Syrian Rebels Force Bashar al-Assad from Power in a Rekindled Civil War

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
And like that, Syria fell. Fifty years of rule by
the Assad family, fifty years of rule and over the
last decade or so help with the Russians in Iran,
it all fell apart, the speed of which was incredible.

(00:37):
But it's over. Now, it's done, and now the chaos,
and I do mean the chaos is going to begin,
and it is going to be chaotic, It is going
to be crazy. You got all kinds of groups who
normally don't associate with each other because they can't stand
each other. But the reality is simply they had one

(00:58):
common bond. They hated Bashar al.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Assad Asad in power for more than twenty four years,
oversaw the brutal crushing of the revolution against his regime,
with hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced over more
than thirteen years of civil war. The Islamist leader of
the main rebel group, Abu Muhammad al Golani, called the
moment a new chapter in the history of the entire
Islamic nation. Algalani, a former Al Qaeda commander who cut

(01:23):
ties with the group in twenty sixteen, has tried to
project a moderate image.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah he's anything but moderate. Now let's talk about this first.
Wow does this weekend Iran? Absolutely? And boy does this
make Russia look like yet another blow to the grundle
of Moscow and of the powder here comes Basher Ali

(01:51):
sad Hat in hand. The propping up didn't work, which
makes Russia look bad. Plus they lost ports, ports they
needed ports that were important. Yeah, they're losing their grip
throughout the Middle East and it hurts their relationship with
Iran as well.

Speaker 4 (02:09):
This has got to be a moment of real concern
for Vladimir Putin.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Your point is exactly right.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Not only does he now have to take in aside
as this now vagrant coming with his family on bended
need of Moscow, but more importantly, it's the Russian prestige
globally that takes a real here. It's the damage to
the brand.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think you'd have to go back to.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
You have gety pregosions ill fated attempt to topple Putin
a year or so ago to see how difficult this
moment will be for Putin.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
It is ugly and a time when you're looking at
a deal being done somewhat with Ukraine, your relationship with
Iran and Iran really stumbling because you got to think
about how they've had their ass handed to them when
it comes to Hamas, when it comes to Hesbla, the Hooties.
And now you've got this situation where you're and it

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was important they backed him because they had a port,
there were areas throughout there that they could reach, and
it was an important area for them, And now you
had your side gone a moment, and that's what this is,
absolutely so yet again another moment for the Pewter.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
So as I look at the hand of cards, Putin
has going into what I think everybody increasingly presumes they'll
be a negotiation with Ukraine sometime in twenty twenty five.
This is a sign of real weakness for Russia. That's
good news for the United States, alongside what we see

(03:54):
from the weakening of Iran.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
And over the weekend you had Macron and Zelenski and
Trump the opening of Note Dam talking and there's no
doubt that this thing is coming, this negotiation between Ukraine
and the West and the Pewter. But this doesn't help
the Pooter at all, doesn't give him any help whatsoever.

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Now the question is how bad is this thing going
to spiral out of control. Yet another Arab spring, this
time could be sprung in ways that could be absolutely ugly,
and it could happen fast. So what do you have?
You have all these groups kind of came together, wouldn't
normally hang out with one another. Oppose each other, is

(04:40):
the best way to describe it. So you had the
Free Syrian Army, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and
opposition forces. So then you had Islamic jihad forces, so
the old Al's Nusra Aram al Sham, which is the
group that's kind of leading everything you have isis the
Islamic State as well. You had Kertish groups as well,

(05:04):
including the People's Protection Unit and the Syrian Democratic Forces.
And then you had Turkish groups, Gulf State Islamic groups,
and some stuff from US and a few others. So
what does it mean? Well, first of all, you got
to think about all of this stuff, everything from terrorism
to what roles it is like of Turkey and Israel

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play in this, and how unstable is this going to
be because we still have people over there for a reason.
What that reason is is, well, probably to look out
and see what's going on with the rebel groups, and
I e the terrorist groups because they're everywhere.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
Well, I think there's a good chance for terrorism to continue.
Now that's allow of firepower to put on seventy five strikes.
That's a lot, provided the targeting is good, provided they
didn't have notice and get away, that should put a
real dent into ISIS and any affiliated groups there in
northeast Syria. But the region is rife with conflict. There's

(06:11):
all kinds of splunter groups, there's all kinds of grudges held.
People talk to each other, but that doesn't mean they
like each other. So a lot depends. In fact, everything depends, really,
I think on Turkey's role in working with HTS and
trying to stabilize Shiria.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
That HTS group is the group that's kind of they're
called Arah al Sham, and that's kind of the dude
who heads this thing up. He part both of al
Qaeda and ISIS, came to solution with both of them,
started this group, and he's pledged that this is going

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to be different in etc. You've got too many people
that want to run everything there. And he's saying all
the right things, but the reality is he's not been
a mind. All Right, we got a ten million dollar
bounty on his head, So what does that look like?
Is he going to be able to come back from that?

(07:10):
Because as we all know where, we're going to be
a hunting that's for damn sure.

Speaker 5 (07:16):
Well, I think right now, we've got troops in the area,
it makes sense to keep them there. That gives us intelligence,
It gives us a little bit of leverage in there
to deal with Turkey and others in Iraq. We want
the rack to be a stable as all as goes here.
We're protecting Jordan, and of course we've got our relationship
with Israel. Levanon, of course, used to be under Ottoman

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rule one hundred and some odd years ago, so they
won't be too happy about this. They're happy to have
maybe a sod gone. His village is sort of an
orphan now, cut off from its easy access to Iran
and probably from a lot of Iranian support. But Lebanon

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doesn't want to be under Turkey's domain right now. So
there's going to be a lot of tensions in this area,
and these tensions lead to war, and so if the
United States can help dampen these tensions prevent conflict, it's
good for everybody.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Yeah, good luck with that. Turkey is a big player
in this, and so is Israel. So Israel took over
a buffer zone already in Syria. They were part of
bombing Damascus. We launched seventy five missiles at Isis even
though they were trying to head down and be a
part of this. But Turkey is everybody's gonna be looking

(08:38):
at Turkey. What are you going to do?

Speaker 5 (08:40):
Of course, Turkey also has its own issues because it
has issues with the Kurds, and so there are allies.
So right now we are apparently communicating through Turkey to
the HTS. Not surprising because I think President Erduwan had
a lot to do with all of this. But now

(09:01):
the hard part comes, the hard part, which is to
put Syria together and stop the recrimination, to stop the
murder that's going on. You've got Christians in there, You've
got alloys, You've got Drew's as well as the Sunnis,
who are really the leaders in something like HTS.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Yeah, good luck with that. This is going to be
a hot mess with everybody. This thing's going to be.
It's going to be the Middle East version of what
Haiti is. That's my prediction. Warlords think of a new Afghanistan. Ah,
what a freaking nightmare? Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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(09:40):
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Donald Trump was on Meet the Press. That's right. Got
all kinds of questions from Kristen Welker, Lots of stuff
about deportation, lots of stuff about immigration.

Speaker 6 (09:59):
Is it your plan to deport everyone who is here
illegally over the next four years?

Speaker 7 (10:04):
Well, I think you have to do it.

Speaker 8 (10:05):
It's a very tough thing to do, but you have
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Speaker 7 (10:10):
They came in illegally.

Speaker 9 (10:11):
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Speaker 8 (10:11):
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Speaker 2 (10:29):
In for murder seems pretty fair. He's right about all
those poor people that spend tens of thousands of dollars
wait a decade plus to hopefully get picked randomly to
come to our country, and everybody else jumps into the
front of the line, and we're supposed to say, wow,
that's okay.

Speaker 10 (10:47):
Wrong.

Speaker 6 (10:49):
You raise the point that the logistics are complicated, you
say to yourself, but everything's gone. Yeah, I mean you
need twenty four times more iced attention capacity just to
deport one million people per year, not to mention more agents,
more judges, more planes. Is it realistic to deport everyone
who's Jewish?

Speaker 8 (11:06):
First of all, they're costing us a fortune. But we're
starting with the criminals and we got to do it,
and then we're starting with others, and we're going to
see how it goes. The others others are other people
outside of criminals.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I think those are the people that have gotten their
orders to go and they haven't been gone, if that
makes sense, order for removal. So this is going to
be interesting to see. I thought he did. I mean,
he did great. She does what she does? Talk a
little bit more about this, and obviously the CEO. The
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Speaking of winning, money will be huge. It will be
massive the amount of money coming in to college football's playoffs.
So yesterday the final playoff teams were announced, So this
is this is it and everybody was wonning could Alabama

(14:28):
get in? Could Alabama sneak in? Could Alabama be a
part of this even though they lost three games? But
look at their record when it comes to teams they played,
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their strength of schedule, et cetera, et cetera. Well, ladies
and gentlemen, did they get in.

Speaker 11 (14:46):
But you got to choose one of them, and they're
going to get criticism either way. To take on Penn
State and the final spot and the college Football.

Speaker 2 (14:54):
Playoff, who is it?

Speaker 11 (14:58):
The SMU mustang hold on to that final spot and
edge out Alabama, So it will be SMU and Penn
State as the ACC gets the last two spots in
terms of seeding and they get the last at large spot.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
So this is huge. So here we go breaking down
the college football playoffs. The great thing is home games.
For the first time ever, it's a playoff twelve teams
and those first playoff games will be home games. Four
teams have buys, so Tennessee host Ohio State three two, three, five,

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Texas host Clemson, Notre Dame hosts Indiana and SMU heads
to take on the Nitney line in Penn State. Four
teams at buys the surprise of the bunch. Maybe Arizona State,

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Oregon number one ranked team, Georgia and Boise State. How
awesome is this going to be? With all the college
football craziness and NFL craziness going on and the world
catching on fire. Santa Claus decided to visit the Mets
and Juan Soto early this year because they signed arguably
the best player in baseball not named Shoheo Tani to

(16:26):
a record contract, big time and he goes from being
a Yankee to a Met for a lot of money.

Speaker 12 (16:34):
The Mets weren't that much at a different place, Scott
than the New York Yankees were. The Yankees had a
seven hundred and sixty million dollar offer, only five million
dollars less spread out over sixteen years, so it wasn't
a huge demonstrable difference.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
In the end.

Speaker 12 (16:50):
I think Juan Soto looked at the New York Mets
future and looked at the New York Yankees future and
believed that the Mets have a better future than the Yankees,
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Speaker 2 (17:01):
Yeah, super wild. So his contract now, choeo Tani's contract
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million over ten years. This guy got seven hundred and
sixty five over fifteen average about fifty one million. It's
good money if you can get it. That's right, seven
hundred and sixty five million dollars. Oh what three two, three, five,

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much stuff to get to. More on Syria, more on
the CEO and the shooting there, more on Trump and
his interview yesterday with Meet the Press. It is the Chad.

Speaker 13 (17:38):
Benson, jow Son, Chad Benson, Joe, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 14 (18:03):
And it really says something about America that a guy
was murdered in cold blood. And the two main reactions were, yeah, well,
healthcare stinks and also girl that shoot her hot.

Speaker 15 (18:14):
Well say that they were able to get the smiling
picture of a suspect after the man apparently was caught
on camera at a local hostel flirting with a female
employee whose name has been reported as Lucky, asked becalive.

Speaker 2 (18:26):
I told you guys last week they were going to
turn them into a folk hero. I told you guys
that the look is gonna be the first trap. They
were going to turn him into a folk hero because
everybody hates insurance companies and the frustration with insurance companies
and the nightmare that has been the cost of insurance,
the rising cost, the continual rise of cost of insurance,

(18:46):
the frustration of being turned out over and over for something.
There is no sympathy for insurance companies and people that
look at a guy that's worth tens of millions of dollars,
seems to have it all the face of evil when
it comes to the insurance companies and what's wrong with
this country and him being shot, nobody feels sorry for they.

(19:08):
Don't you knew the minuy. You saw the guy's face.
I'm like, that's Jake Jillenhall. This guy's going to be
a hero. He's going to be a hero.

Speaker 16 (19:15):
Now.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
There's all kinds of conspiracies out there that insider trading
was one of the things, and that they're coming after him,
and somebody else wanted him dead from another company. You've
got all of that stuff. But there's no doubt this
has started a conversation in this country about healthcare. But
the way that they're looking at this guy that has
killed this guy is he's a hero, right. He's a

(19:38):
hero for everybody. People that have been absolutely screwed by
the insurance companies, people that have been destroyed by the
insurance companies. People have been left out dangling out there
with no treatment, treatment being denied left, right and center,
sometimes for the smallest thing, the expense. This guy is
the poster child of robin Hood and the guy he

(20:00):
killed is the poster child for evil, and no one cares.

Speaker 17 (20:05):
At this point, everyone has heard about the assassination of
United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. That in itself is unprecedented.
What is equally unprecedented is how much people don't care.
I have yet to see anyone online posting saying, we
got to find this guy, we got to get him
off the street. I have, however, seen people making an argument,

(20:25):
doing the hear me out thing, women talking about how
attractive he is, people calling him Robinhood, people quite literally
making fan art. And I don't think it's that difficult
to figure out.

Speaker 2 (20:36):
Why, because it's a class thing. First of all, made
a lot of money, because whenever you hear somebody bring
it up, it's always about a lot of money. This
guy made a lot of money. He made ten million,
he made twelve it's that and the fact that he
denies treatment. And now what you're seeing is doctors posting
stuff of United Healthcare and how they denied treatment, everything

(20:57):
from nausea pills for a child who is going through
chemotherapy to just about anything else. There are hundreds and
hundreds of these all over the interwebs now of how
bad United health Care is.

Speaker 17 (21:10):
I don't think there's a single person in this country
who hasn't themselves or had someone very very near and
dear to them, suffer from the absolutely abysmal thing that
is privatized health care in this country. People every day
are denied for the most ridiculous reasons, sometimes even though
they should be a given care, just denied to deny

(21:31):
them in the hopes that they will die before they
can actually get the services that they have paid for.

Speaker 2 (21:38):
It's hard to argue with that. It is I hate
to break it to a lot of people out there
that love privatize healthcare, and a lot of that you
can blame someone on Obamacare because I remember the same
people that the people on the left and the people
who want socialized medicine to be a thing. Those people
out there forget that is the government that will allowed

(22:00):
them to craft this nightmare. And I'm going to go
over what it's like to be in socialized medicine, having
been through it myself, what it was like. Are there bad? Absolutely?
Is there some good?

Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (22:17):
There is not gonna lie to you.

Speaker 17 (22:19):
About that saying I'm not saying he should have done it.
I'm just saying I understand. I can certainly understand why
someone could be driven to do something like that, but
also I can't condone it because it doesn't accomplish anything.
It doesn't address the problem that is the American healthcare
system and how it is privatized for profit. Privatized healthcare

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is a lot like the hydra and to me, killing
the CEO is a lot like cutting one of their
heads off. It does nothing, but it's a big ask
if you want people to feel sorry for a person
who directly or indirectly contributed to the death of so
many in the name of lining the pockets of shareholders.

Speaker 2 (23:00):
Because remember, once a company goes public, you are no
longer about putting the customer number one. You're about putting
a shareholders number one. Those are your customers now, and
that means doing everything you can to run the margins
when it comes to your outlay on a monthly basis,

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as thin as possible, and to maximize every opportunity. So
this guy, he's a hero for some he's not a
hero though he's not. He's a cold blooded murder and
while in his mind he may have And see, the

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thing is, as everybody builds this guy up to be
this hero, the fact is we don't know anything about it.
Could he be getting revenge for a loved one who's lost, Yes,
but doesn't make it right. Could he be a guy
that's a hit man theory, it's possible. Or could it
just be somebody who hates the insurance industry and thought,

(24:05):
you know what, I'm going to show them? Yeah, all
of those things are possible, doesn't make it right. It
started a conversation, and as I said last week in
a video, I can understand we're going to get deeper
into this over the next couple hours because it is
something to talk about the insurance industry, the nightmare that

(24:25):
is the insurance industry. How Obamacare played a big role
into this, but how we've got an insurance industry that's
absolutely broken and a government that plays along with it
because they're just as much in cahoots as everybody else.
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
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to program. Meanwhile, over the weekend, Trump, who is now

(24:50):
President elect, sat down with Kristin Welker for whatever reason
to talk about all kinds of things when it comes
to his presidency. What about the inauguration? Is it going
to be about hate and division or love and kindness
and coming together?

Speaker 6 (25:05):
Let me ask you, sir, as you think about your inauguration.
I remember your first inaugural address you talked about American carnage.

Speaker 1 (25:14):
Have you thought about your.

Speaker 6 (25:15):
Message for your second inaugural address?

Speaker 7 (25:18):
I have Could you give us a preview. We're going
to have a message you will make you happy. Unity.

Speaker 8 (25:22):
It's going to be a message of unity. And again,
I think success brings unity.

Speaker 7 (25:26):
And I've experienced that. I've experienced in my first term.

Speaker 8 (25:29):
As I said, we're going to be talking about unity,
and we're going to be talking about success, making our
country safe, keeping people that shouldn't be in our country.

Speaker 7 (25:39):
Yet we have to do that.

Speaker 8 (25:40):
I know it doesn't sound nice, but we have to
do that. But basically it's going to be about bringing
our country together.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
Bringing the country together. I don't think Trump can bring
the country together. And I don't think if Calm a
lit it on, she was gonna bring the country together.
Just is it going to happen at this moment in time,
not the way that people think.

Speaker 18 (26:00):
Now.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
One thing is for sure, what Trump can do is
silence the critics, which means does his thing success is there,
gets control of the border, prices come down, the economy
stay strong, calm down the hell and craziness that's going

(26:21):
on throughout the world. That will shut some people up.
That will, But then everybody's like, well what about the retrick,
Because that's everybody's worried about the retribution. Oh my god,
it's all about the retribution. Trump's coming for everybody. He's
gonna cut for everybody. He's gonna kill everybody. He's gonna
everybody arrested and shot. Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (26:38):
To the people who say, you're now directing your Justice
department to investigate twenty twenty and they want to move,
he is going to be precious resources.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Is that what you're to do?

Speaker 8 (26:48):
I have the right to do that, but I'm not
interested in that. You're not wanting I'm not interested. I
have the absolute right. I'm the chief law enforcement officer.

Speaker 16 (26:56):
You do know that.

Speaker 8 (26:57):
I'm the president. I'm the But I'm not interested in that.
Do you know what I'm interested in? Drilling and getting
prices down and stopping people from pouring into our border
that come from prisons and mental institution.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Well, that sounds like a good thing. I'm okay with that.
Getting low hanging fruit. Hit that over and over again.
That matters. Get that low hanging fruit, which is absolutely immigration, immigration, border, immigration,
and then yes, prices. His big first thing outside of immigration,

(27:34):
I think is going to be Ukraine and the stopping
of that, which, oddly enough, the Left is kind of
having to go, well, it looks like it's going to happen. Well,
why didn't happen with Biden? Is that curious? Well, that
didn't happen with Biden. I've said I don't think he
would have invaded had Trump still been president. I don't

(27:58):
think he would have. I'd say the same thing about
Israel and what would have happened there. But I'll tell
you what, that's going to be a big kicker in
the grundle to the left out there is going to see, man,
he is stopping stuff on day one, he was kind
of right. The left will come up with some bizarre reasons.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
Eh.

Speaker 2 (28:14):
We're gonna get into more of what he had to
say over the next couple hours, including the pardons and
stuff like that's always a big thing. And yes, mora
on immigration as well. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Fronting with Scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 2 (29:58):
Say, every year during the Halloween period we do the
top thirteen scariest movies of all time, and this year
I decide, let's expand some of that, have some fun
with other things. So this year I said, let's do
a countdown top five greatest Christmas songs of all time,
and then we'll do the top five greatest Christmas Movies

(30:20):
of all time. So we started counting down the top
five greatest Christmas songs the other day. We got through
five and four and we're on now to what I
guess that would be number three.

Speaker 19 (30:37):
Very Christmas, it's time for the Great Christmas countdown the
five greatest Christmas Songs of all time.

Speaker 2 (30:50):
Number three. Number three comes to us forty years ago.
Last week. It was really forty years ago. God Time Flies,
a duo out of England that's meteoric rise to fame

(31:14):
was crazy. Over the space of about two and a
half three years. There was no group on Earth as
big as them, and as fast as they showed up,
they were going several number one hits. But they thought

(31:35):
to themselves, we can't do this forever, and they wanted
to go out on top. But before they did, they
did a Christmas song and a Christmas song that we
all know and we all love, all kits A little wham.

Speaker 1 (32:07):
Yest Christmas, I give you my Heart.

Speaker 16 (32:12):
Next day you give it.

Speaker 20 (32:14):
Away to stab it Bodies songs. Yes, Christmas, I gave
you my Heart.

Speaker 2 (32:28):
This was forty years ago that this song debut. Oddly enough,
it never made it to number one until a few
years ago with the release of the movie Last Christmas.
They knew they had a massive hit on their hands.
The problem is when you release it, you gotta be
wary of what is potentially going to be released along

(32:49):
with it.

Speaker 9 (32:49):
I knew I had this Christmas song which I was
confident by then would be number one, And of course
it never happened because it was the biggest selling number
two record of all time in the UK because of band.

Speaker 7 (33:01):
Aid, Armanda Divine Christmas.

Speaker 16 (33:03):
So I got it wrong that year.

Speaker 9 (33:04):
But I never dreamed. I never dreamed it would be
played as much as it is now.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
That's right, band Aid came out. We're going to do
a special about band Aid as it also celebrates his
fortieth anniversary. A song that we all know and love.
But years ago I brought up, how bizarre is it
that we sing a song like this? He knew though,
so when they brought band Aid together, he was still
only what twenty twenty one, and he was asked about

(33:34):
what was going on with band Aid? What do you
think of it? Because they're all in there. The new
documentary is out, and he knew that that that this
was going to keep his song from being number one.

Speaker 16 (33:43):
Song's really catchy.

Speaker 9 (33:44):
It's a major threat to our major threat to our
fourth number one.

Speaker 16 (33:48):
Your fourth number?

Speaker 1 (33:49):
What's your next single?

Speaker 16 (33:50):
It's called Last Christmas?

Speaker 1 (33:52):
Is it very christmasy? I can't ask you to sing
a bass You'll get mortified.

Speaker 16 (33:58):
You can't be singing ask a little bit.

Speaker 21 (34:04):
Last Christmas. I gave you my home, but the very
next thing you gave it away.

Speaker 16 (34:10):
I'm not giving you any Oh that was good girl friends.

Speaker 2 (34:13):
George Sign Oh, Paula. If only you knew? The song
was a major hit and staple throughout Christmas and continues
to be so. It finally got to number one, unfortunately
no longer, with us dying on Christmas Days a few
years ago, but it did make it to number one,
and the movie Last Christmas came out and it finally

(34:37):
landed at number one, but it is one of those
songs that everybody loves to sing, and of course whare
m Ageddon, which is the minute you hear it, you're
out right. So people try to avoid the song throughout
the holidays, whether they're at a bar or whether they're
out shopping, it is hard to avoid this song. Last

(35:00):
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Speaker 22 (35:45):
One of the pairs of ruby slipper is worn by
Judy Garland.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
And the Wizard of Oz.

Speaker 22 (35:49):
This pair is stolen from a Minnesota museum and recovered
in an FBI sting has sold in a Dallas auction
for twenty eight million dollars. Online bidding, which opened last month,
stood at just over one and a half million before
live bidding began late Saturday afternoon. Heritage Auctions says the
previous record for a piece of entertainment memorabilia it was
five and a half million for the white dress Marilyn

(36:10):
Monroe wore atop the Windy Subway.

Speaker 16 (36:12):
Great, what do you do with that?

Speaker 2 (36:14):
You invite your friends over? Hey, you guys want to
come over and see me at Ruby Slippers three two
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Speaker 1 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
The Fall of a brutal, brutal dictator as bad as
Pops fifty years of rain, Rain no More.

Speaker 23 (37:01):
Hashah Lassad inherited power from his father Hafez in two thousand.
A London educated eye doctor, he was the respectable face
of a new Syria.

Speaker 19 (37:09):
World.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Leaders rushed to work with.

Speaker 23 (37:11):
Vogue even called his glamorous wife Asthma arose in the desert,
but as soon as he was challenged, he crushed the
twenty eleven protest movement, killing hundreds of thousands. Then President
Obama said use of chemical weapons would be a red line,
but Asad crossed it and the chaos that followed allowed
terror group ISIS to seize territory and launch attacks against
the West.

Speaker 2 (37:31):
Yes, now he's in Moscow. So not only did he
get the post, he's out gone. You look and you go,
oh my god, Russia, another L for you, Iran, another
L for you. Weakened portions of the access of a holes,
There's no doubt about that. But now comes the realization that,

(37:55):
oh my god, what an absolute nightmare.

Speaker 24 (37:59):
Of this guy was Syrians a false discovering the truth
of the Assad regime. Underground prisons full of women and children.
Don't be afraid, young man says to this woman found
in an underground prison, he finds a child alongside her.

Speaker 2 (38:15):
Yeah, there's people that have been in there for decades.
In some of these places. The brutality of him propped
up by the Russians is definitely war crime stuff. And
he's in Moscow with tons of apartments. He's in Moscow

(38:40):
with about two billion dollars. He's never gonna have to
worry about anything because, much like the likes of Ediamine,
he will die in a lap of luxury unless something
happens in Moscow where there is a change of leadership
and they decide to exile him, which I don't think

(39:01):
is going to happen anytime soon. But this is an
embarrassment for Moscow. This is an absolute embarrassment. You've now
lost port that you needed, a warm water port. You've
lost billions of dollars. You've seen somebody who tried to
prop up just essentially get run out of town by

(39:24):
a bunch of groups who don't like each other but
had one common goal and one common hate, which, by
the way, is the strongest things that bind people. If
you're ever gonna get married to somebody, it's not the
things you love that will keep you together. It's the
thing you hate. And for this group of people, their

(39:44):
hatred of him caused them to have should we say
this strange bedfellows. So you had the Kourds over here,
you had isis and isis the line groups you had
the group that's kind of running everything with this guy
at one time was part of Al Nustra and at
one time he's part of ISIS. Now he's part of

(40:06):
this other group, and he led the charge. You had
Turkish groups, you had Israeli and US and Western groups.
This was a mixture of people that would never literally
be caught dead in the same room together together to

(40:28):
oust him and in doing so, another embarrassment for Putin
and Iraan and now a hornet's nest because this is
going to be absolutely ugly because who's going to run
this country? And this country? I said it last year,
I'll say it again, it is now the because you

(40:48):
go look at Yemen, it's an absolute dumpster fire. Lebanon
portions of it were a nightmare because of Hesblah Gaza.
Absolutely uh hotspot and nightmare. But you know what, Syria
is about to jump all of those. You have too

(41:09):
many groups that can't stand each other that now that
their mission is done, they're all looking around going okay,
now what and who gets to run it? Who gets
to say in it? Turkey is gonna have a big
say in this. Iran you're done. Sorry, another weakened situation
for you. So you've had your ass handed to you
with the hooties, hesblah and hamas and now you've seen

(41:36):
this go sideways, it is gonna be Akay, it's a
hornet's nest, is what I'm trying to say. And a
little bit of Saigon if you will, for the pooter,
which doesn't help you as you go into negotiations. Now
for what's gonna go on with Ukraine three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four, twenty three at Chad Benson Show.
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(41:58):
in New York.

Speaker 25 (41:58):
City, Healthcare is declining to answer questions posed by ABC News,
including whether the company has offered to contribute to the
reward money for information leading to an arrest. Detectives are
optimistic they're closing in, but heading in now to a
sixth day of searching, they still do not have an
identity of the suspect or anyone in custody.

Speaker 2 (42:18):
Interestingly enough, there are reports that they know who he is,
but they're not saying who he is because they don't
want to give him a sense that, Okay, they've got
him and he's going to start to panic and do something.
It is a distinctive weapon.

Speaker 25 (42:36):
They think it may be a veterinary type gun used
on ranches and farms to put down an animal because
it can fire a quiet shot with that long barrel.
They don't think it had a separate screwed in silencer.
The magazine is in the grip. It's bolt action, so
it has to be manually cycled. And he did show
some proficiency with the weapon, so that's.

Speaker 2 (42:54):
Interesting as well. They've been dragging some of the ponds
in Central Park. They found a backpack full of monopoly money.
And while all this is going on, the stearch for
the mysterious Robin Hood continues, while people on the interwebs
celebrate the death of him.

Speaker 26 (43:15):
Far left so called journalists are celebrating the death of
Brian Thompson, a dad, a husband, incredible, including Washington Post
columnist Tayller Lorenz who posted this disgusting piece titled quote
why we want insurance executives dead? And in New York
a tasteless shooter lookalike contest was held mocking and celebrating

(43:39):
the killing.

Speaker 2 (43:40):
Yeah, that happened this weekend. That's the disdain that people
have for the healthcare industry. Absolutely, And I'm gonna tell
you my story a little bit about living in both
private healthcare world and the quote unquote public option. Disgusting
is the.

Speaker 27 (43:57):
Only word to use her they I'll be honest, I
think Colin Joe's Michael Jay. They were just making fun
of what was happening in the media, which it's not
comical by any stretch of the imagination. But they're pulling
real headlines like this is what we're seeing right now,
and listen. I understand the criticism of an imperfect healthcare
system as a physician, I feel the frustration with these
health insurance companies every single day. But a society that's

(44:18):
praising the murder of a father of a husband, that's
a dangerous situation. The answer is certainly not let's criticize,
let's actually remove the private healthcare system, because I assure
you the alternative, government run healthcare, socialized medicine, is not better.

Speaker 2 (44:31):
The answer is to reform, and reform is an absolute must.

Speaker 18 (44:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (44:36):
I have lived in both, and I will tell you
there's benefits to one, benefits to the other. I've said
this for a very long time. If you've got cancer,
you want to be in America. As far as treatments,
I'm not talking about costs or any of that stuff.
I'm just say, if it's treatments you need, this is it.
There's a reason that people come here. There is. There's
a reason that people come here, famous people, people from

(44:58):
all over the world, people with money. There's a re
they come here because they recognize what America has to offer.
If you have to have your appendix out, probably want
to do it in a place like Britain because I
don't know what the bill's going to be. How much
is going to cost in two days day is going
to cost you? How much cross the street it cost you?
This the mystery of the billing, the what is going

(45:21):
to be covered, what isn't going to be covered. There's
a lot of that. If you break your arm, do
it in Britain telling you guys, and I know that
sounds weird, but that's it now. If it's the run
of the mill stuff. If you have to have your
hip done, so reason that people come from Canada down
here to have their hips done because the wait is

(45:45):
too long. It is forever, eighteen months, two years. When
you're in that kind of pain, My god, it's awful.
Knee replacement, same thing, there's no doubt though the cost.
I mean, you go look at our bankrupt sees in
this country. A vast majority of them are medical bankruptcies.
And the surprise billing. I mean, they're worse than Hollywood

(46:07):
when it comes to surprise billing. So when I was
in England, I got sick. I lost a lot of weight,
very very fast, and I was a mess. And I
mean I dropped like twenty pounds in a week, and
I couldn't get in to see somebody. And I'm like,

(46:30):
it's just easier to fly to America to go see
somebody comparatively to here. It was a bit of a nightmare.
Now that sounds like, yeah, that is a nightmare. It
absolutely is a nightmare. And again, if it's an emergency,
it's a totally different thing. They thought maybe it was
just a stomach bug or something like that, and that's

(46:51):
what it ended up being. But I lost so much weight,
and part of that was because I was playing soccer,
wasn't eating, doing all these kind of things. So I
learned over there, Okay, you got to have almost find
a way to have some privatized to back yourself up.
But I'll say this cost over here told you guys
this last week, tell you again, the cost for insurance

(47:14):
for my family up until this next year coming was
costing me enough to buy about a five or six
hundred thousand dollars home mortgage payment. And we still had
concierge medicine, meaning we paid a doctor a separate fee
where he doesn't take insurance so we could have access

(47:37):
because we couldn't get access with ours. It's just not
you know, just good luck. So the frustration, I think
everybody understands the way that this guy went about it.
Are there good things with socialized medicine? If it is
a broken arm and appendix stuff like that, yeah, you

(47:59):
could see how it is. If it's something bigger, No,
But when it comes to the cost, by the way,
as much and as high price as stuff is in
parts of Europe in other places, we start breaking down
our stuff through state tax, local tax, all that stuff.
It's not too much different. It really isn't. But do

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Speaker 8 (49:49):
Chad Benson groceries. I want on two things, the border
and more than immigration. You know, they'd like to say immigration.
I break it down more to the border. But I
want on the border and I want on groceries. It's
very simple word, groceries. I started using the word the groceries.

Speaker 7 (50:05):
When you buy.

Speaker 8 (50:05):
Apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs. They
would double and triple the price over a short period
of time. And I won an election based on that.
We're going to bring those prices way down.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Groceries. I'm still trying to figure out why he went
on Meet the Press, but he did. Trump played some
of it throughout the day. That was a good interview.
She's what she is, Kristen Welker, and Trump handled himself
quite well, so it was interesting a lot of it.
She was trying to get you other gotcha moments. You're

(50:39):
gonna barn January sixth, people, are you gonna do this?
You're gonna pardon yourself. He just said it right there
at the end of the day. Groceries. I won on groceries.
One of the things he's going to have to do
coming out potentially is make a decision on the tick.

Speaker 1 (50:53):
And the talk barring the sale.

Speaker 28 (50:56):
The law makes it illegal after January nineteenth to allow
for TikTok to be offered in the Google or Apple
app stores, for instance. The law also makes it illegal
for any company to provide hosting services for TikTok, think
of cloud storage and other kinds of back end support.
Trump's Justice Department could decide it's going to look the
other way and not enforce this law. But the firms

(51:16):
in question would have to decide whether it's worth the
risk to them of running a foul of the law.
It's a pretty big bet.

Speaker 2 (51:21):
Yeah, So court again this past week doing everything they
can to try to stop it, forcing the sale of
byte Edance and TikTok or else bye bye.

Speaker 28 (51:32):
The judges here cited China's quote hybrid commercial threat to
US national security. They cited Beijing's established practice of gathering
data on Americans, and the judges deferred to the government's
concerns that China could order byte Dance to use TikTok's
algorithm to influence American politics, which it's already doing.

Speaker 2 (51:53):
But everybody argued, but it's going to take away free speech.
That was never ever the argument. This is an about
what goes on on there in the free speech, and
that's their argument they were kind of making. You're taking
away an opportunity to have a voice here, But there
are other places you can go have voices.

Speaker 28 (52:10):
The government isn't saying that it prefers certain speech on
TikTok and disfavors other speech and is making a decision
as to what kind of things people can say on TikTok.

Speaker 2 (52:18):
three at Chad Benson's show, is Your Twitter Tweet at
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Speaker 28 (52:26):
Show viewpoint discrimination, that's not what's going on here. There's
no right to use a particular foreign owned app, especially
when Congress and the White House have come to the
conclusion that there are national security concerns with that app.

Speaker 2 (52:44):
What do you think the likes of Instagram and Facebook
and YouTube are pulling forth just out of curiosity? Of
course they're pulling for it. Make it go away, make
it go away, make it go away. So they want
be great. Why would it be great? Because then you'd
have an absolutely captive audience that's going to looking for

(53:05):
places to do their content. So if you go on TikTok,
now all of the big people are saying, go find
me on Instagram, Go find me on Twitter, go find
me on YouTube, find me on fate, wherever. Go there,
because their thought is in the next month or two
that this is gonna go out. It's possibility. I don't

(53:28):
know if that's gonna happen or not. I don't know
what it's gonna look like. And I don't know how
big of a deal this is at this moment in
time with Trump and all the other things like immigration,
which was a big part of yesterday's conversation with Kristen Welker.
So how big of a deal is it? Well, it
should be because it's China. It's a much bigger deal

(53:48):
because it's China. If it wasn't China, I don't think
it'd be as big of a deal. But it's a
bigger deal than nothing. But it's not the top priority
for Trump. I'm the top priority. If you listened yesterday
to any of that interview is simple. It's the border,
the border, the border, the border, the border, the border.
With some groceries got through the groceries in there again,

(54:09):
because that's also why he won three two, three, five,
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Speaker 1 (54:16):
Show, Son, Chad Benson Shoe, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:42):
As we talk about Syria and the downfall of Syria
and the nightmare that is the Middle East, Bill Clinton
is reminiscing about the opportunity when Arafat said, now.

Speaker 29 (54:55):
Look, God, think what's happened there in the last twenty
five years. It is one of the great tragedies of
the twenty first century. When I tell the young people,
let's say they're super sympathetic with the Palestinians, and all
they know is fell a lot more Palathinians have been
killed than Israelis. And I tell them what Erafat walked
away from, and they like, can't believe it. I said, oh, yeah,

(55:17):
he walked away from a Palinstintian state with a capital
in East Jerusalem.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
Of course he did. Because it was never about getting
the things that everybody said they wanted. It for Erafat
and everybody else, it was about power, and it was
about being able to hate the Jews. And I think
the young kids don't understand that.

Speaker 29 (55:34):
Ninety six percent of the West Bank four percent of
Israel to make up for the four percent that the
settler was occupied that were beyond the borders in the
sixty seven war. And I go through all the stuff
that was in the deal, and it's not on their
radar screen. They can't even imagine that that happened. You
walk away from these once in a lifetime peace opportunities

(55:56):
and you can't complain twenty five years later, when the
doors weren't all still open and all the possibilities weren't
still there.

Speaker 2 (56:03):
You can't do it. It's just your voice just cracked
when you said that.

Speaker 7 (56:06):
Yeah, I'm an old guy. I have my regrets. That's
one of them.

Speaker 2 (56:10):
By the way, I think he has mentioned this on
numerous occasions, Glinton, this was his biggest regret, I think,
as far as trying to get a deal done or
doing anything on the political side. I'm not talking about
you know what I'm talking about on the other political side. No,
I'm talking about this was the biggest swing and miss,
and it wasn't him. I mean, he got Israel to

(56:31):
agree to all of this stuff, but it's never about that.
And that's why twenty five years on, it's still a
hot mess thro out there case in point Ce Syria
and the nightmare that it is and what it's going
to be in the coming days, weeks, months, and years.
Because if you think this thing's going to be settled,
then everybody's going to go do their own thing. You
were wrong. Turkey's gonna have a hand, There's going to
be all kinds of splinter groups. Isis is going to
start to do its thing again. How are we going

(56:52):
to be dragged into this? I believe it is going
to be an absolute effing nightmare and chaos is going
to con assume that area and what happens with Iran
and Israel and Jim I meany cricket, what a freaking
nightmare of that place is. Speaking of nightmares, the left
is still bemoaning the loss of this last election.

Speaker 18 (57:14):
President Biden, so he said, I'd never pardon a kid, Okay,
I don't believe. I don't believe any when anybody says
I never had sex with that person, I'd never pardon
my kid. I don't pay any attention to it because
I think everybody lies about sex, and everybody is going
to do whatever they're going to do with elln Choldren.
But the different scenario would be if he would have

(57:35):
in September of twenty twenty three in August said that
he wasn't going to run.

Speaker 2 (57:41):
God, we would have won this election. Settled down there, James,
James Carvel still pissed about this. I don't know if
you would have, gonna be honest with now, would you
have had a better chance?

Speaker 7 (57:51):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (57:51):
Absolutely. I mean there was mistake after mistake after mistake
in the way that the campaign handled so much, and
the Democrats handled a lot, and the powers to be
behind the scenes who pushed all the buttons, who drove
the knife into to Biden, handled a lot of this stuff.
But there is no doubt it would have been probably
a closer thing. But that still do you still have

(58:14):
to think about inflation, the chaos around the globe, etc.
It wasn't just if we got somebody else that was
going to be a smooth and easy win. Do I
think it might have been closer, Yes.

Speaker 18 (58:25):
And it wouldn't have been that close because we'd have
had so many freaking talented people that were running and
he would be sitting here right now, getting ready to
leave on a high note. It would be naming commissions
to figure out what we're going to name after him.
He would be the toast of Washington. It would be
a Democratic inauguration coming up. Then a new Democratic president

(58:49):
could have sort of gotten away with commutant in a sentence.
It didn't have to be this way. He bought it
all on himself, Joe Biden if and will continue to
be the most tragic figure in modern American politics.

Speaker 7 (59:06):
I don't think there's any doubt.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
About that, Kenn He brought it on himself. There's no doubt.
Thought you were going to be here for one, you
decided to go for two. Once that happened, and then
they pushed you out, you decided, well, you know, I'm
not going to do anything to help her. You guys
hurt me. So let's see what I can do to
well not help you, and maybe throw some roadblocks up.
There's no doubt these books that'll be written in the

(59:28):
coming years are going to be very interesting. Speaking of
the person who did win yesterday, the President elect Trump
on with Krista Welker on the Press.

Speaker 6 (59:37):
You are now proposing tariffs against the United States three
biggest trading partners. Economists of all stripes say that ultimately
consumers pay the price of terrorists.

Speaker 7 (59:48):
I don't believe.

Speaker 6 (59:49):
Can you guarantee American families won't pay more.

Speaker 7 (59:51):
I can't guarantee anything. I can't guarantee tomorrow.

Speaker 8 (59:54):
But I can say that if you look at my
just pre COVID, we had the greatest economy in the
history of and I had a lot of tariffs on
a lot of different countries, but in particular China. We
took in hundreds of billions of dollars and we had
no inflation.

Speaker 2 (01:00:10):
Well, we didn't have any inflation. It was definitely very low.
Our interest rates were low. The economy was pretty damn good.
We can argue whether that was the greatest economy of
all time, but it was up there, There's no doubt
about that. And he had put stuff on to China,
which by the way, Biden kept and increased. But now
you're talking about places like Mexico, and look, there's no doubt.

(01:00:33):
It's where the tariffs are and how long they last
because they're negotiating point, that's what they are. You use
tariffs to negotiate and if we don't produce it, we
don't tarif it. If we do produce it and you
won't let us sell in your country, well then there's
going to be issues.

Speaker 8 (01:00:51):
In fact, when I handed it over, they didn't have
inflation for a year and a half.

Speaker 7 (01:00:57):
They won almost two years.

Speaker 8 (01:00:59):
Just face on what I had created, and then they
created inflation with energy and with spending too much. So
I think we will. I'm a big believer in tariff's.
I think tariffs are the most beautiful word. I think
they're beautiful. It's going to make us rich. We're subsidizing
Canada to the tune of over one hundred billion dollars
a year. We're subsidizing Mexico for almost three hundred billion dollars.

(01:01:24):
We shouldn't be supset. Why are we subsidizing these countries.
If we're going to subsidize them, let her become a state.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
He's really big into that, he really was. He said
the other day, why not just let Canada fifty first,
Mexico fifty second. Let's just do that. There you go,
we got that going on. Huh, who's with us? So
funny on?

Speaker 21 (01:01:46):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:01:47):
The way he handles like, let's just what's can we
do it?

Speaker 15 (01:01:50):
Let's just do it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:52):
I think he's kidding, but he's kind of not kidding.
It's one of those things where like I'm totally kidding.
But if they said yes, I'm not saying.

Speaker 21 (01:01:59):
No, sir.

Speaker 6 (01:02:00):
Your previous tariffs during your first administration cost Americans some
eighty billion dollars, and now you have major companies from Walmart, Blackendecker,
AutoZone saying that any tariffs are going to force them
to drive up prices for their consumers. How do you
make sure that these CEOs that these companies don't in

(01:02:21):
fact pass on the cost of tariffs to their consumers.

Speaker 8 (01:02:24):
They cost Americans nothing. They made a great economy for us.
They also solve another problem if we were going to
have problems having to do with wars and having to
do with other things tariffs. I have stopped wars with
tariffs by saying, you guys want to fight, it's great,
but both of you are going to pay tariffs to
the United States at one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
He loves tariffs. Look, there's no doubt tariffs are going
to cost us, and that's just the reality of it.
The question is, and what he's betting on is I
can outlast you out last year. You want to sell
your goods here, but you're gonna hurt our people trying
to sell goods there. Well, then you're going to pay
a price. You want to move your jobs there because

(01:03:08):
it's much cheaper. Well, guess what, now you're going to
pay a price. Those are the things that he is
pushing for. Is it understandable? Yes? Do I think they
are a ploy to get better deals? Of course they are.
Are some of them for punishment? Yeah, there's no doubt
about that. And will it cost us more? Of course

(01:03:30):
it will, But it really depends on what it is
that they're terrific. Remember some of the stuff he's looking at,
we don't make here, so he's not gonna terriff it.
So some of the stuff though, it's not just about
the product and the country. It's also about the jobs
in America that may leave and go elsewhere. Remember what
happened with John Deere. Want to move all those jobs

(01:03:51):
in Mexico. Trump's like, fine, we'll tear if the hell
out of everything. Move those jobs. It's going to cost
more to buy one of your tractors. Now, oh oh well,
maybe that's not a good idea. So there's a lot
to go into this, but like everything else, you've got
to let it play itself out. You know, the last
couple of days, the amount of people that are like

(01:04:11):
Pete Hegzeth and and you know, and and she's a
trader in Tulsi Gavart all this stuff, and I say,
you know, let's give him their time, Let's give him
their shot. Let's put them in front of these committees.
Let's see what they have to say. Let's see how
they come at it and how they handle themselves. Because
the people that you're saying all these things about it's
all anonymous or it's been debunked. And because Trump nominated

(01:04:36):
them automatically they're evil and we know that's not true.
And we know it's tough to listen to the media
because they're full of it, from tariffs to his nominations.
Let's see how they play out before everybody decides to
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Speaker 30 (01:06:00):
Joe.

Speaker 1 (01:06:11):
Irreverence like Yeah, so what it's the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 31 (01:06:17):
Disney's Moana two continues to dominate, leading the box office
for a second weekend with fifty two million dollars, bringing
it to US total to three hundred million dollars in
a staggering six hundred million worldwide. It set a record
for the post Thanksgiving weekends, or passing twenty nineteen to
Frozen two. Disney is the parent company of ABC News.

Speaker 2 (01:06:35):
Wicked Witch of the West is Den.

Speaker 31 (01:06:37):
Wicket held strong in second place with thirty four point
nine million, Gladiator two took third with twelve point five mil.
Red One followed in fourth with seven million, and the
rerelease of Interstellar earned four point four million.

Speaker 7 (01:06:48):
I did know.

Speaker 2 (01:06:49):
Interstellar was rereleased. I will say this about Moana too.
We'll take the kids here probably next week or so
to see it. First of all, the budget was about
the same, a little bit smaller than the first one,
and it's already beaten the numbers. It's how big that is.
And they're working on the live action version of Moana,

(01:07:11):
which will be interesting. I hope it's better than Snow
White and the not seven dwarfs because we don't want
to offend anybody. Speaking of record breaking, it's come to
an end.

Speaker 32 (01:07:25):
The tour started in March of twenty twenty three in Glendale, Arizona,
becoming the highest grossing tour of all time, pulling in
and estimated two point two billion dollars her concerts which
attracted and estimated eleven million fans, with the Federal Reserve
even crediting the megastar with boosting the US economy.

Speaker 2 (01:07:45):
I remember when it started because I was in Glendale.
It was actually in Phoenix at the time, and we
had several friends who went to see the Airis Tour kickoff.
Couple people we know are Swifties and they were pregaming early.
They went there. It was it was look, you can

(01:08:05):
have a distain for all you want. She is a machine.
She's a money printing machine.

Speaker 32 (01:08:13):
Three concerts in Vienna were called off after officials discovered
a plot to launch it at tech at an event
in this city and at several steps.

Speaker 1 (01:08:21):
She performed in Torrental.

Speaker 21 (01:08:22):
Rain Rain Show, an ever rain show.

Speaker 32 (01:08:28):
Some fans traveling in average of three hundred and thirty
eight miles to see her perform, with some diehard Swifties,
saying they flew overseas to see her in Europe because
it was cheaper than attending her concert closer to home.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
People are willing to do that. That shows you the
power that she has, and it pisses a lot of
people off that she got that kind of power. No good, good,
I mean, how long does it last? And didn't last
forever for Michael Jackson or the Beatles although they broke up.
Will it last forever for her?

Speaker 29 (01:08:59):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
I don't think so, because it never does. But right
now she is. There is nobody bigger in music.

Speaker 32 (01:09:07):
During the tour, she was also named Times Person of
the Year and sent NFL viewership skyrocketing, when, of course,
she began dating chief star Travis Kelsey, which, by the way,
I think she made about seventeen million per show, which
is more than Travis.

Speaker 2 (01:09:21):
May per year.

Speaker 7 (01:09:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:22):
Yeah, and his job's harder because he got to get
crushed by their folk. It's how huge. I just want
to anybody understand that the size of the machine that
is Taylor Swift, I mean you're I mean that you
are a You're not not just a brand, You're an

(01:09:45):
industry all to yourself, which is huge speaking of music
and staying with it. So Sean Diddy Combs may have
a person who will also face send music.

Speaker 33 (01:09:59):
What The woman who was identified as Jane Doe in
this amended lawsuit says she was just thirteen at the
time and had wandered into a nearby bedroom when Carter
raped her, followed by Combs. Now jay Z has wasted
no time blasting the attorney who was representing the alleged
victim accusing him of extortion, saying, in part quote, these
allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you

(01:10:22):
to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one. Whoever
would commit such a crime against a minor should be
locked away.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
So he is now jay Z Sean Carter being named
in a lawsuit. This is not a criminal complaint. This
is a lawsuit against him for allegedly being raped by
both him and Sean Combs. So that's.

Speaker 21 (01:10:55):
It is.

Speaker 2 (01:10:56):
You knew there was going to be more, and we've
talked about it. Buzzby, who is the lawyer representing everybody,
said there are several big, big stars that everybody would
know who are at these parties, who are involved in
these situations, who are being told you better pay up

(01:11:16):
or else. So and the fact that Sean Comb's videotaped everything,
had all of this stuff, you wonder what's out there
because remember he has been charged with all kinds of
like the Rico Act and conspiracy. Well, there's not a
conspiracy of one. You've got to conspire with others. And

(01:11:38):
that's what people are still waiting for that other shoe
to drop on who are some of these other people
in this indictment because that hasn't happened yet. Three two, three, five,
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on what's happening in Syria. What does this look like
going forward? The reality is you've got a lot of
people who would like to be leaders, and you and
I both know that doesn't always go that well. The
guy that is heading up everything, it seems to be
the mouthpiece, says he wants to essentially have no revenge.

(01:12:45):
He wants to have, for a lack of a better term,
a little inclusion. But I think we all know that
doesn't happen well, especially in these Middle Eastern countries like Syria.

Speaker 34 (01:12:55):
Talk about that a bunch of other things. You mentioned
the show, grab the podcast. It is the Chad Benson Show.
This is the Chad Benson Show, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:30):
On your mark. It's that drump.

Speaker 6 (01:13:32):
You've tapped Elon musk vivik Ramaswami to head up this
Department of Government Efficiency Correct, which proposes cuts to the
federal government. Think a lot of people hear that and
they get concerned about Medicare and social Security and.

Speaker 7 (01:13:47):
Spending.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
You won't touch Medicare social security.

Speaker 7 (01:13:51):
Okay, No, I said to me.

Speaker 8 (01:13:52):
We're not touching social Security other than we met make
it more efficient.

Speaker 7 (01:13:55):
But the people are going to get what they're.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
Getting, Okay.

Speaker 8 (01:13:57):
So the entitlements and we're not raising and we're not
ages or any of this stuff.

Speaker 16 (01:14:01):
I off that to won do it?

Speaker 2 (01:14:03):
See what is hilarious is I got a couple tweets
this weekend. People can't stand Trump. You know, Chad, you
couldone this. You're you're smarter, you know this stuff like this,
And I say, and one of the things they come
after is they're gonna cut this, They're gonna cut that.
How many times do I have to tell you cutting

(01:14:23):
a programs in efficiency doesn't mean cutting a program's benefits.
So if you've got fifty thousand people that work there,
and out of those fifty thousand, you really only need
twenty two thousand, and they're not efficient, and it's costing
us tens millions, hundreds of millions of dollars, and it's

(01:14:44):
not efficient. Cutting the fat of the people who provide
those benefits. Does it mean that the benefits still aren't
going to be there. But that's the way everybody takes it.
This government inefficiency, which is I mean, that's right, it's
just perfect government inefficiency. That's what it's all about. But
this Department of Government Efficiency is going to go after

(01:15:08):
inefficient things. But the first thing that comes to mind
when especially the left hears this, is they're gonna cut
the program and the benefits are going to go. No, no, no, no,
no no, no, no, no no no. Where can we
trim the fat, trim the fraud, trim the waste. How
do we make it cleaner and meaner and faster better?

(01:15:33):
That's what it's about. No, it's about taking away the benefit.
It's not, but that's the way people take it. So
you can't win for losing. There can trump on Kristin Welker,
not honor. That would oh Chad settle down everybody. They
talked about everything, including Christopher Ray.

Speaker 6 (01:15:52):
Are you going to fire the current FBI director, Christopher Ray,
who you appointed?

Speaker 8 (01:15:56):
Well, I can't say I'm thrilled with him. He invaded
my home, I'm suing the country over it. I'm very
unhappy with the things he's done. And crime isn't an
all time high. Migrants are pouring into the country that
are from prisons and from mental institutions. I don't want
to again, I don't want to be Joe Biden and
give you an answer and then do the exact opera

(01:16:17):
we're going to talk about.

Speaker 2 (01:16:18):
So I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 8 (01:16:19):
What I'm going to say is I certainly cannot be
happy with him. And then when I was shot in
the year, he said, oh, maybe it was shrapnel. Where's
the shrapnel coming from? Is it coming from uh?

Speaker 2 (01:16:29):
Is it coming from heaven? I don't think so, he
is coming from heaven. Continue, sir.

Speaker 7 (01:16:38):
You know I have a lot of.

Speaker 8 (01:16:38):
Respect for the FBI, but the FBI's respect has gone
way down over the last number of years.

Speaker 6 (01:16:44):
Don't you have to fire him in order to make
room for Cash? Putality is in fact confirmed?

Speaker 8 (01:16:49):
Well, I mean it would sort of seem pretty obvious
that if Cash gets in, he's going to be taking
somebody's place, right as somebody is the man that you're
talking about.

Speaker 2 (01:16:57):
Yeah, that's a big gift. We talked about last hour.
A lot of people like what about Tolsie, what about Cash?
What about these people are loyalist? As I've said over
and over again, who are you hiring? Like you're like, hey, guys,
I want you to find a bunch of people that
will do everything they can to destroy my administration. I
want you to find saboteurs. Course, do you think that

(01:17:22):
Majorcis is loyal to Biden? Of course he is. Do
you think that all of the people that are in
these positions, whether it's John carry Or I mean, you
can go on and on for all the people who's
appointed put into positions all of these things. Merrick Garland.
Do you think there's some loyalty there? Of course, of

(01:17:43):
course there is. The difference is the way that the
left puts it is they're loyal to the country first
and they would never do anything to go against the
American people or the Constitution for Biden or Obama or
any of that stuff, where on the other side, anything
that these guys and gals do would automatically be seen

(01:18:05):
as traitorous, which is hilarious. And they've not even got
to the point where they've had to sit down in
front of a committee. They've had individual meetings. But that's it.
That's it. We move on from there to immigration, birthright citizenship.

Speaker 6 (01:18:27):
You've promised to end birthright citizenship on day one. Is
that still your plan?

Speaker 7 (01:18:31):
Yeah? Absolutely.

Speaker 6 (01:18:32):
The fourteenth Amendment though, says that quote all persons born
in the United States are citizens. Can you get around
the fourteenth Amendment with change?

Speaker 8 (01:18:41):
Will maybe have to go back to the people, but
we have to end it with the only country that.

Speaker 6 (01:18:45):
Has it through an executive action.

Speaker 7 (01:18:46):
You're we're the only country that has it.

Speaker 8 (01:18:48):
Do you know if somebody sets a foot, just a foot,
one foot, you don't need to on our land. Congratulations,
you are now a citizen of the United States of America. Yes,
we're going to end that because it's ridiculous.

Speaker 21 (01:19:01):
We have to end it.

Speaker 2 (01:19:03):
By the way, we're not the only country that has it.
Like I said that, we are the only country that's Eh,
we're not the only country that has it. But let's
be real, and you'd like to be part of our country.
Who else has it? Albania and Gola. Again, many of
these countries join uh Barbado, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Proper, Belgian, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil,

(01:19:27):
British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Brakino, Fasso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada,
Cape Verde, and go on and on. But we are
the only country that has it. We're not the only
country that has it. There seems to be a lot
more than that. But yes, of all of the ones

(01:19:48):
that you would want to be a part of, we're
probably it. Not the way you can do it. Also
in Iraq, right citizenship. And if you're feeling jumpy anything,
and I'd like to have a kid somewhere, you could
go to a place like I don't know, Yemen, Venezuela
if you're feeling like it. Just throwing it out there.

(01:20:08):
There's a lot of places, That's all I'm saying, mister President.
I understand what you're trying to say. But yes, are
we the best Germanys in their great bread. But there
is a lot of places still. It's no doubt that
most people aren't traveling to those countries to have children.
Most people aren't you know what they are doing for
a vast majority of those places, they're leaving there to

(01:20:28):
come to a place like America. He moves on along
with Kristen Welker. Two d ortations, Oh, the big D word.

Speaker 6 (01:20:40):
Is it your plan to deport everyone who is here
illegally over the next four years?

Speaker 8 (01:20:45):
Well, I think you have to do it. It's a
very tough thing to do, but you have to have.
You know, you have rules, regulations, law as they came
in illegally. You know, the people that have been treated
very unfairly are the people that have been online for
ten years to come into the country. And we're going
to make it very easy for people to come in
in terms of they have to pass the test. They
have to be able to tell you what the statue
of liberty is. They have to tell you a little

(01:21:05):
bit about our country. They have to love our country.
They can't come out of prisons. We don't want people
that are in for murder here here.

Speaker 2 (01:21:11):
I think we can all agree on that one. Continue, sir,
Because it's going to be spending.

Speaker 6 (01:21:16):
You raise the point that the logistics are complicated. You
say to yourself, what everything's going twenty four Yeah, I
mean you need twenty four times more iceed attention capacity
just to deport one million people per year, not to
mention more agents, more judges, more planes. Is it realistic
to deport everyone who's Jewiously?

Speaker 8 (01:21:33):
First of all, they're costing us a fortune. But we're
starting with the criminals, and we got to do it,
and then we're starting with others, and we're going to.

Speaker 7 (01:21:41):
See how it goes.

Speaker 1 (01:21:42):
The others.

Speaker 7 (01:21:42):
Others are other people outside of criminals.

Speaker 2 (01:21:46):
And there's plenty of those that are out there, Like
the one point three to one point seven depending on
whose record you're looking at. We'll just split the Middle cult.
One point five million people that have been given orders
to leave because they've gone through the process, the process
of asylum. They went, they applied versa on them, they
were allowed to come in this country, They waited out
their time, they went to all the court cases, they

(01:22:06):
were heard, they lost, then they appealed that they were
heard again, they lost, they appealed, they were hurt again,
and they've been told now you have a final order
to leave or be removed. Those people appassolutely. And I
know it sucks for some people out there, but you
can't scream and yell that you want a process, get

(01:22:28):
the process, don't like the outcome, and then say screw
the process. Can't happen, shouldn't happen? Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Twitter tweet at his texta program. Well all this is
going on. You've got Syria, the fall of Syria has happened,
and right now Russia taken it into breeches. Iran absolutely

(01:22:52):
kicked square ins the Grundle. It is not a good
time to be part of the access of a holes.

Speaker 4 (01:22:59):
This has got to be a moment of real concern
for Vladimir Putin. Your point is exactly right. Not only
does he now have to take in aside as this
now vig Rent coming with his family on bended kneed
to Moscow, but more importantly, it's the Russian prestige globally

(01:23:20):
that takes a real here.

Speaker 2 (01:23:21):
It's the it's the damage to the brand. I think
you'd have to go back to.

Speaker 4 (01:23:26):
You have gety pregosions, ill fated attempt to topfle Putin
a year or so ago to see how difficult this
moment will be for Putin.

Speaker 2 (01:23:38):
And it's going to be difficult because you're heading into
negotiation when it comes to Ukraine and now you're seeing
your weakness. But on top of that, what you lost
in that region warm weather ports, access to certain areas,
a chance for influence gone. The person you're backing God
is as handed to him, and now he's in your

(01:23:59):
kind tree. Let's not forget about Iran as well and
their weakening influence in that region. After seeing their butts kicked,
Houthi's butts kicked, Hezbelah butts kicked, Hamas butt kicked, They've
been hit by Israel. So as I look at the
hand of cards.

Speaker 4 (01:24:20):
Putin has going into what I think everybody increasingly presumes
will be a negotiation with Ukraine sometime in twenty twenty five.
This is a sign of real weakness for Russia. That's
good news for the United States, alongside what we see
from the weakening of Iran.

Speaker 2 (01:24:40):
Retired Admiral James Tarvitis right there, and he's right. So
it's a win in the sense that there's a weakening
in the region. When it comes to the influence of
Russia and Iran, it's a loss for everybody in the
region because it's now going to be a hornet's nest
of evil. Three two, three, five, five, twenty three atch

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Serene Boom, what truping, that's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:26:56):
I was turning on the old interwebs on this beautiful Monday,
sweet head towards Christmas. Mats. Speaking of Christmas made one
Soto a very wealthy man yesterday fifteen years, seven hundred
and sixty five million, chance to go to eight hundred
million dollars. It's pretty big money if you can get it.

(01:27:16):
Just letting you guys know that. The Chiefs win yet
again on a doink Man. If you got nine lives,
you spent them all right there. Over the last several weeks,
the airass tours come to an end. Jay Z talked
about that Chargers Syria. Bobby Bonia still paying, still getting

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paid by the Mets. Anytime somebody signs a big contract
with the Mets, they always bring up Bobby Boonia. Bobby
Bonia deferred all of his money when he signed back
in the late eighties early nineties out because the Mats
were in kind of some trouble money wise, and he
still gets like a million dollar check everaych so they
call it Bobby Bonia day. Head over to Yahoo. NFL

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Draft Order, Scott Frost returning back to Ufs, the University
of Central Florida.

Speaker 7 (01:28:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:10):
One of those started out Live Hero World Challenge. That's
Golf Won Soto, Taylor Swift, jay Z all trending and
finally over to the Magical World of jay Z number one,
followed by the Chargers Chiefs Juan Soto, Syria Bears forty
nine Ers, Taylor Swift, fourteenth Amendment Taylor Sheridan. That's the

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guy who created all those Landman and Yellowstone and all
those shows. Who don't know who that is, They're like,
that sounds familiar. Yeah, that's who that is. Love Landman.
By the way, if you've not seen that, it's phenomenal.
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the program right here on the Chad Benson Show. Those
are some of the things trending on this Monday. Again,
always NFL stuff when you have a chance on Monday
because a Monday morning quarterback and that's where they get
it from. Oh yeah, I get it. I get it
Monday more than quarterback. So he's did what and whatnot?

(01:29:21):
Those chief just keep winning and winning and winning in
bizarre ways. Some of the other stuff trending over the
weekend was college football. So if you guys didn't know
what happened in college football, it ended this weekend. As
far as the regular season, all of that stuff. We're
heading to for the first time ever, a twelve team playoff.

(01:29:41):
How did it play out?

Speaker 11 (01:29:43):
But you got to choose one of them and they're
going to get criticism either way. To take on Penn
State and the final spot and the College Football Playoff,
who is it? The SMU Mustangs hold on to that
final spot and edge out Alabama, so it will be
SMU and Penn State as the ACC gets the last

(01:30:05):
two spots in terms of seating and they get in
the last at large spot.

Speaker 2 (01:30:10):
It's gonna be huge. For the first time ever, we're
gonna have the college football playoffs. Now we have it
in the lower divisions, but for the first time ever,
we're gonna get a college football playoff with brackets and everything.
And for the first time ever, we're gonna get home games,
which is going to be incredible. So the teams that

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are in the college football Ohio State takes on Tennessee,
Texas at home to Clemson, Penn State and SMU, Notre
Dame and Indiana. Teams that have a buy for the
first round Oregon, Arizona State, Boise and Georgia. Ooh, this
is gonna be amazing enough. So pumped three two, three, five, three, eight,
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you're missing the show. Shame great the podcast.

Speaker 13 (01:30:54):
Chad Benson, Joe Son, Chad Benson.

Speaker 36 (01:30:57):
Joe, the Chad Benson Show, the same haircut of Pat.

(01:31:21):
I'm gonna be disappointed myself, and it's like time to
do something new. Yeah, okay, I did drive all the
way here because I see you have this gift, and
I if I'm gonna trust anyone to do this, it.

Speaker 16 (01:31:31):
Would be used.

Speaker 14 (01:31:32):
I mean I cut to people's head shapes, right, so,
like because you have a more prominent occipital bone back there,
I'm not gonna make it insanely round back there.

Speaker 16 (01:31:40):
So it's gonna like make you look like you're wearing
a helmet. Yeah, you're ready to go for it?

Speaker 28 (01:31:44):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (01:31:45):
Okay?

Speaker 16 (01:31:45):
What ah?

Speaker 2 (01:31:48):
The always awesome? What pronouns are you say them?

Speaker 8 (01:31:52):
Are you? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:31:53):
That's good, that's good. I want you to listen to
this because this person is absolute devastated and terrified by
getting a new haircut. It's a haircut, and I know
what you're thinking, Chad, I'm looking at you. You're bald. Yes,
but I cut my hair. I just have to get
up very early. And I didn't like fighting it. It sucked,
it was stupid. I didn't want to do it anymore.

(01:32:15):
So I shaved my head and then I thought, I
look pretty good bald. I'm going to keep it, and
I have and I continue to do so. But my
hair is so thick. But I shave my head. If
I let my hair grow for a month and be crazy,
that's how big it is. It's crazy, this lady. Excuse me, person,
I don't know. I don't know what your pronouns aren't.
We never got to that point because I was too

(01:32:36):
busy going Are you crying because you're getting a haircut?

Speaker 1 (01:32:39):
I don't even know why I panic so on. It's okay,
it's just hair.

Speaker 16 (01:32:42):
I mean, no, are you ready? Can I cry it
out first? Totally?

Speaker 31 (01:32:51):
Okay?

Speaker 16 (01:32:51):
Yeah?

Speaker 14 (01:32:53):
About its process?

Speaker 16 (01:32:58):
Okay, you're ready.

Speaker 36 (01:32:59):
I know if I leave with the same haircut of hat,
I'm gonna be disappointed in myself. It's like time to
do something new.

Speaker 16 (01:33:05):
Yeah, okay, can you everything?

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
It's final world.

Speaker 2 (01:33:07):
Fine, I'm disappointed, aren't you? We should all be disappointed
because I saw the haircut. It wasn't all that in
the bag of chips. It's freaking hair some way he
used to describe it when as a kid, I'm like,
I'm gonna try it. If it doesn't work, it doesn't matter,
it's gonna go back. It's hair. But you don't understand. No,
I do understand your nuts. You're unstable. The fact that

(01:33:30):
you are at a place where somebody's gonna cut your
hair and you're like, is it okay that I touch
your head? How's she gonna cut my ged hair? I
came to you specifically because you're insane like me, and
you have scissors. Ooh crazy? Indeed three two, three, five,
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I love hearing from each into every one of you
right here with the chadbitsaid, sure we pivot from there
to New York City.

Speaker 25 (01:34:00):
ID Healthcare is declining to answer questions posed by ABC News,
including whether the company has offered to contribute to the
reward money for information leading to an arrest. Detectives are
optimistic they're closing in, but heading in down to a
sixth day of searching, they still do not have an
identity of the suspect or anyone in custody.

Speaker 2 (01:34:18):
I wonder what his pronouns are. That's gonna be the
next thing. Somebody's gonna be executed and they'll be like,
what's your pronouns? What are your pronouns? We're gonna electric
kit chit to Dat's what your pronouns?

Speaker 18 (01:34:36):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
They, being New York City, seem to think they have
the identity of the shooter, but they're not releasing it
because they don't want them to think that he knows,
which is kind of stupid because you're saying you know,
so then if he would hear that you know, then
he would think they must know. If that makes sense,
I don't know. Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't. I

(01:34:58):
can't tell you. Here's what I can tell you. Nobody's said,
and it's the reality of how horrible dealing with the
insurance companies is. This guy has become the poster child
of evil, and he's not He's a dude doing his

(01:35:18):
job by all accounts, great dad, good husband, I mean,
and successful at what he does. And what he does
is run an insurance company, and that means that he
has to not cater to the people that are as
customers that you and I would think would be because
we are paying for insurance, but actually cater to the

(01:35:42):
shareholders and the shareholders want profit. But there are plenty
of people out there, as I said, there would be
who are going to say he's a good dude to
be dead because he's the face of evil. He's a
good guy to be the first guy to be shown
we've had enough.

Speaker 16 (01:36:02):
It's like, there's your motives.

Speaker 37 (01:36:04):
Anytime I'm here ceo of one of the biggest healthcare plays,
it's like, you don't wish it on anybody. You feel
horrible for his kids and his wife, of course, But dude,
when I saw that, and I saw what what is
more heartless than a CEO of a corporation?

Speaker 25 (01:36:20):
The decision in healthcare, the decisions that they make.

Speaker 16 (01:36:23):
This is a thing.

Speaker 38 (01:36:24):
I'm not saying what happens should have happened, but I'm
just for.

Speaker 37 (01:36:26):
Them to be like, oh, this is like, why would
anybody want.

Speaker 38 (01:36:30):
To do this.

Speaker 2 (01:36:32):
People understand, it's Bill Burr right there on a podcast.
Why would an't you want to do it? Well, we
don't know what I mean. We painted a picture for you.
Really the second day, that disgruntled probably lost somebody. Maybe
he's gone bankrupt, and we can go on and on.
There's a lot of conspiracies out there because we don't know.

(01:36:52):
Maybe somebody just pissed at the healthcare industry across the board,
who knows what. But we painted that picture of of
who that person is, and everybody out there is like, yeah,
that could be it because they want the Robin Hood
like figure. And we in America love the Robinhood like figure.
We love Jesse James, We love Billy the Kid, Bonnie

(01:37:16):
and Clyde. They were psychos. Bonnie was terrifying. She stood
over a police officer so that she had wounded and
laughed as she blasted him. They were nuts. Yet we
made movies about him, oh baby, did we? Because they

(01:37:38):
were getting back at the man. And this is the
time from the Palestine disruptions and lunacy in the streets
to the you know remember when you know the Wall
Street and nightmare that happened, and yeah, we're gonna eat
the rich and all that kind of stuff. There's this
sense of class and pissed off people. And this guy

(01:37:59):
is now being painted as a hero, a handsome, devilish
may care man who came in to start a conversation
about healthcare in America. He's a murderer.

Speaker 38 (01:38:12):
I'm just saying, like, I this this thing that they're showing,
the way they're spinning, like how dangerous is.

Speaker 2 (01:38:19):
New York that a white guy in his suit can't
walk over?

Speaker 38 (01:38:23):
And it's like, that's not why they're doing that, dude,
that's because, hey, that guy was making.

Speaker 16 (01:38:27):
Us a lot of money.

Speaker 2 (01:38:28):
I just feel for the kids, that's all I give
them too.

Speaker 16 (01:38:31):
And I feel for his wife.

Speaker 38 (01:38:32):
And I also feel for that guy because I looked
at his dumb face and I'm like, this guy just
did this career and it's just as you're moving up
and you're moving up, more of your soul has to
go away.

Speaker 16 (01:38:43):
That's a soul business, dudent.

Speaker 37 (01:38:46):
Yeah, and I health Care United is the biggest healthcare
company in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:38:50):
Yes it is. Deny Moore claims that's again, your goal
as a healthcare provider is to not provide healthcare as
an insurance provider, it's to save as much money as possible.
Eamline the operations and give you the most upside when
it comes to your shareholders and paying them out their dividends.
That is what you're That's how you keep your job.

(01:39:11):
And it sucks, but that's the reality of it.

Speaker 38 (01:39:15):
I'm saying, like those people are all talking about it
under their mountain or whatever that thing. Dude, they don't
give a call if you came up and you whack
me because I took your fucking whatever your picks.

Speaker 21 (01:39:28):
For the week.

Speaker 16 (01:39:28):
That just that's page nineteen of the post.

Speaker 25 (01:39:31):
You start whacking a CEO with a white guy in
a suit.

Speaker 38 (01:39:35):
Can't walk into a five star hotel without getting shot
by a silencer.

Speaker 2 (01:39:40):
Yeah, they get nervous, Yes they do. Bill Burr right there.
Tilla Lorenz was on TMZ. You don't know who she is.
She is a controversial, to say the least, super progressive,
woke nut job. Used to be the I think the
tech editor at Washington Post in New York, and she

(01:40:01):
came out immediately basically saying thumbs up, good job, Let's
get more. And she's defending herself on TMC.

Speaker 39 (01:40:08):
I am speaking to the sentiment people do want these
executives dead.

Speaker 2 (01:40:11):
If you have, we want them dead, And I guess
I mean, look, I'm.

Speaker 39 (01:40:15):
Gonna say I'm with the people in the sense that
if you have watched a loved one die because insurance
has denied them life saving essential healthcare, it is natural
to wish that the people who run those systems would
suffer the same fate as your loved one. And millions
of people across America have had this experience.

Speaker 2 (01:40:37):
This guy had a job. Insurance sucks. We wish we
could all be healthy forever and not have to worry
about insurance, but we do. And I wish we didn't
have to pay for anything, but we do. And there
are alternatives out there in other countries. Yes, are they good?
They're okay in some ways and not great in others.
This bizarre romanticizing of who this person is and bad.

(01:40:58):
Is he gonna let everybody down if he's decided to
shoot somebody that day in a psycho I don't think
he is, but he would definitely let everybody down. But
we treat him like he's a saint and that he's
another folk hero, like he's Robin Hood meets Jesse James,
it's not He's a killer. At the end of the day,
he's a killer and killing in this situation. While in

(01:41:22):
his mind he may justify it. It's wrong, period, because
you're telling everybody now, well, if he's doing it, maybe
I should do it, because there are people out there
that will start thinking if this is a way to
get a conversation going about something, and that is scary
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Speaker 1 (01:42:44):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:51):
We do all kinds of countdowns here because we like
to have fun. It's not just about the chaos in
the world, from the presidential election to what's going on
in Syria and all that stuff. We need to take
a break every once in a great while and go, Okay,
what else is out there? Well, it is that time
of year, Christmas time is here, and we like to
have fun. If you're not paid any attention during Halloween season,

(01:43:13):
I countdown the scariest movies. This year, We're doing a
back to back countdown Top five Greatest Christmas Songs of
all time and Top five Greatest Christmas Movies We'll get
to that starting later on this week, and we do
this before our Christmas break until the new year. So
are you guys ready for number three? Merry Christmas?

Speaker 19 (01:43:39):
It's time for the Great Christmas Countdown, the five Greatest
Christmas Songs of all time?

Speaker 2 (01:43:49):
Number three, Number three, Man, this song is amazing. When
I was a kid, they were the biggest band in
the world. There was nothing bigger than these two. I
mean there was huge, like shot out of a cannon.

(01:44:14):
Huge in the space of two and a half three years,
which is all they were together, huge massive hits. But
for all the hits that they had, there was nothing
comes close to the one that is played year after
year at this time. Number three Greatest Christmas Songs of
all time? Wham and Last Christmas.

Speaker 1 (01:44:55):
Yss Christmas Aga?

Speaker 36 (01:45:01):
Do you get it?

Speaker 21 (01:45:01):
Anyway?

Speaker 16 (01:45:05):
To stand it?

Speaker 21 (01:45:13):
Christmas?

Speaker 2 (01:45:15):
So this song was a massive, massive, massive hit, but
it didn't go to number one until a few years ago,
and the reason was simple the year it came out,
which was forty years ago. Last week, it also debuted
with another song that George Michael was on. That song

(01:45:38):
was band Aid. Do They Know It's Christmas? In the
latest documentary that's out about it. You got a little
piece of him singing this before it was even released,
which is very interesting because his goal was to always
get this to number one. That was kind of his
big deal. But alas you know, band Aid sounds catchy.

Speaker 16 (01:46:00):
It's a major threat to our major threat to our
fourth number one, your FoST number.

Speaker 1 (01:46:04):
What's your next single?

Speaker 16 (01:46:06):
It's called Last Christmas? Is it very christmasy?

Speaker 1 (01:46:11):
I can't ask you to sing a.

Speaker 16 (01:46:12):
Bass you'll get multified. You can't ask me, ask me
a little bit.

Speaker 21 (01:46:19):
Last Christmas? And it gave you my heart, but the
very next thing you gave it.

Speaker 16 (01:46:25):
Away and I'm not giving you any more. Oh that
was good.

Speaker 2 (01:46:28):
I tell my girlfriend George Sign I will tell you what.
They had such a great voice and it was a
massive hit. But you went up against band Aid. If
you guys don't remember band Aid, we'd do a big
thing on it on Wednesday on what band Aid it
was all about, as they celebrate forty years of band Aid.

(01:46:50):
But it was a massive hit, beside the fact that
it became number two, in fact the greatest selling number
two song in British history, and eventually it went on
to become number one. Many many years later in two
thousand and I think it was eighteen because of the
movie Last Christmas. It's an incredible song. It didn't become
their fourth number one, and oddly enough, he talked about

(01:47:13):
the fact, Oh, I'd written this Christmas song and he
was gonna be huge. He was gonna be massive, and
and it was gonna be our fourth number one. I'd
planned it all out. He was only twenty one years
old when they wrote that. It's how big of a
song it was and how talented he was to come
up with that at the age of twenty one. Still

(01:47:35):
a massive song to this day, number three Last Christmas
from Wham, Oh God, what a week. See, I need
to have other stuff right. It can't just always be
about the chaos and craziness of the world, because otherwise
it's not how we live our lives. It's not I'm

(01:47:56):
and I've been saying it all day. What's going to
happen in Syria is a failed nation state that is
going to in my opinion, and we're gonna talk to
our buddy, my clients, our military analyst on Wednesday. I
think this thing is going to crash like you've never
seen before. You have so many groups that are together

(01:48:19):
that to get to this point, including the likes of
ISIS and several freedom fighting groups. Siri, you have had
the kurge. Israel did their part. I mean, there's just
so many. But this is going to be ugly, ugly,
ugly because, as I told Anthony earlier today, a lot

(01:48:41):
of chiefs, not a lot of Indians in this situation.
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