:32):
Essentially crimes that are almost always considered a misdemeanor, but
for some reason in that court room were a felony,
because darned it was Trump that was involved. Even that
was something that they begged us to listen to the
courts on and how dare we question any part of this?
And then you have this happen and people are like, wow,
the court system's broken. Well, everything about this is completely
wrong and corrupt and horrible. It's amazing. And then you

(01:33:56):
have this other story that's broken. That's a fairly big
deal today about how Fannie Willis was removed from that
case in Georgia the DA there in Fulton County because
oh man, it certainly looks wrong that you hired your
boyfriend to be the lead prosecutor although he had absolutely
no connection and value to the case as far as

(01:34:18):
experience working and racketeering, and then you coordinated with the
White House again. According to Nathan Wade, someone who recently
admitted this, there are a tremendous amount of things now
popping up on social media from testimony given earlier this
year about this issue and about the questions surrounding Nathan Wade,

(01:34:38):
Fannie Willis and everything going on in Georgia and the
political interference of it all that feel like you could
have months and months ago said you knew then that
this was obviously a problem. I think the only reason
we're seeing this happen in Georgia now is because Trump
won the election. I'm not saying that presidential protection is
allowing this stuff to go away for him. That's what

(01:35:00):
mainstream media is going to tell you. But the people
who are realizing they can't just blatantly lie to the
American people and have realized now that you know, the
voice of the people was to put Trump back in office,
means these cases should go away for their own benefit,
for the politicians who are not the face of the
ridiculousness of all this. I hear's a little bit of

(01:35:20):
a memory of Nathan Wade and Nathan's hot dog Wade.
I guess as Ben Benny Johnson and others are calling
it on social media talking in courtrooms about some of
the things that were going on.

Speaker 2 (01:35:33):
Did you go to a cabin with.

Speaker 12 (01:35:34):
Miss Willis ever.

Speaker 7 (01:35:38):
Ever?

Speaker 22 (01:35:38):
Ever?

Speaker 5 (01:35:43):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Yeah, stup right there. I find that I find that
awesome That song was about to keep going.

Speaker 3 (01:35:50):
But yes, the amount of people who are now making
fun of that courtroom ridiculousness, who are defending it before
and saying that it looked fine and everything was okay,
and even honestly some of the audio out there of
the talking head people. I think CNN is one of
the main places that is so up in arms about this,
saying that they don't understand how something was okay before

(01:36:14):
and isn't okay now, meaning that they had previously decided
to allow Fannie Willis to stay on this case before
now deciding that that made absolutely no sense. None of
the facts of the case changed. Just the willingness to
actually accept the fact that the American people don't buy
into the sham, well, that has changed significantly. Here's part
of what CNN said about this, and I don't even

(01:36:35):
think they realize how hilarious some of this audio.

Speaker 2 (01:36:38):
Is just coming in in the last several minutes.

Speaker 21 (01:36:41):
This is a big development, a big development, and a
big development that Donald Trump has wanted for a long time.
That case against him in Georgia, the criminal case where
it's accusing him and several others of a racketeering conspiracy related.

Speaker 6 (01:36:54):
To the twenty twenty election. It's already been paused. Now
it's not even backburner.

Speaker 21 (01:36:59):
This is a case that will be dead in the
water because the Georgia Court of Appeals is now saying
that Fawnie Willis, the leader of the prosecution against Donald Trump,
the district attorney in Fulton County, Georgia, she should be disqualified.

Speaker 6 (01:37:16):
From being able to bring that case. The Georgia Court
of Appeals.

Speaker 21 (01:37:19):
Is saying that it's a significant appearance of impropriety caused
by the conduct of a public prosecutor, that is Willis,
how she behaved, how she was speaking about the case,
about Trump publicly, about how she was having a relationship
with the top prosecutor that was concealed in this.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Yeah, that was an issue too, Let's continue a man named.

Speaker 6 (01:37:39):
Nathan Wade all of that.

Speaker 21 (01:37:42):
Previously, the trial level judge had looked at and said,
Fannie Willis can stay on this case.

Speaker 6 (01:37:46):
We're not dismissing the indictment.

Speaker 2 (01:37:48):
But I love this.

Speaker 3 (01:37:49):
They're like, the previous judge was fine with it. I
would definitely look like corruption and issues and problems. And
upon appeal they've decided now that that judge was wrong,
and also that Trump won the election. I mean, honestly,
if you put this in the same bucket as the
discussion about Elon Musk being in charge of Twitter, in
charge of x and being willing to put out different

(01:38:10):
information than we've seen before, it is profound the impact
on our society as far as the way in which
discussions now have to have a lot more honesty in them.
I'm not saying that everyone on one side is more
honest than people on the other side.

Speaker 2 (01:38:25):
That's the crap democrats do. I kind of hate that.
But more important than that.

Speaker 3 (01:38:30):
Is the need to have a megaphone excuse me, tied
to each side of this so that you do know
which side is telling the truth, because you get to
start looking at yourself and believe there's more than one
a narrative on these issues. Another thing out there that
I saw that I thought was interesting, Kamala Harris is
going to pen a twenty million dollar novel to talk

(01:38:52):
about her time in the White House and how important.

Speaker 2 (01:38:55):
She is as a person.

Speaker 3 (01:38:57):
The book deals the speaking engagements, all that stuff. One
of the many ways that politicians enriched themselves. I know
that Rush Limbaugh used to talk about that all the time,
but one of the ways that politicians enrich themselves constantly,
because darn it, that's the whole game. The game is
not doing anything for us, it's doing stuff for them.
But I do love the fact that more and more

(01:39:20):
people are saying out loud that, you know, obviously she
was a terrible candidate, or obviously the campaign did awful things,
even on the other side of the aisle. And there
is some viral audio of a Democratic you know, think
tank member crapping all over Kamala Harris and her campaign

(01:39:42):
and some of the issues that they had, And I
think that's that's amazing that it takes this long to
get here.

Speaker 2 (01:39:47):
Her name is Lindy Lee.

Speaker 3 (01:39:49):
She's a person that you probably don't agree with on
a lot of issues if you're a conservative, but you
definitely agree with her on this November.

Speaker 22 (01:39:55):
Fifth was a decisive defeat for the Democratic Party. She
lost every single swing state. It wasn't a squeaker like
it was in twenty sixteen. This was a resounding defeat.
And right now Kamala Harris is indulging in delusions of
running for governor of California possibly in twenty twenty six
or even president again in twenty twenty eight. America has said,
this is not what we don't want to be coconut pilled.

(01:40:17):
We do not want Kamala Harris, we don't want failed
border policies.

Speaker 1 (01:40:21):
And I feel like I'm liberated and.

Speaker 22 (01:40:23):
I can finally tell the truth that the Democrats completely
failed on the border. Title forty two was a tremendous mistake.

Speaker 3 (01:40:32):
Why do you feel like you can finally tell the
truth if you're Lindy Lee or anyone within the Democratic Party.
She's a DNC National Finance Committee member, Why do you
feel like you had to be silent on that for
so long? Why are team politics more important than being
honest with the American people. I'm asking dumb questions. I
acknowledge that they're dumb, but they're real, and they've been

(01:40:54):
real for a long time, and I do think that
people that no longer care, And honestly, you're seeing a
lot of that to push back against Mike Johnson, the
Speaker of the House, and any of the issues that
are coming with this ridiculous omnibus bill that seems like
it's just you know, drunken sailor versions of spending at
the deadline, as politicians are one to do it and

(01:41:14):
squeak in a bunch of pork that we don't want
to give our taxpayer dollars to. Republicans are turning on him,
and they're returning. They're turning on this whole you know
narrative that this is a bipartisan deal, even though it
hurts a lot of Americans, and they're doing it partially
because of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. Of course maybe
more than partially because of them, but nonetheless, this is

(01:41:35):
your side trying to hold your side accountable, and that's
good and I think we should see more of that too.
The borders are Tom Homan told CNN's Caitlin Collins that
day one means day one as far as deportations are concerned.
This is something that probably hasn't been discussed enough in
a lot of those places. In an honest way, most

(01:41:58):
of the media outlets that talk about this say how
horrible and terrible everything about this would be. I usually
the narrative or the message they say they're talking about,
you know, criminals, not the fact that everyone who's here
illegally is in fact committing a crime, but people who
are dangerous to our society, who've been identified as dangerous
and still live here are still here after committing types

(01:42:21):
of crimes that would be worrisome for us. Those are
individuals that would be deported immediately. And this becomes an
immediate discussion in those mainstream media places about how bad
this is, which means they didn't listen to that Democratic politician.
I just played audio of when Eric Adams is saying
the process is broken and seeming to start to get
along more and more with Trump because of it, the

(01:42:43):
Democratic leader in New York City, or when other talking
heads are discussing and demonstrating how this was a huge
issue for most Americans and one of the bigger reasons
for such a profound loss in the presidential election.

Speaker 2 (01:42:57):
And then you have the vilifying of Hollman.

Speaker 3 (01:43:00):
You seem to notice very quickly how few people are
getting the message that the voters provided to them with
the resounding win. Which is amazing to watch that happen.
But this is and I can actually play some of
this audio if we want. I just real quick before
I take another break home and telling Caitlyn Collins and
it seems like she thinks she caught him in a

(01:43:20):
gotcha question. Although this shouldn't be a gotcha at all,
because this is what I think more Americans wanted than
most politicians want to admit they wanted.

Speaker 24 (01:43:28):
So how many days after Trump is sworn in before
this effort to carry out the mass deportations begins. I
alway say it starts on day one, But after how
many days will we actually start to see that happening?

Speaker 25 (01:43:43):
Day one?

Speaker 26 (01:43:45):
Day one will be ice offices across the country. We'll
be out on the streets right out of the gate.
President has made it clear, and I made it clear.
The priority right.

Speaker 25 (01:43:55):
Out of the gate's public safety threats, and that's the
security threats. And there's plenty of them to fine, right.
I looked at the data. Under the Biden administration, the
deportation of criminal aliens have decreased seventy four percent. So
we have all those folks that the Biden administration and
failvityport plus to get. There's ten over ten million accounters
on the Southern boarder they came across. We got a

(01:44:15):
lot of them look for too, so that the public
stafety infests are plenty, and it's going to keep us busy.

Speaker 3 (01:44:20):
Day one, baby, that's when we're doing this, That's when
we're dealing with this, and that's what a lot of
Americans said was a top concern of theirs because they're
seeing the negative impact of it in their own communities.
That makes sense, and that again, is something that they're
trying to vilify without giving us all the details and saying, oh,
they're just racists who want to deport everybody who's here

(01:44:40):
who looks a certain way.

Speaker 2 (01:44:41):
That is not the case.

Speaker 3 (01:44:42):
That's not what's occurring. And while darn it, I think
we just learned the truth matters. Maybe we haven't learned
that yet. I think a lot of us haven't learned
that yet. We're trying. At least that's good. That's better
than nothing. A quick break. I'm kidding a lot more.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson show.

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Speaker 1 (01:46:30):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:46:35):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A couple quick
sillier things out there. Apparently a few different airports a
Nashville and Seattle among them, are gonna invite live musicians
to play during your holiday travel because they said that
it's gonna make things better, it's gonna lighten the mood.

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I have two recommendations for any airport that's considering doing this.
Make sure that the musicians are actually very talented, and
set them up in an area where everyone's not incredibly angry,
because that seems like.

Speaker 2 (01:47:07):
A recipe for disaster, even if they're good at stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:47:10):
If they're right in front of like the checkout counter
and there's a flight that's delayed, I feel like the
music being on top of you is not going to
be a good move, So put it somewhere nicer.

Speaker 2 (01:47:19):
I don't hate this idea, though.

Speaker 3 (01:47:20):
I think it's actually kind of cool and a nice
benefit for a lot of local musicians. Although I imagine
it'll be like any other thing that you do in
a live gig, where a whole lot of people who
are not there to listen to your music are not
really paying attention to you while you're performing said music.
But darn it, it might be nice, especially during the holidays,
if people are playing holiday music that they probably don't

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love playing not a lot of your own stuff. I
don't think a lot of these musicians can go original
piece after original piece. I think they're probably going to
be playing a lot of Christmas hits and doing well
with that.

Speaker 2 (01:47:53):
I also saw this and this.

Speaker 3 (01:47:55):
I love some spas just in time for the holiday,
or off ring something called a beer bath you soak
in hops and barley. Is this good for your skin
is one of the questions that people are asking online.

Speaker 2 (01:48:08):
Is this healthy for you? None of that matters. I
don't care. I don't even want to tell you that.

Speaker 3 (01:48:13):
I'm not even going to dive into it, because the
idea of getting in a bath full of beer at
a spa to benefit me somehow is something I'm in
love with as an idea. And then also I think
you get a giant beer to drink while you're sitting
in the beer, being a part of it yourself. Every
part of this sounds amazing to me, so I'm all in.
I don't want any of the details about the health
benefits of it unless the Missus needs them in order

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for us to schedule the vacation to go to these places.
There's one in Chicago that's been open since twenty nineteen.
But more of these are opening up or more of
these are being featured, and again they're claiming there's benefits
to it.

Speaker 2 (01:48:49):
Not the issue for me. I'm going to actually have
to be told not to bring a straw. No, I'm kidding.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
I'm not going to consume me alcohol more than enough
can be handed to me outside. But that sounds awesome,
and it sounds great, I'm all about it. Another story
I saw out there, I think this is hilarious. Apparently
a woman went viral on social media for being terrified
of people that are sitting in their cars and creepily
smiling and laughing that aren't moving or driving anywhere. She

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said their real life non playable characters, meaning video game
characters that are supposed to be just background characters. What
people actually think is happening is people have pulled over
to the side of the road to make a video call.
A lot of people are holding cell phones. It looks
like they're doing FaceTime calls or something like it. And
instead of that being what the woman came up with,

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her name is Stephanie. She's a TikTok influencer. She's pretty
sure these people are fake and their lives are not real.
Twenty six million people watch this video. Though hilarious, they
are alive. They are real people. There's pretty much just
calling their loved ones in time for the holiday and
responsibly pulling over to the side of the road while
doing it. Thanks Stephanie for asking the question. None of

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us needed answer, but a quick break and I'm well done. Actually,
this is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.
Happy holidays to you.

Speaker 1 (01:50:28):
This is the Chad Benson Show.