2 National Guard Members in Critical Condition After Shooting in D.C.

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
We are following a breaking news story from earlier today
that is truly awful. Two members of the National Guard
who were working very close to the White House in Washington,
d C. Both of those members of the National Guard
are from West Virginia. They were shot by someone who
turned a corner opened fire on them. The suspect was

(00:34):
also returned fire and apprehended. Whatever is going to happen
now as far as that individual is concerned and the
two individuals who were a shot for the National Guard,
we will update you as we go on the condition
of all three. But the full weight of the legal
system will be applied to the individual who attacked national Guard,

(00:58):
as the mayor in DC he said, a targeted attack.
If they survive. I do want to play a little
bit of audio from the FBI Director Cash Patel, who
was part of a press conference earlier today and said
something about the military men and women who serve this
great country and the way in which this brazen attack,
this horrendous act, will hopefully result in the absolute punishment

(01:23):
of the individual who partook in it, but also hopefully
demonstrates the American people the risk that military men and
women take every single day when they put on a
uniform and protect this country, whether they do that beyond
our walls or here within the borders of this country.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Two of our brave members of the National Guard and
the Department of War were brazenly attacked to the horrendous
act of violence. They were shot. They're in critical condition
as you can see behind me. We have assembled the
full force about the federal and state and local law
enforcement agencies to bring bear all of our resources to
make sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous

(02:04):
act and make no mistake, they will be brought to justice.
Since this is an assault on a federal law enforcement officer,
this will be treated at the federal level as an
assault on a federal law enforcement officer. The FBI will
lead out on that mission with our interagency partners to
include the Department of Homeland Security Secret Service atf DEEA,
and we're thankful for the Mayor's assistance in this matter.

(02:27):
The Metropolitan Police Department and their skills in investigating homicides
and gun shootings in this city is exceptional. We will
work together collaboratively because this is a matter of national security,
because it's a matter of pride. President Trump has been informed.
We have been in contact with the White House. We
will shortchange the American public with no resources, to make

(02:49):
sure we find it, safeguard our nation's capital right here
in Washington, DC, and bring anyone responsible for this heinous
act of violence to justice.

Speaker 2 (02:58):
I think it is interesting that he said that at
the end there anyone responsible, because right now, the police,
the mayor, everyone has said there's just the one suspect.
That suspect is in custody. That suspect had returned fire
sent at them after they attacked and injured two members
of the National Guard, from both other National Guard members

(03:19):
and the police in Washington, d C. But could this
be part of some other plan, some other systems, some
other group of individuals that are communicating in some way.
It sounds like the FBI and cash Betel are at
least saying if that's true, they'll go after it. They'll
make sure to look under every rock, turn every corner

(03:39):
in bringing anyone to justice that was involved in this.
And it is horrible. One more time, I do want
to say from the President of the United States, he
put this out on truth Social the animal that shot
the two National guardsmen, with both being critically wounded and
now in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded, but regardless,
will pay a steep price, a very steep price. I

(04:00):
hope that is true, all right, I do want to
play some audio of some of what is now being
called the Seditious Six. These are members of our political system,
congressmen and women, a couple senators who put out a
video telling military men and women that they could disregard
illegal orders from the President of the United States. I'm

(04:21):
assuming you've heard about this by now. I actually, when
filling in for Chris Salcedo earlier this month, like last week,
talked about it when it first broke about a full
week and a day ago. And it's become a much
bigger story since the president reacted to it, and since
the media system that exists reacted to the president. So

(04:42):
initially it was something that somehow was missed by a
lot of people, but has become a very big deal.
And I think in light of what happened today, how
sad it is that military men and women National guardsmen
were attacked on the streets of DC by someone for
a targeted reason that we reve some of the things
that they were saying. So one of those first pieces

(05:04):
of audio comes from Senator Alissa Slotkin who said on
television Justice Past Sunday that she was afraid that military
men and women would at some point use their military
use their guns, I use force on civilians, which is
horrific to say. This is something she said just a

(05:24):
short time ago.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago.
It makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see
people in law enforcement, people in uniform military, get nervous,
get stressed, shoot at American civilians. It is very a
very very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for
the communities on the ground. So it was basically a

(05:47):
warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something
particularly again.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
I'll stop it right there because it makes me so mad.
It is horrific to say that, to fear monger in
this way and to turn the villain into the people
who are serving and protecting your community, whether it's the police,
whether it's law enforcement. Democrats have very unapologetically been turning
police into the bad guy for a while now, defund

(06:14):
the police, whatever you want to say. They've been doing
it for quite some time. The military is often something
that even they understand they should leave alone. However, this
recent discussion by these politicians has thrust the military into
the conversation as well. Not because they were activated in DC.
The National Guard was asked to help protect that part

(06:35):
of our country from all the violent crime that existed there.
That is not why they are now a political talking point.
It is because the Left made a lot of people
on their side of the aisle afraid that someone in
uniform was going to hurt them. It's the trick they
play all the time. Politicians need you to believe that

(06:56):
whatever is happening will potentially happen to you. It doesn't
matter what it is, It doesn't matter who is actually
likely to face any sort of you know issue. Whatever
it might be, violence or some other problem, it does
not matter. The only way to get people to act
the way that the politicians want them to act and
show up and vote is to mobilize them to believe

(07:17):
that you're next. Whoever you are, whatever you're doing, it
doesn't matter, you'll be next in line to be harmed.
And this is the byproduct of that convincing people there
in danger. Someone that is mentally unwell, that is evil
at heart. That is a whole bunch of things. I
might inevitably choose to act to fight before the fight

(07:38):
comes to them, which is horrific. I want to play
more of this audio. This is Governor Pritzker saying that
this is governor out of Chicago, that you know the
National Guard will attack the American people at some point,
or that President Trump has deployed.

Speaker 5 (07:52):
Them with that intention. This was on faced the nation.

Speaker 6 (07:55):
This is horrible.

Speaker 7 (07:58):
Other than fighting crime, that's the first thing they should understand.
The second is it's an attack on the American people
by the president of the United States. It is not
He may disagree with a state that didn't vote for him,
but should he be sending troops in No, You.

Speaker 8 (08:13):
Said he has other aims. What are the other aims?

Speaker 7 (08:15):
The other aims are that he'd like to stop the
elections in twenty twenty six or frankly, take control of
those elections.

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Is other than this is insane. This type of rhetoric
is insane, and there are people that believe this.

Speaker 5 (08:27):
I want to play one more.

Speaker 2 (08:29):
This is one more Democrat on CNN saying that you know,
the National Guard is something that you might be weary of,
or something that you might somehow be afraid of. And
it's just disgusting. And I only pulled three examples. There
are litany of other ones that I chose not to
pull because it probably just pissed me off and make
a lot of you mad too.

Speaker 8 (08:49):
To keep going.

Speaker 9 (08:50):
Actually, what the president is doing, through the Secretary of
Defense is creating units, official military units, to quite frankly
guard or not watch the American people discuss. That's the
thing that is absolutely abhorrent.

Speaker 10 (09:06):
It reminds me so much of what happened in Germany.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
This is disgusting. This is the rhetoric.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
This is Nazi Germany, this is the gestapo on the street,
this is whatever you want to call it, if you're
on those democratic sides of the aisle, and that is
not at all what's happening. And again, the reason why
you should know that, the reason why when you go
to sleep at night you should be not at all
afraid of the people who serve this country, the men
and women who protect us, is because you know who

(09:31):
they are. This is something I'll say this. The police,
oftentimes in communities where they feel that a lot of
a certain community might think of them as the bad guy.
They'll respond to that by becoming more a visual They'll
go to streets, they'll knock on doors, they'll introduce themselves
to people. This is how you see videos of policemen

(09:54):
and women playing in pick up basketball games on the
street with people throughout this country. These things as a
way to understand the humanity of the individuals who serve
and protect us every single day. That's why they do that.
The military men and women who do that are even
more so. I would think individuals who care about your safety.

(10:15):
They're willing to put their life on the line here
in this country or abroad to protect you. I don't
know if more so is right, but these are people
who buy and large value the lives of the innocent
individuals that they choose to serve and protect, and so
to say that they're people who might inevitably harm you,
it's just disgusting.

Speaker 6 (10:34):
I know.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I'm a broken record at the beginning of the show
talking about this issue. And actually I'll tell you another thing. Oftentimes,
when you do radio, a lot of the people who
instruct us on how to do this tell you to
have a variety of topics throughout a show, I had
a ton of other things planned to talk about. You
don't often do half an hour on any one discussion point.
But when this happens, when National guardsmen are attacked in DC,

(10:59):
when they have lost their lives in that attack, and
when one shooter has been apprehended that targeted them, you
do talk about this because it should be the biggest
discussion for all of us over the next few days.
And in all honesty, the aspect that this happened again
just before Thanksgiving truly makes it the kind of thing

(11:19):
that is both horrific and the kind of thing that
should be easy easier for us to understand. And what
I mean by that is easier for us to understand
the loss that exists here, that families might not be
able to celebrate with their loved one because someone went
to Washington, DC or lived there and chose to attack
people simply because they were in uniform protecting the streets

(11:42):
of the district of the capital of our country.

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Speaker 1 (13:26):
It's Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. I have a couple tips for you, just
in time for the holidays. The first one is how
long you should stay wherever it is you're going before
the people that live there are annoyed by you, before
you have overstayed, You're welcome as a HouseGuest. A recent
survey of two thousand people in the United States of
America looked at how long people are actually happy to

(13:51):
have someone stay over, and six days, which I thought
was high, was the absolute maximum that people thought, like,
if you're coming for a long time, you're going to
spend a week with somebody, you actually shouldn't stay the
entire real week.

Speaker 5 (14:05):
You should leave before the week is over.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
I kind of think the reason that this happened in
the survey is that people were told someone wanted to
stay for a week, and then they left a little early.
Because I think that's actually the secret sauce of this.
Whatever amount of time you tell someone you're going to
stay with them, leave early and then they'll be happier
than if you actually stay the entire time, because I
think the biggest negative with having a house guest is

(14:30):
if it starts to get to the point where you
kind of feel like they've overstayed. They're welcome, and yet
you agreed for them to be there for like two
more days, that that's kind of the issue. They're like, man,
I really would like to have the house back, and
yet this person is still here and they're going to
be here for a couple of days, So you give
them a gift of a surprise by leaving early. So
I think that's the secret sauce to me. But a

(14:50):
lot of people admitted they don't want someone to stay
more than a couple days, that after that it's already
become too much. I love that the vast majority, though,
went as far as six days, because's good and if
they were my wife, it would be any amount of time.
My wife is immune, I think from getting any sort
of people are overstaying, they're welcome feeling I'm not as
much immune to that. I don't want to bough humbug

(15:12):
too much of this topic, so I won't want other
quick thing. I saw a list of the balloons that
will be a part of the Thanksgiving Day parade, and
there will be a labooboo there, Super Mario, Foreigner, some
other things. Will Foreigner's gonna make a performance awesome if
they were actually a balloon. But now, lea boo boo
is something that people will probably ask young people about

(15:35):
if you're watching it, what is that?

Speaker 5 (15:37):
Why is it terrifying? And why are so many people
happy to see it?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
Because la boo boo is scary. I'll keep saying that
it's not cool. It's gonna be over soon. It's just dumb,
all right, Greig Collins filling in on the Jad Benson Show,
And I'm sure we're going to get a bunch of
labooboo hate now. And Chatt'll come back after the holiday
and be like, why are the la booboo people coming
after us? And it's because I said it's stupid, But
you know it is like, if you're being honest, if

(16:02):
you don't know what labuou is, google it right now.
And the teeth that stick out from that thing, and
there's collectible ones, and people think that some of them
are worth a lot of money already. But it's like
a beanie baby that came from hell. That's what I
feel like it is. It's not actually a thing that
you should want as a child or as any sort
of person, and yet people do want them, and they

(16:24):
look incredibly stupid. And now there will be one at
Thanksgiving and I've definitely bahumbug this. I promise I'm in
a good mood. I promise I'm happy to be with
you before the holidays. I just I don't get the
Labuobu craze at all. And I think I was talking
about this a while ago before maybe other people started
to realize that lab Boo boo was becoming a thing.

(16:44):
Is those young people. I just turned forty last month,
and I feel like I'm finally at the stage where
I can look at the young people and have no
idea what's going on with them. And I know I'm
not old to a lot of other people out there,
but I'm older than them and that's all that matter.
All Right, One last quick thing and I'll probably touch
on this more later throughout the show, which year will

(17:06):
you look back on as the best years of your life?
Which decade was a question people asked. Most people think
it's their twenties, because of course it is. It absolutely
makes sense. The labooboo people don't care that I don't
like them. Quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 5 (17:38):
Such Chad Benson.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. So many things
to talk about out there in the world, and yet
I will start here. President Trump is funny. You can
hate him, you can like him. He is funny. He
makes jokes sometimes that are genuinely hilarious. This is one
of those times, and so I feel bad for the

(18:23):
people that hate him so much that you can't laugh
at this. The President of the United States was pardoning
turkeys yesterday, and he said that they did an investigation
into the pardon provided last year by the Biden administration
to those other turkeys, and he has some issues with it.
This is genuinely again funny, because the auto pen is

(18:45):
absolutely something that Biden used a whole bunch we all
know about that. People have admitted it. It seems like
maybe there's a bunch of stuff that happened that Biden
was completely unaware of because the auto pen could just
sign things. And it is hilarious to me to put
this into a Thanksgiving pardon thing from the President that
by and large is a stupid moment. It's the kind

(19:06):
of thing we do every year and it doesn't usually
make the news at all, and no one really cares
about it. And yet because of stuff like this, I
have something more fun to talk about about this topic.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Here we go.

Speaker 13 (19:17):
Before going any further, I want to make an important
announcement because you remember last year, after a thorough and
very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all of the
people at Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the
White House Counsel's Office, and the Department of Everything. We

(19:40):
have a Department of Everything, you know that is I
think that's called the White House into a terrible situation
because by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden, he used
an auto penn last year for the Turkey's pardon. So
I have the official duty to determine and I have
determined that last year's turkey pardons are totally invalid. This

(20:04):
is funny, as are the pardons of about every other
person that was pardoned other than Where's Hunter. No Hunters
was good. That was the one pardon pamp that was good. Right,
The rest of them are all invalid. I don't know
what the hell you're going to do about that, but
that's we're going to take a little of the joke.
And that is a mess. But they're hereby Noel and void.

(20:26):
The turkey's known as peachin blossom last year have been
located and they were on their way to be processed,
in other words, to be killed. But I have stopped
that journey and I am officially pardoning them and they
will not be served for Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 2 (20:44):
That's very nice as a president, come on out of
all the things. But anyone could say in that moment,
I don't care if you immediately retreat to your political
corner because you heard him say bad stuff about Biden
and about Democrats and about the pardons and whatnot. He's
making a joke about having to repardon turkeys from last
year that had autopend instead of actually been pardoned. That's

(21:06):
a hilarious moment. I think, at least in the context
of the situation. Is it stand up comedy material. Maybe not,
but it's certainly valuable enough for someone who's doing a
Turkey parton at the White House to throw in there.

Speaker 5 (21:18):
Again.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
I feel bad for people who can't laugh at anything
that is Trump related, because I think those people need,
as best they can to take a step back and
just breathe and then maybe have a little bit more
fun in their lives. Let's talk a little bit about US, Ukraine, Russia,
obviously a fun topic just in time for the holidays.
Actually know what I think today, I'm doing a list

(21:41):
of things that probably you should avoid when you sit
down and talk with your relatives tomorrow if they don't
agree with you. I'm not telling you for sure to
avoid it. I actually love those moments where you have
a version of a debate with people who feel trapped
around you and are supposed to care about you and
like you. That's the other part that's important. I don't
think you should go hard in the paint in those moments,

(22:03):
but I don't think you should shy away completely, you know,
throw an elbow or two and see what happens, is
usually my approach to that. And if everybody else just
kind of gets quiet, then leave it alone. But if
somebody else wants to go, you can have a few
minutes of a debate. But by and large, this is
probably the stuff you want to avoid this holiday season.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
I do think it's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (22:22):
That the biggest takeaway from the Ukraine peace deal is
that Ukraine is being treated poorly, at least that's what
mainstream media is telling you. Russia is getting a lot
of what it wants. Russia is even going to get
some territory that they don't actually possess yet. But I
think Biden, or excuse me, I think Trump and other
people have said that it's likely that Russia will gain

(22:44):
that territory if the war just continues. Even with US support,
Russia is advancing, and I think I saw at least
one analysis out there that said it'd be like a
year from now before Ukraine actually gives up as much
territory in a fight, or multiple years from now now
as they will give up in the peace deal. But
here's the most important part of this discussion, to me,

(23:06):
to you, to everyone out there, what was the end
result here if It wasn't this when this conflict started
a couple of years ago, three years ago now, most
people thought Russia would win quickly because Russia is just
so much more of a advanced military force. They have
nuclear weapons. They have not used terrifying to say it
out loud, but it's true they have those. Ukraine cannot

(23:30):
defeat Russia in a long war, in an endless war,
it cannot happen no matter how much support we give
outside of US putting actual boots on the ground, and
the United States and Europe weren't going to do that.
So as ever, however hard it is for some to
hear it, whoever you are out there, Ukraine was destined
to delay the inevitable by fighting what I think is

(23:52):
an amazing you know, standing up and trying to defend
your country. Yes, Russia was the attacker. Yes Russia did
everything wrong, and Ukraine defended itself admirably, but it's just
not powerful enough to stand toe to toe with Russia
and win. And the United States and other countries were
not willing to put actual people in harm's way. We

(24:14):
can give them all the weapons they want, but Ukraine
doesn't have an endless supply of military men and women.
In fact, one of the twenty eight points in the
peace deal limits the amount of military men and women
Ukraine can have. I think it's like to six hundred
thousand or something, which seems like a bad thing. I'll
be honest, if I were signing a piece of paper
and the opposing country that it invaded me wanted to

(24:36):
restrict my military to a certain size, I would be
pretty sure they're going to attack me again someday. But
the only reason I sign that now is if my
military is not even close to that size, and it
would be difficult for me to get it back to
that size anytime soon. And so I think the reality
of Ukraine's military might be far different than we understand,
sometimes because of a willingness to sign an agreement like that.

Speaker 5 (24:58):
But nonetheless, I do think it's interest.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
That a lot of people are saying Ukraine is being
treated horribly and we should have done better as the
United States and defending Ukraine against Russia. The only way
to have done that, in my opinion, would have been
to actually fight Russia directly, declare war, go in, try
to kill putin all the stuff that everyone thinks is
horrible to say, because well, it does sound horrible and

(25:21):
we can't do it, and we won't do it, and
you know the countries in Europe won't do it, and
so what else was going to happen? Putin knew this
from jump that if he just prolonged this war, he
didn't have to resoundingly win. And they did a terrible job,
Russia in fighting this war. They very clumsily went in
and they lost a lot of lives to a force

(25:42):
that was willing to fight much more intelligently than they did.
And yet still Russia just simply has the advantage of
manpower that it was going to go this way forever.
But I just think it's so interesting, and I wonder,
I guess I'll say this if it is an attempt
to discredit Trump, that mainstream media is going to go
with that no matter what happened. If Trump is involved

(26:06):
and something can be criticized, they'll go that road. Or
if it is genuine. It could be either one to me,
because Ukraine is getting what seems to a lot of
us to be an unfair deal considering the amount of
fighting they did and the valiant effort they put into
defending themselves. But I guess the best version of explaining

(26:27):
this is if you see the scrawny little kid in
the school fighting the big bully kid on the playground,
and you decide not to step in for some reason,
and the little scrawnie kid has given it all he's got,
but he's not going to win that fight. It's not
going to be something that in the long run is
going to go well for him because he's just not
powerful enough to fight the other person. And in this case,

(26:48):
Ukraine is just not powerful enough to stand toe to
toe with Russia for really any longer. I imagine probably
three years feels like the absolute exhaustion of the capabilities
of this much weaker country. And I'm not saying that
to be a jerker, to be me, and I'm just
saying it because it's true. So I wonder again how
so many people can have the opinion they have that

(27:10):
even though war is going to end and peace is
hopefully going to be created in all this, I know
people still need to sit down, stuff still needs to
be signed. It can absolutely go a different way, because
Russia can still change its mind. Anybody can, but hopefully
it doesn't. Hopefully peace actually is ushered in and that
deserves celebration, regardless of the how simply because peace is

(27:30):
better than war. And then if you want to critique
it and look back on it, you do need to
add in the caveat of those contextual things that make
you understand why it went the way it did.

Speaker 5 (27:41):
But I just think that's really interesting.

Speaker 2 (27:43):
I have a bunch of audio of like mainstream media
criticizing it that I could play, but you know what,
it's just in time for the holidays, let's skip it.
I won't even do all that because I just think
the truth is the situation we're in. And Trump has
said it before, willingly into a camera that they don't
hold the car. From an outsider's perspective looking in, Ukraine

(28:03):
was definitely not in an advantage or an advantageous position
with Russia at all. And the more honest you are
about that, the more likely you are maybe to have
Russia relent if it gets a lot of what it
thinks it wants and it gets it without any more fighting.

Speaker 5 (28:19):
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
It just seems to me to be the only way
to get this thing to end anytime soon in any
sort of valuable way for Ukraine.

Speaker 5 (28:25):
And there are guarantees.

Speaker 2 (28:27):
They're ambiguous, they're not exactly perfect that say that any
additional attack on Ukraine would be one that the European
countries in the US would consider an attack on all.
So they're not a part of NATO, but to be
attacked again after this peace deal would be very similar
to putin attacking in NATO country according to the agreement
as it is right now, not the final side one.

(28:50):
So there is something there who actually defends them, how
they defend Ukraine. That part seems up in the air,
which is not so great for Ukraine, but there is
at least some language that seems to indicate that right now,
once this fighting has stopped, there shouldn't be any more fighting.
Otherwise the inevitable part, the part that I said from
jump you had to be willing to do to defend Ukraine,

(29:11):
more would actually be on the table. That means a
fight between other countries in Russia that are not Ukraine,
right quick break A lot more. That was heavy and
again probably not something you should talk about over Thanksgiving.
So when we come back, let's do something totally different.
Let's talk about the killer that you don't know about,
the silent killer. On Thanksgiving, it's a luminum foil. Reader's

(29:33):
Dieges claimed this aluminum foil. I'll explain why, and we'll
talk about other things that are definitely not as important
as war overseas when we come back. This is Craig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 12 (31:33):
Irreverence like, yeah, so what, it's the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 5 (31:40):
That's right, this is the Chad Benson Show. Thrilled to
be with you.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
A bunch of stuff to talk about out there. I
mentioned it before the break. I have to pay it off.
The silent killer on Thanksgiving, according to Readers Digest, is
aluminum foil when you ask for the leftovers at the
end of the day. And by the way, actually I
saw another story that said, don't fight leftovers. You should
just agree to them, because it makes the end of
a very nice holiday awful if someone has to convince

(32:06):
you to take more food home, especially if it's like
five people who are gonna wind up actually living where
the food was served because they're not gonna eat it all.
Everybody knows they're not gonna eat it all, so please
just take some. You can say no once. That seems polite.
You'd be like, oh please, no, don't. But if you
say no more than once, you're disregarding the cooking. You're
disparaging it. You're saying it's bad, you're saying I don't

(32:29):
want to eat it. Just take it. Make your crazy
sandwich on Friday that we all make that has all
the items from Thanksgiving between two slices of bread, and
live your life happier. But anyway, that's not the Reader's
Digest stuff. That's just me stuff. Our Reader's Digest says
that aluminum foil can retain heat. So if Thanksgiving food
is still warm and it gets wrapped up in aluminum

(32:50):
foil and handed to you warm, and this is how
it's a silent killer. I guess it can create more
bacteria because it's warm and it's gonna hold that heat.
Plastic will let the heat get out easier, so less
bacteria will grow. I'm sure people will criticize why plastic
is bad.

Speaker 5 (33:06):
I don't have any answers.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
My trick is usually that I'll just eat more of
the food when I get home, depending on how long
the drive is. Like if I'm going to drive three
or four hours, which for this Thanksgiving, I will be
doing that. By the time I get home, I might
get a little peckish. You might just have a little
bit of that food before you put anything in the fridge,
and then that two birds once known't it feels like
kind of thing there, But yes, readers, digest is telling

(33:30):
you to be weary of the warm or even hot
food that goes in the aluminum foil.

Speaker 5 (33:35):
You choose what you do with that information. I think
I'll just risk it.

Speaker 2 (33:38):
I'll risk it because Thanksgiving to me is usually delicious,
and the day after is usually delicious. Although I did
say this to producer Phil just a second ago. I
am going to a new place for Thanksgiving, and I
am always jealous of listening to the crazy things he
does and the incredible cook that he is for his family.
And I know his family that probably more and more

(33:59):
people go to the Thanksgiving every year because the word
gets out that you have a good cook making good things.
I'm going somewhere where I have no idea the quality
of the food, and I'm worried about that because Thanksgiving
is the day where you have to pretend more than
ever that you're eating delicious food, even if you're not. Like,
you can't really disparage someone to their face in this

(34:19):
It just makes you a jerk. It's not really a
nice thing to do. And maybe if you care about
someone and they're truly an awful cook, you can tell
them behind closed doors that they shouldn't do Thanksgiving anymore.
But a person to person, and especially like people you
don't see often, you're not going to do that. And
so I just hate the pressure of that amount of lyne.
I'm a person who likes to tell the truth on
the radio about politics, about anything, and so if the

(34:42):
food is bad, and I get asked a direct question
about it, there will be a debate in my brain
as to what the right thing to do is. Before
the polite me comes out and says, oh, it's so good,
it's so delicious. Part of me will think I'm doing
the Lord's work if I actually say that it's not
good and that it shouldn't be happening. One other very
quick thing out there, and I might actually talk about
this more in detail later because I find it very funny.

(35:04):
Japanese style floor beds are becoming more popular with the kids.
This is a floor futon that you roll out and
you sleep on, and apparently trends on social media are
talking about it. Influencers and also doctors the benefits of it.
So should you sleep on the floor is a real question.
I'll try to answer that actually a little bit later

(35:24):
on the show. You got a little tiny mat that
you sleep on, so it's not direct flooring you. But
it sounds horrible, but someone is saying it's good.

Speaker 11 (35:32):
All right.

Speaker 2 (35:32):
This is Craig Collins filling in on the Jad Benson Show.
I will tell you that I do have one of these.
I think I buried the lead with how I introduced
this topic my wife and I when we moved across
the country. Our stuff didn't make it when we did
because we put it in one of those pod things,
and so we had to figure out two days of
sleep that were not bed related, and so I bought

(35:54):
these Japanese futon things. It just bought one big one
and we slept on the floor for two days. I
do think my back felt better. I don't think I'm
going to go to this for real, but I do
maybe it was placebo, think it might have worked. There
might be something to this. I'll talk about it more
later on Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
Lots of audio that I'd like to play, and I
will say this to it, and I think the catalyst
to it a lot of the reasons that it's happened
and occurred in general in our society. All right, So
let's get to this first. If you don't know what
I'm talking about, I can play some breaking news audio
from Fox from hours ago. Two National guardsmen were shot.
The shooter turned a corner, had a gun, raised it

(37:09):
and fired upon two National guardsmen, other National guardsmen in
the area, and I think even local law enforcement responded.
The one suspect is in custody is actually in the hospital,
also being treated for injuries. The exact condition of all
three people has not actually been provided. There was a

(37:30):
moment where it seemed that maybe the West Virginian mayor
had provided us with details, but that would go against
military protocol. Whether it's right or wrong, I don't want
to tell you that, but there was an update that
went out that then was corrected because military protocol would
be to inform family first before informing the general public

(37:50):
of the loss of life of anyone that serves our
country that way. So I just will say this, my thoughts,
my prayers. I hope your thoughts and prayers go out
to those involved in this horrific thing, the people who
are attacked. I hope that the shooter is held to
every you know, version of justice that they can be,

(38:11):
which may include that person having lost their life in
the return fire to them. But here, let's start with this.
Let's start with the national announcement of this on Fox News.
The two guards had been shot, all.

Speaker 14 (38:25):
Right, Fox News alert, this is breaking, right, now we
can confirm now two National Guard troops have been shot
in Washington near the White House, is what we are told.
We do not know about their conditions at this time.
We are just starting to get brand new details, but
we can confirm two military personnel have been shot near

(38:45):
the White House.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, so that is the basics of the story to begin.
There are a couple things I can do immediately in
response to that, being, you know, a real thing that
happened in our society. There is a moment where Vice
Advance addressed this, so I guess I can play that first.
There also is a moment where Secretary of War Pete
Hegseth talked about what will happen in response to this.

(39:09):
And then finally there was a press conference that you
heard earlier on this station. The other road to go
outside of just playing that audio is to play you
some of the audio of the Seditious six or other
Democrats who over the last couple weeks have seemed to
vilify the military. They have been doing this because they
said the president can't be trusted and that you need

(39:32):
to disobey his orders and you'll be supported by the
Democrats if they do that. But it's more than just
that rhetoric, and I will show that to you as
we go here, the horrible things that were said, and
I actually want to take a quick step back and
say one other thing about this. I am often not
that you've heard me much here at KSV in Texas,

(39:52):
but I am often the person on the radio some
of the other places that I work as a host
who will tell you that the rhetoric doesn't create the action,
that there is a separation between the horrific, deranged, evil
people who choose to take life and hurt others and
the rhetoric of those that seem to encourage it or
push them in that direction. I believe this to be

(40:14):
more of an exception to that rule than the rule itself,
mostly because the military men and women didn't need to
be a part of the political discussion. They didn't need
to be inserted into the fight between Democrats and Republicans,
and Democrats chose to do that. They chose to tell
the American people that they should be weary of the
National Guard being in their city, being on their streets,

(40:37):
which is ridiculous and it should be offensive. Because the
National Guard and all military men and women can be trusted.
To say that they can't is wrong, and I think
a byproduct of telling people something that they weren't experiencing,
they weren't actually seeing anything bad happen on the streets
where military men and women were doing any of the
things the Democrats were warning about with the National Guard whoever.

(41:00):
But nonetheless, as that is occurring, you have more and
more people on the left, for sure, saying things about
how upsetting it would be to see a military person
on their own street corner. And I have no idea why.
It made no sense to me, because if you believe
in the men and women of our military, as I do,
and as you should, I would be thrilled to see

(41:20):
somebody of that level of authority within our country standing
on my street corner being like, hey, I'm protecting you
from the bad guys.

Speaker 5 (41:28):
I'd say, thank you.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
It would be awesome to me to see those sort
of things happen, not because I want a militarized country,
but because I believe in the people who serve our
country voluntarily as part of our military, and I don't
believe that anyone is trying to turn their gun on me.
And the person who did this a targeted attack according
to the mayor in DC, must have believed something different,

(41:51):
at least in my opinion. But first here, let's go
to Jade Vance.

Speaker 15 (41:55):
I want to say first before we get started on
a somber note, we had and some of you may
have seen this on your phones or on social media,
but apparently there was a shooting outside the White House
just a couple of hours ago, and we're still learning everything.

Speaker 10 (42:10):
We still don't know the motive.

Speaker 15 (42:11):
There's a lot that we haven't yet figured out. But
what we do know is that a couple of National
Guardsmen were injured in the line of duty. And first
of all, I want everybody who's a person of faith
to say a prayer for those two National guardsmen that
they're able to spend Thanksgiving with their families instead of
losing their lives, because I understand they're still in pretty
tough condition. But I think it's a samba reminder that soldiers,

(42:35):
whether they're active duty, reserve or National Guard, our soldiers
are the sword and the shield of the United States
of America. And as a person who goes into work
every single day and that building and knows that there
are a lot of people who wear the uniform of
the United States Army. Let me just say, very personally,

(42:56):
thank them for what they're doing.

Speaker 8 (42:58):
We're grateful to them, and we're in.

Speaker 15 (43:00):
That they're going to be safe and they're going to
spend Thanksgiving with their families.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
And I think that last part is probably a big
deal too, the fact that the holidays are just in
front of us, that Thanksgiving is tomorrow, one of the
marquee days in our society to spend time with friends
and family, with loved ones. To have something like this
happen just before that, it makes you even more understand
the humanity of the men and women who serve this country.

(43:25):
And again, that's why I said what I said a
moment ago about being thrilled if I saw someone in
uniform securing something that I'm at, whether it's my work,
my home, whatever it might be, the city that I
live in, seeing someone like that and believing in those
people to be honorable people who are doing the right thing,
just like police, just like any other form of law

(43:46):
enforcement or any other form of individual that's here to
secure us. There's something uniquely important about understanding that aspect
of this conversation and how wildly it was abused by
Democrats politically to have a discussion wasn't necessary yet and
even more importantly in cash Betel pointed this out in
the press conference. The men and women of the military

(44:07):
who were attacked today, two of which who were injured critically,
and it might wind up being true that they were injured.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
Mortally.

Speaker 2 (44:17):
What I think is most important about that discussion is
the way that they responded. No one else was hurt,
no one else was in harm's way. A person opened
fire on two military individuals. Other law enforcement and military
responded and no one else was hurt. The individual the
shooter was injured, and hopefully I will say that this
is someone who was injured critically as well, because I

(44:40):
do think that the justice inevitably will be that this
person loses their life. I don't often say that either.
I don't hope for the death of anyone in our society.
But if this person was stopped, if this person was
subdued via a critical injury that causes their death, it
still would have saved countless amount of lives. So it

(45:01):
would be a thing that happened in the line of
duty that essentially would be good, would be justified. To
say the very least. All right, let's play a little
bit of Pete Hegseth, who was on i think the
stairs of the Capitol Building. Press came up to him
and asked him a few questions about this, and the
Secretary of War responded.

Speaker 8 (45:19):
Very of productive meetings.

Speaker 16 (45:21):
But I want to start by saying, after those meetings,
myself and my team were notified that two National Guardsmen.

Speaker 10 (45:28):
Have been shot in Washington, d C.

Speaker 8 (45:31):
Critically wounded.

Speaker 5 (45:33):
The shooter shot.

Speaker 8 (45:35):
In a cowardly, dastrically.

Speaker 16 (45:38):
Act targeting the best of America. Heroes willing to serve
in Washington d C. Serve for people they don't know
and they've ever met. Because they loved their country and
their capital and their community. They were willing to do
dangerous things others were not because they loved their fellow Americans.

Speaker 5 (46:00):
If someone decided to turn that.

Speaker 16 (46:02):
Into targeting National guardsmen, that will only stiffen our resolve.

Speaker 5 (46:08):
Amen, we will never back down.

Speaker 10 (46:10):
We will secure our capital, people, secure our cities.

Speaker 8 (46:12):
In fact, this happened just steps away from the White House.

Speaker 5 (46:15):
It will not stand.

Speaker 16 (46:17):
And that's why President Trump has asked me and I
will ask the Secretary of the Army to the National
Guard to add five hundred.

Speaker 5 (46:24):
Additional troops National guardsmen to Washington, d C.

Speaker 2 (46:29):
Absolutely justified by the way people will debate and talk
about that you just had a horrific attack on two
members of the National Guard. I would be remiss if
I don't say this, and I feel a sense of
pause in wanting to make sure you understand it. A Governor,
Patrick Morrissey, who is the governor of West Virginia, had
originally put out on social media on x on Twitter

(46:50):
that it was with great sorrow, quoting him that he
was to confirm that both members of the National Guard
had died. He then came out later and corrected himself, saying,
they're getting conflicting reports about the condition of the two individuals.
Their prayers are with the brave service members who are attacked.
I'm paraphrasing a little bit what he said there, and

(47:12):
more information will come out later. It is military protocol
to notify the first, the next of kin, the family
themselves before doing anything like this publicly. So there is
an aspect of this that may in fact be trying
to respect that system, as opposed to actually changing the
announcement that was made. And so I don't want to

(47:33):
make that announcement myself and circumvent that system itself on
the show. I just do want to say that all
of that information has been put out there, and there
is now I think, sort of a constant need for
an update from the American people. I will say one
other thing, and then we'll take a break and we'll
come back and we'll talk about this more. I have

(47:54):
a bunch more audio to play. I have something that
President Trump put up on Truth Social which actually I
can just read that now. The animal that shot the
two National guardsmen, with both being critically wounded and now
in two separate hospitals, is also severely wounded. But regardless,
we'll pay a very steep price. This is the President

(48:14):
of the United States on Truth Social God bless our
great National Guard, all our military and law enforcement. These
are truly great people. I as President of the United States,
and everyone associated with the Office of the Presidency, am
with you.

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Speaker 1 (49:42):
If you like talk radio like Chad Benson likes his meals,
You've come to the perfect place for takeout.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
This is the Chad Benson Show, thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Gen
Z will be serving mocktails this Thanksgiving, not actual booze,
just everything but the booze in the cocktail, which is
a terrible decision.

Speaker 5 (50:05):
I'll be honest about that.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
I would be really disappointed if I go to someplace
someone serves me a fancy drink that looks like they
put a lot of stuff in it that you didn't
need to do for me. I'm a very simple guy.
You can pour a little bit of booze and a
cup with some ice, and I'll be very happy. It
doesn't even matter what the booze is. To an extent,
like I could be happier if you get me a
nice bourbon or something. But it's fine. If I'm gonna

(50:28):
stand around people all day and you hand me a
cup that has just vodka and ice in it, I'll
make you.

Speaker 5 (50:33):
I'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
But I love the fact that they're giving each other
these fancy cocktails and then no alcohol because what's the point.
It feels like to me, I feel like I sound
like an alcoholic right now. I promise everything's fine in
my life. I just I don't get this trend and
this thing, because you know, it's just fruit juice. It's like,
just give me a box and let me punch a
straw through it. And that's basically the same thing as

(50:57):
what you're doing here. It's just got you know, a
lot more effort involved. But if you're going to a
holiday party and gen Z is a part of it,
there's a high likelihood that you're going to have an
alcoholic drink with no alcohol, and you're going to be
as sad as I would be in that situation. Fifty
two percent of Americans just rapid firing other topics for you.

(51:18):
We'll have a twenty five year old recipe on the
table tomorrow. Fifty two percent of people will have something
that's been passed down at least a couple generations that
someone made and created, especially if your grandma is an
incredible cook. Someone's got a recipe from Grandma out there.
So I just I love everything about this story and
everything about the likelihood of this, and I wonder if

(51:42):
you could identify it if people didn't tell you what
the twenty five year old recipe was like, if someone
sitting there with you was saying, hey, something on this
table is something that we're very proud of. We don't
want to tell you what it is, but you should
figure it out for yourself, because I wonder if people
could do it. I know that one of the items
at my Thanksgiving with my family that we go to

(52:04):
is not, you know, a big thing, not the thing
you'd consider it to be. The mashed potatoes have a
secret recipe that's been passed down from generation to generation
and they're delicious, and I don't know why and how
people make them. I'd like to know, but I won't
be able to do it, so no one tells me.
All right, This is Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show. More coming up, actually a little bit

(52:24):
more right now? Why don't we do a little bit
more right now? I love that other people are saying
that as far as these passed down recipes go, that
they're upset if they're not one of the people that
knows them. This was a byproduct of this survey, is
that if you know that there's a recipe that's been
passed down generation to generation that in the family and
you don't know it.

Speaker 5 (52:42):
It makes you angry. I'm not happy. But see a
second ago, I made that joke, and the reality is I'm.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
Glad I don't know. I don't want to ever try
to do something that I know I'm not going to
do well. I remember growing up as a kid, we
all made a food item for Thanksgiving. It was my
mom's tradition. All of the kids had to make some thing,
and I learned at a very early age that I
was an atrocious cook, mostly because of lack of effort.
I don't think I wanted to be. I don't want
to be good at that, so I don't try. But

(53:10):
I learned very early on that I wasn't good because
the item I would make was simplified more and more,
and as I got older, Like you would think, as
you get older, you're making more complex stuff. But as
I got older, eventually I was to open the cranberry
sauce guy and pour it in the bowl and then
go sit and watch football and wait for.

Speaker 5 (53:26):
The rest of the food.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
Which is great if you are good at cooking, but
you don't want to be forced to cook. You want
to be the open the cranberry sauce guy. I'm not
good at cooking. I'm terrible at it, But either way,
I would love to be the same person because of
how easy that job is.

Speaker 5 (53:42):
You go in, you open the cranberry sauce.

Speaker 2 (53:44):
It takes about thirty seconds at most, pour it in
the bowl, put it on the table. You're watching football
and eating the rest of the day. And that's how
you're supposed to do Thanksgiving. All right, quick break, A
lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad
Benson Show.

Speaker 17 (54:11):
Such Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
killing in, thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff
out there to talk about. Let's do something that's sort
of politics but also sort of isn't so. First, A
lot of people have been talking about President Trump's approval rating.
They say that it's been going down. What I think
is interesting about that is, if you look at the

(54:56):
approval rating among conservatives, among Republicans is actually fairly stagnant.
A lot of the Republicans who approved of him two
months ago, six months ago, still approve of him.

Speaker 6 (55:07):
Now.

Speaker 2 (55:07):
Polls like Rasmussen, which are usually more positive for a
Republicans than other ones out there, seem to indicate that. However,
there are a lot of polls that say the opposite,
that things are going poorly and more and more poorly
for the president. Not any sort of insane degree. We're
talking a few percentage points, which, by the way, I

(55:28):
will also say is usually true of a president when
they first get elected to when they've been in office
for a while. Is usually there's that hope at the beginning,
you'll see a high approval rating for almost anybody, and
then as time goes unless some sort of crazy thing
happens in our society that spikes that approval rating again,
it usually does go down. So right now, according to

(55:50):
Real Clear Politics, the approval rating for the president has
dropped about ten percentage points from its high in the
low fifties, about fifty point five to about forty two percent,
maybe only eight percentage points, maybe only seven actually, if
you're looking at it right at the tip of this
spread on Real Clear Politics, which is as of today,

(56:12):
And here's what I think is important about this, and
most people will say this, it's the economy stupid. That's
obviously the famous phrase, and most people believe it. When
Trump was elected, he ran on a platform that told
you stuff was going to get cheaper and better, and
then all the tariff stuff came in and all the
crazy media people scared you into thinking that it was

(56:32):
going to skyrocket pricing, which it didn't do. If you're
being honest, the amount of tariffs we had and the
impact it had on the price of stuff was negligible,
not as extreme as they told us it was going
to be. And with the Supreme Court fighting through all
that now, I think there's a chance that that may
go away, or it may not. Hopefully it doesn't. In
all honesty, I think that the tariff approach to getting

(56:53):
better trade deals with other countries is working, which inevitably
I think will actually drop the price of some items
and hopefully also do the thing the tariffs is most
designed to do, which is create a lot more stuff.
Here in the United States, for example, there's a story
out there today talking about how many people are going
to be buying American pasta instead of Italian pasta, and

(57:13):
as an East Coast Italian born and raised. I'm not
sure that that's a good thing from a food perspective,
but it is a good thing from a cost perspective,
And the sauce is really what matters. As long as
the sauce is good, I think you can make do
with a less than perfect pasta. That probably is sacrilege
to say to some I think some of my Italian
family would.

Speaker 5 (57:31):
Disagree with me on that, but I don't know.

Speaker 2 (57:34):
I think the sauce is far superior to the noodle
item in your dish. But anyway, and also the meat
product that you put in, because if my pasta has
a good chicken a season well and a good sauce,
I don't care if the noodle is not as good
as it could be. But anyway, they're saying that a
lot more people are going to be buying the American version.

Speaker 5 (57:52):
Maybe we can make it a little bit better. Who knows.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
But the reason I thought all this was kind of
interesting is another story that's out there too. Three Americans
expects to slip into debt during the holidays if the
economy single handedly can shove the outcome or the percentage
of approval for a president up and down, the worst
time of the year for any president will probably be

(58:16):
the holidays, no matter who you are, no matter how
good of a job or bad of a job you're
doing around this time of year. Until about the end
of this holiday season, with one in three people expecting
to put gifts on credit cards and in places they
shouldn't be putting them, one in three is a significant
amount of Americans. And I was looking for like a
historical comparison here, and this is about on average, a

(58:39):
good majority of or a good it's not a majority,
a minority of people, but a pretty significant minority of
people expect to do this pretty much every holiday season.
Then pay your way out of that debt throughout the
rest of the year. That's a hopefully as far as
you say it. But so I thought that was interesting
right now until the end of this year, if you're
to pull people and ask them how things are going,

(59:00):
and they judge just based on the economy and based
on their own spending, there's a higher likelihood now that
they're going to say things are terrible. But the real
interesting thing to me when it comes to the approval
rating of Trump is to talk to people that really
love the guy, not because those individuals are a good
representation of, say, you know, the average everyday American. I'm

(59:21):
aware they're not. I'm not going to pretend that someone
who loves the president is the same as you know,
someone who can be swayed either way. But I always
wonder what it takes for those people to have a
chink in the armor, crack in the armor, whatever you
call it that you want to say. And I'm not
even sure if what I've said just now is racist
to somebody, but anyway I phrase that, I remember. Nonetheless,

(59:46):
what I think is interesting about that idea, about that
concept as you talk about it, is that you know,
I don't see any crack in the approval from the
people who are on board with everything, And I think
that really would show a significant change in the amount
of people who think what Trump is doing is good
versus what he's doing is bad. Because when you find

(01:00:09):
it to be the situation where even those people are saying,
I'm not sure I like this, then you know that
things have really gone off the beaten path.

Speaker 5 (01:00:17):
They've gone away. You don't want them to go by
the way.

Speaker 2 (01:00:20):
Something else out there just shifting gears entirely because I
thought this was kind of interesting. The amount of sort
of famous people who are running for political positions in
Texas is off the charts. You have Mark Tshera, who
is a famous baseball guy I played for the Yankees,
among other teams, played for the Rangers. He is running
for political office as a conservative in Texas. You also

(01:00:43):
have the sham Wow Guy, which I thought was so
funny when I saw this the other day. The sham
Wow guy filed to run for a Congress seat in
Texas as a Republican. I don't know why I live
in Texas. I should put that out there. I don't
know why I found is so amusing because I'm sure
at the height of his fame, whenever anyone would know

(01:01:05):
who the sham Wou guy was, the last thing you
really saw him becoming someday as a politician. Although it
kind of makes sense, to be honest, if a whole
bunch of the people who sell us those made for
TV products wind up going into politics, because I feel
like the two things are very similar. I feel like
pretending that you're a person on a television that loves

(01:01:26):
a product that you might think is terrible and hate,
you know, selling us the snake oil that is all
the different made for TV products and then someday actually
doing it in the world of politics, like you're a
step ahead. The sham Wow guy might be a political
powerhouse as he runs for this office, at least according
to me, just because I think it's sort of hilarious

(01:01:47):
that that would be the next step, and I think
that we probably should have more of that. I would
love to hear from you. Actually, you can send messages
to the Chad Benson Show on social media, on Facebook,
on Twitter, wherever of what product hawking you know, TV guy,
TV person should be the next politician? What infomercial human

(01:02:07):
should be telling us how to run our country after
the sham Wow guy does it? Because I do think
there's a lot of other options out there, and I
think that it might be fun to have more famous
infomercial people, you know, become people that try to do
political things. And if Billy Mays were still alive, he
would absolutely be someone that I would love to see

(01:02:28):
more and more doing stuff out there in the world.
Not just the Oxy Clean running for all kinds of
political positions, but there's other ones. So you tell me
which people you think should be running for positions of
significance in our country, and I'll just continue to laugh
at the idea that the sham Wow guy and Mark
Dashera are two people that are trying to get political positions.
One last thing, I want to play just a piece

(01:02:49):
of audio. If I'm trying to be serious at all
before taking a break. This is well, this isn't all
that serious. This is Jimmy Kimmel doing an interview with
Mark Kelly, the Senator, one of several people who told
active men and women of our military to disregard the
orders of the President of the United States, the commander
in chief of the military. And kim Oll thinks he's

(01:03:10):
doing a great job in the interview by asking what
sedition even is.

Speaker 5 (01:03:13):
He seems to be.

Speaker 2 (01:03:14):
Confused as to what that even is, so he goes
to Senator Kelly, who's now being investigated by the FBI
for this exact behavior, and he says, this is a thing,
it's weird.

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
Who knows even what it means. Here's a little bit
of this audio.

Speaker 2 (01:03:28):
I mean, you can't keep track of this guy and
what he says.

Speaker 5 (01:03:31):
And I'll tell you this, though I'm not backing down.

Speaker 15 (01:03:35):
I mean, we've said something various simple members of the
military need to follow the law.

Speaker 5 (01:03:45):
We wanted to say that we have their backs.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
They are following the law because everything and anything that
Trump has ordered them to do so far is legal,
and that is admitted by everyone and anyone who's a
part of this. So it's just sort of amazing to
hear the reaction to what is addition anyway to be
I don't understand it any more than you do, because
that's the question that Kimmel actually asked him. And then
to have Senator Kelly say that he's going to continue

(01:04:09):
to do things that might undermine the authority of the
current president of the United States, which is bad for
all of us. But again, my favorite part of that
story and favor it's a weird word to use, but
it is true to me, is that most of those
left leaning crazy people are far left crazy people.

Speaker 5 (01:04:26):
I should say, We'll admit to you.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
That right now, not a single order given by the
president is actually illegal. And the biggest things that some
lefties will yell into televisions or on radios or wherever
is the blowing up of boats that have drugs on them.

Speaker 5 (01:04:41):
That's not due process.

Speaker 2 (01:04:43):
We're not pulling these boats over arresting these people and
then investigating them. And what's interesting about that is we
are absolutely allowed to take action like that if we
consider it a threat to our country, meaning that people
who are coming into the territory that is the United
States and the wa that are ours and our intelligence

(01:05:03):
organizations have deemed them a terror threat or a military
threat or some kind of threat. We can blow them up.
We can take that thing and remove it from planet Earth.
So a lot of these people on the left are
also telling you they don't trust the intelligence community by
saying that this is wrong, that due process is not
being considered here.

Speaker 5 (01:05:21):
Because we do have the authority to do that.

Speaker 2 (01:05:24):
And then the other one that a lot of people
will scream and yell very often in this whole process
is if the national Guard is activated somewhere, if it's
put in a place that it's quote not supposed to be,
what is the point of the national guard if they're
not used at times of crisis. And the president has
every right to say the national Guard is active somewhere,
the state has every right to then, I guess try

(01:05:46):
to fight that, as you saw in California and other places.
But again, none of this has actually happened, has broken
any law decided by anybody, even the court cases that
have come against Trump, He's actually won. And so I
think people hate to admit that part when they want
to have this conversation, but darn it, it is what it is.
We're in a world right now where where people need
to find a thing to be upset about and need

(01:06:08):
to find an extreme thing to then somehow rationalize and explain,
and this is just the latest version of that. All right,
we're going to take a break. After the break, I
want to talk a little bit about college football, mostly
because I'm thrilled about a ranking of a team that
a lot of people seem.

Speaker 5 (01:06:21):
Very upset about. I know it's not a sports show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:23):
I promise not to do that for very long, but
college football is getting very close to the playoff, which
I hated for a long time and now actually kind
of like that. This many teams make it into the
the playoff version of college sports, at least in the
world of football, because it's not NCAA madness in the
form of basketball. But it's definitely a lot better than

(01:06:44):
just two or three teams. So we'll take a quick break.
We'll come back and talk about other stuff. Craig Collins
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 2 (01:09:01):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk
about on the holiday and just before the holiday, and
I'd rather talk about fun stuff than the groundhog Day
that is politics. It seems like so often Trump is
terrible is what people on the left will say. Trump
is great is what people on the right will say.
I'm I'm fine with us skipping some of that conversation.

(01:09:23):
I do think this is interesting though. The mmdonnie Trump
sit down was a big deal. A lot of people
talked about it, how friendly they seemed when they had
both said pretty extreme stuff about each other. And Mamdonnie
to me, is basically a communist. He said a lot
of things about taking over the means of production, which
to me that feels pretty much like communism. That's exactly

(01:09:43):
what it is. And democratic socialists typically believe that capitalism
and needs to go away eventually. They want to do
it slower than the communists do, but same thing. Anyway,
I digress. My favorite thing that I've learned since their
sit down is Mmdonnie saying that Trump showed him a
play for an octagon UFC style at the White House,

(01:10:04):
that they'd like to build something that you can have
UFC fights at that's at the White House.

Speaker 5 (01:10:09):
That sounds incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:10:11):
I have to be entirely honest with you, Out of
all the sports to have happen at the White House, too.

Speaker 5 (01:10:17):
That's the best one.

Speaker 2 (01:10:19):
You don't want to have a baseball game, a football game,
anything else play there. You want two dudes to fight
each other, bare fisted that are trying to break each
other's bodies.

Speaker 5 (01:10:29):
That just sounds awesome to me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
I kind of feel like it'd be hilarious to have
that happen with like some dignitary of some foreign country,
some world leader coming in. He'd be like, Yeah, come
on by, we'll have a couple chats about stuff, and
then there're a fight's gonna break out in my backyard
later and it's gonna be amazing and you're gonna have
a great time watching it.

Speaker 5 (01:10:49):
That sounds cool. So I'm one hundred percent on board.

Speaker 2 (01:10:53):
With UFC at the White House, and I do feel
like the undercard for that should be politicians. I feel like,
if you fight a lot on Capitol Hill, if you're
disagreeing with someone you know and you're really like throwing barbs,
you have the octagon just down the street from you, guys,
I think you got to use it, Like that's the rule.
If you argue too many times, say too many ridiculous

(01:11:13):
things about other members of the House or the Senate,
then eventually you have to fight them before the big
main event fight in a UFC at the White House.
That would be I would be so happy, and you
can wear pads and stuff. I'm not trying to get
people hurt. I just think it would be hilarious to
watch two people go at each other. Maybe you have
like the giant sumo suits on, and that's the pregame event,

(01:11:34):
is two of the politicians and giants zumo suits fight
each other, and then the real UFC thing happens after that.
Either way, I am not remotely upset that the President
wants to build a UFC thing at the White House.
I know a lot of people seem to think it's
disrespectful and wrong. How dare you, sir? The people who
founded this country had to fight for their freedom, had
to fight for everything that they wanted, and so I

(01:11:57):
do think it's pretty amazing that we then might have
occasional ridiculous fights happening just behind that place. But all right,
that's just one thing out there. There's a lot of
other silly and crazy stuff out there for me to
get to. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.
Outside of UFC I would love for people to tell
me what else they think would be fun at the
White House, because I don't think there's another going to

(01:12:19):
answer for that. Baseball is the fort I most like
to watch get played places other than in baseball stadiums.

Speaker 5 (01:12:27):
I love it at the Field of Dreams. I love
a bunch of things they're doing there.

Speaker 2 (01:12:30):
It wouldn't be any fun to have that as the
backdrop for a baseball game, just because it's not violent enough.
You need it to be a UFC for that thing
to really hit home. They're like, yeah, baby, we live
here in the United States and more different than anybody else. HI,
quick break a lot more. I'm going to talk about
college football. I really will do that after this. Craig
Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:52):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:21):
We are following a breaking news story from earlier today
that is truly awful. Two members of the National Guard
who were working very close to the White House in Washington,
d C. Both of those members of the National Guard
are from West Virginia. They were shot by someone who
turned the corner opened fire on them. The suspect was

(01:13:41):
also returned fire and apprehended. Whatever is going to happen
now as far as that individual is concerned, and the
two individuals who were a shot for the National Guard,
we will update you as we go on the condition
of all three, but the full weight of the legal
will be applied to the individual who attacked National Guard,

(01:14:04):
as the mayor in DC said, a targeted attack if
they survive. I do want to play a little bit
of audio from the FBI Director Cash Bettel, who was
part of a press conference earlier today and said something
about the military men and women who serve this great
country and the way in which this brazen attack, this
horrendous act will hopefully result in the absolute punishment of

(01:14:29):
the individual who partook in it, but also hopefully demonstrates
the American people the risk that military men and women
take every single day when they put on a uniform
and protect this country, whether they do that beyond our
walls or here within the borders of this country.

Speaker 3 (01:14:46):
Two of our brave members of the National Guard and
the Department of War were brazenly attacked in the horrendous
act of violence. They were shot. They're in critical condition.
As you can see behind me. We have assembled the
full force about the federal, state, and local law enforcement
agencies to bring bear all of our resources to make
sure we find the perpetrators responsible for this heinous act

(01:15:08):
and make no mistake, they will be brought to justice.
Since this is an assault on a federal law enforcement officer,
this will be treated at the federal level as an
assault on a federal law enforcement officer. The FBI will
lead out on that mission with our interagency partners to
include the Department of Homeland Security Secret Service atf DEA,
and we're thankful for the mayor's assistance in this matter.

(01:15:30):
The Metropolitan Police Department and their skills in investigating homicides
and gun shootings in this city is exceptional. We will
work together collaboraively because this is a matter of national security,
because it's a matter of pride. President Trump has been informed,
we have been in contact with the White House. We
will shortchange the American public with no resources to make

(01:15:51):
sure we find in safeguard our nation's capital right here
in Washington, DC and bring anyone responsible for this heinous
act of violence to justice.

Speaker 2 (01:16:01):
I think it is interesting that he said that at
the end there anyone responsible, because right now, the police,
the mayor, everyone has said there's just the one suspect.
That suspect is in custody. That suspect had returned fire
sent at them after they attacked and injured two members
of the National Guard from both other National Guard members

(01:16:21):
and the police in Washington, d C. But could this
be part of some other plan, some other systems, some
other group of individuals that are communicating in some way.
It sounds like the FBI and cash Betel are at
least saying if that's true, they'll go after it. They'll
make sure to look under every rock, turn every corner
in bringing anyone to justice that was involved in this.

Speaker 5 (01:16:44):
And it is horrible.

Speaker 2 (01:16:45):
One more time, I do want to say from the
President of the United States, he put this out on
truth social The animal that shot the two National guardsmen,
with both being critically wounded and now in two separate hospitals,
is also severely wounded, but regardless, will pay a steep price,
a very steep price. I hope that is true. All right,
I do want to play some audio of some of

(01:17:05):
what is now being called the seditious six. These are
members of our political system, congress men and women, A
couple senators who put out a video telling military men
and women that they could disregard illegal orders from the
President of the United States. I'm assuming you've heard about
this by now. I actually, when filling in for Chris
Salcedo earlier this month, like last week, talked about it

(01:17:29):
when it first broke about a full week and a
day ago. And it's become a much bigger story since
the President reacted to it, and since the media system
that exists reacted to the president. So initially it was
something that somehow was missed by a lot of people,
but has become a very big deal. And I think
in light of what happened today, how sad it is

(01:17:51):
that military men and women National guardsmen were attacked on
the streets of DC by someone for a targeted reason,
that we revisit some of the things that they were saying.
So one of those first pieces of audio comes from
Senator Alyssa Slotkin, who said on television Justice Past Sunday
that she was afraid that military men and women would

(01:18:13):
at some point use their military to use their guns,
I use force on civilians, which is horrific to say.
This is something she said just a short time ago.

Speaker 4 (01:18:24):
Look at these videos coming out of places like Chicago.
It makes me incredibly nervous that we're about to see
people in law enforcement, people in uniform military, get nervous,
get stressed, shoot at American civilians. It is very a
very very stressful situation for these law enforcement and for
the communities on the ground. So it was basically a

(01:18:46):
warning to say, like, if you're asked to do something
particularly again.

Speaker 2 (01:18:50):
I'll stop it right there because it makes me so mad.
It is horrific to say that, to fear monger in
this way and to turn the villain into the people
who are served and protecting your community, whether it's the police,
whether it's law enforcement. Democrats have very unapologetically been turning
police into the bad guy for a while now, defund

(01:19:12):
the police, whatever you want to say, They've been doing
it for quite some time. The military is often something
that even they understand they should leave alone. However, this
recent discussion by these politicians has thrust the military into
the conversation as well. Not because they were activated in DC.
The National Guard was asked to help protect that part

(01:19:33):
of our country from all the violent crime that existed there.
That is not why they are now a political talking point.
It is because the Left made a lot of people
on their side of the aisle afraid that someone in
uniform was going to hurt them. It's the trick they
play all the time. Politicians need you to believe that

(01:19:53):
whatever is happening will potentially happen to you. It doesn't
matter what it is, It doesn't matter who is actually
likely to any sort of you know issue, whatever it
might be, violence or some other problem, it does not matter.
The only way to get people to act the way
that the politicians want them to act and show up
and vote, is to mobilize them to believe that you're next.

(01:20:15):
Whoever you are, whatever you're doing, it doesn't matter, you'll
be next in line to be harmed. And this is
the byproduct of that. Convincing people there in danger, someone
that is mentally unwell, that is evil at heart, that
is a whole bunch of things I might inevitably choose
to act to fight before the fight comes to them,
which is horrific. I want to play more of this audio.

(01:20:38):
This is Governor Pritzker saying that this is governor out
of Chicago, that you know the National Guard will attack
the American people at some point or that President Trump
has deployed.

Speaker 5 (01:20:48):
Them with that intention. This was on face the nation.

Speaker 6 (01:20:51):
This is horrible.

Speaker 7 (01:20:53):
So other than fighting crime, that's the first thing they
should understand. The second is it's an attack on the
American people by the president of the United States. It
is not He may disagree with the state that didn't
vote for him, but should he be sending troops in.

Speaker 5 (01:21:08):
No, you said he has other aims.

Speaker 8 (01:21:09):
What are the other aims?

Speaker 7 (01:21:10):
The other aims are that he'd like to stop the
elections in twenty twenty six or frankly take control of
those elections.

Speaker 2 (01:21:18):
Is this is insane. This type of rhetoric is insane,
and there are people that believe this. I want to
play one more. This is one more Democrat on CNN
saying that, you know, the National Guard is something that
you might be weary of or something that you might
somehow be afraid of, And it's just disgusting. And I
only pulled three examples. There are litany of other ones

(01:21:39):
that I chose not to pull because it probably just
pissed me off and make a lot of you mad too.

Speaker 5 (01:21:44):
To keep going.

Speaker 9 (01:21:45):
Actually, what the president is doing through the Secretary of
Defense is creating units, official military units, to quite frankly
guard or not guard, watch the American people discuss. That's
the thing that is absolutely a horrent. It reminds me
so much of what happened in Germany.

Speaker 5 (01:22:04):
This is disgusting.

Speaker 2 (01:22:05):
This is the rhetoric. This is Nazi Germany. This is
the gestapo on the street, this is whatever you want
to call it, if you're on those democratic sides of
the aisle, and that is not at all what's happening.
And again, the reason why you should know that, the
reason why when you go to sleep at night you
should be not at all afraid of the people who
serve this country, the men and women who protect us,
is because you know.

Speaker 5 (01:22:25):
Who they are.

Speaker 2 (01:22:26):
This is something I'll say this. The police, oftentimes in
communities where they feel that a lot of a certain
community might think of them as the bad guy, they'll
respond to that by becoming more a visual. They'll go
to streets, they'll knock on doors, they'll introduce themselves to people.
This is how you see videos of policemen and women

(01:22:48):
playing in pick up basketball games on the street with
people throughout this country. You see these things as a
way to understand the humanity of the individuals who serve
and protect us every single day. That's why they do that.
The military men and women who do that are even
more so. I would think individuals who care about your
safety are they're willing to put their life on the

(01:23:09):
line here in this country or abroad to protect you.
I don't know if more so is right, but these
are people who buy and large value the lives of
the innocent individuals that they choose to serve and protect,
and so to say that they're people who might inevitably
harm you, it's just disgusting. I know I'm a broken
record at the beginning of the show talking about this issue.

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And actually, I'll tell you another thing. Oftentimes when you
do radio, a lot of the people who instruct us
on how to do this, I tell you to have
a variety of topics throughout a show. I had a
ton of other things planned to talk about. You don't
often do half an hour on any one discussion point.
But when this happens, when National guardsmen are attacked in DC,
when they may have lost their lives in that attack,

(01:23:54):
and when one shooter has been apprehended that targeted them,
you do talk about this because it should be the
biggest discussion for all of us over the next few days,
and in all honesty, the aspect that this happened again
just before Thanksgiving truly makes it the kind of thing
that is both horrific and the kind of thing that
should be easier for us to understand. And what I

(01:24:17):
mean by that is easier for us to understand the
loss that exists here that families might not be able
to celebrate with their loved one because someone went to Washington,
DC or lived there and chose to attack people simply
because they were in uniform protecting the streets of the
district of the capital of our country.

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Some people got it, some people don't. You're listening to
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:47):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff
out there to talk about. A bar has banned solo drinkers.
This happened in the UK. The bar is called the Alibi, which,
by the way, if that's the name of your bar,
you're definitely supposed to allow solo drinkers in there, because
you're an Alibi. That's what you're supposed to be. Anyway,

(01:27:08):
the solo drinker no longer welcome. Carl Peters, the owner
of the place that it was, for safety reasons. He
thinks the person who strolls into his bar alone to
have a few drinks is the person most likely to
drink too many and go home in a dangerous situation,
and or create problems inside the bar. So now you
only can come in if you have friends, that's the

(01:27:28):
only way to do it, or at least people willing
to sit next to you as you consume alcohol. This
is enraged a lot of people in England, and he
continues to defend himself saying I don't care. I think
it's no single entry after nine o'clock, by the way,
so that you are allowed in the middle of the
day to consume beverages there, but if it's after nine,
you're not allowed in a loane. He is ruining a

(01:27:49):
whole bunch of people's opportunity to meet each other in
a situation that's not a dating app because I think
bars are still one of the main reasons or main
ways to do that for people to assume you might
try to flirt, and maybe that's the problem. Maybe the
reaction to the dude who's in the bar who tries
to pick up a woman in the bar is different
than it used to be years ago, because there are

(01:28:10):
people now who think that even just talking to you
if you don't know them, is akin to harassment or.

Speaker 5 (01:28:16):
Looking at you.

Speaker 2 (01:28:17):
I go to a gym, and I know that from
time to time, not that it's happened to me, people
get in trouble at the gym if they look at
the woman who's wearing almost nothing, like everything is very
tight on her body. And if you look at her,
you don't say anything to her, you don't try to
interact with her, but you look in her direction at
a time when she catches you. That can be a problem,
and you can go viral on the internet and be
told you're creep because you look that direction. And I'll

(01:28:40):
just say this, and I feel like I'm not alone,
although I might be alone in saying it. It is
insane to think that we're not going to look at
someone who comes into the gym in that kind of outfit.
You might try to hide it, you might look up
at the ceiling and glance over a bit, But a
straight dude in an environment like that, working out near
someone who's wearing very very tight outfits and bending over

(01:29:01):
and stuff like, I feel like the looking part is human.

Speaker 5 (01:29:05):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
I watch my wife do this when a guy who's
ripped comes into the gym and she's working out with me.
I see her look in the direction of the dude,
and I'm not gonna get mad at her for that.
I don't think she's staring and like foaming at the mouth.
That would be a problem. But an occasional glance at
somebody who's uniquely attractive and working out at the gym
feels like human nature. And so I just think it's

(01:29:27):
kind of hilarious that this is a thing that's out
there in the world for the bar, because I do
think shooting your shot being a guy who sees an
attractive woman at a bar and says something and it
doesn't go well, and then you just leave. Like that's
human that's different than anything worse than that. But society
today rejects all of these things. So everybody only dates
in the dating apps, and apparently, a much to the

(01:29:48):
chagrin of the Catholic Church, they date multiple people at
the same time. All right, this is Craig Hollins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show, upset about the bars
at least one bar in the is what I should say,
and I'll say this, and I feel like the whole
show has revolved around me somewhat admitting I'm an alcoholic
on the show today, I promise I'm not. I love

(01:30:11):
the solo drink at the bar, not a bunch of drinks.
I love grabbing one drink. Like the end of a workday.
You go in somewhere, you sit down a little bit,
the cheers version of an interaction, and then you go home.

Speaker 8 (01:30:22):
I love that.

Speaker 5 (01:30:23):
I don't want anybody to take that away from me.
What's wrong with that? People? A quick break a lot more.

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Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about out there in the world. Gas
prices are incredibly incredibly low, which a lot of people
are happy about.

Speaker 5 (01:31:24):
This holiday season.

Speaker 2 (01:31:25):
However, weather might destroy a whole bunch of people's travel plans.
A post Thanksgiving travel plans specifically may be ruined for
millions of Americans because of massive winter storms that are looming,
meaning you'll make it to your celebration, making it home
will be a lot more challenging. I found that pretty interesting.
I think there's an ABC News report on all of

(01:31:47):
this out there. Let's see if we can play a
little bit of that audio of them talking about gas
prices being low, but holiday travel might also be impacted
by something else.

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Speaker 2 (01:32:18):
A last and that's nine. I went, I can to
hear from Patrick, but he says it's great things. He
says it's doing awesome. They go on ABC later to
talk about how the weather might actually impact your travel,
especially driving places. I do think that that might be
the cost of admission. Is you choose to do it,
you hope things go well, and if you can't drive
back home because it's too dangerous, you stay for more

(01:32:41):
days with people. And actually did a story earlier today
on the show that talks about how overstaying You're welcome
is easily possible during the holiday season. Most people can
tolerate a maximum of six days that you stay with them,
which sounds like a lot. To be honest, I feel like,
if you're not traveling, you know multiple states from where
you are right now, that you shouldn't need to stay

(01:33:02):
for more than a couple days. If travel is a
certain amount of miles beyond the norm, maybe you'll crash
for a bit longer. But really, staying for just the
holiday weekend feels appropriate for most of us. And I
did throw out my own hack to this. I do
think that if you leave earlier than whenever you tell
them you're leaving, you will inevitably give them a gift

(01:33:23):
they'll love, even if you're starting to overstay you're welcome
if they'd really love to get back to not having
you in their house. If you tell them I'm leaving
on Saturday and then you leave on Friday night, they're
going to be happy about that and they'll remember it fondly. Actually,
you know what, I have other audio I'm going to
play of Trump pardoning turkeys. But this is interesting. This
is actually something well studied in the world of like

(01:33:45):
customer experiences and all kinds of other things, And it's
remembering the beginning and the end of something. Also the
highs and the lows of something. Those are two things
that are very common for people. I will remember the beginning,
we'll remember the end, especially if the end is good,
We'll remember that more than anything else in experience. I
think Disney did this study about people experiencing the Disney parks,

(01:34:07):
and then also the highs and lows. The moments that
are the absolute worst are likely to stick out in
your brain, and the moments that are the absolute best.
And if at the end of an experience you have
enough good moments to outweigh the bad ones and a
really good ending, you're likely to say the whole thing
was great. You're likely to not even remember the bad
stuff if you have those two components to it. So

(01:34:27):
I think you can use that logic in leaving someone's
house earlier than they expect and trying to do a
couple good things throughout the time that you're there so
that they're like, oh, we'd love to have them back,
even if.

Speaker 5 (01:34:37):
There was a time in the middle there where they
really wanted you.

Speaker 2 (01:34:39):
Out of their house. But I do love that that's
out there and being talked about. All right, let's move on.
Let's do some stuff I should do.

Speaker 5 (01:34:46):
First.

Speaker 2 (01:34:46):
Let's play President Trump pardoning this year's turkeys, something that
of course he did in person, in front of a
microphone and a camera, because President Trump likes being in
front of a microphone and a camera.

Speaker 5 (01:34:57):
This I thought was funny.

Speaker 2 (01:34:59):
I know some people will say they think it's not funny,
it's politics, it's whatever. This isn't the funniest thing he
did the other day while partning turkeys.

Speaker 5 (01:35:07):
But I do feel bad for.

Speaker 2 (01:35:08):
The people that can't laugh when Trump is genuinely funny,
because those people hate him so much they can't see
anything as a positive. And that's got to be a
terrible way to live life. No matter who you are
out there, no matter what version of terrible person you
think someone is, if they make a genuinely funny joke
and you refuse to laugh at it, that's a certain
level of hate that I just don't have for most people.

Speaker 5 (01:35:30):
Here we go.

Speaker 13 (01:35:31):
The turkey's being pardoned today go by the names of
Gobble and Waddle. When I first saw the pictures. I
thought we should send them. Well, I was gonna I
shouldn't say this.

Speaker 8 (01:35:42):
I was gonna call him Chuck in Nancy, that's funny.

Speaker 13 (01:35:45):
But then I realized I wouldn't be pardoning them. I
would never pardon those two people.

Speaker 2 (01:35:50):
That's funny to me. He said he wanted to call
the turkeys Chuck and Nancy. But then the problem is
no pardon would be offered to send turkeys, so that's
not happening. That to me is genuinely just humorous. That's
not the funniest thing he did, though.

Speaker 5 (01:36:03):
It was this. It's when he complained about last year's
pardon delivered by Biden and his suspicion and then an
investigation that obviously didn't happen, finding that the auto pen
was deeply involved.

Speaker 13 (01:36:14):
Before going any further, I want to make an important
announcement because you remember last year, after a thorough and
very rigorous investigation by Pam Bondi and all of the
people at Department of Justice, the FBI, the CIA, the
White House Counsel's Office, and the Apartment of Everything. We

(01:36:37):
have a Department of Everything, you know that is I
think that's called the White House into a terrible situation
caused by a man named Sleepy Joe Biden. He used
an autopen last year for the turkey's pardon. So I
have the official duty to determine, and I have determined
that last year's turkey partons are totally invalid, as are

(01:37:02):
the pardons of about every other person. Yeah, other than
Where's Hunter? No Hunters was good? That was the one
part in pamp that was good. Right, The rest of
them are all invalid. I don't know what the hell
you're going to do about that, but that's now we're
going to take a little of the joke. And that
is a mess. But they're here, by nol and void.

(01:37:23):
The turkey is known as peachin blossom last year, have
been located and they were on their way to be processed,
in other words, to be killed. But I have stopped
that and I am officially pardoning them and they will
not be served for Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 2 (01:37:41):
Look, I think that's genuinely funny, And the best way
for me to describe that is, say you're someone planning
your speech in any situation and you go with that
version of comedy. You can be the best man at
a wedding, you can be someone accepting some sort of
ward for yourself or some organization you work with, whatever
it might be, finding a moment of levity is important,

(01:38:03):
and specifically making a joke about nullifying the pardons of
last year's turkeys because of the auto pen like, that's
a good joke, And so I just think it's kind
of amazing that there are people out there like that's
not funny.

Speaker 5 (01:38:15):
Nothing he does is funny. Everything that Trump does.

Speaker 2 (01:38:18):
Is horrible and terrible, and he is the anti Christ
or whatever they say about the current president of the
United States.

Speaker 5 (01:38:24):
Because I don't think I'll ever get there. Man.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
I think if Sleepy Joe would have been capable of
making that exact joke, I would have also found it funny,
even though Sleepy Joe wouldn't have any idea what kind
of joke he was making, because that was part of
the problem anytime he spoke into a microphone.

Speaker 5 (01:38:38):
But I just love it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:39):
I love that that was a thing that Trump did,
a thing that people talked about or maybe didn't talk
about enough, and instead they're talking about other stuff. Two
other news stories to get to before I take a break.
Zelensky says, Ukraine is ready to advance a peace plan.
He will discuss some disputed points with President Trump, but
the twenty eight point plan that Trump has come up

(01:39:00):
with is something that seems like it's getting very close
to being a real thing. People are saying that their
eyes are now focused more on Russia and the willingness
to agree to something that it sounds like they really
help develop. Russia is going to get a lot of
what it wants in a piece deal with Ukraine. It's
going to get territory surrendered surrendered to it that maybe

(01:39:20):
it doesn't even have current control of in the Donbas region.
There's going to be a lot of things that happen
that seem to lean into the idea that a longer
version of this war absolutely benefits Russia and not Ukraine.
Even with people like the United States continuing to write
blank check after blank check to Ukraine, they simply don't

(01:39:41):
have the manpower to keep fighting for years and years
and years. Russia would inevitably win this conflict, even without
needing to mention that they're a nuclear power. That there's
a bunch of reasons why this conflict could end even
worse for Ukraine if it continues. Outside of just the
manpower difference, and so I do. I think it's interesting
that a lot of people are criticizing this. Many people

(01:40:03):
who refuse to give Trump any credit at all, say
that he's essentially doing everything Russia wants. Because how did
you think this was going to end? Is the best
way to ask that question or the best way to
put that out there to those individuals, What other route
to a better version of piece for Ukraine did you
see coming? And how would it not have to involve
boots on the ground from other countries, especially the United States.

(01:40:26):
It would have had to involve conflict between someone other
than Ukraine and Russia more directly a threat of it
and or the actual announcement of war in order for
Russia to believe that the tides would turn for it
long term. And obviously that's the kind of thing that
no one wanted to do, no one has any interest
in doing. And if you're talking honestly, you probably wouldn't

(01:40:49):
say you want to see happen no matter who you
are out there, outside of maybe people in Ukraine who
are already at war with Russia. But again, I just
think that was the only way to actually prolong this
and see a victory for Ukraine where they could retain
territory because Russia is advancing slowly, but they are and
I think someone projected it to be a few years

(01:41:10):
for Russia to actually get the area that will be
surrendered in this peace agreement, but they'd still get it.
The likelihood is that Russia would inevitably take it if
war doesn't stop, and there is a guarantee within the
twenty eight point Plan that once this is signed that
if Russia attacks Ukraine again, the countries in Europe and
the United States will consider that an attack on everybody,

(01:41:32):
which is very similar to how NATO operates. So no,
Ukraine is not a part of NATO, but right now
it feels like they would basically have a version of
admission via the protection of thinking that another attack would
inevitably cause a greater conflict throughout the world.

Speaker 5 (01:41:49):
Who knows if that's actually a thing that would happen.

Speaker 2 (01:41:51):
There's enough vagueness in the statements there that I think
that Ukraine feels it's not protected enough, and that might
be true. Nonetheless, that's the best thing you can possibly
offer a country that might be getting Russia to finally
stand down. They attacked Russia. They attacked Ukraine. Excuse me,
they're getting rewarded for their aggression. These are all bad
things things Putin shouldn't get but it's the only way out.

(01:42:13):
In my opinion, This long in to a conflict that
a lot of people thought would be over in six months.
Ukraine has done an incredible job of fighting to defend
itself and will hopefully retain a vast majority of its
land and you know, a vast majority of its independence.
And yet still it's the only inevitable outcome. So I
just think it's amazing that so many people are critical
of this and that the Biden administration wasn't capable of

(01:42:35):
doing this, because the longer this goes, the more likely
this was the only scenario for a tent But I've
said that enough Beyond that story out there in the
world and the discussion about the Ukraine deal, of course,
one of the other big discussions is about the sedition,
the behavior of a few democratic politicians to advise the

(01:42:55):
military men and women of this country to not listen
to the orders of the president. I know that where
like the second week end of this story, the first
week it was kind of a blip of the radar thing.
Not a lot of people heard or talked about it.
That audio came out over a week ago, and I
wound up talking about it some places, but it wasn't
a big deal. Trump says what he does in social media.
People overreact to that. That was the intention of it.

(01:43:18):
It was hyperbolic on purpose, And now it is a
dominant conversation in week two or even have people popping
up on Jimmy Kimmel to defend themselves and talk about it.
And I do just think it's fascinating from an outside
perspective as I watch that story change within our news cycle,
to see how effective Trump can be at getting a
conversation that's not being talked about to be talked about

(01:43:41):
by being the guy in the room that the left
considers to be the craziest, most insane, most willing to
do something terrible just by saying something untruth social So
I've seen, I think, yet again, a proof of the
control you have in media by behaving the way Trump
does that almost no one else is good at wielding.
And I just think that's interesting because at the end

(01:44:02):
of the day, most of these Democrats have also admitted
that Trump has not ordered the military to do anything illegal,
and they always say yet at the end they're like,
who knows it could be coming, But they do admit
that Trump hasn't done it, and that I think was
the goal all along for the right to get that
out there too. Whether it's being focused on or not
by media in the left, it doesn't matter. It seems

(01:44:22):
to be the most important part of that story. All right,
we'll take a break. We'll do a little bit of
sillier stuff. I think I promised to talk about college
football a couple of times and haven't done it, so
I will do it coming up here, Mostly because Notre
Dame yet again, is a college that a whole bunch
of people in this country are confused about, and they're
talking about and they're wondering how they could be ranked

(01:44:43):
higher than a team that beat them this year.

Speaker 5 (01:44:45):
I have a take on that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:46):
So I'll talk about that and a couple other things
football just in time for the holidays.

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Speaker 2 (01:46:58):
This is Chad Bence, This is the Chad Benson Show.
My name is Craig Collins, filling in a thrilled to
be with you. Football will be a big part of
your weekend, most likely probably NFL football, the Lions, the Packers,
the Chiefs, the Cowboys, the Bengals, the Ravens. I do
think it's somewhat dumb to have certain teams play every

(01:47:20):
single year. If they're terrible, they should play almost every year,
and then if they're awful, we shouldn't have to be
subject to them. But I am glad the Lions are
actually not bad, because when the Lions are terrible and
playing on Thanksgiving, it's a wasted game. But this year
they're actually probably the most exciting game that's happening them
in the Packers seven and four, seven to three and one,
so a decent matchup for sure. The Chiefs and the

(01:47:42):
Cowboys might be a good matchup, but mostly because both
of those teams have underachieved. Either of those teams were
probably hoping to be better of the Chiefs more so,
I think than the Cowboys, and so far not a thing.
Six and five, five to five and one for those
two teams too, so just not good. By the way,
I hate that football ends in ties. It's un American.

(01:48:02):
We shouldn't have ties. You should be forced to play
these things out till a winner is done. I hate
the tie. And then finally, the Bengals and the Ravens,
probably the worst game. The Bengals are three and eight,
the Ravens are six and five, but it's the late game,
so who knows, you'll probably be asleep on turkey by
the time that that game is going.

Speaker 5 (01:48:19):
But that's a big deal.

Speaker 2 (01:48:19):
And then also college football a big deal, especially the
ranking of Notre Dame, which we'll be playing on Saturday
and ending their season hopefully with a win. They remain
ahead of Miami, a team that beat them this year
in a very close game. I think everyone freaking out
about this is just a Notre Dame hater baby, because
they've played very well since the two losses to open
the year. That's my football analysis. Craig collinsvilling In on

(01:48:43):
the Chad Benson Show. I am a Notre Dame fan.
If you haven't noticed, by the way, I'm not a
Notre Dame hater. And I do think it's interesting that
you have a close loss to Miami, another close loss
after that, both two very good football teams in Texas
A and m and people are just upset on belief
that Notre Dame somehow is ranked higher than Miami and

(01:49:03):
likely to get into the College Football Playoff, and Miami
might not get in based on current rankings right now
because Miami has much worse losses on their record or
on their season. I think that does matter everybody, but
that's just me. Go ahead and get mad. It's not
even my show, So I apologize to Chad. If you're
yelling at him, I'm out of here. See you guys
after the holiday.

Speaker 5 (01:49:22):
Craig Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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