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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
This is the Jad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you.

Speaker 3 (00:20):
A bunch of stuff out there to talk about on
a Christmas Eve. Merry Christmas. Everybody thrilled to be with
you on a holiday. Chad is off for the next
couple of days because darn it. The man works real hard.
He does a ton of things, and he deserves some
time off, and I'm thrilled to be in to help out. First,
I do want to talk about how great the economy
apparently is doing. We got some economic numbers the other

(00:41):
day that seem to demonstrate that things are going in
the right direction. You may not feel it yet. A
whole bunch of people are probably saying that's great news.
When does it become a reality. But I think next
year the projections are that things might finally start to
get better for a lot of Americans who have been
struggling since the Biden administry. I really screwed up so

(01:01):
many horrible, terrible things. But here I want to play
one piece of audio. This is from April of this year.
It's a chem Jeffries predicting how terrible things are going
to go because of tariffs, which seems to be entirely
not true. This was on CNN, and one of the
reasons I picked that organization is because they very begrudgingly
yesterday admitted to us that the economic numbers actually do

(01:23):
look good. But here first is the keem Jeffries in
April making an absolutely horrific call.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
Under his reckless leadership, is that costs aren't going down
in America.

Speaker 5 (01:33):
That're going up.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Inflation is going up, FRAU stock market is going down frog,
consumer confidence is going down, and the retirement security of
the American people is going down also. So not Liberation
Day in America. It's recession day.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
Extra wrong, all the wrongness as they play the wrong
sounds throughout that that's pretty amazing. Here is CNN just
yesterday admitting that, hey, things actually are going pretty good.

Speaker 6 (01:59):
New report shows the US economy was much stronger than
expected in the third quarter. GDP grew at the fastest
rate in two years. Americans are also seeing some prices
ease at the grocery store. The cost of eggs, milk, chicken,
and tomatoes are all down as you.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
See here on the day there you go eggs, cheaper milk,
cheaper eggs, I mean a lot of things. Cheaper, chicken, cheaper,
I think is what I meant to say. Unfortunately, fish
not cheaper, because I was just talking to producer Phil
off the air.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
But it's going to happen.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Everything's coming down at some point eventually and it'll be really,
really great. But yes, that is a begrudging admission from CNN.
Also this other audio from CNN. I'm just going to
bounce around at the start of the show. We are
going to talk about Venezuela and the United States and
Russia and everybody else involved, because that's not a conflict
about oil. It's a conflict about something very different than that.

(02:51):
No matter how easy it is to think it's just
about oil. We are going to talk about that today.
Epstein unfortunately is still a news story on Christmas Eve
and the Epstein files that are coming out, so that
will be discussed. But I do want to play this instead.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
First.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
It's Scott Jennings owning somebody on CNN as a back
and forth happened as someone was trying to challenge Jennings
to say that jad Vance and others have not actually
condemned Nick Fuentes and the people like him that are
part of the Conservative Party. And I'll actually get to
that topic too, the infighting that's happening in the world

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of what some people refer to as Maga but a
lot of other people just refer to as Conservatives and
why I actually don't think it's anywhere near as bad
as I think the mainstream media pundits and left leaning
people do. But here's Jennings pointing out that Vance is
absolutely condemned some of the people that they're pretending he has.

Speaker 7 (03:45):
Brought up, Mam Donnie, do you believe that mom, Donnie
has shown any moral clarity when it comes to Israel
and the attack.

Speaker 8 (03:50):
Day after he was elected, there was a swast Let
me finish, there was a swastakuad run on a window,
and he immediately tweeted out and condemned it. There is
no equivocation between the way there's no equivalent between the
way Zo run and eight Events have conducted themselves.

Speaker 9 (04:04):
Condemn the group.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yes, he told him he.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Could eat s hi Ta.

Speaker 7 (04:09):
Today, Donnie.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
By the way, as far as are ridiculous, he didn't
do it yesterday. If he's done it before, we haven't
seen it because we don't want that to be a
true thing, so we're going to deny that it's ever happened.

Speaker 2 (04:20):
But yesterday on stage he didn't don't you.

Speaker 7 (04:22):
Know there are people on your transition team who have
said it's okay to kill Jews after October the seventh,
And he said, well, you know, we have a diversity
of political opinion. I think to throw Mom Donnie in
with jd Vance is a huge reach.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Mom Donnie has been the opposite.

Speaker 3 (04:35):
Well, I love when people pretend as though the things
that are not true about their party or the things
that are true about their party aren't because yes, Mundanni
has insane people around him and has said insane things
himself and failed to condemn radical people that are a
heart at the heart of the Democratic Party. The Democratic

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Party is getting more and more radical in position. I
think think that younger people are also driving conservatives to
some sometimes have more radical positions, and I think that
kind of makes sense to do a little bit of
a rant for just a second. I do think that
younger voters are driving a larger gap, and I know
that they're going to think this is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I'm a forty year old man.

Speaker 3 (05:19):
By the way, So I'm not exactly in the group
that I'm talking about, but I'm not all that far
removed from it. But I think younger voters would think
it's insane that they're the ones driving the polarization of
society now. But you talk to a young person, and
I think they have a more radical opinion, whether it's
left or right leaning, whoever they are, because of their age,
because of some of the things that maybe they haven't

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experienced or lived yet, there's a willingness, I think, to
go a little bit further. And you have to also
remember that the generation that's coming of age now was
raised on the Internet. They were raised on the hot
take after hot take existing and being how people became popular.
And there are those people who believe that the Nick
Fuenteses of the world don't even really think a lot

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of the things that they say. Now, granted, he might
actually believe those things, and I am certainly not throwing
my support behind someone who does obviously seem to be
anti Jewish people, anti all kinds of things. But nonetheless,
as I say that, I do think that this is
a learned behavior by a generation that was raised paying
attention to extreme thought on the Internet more so than

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anybody else is, and I do think that's driving the
polarization to be on either side, because a lot of
these younger influencers on the democratic or conservative side of
the aisle are often blamed for being the most radical,
being the most extreme in their positions. And so here
I want to play this because this just made me
laugh so much when I saw it.

Speaker 2 (06:43):
Today.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
Candace Owens has gotten a lot of crap. A lot
of people have come after her said that the things
she's doing with Charlie Kirker wrong. I agree that they're wrong.
By the way, I do think that she doesn't have
anywhere near enough proof in what she's saying to act
as though it's true. And there's a dangerous line for
a lot of us. And I'm not saying that you
don't get your freedom of speech. Everybody does say whatever

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you want, but there's a dangerous line with a lot
of us in media, whatever that media platform is where
you make it sound as though you know something is
true and you want people who care about you in
your opinion to believe it, to follow you and say,
he's probably got some great information that backs up the
thing he's saying. And then at the end of the day,
when you turn off the microphone as a broadcaster, you say,

(07:27):
I don't have any proof, but I'm just asking questions,
no harm, no foul. I think there is a dangerous
line there where if you ask too many questions that
seem too ridiculous and insane and obviously sometimes inevitably believe
that your questions have given you facts that they haven't
given you, you also wind up in trouble. And someone
who's definitely learned that lesson is Alex Jones, the crazy

(07:49):
ridiculous dude himself, has definitely learned what actually happens when
you say things you can't remotely back up. And the
millions and a tremendous amount of financial issues that come
with winding up being sued by people that you may
have harmed for some of the things you said that
aren't true. But Alex Jones came out against Candace Owens,

(08:11):
and I thought that was amazing.

Speaker 2 (08:13):
I was my mind was.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
Somewhat blown out of her. Alex Jones talk about how
Candace Owens has got nothing. She's got nothing. So here,
I want to play a little bit of this audio.
I know that there's a lot of people out there
that can't believe you put Alex Jones on any platform
other than his own. But again, freedom of speech, baby,
Everybody can say what they want. And this is a
funny opponent at the very least to Candace Owens, not

(08:35):
one I had on my Bengo card in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 10 (08:38):
But everybody keeps asking me to look into this. Everybody
keeps saying, oh, you need look at these things. So
I went and looked at It's total horsecrap. And then
Candash turns wrests, Oh, I've shown I'm compromised.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
I've shown who I Oh really, who do I work for? Leady?

Speaker 10 (08:51):
Did you come out and break the stories at Cash
for Chill last cover Up? I'm foreign and domestic killing them?

Speaker 11 (08:58):
Kirk?

Speaker 5 (08:59):
Have you been hammering it every day?

Speaker 10 (09:01):
Did what you say was it exactly true inside the
White House?

Speaker 7 (09:05):
No?

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Because you're not real. You're not real, darn it.

Speaker 10 (09:13):
So I welcome all of your minions attacking me. I
love it because I'm Alexander Emric Jones.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
You know, I want to say that sometimes to people,
even though it's not true of me. I'm Alexander Emmet
Emeric Jones, and just point I do. I've always thought
this about Alex Jones, however crazy he is, is that
somebody's got to figure out how he has that much
energy as a human being. Like I don't know what
amount of caffeine or what special energy cocktail he's taken,
but I'm jealous of it, to say the very least,

(09:42):
because because he's always at a ten, I wonder what
he's like at a Christmas party, to be honest, Like,
if you're standing around at a Christmas party and having
a casual chat, someone's complaining about something like, ah, this
isn't going so well at work, and Alex Jones walks
in at an eleven out of fifteen or eleven out
of five, I should say, it just sounds like it's
going to be amazing the entire time. But yes, Alex

(10:03):
Jones is the latest critic of Candice Owens. That again
was not something I was predicting this year, and I'm
fine with it. And here, you know what, I'll say
it now. I have a couple minutes and we'll talk
about this more later. I think the infighting within the
Conservative Party, the disagreement no matter what side of certain positions.
I'm on how bad I think some takes are that

(10:26):
are out there, how much I disagree with certain things.
I think it's always going to be better to have
a party that shies away from a hive mind group
think one version of events that has to be true
and the only one you talk about. Democrats celebrate their
lack of independence from each other. They celebrate it. They
celebrate when the Democratic Party can move in uniform you

(10:48):
know ways, or move in unison, even if people are
objecting to what they're doing. They're thrilled by that, and
they make fun of the Conservative Party when they struggle
to do the same thing. When the Conservative Party does
something like take days denominate a speaker of the House,
Democrats think this is some tremendous win. They seem to
think that it means their party is the more professional

(11:09):
political party, but I think it easily can say that
theirs is the more corrupt political party, because it's the
one that keeps everything that you actually might be wondering
about behind closed doors and forces everyone to have.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
One woke, ideological opinion.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
And if you don't have it, you get out, You
get thrown out, you get kicked out, You get voted out,
you get something out. And the Conservative Party continues to
demonstrate how the diversity of thought is more welcome even
if it's not agreed to, because that's not the requirement.
That's the thing that I think makes the most sense
in having this discussion, because many, many people a fall

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into the trap of thinking that a discussion means you
have to at the end of what you're talking about,
agree with the person you're talking to, especially if you
treat them civilly, if you don't treat them like they're
an obnoxious moron, as you're disagreeing with them. Even more so,
people out there will say, well, he must agree with
something that this person said, when the reality is that

(12:05):
if you walk into that exchange accepting the idea that
your opinion might not be changed at all, their opinion
might not be changed at all. And that's just life, baby, good, bad, whatever,
it's just how things work. I think we all wind
up better for it. And I do think again, when
I pick between the two parties, as far as not
just which one I vote for, but which one I
think is more likely to do well in the future,

(12:28):
more likely to attract more people, it's the one that's
not silencing thought.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Even if that thought is terrible.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
You've got to object, to argue and demonstrate the flaw
in thought that you disagree with, instead of just telling
somebody to shut up.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
And go away. All right, quick.

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Speaker 3 (14:16):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. Let's do some seasonal stories. Let's do some
Christmas stories if we can, I do like this one.
It's a number one story on a couple different websites.
I promise all of them are work appropriate, although the
story might not be, but the website at least aren't
going to get you in trouble. The number one donor

(14:37):
of toys to children in Portland, Oregon this year and
children's hospitals is a strip club. And I just find
that to be the funniest thing I've seen in a while.
Apparently the annual Tatas for Toys event that they do
their really really crushed this year, and it crushed so

(14:58):
much that, in fact, they set a record, and that
record is now, as I said, the largest amount of
toys being given to any organization by any one group,
and that group is a bunch of strippers. I don't
think they actually showed up and delivered the toys themselves.
I think some bouncer guy in a Christmas outfit actually
did it. But noneth the last way to go like

(15:18):
that deserves some applause. I'm clapping on my own in
my home studio, so probably not the applause they're looking for,
but darn it. It's still a great story, a very
uplifting story. Also, this one Christmas story for you. A
guy who impersonates Santa Claus got arrested and his mug
shot went viral. Terrible, dude, awful guy mugshot slightly awkward

(15:39):
that it looks like Santa was definitely just thrown in
the hoostcaw Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show,
And again I will tell you that, like the crimes,
this guy is actually accused of in New Jersey make
him a piece of crap. So I'm not trying to
have any level of kindness shown toward a criminal. But
if you're a Santa impersonator who winds up getting arrested

(16:01):
this time of the year, odds are that photo that
you take is going to look uncomfortably like Santa Claus
and so I feel like they should have done something
like tied his hairback, or I don't know, maybe done
something to make him have a less of a beard.
It just shouldn't be the look, you know. I'm sure
he doesn't care. I'm sure he's hoping for someone to
actually feel pity and sorrow for him, again, a criminal

(16:23):
who did bad things and broke the law, or at
least as accused of breaking the law. So I want
to be clear, I'm not trying to have any sympathy.
It's just God, and it's the kind of thing that
goes viral. But those are holiday stories according to me,
also this one, and I'm going to run out of time,
so I always like to do these things last in
a segment when I can blame the clock for the
reason we don't talk about an adult topic.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
For too long.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
But apparently this time of year is the most romantic.
And I mean that exactly the way you think I do.
But apparently a whole lot of people get into the
Christmas spirit, and the Christmas spirit means a whole lot
of different things. So if you're hoping to have a
lucky romantic experience, you should know that this is the
time of year where you can take the most shots,

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or you can make the most swings and maybe even
if there are some misses, potentially hit a home run
because people are in the holiday mood. I think is
the right way to say. That's all right, quick break
a lot more. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson.

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Speaker 1 (17:56):

Speaker 3 (18:00):
And this is the Chad Benson Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in. I do want to take a
minute to talk about something that kind of really surprised
and then a whole lot of people, you know, paid
attention to in the world of media, but it was
the announcement from former Senator of Nebraska Ben Sass that
he has cancer. He put up a long post on

(18:21):
social media and there's a really profound set of parts
of this post that seemed to be like valuable this
time of year, a time of year where probably a
lot of people reflect, whether it's on the last year
you've had or something further than that within your life,
and Sas is definitely doing that in a post where
he's admitting that he is now faced with his mortality

(18:43):
and that his illness will kill him. I want to
read a little bit of his post. I'll read some
of the beginning and then in the middle that I
found to be sort of the most intriguing or the
most interesting to everyone, because a lot of what he
says is sort of hopeful.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
It's certainly brave.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
And I know that some of these sound like cliche
or whatever words that people use, But picture yourself in
a situation where you've been given a diagnosis that you'll die,
and you're notable enough as a person that others might
wonder about it, and so you put something like this
on social media. So here to read the beginning. It says, friends,
this is a tough note to write. But since a

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bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut
to the chase. Last week I was diagnosed with fantastasized
stage four pancreatic cancer and am going to die. That's
the first two sentences of his post in social media.
Advanced pacriatic is nasty stuff. It's a death sentence. But
I already had a death sentence before last week.

Speaker 2 (19:43):
Two.

Speaker 3 (19:44):
We all do, yes, we all do have an abstract
death sentence. His is now much more concrete. He goes
on to say, I'm blessed with amazing siblings and half
a dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of
them put it, Sure you're on the clock, but we're all.
The death is a wicked thief, and the bleep pursues
us all. That's the b word that pursues us all.

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I think I can even say that word in the radio.
I'm just not going to do it, but talk about
like a profound thing or just in a tragic, awful thing,
but also you know, an intriguing thing to do just
before the holiday on social media.

Speaker 2 (20:21):
Now this is the most I think important part, like
a lot of it.

Speaker 3 (20:26):
Support, of course, as saying what's happening to him for
himself and those around him is by far and away
the most important part of it. But this is on
a macro level, sort of the biggest thing that could
be a takeaway from it. Toward the middle of the post,
he says, there's not a good time to tell your
peeps you're now marching to a beat of a faster drum.

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But the season of Advent isn't the worst As a Christian.
The week's running up to Christmas are a time to
orient our hearts towards the hope of what's to come.

Speaker 2 (20:55):
And that is true. He is right about that.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
I'm a Catholic, not an abstract hope and fanciful human goodness,
not hope in vague hallmark sappy spirituality, not a bootstrapped
hope in our own strength. What foolishness is the evaporated
muscle I once prided myself in. It's really something nope.
Often we lazily say hope when what we really mean

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is optimism. To be clear, optimism is great, and it's
absolutely necessary, but it's insufficient. It's not the kind of
thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you're
not going to walk down the aisle with them, nor
tell your mom and pop they're going to have to
bury their son. That like the emotion in this It's

(21:37):
something he goes on a little bit further. There's there's
a point to why I'm telling you all this. On
a Christmas Eve show a day after he put it
on social media, he says, a well lived life demands
more reality, stiffer stuff. That's why during advent, even while
still walking in darkness, we shout our hope, often properly
with a gravelly voice, soldiered through tears, such as the

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calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need
a physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty.

Speaker 2 (22:06):
And eventful fulfillment.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
It's so interesting to me that within a post that's
certainly emotional and for loved ones, friend's family, and then
all of society, that there's a really good set of
thoughts about how we think about ourselves, how we reflect
in our lives, how we reflect on anything. And this
time of year, you're one to do that, We're all

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one to do that. And I think having a sort
of a candid bravery in how you go about this,
which is what I'm going to say this is is important.
There's a humbleness in this level of discussion that goes
beyond just the reality of his health condition and really
goes into how much maybe we shouldn't all think of ourselves.
And I'm not criticizing you, whoever you are directly.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Listening to this show. I don't know you.

Speaker 3 (22:52):
I have no idea how you live your life. So
it's not you that I'm trying to make feel bad.
But I do think a lot of people out there
in our society behave a certain way as though they're
the center of the earth. And you know what's really
interesting about the Ben Sass post coming out yesterday is
there was also a lot of media obsession about Hunter
Biden utterly different situation. But Hunter Biden did an interview,

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a podcast interview, and he talked a lot about all
kinds of things, and multiple times in the interview when
Hunter Biden was asked something about his father, a guy
that he made a tremendous amount of money off of
by leveraging the political positions his dad was in, and
Joe Biden claimed he had no idea his son was
doing this. I obviously don't think that that's true. But

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some of the behavior Hunter Biden makes you wonder if
the advantage he took of his dad, especially as his
dad became a senile old man, got even worse, and
no love is lost for me with Joe Biden. Awful, horrible,
terrible president. But nonetheless, any time that Hunter was asked
a question about his father, he was willing to crap
all over the administration. He was willing to talk about, how,

(23:59):
you know, immigrants, illegal aliens, whatever you want to call them,
shouldn't be here, and that we're wasting too many of
our resources on them, which was interesting, a pretty significant
indictment of one of the policies his father had to
swing the doors wide open and let anybody in who
cares about vetting or checking these people. He also criticized
the exit in Afghanistan, which is not, you know, a

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hot take. Most people understand how poorly the Biden administration
did in that and how awful it was and that
there was a loss of lives. But Hunter Biden out
there saying this stuff into a camera and a microphone.
And then when asked about himself, when asked to be
a little bit you know, self reflective on some of
the mistakes he made, like joining the beism aboard or

(24:42):
the Laptop from Hell, Hunter Biden went back to the
typical places, that selfish piece of crap people go back
to to lie. He said the laptop wasn't real, then
said it was real. He said he doesn't regret anything
about being on Barisma other than the optics of it,
other than it looked bad. But he thinks everything he
did it was good. So it's a person who can't

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reflect on the life they've lived. And Hunter Biden has
lived a heck of a life with a lot of horrible,
terrible decisions in there that would make you think maybe
humbleness would be a part of who he is, but
of course not. The Biden crime family doesn't know anything
about that. So to juxt oppose those two things, to
see Ben Sass talking about his life in such a
profound way, in such a moving way for so many people,

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whether you're on the same political side of the aisle
as him or not. And then to watch the most
ungrateful son I think in the history of our country
in Hunter Biden, someone who sold his artwork while his
father was in the White House. After all the criticism
of how many times Hunter Biden had profiteered off the
political positions his dad was in, he still did that.

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And you know, people tried to protect him or a
claim it wasn't a big deal. Mainstream media pundits everybody
out there saying, how totally it makes sense that an
amateur artist with terrible paintings would be able to, say,
sell them for a million dollars to foreign countries that
wanted to influence in our country, and they wanted to

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buy it through Hunter and it was obviously for sale.
It's crazy that that kind of stuff happened. And then
Hunter Biden can sit in a room anywhere and not
think that he's a giant piece of crap and criticize
his father as much as he does, because that person
should at least be grateful to the human being who
gave them a ridiculous amount of money off of trading
it off of that, you know, person's political success. Hunter

(26:29):
Biden is not a successful person himself. He's a degenerate
by his own description, He's a you know, a drug
addicted degenerate that seems to have no understanding of how
much of a piece of crap he is.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
So anyway, I just wanted to compare those two things.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
I know that might have been a fairly heavy topic
on a holiday show, so I promise we're going to
get back to serious or also silly things as much
as we can and talk about more of the news.
Venezuela is still in the news. President Trump talked about
recently the armada that we have down there, the amount
of ships that are going to disrupt the oil trade,

(27:06):
and the reason why that's happening. And I'll get into
this more later in the show, probably in about twenty
minutes or so.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
It's not about oil.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
There's a lot of intelligence agency people, a lot of
people who very much are in the know or have
experienced things like this before that we haven't, that are
putting out in social media their opinion. They're not claiming
to have insider information about how all of this is.
Just to actually have the things like sanctions. The paper
Tiger that President Biden was where you try to threaten

(27:37):
Russia not to invade Ukraine by harming their economy through sanctions.
We're trying to actually get to a place where that
would work, because it doesn't work anymore. Russia has found
a way, China has found a way, All these countries
have found a way to subvert the financial pressure the
United States can put on them. And so what do
we need to do to actually make that happen. We

(27:58):
need to disrupt a tremendously value valuable oil trade between
a horrible country, a country where most people live in poverty,
and the corruption and the violence and everything are through
the roof, and the amount of drugs that they send
to the rest of the world. One of the two
things they most profit on is hurting the rest of
the world. We need to disrupt the trade from that country,
and their oil trade is the other big thing that

(28:20):
benefits the corrupt organizations and the maduros that exist in
Venezuela and also harms our ability to influence the rest
of the world. When the US wants to do it,
it's a very strategic move and it's not about taking oil.
And you know how I know that. I'll just say
this quickly. As I said, we'll dive even deeper into
this later on in the show. We could just buy
it for less money than we're spending on doing the

(28:41):
things we're doing to have you know, actual military style
pressure be placed on a country to our south. If
we wanted to just take their oil, we could buy
it for less money. It would cost us less in
the long run, So it'd be the more intelligent economic decision,
and we're not doing that. And it's not because we're stupid,
because we know what we're actually after a quick break

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My name is Craig Allin's filling in thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff to talk about on
Christmas Eve, Married Christmas to everybody out there in the world.
I will throw this out. Apparently there's a list of
the most hated or the movies we most love to
hate that also happen to be Christmas movies.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I know this is not the.

Speaker 3 (31:18):
Diehards of the world that we debate about whether or not,
and obviously they are Christmas movies, but these are the
ones that people say, if you see it on TV,
you might watch it, but you're gonna make fun of
it the entire time. Number one on that list was
Home Alone three. The worst best movie or the best
of the worst is the first version that didn't have
you know, any of the main cast in it. I

(31:39):
wasn't directed by the same people, not even composed by
the same people. So yeah, it's a terrible movie. And
Home Alone three had a terrorist plot I think within it.
I think the organization that's coming after the eight year
old kid actually worked for terrorists. So that probably was
a swing and a miss, but that made the top
of the list, just closely followed though by How The

(32:01):
Grinch Stole Christmas? The two thousand version of the one
with Jim carry in it, the one that I remember
watching and thinking like, this is not getting the spirit
of the cartoon.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's doing something very different.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
And so I didn't love that movie, but I don't
hate it as much as these people do. And the
number three on the list was Polar Express, which makes
some people sad.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
I think the.

Speaker 3 (32:20):
Younger you are, the more likely you are to think
that this is a good movie. But the CGI in
it is just creepy, the computer animation compared to where
we're at now, like it's that weird in between place
where the Polar Express had enough technology to do something
that looks quite a bit different than the stuff that
came before it more or less, but not different enough

(32:41):
to be as good looking as it would be if
they made it today, And so you're just in that
weird I think world. But a lot of people think
the actual story of the Polar Express is good. Of
course Tom Hanks is in it, who depending on your politics,
you might like or hate that guy for reasons that
have nothing to do with his acting. But I do
think it's interesting that just after that one too, Number
four is Jingle all the way, the Arnold Swarzenegger Movie,

(33:04):
which just inappropriate to put on a list like this,
not because it's good. It's a bad movie, but in
Arnold Schwarzenegger Christmas movie wasn't designed to be good.

Speaker 2 (33:14):
That's not the thing that you went in thinking like
I don't think.

Speaker 3 (33:18):
And by the way, as I was reading through this list,
a movie from my childhood popped up in my brain.
Although I was a little bit older of a kid,
which is probably why I didn't even really like it
when it came out, but I remember I think it
was my younger brother or somebody who actually did like it.
There was a Ninja Turtle Christmas movie, a much like
the Star Wars Christmas movie.

Speaker 2 (33:36):
Or anything else.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
In the late eighties early nineties, the Ninja Turtles probably
had their biggest Heyday where they came out with those
movies that had the very real looking puppet versions of
the turtles, very real looking for that time period in
our lives. And in ninety four they put out We
Wish You a Turtle Christmas, which was a twenty five
minute live action a Christmas special the Turtles realize they

(34:01):
forgotten to get a gift for Santa.

Speaker 2 (34:03):
And the biggest.

Speaker 3 (34:04):
Criticism of the movie, not for me, but being entertained
by this thought I went and looked it up, was
the fact that they don't seem to hide that their
turtles at all, and all of the world seems to
accept them and you think that would have been a
bigger component to the movie. For example, Michaelangelo, one of
the Ninja Turtles, sings a song in Times Square and
everybody seems to enjoy it, and no one seems to

(34:26):
ask themselves the question, is that a giant.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Turtle that's out there?

Speaker 3 (34:30):
So I do like that the Turtles have been accepted
by society in the mid to late nineties, the mid
nineties and do their own Christmas story. And the favorite
quote apparently that people have from this movie too is
oh no, he's doing the opera again. That would be
Raphael complaining about Michaelangelo. I find that so amusing. I

(34:51):
know people might not care at all about this. I'm
going to read you the titles of the songs they
sang in the Turtle Christmas Movie because I can't help
it up. From the Sewers was one of the songs
they sang, Oh, Little City of New York, the Rap
Rap which was rapped by Rafael, of course, and then
we Wish You a Turtle Christmas was, of course the

(35:12):
marquee song that was snag. I probably should have played
audio of it to make it even worse. This was
on the piggybacking of coming out of Our shells. Can't
believe I'm mentioning this on the radio, which was the
Ninja Turtles Live Show and musical tour that they also did.
But all right, well, take a break turtle trivia you
did not expect on The Chad Benson Show with Craig
Collins filling in on Christmas Eve. I'm still thrilled by this.

(35:38):
I honestly think this is probably gonna be the least
popular thing I've ever talked about on the show when
filling in, But I can't help it. It's such a
weird time period to remember how popular the Turtles were
to kids in the early nineties. Because of those movies
that are I think admittedly kind of good. At least
one of them is decent, even if it's a Ninja

(35:59):
Turtle Movie's better than the movies they make now. But
I think that might have helped cause the popularity here.
But the video game spin off of We Wish You
a Turtle Christmas apparently was more successful than the movie.
Just so you know, quick break a lot more. Craig
Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 13 (36:17):
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Speaker 3 (36:48):
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. There is a viral
report about Minnesota, again of course in the news for
all the ridiculous fraud that's taking place there. But this
is one of the weird ways that Somalians were executing
this fraud. They would buy homes in neighborhoods. They would

(37:11):
call those homes health care provider facilities or addresses that
were provided you know, home health care mostly, and then
they would build the state millions of dollars to keep
that healthcare place running that wasn't actually a healthcare place
at all, and maybe had people that weren't even living
in it. They might stop by it occasionally, they might
you know, visit for a weekend or something, but they

(37:33):
wouldn't actually live there. They wouldn't do anything there really,
and they would absolutely continue to defraud the Minnesota government,
which gave billions of dollars out of people that they
should not have given it to, mostly based on the
threat of being told that they're racist. That sounds like
what the pr people did that helped back a lot
of this fraud is that they would reference how if

(37:55):
you reject this request or fund, don't fund this thing,
where are going to go to mainstream news media and
tell them how Minnesota is racist and get you in
a whole lot of trouble that way, and so just
keep giving us money. Also, I think that several people,
including Tim Walls, were utterly asleep at the wheel here
because they're in fact morons. But here I want to

(38:16):
play this audio talking about the way this fraud existed
and how realtors weren't even allowed to tell other perspective
home buyers that people in the community were buying houses
and using them as home healthcare providing facilities because that
also was against the law in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (38:33):
Here we go here in Minnesota.

Speaker 15 (38:34):
A local world reached out to me to tell me
about another way that some milions are scamming Minnesota's out
of their taxpayer dollars. In her community alone, Simonians have
bought up over four hundred and fifty five homes. They
buy these homes claiming they're turning these homes into home
healthcare centers. She says, the way we know Smalians have
bought these homes is because all of a sudden, extremely

(38:56):
nice cars start showing up, Mercedes, BMW's, the nicest cars
are parked in the driveway. And she said, buy law.

Speaker 16 (39:03):
The state will not come out and inspect these homes
and make sure these homes even have clients living in
these homes. Crazy also said, as a realtor, she cannot
disclose to people wanting to buy homes in this neighborhood
that some lillions have bought that home and they're using
that as a home healthcare center, at.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
Least that's what they're claiming they're going to do with it.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
And a lot of times they were doing absolutely nothing
with the home other than occasionally staying in it. And
it's just so interesting that people in these communities were
watching this happen for a while, like no part of
this is new out of the people who are living
in these places, and yet it's now new to a
majority of Americans who are finding out just how deep
this rabbit hole goes and how bad this amount of

(39:42):
fraud is in just this one place. And out of
all the states you could pluck out of your hat
to say this one is likely to have billions of
dollars of fraud. I don't think Minnesota was at the
top of the list, not because it's good at saving
taxpayer dollars, it's terrible at it. It's run by idiotic people,
but just because there's a the states that have a
higher population that likely have even more money that can

(40:04):
get exploited somehow. So I think this could be the
beginning of a lot of stories like this in a
lot of other places. And certainly politicians like ilhan Omar
seem like they're at the forefront of this in how
they use their political position to pressure to get some
of this done. And if there was actually money that
was going into campaigns and whatnot. Is all stuff that

(40:25):
hopefully we get more and more information about as we
go here. There's certainly people that are guessing about some
of that stuff. But I'm hoping for more receipts in
that department. But it's just a crazy thing, another sort
of ridiculous thing out there. I have talked about this
a little bit some other places. I do think it's
kind of crazy that liberal media is so obsessed with

(40:46):
the shelving of a story of sixty minutes. It's not
necessarily gone forever. Sixty minutes can still do this story
in the future at some point. So the people who
are sharing the version that was shelved in social media
are talking about how they're there's some sort of crazy
amount of control that President Trump now has over a
news organization. However, liberally, you use the word news organization

(41:08):
about CBS because of Barryweese. Here's what matters to me
about all of this. The overreaction is intended. It's on purpose.
It's designed to make you think that something is afoot
when the reality is As far as I know, the
person in charge of sixty minutes wanted people to try
harder to get a Trump administration official on the record.

(41:31):
They didn't actually require that it happened, which is what
mainstream media is telling you, and that the Trump administration
can kibosh any news report they want by just refusing interviews,
but that there wasn't enough attempt to even get the
other side of the story, which I think is the
sin that a lot of mainstream media makes all the time.
They make the purposeful decision to omit the other side

(41:53):
of an argument to make you believe their narrative is
true without giving you all of the variables to decide
for yourself. Well, the thing about this that even more
to me is sort of amazing is that Hillary Clinton
came out tweeted some of these videos and even said that,
you know, if you want to know more information about
how horrible the El Salvadoran prison is that some people

(42:15):
were being sent to after they were deported from our
country and sent back to El Salvador, you just have
to watch the video and hear from some of the victims.
And because of that tweet, the president of El Salvador
made a crazy offer to Hillary Clinton.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
And I want to read that offer because this.

Speaker 3 (42:32):
Happened on x and this is, you know, also to me,
a wonderful demonstration of why it's a good thing that
Elon Musk now owns a social media platform and doesn't
censor it anywhere near as much as the other times
that this platform was censored, Because this exchange might not
even be one you could see in this way, but
the offer from the leader of El Salvador says, if

(42:55):
you are convinced that torture is taking place in this prison,
we are willing to really our entire prison population, including
all gang leaders, all those described as political prisoners to
any country that will have them. The only condition is straightforward,
you got to take everybody. This would also greatly assist
journalists and your favorite NGOs, who would then have thousands

(43:16):
of former inmates available for interviews, making it far easier
to find additional voices critical of the Salvadorian government or
willing to confirm whatever conclusions are already expected. Surely, if
these testimonials reflect a systematic reality, a much larger pool
of resources should only reinforce this claim, and many governments
should be eager to offer this protection. That's a crazy

(43:39):
offer to be like, you know, Hills. I wish he
had called her Hills. He said Madam's Secretary Hillary Clinton.
But if he had said Hills at the beginning of it,
I would have been even more of a fan. If
you really do believe the people in our prison shouldn't
be there and that we're terrible. And again, I'm not
necessarily saying I agree with this world leader. That's not
the point. He's offering for us to take them all.
And people on the left, the Democrats who do these things,

(44:02):
the you know, let's swing the border wide open. Nothing
bad will happen. Let's have sanctuary cities where we don't
actually want a lot of people to show up, but
we want to claim that we're willing to take anybody in.
And then when a bunch of people get sent there
by states like Texas, a state that I happen to
live in, everybody complains. Other people in Chicago and New
York and all the places that are sanctuary cities are

(44:25):
up in arms and upset when they're actually being asked
to live up.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
To their word.

Speaker 3 (44:29):
It feels as though Hillary Clinton is putting that position
out there that if you're accusing us of, you know,
putting a lot of people in jail that shouldn't be there,
and the people you're sending back from your country that
President Trump is deporting shouldn't be there, then why don't
you go ahead and take everybody and see how that
goes for you. Of course, that's not the thing Democrats
would agree to or even entertain or talk about, but

(44:51):
it is where their rhetoric leads. And so the biggest
point I think I'm trying to make, and this is
something I think about a lot, is what's the extension
of the t talking points? Like you'll hear a Democrat
say something crazy. You hear Republicans say it too. I
won't pretend it's just on one side. And you just
got to take like two or three steps beyond their
point and think, well, what does this mean if you

(45:12):
did this?

Speaker 2 (45:13):
How does this work?

Speaker 3 (45:14):
And I think that Zoron Mumdani is finding this out
more than anybody else in our society right now. How
big of a deal it can be to say you're
going to do some things to promise a whole bunch
of stuff and then need to walk two or three
more steps down the logic hole that is, hey, everybody's
going to get to ride in a free bus because
of how bad things get and how quickly they get bad.

(45:36):
And Democrats refuse to learn this lesson. They open up
smash and grab opportunities. In California, things go terrible, they
go anti police, things go terrible. They do all this stuff,
and then they're like, wait a minute, why did we
do that? Why did we say all this in the
first place?

Speaker 15 (45:50):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (45:50):
Right, we were just trying to get political points. We
didn't actually want the stuff we were saying to become
a reality. And so there in lies the rub. But
my favorite other part of the sixty minutes piece is
some audio that went viral, and the audio is talking
about how people that are here illegally have broken the
law and what I thought was so funny about it,

(46:10):
and they do say something that matter of fact that
sixty minutes, you know, tries to take the negative spin
that the Trump administration is treating people who are here
illegally like the criminals, because they are criminals. That is
a law and they did break it. But that was
one of the like two sentenced parts of this thing
that got shelved, which would have easily been described as

(46:32):
one sided based on things like that. And so if
we inevitably get a different version of the same storytelling,
that does seem to be more in the middle than
on one side. I think that sixty minutes has actually succeeded,
which of course they won't admit, and no one that's
up in arms will admit about the lack of doing it,
at least for now. And I will say one last

(46:52):
thing before I take a break on this issue, just
because I do think it's also kind of important to
acknowledge or to point out the only people who care
when something gets shelved, but it doesn't actually get you know,
completely canned, meaning eventually it exists. In our society, our
media people, media people see something being delayed as the

(47:13):
same as something never airing, when in reality, everyday American people,
if this inevitable thing exists, only think about it as
a yes, no black white question, does it exist? Does
it not exist? And so if and when sixty minutes
does its story. I imagine all these people who criticized
the state media existence of President Trump will just shut

(47:35):
up and move on to the next thing, and they'll
probably keep telling us how the Epstein files make Trump
look guilty, at least the ones they're hiding from us,
because they will always be hiding the ones from us
that make Trump look guilty. That's what Democrats will say forever,
because it's the only position they can take on that issue.
They want you to believe, regardless of any proof they have,
that there's something being hidden, and they're essentially playing into

(47:57):
conspiracy theory and doing it for their side of the
I guess they're sad that they think that they don't
do that enough, when of course they do.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
All right, Well, take a quick break.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
There's a lot to talk about today, As I said
on the show, there is a story about a community
that lives too close to a Dunkin donut supplier that's
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Speaker 3 (50:14):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. Lots of stuff
out there to talk about. I saw a story where
a New York attorney is trying to claim that her
dog is a dependent and the I R S said, well,
that's not a thing.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
You can't claim your pet is a dependent.

Speaker 3 (50:31):
And because she's an illegal person, she's an attorney she's
suing the I r s about it to be like,
you have no idea how much money I spend in
my dog.

Speaker 2 (50:39):
Two quick thoughts.

Speaker 3 (50:40):
First, yes, as someone who's owned a dog, you spend
a lot of money on the dog, more money than
you probably should spend on the dog, and at times
you might regret that. But how do you not a
dog is such a lovely, friendly companion that just seems
happy all the time. There's no real way to spend
that wrong outside of the fact you're sad you did it.
And some people are even more more extreme than me.
I'm not pretending to be the ridiculous and insane that

(51:04):
are out there in this world, and this attorney sounds
like she might be one of those. The other thing
about it is I kind of like the idea of it. Again,
I don't think it's appropriate. I don't think we could
legally do it. But they are dependent, like by definition
the animals, the pets that live in my home, They're
not going to do anything on their own. This dog
is not going to get up and get a job,
which I would love for Manta to go be employed

(51:26):
somewhere out there in the world.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
It's not going to happen. So as far as the
actual rule.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Or you know, legal status of dependent versus someone who's independent,
a dog perfectly fits into that first category.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
You just can't. You can't go this road.

Speaker 3 (51:42):
And honestly, I'm even the guy who cringes whenever anybody
says I'm a dog dad or that my dog is
a child or uses terminology like that, because that's not
remotely true and it's odd and dumb. So this this
feels like it's leaning in out of that world again.
And if I offended you by what I just said, there,
my bad. And I also don't care because it is

(52:02):
where my wife hated it. If we'd drop a dog
off at like daycare or something, if we were going
somewhere the you know, kennel or whatever it is that
you say, the places, and they would refer to us
as dog parents, my wife would get walk out of
that place so mad. For a variety of reasons. Probably
this is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

(52:24):
One of those reasons was probably because we don't have
any actual kids, and not because of a lack of trying.
I feel very proud of that up an awkwardly to
say it just didn't happen for us, It's just something.
And so my wife would actually get sort of emotionally
upset at people who would call our pet our child,
and it became a whole thing, and I'd have to
hit a Starbucks and have an emotional conversation with the
misses and have to you know, talk her down. I'm

(52:46):
not making fun of her by saying that. I'm just
putting out there that people don't even seem to understand.
I think some of the you know, damage they cause,
and then the husband has got to pick up and
do whatever you got to do to fix that situation,
because that's that's our job all the time, speaking of relationships.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Actually, one other quick.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
Story, and I have very little time to throw this
out there, but I will do it. There's a rumor
that Taylor Swift will be buying Travis Kelce in Island
for Christmas. That is going to ruin that marriage one
hundred percent. My opinion is that they're only going to
go downhill. I don't even know if they're actually officially
married yet. I don't pay much attention to the Swift.
I'm assuming they aren't. I think that happened somewhat recently,

(53:26):
but he can never top that. You can never go
above and beyond getting an island, and it'll always come
up in any fight they have about anything where he's like,
you know, you don't seem to care any more about
my football career whatever. He says, she's gonna be I
bought you an island, and then it's all gonna be over.
It's all gonna be done from there, and they're going
to go to his island in air quotes that she

(53:48):
purchased and paid for. So yeah, that marriage is doomed.
And there's gonna be several songs written about Travis Kelce.
I imagine that'll help Taylor buy her next island. But
all right, quick break a lot more Craig Collins filling
in the Dad Benson Show.

Speaker 9 (54:12):
Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:33):

Speaker 2 (54:37):

Speaker 3 (54:39):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about.
This is a bigger deal as far as political news goes.
The Supreme Court rejected President Trump's request to send the
National Guard to Chicago. The reason the National Guard would
have been sent there was to protect ice agents and
also to carry out some laws by the way that

(55:01):
law enforcement is supposed to do it. That was the
national or that was excuse me, the Supreme Court's rejection
their objection to it. They said that they have not
shown us at this preliminary stage any reason why they,
being the government, the authority is there for the government
to allow the military to execute laws in Illinois. So

(55:23):
and that is obviously a protected aspect of the Constitution
that our military is not supposed to be other ones
that handle the day to day enforcement of laws inside
of cities and states.

Speaker 2 (55:34):
That's something that the law enforcement of those places is
supposed to do.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
I will say this though, and it's beyond the legal
ease of the discussion of who's right, who's wrong, how
the Supreme Court helps to get involved any of that stuff.
It's sort of amazing. And I lived in Chicago for
a very long time. It's sort of amazing to think
that the position of the left on this issue is
we don't want safer places because the Chicago whether or not,

(56:01):
they're trying as hard as they can, and I believe
a whole lot of them are. I've met and talked
to several of them. They're just not capable of getting
in front of some of the horrible things that happened
in that city. There are literal parts of the city
where people are pretty terrified to go, and where cops
do go, and they do try to do the best
they can, but multiple people get shot every single day,

(56:22):
and every weekend in the city of Chicago, multiple people die.
If you counted it as far as mass shootings, I
would go there's one every weekend in Chicago, with the
amount of people who get harmed there. And I lived
on both sides of the city, by the way, I
lived in the North Side, where none of this happens.
And that's kind of a hard thing for people to
understand when you talk to them who've never been to Chicago,

(56:45):
that there's a significant portion of it where you're going
to be completely fine the entire time you're there. I've
said that to people before and they either think I'm
being a liberal moron, which I'm not about it, or
they just think it's not true. But yeah, there's a
bunch of that city that's entirely safe that you can
go to and be absolutely fine and some of my
conservative buddies joke with me when I go there that like,

(57:06):
I'm about to get shot and killed. But then there
are parts of it that are absolutely horrible and almost
lawless to a certain extent, especially as it gets later
at nights.

Speaker 2 (57:15):
And I lived in some of those places too.

Speaker 3 (57:18):
One of those places I lived in, My wife and
I her uncle, who also lived in that community, would
joke with us after like six pm not to go outside.
And it was a joke until we tried to go
outside and they'd be like, no, really, you shouldn't go outside,
and then you won't do that. The National Guard would
help make that better. They did it in DC. They
succeeded in making a lot of things much much safer

(57:40):
there because people believed the deterrent was actually capable of
preventing the crimes, and so they stood down. And I
know that a lot of people who talk about this
eventually start to say that this is getting closer and
closer to Nazi Germany or anything like that, the Gestapo,
and all the ideas that the military is being wielded
in a certain way by the federal government to police

(58:03):
everyday Americans.

Speaker 2 (58:04):
That's just not true.

Speaker 3 (58:06):
And the reason I don't think that's true is by
and large I trust the people who are part of
our military, and the reason they'd be put in these
places to prevent the actual crime that's taking place. Like,
the funny thing is, you can't argue that Chicago has
a tremendous amount of crime. Most people know it, whether
you've lived there or not, and so putting people that
have sworn a duty to protect our country into a

(58:29):
position to help seems like a good thing. And it
seemed to have really worked in DC, where granted there's
quite a bit of a different set of laws because
it's already not necessarily protected like certain states and cities
are protected in our country, so the president has more
authority there. But it's just a shame that we can't
find a place to get this to actually make sense

(58:50):
to everybody, because the citizens of Chicago would be happy
if the place got safer. I know that's true, regardless
of whatever position you take on social media or anywhere else.
How many people are convinced by the politicians it would
be a bad thing if it had happened, and if
things got better and safer and more bad things were

(59:11):
not happening, or you know, more crime was off the streets.
Whatever way you want to say it, I think people
would inevitably begrudgingly in a very far left city like Chicago, say,
you know what, this is better?

Speaker 2 (59:20):
We do like this.

Speaker 3 (59:21):
I like the Trump interviews that he does with people
in DC now where they don't want to admit out
loud how much better things got. All right, another thing
out there. I did think that this was kind of
interesting too. Vladimir Zelensky is saying that in order for
Ukraine to find a peace deal with Russia, one of
the things he'd like incorporated into that peace deal is

(59:43):
a demilitarized zone, certain areas that offer a different protections
to Ukraine, both long and short term, beyond even the
United States offering military assistance if Ukraine, if excuse me,
Russia were to be provocative again. And so I think
that's interesting. I don't know that it will necessarily happen,
but Zelinski and Ukraine will be giving up a lot

(01:00:04):
in territory, which was also inevitable. I'm not saying again
that I thought this wouldn't happen. I very much thought
it would.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
In all honesty.

Speaker 3 (01:00:12):
This is the kind of thing that you probably had
to get to in order to actually find peace in
that area, in that place in our world. But Ukraine
is going to ask for several things, I think, along
the way to try to make sure that security is
at the forefront of what happens next. That's what they're
going to say, that's how they're going to behave And
whether or not that actually winds up working is yet

(01:00:34):
to be seen. Because they can't fight an endless war
and expect to get endless money from people like us.
It's just not going to happen, and they don't have
the capability to do it on their own, and their
country is already significantly devastated, as you've probably already heard.
So what is the end result here? And I think
Poutin knows the longer he waits, the better he does
in any of this stuff. All Right, There's one last

(01:00:56):
thing I want to say or talk about before I
take a break, And I was going to play the audio,
but there's bad words and we censored them.

Speaker 2 (01:01:04):
And I don't know. I just don't need to play it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:06):
I don't need to risk it for the biscuit, as
a friend of mine would say. But Joe Rogan agreed
with some guests he had on his podcast that President
Trump is quote losing it, that mentally he's struggling.

Speaker 2 (01:01:18):
More than he did before.

Speaker 3 (01:01:20):
But the reason Rogan agreed to that is unique, and
I kind of wanted to discuss this. There are plaques
inside the White House for the former presidents like Barack Obama,
like Bill Clinton, and under some of the written texts
that's been there for a while, Trump added additional information.
He put, like, you know, the more you know, a

(01:01:43):
version of a post and it looks as fancy as
the other plaque did. The photo's not removed from the
White House, none of that stuff. But it's a lot
of potshots. It's a lot of according to you know,
people who've been there and read through all this stuff
or it's been posted online, just a lot of pettiness.
Not that I necessarily think or even care about that part.
I can read some of it to you. Under Joe

(01:02:05):
Biden's plaque, he put sleepy Joe Biden was by far
the worst president in American history, which to me is
rather amusing. Under Barack Obama's he puts certain like, you know,
shot type stuff too. But here's the thing. I don't
think this is a reflection of the mental capability of
the president. I think it's a reflection of the he

(01:02:26):
doesn't give a crap position of the current president of
the United States. He didn't give a crap before. You
could easily argue that would you love him or hate him?
That he did a whole lot of things his way,
no matter what said things that probably people that worked
for him encouraged him not to say, and then he
said them anyway. But this time around, it does feel
like to a certain extent, he's playing with house money.

(01:02:49):
He does know that he won't be in office beyond
a couple more years, so there's nothing he can do
to quote damage himself more. And you know, mainstream media.
I don't mean that I actually have a negative opinion
of our current president.

Speaker 2 (01:03:02):
I voted for the man.

Speaker 3 (01:03:03):
But I will say that what I think is funny
about this is that you know, no matter what you
think of him, there's no way for media to more
attack him. He almost got shot and killed. So many
things have happened he you know, felony charges out of
New York that seemed to make no sense because they
were being inflated for misdemeanor charges for no reason.

Speaker 2 (01:03:22):
Whatsoever, YadA, YadA, YadA.

Speaker 3 (01:03:24):
I can go on and on, like you probably hear
on all kinds of conservative media about the ways the
Trump has been targeted. But I wonder if you put
yourself in the shoes of a man his age, with
his track record in both business and New York City
and now inevitably in politics, and you get to this
point where you got like three years left to do

(01:03:44):
whatever you're going to do to impact our country, I
think you get to the point where you put petty
stuff on the walls the White House and.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
You don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:03:52):
And if he's asked a question about it, he'd probably
be like, yeah, I put that there. I think that's
pretty funny. You don't think it's funny, Okay, whatever, I
don't care about you. And you know what, I can
ram this message home actually with a piece of audio
that I very much enjoyed from yesterday, and it's Trump
talking about the oil and keeping it that we got
from Venezuela, and I just thought it was funny that

(01:04:14):
the reporter in the audience, and I know this was
a bigger story a couple of days ago, and I
talked about it some other places, but I can't help
but want to play it here. This is a guy
who doesn't give a bleep anymore at all. And this
is a guy who again puts some petty stuff on
some walls in the White House because he's in charge,
he's the president right now. They'll be taken down when
he's not there anymore, and he won't even care about that.

(01:04:35):
But I don't think it proves that he's not mentally capable,
because he is still capable of this stuff. He still
goes out there and gets challenged by a press that
has no interest in covering him, you know, nicely or fairly.
They have every interest in covering him as negatively as possible,
and he still spars with them.

Speaker 2 (01:04:52):
This feels to me like it's a.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
Demonstration of mental capability, regardless if you agree with it
or not.

Speaker 2 (01:04:57):
That's not the point.

Speaker 3 (01:04:58):
If you're going to go after his his you know,
mental inefficiencies or whatever you think are products of his aging,
as even Joe Rogan seemed to at least agree with
somebody and doing a podcast, you have to answer to
the fact that he's not hiding like Biden, who hid
all the time while running for office and even well
in office. But here we go just to ram the

(01:05:19):
message home of how little of you know what Trump
cares any more about things. Here's a back and forth
the reporter that proves it.

Speaker 5 (01:05:29):
What are we going to do with the oil that
we have?

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
I'm going to do with what the oil that has
been seized?

Speaker 3 (01:05:34):
The United States sees one point nine million barrels of
oil on December tenth.

Speaker 2 (01:05:38):
We're gonna keep it.

Speaker 8 (01:05:40):
We're keeping it.

Speaker 12 (01:05:41):
Where's it going?

Speaker 2 (01:05:41):
Are we gonna sell it and put in the strategic
bad Yeah, we'll keep it.

Speaker 11 (01:05:45):
Whatever we we'll use it in the strategic reserves.

Speaker 5 (01:05:48):
We're keeping it. We're keeping the ship.

Speaker 2 (01:05:50):
So so and I know it's funny.

Speaker 3 (01:05:51):
I've played that audio on a few different places in
radio where I do other stuff for two days now,
and I still genuinely am laughing at it because it's
just so good. It's so good and how funny it is.
And what are you going to do with that oil?

Speaker 2 (01:06:03):
Sir? This is all about oil. We got you And
he's like, I'm keeping it. I'm keeping the ships too.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
That was the last part where You're like, I've tripped
you and I've taken my toys home and I'm keeping
them forever a kind of thing by saying we're keeping
the ships due.

Speaker 2 (01:06:16):
But he just doesn't care. He just doesn't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:19):
And there's something that's actually effective in some ways as
a leader to be in that position, because why there's
no political value to him behaving any other way than
however he wants to for the remainder of his time
in office because sadly he won't be able to be
in office again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:34):
He can't.

Speaker 3 (01:06:35):
No matter how much Steve Bannon and others say he's
going to run for a third time, that won't happen.
So we will see how the next three years go.
But I think this is why there's petty stuff on
the walls of the White House, not because other man
is mentally, you know, deteriorating, but because he just doesn't care.
All Right, I've repeated that enough times. We'll take a break,

(01:06:56):
We'll come back. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad
Benson Show.

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Speaker 3 (01:08:33):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about the economy doing better
than expected, quite a lot better than expected. Actually, the
numbers from the third quarter are up quite a bit,
even CNN forgrudgingly admitting that things are going well. Also,
gas prices continue to drop. This seems like a very

(01:08:55):
good thing. I hear is CNN talking about the gas prices,
and then I have.

Speaker 2 (01:08:58):
Some other audio.

Speaker 3 (01:09:00):
This is a person on Fox News talking about how
good things are looking as far as the economy is concerned.
How bet this was a Contensu's a lot of places,
It's not just on Fox, but here. Let's play the
CNN thing first about how great gas prices are right now.

Speaker 17 (01:09:13):
And when you look across the country, there's ten states
where the average is below two fifty a gallon right,
including Louisiana, Texas, Wisconsin, Iowa, Roado, Oklahoma has the cheapest
gas price in the country at two twenty nine a gallon,
and this trend could continue.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
At least for a bit.

Speaker 17 (01:09:34):
A gas Buddy is projecting that the national average on
Christmas Day will be just two seventy nine a gallon.

Speaker 5 (01:09:40):
That would take out the low from last.

Speaker 17 (01:09:43):
Year, which was previously the lowest since twenty twenty, and
gas Buddy says this will save drivers about a half
a billion dollars over what they spent last year money.

Speaker 3 (01:09:52):
We're saving half a billion dollars as a collective over
last year driving around places. I'm driving to Dallas later
today from Houston, and it's like a four hour drive,
and I'm not looking forward to it, if I'm being honest,
I'm looking forward to seeing people.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
That part will be fun. My wife is excited.

Speaker 3 (01:10:07):
We're going to exchange gifts with family members of hers,
be there on Christmas Day, do the whole thing, which
is nice because this is the first year I've lived
where I do, and we're as close in proximity to
some of her family as we are, so seeing them
is a new thing. It's a new experience, and it's
something that my wife is very much loving and I'm
very happy that she loves it. I just don't want

(01:10:27):
to drive four hours just a short amount of time
later today. But it's going to happen, and it is
what it is. All right, let's play this. That was
just me complaining just for my own satisfaction. This is
the Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnik.

Speaker 2 (01:10:42):
He is on Fox.

Speaker 3 (01:10:42):
He is talking about how great the economy is doing.
Of course, he's part of an administration. I'm not pretending
as though he's not biased and how he's saying this,
But a lot of these numbers are in fact true
that he's giving out of how much more our economy
grew than a lot of the other big economies in
the world, and how that is because of what's been
going on with Trump. Mostly, I would say, I would

(01:11:04):
credit the decision to tariff everybody and then create better
trade deals, better trade opportunities. That has been a big
part of a rebound in our economy and inevitably, finally
some of the interest rates falling, which is important. But
all of this comes up during this back and forth.
Here is how Lutnik talks about the future of the
United States from an economic perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
So just think the whole world out there.

Speaker 18 (01:11:28):
In the third quarter, the United Kingdom grew point one
the European Union grew point four and Japan fell point
six percent fell point six percent. Donald Trump's economy grew
the United States of America the biggest economy.

Speaker 5 (01:11:46):
In the world.

Speaker 18 (01:11:47):
Four point three percent y means is that Americans overall,
all of us are going to earn four point three
percent more money we're making.

Speaker 3 (01:11:58):
He's got to call my employee if four point three
percent is the actual raise amount. I'd love to see
that happen. We'd all love to see that happen. But
who knows, It doesn't know. But at least the economy
looks better. This is Craig Collins filling in on the
Chad Benson Show. And it's not that I completely disbelieve
that people will start making more money and things will
get better, mostly because lower interest rates will be a thing,

(01:12:21):
but it is part of your eyes have to meet
the story. And the Biden administration the entire time they
were in office, they kept telling us how much better
the economy is than what we thought. And even as
the Trump administration is now doing it. If you go
to the grocery store and spend a ton of money
on on very few groceries. You don't feel it yet,

(01:12:41):
So hopefully that happens in the new year. Craig Collins
filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
This is the Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:26):
This is a Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in. Thrilled to be with you.

Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
A bunch of stuff to talk about on a holiday
on Christmas Eve, probably we should have uplifting, valuable, fun conversations,
and yet news media only has one way that they
can go, and one of the things they most want
to talk about is the Epstein files, which continue to
be released. I know they didn't hit the timeline they

(01:13:52):
were supposed to hit, which they were legally required to hit. Actually,
the DJ put all the information out with as much
transparency as possible. Very few things redacted. Those things needed
to be redacted for only two reasons. If they somehow
protected an ongoing investigation of sometime some kind, or if
they protected victims.

Speaker 2 (01:14:11):
If it wasn't.

Speaker 3 (01:14:12):
Those things not being redacted was the whole point of this.
And we are getting a lot of stuff that still
seems like it's probably too much of it that we
can't read, we can't see, that's got the black line
over everything. But nonetheless, as this stuff comes out, mainstream
media has the same drum beat, the same discussion that
there's still stuff being hidden, and that stuff is most

(01:14:34):
likely to show how horrible of a person President Trump
is not even really caring about Epstein and the true
co conspirators who are starting to be exposed by some
of this. None of that's important, And so CNN and
one of their defenders of Trump, or at least somebody
who takes the other side of the argument very often,
Joe Borelli was on and seemed to criticize a whole

(01:14:57):
bunch of Democrats for ridiculousness of some of these things
that they say, and just how expected it is at
this point, regardless of what comes out, how much transparency
there inevitably is, Democrats will likely tell you that Trump
was a bad guy, he did bad things, and they
somehow hid that information from us because they don't have
anything else to say about this and they know it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:20):
But here we go. This is part of the I'm
losing it with this stupid argument that we keep having.

Speaker 11 (01:15:24):
To pull this back to forty thousand feet. Isn't it
embarrassing to have a party so focused on the Epstein documents,
the Epstein case, and time after time it's like someone
getting their NBA debut and just shooting air.

Speaker 4 (01:15:36):
Balls all a game.

Speaker 5 (01:15:37):
Today's April. I know we're gonna pretend like this didn't happen.

Speaker 11 (01:15:39):
But if we're wondering why there's so much focus on
the DOJ defending Donald Trump, it's because let's talk about
what happened today. Today there was a letter that was
so fake, it was so obvious. It was published, it
was postmarked after the guy was dead in a state
hundreds of miles from where.

Speaker 2 (01:15:55):
He died three days prior, and yet the media.

Speaker 5 (01:15:58):
Went in circles in a frenzy.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
He question networks, Okay, I gotta ste right there.

Speaker 3 (01:16:07):
I love when one of the liberal morons that's debating
with him is like, hold on a minute. I definitely
told that story about a letter that supposedly Epstein wrote
to Larry Nasser that seemed as though it was saying
how they were buddies and friends, and also a blaming
Trump for a whole bunch of stuff that was obviously
fake and as as Joe says, they're written three days
after Epstein had died, which seems impossible. Potentially, more than

(01:16:33):
anything else, it's just a ridiculous thing that obviously would
be created or at least put in a file somewhere
to make someone believe something that easily isn't true. And
maybe there was an assumption that that would even be
redacted because of what it looked like, and it wasn't.
It was put out in full because of how easy
it was to sniff out the lie there. But even

(01:16:53):
CNN reported on it, and they're like, now, hold on,
there might be questions about this. That's their version of
fair and honest reporting. Not maybe we should wait a
little longer if, for some reason, some moron in our
news department believes this to fully flesh out what the
problems are with it, because they were obvious than they
were many But let's let it go a little boring.

Speaker 11 (01:17:13):
It not just this Every single one in a frenzy
because they're so interested in getting Trump on Jeffrey Epstein.
As The New York Times said, as this network says,
as every network has to come on and say before
we talk about this, there is absolutely no evidence to
Hughes balance.

Speaker 3 (01:17:31):
No, I want to interrupt you because you're making too
many points and you're saying the thing that we don't
want you to say. That there's no evidence whatsoever that
Donald Trump did anything wrong. And it's really sad to
watch this play out. I don't know if sad's the
right word, and I know I keep complaining about it,
but that that's the only interest that these politicians have
in a story that's this big, with this many tentacles,
with this much bad in it and this much harm

(01:17:53):
of children, is that they're really just caring about whether
or not they get Trump and they can impeach him
for it and move them from office, do anything, put
them in whatever they want to do to him.

Speaker 2 (01:18:02):
That's the goal.

Speaker 3 (01:18:02):
And so yes, every time they think they have him,
they absolutely jump way too quick and then wind up
looking like morons again. And I'm going to transition to
something else. Sam Altmant is the CEO of Open AI.
He has recently been giving testimony and also doing interviews
where he talks about the future of our society, and

(01:18:22):
one of the things he says is that in ten
years time, college graduates will be working in space. He
believes that they'll have cool, exciting, super well paying jobs
in space. And then someone asks him, like, what are
you talking about? Why do you think there's going to
be a bunch of gigs in space? And you have
to go back to some of the other things he
said to find out what he means. He thinks there's

(01:18:44):
going to be a lot of data centers, and we're
not going to build those data centers on Earth because
taking up too much space as is, but we need them,
so we're going to turn space into a bunch of servers.

Speaker 2 (01:18:54):
The Moon can just be a server of stuff. I
want to play some audios. You know, I'm not just
making this up.

Speaker 3 (01:19:00):
This was him on THEO Vaughn's podcast talking about the
sweet sweet servers that we're going to be blasting into
the upper atmosphere, blasting out of our Solar System as
long as we can still stay connected to them where
the WiFi is good enough to get that sweet data off.

Speaker 19 (01:19:14):
I do guess that a lot of the world gets
covered in data centers over time, you really, But I
don't know, because maybe put them in space, Like maybe
we build a big dice in fhere on the Solar
System and say it actually makes no sense to put
these on Earth. But like I can say with conviction,
the world needs a lot more processing power. But if
that looks like tiling data centers on Earth, which I
think is what it looks like in the short term,

(01:19:34):
in the long term, also, or we do go build
them in space, I don't know. It sounds cool to
try to build them in space.

Speaker 3 (01:19:40):
Yeah, it sounds cool, also potentially horrible in a whole
lot of ways. And also the jobs might not be great,
But I love that that's the reaction of the guy
who's at the forefront of AI.

Speaker 2 (01:19:50):
It's like, it sounds cool. What could go wrong?

Speaker 3 (01:19:53):
What if some of those giant servers that we build
in our upper atmosphere wind up getting into our Solar system,
into the gravitational poll said planet, and then crash into Earth.

Speaker 2 (01:20:03):
That would not be great.

Speaker 3 (01:20:05):
And also, you know what it funny, It feels like,
and this is funny to me. It feels like every
post apocalyptic movie you see on the United States are
on you know, Earth, a life on Earth, because there's
all this technology just floating that we probably blasted up
there that then caused a bunch of other issues for us.
It's just hilarious to me. I'm not saying I know

(01:20:26):
enough about this to believe any of this is true.
It just sounds like we're barreling toward that inevitability that
something bad will be the byproduct of something that they
tell us is going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:20:36):
Good, and the bad will probably outweigh the good. But
darn it, who cares.

Speaker 3 (01:20:40):
And if you're a college age student right now about
to graduate, and you're hearing that you might have a
job in space in ten years, you're probably excited.

Speaker 2 (01:20:47):
I would be.

Speaker 3 (01:20:48):
I would love to be shot up into space, and
I can't imagine what the commute would be like if
you've got to go back and forth a lot.

Speaker 2 (01:20:55):
That sounds terrible.

Speaker 3 (01:20:56):
Once space traffic gets to be bad, I feel like
that's going to be a whole thing. Maybe it's a
second life for a lot of radio that we get
to do space traffic reporting. That sounds like an exciting
part for so many of us. There's another story out
there that I want to touch on, and I want
to touch on this in sort of a unique way.
And I certainly know that this might not be the

(01:21:17):
most popular opinion to take on this topic, but I
don't really care. I guess, so student loan debt repayment
is going to start happening, and what they're saying about
how it's going to happen is it's going to be
wage garnishment. And the Trump administration in the new year
is very likely to start notifying student loan debt holders,
especially ones who are long defaulted on their student loans,

(01:21:39):
that you got to pay up, that you've got to
start giving us money. And there's a few legalities around
this that make it a thing that people, especially I
think you left leaning kind of media people, are saying
is going to be a demise of our economy. It's
going to be bad for all kinds of reasons. But
a few of those legalities do incorporate in a federal
minimum wage of about seven bucks. And so I do think,

(01:22:01):
if we're being fair in the world in which we live,
the current federal minimum wage is a bit ridiculous. And
the idea that you would calculate the amount of money
someone can live off of so you would garnish their
excess wages. And I know I'm getting into the legal
ease of this by being I think it's like thirty
times the federal minimum wage for a forty hour work week.

(01:22:24):
The federal minimum wage is seven dollars and twenty four
cents per hour. Does this mean people should have dismissed
paying their student loans.

Speaker 18 (01:22:30):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:22:31):
If you agreed to pay money and you have to
pay it back at some point, that happens to be
the way that that all works. It sucks, I'm sure
for a lot of people who have very very high
loans that they're going to take forever to pay off,
and maybe they don't even have good jobs to help
them pay these loans off. But the one point that
I think does deserve some level of discussion, and it's

(01:22:54):
not because I actually think the federal minimum wage needs
to be raised. I would argue, like many conservatives will,
that small businesses are always harmed by telling them how
much they have to pay a people to work there.
And that's really what the federal minimum wage does in
the world of harm. It probably does a lot of
good for a whole lot of bigger places, a lot
of giant companies who can afford to pay people more money.

(01:23:16):
To pay someone more than seven dollars and twenty five
cents per hour, which in the world we live right now,
is absolutely not a livable wage in a forty hour
work week. You absolutely couldn't live off that in a
tremendous amount of places if that's the entirety of your
income and you don't have a big savings or anything
else at all. But so, the one argument I'd make,
and I'm not making it because again I want to

(01:23:37):
excuse people for debt that they agreed and signed up to,
is that it is sort of insane that a huge
portion of the mathematical component to how this will work
and what percentage of money will be garnished from people's
paychecks who for whatever reason haven't been paying their student
loans anyway, is relying on a number that is easily outdated.

Speaker 2 (01:23:56):
I do think that it would be fair for both
sides of the political.

Speaker 3 (01:23:59):
Eye, and this would be heavily unpopular with the Conservative
Party and with our Republicans for a variety of valuable
reasons of things that I think makes sense to redebate
raising the minimum wage. The last time it went up
was in two thousand and nine, so it's been quite
some time. It went up in two thousand and seven,
two thousand and eight, and two thousand and nine it

(01:24:20):
went from five dollars and fifteen cents, which was an
amount they passed in ninety seven all the way up
to seven twenty five, as I said, over that three
year period when Democrats were in power for a majority
of that time period. But nonetheless, it's still going to
be something that might be a huge conversation. One student
loan debt garnishment happens to a large amount of Americans.

(01:24:42):
A lot of Americans are in default of their student loans.
A lot of Americans might have that money garnished, and
it might become a bigger conversation because of it. I'm
just projecting here a little bit, and I do wonder
But other than that, I think that if you agree
to a loan, you got to pay it. You gotta
at least try to pay it. However you can, all right,
quick break a whole lot coming up. This is Greg

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Speaker 3 (01:26:33):
This is the Jen Benson Show. My name is Creig Collins,
filling in the Thrilled to be with you. There's a
story I see every so often, and I can never
get over the fact that this is real. But once again,
I think the New York Posts and others are saying
and they're just bringing this from other organizations.

Speaker 2 (01:26:49):
I think this originally came out of Australia.

Speaker 3 (01:26:52):
Actually, our recruiters are upset that parents show up for
job interviews, that young people kids. This is in Sydney
where one of these things occurred, invite their parents along
to try to help get a job, whether they don't
have any references or some other thing is going on, like, hey,
maybe you think I might not be the right candidate here,
but here's my mother or my father to tell you

(01:27:13):
how great I am and hopefully that helps. This is
by far the most childish thing you could possibly do
in a job interview, other than like throw a tantrum
on the floor, and so I can't believe that it happens,
and I'm sort of amazed that this story pops up
every so often. But it's another warning from the recruiters
out there that if you have a job interview in
the near future.

Speaker 2 (01:27:33):
You should not try to bring mom or dad along.
That would be a big mistake.

Speaker 3 (01:27:38):
Obviously, It's tremendously dumb to think that there would be
anything else that would happen from that. I just get
I'd like I see that story all the time. I
think I remember doing that story last year or other
times where people actually have that discussion, and I can't
figure out why the parents don't know. It's a terrible idea,
you know, like there's a version of helicopter parent that's

(01:27:59):
so obsessed with being in their child's life that they.

Speaker 2 (01:28:02):
Would want to go to the job interview. And that's
a big problem.

Speaker 3 (01:28:07):
I'm not trying to not blame the kid for the
terrible decision they're making, but at the same time, it
seems insane for a parent to be like, Yeah, this
seems great. This seems like the kind of thing I
should be doing. A high percentage of Americans say their
partner is not their soulmate. I saw this story too
and thought it was pretty interesting. One in five and
it is officially cuffing season until the end of the holidays,

(01:28:30):
which means you stay in whatever relationship you're in and
don't break up because it's mean to do it till
after the holidays are over. But one in five people
are like, yeah, this ain't the one I'm with this
person now. I'm fine for this reason or that reason,
but I don't see a real future in it. And
even though I get it, and I've been there before
where you're dating somebody and you don't want to break
up for certain reasons but you don't actually want to

(01:28:52):
propose anytime soon, I also think it's probably mean and
you probably should figure out a way to get the
cojones and do it. Just get out of it. This
is Greig feeling In on the Chad Benson Show. Yes,
I really did say cajones at the end of that
segment there, and I just said it again.

Speaker 2 (01:29:06):
I think you need that.

Speaker 3 (01:29:07):
I think you need the ability to go ahead and
be like, you know, I don't see a future in this.
At least I would tell the other person and if
they want to keep dating casually, keep going.

Speaker 2 (01:29:17):
I keep that going.

Speaker 3 (01:29:18):
If they don't want to break up either, that's fine,
but at least let them know, like, I can't see
myself sitting next to you for a certain amount of
years This has got to be the kind of thing
we only do for a short amount of additional time
and then get over it. One other thing that I
also like, as far as just random stats for the
holidays that are out there, most people have no idea
what day it is starting today, what day of the

(01:29:40):
week it is is what I mean up until the
end of the year and the beginning of the new year,
because a lot of these days are likely to be
vacation for a vast majority of Americans, maybe not all
of them. A producer, Phil and I are both here
today on Christmas Eve, so I'm sure some other people
are at work too, But for a lot of people,
since you'll be taking a lot of time off over
the next week, you're not likely to remember that tomorrow's,

(01:30:02):
Thursday or Friday is coming.

Speaker 2 (01:30:03):
Up after that, which kind of sounds nice.

Speaker 3 (01:30:06):
I'm sure there's ways in which that's negative and that's bad,
but part of me thinks it sounds real nice that
toward the end of the year every year you can
get lost for a few days and not knowing what's
going on.

Speaker 2 (01:30:16):
I am a big proponent in the do nothing staycation.

Speaker 3 (01:30:19):
That is a big recommendation I make to friends and
family when they talk about travel plans and vacation plans.
If you take your time off and you just sit
at home and do nothing, you might be way happier
than you think you're gonna be.

Speaker 2 (01:30:31):
All Right, we got to take a break. A lot
coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:30:50):
Such Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:31:14):
filling in just before the holidays. Chad will be back
in just a few days. I gotta be honest, there's
so many things out there in the news that feel
like they're just a circle. You're just saying stuff about
them again, whether it's the Epstein files and Democrats saying
not enough is released, a Republicans saying that not enough

(01:31:36):
in some cases are released too, by the way, but
having very different focuses in what they're looking for. Whether
it's the discussion about Venezuela and the United States and
how we are trying our best to make sure to
actually gain something important control in a way of the
system that circumvents our financial ways that we try to harm,

(01:32:00):
countries that may disagree with us or do bad things.
The paper Tiger is what I call it, version of
an approach to trying to contain Russia and their aggression
towards Ukraine a pretty easy example. We do that through
things like I'm trying to create financial hardship in Russia,
things like sanctions, and they don't work if there's a
system in place that circumvents them. And Venezuela and China

(01:32:23):
and Russia have all created a trade system reliant heavily
on oil that does just that. So there are ongoing
discussions about what's actually going on in the world of
the United States and Venezuela and if we're just after oil.
All those things feel like we could talk about them,
but it becomes groundhog Day. And so since it's the holiday,
and since there's not a lot of time left to

(01:32:43):
chat about the important things, why not just skip them
and talk about some sillier things that I saw out there.

Speaker 2 (01:32:50):
And one of the things I loved a.

Speaker 3 (01:32:52):
Lot is Shaquille O'Neal talking about the first time he
hung out with prints.

Speaker 2 (01:32:57):
I saw this story and I was like floored by
because Shaq at.

Speaker 3 (01:33:01):
The height of his fame, you would think was the
kind of guy that had pretty unique experiences.

Speaker 2 (01:33:06):
Twenty one years old.

Speaker 3 (01:33:07):
I think, as he said how old he was when
he met Prince, certainly a guy who's probably been been
in a situation where very attractive women are throwing themselves
at him. But he said nothing ever, compared to meeting
Prince in Minnesota. By the way, I don't know if
any Somalis were there with a lot of fraud going on.
I think it's a little bit too early for that
back in the nineties. But nonetheless, he says that what

(01:33:28):
he saw was the most beautiful women he's ever seen
in his entire life, just randomly feeding Prince grapes. Just
they would walk up, feed them some grapes, walk away,
and Prince just seemed to think that that was normal life.
And so Shack among other things that he said, was
a sort of ridiculous thing to see in just how
famous and well treated a prince was. I was like,

(01:33:52):
this is something you also would want, Shack said. He
tried to really soak it in. I tried to understand
that stardom essentially comes in tears, and whatever tier he
was at at that time in his life was not
the Prince tier not the upper level thing. I just
kind of think that that's insane in a lot of ways.
And I wonder if Prince did this stuff on purpose,
you know, like you have a lot of people around

(01:34:13):
you who will do whatever you want. You know that
Zack's a famous guy and he's going to be famous.
Maybe you tell everybody before he gets there to make
it look even more ridiculous. Or maybe Prince just was
so famous and so well loved that hot women fed
him grapes all the time. It's neither or for me,
it could have been a performance, it could be real.
But I love that that's a story that's out there

(01:34:34):
and hit the news today about Jack giving his version
of a of an experience and how much crazier can get. Like,
no matter how great or how poorly you think things
are going in your life, there's always somebody that's got
a worse or a better version of life that you're
unaware of. I think there's always going to be a
more extreme thing more likely than not. That's just simple

(01:34:55):
mathematics saying that that's true. Another story out there I
saw that is not serious or political in nature. Because
I've just lost all interest in doing that at the
tail end of the show, gen Z is ditching alcohol
and mostly men are actually doing this more than before,
according to a random a new study, but some activities

(01:35:16):
they're doing are less safe and I thought this was interesting,
even though alcohol is going away, and this is more
women than men, which the organization.

Speaker 2 (01:35:24):
That did this study thought absolutely couldn't be right.

Speaker 3 (01:35:28):
But they looked into seven hundred and fifty six million
social media accounts and they used AI to help them
sort through all of it.

Speaker 2 (01:35:36):
Social Profile is the name of the organization that did this.

Speaker 3 (01:35:40):
They said, women are looking for not safe for work
content more often than ever before on social media, whether
they're interacting with it, liking it, saying things about it.
These are people who are posting all kinds of provocative
things or you know, even maybe even more than that,
depending on what the social media platform is. And that
men are not doing it as much as they did before,

(01:36:02):
and men are also, as I said, drinking less booze.
And so the study seem kind of surprised by that outcome.
But I do have an idea as to how that
could occur, and it's not the thing that probably the
people who are in charge think it is I think
men would probably consume a lot of the salacious things
that are on social media, but not interact with them.

(01:36:24):
I think that you are less likely as a dude,
especially a guy in a relationship, to click like on
a post that's just a hot woman in a bikini
if you see that, even if you know the person,
even if it's like your friend you've hung out with,
you don't have any feelings for the odds of you,
as a dude just randomly being like, yes, I like
this photo are probably less than a female friend of hers,
because there's no danger in the world we live in

(01:36:46):
today for the woman to like the other woman's post
that's suggestive in nature, or say, you know, I've seen
comments this is weird. I can't help it. This is
where my brain goes in a conversation like this. I've
seen comments where women sound like they're hitting on each
other in the most ridiculous way, Like a friend of
mine tells another friend of mine how great a part
of her body looks, and I've just thought like, if

(01:37:08):
I did that once, you know, like part of me
is like man if I dove in right after and
been like, I agree with that statement, how much everybody
would be mad at me, or everybody would be mad
at the typical guy in these situations, and how funny
that is, And especially if these women aren't actually attracted
to each other, how much even more ridiculous that is.
And I don't know if it's a version of jealousy

(01:37:29):
playing out and they're pretending they're not jealous, so they're
commenting even though they promptly are jealous.

Speaker 2 (01:37:34):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:37:35):
But nonetheless, if you study social media, I think the
big fool's errand is that thinking you're getting an actual
reflection of what people actually think about and believe, as
opposed to a performative version of that, both in what
we're not doing and what we are doing. Because yes,
as guys, I think that the suggestive photos and things
that are very popular in social media wind up in

(01:37:56):
your feed very often, and as a straight dude, you
wind up having a certain level of interest in all
of it. And actually, as I say that, there's one
other thing I was thinking about, and this is kind
of funny. I generate topics for radio shows. That's something
I do professionally, of course, as you can tell filling
in for Chad Benson today and the amount of stories
I see that are really just headline describing a social

(01:38:18):
media post by an attractive woman where they look really good.
It's like one out of every ten stories. And they
call those clickbait, but really there's just a ridiculous amount
of them. I think if you go to a place
like Yahoo dot com right now, and maybe this is
tailored for me, maybe I've forced.

Speaker 2 (01:38:34):
My algorithm, which is what people joke about that being
to being.

Speaker 3 (01:38:37):
Something terrible, But I don't think that it's necessarily true
on places like Yahoo. But I just went to the
front page of it, and if I scroll down a
little bit, it says Jessica Alba goes bold and plunging
nude corset for night out with friends. That's just halfway
down the front page, and that's going to be one
of like ten stories. Social media star Grace Hayden rocks

(01:38:58):
plunging cream dress in field level cricket selfie. And then
right after that there's a story about a former WWE
wrestler who is showing off her toned abs and legs.
There's so much of this that exists on social media,
and so much of this that exists on the Internet
because it's wildly popular. A lot of dudes will click
on it and read these stories or look at these photos.

(01:39:18):
Women will do it too, And the only funny thing
is the women are the ones who are much more
likely to interact than the guys are a little bit
further down the page, Tyla in Tiger Pants is unlike
anything you've ever seen.

Speaker 2 (01:39:30):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (01:39:31):
Tyler is a very attractive woman. I'll put that out there.
If you don't know who she is, look her up.
She's a rather attractive young singer. But nonetheless, I just
find this tremendously funny. That obviously one of the and
you know what, I'll go even a step further. It's
on the radio, it's on the holiday. Who cares what
I say? Who cares what Bendora's box I open. Some

(01:39:52):
people in media places, myself maybe may or may not
have been included at times in this. We'll have an
idea or like a video or something we put up there,
and if one of the staff members is an attractive
woman and they want to be a part of the video,
everybody who's in the video is happier because the likelihood
of more people seeing that video just went up. I

(01:40:13):
remember at one of the places I worked, there was
a very attractive traffic lady who was a part of
our organization, traffic woman. She was in her twenties, although
I was in my twenties at the time too, and
every time anyone in a pitch meeting or anywhere else
would come up with a video, her name would inevitably
be thrown out there as someone that should be in
the video. She didn't have to do anything suggestive, she

(01:40:34):
didn't have to behave any sort of way, but you
put her face into a video and the odds of
people watching in the social media skyrocketed. You were selling,
like you know, house painting, and all of a sudden,
you see the attractive traffic lady saying something about how
great the house painting company is, and boll you get
twice as many, three times as many views as if

(01:40:55):
she's not in the video.

Speaker 2 (01:40:56):
That's just the way the internet works.

Speaker 3 (01:40:58):
So I find that uniquely kind of funny that these
are the sort of things that you see pretty much everywhere,
and that a company decided to study this and when
they found out that women were far more likely than
men to actively interact with this in a way they
could see where you click like comment any of that stuff.
Their takeaway was that men are less interested in this
than women are. Because that is not a good takeaway.

(01:41:21):
That is a flawed opinion, to say the very least.
One last thing, again, just talking about sillier stuff that
I see out there in the world. I thought a
list that came out was pretty funny. It's the thirty
seven activities that are over hyped. You think you want
to do these things, but by and large they're not
things you actually want to do. They ruin some experience

(01:41:42):
for you or anything. One of the ones that was
very high in this list, I think it came in
at number four, was New Year's even Times Square, which
I thought was really funny. I've done New Year's Even
Times Square before.

Speaker 2 (01:41:55):
It is not fun. I mean it is, and it isn't.

Speaker 3 (01:41:57):
There's parts of it that inevitably are kind of fun.
Any sort of big celebration, and that's the biggest of
them that we have in our country, has some level of.

Speaker 2 (01:42:07):
Interest to it.

Speaker 3 (01:42:08):
At the same time, there's a lot of really annoying moments,
a lot of being stuck in a whole bunch of
people without the ability to go to the bathroom without
losing your spot where you are, like, there's so many
annoyances that the odds of you never doing it after
maybe once or just never doing it at all, skyrocket
when the reality sets in of what the experience is
going to be like. And that's what a lot of

(01:42:29):
people were saying. Other things that made this list was
turning your hobby into a side hustle, meaning something you
like to do, being become something that you make money doing,
because that can ruin stuff. Also, I thought it was
funny that was on this list. Having children is overrated
according to a lot of people. I'm not telling you
that's true. I don't have any kids, not because my

(01:42:51):
wife and I didn't want them. It didn't work out
for us. It was awkward when I say that. But anyway,
there are people that through that on the list. I
hope they're not parents. That feel terrible if you're a.

Speaker 2 (01:43:01):
Kid to see that.

Speaker 3 (01:43:02):
And then finally, one other one that I thought was
interesting in the top five of things you think you
want but you actually don't. In open relationship, having more
than one person that you're dating at the same time
in a way in which everybody's totally fine with it
or cool with it. I loved the description that someone
gave about this. They said, it might sound fun, but

(01:43:22):
the odds of you being single dramatically go up because
of how it's going to fall apart end quote. Most
people aren't built for relationships that are not just two
people that have other individuals involved in some way in them.
I completely get this on paper, The idea that something
sounds good in reality being awful seems to be highly

(01:43:42):
highly likely for all of those examples that I just gave.
But I just thought that was pretty funny that that
made the list fairly high too, and that some of
the people who said they've tried it as expected thought
it didn't work very well. All right, we'll take a break.
We'll do a little bit left when we come back.
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad.

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Speaker 3 (01:45:24):
Say this is the Chad Benson Show. My name is
Craig Collins, filling in, Thrilled to be with you. A
whole lot of stuff out there to talk about, and
yet so little time to do any of this. I
did see a story about the travel tips you should
avoid making, or the travel mistakes excuse me, you should
avoid making as people are likely to be traveling between

(01:45:47):
today and the rest of the holiday season. One of
those things is not to hog the overhead bins. I
thought it was great to put this on the list,
because if you sit down on an airplane and the
person in front of you that just sat down took
all the space you're overhead bin, it is tremendously annoying.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
It's the kind of thing that you want to slap
somebody for. So don't hog it all.

Speaker 3 (01:46:06):
Is essentially the thing that I learned a long time
ago from Campbell's commercial. I believe a Campbell's soup commercial
also being unprepared for winter weather delays or winter weather.
If you're traveling from a warmer climate to a colder climate,
some significant mistakes will be made if you're not expecting
one travel delays, and then two if you're also not

(01:46:27):
going to be dressed appropriately.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
This is a mistake I actually enjoy making. Not that
it's good.

Speaker 3 (01:46:32):
You shouldn't make. It's a bad decision. But the reason
that I enjoy making it is I enjoy complaining. Sometimes
complaining is cathartic. And when I get off the plane
after being in a warm weather climate and it's freezing cold,
the first thing I say is, man, why did we
come here? And I get a few minutes of complaining
while I get my coat or whatever I've packed out
of my luggage, so I can eventually then say, you

(01:46:54):
know what, all right, fine, now I'm here where I
didn't want to be because I'm thrilled to be in
warm weather. I finally moved to a warm weather place.
We live in Houston, Texas. It's going to be like
eighty on Christmas Day or just after Christmas here, which
is uncommon. It's not as normal as it would be.
And I know a bunch of the country is going

(01:47:14):
to have a very warm Christmas. But I'm not sad
about that at all. There's a tremendous amount of people
I know who are complaining they're not going to get
a white Christmas in the Midwest, where I'm from, or
the Northeast, where I actually was born.

Speaker 2 (01:47:26):
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (01:47:27):
All this sounds so great to me to be an
eighty degree I might hit the beach this weekend. If
I decigned to drive down to Galveston or somewhere and
just walk around on it, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:47:36):
If I'll swim.

Speaker 3 (01:47:38):
I would just be so happy because of how many
years I spent in places like the Midwest with an
unbearable amount of cold and snow and crappiness. Even if
it does put you in the holiday mood to see it,
it doesn't put you in the holiday mood to feel
it and to be out in it. And then one
final thing, as far as a tip goes to not
ruin your travel experience or the travel experience to whoever

(01:47:59):
you're taking with you, I don't be rude to the
crew and the people that are serving you wherever it
is you're going. This also makes a tremendous amount of
sense to me, because nothing deflates the tires emotionally of
trip than watching someone that you're with be an absolute
piece of crap to someone who's just.

Speaker 2 (01:48:17):
Doing their job over the holidays. That seems terrible. I
don't think customer service is what it used to be.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
I think a whole bunch of people are lazy and awful,
and you know, not as kind to the customers they're
supposed to be.

Speaker 2 (01:48:29):
But it doesn't mean you should be a jerk right back.
It doesn't do anybody any good.

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
And by and large, it's usually kind of embarrassing to
watch somebody break somebody else. But luckily I don't see
that very often with the people I hang with. They're
all usually pretty nice. But don't do this is the
tip from Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show,
and one more time, I will just say Happy Holidays,
Merry Christmas to everybody out there. Thrilled to be jumping

(01:48:56):
in for Chad and being a part of the show.
Thrilled to be doing this a long as I've been now,
I think it's been like seven years or something crazy
that I've been a fill in host for Chad Benson.
Is his fancy a national show, and so I'm thrilled
and something I'm grateful for and thankful for this holiday season.
Hopefully you have a bunch of things to be grateful
and thankful for too, and we'll be talking to you

(01:49:16):
very soon after a lovely Christmas, hopefully had a by all,
Craig Collins, filling in on the Chad Benson show.

Speaker 1 (01:49:30):

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