Killing of United Healthcare CEO Uncorks Anger at Insurance Industry

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
People suck, period, case closed. People need to bitch, they
need to be angry. And I said it the other
day after it happened, the killing of the CEO of
United Healthcare. Some people on the left are going to
celebrate this. And guess what, some people on the left

(00:35):
are absolutely celebrating this. And we're not just talking about
some random people. They're a journalists out there. It is crazy,
but not unexpected in today's world.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
So the CEO of the multi billion dollar United Healthcare
insurance company was shot and killed this morning in New
York City. And I will say that, but it is
it is pretty tragic that the shooter was only able
to get one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
But it's a good start. I mean, it's a good,
good foundation good. We can only only move up from here.
And before any of.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
You come at me with oh my god, I can't
believe you'd say that, go findself. Seriously, go fuck yourselves.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
How many husbands do you think have had to bury
their wives because their wives cancer treatment was denied? How
many parents do you think have had to bury their
children because whatever healthcare treatment the child needed was denied
or they had to jump through hoop after hoop after
hoop after hoop, until finally the treatment the sickness had

(01:41):
progressed so far the treatment just wasn't an option anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:46):
So yeah, I would say that this is probably a
good start.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Okay, first I you everybody in the world, we'd all
be frustrated if you've ever dealt with it. It's a
nightmare trying to get something paid. And United health Care,
by the way, number one for denying claims, number one

(02:11):
for denying claims. And this guy was using AI algorithm
to speed that up, because that's what you do. You start.
Same thing goes with car insuring. I mean, they all
do it, but healthcare is a much different thing. Celebrating this, though,
just shows you where we are in this world, how
absolutely people are a bunch of freaking ass hats. Look,

(02:34):
it's awful that people get sick. It is awful that
you got to go through the insurance companies. It is
awful the expense of it all. It is awful that
one situation in your life can bankrupt you. There's no
doubt about that. This isn't a way to handle it,

(02:58):
and celebrating it isn't good either. So not just tim
Taylor Lorenz, who was the tech reporter for I don't
know the Washington Post, was a tech reporter for the
New York Times celebrated as well as several others. One

(03:27):
of the things she tweeted out, and people wonder why
we want these executives dead? That is insane. It really is.
I mean a man, I tell you I've dealt with it.
You've dealt everybody. There's not a person listening right now

(03:48):
that probably hasn't had some nightmare story of insurance. They
denied a claim, they denied it again, they denied it again.
It is frustrating as hell. And the expense I will
tell you, guys this the expense of our healthcare because

(04:09):
it's my business for my family. Would I will tell
you exactly what it is. But let's just say if
I wanted to buy a house, the kind of house
I could afford with my payment probably close to five
six hundred thousand for me to cover the family. Think

(04:34):
about that for a second. You don't think that's frustrating
as hell. Oh my god, But this is what we've got.
And people are pissed and frustrated, and people are starting
to say, see what's happening though, See what's happening. Things
are changing, And the reason people are saying that is

(04:57):
Anthem Blue Cross Big.

Speaker 6 (05:00):
One's going to do something with anesthesia that they've reversed
their course on rather quickly, and people are going, are
you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (05:15):
What they were going to do is you're only going
to they were only going to pay for whatever they
thought the anesthesia was, for whatever they thought the surgery
should go. So if it went four hours, but really
they thought it should only go two hours, well that
other two hours you're gonna have to pick up.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
The American Society of Anesthesiologists describing the policy change as
a cynical money grab by Anthem. Anthem Blue Cross Blue
Shields said the new policy was designed to clarify the
appropriateness of anesthesia consistent with guidelines, but now the company
reversing course, saying, there has been significant, widespread misinformation and

(05:51):
about an update to our anesthesia policy. As a result,
we have decided not to proceed with this policy change.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yeah, people were pissed and they reverse course on this.
So Antheon Blue Cross, A lot of people are saying
this is because of the shooting. You're like, oh my god,
because if that's true, you're just like, so wait, now
you can just go out and shoot a CEO and
get what you want. Because that's the message, sense, which

(06:18):
is a horrible message, by the way, it's a horrible message.
The company would have used physicians' work time Values, which
is published by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services,
as the metric for anesthesia limits. With maternity patients and
patients under the age of twenty two, those two would

(06:40):
be completely exempt, but for others. Yeah, they reversed it immediately,
and everybody's pointing to this is what happens. See, people
are listening for the patients.

Speaker 8 (06:56):
They don't have to worry now that if the surgery
goes more than a certain amount of time, they could
be liable for a portion of that build or they
may have trouble finding someone to provide the anesthesia.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
So frustrating, because there's a conversation happening. By the way,
this assassin has started a conversation in this country about
the cost of healthcare, the rising cost. And as I

(07:32):
tell my friends on the left, your goal is to
have medicare for all, but the same people that are
in bed with the insurance companies, who allow the insurance
companies to craft Obamacare. In all of these things that

(07:54):
are part of this nightmare. You want to turn everything
over to which is scary, Now, to the assassination side
of it. Now that we've got over the scumbags of
the world who wish and hope that, you know, kill
the man. Still, where the hell is this guy? We're
learning more and more about him except who he is.

Speaker 9 (08:15):
So he gets here somewhere around the twenty fourth. Now,
let's establish that that puts him here a lot longer
than we believed he was here just twenty four hours ago.
He checks into this hostel which we've been up to
on the Upper West Side. He's assigned to a room
where he has these two roommates. He talks to the
clerk at the desk, and you know they are chatting

(08:36):
back and forth, and you know, she's kind of having
a flirty moment.

Speaker 1 (08:40):
With him, and say, that's when the smile happens.

Speaker 9 (08:41):
Let me see your face. Take down your mask, and
he lowers the mask and gives that big smile. That
little flirtation between the two of them actually yielded what
is so far the most significant clue to identifying him.

Speaker 2 (08:55):
Still don't know who he is, don't even know where
he potentially is has gone. You know, I've heard everything
from Minnesota to to he's gone to Canada. They've got
some leads as far as where it's pointing, okay, from
a phone to you know. Obviously the bullets which were

(09:18):
had writing on them, so but they still have no idea.
They know that the guy in the picture, he is
the suspect. He left clues behind because dude, it's not
a pro Like originally I thought this guy's pro hitman.
No he wasn't. I continue to stand by he is

(09:41):
a person who hates the insurance industry or had beef
specifically with United Healthcare, and he either lost somebody lost everything,
blamed it on them, and wanted revenge. That's it.

Speaker 10 (09:56):
They think he may have made too many mistakes to
be a professional. At At one point, he's seen at
a Starbucks just before the shooting. He bought a water
bottle and a couple of granola bars, leaving the wrappers behind.
There was a cell phone that was left behind, and
the authorities have linked that phone to the shooter. They
believe it's his. Now, whether they've been able to get

(10:18):
into it or not, We're not sure yet, but that
would certainly be a key piece of evidence.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Of course, who's he calling? Why is he calling? How
long was he there? Where did he go when he
was in town? Can we trace that? The former bodyguard
of Brian Thompson, the guy that was killed, said, Hey,
I don't know why this guy didn't have security. Where
the hell was the security? You get to a certain level,
you have security. You get to a certain level is

(10:47):
CEOs in life? Where because you can't get to that
level without stepping on people's toes and without being some
sort of target for whatever reason? And where was the security?
Why is this dude walking around? Are getting death threats?
His wife pointed.

Speaker 10 (11:02):
Out they did get a key image one where he
did not have on a face mask, and they blasted
that out, hoping that somebody by now must recognize who
this shooter is.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Here's the other creepiness, the girls who are falling in
love with him, the infamy. Oh it's already out there.
I've seen it. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty
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They're leading an outfit called the Department of Government Efficiency,
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out sign of government and their DOGE effort won't accomplish
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House Speaker Mike Johnson described the pair's first meeting with
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There won't be a lot of detail for the press today,
and that's by design.

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Musk suggested on X that getting remote working federal employees
back into the office will be a major focus.

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Major focus, by the way, a major focus. The amount
of office space we have that is being not utilized, underutilized. Hell,
there are things that were built pre COVID, nobody's even
at then you have this, and this is what pisces

(20:43):
people all. First of all, government already bureaucracy a nightmare.
And I think the frustration that's going to come from
the DOGE folks, from Vivek and from Elon with the
amount of bureaucracy that you have to cut through to
get to the opportunity to cut bureaucracy is going to

(21:05):
drive them through. I don't think they're going to be
as successful as people want them to be in the
sense of cutting things. What I do think they're going
to be successful is exposing the amount of waste bureaucracy,
the layers of crap that government has out there, and
the amount of are workers that the government employees that

(21:31):
we pay for as taxpayers that aren't at work and
are doing things like taking a bubble bath while they
do their work and then bragging about it is not
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Nothing sums up remote work better than this selfie of
a federal employee jumping on a call in a bubble bath.
The employee was a manager at the Department of Veterans Affairs,
who posted the picture on social media with the caption
my office for the next hour. The picture encapsulates a
new report from Senator Jony Ernst, which found just six
percent of federal employees are in the office full time,

(22:06):
while about one third are fully remote. Ernst investigation discovered
the remote work has resulted in American taxpayers receiving inadequate services,
including service backlogs and delays, unanswered phone calls and emails,
and no show appointments.

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No show appointments, So Apartment of Veterans Affairs important. The
amount of office space that we have that's not being
used is insane. It's not even it's you've got to
be kidding me, not being used. New office is built
as COVID starts to hit, and then they're empty. There

(22:43):
are some buildings where there's virtually nobody there at any
point in time. The Energy Agency, I think they said
on average they had eight people a day last year
in there in a space that should have forty eight
high hundred. Think about that.

Speaker 26 (23:01):
The shortcomings include calls from veterans for mental health services
going unanswered. Ernst also said remote work partially contributed to
the infant formula shortage of twenty twenty two. A whistleblower
informed the Food and Drug Administration about unsanitary conditions at
the formula plant in October twenty twenty one, but partially
due to remote work, the FDA senior leadership was not

(23:24):
informed for more than one hundred days. The FDA's reduction
of food facility inspections during the pandemic was also a factor.
The empty offices are costing taxpayers money. There isn't a
single agency headquarters in Washington that's half full. The average
occupancy is twelve percent. The report states. The government also
owns more than seven thousand, six hundred vacant buildings and

(23:46):
another twenty two hundred that are partially empty. Maintenance leases
and energy on these buildings costs more than fifteen billion
dollars a year.

Speaker 2 (23:55):
Oh my, now, pdd some hybrid work course. I don't
see a problem with that. If you're really good at
what you do and you have not had any issues,
keep doing what you do. But you're a federal employee
with very little accountability and no fear of ever really

(24:18):
losing your job. So if you want to work out
of your house and take a bubble bath, knock yourself out.

Speaker 26 (24:24):
Earnest suggests monitoring employees' locations and their productivity using VPNs,
having use it or Lose It policies for government real estate,
and making remote work policies performance based. Ernst report states
if bureaucrats don't want to return to work, make their
wish come true. Some of the changes could be implemented
through the new Department of Government Efficiency. Ernst heads the

(24:46):
new DOGE Caucus, which will work with Elon Musk and
Vivic Ramaswami to reduce government waste. The duo was on
Capitol Hill meeting with Republicans Thursday afternoon.

Speaker 22 (24:56):
The taxpayers deserve better.

Speaker 21 (24:57):
They deserve a more responsive government, a more efficient government,
the one that is leaner and more focused on its
primary objectives.

Speaker 26 (25:05):
Making cuts to the government will need to be a
closely aligned effort between the Department and Congress, because only
lawmakers on Capitol Hill have the power to alter the budget.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
And therein lies the magic bureaucracy. Before you get to
the chance to cut bureaucracy, and those bureaucrats, those unelected officials,
those government employees, are going to do everything in their
power to make sure that doesn't happen. They're not going

(25:38):
to allow their jobs to be taken away. They're not
going to allow for any kind of restructured way of
doing things. They don't want any of that. They want
to do what they do, which is whatever they want
with very little accountability.

Speaker 27 (26:00):
It too.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I don't think they're bad people, but when given the opportunity, hey,
you don't have to work very hard or to really
do anything, and you'll still be fine.

Speaker 28 (26:10):
And I want to emphasize the individual federal employees are
mostly not bad people, actually, because most human beings are
not bad people to the country. Most people whore Federal
employees are doing what they do because they believe they're
serving their country, and I respect that. I'm hopeful it's
going to be even good for many of the individuals
who may make a transition from government service back to

(26:31):
the private sector.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
We'll see. I just and we're going to talk to
our buddy Zach Abraham, Chief Investment Officer Bullard next hour
because I want to get his take on it, because
my take is the best that's going to come out
of this. They'll cut some areas where they're going to
be able to, but you've got powerful unions, you got

(26:54):
laws in place, You've got lawmakers who are getting lobbied
by the people that work basically in the same business
as them, which is government. So I just think it's
gonna be tough. I really do. And to take on
the big task you're gonna have to cut. It's funny,

(27:16):
but it's like you're gonna cut solid security. I will
say this over and over again. You can streamline and
cut the fat and not cut the program, meaning I
can cut out a bunch of the stuff behind the

(27:38):
street scenes, administrators, mid level management and save a lot
of money, and I can go into the program fix
it where it works more efficiently for the end user,
which is the taxpayer, Medicare, Medicaid, solid Security, without having

(27:59):
to cut the benefit side of it. But when anybody
talks about doing any of that stuff, it becomes about
where you're gonna throw Grahma over the cliff. You're gonna
take old people's paychecks away, and you're just because the

(28:21):
government's not interested in fixing the thing they're addicted to,
because they don't believe they have an addiction problem, which
is your money, my money and spending. Their issue is
we don't give enough to them, and we should probably
give more. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,

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It is the Christmas time of year, and I'm having
the Christmas time of cheer to a Christmas party last night,
a lot of fun. It's enjoyable. Tell you this though.
You know my love of Hallmark movies, all of that stuff,
doing a big family and it today is we're decorating
the tree and we're gonna have our cocoa. We're gonna
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(31:09):
my daughter is getting text messages from Santa, which is awesome.
She was super excited yesterday. It was Dancer's birthday the
other day. She was so excited about that. But we
also listen to a lot of Christmas music and I said,
this year, I'm gonna count down the five greatest Christmas
songs of all time. Now you cannot have Christmas without

(31:30):
this guy. In fact, I say it over and over again.
I don't think Christmas starts until you get to this guy.
It is such a great song. Are you guys ready
for the next one? As we count it down?

Speaker 27 (31:45):
Ten?

Speaker 2 (31:46):
Number one, the Greatest Christmas Songs of all time?

Speaker 23 (31:51):
Very Christmas, It's time for the Great Christmas countdown. The
five Greatest Christmas Songs of all time?

Speaker 2 (32:03):
Number four, all right, number four. This guy's maybe his
most famous song as far as the charts goes in
his day was Moon River. But Andy Williams's most famous
song that he's known for worldwide all the time, even

(32:26):
till this day, there's a song that, like I say
to me, you can't have Christmas without this song. You
just can't. It's not possible. You know what I'm talking about?
Because what time of year is it? It's that time
of year.

Speaker 30 (32:47):
It's the most wonderful time with the kids jingle belling
and everyone telling.

Speaker 31 (32:58):
You be a good chie. It's the most one time.
It's the hob sees.

Speaker 2 (33:15):
With those I absolutely loved this song and when friends
come to it, he loved Christmas and he realized when
he sang the song, how good. It was going to be.
But when they released, they put it on an album
and they said, all right, we're going to release one
of these Christmas songs, and he wanted this one and

(33:37):
they said no, and his rendition of White Christmas was
released and it did okay. But this thing continues to chart.
In fact, it's charted every year really since two thousand
and from twenty ten all the way up to twenty
twenty two. It has been rocketing up the charts all
the time. It was recorded in nineteen sixty three and

(34:03):
it is incredible. Written by George Wiley and Ed Pola.
The record label, like I said, they loved it, but
they thought White Christmas was better. It's been in a
few movies. Some of the lyrics include with the kids
jingle belling and everyone telling you to be of good cheer.

Speaker 10 (34:24):
Chris.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
When they wrote the song, one of the things that
they wanted to talk like they talk about ghost stories
and stuff because back in the day in the seventeen
hundreds in UK, they tried to abolish Christmas. But because
of Dickens and because of all of these things. That's
when they talk about the ghost stories and things they

(34:45):
that kept Christmas alive. It's just such an amazing song.
And when you hear his voice too, you're just like,
good God. And if you've never seen Andy Williams sing

(35:08):
it live, go watch him sing it live. It is
just awesome. You think to yourself, let me see nackin
Cole Freddie Mercury. You see people sing, and some people
have amazing voice. You're incredible. There's just certain voices like
how do you do that? It's just amazing. Three two, three, five,
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(35:31):
That is your Twitter, your Instagram, all of the other
things right here on the Chad Benson Show. Coming out
second hour. More on Yes, the Mysterious Gunman, who is he?
Where is he? And the motive still which I'm starting
to think we kind of know what the motive is.

(35:52):
I panted the picture the other day. People are like, wow,
how'd you get that? Because that's not hard to see
what the motive was, which you think was Blue Cross
coming to snuff them out. We're also going to talk
about how absolutely awful human beings are touched on a
little bit earlier when it came to people celebrating this
guy's death because of the fact that he was a
multi millionaire and a CEO of United Healthcare. And it's

(36:17):
not a way you can be pissed at the healthcare industry.
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Speaker 29 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 15 (36:55):
A lot of Republican women broke up with their mega
husbands and they don't want to be treated like that anymore.
If you look through the posts, there is a rising
up of these women who married Republican man. Here is
a tip newly single ladies. You want to get some
dark eyeliner and you want to get some dark lipstick.

Speaker 1 (37:18):
All of those boys that said they.

Speaker 15 (37:19):
Don't like makeup were sorting for obedient women. So you
need to like really wear makeup. And that's how you
signal to a man that you're not a Republican. The
patterns in our life are hard to break out of.
Make sure you attract a different kind of guy, this time.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
Like a girl guy with low TI. I love that
that right there. Wear a lot of makeup, be a harlot,
show them you're not interested dressed emo like I am
an adult, and that's a no. I didn't know that
makeup was the signal? Is that like in nature? So

(38:01):
in nature a lot of times animals that are very
bright in color, that is a warning to potential predators
that it may be poisonous. Good God, people are still
going on about this. The sterilizing thing is just crazy.

(38:22):
It's another big thing right now. Sterilization's up. I'm like, why,
because Chad, of the stuff? What stuff is that? What
is gonna happen? I'm still waiting for the stuff that's
gonna happen. I went to do a Christmas party last night.
I said, hey, on January twentieth, do we get a rope?
Every woman? We see? How's this work. I haven't been

(38:42):
given my instructions yet, and I faithfully wait by the
post box for my instructions to arrive. It might be
certified mail. I don't know, and I don't know if
there's some sort of special maga rope I'm given to
capture these lady's a maganete bud a nutjob. Speaking of nutjobs,

(39:06):
there is an army of Americans that are cheering the
assassination of the CEO of United Health because he's evil
and bad and all of the things just a horrible
human being is the way they look at because he
denies claims, He himself, on his own every day wakes

(39:31):
up and denied claims.

Speaker 32 (39:33):
Earlier this year, activists targeted United Health in its home
state of Minnesota, Protesters even carrying a mock coffin, accusing
the company of greed and pointing to CEO Brian Thompson's
ten million dollar compensation package.

Speaker 2 (39:45):
Said package, By the way, what's money have to do
with it? Because he's greedy? Well why is he greedy?
Because he's what if he made a dollar but he
still denied claims, then what then he's just it's evil.
So one's greedy, the other's evil. But the fact is,
there are a plenty of folks out there, and I've

(40:09):
heard from a few of you, and I said it.
I called it the day of that people are going
to cheer this on. People are gonna be excited about
this because they're gonna look at this guy as some
sort of modern folk hero fighting it back against the
greed and evil, getting out his pain and talking for everybody.

(40:33):
It's not the way you do things. Look, we can
all I get pissed at insurance companies. It's frustrating as hell.
It's like, wait, I'm paying you all this money and
I'm not getting any of the coverage, so I've just
got to pay you to not get the Well, what's
the use of doing that? Deny, deny, deny until eventually
you can't and then what get a portion of it covered?

(40:54):
I mean, there's always a great opportunity to talk about healthcare.
And it's very bizarre that the healthcare conversation is going
on now because a dude would murder and everybody's like, well,
you know he was wanted for insider trading. They're investigating it.
And by the way, inside you're gonna do some insider trading.
It was like several of them that sold some stock.

(41:15):
It need to be like a million dollars. That is nothing.
His compensation package package was ten million dollars last year.
But it's always funny about how we pick and choose
the greed thing. Right, If you are in business and
you make ten million dollars, you're greedy. If you're an
athlete or a star that is on the left, you're

(41:41):
not greedy. And the fact that you would cheer somebody's
death is crazy. Like I said, well, if you're gonna
cheer somebody's deaths, could you not then say, well, instead
of denying people, why don't you just eliminate all the
sick people? And so much of the people out there

(42:03):
who are eating up so much of the money in
healthcare are people that quite frankly, a vast majority of
it's preventative. One in two Americans one in two are

(42:23):
either diabetic or pre diabetic because we're so obese. It
is crazy. So much of this is self inflicted. We
treat the sickness. We never try to prevent it, myself
included at times because we get busy, we work. I mean,

(42:46):
you know the things that I've done that have been
good is I've never had a drink. I've never done
no drink. I don't smoke, I don't do drugs. What
do you do? Good to do? Shoes? Goody do shoes?
Those are, you know, pretty damn good. I tried to
work out on a regular basis. Haven't been working as
much as because we just made the move and stuff.

(43:08):
But I try to be as healthy as possible and
I need to lose some weight. But so much of
the cost of what we see in the medical world
is preventative. You knew how bad it really was. I
think we all knew. Other people be like, oh my god,

(43:30):
but to cheer a guy on and he's already got
all these women because of the picture of him, just love.
Oh my god, he's so sexy. When I first saw it,
I thought it looks like Jake chillinghol because it kind
of did. But we've got to do stuff. We've got

(43:50):
to get healthy. We've got to figure out a way
to get healthy in this country because we are not.
That's for damn sure. Moving on from there to the
transition team. Can Pete get over the line?

Speaker 33 (44:06):
Hag Seth is hanging on by a thread, dogged by
questions about fro past behavior.

Speaker 34 (44:11):
I don't answer to anyone in this group, none of you,
not to that camera at all, answer to President Trump.

Speaker 33 (44:18):
But we've learned Trump has expressed to those close to
him that Hageseth should have been more forthcoming about the
challenges he could face in the confirmation process as he
now fends off allegations of sexual misconduct, excessive drinking, and
financial mismanagement.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
So several people reached out because I said, I don't
think he's going to be getting confirmed. I don't. And man,
some Trump supporters out there just angry. How dare you
say that he deserves to have whoever he wants. It's

(44:54):
not the way this works. All right, you want it
that way, but that's not the way this works. And
there are plenty of questions about things the women so far.
I mean, you know, well it's all anonymous. I don't know. Look,
I'm totally fine with giving him his shot in front

(45:17):
of the committee. I have zero problem with that. When
I've talked to my people that are inside the Trump
well now the transition team that was on the campaign,
and they have said that they were a little taken
back by some of the accusations that they didn't know
were out there, and they're a little pissed because he
should have been more forthcoming and outwardly. It's not like

(45:43):
Trump's coming out every single day and say, Nope, this
is my guy, this is my guy, this is bs,
this is my guy. I think he wants to see
how this thing plays itself out. But I think if
there's anything else that pops up that's real. I mean,
you know, I know they're talking about like he's being
Kevin on do you think you're being Kavanaugh right now.

Speaker 34 (46:02):
I had a member not forty five minutes ago look
me in the eye in private, just he and I
and say, that's.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
What they're trying to do to you. That's their playbook.

Speaker 34 (46:09):
Get ready for more, and they're going to make it up,
all anonymous, all innuendo, all rumor, nothing sourced, no verification,
and they're just going to keep doing it because you're
a threat to them.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
You're a threat to their system.

Speaker 34 (46:23):
You're a threat to all the things in Washington, DCE,
the swamp, the things that people have rejected.

Speaker 2 (46:30):
You're a threat to that. Absolutely, he is a threat.
I mean the whole The way that the left and
the media is looking at this is anybody Trump appoints
to anything is a threat to democracy into the way
of life. You know, the Doge is going to have

(46:55):
a tougher time because they're looking to cut guys like
Pete Hexith. Should he get in, he can reshape and
redo things in a way that the Doge can't. Doesn't
mean they're gonna be chopping money off, but there's a
lot of things, especially with the woke stuff and the
way that the military stuff's gone over the last several years.

(47:17):
With this crazy deibs that he can eliminate right away,
but there are some concerns, and I continue to say
that I still think it's going to be Ron DeSantis.
I continue to think it's going to be Ron because
I just think I look at that, I think he

(47:37):
is better suited for it. And it's funny because you
say something like that the Trump fans. There's lots of
fanboys out there. They're like, you hate Trump. No, I don't.
I'm just being honest. It's about getting through your nominees.

(48:00):
It's not about being the king of the world and
saying this is what I get and you can't stop me.
So he's got a uphill battle, and I say, give
me a shot as far as his confirmation hearing and
see how that goes. But I have a feeling that's

(48:24):
going to be a lot ugler. And would I be
surprised if sometime over the weekend he drops out. I wouldn't,
but you never know. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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Speaker 2 (49:50):
No, it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

Speaker 35 (49:55):
James Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, ser.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
Lot Trupping.

Speaker 2 (50:18):
Let's find out what's trending on the old Internet. You're like, Chad,
don't you normally did this in the third hour? I do.
But because we have a special thing coming up at
the end of the show, start countdown to the greatest
Christmas songs of all time, we're doing this here, so
just deal with what we're doing. All right, Let's start with.

Speaker 13 (50:37):
Twitter.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
Packers lost last night. They did. Didn't see it was
at a Christmas party. But Thursday night game has been
pretty damn good this year. Toroy wins again. Dan Campbell
went forward on fourth down, said, let's just end this thing.
Spotify Haktua. Yeah, he has a meme coin that did

(51:01):
not go well yesterday. Oh the Price of Fame. Jony Ernst, Rhino,
Greg Kelly, it's a Newsmax and he thinks that Pete
Hegseth should step down in his nomination as Defense Secretary.
And this is a guy who's very conservative, Greg Kelly,

(51:22):
and just getting destroyed. He's a Rhino now. Ryan Thompson,
CEO of United Healthcare, Tsunami doge A c l U
Lloyd Austin, all trending. Head over to Google, No One
training thing yesterday the tsunami which didn't happen. Ooh, Lions, Packers,

(51:43):
snap rack, so the snack rap is back at McDonald's.
Say that fast three times. CEO Shooter hock to a girl,
Pat Phalan, If you guys have it, see we we'll
play it in a little bit. Screaming back and forth
yesterday with the active uh Secret Service head and I
thought they were gonna go to blows, so they're yelling

(52:05):
at each other. It was chaos. It was one of
those things where you're like, am I watching one of
these Eastern European countries or one of these South American
countries where it gets to the point where they start
throwing blows at each other right there in Parliament three two, three, five, three,
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(52:39):
Brian Thompson, Packers, Lions, words on a bullet, Taylor Swift,
Daniel Penny, Patriot Warts all trending in the medical world.

Speaker 22 (52:51):
Oh yeahoo.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
If you didn't hear Pat Fallen and Acting Secretary of
the Secret Service Row screaming yell at each other, it
was bizarre. It felt like some third world country where
I thought they were gonna start throwing chairs at each other.
This is a hearing about the Trump assassination attempt. I
think somewhere along the line we ended up at nine

(53:16):
to eleven.

Speaker 20 (53:17):
I actually responded to ground zero. I was there going
through the ashes of the World Trade Center.

Speaker 10 (53:23):
I was there at fresh Kills.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
I'm not asking you that, condor, and there didn't ark
to show respect for he died. I do not know
that you're trying to be Do not invoke.

Speaker 20 (53:36):
Nine to eleven for political purposes.

Speaker 6 (53:37):
Oh I'm not.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
I'm in fucking this war, sir.

Speaker 23 (53:42):
I'm to ask him.

Speaker 2 (53:45):
Don't worrying me? Order they do its proud. Apparently, Fallon
presented a picture showing the acting directors standing near the
incoming president without a protective agent of view. During the
Republicans visit to New York to mark the anniversary of
the September eleventh terrorist attacks, and then they fought over that,

(54:07):
and they rolled their sleeves up, which you knew once
you do that. It's all three two, three, five, three,
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Speaker 22 (54:19):
Chad Benson Shoe, the.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
We're a fat nation and we're getting fatter. Some of
that has to do with marketing and advertising. But you know,
one of the things that we have exported over the
last I don't know decade and a half obesity and
snacks at goodies, at Yum Yum yum yum. Food. Well, kids,

(55:07):
the UK is saying we've had enough when it comes
to advertising and food and this this is interesting, very interesting.
They're going to try to do something when it comes
to advertising food, in particular junk food.

Speaker 36 (55:24):
If you were watching Thursday night football, which I fell
asleep during, but can you imagine going maybe a whole
game or half a game and not seeing maybe a big,
juicy hamburger or some oversized French fries. It's almost hard
to imagine, but in the UK it's really becoming a reality.
The new measure applies to daytime programming, so between five
thirty am and nine pm, if you want to talk

(55:46):
like a local. The nine PM programming post nine PM
is called Watershed Programming, But they're going to have a
ban on less healthy commercials, so foods that score poorly
in a scoring system that they created. So it's going
to be high in sugars and fats and salt, so
ultra process cereals, all the foods that essentially are contributing

(56:07):
to obesity.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
We all have to eat better. We're talking about, you know,
as we talk about the health stuff with the CEO
being assassinated and all the stuff going on and the
expense of healthcare, so much of that is preventable, and yeah,
it's I mean, there's a reason that they make these
bags and all of the things that they sell, the
food and drinks and bright colors and all this stuff,

(56:31):
because we're like fish. We see the bright thing, we
want to move to it and bite it. That includes food,
and they're trying to do some about it. Watershed's very interesting.
So having lived in England for a long time, after
nine o'clock, anything goes on their television because they figure
if you're up past nine, you're adult enough to handle it.
So anything goes. Nudity, foul language, all of that stuff.

(56:55):
But before that, they're very much premi improper.

Speaker 36 (56:58):
If you look at some of the statistics over in
the UK, one in five five year olds are suffering
from tooth decay. They have a huge population of children
who are suffering from obesity. We're seeing the same thing
in the US. So what we're gonna hear, Marquis is
a reaction how people are feeling the impact of these
new bands overseas and if it's something that possibly we

(57:18):
could see here.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Nope, never. Lobbyists are too big, too strong. Government doesn't
play that kind of role in our life the way
that they do in the UK. So and no matter
how hard RFK Junior bushes, and I know he's got
a bush hard on things like this, it's just going

(57:41):
to be too tough because we don't realize that the
cigarette companies, when they saw the writing on the wall,
move their attention to food because they're not about food
or cigarettes, they're about addiction. What can I get you
addicted to? So they migrated over to the food world.

(58:07):
And what do we have junk food full of process
crap that's easy for us to purchase and buy and
consume that tastes good because it's not real, and it
all this artificial stuff in it, and we become addicted

(58:29):
to it. Our bodies become addicted to it, our minds
become addicted to it. Like a brain that's click gets
more more and more, and then what do we have Now?
We have an obese, fat country in the UK is
looking go on, We're going to become like the Americans.
Too late, You're already there. You guys are having the
same problems we are. A vast majority of the Western
world is Yes, some of those foods are amazing. I'm
not gonna lie to you. But there's so many other

(58:50):
things that we could do. And part of the problem
is eating healthy. I mean, you know, I joke about
it all the time. But are poor are obese? You
know what the poor people like around a lot of
the world thin and hungry, are poor or obese because
it's about addiction. Speaking of weight loss, GLP one, we

(59:13):
know what it does for weight loss, Could you do
something for your brain? This was a big study.

Speaker 27 (59:17):
They looked at half a million adults with diabetes over
the age of sixty.

Speaker 37 (59:21):
There were two groups, those.

Speaker 27 (59:23):
Given gop ones to manage their diabetes and those given
other diabetes medications. They followed them for five years and
what they found those on a gop one reduce their
likelihood of developing dementia by twenty three to forty four percent,
depending on which medication they were on.

Speaker 2 (59:40):
It's not the first study, It's been other studies showing
something very similar. But is that because you start losing
weight and that helps your brain because you're not consuming
so much junk and crap. I don't know. But another
awesome check mark for the weight loss thing. I mean

(01:00:01):
when you hear like California, one in twenty two kids
has autism, and in America, I think it's one in
thirty six. You go back two thousand and fifteen, I
think it was one in one hundred and fifty. The
rise of cancer amongst people under forty, eed for men

(01:00:22):
under forty is huge. Now is that all food? Some
of it might be porn and things like that, but still,
and the rise of early onset dementia among people in
their late thirties early forties is another crazy thing. We've
got to get healthy because the healthier we are, the

(01:00:45):
less we need to worry about health care costs and issues.
Because when you go and look at the number one
killer heart disease preventable and obesity eats up a vast
majority of the health care cost. Oh, because if you're obese,
chances are you're gonna have diabetes or pre diabetes. It's
gonna give you all kinds of other issues, and when

(01:01:05):
you get sick, it's gonna make you sicker. And that
doesn't even include all of the things with the heart disease.
That this that that you start pointing out all of
the things that come with being obese, and that's not
even counting the lost production for work, and work looks

(01:01:26):
out there if you go and look at the numbers
of how much obesity cost the actual I'm not talking
about the medical side of it. I'm talking about the
economy from a work standpoint, it's another shocking thing. Three two, three, five,
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is your Twitter tweet at text the program. I'm gonna
be honest with you guys. If I was to have
a spirit animal on the left, I think it's John Fetterman,
mostly for his dress style, but also it's a little
bit more common sense. He's on the view on a
zoom call kind of weird talking about pardons.

Speaker 38 (01:02:06):
It's undeniable that the case against Hunter Biden was really
politically motivated. But I also think it's true that the
trial in New York for Trump that was political as
well too. Now is that and in both cases, I
think a pardon is appropriate.

Speaker 2 (01:02:24):
You could have seen the look on Joy's face. Her
face almost fell off.

Speaker 38 (01:02:30):
And I really think collectively America's confidence in these kinds
of institutions have been damaged by these kinds of cases,
and we cannot allow these kinds of institutions to be
weaponized against our political opponents. And it's very clear both
both trials were politically motivated and weaponized that on the

(01:02:51):
other side.

Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
What is Joey Yel January sixth, He was just like, Okay,
I can't deal with you anymore. Oh jeez, he's right,
he's right. He's saying the things that need to be said.
And remember when he came in, You're like, oh my god,
this guy, you know, just this weird hippie, never had

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a real job. Trust funny, trust to Farians, that was
you call him Trustafarians liberal. And he gets there and
he's this suber progressive guy, and I think he looks
around and goes, this place is full of nutjobs and
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Speaker 13 (01:05:07):
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Higher, You're going to hear more and more arguments of
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So, for instance, we were reading an article.

Speaker 39 (01:05:42):
Today about this guy that's supposedly this documented financial professional
making the argument for why bitcoin is going to take over.

Speaker 13 (01:05:51):
Not just for the dollar, but for all currencies. It's
going to be to come with global currency.

Speaker 39 (01:05:55):
I just laughed so hard when I read that, because
I went bitcoin was the world currency or the world
reserve currency, the entire global economy would be in ashes,
and not because there's anything wrong with bitcoin, because it's deflationary.

Speaker 13 (01:06:09):
And when you have this much debt and you have
a deflationary currency, you're done.

Speaker 39 (01:06:13):
You and I have talked about it before, like, let's
say you borrowed your home mortgage in bitcoin in twenty eighteen,
you know, and bitcoin was trading at what you know,
five thousand, yeah, six thousand, so your mortgage was denominated
in bitcoin. The value of the house has gone up
forty percent. That's great.

Speaker 13 (01:06:31):
The problem is is bitcoin is twenty x now. The
value of your house has gone up by forty percent.
That equity helps you.

Speaker 39 (01:06:39):
Problem is the amount of money you borrowed is now
worth twenty times more than when you originally borrowed it.
And that's why you can't have a deflationary asset at
the core.

Speaker 13 (01:06:52):
And people will go, well, well, what about gold. Gold
used to be the base asset.

Speaker 39 (01:06:56):
The supply of gold was increasing increased virtually every single
year that man has been on the face of the earth,
So meaning it's an inflationary asset too. It just it
inflates at a much slower, much more controlled.

Speaker 2 (01:07:08):
Pace, and you can touch it. I'm telling you, the
touching it thing is very important to a lot of people.

Speaker 13 (01:07:13):
Well, look, there's and there's something to be set for that.

Speaker 39 (01:07:16):
Like, let's look at a situation where I think that
one of the one of the biggest achilles heel or
weak spots in our economy here in the US. But
I also think increasingly, you know, globally speaking, are power grids.

Speaker 13 (01:07:30):
You know, bitcoin is your is your it's your currency
of last resort.

Speaker 39 (01:07:34):
Right, I can put a pretty nice chunk of my
net worth into a suitcase in the back of my
car and drive it across borders.

Speaker 13 (01:07:42):
If I don't have power or access to the internet.
What okay, I've got all this bitcoin? Great? What does
it mean? Right if my.

Speaker 39 (01:07:48):
Government blocks internet access to to coin desk or trading
sites and people go, well, they can't do that.

Speaker 13 (01:07:54):
That's what people used to say about government's confiscating goal too.

Speaker 39 (01:07:57):
I think that we've been better off with with bitcoin
as opposed to most fiat currencies. And that being said,
I think that's exactly why it won't last long term
and it's not going to be this permanent solution because
if you think the same governments that will print trillion
to dollars out of thin air basically to enrich their
buddies and keep a defunct system afloat, if you think

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they're going to turn over monetary control to a bunch
of Internet pirates making bitcoins and other things, like, you're.

Speaker 13 (01:08:25):
Out of your mind.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Talking to Zach Abrahm, chief investment officer Bullward Capital, consumer
confidence up again. How much does that have to do
with Trump and people feeling good? Like, Okay, we're going
to get back to some stuff.

Speaker 13 (01:08:37):
You know, it's funny you bring this up.

Speaker 39 (01:08:38):
I think that's a lot of what's going on, And
it's just funny to see the mainstream narratives are already
trying to twist this, right, So what they do They're like,
what is it?

Speaker 30 (01:08:50):
Oh?

Speaker 13 (01:08:50):
Oh yeah, there's been a big bump in car purchases
right after the election, right, Well, you and I know
why that is. We're on the streets, We're talking to people.

Speaker 39 (01:08:58):
People were holding off financial decisions. They saw Trump get elected.

Speaker 13 (01:09:01):
They had a giant ex salor relief, and they're like,
let's go buy that new car.

Speaker 39 (01:09:05):
Well, I see the article out today people buying cars
in preparation for the damage of Trump tariffs, and people
are wondering, is it just bluster? But either way, they
better buy a car now before it gets more expensive.

Speaker 13 (01:09:20):
Like, that's not what happened, right. People don't go buy
a car because they think things might get bad. People
buy a.

Speaker 39 (01:09:26):
Car because their outlook is better, right, Like, Hey, I'm
gonna go I'm gonna go pay some of the steepest
interest rates in the last forty years because I think
things might just be about ready to hit the fan.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
I know, I was like, I'm going to go out
and get a thousand dollars car payment so just in
case things go to hell, I could get it in
six months then for two hundred bucks a month.

Speaker 39 (01:09:48):
It is the only time in economics I have ever
heard it asserted that people were going to spend more
because they were concerned about the future. Right, So no,
I mean, look, I think all I think all economic
positive signs you're seeing.

Speaker 13 (01:10:02):
The other one you saw was a big bump up
in the Jolts number. Right, job opening number. Yep, there
you go. There's another thing.

Speaker 39 (01:10:08):
Businesses are sitting there saying, oh, you have all these
things sitting there saying okay, good, We're about ready to
get back down to business.

Speaker 13 (01:10:15):
Some rational decisions are going to be made.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
It's funny. It's like like with the Hey, guys, things
are gonna get bad in the next couple of months.
Let's let's let's hire a bunch of people.

Speaker 13 (01:10:22):
Yeah, you know.

Speaker 39 (01:10:23):
The only good news about this, though, Chad, is that
is that these people are gonna there, which is I
think a wonderful thing for you and I and I
think it's a wonderful thing for the entire country. But
these people have really punched themselves out. But they're going
to finish themselves off too, right. They they don't get it,
they haven't learned anything, and they're going to continue talking

(01:10:43):
the way they're talking until absolutely nobody is left listening
to them, which they're basically they're already.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Yeah, no doubt about that. Tuckie Zach Abraham, chievestment Officer
Board Capital, got about a minute or so here. The
doge folks got together. They were in DC today laying
out some of the stuff they're going to do, and
one of the big things was, and you and I've
talked about this when COVID was going crazy as how

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much office space was empty or federal government the Department
of Energy had eight people on average a day in
a place that could hold five thousand man. They need
to do some cuts. My fear though, is, and I
think you probably recognize this, is there's so many protections

(01:11:29):
for these unions, so many protections that the bureaucracy to
get to the point where you could cut it, I
think we'll exhaust them.

Speaker 39 (01:11:36):
I'm not familiar enough or intimately familiar enough with the
budget process.

Speaker 13 (01:11:42):
My belief, in my understanding is there's multiple ways that
they can.

Speaker 39 (01:11:46):
Derail these regulatory bodies. They can starve them of cash.
I know that there is a legislation that protects the
federal government from being hamstrung by unions.

Speaker 13 (01:11:56):
I'm not recalling what that is. I know there are
protections there.

Speaker 2 (01:11:59):
Right on, Brother came Bram, chief Bestson, Officer Board Capital.
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Right on.

Speaker 2 (01:12:18):
Brother, you go, have yourself a good day and I'll
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Speaker 13 (01:12:21):
All right, man, good to talk to you always. Thanks
for having me.

Speaker 2 (01:12:23):
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The greatest Christmas songs of all time, this one. You

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can't have Christmas without this one and without him. So
much more to get to as well, maybe some serious stuff,
probably not. It's the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:13:01):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
It's about the economy's stupid jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, and
hit it.

Speaker 40 (01:13:40):
Two hundred and twenty seven thousand jobs were added to
the workforce in November. That was more than expected, and
it's a big rebound from the thirty six thousand jobs
in October that was a dismal number that was revised
a bit higher. Hurricanes Milton and Helene and that Boeing
strike were key reasons for the slowdown.

Speaker 2 (01:13:57):
Key reasons for the low down. Well, you knew the
hurricane was going to be a big thing. We talked
about that hurricane was going to be an issue because
you can't have a portion of the country that is
essentially shut down because of Milton and Helene. And now

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think that that wasn't going to be an issue. But alas,
the rebound is on, but what kind of rebound is it?
And it's kind of bit steady for the most part.
And we were just talking about this last hour with
Zach Abram Tvestment officer. Both capital that they're starting to

(01:14:40):
hire more people and you don't do that if you
think the economy is going to collapse.

Speaker 41 (01:14:45):
It's the unemployment rate coming in at four point two percent,
inched up a little bit, but still at a near
historic low. It seems as though it's taking a little
bit longer for folks to find a new job now.
But this robust job market can it used to be
what fuels our economy, and we saw it in those
retail numbers over Black Friday to Cyber Monday. Consumers are

(01:15:07):
feeling pretty confident about being able to spend because many
of them have.

Speaker 2 (01:15:11):
Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs. But it's about your
earnings and the growth of those versus the rise of
inflation that matters. That's the thing that matters. So if
you're over the last four years, if you've added fifteen
percent onto your salary you're hourly whatever it is, and

(01:15:33):
inflation's up twenty two percent, well you're essentially down seven percent.
So what matters is what you're making. That's the thing
that matters when you e suppose that with inflation, because
you would hear you know, Biden come out and say
who and then they're translated it's like, well, you know,
the job growth is strong, but so's the the the

(01:15:57):
and incomes arising yes, but is rising too and is
rising faster. So you always have to think about that
and we'll see what happens. I think a lot of
confidence right now.

Speaker 10 (01:16:10):
Is with.

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
Trump. I think people are feeling good, Does that mean
that's going to translate into perfection and there aren't going
to be bumps? No, I think there will be bumps
because that's nature of the economy. Plus we can't foresee
any of the stuff that may happen globally, and the
battle with tariffs that are going to be I mean,

(01:16:33):
that's something that's real, but I think that people think
that it's forever. It's not, but it's going to be
definitely a talking point for a while because we will
fill it in some areas. In other areas we won't.
And one of the things they're talking about is in
the car industry because if the tariffs are with Mexico
and a few other places and they're making cars there

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and parts and whatnot, that means there may be a
slowdown or a price bump. But these things are always negotiable,
and they're used as a lost leader, a tool of
which you can try to get people to bend to
your will, which is the goal in life. First trap,
that's what they're calling him, whoever him is the killer

(01:17:17):
of the CEO of United Health, Brian Thompson. Not only
are people cheering him, and I said for the moment
the picture of his full face was there with the smile.
I said, mad, he looks like Jake Jillenol I said,
you watched. The ladies are going to be all over that,
and they are because well, first of all, he went

(01:17:39):
and for a lot of people on the left, he
did something that they're plotting because they look at the
insurance industry and the likes of this Brian Thomson guy
is an evil person, a greedy person, all of that stuff.
So they're cheering that on and we've seen that with
crazy things.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
This so, the CEO of the multi billion dollar United
Healthcare insurance company was shot and killed this morning in
New York City. And I will say that it is
it is pretty tragic that the shooter was only able
to get one of them.

Speaker 4 (01:18:17):
But it's a good start. I mean, it's it's a good,
good foundation good. We can only only move up from here.

Speaker 5 (01:18:23):
And before any of you come at me with oh
my god, I can't believe you'd say that, go findself. Seriously,
go fuck yourselves.

Speaker 3 (01:18:32):
How many husbands do you think have had to bury
their wives because their wives cancer treatment was denied? How
many parents do you think have had to bury their
children because whatever healthcare treatment the child needed was denied
or they had to jump through hoop after hoop after
hoop after hoop until finally the treatment the sickness had

(01:18:53):
progressed so far the treatment just wasn't an option anymore.

Speaker 5 (01:18:58):
So, yeah, I would say that the this is probably
a good start.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
It's not it's awful, it's horrible, but it has America
talking about the cost of healthcare. It has America talking
and we don't even know what the reason is. I mean,
it's not hard to start to put the clues together
based on what he wrote on the bullets. And what
he wrote on the bullets was something.

Speaker 26 (01:19:24):
That you.

Speaker 2 (01:19:26):
Might not have read about yesterday. Heard there was a
book that came out in twenty ten by a law
professor who specializes insurance. That book is called Deny, Defend, Depose,
and it's about how giant insurance companies handle claims. So

(01:19:51):
they're thirst trapping this guy. People are cheering him out there.
Even I've seen the likes of Taylor Lorenz, who is
already paying anybody's asset. WA could do. Liberal nutjob who
fights with libs of TikTok and stuff. But she used
to be the tech editor or the tech reporter for

(01:20:12):
Washington Post, New York Times, coming out and essentially saying
this is great, let's go more, but not advocating for it,
but advocating for it. And now he's a thirst trap.
Why shouldn't he be? Richard Ramirez was nights talker. All
kinds of women, so many of them do. Infamy is

(01:20:33):
great for some women, apparently. Do you see the Menandez brothers.
He's married one of them, is that Eric?

Speaker 23 (01:20:42):
I think?

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
And now he's got some twenty year old girlfriend getting
ready to divorce his wife. I'm like, what some of
you out there like, I can't even get a date.
It's pretty sad. So yes, I mean, people are going
to romanticize about this guy as if he's this because
we do love that folk hero. And that's the way
people are looking at him. They're looking at him like

(01:21:05):
he's a folk hero, like he's Billy the Kid or
Jesse James, and he's righting the wrong of society and
big business crushing the little guy and causing paint. That's
what they're gonna turn him into. They're gonna turn him
into if it's what we think it is. Which is

(01:21:28):
fought with the insurance companies. Maybe he went bankrupt, maybe
he his wife died or his kid died. They're going
to romanticize him as if he is taking revenge against
the insurance companies. And by the way, I'll say it,
I don't want anybody dead. I don't think anybody does.
But when it comes to the companies themselves, I don't

(01:21:49):
think anybody feel sorry for him. They don't. Every one
of us has fought with the insurance companies, thush. I
did the same damn thing if I could, but not
picking somebody out doing it. But because of the nightmare
of being denied, the nightmare of having to fight over paperwork,
the nightmare of having to go back and find out

(01:22:10):
the yeah, they only cover this, the nightmare of the
we've all who has it. Maybe not to the extent
of killing, but I'm telling you st and they're gonna
turn him to folks. I just know it if because

(01:22:33):
think about this, his wife died and I don't know
if that's true. This is I'm this is me speculating,
So stay with me, baby bears. His wife died or
his child died, world spun out of control and his
singular purpose basically has become John Wick and to get

(01:22:57):
revenge on the system and show the world this is
what the system can do for you, and you should
fight back. And people will romanticize the fact that he's
avenging his child or his wife. So you know, Anthony,

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producer Anthony sends me a thing, goes, look, they're turning
him into a thirst trap. I said, you knew he would.
And then, of course, with speculation, if you've not seen
the picture in one of the like I think it
was the actual shooting, he has a jacket on with
no pockets, and then the one where he's smiling, he's

(01:23:41):
got a jacket on with two pockets, so it's not him.
Or maybe they were taken at different times and he
had getaway jacket because he did have a backpack. And
we have a tendency to romanticize this stuff. My god,
how many movies have been made by Billy the Kid, Wiater, Holiday,
Bonnie and Clyde. You can go on and on and

(01:24:05):
on and on. Denzel movie that came out what fifteen
years ago about him taking over the hospital over Insure,
I mean, you know, it's there are so many of
these kind of we want this kind of small every

(01:24:25):
man or woman take up the good fight and fight back,
and you're so pissed and angry and frustrated that you
just finally snap brain maker. I love that movie. You've
never seen it, You got to check it out. I
was a great movie with Danny Tevito and Matt Damon
and Claire Danes and about them taking on the insurance

(01:24:51):
industry and all the claims that they denied. And this
guy ends up dying and he brings this lawsuit and
you know, spoiler alert, they bankrupt. This is different though,
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the week where he sit back, relax and uh well,
take a nice long listen to all the chaos that
happened this week cause it's finally Friday.

Speaker 42 (01:26:37):
Well.

Speaker 13 (01:26:37):
I would have done differently.

Speaker 11 (01:26:38):
My recommendation as a counselor would have been, why don't
you go ahead and pardon Donald Trump.

Speaker 12 (01:26:42):
Never again do I want to hear? Oh, Donald Trump's
a liar. You can't believe anything he says. Donald Trump
will abuse his power. Donald Trump will only use the
system to benefit himself and his family.

Speaker 5 (01:26:53):
Never again.

Speaker 11 (01:26:54):
I'm done one hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
Falk my futal hole.

Speaker 13 (01:26:59):
I know that's say the body is burning. Hold I
through my bogeting, do my skin.

Speaker 10 (01:27:06):
I'm on the morning, I'll be.

Speaker 28 (01:27:09):
It's fine.

Speaker 23 (01:27:13):
I'm done, my motor running again.

Speaker 2 (01:27:16):
It's fine, frum king.

Speaker 14 (01:27:23):
I'd shut down the FBI Hoover Building on day one
and reopening the next day as a museum of the
deep state.

Speaker 2 (01:27:29):
Everyone on that team really really liked me.

Speaker 11 (01:27:32):
Not only am I not interested in your opinion. I'm
not even gonna call Hugh by your name.

Speaker 2 (01:27:38):
Because the word is brain rut. It's fine, that fire.

Speaker 23 (01:27:44):
I'm done my motor running again.

Speaker 2 (01:27:48):
It's fine that fru burking.

Speaker 16 (01:27:53):
The risks of puberty, puberty blockers and gender affirming treatment
are likely to outweigh the expected benefits of these treatments,
which is directly contrary to the sweeping statement in your petition.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
The more we see and meet trans people, the more
they're humans.

Speaker 18 (01:28:15):
I want you to all go back and google Hillary
Clinton and Barack Obama. Google what they said about those
who can make crimes in our city.

Speaker 19 (01:28:24):
Noo tobago, who not playing?

Speaker 3 (01:28:41):
York City.

Speaker 10 (01:28:50):
And those words on the shellcasings, deny, depose, defend, do
not invoked.

Speaker 20 (01:28:55):
Nine to eleven for political purposes on.

Speaker 2 (01:28:57):
Time, not three two three at Chad Benson Show. It's
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Speaker 21 (01:29:07):
Both of these gentlemen have run very successful organizations. They're
innovators and they're forward thinkers. And so that's what we
need right now.

Speaker 2 (01:29:14):
Because you're a threat to them. You're a threat to
their system.

Speaker 16 (01:29:18):
I'm not turning forty two.

Speaker 2 (01:29:19):
I'm turning the five, Brittany. So what happens when you're freeer?
I know she lives in Mexico now, so she's beyond
the long arm of the law. Coming up later on,
So you wrap up the show, We're going to give
you number four in our top five countdown of the
greatest Christmas Songs of all time. And I said yesterday

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because I got some people going, what about this? We
just did five? There's only so much you could do.
Because every time I would sit there and I looked
at all kinds of data points because I'm a weirdo,
and I was saying to myself, Okay, what about this, Well,
this one's on this, and this list over here is this.
It's just so hard because there's so many great, great

(01:30:07):
songs through the years, but this one you can't have.
As I said last hour, you can't have Christmas without
this guy. You just can't. Like it feels like until
until he sings, Christmas doesn't begin. If that makes sense.
It does tast three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four,

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twenty three at Chad Benson Show to Twitter, your Instagram
coming up, We're gonna do a little sound South. Some
of the stuff we missed this week, some of the
stuff that we should be talking about, well we haven't
because there's so many other things going on. It's non
stop in today's world. There is no oh, let's take

(01:30:51):
a pause when it comes to the news, talk about
so many things sound solid straight.

Speaker 22 (01:30:55):
Out of chat thatt'son Joe, but Chad Benson, Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:31:17):
The Chad Benson show.

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
You know you're doing the dance right now. You know
you're doing the dance. You're trying not to, but you can't.
You can't stop yourself. The trump dance arms. The Village

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People are loving the success of this, and they've had
a change of heart to the Donalds, if you will,
because they enjoyed the fun. Wounderstanding who then game that

(01:32:14):
right there is the lead singer, Victor Willison, who, by
the way, is the original member. The way the Village
People worked, give you guys a little snapshot of the
Village People. So Victor Willis is the lead singer and
really the co founder. He's the one who sang all

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of the songs on the debut album, and they realized
the thing was going to be good.

Speaker 31 (01:32:40):
It was.

Speaker 2 (01:32:40):
It was a couple of French guys and Victor Willis
who did it, and they said, we need to surround
you with something. So they went out and got some
other people. They got the Indian chief Philip Rose, Randy Jones,
the Cowboy, construction worker David Hodo, leatherman Glenn Hughes, and
military man Alex Briley. The only one of them of
the origin little members who's passed away was Glenn Hughes

(01:33:02):
leather Man. He was actually buried in his leathers, died
of cancer. We see every time that Trump used something,
one of the people in the band would come out,
go don't use it. You're an evil, nazy. Victor Wilson
has been speaking out sitting a few things straight. First
of all, saying the YMCA song is not a gay anthem.
He is very adamant about it's not a gay anthem.
He is straight. He was married to Felicia Ayers Allen,

(01:33:26):
who is now Felicia Rossad. Of course she is Claire
Huxtable on the Cosmey Show.

Speaker 22 (01:33:33):
Yeah yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33:35):
But he also said, look, the YMCAA song was about
brothers hanging out, didn't have a lot of money, having fun,
doing some drinking. It was not a gay anthem. But
because they took their name from the village people or
at Greenwich Village and which was the big gay scene,
and because they targeted their stuff disco wise towards San

(01:33:58):
Francisco in a few other places. Is it was mostly
the disco thing. They thought it was going to be
just dance and then it exploded and became worldwide. There's
all one hundred million copies of albums. Think about that
for a second. But he's had a change of heart
when it comes to the Donald says, hey, you know what,
he can play it. He can play it, and I'm

(01:34:20):
fine with that, probably because he's making them money.

Speaker 43 (01:34:23):
Well, I decided to allow them President to let continued
use of YMCA because he seems to genuinely seems to
genuinely like the soul and you know, so many other
artists were stopping him from using their music. So I
decided to contact BMI and told them to not to

(01:34:44):
terminate his political use license because he seemed to be
bringing so much joy to the American people with.

Speaker 13 (01:34:53):
His use of YMCA.

Speaker 2 (01:34:55):
Plus, as he knows the maga folk get behind it.
They do because it's all over. I mean, you can't
even I can't go to a reel or go to
YouTube or winning one of those things and somebody not
send me the dance with the You know, it's everywhere.

Speaker 42 (01:35:16):
Victor, It's not just the President, every American. Dare I say,
everybody in the world loves your song YMCA. When you
wrote it, did you envision it would have such staying power,
from sporting events to bar Mitzvah's to weddings, to dances,
basically everywhere wee.

Speaker 13 (01:35:31):
Never knows, you know. Time is the only thing that
lets you know.

Speaker 2 (01:35:35):
So I've never had any idea.

Speaker 42 (01:35:37):
So.

Speaker 2 (01:35:37):
The song originally released in nineteen seventy eight, along with
Hot Cop It Got. It was the only single by
the Way released off their third album, Cruising, and it
got to number two on the Dance Music Club Chart
and then in nineteen seventy nine on the Billboard Hot
one hundred. It was stuck at number two as Lefreque

(01:35:58):
by Chic was number one, and then Rod Stewart's do
You Think I'm Sexy? Jumped over it. But it has
been number one last three weeks on the Dance Electric
Digital Song Sales chart from Billboard, It's been number fifteen
on TikTok Billboard Top fifty and boom all the way

(01:36:19):
up in the British charts as well. And the fact
that he's saying, hey, people are enjoying it and I'm
not going to be one of those people that sue
Trump and say don't play my music.

Speaker 42 (01:36:30):
Question on everyone's mind, now, will you play at the inauguration?

Speaker 43 (01:36:35):
Victor? Well, if you were to ask me today, if
village people will perform at the inauguration, I would probably
say not because we'd be concerned about endorsement. But however,
if the residating let because the President elect has done
so much.

Speaker 13 (01:36:52):
For YMCA.

Speaker 43 (01:36:54):
And brought so much delights to so many people, of
the song has actually gone back to number one and
it's still number one today.

Speaker 13 (01:37:03):
So if he were to.

Speaker 43 (01:37:05):
Ask Billag's people to perform the song live for him,
we'd have to seriously consider it.

Speaker 2 (01:37:13):
So, as you know, you got it right like an
inauguration night, how could you not? And you know Trump,
He's probably thinking, screw inauguration, I screw the pall. Let's
just have him do it at the inauguration. As they're
swearing me in, let the music start right and picture
of this right, So I'm coming down, I go hand up,

(01:37:34):
do the thing on the Bible. You know, soloms well,
blah blah blah, help you God. Congratulations mister president, you're
the forty seven president of the United States of America.
Then the dance begins, right, we don't even need the ball.
Could you imagine that? Trump's totally think of that. I

(01:37:58):
love the fact though, that they were one of these
whiny bands, and some of those bands get pissed too,
because what happens is they don't own their music anymore.
So what ends up happening is the license of the
music is held by somebody else, and their license is

(01:38:19):
Trump organization will get the licenses and they use it,
and then the band will come out to that we
don't want you to play it, and it's like, you
can't do anything to stop us. We've paid for the license.
Oh and you know who else was in a big
fight with him, Jack White for the seven Nation Army,
and he dropped the suit. He said, yeah, whatever is
I'm over. You're the president now, well we.

Speaker 42 (01:38:41):
Know he watches, So, mister President elect, the balls in
your court finally before we let you go.

Speaker 2 (01:38:47):
You're in entertainment, you've been dancing for decades. What do
you make of the dance?

Speaker 43 (01:38:52):
Well, that's the chop thing, you know. When we do
the show, we spelled out the letters. But what he
does and he does just let it move, and that's
that's his move, and it works for him, and that's
what's important.

Speaker 2 (01:39:07):
That's what's important. Indeed work for him, and everybody's doing
it on the football field everywhere else. Yeah, everybody's got
it and they hear that music, and that's the They
don't do the YMCA anymore. They put their arms out
like Trump does three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty
four to twenty three at Chadbenton Show, it's your Twitter,
your Instagram, all the other things. Let's talk about Jesus.

(01:39:31):
AI Jesus at.

Speaker 17 (01:39:32):
The three hundred year old Saint Peter's Chapel in Lucern, Switzerland.
Inside this confessional booth is an AI generated version of
Jesus Christ. Hello Jesus, a lifelike avatar on a computer screen,
answering questions in real time, offering advice to the faithful
based on scripture in over one hundred languages.

Speaker 10 (01:39:53):
But kindness and compassions to your course.

Speaker 17 (01:39:56):
It's called Deis in Makina or God in the Machine,
and was developed by a Swiss IT expert using open
ayes GPT four.

Speaker 2 (01:40:05):
Oh why would you do this? The reason it's not
because of sacrilege. They're curious about something. It's about studying technology, religion,
all of that.

Speaker 17 (01:40:17):
The idea that Chapel's theologian said is to explore the
limits of human trust in technology.

Speaker 44 (01:40:23):
Many people came to talk with him. There were young people,
older people. People really talk with him in a serious way.

Speaker 17 (01:40:32):
The experience comes with instructions and a disclaimer not to
share personal information, but the church said most had a
positive experience.

Speaker 44 (01:40:41):
Topics like relation sheep love, topics like about God. They
ask him what to do.

Speaker 2 (01:40:52):
Hm, it's kind of weird. You can't share personal things
with AI Jesus. Yeah, don't tell anything, because we're not
quite sure to AI Jesus. Not everybody's thrilled.

Speaker 17 (01:41:01):
The virtual experiment generating debate and controversy worldwide.

Speaker 1 (01:41:06):
This is not sacramental. This is this truly is a sacrilego.

Speaker 16 (01:41:09):
This is ridiculous.

Speaker 39 (01:41:10):
This is just the start of a big conversation around
the role of AI in religion.

Speaker 17 (01:41:15):
The church's theologian says this AI Jesus was never meant
to replace a priest, but instead to get people thinking
about the digital and the divine and the good.

Speaker 2 (01:41:27):
News is AI Jesus. Does it fodel the kids you
put their chat I'm just pointing out what you're thinking
three two, three, five, twenty four to twenty three at
Chad Benson Show's your Twitter. You can tweet at as
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single one of you talking about it earlier that they're

(01:41:48):
turning the shooter of the assassin of the CEO of
United Healthcare into this thirst trap. And I said, he's
going to become a folk hero because it is the
is the it is the person who is fighting the system.
If what we're saying is, you know the picture that's

(01:42:10):
being painted of a guy who's been wronged, probably lost
something or lost everything and blames it on the insurance company,
and he decided to turn the tables on him. And
I said, you bet your candy as are going to
do that, because they've done it before. Bonnie and Clyde,
Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, I'm here, Huckleberry. We can

(01:42:34):
go on and on about all the folk heroes out there.
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She'll perform live in New York's Times Square along with
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Speaker 2 (01:44:14):
Uh, why is it still called Dick Clark's Rock and
Eve At this point in time, It's yours.

Speaker 22 (01:44:21):
Ryan.

Speaker 2 (01:44:22):
Do you remember when Dick had the stroke and then
Ryan took over and Dick came back in a couple
of years and Ryan was still doing everything, And do
you remember what Dick's like? I'm not dead yet, Ryan, Oh, Dick,
it is that time of the year. It is the
most wonderful time of the year. Oh is that a
hint to what could be coming? Yes, we're counting down

(01:44:44):
the greatest Christmas Songs of all time, and I believe
yesterday was number five with Holly Jelly Christmas from mister
Burl Lives. Today, let's move down one, two, Very.

Speaker 23 (01:44:58):
Christmas, It's time for the great Christmas countdown, the five
greatest Christmas Songs of all time?

Speaker 2 (01:45:10):
Number four, number four. I said it earlier, I'm gonna
say it again. I love Christmas And there are certain
songs where you're like you hear it and you know, okay,
it is truly Christmas time. And this guy, he recorded

(01:45:35):
a lot of hits. His most famous hit was moon River.
He was big. Andy Williams had a bunch of hits,
he was a major pop star, but he recorded eight
Christmas albums, and for all the massive hits he had
back in his day, there is one that stands out.
One that wasn't even supposed to be the big hit

(01:45:55):
on his first Christmas album, but one to this day
makes you think, give me a sweater. It's Christmas time.

Speaker 30 (01:46:10):
It's the most wonderful time with the kids jingle belling
and everyone telling.

Speaker 23 (01:46:21):
You be a good cheer.

Speaker 31 (01:46:24):
It's the most wonderful time. It's the poppy sees and.

Speaker 30 (01:46:38):
With those holiday greetings in gay happy meetings, when friends
come to call, it's the poppy scene.

Speaker 2 (01:46:48):
Just amazing. The voice incredible. Get some more here.

Speaker 30 (01:46:52):
There'll be parties for hosting, marshpellows for toasting.

Speaker 2 (01:46:56):
And written in nineteen sixty three, Andy recorded it for
his first Christmas album. The record company, though, didn't want
to release this as the single and fought with him
and they got their way. They released White Christmas, which
did okay. But when you think Andy Williams, you think this.
Even though moon River was a massive hit back in

(01:47:18):
his day, Andy this was his jam and it was incredible.
He did his Christmas specials from nineteen sixty two to
seventy four, and then from nineteen eighty two into the
nineties he would do intermittently some specials. He had his
family on, he had everybody on you could think of.

(01:47:38):
But this song is the one that when I think Christmas,
just incredible And if you've never seen it live, go
look at him sing it live. It is truly incredible
because you're like, that voice is amazing, and then you

(01:48:00):
think of the sweaters and everything like that. He just
died a few years ago, but definitely a Christmas song
for the ages, no doubt about that. Number four today
is the one and only Andy Williams. It's the most
wonderful time of the year. Three two, three, five, three eight,

(01:48:33):
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(01:48:55):
Benson Show. As we wrap up the week, we can
not leave you without giving you some words of wisdom
from our good friend and yours uncle Gary. No, it's
time for the Gary Pucy Moment of the Dairy.

Speaker 45 (01:49:10):
And all good guys out there. You guys and girls,
I want you to pay attention to this. The phoeneis
you have in your heart that makes you feel good
are the phoenix of your truth for you. So when
you feel your truth, go with it because the truth
of yourself is the power of your being.

Speaker 23 (01:49:31):
Ah.

Speaker 2 (01:49:32):
He's fun and he was playing a guitar. You guys,
have a blessed weekend. We'll do it again on Monday.
As always, Night Night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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