New Poll Shows Independant Voters Turning Away from Joe Biden

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Independent thoughts, independent life. Thisis Chad Benson, It is the economy,
this is the Chad Benson Show.My name is Craig Collins, filling
in, thrilled to be with you. Bunch of stuff to talk about,
as always, one of the crazierthings out there, though, I will
get to at the tail end ofthe beginning of the show here, and

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it's the changes of Chris Cuomo.There's no other way to say it.
The things that Chris Cuomo was sayingnow compared to the things that Chris Cuomo
was saying before are just so weirdlydifferent that it's grabbed my attention, maybe
more than it should. But beforewe do that, let's go ahead and
start with something else. MSNBC isfreaking out. They don't understand anything.

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They're very confused. They don't knowhow this could possibly be true, and
it's amusing a lot of people,myself very much included. And that is
a new poll that shows that independentvoters actually believe Joe Biden to be a
greater threat to democracy than former PresidentDonald Trump. Heads are exploding, I
imagine at MSNBC. I think Ihave a little bit of that audio.

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You know what actually hold on,I have a little bit of an issue
with dead audio, So I'll waiton that for just a second and we'll
get back to that in a minute. But there is there's a giant reaction
on MSNBC to the craziness, tothe ridiculousness of the idea that Joe Biden
is somehow a threat to democracy ifindependents are being asked that question. The
reason I find that so fascinating,and I know that it's weird that I

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can't play the audio. I havean error that I've got to fix and
a little bit. But the thingthat's so weird to me about that is
that, of course people might feelthat way if you're watching the political opponent
go through all of the different youknow, court case things he's going through,
even if it'll just actually be theone in Manhattan is the only one

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that they might actually have to,you know, make a decision on before
November. But the thing that's soamusing to me is, of course people
would feel that way no matter what, No matter if you believe that Trump
is guilty of every single thing he'sbeen accused of of innercent of every single
thing he's been accused of, Itis weird to see the main rival going

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into courtroom after courtroom and defending himselfon all kinds of different charges. There
is there's no other road to gothan to say that out loud and to
wonder how you know democrats have misunderstoodthis so badly and for so long.
Some other things out there that Ithought were pretty interesting. Another one is

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a discussion about the demands that arecoming out of certain places for certain individuals.
In Denver, it is legal immigrantswho have given some demands to I
guess the city there or the state. Some of the things they're asking for
is to cook their own food withingredients provided by the city. Shower access

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available without time limits. How dareyou try to tell us that this is
something that you have to limit Thetime on medical visits will happen regularly,
referrals, connections to specialty care,all of that is in need. Receive
same housing support offered to others isone of this mentioned. Shelter residents will
receive employment support and then consultations witha free immigration lawyer so that they can

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try to get their status changed herein this country. That's a real graphic
that's gone viral all over the internet, viral all over social media. It's
amazing to have a discussion about Look, I think there's a couple ways to
say this. Actually, it's amazingto have a discussion about how many demands
can be thrown at your feet theminute that someone gets into our country.

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And then also when you take thewider scope, look everywhere else in the
world and the other things going on, and you wonder how people who are
at least if they claim fleeing fromwhatever horrible situation they're in somewhere else in
the world, and then coming tothe United States and saying, all right,
and now that I'm here, Iwant to be treated exactly the way

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that I assume everyone in the UnitedStates is treated, which is everything's free
in my life is way better now. It's crazy to think about that and
to understand how few people actually dobelieve this version of things. They just
think that America, the richest countryin the world, can support whatever it
is they want. And this iswhy so many Americans now, I think,

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are turning against the idea of thisimmigration problem, or turning against the
idea of open borders, something thatdemocrats have long been screaming at. You
is okay, and it's humanitarian orwhatever they claim it to be. It's
just fascinating to me. All Right. One other piece of audio that I'll

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have to actually play in a littlebit. Robert F. Kennedy Junior recently
did an interview and said that hesupported abortion pretty much up until birth,
which is usually like a catchphrase,which is an odd thing to call that,
but it definitely is true. It'sa talking point. I don't know
how many human beings actually do thinkthat abortion should be okay right up until

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a mother gives birth, and yetit seems to be something that Robert F.
Kennedy Junior actually does support. Whenyou say that about Democrats, you
wonder, and Democrats usually refuse togive you a time limit. They refuse
to give you a term where theythink abortion is no longer appropriate. Most

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Americans think the third trimester it wouldbe absolutely wrong to have an abortion,
and of course many Americans think muchmore than that is wrong. But what
I think is so fascinating about thisis you don't often hear someone say to
this question or have the discussion byaction going the full road of yes,
I support it up until this moment. If this is the woman's choice,

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and it was surreal, and Iwonder, you know, I'm curious about
one thing, and I hate totinfoil hat conspiracy theory just to start the
show, but some part of mehas to do this. Robert F.
Kennedy Junior was taking more and morevotes away from Trump. You were seeing
that in some of the polls.It still seemed that he would have more

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of an impact on Biden than hewould would have had on Trump, but
you were you were seeing a moresignificant impact on both political leaders, both
political you know, more likely tobe elected individuals. And this will probably
obliterate that. By Robert F.Kennedy Junior saying in an interview and it

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getting put all over social media andall over all the places it needs to
go. I imagine the amount ofconservative support for Robert F. Kennedy Junior
will crater. And certainly I don'tthink that this will hurt him even one
bit with Democrats. So you wonderif there's some sort of intention behind this.
I usually don't say that. Iusually don't say that. I think

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people are working together that you know, Robert F. Kennedy Junior might be
saying and doing some things that purposefullybenefit Trump. He did reject Trump's requests
to be his vice presidential candidate.But this is a fairly significant and it
seems somewhat new, not new positionmaybe for Robert F. Kennedy Junior,

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but new, you know, willingnessto discuss it the way he did.
And again, I think it willhave a tremendous impact. All right,
I'm gonna break a little bit early, a little bit earlier than I normally
do, as I have to fixsome technical things and get back to playing
a lot of the audio that's preparedfor the show today. But this is
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all nice and fixed. So herewe go. Let's get to it.

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I have audio of MSNBC reacting tothe idea that Independence believe that Joe
Biden is a greater threat to democracythan Donald Trump? How dare they?
How could that happen? I thinkinteresting in this polling was more independent so
that they worry about President Biden weakeningdemocracy than Trump? Fifty What do you

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make of this? I find itshocking. Honestly, I can't. I
can't, you know, make senseof that number. I wish I could.
I wish I had some really greatinsight to it, but I don't
know. Okay, that's MSNBC.By the way, I have really great
insight to it. It makes senseif you try to throw your political opponent
in jail, or if your politicalopponent is facing a ridiculous amount of charges

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in all different kinds of cases ata time when he didn't need to be
facing them. Look, I don'twant to blabor this point. I was
talking about it just a few minutesago, but I will say that the
timing on most of these cases inand of itself is ridiculous. There are
cases that he could have been triedfor years ago, especially the Stormy Daniels

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stuff. It feels like you waiteda tad longer than you needed to on
that situation. And there are casesthat could have waited till after the election
to be brought up. They didnot have to all happen in twenty twenty
four leading up to his election,which everyone is trying to make happen.
That alone is going to make independencefeel like, Hey, wait a minute,
maybe you're a threat to democracy.Outside of that, I don't know

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that anything else needed to be said. All right, let's move on.
This is Trump trolling the current president. A little piece of audio that dropped
that went viral. Come on,Joe, let's do it anywhere, anytime,
any place. That's it. That'sthe whole thing. That's WWE style,
is what I think that is.And I'll play it one more time.

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He wants to do a debate anywhere, anytime, any place. I
feel like you also could choose tohave them meet in the middle of a
WWE ring based on this piece ofvideo. Come on, Joe, let's
do it anywhere, anytime, anyplace. I'm amazed by this. Here's
what I think is so fascinating isthat people wonder why Trump is popular,

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and then you have audio like thatthat exists out there in the world,
or a video that he actually putout, his team actually put out that
winds up going viral all over theInternet. And of course, if you
hate politicians, if you're someone whothinks Washington is so utterly broken and cannot
be fixed by anyone who's been youknow, wow, I almost said a

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phrase I shouldn't say. But anyonewho's been worshiping at the altar of DC
for way too long, none ofthese career politicians can change anything. Trump
behaves publicly like the absolute perfect personto be sent in there and change everything.
Now, granted, I will admitthat the first round, the first

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term, it doesn't seem that asmuch was changed in DC as you would
have hoped, and that might makesome people think, well, is a
second term really going to be moresignificant there? But then you also realize
that Trump is even angrier than hewas last time because of everything that's going
on against him. So certainly somepeople might be outed as being corrupt,
and honestly, that's what that's atthe end of the day. I think

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what most of us actually want iswe want a Washington DC that actually is,
you know, behaving the ways thatbenefit us, and sending someone in
there who's angry and spiteful might actuallyhelp get closer to that goal. But
that is one of many reasons whyI think Trump is so popular. All
right, let's play this audio.This is something that I absolutely am amazed

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is out there. I don't knowhow to say this differently. Chris Cuomo
is a guy that, on CNNfor the entire pandemic was absolutely a typical
you know, Ivermectin is horsty wormer, and anybody who's not taking the vaccine
is killing everybody who is taking thevaccine, et cetera, et cetera.
And now, for some reason,on News Nation, which wants to be

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a down the middle version of anews organization, not only has Chris Cuomo
started to talk about vaccine injured individuals, he claims to be one, and
apparently he thinks he owes people noapology for his change in position on this
conversation. Now, look, anybodywho's like looking at their radio right now
and saying, WHOA, this gotfar right? Ivermectin and coronavirus vaccines and

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whatnot. I promise you you justgot to read the New York Times to
see some of this changing. Someof these conversations now becoming more nuanced.
And I think the assumption is thata lot of people don't have patience for
this topic anymore. They're just notgonna listen, they're gonna check out,
they're done with it. So theNew York Times can write an article talking

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about the significance of injured individuals inour country due to the coronavirus vaccine,
the COVID vaccine, and assume it'lljust be a blip on the radar to
everybody. But I guess a ChrisCuomo. But here is an amazing supercut
by Tom Elliott, the guy whoruns Grabian, where he put first Cuomo

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in this most recent interview, sayinghe owes no one in apology for his
change in position, and then awhole bunch of him doing the things that
probably make him owe a lot ofpeople in a bology. Here we go.
Apology, of course not. Thisis never as simple as vaccine good,
vaccine bad. We have data tosupport the fact that there are thousands

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of people who have had adverse effectsthat are not getting attention. Be nice
to the unvaccinated, don't shame them, Let them learn enough. This country
is about the vaccinated and those whochoose to put them at risk. The
vaccinated are this country. They've alldone the right thing. So how long
must the majority wait for the stubbornwaiting on people who insist on making themselves

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and others sick? And there isno valor in being unvaccinated. Not getting
vaccinated is what is unfair. Thisis on you that it's good that you're
not taking it to thwart the governmenttrying to have a hand in your life.
How much more are the vaccinated goingto take from the vacuus as if

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it were some misplaced righteous cause.It's freedom, it's freedom not to take
the vaccine because it's not about reason, it's about animus. Okay, gotta
stab it right there. And that'sonly like a minute in to this amazing
supercut that's all over the internet.He's got three and a half more minutes
of this thing. This is absolutelythe problem that exists in our society.

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Is someone feeling this strongly with whateverlimited amount of information. Chris Cuomo was
now admitting, we had at thattime, or at least that he had
at that time, and feeling soconfident in that limited understanding of something that
you can shame the absolute crap outof other people, make them feel horrible,

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and try to get them to makewhatever decision you think is appropriate,
and then when more information becomes availableto you, be like, oh,
yeah, no, that's why bad, and not even really really be willing
to say that, not even saythe apology part, just go ahead and
move on and act as though wehave this tunnel vision some of us in
society that thinks that whenever you discoversomething, whenever you are now aware of

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it, that's when everyone else probablyalso became aware of it. And so
you behave as if you couldn't haveknown something sooner when you could have,
and when while the internets and socialmedia tried to prevent us from knowing some
of these things as people were sayingthem as early as they were. But
nonetheless, if you're a Chris Cuomo, if you have access to say,

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experts and conversations, and you knowthe ability to send certain requests in certain
directions and get more information, thenyou failed to do your job. If
you believed something with so little informationfor so long and now finally admit something
else only because it happened to you. By the way, that is the

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least intelligent way to discover something isfor it to happen to you and then
go, oh, now I getthis. Now this makes sense. It
doesn't mean that it doesn't happen alot with a lot of people, but
it is not the I was curious, so I wanted to find out road
that should exist and did a longtime ago in journalism. All Right,
well, it's gonna take a break. A lot more coming up. Greig

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Collins filling in on the Chad BensonShow. Such Chad Benson Show, Independent

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Thoughts, Independent Life. This isChad Benson, This is the Chad Dnsons
Show. My name is Craig Collins, filling in. One of the biggest
discussions this whole week has been StormyDaniels, which is surreal because the first
time you heard that name, Iam guessing I don't know for everybody,
but I'm thinking at least some people. The first time you heard that name,

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I was with Trump and his campaignin twenty sixteen, so eight years
ago. You had some time ifyou wanted to try to throw him in
a courtroom and go after him fora tax issue. This is not something
you had to wait till twenty twentyfour to do, and it's something that
a lot of people think is byfar the weakest of any cases against Trump.
But the other thing that was reallyfascinating this week is that when Stormy

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Daniels took the witness stand, oneof the things she said, or at
least a couple of the things shesaid, seemed to reshape her story.
It seemed to be more of ayou know, some things happened between the
former president and I that I didn'treally want to have happen, which is
different than what she's said in thepast. And just for acknowledgment here,

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Trump has denied all of these thingsever happened even a little bit. But
what I find fascinating about being ona witness stand in twenty twenty four,
being asked certain questions and giving certainanswers is just how much of a spotlight
Stormy Daniels wanted eight seven six.Several years ago, she was doing all

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kinds of interviews, including a sixtyminutes interview in Australia that I happened to
find where she had a pretty differentexplanation of some of these moments. And
I want to play this audio becauseI found it so important the way in
which Stormy has apparently changed her mindon stuff, which she actually even freely

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admits during this back and forth.So we'll start with this piece of audio
where Stormy is talking about and thisis something you might have forgotten, but
it'll probably jog your memory talking abouta moment where she might have hit Trump
on the backs with a magazine.That's real. That was her claim.
And she says in response to wellwhat was going to happen after that moment,

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that she had come there to geta story, to get something that
she was going to tell people about, you know, the famous person Donald
Trump, not yet president or formerpresident Trump. So her intentions in the
room were to get something significant thatshe could talk about for years to come.
By her own admission, here wego, I remember thinking of them,

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I'm okay, well here's the greatstory I came for. I just
spent Donald Trump with a magazine andnow I'm gonna leave. But then,
you know, he became nice,and I think that we shared a mutual
curiosity, genuine curiosity about the businessaspects of each other's lives. It was

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just so very interesting. But itseems to be interesting when you went to
the bath room. All right,I'll stop it right there too. By
the way, this is the momentwhere if you or the person asking questions,
if you're the journalist, you aretrying to shift it to be a
certain type of conversation. Now you'relike, it ceased to be interesting,
it ceased to be something that youwere happy about the moment you went to

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the restroom and you came out andTrump was in his boxers or Trump was,
you know, in some form ofdifferent attire than he was when you
went into this room. And Stormydoesn't go there. She's being prodded to
go there, and in twenty eighteendidn't seem to think that that was the
appropriate place to go. And nowin twenty twenty four at a witness stand,

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this is exactly the road she took. And that was like a couple
hours end. Which is why Iwas so blindsided, because the last at
least the last hour and a halfthat we were talking, it was just
like you and I are talking now, how he mentally got from A to
B. I still don't know.But when you emerge from the bathroom,

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he's down to his wife front's andso is that right? Yes, it
still makes you laugh. You knowwhat, I have to applaud his confidence.
She hasd to applaud his confidence isthe way that she says it.
There. I'm going to keep oneother piece of audio in here. I
don't know why. It's just amean shot that sixty minutes. Australia takes

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it Trump on their own. Idon't know why they do this. This
is in eighteen so he's in theWhite House. But I'm gonna go ahead
and play it because it happened ontelevision somewhere and for some reason I don't
know. According to Stormy what followedwas the least impressive six she's ever had.
What I don't know, like,why why was that shot taken?

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Anyway? Here we go back tothe interview. Did you have six with
him? I have no idea.What's that even after all this time.
Yeah, I have no idea.Either I was in the right place at
the right time or I was thewrong place at the wrong time. And
my opinion of that changes about everytwenty minutes. All right, stab it
right there? That's the most significantmoment in this whole thing. I could

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have just played that. For somereason, I enjoyed playing the rest of
this. She by her own admission, says that she might have been in
the best place or the right placeat the right time, the wrong place
at the wrong time. She hasno idea and it changes constantly. That
is fascinating. And if you werethe defense team for Trump and you wanted

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to demonstrate the questionableness of anything thatStormy Daniels said on that witness stand,
and again, this is actually acase that has nothing to do with any
of this. It's about taxes andwhether or not a you know, accountant
in the Trump organization I did somethingwrong, or if Trump himself, I
guess does the taxes for the Trumporganization. But if I were trying to

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undercut the credibility of a witness,I would play that and I'd say,
this is something she publicly stated ontelevision that you know, you can look
at, that I can think about. And it's by her own admission,
she has no idea what her thoughtsare on this topic. All right,
I want to go back to oneother thing I mentioned for a little bit
ago, But This is Robert KennedyJunior, a Robert F. Kennedy Junior

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saying that he does support abortion upuntil birth, something that definitely made headlines
yesterday and throughout the day today becauseit absolutely probably craters a whole lot of
the support that Kennedy might have gottenfrom people that lean conservative or from Republicans
that at least were interested in someof the other things that he was saying.

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So, in other words, keepingit as is with Roe versus weight
having been overturned, and leaving itup to the states to determine if and
when a woman can have an abortion. No, I wouldn't leave it to
the states, wouldn't write. Iwould say completely, it's up to the
We should leave it to the woman. We shouldn't have government involved, even

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if it's full term, even ifit's full term. Yeah, very simplistically,
even if it's full term, evenif the baby is due in days.
Robert F. Kennedy Junior says,it's up to the woman, and
that's the way that he thinks itshould go. What I think is so
fascinating about this just quickly, andI don't want to dive deep into an
abortion conversation on a Friday. Butwhat I think is so fascinating is if

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you leave this decision up to thestates for say, some significant amount of
time, If we don't change thedecision to overturn Roe versus Wade for the
next I don't know. I don'teven want to ballpark it. But let's
say like fifty years, What you'dactually get in that time period is a
much better understanding of the individual beliefabout abortion within this country, because people

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in certain states that might see somethings that are changing be asked to go
ahead and show up and vote awhole lot of politicians into power in those
states in order to change that.So you might see very heavily democratic states
wind up going conservative. If enoughpeople in this country actually do believe that
abortion is wrong or it's wrong upuntil full term, which of course a

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lot of people do, and theopposite is true, you might see people
democrats or independents in states that aretraditionally run by a whole lot of conservatives
start voting in local elections to changethat because they'd like the states' rules to
change the Supreme Court. And thisis something that a whole lot of people
know, and I hate that Ihave to say it as often as I

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do on radio. Did not makeabortion illegal. They gave states the option
to decide that. And if wegave this enough time, we would have
a better understanding, which to meseems important as to whether or not certain
states and certain makeups of individuals throughoutthis country actually do have differing beliefs on
this and if those beliefs are powerfulenough to change the political makeup of said

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states, and so until we getthere, and it's going to have to
take some time to see, becauseplaces that have made changes so far would
have to see overwhelming voting to removecertain politicians from power. And then I
think you can relent and say,all right, if everywhere in the country
is behaving the same way at astate level, then it seems as though

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we don't have as much disagreement onthis topic as we might have assumed we
had. But right now, whenyou see some states going one way and
other states going a different way,it demonstrates exactly I think the point that
there is more nuance to this conversationthan the left wants you to believe whenever
they talk about it, whenever theysay this is what matters, and this
is what doesn't all right, onelast quick thing, and I just thought
this was interesting. One of thecases against Trump is seeing issues beyond just

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delay. Most people or most leftleaning media are going to tell you that
the delaying of these cases is horribleand terrible and you know, just absolutely
unfair and Trump is getting so lucky, and that's not true. But one
of the cases, the classified documentscase, actually has a very different issue.

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Apparently they've lost order of all ofthe documents that they found during their
raid of mar Lago. They're notreally sure where stuff goes. I guess
this is something that at some pointthey said they screwed up. But here's
what's more fascinating than anything about it. There was that photo that was taken,
the famous one, the one thatprobably some of you still remember,

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where all the documents were on theground in mar Lago and the photos taken
and it goes viral and it says, you know, classified here or something
else there. Apparently they have nowadmitted Jack Smith's team that they brought those
cover sheets with them as placeholders andas sort of separators for all of the

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documents that they were going to collectand take and use in their case.
So that seems to be a verystaged photo where essentially they added in their
own paperwork that made things look worsethan they might have been. And then
beyond that, that's probably what helpedthem lose order of the documents themselves,
which now makes it much harder forthem to claim what was moved over here,

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what was moved over there. Theco defendant with Trump, someone who
works for him, is accused ofmoving certain documents to try to protect them
from the government, and now thegovernment isn't sure which documents that was which
ones were taken out of a roomand moved somewhere else. Talk about one
of the most idiotic things you couldpossibly do to throw your entire case into

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question. Beyond anything going on asto whether or not what Trump did is
any worse than anything Biden did oranyone else that served in that role did.
Losing order to this sort of stuff, the small details matter so much,
and the federal government seems to haveadmitted now that they screwed up,
and screwed up pretty significantly. Sowe'll see what happens there. All right,

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I'll take a break. It's aFriday, so I promise we'll have
more fun in just a bit.Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson
Show. You stink like fear andwhite male privilege. To me, I

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do often out myself verbally as ayounger. My pronouns are they them?
And I'm proud to be a gender? Are you so bid? It's not
a great way to use your whiteprivilege. Some people got it, some
people don't. You're listening to theChad Ventson show. This is the Chad

(30:40):
Benson Show. My name is CraigCollins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. What would you dofor free housing? Like? What kind
of scenario would you live in ifyou thought you found the perfect situation.
No one's ever going to figure itout. A one woman apparently went pretty
far. Thirty four year old womanin Michigan decided to move into a grocery
store. No I'm not done withmy sentence. Sign. She was living

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in a sign for a grocery store. The way that she was discovered is
sort of amazing. So I guess. Contractors went out to a building to
do some work on it for theFamily Fair supermarket in Midland, Michigan,
and they found a weird extension cordthat seemed to be going up into the
sign, and they didn't know why. And when they got into the area

(31:26):
where the sign was, they founda dwelling. They found a house plant,
they found all kinds of stuff,and they're like, what is this,
And then they realized, oh,there's a woman who lives here.
She had a car, she hada job. I don't know when she
thought it made sense to try tomove into the sign, but there was
a three foot by four foot accessstore in the back of it that she

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somehow discovered, and then she's beenliving in there for who knows how much
time. She also had a minidesk, a pantry, She had a
cuig maker because you need coffee inthe morning. She just had the whole
set up. When the police wentup to investigate, the woman came right
up to the door and said,don't worry, I'm leaving. I love
that part of it. Like,hey, no harm, no foul.

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You guys found me. You're probablygonna want to kick me out of this
sign that I'm not supposed to livein, So I'm done. I'm not
living here anymore. I found anicer sign down the road I'm looking to
upgrade anyway, but this person,for some amount of time took tiny house
to a whole new level, anddefinitely there's some issues with that. Not
allowed to do it, But wouldyou go that far for free housing?

(32:31):
Who knows? At least one personsaid yes. A restaurant, so I've
forgotten credit card and then made awhole bunch of mistakes. So I guess
a server in North Carolina thought,hey, somebody left their credit card behind.
I know what I'll do. I'llpost it on social media because everything
goes on social media, and thispersonal figure out that they left it and

(32:52):
they'll come on back and get it. The problem is they didn't blur any
of it, so the card number, everything immediately available over two dollars is
charged on this card. By thetime that the woman gets it back,
the restaurant probably is going to windup in trouble for this. Certainly there's
going to be a fight over thesecharges and whatnot. But that is the

(33:13):
biggest brain fart that might exist there. The reason it was only two grand
in charges that had been racked upon the card is it might have actually
eventually realized fraud was happening and shutitself down, so it could have been
much more. The owner of Smith'sCafe said they had no comment in this
situation, and the server is someonewho probably will wind up in more trouble

(33:34):
than they are going to be,you know, publicly in But what a
dumb thing to do. What astupid thing to do. And honestly,
the only other thing about it thatI thought is if you are of a
certain generation, it'd also make sensethat you would just do that. Because
social media is life and nothing elsematters. So everything that happens on social
media is real. Put everything upthere. I love the people, especially

(33:58):
young people, who put crimes upon their social media pages. I love
it. I don't love it becauseI'm happy they're committing crimes. I'm happy
that they're providing a very easy caseto law enforcement to track them down.
There's even a story yesterday of aguy who carved his name into a police
car and put his real first andlast name, made it fairly easy to

(34:20):
catch him. And then when policeshowed up at his house and are like,
did you vandalize our vehicle, heis like, yeah, that's me.
That's me. I signed my name, And so you get to go
to jail too, sir. That'sgreat. Mother's Day is coming up.
And of course this has caused adiscussion, like it does every year in
media and other places as to whatMom actually wants. And I don't remember

(34:42):
this significant of a version of thisstory existing before. I know this has
always been a thought that's out there, But Ma apparently really wants this year
to be left alone. She wantssomeone else to take care of the kids,
someone else to do the rest ofthe chores that she does. She
just wants a night or a dayto herself, maybe a long bath,
maybe an evening out with the girlfriends. I love this story so much because

(35:07):
it's easy for us to accommodate that. Just give Mom a gift card to
some sort of restaurant or give hersome money, and let her live her
life for a day and she'll behappy, and you'll be happy, and
everyone will go about their business justfine. I don't remember this being as
significant of a thing in the past, and maybe that's wrong. And I
wonder if this is enough, yearsafter we were all trapped in the house

(35:29):
together, that Mom is officially veryinterested in being left the heck alone.
But I love this story and Iwent ahead and sent my mom a gift
card in the mail as soon asI saw it a couple weeks ago.
I know a restaurant I think she'dprobably want to go to and maybe take
some friends to. And boom,Mother's Day completed and completed. Well,
yes, I sent a card,and yes I wrote things in the card

(35:51):
about how much my mom means tome and how important she is. And
I think that I hit it outof the park. And you might still
think I've done nowhere near enough.All right, quick break, A lot
more coming up. Greg Collins fillingin on the Chad Benson Show. This

(36:15):
is the Chad Benson Show, IndependentThoughts, Independent Life. This is Chad

(36:45):
Benson. This is the Chad BensonShow. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be withyou. A bunch of stuff to talk
about on a Friday. This isa really interesting case that just finally got
a decision. So two students werekicked out out of school back in twenty
twenty, Yes, twenty twenty,when a whole lot of stuff was going
on. This was in Mountain View, California. They were kicked out of

(37:07):
school because they allegedly wore blackface ina photo they put up online. It
turns out, and this is somethingthat the parents and the children knew the
entire time, that they were wearingdark green acne masks. I guess for
some reason they put on those totry to fight whatever is on your face.

(37:28):
And if you remember high school,a whole lot of kids to have
a whole lot of acne. Andso the misunderstanding in this, the reaction
to it, the craziness of it, which was heightened because of the Black
Lives Matter protests and everything else goingon. It gets two kids kicked out
of school. They sued and justnow finally won a one million dollar judgment
against the school, all this timelater. What is fascinating about this is

(37:52):
how long it takes to get tothat moment of sanity, you know what
I mean, there's so often nowa time. This is what I believe
to be true of all of thecollege protesting that's going on. I think
so many people that are angry wantto take that anger out on somebody,
but they don't have anyone that theycan take that anger out on their lives

(38:15):
close to them. At least that'smy assumption so they start looking harder for
who's it going to be. Andso the college students want to take their
anger out on the universities they goto. Apparently they want to blame those
universities for doing the wrong thing withtheir money, and so they need to
protest. They need to get outin the middle of the quad and they're

(38:35):
not going home. And then whilea whole bunch of people who have no
connection at all to those universities showup for very different reasons in protest along.
But I think that anger for youngpeople is actually coming from somewhere else,
and the thought that you are akindred spirit with someone that you think
is being mistreated somewhere else in theworld. And I guess you just spin

(38:55):
the wheel and pick what place,because there are a lot of places where
people are being mistreated other places inthe world, And guess what, they're
being treated worse than you're being treatedat your dorm and in your college.
And if you can't buy a houseat twenty three, that's not the same
as the struggle other people are having. But I just think that action of
taking your anger out somewhere becomes necessary, and a whole lot of people do

(39:19):
it incorrectly. It's sort of likethe thing you say to the spouse and
here, I'll make this make sense. I promise when they come home and
they had a bad day at workand you're doing something and they start to
get real mad at whatever you're doing, and it doesn't seem like they should
be as mad as they are atyou. Maybe you know, not doing
the clothes when you said you wouldnot moving them from the washing machine to

(39:43):
the dry or something. And pauseand you say, are you mad about
something else? Is there something elsemaking you mad? And the answer is
yes for so many people, andthe people who got these kids kicked out
of school and I got as angryas they did because of dark green acne
face masks. That the kids hadno inten whatsoever of being perceived the way
they were because they were not makinga racial statement whatsoever. But again,

(40:07):
it's just that kind of thing,and I think that's what polarizes sides of
the political you know parties too.You start to want to blame, and
granted this is something that democratic politiciansseem to lean into. You want to
blame other Americans who disagree with youas the problem. It's not that you

(40:27):
hate Trump. It's you hate anyonewho would vote for Trump. And again,
that's something that very often is playedout on the view or any other
television station, and so it emboldenspeople to feel that way, and that's
sort of anti what this country issupposed to be, the tolerance of others.
The way to be quote unquote wokeis actually to understand that your opinion
might be different than their opinion.And that's fine. They don't need to

(40:52):
be, you know, put ina rocket and shot to the moon just
because they don't think what you think. They don't need to be canceled or
whatever. It might be. AllRight, I'll stop preaching. We're gonna
move on. I think this isinteresting when you talk about the gag order
and Donald Trump and the significance ofit, it's very easy to see.
And I guess that's one of thethings that came up in court the other

(41:14):
day is can Trump respond to thesepieces of testimony from Stormy Daniels that are
making their way all around And theanswer is no. It would technically be
a violation of the gag order forTrump to go out and say things about
a witness in this case. Theonly problem with that is, you have
people like Michael Cohen who actually havealready been found guilty of lying under oath,

(41:35):
so you would think he's not exactlya reliable witness selling shirts online and
making money off of them with aphoto of Trump in jail. Michael Cohen
is literally trying to monetize his attemptto be one of the conduits to something
that may or may not actually happen. And Trump is not allowed to talk
about that. That's insane. Andso then you have other politicians go out

(42:00):
and start to say things publicly,things that seem very much like they're in
the political discussion right now because Trumpis running for the office he's running for.
And then there was even some thoughtsthat maybe because these other politicians are
making comments, that Trump could somehowbe found responsible for those and actually be

(42:21):
in trouble for those, which isalso insane. To say. There's so
much going on right now that justseems to be ridiculous. And one of
the more ridiculous of those things isabsolutely the idea that a politician can't respond
to whatever anybody else publicly is saying. But when Cohen is literally selling T
shirts, you know, we've gottento a point that makes absolutely no sense

(42:45):
to the everyday average American. Soyou kind of hope that helps break through.
All right, One other thing Ido want to play here. This
is Biden. He's interviewed by CNN, and they gave a pretty devastating open
to this inner where they said thingsare not very good. And even if
you look at say people's actual wagescompared to inflation, people are not making

(43:07):
more money, They're making less money. Everything is challenging. You haven't done
a good job in the White House, essentially, and Biden's reaction was wrong.
I'm just going to pretend that's nottrue, even though this is CNN
softball interview place for me to gotelling me how real people actually feel.
There was also this moment that Ithought was pretty interesting. What about I

(43:29):
mean, but there's real pain.I mean, grocery prices are up thirty
percent, more than thirty percent sincethe beginning of the pandemic, and people
are spending more on food and groceriesthan they have at any time really in
the past thirty years. I mean, that's a real day to day pain
that people. No, it reallyis, and it's real. But the

(43:50):
fact is that if you take alook with them. Then people have they
had the money to spend? Ilove that. No, no, fine,
you're gonna keep asking me this questionover and over again, where you're
telling me that everyday Americans absolutely disagreewith your administration that things are going great
and everyday Americans absolutely believe that thingsare challenging. Because they are. And

(44:15):
so fine, I will relent.I'll say, yes, yes, it's
real. But here's the other thing. Those in grades have the money.
I can't get over that. That'samazing. No, we don't, sir.
A whole lot of people have massiveamounts of credit card debt now,
more than they've had at any othertime before. A credit card debts at
an all time high. People aretaking out personal loans to cover the expenses

(44:38):
that they need to pay right now, because we don't have enough money for
that. And so you can't justsay that they have the money and move
on. That's not acknowledging that thepain point is real. That's trying to
yet once again say it's not reallya thing. They're not upset about it.
I mean, honestly, if youwere trying to create an individual who

(45:00):
represented better, the idea is thatthere's an elite political class, almost like
there's a royalty within our society andthen everybody else, all the peasants.
It's Biden. This is the guy. He's so mentally broken. At least
that's my assumption or my belief withhim, that he actually is behaving as

(45:23):
though, how dare anyone ask mea question about how everybody's doing in this
world? Because they're doing great.I know they're doing great. The people
who work for me have told methey're doing great, and I'm just gonna
go ahead and believe it. Likeit actually seems that he thinks it's true.
And I don't know how to saythat differently, because I'm not trying
to make him sound any more innocent. I'm just trying to make him sound

(45:44):
well, dumber or just more brokenin his mind, because he absolutely seems
to appear as though he's someone andI remember it from maybe a couple of
years ago, where he didn't evenknow what the cost of like chicken in
a grocery store would be. Imean, this is a politically elite guy
his whole life. This is aguy who's let his family make money off

(46:05):
of his name, and then apparentlythe excuse for that is I didn't know
about it. That's how you're allowedto make that legal, because it's illegal
if he knows about it. It'slegal if he doesn't. Even if it's
his brother and his son and awhole bunch of people making money and at
times paying him by direct deposit,that none of that matters apparently in our
system. But this is just sosurreal to hear, and I think one

(46:28):
of the biggest reasons why so manypeople are saying in some of those other
polls MSNBC and other places that Biden'sa bigger threat to democracy than anyone else's.
I hate that rhetoric, by theway, I'm just going to throw
that out there. I hate theidea that anyone runs on a platform that
they're trying to upend democracy or upendyou know, America as we know it,

(46:49):
because I don't think anyone is trulytrying to do that on an individual
level. I think there's definitely alot of powers that be and things out
there that would love to change awhole bunch about our country. But I
don't know that any one leader,put in any one position, would actually
even wield the power to do that. If they wanted to do it now.
Granted, I say all that beingaware that Trump being dragged into courtrooms

(47:13):
and potentially going to jail is aboutas close as we're going to get to
seeing something that seems anti American anddoesn't usually happen here but happens a lot
of other places. But at thesame time, just I hate that rhetoric.
I wish we could tone it downjust slightly to a more realistic version
of Biden doesn't give a crap aboutwhether or not you or I do well,
whether or not he protects democracy,doesn't give a crap about that,

(47:37):
as opposed to he is single handedlytrying to tear it apart because he's not
smart enough for that. You knowit, and I know that, and
so I do think a more valuableversion of it is the powers that be
behind Biden might be trying to influencehim into making decisions that get us closer
to being a country we don't wantto be. But it's certainly not something
that any politician can single handedly wield, at least in mind opinion. But

(48:00):
call me naive if you want,yell it right at the radio. I'm
a thirty something, well almost aforty something who does believe that there's only
so much one person can do withthe system that the founding fathers very smartly
put in place to create checks andbalances which do still work to some extent.
All Right, we're going to takea break a lot more. Creig
Collins filling in on the Chad BensonShow. Hashtag me too, hashtag immigration

(48:35):
reforms, hashtag help. I'm trappedin a hashtag factory and I can't get
out the Chad Benson Show. Thisis the Chad Benson Show. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in Asubway worker that's the food establishment, not
you know, transit was in Californiaand said she was shocked when a customer

(48:58):
seemed to want to smack her overham. She actually did get punch in
the face, and she's I'm gladthat she's doing okay, and the guy
was arrested, so that's good.She's definitely gonna press charges. But here
she is talking about it online,where she seems to almost laugh at the
idea that she's about to get attackedby a customer over not giving the guy
enough ham on his sandwich. Herewe go. I did not expect this

(49:22):
he comes around the corner. Igo, what are you gonna do?
Hit me over Ham? He hitme, he punched me. All I
could remember is she's black. Istill can't still half on my face.
I did not deserve this, ofcourse. All I was in there just
doing my job right, and peopleshouldn't punch other people over ham. That
seems a little bit ridiculous, andhonestly, I will also say this though,

(49:43):
and it's not defending the guy evena little bit. It seems like
less meat is getting put on thosesandwiches at subway, but you shouldn't go
punchy for it. I'm glad thatshe's okay. I'm glad that she's pressing
charges, etc. But I dothink it's sort of amazing that even as
she's telling the story and saying thatshe blacked out after this, she's still
like somewhat laughing because of the ridiculousnessof being thought, you know, or

(50:06):
being punched because of a ham sandwich. All right, this other piece of
audio, I do love. Thisis a dude, I guess in England.
I feel like he's got to bedrunk, but he might not be
drunk. I just might be sensingthat based on the rest of the story,
apparently he's walking around with some friendsand talking about how they are really
friendly foxes that exist in this areabecause they wander the streets sometimes, and

(50:30):
so he's complaining about how people arescared of these foxes and they're harmless and
it's no big deal. And ashe's doing this, it seems like,
almost on command, a fox walksup and bites him in the leg.
He's okay, there was some bleeding, he'll be fine. But I don't
know why I love this so much. I used to work with a guy
for a long time in this industrythat had a couple catchphrases, and his

(50:52):
catchphrases were very simple. Hot coffeeis hot, Wild, animals go wild.
These are things you need to remember, and a lot of society doesn't,
including this guy. People are scaredof it through it comes up to
you and no it's not. Itgets vetted on the on the thing looks

(51:22):
the worst thing is always giving itvibes be gonna up and everything. Yeah.
That is my favorite, by theway, is that he's got two
buddies that he's lecturing and he's saying, these foxes are friendly, they're fine,
and they just die laughing when hegets bitten leg and he's bleeding and
all that other stuff is happening,because yes, man, you absolutely deserved
that with how you were behaving.You're like, how dare anybody complain about

(51:43):
this situation? Everything is fine,let's all go back to work now,
and then well justice is served,all right. One last thing, I
want to play this audio too.This is going viral. A young woman
on TikTok apparently is upset that Mother'sDay might also celebrate grand She wants them
to have their own holiday, eventhough this means that she's actually telling her

(52:05):
own mom to butt out of herholiday, which is odd. Here we
go, is Mother's Day not Grandmother'sDay. For my first Mother's Day,
we established these roles because I waspretty sad. I had spent the whole
Mother's Day coordinating grandparent visits and Ididn't give do anything for myself, and
I was like, I'm not doingthis again. Usually I make a plan

(52:28):
ahead of time and talk to myhusband about it. I like to usually
go out to brunch and then weall garden, and I like to have
some alone time gardening and then readmy book for a little bit and get
a pedicure. We celebrate my momand my mother in law on different days,
Well, how dare we have tocelebrate those people on this day too,
that gave birth to us, thatgave birth to our generation, that

(52:51):
then had the next seat of kids. That's amazing. And by the way,
not trying to overly attack this youngwoman, but she sounds awful that
version of I'm prefacing it with I'mnot trying to be mean, but you
suck, because she really does.She sounds like she plans out how people
give her presents in her life,and that's no good. You don't want
that. You should let them comeup with things. I feel like shopping

(53:15):
for her if you're the husband,just involves handing her the credit card and
telling her to say something nice onthe card that she buys for you to
her. Because you're not involved,it doesn't matter. And if you do
try to go on your own,she's gonna return those things. But yeah,
Mother's Day can also in fact beGrandmother's Day because grandmothers are in fact

(53:35):
also moms. There's no way youget to the level of grandma without being
a mom somewhere in there. Itjust doesn't make sense. I think I
got that part right. I feellike I'm doing this well. So bahumbug
to that lady. All right,quick break a lot more. Creig Collins
filling in on the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show, Independent Thoughts,

(54:28):
Independent Life. This is Chad Benson. This is the Chad Benson Show.
My name is Craig Collins, fillingin. Thrilled to be with you.
A bunch of stuff to talk about. I thought this was kind of
interesting. There's questions as to howsafe the Democratic National Convention is going to
be this year. One because it'sin Chicago, and two because it's actually

(54:51):
believed that a whole lot of protesters, a whole lot of young people,
a whole lot of people upset withthe things that are not left enough of
the Democratic Party right now, aregoing to make it horrible. So it's
not the fact that there's all thatgun violence and other stuff going on in
Chicago, the normal reasons to beafraid. It's the fear that there's going
to be a lot of angry peoplein the front that apparently the mayor there

(55:15):
very much supports and is unlikely tohelp the Democratic National Committee with or the
convention with. So I find thatfascinating that there's now a concern as they're
planning this as to just how significantof a disruption protesters will be. It's
a brand new avenue to Chicago iswell, parts of it anyway, a

(55:35):
giant, cratering, smoldering, terriblething. I lived in Chicago for a
long time. By the way,I lived on the North Side. I
also did live on the South Sidefor a little bit, and I'll tell
you that there's a very different experienceon which side of the city you're on
and how much danger you're pretty sureyou're in every single day. But nonetheless,
I thought this was interesting that it'sa lot of young hippie protesters and

(55:58):
then other I guess paid protesters thatare going to cause the disruption, not
the other more significant problem that alwaysexists in that city. Another thing out
there that I thought was interesting,there is a severe solar storm that is
coming this weekend. It is threateningpower grids, navigational systems, all kinds
of stuff throughout the world, iswhat they're saying. I don't know if

(56:21):
this is a it's going to beterrible, and then it's really not all
that bad thing, or if itactually is going to be as significantly disruptive
as they say it's going to be. But every time you see something like
this, whether it's the ridiculous coldthat sweeps through parts of the country at
times that made a whole bunch ofTesla's in Chicago completely inoperable for a few

(56:44):
days, whatever it is, yousee all the reasons why it's a horrible
idea to rely on one form ofpower in this country, to think that
solar energy or these other things arethe best way for us to go and
everything will be okay. Are powergrids already are at a maximum capacity in
a lot of ways, and theythink that it's only going to get worse

(57:05):
if we don't create a structure orsystem that makes us capable of having as
many people plug in their cars asthis administration wants people to be able to
do. But nonetheless, like thisis just a brand new version of oh
that would be bad. And man, if the power grid gets shut down
for a few days, or getshut down for any amount of time and
we have no power because of asolar storm, we can't do anything about

(57:27):
it, feels like we would reallywant to have gas powered cars in those
moments. And actually I say thatbecause there's this thing right now. Trump
had a meeting, had a fundraiserevent where he made a promise to oil
and gas companies, and oil andgas companies hopefully are going to donate some
sweet sweet cache to Trump in returnfor that, I think you want something

(57:50):
like a billion dollars from them.But it has become very easy for Trump
to run and lean into an organizationlike that, a group of very wealthy
and individuals, and say, hey, give me some money and I'll go
ahead and make things better for you. Because Biden has run against oil and
gas. He said he's upending them. He's said he's you know, going
after them. He's preventing the exportationof liquid natural gas, which is a

(58:15):
thing that definitely we used to domore of when we had Trump in office.
And all of this would be betterfor us in the short term because
it would make things less expensive.The cost to you know, move items
around, transport things would go down. This would be beneficial to most Americans
to lighten up in this world.And anyone who starts yelling and screaming and

(58:38):
saying, but what about the globalwarming stuff? Here's the big problem with
that. And I'm not going totell you that I do believe or don't
believe, or any of that cramp. I don't need to go there.
The big problem with that is ifyou think that the United States acting alone
to solve the climate crisis or whateveryou want to call it, is going
to work, I feel bad foryou. The other countries of the world

(59:00):
who export and who also just putout into the world all the things that
they're telling you are bad, theyhave no interest in stopping. In fact,
they actually are thrilled if we pullback. Is they just crank out
more product, more things, andmake things different or make things worse for
us, whoever, whatever you wantto say. So the big problem that

(59:21):
I think a lot of Americans whowind up getting upset or voting for certain
reasons, even if it's making lifeharder here in the United States, don't
understand. These are the ones thatdon't seem to get this, is it
really does nothing if it's just usalone, and it becomes very much a
political thing and a performative thing,and a thing in which we're really just

(59:42):
hurting ourselves and not doing it forany reason. All Right, One thing
I really loved. As far asaudio out there goes, this is Fox
News. They say that Biden averageda lie a minute during his CNN interview,
where CNN seem to want to challengethe president, maybe more than the
pres expected to be challenged by CNN. His brain doesn't work very well.

(01:00:04):
He's you know, forget full ofstuff. But he probably still remembers that
CNN is his friend and usually giveshim softball stuff. So it is interesting
that they challenged him at all.But here's Fox's reporting on just how money
lies we're told and how many rejectionsof you know, things are bad for
Americans. You've been in charge fora few years, sir, how can
you possibly tell people to vote youinto office again? And his response was

(01:00:28):
something to the effect of, no, things are not bad. Put me
back in office this week with CNN. If you saw it, you man,
watch it yourself. You set quitethe record. The New York Post
reports this, in a brief seventeenminutes, Biden told fifteen lies, nearly
a lie a minute, from Whopper'sabout the economy to prefarications on Israel.
Biden's fent a fantasy land of apresidency that voters know is false. So

(01:00:50):
what we want to do is putput it all together all right, So
on screen you'll see all fifteen thatthe New York Post lists here. I
don't know what you favor, Marth. All I want is I've created fifteen
million jobs sinceide in president. Problemis that all those jobs came back because
COVID went away. And yeah,that is a problem. There are a
bunch of lies that go through thescreen as well as they're talking about it.

(01:01:15):
We have one thousand billionaires in America. Know what their average federal taxes
eight point three percent? That wasa lie. So many lies were told,
And honestly, like a part ofme, I feel like this is
so surface level and so many youknow this. I'm preaching to the choir.
Maybe when you say it this way, even too, people that are

(01:01:35):
just on one side of the aisle, ever so slightly, the people who
probably describe themselves as independents. Butwhen you fall asleep, when you allow
one side to convince you that they'rethe good guys and the other side is
the bad guys, that's when theydo all their worst stuff. That's when
all the bad, truly bad thingshappen. And so for Biden to believe
that he can roll out into aninterview and just say whatever he wants has

(01:02:00):
become such an arrogant position of certainpoliticians that they believe their supporters are stupid
enough to go ahead and check thatbox anyway, even as they sit there
and say to themselves, well,my life is harder though, and Biden
is telling me that things are good, but things aren't good, and money
isn't going as far as it should. But I guess he's right somehow.

(01:02:21):
I guess it's just me who's experiencingthis the way that I'm experiencing it.
It is crazy. All right,Let's move on another CNN thing that I
thought was pretty interesting. I wasthis interview in schools. They're talking about
transgender athletes and all the different conversationsthat go into that. It was a
panel discussion. Here's a little bitof that audio ahead. In schools across

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the country, transgender athletes are fightingfor the right to play sports on a
team that aligns with their gender identity. Opponents are arguing it's completely unfair and
it's putting families at odds. Allright, I got to stop it right
there. That intro is amazing ifyou listen to that again. In schools
across the country, transgender athletes arefighting for the right to play sports on
a team that aligns with their genderidentity. My first question and the most

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obvious question, and I know peopleget called hateful the minute they say any
of this stuff. For who's everout there that wants to paint someone as
hateful? But why did we separatesports between men and women in the first
place? Why do you think thathappened? Why has that existed for so
long in our society? I havea reason, because men and women have

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different physical capabilities that make it makesense to have women compete against women and
men compete against men in a wholelot of sports. It makes sense.
There are some exceptions to that rule, but by and large, the reason
we have a separation here is becauseit'd be unfair if you asked a whole
bunch of women to compete against awhole bunch of men, and the men

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were, you know, genetically justbenefited by not being women. I don't
know how to say that differently,And so so now we want to pretend
as though much like you want topretend that money is going better than it
really is that that's not true thatsomeone who identifies as a woman can compete
against women and crush them, whichis something we've seen happen in a few

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different sports now, and then stillbe treated like they didn't do something that
was biologically unfair. You have tohave sanity rule these conversations and so even
these introductions, even these versions ofa story where then it leans into the
emotional component and families are struggling andpeople are upset. Look, I'll say
it this way, and I thinkthis is the best way I can possibly

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say it. I would feel badfor anyone that wanted to play a sport
and wouldn't be allowed to do itfor any reason, because I do think
sports are important, especially in youryouth. They give you a lot of
different versions of how to work asa team, how to understand defeat,
Like there's a lot of value there. At the same time, if I

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was the parent of a young womanwho had dedicated years of her life to
trying to be good at something andgot into like the peak level of it,
whether it's swimming, whatever it mightbe, and then my daughter loses
to someone that she literally never couldhave beaten because of a biological advantage,
and the person in the pool issetting records that no woman has ever set

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before. I wouldn't be able toexplain how that made sense to a girl
I raised, a girl I tookto practice for years, a girl that
I helped, you know, andencouraged and told her, you can be
as good as anyone else out there, and then they achieve it. Like
think about that. No, everyparent doesn't raise a kid who's an elite
athlete. It doesn't happen all thetime. You need some genetics, you

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need a certain gifts, and youneed a dedicated child from an early age
now to be good at sport.You have kids going to you know,
all kinds of different camps and thingsat like six and seven years old and
focusing on one sport. I actuallyI remember this. I'll say it this
way. Kobe Bryant, the lateKobe Bryant. I had a conversation with
Michael Jordan just before his tragic helicoptercrash. And in that conversation, the

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thing that Kobe would talk about ininterviews is how stunned he was that Michael
Jordan was playing baseball in his youthand not basketball because Kobe's own child was
playing basketball at a very young age, and Kobe was wondering, what lessons
do you teach it, what ageto kids? That's a professional athlete wondering

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how to help his child pursue thesport they want to pursue the sport he
was great at at a young ageand asking the greatest of all time for
advice and him saying times have changed. You know, back in my day,
you played different sports and we didn'tfocus on it like that, and
that's true, but now it's quitedifferent. And so now if you're someone
who raises a child to be greatat a sport, dedicated, spend all

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the money on all the you know, different touring leagues you can get him
into and whatever it is, travelbaseball, it doesn't matter, and then
they still lose in a pool ina way they can't, you know,
win or any other sport. Youwould be as irate as people are.
Bring that humanity back to this discussionand allow us to say something very different
than transgender athletes are fighting for aright to play a sport that they biologically

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shouldn't be playing against the current opponentsthey're trying to play against quick break a
lot more. Craig Collins filling inon The Chad Benson Show, I want
to be boy, just give mea bow of showing With twenty I covered
one Mexican huntburn Why don't You month, Girler? The Chad Benson Show where

(01:07:38):
independent all the cart thinkers have aseat at the table and a voice in
the dialogues. I'll have what thisis, Chad Benson. This is the
Chad Benson Show. My name isCraig Collins filling in. I mentioned sometimes
that I'm a millennial. I'm inmy late thirties, and apparently I'm very
close to being absolutely uncool. Accordingto a brand new survey from Talker Research,

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the age at which people are nolonger cool is thirty nine. I
am turning thirty nine later this year, so apparently it's all downhill from there.
I don't know who was asked aboutthis and who considers certain things to
be cool and whatnot. I dolove this story, and actually I talked
about it some other places I doradio the other day, and a bunch

(01:08:23):
of the reactions were, you know, what's cool? Not giving a crap
if you're cool, and that's whathappens as you get older. The older
you get, the less you careabout the opinions of anybody else. And
that's very good and that should happenat a much younger age. But I
guess the things that you wind upout of touch on as you get older
include music, which, yep,if you watch the Grammy Awards and you're

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not I don't know, like twentysomething, you don't know most of the
people that are winning the awards,that happens to a lot of us,
and there's nothing wrong with that.And then you probably don't even watch those
awards. You wind up out oftouch with fashion that or you like things
that no longer are liked, andthat's fine because it's probably better than whatever
they like, and it's gonna comearound someone at some point, we'll think

(01:09:05):
your wardrobe is cool. Again,you're out of touch and a whole lot
of stuff they're saying. A lingois one of those things. Slang the
dumbest thing. I hate the slangof the younger generation. Right now.
I sound like I get off mylawn guy. But it all comes from
texting and video game lingo and it'sweird, Like the genesis of our slang

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is In fact, the problem sometimeswhere it comes from where we're spending our
time just making up words. Iused to be slang, and that was
fine. I guess that was okayfor my generation or for generations before mine.
But now it just like is usingletters that don't make any sense because
it's the shortened form of saying something. When you're on the internet, you
don't want to hit all the keys. I hate that so so very much,

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and I don't know how to saythat differently. All right, Another
thing out there that I thought wasinteresting. A woman apparently climbed up into
the overhead bin of a Southwest Airlinesflight to try to get a nap.
Five million people saw this on socialmedia. The woman looks to be maybe
in her forties. I'm not reallysure. She's not a child, and

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apparently she's small enough to fit andsaid overhead bin. She seems relatively comfortable,
she's got a blanket on. Idon't know what point during the flight
this is, although it seems likeit's kind of earlier in the flight,
but everybody thought it was hilarious.She did probably get asked to get out
of the overhead bin that that's notdesigned for that and you got to go
ahead and do something else. ButI am envious of her, as many
people seem to be, because youcan never sleep on a plane. It's

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never comfortable. I know some peoplethat can sleep in any situation. They
can fall asleep sitting up. That'snot me, no matter how many neck
pillows I put on myself for anytry to, you know, version of
getting into a good comfortable position ona plane. If I'm sitting up,
I'm not sleeping. So I envythis woman and her attempt. I think
the only mistake she made is sheleft the overhead bin open. You should

(01:11:00):
have closed that door as soon asyou got in there, and people might
not have known, and then itwould have been darker. Maybe you get
some extra disease. I'm not reallysure, but that is something that if
I had seen it, I wouldhave said, more power to you.
And if you get injured, that'salso on you. You sign a waiver
so the plane can't be blamed,and then you can sleep in the overhead
Bind to your heart's content. Onelast thing I also really like. I

(01:11:21):
guess cold Stone Creamery is facing alawsuit about whether or not they're pistachio ice
cream flavor has pistachios in it.This is one of several challenges a woman
has brought up with other ingredients andother items. The cheese upset I might
just be flavored like those food productsand not actually contained said food products.

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You're ruin it for everybody, lady. If you win somehow in court,
which I doubt you do, youforce people to put flavors in that might
not taste as delicious as just theyou know, sugary version of it.
And if you lose, well,darn it, You've done something that no
one really cares about. I don'tmind if the ice cream that I'm eating
is just flavored like the type offood product that they've named it after and

(01:12:06):
not in fact actually containing it.That's never made me mad. In fact,
take more of it out and putmore delicious sugar and other things in
and I'll be fine. But Ilove that these types of lawsuits exist every
so often, And I love theidea that this woman is gonna claim that
most people walk into any ice creamstore believe that every item is made from

(01:12:27):
mango, coconut, mint, orange, whatever, and if it's not,
you've tricked us all. How dareyou sir, I almost feel bad for
her. All right, quick breaka lot more. Craig Collins filling in
on the Chad Vnson Show. Thisis the Chad Benson Show, Independent Thoughts,

(01:13:14):
Independent Life. This is Chad Benson. This is the Chad Bency Show.
My name is Craig Collins filling in. There is a big story that's
all over the place today. It'sbodycam footage that shows the moment that a
deputy fatally shot in Air Force airmenat his home. This is a big

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deal, of course for a lotof reasons. I think it would be
a big deal. Normally it mightbe a story that would take national attention.
But the young individual, Roger Fortson, a black senior airman, is
twenty three years old and was fatallyshot in this encounter with police. There's
a few things that his family hasbeen saying that police have disputed. Those

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things is that police went to thewrong apartment. Police are saying that the
call was to the apartment they wentto. Also, part of the description
from family was that cops burst intothe door, and the footage of the
you know, bodycam shows that's alsonot true. That the police officer knocked
on the door, announced that itwas the sheriff's office and told someone to

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open the door. And here's themoment that is so sad to me.
So the airman opens the door witha gun in his hand, and when
the deputy, when the officer seesthe gun, he opens fire. That
would be the type of thing thatI think most cops would be trained to

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do in a moment like that ifyou're in a situation. And this is
the other thing that people don't alwaysunderstand or realize that domestic disputes or even
you know, roadside stops are actuallythe most dangerous for cops. Those are
situations where things escalate very quickly,where you wind up in a situation where
someone becomes very agitated. And actuallythis is where cops are most likely to

(01:15:06):
lose their lives, in situations whereyou pull someone over on the side of
the road for you know, alight being out, and you wind up
not knowing how that's gonna go.You wind up not expecting it to be
as you know, significant of areaction as it is, et cetera,
et cetera. Domestic disputes are anotherone of those moments. So because of

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that, even though the deputy hasheard yelling drop the gun, drop the
gun, after firing at the airmenwho opened the door, and then the
airmen is heard saying I don't haveit anymore, and I'm not gonna play
the audio for you. I don'tI don't love that video and audio comes
out in these things. And it'snot because I don't want the truth.
We all want the truth. Weall want to know what actually happens.

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I don't love the desire for thegeneral public to have this as soon as
possible. I like the idea ofit's still going through a court system first
of a challenge and a video beingplayed for a jury that's never seen it
before being a thing so that youknow, justice can actually be served.
And then I think it would beappropriate for the general public to see some

(01:16:10):
of this stuff. But the demandbecomes so significant and people have such visceral,
visceral reactions to some of this thatyou need it, you need it
right now. But anyway, thequestion now being asked is whether or not
the deputy made the right decision ina moment where you would have seen a
firearm in someone's hand that you werethere to you know, respond to,

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and so I can't tell you thatI know every single aspect of these stories,
or even after this video comes out, to fully understand if the officer
even feels that they did the rightthing, or if they should have shouted
put the gun down before opening fire. But you've got to remember that people
are human, they're they're they're humanbeings. In a moment where you are

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trained and also feel that you arepotentially in a life or death situation where
someone could raise a weapon and you'llno longer be here. Parts of it
make more sense, parts of itbecome things that you have to understand.
And I don't know why the airmenwould open the door to a sheriff with
a gun in his hand. Idon't know why he would make that decision,

(01:17:14):
and sadly he's no longer alive toask, But I do think that
that's something that makes no sense.And you do very easily see the gun,
by the way, as someone opensthe door in the video, you
see it in his right hand,in his hand, and so I think
that that makes the cop believe heacted justified, and I think in a
lot of legal senses he probably did. But this conversation is happening a lot.

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People have all different kinds of reactions, and there's still more information that
will probably come out there. I'mnot trying to be weak on this issue.
By the way, I'm not tryingto sound like I'm not willing to
go the extra step here. Ijust I've talked to enough police officers now
and enough veterans now that I understanda little bit more about the challenges that
people face. You know what,here, I'll actually I'll tell you a

(01:18:00):
story. I didn't even mean todo this. I probably should move on,
but I won't. So I havebeen taking part in some police training
because I work in media. Someofficers had reached out to me and said,
hey, do you want to getthe experience of what we do when
we train officers, first responders foryou know, certain situations, active shooter,
all kinds of things. And eventhough those trainings are enlightening, and

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I wind up playing the bad guysometimes and getting to experience what that would
be like, and it's kind ofcrazy. One of the things I'll never
forget was after a training was over, there was a young officer who had
traveled an hour and a half tomake this specific training because wherever he was
from. I didn't have this trainingavailable, and he had a question that
he wanted to ask the officers thathe was getting trained by, and he

(01:18:50):
then went through the steps of asituation, a situation he was in where
he inevitably had to take the lifeof someone else. And I couldn't understand,
as he's describing this whole thing,and I'm assuming he's describing it correctly,
is that the person that was athreat had a machete and they were

(01:19:10):
swinging it toward him and other officersas they were trying to enter into a
room to a building that they weretrying to get into, and so it
was a life or death moment.The guy was swinging his knife in a
way where if he had made contact, he would have killed someone. And
it wasn't just this young officer whoopened fire. Several of the other officers

(01:19:31):
who were in that area also openfire because they were worried about them getting
hit and being killed. And soin that moment, the young man asked,
since he had a shield in frontof him, and that's why the
knife wasn't actually reaching the officers,it was hitting the shield first, could
he have done anything else to havenot taken the life of someone that was

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trying to kill him. Could hehave barreled toward the guy, knocked him
over and laid on top of himwith the shield something like that. And
I can't tell you that it didn'tmove me to see like tears in the
young officer's eyes as he was describingthe first time. It sounds that he
had to actually use his weapon ina situation. Officers don't want to shoot

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people. Why, I would say, by and large, I believe that
to be true. Good people don'twant to hurt other people, but they
do their job. And so whenyou see this story, when you see
all the reactions to it and allthe different versions of it, absolutely it
still sounds like a tragedy, buta tragedy in which I think that mistakes
are easily pointed to that could havecaused the officer to feel that they were

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in a much more serious situation thanthey might have been in had there not
been a gun in someone's hand.But anyway, I'm sorry it takes a
long on that. I just thoughtit was so interesting to see that viral
all over the place and to immediatelythink about the person I met, and
how like again, put yourself inthe shoes of the officer that I know

(01:20:56):
that I got to meet. Hedrove a big distance than you expect him
to drive to take part in atraining that was all about how to handle,
you know, active threat situations,and he did all of it after
living through one because he wanted tomake sure he made the right decision when
everything in everyone around him's mind washow could you have not made that decision?

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The person was literally trying to killyou when you decided to open fire,
and the other officers around you didthe same thing. And you know,
I don't know if they questioned itas much as you did, but
because he was right there in thefront, maybe it's what's what he thought
was more important. Right. Iwill talk about one other quick thing.
I thought this was interesting. It'sa bit of a palette cleanser. It's
much lighter topic, but a littleserious. There's an article out there that

(01:21:41):
says gen Z has lost the abilityto manage basic adulthood. That's the way
that it's written. It's an opinionpiece. I think it's in a telegraph.
This is the stupidest thing I've everread in my life. Because no,
they haven't lost the ability to managebasic adulthood. They're not being forced
to be adults. That's the problem. It says in here that one in

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three men under the age of thirtyfive still lives at home. One in
three and thirty five is to mea shocking number. Beyond that, people
lean way too much, say onparents, for all different kinds of things,
and they're not being forced, say, to deal with the responsibilities of

(01:22:25):
their life as early as they shouldbe, and that is it's crazy to
me to see that, especially assomeone that is a millennial but has lived
on my own since my early twentiesfor a variety of reasons, including just
being raised by a mother who waslike, yeah, now now's your turn.
Now you go ahead and handle stuffon your own. And so it's

(01:22:45):
just amazing. It's just ridiculous becauseexcusing the behavior of the person who's not
being told you got to grow upis the dumbest path forward. No one
has lost skills. Those skills arethere. Survival skills exist in all kinds
of ways. The moment you're askedto figure them out. You just got
to tell people to figure them outsooner than say, thirty five. If

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they're still living in your basement.That seems bad, That seems wrong,
But I just love the opinion pieces. Yeah, we don't have them.
The skills are gone, not ourfault. Gotta figure this out some other
way, all right, quick breaka lot more. Craig Collins filling in
on the Chad Benson Show, Deepstates, No deef do don't e the

(01:23:33):
Chad Vinson Show. This is theChad Benson Show. My name is Craig
Collins, filling in. Thrilled tobe with you. I thought this was
pretty funny. Last night, PaulO'Neill was asked about he's on the Yankees
television broadcast. Was asked about hisSeinfeld appearance and if he gets residual checks
in the mail for that, andapparently he does, and it's not terrible

(01:23:56):
money. It's not good money,but granted I think he only made one
of it's on one episode, soit seems it seems okay. Here's his
reaction to being asked if he stillgets paid for being on that show.
Well, he was on Sidefeld,so he's a he's a star. You
still get residential checks from being onthat show? Yeah? You know what

(01:24:17):
they are. They're like fifty sevenbucks. It's not a big time.
It's a good reminder though, thetwo on the show. It's kind of
cool. It's a glass of winefor you at a nice restaurant. It's
a good point. Yeah, itis a glass of wine in New York
City at a nice restaurant. Ithink a decent glass of wine, not
a great glass of wine. Fiftyseven dollars. But nonetheless, that's pretty

(01:24:41):
funny that Paul O'Neill still gets thatcheck in the mail whenever his episode airs,
or however many times it airs,and he gets to be like,
oh, yeah, I was onTV. I was on TV that one
time, and that's not so bad. I love that. I thought that
was pretty cool. I thought thiswas interesting, and it's getting a bigger
reaction online than I might have thoughtit would. The chev v Malibu is
gonna go away. Chevrolet says it'stheir last normal car and they're they're done

(01:25:05):
with it. They brought it backin the nineties, they spun it off
as its own model in the seventies, of course, and apparently now it's
it's over for the Chevy Malibu.People are remembering nostalgically different Chevy Malibu commercials.
I think there's one from maybe theseventies that's going viral. I have

(01:25:26):
it. I can go ahead andplay it for you. I do think
this is kind of funny that somany different places are deciding to get rid
of certain cars and doing it morebecause of the belief that, you know,
everything is going to have to beelectric at some point, which doesn't
seem like it's going to be agood decision for other reasons. But here
again nostalgia for anyone that's upset aboutit. Chevy Malibu is no more.

(01:25:47):
You remember it the way that itused to be, and it's golden year
in the seventies. I guess mynew Chevy Malibu of quily size for the
bull time called Chevy Malibu nineteen seventynine. Chevy Malibu has the right room,
right headroom, legroom, and truckroom, the right size, new
family midsize looks like Bill Pott,who's half a New Malibu. The right

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ingredients like an impressive mileage rating anda beautiful body by Fisher. It's got
the right name, Chevrolet. Nowonder, it's a family faith. They
took all the apple pie away.They decided to take that fresh slice apple
pie right from our hands by gettingrid of the Chevy Malibu. That's a
great commercial. Still, anybody thatdoesn't like it, I don't know what
you're talking about. I'd love itif people just started pumping out commercials like

(01:26:34):
that again. You know, justpretend that it's the seventies, eighties,
whatever, the yester time, theforgotten time, and go back to it,
and we'll all be much happier.I imagine things will be much much
better, just suddenly across the board. I hope those kids got a chance
to show Grandma that Chevy Malibu,though they seem very excited about the idea
of that other things out there thatI saw. I am enjoying this.

(01:26:58):
I didn't even think I was gonnamention this, but I'll just do it
quickly. I'm enjoying all the reactionsto the met Gala outfits. If you
didn't pay attention to this, Abunch of people went to the met Gala,
as they always do celebrities, andthey wore ridiculous stuff. They a
lot of them look like morons,And I don't know why you'd ever wear
something as ridiculous as that stuff togo to an event as boogie as that

(01:27:20):
one is. But I do likethat. Online people are now making fun
of it, and people are tryingto like recreate these ridiculous outfits and do
it with like basic stuff you haveat home. And I'll tell you,
my wife has been sending me videosof people doing this and she's dying laughing
at it. And it's way tooeasy. It seems way too easy to

(01:27:40):
make the ridiculous things by using,say, the stuff you find in your
house. It makes it seem evenless important or less valuable. I don't
know if people are just trolling us. Are the fashion designers trolling the celebrities?
Are the celebrities trolling us? Whois getting made fun of? I
want to understand more because it makesno sense. All right, another thing

(01:28:00):
I saw and maybe this is avaluable lesson for those celebrities might help them
out. Being hydrated makes you abetter person, according to a recent study
two thousand Americans, we're asked ifthey drink a lot of water or if
they stay hydrated some other way.Water is probably the thing you should be
drinking the most of which is whata lot of us don't do. But

(01:28:21):
anyway, just on a regular basis, being hydrated makes you someone that's more
receptive to constructive criticism, that's morepatient. That's all kinds of things like
literally just makes you a better person. Your quality of work is better,
your mood and relationships are better.Just drink water and you will. In

(01:28:41):
fact, maybe that's all we needon the college campuses. Maybe just hand
out some water to everybody, andif they have enough of it, all
of a sudden they're like, oh, you know what, I'll just go
home. I feel good now.I'll just go back to my dorm and
I'll study for my finals, andit'll be fine and everyone will be okay.
Between those who were properly hydrated ona regular day, those who said
that they're typically not hydrated, andthose who place themselves in the middle.

(01:29:04):
Only the people who were regularly perfectlyhydrated seem to test well across the board
in so many different avenues. Ifind that amazing, And actually, you
know what, it's genuinely just true. There have been times in my own
life where you have an extra glassof water here or there, and then
you walk out and you're thinking,like, man, I did better today.

(01:29:25):
Whatever it was I was trying todo, I did better at that.
I probably should drink water more,and yet apparently we still don't do
it as much as we should,and that's a problem. But I love
this. I love how easy solutionshave become to some things in our world.
All right, another one, actually, I'll go ahead and give you
one more, super quick. Ifyou're struggling to fall asleep at night,
there's a brand new hack out there, a brand new trick. You try

(01:29:49):
to do something in alphabetical order.Come up with any category you know,
like names of colors, names ofanything, and then you go ab CD
and you come up with like aquaand blue, and you just go through
the whole alphabet. And if youdo that, if you focus your brain
on one thing, especially when someof the letters are fairly challenging, you're

(01:30:10):
likely to fall asleep without ever finishingthe task. So that's something people say
you need to do to fall asleep. Try to test your brain in a
way that you're going to fail withoutthe Internet, without social media, without
Google. See if it works foryou. I'm gonna try it for me.
I promise a quick break and morecoming up. Craig Collins filling in
on the Chad Benson show s ChadBenson Show, Independent Thoughts, Independent Life.

(01:31:03):
This is Chad Benson, this isthe Chad Benson Show. My name
is Craig Collins, filling in,thrilled to be with you. A bunch
of stuff to talk about as always, and yet here I'll just play some
audio from CBS Morning News as theydiscussed the latest ongoings in Israel, the
tensions between the United States and Israel. Benjamin et Yaho, the Prime minister

(01:31:26):
because Biden is said he's going towithhold weapons. Here's a little bit of
that report. Growing tensions between Israeland the US over the war in Gaza.
Prime Minister Benjamin Ettanyah, who sayshis country will stand alone if it
has to, after President Biden threatenedto withhold certain weapons if Israel invades Rafa.
Meanwhile, talks in Cairo to freeIsraeli hostages held by Hamas remain in

(01:31:47):
Limbo. Bring me in a sensehere, yeah, I'll stop it right
there. You know what's so interestingto me about this discussion, and it
goes into the amount of children thatare right now in Rafa and the reason
why Biden is saying that you shouldn'tgo in. But Israel is saying,
you have to go in withholding ofweapons, withholding of ammunition, withholding of
anything puts Israel a danger of beingattacked by any of the other surrounding areas

(01:32:13):
in the Middle East. This issomething that all of us know. This
is something that Iran would be thrilledto hear. This is something that several
bad actors that have long been thereason that the United States and Israel have
had such a unique relationship. It'sbecause we don't have anyone else that's really
friends with friends of ours in thatarea, friends of Israel. So that
is one of many reasons that we'vestood by Israel for as long as we

(01:32:35):
have, and so this impact wouldbe grave. Now, granted, as
this story unfolds and his CBS issaying, you know, there's a million
plus people in a very small partof the Gaza strip in Rafa, and
over half of them our children.I think six hundred thousand is the number
they give there. The question becomes, how do you fight Hamas a terrorist

(01:32:58):
organization that wants who kill everyone inIsrael. If Hamas is intentionally putting themselves
in these situations, in situations wherethey are surrounded by children and innocent people.
How do you fight them? Whatis the answer? And none of
the kids on the college campuses,I think, are willing to answer that
question because they don't want to acceptthe terms of the situation that Israel or

(01:33:21):
anyone else is in. That's thebenefit that everybody has when you protest certain
places. Is pretending as though youdon't have to accept all of the situation,
all of the different aspects of somethingin order to have an opinion on
it. You don't have to befully versed in what it actually would be
like to be leading a country thatsaw a horrific attack back in October in

(01:33:43):
which women and children were killed indiscriminately. Horrible things happened. I don't even
want to necessarily say, but youknow on air what I would be saying,
to dive into all that stuff.And so then you're asked to protect
that country, and you're asked totry to defend it from terrorists who just
want more time so they can plananother terrorist attack. It's cowardly, it's

(01:34:08):
disgusting. It's awful that Hamas wouldhide in places where they would be surrounded
by civilians and a ground assault intothose places to try to remove just the
bad guys is the only viable optionto still get rid of bad guys and
not just let them survive and notjust let them plan their next attack.
And so I think that's a hugepart of the problem. As I say

(01:34:30):
that, I see a bunch ofstories throughout our country today about different riots
or different protests being broken up encampments. I think is something that we're calling
them in a lot of places.Over thirty arrests were made at UPenn.
I think MIT had cops go in. And here's one thing I think is
interesting, and a lot of thesescenarios, they're saying that cops are wearing

(01:34:51):
riot gear. And they're saying thatalmost as in, you know, like,
how dare cops put on riot gearto go into colleges and try to
move college kids from campuses. ButI have to be honest with you.
If I'm being asked to go intoa situation where people are going to be
hostile and there's going to be alot of people, I would want to
wear things that protect me. Thatdoesn't mean that I think it's okay if

(01:35:13):
you know, police open fire.And thankfully nothing like that happened with any
of these college protesters and whatnot.But I don't understand why there's such a
focus and maybe I'm missing something hereon wearing riot gear and protecting yourself in
case something really does go horrible.That is a byproduct of doing that job.
But that's been a big thing thatgets mentioned pretty much every time you

(01:35:34):
see a write up on that story. Is police in riot gear go into
this area to try to make sureto you know, remove people that aren't
supposed to be somewhere anymore. Afterschools finally begrudgingly say yes, we need
you to help us. We needyou to get back to a sense of
normality in this school. And thesepeople are disruptive, and at least a

(01:35:54):
third of them don't actually wind uphaving any affiliation with the school whatsoever.
That's what they're finding. A thirdof those who are arrested in most of
these situations, not students, notteachers, not family members of people who
are students or teachers, just kindof showing up and getting into a good
old protest. Whether they're paid tobe there or not, I'm sure is
a question that many people are asking. All Right, another thing I saw

(01:36:15):
out there and I just thought thiswas interesting. Donald Trump is getting in
trouble for some media outlets forgetting theage of his son wrong. He said
seventeen instead of eighteen for Baron Trump. What I think is so interesting about
that is that my mom would geta lot of our ages wrong as kids.
She would swing and miss at times. It's not something that I think

(01:36:39):
demonstrated any lack of paying attention orcaring about us. We were raised by
a single mom, so I thinkthat definitely that was something that was not
a problem as far as her payingattention and caring about her kids. But
the age thing, you whiff onthat all the time. I think that
that becomes a thing that some ofus do. I'm not trying to excuse
the behavior. I just think it'ssuch a petty shot. Like Biden has

(01:37:00):
forgotten that people died. That's areal thing. I can play audio of
him asking for someone in a room, looking around the room, where is
she? Where is she? Andthe person had passed away a year ago.
That feels like a worse mistake ifI'm thinking about two of them,
a whiffing by a year now.Granted, if Trump had said Baron Trump
was like ten, I feel likethat's a bigger swing in a miss that

(01:37:24):
matters a little bit more. Butsaying he's seventeen instead of eighteen doesn't feel
quite as important to me as anyof the other stuff out there. All
right, Pallette cleanser time, it'sa Friday. I can't keep doing the
serious stuff. There's a piece ofaudio out there in the world that I
can't get over. I'm not watchinga lot of the NBA this year,

(01:37:44):
and I'm sad about that. Ihaven't watched the NBA in a while,
and I think that the basketball isnot all that bad, although the way
in which the defense is incapable ofplaying defense compared to what I loved basketball
in Michael Jordan's era is some thingthat always annoys me. But I will
watch more. I guess if thisis the kind of thing you can expect
in a press conference. Luka Doncikis doing a press conference after a game

(01:38:11):
and you can hear some noise goingon in the background. I don't know
what the noise is, but alot of people certainly have opinions of it.
You don't know where the noise iscoming from, but I'm pretty sure
it's okay to play it, becauseagain, it's just it's just some noises.
But here we go, and thisis how everybody in the room winds
up reacting to being interrupted by something. I'm just sharing the ball and our

(01:38:35):
energy was great. What do youthink? Okay, okay, moving off?
Okay. At first, I wantto point something out of the audio
is not done. It's done withthe one part, the salacious part.

(01:38:57):
But Luca was kind of looking likeeyes wide open as to what is going
on when he's hearing the noise andeverybody else in the room is trying to
ignore it and move on. Andthen I hope that's not live, is
what he says in response to that. No one in the room is aware
of where those noises are coming from, but they definitely were fairly allowed and

(01:39:19):
people can tell. And who knows, maybe somebody stubbed their toe, maybe
something else happened. I'm not sure. I just I love that moment,
and I love the athlete reacting tothat moment, and then the press trying
to get over it, because youknow, my favorite thing is when people
say we're not still you know,little kids, like our humor is still

(01:39:39):
not juvenile and nature, and thensomething like that occurs and then everybody just
giggles their way through the end ofit one more time. We are all
teenage boys and girls at some pointin our sense of humor, and it's
demonstrated here. Okay, a homethat's not life. It was all over

(01:40:03):
on television and everybody discussing it,and no one knows again if that young
woman or whoever is okay, ifshe's in the best of health. We're
not sure. That's something for someoneto figure out later on. But anyway,
I just really liked that moment.It was a nice break from whatever
the seriousness is of things going onin the world. And I apologize to
anyone that thought that that was inappropriate, But again, we don't know what

(01:40:26):
was happening, So your guess isas good as mine. And if you
think it's bad, then maybe that'syour brain doing that quick break a little
more. Creig Collin's filling in onthe Chad Benson Show. Bunnie with Scissors
sounds great compared to this. Thisis the Chad Benson Show. My name

(01:40:53):
is Craig Collins, filling in.I am going to tell you real quickly
that at the beginning of my careerI actually was doing play by play and
other things for minor league baseball teams, and I remember one of the more
amusing things was whenever you butchered aname, and everybody would joke that you're
Harry Carey, the legendary broadcaster ofthe Chicago Cubs and other teams, because
he was not always great at gettingnames right. But whenever you butchered any

(01:41:15):
of them as a professional, youfeel like you should have paid a little
more attention, should have gotten itright. It's not a good moment,
but this is amazing. This isa woman at a graduation at college just
ruining everybody's name, and it's verybasic names she's getting Elizabeth's and Sarah's are
wrong, and it's fantastic. Idon't know if she had the blackout moment,

(01:41:39):
and this happens to some of usin the world of broadcasting. You
know you're making a mistake, andyou can't get out of the mistake.
The eyes focus, it just getsworse, not better. But some people
thought this was actually a joke.I again don't know, but this is
I've got a little bit of audio. Granted it's recorded off a TV onto
a phone, so it's not thebest, but these are swings and misses

(01:42:00):
not many of us make in theworld of life, much less in the
world of broadcasting. And I knowshe's not a professional broadcaster, but she
was handed a microphone in a momentthat someone else should have been handed that
microphone. Zoombeth Brocas Zoobeth is ElizabethSayer ou Jean ju GRENA. That's Sarah

(01:42:26):
Virginia Brennan by the way. Asfar as her real name, and this,
I don't know, maybe she thoughtshe was doing a graduation in a
different country and she's like these names. I've never seen any of this before.
Let's try Sarah one more time andsee what happens. Sayer Jean ju
Grena swaging to miss lady. That'sall right, Marcellen. That is Marissa

(01:42:59):
Lynn by the way, Carr andthat's marcellin car car coming up. My
favorite part of this too. AndI know it's radio so you can't see
it. The kids don't know thatit's their name. Like it's literally the
sketch from Key and Peel just gonerun amuck of substitute teacher, just extra
crazy because each kid is like,that's probably me. I think I'm next

(01:43:23):
in line, so I'm just gonnago. But my name is Sarah,
not sayhir whatever else you just said. I mean, that's incredible. You
would think that somebody who was askedto do this would do one dry run
of just some of the names,you know, like maybe if there's a
tricky last name that's gonna pop upsomewhere, you just you get one shot
at it before you go in.But this is probably one of my favorite

(01:43:45):
pieces of audio I've ever seen.And honestly, I wonder if some college
campuses that are claiming that they're cancelingtheir graduation because of protesting are actually canceling
it because education has gotten so badthat people don't know how to read names.
And again, I have some levelof empathy because at times this happened
to me, it happens to everybody. You might butcher a name here or

(01:44:06):
there, you're not gonna feel greatabout it. Usually you're not swinging and
missing at the most basic of thingsthat's out there. I want that lady
to do like everything, though inall honesty, i'd want her at every
graduation. I want her to beHopefully there's not like a mental health issue
going on there that was causing thoseproblems, but I want her to be

(01:44:27):
involved in many more things and Ican't wait. It's sort of like having
your own Florida Man. And ifyou don't know what this is, I'll
explain it real quick. We allhave one. If you type in the
month and day of your birth andthen just Florida Man, you get to
see who your Florida Man is.It's exciting and it changes, by the
way, when I've played this gamein the past, my Florida Man has

(01:44:49):
changed because Florida is really good athaving a brand new dude in the news
doing a crazy thing. But nowthe pronunciation of your name by this late,
he feels like a special thing thatnot many of us get. I'd
probably get business cards with sa hearwhatever on it because of her. It's
just fantastic. Anyway, moving on, some other things out there that I

(01:45:13):
saw are real quick. I thoughtthis was interesting. Someone went on social
media, one of my favorite placeson the internet. Am I the jerk
is what I usually call it whenI talk about it on the radio,
But am I an a word iswhat it actually is, which I think
I can say, but I stilldon't. A woman kicked a bridesmaid out
of her wedding for what was apparentlyan unforgivable group chat act, and then

(01:45:36):
she had to go on social mediato ask if, in fact what happened
was unforgivable. My first favorite part, And I don't know when this started
happening. I imagine it's been happeningfor a while, but that people go
on the internet ask for information fromcomplete strangers, and then based on the
consensus opinion of complete strangers on theinternet, you feel justified. I would

(01:45:59):
love that to come up more inan argument where someone is yelling at someone
else for something. They're like,well, I went on Reddit and I
asked the people and they agreed withme, So you should back down.
Now. At some point, maybewe get just due away with the court
system entirely and we just have itbe Reddit. Am I a jerk?
Or am I a criminal? Iguess you got to change that thing and
then go a certain way. Apparently, though, this woman was very excited

(01:46:21):
to be a bridesmaid, but becauseshe said her sister intended to have her
be a bridesmaid last summer but thendidn't, and she was genuinely happy,
they made a group chat to discussthe Hen's Night is what they call it.
The night before the bachelorette party.The first text was sent was a
greeting and ask girls to introduce themselvesand then say something else. And apparently

(01:46:44):
the one person started asking who theextra number in the chat was and why
and what was starting to worry everybody, And what's happening is this person coming
over for dinner. So someone gotvery upset in the chat to not be
one of the only bride maids,and apparently that now caused them to lose
You know what, I gotta behonest, when you read through the whole

(01:47:05):
thing, you do feel like theone woman who was extra excited to be
a part of this thing might havegot overboard, might have been the reason
that they might have been dropped fromother opportunities, and you always feel bad
for that person. It's sort oflike the first time you watch somebody get
a bat get an at bat,maybe in like high school, like you

(01:47:25):
see the jitters, you see theexcitement, you wonder if it's gonna be
okay. Not everybody handles the situationthe moment of glory the same, And
so this woman definitely seemed to havejust run amok and then apologized to everybody
for it, and it didn't matter. It was too late. It's over.
I think the worst part of thisstory, or the part that amused
me the most, is that theynever met. Like all the people were

(01:47:47):
just in a group chat together,you know, doing text back and forth.
So eventually you actually have to showup in person and meet these people
that you've already embarrassed yourself in frontof without ever actually having met them.
And that's when you got to belike, yeah, you know, I
don't know. Things got the betterof me. I got excited. I
thought I was the only bridesmaid,or maybe there was a couple, and

(01:48:08):
then there were a lot of numbers, and then I didn't know certain things
and I just it went it wentdownhill real real fast. I don't know.
I also feel like that's a massiveversion of the reply all mistake that
some of us make in the worldof email, and you never want to
make that mistake, and if youdo, I wouldn't judge you if you
went ahead and quit a job,depending on what you're sending out there to

(01:48:28):
the entire staff, if you intendto send it or not going ahead and
hanging it up and just not comingback at all. Everyone assuming you quit
is totally fine with me too,not that I wouldn't handle the embarrassment.
I'd go right back in. Idon't care what mistakes I make. Darn
it. I speak into a radiofor a living, so I don't care
at all. I'll be back tomorrow. I'll be happily back as long as

(01:48:49):
someone will have me. They're goingto have to tell me to leave.
But at the same point, ifyou want to go the other road,
I won't judge you. I kindof think I would almost admire you for
it. But that story out thereand again, stop asking the internet randomly
if you did the right thing orif a family member did the right thing.
They're not going to give you theright answer. All right, I'm

(01:49:09):
out of here. Chad Benson Show, Greg Collins filling in see on Monday.
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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