Trump Names Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
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 today. First, let's start with Donald Trump.
Trump went viral for the way in which he referred
to woke being something that's gonna be over once he's
back in the White House.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Here we go.

Speaker 4 (00:33):
We gotta stop woke.

Speaker 5 (00:37):
Is both.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
The crowd went nuts for several minutes after he said
that with those words in that way, and I certainly
enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I find it funny. I'm sure a lot of people do.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
I will go a step further, though, and I'll try
to appease the other side, even though I know I
don't have to. I think that the biggest problem with woke,
and this is a tried and true discussion that you
probably have all over the place, is how ridiculously difficult
it is to appease everyone, and how essentially the woke
culture does that with anybody on their team. If you

(01:12):
say you're a Democrat and they're a Democrat, then whatever
you say after that that's crazy and insane. They're gonna
be okay with it, because that's what woke means. It
means being nice in the face of ridiculous things being
said to you. Nice to a degree that's insanity. That's
the way I would crap all over woke, or as
Trump said, it's just well, you need to stop woke.

Speaker 6 (01:34):
Woke is both.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
I'm sure people will say that's unpresidential and whatever, but
it's also human. And it's true that woke is crap
and there's still a lot of it out there in
the world. Another thing that I find interesting, So Joe
Manchin is done, He's stepping away. He's a longtime Democrat
that became an independent for a little bit there, and
a person that every so often the other side of

(02:00):
the aisle didn't hate hearing from. It's not like everything
he said with stuff that conservatives agreed with, but they
liked the fact that from time to time Mansion was
willing to say something out loud that no one else
in the woke, you know, bleep world.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Was willing to say as well.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
John Fetterman has become the most likely replacement of at
least those sort of viral moments where interviews and discussions happened.
And I can't believe that this is where Fetterman has
gone over the course of maybe the last six months.
This is someone that early on after being elected, a
whole lot of people in conservative media made fun of,

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or at least worried about openly in sort of a
human way, by saying that the medical issues he was
facing and his inability to speak meant that he probably
shouldn't be in as high stress of a job as
a political senator, a much less than any sort of
stressful job. But he weathered that storm and he's come
out the other side in a way that makes him
willing to say out loud that Trump's not a fascist.

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For example. Oh, it shouldn't be the bar to being
honest on the left or on the right, just not
calling the opponent of fascist. But here's what Fetterman said
in an ABC sit down interview about Trump getting reelected.

Speaker 7 (03:12):
And after you survived an assassination, you literally were shot
in your head and had the presence of mind to respond,
you know, fight, fight, fight, I mean that's a political talent,
it's undeniable. And also I never believed that it was
about fascism, and for me, that made it difficult.

Speaker 6 (03:32):
For kil Harris said that he was a fascist.

Speaker 7 (03:34):
Yeah, well, it's like that's her prerogative. I mean, but
it's not a word that I would use because you
put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state that
I know and I happen to love people that are
going to vote for Trump and they are not fascists.
And also fascism that's not a word that regular people
you know, use that. You know, I think people are

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going to decide who is the candidate that's going to
detect and project, you know, my version of the American
way of life. And that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, that is what happened.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
A whole lot of people felt that Trump was more
willing to do things like lower the prices of goods,
not go after the energy industry specifically, which was adding
to the level of inflation that we were dealing with,
et cetera, et cetera, and fight for things like making
woke go away, which a lot of young people, especially
young men, are now saying has gone way too far

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because oftentimes young men, white men specifically, are the problem
where the cause of whatever the issues are. Yeah, I'm
a white guy, where the thing that you need to
blame whenever something unfair happened in your own individual life
if you're not a white dude, no matter how many
white guys are also struggling, and this is not supposed
to be like a waw wa crying moment for you know,

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people that look like me. It's just interesting because of
course those narratives are going to alienate people in those
voting groups. And I think Democrats may be underestimated how
many people in our country are white guys when you're
crapping all over them and saying that's the only a
group of people that you're allowed to say whatever you
want about, and if you say those same things about

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anybody else, you'll be attacked for being a racist, to sexist, etc.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Etc.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
But nonetheless, I just find this so interesting that Fetterman
has gone from someone who a lot of people on
the other side of the aisle felt shouldn't be in
his role for medical reasons, to someone that a lot
of people on the other side of the aisle don't
hate everything he says. He says some things like, oh,
you know, that wasn't so bad, or that wasn't the
same narrative that you always hear, and you know what,

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to transition, I'll go ahead and compare it to something.
So DHS Secretary Alejandro majorcis someone who's been uniquely bad
at his job, uniquely bad at securing the border in
any way, shape or form, and thank god, going to
be leaving his role in the very near future. Was
asked a question on Face the Nation about child trafficking,
specifically about that issue being a problem at the border,

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and his answer was horrendous. His answer was exactly the
type of thing that I think even Fetterman wouldn't say
or agree with, but other Democrats would somehow claim is
true because it avoids responsibility for all the terrible things
that are happening at our border and all the people
that are coming into our country illegally, which has been
a byproduct of the Biden administration stance in Alejandro Majorgus's

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lack of doing his job. But the question was there
is a unique challenge, a unique bad as far as
the amount of child trafficking that's happening at our border,
and isn't that something the United States should care about
enough to prevent. And what I mean by that is
prevent the border crossing at all. If you take away
the value of something, if you create a limitation, then

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maybe less people do this, and actually having that deterrent
will help in other ways, not just to protect our
country from people who are going to come in and
be dangerous. And there are people that are here that
are going to be removed because they've done things that
are considered violent crimes, that are still allowed to be
here even though they have no legal right to stay.
I'm not trying to say that everyone that crosses the

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border is as violent as some of the people that
we will be removed on day one. According to Tom Holman,
I don't need to say that, but I'm just putting
that out there for anyone that wants to accuse me
of being a racist all of a sudden, But nonetheless,
and I do want to hit play on this audio.
This is a crazy thing to say out loud that
essentially removes your responsibility from something bad that is happening

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because of your own decision making.

Speaker 8 (07:33):
Well, Margaret, we certainly have received reports of children being trafficked,
even those as to whom we know where they are,
that is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security.
What we do is we turn children over within seventy
two hours, as the law requires to the Department of

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Health and Human Services and then HHS places those children.
Of course, we investigate cases of trafficking, but.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
The fact that he says out loud that is outside
of our responsibility to deal with this. It's outside of
you know, our scope and what we're supposed to do.
Even though where where it's happening, where where of instances
where we can locate the people involved. We turn the
children over within seventy two hours, which is a weird
timeframe to give to another agency, and we investigate, although

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it doesn't sound like they often come up with enough,
you know, actual charges to kick these people out of
our country, which is insane. But nonetheless, the way in
which you say that the question is emotionally charged. And
what's interesting to me is that political party Democrats maybe
to some extent to the same degree Republicans, but I

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never feel it's as significant. Love to speak in emotionally charged,
you know scenarios. They love to talk about the mom
with two kids who can't make it in whatever country
they live in, and so they come across the border
illegally into our country to have a better life for themselves.
That's an emotionally charged version of a narrative. They do
that all the time. I can't tell you the amount

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of issues when they talk about abortion per se, and
they bring up a very rare circumstance in which they're
claiming that Republicans want women who are giving birth to
kids where the woman's life might be in jeopardy to die.
And that's not true. That's not a real thing that
Republicans are advocating for. But it's an emotionally charged version
of an argument. And so here, for whatever reason, face

(09:32):
the Nation gave a question to Alejandra maiorcis that has
an emotional component to it, and his answer was, we
don't have to care about that. That's not part of
what we do, what we factor into the equation, which
is surreal to hear. Donald Trump famously said when he
was president last time, that you want to govern without
your heart.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
Sometimes.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
This is when the kids in cages became such a
big giant discussion, even though a lot of those photos
were from when Barack Obama was the president, But I
I digress. When that became an issue, and eventually he
relented on some of those rules that were in place,
he said that it was difficult to you know, choose
between your heart and your head when you're in the
world of politics. This sounds like something where al Hondra

(10:13):
and my Orcis is very willing to say out loud
that my head is making this decision and my heart
isn't allowed to be involved. And yet it's crazy to hear.
And I'm sure that if this comes up again in
some capacity in which you can blame Republicans for it,
whatever that might be, it'll be egregious that Republicans aren't
willing to think about the emotional component of it. So
that's really the reason I thought this was so powerful.

(10:36):
Not necessarily necessarily because the statement itself is, you know,
as important as it's going to be made to be
in a very select amount of places, but really because
of how much hypocrisy is just still slapping you in
the face and when these things are being discussed. One
last thing that I thought was interesting. This is a
conversation that Tucker Carlson had on a podcast very recently,

(10:59):
and we'll try to get to it a little bit
later on, maybe more of it a little bit later on,
but the conversation was about Mike Johnson, the Speaker of
the House, and how much he has failed to prioritize
American values. Here's a little bit of what Tucker Carlson said.

Speaker 9 (11:13):
Why you know, it's an interesting there's something profoundly wrong.
I don't I don't understand it exactly. But I watched
him make the number one priority of his speakership funding
Ukraine without any audit at all, at a time when
the US order was open, the United States itself was

(11:34):
being invaded, and his priority was protecting the borders of
a country that whose language doesn't speaks he knows nothing about.
And it's non America. I mean, it's not the only
country that he's whose interest is put above ours.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
Yeah, so having our interest right up there with everybody
else's interests is the problem.

Speaker 3 (11:49):
It's the thing that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (11:50):
It's the reason that Mike Johnson might struggle to hold
on to his speakership, which is well darn it a
big part of the challenge too. All right, That and
so many other things coming up, And just a little
bit I am filling in today on the Chad Benson Show.
My name is Craig Collins. I promise we'll have some
fun too. Just before the holidays.

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Speaker 6 (13:21):
You stink like fear and white male privilege.

Speaker 11 (13:24):
To me, I do.

Speaker 5 (13:26):
Often out myself verbally as a gender.

Speaker 10 (13:29):
My pronouns are they them?

Speaker 12 (13:31):
And I'm proud to be a gender.

Speaker 13 (13:35):
Are you so bid?

Speaker 1 (13:41):
It's not a great way to use your white privilege.
Some people got it, some people don't. You're listening to
the Chadbentson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:50):
This is the Chadbentson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in a thrilled to be with you. A bunch
of stuff out there to talk about. First, though, I
want to play the Laughter of a baby or a
small child because it went viral on the internet, and
I'll tell you why. Apparently this kid is watching How
the Grinch Stole Christmas, and every time the Grinch steals
the presence, the kid finds it absolutely hilarious. This made

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his mom worry enough to put it on social media
and say, is this something that you know.

Speaker 3 (14:19):
Should concern me?

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Would concern you if your child thought it was this
funny to steal presents from other people? My answer ready's
gonna be no. But here's the laughter. That's just the beginning.
He is loving it.

Speaker 3 (14:36):
Look at him.

Speaker 2 (14:37):
Take those presents, buddy. That's one of those baby laughs
that you're thrilled if you make it happen to a child,
because you feel like you're the funniest person on earth.
I don't know why that is more so than making
adults laugh. But this baby loves stealing presence and that's awesome.
And again, I don't know why. It's the holidays, so

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I just wanted to play a baby laughing.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
But that viral.

Speaker 2 (15:00):
That video, you can find it online because he so
much loves the Grinch and how the Grinch stole Christmas. Again,
don't be concerned. Don't worry. The kid'll be just fine.
Other things out there. I do like this a new
discovery for many people about how Google street View functions,
allowing you to go back to photos taken as early

(15:20):
as twenty seventeen or as late as twenty seventeen, allows
you to maybe see loved ones before they had passed
away on the street or in the yard in front
of their house. This is something that people are doing
for nostalgic reasons, just before the holidays.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
It sounds a little dark.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
There's a lot of reasons to be untappy with, say,
you know, the invasion of your privacy, but darn it,
getting nostalgia in this way also seems pretty good, all right.
That and a lot more stuff coming up in a bit.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show. I
will be honest, like part of me would not be
as thrilled to see myself in whatever version of photo

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was taken of me in front of my front yard's ago.
But if it's someone that you miss that's no longer
with you, and you can pull up some random photo
that you forgot existed or didn't know existed, more likely
than not about with them, there's something interesting about that
as far as being a good thing. And I'll just
say this, and this is gonna get weird, but Tarna,

(16:17):
it is just before the holidays, and I can't help myself.
I still have one voicemail saved on my phone. It's
the only voicemail I have saved. It's from my grandmother,
who sadly passed away early this year, and I've been
listening to it recently. It's just her wishing me a
happy birthday. Three or four years ago. But there's something
nice about still having those digital footprints of people that

(16:38):
know you miss that are no longer with you. And
I think that's what they're talking about as far as
Google street View and Google Map is concerned. So if
you're curious, if there's some photo of a family member
in front of a house over the last you know,
twenty years or so, you can go back on street
View to that address and look and see if it's there.
And many people have been sharing these photos online and

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saying how how moved they were to see it, no
matter what it is, and even saying things online like
in some you know, past Google View World, my grandma
and grandpa are just sitting on their porch, talking to
each other and enjoying a nice summer day. There's something
beautiful about that. Again, even though it comes with a
whole lot of invasion of privacy stuff. I'm sure we're
not all happy with quick break a lot more. Craig

(17:20):
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 14 (17:39):
Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (18:00):

Speaker 3 (18:04):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, Thrilled to be
with you just before the holidays. Chad will be back
after them. I love the conspiracy theories around the drones
in New Jersey.

Speaker 3 (18:18):
I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (18:18):
I'm not always a tinfoil hacky, but I enjoy several
of them, just because it makes no sense that very
well coordinated drones are being flown with no understanding of
who they are or what's going on.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Why is that happening? Is the foreign power, etc. Etc.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
The latest version of said theory is the Biden administration
is doing it themselves, and they're doing it because they
want to change the rules, change laws, and spy on us.
There is a new bill in front of Congress, and
Ran Paul reacted to it and complained about it, which
seems to further the potential scenario that this is happening
on purpose to stoke fear to allow us to give

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up more of our privacy. And I'm all for this
theory and all for this version of a conspiracy, because
darn it, the bill makes no sense.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
Let's let Ram Paul describe it to you.

Speaker 15 (19:07):
The bill before us would grant law enforcement significant authority
to intercept private electronic communications without consent. For example, the
bill would allow the government to conduct dragnet's surveillance of
the phones innocent Americans traveling through US airports as long
as the government claims they are doing it to neutralize
a drone.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
So in order to look.

Speaker 15 (19:28):
At the information that might be coming to a drone,
it may be that you capture all the information of
everybody surrounding an airport. Not good for everybody who lives
near an airport. Once you have all that data, what
are the assurances that the government isn't looking at your
data in addition to the data that may be related
to flying the drone.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
They're not, They're none, is that scenario whatsoever.

Speaker 2 (19:48):
Here's the thing, And I love this, and this is
a weird thing to talk about just for the holidays,
but I can't help myself about any conspiracy theory, like
anyone that someone throws out there, And of course they're
not all right. Of course, some of them are wrong
and some of them are definitely right. My favorite are
some stand up comedians who make jokes about how every
conspiracy theory can't be wrong.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Come on, now, we've got to be honest about that.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
But I wonder how many times the theory comes after
the changing of a scenario to benefit the government as
opposed to the plan to begin with, maybe the drones
in Jersey are a mystery. We have no idea what's
going on, no idea why they're happening, et cetera, et cetera.
But the government has seen their opportunity in that moment
and now wants to pass along a bill that the

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American people may support because of their confusion about the
drones and their theories about them, that would surrender way
too much information to the government, because that's what they
want it all along. They don't actually have to fly
the drones in the first place to benefit from the
you know, the attention they're getting. It's how often are
the people behind the scenes opportunists and how often are

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they actually creating the whole scenario.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
To be honest, it doesn't really matter which people right
in that world.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
If the people are right, the truth goes deeper, and
the problem is always worse than you think it is,
and the people behind the thing are always, you know,
the people that you least expect to be behind it.
That part doesn't matter as much to me as preventing
the inevitable fallout thing that might be an opportunistic move
more so than a full on conspiracy theory.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
But I love that this went viral.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
I love that Rand Paul said that he is absolutely
against this, because darn it, he should be and anyone
else out there should be because it sounds bad. It
sounds real, real bad for them to say, oh, no,
a random drone is in the air, we're not sure
who's flying it. Let's take all the information of all
the people surrounding the drone that we're now allowed to
have access to because we're just trying to figure this

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drone thing out, because you know that they'd use that
to their benefit as well. Speaking of Rand Paul, this
is odd, but he went viral for something else. He
was on Fox Business and talked to Maria Bartolomo about
all the different nominations that Trump has put full and
what he is planning to do with those nominations, all

(22:04):
of them, and Ran Paul said, he's going to rubber
stamp that baby here.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
We got having it.

Speaker 15 (22:09):
You know, I couldn't be happier with his nominees. I
couldn't have picked better. I mean, some of them are
people exactly I would have picked Marty McCarey at FDA,
Jay Batichariat Nih, Bobby Kennedy, Cash Pattel, Tulsi Gabbert. I mean,
just the list goes on and on. Pete egg Seth
good people. And yes, I have the vast majority I

(22:30):
will support. On day one, we'll try to get Christin
om through Department of Homeland Security, RUSS vote for OMB.
We're gonna work hard to get I think in the
first week you'll have a half a dozen of them approved.
In the first week. I will control one committee, and
that committee I pledge to get them through as quickly
as possible.

Speaker 2 (22:47):
So here's the thing, And I want to say this
as fairly as I can to anyone out there. I
don't have to be fair, but I'm going to try
to be fair to anyone out there who thinks these
nominations are bad, people like Pete hag Seth specifically for
the Department of Defense, Like how dare you nominate someone
with so little experience? They're going to do a terrible
job in this role. These people can be removed once

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they've put into these positions if.

Speaker 3 (23:10):
They're bad at the jobs. We can't fire people.

Speaker 2 (23:12):
Trump is uniquely known for that because of the Apprentice unnecessarily.
So the first argument that I love in all this,
that I can immediately throw out is that this puts
us in some sort of jeopardy as a country, because
if someone truly isn't up to the task they've been
asked to do, they get removed. And oftentimes, actually people
who aren't up to the task in politics get to

(23:33):
keep their job because their resume to someone somewhere says, well,
we can't fire them this quickly. You can have a
short leash on any of the individuals you put into
these roles, you nominate into these roles if you think
there's a chance they're not going to live up to
what you hope them for them to do. But the
other thing, and there's this story out there about how
the United States on day one of the Trump administration

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will also leave the World Health Organization. I will just
abandon them. The World Health Organization during COVID was exposed
quite a bit for being willing to protect China because
China was giving it a lot of money and say
that certain things seemed impossible, or send people to investigate
whether or not a lab leak theory made sense, and
then not tell the world when China wasn't letting it happen.

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For a while, there's been a bunch of scenarios like that,
and so making these strong decisions, whatever they are, whether
they're putting outsiders into positions of power in bureaucratic parts
of our society that feel like they need to be changed,
that feel like you cannot possibly put anyone within the
system into the leadership role because they've benefited too much

(24:40):
or they're too willing to be manipulated within the first
few days of being given more power by the people
around them. So you have to pull in these outsiders,
these people who don't have quote unquote as much experience,
because they're the only people who could potentially actually be
critical enough to change something. That argument I love, as
a matter of fact, love it quite a bit. But

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the other thing about all of this is just the
threat of these movements might clean out some of the problems.
The threat of leaving the World Health Organization might be
similar to the threat of leaving NATO, which causes other
countries in the NATO Alliance to start spending more money
on their own defense, something they agreed to do and
just didn't do because they thought, oh, the United States

(25:22):
is protecting me. Now I don't have to care that
much about my own safety. They'll come in and fight
if anyone attacks me. All of these ways in which
the United States is power is abused by our quote
unquote friends are the first sort of things that Trump
sounds like he wants to go after. And some of
the people he's put into these positions of power, if
you listen to the things they say, sound very much

(25:46):
like they're going to be willing to go after their
own system and expose their own problems, and they're not
worried about hurting any of their friends, which I think
is another huge component to it. Say you're someone who's
a lifer in one of these departments and you get
put up to the highest position of power, and somehow
you're like the Jim Gordon, the Commissioner Gordon.

Speaker 3 (26:05):
Of that position.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Yes I made Batman reference just now, meaning everybody's corrupt
around you, and somehow you're not corrupt. But then you
get in the position of power and you have to
turn on your friends, people that you've worked with for years,
because you have to turn them in for being people
that are committing crimes that you probably even know they're
actually committing even if you're somehow the one guy in
the field who's not doing them or at least not

(26:28):
as corrupt as everyone around you is, and the system
hasn't tried for a long time to corrupt you. I'm
not pretending that every nomination is that far removed from
those situations. But to go back to Pete Hegseth for
a second, he certainly feels like he is spending the
time he's spent on television and in media after serving
in the military, and not a rising to the ranks

(26:49):
that say other people have risen to before being put
in position of power for the Department of Defense might
actually help him in being willing to out corruption and
not being afraid of hurting certain relationships.

Speaker 3 (27:02):
That seems like it matters to me. That seems important.

Speaker 2 (27:05):
And it's just one aspect to this again, but Ran
Paul saying he's going to rubber stamp these decisions and
then we'll see how these people do. And I'm sure
if anybody fails profoundly, or even doesn't fail profoundly, but
mainstream media decides that they did, we'll hear about it constantly.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
It won't be the end of this.

Speaker 2 (27:24):
I've actually said this before, and I'll say it again
real quick. I can't remember the last time that discussions
about this many cabinet positions were actually at the forefront
of a lot of Americans minds. I don't think it's
ever happened before to this degree where every position and
every name out there is you know, second, third, fourth

(27:45):
guest by mainstream media, so much so that you can
name people that are being nominated for all these positions.
A whole bunch of Americans usually have no idea who
the current secretary of this position or that position even is.
So it's amazing that we're debating people who aren't even
in these roles yet but might be in these roles
at the degree that we are. And I'm sure a
bunch of people are actually immune to this and not

(28:08):
paying attention to this, especially during the holiday season, but
the amount of people that are is significantly higher than
it normally is. And I actually think that awareness is
also not bad, and that awareness might be an intentional
thing done by the Trump administration. It might not be,
but having those debates also shows how much more informed
the average American is. And I'll say this one other

(28:30):
quick way, in a way that I think also matters
on a matter, you know, how obvious of a position
or point. This is too, the idea that people might
actually get in trouble, meaning a whole bunch of whether
it's Democratic politicians, Republican politicians, whoever get marched in front
of courtrooms and accused of significant crimes. I love how
mainstream media pretends as though we can't figure out if

(28:53):
they're real charges or crap charges, because the American people
just demonstrated our ability to do that. Trump, even though
he was a quote unquote convicted felon because a whole
lot of Americans thought that that charge was crap, and
they thought it rightfully, so as mostly, you know, many
many legal experts thought that that case in New York,

(29:14):
the only case that actually found him guilty of a
significant crime, was crap, was the least likely to actually
be a good case against Trump compared to anything else
that he was facing in a courtroom in the country.
I find that fascinating too, that essentially all those legal experts,
until they got the guilty verdict and shut up about it,
would have actually agreed with the position that it wasn't

(29:35):
all that important, meaning the American people got it right.
We are proving more and more how informed we are
compared to how informed I guess we used to be
in a variety of these topics. And it's because of
mainstream media's obsession with Trump, hatred of Trump, Trump derangement
syndrome that they talk about stuff so much that you're like,
wait a minute, I wonder if I can look up
a little bit about who this person is or why

(29:57):
they're put in this position, or what the problem is
with this ab agency in our government, because it helps
us all get on the same page. So it's working
if that's the plan on purpose or not. I have
no idea, but I don't hate it. Quick break a
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Speaker 1 (31:23):
I'm trapped in a hashtag factory and I can't get out.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
stuff out there to talk about. Has your Christmas tree
lost weight? That's a real question. Apparently tree eszempic has
been a thing this holiday season. According to people on
social media, people have elected for skinnier trees, smaller trees.
Not exactly Charlie Brown, but getting closer to that world.

(31:53):
May be tall sometimes but certainly not large. And this
is because you don't want to clean up after the tree,
or some other reason that you think it's cool or
fashionable to have the skinnier tree. So trees empic a
real problem out there that people are complaining about. I
have no idea if it's real. I have no idea
how big your tree is. Maybe share those photos on
social media with the Chad Benson Show. Show us the

(32:17):
giant trees you have and how you're fighting trees empic
this holiday season, and I'll be amused, mostly because Chad
will have no idea why people are tweeting giant Christmas
trees at him, and that of itself is kind of
fun to get to explain to him via text.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Yeah, man, it's a tree es empic thing. Enjoy.

Speaker 2 (32:33):
But anyway, that's real according to some people. I have
no idea if it actually is. Sometimes when I talk
about this stuff, I very much doubt it, but darn it,
that's a thing out there in the world. There's also
this story which I thought was interesting. A woman is
proud of two things. First, that she's been on a
thousand dates in the last few years. She said that

(32:54):
she's very picky, so she goes on a lot of
first dates, but not a lot of second dates. She's
thirty eight years old, an actress and writer. According to
her bio. I've never heard of her. I don't know
if she's anything. Her name is Susan. Here's the part
I love most about this story, though, since she goes
on so many first dates and decides she doesn't like
a lot of guys and doesn't want to see them

(33:15):
a second time. She has an automated email that she
sends out after a failed first date. The automated email
simply just says thanks for the fun time. Sorry, I
don't think things are going to work out between us.
I can read it verbatim. Hey, thank you so much
for the great time. I just wanted to let you
know it didn't work out, but it was great getting
to know you.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
And that's it. That's all. She fires out. That's horrible.
I think that's terrible.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
I know friends of mine who would say they appreciate
not being ghosted, getting you know, the information that things
are not going to work out between the two directly
to you via the email.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
But it's also kind of scary.

Speaker 2 (33:52):
It's kind of terrifying to me that a woman would
go on so many first dates that she had to automate.
The email doesn't do it as a phone call, not
a text, not even something that you know might have
just a slight amount of additional personality to it. It's
the email message you get, like an out of office
message from work saying that you know, great to know you,

(34:13):
but hopefully we don't ever see each other again, which
I don't exactly love. Gen Z is also suffering a
midlife crisis. According to them, it's not actually a midlife crisis,
because darn it, you have to get to midlife in
order to say that you're in a crisis. Maybe you
want to call it a quarter life crisis. I'm not sure,
but essentially what it is is feeling as though you're

(34:33):
in a position in life where you don't have a
job that you think is secure, or you don't have
the money you wish to have, and you're still over
spending on things. You're still spending more money on stuff
you don't need. So that job stress of wanting to
keep a job that you're not really secure at or
don't really love along with you know, the inability to
stop spending on stuff is causing a quote midlife crisis.

(34:55):
My only advice for these young people, and this isn't
exactly great advice. I'm sure I have to work on
my bedside manner. It's gonna get worse, not better. The
next crisis in your life, when you're actually middle aged
and you're worried that, like you know, your body is
slowing down or something else is happening, it's gonna feel
tougher to get over. So maybe the silver lining is
your problems aren't actually that bad. And I'm not trying

(35:18):
to say it in a pompous or arrogant way, but
an honest way, because when you struggle later in life,
you're gonna feel like it's more serious and darn it,
that's the thing, that's the thing that matters. But all right,
the midlife crisis gen z is out there. Good luck
to you as you figure out how to get through that.
This is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

(35:39):
I gotta be honest. There are times, though, when you
talk about these stories, and I'm sure some people are
thinking out there, man, I'd like to just smack somebody
that immediate version of aw, you just smack me in
the face might overcome the fact that I can't keep
buying Starbucks lattes. I'm not advocating for this. I'm not
saying you go do it, but it crosses my mind
and it might cross yours too. The immediate, you know,

(36:00):
handprint pain of your face feeling red because someone just
smacked you might get you over the need to be
afraid you're going to be able to buy your next
avocado toast. And I feel like that's a thing that
you could think about, but I'm not telling you to
do it.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you, a bunch of
stuff to talk about. I do feel ill like one
of the bigger nominations out there is Tulca Gabert. This
is something that a lot of conservatives say they feel
is also true whether or not Tulsi can get the
job that she's been assigned or at least been nominated for,

(37:13):
which would be America's top spy is one of the
cooler ways to say it is yet to be seen.
Tulsea Gabert, though, is an interesting human because she starts
out as a Democrat, she becomes a conservative voice, to
say the very least, and then she gets nominated for
Trump for a pretty important position. She's also set a
lot of negative stuff about the government in general, which

(37:34):
is something that probably matters. This is a interview she
did back in November, even before the election was actually decided,
so she'll reference whether or not Harris actually could win
the election or not within this answer. But this is
the reason that these are individuals that are being picked
for these types of positions from Donald Trump, and the
reason that a whole lot of Americans are okay with it,

(37:55):
whether it's hag Seth saying that the military industrial complex
is a problem or Tulsi Gabbert talking about how a
whole lot.

Speaker 3 (38:01):
Of people in power aren't the people you voted for.

Speaker 16 (38:03):
The troubling part about all this is it's not even
people who we vote for. When you look at what
happened when President Biden had that infamous debate with President Trump,
it exposed the reality that many of us have known
for a long time, which is that President Biden has
not been the guy calling the shots. He has not

(38:24):
been the guy making the decisions. Nor has it been
Kamala Harris for that matter, nor will it be if
she is elected president. It is this cabal of you know,
the Democrat elite, the woke warmongers, made up of the
likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and you know,

(38:45):
Tony Blincoln and Jake Sullivan, and you know, people who
are in the military industrial complex who profit from us
being in a constant state of war. It is those
in the administrative state and the national security who derive
more authorities and ability to take away our liberty when

(39:06):
we are in a heightened state of crisis.

Speaker 3 (39:09):
Give that person the job, whatever the job is.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
I don't even care. Give that person the job. People
saying out loud how broken our system is is something
that is universally agreed upon by both sides of the
political aisle. The exact way in which it's broken, I'm
sure we disagree about, or at least we might disagree about,
but the fact that it's broken is universal. As I
said a second ago, So give people the job that

(39:33):
are going to be hyper critical of it and just
see what comes of that. I know that people often
say that one of the bad things is they're going
to invent a lot of problems and tell us a
lot of things that are happening that aren't actually happening
in order to hold one side accountable and weaponize whatever
the thing is that they're going to claim they're weaponizing.
But darn it, when the systems is broken as it

(39:54):
actually is, I agree that we should at least try it.
There's this report out that Biden during his presidency only
held nine meetings with his cabinet, nine.

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Over the course of four years.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
That feels like not enough. I know that was a
basic statement, but darn it, I had to make it anyway.
Beyond that, the other thing that's a big deal is
not only did you have to write out your question
in advance, you got a written answer at the meeting
itself that Biden would essentially read to you, Meaning you
had no idea who actually answered the question, because there

(40:28):
would be no reason to write in a you know,
submitted question and then get back a written response when
you're in the room with the guy for one of
only nine times you ever get a chance to share,
you know, air with him, at least in that setting,
and I find that fascinating as well. This comes on
the heels of all different kinds of things. If you remember,
Lloyd Austin, the Defense Secretary, currently got sick at one point,

(40:51):
went to the hospital, never notified Joe the President, did
not know that his Defense secretary was in the hospital
for a few days and apparently was read but maybe
not reachable. I'm not really sure exactly how that worked,
but terrifying to say the least, and just one of
many examples of this same problem happening again and again

(41:11):
and again. Let's play this audio switching gears. This is
Alejandra majorcis answering a question on face the Nation. I
can include the question too, Actually, why not asking a
or answering a question about child trafficking at the border
and how he thinks it's outside the responsibility of the
Department of Homeland Security to deal with that that Hey,

(41:33):
if that's happening, and we are absolutely aware that it
is happening, are there's some other departments where we'd actually
be sending the kids that we get.

Speaker 3 (41:40):
That we rescue from these scenarios.

Speaker 2 (41:42):
And then we investigate some of it, we promise, but
really most of it's outside of our scope of power.
Then what are you doing If you're not trying to
keep the border secure and prevent children from being trafficked,
then what's the job?

Speaker 3 (41:55):
In your opinion? Would be my question. But here we go.

Speaker 11 (41:57):
Ice was also an able to account for more than
thirty two thousand unaccompanied kids who failed to appear in
court from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty three, according to
the report we read the incoming Borders are. Tom Holman says,
these children are being exploited and trafficked.

Speaker 8 (42:17):
Is that true? Well, we certainly, Margaret, we certainly have
received reports of children being trafficked.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
And I got to stop it right there, actually because
I love the question, not because I think it's a
good question, because the design of it was to say
that they're fear mongering on the right. The Tom Holman
is saying this thing that's not true. He's saying all
these people are victims of trafficking, and you know it's
not true. And Alhandra majorci Is can't answer the question
the way that mainstream media CBS wants him to because

(42:49):
it is true, because it is happening, and they do
have reports about it. But here's the part where he
pivots in an insane way, and most of mainstream media
will ignore.

Speaker 8 (42:56):
It, even those as to whom we know where they are,
that is outside the responsibility of the Department of Homeland Security.
What we do is we turn children over within seventy
two hours, as the law requires, to the Department of
Health and Human Services, and then HHS places those children.
Of course, we investigate cases of trafficking, but there are

(43:22):
children who are reunited with a parent here in the
United States or a legal guardian, and they move and
sometimes the government loses track individuals do not comply with
a report.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Yeah, I'll stop it right there.

Speaker 2 (43:37):
So what's most amazing to me about this topic too,
outside of the fact that you allowed yourself to say
in an interview that that's outside the responsibility of the
Department of Homeland Security.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Whatever it is you're talking about.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
When you're in the world of children and trafficking and
saying that's not my job but somebody else's is horrendous.
But this also flies in the face of the typical
version of speak from that side of the political aisle.
The emotionally charged version of a discussion, whether it's about
abortion and the mom whose life is now in jeopardy

(44:09):
because of rule changes somewhere, No matter how rare that
occurrence actually is and how little has actually been changed
to put that person in real jeopardy of not being
able to survive because they have a pregnancy that becomes
a danger to their own life, None of that matters.
Politicians on a certain side of the aisle just like
to talk about the emotions. You like to reference the
need for an open border by saying that a mom

(44:31):
with two children tries to cross the border to make
a better life for herself because she can't afford to
do it in whatever country she lives in. You don't
mention any of the people who are here that have
committed violent crimes that for some reason are allowed to stay,
and the first people that Tom Holman, the incoming Secretary
of Homeland Security, has vowed to remove from our country
on day one. It's just so important to me that you,

(44:55):
in that minute nine seconds heard both media's way to
try to plant in argument or slanted discussion to accuse
the right of being hyperbolic, of lying of whatever it
is they're doing, and that they couldn't go that road
because in fact, what was being said was the truth.
So instead, what you actually say is, this is a
moment where I'm going to allow myself to be a

(45:16):
hypocrite because my side is okay with it and your
side isn't, and then darn it later, and especially if
it's something that you do that's the same, but you're
on the right, We're going to attack it and talk
about how it's an eroding of our values as a society.
And that's the example we're seeing from the politician. Another
thing that I wanted to mention just quickly, talking about

(45:36):
eroding the values of our society. So Saturday Night Live
did a few jokes about the murderer of the United
Healthcare CEO. I continue to not use his name myself
and continue to explain it. And the reason why I'm
doing that is because I don't like to give any
sort of excuse me, publicity to someone that killed someone

(45:59):
that wants to not to piety from it. I don't
want to do that. I know, you know his name.
I know I could say it. I don't want to
do it. But anyway, SNL.

Speaker 3 (46:07):
Set up a joke.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
They didn't even make a joke about him, and the
audience in New York had already started cheering at the
mention of this person's name in a way that it's
really odd. And I could play the audio if you
know you wanted me to, but I still don't want
to do that either. And even the host of Weekend Update,
Colin Jost, turned to the audience smiled when he probably

(46:30):
shouldn't have smiled, and said, you're cheering for justice, right
as opposed to anything else. It wasn't a perfect response
to a weird cheer in a New York audience, but
at least it was something, because it's insane to think
that there's this much celebration of something like this because
of people's anger in their own personal lives with whatever
their own personal trauma or challenges.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
And here's what it really made me think of.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
And I think it's definitely true in the world of
politics or a lot of the way that media discuss
us as things. When you're checking the boxes of how
you build a narrative for everyday consumption, and people are
building narratives, they're not actually just telling you the truth.
One of the boxes that needs to be checked is
who's to blame? It seems like, and that's become a thing.

(47:16):
Maybe social media is a part of it too for
us as a society, like who's to blame? I need
to blame somebody, I need a name, I need a person.
A whole lot of health insurance companies and places who
work in that sector have scrubbed the names of their
CEOs and individuals in power positions for the fear that
they would also be targeted for violent crime and that

(47:38):
it would be celebrated by our society. But the fact
that you need to have a person that's turning you
into a victim, somebody that you can embody, whether it's
a white dude, whoever it might be, depending on the
narrative in our society is bad in and of itself.
I'm not saying that the healthcare system is good or
developed well. United Health actually that themselves that the system

(48:01):
is broken. And I know that there's people that are
the benefiting off of things in bad ways that we
shouldn't be allowing to continue to benefit off things. But
when you're cheering murder and cheering someone getting shot in
the back by an assassin, and that's literally how he
behaved in that moment.

Speaker 3 (48:17):
It's insane.

Speaker 2 (48:18):
It's insane the level of anger we have and how
we need to place it on the shoulders of a
person instead of the shoulders of a situation that we
all wish could get better. But that essentially is indicative
of the problem to me, and you're hearing it in
SNL as they're cheering the mention of a name, even
as the jokes then were overly kind of nice to
a person who did something horrible. All right, on that note,

(48:40):
we will take a quick break uplifting discussion on the holidays.
This is Craig Collins filling in on the Holidays on
the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 8 (50:00):
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Speaker 1 (50:02):
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Speaker 2 (50:05):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you during the holidays.
It's already expensive to eat out. It's insanely expensive, probably
to eat out in places like Washington, d C. I
know this a little bit from experience, but not as
much so his producer, Phil Does. I saw this story
that he sent me about a Michelin starred restaurant in
DC that is selling water for ninety five bucks a bottle.

(50:30):
They have different kinds of water, twenty five different ones
on the menu, all from parts of the world.

Speaker 3 (50:36):
With descriptions, much like bottles of wine.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
They're even grated like bottles of wine, and you pay
money for them up to as I said, ninety five dollars. Look,
spend your money however you want. You made it, you
can throw it on whatever you want to throw it on.
But I don't need a ninety five dollars bottle of water,
and I'm sure it tastes the exact same as a
one dollar bottle of water.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Because it's water.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
I'm sorry it is though us you're doing something to
goose it that you're not telling me about, like putting
vodka in it. I don't need to spend that much
money on it. If you want to throw some vodka
in there, that's fine. Now it's a very different product
to me. But again, it's something that's just ridiculous and
insane and out there in the world. I wonder how
many places a Michelin starred restaurant, whatever it is, just

(51:20):
try something out to see if they can get away
with it, and then if a lot of people buy it,
they're like, well, wait a minute, we can keep doing this.
This is going great for us, So let's keep charging
ninety five dollars for a bottle of water. I don't
know if you've ever bought a bottle of wine at
a restaurant. I imagine many people have bought a bottle
of wine before. There's something disheartening about that when you

(51:40):
show up at like the grocery store the next day
and see it at the grocery store for like an
eighth of the price you paid at the restaurant.

Speaker 3 (51:49):
That happens to me. I almost feel like it's a
lesson from God.

Speaker 2 (51:52):
Whenever I've done that, whenever I've had a special moment
with the missus where I feel like, all right, let's
buy the bottle instead of the glass and feel fancy
for the even you immediately go to the store and
you see it there for seven dollars, and you're like,
every part of me regrets every.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Decision I made the other night.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
And then you eventually stopped doing it, which I guess
is the good thing in all of this for some
of us. But again, spend your money however you want.
You made it, you can spend it on bottles of water.
Is the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen in my life.
All Right, I only have a little bit of time
before we take a break, which is good because I
want to do an adult topic. So I'll do this
radio friendly, I promise. There's a brand new study that

(52:30):
came out, I imagine, mostly by male scientists that said
that not being romantic could be bad for your health.
And they go through a list of hazardous health conditions
that come from not having intimacy and romance. And I
am definitely speaking about something specific but not going to
say it on the air necessarily, but that's where we are.

(52:50):
The University of California was the one who studied this.
They said, all of these issues, either mental or actual
physical issues, come from the lack of ability to have
an intimate encounter with a person that you love or
at least care about somewhat, I assume. But I love
every part of this because essentially it's trying to advocate
away from having a quote unquote dry spell or a

(53:14):
dry period in your life where you are purposefully abstaining
from certain things you shouldn't do that because it's bad
for your mental and physical health. It can cause heart issues,
it can cause different health issues as well as just
mental health problems. And I love it because again, I'm
not sure that you can recreate every aspect of this

(53:34):
study if a different group of people tried it, and
fairly certain that it was a group of dudes who
were behind it in the first place that were like,
we need to study this thing that makes sure to
advocate for what we hope everyone listens to out there
in the world. But I guess if you're on a
date and you're not really sure how romantic you are,
you could at least throw this out there as a
potential way for both of you to be healthier if

(53:56):
something goes a certain way later on in the evening,
and more coming up in a bit. This is Greg
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 17 (54:04):
I did that, okay, then Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:37):

Speaker 2 (54:41):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Greg Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about, but first let's play
audio of the soon to be current and former President
Trump talking about how dumb woke.

Speaker 3 (54:55):
Is, which is something that's making the rounds and social media.

Speaker 2 (54:58):
There are things way more important out there that are
happening right now, and yet a lot of media will
obsess about how unpresidential Trump is right.

Speaker 5 (55:07):
Here at this stop.

Speaker 6 (55:08):
Woke, woke is both.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
The chairs goes on for a while there after he
said that, and woke is well bleep to a lot
of people. And I like to take this a step further.
I don't have to but to anyone out there that
gets upset at those words or likes to object to
those who are anti woke culture because they think that
they think it means being anti kind to other people.

(55:37):
You can't be nice to someone when the only way
to do it is to pretend what they said wasn't insane.
If something's insane, you have to say it. You have
to be like, well, that was nuts, would you just
said out loud? And I love the fact that woke
only really cares about what side of the political aisle
you're on. If you're on the conservative right, then you're
the enemy to the people, no matter who you are,
no matter what you think. And if you're you know,

(55:58):
on the left, then everything you think is okay and
fine because you're voting the right way. A case in
point might be John Fetterman, the Senator, and what he
said at ABC when he sat down for an interview
over the weekend. It is interesting to think that he
might be grabbing the torch from Joe Manchin as Joe
Manchin walks away from the Senate after becoming an independent,

(56:19):
a longtime Democrat, and even saying recently that he thinks
the Democrat is the Democratic Party is full of a
whole bunch of very far left people who are going
to be a problem moving forward. I've paraphrased his words,
but Fetterman said this about Donald Trump, about the way
that he responded to almost being killed, and then also
the rhetoric that surrounded him that failed to make people

(56:43):
vote against him the way that Democrats hoped they would
in this past election.

Speaker 7 (56:47):
And after you survived an assassination, you literally were shot
in your head and had the presence of mind to respond,
you know, fight, fight, fight, I mean that's a political talent,
it's undeniable. And also I never believed that it was
about fascism, and for me, that made it difficult.

Speaker 6 (57:08):
For kil Harris said that he was a fascist.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
Yeah, well, it's like that's her prerogative. I mean, but
it's not a word that I would use because you
put a lot of Democrats, especially in my state that
I know, and I happen to love people that are
going to vote for Trump, and they are not fascists.
And also fascism, that's not a word that regular people,
you know, use that.

Speaker 6 (57:30):
You know.

Speaker 7 (57:31):
I think people are going to decide who is the
candidate that's going to protect and project, you know, my
version of the American way of life. And that's what happened.

Speaker 3 (57:41):
Yes, that is exactly what happened.

Speaker 2 (57:42):
People did feel that way, and honestly, and this is
the most interesting part. So I'm going to tell you
a little bit about me. I don't know if it
matters to you, but darned I have a point. For
a while there, in my twenties and thirties, I was
living in very deeply blue Chicago, and so no matter
what my position or thoughts were on certain issues, the
people that surrounded me were fairly uniform, or at least

(58:05):
the vocal ones in their way of thinking. And so
you'd go from place to place and you'd hear kind
of crazy far left things in a place like Chicago,
and part of you thinks, man, a lot of people
must feel this way. And then you move out of
the city, you move more to rural Illinois for a
while where I lived, or Florida, where I live now,
and you hear a whole lot of the opposite opinion

(58:26):
from just as many people. And the point I'm trying
to make is that depending on where you live, and
if you've ever really allowed yourself to move out of
that place and to a place that has a different ideology,
big cities most often have a very far left leaning
ideology and everywhere else in the country has not exactly
the same thing. You wind up believing that we're a

(58:48):
lot more mixed in our opinion than you do.

Speaker 3 (58:50):
If you just stay in that one place.

Speaker 2 (58:52):
There are people I know in both places I reference
in Illinois or even here in Florida that think well,
most people think like me, because everybody I encounter thinks
this way that I think as well, and we're all
nice people. The other thing that's funny about it is,
no matter what side of the political aisle you wind
up on, I know a whole lot of people who
are good parents, care about their kids, care about their family,

(59:14):
care about you know, their parents, and if their parents
are doing okay as they get later up in the years.
I'm in my late thirties, early forties almost now, So
that's one of the big concerns of a lot of
my friends is, you know, if their parents' health is
going to be okay, and what they're going to have
to do to help to make sure their parents are
okay for years to come. Those are issues that are
universal to all of us, and yet they get abandoned

(59:36):
in these political discussions. And so I think Fetterman does
a really good job of pointing that out. He's like,
I love people that vote for the political side that
I'm not on, because everyone's not evil. Granted, Trump himself
isn't as evil as they tell you. He is in
my opinion and well a whole lot of people's opinion,
but that doesn't matter. Let's not even try to go
that road. Let's just talk about the human beings who
would vote for the other side. And I'm sure you

(59:58):
know people I'm almost done with this topic, but I'm
sure you know people who say things about I can't
believe that anyone would vote for Trump, or that Trump
would get elected again, or how horrible society is. The
people who want to move, And what's hilarious to me
is those people have to be that first group that
I talked about a second ago, who are so in

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their bubble they have no idea what the outside world
actually thinks beyond the bubble, or people who are just
willingly making the enemy whoever they can see, who's ever
physically in front of them. If the enemy isn't someone
that they actually can talk to, then they have to
turn it into someone that at least they can picture
confronting at some point in their lives. And I don't

(01:00:41):
know why we need to do that, but it seems
that a whole lot of people desperately, desperately need to
do that. Other things going on. AOC popped up and
was in the news quite a bit recently for a
couple different stances.

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
She had.

Speaker 2 (01:00:56):
One of the more annoying things she said was about
Daniel Penny. Daniel Penny, of course, is the marine who
wound up, you know, trying to with trying to put
into a choke hold and subdue a person who was
making violent threats on a train, not someone who was
just innocently doing whatever, which is usually what people say

(01:01:17):
about Jordan Neely. He was a person who was making
people very afraid, as nine to one audio in the
courtroom demonstrated, people were fearing for their lives, et cetera,
et cetera. This has also been compared quite a bit
to a assassin shooting a CEO in the back with
a gun, which is insane to me. And there was
at least one medical professional in the Daniel Penny case,

(01:01:39):
I think two were used in the courtroom that said
they thought that the you know, the choke hold was
not the main reason that Jordan Neely died, that there
were other things going on, mental health conditions, actual health
conditions that were going on that Daniel Penny wouldn't be
aware of, a toxicology report that demonstrated that there were
things medically and also medicinally that would have contributed to it.

(01:02:02):
I mean, there were a wide range of factors, and
someone who was trained to put someone in a harmless
choke hold that could subdue them, make them pass out
without killing them could have turned into something that was,
you know, more deadly than.

Speaker 3 (01:02:14):
Intended to be.

Speaker 2 (01:02:16):
I'm saying all this to say that essentially the areas
of gray or areas of debate within the Daniel Penny
story are profound, and the lack of any sort of
gray area discussion in the killing of a CEO by
shooting him in the back with a gun as he's
walking down the street is so very different, and yet

(01:02:36):
AOC sees parallels in this stuff and also sees our
system is broken when you're talking about Daniel Penny.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
But here's a little bit of that audio.

Speaker 8 (01:02:44):
She said that he would he would do it again if.

Speaker 12 (01:02:49):
There is a kind of practice.

Speaker 1 (01:02:50):
What do you make of the comments?

Speaker 12 (01:02:51):
You know, doesn't that? I just feel like that that
tells us everything if we do not want violence on
our subways. And the point of our justice system is
a level of accountability.

Speaker 1 (01:03:05):
Wow, to a person who help.

Speaker 12 (01:03:07):
Does not have remorse about taking another person's lives. I mean,
even people who have engaged in nanslaughterness or have taken
a life accidentally expressed remorse. And so the fact that
a person has expressed no remorse.

Speaker 2 (01:03:25):
No, actually, so part of this is even just willfully
being ignorant to what has been said. Daniel Penny did
absolutely say right after it happened that he did not
intend and was, you know, upset and sad for the
family that Jordan Neely died. There's a statement out there
that you can find that happened immediately after all of
this happened. But he said he'd act the same because

(01:03:47):
he was protecting other people on the train. And what
matters more about this than creating anyone's story and making
it a microcosm for your own political statements, which is
what people do all the time. I'm going to point
this one story over here, find the issue and tell
you how everybody struggles with that. When she references the
subways not being safe, it's not because of Daniel Penny's

(01:04:08):
You don't have a lot of people like him doing
things like he did being in the news every day.
Because we talk about that one story as if it's
the most important things that happened. But yet the amount
of violent interactions that happen on the subway with people
that are mentally unhealthy, people like Jordan Neely in a
few different ways, whatever those ways might be. And no,

(01:04:29):
I'm not talking about just race specifically, for any anyone
that wants to hear that, But whatever those issues are,
those stories are so consistent that we don't hear about
them every day, We don't talk about them all the time.
The subways are unsafe. The data says that, The stats
say that, no matter what the New York politicians say
about it. You even have this horrific story just recently

(01:04:52):
about a migrant who lit someone on fire on a train,
and I'm not going to play any of that audio
or talk about that beyond these moments, but someone was
killed in that way, in sort of a horrific way,
and that's all over the news, and yet it's not
the kind of thing that we only see once. Maybe
the nature in which that crime was committed is rare,

(01:05:12):
but the amount of people who are put in life
and death situations are in harm's way on subway systems
throughout New York is actually more than it's ever been.
And so for her to say that the problem is
the judicial system, and Daniel Penny is wilfully insane, wilfully
ignorant to the issues, and also just a desire to
make certain people accountable to whatever the problems are in society,

(01:05:35):
even if they go above and beyond any situation that
involves that individual. What I mean by that is, you
find someone to blame for whatever the issue is that
you think you can blame them for, and then you
blame them for everything else that's a problem in our society,
regardless of the accuracy of it, or you blame anyone
that looks like them as having created the problem in

(01:05:56):
our society. And that is it's racism or sexism, or
whatever version of a thing you want it to be,
no matter who it's targeting. It actually is, in fact
that if you're talking about one white guy doing something bad,
and so your narrative becomes all white guys do something bad,
that is the same version as saying it the other
way about a different race or a different sex. And
darn it, I'm just here to tell us the obvious,

(01:06:18):
I guess, because so few people are willing to do it. Now,
all right, A quick break, A lot coming up. Craig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson show.

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Speaker 2 (01:07:37):
stuff out there to talk about. Last Christmas, Whams song
was the number one Christmas song again for the second
year in a row. I Gotta be honest, we need
another Chris, like, we need somebody to make a Christmas
song that's actually a classic. Is that that doesn't happen

(01:07:58):
anybody that puts out a newer one, it always sounds cliched.
I'm not saying I dislike the old ones, the truly
old ones, you know, songs like White Christmas and whatnot.
But I'm definitely sick of some of these contemporary but
not all that contemporary hits, a Last Christmas among them,
Mariah Carey among them. We need new stuff that's good,
and that seems like it's a very challenging thing to ask,

(01:08:20):
especially in the world of Christmas songs, because Last Christmas
is probably the second most annoying song in my mind,
just after Mariah Carey's Christmas hit. I don't even want
to say out loud, just because it's played so much.
I've heard it so many times.

Speaker 3 (01:08:34):
I'm good. Now, maybe that's sacrilege. Maybe you think I'm wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:08:38):
We got to come up with something new, people, or
just listen to the really truly classic stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:08:41):
I'm never gonna get sick of Root off the Red
Nose Reindeer. That's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
You can play that on the radio all you want
some of these songs. Though crazy Apple is working on
a doorbell with face ID. I don't know if this
will actually unlock your door for you, although they say
that's a possibility. But more than anything else, it would
help you identify someone via Apple's wide range of information,
if in fact someone does something bad on your front

(01:09:06):
yard or in your front yard. This seems terrible. This
seems like the kind of surveillance stuff that we don't want.
This falls on the heels and I don't mean to
turn this into a political rant for a second, but
of Ran Paul complaining about a brand new bill in
which essentially the government says if there are drones flying
somewhere and the government claims they don't know whose drones

(01:09:26):
they are or what's going on with that, that they
can just take all the information off all the surrounding
cell phones to figure it out, meaning they can invade
all our privacy every time they fly a drone they
claim isn't theirs wherever they feel like flying it, which
sounds horrible and terrible. This story about Apple and a
face idea and a doorbell sounds fairly similar. It sounds

(01:09:47):
kind of the same, and it sounds real, real bad
superhero or Superman. Excuse me, as director says, the battered
hero in the new film represents the United States or
represents all of us. New Superman trailer came out, and surprisingly,
in the first few moments of it, Superman seems like
he got the crap kicked out of him. If you

(01:10:07):
haven't seen it, I'm not exactly advocating to see it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:10):
It might be a good movie. I like James Gunn.

Speaker 2 (01:10:13):
I'm not sure if beating the crap at a Superman
is the example of how everybody in society is also
feeling beaten up, it actually, you know, makes sense. My
favorite thing about the trailer is that Crypto, the superhero.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
Dog, is in the movie.

Speaker 2 (01:10:28):
That's the first time we've seen him Man. Superman in fact,
does have a dog, and so seeing a superpowered dog
is something that I think, even if it's cliched, I'm
in for and maybe that also represents us all somehow.
I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure what it is,
but it doesn't matter. That's the number one reason I
would go to that movie. Not that it looks like

(01:10:49):
Superman came to a beating that he's not used to
in movies and in film. Jeff Bezos is going to
marry Lauren Sanchez and a lavis six hundred million dollar
Aspen wedding that's going to happen next weekend, according to
The New York Post. According to Bezos, it's not true.
I'm gonna put both out there. If you want a

(01:11:10):
lavish wedding that very few people are invited to, which
I don't know how you spend six hundred million and
then don't have that many people show up to this thing,
or you're trying to keep it quiet for whatever reason,
that's one reason to deny it and say it's not happening. Otherwise,
maybe it is just wrong. But Bezos put up on
social media. The whole thing is completely false. None of
this is happening. The old age don't believe everything you read.

(01:11:34):
The old adage, excuse me, don't believe everything you read
is even more true today than it ever has been.

Speaker 1 (01:11:39):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:39):
Lies can get all the way.

Speaker 2 (01:11:41):
Around the world before the truth can get it, you know,
to be demonstrated to be false.

Speaker 3 (01:11:46):
That's according to Bezos. We'll see baby.

Speaker 2 (01:11:49):
I don't believe him necessarily until I know for a
fact that this wedding did or didn't happen. This wedding
that the New York Post is claiming is going to
be ridiculously expensive and going to be fancy and all
that other stuff. I'll wait to see. I have the
time to do it. But all right, that's just one
topic out there. A lot of other things are being discussed.
We will get back to some of the serious stuff.
We'll still talking about the silly right here. Craig Collins,

(01:12:12):
filling in on The Chad Benson Show. I don't like
Superman getting beat up, by the way, like just honestly,
as a person to be you know, back to that
topic for just a second. Like Superman is on purpose
supposed to be an overpowered superhero, So getting the crap
kicked out of him in a movie, I won't necessarily
make me feel like life is great. It'll make me

(01:12:34):
feel like man, even Superman's getting beat up. How am
I supposed to win in the society? Which isn't the
feeling I want when I go to a movie.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Darn it. Craig Collins, filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:58):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
filling in, thrilled to be with you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:34):
A bunch of stuff out there to talk about in
the world.

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
Although one of the probable conversations that you're gonna hear
over the next few days is Donald Trump is not
presidential darn it, because he says bad words at times,
or at least he said one bad word.

Speaker 3 (01:13:48):
I want to play this.

Speaker 2 (01:13:49):
This is definitely audio that's probably gonna make the rounds
all of our social media.

Speaker 6 (01:13:52):
Here we go, We've got to stop woke is both.

Speaker 3 (01:14:00):
That applause went on.

Speaker 2 (01:14:01):
I actually had to cut the applause if he said that,
because it's fantastic, and honestly, one of the most obvious
reasons that people voted for Donald Trump is his willingness
to say things like that, or to say things like fight, fight,
fight after he almost was killed. So I thought it
was hilarious that it went viral. Of course, hilarious that
people are going to react to it like it's a horrible.

Speaker 3 (01:14:22):
Terrible thing.

Speaker 2 (01:14:23):
And just because I like to play the game, not
because you have to play the game. I'll go ahead
and say that the actual problem with wokeness just to
put it out there. And I think the reason that
you could reference it as BS is simply because woke people,
as long as you agree with their political stance on something,
will agree with anything else you say after that.

Speaker 3 (01:14:44):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:14:45):
A whole lot of people say a whole lot of
crazy stuff in the society we live in now, And
darn it, that's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:14:51):
It's not a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:14:52):
It doesn't matter as long as again, the first thing
you say is I'm going to vote Democratic, then crazy
is allowed. But if you say I'm going to vote public,
well then crazy is horrible. All right, let's move on
other things out there. I thought this was interesting. Mayor
Eric Adams of New York continues to say stuff that
seems different than even stuff he used to say a

(01:15:13):
few months ago, especially as Donald Trump has teased potentially
giving him a pardon for any of the stuff they're
going for him, going after him for in a courtroom.
This is talking about how children are being radicalized in
the United States, whether it's from the education system, some
of the positions that some parents might have on things.
It is interesting to hear a Democratic mayor of a

(01:15:35):
city like New York say that he thinks that children
are in fact being radicalized, something that's often called a
conspiracy theory if it's from the other side of the
aisle air who We.

Speaker 13 (01:15:44):
Just saw a moment ago, Eric Adams just yesterday and
one of the things we touched on because it happened
right here in midtown in New York. I asked the
mayor about the killing of Brian Thompson in that exclusive
sit down at city Hall. Here's more of that conversation.
Watch the other day about the murder of Brian Thompson,

(01:16:04):
the United Healthcare CEO and the suspect, Luigia Mangioni. And
you said, our children are being radicalized to hate America.
You said, I get pushed back when I say this,
but you said that that's what you believe.

Speaker 18 (01:16:17):
Why yes, and think about it not only the assassination,
the intention assassination of Brian, but also look what happened
on our school grounds. You had a young girl that
went in and took the life of innocent people. Of
one would state that when you look at the polls
that forty percent of thirty year olds or younger think

(01:16:41):
to shoot, it was justified when you look at what's
happening on social media, and that is the real problem
because young people we've always pushed back when we were
youthful on government. But with social media and the proliferation
of hate, of anger, of suicide rates, increased ideation, suicide,
increasing depression, there's something that's happened in below the surface

(01:17:04):
with our young people.

Speaker 2 (01:17:06):
Look, there's something that's happening in the school system with
our young people, where radical twenty something year old teachers
are telling radical ideas to their kids, well not their kids,
but the kids in their classrooms. That's a part of it,
as much as social media as too. These ideas don't
just invent themselves in nowhere. And the amount of twenty

(01:17:26):
somethings that you can find has Eric Adams just referenced
a second ago that believe things like the shooting was justified?
Are so through the roof? Who are the teachers, Who
are the people in these classrooms. Are a lot of
them in their twenties and thirties, Are a lot of
them in the age group that would say that this
sort of thing is okay? And are they sharing that
ideology with their students in one way, shape or form.

(01:17:46):
The answer appears to be yes. Now more than ever,
And I don't know if social media does play a
part in it. I imagine it does actually beyond what
Eric is saying. That's obvious that social media could enhance
radical positions or or allow you to go search them
out if you so desire, But I imagine it also
makes people think that their opinion is more valuable. I

(01:18:07):
think if social media has had any damage at all,
like if you could single, uh, you could chop it
down into one single thing, if you could, you know,
essentially narrow something that's got way more tentacles than it,
then I'm going to pretend it does for a second.
The biggest issue is the importance of the opinion, not
just my own, but the opinion I think I need

(01:18:29):
to control in other people, because social media has created
a world in which I think that if my opinion
is so valuable on whatever topic it is, that it
deserves dislikes and no dislikes, and everybody else must think it,
and if you don't think it, you have to be
corrected and stopped. When the reality is that both of
those things aren't true. And I imagine it plays itself
out in classrooms where teachers who are now more you know,

(01:18:55):
confident or feel like they're more supported in certain onions
that go well beyond the lesson plan, share them in
some way, shape or form with kids and help radicalize
them that way. That is one of the reasons the
Department of Education is something that's the target of the
administration coming in, not necessarily because it's just a blatant

(01:19:15):
waste of money, but also because there's a lot of
classrooms in a lot of the country right now that
are teaching things that parents don't want their kids to
be taught, and they're supposed to be the ones that
have control over that. Not the teachers, but the arrogance
of that position to teach kids things that you think
are true, even though their opinion is well darn it bad.

(01:19:35):
Trump is considered retaking the Panama Canal. That's another story
that's out there in a bunch of places. President elect
Trump warren Panama that the US would demand the canal
be returned to America if Panama did not stop charging
crazy fees to use it. In a Saturday Night Truth
social post, I can read part of it for you.
We would and we will never let it fall into

(01:19:57):
the wrong hands. It was not given for the benefit
of others, but merely as a token of cooperation with
us in Panama. If the principles, both moral and legal,
of this magnanimous gesture are giving gesture of giving are
not followed, then we demand that the Panama Canal be
returned to us in full and without question. I love

(01:20:18):
every part of that. I think that there's a lot
of things that Trump is saying and doing right now
that dominate the headlines that cause all the Trump de
arrangement people to jump up on their high horse and
scream that this is the thing that's going to break
our society or this is the thing that's going to
ruin the world, whether it's tariffs, whatever you want to

(01:20:39):
call it. And the truth is that a lot of
it is just a negotiating position. He's just putting those
things out there in the world to get himself into
the most valuable spot he can be in in order
to negotiate the stuff that he actually wants to fight over.
So I find that hilarious that that's out there right
now and being freaked out about. I doubt the United
States will actually take back the Panama Canal.

Speaker 3 (01:21:00):
I will see.

Speaker 2 (01:21:02):
Another thing out there that I thought was valuable to
just report. Laura Trump said that she does not want
the Senate seat in Florida. She's not pursuing it. She
hopes that DeSantis picks someone good for that role replacing
Marco Rubio, but it's not going to be her. There
actually were a lot of people that would have supported

(01:21:22):
Trump being given that position. I still very much think
DeSantis should and will give it to himself. There have
been debates about what Iran DeSantis's next political role is
and whether or not he tarnished his ability to have
a significant position after his tenure as governor in Florida
is over by his failed presidential campaign. What better way

(01:21:46):
to potentially give yourself an out that a whole lot
of people love, go from governor to senator, then just
go ahead and hand it to you.

Speaker 3 (01:21:54):
And I live in Florida right now.

Speaker 2 (01:21:56):
Currently, a whole bunch of people in Florida won't be
all that mad about this, So I don't think it'll
harm himself that way, because he is still very much
well liked throughout the state of Florida, no matter how
much he has taken certain hits on a national stage
for a variety of reasons, from just how badly he
was beaten by Donald Trump in the primaries. But nonetheless,

(01:22:18):
if I were him, I would do that, and I
would do that unapologetically. Just give myself the Senate position
and say this is my next move, and I hope
to get re elected in about a year or so
when a special election were to occur. He doesn't get
the entirety of a six year tenure or the six
year term, because once you appoint someone to that, a

(01:22:39):
special election is then brought up, So he'd only get
a shorter amount of time to prove himself worthy of reelection.
But darn it, there's no one else that it will
benefit as much as I think it would actually benefit
Ron DeSantis at this point, mostly because, and if you
don't know this about Florida, he can't be governor anymore.
He will turn out and won't be able to stay
in that position any longer.

Speaker 3 (01:22:59):
So why not?

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
I truthfully don't know the answer to that part of
the question. I know a lot of people think they
know the answer, but I don't know it. One last thing,
Biden has chosen to commute the sentences of almost everyone
on death Row. Thirty seven sentences have been changed to
be life without parole. Only three people were left in

(01:23:21):
a scenario where they could still be put to death
as far as the charges against them. All three of
those are mass murderers. Here's the thing that I most
dislike about this move, and I'm not necessarily a big
proponent of the death penalty. I'm a Catholic. I know
that you know sounds weak, but it is what it is.
I don't know. My faith asks me to feel a
certain way about some things. Punishment is deserved for people

(01:23:44):
who commit horrendous crimes. Some of the people who had
their death sentences commuted are horrific people, you know, people
who killed children, which is just crazy to have that
be people that have been, in any way, shape or
form given some sort of kindness by the current president
of the United States. But the real thing I have
a problem with is the stated mission that you're doing

(01:24:05):
this to prevent Trump from doing something different, because what
this does easily, and waiting to do this until the
eleventh hour of your presidency, when you've already been told
you're not going to be re elected, when you actually
were pushed into the closet by your own political party
and not allowed to finish your campaign is that you
don't care what the American people want. If the American
people voted someone else into power because they said that

(01:24:28):
person is better than you in their opinion over the
next four years at making decisions, and so right before
they take over, you do something to prevent them from
having a voice in any conversation. You essentially again are
telling the American people, I don't care what you want.
I'm doing this because I think that it's the thing
that we should do, regardless of if it's what the

(01:24:48):
other person would do in the same position. I think
that that's the bad part, saying the quiet part out loud.
If you were going to do this, as Biden, you
should have done this at the beginning of your president
presidential term, not the end of it, and not to
prevent Trump from doing whatever he thinks is more important.
All Right, That's all that is going on with that story.

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It's certainly a big thing all over the place. A
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Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
Fronting with Scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 2 (01:26:26):
Say this is the Chad Benson Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in, I'll do the cheap thing. In
response to the Mega million story, what would you do
if you want almost a billion dollars. If nobody wins
on Tuesday, that's what we're looking at. The jackpot is
going to rise to about nine hundred and fifty million

(01:26:48):
or so before the drawing on Tuesday, which sounds insane. Tomorrow,
somebody might win a ridiculous amount of money right before
Christmas Day, on Christmas Eve. If that occurs, if somebody
wins the Mega Millions tomorrow, I think that no one
will ever be able to top that Christmas gift for them.
And granted they should give Christmas gifts to their family

(01:27:11):
that are way better, I just suddenly change it entirely
for all involved. I'm sort of kidding when I say that,
but nonetheless, it is ridiculous. The Mega Millions got up
to a ridiculous amount of money. We see this more
and more now, and I mention this, not that it's
truly important, because the odds were already terrible, but the
reason we're seeing higher jackpots is they made the odds

(01:27:32):
even worse.

Speaker 3 (01:27:33):
Your likelihood of.

Speaker 2 (01:27:34):
Winning is I think, akin to being struck by lightning
twice while hit by a car falling off a cliff
or something like that.

Speaker 3 (01:27:42):
It's unlikely.

Speaker 2 (01:27:43):
It is another way to say that you're going to
win this thing. But if you do, what would you
do with a billion dollars? Interesting question to answer right
around Christmas as opposed to any other time of the year,
because it might make you want to be more giving,
because it's always better to give than it is to receive,
right I doubt that's true for anybody who wins that
amount of money. It'd be great to receive the billions

(01:28:04):
or millions excuse me of dollars potentially maybe even a billion,
although after you do the lump sum payment it's not
the same. None of that matters. I don't care. I
want to win that. I'll probably buy a ticket. You
might be giving them away as Christmas gifts if nobody
wins on Tuesday. Not that you'll be able to buy
them on Wednesday anywhere, but who knows.

Speaker 3 (01:28:22):
We'll see how that goes too.

Speaker 2 (01:28:24):
Another story out there that I found uniquely hilarious. San
Jose State University has a story that's actually in the
news about their volleyball team.

Speaker 3 (01:28:34):
I can't imagine that that's a.

Speaker 2 (01:28:36):
University or a sport that's often in mainstream headline news
a lot of places, but it is the reason why
is that they let a transgender biological mail play on
their team this past season, and so now most of
the biological women have entered the transfer protocol to leave
and go somewhere else because they'd like to play for

(01:28:57):
a different organization. Now I find that very interesting, and
well darn it, doesn't it make a whole lot of
sense that people would want a chance to play against
people that they can compete against instead of somebody that
they feel like they can't compete against, even from the
same team. This is Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show, and I do find a lot more

(01:29:18):
of this hilarious beyond just the fact that almost the
entire team outside of this person, this one biological man,
is going to show up to compete next year because
it seems like the coaches are fairly confident they'll be okay,
they'll rebuild the team, they'll keep the person that has
a biological advantage over everyone they're playing volleyball against, and
not worry too much about if they're going to be

(01:29:38):
a competitive team or not. But seven players leaving San
Jose State to go somewhere else is unique and the
kind of thing you don't see a lot of and yet,
darn it, if you're in certain spaces in our society,
you'll say this is good or fair or some other
version of something that makes no sense to anyone other
than the people who are saying that it's okay. Everyone else,

(01:29:58):
including the parents of those kids who are leaving that school,
I'm probably feeling a very very different way. And honestly,
it also kind of says one thing about the competitive, uh,
you know desire that most athletes who make it to
college sports have a desire for fairness, a desire for
you know, competing on a level that makes sense because

(01:30:18):
you don't want to play with someone that is marketedly
better than the rest of the players on your team
are because you don't think it's fair. And so I
love that competitive, you know sports nature that so many
have too.

Speaker 3 (01:30:30):
I quick break a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:30:32):

Speaker 14 (01:30:52):
A Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):

Speaker 2 (01:31:21):
stuff to talk about. Republican politician eighty one years old,
Kay Granger is her name, hasn't voted even though she's
a member of Congress. She also actually is the chair
of the Committee of Appropriations from twenty twenty three to

(01:31:42):
twenty twenty four. She hasn't voted in like six months,
and people were starting to wonder why, especially since some
of the votes were fairly important and the majorities were
raisor thin in the House, and so they went looking
to it. The first thing that local news did showed
up at her campaign quarters, at her actual offices, and

(01:32:02):
they were shuttered completely closed.

Speaker 3 (01:32:05):
Then they talk to people.

Speaker 2 (01:32:07):
Within her team that had weird answers to questions, So
eventually they found out that she's been in a nursing
home for several months now. Her family says that she's
dealing with dementia issues. Here's the problem. I'm not trying
to be inconsiderate or mean. If a family is dealing
with someone who's got a mental health challenge like that,

(01:32:29):
that's got to be difficult, that's got to be bad.
You can't let the person stay in a political position
for six months and just not tell anybody. And it
re invigorates some of the questions that surround whether or
not we should have an age limit for politicians if
seventy something eighty something is simply too old. In general,
I've never been a proponent for that necessarily, just an

(01:32:51):
arbitrary limit on the age of an individual. But I'm
absolutely a proponent for like a mental health test, some
sort of demonstration of your mental acuity. And if you
can't achieve a certain score in those worlds, he can't
be a politician anymore, and immediate removal of someone from
those positions is important. It's crazy that she's also the

(01:33:12):
chair of a committee and that that committee essentially has
been operating for a little while without her. She didn't
try to be re elected, so she was allowing herself
to end her political career or not that she's sadly
even all that aware of that, and her family has
said that it's been very rapid. But it's ridiculous that
you get to the point where she's actually checked into

(01:33:33):
a nursing home and has been living there for an
amount of time and you don't know it until you
go looking for the information, mostly because her voting record
has shown that she's just not showing up to stuff.

Speaker 14 (01:33:44):
It is.

Speaker 3 (01:33:44):
It's crazy, but we see.

Speaker 2 (01:33:45):
These stories a lot, and if anything throws you know,
strength to the argument that there needs to be a
change in just how a political career is allowed to
last forever and be a lifetime appointment. I know that
they get re elected, but in some way or form,
you can't lose the position based on a certain set
of mental health qualifications.

Speaker 3 (01:34:07):
That makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (01:34:08):
Obviously Biden wouldn't have been our president for the last
four years, according to recent reports from you know, a
few different places, if mental acuity had mattered. And actually
that makes me think of two things. First, I'll play
this audio with stephen A. Smith that went viral. I
enjoy steven A. Smith when he's upset, even if I
don't always agree with him. For some reason, the yelling
from steven A is better than the yelling from others.

(01:34:30):
At least it's entertaining. And I'd never be able to
do with steven A. Smith, so I'm not even gonna try.
But here he is complaining about voting democratic and how
it's not been something that's worked out for him recently,
and he's not exactly thrilled about it. And this is
definitely going viral all over the internet today.

Speaker 4 (01:34:46):
Anybody could dismiss Donald Trump at this particular moment in time,
not just because of him, but because of what we've
seen the Democrats do. We're not fairling for it any longer.
The American people aren't falling for it any longer. I've
voted Democrats, and I got to tell you something right now,
I don't like the fact that I did.

Speaker 3 (01:35:03):
I don't like what I'm saying.

Speaker 6 (01:35:04):
I don't want to hear.

Speaker 4 (01:35:05):
About, Oh, we're about law, We're about the law. Nobody's
above the law, nobody's above the law. But then you
go out in your part and your son and try
to blame everybody for it. I don't want to hear
about defund the police. I don't want to hear about
you know what, this should be open borders.

Speaker 3 (01:35:18):
I don't want to hear this stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:35:19):
And I don't think most of the American people want.

Speaker 14 (01:35:21):
To hear that.

Speaker 4 (01:35:21):
We do no longer get interested in, nor do I
believe any of us should be interested in in listening
to a bunch of fear bongering to tell us who
we shouldn't vote for. Why don't you come up with
a plan that tells us why we should vote for you?

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
Yes, that is so much better than what they do
right now, and I absolutely agree with it. I yelled
a little too loud there at some of that, but
I love every part of that rant saying tell us
what actually should be going on instead of telling us
how this person is so terrible they can't possibly be
put in a position of power. That part is ridiculous

(01:35:55):
and insane and definitely not something that's working anymore as
far as a now, because you've done it for too long.
It's boy who cried Wolf to an extent, because if
you tell us going into twenty sixteen that Trump's going
to break everything, and then a lot of stuff didn't break,
and then you tell us going into twenty twenty that
if Trump stays in power, he's going to break everything,
and somebody else gets into the White House and stuff

(01:36:16):
does break, and then you tell us the third time
around that wait a minute, though, don't put this guy
back in even though stuff is now broken, because we
promise that people who broke it will be better at
fixing it than the guy who wasn't dealing with those problems.
All of that makes no sense. The other thing I
was thinking about when you hear that audio or that
discussion about some of the crazy stuff that happens in

(01:36:38):
our society and the politician who's been in a nursing
home for months but is still actually technically.

Speaker 3 (01:36:45):
A congress person.

Speaker 2 (01:36:47):
You think about this audio of Scott Jennings on CNN
over the weekend, more moments of Scott Jennings going viral
by saying things out loud on CNN that the rest
of the people sitting next to him on these panels
are not happy he's saying.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
But this one's pretty interesting.

Speaker 19 (01:37:03):
And I hear democrats, you know, criticizing the idea that
we have unelected people with too much influence over the government.
I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal
from this week and find out that unelected people have
been running the government for the last four years. I
hear democrats criticism criticizing the influence of billionaires on our
politics when you've got this Soros punk running around collecting

(01:37:23):
Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokemon cards. So I
think all the criticism of Musk coming from the left
is totally hypocritical, totally over the top. And he is
doing something interesting, bringing some transparency to the federal government.

Speaker 2 (01:37:37):
Yes, he actually is doing that, by the way, by
being someone in charge of a social media platform that
doesn't censor stuff as one sidedly as most social media
platforms do. And I'm not pretending Elon Musk isn't on
a political side of the aisle.

Speaker 3 (01:37:50):
He is. He's going to wind up being a.

Speaker 2 (01:37:52):
Part of the Republican administration that's about takeover the executive branch.
So I'm not going to pretend he's not a conservative
in some of his positions on things, and that he's
some in the middle individual, although he says he was
a Democrat and that the Democratic Party left him, not
the other way around. What I think is interesting about

(01:38:13):
it is when you put that big of a megaphone
behind some of these issues. And I love the narrative
change that happened too, by the way, So Elon Musk
talks about all the pork that existed in the Omnibus
spending bill and how it needed to be reduced, and
then he celebrates the fact that one bill went from fifteen,

(01:38:34):
you know, one hundred plus pages to a bill that
was a very few pages and a very small amount
of Essentially, we're going to keep what's going for the
next few months going and not add any new spending
to our government and wait for Donald Trump to be
in power before any of those decisions get made. A
few months, you know, stopgaps funding bill that was tremendously

(01:38:59):
different than the first one, and then Democrats find the
thing they believe to be most offensive that was removed
excuse me from the bill. This would actually be a
funding for cancer research for children, and they act as
though that's what Elon Musk was campaigning against.

Speaker 3 (01:39:16):
That's insane.

Speaker 2 (01:39:17):
Elon Musk said that the bill was full of pork,
and yes, he allowed his platform to be a big
part of that. And then politicians said it. Donald Trump
obviously said it, so eventually all of that excess spending
is gone, but it wasn't specifically saying that you can't
spend money on cancer research for kids. And it's insane
when politicians make that argument, because if they feel that

(01:39:39):
strongly about it on the left, introduce a spending bill
or a funding bill with just that one issue nothing else.
Make it five pages long, say we want to spend
this amount of millions, not billions of dollars on cancer
research for kids, going to these organizations and see Republicans
resoundingly approve it a long with Democrats if they actually

(01:40:01):
did it. But that's the problem politics today is I
need to have one or two issues that I believe
everyone would see as universally good, and I need to
tie a thousand issues that are absolutely not universally good
and a whole bunch of excess government only spending to
those two issues and act like it has to be
passed together. Just for a second, just as some sort

(01:40:24):
of like experiment. Try to do that in your own life.
Go to your significant other, go to somebody that you
care about but maybe also make financial decisions with, and
ask them if they'll buy you a brand new car,
and then say, if they don't do it, you're not
buying any groceries for a week. And see how they
feel about that. Be like, well, if we don't buy
the new car, we can't buy any groceries. They'll look

(01:40:46):
at you and be like, why why can't we just
go to the store and buy the groceries and not
buy the new car. And if you act like a politician,
you'd be like, well, we can't. There's no way to
do one. It's either both or nothing. So we have
to starve or I have to get a BMW would
be fantastic if we made those arguments in the everyday
world the same way they do in politics, and it
would be insane. You would actually be checked into a

(01:41:09):
nursing home, much like the politician I mentioned at the
start of this thing, because people would be worried your
mental health is declining and you're not in a position
to have conversations. But politicians every day act like that's
a real thing, act like they can't pass tremendously small,
simplistic bills that fund very direct things. It has to

(01:41:31):
be tied to all this other stuff, and let's get
that to go away. Whether it's through Elon Musk and
Donald Trump, I don't care if it's through Democrats or Republicans,
it doesn't matter to me.

Speaker 3 (01:41:42):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:41:42):
Granted, Democrats always run on more government and Republicans on less,
so I think you can guess which side of the
aisle would say less funding is better across the board.
But nonetheless, if you think something is really important, introduce
just that initiative into a funding bill and see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:41:58):
Because I doubt.

Speaker 2 (01:41:59):
Any Republican would actually vote definitively against spending money on
cancer research to protect children's lives, as long as they
thought the money was actually going to that, and the
organizations that received the money would actually spend it on that.
I doubt anyone would vote against it, and I doubt
the American people would have a problem with that kind
of funding. But that's not the only thing we're talking about,
is it?

Speaker 3 (01:42:19):
Darn it?

Speaker 2 (01:42:20):
You know it and I know it, and let's start
telling the truth. Elon Musk seems like he's after that
goal more or less with how he's giving us a
wider perspective on some of these issues, and then it's
up to us to figure out all the fine details
of it. All right, quick break a lot more. Creig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson show.

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Speaker 2 (01:44:08):
This is the Jad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Very sad news in
the world of baseball. Ricky Henderson passed away. Ricky Henderson
was sixty five years old. He actually would have turned
sixty six on Christmas Day. He is one of the
fastest human beings you've ever seen on any sort of

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sporting you know, playing field on any sort of turf
and any sort of grass, on anything. He's just incredible
as far as an athlete goes. And it was uniquely
sad to see that he'd passed away about in pneumonia
is the reason that he is no longer with us,
and something that happened, of course, very suddenly at sixty

(01:44:52):
five years old, twenty five year major league career flew
into the Hall of Fame with almost ninety five percent
of the vote.

Speaker 3 (01:44:59):
Probably should have been even a other than that.

Speaker 2 (01:45:01):
He finished his career with an eight to twenty OHPS,
which included two hundred ninety seven home runs and a
lifetime two seventy nine batting average and a four toh
one on base percentage. Some of those stats ones we
care about more now than we did when Ricky was playing,
but more important than not, just a generational talent who
made an impact on a whole lot of other baseball players.

(01:45:22):
Probably the coolest tribute to Ricky came from out of
all people, Ken Griffy junior and I did not know
how close Griffy and Ricky Henderson were, but Ken Griffy
Junior said he was someone that would always reach out
to him, always check up on him, essentially treat him
like a colleague, even when he was fairly young in
the sport and someone that maybe a lot of other

(01:45:44):
people treated as Ken Griffy Senior's kid and not his
own legitimate major league athlete, even though Ken Griffy Junior
was incredible pretty much out of the gate as a player.
So really cool to hear that someone like a Ricky
Henderson would not only you know, treat him kindly, but
also essentially take him under his wing and call him

(01:46:06):
for years afterward to make sure that he's doing okay.
You know, just a sad story in the world of baseball,
and I guess it's odd. I'll just say this last
thing about it that in these moments when you know,
life hits these athletes that we know about, it allows
sports to transcend its space in our society for a

(01:46:27):
little bit and allows a whole lot of people to
appreciate the significance of athletes on their perspective. Sport that
might not have had much of an awareness of them
before that when these guys pass away, Pete Rose, Ricky Henderson,
you have renewed conversations about how valuable, how important, how
significant they are as athletes and as people. And I

(01:46:48):
like that, even if it comes with a sad byproduct.
By the way, talking about the world of sports, just quickly,
college football had a tremendous win along with a tremendous
loss over the first round of their new twelve team
playoff system. The tremendous win was watching games happen on
college campuses a nothing separates college sports from professional sports

(01:47:11):
or any other version of it. Then actually seeing it
happen in the atmosphere where the students go to school,
where they walk into the stadium that their you know,
dorm is a few feet or yards or whatever from,
and actually get that version of play on television.

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (01:47:28):
That was Many people are singing the praises of watching
these games happen at home for some of these schools,
even though all of the home teams won, all of
the teams that were favored one and none of the
games were remotely close. And that was the loss that
was the negative there. I don't know if they picked
teams they shouldn't have picked. Teams like Tennessee were not
on anyone's radar as far as not deserving a spot

(01:47:51):
in the twelve team playoff. Teams like IU definitely were
on the radar for a lot of people of not
deserving their spot within this you know system, and even
SMU of course too, But I don't care about that part,
to be honest. Would Alabama have done better if it
went into South Bend and played Notre Dame probably, you
would assume so. Would Notre Dame have still won that game,

(01:48:12):
I'm not sure, although as a Notre Dame fan, I
would have liked to see that more than them play IU.
So that if you defeat Alabama, no one's saying that
they're a pretender even after a win in the College
Football Playoff, And that's still happening. But just the games
on college campuses in general is the kind of thing
we need absolutely more of in the world of college
sports at this time of year, which a whole lot

(01:48:34):
of people wind up tuning into the bowl games. We
need them to happen at home, baby, because that part
was fun. Just get better competitors, all right, That's it
for me today. Happy holidays to you. Chad Benson is
back after the holidays. Some best of shows coming up
over the next couple of days. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:48:53):
Although actually before I.

Speaker 2 (01:48:54):
Go, I should say one other big giant thing out
there that I just thought was amusing. It's politics, so
I don't want to dive into it for very long.
Only thirty five percent of Americans trust the US judicial system,
meaning every branch of our government we don't trust anymore.

Speaker 3 (01:49:09):
That is something we need to fix for the holidays.

Speaker 2 (01:49:12):
Hey, Santa, bring us some more trustworthy government is something
we all can agree on. Craig Collins filling in on

Speaker 1 (01:49:34):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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