Fmr. President Jimmy Carter Dies at 100

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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. Chad is back
just after the holidays. Later this week, Jimmy Carter passed
away at one hundred years old. Jimmy Carter is a
president that will be remembered for a lot of things,
and what's odd. I'll say this before I read any
of the statements from Biden or Trump or Obama people

(00:39):
who put out statements about him. I know Clinton did
as well, But one thing that I do think is
interesting is how someone's legacy changes as we get older.
And I'm not saying that Jimmy Carter went down and
I don't mean this mean just a day after he
passes away as one of the most legendary presidents we've
ever had. But right after his presidential term in office,

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there was a different sentiment about him than there was
as time went on. And the only reason I think
that's interesting outside of paying respect to someone who passed away,
is Biden and how he'll be remembered as a one
term president that had a unique amount of horrible things
happen and will time when it goes on remember him

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any more fondly than we remember him, as we're a
few weeks away from Biden being out of office. But nonetheless,
when it comes to Jimmy Carter, who passed away at
one hundred, interesting too, by the way, just a weird
fact that the last few presidents who've passed former presidents
who've passed away have made it to at least ninety three,
which makes you think that both Biden and Trump are

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not exactly as old as people say they are. Granted,
Biden's brain doesn't work anymore, which is bad, but if
their longevity is similarly to the last few presidents, ninety
three or one hundred is is a long time. But nonetheless,
President Biden said, today America and the world lost an
extraordinary leader, statesman, and humanitarian. And there's quite a bit

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of a statement beyond that. I thought that Donald Trump
gave an interesting statement about Jimmy Carter. I just heard
about the news about the passing of President Jimmy Carter.
Those of us who have been fortunate to have served
as president understand this is a very exclusive club and
only we can relate to the enormous responsibility of leading

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the greatest nation in history. Yes, that's probably true. The
challenge is Jimmy faced as president, came at a pivotal
time for our country, and he did everything in his
power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that,
we all owe him a debt of gratitude, essentially meaning
you try to do the job to your best abilities,
regardless of if we agreed or disagreed with the things

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you did. Milani and I are thinking warmly of the
Carter family and their loved ones during this difficult time.
We urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers.
And then, finally, Barack Obama. For decades, you could walk
into a Baptist church in Plainsville, Georgia on some Sunday
mornings and see hundreds of tourists from around the world

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crammed into the pews and standing in front of them,
asking with a wink, if there were any visitors that morning,
would be President Jimmy Carter preparing to teach Sunday school,
just like he had done for most of his adult life.
Some who came to hear him speak would undoubtedly undoubtedly
there because of the President carter accomplishments in his four

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years in the White House, the Camp David Accords, he
brokeer that reshaped the Middle East. There's reason to have
questions about some of that, the work he did to
diversify the federal judiciary, including nominating a pioneering woman's rights
activist and lawyer named Ruth Bader Ginsburg, etc. Etc. So again,
former presidents all acknowledge I have more, I'll do more.

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Why not. That's the beginning of the show. Holiday show.
This was a big deal. President George W. Bush said,
Laura and I sent at our heartfelt condolences, Jack Chip,
Jeff Amy, and the entire Carter family. You know what,
I like something and I can't help liking it about
George W. Bush. He just seems to be more aware
of human nature than anyone else. Because to start off

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the message by naming the people that you know are
in the Carter family that maybe George has actually met
and knows, I assume it's even more than that. That's
a nice way to pay tribute to somebody. James Earl
Carter Junior was a man of deeply held convictions. He
was loyal to his family, his community, and his country.
President Carter dignified the office that's some of what George W.

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Bush said. And then finally President Bill Clinton, Hillary and
I more in the passing of President Jimmy Carter and
give thanks for his long, good life guided by his faith.
President Carter lived to serve others until the very end.
That's very brief, by the way, Clinton, of all the people,
gave a very brief mention. But anyway, President Carter passed
away at one hundred. It is interesting that Clinton's actually

(04:58):
the one that mentioned that his life was long, which
sounds good, and it is interesting, you know, I'll say
one other thing about it, because it's weird. I don't
know exactly what to say that that is a focal
point for me or maybe anybody that saw that he
passed away as the age itself one hundred, that's probably
a good thing that the people who serve in the

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office of president of this country wind up living a
long time, or at least the last few have. It
might say something good about our country, you know, as
opposed to if our presidents died early again. I don't
know what that would be or how much it would
actually make anyone else out there all that happy, but
it was interesting. Nonetheless, all right, we can move on.
There's other stuff out there in the world. There is

(05:43):
a constant conversation and even more reaction pieces to this
stuff out there about the Panama Canal, about Greenland, about
everything that Trump has talked about recently, and it's sort
of amazing to watch this stuff happen. And now the
latest one is the H one B visa discussion. I'm

(06:05):
not sure how much people have really paid attention to
this according to media. If you're a MAGA person, you
have paid attention to it a lot, and you've also,
of course been very upset about it. And there's a
civil war according to some out there. I don't think
that that's it all true. And I said this the
other day and I'll say this again, but Trump did

(06:25):
actually say the H one visa is great and that
he uses it a lot in some of his companies
and organizations and essentially sided with Elon Musk, and then
Elon Musk went nuts on Twitter. And I'm not going
to read all the stuff that Elon put on social media,
but he definitely said that he was ready for a
war with whoever disagreed with him. I kind of wanted

(06:47):
to take a step back when I saw this, though,
my first thought is why are people man? And I
wonder if that's your first thought too. You see all
the H one or HB I don't want to turn
it into something that sounds like a coronavirus HB one,
you know, debates, And the first thing I think I
see are people that are not engineers, people that don't

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have a unique set of skills that means that they're
losing out on these types of jobs, people that aren't
even necessarily coders, but are upset at the idea that
companies could be using these visas to get cheap labor,
not to get the best of the best. That's that's
essentially the thing and the problem. And so what I
think is so interesting about that, the idea of how

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many people are getting angry that, you know, they don't
have the opportunities in life that they want and they
think that they should find a way to gain those opportunities.
Is there's there's a through line in that way of
thinking and some other stuff that's been out there in
the world and typically on the other side of the aisle,
about give me something because I deserve it and I

(07:52):
don't have to earn it, and That's the only thing
I keep thinking in all of this. And I'm not
saying that it wouldn't be good to prevent businesses from
misusing a visa that is designed to attract the best
of the best of the people at the top, you know,
part of the crust on whatever the job is, to
come be a part of our country. It essentially makes

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us a stronger country to take the cream of the
crop from other countries and bring it here. So it's
essentially a good thing for us to take the valedictorians
and the people who are most successful from all those
other places and invite them to the United States. But
as you say that, and as you think that, and
as you see the amount of people that are upset
right now in the economy, upset right now in the

(08:33):
education system, upset in whatever, the other big takeaway for
me is how much reform is needed to put us
in a place where we would be more likely to
blame ourselves and blame some other problem for lack of success,
because it's not one hundred percent your fault if you
don't succeed in life. There are things that can happen

(08:54):
that can cause you to not have a you know,
fair situation play out. I know it seems crazy to
say that, but it's true. And this feels like one
of those moments where people are complaining that maybe they
feel that way that maybe, you know, this visa could
be used in some way to prevent me from getting
my job that I want, or maybe it is being used.
I don't even know about it. And that's interesting to me,

(09:16):
because that lack of being unhappy with the things that
exist in our society right now is I think truly
the reason that you elected the entirely opposite party of
the party in power, and you want that party to
succeed and make things better. All right, I'm gonna move
on from that too. There's a long rant about just
stuff that's out there in the world. I will get
back to some of the you know, other stuff going

(09:37):
on too throughout the show today. I do want to
play this audio a CNN panelist instantly regretted, claiming Joe
Biden's accomplishments in the Middle East will stand the test
of time. And this was this was great. This was
Scott Jennings again on CNN, combating with one of the
liberal which is everybody else in that show usually talking

(09:58):
heads trying to already claim that Biden will be remembered fondly,
which isn't close to true and isn't going to be true.
I don't think depending on you know, just how long
it takes us to even get to a place where
we think of Biden as a president who was even
sort of successful, which I can't imagine we get there either.
But here's some of that back and forth because I
just thought it was so well done.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think he's still Look, he showed up for the job,
he got the work done. I think some of the accomplishments,
also in the Middle East in foreign policy will also
stand the test of time.

Speaker 4 (10:28):
You think the Middle East is in better shape today
than when he took office.

Speaker 5 (10:32):
Well, I think he got our hostages home. I think
that's a big deal. I think it's important. I'm sorry
which hostages he got. He's gotten a number of people.

Speaker 4 (10:39):
There's still one hundred people over there. Well, there were more,
including some Americans. Look, I think he's going to I
think he's gonna leave office in disgrace. The Hunter Biden
pardon was disgraceful. He's going to be remembered largely for
inflation and for the disastrous Afghanistan pull out. Yes, And
I think as we continue to we're just getting the
first draft of this now, but as we continue to
learn about the massive cover up that went on, not

(11:02):
about his health but about his mental acuity to cover
that up, the efforts that were undertaken by the White
House staff, by his family, not in the last couple
of months, but for all four years. I think it's
going to be a really ugly chapter. It's a diminished
presidency because of it. And I think we still don't
know the full extent of what they did to try

(11:24):
to hide what they've been doing over.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
Yeah, I think that that's a great point. We probably
don't know the extent of it. And even more than that,
the things that he actually signed into office. If he
wasn't mentally capable of coming up with the ideas to
the degree that you would need you'd be necessary to
take credit for something in the role of president, then
does he actually get credit for those things either? Or
is it just the democratic machine that had some successes

(11:47):
well Biden was its figurehead. That feels like a question
that deserves to be answered or asked as well out
there in the world. All right, quick break a lot
coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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filling in, Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. Some other sad things out there.
Jimmy Carter is not the only person to pass away
at one hundred or older. Another individual, the oldest living
survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, Warren Upton, passed away
at one hundred and five. That story was also big

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in a lot of places. So your heart goes out.
Prayers go out to the family of worn Upton. Interesting
for that to also hit the news yesterday, Well we
hear about the passing of a former president, someone who
actually you know, survived the attack on Pearl Harbor. That's
a pretty big deal, all right, Other stuff, this is weird.

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This is in no way, shape or form a celebration
of this stat It might be tempting to celebrate it
or to celebrate it in an odd way because of
what it might mean about political rhetoric, But it's not
a stat that we need to be proud of. Abortions
are up in the United States since Dobbs, since the
overturning of Roe versus Wade. Apparently people have found a

(14:23):
way to still have that procedure at a more significant
level than they had it before a Row versus Wade.
And of course that means that anyone that told you
that the presidential election or anything else was about you know,
women's right to their bodies or anything else, apparently part
of that data doesn't match up with the rhetoric, especially
depending on what state you live in. Again, I'm not

(14:44):
saying this is any sort of celebratory, you know, stat
or piece of information out there. It's just an interesting
piece of information out there. And I'm not also trying
to pick a fight on a topic I don't want
to talk about on December thirty of any more than
I already just did all right one other thing out
there that I thought was pretty interesting. A US homelessness

(15:04):
is up eighteen percent as affordable housing becomes difficult for
more and more Americans to actually reach. This is because
rent and other things have skyrocketed over the last few years,
and the cost of buying a house is also, of
course still very relatively high, even as some other things
have started to drop. So not bad to see Biden

(15:25):
leave the White House, say if people feel that all
of these are problems with his own policies, his own
decision making, and just the crazy amount of inflation that
we've seen. Trump did say recently in an interview that
inflation is a hard thing to bring down. So starting
to throw some cold water on how quickly that could change,
but still not in a good spot. All right, quick break,
There is a lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in

(15:48):
on the Chad Benson Show. But before that break, I
should tell you that a couple things that I want
to talk about after we but after we come back,
after we've paused for a few minutes. Mexico creating an
app for migrants to send alerts if detained in the US,
meaning that Mexico can inform people if there's a problem

(16:09):
going on there. That's an interesting story that I'll dive
a little bit deeper into. It's also alerting citizens about
the possibility of being detained because it's a thing that
might actually happen if that actually lowers the amount of
people that are crossing our border into our country. We'll
see before Biden actually or before excuse me, Biden leaves

(16:30):
office and Trump gets into office, and a whole bunch
of things I assume change in that world and people
are not just detained, they're fully removed and sent back
to another country. Another thing out there that we'll talk
about a little bit more in a bit. Biden has
adopted a cell low by high losing philosophy when it
comes to refilling these strategic reserves. This is a hilarious

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version of something that is a tremendous failure and off
the radar of a bunch of people, and something that
Trump wanted to fix when he was in office when
gas prices were incredibly low and people attacked him for.
But it's out there, and it's yet another decision that's
not really great for a lot of us. That's sort
of surprising that you're still getting that stuff wrong with
so little time left in office. But those are some

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of the topics coming up in just a little bit.
Greig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 8 (17:39):
Sudden Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (18:00):

Speaker 8 (18:04):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about out
there in the world. Mexico's creating an app for migrants
to send alerts if detained in the United States. It's
launching a smartphone app that allows immigrants, migrants to people
who are here illegally, whatever word you want to use
to warn relatives and instantly alert their nearest consulate if

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the US is detaining them, which is weird, I would
say to say the very least or a lot of
other things. What I do want to happen, I'll just
say this quickly, is for more people to believe there
is a deterrent, there is a prevention mechanism in place
that causes less people to try to come into our country.
That's a good thing. However we get that done seems

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good by the way. CNN also debated if Tom Hollman
the incoming borders are Who's promised to deport a whole
lot of people, mostly criminals at least to start, Definitely
people who've committed other serious crimes while in the country illegally,
which feels like the kind of thing most Americans would
agree to, regardless of who you are and how you

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feel about anything else. But what I think is really
interesting about this debate is she very quickly was owned
CNN on their own show talking about the amount of
things that didn't make sense in the world of what
Homan is saying, and then oh, yeah, it didn't make
sense in the world of how we're dealing with illegal
immigrants right now. Here's a little bit of that audio,

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which I thought, again was pretty great. Abby Phillips getting
owned on our own show one of.

Speaker 7 (19:38):
The things I've heard of give a lot of interviews,
and I know he understands the problem that they want
to solve, but he doesn't seem to have a sense
of the scope of how what it's going to take,
what it's going to cost, and that's a critical question.

Speaker 9 (19:49):
I actually had a meeting with Tom Holman the other
day along with a number of my colleagues, and we
talked about this.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
By the way, that's representative Mike Lawler who's speaking and
being like, we totally understand this thing. You claimed we
didn't understand very issue.

Speaker 9 (20:02):
Look it's already costing states like New York billions of
dollars of taxpayer money will provide free housing, clothing, food, education,
and healthcare to illegal immigrants. Then you have the situation
where you have criminal aliens committing violent crimes, just as
we saw a woman being burned alive on a subway

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by a man who was previously deported and then came
back into the United States illegally. The fact is that
what Tom Holman is going to do is start the
process of deporting criminal aliens out of the United States,
and sanctuary states and cities like New York need to cooperate.

Speaker 2 (20:42):
Look, here's the first thing I'll say, and it's really
interesting to me, and it's not exactly a new evolution,
but that moment in the middle of this response where
he says that there are people here that are committing
horrible acts usually or at least just maybe a couple
of years ago, people on the left would have yelled
and screamed that that's racism and not true. But the
amount of high profile and undeniably tied to individuals who

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are here illegally, like the one he gives an example
of the woman who gets burned on the subway causes
people to not be able to reject that narrative completely.
Of course, it doesn't mean every single person who comes
to this country illegally is going to commit a horrible
crime and take someone's life. Not that I even need
to say that out loud, because it's just silly to

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discuss things in that term or in that sense. But
those are the individuals that Tom Holman says he wants
to target first, people who've done horrible things. And there's
no logical reason that we should continue to be tolerant
and let people be here illegally that are also harming
people in our society. It's insane that we get to
these places. I don't know if I'm repeating myself a

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lot this morning, I just can't help it, or today
I should say, but I just can't understand how some
of the conversations we have get so polarized when if
you just spoke it in plain words, how does anyone
disagree with it? How would anyone actually and the American
people don't. Obviously in the way they voted it demonstrates

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that they don't, But how would anyone say that it's
a bad idea to remove people who don't have a
legal right to be in our country, who have done
terrible things. You know, serious crimes have been committed beyond
just being here illegally. How does anyone say, I don't
know about that, we should keep that person around or
give them a better chance to stay here and find

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some sort of illegal process to it. That's the same.
And people wouldn't say that. And I don't know why
there's arguments that exist at all in those spaces, but
darn it, somehow they do. All right, another thing out
there that I do really like. I can't help this,
and I thought it was a pretty funny headline. Biden
has adopted a cell low by high losing philosophy when

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it comes to refilling our reserves, our oil reserves. In
twenty twenty, the Trump administration wanted to fill the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve at twenty four dollars a barrel. Democrats proudly
blocked it and said, how dare you try to prop
up an industry that we hate and we want to
harm every way that we can. Biden later filled it
nearly eighty dollars a barrel instead. That the last four

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years have been summarized to demonstrate just how terrible that
decision wound up being in retrospect, one of the many,
many failures of this Biden administration that doesn't get talked
about quite enough. And who knows what we'll be doing
moving forward from there. But with Trump back in, you
imagine that if prices do go down again and he
talks about this, hopefully some people rubber stamp some things.

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Although I'll be honest, I do think a big part
of the challenge in politics in general, which feels like
an appropriate thing to talk about a couple of days
before the new year, is how desperately one side doesn't
want the other side to get a win, whatever that
win might be. I mean, honestly, the biggest thing that
Biden talks about right now are any sort of policy

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decisions that he thinks were good for the end that
there's not many of them, but those are the things
that are at the you know, forefront of the discussion
when you look back, and I wonder if a whole
lot of politicians play that same game too. I don't wonder,
I know they do. You know they do. Assuming that
you can make a whole bunch of mistakes, do terrible
things cause you know, inflation to run through the roof.

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But hey, if you give us a couple of wins
and those wins get to be solidly in the column
of Democrats, then good presidency, then everything's fine. Then there's
nothing to see over here. And so I do worry
about that if ideas and things come along that are
genuinely good but are argued about in the world of politics.
I guess sort of like the immigration issue, since Americans

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said it was one of their highest, you know, priority
issues when voting in the last election. But if these
ideas come through and you fight about them just because
you don't want to see the other political side get
a win that you don't want them to have. All Right,
another thing out there that I thought was kind of interesting,
Jamie asking is getting all big and bad about resisting

(25:03):
Trump's politicization. Excuse me of the DOJ. This is hilarious.
Jamie Raskin's a moron and has been a moron for
quite some time, and a large variety of the things
he talks about, but here he is trying to stand out.
He also looked disheveled for some reason. I don't know,
if he just walked through some sort of Tornado before

(25:23):
he put this video up on social media. But here
he is complaining about what he thinks is going to
happen to the DOJ under Trump, even though there actually
are some stories out there about how disappointed Biden is
that the DOJ moved so slowly and going after Trump,
and that that's why he won the election. Apparently, according
to some insiders that are saying how Biden has been

(25:44):
handling his last few days in office, here's a little
bit of Jamie Raskin being crazy.

Speaker 10 (25:48):
And he seems to want to treat the Department of
Justice as a mere adjunct under the unitary executive theory
of his own presidency. We are going to try to
defend the principle of the independent integrity of the law
enforcement function.

Speaker 2 (26:06):
Of We are a Department of Justice totally.

Speaker 5 (26:09):
We're going to defend.

Speaker 10 (26:09):
We will resist and oppose any efforts to politicize the
department so that it goes after the president's enemies in
the current parlance, or goes easy on his friends. That
is simply not how the rule of law works.

Speaker 2 (26:26):
Even though we did all that stuff when we had power,
we actually tried very hard to let the system go
easy on Hunter Biden, and then it didn't because people
complained about it, and because the whole deal fell apart
in one day. There's an actual day that occurred in
a courtroom in this country where Hunter Biden's deal unraveled

(26:49):
before our eyes because Hunter Biden wanted more than the
amount of you slap on the rest punishment he was getting.
He wanted to be found incapable of being healthy of
other crimes. That that's really what started to unravel that
plea agreement that was entered into that was insane. Before
we go back and then we get the actual version

(27:11):
of charges and then the conviction and the pardon, all
things that make Democrats look terrible. They really did try
not only to go after Trump, but to go lenient
on the president's kid, and that resoundingly failed and failed
to such a degree that we now get to talk
about it as if well, I guess Rasking doesn't, but
the rest of us get to talk about it as

(27:32):
if this is something that we need to fix with
this next next administration, not something that we're terrified is
going to get worse. How can it get worse? Honestly, Actually,
you know what I'll say, It'll take a break after
this notion, the amount of things that Trump ran on
in twenty sixteen. I don't mean to, you know, rant
on these issues. I know it feels like there's not

(27:53):
a lot of new and breaking news out there, because
guess what, there's there's not and just a couple of
days before the new year, this feels as important as
anything to talk about. But the amount of issues where
you actually could say to yourself, how could this get
any worse? And there are things that Trump ran on
in sixteen, Trump talked about in twenty and Trump talked
about now in twenty four It's kind of amazing. I

(28:15):
said this a couple of years ago on a different
radio thing that I was doing. This election, at least
from an issue standpoint, fell into the hands of Donald Trump,
for better or worse for anyone out there who hates
the guy or anyone out there who loves the guy.
So many of the things we're talking about are like
hallmark issues, the border being as big of a deal

(28:37):
as it is, getting as bad as it had gotten. Essentially,
the way that Democrats treated Trump about it made them
do something that was uniquely terrible in just throwing the
border wide open and ignoring it, and this happens again
and again. We're seeing this in a myriad of issues
right now, where the way in which it was handled
by the current administration was the worst possible way to

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do a thing. Inflation among them as well. I'm laughing
because otherwise you cry when you say that out loud.
And so as we wait just a few weeks for
you know, the year to change, a few days for
the year to change, and then a few weeks for
the presidency to change, one of the biggest things people
are looking forward to is not doing everything terrible. I mean,

(29:21):
look at the relationship in the international world right now,
and look at the likelihood. As scary as it is
to say that we could end up in a world war,
it is tremendously higher than it ever was during the
Trump administration. That's yet another failure of Democrats. And actually,
and I'll say this, someone had asked me recently what

(29:41):
I thought happened in the last election. Did a whole
lot of Democrats choose to vote for a Republican or
did a whole lot of people just not show up?
And I think it's a little bit of both. I
think the failure was so significant and so many people
who are trying to say with rose colored glasses that Trump,
that Biden, excuse me, did a good job while he
was in office. Is so insane because the voters showed

(30:04):
you how terribly they feel this wind based on either
not voting at all or voting the other way. That
seems to matter, and yet it's being ignored by so
many people as they talk about end of the year's stuff,
which I guess makes sense that that's a big topic today.
All right, we'll take a break. A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson show, My.

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Running with scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Say, this is the Chad Benson Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in thrilled to be with you. Chad
will be back in just a couple of days toward
the tail end of this week after the holiday. AI
has spotted the heart condition in a possible heart condition.
Excuse me and people, they don't even have any symptoms yet.
This is I guess one of the ways they'll convince

(31:54):
you to let AI look at anything and everything that
you do, or spy on us willingly and openly. But
this is real. Apparently artificial intelligence is combing through any
kind of doctor's records to find quote unquote red flags.
A group of symptoms that might be missed by doctors
based on the amount of information that might be available

(32:16):
on a patient going back years. Hey, I can do
this in seconds, and do it for a whole lot
of people in seconds. This demonstrates the risk of things
that might lead to a heart attack and then gets
people whatever treatment, if any, is recommended by artificial intelligence.
That seems good, but it also seems terrible in the

(32:36):
sense that you have to start seeing everything and anything
about us of feeding it into computers, and then those
computers get hacked, and then even more information is out
there in the world. By the way, there is a
weird additional discussion going on, and I don't know how
to talk about this in radio friendly terms, so I'll
do my best. There are adult websites that people might

(32:58):
go to for certain reasons that are going to be
banned in more states and already banned in some states.
One of them is the most trafficked site of this
type in the entire world. I'm not going to name
it because I'm on the radio. I probably could. I
know I could say the name, but I'm not going
to do that of it anyway. Places like Florida and
Tennessee I think are going to be a new states

(33:18):
that also ban these sites. The biggest discussion is how
we make sure that people are of the right age
to access websites like this, and the adult sites that
are going to be banned or at least are choosing
to ban themselves from states to not break any of
those laws. I say, they don't want to be the
ones to store our driver's license or whatever information themselves

(33:42):
and keep it protected. They want someone else to do that,
whether it's the devices you buy. Places like Apple would
then secure that information. I don't know who would secure it,
but somebody would so that you can be compliant with
any sort of new laws out there asking for there
to be age verification, or people go to certain types
of websites and the you know services themselves the hosts

(34:06):
of those places, they don't want to be the ones
to do it. I love the discussion in politics about
this because I agree that I don't think most of
us want to store information out there in the ether
that could be valuable and important to say any hacker
with sites that are not probably known for being really
good at defending themselves from acts, and that would be

(34:29):
true of anything, not just this one specific discussion and industry,
but any sort of discussion out there where you're talking
about where information needs to be stored to make sure
that people are you know, safe that information. I don't
know that it can actually be safe no matter where
we put it. By the way, information in general in
today's society, And maybe that's the biggest thing I was

(34:50):
thinking about in response to this story that's been talked
about in some places maybe more than others, is the
idea that you know, so much of our information is
sadly already out there because of the amount of data
breaches we've seen. Most everyone's sole security number is on
the dark web. Most everyone's other information to some extent
is on the dark web. So sadly a lot of

(35:11):
that information is already available and being purchased, And so
I guess there could just be more of it. But
that doesn't mean we should lax relax and let ourselves
give even more information to the Internet that will definitely
hack and steal it the minute it's available and stored
on certain places. That seems bad for so much of us,
all right, but I'll take a break on that a
lot coming up throughout the show today, we will talk

(35:32):
about some serious and some silly in for the holidays
for Chad Benson. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad
Benson Show. I did also see a story about scientists
and redheads, which I guess is also adult in nature,
and maybe I'll get to a little bit later. I
don't know who wrote this. I don't know what scientists
studied this. Also, I think this actually happened in the

(35:53):
UK and then it was reported on by national radio
in Europe. But apparently redhead to have a unique set
of things within them, their makeup that makes certain situations
may be more fun, more pleasurable, how they feel pained differently,
all kinds of stats and redheads. We might talk about

(36:13):
that later. Craig Collins, filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (36:52):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. First quickly, Biden has
approved two point five billion dollars in US support for
Ukraine's defense, a two point five billion more because we
need to send more money, apparently before Biden leaves office.

(37:13):
Who knows if Hunter Biden is involved in any business
dealings in Ukraine in the near future. We will see
he's already been pardoned for things in the past. Maybe
you also made that future proof. I don't think so,
but you never know. But this I find pretty interesting,
pretty significant and also just a fly under the radar.
Do it in the last second. Hope nobody pays attention

(37:34):
because it's the holidays sort of thing. Then there was
a question that popped up on a bunch of different
talking head places over the weekend. This question, essentially, as
we get to the end of the year, is what
is the biggest, you know, bad mark of twenty twenty
four to you? What's the most negative thing that you

(37:55):
look back on and think was a pretty significant part
of the last year. Fox News gave a really interesting
answer to this, and then actually also not that it's
the exact same question. On Face the Nation, a CBS
News correspondent seem to admit the truth of this. Let's
do first though, a Fox News panelist Cal Thomas, who

(38:16):
says that journalists are terrible at least the twenty twenty
four version have been terrible, or at least for the
last few years, I guess, depending on some of the
examples he uses here. But here was his biggest loser
of twenty twenty four.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
Ant how you're winners and losers.

Speaker 12 (38:30):
Well, I think the biggest luners a loser to playoff,
Steph is a Democratic party? Is the media?

Speaker 10 (38:35):
Same thing?

Speaker 12 (38:36):
Sorry to repeat myself. They covered up for Biden's metal
acuity to climb and covered up on the Hunter Biden laptop.

Speaker 2 (38:43):
Yeah, they did that, Facebook.

Speaker 12 (38:44):
On social media, covered up on the New York Post
story about the Hunter Biden laptop Part two fifty one.

Speaker 2 (38:50):
Intelligence agencies who got about that.

Speaker 12 (38:52):
On the Russia Russia Russia things signed off saying it
was true.

Speaker 2 (38:55):
Then media followed all of this.

Speaker 12 (38:57):
I think it's a disgrace to the profession that I've
been part of for a half a century, and I
wish we get some new blood on the media to
actually practice journalism instead of practicing politics.

Speaker 2 (39:07):
Here. Here's the problem though, and this is the problem
for a lot of media, that those journalists do exist.
There is new blood and people who believe themselves to
be people that you should trust much more than mainstream
media are out there reporting stories. They're doing it on
places like you know, X, Twitter, sub Stack. They're doing
it places that are different, and they're succeeding. I don't

(39:28):
know if they're making a whole lot of money all
of them off of these types of things. It's hard
to monetize the value you bring to the world through just,
you know, open reporting on platforms like x and sub stack.
I know that you can charge for memberships or subscribers
and all that stuff, or just ask people to donate
money to you, but I imagine it's still kind of hard

(39:51):
because there comes a time when you monetize too openly
to your followers. They don't like that as much anymore.
And so I feel bad for the amount of journalists
who are out there doing incredible work and probably not
making a lot of money off of set incredible work.
We need to figure out a better way to make
those people, you know, as much money as the media
people who are not doing a good job for us make,

(40:13):
and there's no real system in place to make that easier.
But I do think that that's interesting again that that
was his biggest loser, And here's CBS News a correspondent
saying the same thing. Basically how bad of a job
media did. Specifically, when it comes to Joe Biden's cognitive decline.

Speaker 13 (40:31):
Undercovered, underreported, that would be to me, Joe Biden's obvious
cognitive decline that became undeniable in the.

Speaker 1 (40:39):
Televised debate, the presidential debates.

Speaker 13 (40:41):
Unquestioned, and you know it's starting to emerge now that
his advisors kind of managed his limitations. It's been reported
in the Wall Street Journal for four years, and yet
he insisted that he could still run for president. We
should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was fit
for office for another four years.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
We did, which could have led to a primary. By
the way we did, a lot of media absolutely questioned
for four years if he was mentally capable, because he'd
get lost on a stage, he wouldn't know how to
get off of stages that seemed bad. He would say
things that made no sense quite a bit. All of
those cheap fakes is what they were eventually called by
the White House. That were not cheap or fake. They

(41:21):
were horrible and looked really bad and happened way too much,
but mainstream media ignored it. The shoot the messenger thing
is probably the real issue for most of media, I
would imagine, because if you go back to Hunter Biden's laptop,
they claimed mainstream media the reason they didn't like that
story to begin with was Rudy Giuliani or whoever it

(41:44):
was that brought it to them. Trump of course part
of that process. So they shot the messenger and they
ignored the story. That's their excuse. I'm sure a lot
of other people would say, you did this on purpose
because you're politically one sided and trying to help the
party that was in power or trying to get in
power at that time. I digress. Their excuse, essentially is
they ignored it because of who was the loudest about it.

(42:06):
The same is true for Hunter Biden, or excuse me,
Joe Biden's mental decline or Hunter Biden's continued ridiculousness. Remember
when he was selling his art for millions of dollars, Well,
Joe was the President of the United States, and people
were like, this is fine, this isn't a big deal.
That was insane, and I'm sure there's still information we

(42:27):
need to learn about that. But honestly, since they've pardoned
him for any crime going back to twenty fourteen, who
knows how much other stuff we might find out about
that Hunter cannot be held responsible for. But again, the
biggest problem for media so often seems to be that
if the conservative side of our weird system starts yelling

(42:51):
loudly about something, the rest of media is allowed to
ignore it and allowed to tell you that the other
side is bad and terrible, terrible people, just full of
liars and criminals for what they say and how they behave.
And that's the big issue, or the big problem that
you need to pay attention to, I guess, or the
reason you can ignore certain stuff that becomes a problem.

(43:12):
But yes, they went on to say how they need
to do journalism better as a whole, They need to
more forcefully ask questions and demand answers, because that's the
other thing that I think does matter. And I feel
like I've said this before, and I'll just say it again,
because darn it, it bears repeating. If you think that
your side is full of good guys, which is the

(43:33):
way I always articulate it, Democrats think of themselves as
better people than Republicans, and Republican voters more often than not,
a whole lot of Democrats put themselves on the I'm
a better person list. I guess this holiday season or whatever.
And so here's the thing that matters about that, you
still need to demand answers from your side to make

(43:55):
sure they are in fact better people. If you say
we're all the good guys and then you stop asking
any questions at all, like media did and a lot
of voters did up until that debate, when is terribly
as it went, then you're not helping to make sure
your side is good. You're allowing them be the worst,
the most dishonest. You're just giving them every avenue. It's

(44:17):
sort of like, I think this is the best thing
I could equate it to. You think you're such a
you know, good character, high and mighty group of individuals
that you're putting the bank robber in the bank with
all the money, leaving the door wide open and saying
you don't even need to check to see if he
steals any of that money, it'll be fine. He's the

(44:38):
good guy, even if he's a bank robber. He's the
nice one. The other guys they're terrible, but this guy
won't steal anything. And then you show back up later
and the vaults empty. That feels like what's happening so
often in our society now, for media or anyone else,
and it well darn it, it needs to be fixed.
One other thing that I thought was interesting out there,
and of course, Jimmy Carter passed away the other day.

(45:01):
The former president of the United States, someone who I'll
keep saying surprisingly remembered differently now and differently over the
last set of years than he was when he was
in office or when he first left office as a
one term president. Jimmy Carter in some ways feels like

(45:22):
he had a similar level of dislike for his time
as president as Biden will have. But with time, I guess,
grows some amount of change in that belief that you know, feeling.
But there was an interesting moment that happened for Joe
Biden when he went President Biden when he was trying
to say that the biggest difference between say, Jimmy Carter

(45:47):
and maybe Donald Trump. For some reason, Biden needed this
to all be about Trump was the decency of the individual. Again,
the good guys and the bad guys. You gotta believe
us as the good guys. You got to think of
other people as the bad guys. Will Caine on five
News got very upset about the idea that Biden took
time to take shots at Trump when talking about the
passing of Jimmy Carter. Which makes sense to me.

Speaker 14 (46:08):
Why there are comparisons of the Biden presidency one term president,
to the Carter era in terms of unemployment, the economy,
disasters around the world, foreign policy, aroon hamas having a
foothold in a number of places. So there are reasons
why there are similarities between the Bid there are administration

(46:28):
and the Carter And it's interesting to see these photos
of Jimmy Carter writing these notes to the current president
when he was just a senator, and then he of
course ascended into the White House. But the comparisons between
the two administrations are not in good ways.

Speaker 5 (46:42):
As we should say.

Speaker 15 (46:43):
Well, and on the note of Joe Biden, guy, I'll
accept the message without accepting the messenger, meaning I accept
that Jimmy Carter was an example of decency. I don't
necessarily want to hear that from Joe Biden when he's
using it actually as a political tool to suggest that
Donald Trump is indecent. That was in response to a
question about Donald Trump and.

Speaker 1 (47:04):
Comparing the two.

Speaker 15 (47:05):
I believe when he invoked, Biden invoked decency. I don't
think Biden has the standing to testify to someone's decency quite.

Speaker 2 (47:15):
I agree with that. I agree with that wholeheartedly. Will
that you don't. You cannot stand on that altar of
high and mighty of I'm better than everybody else. If
some of the challenges that you faced during your time
in office is pardoning your kid for obvious crimes committed
and the likelihood that those tied directly to you in
more ways than one, plus just hiding the amount of

(47:36):
mental acuity issues you were having for as long as
his administration to do it. Both those seem to matter
quite a bit in the world for whatever reason. But yes, that,
among other things, makes you feel incredibly, you know, motivated
to make sure that your side, whoever your side is,
is actually telling you the truth. Like that's the thing

(47:57):
you can't fall asleep people. I feel it's razy in
saying it that way, because it sounds like the kind
of thing that I think a lot of people would
say on the other side of the aisle. But tarted,
it's true, and I think we know who's asleep right now.
All right, one last thing and I'll get into this
quite a bit later on in the show. I'll dive
deeper into it. There's a long set of posts about

(48:17):
the H one B visa data dive. Robert Sterling on
X did this. A lot of really interesting information was
shared on how this visa can be misused by different organizations,
different companies, not to bring us the best of the best,
but to bring us people who just simply cost less money.
So there's an interesting set of data points that I'll

(48:40):
share a little bit later on. This is Craig Collins
filling in on the Chad Benson show Chad Back after
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This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins.
Filling in just before the holidays, A Chad is back
towards the tail end of this week. The alcohol gene
can predict how cocktails may affect you, and there's a
test for it. Apparently some people are going to struggle
more than everybody else in the world of alcohol, in
the world of one drink or a couple drinks, lack

(50:37):
of food, all that stuff that you hear about. Also,
just you know what you've inherited, I might be an issue.
They can test you to see if you're someone who's
more likely to be hammered, quicker, etc. Etc. There are
some good things about not being able to have a
whole lot of liquor. I like being a cheap date.
That's a good one out there in the world. My
wife might actually have this problem, as I read into it,

(51:00):
because she's not one that drinks very much at all,
which is easy and great for me. But nonetheless, you
can get tested. Ask your doctor if you want to
see if you're someone who's also got the alcohol gene
in whatever way it might be. And then also I
thought this was interesting. Get another story about bird flu
and how serious it is, the mutations and severe cases

(51:21):
and humans according to the CDC. We're not going to listen.
I don't care how bad bird flu actually gets. To
be honest with you, I just can't tolerate that type
of news or that story. And a bunch of people
will be skeptical because of everything that happened over the
last few years. But there's stories rolling out again and
again about this and about how much of a challenge

(51:43):
or issue it might be, And go look for it
on your own if you want to. As I guess
my advice or my reaction outside of telling you the
CDC has said there's mutations and stuff, and we've been
seeing these sort of reports for a couple of weeks now,
and I think I'm not alone and probably ignoring pretty
much all of them because I just can't do it. Man,
That's usually the way I look at it. I read

(52:04):
the story, I read the headline, and I'm like now,
and then I just close the thing and move on.
And I refuse to continue to pay attention. And I
definitely refuse to let them close stuff and lock stuff
down if they say they have to do that or
whatever else they'd claim to do over the next few
weeks with this being a big report. But all right,
on that note, as I said, this is Greg Collins
filling in Chad Benson back after the holidays on The

(52:27):
Chad Benson Show. And one other issue that I'm sure
I'll talk about a little bit more as we go.
Benjamin Nettnyahuo underwent a prostate removal operation in Israel. This
is something where court testimony was delayed in telling us
about this. There are also some questions now about the

(52:47):
amount of support going to Ukraine and the lack of, say,
the same amount of support going to Israel, as we
still have two ongoing conflicts out there in the world.
So that seems to matter and seems to be important.
And then finally another story to talk about a little
bit later on in the show. Today, Democratic policies laid
waste to San Francisco for quite some time, homelessness, things

(53:10):
on the street that you wouldn't want to see on
the street happening as much as they did. And now
apparently because of a lot of tech layoffs or just
companies leaving California and leaving that part of the area,
housing prices are plunging, and there's a lot of other
challenges being faced by that city in California as they're
trying to turn things around. As far as some of

(53:31):
the policies and how they ravaged so much of the
experience of living in said state. This is interesting to me.
This deserves a deep dive because one of the big
companies to leave Silicon Valley is darn it Tesla and
everything that Elon Musk has redirected other places, which is
a lesson to us that if you push too hard,

(53:52):
the people with a lot of means, they can just
leave quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling in
on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:16):
The Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:41):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. A visa that is not probably
at the forefront of our minds most of the time.
It is talked about occasionally, and especially depending on what
world you work in, what industry you're in, it's probably
something that you talk about more than the rest of society.

(55:03):
Is one of the biggest discussions going on in the
world of politics right now. The claim that MAGA is
having a civil war is being celebrated by the left,
and I think that matters. That's the first thing I'll
say is that any ability, any potential, real or fake
a version of breaking up the connection that is Donald

(55:25):
Trump to Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswami mostly elon Musk
and X and Twitter and US you whoever you are
out there is something that mainstream media and politicians on
the left want to obliterate. They want it to go away.
So anything real or fake that happens in that world,
they're going to enhance, enhance, enhance and tell you it's important.

(55:47):
But darn it, this is online at least something that
many people are talking about. I thought the most interesting
deep dive into the data itself, which guess what that
does matter? That's probably where your conversation should actually start
if you decide you care about this came from Robert
Sterling on X on Twitter, Robert M. Sterling is the
place you can go to read about it. He first

(56:09):
said that one of the biggest problems with this visa
is that there's only supposed to be about eighty five
thousand of these per year, but employers love it, and
they're getting about eight hundred thousand applications eight hundred and
sixty eight k, about ten times the actual limit through
in the last couple of years. In twenty twenty four, specifically,
the average salary for an H one B is actually

(56:32):
relatively low. Relatively low comparative to what you assume the
highest level positions that are getting these jobs are. It's
one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year. Still, it's
not relatively low in the sense of what an everyday
American makes, but it is relatively low in the sense
of thinking that you're just getting the cream of the
crop from other places. You can see that the salaries

(56:55):
are disproportionately weighted toward the lower ends. Seventeen percent of
people that qualify for these visas make less than seventy
five thousand dollars a year, twenty one percent of people
make between seventy five and one hundred, twenty two percent
make between one hundred and one twenty five. And then finally,
the group that you might have would have that you

(57:15):
may have assumed would actually be the highest level of
people getting these visas one hundred and twenty five plus
is only fifteen percent of individuals that get this visa
get approved for it. There is a caveat that deserves
to be stated, as this information is all coming out,
The design of the visa is to give someone who
is highly skilled time to become a US citizen. Now, granted,

(57:39):
you might think that that's terrible, or you might have
all different kinds of opinions about that, But this means
they're at the beginning of their professional career, which usually
means that if they wind up staying ten fifteen years,
they can apply for other things as they go, and
those other things would eventually make them no longer on
certain lists like this. People like Elon Musk, he points

(58:00):
out that it is this exact visa that brought him
to this country in the first place, and now he
is certainly in the higher levels of the amount of
money he makes as a human being in society, So
that caveat may matter to some, it may not matter
to others, But essentially the complaint or the problem, and
I think even Elon Musk and viviak Ramaswami did admit

(58:22):
this recently in the back and forth debate over this,
where Elon also quoted Tropic Thunder and told people to
bleep off is the amount of companies that can misuse it.
They can abuse the ability to have access to something
like this, to apply for it, and then to bring
in a low wage worker of whatever type of gig.

(58:43):
Because the other assumption I think that's being made is
that you have a person who's capable of a certain
job and willing to take way less money to do
it that comes over here and winds up working in
our country for said job for less money because they're
and honestly, this is something I've said before. I think
this connects to the point I'm making now when we

(59:06):
think about the places in the world where people are
born and raised telling themselves, I want to go be
a this in the United States, and I want to
work as hard as I can at my education, at
my life, at my whatever, so I can go fill
this role. It's sort of like the way that we
have athletes that want to go play in the NBA.

(59:26):
That's how some places look at us. Many places look
at us and their potential financial future being here. So
we are competing against a world that desires to come
to our country and work here. And that is part
of the reason why I think there is truth in
the statement that there are people from other places that
seem to have a higher drive, work, ethic, whatever than

(59:49):
some of the applicants that are coming from the United States.
Of course, not all of them. Of course, we create
some of the best, most talented, most driven professionals in
the world. But and we're competing at that scale. To
assume that we get all the jobs in certain spaces
unfortunately is not working out. It's not true. And that's
what vivek Elon we're talking about as well. The only

(01:00:11):
other thing I can say about this is how interesting
to watch a media enhance it because they have no
desire to weaken the tension that could exist. And I'll
just keep saying that, And I think that needs to
be at the forefront of what you're paying attention to.
Whenever you pay attention to any of this stuff that
media tells you, any time that they report on a

(01:00:33):
civil war with MAGA or between Elon and Trump or anyone,
you need to have a grain of salt version of it.
And even if it's true, I think part of you
needs to think why they so desperately want this to happen,
and what the benefit is of not letting it completely
crater any of those relationships, because depending on the issue,
there's a whole lot that gets agreed to. Actually, know what,

(01:00:55):
I'll say it this way. I don't mean to keep
ranting at the beginning of these segments, but I can't
help it. I have a friend of mine who he
and I we claim we're not arguing, but anyone else
that listens to us is pretty sure we're arguing because
we both are of the same political opinion on a
whole lot of things. But when we get into the
minute details of this stuff, we wind up differing on

(01:01:18):
how we think we get somewhere like, oh, yeah, this
seems to be broken. How did we get to that brokenness?
Both of us don't agree, but eventually we agree that
it is broken, the way it's broken needs to be fixed, etc. Etc.
And I think that might be the problem in a
lot of these discussions is that these pieces in the middle,
the pieces that we actually all debate, wind up being

(01:01:39):
more important than the end result of the discussion, which
is usually that we agree. Because Elon Musk, vivik Ramaswami,
and President Trump, President elect Trump all seem to agree
that there is both good and bad coming from a
specific visa that is designed for just highest skilled workers,
the H one B visa. And yet it's the debate

(01:02:02):
of all this stuff in the middle and the misuse
of it that becomes the focal point for so many
that might actually cause a rift or in my case
with my friend, sometimes make it sounds like we're arguing
when we're really not, because to be honest, I don't
know when and how, and I don't always advocate for this.
By the way, for the most part, I would actually

(01:02:22):
say this is a terrible position to take on a
lot of issues, but on some of these things it
makes sense. You sometimes have to focus on the end
result first, fix that, and then walk your way back
to how important the details are to where you're going.
Sometimes the details are all that matters. I'm going to
be honest, I can't paint with absolutes here. No black

(01:02:44):
and white a version of this discussion. Definitely a lot
of shades of gray. But there are times when as
long as we land in the same spot. I think
I actually said this to somebody a one time. I'm like,
all right, let's say that you're supposed to travel from
one location to another location, and you know you're going
with a family member, but maybe you couldn't book the
same flights and you both wind up having you know,

(01:03:06):
different places you land in between. No direct flight was available,
so you have these layovers, but eventually you both wind
up in the same city. Is it going to be
a big deal that you didn't wind up with a
three hour layover in Dallas that somebody else had and say,
you know, Houston or somewhere much different than that Atlanta. No,
you're not going to care. In your regular life, it

(01:03:26):
doesn't matter to you if the person took a different
route to the same end destination. What matters more is
that we're finally in the same end destination. And think
about how hard that is on a lot of issues
in our society for people to agree on the actual
thing that matters, you know, pretty much any issue. I mean,
look at men and women right now. There's actual debates

(01:03:48):
about what is a man and what is woman? And
that's insane. That's an insane discussion. And you stand there
and you look at somebody and you're like, I don't
know how to keep going in the world of us
not being able to land at the final destination together.
That's the bigger challenge in a lot of this stuff
to me right now. And I think that's the big
problem in a lot of these discussions. As I said
a second ago, that causes us to think that we're

(01:04:11):
at odds with each other when we're not. Because it's
so much better when you can actually land in the
same spot in today's world than needing to walk the
same path to get there. On a lot of issues,
all right, one last thing, and I do think this
is interesting too, as far as just flashbacks go. CNN
played some audio and had some discussions about Vladimir Putin

(01:04:34):
apologizing over the tragic Azerbaijan airline crash. He did not
admit responsibility, but it came pretty close to saying that,
and they certainly have blamed him. There is yet another
airline crash now to a plane crashed into a South
Korean airport fence leaving and it killed one hundred and

(01:04:55):
eighty people, just under one hundred and eighty people on
board that flight. There's something karra fine about a world
in which we're seeing more and more danger in the skies,
at least in a couple cases, one because of the
attention that exists in the world and just Russia being Russia,
and the other one because of a seven forty seven
eight hundred flight that might have had an issue we're

(01:05:16):
not really sure, or the pilots might have had an issue.
But this is a cause for some more concern as
there have been discussions about some of the other craziness
that has happened on airlines and flights over the last
few years, even if it hasn't caused people to lose
their lives. But this is important, I imagine, and also
just going in one ear and out the other at

(01:05:37):
a time when we just can't take any more. Man,
we need a break from all this serious, all this crazy,
to deal with whatever else is going on for us,
and then get to the new year and maybe refocus
on this stuff in a few weeks. But that is
also out there as a big story that CNN and
as I said, others kind of covered toward the tail
end of last week and over the weekend, even though

(01:05:58):
it was an older story than that. All Right, we'll
take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson show.

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filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about today. Baby's born next year will
officially be part of a new generation, a Generation Beta.
There's a dive into all the things they might face
as they grow up. I don't know what those things are,
and I'm not really going to dive into them because

(01:07:57):
I don't care. I'm not Generation Beta and I'm not
going to have a bit of baby next year. But
that's a thing. It's out there. Generation Z, Generation Y
also things out there, and among us or millennials as
generation why of course the newest one. I hope we're
not as big of complainers as my generation I'm a
millennial and as Gen Z is, because that feels like

(01:08:19):
a byproduct of the last however many years we've been going.
That'd be nice. Whatever else goes on, good, bad, indifferent,
I don't care less, complaining would be a good thing.
Twenty five percent of remote workers say their social skills
have declined while working from home. This feels like a
duh of a story, and of course it makes sense.

(01:08:40):
There's a bunch of ways in which we've just slowly
deteriorated on our basic skills of communication. This is because
you know, you no longer go to a human when
you go to most stores. Instead, you go to a machine,
you stay silent, you check out, and then you'll leave.
That's bad. I liked those, and I still enjoyed a
half those short, kind of tiny interactions on whatever issues

(01:09:04):
they might be with people who are actually being paid
to bring up my groceries, for example. But this also
is true in a workplace. Work from home all the time.
Don't interact with a lot of people, do you wind
up losing some of those skills. If you don't use it,
you lose it. Version of discussion. I guess there are
some ways in which people probably aren't so sad that
they're not getting as much interaction with others, because some

(01:09:27):
of that interaction is inevitably not all that much fun.
And there are people that you don't get along with
in workplaces, and honestly, you know, maybe that's a thing.
I've noticed this. I've had very basic conversations with complete strangers.
Let's say something stressful happens during a customer service interaction
where the person on the other side seems way too

(01:09:49):
mad too quickly because they're the ones supplying the customer service.
And it's been surprising to me. It's like, wait a minute,
you're getting madder than I'm getting, and I'm the person
dealing with the issue, and you seem to be upset.
It seems like the I don't know how you say it,
but the ability for us to stay calm in moments
of tension has just been destroyed. Our patients are whatever

(01:10:13):
you want to call that thing, and so much so
that the next time you experience customer service and you're
even a little bit disgruntled, a little bit upset in
something that happened. I have a great example. I'm not
sure if I want to talk about it. I don't
necessarily want to bash the business that I had an
interaction with, and certainly bash them on a national radio show,

(01:10:33):
as I talk about certain things. But it wasn't great.
And I guess the very veiled version of talking about
this is I gave somebody something to fix it, and
they broke it more the thing I wanted fixed, and
I was like, this isn't good. When I gave it
to you, it wasn't this broken, and now it's more broken.
And as I articulated that just that simple idea out loud,

(01:10:54):
the people who provided the more breaking of my thing
service got very mad that I was upset that my
thing that I gave them. I don't want to say
what it is, it'll make it easier to figure out
what company I was working with, but that it broke
more and so again it was not a fun interaction
and there were some up up and downs to it,
but I thought I stayed calm enough to get to

(01:11:14):
an end result that made sense compared to the one
supplying me the customer service to begin with. Who's not,
you know, exactly a decision maker with the company they
work for. They're a person on the front lines that
might have other people that are very mad for stupider reasons.
I'm not really sure, but it was just it was odd,
and I walked away thinking to myself like, that shouldn't
have gone that, you know, terribly that quickly. I was

(01:11:38):
pretty in the right for not being happy with the
service that I paid for and got for the thing
I wanted fixed that wound up more broken. But again,
I know that's veiled and difficult to talk about. I
wonder how many other people are experiencing that where you're
in customer service situations where you're the customer and the
service person winds up getting mad or quicker than you're

(01:11:58):
even getting about what I for the issue might be.
Mostly it seems like because they're spending time talking about
it when they probably want to be on to other stuff.
I don't really know, but I wonder tell us on
social media if you're someone who's experienced this too, it'd
be great to hear from you. This is Craig Collins
filling in over the holidays on The Chad Benson Show.
And I guess I can be a little more specific.

(01:12:20):
Like the thing that I gave to this company, it
still worked, it just didn't work the way I wanted
it to. And when they gave it back to me,
it did not work at all. And I was like,
that's worse. This is gone. This has gone the wrong
direction in the world of the thing we're talking about
or dealing with. And I loved the fact that they
were like, yes, so what basically is the way they
responded at first? So one more time? Facebook, Chad Benson Show,

(01:12:43):
Twitter Chad Benson tell us if you've had customer situations
where the service got madder than you did and it
made no sense. Craig Collins filling in on The Chad
Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
This Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
filling in during the holidays. Chad will be back just
after the New Year, toward the tail end of this week.
Thrilled they've been with you for as much as I've
been allowed to be a part of the show. Biden
apparently regrets that Merrick Garland didn't go quicker with the
Justice Department and getting Donald Trump in legal trouble and

(01:13:49):
preventing him from being the president of the United States
through interfering in our political system and in our election.
Something that also a whole lot of Democrats are claiming
that Trump's going to do and he'd better not do it,
and then'd be bad if he did. Jamie Raskin one
of the idiots out there, sounding like a moron in
how he discusses this. I'm not sure I'll even play

(01:14:10):
the Raskin audio, but I just love the fact that
apparently some people in the know have been telling the
Wall Street Journal and other organizations that Biden's biggest regret
is that they move too quick on Hunter Biden and
not quick enough on Trump, which is insane. That does
sound insane to me, so much so that even this

(01:14:30):
moment on television on CNN feels like it's somehow tied
to some of this. A panelist was trying to say
that Biden will be remembered fondly for all the great
things he did and especially the value he brought to
the Middle East, which sounds also like a nuts thing
to say out loud in general in the world in
which we currently live, so much so that Scott Jennings,

(01:14:52):
also on CNN had an easy time destroying this discussion.
Here's some quick audio.

Speaker 3 (01:14:57):
That I think he's still look he showed up for
the job, got the work done, I think some of
the accomplished.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
Okay, by the way, I actually have to stop it already.
My favorite part of this audience, I'm going to start
it again is he showed up for the job. I
love that that's the criteria. And I know she's saying
that somewhat meaning like he actually performed well according to her,
which is not true. But if that were the criteria
of doing a good job for president of the United States, Hey,
he didn't miss a day, although he did take vacation

(01:15:23):
for more days than he actually worked, but that's not important.
He was there when he was supposed to be there.
Sort of. It's a terrible barometer here, let's play it again.

Speaker 3 (01:15:31):
I think he's still Look, he showed up for the
job there, got the work done. I think the accomplishments
also in the Middle East in foreign policy will also
stand the test of time.

Speaker 4 (01:15:41):
You think the Middle East is in better shape today
than when he took off.

Speaker 5 (01:15:44):
The Well, I think he got our hostages home. I
think that's a big deal. I think it's important.

Speaker 6 (01:15:48):
I'm sorry which hostages he got.

Speaker 5 (01:15:49):
He's gotten a number of people home.

Speaker 2 (01:15:51):
There's still one hundred people over there. Okay, Look, I'm
not laughing because of how horrible it is to say
that there's still hostages out there. I love how quickly
the person who said he's going to stand the test
of time as a great president is already backtracking. Which hostage, well,
some of them. He got some people back. He's sort
of anyway.

Speaker 4 (01:16:09):
Including some Americans. Look, I think he's gonna I think
he's gonna leave office in disgrace. The hunter Biden pardon
was disgraceful. He's going to be remembered largely for inflation,
for the disastrous Afghanistan pull out, correct, and I think
as we continue to we're just getting the first draft
of this now, but as we continue to learn about
the massive cover up that went on, not about his health,

(01:16:31):
but about his mental acuity to cover that up, the
efforts on that we're undertaken by the White House staff,
by his family, not in the last couple of months,
but for all four years. I think it's going to
be a really ugly chapter. It's a diminished presidency because
of it. And I think we still don't know the
full extent of what they did to try to hide

(01:16:53):
what they've been.

Speaker 2 (01:16:53):
Doing over in the way, yes, over in the West Wing.
I absolutely agree with you that we don't know the
full extent. We might not know for some time if
we know it all. Although I will say the nice
thing about having someone like Trump in office with unique
motivations to go after the side of the islet went
after him, is we'll probably have more things exposed than
if anyone else did it. I imagine that if Trump's sitting
in a room somewhere and someone's trying to make the

(01:17:15):
argument to him of whether it's about Biden or anyone else,
that we don't need to put this out in public,
because these people aren't relevant anymore. They aren't important anymore.
They've moved on. You know, Biden's not going to be
elected president again in any way, shape or form, because
there's no chance that could ever happen. Trump will look
at somebody and be like, now we're still putting it

(01:17:36):
out there. We're still going to release this information. And
I like that personally. I want to know about as
many things as we can possibly know about. I want
them in the world, for us to debate them and
discuss them, because they show how broken our system is.
And I want them out there definitively in a way
where you cannot deny the way that now a lot
of Democrats can't seem to have a counter argument too.

(01:17:58):
Joe Biden's brain doesn't work as they used to have
because you can't deny it anymore. And there is something
interesting about if I were a political strategist for the
Democratic Party right now, which sounds like a terrible job,
that sounds like you would not have fun on a
daily basis, I would tell them to admit that Biden's
been a terrible president, Like what's the value in seeming
detached from reality and saying things that even the American

(01:18:21):
people loudly voiced as a problem, even your own political
side of the aisle, when you shoved him in a
closet and didn't let him run for president when he
was adamant he was running right up until the eleventh hour.
Why pretend that he's been good at stuff? Now, what's
the win there? Say that he's been terrible, Say that
you hope that someone else would be better. I think
that would go a much further a way with voters

(01:18:43):
than continuing to pretend as though he'll go down as
a legendarily successful president. I think it was Jen Saki,
his former White House Press secretary who's now on MSNBC,
that tried to make the argument that he deserves to
be on Mount Rushmore, which sounds insane as well as
far as the thing people might discuss. All right, I'm
going to play this audio first, and then we're going

(01:19:03):
to get to something awesome that's all over social media
from Tom Elliott, a grabian that you need to check out.
But first, this is a Chicago Teachers Union vice president
complaining about Donald Trump and talking about the things that
Trump will be against once he gets into the White House.
As far as education goes. And I don't think that
this person realizes how great of an add this is

(01:19:26):
for Donald Trump. But the amount of people who are
saying in response to this, like whoa, stop, stop telling
me how good it's going to be to have someone
in office who's against these things. It's amazing because you know,
maybe it's just the position of this individual and the
you know, tunnel vision world that they're in, the very small,

(01:19:47):
very narrowly focused understanding of reality that makes him think
all the stuff he's saying is stuff that American people
will be like, yeah, we're for those things that don't
sound good at all.

Speaker 17 (01:19:57):
You can tell this Trump administration is hell bent on
our destruction. If we sit back and watch the show,
it's going to destroy us, and we have to be
heavily involved, got to be. For example, this new proposed
person for Secretary of Education loves charters, loves privatization, vouchers,

(01:20:18):
hates unions.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
Oh ah, that's terrible. He loves vouchers, he hates unions.
He's against all these things that seem to be making
the Department of Education or just our educational system broken
and not better. The amount of people that are running
unions and making way more money than they should be
making at the forefront of those in the world of education,
and teachers don't make enough money because of it. All
that seems like it matters. All that seems important. I

(01:20:42):
love how much this individual doesn't realize what they're saying
and who inevitably will be like, well, that sounds okay, Well,
I'm sure I'm fine with that. I like charter schools too, personally.
All right, let's hit this. This is one of ten
different demonstrations of just how broken our media was, how
many stories were in politics. For the Democratic Party, Tom

(01:21:04):
Elliott Agrabian put out a full ten minute video with
examples of all the different things that are egg on
their face moments for media in general, and some of
these are absolutely amazing. My favorite one is number three
of his top ten. Number one on the list is
also pretty good too, so maybe we'll play that one.
But number three, this one was great about Joe Biden,

(01:21:28):
President Biden and his son Hunter and what definitely won't
happen but totally did actually happen.

Speaker 12 (01:21:34):
Number three Joe Biden would never pardon his son because
he is such a great guy.

Speaker 6 (01:21:39):
Presidential promise to put the law.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
Before a family.

Speaker 7 (01:21:42):
The president has ruled out pardoning.

Speaker 1 (01:21:45):
His son, pledging not to pardon his son.

Speaker 7 (01:21:48):
Just sit there and say, well, I'm not going to
intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn't pardon my son.
Democrats and Joe Biden protecting the justice system. Our current
president of the United States has so much respect for
the law that he has said he would not pardon
his son.

Speaker 16 (01:22:04):
Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not pardon
his son, he would not commute his sense. How can
Republicans cheap making this argument now that now that Joe
Biden has.

Speaker 2 (01:22:14):
Really put it out there, he's really put it out there.
He's really said who he is as a person, as
an individual, as a man baby. I wish that he's
turned into like, you know, dating profiles for our current
and soon to be former president because of how much
praise is being thrown this way. He takes short walks
or long walks on a beach, he loves puppies, He's

(01:22:34):
an incredible man.

Speaker 18 (01:22:35):
He's not doing it because he is living what it
means to have a rule of law. Such and then
it is. I mean, if you want to know if
he believes it. You could actually see what is happening
with his.

Speaker 3 (01:22:49):
Own son, even President Biden saying in a statement that
he would respect to the outcome of this case.

Speaker 2 (01:22:55):
I feel like people should be in tears as they're
saying some of this stuff. He's such a good man.
I don't know how I could live up to the
standard that is buddy.

Speaker 19 (01:23:02):
He was a good day for the system, good day
for sort of of, sort of America. As an example
of how the rule of law should work.

Speaker 6 (01:23:13):
We're coming on the air of this hour with breaking news.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
President Biden has just pardoned his son Hunter.

Speaker 2 (01:23:19):
It is so good. It was so well done by
Tom Elliot Gravian, and yeah, it was number three on
his list. I think it probably deserved to be number one,
but it was just number three. But nonetheless, like hilarious, hilarious,
hilarious to say as many times as he did, with
as much praise as was given to him, that this
is not going to happen, and then it definitely happened.

(01:23:39):
Here I can play number one too, actually, to show
you what he said about what Grabian and Tom Elliott
thought was the biggest issue in the country as far
as just egg on their face political and media moments
out there.

Speaker 6 (01:23:52):
There's no cognitive decline. In fact, Biden has never been better.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
Start your tape right now, because I'm about to tell
you the truth.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
This version of Biden is the best Biden ever he
knows so long.

Speaker 6 (01:24:09):
In fact, I think he's better than he's ever been.

Speaker 19 (01:24:12):
He is sharp, intensely probing, a think retail oriented and focused.

Speaker 8 (01:24:17):
President Biden has a photographic memory, but.

Speaker 10 (01:24:20):
He's totally focused.

Speaker 6 (01:24:21):
He's very sharp.

Speaker 1 (01:24:22):
They say he's sharpened meetings and so on, very lucid,
will very well done for him. He's older. That doesn't
mean that he is unfit.

Speaker 2 (01:24:30):
No, he's so good, he's so great, you know what.
To be honest. As time goes, we'll probably think that
this is the biggest issue, the most important one of
the one that demonstrates just how much lying took place
over these four years. But right now, the one about
Hunter Biden just feels better. It just feels sillier and
more ridiculous because of the immediacy of it. But there's
so much left to uncover and unpack in the world

(01:24:52):
of Joe and his mental acuity that I imagine that that
will actually wind up being the right call by Tom
Elliot and Grabian. But check it out all over social
on Twitter, on x just great stuff, all right, quick
break a lot coming up. Greg Collins filling in on
the Chad Benson Show.

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This is the Chad Benson Show. Just before the New Year.
My name is Craig Collins. Failed to be through it,
filed to be filling in with you. I don't know
if I just said that right. My brain doesn't work
right now. I've got biten disease. But let's do this.
These are some of the top slang terms that became
popular in twenty twenty four. Most of them are going
to make you mad because slang today makes me mad

(01:27:16):
because it's dumb and I can't help it. I never
thought i'd be that guy. I'm almost forty. I'm a millennial,
and I thought I would at least tolerate slang as
I got older. But it's just it's so stupid. It's
so created by computers and the Internet and shortening things
to a degree that makes no sense. And I think
that's why I hate it, or just purposefully using words

(01:27:37):
so incredibly wrong. But here we go. Here's some of
the slang terms of twenty twenty four that became popular.
Cats is on a list of the top ten. Not
cats katz. This is not in reference to any sort
of deli in New York City. It's actually something that
usually means fun or entertaining stuff that you want to do.

(01:27:58):
That's the cats And I don't know why we write
it the way we do. Sen s n is a
slang term that just means yourself. Schmaltz is word out
there that people are using now. It's made a comeback
for young people. For those that don't know, it's a
Yiddish term referring to anything highly melodramatic or sentimental. I

(01:28:18):
don't hate that one as much as other ones. Haktua
made the list of top ten. I'm not going to
explain what that is. I'd rather not do it. A Skivity,
which is the dumbest thing I think I've seen in
a long time, also made this list two hundred and
five thousand uses on social media. It's human toilet hybrids
taking over the world based on some images that are

(01:28:40):
out there online. I just hate everything about that word.
Sigma and demure we're also ones that made this list. Demure,
supposed to be very cute, s feet and graceful and
also annoying, became a total social media trend. But all right,
those are some of the most popular slang words out there,
making us all worried about the education system even more

(01:29:01):
than we were before Craig Collin's filling in on the
Chad Benson Show. By the way, I didn't define sigma.
It's not a reference to a Greek or a frats
or any of that stuff. It refers to being a
lone wolf who doesn't subscribe to traditional social roles. And
it was searched two hundred and twenty thousand times on
social media. It has both good and bad connotations. Social

(01:29:24):
roles might mean the way that you're supposed to behave
in society because you're a man or a woman, or
it also might mean that as a young person, you
don't typically agree with people when it comes to say
democratic politics, which I thought was interesting, But those were
some of the words that were most popular with young
people who apparently do not have enough time to speak
real sentences at all in any capacity. Like that's the

(01:29:47):
part I hate. I feel like slang has always been
less dominant of the amount of speech that it took over,
and now it feels as though someone can put together
a sentence that's entire slang and I hate it. I
hate everything about it, and I can't get over that.
And that might be my complaint if I ba humbug
have one where I'm asking the kids to get off

(01:30:09):
my lawn. It's not just that there is slang, but
there's too much, and that so much of it is incredibly,
incredibly dumb. But anyway, that's how I feel. I wonder
how you feel. You can tell us on social media.
You can tell the Chad Benson Show on Facebook, on Twitter, everywhere,
or you can tell me a radio Craig z if
you want to find me on any of those platforms.
I barely use some of them, so warning going in

(01:30:31):
that I might not be tweeting or whatever it's called
now all that often. Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show.

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Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:15):

Speaker 2 (01:31:19):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you just before the holiday.
I do wonder if today is going to be the
laziest day that anybody has at the tail end of
this year in December, because darn it, you're going to
be on vacation hopefully tomorrow in the day after for
almost all of us. So was the tail end of
last week or today the least productive day for you?

(01:31:42):
I do wonder you can tell us on social media
if you want, although I wouldn't admit it if you're
sitting at work right now, I'd wait a little bit,
or maybe you know, use a fake alias on social
media if you tell us at all. All right, some
things out there. First, we are sending a bunch more
money to Ukraine, a two point five billion dollars. Biden
announced it via a press release that he is proud

(01:32:04):
to announce that we're sending more security assistance to them.
This is just an ongoing thing where the American people
feel tremendously dissatisfied, not just in the totality of the
support given there instead of other places I would feel
like it's valuable, but also the lack of any kind
of checks and balances to make sure that the money

(01:32:26):
is going to the right places. All of this just
before Trump gets into office and hopefully finds a way
to end this conflict. Ukraine has already referenced that it
may be willing to give away territory in contested areas
in order to gain peace, something they were adamant they
would not do up until Trump got elected, and then
something that they started to say that they might be

(01:32:47):
willing to do, which felt like it would be a
way to end this war for quite some time now.
There's also a report out there, a Wall Street Journal
editorial board report some insiders letting us know what Biden
regrets during his presidency. Apparently he regrets nothing when it
comes to policies that caused inflation to be an issue

(01:33:09):
that feels like a thing you probably should regret more,
you're a war on energy that did not help us
at all. It seems like the biggest regret Biden has
is that he actually let himself step aside in the
election itself, and that is a big deal and an
issue and something that makes him very mad. He should
have stayed in the race because Harris was also a
terrible candidate, which is obviously true, but Biden wasn't going

(01:33:32):
to beat Trump in anyone's brain other than his. One
other thing he regrets is that the Department of Justice
didn't move fast enough, and Merrick Garland to Biden, was
apparently a bad decision in going after Trump in any
sort of legal sense in any of the federal cases
that wound up not being tried until after the election.
So Biden's biggest regrets are lack of election interference by

(01:33:55):
his Department of Justice and election interference that he's upset
about by his own political side of the aisle against him,
which is kind of amazing. CBS News had this to
say about the failure of most media to talk about
the declining mental health or mental acuity during all four
years of his presidency. For Joe Biden, this is something

(01:34:18):
that maybe according to even CBS Newspeople, could have ended
differently as far as the election results themselves, if the
Democrats had been more honest, say very soon in the process.
The challenge with that, by the way, before I actually
hit this audio, is if Democrats told the truth about
the mental health of Joe Biden at any time over

(01:34:40):
the course of his presidency, he would have needed to
be removed from office, and he would have made Kamala
Harris the first female president by default. And the biggest
thing Democrats didn't want was to lose the ability to
convince you to elect someone based on their sex. Democrats
want to be the ones who elect the first woman
president to the United States. They don't want someone to

(01:35:02):
ascend to that role shatter the glass ceiling or whatever
you want to call it. And a President Harris would
have been uniquely terrible, I imagine as much so, if not
more than Biden was over the four years that he
was in office. But that's the biggest challenge they faced
is that they couldn't admit two years in that Biden
was broken. Otherwise you have to remove him. You can't

(01:35:25):
fight that. And Democrats even now want to pretend as
though his presidency was good. But here's what CBS News
said about media's failure to challenge the narrative that his
brain was working just fine as he was our.

Speaker 5 (01:35:36):
President undercovered, under reported.

Speaker 13 (01:35:39):
That would be to me, Joe Biden's obvious, cognizant decline
that became undeniable in the televised debates, the presidential debates, unquestioned.
And you know it's starting to emerge now that his
advisors kind of managed his limitations.

Speaker 2 (01:35:55):
I love when they say starting to emerge, because SNeW
about this for a while, and we saw it happening
again and again.

Speaker 13 (01:36:01):
Reported in the Wall Street Journal for four years, and
yet he insisted that he could still run for president.
We should have much more forcefully questioned whether he was
fit for office for another four years, which could have
led to a primary for the Democrats. It could have
changed the scope of the entire election.

Speaker 2 (01:36:18):
It could have someone could have come out of nowhere,
according to Democrats, been the air apparent. There is no hero.
There is no savior I think within that party right now,
according to most people, or they would have run that
person when they shoved Biden into a closet. No one
wanted the gig Harris wanted by default, I think, and also,
as I said, because Democrats believe they can get someone

(01:36:39):
elected similarly to the way that maybe some believe they
got Barack Obama elected. I don't think that that was
truly the only reason that Obama won his race when
he was president. He is quite good at public speaking.
That's something that's undeniable, no matter how much you hate
whatever he did behind the scenes during his years in office,
a whole lot of lying, a whole lot of terrible things.

(01:37:00):
But nonetheless, maybe that to them two Democrats in general
created a template, all right, we got somebody elected who's black.
Now let's get somebody elected who's a woman. Then maybe
a black woman. Let's just keep checking off boxes down
the list as we go. And had Michelle Obama actually
run at some point, I think she actually would have
posed a challenge to Donald Trump. The only problem with

(01:37:21):
the Democratic plan there is Michelle didn't want the gig
at all, so that definitely hurt them. But who knows.
I don't even know how that actual full campaign would
have gone between the two of those individuals, and we'll
never know for a variety of reasons. But I just
think this is so interesting that media can own a
very small portion of their mistake and then almost none

(01:37:44):
of the rest of it. And I've said this before
and I'll say it again. The biggest problem media actually has,
and I mean mainstream legacy, left leaning media. And you
might tell yourself that it's that they're in on the take.
They're getting marching orders and following said marching orders, and
that may very well be true. I'm not going to
pretend it's impossible or it can't be true at all,

(01:38:05):
because it seems like it is all the time. But
if anyone in those places wants to actually do a
good job and maybe get fired for doing a good job,
you have to stop shooting the messenger. You have to
stop taking whatever the story was Hunter Biden's laptop, etc.
And blaming the fact that it was popularized by the
right conservative media was the boogeyman when it came to

(01:38:30):
Joe Biden's mental health and mental acuity. And the boogeyman
was right. The conspiracy theorist was right. The conspiracy theorist
was right about a lot of what happened during COVID,
And that also, again is something they blame the right
for being the one to enhance the rhetoric on and
now over the last few years, you've heard the hey,
let's just let it go. Why are you so mad
about all the stuff we got wrong in the past.

(01:38:51):
You should just leave us alone. But that's the whole
point in vilifying a side of the political aisle, is
allowing you to vilify the message, and then once the
message can't be trusted, even if it's the truth, you
can keep doing terrible things behind closed doors, behind the scenes,
and get away with it. All right, One last thing
that I should touch on again. I've spoken about it

(01:39:12):
a few times, but it's this debate about visas in
our country. I will say this plainly, instead of trying
to dive into the minutia of all this. In order
for the United States to remain at the forefront of
certain industries, to remain in the power position that we
deserve to be in the world, is to attract the

(01:39:33):
best talent from other parts of the world and bring
it here. That is a byproduct of winning those races.
You need that to be an aspect of what you're doing. However,
you need to weaken the ability for a whole lot
of companies. As it sounds like they might be doing
to misuse that process in order to bring in just

(01:39:53):
simply cheaper labor for lower paying jobs. That also makes sense.
And granted, I'm going to say something that probably will
be the most controversial thing I could say on this
show about this exact topic, and I wonder how to
play out something that keeps running through my mind with
the H one b A visa is the amount of

(01:40:14):
Democrats that tell us that very low wage jobs, jobs
that illegal immigrants, they tell us, are the only ones
willing to do things like, you know, picking our food,
whatever the quote unquote sort of racist thing is, and
they do it unapologetically that Democrats like Nancy Pelosi say
will be a problem if we remove a lot of

(01:40:34):
people who are here illegally. Is they say things like
we wan't have food anymore. Maybe that visa will be
used for that the lowest wage of jobs, but a
job that actually would be legal in nature. And I'm
not saying I'm encouraging that or hoping for that, but
I just think that's an intriguing aspect of this discussion,
is if it really is true that once people aren't
living here anymore that are willing to do those jobs

(01:40:57):
for terrible pay. If Americans truly are willing to do
those jobs for at least regular terrible pay legal terrible pay,
then I guess that would open the opportunity for us
to recruit people who are willing to do those jobs,
which is the exact argument that Elon Musk and Viveke
and others are making when it comes to the highest
echelon of say the tech sector and some of those

(01:41:18):
jobs out there, although again the numbers don't seem to
back up the idea that that's the only thing that
companies are doing when bringing people in with a visa
that they're using way more often than they're supposed to.
So there's truth on both sides, there's discussion value on
both sides. And the biggest thing I can say, and
I'll say this until I'm blue in the face because
of how important it is, is media loves the idea

(01:41:42):
of harming the relationship that is Donald Trump to Elon
Musk or Viveke to some degree, but mostly Elon to
social media and Twitter and x and essentially US media
and politicians do not like the ability for what happened
during that spending bill to happen again. And again when
they led us, when they manipulate us, when they want

(01:42:04):
to leave things out of you know, the public space,
and it winds up being very much in the public
space and causing them to make a different decision. Up
Ending the power structure is more important than some of
the infighting, and even more so than that if we
all wind up in the same place at the end
of the infighting, where we agree on the you know,
large scale decision, say to enhance America and its value

(01:42:28):
in society, refine our education system to make it better,
and turning out more of the top end engineers in
the world that maybe the rest of the world is
jealous we have getting more of those things, of fixing
those problems, to enhance our role and our creation of people,
you know, that deserve to call ourselves the best country

(01:42:48):
in the world. That seems like a good thing. That
seems like a good end goal that all of us have,
at least on a certain side of the political aisle.
It seems so. I don't want to get distracted by
the details when we're trying to fight for the longer
picture in some of these ways. More often than not,
I'm usually a detailed person, but in some of this stuff,
it's an attempt by mainstream media to enhance the friction

(01:43:09):
because they want to obliterate the relationship, and we can't
let that part happen. The relationship has to stay intact
because of how effective it is at defeating the crap,
the lying, the eliteness that is the world of you know, Washington, DC,
that we have long been on the outside of, even
though we're actually their bosses, and we shouldn't be on

(01:43:29):
the outside anymore, right, quick break, a lot coming up
in a very short amount of time. Creig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:43:44):
Welcome to Chad.

Speaker 16 (01:43:45):
No, not the country, the institution is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:43:51):
filling in during the holidays. Chad will be back towards
the tail end of this week. How thrilled they've been
with you throughout the end of the year. I do
love a story where it says a social media influencer
who is best known for giving you information about crocodiles
and other animals was attacked by a dude wielding a

(01:44:13):
bong on the highway. This happened in Australia. A dude
who has several thousand followers and is known as like
a exotic animals expert, and again one of the animals
he specializes in is, in fact, crocodiles, said on social
media in explaining a video that went viral online that
he was in an altercation with somebody who was yelling

(01:44:34):
at him. Eventually pulled over. This is the video you
can see on the internet, gets out of the car
and starts screaming at the guy who is a social
media influencer, and the dude who's screaming at him, who
just got out of his car on the side of
the road, is shirtless and wielding a bong. He then
uses the bong to try to break a window, according
to the rest of the story, which fails, and then

(01:44:54):
eventually spits on the car and leaves. I'm not sure
what caused the interaction, the social media guy says, you know,
he didn't think anything specifically happened that would have, you know,
created a scenario where the anger made any sense at all.
But beyond that, what I thought was amazing is every
aspect of who the dude is that's not famous, and
how he'll go about living his life after this moment

(01:45:15):
of being shirtless, wielding a bong and trying to use
it to break a window. In Australia, another story out
there that I loved. Delivery driver tried to return a
large tip because she thought it was an error. A
woman went viral for posting a video of a ring
doorbell that caught the interaction. She said during the holidays.
The woman who went viral online for doing this, she

(01:45:37):
likes to tip people quite a bit more than they
expect to be tipped, like one hundred and thirty bucks
for a thirty dollars you know food delivery, means it
was one hundred dollar tip. The delivery driver, whose name
is Lisa with Uber, came up, rang the doorbell and said,
you totally messed up. You did not mean to give
me this much money. Please take it back. This is
way too much, to which Kelly had to explain that

(01:46:00):
this is a thing I do over the holiday season.
People love this video in this interaction because of how
crazy tipping culture has been, how many things seem to
be out of sane, seemed to be insane or you know,
out of everyone's minds in the world. We live in now,
and so watching someone actually try to give back a
big tip as opposed to ask for it is kind

(01:46:20):
of amazing and awesome. And I agree. And this woman
thinking that the one hundred dollars tip was a mistake
also kind of makes sense because of the world we
currently live in.

Speaker 4 (01:46:28):
All Right.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
One other thing that I saw out there that I
thought was an interesting viral video, and I could play audio,
I'm not going to do it. And Amazon worker recorded
a couple that pulled up next to him while he
was sitting in his truck taking a blade a break
and complained, They're like, how dare you sit there and
do something that you shouldn't be doing? How dare you
not continue to deliver packages? At least from the audio

(01:46:51):
and where it picks up the video, it appears that
that is the case. I don't know if there was
a more rational conversation that happened first that's not recorded,
but nonetheless, the delivery driver was able to explain to
the person that they are allowed, in fact to take
breaks during their delivery day, during their workday, that is
factored in to how they do their work, and that
they should leave them alone. I love the entitlement of

(01:47:15):
some in our society now, the people who walk around
thinking that the real world is their social media platform,
so you can go out there and complain to somebody's
face about something, by the way you would say it online,
because at least those people are living in an authentic life.
I'm not defending them. I don't say that I actually
love them in earnest. I mean this very tongue in cheek,
but at least they're behaving like trolls face to face,

(01:47:37):
and not just on the internet. There's something I appreciate
about that, darn it. I almost respect it. About someone
who's willing to pull up to an Amazon truck parked
on the side of the road and complain to the
person's face that they're not allowed to have a break.
There's something amazing about that, because that is the kind
of thing that you would usually see shared all over
social media and people saying, man, this person's lazy or

(01:47:58):
they're not doing their job right. Although actually in some
of those cases there's videos where people seem to be
having a romantic interactions in the back part of the
Amazon truck, and that I don't think you can defend.
I think if that were the issue. It's probably not
something you can go as much after and defend yourself
against the social media judgment because it's much more garnered.
It's much more deserved than it is here. But anyway,

(01:48:21):
I just love it. And as I said, there's some audio,
it is edited. I don't want to play all of it.
One last thing to convince you that AI is great.
Oreo is now using AI to fast track new flavors
and get them on the shelves sooner, which is probably
not good for any of us at all. This is
how AI wages a war against us. They make us
unhealthy by making Oreos more delicious, because so far the

(01:48:43):
ideas from Orio have been mostly terrible. All right, so
much Happy holidays to you all, Thanks for being here.
Craig Collin's filling in on the Chad Benson Show, and
I should say that actually one more time, it has
been a thrill to be on again with you. This
is like the third or fourth year in a row.

Speaker 12 (01:49:00):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (01:49:00):
The Chad Benson has allowed me to babysit this platform
at this time of year for him, So thank you
so much to him, Thank you so much to Radio America,
to producer Phil to everybody involved, and thank you to
you for listening. Have a happy holiday, have a wonderful
new Year. See you guys soon. Craig Collins filling in
on The Chad Benson Show.

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