One of the National Guardsman shot in DC dies

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

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Is the Jad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
pilling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about, including the use of
a slur according to the Internet, or at least some places,
by the President of the United States. I'll get there,
we'll build to that. We won't do that story first,
Let's do this truly tragic news shared by the President

(00:37):
of the United States yesterday about one of the two
National Guardsmen who was shot just a couple of days
ago in DC. US Army specialist, Sarah Beckstrom. He gives
an update early on in some other comments that the
President made yesterday. I will go ahead and play that audio.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
I must, unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I
went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of
West Virginia, one of the guardsmen that we're talking about,
highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of
twenty twenty three, outstanding in every way.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
She's just passed away.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
She's no longer with us. She's looking down at us
right now. Her parents are with her. It's just happened.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
By the way, her father put up a couple things
on social media, one of them even saying, if I
don't respond to you meeting anybody out there who's sending
messages to him, I assume mostly people he knows, but
who knows at this point with how large of a
story this is, He says, he's obviously not trying to
be trying to offend anyone or ignore anyone. It's a
very difficult time for his family, truly, truly horrible, just

(01:53):
before the holidays. And one of the big things I've
been saying about this on some other radio stuff that
I even did earlier this morning, But the biggest thing
I'm saying is this should be an obvious reminder of
just the type of sacrifice the military is willing to
make for us. Of course, there's a lot of other
things to talk about when we get into the specifics
of this and why it happened and why it shouldn't

(02:14):
have happened, and the individual who's here in this country
that shouldn't be here, and the horrible exit in Afghanistan
and how it led to essentially people that hate our
country living here. One of those people driving across the
country from Washington State to DC to shoot military individuals
like targeted attack just truly truly horrific stories I said before,

(02:37):
but again it also should be a giant reminder as
to just how significant a sacrifice these military men and
women are willing to make. A first responders, police officers,
everyone who protects us our communities in some way is
willing to put their life on the line to do that.
And Sarah Bestrom, who's twenty years old, has died, and
the other individual who was shot still struggling and clinging

(03:00):
to life as far as we know, and more information
on that may come out at some point too. And
the person who perpetrated the attack has been apprehended. The
name of that individual is out there. I don't give
names to people who do these sorts of crazy things
because I just personally don't ever like to do that.
I don't like to give them any kind of notoriety.
But the person is an Afghan national who came into

(03:22):
this country after the exit in Afghanistan on one of
those planes that seemed full of people that we didn't
vet at all, that has been living here for years,
has connections to the CIA, all kinds of crazy stuff
and seems to be very much upset with our country
and chose to take out that anger in a horrific
way and likely will wind up receiving the death penalty

(03:44):
for it if they are in fact proven to be guilty,
which seems like it will inevitably happen. Of the horribleness
of this attack. A couple other things that the President
said yesterday as far as and certainly serious stuff out there.
Although you know this is interesting, I actually get to
the viral truth social posts that he put up and
the word he used to describe Governor Walls of Minnesota,

(04:07):
and I laugh about it because I do find it funny.
I'm just going to preface the rest of this conversation
with putting that out there too. I also found this
to be uniquely amusing. The President seemed to be at
a point where he was not accepting any crap from anybody,
because he was sitting down and having a discussion about
the bad things that happened in the last couple of

(04:28):
days and the reason why he thinks they're bad. Someone asked,
why do you blame the Biden administration? And again, the
individual who's here is here because they got to quickly
exit Afghanistan without any real level of vetting during the
horrible withdrawal from Afghanistan that the Biden administration did that
cost US American lives, military lives, and also just failed

(04:51):
across the board in other ways and definitely failed to
treat those who worked with us as well as they
should have been treated. But much less than that. I'm
not saying that is sort of an excuse for any
sort of horrible thing that happens. Also allows people who
then hate us to be living here, which seems to
be the case in this story. But here's how Trump
responded to someone asking the question, Wait, why do you

(05:13):
blame the Biden administration? Because of course he.

Speaker 4 (05:16):
Does, because they let him in.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they
came into on a plane along with thousands of other
people that shouldn't be here, And you're just asking questions
because you're a stupid person. And there's a law passed
that it's almost impossible not to get him out. You
can't get him out once they come in. And they
came in and they were unvetted, they were unchecked. There

(05:42):
were many of them, and they came in on big
planes and it was disgraceful.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And here here's the value in this discussion too, in
my opinion, And I do love the fact that he
just keeps saying, are you a stupid person? Because sometimes
it does feel like media ask questions just to ask them.
It does feel like they might know the answer. They
think that Trump's answer is going to be worse than
whatever answer they might give themselves, so they're doing it
as a gotcha as well. But I will say that

(06:07):
the most important part of this is if you were
to rewind the tape and look at the way we
left Afghanistan and the willingness to take people with us
who may in fact be very upset with us with
the way we exited that country, the way that that
entire conflict happened, and the way that it ended. We
essentially are inviting people who are going to be radicalized

(06:28):
against our country to live here. And that seems wrong,
and we do that a lot. There's other scenarios where
we do that, other cases where people who are within
the walls of the United States seem to hate most
of all, the US itself. Are there a lot of
people who were born in this country that run for
political positions that seem openly hostile toward the value system

(06:49):
of the United States. So it's a uniquely bad thing
and something that I think Trump has every right to
speak about. And now I will pivot ever so slightly
and talk about the tweet that he put up the
day so well truth social post that he put up.
So the president of the United States puts something I
think he actually also did put it on Twitter. By
the way, he very seldom uses his Twitter, but he

(07:09):
does occasionally use it, so I think it actually is
up there too, at real Donald Trump on Twitter. But
it's a very long post. It starts off with a
very happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our great American
citizens and patriots who have been so nice in allowing
our country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged,
and laughed at along with certain other foolish countries throughout

(07:31):
the world for being politically correct and just plain stupid.
This is a tradition of the president. He puts up
a very tongue in cheek, a very sarcastic post, thanking
a lot of his enemies, or thanking the people that
most do horrible things in this country. Now, quite a
bit of the way down in the post, he uses
the word retarded, and a lot of people find that

(07:53):
word offensive. I guess a lot of other people don't.
And I reason I just willingly used it myself is
that I remember growing up as a kid, I'm a millennial,
and that word being sort of ubiquitous, used quite often,
and it was not an insult to try to talk
about someone who had a mental disability. It was a
way that you made fun of your friend for thinking
that they're stupid. It was an interchangeable word with stupid

(08:15):
or dumb. And then at some point our society decided
that it was actually somehow disparaging people that have real
mental disabilities. So people in our society said, you weren't
allowed to say it anymore. They called it the R word.
They said it was terrible and awful. And the reason
that that seems to not land as much, I think
with younger Americans because this word is back in use.

(08:35):
It gets used more and more often, even though people
are questioning the mental capability of the president because of
his use of the word. These people are on the left,
by the way, if you go on somewhere like Joe
Rogan's podcast, you see that he's been using the word
a lot this year, and then even a viral video
of him using it back in March, and the New
York Times talking about how bad it is that that

(08:55):
word has been reclaimed and used again. But I think
a lot of young people are understanding the difference between
intentionally doing something to hurt others and not intentionally doing it.
And a lot of what woke is a lot of
censorship in society is ignoring whether intention is meant to
be something or not, a meaning that you can offend
me without intending to offend me, and because of that

(09:18):
you have to be extra careful and how you speak,
which sounds insane because there was a long time in
our society where if someone said, hey, that offended me
and you didn't mean to do it, you're like, oh,
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you. It doesn't
mean that I have to change how I behave. It
doesn't mean that I have to, you know, be more
careful next time. I can keep talking and being me. Essentially,
I guess the easier way to say this is we

(09:40):
all gave each other the benefit of the doubt. At
some point in society, we all said like, oh, that's
not a big deal because he doesn't really mean it
that way or this way or in that you know regard.
And now we try not to do that, or at
least some do. And it seems that younger generations, the
youngest of generations, not even Gen Z, but the generation
after them, is pushing back on some of the because

(10:00):
it is just genuinely stupid. It is, as Trump would
call it, retarded. And I don't mean that again disparaging
anyone that's mentally incapable. I mean that as specifically something
that's dumb in our society that we do a lot
the way that word is often used colloquially now, because
it just seems that this does need to be the
next step in an evolution back toward treating each other

(10:23):
like we are all well intentioned humans, because I do
think that's part of what we need to do. You
need to treat someone at the beginning of a discussion
at least like they're well intentioned, and then if they
show you they're not well intentioned, not by just saying
something and saying they don't mean it a certain way,
but some other thing they do or say that makes
you think that all right, they're actually a crappy person,
then you should acknowledge it and go that road. But

(10:45):
I don't think you need to start there and jump,
and so many people do, especially in the world of
the woke, when they want to censor us. Did I
expect to say stuff and talk about this word today
on this show for Chad?

Speaker 3 (10:55):
No?

Speaker 2 (10:56):
And is there somebody out there or a bunch of
people out there who might be upset that I use
the word word? Probably they probably will be. But if
you knew me at all, and I fill in on
the show often for Chad. He doesn't take a whole
lot of vacation, but I fill in often for him.
If you know me at all, you know my intention
is one hundred percent since here I am not someone
who intends to harm or offend anyone in any way,

(11:17):
shape or form. But I also don't think it's right
that we socialize or that we censor ourselves so much
in the off chance we might upset someone for something
that we don't even intend to upset them for. And
I think that's the point. And in all honesty, the
biggest thing I took away from that post on social
media from Trump is that people are talking about it.
Oftentimes they ignore his truth social or Thanksgiving or holiday

(11:41):
posts where he tries to go after those who oppose him,
and just using that one word seems to have caused
this post to be much more viral than it would
have been without it. So he once again successfully uses
media to get him to talk more about himself. All right,
well take a break. A lot coming up. Creig Collin's
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Speaker 1 (13:09):
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Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins.
Filling in one day after the holiday chat. I'll be
back on Tuesday. I'll be with you again a Monday,
thrilled to be here. Americans are being thriftier and thriftier
when it comes to our leftovers, especially after yesterday's food
to thon that was More and more people are even
freezing things, not just refrigerating things that they think they

(13:42):
can have much longer than they normally have it, because
leftovers are very valuable in the world that we currently
live in. The cost of certain items at the grocery
store and whatnot, even if it is according to some
kind of down compared to year over year, it's still
incredibly high and has been high for several years now.
But nonetheless, you're doing all kinds of things. You're also

(14:03):
buying bone, broth and other stuff, so you can turn
your leftovers into totally different items. That's what Americans are saying.
The amount of recipes to say, hey that turkey can
be something totally different in the near fu future seem
to be more and more viral all the time because
people have interest in doing more with the things already
in the fridge. Although I do love one of the
comments I saw on this story, and this was in

(14:24):
the Wall Street Journal, because someone said that they really
just hate eating all the leftovers. They do it, but
they don't look forward to meals the same way they
do when it's new stuff, even if you're trying to
make it all fancy and different, because darn it, you're
just eating the same thing again. And that does feel
probably by Sunday, if you're still doing the leftover thing
that I think a lot of us are still doing,

(14:45):
that's when it really feels like you're thinking to yourself, man,
I'd really rather not have more turkey. One other thing
out there that I thought was pretty funny and I
saw was about the value of a college degree in
a dramatic shift. According to NBC, in other places, Americans
no longer see the value of the degree compared to
the cost of the degree, and a whole lot of

(15:06):
young people are choosing to go different roads than college
when looking into say a first career or honestly, your
lifelong career. They're going into trades and other things. Yeah, duh,
felt like my response as I read this story. A
college degree is not worth it, and it doesn't make
you competitive in the job market because a lot of
other candidates have that, So it feels like you're not

(15:29):
standing out anywhere near as much as they told you
years ago you were. This is a problem that's existed
for a bit now, but I love the fact that
America seems to finally be on the same page, at
least a lot of young people in the same page.
That college might not be worth it all right. This
is Craig Collins filling in, as they said over the
holidays on the Chad Benson Show. More in a bit,

(15:50):
although actually I will say that anyone who's in college
that traveled home for college, I imagine you might have
had this conversation with someone at Thanksgiving dinner. Because that's
how I know about this story. I saw it in
the NBC News searching for this show for this show,
doing research for the show. But I also had someone
bring it up to a college student that I was

(16:10):
standing near on Thanksgiving yesterday, and I thought it was
uniquely sort of hilarious to watch that happen because the
young woman who's going to school and whose parents I
think are paying for education, was very defensive. And on
my list of fights that I thought people could get
in and arguments people would have on Thanksgiving, this wasn't
at the high end of my expected list. Politics, sure,

(16:33):
this over here, Suore, But someone telling someone else that
the education they're getting is worthless and then that person
getting mad and coming back at it, that to me
was an interesting fly on the wall to just watch.
I'm sure people have this discussion. I don't think that's
a new conversation. But I just got to watch it
in a scenario I didn't expect to see it in.
It made some unique feelings that lasted throughout the rest

(16:56):
of Thanksgiving. And to be honest, I think the thing
I found most amuse thing about it is that for
a while after that discussion happened, I got to sit
near both of these people on Thanksgiving and I got
to I got to look back and forth and see
the exchange. And then you think, in your your own brain,
you're like, what could I do to cool this off? To,
you know, break the ice between everybody. Nothing you do

(17:17):
is gonna work. Well, this comes from experience, But all right,
I'll take a break. A lot coming up. Creig Collins
filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 4 (17:38):

Speaker 1 (17:59):
The Chat Benson's Show.

Speaker 2 (18:03):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. Pam Bondy is angry.
A lot of people are angry because of the horrible
thing that happened in DC the other day. And I
think that there's a lot of value in playing some
of this audio before I do that, though I also
really love some step and A Smith audio that's out there.

(18:25):
He is also very mad. Stephen A is mad at
the seditious six or the politicians that put out a
video telling the men and women of our military disregard
anything the President says, pretending as though Trump is giving
illegal orders that he's not giving, and they themselves even
admit that nothing that Trump has ordered them to do
is actually illegal, yet is usually what they say before

(18:48):
I get to audio of Pam Bondi talking about the
Afghan national who decided to shoot to members of our
military on Wednesday, killed one of them. The other one
is still fighting for their life. I do really enjoy
Stephen A. Smith being mad at the idea that this
conversation began because of politics, and I think is now

(19:10):
even more so powerfully being talked about because of the
tragic death of two individuals who served this country, one individual,
I should say, the other one hopefully not, but who
knows who served this country within our military. But here
we go. Let's play this audio first, and then we'll
continue to discuss, respectfully.

Speaker 4 (19:25):
Senator, what the hell are you doing looking.

Speaker 6 (19:28):
Into the camera and telling military men and women to
ignore the commander in chief?

Speaker 7 (19:37):
How dare you?

Speaker 4 (19:38):
How dare you do that?

Speaker 6 (19:41):
That's right, I'm calling out. I never served in the military,
that's true. I have family members who did. Some of
my best friends have Marines, Air Force, Navy, Army.

Speaker 7 (19:53):
I haven't heard one of them, not one of them
say that was okay? Of course, how dare you do that?
Is it treason?

Speaker 5 (20:02):
No?

Speaker 7 (20:03):
Is it punishable by death? It shouldn't be sort of
answers no, But you know better, Senator Kelly, you know better?

Speaker 2 (20:12):
As coach Stephen, what are you supposed to do?

Speaker 7 (20:14):
You're a ranking senator. You could go to the Senate,
you could go to the House. You can put up
drawer of paperwork.

Speaker 6 (20:22):
You could try to start articles of impeachment if you
think there's something illegal.

Speaker 7 (20:26):
I mean, damn it ain't like y'all haven't done it before.

Speaker 4 (20:31):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
I love that audio of Steven A. Smith. I don't
know that he's actually encouraging anyone to try to impeach
Trump again. He definitely is not a conservative, though he
says negative things about Trump just shortly after everything he
said there, But I love it and I think he's right,
and I think a lot of people who feel this
way are right. I don't think we can all express
it quite the way that Stephen A. Smith does, but

(20:53):
it is true, like how dare you do that? How
dare you say that? And I do think as I
said filling in for Chad earlier this week on Wednesday,
thrusting the military men and women into the political debate,
which no, did not happen when President Trump used his
right as the president and commander in chief of the
military to use National Guard to help make DC safer,

(21:15):
which resoundingly worked. By the way, a DC has got
gotten incredibly safe comparatively to what it was just a
short time ago because of the presence of the National Guard,
and they became a target because of politics and fear
mongering and telling the American people that you were going
to be harmed by someone in the military. That's something
that the left said quite it was horrible and they

(21:37):
said it quite often, which becomes a big part of
this discussion. I do want to play this. This is
a flashback to a back and forth with mainstream media
faced the Nation, Margaret Brennan and Vice President Vance about
the refugees that came in from Afghanistan and how a
lot of them were not vetted. We were just taking people,

(21:58):
and more so than not vetting them, we also made
it incredibly difficult, as President Trump pointed out, to remove
people from this country. Brandon and mainstream media thought that
this was racist and horrible and terrible, and it seems
to very much be accurate, even more so now on
the forefront of the minds of most Americans because of
the horrific thing that happens just a couple days ago.

(22:19):
But here is a back and forth from I think
a few months ago where Brennan seemed upset the Advance
would even say anything like this, even though it definitely
seems to be true.

Speaker 8 (22:28):
When you talked to us in August, you said, I
don't think we should abandon anybody who's been properly vetted
and helped us.

Speaker 9 (22:34):
Do you stand by that, well, Margaret, I don't agree
that all these immigrants are all these refugees have been
properly vetted. In fact, we know that there are cases
of people who allegedly were properly vetted, and then we're
literally planning terrorist attacks in our country. That happened during
the campaign, if you may remember so clearly not all
of these foreignats.

Speaker 8 (22:52):
Now, but there are thirty thousand people in the pipeline Afghan.

Speaker 9 (22:55):
Refuge But my primary consent man as the Vice President, Margaret,
is to look after the American people. And now that
we know that we have vetting problems with a lot
of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of
unvetted people into our countries. Are just like the guy
who played a terrorist attack in Oklahoma a few months ago.
He was allegedly properly vetted, and many people in the

(23:18):
media and the Democratic Party said that he was properly vetted.
Clearly he was it.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
I don't want my children to.

Speaker 9 (23:24):
Share a neighborhood with people who are not properly vetted.
And because I don't want it for my kids, I'm
not going to force any other American citizens kids to
do that.

Speaker 7 (23:31):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:32):
I don't want to live in a place where people
are allowed to come into our country with very little
information about them, who hate our country, who want to
harm our country. That seems wrong to have people here
who want to do that to us, and people who
you know are born somewhere else. And this seems to
very much be the case with the individual, the Afghan
national who has ties to the CIA and all these

(23:53):
other things from his time in Afghanistan. He seems to
very much hate us, and his way to show that
hate was to kill a twenty year old National Guards
woman and to harm and I pray to God not
but you know, very critically injure another a member of
our national Guard as an attack against us. And if
this person wasn't here, he wouldn't have been able to

(24:15):
do that, And so it's just it's uniquely horrible. Here
now is Pam Bondi talking about how fearish she is
and how the death penalty is what they will seek
in this case, which makes a tremendous amount of sense,
because you need strong deterrence to tell people things that
you cannot do here in this country, you know, to
discourage anyone from anyone else from thinking I should be
the next person to try this. And these are the

(24:37):
moments where we absolutely need the most powerful version of
a deterrent to be put out for the world for
anyone else here that we don't know anything about and
should know more about. So here's BONDI saying that they
will absolutely pursue the death penalty, which, again, as I said,
I'm not a huge person with the death penalty. I'm
a Catholic. I oftentimes would talk about how life in

(24:59):
prison is and that's the church's stance on that. I'm
not trying to overly religious this show or turn this
into a religious show, but i will say that that
I'm often going to say no to that. This feels
like the exception to the rule because of what it
means to society to say this never should have happened
in the first place.

Speaker 10 (25:15):
So if you know, just pray everyone, pray today for
these two soldiers, these two guards men, the man and woman.
But if something happens, I will tell you right now,
I will tell you early we will do everything in
our power to seek the death penalty against that monster
who should not have been in our country.

Speaker 2 (25:37):
Yeah. Absolutely, And they're doing it as a deterrent. They're
doing it as a demonstration of why no one else
should copycat that behavior and how it would be a
very bad decision if you chose to do it. So
I tremendously value that move in this case, honoring the
men and women who sacrifice either lives for our country
and a person who never should have been, you know,

(25:57):
at risk the way she was at risk because of
the people who are here that are angry with us
and hate us and shouldn't have that easy of access
to harm people in the United States. It's just truly ridiculous.
And I know there's other topics to talk about today,
and I promise we'll go other roads throughout the show.
There is a bunch of discussion about Ukraine, which we

(26:19):
talked about the other day, but Ukraine is still in
the news, of course, and Russia is still in the news.
Russia is awaiting some US envoys to have a discussion
about a potential peace steal there. Of course, the peace
steal is one that a bunch of people are criticizing
because Russia is going to gain things even though they
were provocative, they were the ones that invaded and attacked Ukraine.

(26:41):
But it's the only way to end this. I said
that before and I'll say it again. You cannot stop
Russia without fighting Russia directly, because a long term war
between Ukraine and Russia would always favor Russia, no matter
how much assistance, how many weapons, whatever we give a Ukraine,
if we don't give them people, which none of us
wanted to do, none of the other countries in the

(27:01):
world wanted to do either, then inevitably Russia would win.
And so getting peace now seems better than waiting longer
to try to negotiate peace. So I absolutely agree with that.
I absolutely believe that. But there is a crazy other
story out there. And if I mention this, I know
that some people somewhere, maybe not a whole lot of
people who listened to the show, but people out there

(27:23):
in the world will say it's pro Russia to talk
about this in all honesty, even though it's a real
thing out there. Number Two, in Ukraine, the right hand
man of Vladimir Zelenski, the president there, is being investigated
for embezzlement and fraud. This is in response to I
guess his own country believing that there might be some

(27:44):
embezzlement issues. He is himself even gone on social media
and said, yeah, my apartment was rated. Certain things are
happening because Ukraine has been for a long time an
incredibly corrupt country, incredibly corrupt, and they got caught multiple
times throughout this conflict stealing money that was being sent
to them to defend themselves. At wartime, it was being

(28:05):
stolen and embezzled by high ranking members of their political system,
which is truly, truly egregious and horrible to think that
they're doing that at this time. But now it's going
as far as touching the person that's number two to
the president in Ukraine, right at a time when peace
might finally be negotiated. So it does scream a different

(28:26):
thing to you and to me, And it's not pro Russia.
It has nothing to do with Russia's invaded invasion of Ukraine,
attacking Ukraine. You know the need to stand against Russia.
But it is to say that Ukraine's an entirely broken
country in a lot of ways beyond this conflict, and
so funneling a bunch of money to them might not
have even been helping them as much as it should

(28:47):
have been in the first place, because of the system
that's long been in place there, meaning a whole bunch
of other money likely was not used as it should
have been used, especially if the country was more and
more seeing itself as losing that conflict. So it makes
it even harder to say that the appropriate response now
would have been to keep sending the money, keep sending
them weapons, keep helping them fight. If part of what

(29:09):
some people in power positions are doing is taking more
and more of that from themselves and giving less and
less of it to the people who actually need it,
So it makes the solution that we found in the
potential A piece deal seem to make even more sense.
But all right, I'll take a break. A lot coming up.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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Deep States No Deep dot e The Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. I saw a study
about the amount of cups of coffee you should have
every day if you want to push off the biological
aging process. This is apparently, according to a brand new study.
Some things may or may not work as well as others.

(31:31):
But mental aging, your actual physical aging, all of it
can be slowed by four cups of coffee a day
according to this study, not more, not less. If you
do too many, more bad things happen. If you do less,
bad things happen according to this one. I'm sure that
someone else somewhere will prove this to be totally wrong
and something completely different. But I like that it's not

(31:52):
like two. I'm going to be honest about that, because
as a guy who works in radio and enjoys myself
caffeine quite a bit, it feels much more appropriate. It
feels like the kind of number that I won't be
sad if I go a little bit over, even if
the study is telling me it's not good for me,
or if I go a little bit under, which will
never happen if you work in the industry I'm in,

(32:13):
and I don't even drink coffee. I actually drink energy drinks,
which I'm sure are way worse for you, and not
a part of this study, And I'm going to pretend
none of that matters. I'm just going to ignore every
part of it that means it's not actually tied to me.
But I just love the fact that it's out there
and that it says it's as much coffee as it is,
because that sounds about right. Other things I wanted to
mention quickly, of course, football yesterday is a lot of

(32:34):
fun to watch as far as the NFL is concerned.
More football today and then college football tomorrow. I do
find something interesting though about Thanksgiving football, and I wonder
how many people feel this way. You wind up watching
the game with a lot of people who are not
really fans of the sport, more so than pretty much
any other day other than the Super Bowl of the year.

(32:57):
And so what's funny to me is people who kind
of pretend they know what they're talking about. And I'm
not trying to disparage you out there. I love you
for trying, I guess, is the thing I can say.
But it's very interesting to me to hear some people
sit down that feel like they're watching their first game
of the year yesterday. They're, you know, watching players they've
definitely never heard of before. Even if those players have

(33:18):
names like Patrick Mahomes, they're not terribly sure who he
is or the guy who dated dates and will Marry
Taylor Swift kind of thing. But I just found that
so interesting. The Cowboys come back win yesterday, for sure,
seem like a you know, bigger moment or a somewhat
interesting moment in the world of football.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Too.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Well, I shouldn't call it comeback when they hung on
to win that game, but nonetheless, I just find it
funny that I was talking to people at, you know,
a Thanksgiving celebration that are so shocked. They're like, man,
I thought Kansas City was the best team in football
this year, and they're not. They are, in fact, definitely not.
Although they're not quite terrible, they're just not living up
to the expectations that people had for them. But if

(34:02):
all you watch is Super Bowl and Thanksgiving game, you
might assume that the team you keep seeing is probably
as good as they were last year. So I do
love that. And there's a bunch of things just like it,
of people seeming to not know some basic rules in
the world of football, and then people who watch a
lot more sports sitting there and pretending that everything's just fine.
But the Bears will play the Eagles today and then,

(34:23):
as I said, college football happens tomorrow and is going
to be really awesome. A whole lot of college football
out there. Of course, Notre Dame a big level of
discussion or a big piece of discussion in the world
of college football because of how highly they're ranked and
how likely they are to make the college football Playoff,
even though a team ranked behind them beat them this year.
That's another thing that I enjoy quite a bit talking

(34:45):
to people about, but didn't go terribly well yesterday with
people not seeming to care or know a whole lot
about any of that. One last thing out there. And
I just love this. This is not sports related. Gen
Z and Millennials are far more likely to travel for
food than any other generation. This can be traveling back
home to have Thanksgiving dinner, This can be traveling in

(35:05):
any variety of any kind. You find out about a
fancy restaurant hours from your house, Younger people much more
likely to go than people of older generations, because at
a certain point you realize, even if the food's delicious,
you can probably make something pretty good at home, and
that's really a lot better. And so I love the
fact that it's not laziness, it's just knowing I can do. Okay,

(35:26):
all right, This is Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show. More coming up in a bit, although
I will say that it depends on how good of
a cook you are in all honesty too, because I
do think that when I find out that there's amazing
food and it's four hours from my house and my
wife doesn't want to cook, I'm very likely to go.
But if my wife's willing to cook, then it's fine,
then I'll go ahead and ignore that place and not

(35:47):
travel because her food's really good. But if we're relying
on me and do or fancy food, we better go
fancy food. Otherwise we're gonna hate ourselves for choosing me.
All right, quick break a lot more. Craig Collin's filling
in on the Chad Ben's Show.

Speaker 1 (36:13):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
stuff to talk about, certainly in the news as sort
of a secondary topic that is connected somewhat to the
whole thing that happened in Washington, d C. To guard

(37:04):
West Virginia. Excuse me, National Guard troops were shot. One
has died, the other one is in critical condition. This
happened because someone in Afghan national drove across this country
from Washington State to Washington, d C. To target these
individuals and attack them on purpose. It was an ambush,
which was also something that they used during their press

(37:26):
conference on Wednesday to describe the horrific attack that happened.
The secondary conversation that I'm referring to is what we
do now who stays in this country, who was forced
to leave, who gets deported? What we do as far
as reevaluating the green card green card status of Afghan
nationals who came in, most of them unvetted, even if

(37:48):
we were told they were vetted after the flawed and
horrible exit in Afghanistan. And so I really think there's
a couple of things that matter when talking about this topic.
There is a viral story out a Politico about two
hundred and twenty different judges who have rejected Trump's mass
detention policies. These are policies that hold a lot of
people in detention until we potentially deport a lot of

(38:11):
people in this country. And here's the thing, like part
of me wants to discuss this in a way where
you just simply are rational or you simply accept the
reality of the situation we're in, and especially in light
of what happened just a couple days ago, and acknowledge
that doing more to try to protect people in our
country is a good thing. The biggest thing that Trump

(38:34):
said is we should reevaluate. That doesn't mean you're actually
going to remove the green card status of every person
who's here. But even just when they say the thing
we should look into this again, we should, you know,
spend time deciding whether or not this is right for us. Like,
what I think is so interesting is that sort of
conversation is so readily attacked by mainstream media or the

(38:56):
left when it's not the end result that they're saying
it's going to be. This feels very similar to the
seditious six telling members of military to not listen to
the commander in chief, the President of the United States,
in his orders given to them, because they expect to
some of them, for some of them to be illegal,
even if they can't say that any of them are yet.
It seems like it's jumping the conversation forward in a

(39:19):
way that you shouldn't We should wait for that moment
to say, actually, have people in the news that are
being deported that shouldn't be deported with these long stories
of how they're people who deserve to be here, And
we don't even have that very often. Honestly, we have
times where media tries to pretend that someone is deserving
to stay who isn't, oftentimes in the way that we

(39:42):
address that, but even those stories go viral. So it
just thinks it just seems interesting to me that as
Trump is promising to pause migration from third world countries
and reevaluate decision making, that's letting people who may very
well hate us live within our borders, that that alone
is already too far for a lot of people, because

(40:02):
it just seems illogical that that would be the next step.
And I don't know why, And I know this sounds
maybe silly to say, we can't be a culture or
a society, or at least media can't be that waits
to react to the real events and doesn't have to
react before any of these events happen, doesn't have to
tell us that this is going to be bad before

(40:23):
it's bad. And I have a tremendous amount of examples
I can use that fall into that same category. Tariffs
is a great one. It's certainly a less charged one
than the safety of our men and women in military,
the safety of people in general in our country. But
for a while they were telling us tariffs were going
to be bad, they had to be bad, terrible in fact,
and that you know, inflation would skyrocket, and then that

(40:46):
didn't happen. You know what, It's funny to me. I'll
take a step back as I say this, and I
don't know if funny is the right word. I use
funny probably more than I should. I feel like the
lesson that people most needed to learn during COVID, especially
media people, was to wait and to not react to

(41:06):
stories and not think you know as much information as
you claim to know, because you could very well be wrong,
and actually know what. I'm going to play a piece
of audio that I found interesting, and this is a
flashback to twenty twenty and it's probably going to make
you mad when I play this, but it's going to
help me make my point, which is the whole reason
I'm going to choose to play it. It is a

(41:27):
flashback to the stupidity of what people said and did
around COVID in twenty twenty four Thanksgiving, and how much
they told you needed to protect yourself, you know, like
don't travel, don't be around other people if you are,
do this and this. We now definitively know that none
of that actually helped you, that none of that made
things better for you. We have the medical community, the

(41:50):
scientific community, all admitting that social distancing, masking, all that
stuff very marginally, if at all, helped anybody. And you
can go find that data if you want. You can
believe that I'm telling you a lie. That's totally fine,
You're wrong about that, but you can go look it up.
They've all admitted that these things were wrong, even some
of those doctors, doctor Burks, who's actually in the audio
I'm going to play as one that admitted that they

(42:13):
lean too heavily on masking and social distancing and stuff
that didn't have the impact they claimed it would. But
this is just a demonstration of how arrogant media can
be about their opinion, how wrong they can be about
the things that they're arrogant about, how unwilling they are
to admit they're wrong after we know they're wrong, And
then how much they refuse to learn this lesson because

(42:35):
if anything from what we've seen over the last couple
of years, you would think that media would be a
little bit more willing to wait. And I know this
almost sounds naive to say it for the actual thing
they're afraid of to happen before reporting that it's happened
when it hasn't yet, because that is getting ahead of
the story in a bad way, and often the way
that media most does that makes so many Americans distrust it.

(42:58):
But here this is a reminder money Thanksgiving. This is
how a lot of mainstream and left leaning media was
talking about. You going to spend time with your loved one.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
This Thanksgiving is going to suck a bit.

Speaker 11 (43:08):
This is not some existential reality. Cancel your plans if
you absolutely do not need to travel somewhere.

Speaker 4 (43:14):
Travel by car.

Speaker 12 (43:15):
If you must travel.

Speaker 1 (43:16):
I don't like it to be any number. I like
it to keep it to your media household. Eat all
of the mashed potatoes by yourself. That's what I'm gonna do.

Speaker 2 (43:25):
Yeah, I gotta stop it right there. That's probably my
favorite one, as a woman smiling into a camera and
being like, eat all the mash potatoes. Alone cry in
the corner during Thanksgiving because it's going to be awful
and terrible, because it shows that you love and care
about people.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Can limit the number of people. Do it outside and
wear your mask.

Speaker 13 (43:42):
If you go over to a friend's house, mask up
the whole time you're not eating or drinking.

Speaker 11 (43:47):
Your college student shelter in place for at least seven
days once you arrive.

Speaker 2 (43:53):
I'll also stop it right there beyond stupid. Wear your
mask most of the time, but then take it off
to eat around other people, and we promise that somehow
helps you. And then my favorite other one other than
the eat mashed potatoes alone in the corner, is that
if you're a college student, you know, spend seven days
by yourself. After you've reached your loved ones, you must

(44:13):
quarantine individually in some sort of I don't know, wrapped
and crazy bubble like location until eventually you can join
them for the end part of Thanksgiving or a week
after Thanksgiving has ended. Hilarious. So many parts of this
are hilarious to me now and also infuriating. You can
have a very different reaction than humor out of this

(44:33):
if you want to. But this should be the lesson
I can keep playing some of this audio. Media should
understand that you need to stop behaving as though you
know the truth days before anything happens. You have to
actually wait. And then when something happens that you think
you could have predicted, you can try to give yourself
the reverse pat on the back if you want, even

(44:54):
though that's not even the point of being in media.
The real point of being in media is either to
inform people or in the case of some entertain people,
but nonetheless, like I just find this incredible that they
can't learn this lesson and they can't learn it again
now as we talk about potentially reevaluating people who are
in this country who probably shouldn't be, after a person

(45:14):
drove across country and killed one of our service women
and you know, critically injured another service individual that are
both working in the line of duty, and it's just
it's just insane to think that that's not the right moment,
the right catalyst to a discussion about if we can
do things better here. I'm going to continue to play
another audio to remind you of how crazy people were

(45:35):
a few years ago and how unapologetic those people are now.

Speaker 13 (45:39):
Separation should be the norm avoiding direct contact, including handshakes
and hugs, speaks softer because louder voices, shouting, screaming, actually
singing spreads the.

Speaker 11 (45:49):
Viruss your way out of or into safety.

Speaker 13 (45:53):
Here.

Speaker 4 (45:53):
You can't test your.

Speaker 2 (45:54):
Way into Thanksgiving dinner. I mean, you just can't test
your way to that table. That's not the way.

Speaker 4 (45:57):
You can't test your way into Thanksgiving dinner.

Speaker 9 (46:00):
Having one person serve all the food so multiple people
are not handling the serving utensils and.

Speaker 13 (46:05):
Open the windows that you can, or have the air
blowing out, do a lot of FaceTime or zooming.

Speaker 2 (46:10):
I'll be there virtually, but not personally. So stupid. This
is so stupid, And to be honest with you, I
think that the youngest generations of us are probably the
most likely to react to this moving forward, meaning for
the rest of their lives doing different things than maybe
they would have done. You know, woke society seems to
have somewhat died for some of the younger generations out there,

(46:33):
at least partially. And I think it's the lesson you learn,
the by product of living through life during COVID and
then finding out all that was wrong and any of
it that was even remotely close to true. Probably wasn't
actually true for you. You were young and healthy, and the
virus wasn't really a problem for you for the vast
majority of people compared to anybody else. So again, all
of this seems to make sense to me as far

(46:55):
as a lesson that should be learned, but it's never
learned because the intention is not to learn any of this.
The people in these media places just continue to want
you to pay attention to them. They want to keep
getting clicks and likes and views and all that other stuff.
No matter who they are, whether it's NBC News or
some guy on YouTube, they all seem to play by
the same rules and standards now, which also means you

(47:17):
never admit failure, you never admit that you got something wrong.
And this feels like one of those many, many times
where that is what's happening. And to be honest, it's
also lazy that people so often accuse you of being
a racist, or a sexist or a something ist instead
of actually hearing some segment, some portion of what you're
saying is accurate and true, or at least you know,

(47:37):
with good intention as opposed to anything else. But anyway,
I rant I joke as much as I can about
a topic that also probably makes you and me very mad.
I will take a quick break a lot more. This
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Say this is the Chad Benson Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be with you. A
bunch of stuff out there to talk about. I'm going
to take a detour from anything that's probably terribly important
because I can't help I had more interest in this
than I probably should have had. Page Sporadic is the

(50:02):
name of a person that you may or may not know.
She is a golf influencer. She is also a very
hot lady. That part is probably the reason that this
is such a viral story for some Anyway, she partook
in a event in which I think the prize was
a million dollars. She was playing with barstool Sports guys,
a golf thing, and she did something that in the

(50:23):
rules of golf is not allowed. And when you're competing,
especially for that amount of money, you are supposed to
follow the rules of golf. She's also been a competitive
golfer at several times in her life, and so you'd
think she'd know the rule and how you are not
supposed to move grass while playing golf in order to
have a better lie when you're in the rough essentially,
and I want to play part of the audio. It

(50:44):
gets in the weeds as far as golf rules to begin.
But there's a reason, has nothing to do with golf,
that I want to have this discussion. It also has
nothing to do with the fact that Paige Sporadic has
put out her lingerie calendar again this year. And apparently
it's going to be a very popular thing. He looks
quite good in the lingerie outfits she chose for this
year's calendar. But I promise there's a value point here

(51:06):
that goes beyond any of that stuff. So let's hip
play on this first.

Speaker 12 (51:08):
I haven't really talked about it because there's not much
to say about the situation. Honestly, I am painfully, painfully embarrassed.
But I did not know this rule, especially after the
grabby column I made to Francis about competitive golf. The
irony is not lost on me. But I would never
intentionally cheat. In all of my years of playing golf,
I have never been accused of cheating. I went to

(51:30):
identify the golf ball. When I did, I pushed some
grass to the side, and then a couple feet back,
I pushed some grass aside. I never stomped down the grass,
and I thought that high grass was like a loose impediment.
If the ball didn't move, the lie didn't change, the
grass didn't bend or break or get ripped out of
the ground, then it was totally within the rules. There
were so many cameras on me, so many people around me.

(51:53):
I mean to blamely cheat with that many people around,
that many cameras around would be insane.

Speaker 2 (51:59):
So as it would have been insane. She goes on
to say that she's gotten a tremendous amount of hate
and a bunch of people told her that she should
kill herself, and she's gotten death threats in her social
media accounts because of this. It's insane. All right, we'll
take a break and we'll talk about it more. Craig
All's filling in on the Chad Benson Show. The reason
I think it's insane though, and I totally definitely buried

(52:21):
the lead in setting this up, is because you should
never have the stakes be death threats and you know,
kill yourself messages in response to someone who played golf
against Barstool Sports guys and pushed grass a certain way.
It's insane the level of anger for something that has
very little connection to the reality of everyday life for

(52:43):
so many of us, Like I don't know why you'd
ever care this much. So maybe I'll talk about it
more later on in the show when we have a
little bit more time to get to it. But to me,
it's just amazing that the stakes were so high emotionally
for so many people that are disconnected from you know,
this story. They didn't have a chance to win a
million page didn't win by the way, her team lost,
so they didn't win any money. But this went so viral,

(53:06):
and she said, you had to get herself off the
internet for days because of how angry and how much
hate was coming her way. And who is Paige sporadic? Again?
I tell you She's just a hot lady that plays
golf and at one point played it fairly, you know, professionally,
And now for the most part, I don't think plays
it all that professionally anymore. Sounded by her own admission
that she was embarrassed she didn't know the rule. But seriously,

(53:29):
I've never been that motivated in my life to be
that angry about something with someone that I'd send them
a death threat over pushing grass down during a golf event,
even if I was competing against them. I don't think
that that would be where I'd send it. So it's
just kind of crazy that everybody got so mad about this,
And I just thought it was fascinating that that's the
kind of thing that can set people off in today's society.

(53:50):
All Right, Well, take a break a lot more. Craig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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stuff out there to talk about. I had just hit
on a topic before the break, and I actually do
want to revisit it. I know it's kind of a
weird time to keep going on this topic because I'd
usually talk about more politics and stuff here, but I
think there's I think there's a road to do both

(54:52):
at the same time. So thrilled to be in for Chad.
Just after the holiday, We're gonna do a little bit
different of a topic. Now. There is a story out
there too, a couple places talking about the polarization of
our society and how it's social media is to blame
for it. Essentially, the take is that social media feeds
you what you believe. It makes you think that everyone

(55:12):
agrees with you, and then you become more arrogant in
your position out there in the world compared to somebody
else who thinks something different than you, and it pushes
us further and further to our sides of the ideological corner,
not just on politics, but on anything. I love that
in this take, there is a bunch of stuff about
how social media used to censor more and now censors less,

(55:33):
and what they actually mean is used to censor conservatives
more because it didn't used to censor both sides more.
The funniest example of that, I know I'm bouncing a
little bit around. Please try to stay with me on this.
I promise it'll all make sense soon. The funniest example
of social media changing the way that it censors just
one side of political discourse is my Facebook page at

(55:55):
Radio Craigz if you want to check it out. I
used to try to use it a lot, never got
much of a following on it. I'm on Twitter and
everything else too, at Radio Craigzy if you want to
find me anywhere. I really don't do social media a lot.
There was a time, though, where I was trying to
take it more seriously and I just couldn't grow my audience.
I think I have like two thousand Facebook followers, and
it seemed as though and even like people who followed

(56:17):
me said they would never see my content. That I
was being censored or silenced because I was on the
political right and put up stuff that was politically aligned
with how I am on the radio. And now recently,
and this is not something you'd know because not a
lot of people follow me on social media, but I've
been like awarded Emerging Talent badge from Facebook multiple weeks

(56:39):
in a row. It keeps messaging me being like, hey,
You've been awarded that you're an emerging talent. You're rising
in status on our page, and I don't post anything anymore.
It's the weirdest thing to be told that, like I'm
gaining more followers or more people are paying attention to
a couple of my social media followings. And I know
this is very anecdotal and very small potatoes because of
how little of a following I actually we have, but

(57:01):
it's just hilarious to me that I would do like
daily live streaming and get no reaction, and now I'm
doing nothing and it's telling me that I'm an emerging
talent for multiple weeks. And I've heard much bigger people
with much larger social media platforms on the right say
the same thing that all of a sudden they're getting
a ton more followers on Twitter or wherever than they
were getting before, because it seems that whatever Locke was

(57:22):
on people has been released. But I say all that
to get to something else. Paige Sporadic, who I mentioned
before the break, is a golf influencer who was in
the news because she seemed to cheat during an event
against Barstool Sports guys where the prize was a million
dollars in a golfing event. She then described it as

(57:43):
something where she didn't really cheat intentionally, she didn't know
something was against the rules that she did And the
reason I wanted to discuss it was not because of
the cheating scandal itself, but it's what else page said
about her experience going viral for a negative reason. And
if you knew who she was at all, you would
know she's just a very hot lady who plays golf.

(58:04):
That's why she's famous. And so maybe some people are
looking to be mad at her, and this seemed like
the avenue to be mad at you. I don't know,
but it seems to be connected to that other thing.
That other thing that I'd like to talk about, the
amount of political or polarization in general, the amount of
people who want to be mad on the because you
got to ignore that too. By the way, this would
be my advice for page, no matter how overwhelming it

(58:27):
seems to be, is that if you're going to exist
on the Internet, there are people who are going to
troll and hate you. Might be a lot of them,
might be a few of them, might be the same
person using twenty five accounts. It is what it is.
You just have to zone all that out because existing
in this space in that way, you're inviting that level
of faceless craziness. But she was getting death threats and

(58:49):
all kinds of other crazy things too. Let's see if
we can play a little bit more of that audio
that I had started before the break, because I want
to hear her actually talk about the craziness of the
reaction to something she didn't intend do as far as
at least she says cheating. Maybe she should have known
this as a rule. I am an amateur golfer at best,
and I know that you can't move the tall grass

(59:09):
in the rough in order to get a better lie.
That is wrong. And she did move it around. She
didn't break it, but she did kind of like push
it down without stomping on it. I don't know anyway. Here,
let's play a little bit more of this, all right,
Actually you probably can't hear it yet, so let me
fix it so that you can actually hear it. And
thank you producer Phil for letting me know again here

(59:30):
here we go to.

Speaker 12 (59:31):
Blamely cheat with that many people around, that many cameras
around would be insane.

Speaker 2 (59:35):
So I made a mistake.

Speaker 12 (59:37):
I learned now it was a rules in fraction, and
I'll never do it again. So the last week and
a half has been probably the worst hey, I've ever
received in the ten years of me doing this. I'm
talking tens of thousands of death threats, people telling me
to kill myself, the most vile, horrendous.

Speaker 2 (59:55):
Crazy stuff. I'll go ahead and stop it there, but
that's what she said. She got tens of thousands of
death threats and people telling her to commit suicide because
she cheated against barstool sports guys in a golf event
event for a million bucks, which is a lot of
money to me and you and to a lot of people.
I don't even know if it's really that much money
to Page, because I think she's doing quite well on

(01:00:15):
her own. She is selling her lingerie calendar out there
if you want to check it out. But anyway, I
just thought that all these pieces are so closely tied together.
Because the Internet social media has always been vitriolic. I
think it's something that it can't possibly stop being. And actually,
you know, I'll use a different example, and I feel
like I might have mentioned this earlier this week on
the show, and if I did, oh well, let's talk

(01:00:37):
about it again. There's someone that I know on Facebook,
like I actually know them. They're not a famous person
at all. They're just a person that I had met
in my life. The reason I met them is that
they are the mother of one of the guys I
went to college with. And it was a helicopter mom
or whatever you call it, a person who was around
a lot, and she was relatively sweet for the rest

(01:00:57):
of the college guys whenever she'd stop by the with
cookies or whatnot. But now she is a far left
crazy person on social media. I assume she's still nice
beyond it. But the thing she says about, you know, politics,
the things she says about Trump, all of it is
it's insane to me someone who's not aligned with her,
But I keep her on my I don't even react
to her. I don't comment on her page because it

(01:01:19):
probably won't go well. But I just read it from
time to time and think to myself that this is
a person who you know is fairly kind, fairly intelligent.
It definitely seemed to be a helicopter person in their
child's life, which is not always good, but nonetheless like
mostly harmless. That at least the rhetoric online is fully

(01:01:40):
nuts and insane, and I just I can't a vision,
excuse me, I can't imagine that individual purposefully becoming that way,
like it's a slow progression that gets you there. And
then it must be that most of her social media
following her people don't actually confront her. I don't actually
disagree with her, so maybe I should at some point,
but I feel like it won't go well in the

(01:02:02):
fact that it won't convince her of anything. It seems
like it's a useless cause to try to go down
that rabbit hole of have that conversation. But I just
couldn't get over it. And I know this is a
really outside topic to throw out there on the air today,
and I can move on and we'll talk about some
other things. But I just thought it was so interesting
that there's this big study that we all already know
to be true of the amount of polarization that exists

(01:02:23):
on the Internet and the one sidedness of so much
of it. And also the fact that I'm an emerging
talent on Facebook, even though I don't post on that
platform anymore. I find that wildly amusing for some reason.
But beyond any of that too is just the idea
that it's only going to get worse, and it's only
going to be further and that sometimes the things that
some might try to do to make things better in

(01:02:44):
society are attacked and treated as crazy in even mainstream
media outlets now, not just on the Internet or on
social media, and that further polarizes us. It seems like
it's just a vicious cycle. One last thing that I
want to play though, and this is in response to
what happened in DC and the ongoing investigation into the
individual that is accused of this who seems to have

(01:03:07):
done it. I absolutely did do it, I can say,
I think although legally they got to go through that process,
that trial. They're an Afghan national who came in during
or after the exit in Afghanistan and just recently, Vice
President Vance had a conversation with Margaret Brennan on Face
the Nation where Vance said that people like this were

(01:03:28):
coming into the country and we didn't have information on
them that we were told we had, and Brennan said
that couldn't possibly be true. She rejected it outright as
a statement that the Vice president was making, and now
it appears very much to be easily true given what's
happened over the last few days. So this goes to
media's arrogance too, or sensationalizing of things, or being polarized

(01:03:50):
to the opposite side of the conservative that they're interviewing, etc. Etc.
But it's an interesting example of some of that stuff.
So here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:03:58):
When you talk to.

Speaker 8 (01:03:58):
Us in August, you said, I don't think we should
abandon anybody who's been properly vetted and helped us. Do
you stand by that, well.

Speaker 9 (01:04:05):
Margaret, I don't agree that all these immigrants are all
these refugees have been properly vetted. In fact, we know
that there are cases of people who allegedly were properly vetted.
And then we're literally planning terrorist attacks in our country
that happened during the campaign. If you may remember so
clearly not all of these foreignats.

Speaker 8 (01:04:21):
Now, but there are thirty thousand people in the pipeline Afghan.

Speaker 9 (01:04:24):
Refuge But my primary contention as the Vice President, Margaret,
is to look after the American people, and now that
we know that we have vetting problems with a lot
of these refugee programs, we absolutely cannot unleash thousands of
unvetted people into our countries.

Speaker 8 (01:04:39):
People are good, These people are vetted.

Speaker 9 (01:04:41):
Just like the guy who planned a terrorist attack in
Oklahoma a few months ago, he was allegedly properly vetted.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Listen to the arrogance and Margaret brem being. These people
are vetted, they are She doesn't know that. She hasn't
gone through the list of all the people that are
being brought into this country and talked to whatever system
it is that's vetting them. We just assume, or at
least some people in media assume that because the person
on the political opposite side of the aisle from you
is saying something that they're lying, but the thing they're
saying is fake, and so you can push back in

(01:05:07):
it and say it's totally crap, it's totally not true,
and then you have the moment where this horrible thing happens,
or someone for absolutely political reasons and motivated by the
exit in Afghanistan and targeted members of the military on purpose,
has capably been able to take the life of one
person and another person who's struggling because they were here

(01:05:30):
in the first place and they shouldn't have been. All
of this is the byproduct of pretending you know more
than you do, Margaret Brennan, or mainstream media or the
people on social media who were silencing a side of
certain arguments because they didn't like it how it's sounded,
and they just assumed it was false because it wasn't
their belief, even if the debate actually deserved to happen.
All right, quick break a lot more. Sorry to page sporadic,

(01:05:52):
but I got so interested in that discussion, but I
couldn't help it today, and how it ties to some
of the other things on social media or in general
that are being talked about, and if maybe there's a
path in our society they get back to just assuming
that people are better or good and not bad on
no matter who they are, and then actually having them
to prove to you that they're terrible before you start

(01:06:12):
treating them that way. It feels like benefit of the
doubt is lost in society. Now, all right, quick break
a lot more Creig Collins filling in on the Chad
Benson Show.

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Speaker 1 (01:08:25):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:08:28):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig
Collins filling in. Of course, you probably tune into this
show for fashion advice or fashion news. I'm being very
sarcastic as I say that, especially with me as the
Fillain host. But I have a fashion story that I
wanted to talk about. I saw this in the New
York Post that famous people, younger famous people, the you

(01:08:49):
know gen Z generation of people who are famous show
up at the airport looking like absolute slops. This is
according to the Internet or the fashion people there, and
they're making this trendy. So you should show up to
the airport like you literally just got out of bed.
Nothing about you has to be nice at all, whether
you're famous or not, which is how a lot of
us live life anyway. But apparently doing this makes you

(01:09:12):
fashionable in today's society because so many of the celebrities
do that, where they have the long coats, you know,
the baggy clothes, whatever it is at the airport. I
love that this is the kind of thing that people
can talk about as being, you know, fashionable or not
somewhere someplace, because it's wildly entertaining to me for a
guy like me to accidentally be fashionable in this way,

(01:09:34):
Like I'll go to the airport and I don't care,
I'm going to travel all day. I definitely don't try,
not that I think I do. Often in my appearance,
I might make, you know, my hair look a little
nicer if I'm doing an interview or something or put
on a nicer outfit, but other than that, I think
I just live life as a dude the way that
most of us do. And that means that at the airport,
I'm going to show up as I just rolled out

(01:09:56):
of bed, and I'm ready to start traveling and ready
to get back home as soon as can for the
return trip. But apparently now you're crushing it. If you
go to the airport with your family and you have
a loved one that makes fun of you for looking
like a slob, tell them that you're actually up on
fashion right now. They're like, oh, no, you please, I'm
doing this on purpose. This is fashionable, slob. This is

(01:10:18):
not the version that you think it is. It's not
just lazy. Even if it is, it's just so great.
But I love that story and I wanted to share
for anyone out there like me who'd like to know
or probably doesn't care, but it is true that you
are apparently fashionable right now for showing up in a
terrible attire. Another thing that I saw this is a
viral Thanksgiving item that people debated why it exists at all.

(01:10:40):
It is a six hundred dollars sterling silver drumstick holder
that went viral on the internet. If you didn't want
to hold up your turkey drumstick, you can get a
ridiculously priced item that can clutch the drumstick for you,
and you can eat it from the item that you're
holding it with. Hilarious to me everything about this story,
because I've never seen anyone in my life use something

(01:11:03):
like this, and I can't envision seeing anybody use something
like this where it's the little like holder item, sort
of like any sort of thing you use to pick
up and move hot dogs on the grill, just specifically
designed for you to hold up a drumstick and eat it.
I find that I would laugh so hard I wouldn't
be able to control it if someone used one of
these in front of me at Thanksgiving dinner. If you're

(01:11:25):
eating a leg, you're eating it with your hand. Darn it.
Our society can't get so far away. It's sort of
like when you watch someone use a knife and fork
to eat pizza. It's just wrong. People. You know it's wrong,
and I know it's wrong. We both should admit it
was wrong so that we can do better in society.
And we certainly shouldn't spend six hundred dollars on one
of these things. But it went viral because thankfully most

(01:11:46):
people agree with me. So I like that quite a
bit that that's out there. But if you want to
check it out, it is a sterling silver drumstick holder,
available wherever you get stuff, and hopefully on some sort
of Black Friday sale. I imagine, all right, I have
a Black Friday story I want to tell later in
the show. I'll get to that. And this is Creig
Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show. My Black
Friday story does involve asking you, the audience, to tell

(01:12:08):
me who's right and who's wrong between my wife and I.
My wife and I are debating right now one item
that I'd like to buy for Black Friday that she
thinks is a waste, and I'll tell you that we
basically need something similar to it. I'm giving you all
the pieces without telling you what it is. It's a
deep friar and air friar. Excuse me, I've just now
totally ruined it for anyone listening. Now the tease is
no longer as good as it's supposed to be. But anyway,

(01:12:31):
I want an air fryer that can also handle a pizza.
My wife says, that's a terrible decision. We don't need
anything that big for just two of us. Who's right
and who's wrong. I'll discuss it in more detail at
some point later on. Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:46):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:17):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Creig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. Just after the holiday,
a Black Friday, A whole bunch of people buying stuff
online today more so than out in public. It used
to be that we would all go out in person
and push and shove each other and buy things that
were ridiculously cheap for just like a twenty four or
forty eight hour window. And now Black Friday starts a

(01:13:39):
week in advance, it starts online. It's just not the
same thing. Man, and I think that producer Phil and
I were both talking about how few people we see.
I lined up outside of stores last night, because that's
the thing that used to happen. I used to love
when this is not what I intend to talk about.
I'll get to something important very soon. But I used
to love when media would do that story, like when

(01:14:01):
Black Friday was at its height to a thing, and
you'd see the news person from your local news out
in the street at like nine point thirty at night
on Thanksgiving night with a whole bunch of other degenerates
who were out there who were waiting to buy something
the next day. I may or may not have been
one of them. So again, when I use the word degenerate,
I'm using it as lovingly as you can. I use
a word like that because you immediately disregarded your family.

(01:14:24):
You were sitting there eating Thanksgiving dinner, and you were
thinking to yourself, like, I need to buy stuff for myself.
I need to be in line to buy stuff tomorrow
for myself or for others at a very cheap price.
So I only have so much more time for this family,
and then I have to go do things that Or
you have a family of degenerates like we did growing up,
who all want to go out together and do the
Black Friday shopping as a group. It's just not the

(01:14:46):
same now, man, It's just not the same thing. People
of course talk about it as they're thinking about maybe shopping, well,
they're having Thanksgiving dinner, but then they're just doing that
on their phone or something. And I think I joked
about this when I was filling in for Chat earlier
this but I kind of want to push people, and
I want to get pushed too if I'm doing a
Black Friday shopping in front of others. But there was

(01:15:06):
a couple times where someone pulled out their phone and
talked about something that was on sale on Amazon, and
as they were scrolling, I wanted to shove them, just
so that they get back that it's a nostalgia shove.
I don't think they would have understood me, but darn it,
I wanted to do it. All right, let me play
some audio and totally pivot to something actually important and
serious out there in the world. The President of the

(01:15:27):
United States spoke yesterday. Among the things he said and
the people he called morons and stupid and all kinds
of stuff that went viral, he also gave us a
very sad update on the tragic passing of one of
the two members of the National Guard that were shot
in DC on Wednesday. The woman is Sarah Beckstrom. She

(01:15:47):
is twenty. She was shot in the head. She died
from her injuries in the hospital. Just truly, truly awful,
horrific story. A bunch of things that we should talk
about in reaction to this story. But first we can
play some audio of President Trump just discussing being told
that she had sadly passed away, something that I remember

(01:16:08):
her father had already said to someone over the telephone
the day before that she was incredibly unlikely to survive
while she was still technically alive in the hospital because
of how bad the shot was and how bad her
injuries were. But here, I'll play this audio first and
then we'll discuss it more.

Speaker 3 (01:16:27):
I must, unfortunately tell you that just seconds before I
went on right now, I heard that Sarah Beckstrom of
West Virginia, one of the guards men that we're talking about,
highly respected, young, magnificent person, started service in June of
twenty twenty three, outstanding in every way. She's just passed away.

(01:16:52):
She's no longer with us. She's looking down at us
right now. Her parents are with her, just happened, she
was savagely attacked.

Speaker 7 (01:17:03):
She's dead now with.

Speaker 2 (01:17:04):
Us, Okay, So I want to stop it for a second,
because Trump was not happy during this press conference when
he was being asked questions by people, and he gave
a few answers. That of course, left leaning or mainstream
media is criticizing him for saying he's not presidential, for
calling people stupid or idiots. But there was a time
in our society where a story like this, as tragic

(01:17:28):
as this, made so many more of us as mad
as Trump seemed to be yesterday, meaning that it didn't
matter what side of the political aisle you were on,
we would unite as a country, united as a society
around our collective rage, if that's what you actually want
to call it, and that's what I would call it
at the people who were attacking us or hurting us,
whoever they are, whatever they look like, whoever they are.

(01:17:49):
It doesn't matter the idea that someone that is one
of us, meaning a member of the United States of America,
the country that we all live in, and someone who's
actually serving this country as far as our military goes,
we would all collectively have the same level of outrage
that Trump and Pambondi and others seem to have. But
because of the political polarization in our society, there's a

(01:18:12):
whole lot of people who are criticizing Trump, which seems
insane because if you were giving someone the benefit of
the doubt, not that you even have to in this situation,
you understand that his anger could easily be coming from
the tragic thing that he started off this press conference
by telling us happened, by confirming the worst that everyone
would think was going to happen, that one of the

(01:18:32):
two people who was targeted by an Afghan national living
in this country after the exit in Afghanistan, who should
not be here, who President Biden let in and killed
two members of or killed one member so far pray
to God not the other, but killed one member of
our military, and you know, hopefully we'll see the full

(01:18:52):
extent of every penalty of law given to them on this.
Every part of this discussion should make you as mad
as Trump years to be here, and yet for some
reason people aren't because they're more upset with who Trump
is or who they think he is, than this story
in some way, shape or form, which is crazy to me.
But here I want to play the moment that's more
viral than that where Trump gets in a bit of

(01:19:15):
an argument with a reporter who's asking the question, why
do you blame President Biden.

Speaker 4 (01:19:20):
Because they let him in?

Speaker 3 (01:19:21):
Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? Because they
came in on a plane along with thousands of other
people that shouldn't be here, and you're just asking questions
because you're a stupid person. And there's a law passed
that it's almost impossible not to get him out. You
can't get him out once they come in, and they
came in and they were unvetted, they were unchecked. There

(01:19:44):
were many of them, and they came in on big
planes and it was disgraceful. And if you look, you'll
see there was a law pass it makes it almost
impossible not to let them in, not to certify them,
so to speak, once they come in, and they came
in and they shouldn't have come in, And frankly, the
whole thing was a mess. The whole Afghanistan situation was

(01:20:06):
a mess.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
Well, yes it was, and many people talked about it
as it was happening. After it happened. You have interviews
fairly recently with Vice President of Vance and others saying
how there's still a lot of flaws in every part
of that system. And I guess the last thing I'll
ask before I move on to something else is at
what point does the things that happen in society break
through the need for a specific narrative for members of

(01:20:30):
media or people in society in general, because the narrative
that it's all Trump, that he's bad, that he's racist,
that he's this is so strong and so prevalent that
people can ignore a level of Look at what we've
just seen happen in society, and how we know that
this is tremendously you know, significant and horrible, and it's

(01:20:51):
so many things that we should actually react to and
do something on. But then the individual who's in charge,
because he is who he is according to some the
reaction and then has to be much more muted than
it should be. We should collectively be outraged and also
afraid of something like this happening again, and vetting to
make sure that no one else currently in this country
has the same level of desire to hurt members of

(01:21:12):
our military or members of our society because of an
anger they have as to what happened in Afghanistan, the
exit from it, whatever, and that's just one example. Doing
more to make sure that other people don't have those
intentions is a good thing, and that's what Trump has
been saying. Whether it's freezing certain ability for people from
some countries to come into our country, which he's done before,

(01:21:35):
whatever it might be, whatever the step is to try
to secure our country better, that seems like the right approach.
After someone in our military is killed point blank range
in an am ambush style attack on the streets of Washington,
d C. Just a couple blocks away from the White House,
this seems like the appropriate next step, and yet for
some reason it's being heavily questioned. The other thing that
I do want to talk about, however, quickly today is

(01:21:58):
the ongoing discussion about peace between Russia and Ukraine. I've
given you my take before, I don't need to do
it all over again. In the fact that Ukraine is
surrendering things that people are upset there likely going to
surrender if this peace deal inevitably happens, which would be
good to see. There are certain demands that might still

(01:22:20):
necessarily cause it to fall apart, but nonetheless, like the
agreement that Ukraine has decided they're okay with seems to
be much more of a surrender than people want to
see Ukraine go through. In the world of Russia, attack them.
Russia shouldn't benefit from it. And yet I have two
simple points to make on that one, and I've said

(01:22:42):
this before, you can't possibly expect more of Russia. They're
in a power position of power here unless you're willing
to actually fight them directly, whether it's the UK or
the United States, because they can just withstand waiting with Ukraine.
They can wear Ukraine down and may have done that
at this point already to where the peace deal is

(01:23:02):
vitally important to Ukraine, a country that six months ago
wouldn't have agreed to some of the things they're agreeing
to now. And Russia knows that, they know that they
essentially have the cards, as Trump has said. The other one,
and this is the breaking news element to it, is
there's a story out there about the top representative, the
right hand man of Vice president of President Vladimir Lensky

(01:23:25):
in Ukraine, and now he is being investigated for corruption,
potential embezzling of funds that were sent to Ukraine as
part of an attempt to help it defend itself against Russia.
The corruption that existed in Ukraine even before this conflict,
in spite of anything Russia says about Ukraine, is so
prevalent and so ridiculous that it further demonstrates that just

(01:23:46):
cutting them checks may not have helped them any more
than anything else would anyway. So I think it further
demonstrates a need for a peace deal to exist, and
the peace deal potentially to allow Russia to gain things
they might not just nerve to gain. According to a
lot of people, simply because the structure and the government
that exists in Ukraine is one that is very likely

(01:24:08):
to steal a lot of that money that's being sent
to it. It's just horrible, but absolutely true. On that note,
we will take a break. I will talk about a
lot of other things coming up on the show. This
is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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stuff out there to talk about in the world, and
yet part of me wants to do a debate on
radio with you. Between my wife and I have a
discussion about a Black Friday purchase that I'm thinking about
making the missus things is a terrible idea. I think

(01:26:57):
I teased this topic earlier, so why not go ahead
and do it? I talked find you what's going on.
A family member of mine gave us some money on
Amazon for the holidays. Those nice of them. So we
have some money that's free to us to use. We
could promptly use it on better things. But the other
thing in my house is that my wife doesn't believe
in a microwave, don't like them, doesn't think they're good

(01:27:17):
for you, all kinds of conversations about it. So I've
lived microwave free for way more years of my adult
life than I ever intended to. I'm a forty year
old man. Now. The best way to make things in
my house is to cook them in the oven. We
did have an air fryer that someone had actually given
us as a gift years ago. I know you don't
care about this, but let me get to the point.
We'll try to make it make sense very soon. But anyway,

(01:27:38):
it broke my air fryer. And so now there's a
bunch of air friers on sale online, and so this
is the debate between my wife and I, and I
just find it so amusing that I'm sort of like
dug in here. I want an air fryer that'll fit
a frozen pizza. I want to airfry an entire pizza. Baby,
I don't want to do it via the oven anymore.
I hear it's better. Are there even air friers that
might also be pizza cookers? So that's what I want.

(01:28:01):
But it's just my wife and I in the house,
and she thinks that's a ridiculous thing to buy for
two people, and she's probably right about that, and the
size of the friar would not or the air fryer
thing would not be necessary for any of the other
meals we make. So she thinks if we buy something,
we should go cheaper, smaller, something easier to fit items.
But I'll just be sad when it can't take a

(01:28:22):
full pizza. And that's all I want. And so I
love that this is a discussion between me and the
missus that's happened for about twenty four hours now, And
I'd love for you, the people on this radio show
that I'm not even actually the host of, to weigh
in and tell me who's right at Radio craigz or
at Chad Benson Show, if you want to tell him
who's right and who's wrong. I'm assuming it's my wife.
And yet part of me wants to pretend it's me,

(01:28:44):
but yes, should I buy it? Should I not? Of course,
this is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.
And the likelihood of me purchasing this, by the way,
I can add that to this story very high, because
I have control of the Amazon account, and so at
the end of the day, at the end of all
of this, is there a high likelihood that at some
point in the near future, delivered to my home will

(01:29:06):
be an air frier that my wife thinks is far
too big for us and a waste of money. Yes,
there will. That is a very likely thing to happen
in the near future. And then I love the fact
that the wife will probably be mad about that for
a couple days. I'll make her at least one frozen
pizza in it, and hopefully that makes everything go away.
Because there is a trick with my wife when we
get in a fight, if I feed her and or
give her coffee, I usually can get away with whatever

(01:29:28):
the thing is that she's mad about as long as
I do that part. She's one that's often making all
the meals in the house anyway, so when I occasionally
make one and or I provide her delicious coffee from
Starbucks or somewhere. Usually the fight goes away, so that's
the trick. I'll probably buy the things she doesn't want
me to buy. I'll buy it for cheap during Black Friday,
and then when she gets mad, make sure to have

(01:29:50):
some sort of coffee available end or food for her,
and then hopefully things are better for me. But that's
a real thing going on in my life right now
that for some reason I chose to share on the radio.
I don't know why. It's so amusing to me too.
I probably shouldn't be laughing about it, mostly because the
missus seems much more upset than i'd want her to be.
And happy wife, happy life is always correct here. But

(01:30:11):
I think the thing is that, like she knows, it's
going to be a wasted item, and she's right about that.
It'll probably sit in our house way too large for us,
not used enough. So at some point she'll do the
touchdown dance on me that she was right now is wrong,
and then she'll be happy again. All right? Quick break
a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad
Benson Show. Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):

Speaker 2 (01:31:05):
stuff out there to talk about, and yes, it feels
like only a few topics are at the top of
that pile all the time. One of those is the
tweet or the truth postial truth social post that Trump
put up which called a member of our political system,

(01:31:27):
Tim Walls, the governor of Minnesota, of course, the failed
attempted vice president retarded. He used the word. A lot
of people are calling it a slang word and getting
up or excuse me, a euphemism, getting upset with it,
a slur that's the word I was looking for, and
getting upset with it and saying that he shouldn't have
used that word. For a while, people did refer to

(01:31:48):
it as the R word and said that it was
something that you shouldn't say because it was somehow mean
to people who have actual mental disability. But the truth
is that growing up and then in the last few years,
have used it to mean something totally different, That someone
whose brain is supposed to work just fine is actually
being an idiot. So you call them that, you call
them regarded, But anyway, that has overshadowed the actual rest

(01:32:11):
of the thing that Trump said on social media about
all the enemies he has and crappy people I'm politically
correct idiots out there that he does wish a tongue
in cheek Thanksgiving to which is something he's done before.
But he went on and on in this very very
long post to talk about some of the other people
that he think thinks there having issues, or some of

(01:32:31):
the other reasons our country isn't doing as well as
he wishes we were doing. And of course he will
continue to try to do more to make it better.
But the reason I'm saying all this and just paraphrasing it,
not telling you, is that Marjorie Taylor Green reacted to it.
She put up on social media on x on Twitter.
One of the worst mistakes you can make is to
overpromise and undeliver. It will leave people furious to the

(01:32:54):
point they won't ever appreciate the good things they received.
Big promises have and still are being made, essentially saying
that Trump doesn't live up to his word on a
lot of stuff. And this is Marjorie's latest version of
why she's breaking up with Trump, or why she's you know,
quitting and retiring just a couple of days after she
vests for her sweet sweet pension that she actually, I

(01:33:15):
don't think starts getting until she's in her sixties, so
it'll be a while and she won't get as high
of a pension as she would get if she kept
serving in political office for more and more time. But nonetheless,
what I think is most interesting about this too is
that desperate need for attention that I feel like definitely
exists with Marjorie Taylor Green right now, she seems like
she wants to go out of her political life or

(01:33:39):
you know, go out on the most notable or significant
terms she can as far as a person that's paid
attention to in our society and might be able to
pivot that into some sort of media career. That seems
like what the next step is, or the hope next
step for the individual. As she's fully changing some of
her a long standing you know, positions, especially on supporting Trump.

(01:34:02):
He now says it it'd be great if she just leave,
which is something that's interesting, But honestly, I just thought
it was funny. I see these media outlets and I
guess this is the point I'm trying to get to
willingly and happily sharing things from Marjorie Taylor Green now
when six months ago they hated her as much as
anybody else on the conservative right. But if you turn

(01:34:23):
anti Trump and you come from that side of the aisle,
media loves you. They forget about anything that you've ever
said that they hated, and they only talk about the
things you say that are anti Trump because they embrace
that position so much into such a crazy effect. And honestly,
I think there was even a tweet over the weekend
of Elon Musk again being in the same place as

(01:34:45):
President Trump after they had their a public breakup that
then became something else. And I just think it's so
interesting that these people come in and out of Trump's orbit,
because at the end of the day, I think Trump
only really cares about getting what he thinks he wants,
or what he thinks is good for the country, or
what he thinks is going to help us the most,
and so he will work with someone that craps in him.

(01:35:05):
For six he would let Marjorie Taylor Green come back
into the circle if she started to behave the way
he wanted to behave and support the things he wanted
to do, which is sort of amazing and not a
lot of people actually do that. But to Trump, it
seems like a lot of this is not personal that
if you do what he wants, he's okay with you again,
even if you've said a lot of terrible things for

(01:35:27):
a while about him. Take Jade Vance, his current vice president,
as someone who is very anti Trump himself at one
point and now is not anti Trump. Of course. It's
just really fascinating to see and to be honest, and
this is a bit of a pivot. It's a holiday show.
I can't help but want to talk about things other
than the big stories that are in the news. I
have obviously talked about and will continue to talk about,

(01:35:49):
the horrific tragedy from Washington, d C. From Wednesday, and
now we know that one of the two National guardsmen,
a woman, has passed away. She was just ty years old.
It's truly truly horrific that story and that is in
the news, and that does deserve to be talked about.
And I guess I'll say this before I transition to
something else. It does further demonstrate the sacrifice that men

(01:36:13):
and women in our military are willing to make for
us and our freedom, and how grateful we should be
to them that this can happen at any time to anyone. Horrifically,
it should not have happened. The person shouldn't have been
in the country to do this. But nonetheless, this is
the risk that the women and men who serve our
country accept. They do it willingly, and they do it heroically,

(01:36:34):
and we should praise them for it, and praise first
responders and police officers and anyone else who's willing to
put their life on the line for us here within
our nation, like the National Guard does. It's just the
kind of thing that you often lose sight of and
you shouldn't, and I honestly think our politicians heavily lost
sight of it, and that is part of the reason
we got to where we are. But you've heard me
talk about that before, so I'll move away from it

(01:36:56):
because there's one other thing that's happening to me right now,
and I wonder if it happened to anybody else before,
and if they can relate to it. And it sort
of ties to Trump and Marjorie Taylor Green. I'm currently
breaking up with my gym. Both my wife and I
we very for a very short amount of time joined
a gym, and the prices that we were told we
were going to pay and the prices that we inevitably

(01:37:17):
were being charged were very different. So then we had
to go through the process of breaking up with the gym.
It is tremendously difficult to break up with the gym.
I've got to tell you that if you ever had
a relationship in your life that was as locked in
as the gym thinks that it is in your life,
and the way it also tries to guilt you whenever
you're trying to break up with it, like you know
you're going to be really unhealthy when you stop working out.

(01:37:40):
It's it's insane, it's crazy. But I get these emails
from my gym now, especially over the holiday. I'm talking
about how terrible it is that I'm leaving, how terrible
it is that I'm getting out, and how you know
much I'm going to be missing out on And I
just found it kind of amusing that the gym is
the type of relationship in your life that does not
take the breakup well. They take it very very poorly,

(01:38:03):
a worse than Marjorie Taylor Green and Donald Trump worse
than anybody out there, worse than my high school girlfriend
took it when I broke up with her. I feel
like I've told that story before. It's such a mean story.
I shouldn't. I'm not trying to be a jerk. I
broke up with my high school girlfriend twice. I broke
up with her once in a way where I told
her it wasn't her, it was me, and like she

(01:38:24):
was great and she was awesome. And I guess I
didn't do it well enough because after I had broken
up with her, I went to work. We worked at
the same place at grocery store the next day, and
she kissed me on the cheek and said she was
excited to have lunch with me. She thought we were
still dating. So there is some times where you can
in your life, especially as a younger person, do something
too mildly. You can do it with too many kind words,

(01:38:45):
too much niceness, to the extent that someone doesn't realize
you broke up with them at the end of what
you thought was a breakup conversation. And so then I
did it much worse the second time. I told her
that I had to focus on basketball, and she was
asking for too much of my time. I blamed her
a lot more in the second breakup, when I broke
up with her the second day in a row. And

(01:39:05):
the reason I'm telling you this whole story, this doesn't
matter at all to you, I guess, but as far
as bad breakups go and people being mad at each
other publicly, she was very mad at me. I remember
she came into work the next day after the second
breakup and she had asked me if I wanted my
hoodie back, and it was actually my little brother's hoodie
that I'd loaned to her when she was cold one day,
and she's like, do you want it back? And I

(01:39:26):
said yes, and she goes, well, that's too bad because
I lit it on fire last night, and then she
walked away from me. I'm like, man, I still have
to work with this person. That's probably not good. But yeah,
that went poorly, And even that I would take in
relation to how poorly this gym is trying to break
up with me and the terrible things that are happening here,
I would night and day be totally fine with another
person who's lighting my brother's hoodie on fire, mostly because

(01:39:48):
it was his like. That was the funniest part to
me is that she tried to get me, and then
I had to go home that day after work and
tell my little brother, like, hey, by the way, that
hoodie you had, it's no longer a thing. It's gone.
I've been told it's gone. I think she also lit
a stuffed animal. I got her on fire and wanted
me to know about that. She's a very upset sixteen
year old girl, and to this day, I guess I

(01:40:09):
can do that. I can write or wrong. Let me
do that on the day after Thanksgiving, just before I
take a break here in a very odd segment that
if you're turning into the Chad Benson Show today, you're
probably asking yourself, who is this dude filling in talking
about his high school relationship.

Speaker 4 (01:40:24):
But that's me.

Speaker 2 (01:40:25):
I'm Greig. I'm this guy, Greg Collins. I'm thrilled to
be here. Hopefully they let me back again. I can
write or wrong. I can apologize to Claire for the
second breakup. It was mean. I shouldn't have been so mean.
I'm sorry about it. I was just frustrated that the
first breakup didn't work, that you didn't know it was
a breakup, and so I went that road in the
second one to try to make sure that you knew.
And I went too far, and I know I went

(01:40:46):
too far, and I feel bad about that, and I
really wish I still had that hoodie so that my
brother wouldn't have been mad at me for years because
you lit it on fire. But all right, I think
it might have still come up with thanks not this year,
but it's come up at thanksgivings. My brother is like, man,
that hoodie was really great that you got lit on
fire that one year, and so I feel bad about
that too. She's lasted. Claire has been a existing part

(01:41:08):
of my life as a married man in my forties. Now,
she's still a name that I think about occasionally because
of how hard she went in the paint after I
broke up with her the second time. And I've now
told this story for far too many minutes. So I
will take a break, I will come back. We will
do something less serious well one more time, just for
the people in the cheap seats. I apologize to Claire.
It was mean to do that. I apologize, and I

(01:41:28):
feel terrible about it today. I should not laugh as
I say that quick Break a lot more. Greg Collin's
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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filling in for just a little bit longer here. I
will be back again on Monday. Chad is back after
the holiday. I do want to play some audio Steven A. Smith.
I usually wouldn't talk about politics here, but Steven does
such a great job of being upset at Mark Kelly
One of the seditious six for the things he said.
And I can't bring the rage like Steve again. So

(01:44:05):
I want to play this audio here at the end
of the show. Is just kind of a fun thing,
and then we'll talk about a Walmart story and we'll
probably get out of here. But here the specier Senator,
what the hell are you doing? What the hell.

Speaker 6 (01:44:15):
Looking into the camera and telling military men and women
to ignore the commander in chief?

Speaker 7 (01:44:24):
How dare you?

Speaker 4 (01:44:26):

Speaker 6 (01:44:28):
That's right, I'm calling out. I never served in the military,
that's true. I have family members who did me. Told
of my best friends have Marines, Air Force, Navy, Army, yep.
I haven't heard one of them, not one of them
say that was okay?

Speaker 7 (01:44:45):
How dare you do that? Amen? Is it treason?

Speaker 5 (01:44:49):
No?

Speaker 7 (01:44:50):
Is it punishable by death? It shouldn't be. So the
answer is no. But do no better, Senator Kelly, you
know better? How dare you do that?

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
How dare you?

Speaker 1 (01:45:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:45:00):
What are you supposed to do? You're a ranking senator.

Speaker 6 (01:45:05):
You could go to the Senate, you could go to
the house. You could put up drawer of paperwork, you
could try to start articles of impeachment if you think
there's something illegal, I mean.

Speaker 7 (01:45:14):
Damn, it ain't like y'all haven't done it before.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
Has my favorite part of it. And I'm not sure
that he's actually calling for impeachment. I don't think he is.
I'm actually sure he's not, but I still find that funny.
But yeah, they could go those roads before any other ones.
But steven A went over the top in the best
of steven A ways, and it seems like he does
at some point want to be a politician himself. And
I know he's dismissed a presidential run without necessarily saying
it's completely out of the picture. All right, Another story

(01:45:39):
out there, definitely more lighthearted and more although Stephen A.
Smith is always great to me. Walmart shoppers are actually
mad this Black Friday because something did sell out, and
it sold out relatively quickly, especially for people who showed
up in person to buy a thing. So this is
the closest to old school Black Friday. You're going to
get out of any story out there, and you'll be

(01:46:01):
somewhat surprised, I assume may be very surprised to find
out what the item was. A sixty five inch no
not television Macaroni and cheese box. Craft Macaroni and Cheese
was selling just for this holiday season, a ridiculously sized
novelty item, a sixty five inch flat screen box that
looks like a TV four K noodles inside, I think

(01:46:24):
it said, which means the four thousand noodles in there.
They were selling it for twenty bucks. It was nineteen
thirty seven, a nod to the year that Craft was
actually founded. So this is a great deal this holiday
season to buy that much macaroni and cheese for that
low of a price. So people very interested in purchasing
this thing. The low cost meant that each box inside

(01:46:45):
was about thirty cents, which is less than a third
of the regular sale price of this mac and cheese.
But it was sold out almost immediately people who showed
up at the stores. This is reminiscent of the Starbucks
bear cup drama that I may or may not have
talked about on the show before, which also really amused me.
My favorite thing about the Starbucks bear cup, if you

(01:47:05):
don't know what it is, a glass cup that went
viral on the internet and stilled out very quickly at Starbucks.
Incredibly fragile people are breaking them too big to fit in,
like your cup holder in your car, so wildly not practical,
like the opposite of what you'd want for a cup
that you use a lot for your coffee, and yet
people desperate to have them, and now people desperate to

(01:47:28):
have giant sixty five inch boxes of macari and cheese.
I was also thinking what it would be like to
bring this home to my wife, you know, to go
out on Black Friday, to come home, you know, this
morning and be beat up, maybe because of the amount
of people who wanted these things, and to be so
proud and to like lift it up over my head
and be like, look what I got, honey, and have

(01:47:49):
her asked me to check into a mental health facility
immediately after that because of how ridiculous this thing is.
It is the kind of thing that you feel like
you don't need, but some people out there definitely wanted,
very very bad. So, yeah, there was a Black Friday fight.
There was a Black Friday you know item that was
very very popular and has already totally gone and might
be selling for a ridiculous amount of money online. Actually

(01:48:11):
I should have done that before I started this segment,
to see just how much, because I'm sure it's probably
going for hundreds of dollars on the internet, which really
just makes me also want it more, which is a
bad thing. I'm disparaging anyone who bought this thing, and
now I'm talking myself into wanting to get one because
I could have made a few hundred dollars online by
having it. All Right, that's the show. That's Craig Collins

(01:48:31):
filling in Thrilled to be with you on the Chad
Benson Show. Chad is back just after the holiday, And honestly,
the more I look at this macaroni and cheesebox, the
more I want it, like every part of me. I'm
even watching videos now as I'm talking to you on
the radio of people holding theirs up and celebrating on
social media that they got one, and it just looks amazing.
It looks like the kind of thing that you'll know,

(01:48:53):
especially if I was a young child. If I was
a young kid and I was given this giant sized
macaroni and cheese, that makes my Christmas. So I think
this is the kind of thing that a lot of
parents probably should have been out there trying to get
because how awesome it's going to look under the tree
on Christmas Day. Right, that's it. I'm out of here.
Creig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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