Cyber Monday

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Let's get right into it.
Tim Walls is defending himself in the worst way humanly
possible for being responsible as the governor of Minnesota for
a tremendous amount, a crazy amount of fraud, like ridiculous,
like the amount of fraud that you almost never see

(00:37):
in our society, at least unless it's politics. I feel
like the government is the only place that could be
scammed to this extent or to essentially embezzle this much money,
which it could be either or choose your own adventure.
But you'd think that if you're the mayor of this
or excuse me, the governor of this state, and you're
asked a question about how bad things have gone and
how much information is out there now to show that

(01:00):
you're totally drunk at the wheel and not doing anything
to protect taxpayer dollars, you at least give more of
a level of I did something wrong here or I
miss something I shouldn't have missed than Tim Walls gives
in response to this, and this should absolutely be the
kind of thing that this qualifies you from being a
re elected to any sort of position of power. But first,

(01:21):
let's go ahead and play the audio. This is Tim
Walls being asked a question on NBC News I Meet
the Press about the crazy amount of fraud that exists
in Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Dozens of people of East African descent have been charged, convicted,
and sentenced for stealing more than a billion dollars in
taxpayer money from government programs during COVID. As you know, Governor,
that is more than Minnesota spence each year to run
its Department of Correction. So I want to give you
a chance to respond to this. Do you take responsibility

(01:50):
for failing to stop this fraud in your state?

Speaker 4 (01:54):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't get to.

Speaker 2 (01:59):
The answer is no. He's already going to say the
answer is no, or should say it. Here's the thing
before I play any more of this audio, here's the
right way to do this. And I'll give you two versions.
I'll give you the version that we wish we got
from politicians, which is, you know what I screwed up?
I should have seen this. I should have known about this.
I should have been more informed. I ran for vice
president along with Kamala Harris in a terrible campaign. During

(02:23):
the end part of that campaign, I probably had my
fingers even further away from where they were supposed to
be as charges as far as my job was concerned,
tied to Minnesota. Like all the versions of I screwed up,
here's my excuses for it. But I'm definitely not pretending
that it's not my fault. That's option A that we
never get from politicians. Option B is to also say

(02:45):
that you messed up, and then not necessarily to say
that you did it alone, maybe throw some other people
onto the bus. Say I had people in these positions
of authority that were supposed to be doing these things
and they weren't. But at least a version of it's not,
you know, one hundred percent my fault, I'm not pretending
that it's not at least partially my fault. And then
the political thing that everybody does, which is you shift

(03:06):
to some other rhetoric talking point crap where you blame
the other side for something else, or you blame the
other side for somehow being a part of it. That's
a version I guess we could get. We don't want
it in society, but that's the version that some politicians
occasionally give us. This is option. See, this is not
my fault at all. How dare you even say it's
my fault. I'm amazing And the only people who are

(03:28):
to blame are the other side of the aisle for
these things that have nothing to do with the question whatsoever.
We get this answer a lot in politics. We shouldn't
get it. But here's Walls doing the it's not my fault.
And have you talked about this already?

Speaker 4 (03:40):
Talk theoretically, we have to solve problems. And I will
note it's not just Somali's. Minnesota is a generous state.
Minnesota as a prosperous days, a well run state or
triple A bond rated. Now, it's not that attracts criminals.
Those people are going to jail. We're doing everything we can,
but to demonize an entire community on the actions of
a few, it's.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Lazy, it's ridiculous, it's racism, it's all these other things
that Walls wants to say. It is nothing to do
with the actual discussion about the facts in the case. Themselves,
and how many people defrauded this government this state to
the tune of millions, if not billions of dollars. And
I say this again because of how important it is

(04:19):
to say these are the kinds of answers to questions
that only politicians can give. None of the rest of
us can say this. You can't be sitting there in
charge of some part of a company and then have
that part of your company fail spectacularly and be like,
you know, it's not really my fault, and in all honesty,
I'm really kind of upset you asked about it, because
it's kind of racist or sexist. There's something else of

(04:40):
you to even put us there in the first place.
This is really on you, not me, and I'm doing
a great job. Like the amount of something you have
to have inside your brain to be asked a question
about the spectacular failure of that amount of money from
your state and to say that it's a well run
state in your ant sir, like in the response, you

(05:02):
can't possibly have everything behind you be on fire and
be like, I'm doing a really good job of putting
fires out. Well, everything's in a blaze. You got to
at least try to fight the fire a little bit
first there, sir. By the way, President Trump was asked
a question about Tim Walls and about his use of
the R word, which has become a thing that politicians
want to talk about on a certain side of the aisle,

(05:22):
or people want to talk about media, more so than
I think the American people actually want to discuss it.
But Trump called him retarded and said that the reason
he used that word is because Tim Walls is an idiot,
and there wasn't a you know, all that long ago
time that existed in society where people use this word
without any sort of intention to belittle harm, you say

(05:46):
anything negative about people that actually have mental disabilities, but
just simply use the word simplistically to talk about someone
that should have done better than they did in the
world of your brain works, fine, and you've made a
tremendous mistake and avey whatever. Essentially, they don't give people
the benefit of the doubt anymore to not have the
most evil intention possible behind our choice of which words

(06:08):
we use, which is kind of crazy because I do
think that oftentimes this is inflated just to get an
argument out of someone that wants to move you away
from the topic at hand. The topic should be how
did walls fail to protect this much taxpayer money from
being used and fraudulently stolen from Minnesota? And it's unfortunately

(06:29):
not about that, it's about this. But here's how President
Trump responded to a question about the use of that
word and if it's something he regrets, which, by the way,
spoiler alert, it is not. In that same post you
mentioned that you called him of what many Americans do
find it if.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
It's a word retarded to you stand by that claiming
calling to me off.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
Yeah, I think there's something wrong with absolutely sure, you
don't think they have a problem with it, You know what,
I think there's something wrong with him.

Speaker 6 (06:57):
Anybody that would do what he did. Abody that would
allow those people into a state.

Speaker 7 (07:02):
And pet begins a fellows up to Samalia.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
We give bigions about us to Samaria.

Speaker 7 (07:08):
Stun even a country because it doesn't function like a country.

Speaker 8 (07:11):
It's got a name, but it doesn't function like a country.

Speaker 2 (07:14):
Yeah, anybody who does that is messed up, is not
doing things the way you want him done, and probably
deserves to be fired. It deserves to be canned from
their position of political power. I agree with the President
on that that it is a uniquely bad, embarrassing mistake,
if that's even what you call it, like a horrific
mistake from a financial standpoint, that deserves to be something
we talk about more than if the President used the

(07:36):
wrong word to describe him. That would be Tim Wallas
as an idiot, the moron, and an imbecile, all things
he seems to be all right, other things out there
that I thought were interested. This is representative Jim Andez
talking about the ongoing discussion involving Pete Eggzeth and whether
or not he ordered a second strike on a boat
that was carrying drugs from Venezuela into this country because

(07:59):
he just wanted to kill. That is the narrative the
Left is going with. There are anonymous sources claiming this
to be true, that essentially Pete haig Seth willingly committed
a war crime, a very simplistic thing to not do,
by the way, like most people would know that if
a boat is now destroyed and the people who might

(08:19):
be alive still in that watercraft are no longer capable
of defending themselves, you can't fire on them again. And
no one says on the record that this actually happened.
Of course he Seth denies it. Trump is that he
believes Pete Haggseth, etc. Etc. But here is another representative
talking about how ridiculous this story is and how it

(08:41):
really seems to be the kind of distraction that is
designed to move us away from having a discussion about
things that actually matter, especially after the wake of the
horrible shooting of two National guardsmen in Washington, DC, that
should be catapulting a lot of discussion about our border,
about the letting in of people, after the failed eggs

(09:01):
in Afghanistan, whatever you want it to be. That seems
like that should be at the forefront of discussion. And
it's not because this story is trying to circumvent it,
because Democrats are essentially making something up. But here's how
Haman has described what he smells as a rat cottishmen.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
They are now growing calls for an oversight, hearing and investigation.
Your thoughts on.

Speaker 9 (09:20):
This, look, It just seems all strange to me that
you get the Democrats coming out with a video saying,
you know, do not follow illegal orders, and then all
of a sudden you get this apparently these are anonymous
kind of whistleblowers is saying that something happened here, So

(09:42):
you know, I smell a rat here.

Speaker 8 (09:43):
I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure that the Secretary.

Speaker 9 (09:45):
Of Defense had nothing to do with something like that.

Speaker 8 (09:47):
And it's just a way.

Speaker 9 (09:50):
Of, you know, distracting from what really happened in d C.
You know last week where you had the murder or
of one National guardsman and and then the wounding of
another by an Afghan refugee, And I think it's just
a distraction.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
So yes, I think it's a distraction too. I absolutely
agree with him that it's sort of a ridiculous story
that seems to have no basis in reality, because how
and why would someone actually do that? For what benefit
would any person commit a very simplistic, easy, horrible in
fact war crime because a boat that's been destroyed needs

(10:28):
to be more destroyed. I'll go a step further in
this story too, just because I think it's kind of ridiculous.
It would get to the point where we debate these
things if somehow it winds up being true. Of course,
Pete Hegseth deserves to lose his job if someone comes
on the record officially with some sort of actual proof
that this occurred, and Trump even said that you wouldn't
want this to be a thing that actually happened. So

(10:50):
no one is going to pretend that they advocate for
the fake narrative of this, at least fake to me
right now, of this thing being okay, like if it
actually happened, it's terrible, but nonetheless lit a lot of
people will not believe it's a thing that actually occurred,
which matters more. And as the representative is saying, some
of the things it seems to be distracting us from

(11:10):
is all part of the plan. It's part of the
design to get you as far away from the target
as you need to be in order to have a
discussion about what really matters. And the amount of fraud
in Minneapolis and Minnesota throughout the state. It's just insane
to think of the scale of it and how big
of a screw up it is, how big of a

(11:31):
problem it should be politically for politicians that are seeming
to act as though this is just simply the cost
of doing business. All right, We got to take a
break here. In a little bit. After the break, we
we'll come back and talk a little bit more about
chasmin Crogett who's in the news, and aften Ben who's
also in the news. That's the lady who hates Nashville
and a woman who seems to hate a whole lot
of white people. All that more coming up. Craig Collins

(11:53):
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 1 (13:11):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
silly stuff to talk about, and I promise we're going
to do a whole lot of silly discussions during the holidays,
because well just after the holidays, because I like that
more than serious stuff. But two members of the Democratic
Party who seem to hate people. Hate seems to be
alive and well for Democrats more so than Republicans often. Ben,

(13:37):
who I'll talk about in a minute, is a person
running for political power in Nashville, Tennessee who seems to
hate Nashville, which seems to be a bad mix. You
want to be in charge of something and you also
hate the people who live there in the society, the
culture as a whole. Before I get there, let's play
some audio a Jasmine Crockett, the politician out of Texas
who seems to really hate white people so much, in fact,

(14:00):
that when asked a question about actual crimes being committed
by people who are not here in this country legally,
who should not be here, her transition was, what about whitey.
Let's make sure to hold whitey as responsible as possible
for whatever it is I think they're doing that's wrong.

Speaker 11 (14:15):
Here we go, because if that's the case, let's talk
about the white supremacist and how many of them needs
to be kicked out of this country because I can
guarantee you I can check down more crimes that they've committed,
because overall, immigrants have a lower crime committal rate than
white supremacists. But we don't want to talk about that.

Speaker 2 (14:33):
Right Here are two things of two things in reaction
to this very quickly. One, I think it's ridiculous to
pretend that the punishment for someone who's legally in this
country is that they would be kicked out of the country.
If you're legally here and you commit a crime, go jail, throwman,
prism throwman prism for a long time. I don't think
anyone is saying that they shouldn't go to prison to
jail for those things. But if you're here illegally, then

(14:54):
I'm even madder that we let you in, that you're
staying here when you shouldn't be, and the crime you
committed you should punished for it and also kicked out
of the country. It's such a fool's errand such a
ridiculous distraction to try to pretend as though the people
who need to be kicked out are white Americans because
they're quote unquote white supremacists. It's just it's insane. But

(15:15):
that is the war of a race that oftentimes people
in minority you know, from minority communities, in positions of power,
want everything to be about. They want every discussion to
be race over here, race over there, who's doing what,
who's in charge of this, et cetera, et cetera, when
the reality is that none of them are actually looking
to solve problems based on those discussions. All right, here's

(15:37):
the other one. This is a white woman often been
running for a position of political power in a place
that she apparently hates, and her answer to the question,
why just say you hate everybody that's from there was
about as terrible as you think it is.

Speaker 7 (15:50):
I do want to ask you by an attack line
from Republicans, because this has been a comment you made
in twenty twenty about Nashville. It's gotten a lot of
attention in your race. Let's listen to this.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
I hate the city.

Speaker 12 (16:00):
I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I
hate country music.

Speaker 13 (16:03):
I hate all of the.

Speaker 12 (16:04):
Things that make Natchurville apparently Henke.

Speaker 1 (16:06):
City to the rest of the country.

Speaker 13 (16:08):
That I hate it.

Speaker 7 (16:09):
I know you said those comments were taken out of context,
and but I want you to I want to ask
you about it because I'm wondering, do you think it
was a mistake to say that, Yes, yes, it was.

Speaker 12 (16:19):
Once again, I was a private citizen. Nashville is my home.
Is at the bachelorette parties and the pedal top.

Speaker 2 (16:25):
I already got stopper. I was a private citizen. I
didn't have to lie. Yet when I become a politician,
I get to actually lie and pretend my lies are
the truth. So that's the problem. The problem is that
you're taking something I said seriously when I was not
supposed to be taken seriously yet, and now everything I said,
I promise it's the truth is now you're going to
judge me on it. It's a ridiculous stance for her

(16:46):
to take one last thing, just throwing it out there.
And this is definitely sillier in nature. Today is probably
the last day to eat Thanksgiving leftovers. You should probably
not consume them afterday, according to a lot of the experts.
If you do choose to consume them anyway, how much
is it choose your own inventure kind of decision for you?
You might wind up in the bathroom quite a bit more.

(17:06):
You also might have a person in your life, like
my wife who's going to look you in the face
and say that she frows some of that stuff. So
it's still fine. Even if you think it doesn't smell great,
you're gonna be told you better consume it because we're
not throwing that stuff out. So again, I think there's
two reasons you might disregard the idea that it's time
to throw out the Thanksgiving items. One is if you
want to be a risk taker yourself, and two is

(17:27):
if you want to keep the white happy and she's
looking in the eye the way she does when you
know the right answer is yes, honey, that's totally fine.
Let's get sick together. Quick break a lot more. Craig
Gall's pilling in on The Chad Benson.

Speaker 14 (17:38):
Show, Sun Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (18:03):

Speaker 2 (18:07):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. A buddy of mine, though,
is available just after the holidays, and I figured i'd
bring him on for a little bit of fun because
today is actually technically a holiday too. It is Cyber Monday.
I don't think a lot of people are spending any
money on the internet to I'm kidding, but we've already

(18:30):
spent so much that I don't know how Cyber Monday
is really a special holiday at all. I'm a Matt Bear.
He is the co host of Matt Craig Excellent Podcast.
I am actually the other person that does that show,
of course, I'm Matt. How you doing, buddy, I am fantastic.

Speaker 13 (18:43):
Happy Thanksgiving day after Craig or two days after weekend.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
After whatever after Yeah, back to the regular life. You
know day after thing that we're doing. Now, are you
going to buy anything online today? Matt Bear?

Speaker 13 (18:59):
I found maybe two hundred dollars a credit card room,
and I got to make sure I get that all
filled out before the day's over. So I'm gonna. I
think I need a second laptop in a TV for
a third bedroom and only have one. So okay, it's
Cyber Monday, man, I mean, yeah, the deals are there,
it's just kind of one of those things where there's

(19:19):
Christmas shoving coming up, and I don't feel necessity or
even responsible blowing a whole bunch of money even if
it's on sale, And kind of the same way goes
from Black Friday for me. I know you're supposed to
be spending money for Christmas presents on that to a degree,
same thing with Cyber Monday, but let's be honest, that's
not how we do it. We spend ourselves for Christmas

(19:40):
or Cyber Monday in Black Friday, and I can see it,
but for me, it's just it's another day, brother, It's
another day.

Speaker 8 (19:48):
I love that we.

Speaker 2 (19:49):
Spend money on ourselves as the take, because it's absolutely true.
The only thing I debated buying all week and long,
and I talk about this on another radio thing I
do that you're a part of, not just our podcast.
I didn't buy it, but I thought about it all
week and long. It would have been for me. It
would have been a air fryer that could fit a
pizza in it. This is something I wanted, and we
didn't actually pull the trigger on it, and we've already

(20:10):
spent I saw this eleven point eight billion dollars online
as of Black Friday. So I don't know that Cyber
Monday is really even any more of a thing, but
it's out there, or anyone still wondering if they should
buy something. I wanted to pivot to another story. I
love this a lot, and I think this is perfect
for you and I and the kind of discussions we

(20:31):
have on Matt and Craig excellent podcast, or any of
them wants to check it out. Yes, I am selfishly
promoting it here. These are things, thanks Matt. These are
things that you should not have two of in our society.
According to BuzzFeed, one is okay, but two is too many.
The number one thing that you should not have too
many of is crazy ex girlfriends. According to this list,

(20:53):
having one is all right, that's fine. It happens having
two and they say, the problem is you any more
than two? The problem is definitely you. What's your response
to that being at the top of the list number one?

Speaker 13 (21:04):
The problems always me that's number one. There are number
two and three. Uh, but I don't even You know,
you mature a little bit in life. You get to
a point where you say, you know, yeah, I've dated
some women that can be considered crazy. What the fact
is it takes two to tang them and I might
be the catalyst and that whole thing, But yeah, you

(21:24):
want to make sure you keep your level of craziness
and exes not so much once you've done in the past.
You've done in the past, but you need to make
sure when you get into that one beautiful relationship like
you craig a marriage that in the past, because a
lot of people be like, yeah, next, I'm still talking
to them. Yeah, that's not going to work. That's not

(21:45):
going to happen. So whether they're sane axes or whether
they're crazy access certifiable, I don't know. Maybe you know
what a cot next to me? Who knows, But you
have to leave that where it isn't that in the past. Otherwise, yeah,
they're going to cause problems, and You're probably gonna cause
problems because it's you, you know.

Speaker 6 (22:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
No, I love that you said that you don't know
they're crazy xes if you're not talking to them. Basically,
that is true. If you leave them, if you ignore them,
they can't be crazy for long. I think that some guys,
and I'm saying this somewhat because I believe that I
have two crazy Xes in my past, might be attracted
to the crazy, Like the crazy might be a component
to the interest. You know, it's not going to be

(22:22):
the lifelong relationship you have when you settle down. You're
not picking the crazy person anymore. But I think there's
some level of insanity that might be intriguing for a
while to a younger man. I'm just putting that out there.
I'm saying that maybe I'm not also crazy. Maybe I'm
just a little bit into the crazy more than I
should be. But I love that this beat out two
toilets in the same bathroom, because that seems insane. There's

(22:46):
no reason to have two toilets in the same bathroom,
but two crazy Xes. I feel like that's going to
be more normal, and it's higher up on the list.

Speaker 13 (22:54):
And her toilets are going to be the new controversy.
You remember the unisex bathroom. This is going to is
in her toilet controversy. And I mean it's good in
the buddy country. Absolutely.

Speaker 8 (23:05):
I don't know why you.

Speaker 13 (23:06):
Need two toilets in the bathroom, whether than the fact
neither from her using mind, I don't want to put
her through that. Maybe that's but by the time you're
in a marriage, living together and have that relationship, you
can't out in the bag. You both do it, but
you both should clean up after yourself. So I tally
talk myself into one of two toilets, but I can't

(23:27):
the life and they find a reason where you need
two toilets.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Now, you don't need you need two bathrooms depending on
how how big of a size the family is, and
or if one of us occasionally needs the bathroom for
a while like that that you need to different restrooms
in the house. You don't need two toilets in the
same room. That seems very very wrong. Like I would
feel uncomfortable being in a bathroom there where there was
a second toilet because I wouldn't want to know what
happened in a situation where both were used at the

(23:52):
same time. This is a very disgusting conversation, but I
can't help it because this is still lower on the
list than having two crazy ex girlfriends. I have two
toilets in the same room.

Speaker 13 (24:02):
My toilet in my one bedroomvirement is like right in
the middle of the apartment. Okay, it's right there. If
something happens in there, everybody's gonna know about it. In
the apartment. It doesn't matter if you walk through the
kitchen or you walk to the west where you can
walk through the ends of the earth, and you're still
get to know what's going on in that apartment. That's
something that's happened. And that's not the case I want

(24:23):
to get into. I don't want to know I'm doing it,
and I don't want to know she's doing And that's
why I'm singing.

Speaker 2 (24:29):
I get it, man, I have another piece of audio.
I love this story a lot. So apparently a family
was all set up for Thanksgiving, had the last item
put on the table by a twelve year old family member,
and then all of a sudden, the table came crashing
to the ground and a whole bunch of the food
spilled all over the floor. I'll play the audio because
I think it's just people yelling, but I do have
a follow up question for you, Matt after we play this. No,

(25:00):
I know the audio doesn't really add that much to it,
but I kind of enjoyed playing it anyway, because it
is just a bunch of craziness after all the clapping
and a plodding. But here's the question, how much of
that food do you eat off the floor? Because for me,
it's a lot. For this family, it wasn't everything. Apparently
they did let some stuff go into the trash. But man,
five second rule for sure, if the entire Thanksgiving table

(25:20):
goes down.

Speaker 13 (25:21):
First off, nobody needs to know about other than the
people in the room. You don't tell anybody. Okay, you
pack everything up off the floor, put it back in
the dishes, and remember it's greed, big capsule. I mean,
it looks like it's been on the floor for hours anyway,
So you know, you just go back into pot, the
crock pot, whatever you're using, and teconally, if you're the
parents of this kid, you have something in the back

(25:42):
pocket for the rest of your life.

Speaker 8 (25:43):
Don't like it.

Speaker 13 (25:44):
Stort for sending you to You were win Thanksgiving. Don't
like the fact we didn't buy you a car for
your sixteenth birthday. You were win Thanksgiving. Yeah, now you know,
mom and Dad are in good shape and really with
the food, all you have to do is pack it up.
I'll eat anything on Thanksgiving and I know everybody's just safe,
doesn't matter if it's been on the for or putting together. Still.

Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, by the way, I will say this one other thing,
and it's something we share that's kind of funny from
this year, both of us said no to our families
for Thanksgiving. This year. I think that that's not something
I've done very often. I did wind up having an
event that we went to that my wife's family is
somewhat tied to, but it was it was not a
close relationship. It's a distant one. So we were flying

(26:23):
the wall people for that. But by and large, I
and you both did a thing that I don't know
how often you've done. You got your self Thanksgiving or
just me and my wife had a Thanksgiving and I
loved it. I loved the freedom of not having to
worry about anybody else over the holiday. I'm not saying
bah humbugged anyone out there who spends time with family.
That's the intention of the holiday. I just think it's

(26:44):
kind of funny that you and I both skirted that
responsibility this year.

Speaker 13 (26:49):
I mean, we're not saying bob humbug at all. No,
I like it. This is we have images in our mind,
you know, of what Thanksgiving should be about, what I
grew up with, what I grew up up with. We
go to my grandpa's house. It's just a big, beautiful
old home. And he had a had billiards in the basement,
and he had a sword that he had cut the
pumpkin pie with and it was such a saine. It

(27:09):
was so cool, and he had or get over there,
I mean he had it was a kid's disney Land,
this thanks Ma meal. We'd have so much fun beforehand.
And that's how I remember Thanksgiving. And I like those memories.
I cherish those memories. But things are different now. And
if you need to stay by yourself and work for
Thanksgiving or find the person you love most that you

(27:33):
did in your case and spend time with your wife,
who's just say that's not the way to do it,
and things might change in a couple of years, you
might decide to go ahead and go out to family
and fly back to Illinois and or visit your wife's home,
whatever you might do. But this was good enough for now.
You had a great Thanksgiving. That's all the matters. The
time I feel guilty and this is a meat problem,
but when I feel guilty is when I'm like, you're

(27:55):
not doing this right, holidays right, and then I I
feel all crappy and then it gets inside my head.
But that's not the point. Now. It is just to
make the best of it and just to do what
you can to enjoy the holiday season. And that's what
I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
Then, Yeah, I gotta be honest, man, I liked like
the year off kind of thing. I moved much further
away from my family that I've lived in a long time.
As you reference there. It's a heck of a plane
flight to now get to most of my family, and
I like that. I just skipped it. I'm not saying
I'll never do it again. And I know everybody out
there is like, man, what a curmudgeon these people are
to say, But try it. Try a one year time

(28:31):
off for yourself thing. Not because of COVID, not because
of all the insanity and the depression that existed a
few years ago for people who might have did it reluctantly,
but do it on purpose. Do and it doesn't have
to be Thanksgiving, do whatever holiday, whatever event that you're
feeling like you have to go to. Just skip one
of those and do something on your own. We went
to Chinatown in Houston for a decent part of the holiday,

(28:54):
and it was great there too, dude, because most everybody
there didn't care about the holiday at all. They were
just living their regular life and we got to be
a part of that and that was kind of fun too.

Speaker 13 (29:05):
I could eat Chinese food for any howiday three times
a day, and you know this is even if it's
been sitting out a buffet style for the last three days,
I'm still good with it. I'm still going to eat
that Chinese food regardless. Again, it's about how you.

Speaker 15 (29:22):
Make it the day.

Speaker 13 (29:22):
And that was kind of my thing with my family
is my sister was doing something. She has her own family. Now,
my brother does a big thing. His wife works at Disney,
so they go to Disney, and my parents have their
things interndoing. And I was just good. I was just good.
And think about all the you know, how polarized we
are politically right now, and all the you know, when

(29:45):
you think of Thanksgiving, one of the top three things
you hear about. Of course it's the food first, but man,
you know there's going to be political infighting. And I
haven't seen this person in years, and maybe I just
want to talk to him, but they're really big on
this side or this side. You get to take a
year off of that. Don't do it. It's a horrible thing,
and then maybe you could actually have a little surrendering
over that holiday break, have a little peace and happiness

(30:08):
and just do what the holidays are supposed to do.
Now they make us all crazy, but I don't think
that's the intention of the holiday season. The intention of
the holiday season is the dial it back. Of course
we can't do that because we have jobs, lives and family.
But if you can pull it off, take the day,
take them break a one year break like you were
talking about, and then get back to whatever you're doing.

(30:29):
But I thought it was fantastic. I don't have any
regrets other than the ones I just mentioned. I get
up on my head a little bit sometimes I'm not
to you, but not unless you and your wife were
spending the day together and having everybody and making it
that's awfu.

Speaker 2 (30:41):
Yeah, no blaze that trail man. Don't regret anything that
you can't take back. Let's go ahead and only look
forward with productivity. And I'm not telling people to shy
away from the holiday because like you're afraid to have
a discussion with someone about something you don't agree on.
I am saying that when you skip it for whatever
reason myself just sort of happenstance. You're kind of surprised
with how well the day can go when you're not

(31:01):
involved with a lot of the stuff that might be
typical of a holiday. All right, that's great. I love
talking to you as always. Matt Behar is the co
host of Matt and Craig Excellent Podcast. I think I've
promoted it enough here during this fill in on the
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 13 (31:15):
Anything else you tell Apple, any major podcast provider.

Speaker 2 (31:20):
All over the place, there is a TikTok that will
eventually be out there. We promised. I think we have
a Twitter. We have some other things, but we're having
fun and we don't talk about anything terribly serious. We
do talk about quite a few salacious things. But that's
what the Internet is for. But all right, Matt, I'll
talk to you later. Thanks for jumping on with me.
Thanks for being a part of this. This is Craig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 1 (33:41):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. I don't actually
care who does the Super Bowl halftime show. I'm gonna
be honest with you, year in and year out. I
actually watched the game for the game part. I know
that I seem to be more and more in the
minority at times, but I like the football part of
that event. That day, after post Malone did the halftime

(34:08):
show at the Cowboys game over the holiday weekend, a
lot of people said that he should get a chance
to do the super Bowl halftime show. Maybe because people
are unhappy with bad Bunny being picked a bunch of things.
You could go as far as roads talk about this,
But let's play a little bit of post Malone and
his halftime show and see if you agree that you
think he should get a shot to actually do this thing.

Speaker 15 (34:30):
Did you think it's just so same have to run this?
I ain't nagen wave same got you may this kind
of missus. I'll stop it there. You might think to yourself,

(34:50):
that's just a guy singing. There's nothing really special about that.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
What is special? And you can't see it because this
is radio. The Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders were dancing along as
he were performing, and I am suspicious that their involvement
may have made everybody think that this was a uniquely
special and amazing halftime show. It's good Post Belan's music
is fine. All this is okay with me. As far
as a halftime show goes. But again, I actually do
watch the game for the football part and not for

(35:16):
who's singing for a few minutes during the halftime break
when I'm usually eating chips and things. That's usually what
I'm consuming the most food and paying the least attention
to the television, unless occasionally Janet Janet Jackson is doing
some things that are shocking on that halftime show. But nonetheless, yes,
my guess is that the Cowboy cheerleaders were the bigger
draw Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

(35:40):
And actually I'm a huge fan of the idea of
the Cowboys cheerleaders just being a part of the halftime show.
Let's get that going. Let's add that component into all this,
and then you don't even have to pay attention whoever's
actually singing, because that's not again the point for some
of us out there. But again, I love every part
of this. I love every part of the story and
the discussion about it, and I think I actually do

(36:00):
enjoy the amount of people who are upset at the
halftime show and who was picked for it, mostly because
just watch the football and then you won't have to
care all right, quick break a lot more Craig Collins

Speaker 1 (36:22):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
stuff to talk about out. Let's do an overview of
some other topics out there, not necessarily the most talked
about stories in media, but certainly as important as some
of the other ones. First, I do continue to think
that often Ben, this politician running for office, is so

(37:17):
hilarious because she crapped all over Nashville, where she lives,
the place she'd like to represent, and now she's trying
to find a way out of saying that she hates
the city that she wants to be elected to be
a representative of, which it feels like that would be
not that a lot of things are disqualifying anymore in
society and in politics, but that feels like one that

(37:39):
should probably get you not elected in some sort of election.
I hate all the things about the place that I
want to be a part of from a government standpoint.
Let's play a little bit of audio of a one
on one on CNN where she says she's a free citizen,
she's a private person. She's allowed to say whatever she wants,
including I hate this place, but please elect me to

(37:59):
be in charge of you.

Speaker 7 (38:00):
I do want to ask you about an attack from
Republicans because this has been is a comment you made
in twenty twenty about Nashville. It's gotten a lot of
attention in your race. Let's listen to this.

Speaker 1 (38:10):
I hate the city.

Speaker 12 (38:11):
I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I
hate country music. I hate all of the things that
make Naturville apparently and.

Speaker 1 (38:17):
Hate city to the.

Speaker 6 (38:18):
Rest of the country. Yeah, I hate it.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
That's a terrible thing you said.

Speaker 7 (38:22):
Those comments were taken out of context, but I want
you to I want to ask you about it because
I'm wondering. Do you think it was a mistake to
say that, once again, I was.

Speaker 12 (38:32):
A private citizen. Nashville is my home. Do I roll
my eyes at the bachelorette parties and the pedal taverns
that are blocking my access to my house? Yeah, every
Nashvillian does. But this race has always been something about,
something bigger. It's about Oh my god, family is across
the middle Tennessee that are getting crushed by rising prices.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
No, no, I already I already hate it. I hate
the political version of an answer to that. You know what,
I'd love to hear her say, not that i'd support her.
She's a crazy person, and I don't think i'd vote
for her no matter what she says or but i'd
love to hear say, you know what, I do hate it.
I do hate this stuff. I am a person that's
not a huge fan. I'm a transplant. I wasn't born
and raised here. I'm here now. I want political power

(39:11):
because I want to help people in whatever way I
think I can, even though again I disagree with the
route she'd go about that. But I'd love to hear
just be honest, you're like, yeah, I hate it. This
is where I am, and this is where I think
I have a shot to be a politician. But if
you like things that are part of this city, you
should not vote for me. Of course, she'd torpedo her campaign,
but that's the only way to tell the truth here,

(39:32):
and instead she tries to pivot and says I was
a private citizen, which essentially means that now that I'm
a politician, I'm going to pretend more stuff that I
didn't believe before, and you're just supposed to take me
at my word now. The acting as though I like
this city part is what's happening currently, and can't we
just all get on board with that situation. Scott Jennings

(39:53):
continues to do amazing stuff at CNN, just shifting gears
to something else. I do love this back and forth
and how Jennings kind of lost it, Well, he thought
he was being lectured by people have no place to
say that you're not telling the truth, that you're a liar,
that you're manipulating this, or overly supporting the president on
this issue, whatever it might be. I will not be

(40:15):
lectured by the people that let the autopen president stay
in charge for an entire term in office. And more
so than that, pretended as though his brain was fine
up until it evidently wasn't via a debate that made
him look like an absolute moron. That most politicians I
think knew going in was gonna be bad, and most

(40:36):
of the people on the left knew going in Biden
was going to do a terrible job. He just did
a uniquely worse job than even that in that debate
that finally let them admit that things were not good,
even though a lot of people were seeing it for
a long time before that. But anyway, here is the
back and forth where Jennings goes, no, no, no, you're
the people that supported that guy. You can't go this

(40:57):
road with me.

Speaker 17 (40:58):
He is where soldiers are possibly lost. It is pretty
inexcusable that he has not been briefed and he can't
speak to it.

Speaker 18 (41:04):
Now, what's worse a president not having all the information
he needs to make legitimate comment, so he holds back
in the moment before being ready to make a comment,
or I don't know, wilfully lying to the American people
about the condition of the president United States, which went
for four years in this country by it that is.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
That is totally wrong.

Speaker 17 (41:26):
That is totally wrong. Joe Biden, when asked about soldiers lost,
was briefed and said it. And so you think Joe
Biden had had problems. At least he was able to
do that. What's the excuse for Donald Trump if he's so?
I'm just saying, if.

Speaker 18 (41:44):
You're exhibiting some I want to get more facts and
I'm going to be lectured by the people who lie
to the American people about the king.

Speaker 17 (41:52):
Oh my god, No, but.

Speaker 2 (41:54):
I love that. By the way, and the biggest reason
that I think President Trump, of all people would bely
ask for more facts or wait for more information before
answering a question is he knows how much media desires
to spin whatever he says into a negative. That is
the biggest defense I'd ever give Trump, a guy who
barely ever even says, you know, I don't know enough
about that. Let's get back to it when I know

(42:15):
more information. That almost never happens. By the way, for
Trump to go that road, you would think that some
in media would say, hey, look, he occasionally can be
a person who's not immediately reactive the way we claim
that he is. Instead, no, it's still a mistake. It's
still terrible, it's still awful. And this again comparing it
to the puppet of a president that was Biden, which

(42:37):
is a great move the Jenning makes there to say,
stop all of this crap of trying to question the
mental capability of Trump or anything else that you're doing.
The biggest reason why, I'll say it's ridiculous to pretend
as though Trump is as mentally deficient as Biden was,
which is something the left does from time to time.

(42:59):
Is how many he takes from the press on how
many different issues, and how much he talks to them.
You can easily assess the mental capability of this person
on a daily basis. Compare him to how he behaved
a few years ago. Yes, he likes to go on rants.
Yes he likes to talk about topics that are not
part of a question he's asked. All of that happens.
But it's the same Trump as five years ago, ten

(43:21):
years ago, etc. Etc. And I love the version of well,
maybe he's not all there because he's this willing to
talk to us all the time, as opposed to the opposite,
which was when Biden would run and hide, which happened
very often. All right, I want to play one other
piece of audio. This is something I thought was interesting.
This is CNN being up in arms about the Trump

(43:41):
administration's new website that is designed to expose a media
bias or lies that they tell. I'm not telling you
to turn to the government or this administration to get
the truth. That's not my role on this show or
in the society. Of course, you're going to get a
bias version of information from the people in charge of
the country right now. But you also get a lot

(44:03):
of bias news from these organizations. And CNN was beside
itself and trying to discuss the idea that the White
House will put out its version of a narrative, because
CNN every single day tells you its version, and so
does MSN NOW or whatever they are, and all those
other places out there, they don't tell you the truth.
They tell you their opinion, and some things they think

(44:25):
back their opinion up. And a lot of these places
pretend they're not telling you their opinion, which is the
worst part of it. But let's hear Brian Stelter, former
CNN moron and current CNN moron in a different capacity,
absolutely react to the Trump administration's version of a website
that I'm fairly certain the Biden administration also did. And

(44:46):
even more so, the Biden administration at one time wanted
to appoint big brother to actually be in charge of
all of the Internet. That is not something that's happening here,
but here we go.

Speaker 17 (44:54):
The President has ramped up his attacks on journalists in
recent weeks.

Speaker 19 (44:58):
This isn't a new strategy. For we have seen this.

Speaker 1 (45:01):
What is this all about?

Speaker 19 (45:02):
Is this just about controlling the narrative.

Speaker 16 (45:05):
To legitimize the media? I would say, is to delegitimize
the media, Jessica. The Media Bias Monitor is being produced
at taxpayer expense. It's a featured part of the White
House website, and it's about trying to tarnish and demean
various news outlets as well as media outlets that have
nothing to do with the news business. For example, one

(45:26):
of the targets of this White House web page is
will Be Goldberg, you know, the entertainer who co hosts
the view. So it's about targeting perceived liberals, perceived enemies,
and as always, trying to attack the messenger.

Speaker 2 (45:38):
Ah, it's trying to attack the messenger. How dare they
tell us whether or not they think people have biased
and they do, by the way, all of these people
have tremendous bias that are on here. And again, I'm
not telling you that the best place to go to
hear the actual version of the truth is the White
House's website brought to you by this administration, because you're
going to get definitely get their political on all of

(46:00):
this stuff. But I just love the fact that it
makes people this man, because the version of censoring news,
that is the Republican conservative and or Trump version, is
just to put out a different version of events, not
to silence you and tell you to shut up. That
is something that we've seen before from Democrats. That is
something that's crazy and insane. And that's not what's happening here,

(46:23):
even though Stelter wants to behave as though it is,
which is to me just idiotic. All Right, one other thing,
I want to play one last piece of audio. A
Jasmine Crockett is popping up a lot on television. She
and others have been called low IQ people by the
current president of the United States. She was on MS
NOW and she was confronted about her Jeffrey Epstein whoopsie,

(46:46):
which is where she claimed that a bunch of Republicans
were getting money from Epstein and didn't check enough to
make sure that it was the same Jeffrey Epstein, when
it was in fact a different guy entirely, a doctor
Epstein who has no relation, no connection whatsoever, out of
the guy who allegedly hung himself just a short time ago,
the pedophile. But here I want to play this audio

(47:07):
because I think that this attempt to defend yourself was
uniquely awful and kind of continues to demonstrate how she's low.

Speaker 17 (47:14):
IQ two, you made a little bit of news last
week when you mistakenly accused Lizelden.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Another Republican.

Speaker 14 (47:20):
I didn't ass any money from Jeffrey Epstein, but it
was a different Jeffrey Epstein according to the financial records.

Speaker 17 (47:27):
Do you want to I don't want to give you
the opportunity.

Speaker 11 (47:29):
To mend that, and I have no amendments when I
was on the floor for those that don't know how
it works. Basically, they decided to bring this privileged motion up,
and they decided that they wanted to kick Stacey off
of her committees because Stacy had received Stacey Plaski, because
she had received a donation from Jeffrey Epstein. I had

(47:51):
maybe twenty minutes we researched the FEC, and because I
like to speak with specificity, that's kind of what comes
with being an attorney.

Speaker 1 (47:57):
I made clear that there was a Jeffrey.

Speaker 11 (48:00):
They knew on the other side that I did not
have time to actually pull up and actually research, especially since.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
Okay, and I'm gonna tell right there, her answer is
I didn't have enough time to make sure the person
was actually the real Jeffrey Epstein, which is one of
the dumbest things I've ever heard in my life as
far as an excuse for why you did this this way,
even if you did it willingly, because the other option
would have been to not say this, to not do this,
to give yourself a little more time to research it
later and have a discussion at some other point about

(48:31):
the potential for it to be a horrible, terrible thing
that you think the Republicans are doing. You had every
capability of doing that eventually, and you chose for some
reason not to do it, which just is crazy to me,
ridiculous to me. But all right, on that note, we'll
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stuff out there to talk about. I've continued to talk
a little bit about football while filling in this holiday
season for Chad. He is back tomorrow. I'm going to
do a little bit more of that. Texas beat Texas
A and M in college football over the weekend, and
that's a big deal for a couple of reasons. One

(51:12):
because it puts even more pressure on a bubble team
that is likely, I think, to wind up in the
college football playoff. That would be the University of Notre Dame.
And by the way of all the teams to be
on the bubble, that people could debate the value of
it with the amount of people that hate Notre Dame.
In the world of college football, both fans and I
think a lot of people who actually are talking heads

(51:35):
in that world. What a great team to be on
the bubble because it's going to cause a whole lot
of chaos and drama and arguing and anger. It seems
like people that are actually a part of some of
these conferences are quite mad at the idea that Notre
Dame will get in. They don't have to play a
conference championship game because they're not in one. So we
do have a little bit more college football still left

(51:56):
to be played, but the regular season is over, and
Texas did the best it could to launch itself back
into a discussion for being deserving of a spot. Be
why you a bunch of other bubble teams that seem
to be able to say, for one reason or another,
even Miami, we think we deserve to go instead of
Notre Dame. So I just think it's fascinating that this
is going to be the debate and the ongoing discussion

(52:17):
about who and what actually happens. And maybe eventually we'll
jump it up and have twenty five more teams make
it in. Who knows, but that's it for now on
the world of college football. I just find it hilarious
the debate is what it is. This is Craig Collins
filling in on the Jad Benson Show. More coming up
in a bit, although actually I will say to you

(52:38):
when I look at Notre Dame as far as a
college football team goes, and I know they beat the
crapt of a terrible Stanford, I know they beat the
crapit of a lot of bad teams recently to get
the best possible resume they could. But I think they're worthy.
I think they're good. And it's not just because I'm
a fan of Notre Dame, which I am, but they
do look like a very good college football team right now.

(53:00):
And I think they're going to silence a lot of
people when and if they actually do get in to
the college football playoff, which may or may not happen,
as I said, because I think after we have one
more week of conference championships and we get some automatic bids,
there is a chance that things get real messy for
Notre Dame and for anybody that's encouraging them to be
left off and other teams to be left in. And

(53:22):
I think that obviously, as you go there and talk
about it, you might wind up having a lot more
discussion about college football than you'd have if you didn't
have the controversy to begin with it. It's sort of
Notre Dame is in some ways the Trump of college football,
meaning whatever they do, there's going to be a significant
discussion about them. There's going to be a significant version
of people who do not want them to succeed in

(53:44):
any capacity whatsoever and are going to yell and scream
about it. And if they lose in the first round
of the playoff, if they get there, I think there's
going to be a lot of people celebrating it too.
So it's weird Notre Dame and Donald Trump have something
in common, as surprising as that might sound to somebody
out there. All right, quick break a lot more. Creig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show, Sun Chad

(54:18):
Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:38):

Speaker 2 (54:42):
stuff out there to talk about. There are a couple
of big stories that seem to be all over the news.
One of those right now involves Governor Tim Walls of Minnesota. Yes,
the failed vice presid candidate who ran with Kamala Harris,
who just seems like an absolute moron, and who President

(55:05):
Trump used certain words to describe recently, which became a
big part of a discussion about him. But anyway, he
popped up an MS or an NBC excuse me not
MS now NBC News Kristen Welker having a conversation on
Meet the Press about the ridiculous amount of fraud that
existed in Minnesota. A bunch of some Allians took a

(55:25):
whole bunch of money after COVID in all kinds of
ways from Minnesota and their taxpayers. And you'd think that
the person at the highest part of the list, the
highest part of the team, the person in charge, would
say we did something wrong, we screwed up here, instead
of leaning the other way entirely, which is exactly what
politicians often do, and what Tim Walls is doing. It

(55:48):
makes him look even more like well, exactly what Trump
described him as. But here is Tim Walls taking a
question and responding back with you know what, I take
responsibility for some things. Well mostly I'm amazing, and that's
what I want to focus on here.

Speaker 3 (56:03):
Speaking of the Somali community, President Trump is targeting them
and your state in party citing fraud is the reason
for his crackdown dozens of people of East African descent.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
By the way, I want to already stop it right there.
I love that it has to be racism. It can't
be the fact that it actually is true that a
whole bunch of fraud did happen, because that is a
factual statement. I just made a whole bunch of fraud
that happened by a certain group of people did occur
in Minnesota. But it's got to be targeted racism because
somehow it can't possibly just be factually what it is.

Speaker 3 (56:38):
Have been charged, convicted, and sentenced for stealing more than
a billion dollars in taxpayer money from government programs during COVID,
As you know, Governor, that is more than Minnesota spends
each year to run its Department of Correction. So I
want to give you a chance to respond to this.
Do you take responsibility for failing to stop this fraud
in your state?

Speaker 4 (57:01):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail.
Governors don't like Yeah, just talk Theoretically, we have to
solve problems, and I will note it's not just Somali's
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota's a prosperous states, a
well run state, or triple A bond rated, but that
attracts criminals.

Speaker 2 (57:18):
Let me stop it right there, to start this by
saying that he's that it's a generous state and that
he is in charge and has to come up with
solutions to problems, even though he swung and missed a
big whiff on this problem right here. The most amazing
thing to me is so many different politicians are like,
this is the cost of doing business. That's what they'll
tell you. That's what Tim Walls in the back of

(57:38):
his mind is thinking. He's like, well, this amount of fraud,
this amount of abuse and spending that had no impact
on people in a positive way, that only hurt our
taxpayers and hurt our society and hurt our economy, hurt everybody.
That's just part of what it is when the government
is involved. This is why so many conservatives young and old,
would like to see a much all their government, because

(58:01):
they fail so epically and so constantly, and they seem
to think as though this is their right to do,
meaning that yeah, this is the issue we come with
This is the challenges that we face when you hand
us a bunch of money and we don't know what
to do with it, or we don't know how to
appropriately handle it, so we just absolutely give a whole
bunch of it to people that shouldn't have it. I

(58:21):
just I love how easy it is to see that
through line in this discussion of why Democratic positions on
enhancing and pushing more you know, taxes here to take
more money over there is so epically terrible for all
of us, so epically flawed, and it's thinking because they'll
just keep spending it incorrectly and embezzling it and doing

(58:44):
everything bad with it. They possibly can a little bit
more from walls.

Speaker 8 (58:47):
Though most people are going to jail.

Speaker 4 (58:49):
We're doing everything we can, but to demonize an entire
community on the actions of a few, it's lazy. And
as you heard Senator Kelly say, this president has cut
a lot of inspector generals. He's cut programs that could
help us tackle us on.

Speaker 8 (59:03):
So we'll take it on.

Speaker 4 (59:04):
We'll put folks in jail. I don't care what your
nationality is. I don't care or your religion is your color.
If you're committing crimes. These are programs that were meant
to serve students with autism to housing and.

Speaker 2 (59:16):
Yeah, and they were fraudulently and ridiculously abused. You know
what's interesting. Elon Musk actually recently talked about this. He
was asked a question about Doze and about the spending
and the challenges that we face, and he had a
very significant, i think, answer to that question to what
is it like being someone who went through everything you
went through as far as trying to reduce the amount

(59:39):
of government excess spending that exists, wound up eventually being
someone that a whole bunch of people talked about as
if you were a horrible, terrible person for wanting us
to waste less money. That was Doge's plan. That was
I think the mission statement is do as much as
you can to reduce fraud and abuse and all these
bad things that Democrats even usually talk about as being

(01:00:00):
something that they don't want to see or something that
they'd like a whole lot less of. I just think
it's kind of amazing that the end result of the
entirety of that was that Elon Musk now says that
the fraudsters are smart in the way they go about
the fraud, I meaning they're not going to show up
to your doorstep and say, hey, can I have some

(01:00:21):
money that I have no good intentions for that, I
have no good uses for that. I'm just going to
waste on terrible things. That would be great if you
can cut me a giant check for a bunch of
money that you shouldn't be giving me. And I find
that kind of the most interesting aspect of what it's
like to be sitting after the fact, after you've gone
through all this and dealt with whatever you've dealt with

(01:00:41):
and all the criticism, to eventually be told that the
end result of everything you did really didn't help all
that much, etc. Etc. And the big reason why is
you couldn't do more, essentially, But I do love it.
And there was a big kind of sit down with
Elon about quite a few issues. This was just one
of those discussion points, but a valuable one, And so

(01:01:03):
we can certainly play some audio from Elon Musk talking
about it. But I wonder if at the end of
all of this, the thing that most of you could
take away from it, anyone could take away from it,
is that this is how the government operates they play
on your emotions. That's the biggest thing they do. But
here I'll play a little bit of this audio of
Elon Musk in a podcast talking about his very interesting

(01:01:25):
side quest.

Speaker 8 (01:01:27):
What did Dodge teach you if you learned one thing?

Speaker 20 (01:01:31):
Well, it was like a very interesting side quest. You know,
I've got to see like a lot of the working
so the government, and you know, there's been quite a
few efficiencies. I mean, some of them are very basic efficiencies,
like just adding in requirements for federal payments that any

(01:01:53):
given payment must have an assigned congressional payment code and
a comment field with something in it that's more than
nothing like that.

Speaker 8 (01:02:02):
That trivial, trivial.

Speaker 20 (01:02:04):
Seeming change, my guess is, probably saves one hundred billion
dollars or even two hundred billion dollars year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
I actually want to stop it there too, because that's
kind of insane that he says that essentially the way
that you mark the spending, the way that you account
for it within the government, if you just have to
say the reason you're asking for it in a little
bit more detail, the amount of people that wouldn't ask
for money anymore is through the roof, meaning you can't
submit it with a comment field. That's, ah, whatever I

(01:02:32):
want to do with.

Speaker 20 (01:02:32):
This, because there were also there were the massive numbers
of payments that were going out with no congressional payment
code and with nothing in the comment field, which makes
orditing the payments impossible. So if they have say like
why can the Defense Department or now the word Department
of War, why can it not pass an order, it
is because the information is not there. It doesn't have
the information necessary to pass an order, does not exists

(01:02:56):
the issue. So so a bunch of things those did
were just very common sense things that would be normal
for any organization that cared about financial responsibility. That's that's
that's most of what was done, you know, and it's
still going on, by the way. Those are still happening.

(01:03:19):
But it turns out when you stop fraudulent and wasteful payments,
the forces don't know you know, uh.

Speaker 8 (01:03:27):
Confess to do this.

Speaker 20 (01:03:29):
They actually start yelling all sorts of nonsense that you're you're,
you're you're stoffing essential payments to needy people, but actually
you're not. You know, we get this thing like saying, oh,
you've got to send us thing for whatever. You know,
it'd really be like this is going to children in Africa,
and like, yeah, but then why are the wiring instructions

(01:03:50):
for Deloitte and Tuition Washington, d C.

Speaker 8 (01:03:53):
Because that's not Africa.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
Yeah, it's not Africa. It's not even close to Africa.
But he goes on to say, how save the pandas
n g o s as a whole bunch of money
and he's a human being and pandas are cute, That's
actually what Musk says, They're adorable. I think, so, of
course you want to help save the pandas, but none
of that money is actually going to help them, because
the fraudsters are smart, they're not dumb. They ask for
very sympathetic things. They show up at your doorstep with

(01:04:17):
the craziest story they can to get you to write
them ridiculous checks. But I just kind of find this amazing.
Elon Musk is a guy that is absolutely hated now
by the left. Of course, he's a guy who certainly
tied himself closer to Trump than some might have thought
he would. Not that that's a good or a bad
thing to me, It's just a byproduct of maybe some
of the reasons that people hate him. So much, but

(01:04:38):
in the aftermath of everything he experienced within the government
and his position on I think a lot of issues,
being more in the center than most people within the
Republican or Democratic Party are. Like he truly is, in
my mind, and has described himself as this multiple times,
someone who's mostly an independent. He happens to be on

(01:04:59):
the right now. He was on the left years ago
simply because of how much of extreme politic positions have
pushed the left in one direction and pushed the right
closer to the center on a lot of these issues.
So I just I think it's kind of fascinating. And
the more you can hear from him on that topic
of getting in the weeds, of being that closely tied
to all the numbers, seeing this data, seeing this information,

(01:05:22):
and seeing how broken it all is and how fraudulent
it all is, and now being on the outside again
and telling us about it, it's amazing. It's the kind
of transparency you don't get very often from government now.
But one more time, just to highlight the one thing
he said that I thought was uniquely important is you
cannot audit certain things because the government is so unapologetic,

(01:05:45):
so you know, unashamed of stealing the way that it
steals that it literally just takes money without any explanation whatsoever.
And so if you tried to go into the data,
we have to figure out where that money went to,
who it went to, and why it went there, you
have no answer. And they're that unapologetically fraudulent and how
they behave think of any other organization in society having

(01:06:07):
that version of, Yeah, the money's just gone. We don't
know where it went, we don't know who it went to,
and we don't care enough to even ask or to
change a system to require people to have to tell
us in the future. We're just going to keep letting
you take this amount of money for whatever you want
all the time. It's crazy and it's insane, and I
believe that it's absolutely happening as much as it does,

(01:06:27):
if not more than they even found it. Doze, my
favorite part, I'll say this one last thing about Doze
and Elon Musk before I take a break. My favorite
part about it is when they were trying to gain
access to systems, the freakout that existed, whether it was
mainstream media's freakout, political freak out, all of it and
all they were trying to gain was information. At that point,

(01:06:49):
they hadn't said that they were ending anything yet. They
hadn't said they were turning this pipeline off or that
pipeline of money off. They just were trying to gain
a full level of understanding of where all the money
was going. And the calls for them inappropriately doing that
because they were outsiders looking in was amazing, because that
is also something the fraudsters do when finally they're going

(01:07:10):
to get caught by someone who they don't own in
any way, shape or form, someone who they can't buy
because of the amount of money that Elon has, then
they have to go the road of, uh oh, we're
about to get caught. Let's make sure that we somehow
make this still sound inappropriate and terrible and not actually
give them any of the information they want and get
people on our side. That was my favorite part of
the DOJ is just looking for the transparency was rejected

(01:07:34):
and turned into this thing that it shouldn't have been, because,
of course, we want this level of transparency with our
freaking money. It's our money that they're spending and we
want it back, baby, all right, quick break a lot more.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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filling in Thrilled to be with you. The US is
one of the biggest places for shark attacks in the world.
According to a recent study or recent survey those put out,
Florida is the ridiculously high amount or lion share percent
of the attacks that happened since I think the nineteen
six and this or even earlier than that. Actually it

(01:10:02):
goes back even further. But we've had a lot of
attacks in Florida compared to the rest of society. We've
had some attacks in Hawaii and some in California, but
we top the list. Australia and a few other places
also make this list South Africa for significant shark attacks,
But the US four and seventy three shark attacks in
a you know, wide ranging study that I think goes

(01:10:24):
back hundreds of years, actually is by far and away
the highest number. I wonder if part of it is
just reporting. I feel like that's always the case with
a lot of these studies and information. We talk about
that in the healthcare world, and we even talked about
a lot during COVID, the amount of reporting that does
and doesn't change certain data. I wonder if some of

(01:10:44):
these other places in the world they just don't tell
us as often when sharks attack people, and in the
US maybe it's more significant information. But what an interesting
story to be out there toward the end of the year,
fear mongering again because a thousand or two thousand or
so attacks in hundreds of years isn't really that many,
but it's more than anywhere else. Another story I saw

(01:11:05):
that I like, and I don't know why I keep
talking about this. Atlas three is the name of a comet,
the three Atlass comet, whatever you call it, and people
continue to discuss whether or not they think it's aliens
or just a comet. Most of the time they disprove
any of the theories that say it's aliens and tell
us it's a comet. Even when it was barreling toward

(01:11:26):
our planet, some people thought it was going to make
some turns that it didn't make that might have showed
that it actually was aliens and not just a flying
rock in space. But a Harvard scientist is going viral
for his latest quote unquote proof that it is aliens,
and he says, there's some light things that happened, some
things that we can detect that make it look like

(01:11:46):
the thing's got an engine or a propulsion system and
not actually just a flying rock in space. I love it.
I'm not telling you I believe it or don't believe it.
I just want to keep discussing it on the off
chance it is Aliens, because I'll be at the forefront
of that baby, and I'll be very proud of myself
for being at the front of Hey, it could have
been aliens. So let's just think about that for a
bit and the amazing press conference President Trump would give

(01:12:08):
us with the Aliens. This is Craig Collins filling in
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I've said this before and I'll say it again, is
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the alien press conference. If and when it ever happens,
he is by far the best. It'll be amazing.

Speaker 10 (01:12:28):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:29):
They'd write a whole thing for him. They'd tell him
it was incredibly serious to stay on message, and he
would ignore every part of it and it would be fantastic.
You love him or you hate him. You want him
at the forefront of the aliens. A real a press conference,
I promise you not that it's coming anytime soon. Quick
break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the

(01:12:49):
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:56):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
stuff out there for us to talk about Trump. President
Trump will hold a meetings in the White House with Venezuela.
This is something that I think is a necessary next
step after some of what has happened between the two countries,
mostly the fact that we're trying to stop them from

(01:13:48):
flooding drugs into the United States. We've been blowing up boats.
Of course, this discussion turns into hag Seth and did he,
you know, ruthlessly order us to shoot more people essentially
to fire or second missile at people whose boat had
already been destroyed. Essentially, did haig Seth commit a war crime?
Is the version of a discussion the left wants to

(01:14:09):
talk about. The right would much rather talk about a
place and a way to move forward that benefits us
and stops Venezuela from the bad things that are harming
our country. At least, that's my assessment of the difference
in conversation here. And so I do want to play
a little bit of audio. This is Senator Tom Cotton

(01:14:29):
of Arkansas talking about on Fox News why exactly the
failed Afghanistan exit is so bad for US as a
society as well. And I think this lands very closely
in my opinion. I know they seem like they might
not be connected, but very closely to the difference now
in policy when you're talking about Venezuela, what they're allowed
to do or not do, and how they're allowed to

(01:14:51):
impact our country. We didn't go into Afghanistan to bring
a lot of Afghanis here who may or may not
hurt our society, hurt our people, heard our military, which
happened just a few days ago horrific out of Washington,
d C. That wasn't the intention. And so I think
that just having a blank statement that have Venezuela, we

(01:15:13):
don't want to do something for this reason or that reason.
So let's just keep letting them about their drugs into
our country. It's an insane a solution to a problem,
and insane to accuse people of racism when you want
to actually stop it. But let's first go in the
world of Afghanistan and some of that discussion with Cotton,
and then I think I'll try to even bleed these
two topics together even more.

Speaker 19 (01:15:34):
But here first is this Shanastan was disgraceful, and Joe
Biden's administration is to blame for that. They're also to
blame for the efforts to try to cover up some
of the consequences of that by rushing thousands of improperly
vetted Afghans into our country. Again, the standards the CIA
or the military applies to work with folks in their
own countries is very different from the standards we should

(01:15:54):
apply to bring them this country. And Brian, as you mentioned,
some of the warning signs were there with this vicious
murderer here in the United States, kids going to school,
hungry and dirty. Putting aside the threat of violence, we
should never admit anyone to this country if they don't
have the means to provide for themselves, if they're going
to be a drain on public resources. Just another example

(01:16:14):
of failed immigration vetting standards that have gone back years
the Trump administration.

Speaker 2 (01:16:19):
Yeah here, so I want to stop it there, And
I'm the most important takeaway to me of that brant
that Cotton goes on as an answer to the question
of what's going on right now in our country and
how the people that we let flood into our country
from Afghanistan are uniquely dangerous for our society, at least
some of them may be. But the thing that really
mattered to me is him also saying that they don't

(01:16:40):
have the means to provide for themselves. One of the
biggest requirements of coming into this country is demonstrating a
capability of financial independence, not necessarily leaning on all of
our systems, and this would be legally coming into our country.
I will say there is a certain amount of cost
that you have to pay even to get to the
point where you be. I'm a Green Card holder and

(01:17:01):
do or citizen. I know this because my wife did it.
She was born and raised in Mexico. She is a
US citizen.

Speaker 19 (01:17:06):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:17:07):
I went through the process with her of getting her
to the US citizen status from the Green Card and
everything else that she went through. So I know all
the hurdles, all the variables that are required and that
are a peace in that. And you might think it's
heartless to say it out loud, but it's simply true
to say if you bring in people who may not
like our country, who may blame our country from some

(01:17:29):
of the things that are happening where they're from in Afghanistan,
for sure, they are people who are angry with us.
If you bring them in, if you put them in
a situation where they're not going to succeed, they're going
to struggle, you enhance their anger and their likelihood of
taking it out on us. And I do think that
this is again tied to some of the other conversations
going on when it comes to Venezuela and what they're doing,

(01:17:50):
how they're harming the country too. Because essentially we get
to this point where you have facts, you have information
that backs an opinion that might sound harsh without the facts.
So I say something out loud and you hear, especially
the left or people who want to hear a bad
version of what someone is saying, they hear the worst

(01:18:10):
possible variation of that, and they go, well, that's racism,
that's sexism, that's whatever it is. And then you provide
facts which demonstrate that your position is actually based on
information and not based on just an assumption. Assumptions feel
like they can be racism. If I go out into
the world and say I think this thing is true,
you never have to prove it to me. I need

(01:18:31):
no data for it, but I think it's true and
it's uniquely tied to people based on race or sex
or anything. Then you can accuse me of saying and
doing horrible stuff. You can be like, well, look at this,
your motivation is here. What I can prove to you
that the thing I'm saying actually comes from a fundamental
place of reality. I think that you have to check
that part at the door. And of course people don't

(01:18:53):
do that they'll never do that because it's not politically
advantageous to pretend is though these things are actually true
and not just potentially being created in people's minds based
on the hate we must have for somebody. I don't
want people in our country who pose a threat to us,
and I like a wide ranging solution to that. Even

(01:19:14):
if that wide ranging solution potentially prevents some people from
getting in that pose no threat to us at all,
I think that's better than the opposite. I think that
the failed eggs in Afghanistan is a tremendously important part
of why it's a risk to have people here who
might hate us for how that ended, which did end horribly.
It did end terribly, and it should have ended the
way that it should not have ended the way that

(01:19:35):
it did. Shifting gears another thing out there that I
thought was interesting. The Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson,
was at a event in Tennessee. He's advocating for the
person who's running against the crazy woman that hates Nashville
but wants to represent it. There would be Matt Van
Epps who's running in that race as well, and Johnson

(01:19:56):
did a very interesting thing. He called Trump on his phone,
put Trump on speaker and held the phone up to
the microphone so that Trump could talk to this group
of people assembled a fundraiser for the opponent to a
woman who again is running for a political office to
represent a place that she actually hates after Ben is
her name, and Trump did his Trump think it was

(01:20:18):
pretty funny some of what he said on speakerphone into
a microphone at an event he was not at in Franklin, Tennessee.
It's just a funny move to me, because I don't
think you see a lot of this in politics either
or someone calls someone and throws them on the speakerphone,
at least in today's world, because a lot of the
politicians would be worried that they wouldn't deliver a good message,

(01:20:39):
they wouldn't say or do something somehow would hurt them
more than help them, essentially, And Trump never cares about
that part. Here we go, but she said two things
above all else that bothered me.

Speaker 14 (01:20:50):
Number one, she hates Christianity.

Speaker 6 (01:20:53):
Number two, she hates country music.

Speaker 13 (01:20:56):
How the hell can you like that?

Speaker 8 (01:21:02):
Support?

Speaker 2 (01:21:03):
And he's at it right from the beginning.

Speaker 7 (01:21:05):
To Matt fan Apps, He's gonna be a fantastic congressman.

Speaker 10 (01:21:08):
He's gonna represent you so well.

Speaker 6 (01:21:10):
Yeah, we bargender going Yeah.

Speaker 13 (01:21:13):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (01:21:13):
I love everything about that. My favorite part is the
how the hell can you elect somebody, especially in Nashville
or any part of Tennessee, that hates Christianity and country music.
That's just wrong and that is just off the cuff. Hey,
President Trump, I'm here, I'm at this event. You're on
speaker phone. Can you say some stuff? I want to
play it one more time. I genuinely think this is
just very funny, and these are the kind of ways

(01:21:36):
that you do win elections by turning the most ridiculous
thing that someone has said into something that's absolutely harmful
to them, but also funny to everybody who's a supporter
of the opposition. That is a nice blend that Trump finds.
Often he makes his supporters laugh while mocking the other
side of the aisle. I think that helps. I think

(01:21:56):
anybody out there that knows about even just basic versions
of interut action with other people, that humor gets you
a lot further than no humor at all.

Speaker 13 (01:22:04):
Here we go.

Speaker 8 (01:22:04):
But she said two things above all else that bothered me.
Number One, she.

Speaker 7 (01:22:10):
Hates Christianity number two.

Speaker 18 (01:22:13):
She hates country music.

Speaker 12 (01:22:15):
How the hell can you elect like that?

Speaker 2 (01:22:19):
Yeah, I agree with him. How the hell can you
elect somebody like that, especially in a place like Nashville.
All Right, one other piece of audio. I'll play a
totally different thing too. CNN was talking about gas prices
which are definitely down nationally, down quite a bit. Drill, Baby,
drill apparently has been successful for this country. And anybody
who just traveled over the holiday, even dealing with all
the crazy weather that you might have had to deal

(01:22:41):
with during the drive home or flight home, however you went,
one of the things that you definitely noticed, I assume,
is how much cheaper it was to get around compared
to last year or a few years ago, because gas
prices are so much better. I hear's CNN even telling
you that this is true.

Speaker 8 (01:22:57):
This morning, some.

Speaker 10 (01:22:58):
States seeing gas prices below three dollars for the first
time in years.

Speaker 14 (01:23:02):
Let's get to see end as Matt Egan for the
good news on this.

Speaker 5 (01:23:05):
Yeah, absolutely, it's nice to finally be here with some
good news on the cost of living front. So for
the first time in four and a half years, gas
prices are averaging three dollars a gallon national in court
in triple A, down by seventh cents in just the
past week.

Speaker 8 (01:23:21):
Gas versus were low a year ago as well, but
they're even cheaper now.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
I love everything about this discussion. I love CNN being
somewhat reluctant, I think, but willing to admit this is true,
to say it's a good sign for our economy and
our society. Gas prices cause a whole lot of other
prices to go up and down, the transportation of goods
being cheaper will be good for us. There's so many
ways that this will wind up being a better and

(01:23:47):
I just I love something that I often talk about
in this world in this discussion. Other thing I love
so much is when people pretend as though the president
can't affect gas prices, like, oh, now, there's nothing he
can do, nothing, he can say, no way to make
it better or worse. And you've seen two administrations with
very different policies on oil and gas having very different

(01:24:08):
impacts on the cost of that product and essentially the
cost of life because of that, it is amazing. And
you know what, I'll say one other thing about this,
This is not connected at all, but it's in my brain.
I live in Texas now and land Man is a
very big show in general, but mostly here in Texas
because of the amount of people that are interested in
seeing oil and gas in that industry and parts of

(01:24:32):
this state are represented via television and Billy Bob Thornton,
and even more so when they say sometimes how important
gas is to the rest of society, you know how
true that is when you're watching things happen in the
real world and you're watching gas prices finally go downward
and benefit all of us because of it. And then
you turn on land Man and you see some murders
and some other crazy stuff. But it is insane out

(01:24:54):
there to feel like the impact of this one industry
is as significant as they make it seem in a
television show, and also just a lot of us know
in reality in general. But all right, on that note,
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Speaker 2 (01:26:34):
stuff out there in the world talk about. I do
love this story I found. And maybe I'll play the
audio a little bit later on in the show because
it's not bad, but the story itself is probably better
than the audio. So a mom created a chart for
her little daughter. I think the daughter is like nine

(01:26:56):
or ten years old, and it's seven things you have
to do every day your room kind of stuff, and
you get a sticker for each one, and if you
do all seven at the end of the week, you
get a prize. Now, granted, the mom decided, I need
to grade in a curve here. I can't require my
kid to be perfect every single day, so they actually
only have to do this. Kid only has to do

(01:27:16):
six of the seven things correct every single day for
an entire week to get the same prize as if
you follow all seven rules. Now, the reason I love
this story so much is one of the rules is
do not use any bad words. And so the kid
decided that if I'm gonna willingly and purposefully follow this chart,
hit six of these things every single day and get

(01:27:37):
one freebie. The freebie I want every morning is the
same thing I'm going to use bad language. So the
kid actually wakes up in the morning, sees the mom,
and very confidently, this young child immediately loses one of
her seven tasks a day by saying good morning, mother
bleeper to her mom, which I think is sort of hilarious.

(01:27:58):
The mom is somewhat laughing as she says it. I
know there are people out there who are very upset
with language, and then other people who don't care about
it at all, especially if a young kid is throwing
it out there. A viral video after viral video and
social media show us that most of us laugh when
young kids use bad words. Whether we should or shouldn't,
I don't really care about that part. I don't even
want to have that discussion. But here's my favorite part

(01:28:21):
about this. This kid is very smart and this parent
should be very proud of their child for being able
to look at a list see that they had seven
objectives a day, that if they do six out of
seven every day, they get the same amount of prize,
the same amount of value, And so that's what they do.
They go ahead and barrel into the I'm doing whatever
I can, baby to make sure that I get the
prize I get, but also get to enjoy life as

(01:28:43):
much as possible. I think you should be proud of
the kid. I think the kid deserves even another reward
for the fact that they did that math as well
as they did it and came up to the conclusion
they did and that the one thing that is most
valuable for them to say no to or I don't
care about, of all the things, is saying bad words.
It's just fantastic. But all right, we'll take a quick break.

(01:29:04):
A lot coming up. This is Craig Collins filling in
on the Chad Benson Show. But before I do, I
will say that when I look through the list of
other stuff, occasionally I might hold back some bad words
if I get to not do as many chores in
the house. If it were me is a kid. I
just love the fact that this young girl is so
consistent with how much she values saying bad language to

(01:29:27):
her mother. It's sort of funny, it's sort of fantastic.
And by the way, I will also say this society
has changed a lot. When I was a young kid,
I remember the first time I used a bad word
around my mom, and I remember that the kid down
the street taught it to me, told me it was
a sentence enhancer. If you threw this in, it didn't
mean anything bad. It just meant you extra meant whatever

(01:29:49):
it is you were actually saying. So, when my little
sister was playing a video game, I think the video
game was The Little Mermaid, I decided to say that
she needed to win that game and get that bleeping
witch or you know, Ursula, whoever it is, the octopus thing,
I get her real good, and my mom washed my
mouth that would soap. So I know society has changed

(01:30:10):
a lot, is what I'm saying. At some point, when
he used bad words around the parents, they were mad
at you. And now they put it up on social
media for everyone to get a chuckle at, and also
like and click and all that other stuff to go
viral and social media more valuable now, and teaching your
kids you better not say these words around me, young man.
I wish I had been around for that. I wish
I was raised in that version of society because that

(01:30:31):
video would have been popular. All right, quick break a
lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 6 (01:30:48):
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Speaker 2 (01:31:12):
stuff out there to talk about. Pete Hegseth, of course,
is in the news and being discussed a lot, mostly
because there's a question now being asked by Democrats and
by anonymous whistleblowers. Did heg Seth order a second strike

(01:31:32):
on a boat that was bringing drugs into our country
from Venezuela because he wanted everybody dead? Essentially a war crime?
Did he fire at a boat that was no longer operational,
people not capable of defending themselves, just because he wanted blood.
The craziest part of that narrative is how ridiculous the
idea of that is. Regardless of who you think you know,

(01:31:55):
Pete Hegseth, is the value of the person, the integrity person,
what have you, or anyone else that's in positions of
political power. This is so obviously a accusation of a
war crime that if it really did happen, and if
someone can prove definitively on record without anonymous sources that
had happened, and not use it as a distraction from

(01:32:16):
some of the more ridiculous, horrible, whatever you want to
call them, things that are going on in our society
right now that seem to demonstrate how flawed democratic positions
are on a lot of topics. If it's the amount
of fraud going on in Minnesota where Somalians just stole
tons and tons of money a post COVID from Tim
Walls's state, If it's the horrible thing that happened in DC,

(01:32:39):
we're an Afghan national who shouldn't be in this country
because we shouldn't have just brought a bunch of people
in during the failed exit in Afghanistan without the amount
of information we needed to make sure they wouldn't act
this way. We just horrible across the board. All of
these topics lean into things where Republicans are on the
winning side of messaging and Democrats hate it. So they've

(01:33:01):
got to put something salacious and ridiculous out there in
the world and claim that it's true, and until someone
again actually definitively proves the accuracy of it, I'm going
to have to go ahead and say it smells a
whole lot like crap. It seems a whole lot like crap.
As I say that, there's another big thing out there
that I think the left or political left is focusing

(01:33:21):
on that I think is definitely disingenuously being discussed, and
that would be Trump's approval rating. You hear more and
more people saying that his approval rating is in the toilet,
it's down, it's bad, it's not what it should be.
And I find that fairly interesting. And I'll tell you why.
When Trump first got elected, yes, his approval rating was

(01:33:41):
higher than it is now. I think it was about
forty seven percent of people that approved of the job
that he was doing, compared to thirty six percent now.
The amount of people that disapproved of the job he
was doing within his second month in office was forty
eight percent. It's sixty percent now. Part of the reason
for this is the talking points crystallize in the first

(01:34:02):
month or so after someone takes office. You don't have
the specific talking points you do now as to what
to say that is you think working with the American
people are not But also, if you dive deeper into
this data from Gallop or anywhere else, you see that
among Republicans, his approval rating is basically the same in
the low nineties to high eighties over the course of

(01:34:23):
this entire year that he's been in office, So Republicans
have not changed their position on Trump very much at all.
And I think when you see a huge fracture of
the people who most support him, that's when you truly
get an indicator that things are not going well for
the current president of our country. Independents have swung quite
a bit against Trump. Compared to before, forty six percent

(01:34:46):
approved when he first got into office, only twenty five
percent now, And that is wildly tied to the economy
and the everyday experience of you and me as people
who live in the society and pay for things. Now,
I think that that's interesting for two reasons. The first one,
as far as the economy goes and the price of
gas goes, you are probably doing better than you were

(01:35:08):
doing at the beginning of this year or last year
or two years ago. One of the biggest reasons why
is the cost of gas and how much that impacts
your day to day spending. But there's another thing out
there that's important and would uniquely be important this time
of year. The amount of Americans who are going to
go into debt because of the holidays. A vast majority
of Americans will choose to put something on their credit card,

(01:35:29):
or a whole lot of things on their credit card,
in order to have Christmas be the same as it's
been in the past, even if they're not financially really
capable of doing that. And so this time of year,
if you pull people, especially independents who voted Trump into
office because they thought he'd be better for the economy
and ask them how he's doing, they are uniquely tied
to how they're doing financially at this moment to say no,

(01:35:53):
But how things go over the next couple of years
I think will actually be the true demonstration of how
much better Trump has done than Biden and getting things
spending under control, and even how many of those tariff
threats or the existence of tariffs create better trade deals
for our economy that makes things better. Say next year,
the year after, I don't know if it will be true.
I'm not telling you that. You know for sure, I

(01:36:15):
think things are going to be much better in the future.
I know that it will vastly change the opinion of
those in the middle on Trump, he gets great numbers
as far as crime goes, He gets good numbers as
far as the border and certain other things go. And
even when you talk about foreign trade, because of the
tariffs and how much they have not actually skyrocketed inflation

(01:36:36):
compared to what people projected it to do to our society,
he is getting better numbers than expected. There is one
other thing that I think kind of matters here too,
And I think this is interesting because this has happened
to Trump twice now, and it happened to Biden in
between the two Trump terms. But before that we didn't
see a whole lot of this. The Senate has dragged
its feet on confirming Trump nominees for positions within our

(01:36:59):
political system like a tremendous amount. In Trump's first term,
he had eighty nine people appointed within the first two
hundred days. In Biden's first term it was eighty eight.
So it seemed like the thing they did to Trump
was reversed back on Biden as far as the Senate
delaying confirming a lot of appointees, a lot of nominees.
When you look back at Bush and Obama before them,

(01:37:20):
it was in the two hundreds for both of these
guys within the first two hundred days in office. It's
just a crazy different system. Now Trump is at ninety eight,
so he's doing better than he did in his first
term and better than Biden did, but just barely, just
a little bit. And actually, one of the people in
the news that is tied to this is Alena Habba,
the former Trump lawyer, who is very attractive. Not important

(01:37:44):
to mention, I'm just putting it out there. This is
one reason that some criticize her and her value as
far as a prosecutor goes or anything else, And another
reason why other people seem to like her is that
she's ridiculously attractive. Again, I digress, not important. I just
thought i'd mention it. What I think is kind of amazing, though,
is now she's been rejected once again by a circuit

(01:38:07):
court in New Jersey for having a position as a
federal prosecutor that she could get if the Senate actually
would allow her to be potentially confirmed for this role.
She has not even been allowed to present the case
or have the Senate ask questions because they inevitably know
when voting happens, Trump's candidates will win, the Senate will
put them in positions of power. So the best thing

(01:38:28):
they can do is delay these nominees entirely from getting
to that point. And I'm not saying that's actually something
that the American people notice. I don't think a lot
of people are sitting in front of their TVs waiting
for the nominee of some candidate for something to actually
be put in front of us. But when it comes
to actually getting the objectives of the administration done, getting

(01:38:49):
things done that may or may not make things better
or worse for us in our society, having nominees in
positions of power throughout the country is a huge part
of it. Getting your actual policy to be things that
are implemented a whole bunch of other places outside of
the way you can do it as the president through
executive action and whatnot. It's a tremendous burden on getting

(01:39:10):
you to the point where you actually think that your
administration is getting what it wants done in the country.
And so I think that a byproduct or a potential
cause that people underestimate in things not getting better more
quickly is this whole suspension of the Senate and delay
of the Senate of getting people into positions of power
that will do more of what Trump wants them to do.

(01:39:32):
And until we get through that barrier, until we bust
through that hurdle, I think you're likely to see more
of the same of this crap, and you're likely to
see a whole lot of infighting as to who's doing
what wrong. And then when it actually comes to like
truthfully a bad spending and terrible decision making, I have
to one more time mentioned Tim Walls and his disastrous

(01:39:53):
answer to a question on NBC News and Meet the
Press when asked about the millions or billions of dollars
that has been stolen from that state, a taxpayer money
that's just gone now because people in Somalia, Somalians were
capable of using all kinds of different fraud schemes to
steal money. And his reaction, as the person in charge

(01:40:13):
in Minnesota was oh, well, not my fault, more or less,
saying that they're just too great of a state as
far as their typical day to day success goes or
achievement goes. So they became a target and they were
someone that Somalians embezzled from and they missed all that.
But that's just because of how awesome and amazing. They
are a ridiculous a thing to say. If you were

(01:40:36):
caught red handed having screwed up at your job, your
answer cannot possibly be I'm so good at this job
that that's why the screw up happened as people were
targeting me. Is of how great I am. That's not
going to fly if you actually are supposed to catch
the problem and not allow it to be a thing
that happens on this big of a scale, it's just insane.
But here here's the back and forth answer to the question,

(01:40:59):
on your watch, millions or billions of dollars has been stolen?
What do you say about that? Do you take any
responsibility at all?

Speaker 3 (01:41:07):
Dozens of people of East African descent have been charged, convicted,
and sentenced for stealing more than a billion dollars in
taxpayer money from government programs during COVID. As you know, Governor,
that is more than Minnesota spends each year to run
its Department of Corrections. So I want to give you
a chance to respond to this. Do you take responsibility

(01:41:28):
for failing to stop this fraud in your state?

Speaker 8 (01:41:31):
Now?

Speaker 4 (01:41:32):
Well, certainly I take responsibility for putting people in jail
governors don't get to just talk theoretically, we have to
solve my colege. And I will note it's not just Somali's.
Minnesota is a generous state. Minnesota is a prosperous days,
a well run state or triple A bond rated. But
that attracts criminals. Those people are right here.

Speaker 2 (01:41:50):
You go one more time. And this is the craziest
thing I noticed as he's talking. Not only does he
not take any responsibility for his failures, he acts like
it's the typical cost of doing business that the government
is going to have a lot of fraud, a lot
of people are going to steal millions or billions of dollars.
We're not going to be able to prevent it or
even really see it coming. We might throw some people
in jail as an after effect to it. We're going

(01:42:11):
to make sure to go ahead and politicize and talk
about the racial component or everything we can in the process.
Here as Trump is pointing to it as a bad thing,
we're going to try to turn him into the bad
guy and not deal with the problem at hand. But
more so than anything else, we're going to readily admit,
openly admit as they do often in politics that we
are terrible with money. We're terrible with securing it, with

(01:42:34):
spending it, with protecting it, with all the things that
you and I know the government does to waste and
abuse the money that we have to give them. And
so it seems like a wonderful campaign for the Conservatives
running against people like Tim Walls, because if you'd like
your money to be in your pocket and not wasted
by the government, vote for us, get us into positions

(01:42:54):
of powers so we can shrink the government. Because regardless
of what they say they're doing with your dollars, how
they say they're going to spend your money and make
things better in society, they're gonna screw up and screw
up massively and give a whole lot of that money
to people who don't deserve it or steal it themselves.
So that is essentially the thing that they're failing to
admit here that's at the forefront of this discussion is

(01:43:14):
how obvious it is that people like this in positions
of power are bad for you and me because of
how little they care about losing millions and or billions
of dollars over the last few years. Just kind of ridiculous,
the kind of thing that gets you fired from any
other job, and should get you fired from this one.
All right, quick break, A little bit more coming up.
Creig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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filling in, thrilled to be with you. A lot of
stuff out there to talk about. Timeout dot com put
out their list of the fifty best Christmas Songs of
all time. These lists are getting worse and worse in
our society, and I think there's one thing very closely
tied to how terrible the list is, and I'm gonna

(01:45:40):
be very specific about it. It's where Santa Tell Me
by Ariana Grande ranks on the list. If it's in
the top ten, the top twenty, your list is easily flawed.
This one's in the top five. They put Ariana Grande's
Santa tell Me at number four on the list of
best Christmas Songs all time. I'm gonna play a little
bit of it, not because I like it, but because

(01:46:00):
I run a ram home a message of how they
think this is better than jingle Bells, or this is
better than White Christmas or so many other classic songs
out there, Elvis songs, anything is better than this. Here
we go, why no, no, no, no no, I can't.

(01:46:24):
I can't go into the verses. We're gonna get a
little bit of the refrain, and that's all we're getting.
I'm not doing anymore but number four. This has been
barreling up the charts as far as Christmas songs go,
whether it's Billboard, Time Out, whoever puts this out there.
I just think it's hilarious because it's awful, and that
beat out so many other great songs that are way
down or not on the list at all. A jingle

(01:46:45):
Bells not even in the top twenty, which is insane.
All I Want for Christmas Is You by Mariah Carey
is number one. It makes number one on way too
many of these lists, as well, because I think that's
also the most hated Christmas song out there, because it's
played so much and also often, and people celebrate it
and it's dumb and stupid. A Last Christmas by Wham

(01:47:06):
was number two on this list, fairy Tale of New
York number three, and then Christmas Baby, Please Come Home.
Durnlean Love of Course number five on the list, and
Felicie Navidad outside the top five, which is terrible too,
but Ben Crosby's down at nine, Ella Fitzgerald at eight,
just really awful. A terrible list. You can tell how

(01:47:26):
old people are who create these lists as we go
to because the younger the people get who are in
places of you know, creating these lists at these websites,
the more likely the list is to be awful. And
this feels like it's at the forefront of that. Taylor
Swift in the top twenty, Kelly Clarkson in the top twenty,
and Paul McCartney also did make the top twenty with

(01:47:47):
Wonderful Christmas Time A, much to the chagrin of producer
Phil Feeling like that song. Even though it's definitely better
than Ariana Grande, it is not, in fact better than
rocking around the Christmas Tree, or any of the staples
I listened to Christmas music, which is now officially Okay,
we're after Thanksgivings, so now you can go wild as
much as you want to. The only thing that really

(01:48:08):
makes me feel like it's the Christmas spirit are those
old classic songs, you know, any of the ones that
are marquee things that you might even have kids singing
at grade school talent shows or at Christmas shows. You know,
Joy to the World, all that stuff. Any of those
things seem so much better than this ridiculous crap that
we have in this list. So I just think it's

(01:48:28):
kind of amazing. Frosty the Snowman and root Off the
Red Nose Reindeer not in the top twenty. This needs
to be rethought. Everybody at Timeout needs to be fired
in the very near future. The only way that I'll
be happy this Christmas if they fire all those people.
All right, quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show. And yes, I really

(01:48:49):
did mean that I would like to have them all
out of work this holiday season because of how atrocious
their list is, Like, how do you not put Frosty
the Snowman in the top ten, top twenty, or root
off the knows Reindeer. It's because you take it for granted.
How dare you people? By the way, one other quick thing,
just to throw it out there, Cyber Monday is today.
You might be buying money, might be buying things online,

(01:49:11):
but likely you already spent a ton of money in
the last few days online. So is cyber Monday even
really a thing anymore? Good question, don't have a good answer.
Craig galluensulling in on The Chad Benson Show.

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