Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire Begins in Lebanon

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

Speaker 2 (00:16):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (00:18):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in just before the holidays.
Thrilled to be with you. So many things out there
for us to discuss. There's an article written by someone
that I professionally know. However, I haven't talked to them
in a while. And granted, this guy, although he writes
very liberal stuff and he admits to being somebody on
the left, usually is trying to write from a place

(00:40):
of humor. But I saw this post just the other day.
I saw it start to go viral. Essentially, it's a
tongue in cheek plea for Biden to cancel Thanksgiving because
a whole lot of liberals or a whole lot of
Democrats don't want to sit across the table from a
whole lot of Republicans and have conversations about politics during
Thanksgiving dinner. I'm going to get to it. The guy's

(01:00):
name is Rex Hubkey. As I said, he writes for
the USA. He writes for USA Today, longtime writer for
the Chicago Tribune, and not a terrible person. A lot
of terrible opinions, especially those ones expressed in this article.
Although again some of it is a joke. He means
his politics, But I want to get to that. But
I'm going to hold off for a second, and I

(01:21):
want to mention that I know him, or at least
i've met him professionally before, so that that's out there when.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
I discuss it. I want to play this stuff first though.

Speaker 3 (01:29):
Elon Musk is someone that's getting talked about a lot
of vig Ramaswami, mostly because of DOJE, the department that's
going to be created for them to look over government
spending and hopefully.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Destroy a whole lot of it.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
At least write down on a piece of paper all
the money that we could stop spending and see what
people do to try to actually save the taxpayer dollars. Now, granted,
Joe Rogan had a really interesting conversation with a venture capitalist.
This guy's name is Mark Anderson. As they sat down
and die different things. The Avake and Elon thing came up,

(02:06):
and I just love the way they talked about it.
And remember, the person that Joe Rogan is talking to
is a very wealthy venture capitalist guy who's seed funded
a whole lot of businesses, has probably done this himself.
Where you've come into a small business that's succeeding but
maybe not you know, doing as good as they could

(02:27):
be doing. And then money and wisdom come in and say, hey,
let's look over how you're you know, approaching this and that,
and let's see what we can change. So he's actually
probably been in a role where he's had some amount
of oversight as to the decision making of a lot
of companies. And that will literally be what Elon and
Viveke try to do with our government. And here's some
of what they said about how crazy that's going to

(02:48):
be for anyone in any of these departments that immediately
starts to talk to Avic and Elon right after Trump
becomes the president.

Speaker 5 (02:55):
Could you imagine if you're running an agency and you
have to have a meeting with Avike and Elon. Yes,
and you got to open your books.

Speaker 6 (03:02):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Yes, it's like office space where they brought in the
bobs for consoling.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Yes, it is here exactly.

Speaker 5 (03:13):
Second, why money, is there a meme like that? I
think there's a meme where they take those guys and
they put Elon in Vivig's heads on them.

Speaker 3 (03:21):
Yes, because it makes sense that is going to be
what it's like the Bob's in office space saying what
do you do here?

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Why are you doing that?

Speaker 3 (03:28):
And how much of this can we stop doing and
stop doing right now. There's a few different politicians who've
put out tweets and other things about the excess spending
and government that could immediately go away, and some of
them do it very well. They do it like point
by point, including some of the people that will actually
be involved with VIVEC and with Elon in trying to

(03:49):
fix those problems. And it's amazing when you can see
trillions of doll literally like one or two trillion dollars
that could be found quickly by people in the know
that are fully aware that it's being wasted and something
that could be saved. It's it's incredible. It's it's ridiculous.
One other thing, though, I want to play this, this
is also a discussion between Joe Rogan and Mark Anderson.

(04:13):
This is more about a sit down that Mark had
again a venture capitalist a bunch of other people like him,
with the Biden administration, where they basically told them what
they can and can't fund, Like, hey, you guys probably
shouldn't be in this space, so you shouldn't be throwing
money at companies like this because government regulation is going
to take over that industry. They're talking about AI. This

(04:36):
is scary and there's a little bit of this here.

Speaker 6 (04:38):
Media, and I think it was very alarming. We had
meet we had meetings in the spring that were the
most alarming meetings I've ever been in, where they were
taking us through their.

Speaker 5 (04:44):
Plan and it was what kind of can you talk
about it?

Speaker 6 (04:47):
Basically just full government, full control, this sort of thing.
There there will be a small number of large companies
that will be completely regulating by the government. They told us.
They told us, they just said, don't even start. Don't
even start startups, don't crazy, Like there's just no way.
There's no way that they can succeed. There's no way
that we're going to permit that to happen.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Wow.

Speaker 6 (05:03):
Yeah, So this is already over. It's going to be
two or three companies and we're just gonna we're gonna
we're going to control them. And that's that, Like, this
is already finished.

Speaker 5 (05:09):
Oh my god. Now when you leave a meeting like that,
what do you do.

Speaker 6 (05:13):
You go endorse Donald Trump?

Speaker 4 (05:16):
I love that answer to you.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
By the way, What do you do when you walk
out of a meeting where the government tells you a
person who's probably not used to being told what you
can and can't do in the world of financing certain companies,
and say, well, you just endorse the other guy and
you just try to work with him because you don't
like things that were told to you by this administration
and the power, you know, crazed nature of how they're behaving.

(05:37):
But think about how often that probably happens, and actually,
you know what on the heels of that discussion, and
how interesting that sort of admission is. It's not surprising
a lot of people expect that this happens every single day.
But then you have that other story out there with
Al Sharpton. I'm not sure how many people have seen
this or paying attention to this. MSNBC claims that they

(05:59):
were unaware that Al Sharpton got five hundred thousand dollars
in two different two hundred and fifty thousand dollars donations
to his charity just before he interviews Kamala Harris. So
she sits down the sitting vice president and has the
friendliest of interviews. Not that you would have expected anything
different anyway. I mean, it's MSNBC and Al Sharpton. He

(06:21):
was going to be friendly, but for some reason, I
guess the Harris campaign thought they had to sweeten the
pot even more so they gave a thousand bucks, which
is absolutely wrong in.

Speaker 4 (06:31):
Any like journalism.

Speaker 3 (06:32):
One to one tells you that that's horrible, but probably
not something that happens, you know, infrequently either. And then
my favorite part of that story, and this is something
that a lot of people are missing, is MSNBC was
caught much sooner than you knew about. This is a
story that just broke the other day, but there was
a thing going on for a while behind the scenes

(06:53):
where companies like Fox News or whoever.

Speaker 4 (06:56):
I think the.

Speaker 3 (06:57):
Beacon was one of the places that was doing this,
was trying to get this information on the record because
they knew it, they saw it, they understood what happened,
and essentially MSNBC was just like, oh, shut up, we
don't care.

Speaker 4 (07:08):
We're not answering any of those questions.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
It wasn't till the pompous organization of Journalists came out
and said that they were against it, that MSNBC even
admitted it happened and said again that they were blissfully
unaware of what was going on. But think about that
just for a second, those two things together that a
venture capitalist during the Biden administration is called into a

(07:32):
meeting with other people that are rich, kim and capable
of helping a whole lot of different companies get off
the ground and succeed, and the administration is so arrogant
they say, you guys, don't you shouldn't put money in
AI because we're going to regulate the crap out of it,
and we're going to prevent any of you from succeeding
in a space we don't want any success in other
than the companies that are willing to work with us.

(07:53):
And then, for no reason at all, kamal Aris's campaign
gives money to Al Sharpton, who would have done a
friendly intervie you with her anyway, like think of it
would have been challenging, that would have been shocking. Al
Sharpton wasn't prepping a more challenging one until he got
five hundred thousand dollars. But like that level of just
stupidity with money, of just arrogance in how they behave

(08:15):
and what they do. I've said this before to a
buddy of mine and I can't get over it. I
think that over the years, however, many things you believe
to be true and going on behind the scenes, they've
just gotten lazier. I think they just expect people to
not really care anymore, or they expect people to not
really pay attention anymore, that you have other things to
care about, so like these types of moves just seem lazy.

(08:39):
I'm sure there would have been a better way to
conceal five hundred grand that you're giving to Al Sharpton
before an interview on MSNBC, because you have to publicly
say what you're doing with campaign dollars, or at least
you're supposed to. And that's how they got caught, by
the way, and yet they don't. They just do it
the open way, the honest way, you know, not intent
to be honest, because darn it, they just don't care anymore.

(09:00):
One other quick piece of audio and then I'll get
to that thing about the guy that I know that's
a writer. This is Tim Walls saying how terrified he
is of Trump being in the office of president. The
guy who just seemed like an absolute joke that was
the running mate of Kamala Harrison and funny. I love
a lot of the social media posts about him.

Speaker 4 (09:20):
Recently.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
They were talking about he was supposed to attract male
voters and some of the behaviors of Tim Walls probably
didn't help out with that. But here's what he said
recently about Trump.

Speaker 7 (09:29):
Replace we went the caring and the sense of joy.
I know it's incredibly disappointing now, and look, candidly, it's
a bit scary because there's a very different vision that's
being put out there.

Speaker 3 (09:43):
Now there's a very different vision, hopefully much better vision.
It's not that scary. Like, honestly, I would say this
to so many people out there before we get into
this other thing, what are you afraid of? Just go
ahead and tell us, like, what are you truly.

Speaker 4 (09:56):
Afraid of out there?

Speaker 3 (09:57):
If you're a Democrat that's terrified the Trump got elected.
And I was talking about this a little bit yesterday too.
What's going to change in your day to day life
over the next four years realistically that you think is
going to be horrible and terrible? Because I a lot
of people give me concrete answers to that, all right.
Rex Hubkey is a writer for the US for Right

(10:18):
USA Today. He was a longtime humor ish, I think
is the way he describes himself. Columnist for Chicago Tribune,
he wrote an article which went viral. I think it
actually posted this morning when when is Thanksgiving? After Trump's win,
Biden must cancel it. That's the headline to it. And
it's a long post or a long tirade about how

(10:39):
you can't even break bread. I think it's written in
here with someone who opposes your political ideology. Now I've
I've met Rex. I've actually worked with him occasionally years
ago when I was a producer at a radio station
that he had a podcast on, so I helped record
some things for him. But in everything I read in
the column, and this is what's so funny to me,

(11:02):
because this person sees himself as such a nice guy,
such a friendly, you know, easy to talk to, easy
to get along with, dude, is what's broken in our society.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (11:12):
I'll take a pause actually because I want to talk
about this a little bit deeper. But the idea that
you can't sit across the table for someone for a
couple hours because they might bring up some stuff that
you disagree with and it would set you off so
much that you can't possibly fathom, you know, listening to
that conversation and then nodding your head and saying I
disagree and then moving on is something that's amazing to me,

(11:35):
and the least open minded thing I've ever read anywhere,
no matter how much humor was intended to be in it,
it's just the kind of thing that actually truly worries me.

Speaker 4 (11:44):
But all right, that will come up in a bit.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
A lot of other stuff to talk about, a lot
more fun to be had, I promise on the show.
This is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.
Chad is back after the holidays.

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This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. I referenced it just before the break.
I want to pay off that reference I was talking
about Rex Hubkeys article in USA Today.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
An opinion piece.

Speaker 3 (13:33):
He's someone who tries to write with humor, someone that
I've met before, professionally know a little bit, don't know well.
But he wrote an article about how Biden should cancel
Thanksgiving because essentially Republicans and Democrats cannot share a kitchen
table together, they cannot sit across from each other. He
does not want to have conversations with people who quote

(13:53):
would vote for a convicted felon, and whatever else he
said about Trump. It's amazing the way that people are
selective with their information.

Speaker 4 (14:01):
It is.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
That's the accusation in this article, that the people who
would vote for and support someone that he didn't vote
for are choosing what pieces of data they care about most.
And yet as he talks about this, the things that
he shares or the opinions that he puts into why
he wouldn't vote for someone, are also terribly selective and
at times totally inaccurate as to what the truth is.

(14:24):
It's just fascinating to me, and I don't want to
harp on it for much longer. I want to have fun,
certainly on a Wednesday, just before holiday, but it's just
it's amazing that people who want tolerance and demand tolerance
from those that they disagree with can't tolerate the people
that they disagree with.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
They can't be around them.

Speaker 3 (14:43):
They demand that those individuals understand their way of thinking
and their position stuff, and at the same time they
refuse to even hear the counter argument. All right, one
other thing out there that I thought was interesting, and
I'll play a little audio of this. A teenage girl
went crazy at an AT and T store in Atlanta
when her mom took her phone away and was canceling
her plan. That's not a demon, that's an actual human being.

(15:12):
I think that's like a fifteen sixteen year old teenage
girl yelling mom please in anger as the phone is
getting taken away.

Speaker 4 (15:19):
That's insane.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
I feel bad for all parents everywhere to a degree,
but then you probably also blame some of them for
the ridiculousness of children these days. But it's crazy, and
it's viral, and it's all over the place, and I
imagine that kid needs a lot more than just a
phone taken away to start acting like a regular human being.
But oh well, there's more of that coming up on
the show. There's quite a bit of serious stuff to

(15:40):
talk about too. My name is Craig Collins. I am
filling in for Chad Benson. Chad will be back just
after the holidays. And I do wonder as you watch,
like the video of this teenage girl just going nuts,
like how much she even cared that it was going
to be all over the place. Because they know that
little kids are aware or teenage I shouldn't call her

(16:02):
little kid, although she's certainly a child. Teenage kids like
are aware of the ubiquity of cell phones and social media.
So she's gonna get caught going nuts in a store
and doesn't care, doesn't care about embarrassing her self, embarrassing
her mom, being crazy, and begging to have her phone
given back to her because it's taken away as some
sort of punishment. There's something surreal about this. And again,

(16:27):
as I said a second ago, the first instinct, I
think for some of us, I'm not sure. Maybe it's
more for me, as somebody that doesn't have kids myself
to feel bad for the parent.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
How crazy this child.

Speaker 3 (16:40):
Also wonder for it to get this far, for this crazy,
there's got to be a lack of, say, any other
form of disciplining someone that makes it go this far.
But this is one of the most viral videos I
saw today that happened. I think it just took over
social media yesterday and most of the takes on social
media that the kid deserves worse than this because of

(17:01):
how insane they're being in response to the phone going away.
And it actually scares me a little too. The addiction
that seems to be a plan between the technology people
and the users have said technology, that's something that you
here a whole lot of us, I imagine. But all right,
on that uplifting happy out, we'll take a quick break.

(17:21):
We'll come back with some lighter stuff and also some
serious stuff. There is a cease fire going out to
be the last details on that after this. Craig Collins
going in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
filling in Thrilled with you. Israel and Hesbela have a
ceasefire that has taken place. It started earlier today. As
far as we know, as of this moment, things are
going well in that world.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Its interesting.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
There's a marked difference between the negotiations between Israel and
Hesbela or Lebanon in order to get to a point
where you have a ceasefire there compared to what's going
on between Israel and Hamas. Israel, the biggest difference is
a lack of hostages, a lack.

Speaker 4 (18:38):
Of people that would be you.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Thing that is beg to have Hamas free, and Amas
is continuing to refuse to do. That's the biggest prevention
in my opinion, in them getting to a point where
ceasefire have. Of course, Israel will not allow Hamas to
remain in any sort of position of power, wants the
White unlike the situation in Hesla where the Lebanese you know,

(19:08):
terrorist organization that which is what Hesbla is referred to,
has way less leverage in any sort of conversation. And
I thought it was really interesting, even though Biden said
that this was proof that there's some form of ability
to have peace, and again there's a tremendous difference when
you don't have hostages as a.

Speaker 4 (19:27):
Part of the negotiation or part of the conversation.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
But the other thing that I thought was really important
about this is even the United States said if Hesbla
the one to go back on this agreement.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Israel has every right to continue to fend help and the.

Speaker 3 (19:42):
Whole reason we're here to some degree in this conversation
is israel willingness to push through any criticism that existed
around them and keep you know, different forces in that area,
to be in the struth position that they're in right now,

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because if they had stood down earlier, if they had
agreed to a ceasefire, say when Hamas was really not
interested in doing any of the things that they wanted,
I don't know that we get here this quickly and
get here this easily. I do credit for quite a bit,
no matter what people say about the things they think
are bad or the things they could have been wrong

(20:24):
in being strong enough to prevent any of those missteps
that could have happened earlier. It's of course a tragedy
that innocent people are losing their lives.

Speaker 4 (20:34):
Of course that's tragedy.

Speaker 3 (20:37):
Also, different scenario going on Hezbola than what's going on
between Israel and Hamas, the amount of people who've been
caught up conflict. But when your or whatever you want
to call Hamad is the own people amass.

Speaker 4 (20:57):
Inn or.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Voted into power in the Godstrip when they're willing to
do anything other than intentionally put people into arms way
as sort of a shield, which is horrific to think about.
But when they that there's a byproces, that's just, you know,
utterly to every day people, that more individuals will be

(21:21):
in harm's way and that the fall truly lies with
the organization that's completely refusing to protect them. People are
returning that area, Lebanese civilians are returning home. So again,
hopefully this is a very good sign. I don't think
it's the kind of thing and it's certainly being talked about.
Is this that to the issues going on elsewhere? Because

(21:44):
again there is some significant differences and the two US,
and that make it much much harder for Israel to
do other than continue to demand the release of hostages
and to continue. Also because I will say one other
thing about this, and I think it's important, a lot

(22:04):
of people seem to not understand that there was a ceasefire,
There was a piece agreement before Hamosity.

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Speaker 3 (23:55):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins.
Filling in a producer feels incredible at handling technical issues
that are on my side. I apologize for those, but
we are back and hopefully we're going to do much
better here. I'm going to do much better here. In
staying connected with you, I was talking about the ceasefire
going on between Hesbla and Israel. This is unique for

(24:17):
a lot of reasons. Of course, people who don't want
to see conflict and bar and you know, people innocent
civilians in harm's way, which should be all of us,
will be happy to see that a ceasefire has happened.
Of course, even the United States has communicated that Israel
has every right to defend itself. This means that if
Hesbela is to attack them again or do anything that's

(24:39):
a threat, Israel continue can continue to do whatever it
needs to do to make sure.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
That it's people are safe.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
The biggest reason that Israelis are unhappy with Benjamin net
Yahoo and he will not have a chance, i think,
to be a politician much sooner or you know, much
longer in the near future.

Speaker 4 (24:57):
He will certainly be someone that they would vote out.

Speaker 3 (24:59):
Is a le of preventing the you know, harm that's
been done to the people of Israel. No matter what
the discussion is out there in the world as to
what Israel does and who is you know, you know,
in harm's way, or the innocent lives that have been
put in jeopardy or even been lost during any of
these fights. The Israeli people want to make sure that

(25:21):
they're protected and safe, as any people would want. And
that's the biggest dissatisfaction they have. It's misshaped by a
lot of people here in our government, a lot of
politicians who say that the Israeli people are upset with
net Yahoo because of the conflict. I know, they're upset
with him because of the failure to protect his own
people and not prevent things like Hamas from attacking them sooner,

(25:45):
a meaning they wish that the fighting had gone on.
You know earlier in my opinion. All right, I want
to play something else. This is an audio that I
thought was interesting. Kamala Harris is bragging about spending huge
amounts of money even though she lost. Because of her efforts,
She's very proud of a historic one point four billion dollars.
I think they're actually in debt too, by the way,

(26:07):
I think there might be some people that are not
paying because they ran out of cash.

Speaker 11 (26:10):
But here we go, and the time it was personal
for you, and you gave all that you could to
support our campaign. Because of your efforts, get this, we
raised an historic one point four billion dollars, almost one
and a half billion dollars from grassroots supporters alone, the

(26:33):
most president.

Speaker 4 (26:34):
Yeah, no know about all that campaign history.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
I mean, I know she raised that money. I'm not
sure that i'd call that grassroots supporters. What I think
is so interesting about this, by the way, is how
many people who gave money to Harris that probably regret
it now.

Speaker 4 (26:49):
I would imagine it's almost all of them.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I can't fathom that you'd feel good about writing a check,
no matter how big you wrote it, ten bucks or
ten million dollars out of someone who lost is significantly
as she lost. And one of the other things I'll
say just quickly, because I know this has been out there,
and I've actually even to a certain degree agreed with
a version of this narrative that Harris didn't have the

(27:13):
time because Biden stepped decide so late, so much later
than many people knew he should have stepped aside to
allow herself to be better understood by the American people.
I agree with a portion of that statement. I don't
agree with it when it comes to Kamala Harris, but
I think that if someone else were to have been

(27:34):
the candidate, if an actual primary process had occurred, you know,
Biden said that he knew he shouldn't be re elected
because of mental health or whatever other health related issues
exists there, and other candidates step forward, maybe even someone
that is off the radar and no one is thinking
about as a potential option for the Democrats in you know,

(27:56):
twenty twenty eight, what I think would have occurred is
someone that could have distanced themselves quite a bit more
from the Biden you know, administration and the mistakes of
the Biden administration, that part would have been different. I
still think Trump would have won and won by a lot.
I just think that there is truth in saying that
the lack of a primary process, for sure hurt the Democrats,

(28:19):
But Kamala Harris is someone that people know and is
unwilling to answer questions, being one of the most frustrating
parts about her or just her, you know, speaking in
these stupid loops that make no sense to anyone, but
someone who's writing a fortune cookie most likely drunk. That's
the thing that I think is amazing about it is

(28:40):
it would have made more sense again if it's someone
else that the public didn't actually have as much familiarity
with as the vice president who was terrible at her
job too. All right, let's move on to some sillier
things before we take a break in a little bit.
I don't know how much this pull is going to
be good news or bad news to you. I imagine bad news.

(29:00):
A poll came out that said that it's totally fine.
It's actually healthy. I think CNN even talked to urologist
about this. To go number one in the shower. This
is something that's not a problem at all for men
and women. There's no downside, and it's just convenient. Was
one of the quotes from one of the doctors who
talked about this. The only reason I call this a

(29:22):
negative is if there's someone in your life who would
prefer that you don't do this, And the data just
came out saying that it's healthy and it's okay and
it's good. And I don't know how many people even
talk about ping in the shower. I'll just put it
out there. But if there's someone in your life that
doesn't want you to do this, they've now lost another
option to try to convince you to stop, because it's

(29:44):
just it's a thing, apparently, and it's a thing that's
all over the internet today, all over other places.

Speaker 4 (29:50):
I feel like there's so.

Speaker 3 (29:51):
Many jokes I shouldn't make I won't make about this
topic of But nonetheless, I just thought that that was, like,
here's the way I'll say this. Actually, you know that
there's slow news. You know that organizations are really scraping
the bottom of the barrel in what they're going to
do a special on or a extended peace on and
talk about when they're discussing with a urologist whether it's

(30:13):
okay to go to the bathroom in the shower. You
know that, like they were at the bottom of the barrel.
They were like, all right, we've put this story off
for six months. We got nothing else to talk about
right now. We're not happy with who's in the office
of president or who's going to be the next president
of the United States. So let's go ahead and do
this topic and see how this goes.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
And the Internet eats it up.

Speaker 3 (30:33):
I guess the other problem is us because a whole
lot of us pay attention to it. Other things I
saw out there holiday stuff, Thanksgiving a nonsense that's going on,
or at least topics about it. Also maybe scraping the
bottom of the barrel stuff. The American Farm Bureau claims
a basic Thanksgiving dinner for ten people should only cost

(30:55):
fifty eight bucks. However, it definitely costs why quite a
bit more. It's three hundred and sixty one dollars is
the average spend that you'll have for a family attend
that's horrible. Factoring in food and everything else. Forty two
percent of us lean on restaurants for Thanksgiving this year,

(31:16):
which is great. I think that makes sense. We don't
all have an amazing cook in the family. A producer
Phil I know, is one such cook. That's great at
what he does, So families like that should have someone
in the kitchen. If you don't have anybody that's got
the skill set, just admit it. Just look around the
room and say, none of us want to do this,
none of us are great at this. So how about

(31:37):
somebody goes and hits a restaurant and brings everything home.
One in five people plan to attend to friendsgiving this year,
whether that's actually instead of Thanksgiving or in addition to
it that's where you just hang out with friends and
no family is invited. Helping out in the kitchen might
get you to be seen as more attractive to someone,

(32:00):
especially if you're going to one of those friends giving situations.
You know, again where it's not family that's involved and
someone is cooking and you find them to be someone
you're interested in. Offering to help them out in the
kitchen is going to go a long way. Seventy five
percent of people so that they find that to be
a very attractive quality in someone else. I love the
hack that is this little stupid nonsense stuff that came

(32:23):
out there. So again, just as a point of reference
or a tip for you, I love that I'm giving
single tips on the Chad Benson Show filling in from
today is that if you're going to a party with
someone you're interested in and they're going to be cooking
part of the meal, offer to help. Even if you're
bad at cooking, they'll like you for offering to help.
Six percent of Americans say they're almost definitely going to

(32:45):
argue about politics tomorrow. Eleven percent say it's somewhat likely
they're probably going to talk about it. One in six
people are bracing themselves to just witness it. And I
love those people who are like, I'm going to sit
back and watch and I assume people are going to
talk about this, and I'm just getting ready to try
to nod and keep eating my food and then eventually

(33:08):
go watch some football.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
White or dark meat.

Speaker 3 (33:10):
Fifty four percent of us prefer white meat, a thirty
one percent dark, and fifteen don't care. I'm probably part
of the fifteen that don't care. I just want food.
How much gravy do you use? A poll found fifteen
percent of us don't use any at all, while seventeen
drown the food entirely in gravy.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Also just fine.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Again, these are scraping the bottom of the barrel topics,
but I feel like I want to throw them out
there because they're so popular, so many people, you know,
engage in these things and talk about these things that
I can't help share some of this information with you
since it's all over the Internet and all over social media.
One last thing, just shifting gears to something else. I

(33:49):
saw that dictionary dot com has a word of the year,
and that word of the year might annoy some of us.
It is demure, which is a word that a whole
lot of people use on social met when making different
like TikTok videos and whatnot. I don't understand so many
times now social media dictates the most important words in

(34:12):
the English language, according again to I guess the Internet,
So maybe that's not true. Hopefully that's not true. And
also what new words get added to the dictionary. It's
not a good time for language itself. I'm not trying
to be some pompous, high and mighty guy myself. I
talk for a living, but I'm sure that I'm not
the expert of grammar that should be.

Speaker 4 (34:34):
Discussing this topic.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
And nonetheless, it just makes me sad every time I
see these things out there. But demure is the word
of the year because people used it on social media
posts to brag about themselves more than anything else. One
of the other words that almost got it was brain rot,
which is just sad, and that is certainly a common

(34:56):
phrase also used online to talk about. I guess any
sort of low qu Internet content that you don't like
a lot, but you're seeing and it's out there in
the world. This is the world we live in people.
Last year's word of the year, if you're wondering, was hallucinate.
It was a reference to the rise of a chatbot
and AI thing. So not really any better. Maybe at
some point the rise of a word will be more

(35:19):
tied to something that actually is good and not just
an Internet related thing.

Speaker 4 (35:23):
But all right, we've got a lot coming up on
the show.

Speaker 3 (35:25):
Craig Collins filling in Phil doing an amazing job with
technical issues a producer Phil.

Speaker 4 (35:30):

Speaker 3 (35:35):
A lot of other things to talk about though. Out
there in the world, beyond just the seriousness of say,
a ceasefire in the Middle East, you have discussions about
the ongoing cabinet decisions of Donald Trump and the likelihood
that you're going to argue with family and friends at
your Thanksgiving meal, whatever that might be that you're going
to be talking about.

Speaker 4 (35:54):
I assume it's just politics.

Speaker 3 (35:56):
Maybe you should find something else to argue about to
throw people off the path. Man, go in with a
hot take in the world of sports and see if
that dominates the conversation. That's my tip. Quick break. A
lot more coming up in a bit. Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 10 (36:16):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you just before the holidays.
Chad will be back next week. I thought this was interesting.
There's a democratic strategy that's begging Kamala Harris not to
try to run for president again in twenty twenty eight.

Speaker 4 (37:05):
That was hilarious.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
I'll get to that audio, and just a little bit
before I do that, though, I think this is interesting too.
MSNBC has reportedly lost half of its viewers. This is
in a stunning post election ratings report that came out.
Although I'm sure a lot of this steep decline was
happening during the tail.

Speaker 4 (37:22):
Portion of the election.

Speaker 3 (37:24):
The reason this is so interesting by the way Fox
News has actually soared in viewers. The eighty six percent
year over year increase in total viewers the coveted twenty
five to fifty four demographic. Fox is also seeing one
hundred and fifty one hundred and forty seven percent surge
in those numbers. So a lot of interesting things happening
there in the world of cable news. But the thing

(37:47):
that's that's most significant to me is the fact that
there's so many people saying it'd be terrible if Elon
Musk bought that platform, bought MSNBC. They're doing horrible, They're
certainly not succeeding. So it's interesting to think that a
guy who's got a whole lot of money and has
done a lot of different things with a social media
platform that even CNN would admit is now more balanced

(38:10):
as people are running to the Fox News of the world.
According to this data, you would think MSNBC trying to
get away from its one sided position on stuff might
actually potentially bring in more viewers. I don't know if
it would alienate the ones who are left. You have
to assume that, actually, you know it real quick on
this topic. I think it's tremendously interesting. I don't know

(38:32):
how interesting you think it is, but we'll try to
make it interesting for all involved.

Speaker 4 (38:36):
I hope it is.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
There's a lot of places in media that wonder how
they can reach more of the total population, right because
there's places that will talk about things from one side
of the aisle, places that will talk about things from
the other side of the aisle. And they both believe
organizations that do that that the people who are their
core listener are people that fundamentally agree with them, not

(39:00):
disagree with them. And in a society right now that
can't tolerate the idea of sitting down for Thanksgiving talking
to someone who opposes your viewpoints, it seems to be true.
It's probably not a bad calculus to make to decide
that this thing we're making, whoever we are, MSNBC or
anyone else, needs to be tailored to the people that

(39:20):
are furthest on a certain side of the aisle. So
if you do transform that platform, if Elon Musk takes
over and it suddenly becomes a fundamentally different thing, I
assume you would lose the people that are on the
furthest reaches of the side of the aisle that's already
paying attention to you. But in doing so, will you
gain enough people in the middle, will you gain enough

(39:42):
people on the other side to benefit yourself? And I
don't know any other way to go about that than
to truly be in the middle. And I don't know
how to articulate this differently. So that's how I'm going
to say it. All the places that I think try
to flip themselves, they go the other way instead of
going directly down the center path. They decide, all right,

(40:05):
we need to go ahead and open whatever ideology is.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Excuse me.

Speaker 3 (40:10):
So you bring in someone who's got opposing viewpoints and
they talk about opposing viewpoints, and then suddenly you're a
totally different thing than you used to be. I don't
know how many people can get that truly right to
be actually, you know in the center. One of the
only places that seems to have done it is Twitter,
is x and most mainstream media that is overwhelmingly liberal.

(40:33):
I will tell you that it's a horrific place that
has way too many conservative voices that are being you know,
strengthened and capable of getting above whatever version of censorship
they used to have to deal with. But the truth
is that it's actually, you know, actually in the middle.
And so that's interesting too, that certain sides of the
political aisle would shape things. I guess I'll say this

(40:55):
one other way, and again, I don't know. This is
just something that interests So I'm going to talk about
it here a day before the holidays. If you've ever
listened to something that you fundamentally disagree with, it's very
easy to pick that out. It's very easy to be like, ah,
this is something that's probably biasedly on the side I'm
not on. But if you listen to something that you
overwhelmingly agree with, you can't tell that it's biased. Of course,

(41:19):
that makes sense, right, A lot of us can't do that.
If I listen to someone say things that are my opinion,
I'll be like, well, he's saying facts, he's saying true stuff,
he's saying stuff that I like. He's not saying stuff
that is, you know, inaccurate. And so it's so fascinating
to me, even in my own personal broadcast career, when
someone walks up to me and says that I'm on

(41:40):
the side of the you know aisle as deeply as
they think I am, and I'm like, I don't know.
I feel like I'm trying to aim for the middle
on a lot of this discussion points on a lot
of these things, and they just don't hear it because
their opinion is so far the other way. It's just
again fascinating to me. But if MSNBC or any of
those other platforms, because of an Elon Musk can truly
hit the the center, I wonder if that would do

(42:02):
well or not in that world because of all the
people that you assume, we're already a core, you know,
part of your demographic that's gonna be run, that's gonna
run screaming for the hills when you start to say
things that they disagree with. But I don't know, And
maybe there's a good test in that for us as
the people, because I do think it's a good practice.

Speaker 4 (42:22):
This is the last thing I'm gonna say. I'm gonna
move on.

Speaker 3 (42:24):
I promise the I do think it's a good practice
to listen to things you disagree with, you know, or
or pay attention to some things you disagree with. I
think that that's a good thing for us to do
occasionally because it helps us to understand what the argument
on the other side is to continue to disagree with it,
not because it necessarily will change your mind, not that

(42:46):
you go in thinking you're gonna hate everything someone else says.
But in doing that, I think you continue to open
your eyes as to what the other people are being fed.
Because truthfully, I said I was done, but I'm not. Truthfully,
the biggest problem this Thanksgiving for you and the people
you sit down and talk to are what they think

(43:07):
facts are and what you think facts are. And I'm
not saying you're wrong. I'm just saying that people have
such a different opinion of this stuff now. And actually, truthfully,
what is and is not opinion in general is something
that I think is amazing. So like here, I'll give
you an example. I'll try to do this. I can't
get away from this topic. I'm too interested in myself
in this. This is my favorite example. At some point,

(43:30):
if you talk about politics, someone is going to call
Trump a convicted felon. They're going to be accurate in
that statement in a very simplistic way, in the fact
that there were felony charges that a jury found him
guilty of. But here's what they're not going to do
They're not going to pay attention to what that case was.
And I know you've probably heard this before. I think

(43:51):
I've talked about it before. It was a case that
involved what are almost always in New York misdemeanor charges
that were inl to felony charges because the person who
quote unquote did this thing that would be Trump, was
running for an office that's federal and not statewide. It

(44:12):
was the kind of case and I know I did
a very poor job of explaining it there. I don't
want to dive deeper into it, but it was the
kind of case that most legal experts, when they first
saw what the challenges were going to be in court,
thought it was crap. I have audio I've played before
of CNN, MSNBC, all those crazy places saying that it
was a bad lawsuit. It was one that probably wasn't

(44:33):
going to find anything wrong or wasn't going to wind
up holding Trump guilty of something, because of how ridiculous
it was to create it in the first place and
then inflate it to a felony charge. But nonetheless, when
you sit down at your Thanksgiving meal, all the person
sitting across from you is going to say, is he's
a felon.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
He's a felon, how dare you?

Speaker 3 (44:51):
And it's not like he shot somebody, it's not like
he went to jail for the kind of things that
actually are easily classified as felony. You had to play
a lot of legal you know, hurdles and jumping to
get to that point.

Speaker 4 (45:03):
And that's part of the problem. I guess.

Speaker 3 (45:05):
I feel like I'm just ranting now. That's part of
the issue for so many of us. And even having
those discussions, sitting down and trying to talk to someone
in a sensible way, is them understanding and you understanding,
you know, the nuance of something, And maybe that's all
it is. And now I will truly move on to
something sillier. But maybe so many people are disinterested in

(45:26):
the details and the nuance that they can't even fathom
the conversation. All right, some other things out there that
I thought were interesting, Some things that I just thought
were Let's do some good news stories, because that'll be
more fun.

Speaker 4 (45:38):
You should pay attention to a couple of these.

Speaker 3 (45:40):
There's a college kid in Seattle who managed to walk
away unscathed, scathed after a tree fell on his car.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Last week.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
He was driving home when it landed on top of
his car and crushed it. But it was the kind
of thing that it seems like a miracle. It took
ninety minutes for firefighters to get him out. A bystanderd
asked if he wanted to take a picture to remember it,
and he did. This went viral on social media. It's
a guy giving a little peace sign as he's laying

(46:09):
down in the passenger seat of his vehicle with a
tree on top of his car that's just absolutely crushed
and destroyed. It's crazy. There is some audio two of
people talking about this.

Speaker 4 (46:18):
Here we go.

Speaker 12 (46:19):
I kind of just slunk back in my chair in
my seat a little bit, bracing for impact, and sure enough,
the tree crashed. I tried to open my driver's side door,
no use. The tree was totally horizontal on my car
and I was stuck. She said, well, do you want
me to take your picture? And her reason is she said, well,
you might never get to see the single again. So
at first it threw me off, but then she was right,

(46:41):
even in the moment, even as I was trapped, a
bit of gratefulness, and once I was pulled out, well,
I gave them the tightest hug. I was so thankful
to go home that night.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
I think it's amazing that a guy's like, you know what,
I was really happy about this situation. I was really
thrilled that I'm alive, and so why not.

Speaker 4 (46:56):
Take a picture.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
We take pictures of way too many things, but honestly,
joy makes me happy.

Speaker 8 (47:01):
They did that.

Speaker 3 (47:01):
One other good news story just before we take a break,
a mom in Florida recently went to a theme park
with her six year old son, Lincoln. A random person
walked up after noticing the kid's skin looked yellow and jaundice,
it looked bad, and said they should take him to
a doctor. It ended up saving the child's life. Here
is Sarah, the mom, explaining what happened.

Speaker 13 (47:23):
Passing through, I noticed there was a guy to my right,
and before I walked out of the store, he intercepted us.
He mentioned his first responder. He said he noticed Lincoln
and how very jaundiced he was just thought it might
be a good idea of moving king to get some
medical attention. It was a tough thing to go through,
but because of that one small thing that he did,

(47:46):
look at how much of an impact he had on
Lincoln on our Family.

Speaker 3 (47:50):
I love stories like this where first responders just go
above and beyond to do things, to care about people,
to show how much of a value they are to
our society.

Speaker 4 (48:00):
It's awesome.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
I'm sure some people would say that the mom should
have noticed on our own since the six weeks old,
I think I got that wrong, not six years, six
week old. So a baby that just didn't look right
to a first responder and the mom gets told about
this and takes the kid to the doctor and it
winds up saving the kid's life. Just a really cool story,
and honestly, the kind of thing we're in today's society.

(48:22):
A bunch of people would like knee jerk reaction, want
you to stay away from them if you know it's
a stranger who you don't know and don't know anything about.
It's very odd to me the way that someone might
react to a complete unknown walking up and trying to
talk to you about a thing, which is obviously terrible
and a part of our society too. But all right,

(48:45):
on that note, there's a lot of other stuff to
get to, a lot of other stuff to talk about.
We will be taking a quick break and getting back
to stuff in just a little bit. Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show.

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You're listening to the chad Ventson show.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
This is the chad Ventson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. Of course, the ongoing ceasefire and
coverage of it is something that's a big deal all
over the news. We'll get back to that in about
ten minutes or so as we continue to discuss what's
going going on between Israel and HESBLA, the militant supported

(51:05):
Iranian supported group in Lebanon. That is a big deal
and a big story. It's connection to Hamas and Gaza,
I think is going to be overinflated by a whole
lot of organizations and certainly by the Biden administration, because
there are some fundamental differences between the two conflicts, even
though there are a lot of similarities too. But we'll

(51:25):
get to that more. As I said, in about ten
minutes or so, just some other lighter, quicker things out there,
because darn it, it's almost a holiday, and how can
we not do this. I thought this was interesting. There's
all these recipes for leftovers after your Thanksgiving meal and
what you need to do with them, what you can
turn them into. I went through a couple of these

(51:45):
articles and I even thought about like telling you, and
a lot of them are just like turning your food
into a different style of cuisine. Like, of course it's
the same fundamental items, but go from Thanksgiving dinner to
something that's more influenced by Mexican culture, like burritos and nachos,
but with turkey and stuff in them. And the thing is,
it doesn't matter what you do, it doesn't matter how

(52:06):
you reinvent the dishes. People are gonna know that it's
your leftover Thanksgiving food and they might not want it.
I get very, very sick, very quickly of all the
leftover items that happen for the several days after the
holiday thing. You just don't want it, You're just sick
of it, You're done with it, and you know there's
a finite amount of time before it it's no longer good.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (52:25):
I'd rather drop it off and donate it somewhere than
try to keep figuring out how to reuse.

Speaker 4 (52:31):
It and repackage it.

Speaker 3 (52:32):
But I do love that there's already a lot of
articles out there because they know how many people are
going to be hit with turkey seven different ways over
the next couple weeks or the next few days, probably
not the next few weeks. Pepsi pushes a new festive
flavor that they want to replace pumpkin spice.

Speaker 4 (52:48):
They're calling it Holiday in a can. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
It amuses me the places in our society, or the industries,
I should say, in our society that try to get
in on the action of some sort of pumpkin spice,
fall flavor, craze, whatever you want to call it. So
their gingerbread zero sugar pepsi is the latest thing that
sounds horrible and I don't know how it has zero
sugar in it. It feels kind of like the Oreo

(53:14):
pepsi that somehow had zero sugar, which can't possibly taste
like an oreo. But they're excited and they're hoping you'll
enjoy their product with a festive holiday spin. Nothing wrong
with having just a regular can of soda, though, a
regular can of coke or Pepsi or any of that stuff,
and not drinking all the terrible, horrible things that seem
to actually.

Speaker 4 (53:32):
Be this stuff. You don't have to go this road.

Speaker 3 (53:35):
You can live your life very very happy knowing that
you don't have to try any of the stupid items
that come out over the holiday season.

Speaker 4 (53:43):
Pepsi's website said.

Speaker 3 (53:44):
They'll only be available from the fourth until the eleventh,
and for the most part, I think you actually have
to get into a contest to win this soda. I'm
going to go ahead and pass on that.

Speaker 4 (53:52):
All right.

Speaker 3 (53:52):
We got other stuff to talk about, as I said,
continuing information about the ongoing ceasefire in Lebanon between Hezbola
and Israel. Craig Collin's filling out on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 9 (54:11):

Speaker 1 (54:31):

Speaker 15 (54:38):
Under the agreement, Hesbela and Israel will observe a sixty
day truce during that period, Hesbela fighters will move north
away from Israel's border, and Israeli troops will gradually withdraw
from Lebanon.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
In the last few months, the.

Speaker 15 (54:53):
Exchange of fire has left more than three thousand dead
in Lebanon and at least seventy Israeli killed. In addition
to relentless aerial and ground assaults, Hesbela leader Hasan Israli
was assassinated and exploding pagers took out hundreds of its finders.

Speaker 3 (55:12):
Look, I gotta be honest. This is Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson show. The pager moment that
you might have forgot about now, which was a long
form Israeli planned in which essentially they were capable of
gaining the ability to control the technology that wound up
being in the hands of a lot of terrorists who

(55:32):
wanted to attack their country, and they were able to
detonate said devices to devastate the Hezbola group early on
in any conflict between them. It's one of the more
remarkable stories in the world of modern day warfare that
barely gets talked about, but essentially, what's going on now
there is a ceasefire in place as you heard, there's

(55:53):
some expectations of what will happen Lebanese people are actually
returning back to some of the community is that they
had abandoned, even though the Israeli government is warning not
necessarily to do that quite yet, not saying that they're
going to break any sort of ceasefire agreement, but that
it's tenuous at best. When it's the organizations like Hesbela

(56:15):
or Hamas that are saying that they're also going to
stand down. As you heard Biden say, they're in that
clip that the intention is for this to be a
permanent ceasefire between both organizations, the end of thirteen months
of fighting between Israel and Hesbela, an organization that is
backed by Iran, a militant group backed by Iran. Here's

(56:37):
the first thing that I think matters to a lot
of Americans. There's aspects of these ongoing conflicts in the
Middle East that some of us grasp better than others,
I'm sure, and some of us paid more attention to
than others. But one of the biggest things that I
think will be an immediate discussion point will be is
this a template to be used between Israel and Hamas

(57:01):
to gain a ceasefire there, and it simply isn't the
biggest reason why it's not is Hamas is holding out
via hostages, something that thank god Hesbela never had access
to gaining themselves. That have caused a different version of
a fight between those two organizations. Israel has gained the
upper hand in both of these fights rather quickly. They've

(57:23):
devastated the militant groups or the terrorist groups, very very quickly, obviously,
with a whole lot of complaining or a whole lot
of you accusations of war crimes coming their way, and
a lot of very sad, heartbreaking, devastating, horrific whatever the
word is. You want to use a loss of civilian

(57:43):
life that is a realistic aspect or a unfortunate byproduct
of conflict in general, and especially so when groups are
trying to use humans as essentially a shield to protect
a more powerful group from taking out their terrors organization,
which is what Hamas has been doing for a while.
But the biggest thing that I take is immediate impact

(58:06):
of this other than the US's involvement in it, their
guarantee of certain aspects of it, and I'm sure a
close paying attention to of if it's something that actually
holds and something that actually helps cure any sort of
conflict going on there.

Speaker 4 (58:23):
It's not long form cure, of course at all.

Speaker 3 (58:26):
But the real truth again is how much it relates
to the other ongoing conflict that we've been talking about
for far longer than the one between HESBLA and Israel,
essentially Iran and Israel, and that's the one going on
still in the Gaza strip. And again, as far as
I'm concerned, they just they do seem fundamentally different enough
to not have the significance that say politicians will tell

(58:49):
you it has because a lot of them are just
after political wins. The other thing for Biden and all
this is he wants a political win. You know, I
heard Chad Benson talk about this the other day to
the Chad Benson Show, so I might as well throw
it out there, and I'm sure it's up on a
podcast somewhere and you should check it out. But all
of these leaders, they care about their legacies, They easily

(59:10):
easily do. I absolutely fundamentally agree with Chad when he
says that even in these moments, even in these moments
of this horrific thing that's happening where a whole lot
of us who aren't in positions to ever be politicians
to the significance of a president of a country, we
would not think about our own personal legacy. But Biden
is thinking about it. Other people are thinking about it,

(59:32):
not just thinking about protecting human life. So that's why
you come out there as quickly as you do, say
what you do about what's going on, and essentially try
to get it as a political win while also being
something that I'm sure a lot of people are talking about. Nonetheless,
I wonder again what the other roads are for those
discussion points, and what, inevitably, I guess down the road

(59:54):
we see is a potential end of the conflict between
Israel and Hamas. And actually, as you talk about that,
one other quick thing, of course, the ongoing conflict between
Russia and Ukraine might be on people's minds. If Trump
is going to enter office in just a few months
and all of those conflicts will quickly come to an end.
If they aren't ended before he gets into office, it'll

(01:00:16):
impact his legacy.

Speaker 4 (01:00:17):
It'll be a talking.

Speaker 3 (01:00:18):
Point for him, and it'll be partially because people take
the US more seriously those that threaten our allies are
those that threaten us directly or threaten people that we
are in support of will take a country run by
someone who's more willing to back up words with actions,

(01:00:38):
although not someone who's actually done a whole lot of
that because he hasn't had to, it will matter, and
so it's interesting to see the political connection to those
points too. Some other things out there that I thought
were interesting. There's a lot of discussion about tariffs. You're
probably even going to talk about it at the Thanksgiving table,
as crazy as that as that sounds. If someone brings

(01:00:59):
up politics and is in the know, one of the
things that might be brought up is Trump's desire to
put more tariffs out there. And there's two reasons why
for this. I'll tell you just quickly, if you want
to throw this out there at the kitchen table or
the Thanksgiving meal, if somebody does bring them up. The
first one is that it positions us to be able
to negotiate if there are countries, and there definitely are

(01:01:23):
that are taking advantage of their relationship with the United States,
which is pretty much everybody threatening tariffs and not actually
instilling them or not actually creating more of them. Is
something that allows you to have a conversation. We're seeing
it actually play out. We're seeing Canada come to the
table and have discussions differently than they were before, Mexico

(01:01:44):
come to the table and have discussions differently than they
were before. That's one aspect of the intention to do this.
The other one is to eventually get rid of and
I know this sounds like a pipe dream or the
kind of thing that could never actually happen, but get
rid of our income taxes. Trump has said that that's
something he would desire to do. And one of the
best ways to do it to make us not have

(01:02:06):
to fund the government ourselves directly through them taking our money,
is doing it through taking money for products that come
into the country. And of course that also would incentivize
a lot of companies to not do that to create
products right here at home. So there's several benefits to
the idea of tariffs, both short and long term. There's
certainly things you can do to try to object to that,

(01:02:29):
or say that it's going to cause inflation to get worse,
it's going to cause this or that to go the
way you don't want them to go. But for so
long in our country. That was kind of the history
of how we funded things. We funded them through tariffs
and not through the amount of money that we take
out of our own pockets. That is something that fundamentally
changed in the early nineteen hundreds, but it is interesting

(01:02:50):
to discuss it again. And so I love the fact
when I see those topics out there, that people have
such a narrow viewpoint of what the end results could
be and the benefit of something like this, and also
the way in which you might try to say, slowly
ramp things up to prevent it from being horrible right
away for us the American people paying for things still,

(01:03:13):
but we'll see what actually happens with that too, and
how much of it is bluster and a threat that
goes away when people come to the table and negotiate,
and how much of it is essentially real and designed
to again put money in the hands of our government
without it coming out of our own pocket. And then
also of course Elon and what they're going to do,
hopefully to pull back on access government spending. I do

(01:03:36):
love something that's out there, and I'll play it just quickly.
It is Joe Rogan talking about what it would be
like to have Elon Musk and Vivike Ramaswami show up
at your door and ask to see your books and
how they compare that office space.

Speaker 4 (01:03:51):
Here's a little bit of that audio.

Speaker 5 (01:03:52):
Could you imagine if you're running an agency and you
have to have a meeting with Vivik and Elon, Yes,
and you got to open your book?

Speaker 6 (01:04:00):
Yes, yes, Yes, it's.

Speaker 4 (01:04:03):
Like office space where they brought in the bobs for consoling.

Speaker 6 (01:04:07):
Yes, what do you do here?

Speaker 5 (01:04:08):
Exactly?

Speaker 4 (01:04:09):
That's exactly what it's like. What are you guys going
to do here? What are you guy?

Speaker 3 (01:04:13):
What have you been up to all this time? And
how much has it hurt us? How much is it
not helping us? How much is it benefiting you and
not the American people at all. There was one other
moment in this conversation that Joe Rogan had with a
venture capitalist by the name of Mark Anderson that I
thought was really interesting. Mark talks about a meeting he
actually had with the Trump admit or excuse me, with

(01:04:34):
the Biden administration about AI, about artificial intelligence companies and
what Biden's team was telling these financial backers of all
kinds of companies that they can and can't do, which
is going to be very odd to be someone who
obviously would see your freedom to choose what you invest

(01:04:54):
in as pretty important to your day to day life
and a government that was like, Ah, we're going to
regulate the crap out of that. We're not going to
allow you to operate the way you're used to operating,
at least in this field because we can. Of course,
losing power means they can't do the thing they said
they were going to do.

Speaker 4 (01:05:12):
But here we go.

Speaker 5 (01:05:13):
Media.

Speaker 6 (01:05:13):
I think it was very alarming. We had meet We
had meetings in the spring that were the most alarming
meetings I've ever been in, where they were taking us
through their plans and it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:20):
Was what kind of can you talk about?

Speaker 8 (01:05:22):
It?

Speaker 6 (01:05:22):
Basically just full government, full government control, like this sort
of thing. There there will be a small number of
large companies that will be completely regulating, controlled by the government,
they told us. They told us they just said, don't
even start. Don't even start startups, they don't even bother, Like,
there's just no way, there's no way that they can succeed.
There's no way that we're going to permit that to happen. Wow, Yeah,
they said, this is already over it's going to be
two or three companies and we're just gonna, we're gonna
we're going to control them.

Speaker 4 (01:05:42):
And that's that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:43):
Like, that's that, it's already done. You don't have any choice.
You know, you're screwed.

Speaker 6 (01:05:47):
This is already finished.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
Oh my god. Now, Now when you leave a meeting
like that, what do you do?

Speaker 6 (01:05:52):
You go endorse Donald Trump?

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
I love that reaction too. You go say that I
want the other guy to be in power. I want
the other guy in charge if you're going to tell
me what I can can't do in these worlds, especially
if I think they're going to be financially very beneficial
to me as AI as all the craze and the
discussion point of every tech company out there. Now, the
biggest question I have when I heard this, by the way,
is how brazen was the Biden administration and who they

(01:06:17):
chose to put in this room where they actually said
the quiet part out loud, where they were honest. Did
they believe that a lot of these people, because they
come from California prenominantly the venture capitalists, were people that
ideologically were aligned with them. So when the administration was
telling these people that have big checkbooks, what they can
and can't put their money into. They thought they'd walk

(01:06:38):
out of the room being like, well, I support them,
so I guess I'm going to listen to these rules.
Or were they so brazen that they knew a whole
bunch of people in the room did not at all
want to see them remain in power, and they still
told them what they thought the end result of the
next few years was going to be in an industry
that they were worried these individuals would fund companies that

(01:07:00):
they weren't going to be in as much control of.
I imagine it's the second one. I imagine it's the
one where you just don't care. And so I will
say this before I take a break. I think the
amount of CD behind, you know, the scenes, backroom deal
deep state.

Speaker 4 (01:07:17):
If that's what you want to call it.

Speaker 3 (01:07:18):
I don't know people knee jerk reaction to that term
simply because Trump created it. But these are the kind
of things that feel very deep state, where the government
tells you what they can and can't, tells, you know, investors,
what they can and can't do. But the thing that
is interesting to me, it's just how lazy it's gotten,
how easy it is to find the truth out if

(01:07:40):
we desire it. And that says one of two things.
That says that the people in power are no longer
afraid of the truth coming out, or they don't believe
you're going to go looking for it. And I'm worried
that it's the second one. That there's a lot of
people out there who they know just won't put the
time in to check on these things that are happening,
to pay attention to what's going on. Another great example

(01:08:02):
is the Al Sharpton story that's out there. Essentially, the
Kamala Harris campaign gave five hundred thousand dollars to a
nonprofit run by Sharpton before he did an interview with
her for MSNBC, which is horrible. That's not journalism at all.
That's a terrible thing. And yet it was just also
brazenly done. They knew they had to publicly report those donations,

(01:08:24):
they knew the timeline of it would line up to
right before an interview was done. That would have been
friendly anyway. Essentially money they didn't have to give him
to be nice to her, but they gave him to
be extra nice to her. I guess it's just crazy
and MSNBC is finally admitted to it and said that
they just weren't aware of it, which I'm sure a
lot of us don't believe. But it's just interesting how

(01:08:44):
sloppy that behind the scenes stuff has gotten and it
begs the question as to why, because I imagine that
they've been better at hiding this stuff in the past
than they are now. I don't think that this is
just new things occurring. All right, we'll take a break.
A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the
Jadbentson show.

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Speaker 3 (01:10:17):
This is the Chadventon Show. My name is Craig Collins,
stilling in thrilled to be with you. Eighteen million Americans,
actually more than eighteen million are taken to the skies
over the next day or so Thanksgiving travel. Is it
an all time high, record breaking, etc.

Speaker 4 (01:10:33):
Etc.

Speaker 3 (01:10:34):
TSA officials throughout the country have warned about delays that
might occur all kinds of things, So good luck to
you out there if you're traveling. Is a very very
busy year for that which is a good thing. It
means that a whole lot of us are entirely willing
now to do whatever it takes to see loved ones,
which is good, even if a lot of people on
social media are saying they want nothing to do with

(01:10:56):
their family members if they voted for the wrong person.
Another thing out there that I saw that I thought
was odd and certainly funny. A box truck in North
Carolina crashed into an RV. The RV was loaded with snakes.
The dude in the RV apparently does reptile expos He
calls himself an expert, and he had to round up
the snakes himself.

Speaker 4 (01:11:16):
Some of them were venomous.

Speaker 3 (01:11:18):
But here's the two people, the tow truck driver and
the RV guy, talking about the accident. I wonder what
your brain thinks when you crash into somebody.

Speaker 4 (01:11:28):
They're driving an RV and it's just loaded with snakes.

Speaker 18 (01:11:31):
Baby, I would say, this is it is in a
top ten of different.

Speaker 9 (01:11:35):
I had some venomous snakes get loosen the camper, so
I had to come back into trying to get them
snakes before the MS personnel come in. You know, I
do not like snakes.

Speaker 6 (01:11:44):
I do not like snakes at all.

Speaker 4 (01:11:45):
I gotta love the other guy.

Speaker 3 (01:11:47):
I love the dude who owns the snake, who is
like I had to get back there and make sure
that I took care of those snakes that were venomous
before anybody else gets back there. It's it's awesome, and
I do love the driver. His name is Clayton, by
the way, saying that it's got to be a top
ten unique kind of moment form to crash into somebody
and have snakes just float out everywhere. I feel like
you don't even have a conversation at that point. You're like,

(01:12:09):
does my truck still work? Because I'm leaving. I'm getting
out of this situation as quickly as i can. All Right, Well,
we'll talk about that a lot more coming up. Craig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Cease fire Deal
Israel and HESBLA. This is something that President Biden announced
and talked about, something that a whole lot of people
are talking about it's certainly a good thing when you
discuss the protection of innocent civilians, which is always a

(01:13:46):
thing in a lot of people's minds when any sort
of conflict is happening anywhere, and especially in situations where
the terrorist groups in charge or the terrorist groups that
wield some sort of power or trying to put innocent
civilians in harm's way, like Hesbla or like Hamas truly
has been doing. Will this be relevant to the ongoing
conflict between Israel and Hamas. I don't think so. I

(01:14:09):
think there's reasons, especially the existence of hostages that makes
it a very different thing. But I'd be remiss if
I didn't at least say out loud, and certainly something
that a lot of people are talking about, a ceasefire
agreement that could be very long lasting. Israel has done
a lot to defeat the leaders of Hamas very quickly,

(01:14:30):
something that has done quite well actually in fighting Hamas too.
That led to the ability for Israel to be comfortable
doing this, which also deserves to be mentioned and probably
won't be talked about by a lot of media that
wants to just go after Israel as much as possible.
Some other things out there This was a big announcement
yesterday and it's just interesting to compare the coverage of

(01:14:52):
it to the reality of it. So Texas Land Commissioner
Don Buckingham announced an initiative, a design to to hold, detain,
whatever you want to say, and then eventually deport violent
criminals that are here illegally in our country. It's specifically
designed to try to be a holding place for violent criminals.

(01:15:14):
I want to say that as many times as I can.
And it's named after a twelve year old girl. Her
name is Jocelyn, who was sexually attacked and then killed
by two illegal immigrants in our country. To illegal people
in our country that matters, she calls it the Joscelyn Initiative.

Speaker 4 (01:15:34):
This would be Don Buckingham. I have some audio I
want to play.

Speaker 3 (01:15:36):
Because I then want to discuss how MSNBC specifically decided
to cover this story again, just so you know going
in and I'll play the actual audio from the actual announcement.
This is designated for violent criminals who will be deported
once Trump is in power, and who Texas has wanted
to deport, I'm sure for a while, but they've been

(01:15:58):
fighting with the federal government with the Bide administration on
what exactly to do to protect our country.

Speaker 4 (01:16:04):
Here's a little bit of the audio.

Speaker 19 (01:16:07):
So we have an exciting announcement. The new project that
the General landoff is going to Barkin that I have
created is the Jocelyn Initiative, in which we will locate
appropriate land under my jurisdiction to LEAs for the construction
of violent criminal deportation facilities. My office has identified several

(01:16:29):
of our properties and is standing by ready to make
this happen on day one as the Trump presidency.

Speaker 3 (01:16:35):
All right, now, I want to stop it right there again,
violent criminal deportation facilities is what.

Speaker 4 (01:16:40):
She calls them.

Speaker 3 (01:16:41):
She's standing next to the family members of the twelve
year old girl, Jocelyn, who was again attacked and then killed.
And then MSNBC just a short time after that announcement
comes out, rolls out with its own experts to say
this about that announcement, I mean.

Speaker 20 (01:16:58):
The governor of Texas has already opened up, offered up
fourteen hundred square miles of space, Nick Cole, to put
concentration camps in place.

Speaker 9 (01:17:10):
What are we serious right now?

Speaker 4 (01:17:13):
They call them concentration camps?

Speaker 3 (01:17:15):
Is that really like the way that rhetoric is so
quickly ramped up and so ridiculously I mean recreated. That's
not what she said. She said that violent criminals would
be put somewhere before they're deported and removed from our country.
That's not what concentration camps did. Of course, anyone who
knows any history at all knows the horrific things that

(01:17:36):
actually occurred there. They weren't holding facilities to send people
that are violently harming our citizens back to wherever they
came from because they're not allowed to be here legally.

Speaker 4 (01:17:47):
It's just insane.

Speaker 3 (01:17:49):
And the whole design of this, again is to just
make you someone who loves MSNBC for whatever reason, if
that's anyone out there listening to the show, just irate.
I rate it the Trump supporters, I rate it anyone.
And they're they're purposefully completely changing every aspect of the story.
They're not reporting on the young woman who was killed.

(01:18:11):
They're not reporting on the family members who are you know,
moved by this action. They're reporting on none of that.
They're turning this into something it evidently isn't, and doing
it in a way that a lot of people just
echo it. Someone at some point is going to say,
probably to some of you out there listening, that while
they support concentration camps, which which is insane, it's insane

(01:18:32):
to say it's insane to deal with it.

Speaker 4 (01:18:33):
And yet that's the world we're in right now. I
can actually do this again.

Speaker 3 (01:18:37):
Another story out there that I thought was interesting, that
broke I think earlier today, maybe there were some whispers
of it yesterday, is Trump's pick for the NIH of course,
an organization that had a huge influence during COVID in
organization that was headed by people that were not all
too happy about that have since walked away from their positions,

(01:18:59):
people Francis Collins and of course doctor Anthony Fauci, the
new person recommended for this job. I will tell you
the resume of the individual, because what I love about
this story, and love might be a weird word to choose,
is the way that it's being reported in even some

(01:19:19):
quote mainstream media outlets or legacy media outlets, the NBCs
of the world, not just the msnbcs of the world,
and the resume point that they're obsessed with that comes
up first, but the resume of the individual. He's a
you know, obviously a doctor, obviously a medical professional, Indian
born American physician, economist, professor of medicine, economics, and health

(01:19:43):
research Policy at Stanford University. I think one of the
most important parts of this too is a professor of
medicine and economics, an American physician, but a person who
stood against lockdowns and against a lot of the things
that happened during COVID because many of those discussions, many
of those conversations revolved around things that were beyond just

(01:20:07):
the I don't even know how you would say it
this way, but the most basic version of I care
more about doing something that's extreme in the world of
health because I'm claiming that it's going to protect you
even if it doesn't protect you, and I don't care
what other damage has done anywhere else. This person was
a huge critic of doctor Anthony Fauci. I think I

(01:20:29):
even have some audio of that. But again, I love
the fact that most media, the first thing they're going
to seize on is that the individual was anti lockdown,
even though a lot of data has told us now
that the lockdowns were wrong, they were inappropriate, they didn't work,
they weren't effective at all at containing any of the
spread of COVID. Essentially, we shouldn't have done them, so

(01:20:51):
anyone who was a critic of it was right. But
that doesn't matter. That's not important. The discussion is just
about whether or not you can fear mongerbount this topic too.
Here's a little bit of a discussion about doctor Fauci
and about everything else given to us by someone who
will lead the NIH that Trump will ask to overhaul
the NIH, who again is somebody that mainstream media is

(01:21:14):
going to tell you as a radical even though they're
a professor at Stanford.

Speaker 14 (01:21:18):
I think the question is why is the Biden administration
still using its leverage to protect doctor Fauci and his reputation.
Why is that a major goal of the bid administration's policies.

Speaker 18 (01:21:34):
He's still the golden boy, doctor Fauci, of so many
communities in the United States that have sworn a political
allegiance to maintain political apartheid in America, so that scientists
who believe in a lab league are separate. They're separate
but equal, maybe not even separate but equal, but they are.

(01:21:55):
They do not go to the same panels, they are
not invited to the same editorial boards, they don't have
the same rights in publishing and in science. It's I
don't know if you saw this, This is this is delicious.
Did you guys see this? Rachelle Wilensky just last week
receives the Anthony B. Fauci Courage and Leadership Award.

Speaker 4 (01:22:19):
By the way, that is datd audio.

Speaker 3 (01:22:21):
But what I love about it so much is how
reasoned some of that discussion is, and how crazy the
political system that exists within the NIH or anything else is.
And that's all that's really going to come to the
forefront of a conversation if critics of doctor Fauci, critics
of COVID lockdowns and all that other stuff wind up
in positions of power. And again, say what you will

(01:22:42):
about any of the nominations of Trump, if you look
at the background of some of these individuals, it is
hard to say that this person is not qualified for
said position because of the current roles they have in academia,
or in medicine, or in anything else. It's just it's
kind of amazing to me. But again, this will be
viewed as a controversial pick because someone spoke their mind

(01:23:04):
and said things that weren't supposed to be said at
a time when no one else was really saying them
that wound up being right. Because the other thing I
would I would implore people to do about any of
these discussions, any of these topics, whether it's someone being
put in charge of, you know, defense department, someone being
put in charge of the education department who seems like

(01:23:25):
they're going to try to upend part of that system,
is just to see whether or not the person has
any any version of being capable of understanding what's going
on there and not shooting it in the foot because
someone in mainstream media is telling you that they're completely unqualified.
Go look at the qualification to yourself to decide whether

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or not it's something that even could make sense, And
especially people who are going to fight from within whatever
they're in to out some of the bad things that
go on all the time. But I do think it's
tremendous to hear someone who might be the leader of
NIH say they wonder why the Biden administration was so
dead set on protecting fauci, protecting individuals from any sort

(01:24:09):
of criticism, any sort of you know, long form version
of investigation, What is the actual thing going on behind
the scenes that stuff most of us would want to know,
because I guess one last thing I'll say about that
and then I'll take a break. And this is maybe
the thing that people are actually afraid of. I don't
believe that these individuals are just going to make stuff up.

(01:24:31):
I know that some media is going to claim they will.
But people being put in charge and looking into the
potential rot within the bureaucracies that exist within our country,
that's got to always be a good thing. Oversight into
how we could do things better and what things are
going wrong. Shouldn't in and of itself be something that
concerns you. We have to judge the inevitable results of

(01:24:55):
those things, the investigations, the you know, things they tell
us that we're bad, that we're going going on by
a standard. Once we hear the information, when the information
is inevitably shared with us on whatever the accusations are
of wrongdoing, that's the right moment to then be potentially
critical of whether or not that is true or false information.

(01:25:15):
But I love the amount of people that are terrified
of the idea of this even starting the process of
trying to evaluate what we're doing wrong and what corruption
might exist. To be afraid of that part makes no sense.
And yet it's all over the place right now, and
certainly a part of this discussion as Trump makes yet
another pick that seems like a person who's going to

(01:25:36):
be very critical of the organizations and the departments he
winds up being in charge of. All Right, quick break,
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Filling in a lot of gambling is probably gonna happen
over the next couple days. People sitting in front of
any sort of football telling you all the different prop
bets and things that they're throwing money down on.

Speaker 4 (01:27:31):
I feel like we could open that up a little more.

Speaker 3 (01:27:34):
Maybe you should bet on the Thanksgiving Day parade, just
with people that you're with, which floats you're going to
see in what order. I'm sure there's bets out there
that you can find, or even if something's going to
go awry, or if anything's going to be embarrassing quickly
for someone, just a bunch of things you can throw
out there. But gambling is becoming so commonplace as a

(01:27:55):
discussion point, especially around sports, for so many of us
that I imagine it'll be one of the other things that,
whether you're well versed in it or not, you're going
to hear about a lot over the next couple days.
So maybe just like dive in a bit, just throw
a couple bucks in a pot somewhere and make some
sort of basic bet and see if you win. With
the family. It's something that certainly can make the Super

(01:28:16):
Bowl parties that happen next year quite a bit of fun.
And I feel like you're going to become more and
more part of Thanksgiving since football is such a big
part of the day, or so many of us too.
If it's not already been something that you've done, but
just a thought that was out there that I figured
i'd throw out and maybe some prop bets I'll discuss
later on involving the Thanksgiving Day parade or maybe fights

(01:28:38):
at the table. Maybe you bet on what family member
is going to get things going. As far as an argument,
do it with the more fun family members you have.
As far as the betting goes. Don't tell everybody about it,
because people are easily going to cheat in that world.
Another thing out there that I love is a recommendation.

Speaker 4 (01:28:54):
It's real.

Speaker 3 (01:28:55):
They say that after Thanksgiving dinner, before any sort of
additional hanging out out of the family, you should go
on something that you can actually refer to as a
fart walk. This is where you all go outside as
a group of people, go on just a little trek
around the neighborhood, and anybody that's having any sort of
post food issues can release them into a place where

(01:29:16):
you're not really going to be aware of what's happening.
I would find this hilarious if a bunch of people
in a neighborhood all did this at the same time.
Like you're just looking around and you're seeing all the
other families going through the community, you'd probably want to
give some distance between you and any of the friends
and family you're seeing out there. But this is a
real recommendation. It's good for you both from a health standpoint.

(01:29:39):
It points out that actually there's people that are probably
still carrying food from last year, carrying weight from last year,
which thanks a lot for telling us that. And so
a good old fashioned fart walk before hanging out in
the living room together and watching football and making bets
on stuff might benefit everybody involved. I again find that
hilarious last thing. I know it's not Thanksgiving quite yet,

(01:30:04):
but it's probably okay to start talking about Christmas. It's
a real question that's being answered out there in the world.
Should you wash your Christmas tree? If you're one of
the cut down a tree and bring it into your
house people, should you chop it down and then make
sure to clean it. The answer is no, it's not
going to benefit you anywhere near as much as some
might think it does.

Speaker 4 (01:30:24):
I've never heard of anybody do this.

Speaker 3 (01:30:26):
But if you want the insects off the tree and
you're going to clean it, good luck to you, because
it's overkill.

Speaker 4 (01:30:31):
I love it. A quick break. A little bit more
coming up.

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filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff to talk about. Just before the holiday. There's a
really interesting study that came out that tried to look
into whether or not people would invent racism if they
were given material written by fairly prominent race related authors

(01:31:33):
and then given a scenario in which racism did not exist.

Speaker 4 (01:31:36):
I think it's really interesting.

Speaker 3 (01:31:37):
People like Robin DiAngelo were some of the authors of
certain DEI types of training and whatnot that people would
give given material on to read through after they read
through it. And this was a study where I think
three hundred and something participants were randomized. Half of them
were given information related to Korn that they were which

(01:32:00):
had nothing to do with people, of course, just like
basic information about something that's non pertinent to any sort
of issue. I love that, just basic facts like us
Coorn was worth eighty six billion last year, et cetera, etc.
Then they're given a scenario, a hiring process scenario, and
which again the test made sure was completely neutral, nothing racist. Happens,

(01:32:21):
and essentially very basic information is given, like person applies
to elite university doesn't wind up getting in after an
interview process. And the really interesting thing about this study,
the reason I wanted to talk about it at all,
is that if you were given material that had a
very heavily racially opinionated position, even if it wasn't relevant

(01:32:43):
to the scenario, you were then given after you invented
racism in all kinds of ways. People said there were microaggressions,
all kinds of things that occurred if you just read
stuff about corn, and then we're given a scenario in
which you were asked if any racism existed, you didn't
see racism. They're like, no, I think everything was totally fine.

Speaker 4 (01:33:04):
Here.

Speaker 3 (01:33:05):
Some of the things that people thought happened that was
bad if they were given material to read so their
brain focused on it before being given a scenario and asked.
Certain questions involved again micro app microaggressions the applicant faced
during questioning which didn't exist, harm that was done to
the applicant after not getting the job that was racially motivated,

(01:33:27):
violence that was heard from the interviewer, biased decision making
by the administration officers and the people involved, like all
these things. They're pointing to all these parts of a
scenario again that was, you know, devoid of any of
this and saying, oh, right, there's the problem right there,
it's over here. You know what's so fascinating to me

(01:33:49):
about this topic. I know a lot of people who've
studied like psychology and just medicine and all kinds of things,
and they say, in a lot of those worlds, when
you study things, you wind up believing you have a
bunch of stuff. So the more your brain is unlocked
to the reality of something existing at all, the more
you think it's relevant to you. I guess this is

(01:34:11):
the most easy way to say it. You study depression,
and then you're pretty sure you're depressed. You study this,
you're pretty sure you have this, and it can go
quite extreme. But it's certainly an effect that's well documented
that people have seen a lot of doctors who wind
up thinking they're ill while studying medicine, only to find
out that they're doing okay. The same is true in
this world of prep the brain to anticipate racism, and

(01:34:36):
then racism or whatever it is is seen the moment
you're in a scenario, regardless of how real it is.
So it's fascinating and valuable for us to have a
discussion about how much of this is being force fed
to us, thrown upon us, certainly specific communities in our society,
who are told you're not going to succeed, You're going

(01:34:57):
to fail because life is unfair. The world is unfair
specifically to you, and it's because of this reason, and
then you go out and you believe you experience it
even when you don't. And no matter how much proof
we have that this is a real life thing that occurs,
people will continue to ignore it. They'll continue to say,
how dare you We need to teach kids younger and

(01:35:18):
younger that there are good guys and bad guys in
the classroom based wholly on what they look like or
you know, what sex they are, or any of that stuff,
and totally irrelevant to how they behave as people. That's
the kind of thing that they argue and fight about
all the time. And I just think it's amazing, But
yet another study proves the reality of this, and people

(01:35:38):
will easily ignore it. But I figured I'd go ahead
and refer it on or like pass it on to
you because how important it is.

Speaker 4 (01:35:45):
Look it up for yourself.

Speaker 3 (01:35:46):
Two thirds of Americans think that Trump's tariffs will lead
to much higher prices. There is a scenario here where
maybe you know, in a very short term way, that
could be true. There are ways in which that can
be mitigated. I love the fact that a whole lot
of people would react to that by saying, obviously, Americans
don't understand tariffs. Supply and demand is always going to

(01:36:08):
be the biggest reason why, you know, costs can go
up and down. If American people can't afford higher prices,
and how could we possibly afford higher prices? Then companies
will eat the cost of tariffs if they have to
in order to sell their items at all, If they
have way too much supply and not enough demand, that
will be the true control of pricing more so than

(01:36:29):
anything else. But the other goal in doing any of this,
and how much of this becomes real and not just
a negotiation tool, which a bunch of Trump supporters are
saying is all it's all it's really designed to be,
will be how much creation of products and things come
back to the United States, incentivizing companies to do their

(01:36:50):
work here because it's simply cheaper to create those products
here is intelligent.

Speaker 4 (01:36:56):
It's valuable to do that, especially when.

Speaker 3 (01:36:59):
The American people are saying that we're struggling in so
many different ways. And you see it if you go
to certain communities throughout the country. And I know this
is a pretty simple rhetoric point, but it's true, so
it has value. But if you go to a lot
of communities where say, you know, one or two factories

(01:37:19):
kind of generated a certain amount of money for the
entire community, a certain amount of livelihood, handled the income
of say forty fifty percent of the people who live
in a community, and then it's all gone away. The
devastation that exists there. I've lived in places that you know,
had relied more on companies that no longer saw benefit

(01:37:42):
to growing in those communities, and essentially we're disappearing in
those communities, and how harmful it can be. And anything
about creating a scenario where it becomes more beneficial to
reopen those facilities start creating those products here would net
benefit us and benefit you know, the way in which

(01:38:03):
we all live. And it's just so rarely it seems
to be an immediate point that comes up in this discussion.
It certainly is a point that a lot of people
talk about, but it feels so far removed from any
of the other things about it. Tariffs and you know,
deincentivizing the creation of products abroad that are brought into
our country in all kinds of ways doesn't hurt America

(01:38:26):
as much as it hurts everybody else. All of those
other countries will also try to do everything they can
to mitigate this, because without us, they're going to struggle
more than we will. We will always be able to
find other avenues to things because of the might of
our economy comparatively, so I do think that's also really interesting.
One other thing that I saw out there that I
just was amused by. I can't get over how ridiculous

(01:38:49):
this sounds. But Kamala Harris's campaign has been saying some
stuff recently, some of the sillier things or things like
they don't regret anything they did even though they horribly
lost the election. One of the other moments that I
really was entertained by, though, I was saying that they
couldn't find a day to appear on Joe Rogan's podcast,

(01:39:10):
that the offer was out there. Rogan actually made it
public even during his interview with Donald Trump, and it
didn't happen. And Stephanie Cutter and some others who were
part of the Harris campaign said they just couldn't figure
it out. They could appear on stuff other podcasts that
were much friendlier to Harris, they could appear on mainstream

(01:39:31):
television multiple times, but they just couldn't find a time
to be on the number one podcast and probably a
platform that helped Trump reach a lot of say, younger men.
I know that Rogan has a lot of different listeners
of all different kinds of demographics, but one of the
more significant groups of people that fundamentally changed their allegiances

(01:39:54):
away from Democrats and toward conservatives or toward Trump specifically,
was you know, young men that vote in all demographics.
By the way, this is black men, white men, It
doesn't matter. A whole lot of young guys who don't
like part of the rhetoric of the Democratic Party being
that men are to blame for a lot of stuff

(01:40:15):
in our society, and toxic masculinity is to blame for
things in our society, which makes some of these guys
feel like you can't be a guy, you can't be
a dude, because what is that line? According to them,
they gravitate towards these other things, And how could Harris
choose not to be on that. If you prioritized it higher,

(01:40:35):
of course you'd be able to have time to be
on it. But I just love the fact that it's
out there. As an excuse as to why they didn't
do it is they just couldn't figure it out. They
just couldn't coordinate it better. That is the kind of
stuff that loses you elections. One last thing, just as
an update, the classified documents case against Trump has officially

(01:40:56):
gone away, at least for now. They are things that
seem to be getting buried in a sense. They're not
going to be proactively going after Trump anymore, but they're
allowing themselves the opportunity to pick these cases back up
if and when Trump isn't in the presidential office anymore,
whether that's four years or it sounds like some Democrats

(01:41:16):
are hoping they can remove him somehow sooner than that.
But it is interesting that these cases and some of
the ways in which dismissals are being found. Jack Smith
specifically is going after them. I have a prediction, though,
I just want to put it out there, because it's
obvious enough that people are seeing that you're leaving these

(01:41:37):
things in a way where they could be revisited. That
something that will happen over the course of the next
four years, at least when it comes to federal cases,
is Trump will find a way to prevent them from
being things that can happen to him after he leaves office.
You can't necessarily pardon yourself for stuff that you aren't
any longer being accused of doing. But I'm sure there

(01:41:58):
will be some sort of mechanism, some sort of approach
to it, that responds to this and tries to use
the power of the presidency, which obviously he has for
the next four years, to prevent them from trying to
throw him in jail as soon as it's over. And
it would also be strange. I think there's much better words,
some of which I can't use on the radio to

(01:42:19):
say this. For Trump to serve an entire second term,
to have won the popular vote and the electoral College,
of course, and then still be threatened with jail the
moment he's no longer president again four years from now.
If that's what happens, that would be an odd approach.
But it seems to be one that many people are
hoping on that side of the aisle or in those spaces,

(01:42:43):
does occur that there is still a way to go
after him, quietly ensuring that January sixth cases and all
those other cases don't truly go away, which is, you know,
the kind of thing that's you're not learning your lesson.
I think you're not realizing what the American people said
they do and don't care about based on the election itself.

(01:43:04):
It's just sort of it's not surprising, but it's sort
of amazing to see continue to play out. But I
have a prediction that somehow, some way, very soon after
being in office, there will be something put in play
that makes it impossible for people to go after Trump,
because darn it, he'll be the president and he'll have
the ability to do it. All right, quick break, a
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My name is Craig Collins, filling in for just a
little bit longer. Here Chad is back after the holidays.
I love headlines, sometimes more so than articles themselves. There's
a headline out there to a recent stuff that says
attractive female students grades plummet when they go to remote learning.

Speaker 4 (01:45:06):
Here's why. The last part is here's why. I know why.

Speaker 3 (01:45:10):
Because the attractive female is no longer in person with
the educator who finds them attractive. They're now remote, So
you don't have to tell me that part. I love
that the study says the attractive people in general still
tend to have better overall grades than less attractive people.
There's still a bias there, there's some willingness to forgive
maybe some things differently, and you're going to be harder

(01:45:33):
on people that you find less attractive. But women specifically
are negatively impacted the cute ones by learning remotely compared
to learning in person. Not surprising at all. I'm a man.
I understand the brain of the man. I understand how
all these things could occur, even if they're totally innocent,
even if there's no design for anything bad. You just

(01:45:54):
see somebody, you find them attractive. You might be more
lenient when you grade their paper. That's the kind of
thing that happens if they're on the screen and you're
not really paying as much attention. Easier to not be
influenced by some stuff.

Speaker 4 (01:46:07):
But that was a.

Speaker 3 (01:46:07):
Study out there that I found funny. Also this people
are naming their children names that are common for dogs.
I guess according to young people. There's even a person
that went viral talking about this. She's a baby naming expert.
Her name is Colleen.

Speaker 4 (01:46:23):
I want to play audio.

Speaker 3 (01:46:24):
She defends the practice of giving your child what could
be considered an offensive dog related name.

Speaker 4 (01:46:31):
Most of the names are normal, by the way.

Speaker 3 (01:46:33):
There's a few that are weird towards the tail end
of this, but I gotta play this audio.

Speaker 17 (01:46:37):
One of the most common name insults I see is
that's a dog name. Dog names are in okay, like
that's a compliment. Now, when I think about dog names,
a few trends come to mind.

Speaker 1 (01:46:47):
The first is like cutesy nickname.

Speaker 17 (01:46:49):
Names Charlie, Daisy, Sophie, Ruby, Sadie, Archie. I also think
of like short and sweet names Leo, Max.

Speaker 1 (01:46:55):
Chloe, Luna.

Speaker 17 (01:46:56):
Luna is a huge dog name, number ten ranked B
name for girls Bear, Banjo, Blue. I think if you
went to Australia, you'd see that those names are super
untread and against your best instincts, you'd.

Speaker 4 (01:47:07):
Start to like them.

Speaker 3 (01:47:08):
No, I would never like the name Bear, Banjo or
Blue for a child. I'm never going to be in
on that, no matter how much you can try to
convince me. I am, there's a whole bunch of names
for dogs that you would not want to name your
child a buddy scout.

Speaker 4 (01:47:22):
There's a bunch of things out there.

Speaker 3 (01:47:23):
But I love that this person is so upset about
this that she's out there trying to defend it.

Speaker 4 (01:47:27):
She's like, you can name your child after a dog.
It's totally fine.

Speaker 3 (01:47:31):
Most of those names are normal, and I know we
name a dog's a lot of normal human names do
this is a weird thing. By the way, I wouldn't
care if I was happy with the name of my
kid and someone said that that was a dog named
to them. That wouldn't offend me at all because I
wouldn't agree with them. And that's something you can do.
Two people out there who are getting upset about this.

(01:47:52):
One last quick thing, just a fact for you before
Thanksgiving as well. I thought this was interesting. Americans will
throw out three hundred and sixteen million pounds of food
after Thanksgiving. Three hundred and sixteen million pounds. This probably
also factors in the amount of people that will be

(01:48:12):
force fed some amount of leftovers for several days before.

Speaker 4 (01:48:16):
Eventually giving up on this.

Speaker 3 (01:48:18):
I think the only problem here is our inability to
plan appropriately. You know, you want the kitchen table or
the Thanksgiving table to look just full of food, full
of options for all involved. That's part of the idea
of it romanticizing. It is the image before you start
your feast, of an actual feast. But maybe we should
count ahead, Maybe we should plan better and decide how

(01:48:41):
many people are there.

Speaker 4 (01:48:42):
It would be weird, though.

Speaker 3 (01:48:44):
And I'm saying this as honestly as I can say it,
if like you ran out of food, even if everybody
was just full enough on Thanksgiving out of all the
days to be like, you know, we got nothing left. Guys,
we made it exactly correctly. That is the world we're in.
But people a well throw a lot of food. That
seems like something we got to do better. At three
hundred and sixteen pounds, that doesn't sound good. But again,

(01:49:07):
it's got to be some sort of approach that doesn't
take away all of the fun of the holiday.

Speaker 4 (01:49:12):
All right, I'm out of here. Chad's back after the holidays.

Speaker 3 (01:49:14):
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:49:27):

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