The Best of Chad Benson

The Best of Chad Benson

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You are listening to the best of Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
I feel like it's about to get spicy potentially in
the world of politics when it comes to the Epstein stuff,
and it's also going to get frustrating, and don't expect
it to be simple and easy. But I want to
remind everybody, as I did last week, it's about the victims. Okay,

(00:38):
it's about justice for people who were abused by a
system that allowed dirty, horrible rich men, powerful individuals to
do whatever they see fit because they could buy their
way and or influence their way out of situations. That's

(00:59):
not right. That's not what in theory this administration said
that they were going to be about. What were they
going to be about? Transparency, holding the deep state accountable?
All of those things I said last night on a
video and if you haven't seen the video, go see
it really helps us out that the reason this is

(01:21):
to me so important besides the it's not the politics, right,
the politics is secondary. It's the humanity side for the
people out there who don't have a voice. I said, Really,
is that where's you're going a victim blame?

Speaker 4 (01:40):
Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Is?

Speaker 5 (01:40):
That?

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Is that what is going to happen. Now, You're going
to come after these these women who've been through god
knows what because why you've made it personal, and you
shouldn't make it personal. You shouldn't. And as I have
said this over and over again, and I'll say it
again right now, Republicans, you cannot tell me you are

(02:05):
worried about whether or not boys play in girls' sports
because we need to protect the girls. And then when
something like this comes out and you're worried about your
side being exposed for something. There is no sides in this.
It's just right or wrong, evil and good period.

Speaker 6 (02:27):
Under intense pressure from his own party, President Trump suddenly
reversing course, telling House Republicans to vote yes on a
measure to release the FBI's files on sex offender Jeffrey
Epstein and saying if the Epstein bill passes the House
and Senate, he will sign it.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
Sure, I would let the send it, look at it,
let anybody look at it.

Speaker 6 (02:47):
For months, Trump fought to prevent this, even though he
promised during the campaign to release the files.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
And this is an issue of their own making, no doubt.
And I said, look, when this first came out, when
all this Epstein stuff firt started to happen. I didn't
pay much attention to it. I didn't because I didn't
realize the scale of it. And it was more about
going after you know, it got to the point that
the same people had pushed every conspiracy was pushing this,

(03:14):
and you're like, Okay, now this is the issue I have.
But the more it, you know, you look into it,
the more that you start to realize, oh my god,
there's a lot more to this. And there is. And
here's the thing. Trump doesn't need the Senate or anybody
to do anything.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
The president doesn't have to wait for Congress to release
the Epstein files. He could order the Justice Department to
make them public right now. But so far the president
has not done that.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
No and a heartbeat, he can make it snap of singers,
Let's get it out there, Let's get it out there.
Let's do that. Let's get it out there. And just
because it goes through everything doesn't mean he's actually going
to sign. I mean, in the last several days, he's
gone from it's a hoax to it's a Democrat hoax

(04:06):
to go investigate all of the Democrats to Marjorie Taylor
Green and them are evil and this is you know,
something to bring down you know, his administration to yeah,
go ahead, release it. So just because he goes through
all of this doesn't mean it is going to land
in a position where it gets on his desk and

(04:27):
he goes, yeah, I think I'll sign that.

Speaker 7 (04:28):
The House is going to vop for it.

Speaker 8 (04:29):
The said it's going to vop for it, and Trump
says he's going to sign it. But we really can't
be so sure that all those documents are going to
be released. And then if the Department of Justice, by
the way, says that they're going to release all the documents,
how do we know that that's the full trove of information.

Speaker 7 (04:44):
I think it's going to be hard to tell.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
It is going to be hard to tell. And with
the way that the FBI's acted, Cash Bettel, the Department
of Justice pamboding them, I don't believe anything they say
at this point in time. I think they're just awful
actors in this situation. So no, I'm not buying any

(05:08):
of it. I'm not. And this has nothing to do
with politics. I just want to remind everybody, I want
you to listen to these women. This has nothing to
do with politics.

Speaker 9 (05:19):
I suffered so much pain, so much pain, so much pain.

Speaker 10 (05:25):
I suffered so much pain.

Speaker 11 (05:30):
I was fourteen years.

Speaker 7 (05:31):
Old, I was sixteen years old, was sixteen.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Seventeen, fourteen years old.

Speaker 9 (05:37):
This is me, this was me, this is me when
I met Jeffrey Epstein. This is me when I met
Jeffrey Epstein.

Speaker 12 (05:48):
They're about a thousand of us.

Speaker 9 (05:59):
It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows.
It's time to shine a light into the darkness.

Speaker 3 (06:07):
That's the best disinfecting right there, three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
is your ex, your Insta, your YouTube, your Facebook and
everything else. And as I continue to say, this is
not about politics, This is about victims. This is about

(06:29):
what they went through. This is about a cover up
that yes, leads to politics. But everybody's leading with the
politics first because they're worried about their side and they're
not worried about the truth. Which is a shame. It
is absolutely a shame. Next week will be Thanksgiving for

(06:50):
those of you not keeping scores, So what is the
score when it comes to food at Thanksgiving? Gobble gobble
less or gobble gobble more when it comes to the
bank account.

Speaker 9 (07:00):
So what can consumers expect this Thanksgiving when it comes
to prices.

Speaker 13 (07:03):
So the good news is Thanksgiving is going to be
a little less expensive than it was last year. But
turkey prices are up forty percent.

Speaker 9 (07:11):
Phil Lempert is a food industry analyst known as the
supermarket Guru. Turkey prices, why are they on this here?

Speaker 13 (07:18):
There's a shortage of turkeys because of bird flow over
the past few years. We have less turkeys and less chickens,
and that's what's creating this influx of prices.

Speaker 9 (07:29):
Average frozen wholesale turkeys are a dollar thirty two per pound.
That's up from ninety seven cents per pound last year.
Feast favorites cranberries are up six percent, while green beans
are up thirty two percent. However, staples like lettuce, milk,
soft drinks, and potatoes are flat or up slightly from
a year ago, while butter, bread and eggs are down.

Speaker 3 (07:50):
That's good, the eggs, the eggs. I'm good. I don't
need any of the other stuff. I don't need your
aunt Ethel's ambrosia. Ambrosia. Aren't they a band? Yes they are,
and they're also some sort of thing where you put
everything you have that you've never eaten into something.

Speaker 9 (08:09):
Are tariffs having an impact at all grocery prices?

Speaker 3 (08:12):
Absolutely, there's no question.

Speaker 13 (08:14):
Whether it's an imported product like olive oil or imported
cheeses or imported wines, tariffs have an effect. But also
let's not forget there's a tariff on aluminum cans, so
that in fact, even on our canned pumpkin is going
to increase those prices.

Speaker 9 (08:30):
Grocery chains including Walmart, Aldi and Letal have deals to
feed a family of ten for four dollars or less
per person. All include turkey, stuffing, potatoes, pie, and other sizes.

Speaker 13 (08:41):
What they're doing is they're putting together ten, fifteen, twenty
items in a bundle, and that way we're forgetting about
what the price is, but we're looking at the price
per person.

Speaker 9 (08:52):
Well, Walmart's Thanksgiving meal deal is cheaper compared to last year,
it contains fewer items. Retailers understand consumers are price conscious.
They're finding ways to make things more affordable.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
Which is what we all want. And it's so you know,
this is the here's the tribalness of politics. The right
wants turkey day to be way less expensive than last year,
to show everybody that is working. The left wants it
to be way more expensive, to show everybody everything is failing.

(09:25):
What I want it to be less or probably a
little bit more. When you think about and you cost,
you know, for inflation, and add that stuff in, I
think we can recognize that, yes, we would all like
it to be less well, except of course, if it
hurts my team. I don't want that if it hurts

(09:45):
my team. If it hurts my team, I want no
part of that. Jed. My tribe has to be absolutely
suffering in this situation. So ridiculous. It is today at
the White House interesting, and we're going to talk to
our buddy Mike Lions. Coming up in a little bit.

(10:07):
Saudi Arabia is going to be here and it's going
to be very interesting to see because they're buying the
F thirty Five's another business deal, which this is where
Trump excels at. On top of that, I believe Ronaldo
showing up as well, the soccer star because the World

(10:28):
Cup's going to be here next year. We'll talk a
little bit more about that next hour. Infantino, the guy
who runs FIFA, was here yesterday talking with Trump about
the World Cup and how big it is, but it is.
Ronaldo apparently requested the opportunity to meet Trump along with
MBS today, and Ronaldo plays in Saudi Arabia, so I'm

(10:52):
sure they have some sort of relationship. That's probably pretty
good because Ronaldo gets away with things that others just
could never get away with, shows you the power of
sport and the game itself. So this will be interesting today. Uh,
you got MBS, Ronaldo and Trump, a few egos in
that room. I would assume there would be three two, three, five,
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Speaker 1 (13:00):
This is the best of Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (13:12):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
They're coming for Comy and guess what looks like they're
flailing here. This doesn't look like it's working out the
way they thought it was going to work out.

Speaker 14 (13:24):
What the magistrate judge essentially expressed was alarm over the
Trump administration's handling of the komy K so far. He
said that there was a deliberative, excuse me, a disturbing
pattern of profound investigative missteps that may have irreversibly tainted
the prosecution of James of James Comy and violated the
former FBI director's constitutional.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Rights, which you can't do, by the way, for those
who are not keeping scored, no matter how much you
like Trump, you can't do that, just like you wouldn't
like that against Trump or anybody for that matter. And
what they're looking at is several things, including the fact
that some of the information that they gathered or trying
to use was actually information from other investigations that fell

(14:12):
out of the purview of this that they gathered it
illegally by just going, well, we're just going to throw
this into this case here, and so once again I
measure twice cut ONTs do it right? And then you've
got this Lindsay, you know Halligan lady who is in
the worst position. Nobody wanted to help her. They didn't

(14:35):
want to prosecute this at all. And what happened in
the Department of Justice. Well, if you don't want to
prosecute it and you think this is bad, we're just
going to fire everybody and we'll put in our own people. Well,
you put in your own people, one of which is
this lady who has no trial experience. So he's got
no trial experience whatsoever. So you put her in a

(14:56):
horrible position. She's a lawyer that focused on insurance, not
on this. Nobody would even help her because they thought
this is a waste of time. And now what Well,
now you're in a position where you've got more than
just a little egg on your face.

Speaker 15 (15:16):
You have attorneys for former FBI director Comy seeking to
basically have the indictment tossed out before it would even
go to trial on a variety of arguments. And one
of the issues that has come up related to this
case is that they say the government currently is holding
onto privileged materials between Komy and one of his associates.

Speaker 3 (15:37):
That's the thing I talked about. So they're holding on
to stuff. Well, you can't do that three two, three, five,
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your ex your instat right here in the Chad Benson Show.
So what's that mean?

Speaker 15 (15:52):
Magistrate Judge ordered the government to provide Kmy with all
grand jury materials in its possession related to investigations of
Comy dating back to twenty nineteen twenty twenty, and we
have a hearing scheduled for tomorrow over whether Comy's indictment
is an example of vindictive prosecution.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
Yeah, I have a feeling this is not going to
end the way that the Trump administration thinks. Let me
know what you think. Meanwhile, travel time, there's still opportunities
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Speaker 16 (16:25):
Travel Tuesdays started in twenty seventeen and it was the
travel industry's answer to Black Friday because they were doing
so many big ticket items. Now the travel industry has deals,
discounts and offers that run Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and
Travel Tuesday, where you see significant savings across the board
in bundling packages.

Speaker 3 (16:47):
That's awesome, so Travel Tuesday. So now we've got Black Friday,
Cyber Monday, Travel Tuesday. But don't we also have Giving Tuesday.
There's a lot of stuff going on on Tuesdays, which
normally doesn't happen.

Speaker 16 (16:59):
Because these are there a finite number of deals that
are being offered. Once they're gone, they're gone.

Speaker 3 (17:06):
Once they're gone, they're gone. There's no coming back. So
take your opportunity to get these great deals. I think
travel shouldn't they have had it? Like no, wait wait,
Small Business Saturday, that's the following week. You gotta travel Thursday.
A lot of stuff going on on Tuesdays three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Speaker 4 (17:38):
Show, then Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (17:49):
You're listening to the best of Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (18:02):
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (18:04):
There's a new segment here on the old Chad Benson Show.
We're called Deep Dive. This We're going to go in
deep on a subject that I think is important, whether
it's politics, pop culture, life, whatever it is. And today
we're going to talk about Maga, conservatism, Republican Rhinos, Libertarians,

(18:32):
and Grouper's. But yeah, this has all to do with
Nick Fuentes, who has become this voice in the conservative
movement that disappeared for a while. And he's only like
what I think. He's twenty seven, and he's anti Semitic, racist,

(18:57):
he's all of the things, and he's fine with those things.
He says those things. And I will tell you this
and I give you my straight up opinion on I
think Nick is a troll. I think he says a
lot of stuff for effect. Do I think that he
believes some of the stuff, Yes, but to the to

(19:22):
the degree that people talk about him, No, I don't
think he's I don't think he's would have been part
of the SS. But I think he found a lane
and has run with it. And then with the subsequent
killing of Charlie Kirk, there has been a serious issue

(19:45):
in the Republican Party, especially among the young. They've kind
of been up for grabs. They were already pissed and
disgruntled by a lot of things they saw happening because
they feel like the opportunit co unities that they were
hoping for seemed to have been abandoned by Trump and

(20:07):
MAGA from Israel to Epstein to the economy. They were frustrated.
They didn't feel like it was America first. And then Nick,
because of the opportunity to get back on the interwebs,
has taken advantage of those things and he's running with it.

Speaker 10 (20:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 17 (20:28):
So Nick's intentions, in his own words, is to infiltrate politics,
to take over the Republican Party and bring it in
line with some of his more extreme views that are racist,
anti Semitic, and opposed to people of color. It's something
that he's been planning on doing, something that he talks
about in his stream nightly. But this move to create
a foundation is really the next step in that, and.

Speaker 3 (20:50):
That right there is Tanner now from the Free Press,
who did a deep dive as well on Nick Fuentes,
and again what he says is abhorrent, There's no doubt.
I think a lot of what he says is for
a fact. And in between, he's able to get young,

(21:16):
pissed off men in particular, who are looking for a
place that they thought MAGA was going to be about,
and it's in their mind now it's not. It's about Israel.
It's about hiding the powerful. It's about a lot of
the things that they said they weren't going to be
that they've become. It's not America First, right, making America

(21:39):
great again, America First. Well, Nicks come in and said, no, no, no, no,
I'm going to put America first. Yeah.

Speaker 17 (21:45):
So my report of the Free Press outlines how he
is revamping a America First foundation, which is a five
oh one C four that allows him to raise money
for major donors, create programming, will not disclose them, and
be able to give those two candidates moving forward in
the midterms, And explicitly he wants to influence the midterms
to be more aligned with his agenda.

Speaker 3 (22:07):
And he's going to have influence, like I said, with
Charlie Kirk leaving that void there of the young, the
people that are stepping in and trying to fill that void.
They're not one thing about Nick. You can hate him,
have every right to. I don't watch him, never really have.
I've always thought again to be a trolled, to be

(22:28):
so much of it is for effect. It's awful and horrible,
but we live at a time where awful and horrible
seem to be okay ish, which is wrong. But he's
filling the void that has been left. And the Republicans

(22:54):
are struggling with this because they're not quite sure what
the hell to do. They're not quite sure how they
maneuver this. He is taking down MAGA in a way
where they never saw coming. There was the one thing

(23:14):
about Charlie, Charlie, as we touched on a little bit yesterday,
he kept them somewhat stitched together in a major way,
especially in the in the the different generations, and that
was the issue that really Nick has been able to

(23:36):
jump upon and run with, and they don't know what
to do.

Speaker 17 (23:42):
Absolutely, it is completely fracturing and stoking these these huge arguments.
The Tucker Carlson interview with Nick Fontesk got millions of views,
brought Nick really into the spotlight in a way he
hadn't been before.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
And it's terminology.

Speaker 17 (23:55):
I've heard glazing, glazing, Yes, yes, Tucker Carlson. It was
not a combative interview, was quite friendly. It was much
more friendly than it was with someone like Senator Ted
Cruz that Tucker interviewed just a few months ago.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Yeah, there was a lot of people were pissed about
the way he went after Cruise. Uh, you know, the
whole Ted Cruz thing. It drives me crazy. But you
know what, look, here's the perfect example, though a fracture.
What's Ted Cruz doing looking maybe to to step up

(24:30):
and run for president again? Already Trump's been asked questions
about it. It's more than just a murmuring. You know,
they're they're setting up a committee and let's go out
and explore and see if we that's where the fracture is.
It's not just the fracture of the Republicans and the
old and the young, and it's generational and it's and
it's it's America First, or it's make America great again

(24:52):
or Trump it's they're looking at the opportunities to grab
market share, which is tearing apart the Republican Party because
Republican Party isn't the Republican Party anymore. It's Trump's party,
and as it goes with Trump, that's how the party goes.

(25:15):
He's become all of their identity. And Nick is like, no,
that's not what this is about. You're about you, and
we're going to make America first. And that's why you
have this battle going on. And the weird part of

(25:36):
the how should I say this, the foot sea that
the Republicans are like the White House. They want the
young voter, but they don't want anything to do with Nick.
They want the young voter, but they want him gone right.

(25:56):
It's like, we want no part of what you're offering,
but if we could take your votes, that'd be super.

Speaker 5 (26:04):
Lots of people within the movement, MAGA and Conservative have
spoken out about this, and it seems to me, and
correct me if I'm wrong, Tanner, that it is in
part a generational divide young men, for whatever set of reasons.
Maybe they don't know enough about history, maybe they need
a little bit more history about the Holocaust, but World
War Two.

Speaker 10 (26:22):
About who Stalin was, who Hitler was.

Speaker 5 (26:26):
But for whatever set of reasons they have, at least
for the moment gravitated in next direction that's given him
a kind of accumulated online cloud.

Speaker 3 (26:36):
Has it not? Absolutely? Absolutely?

Speaker 17 (26:37):
Nick Fuenttez is wildly popular online. He has a nightly
stream that goes for hours, but online on Instagram and x.
These soundbites are thirty seconds to a minute long, and
they has been said they are very very racist, anti
semitics sometimes and the sell the sell online and there's
a large contingent of young people particularly they call themselves crapers.

(27:00):
Those are his fans that are really coming of age
and entering you know, staffs and politics and growing up
and getting into the halls of power.

Speaker 3 (27:09):
So it's something to watch.

Speaker 17 (27:11):
And it's something that the Republican Party is going to
have to contend with. And it is generational in terms
of older versus.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
Younger because he's talking to a bunch of what young
men who are pissed because they feel the world's against him.
They are living in their mom's basements, they are falling
further and further behind. In particular women, they're angry because

(27:37):
they feel like they're judged upon looks and nothing else,
and they don't have anything to offer, and Trump came
and sold them a bag, you know, just a bag
of what they thought was going to be goodies and
instead it's a bag of crap in their mind, and
they're upset, and he's filling that void. Charlie tried to
fill it with a lot of things, including Thomas right.

(28:03):
Nick is going, I'll put America first, and you're America,
and we need to protect America, white America in his mind,
and we need to make sure that this is done
properly because you guys are being left behind. The Republicans

(28:25):
have a real issue here on how to claw back
these young, pissed off, angry men and distance himself from
somebody who, Yes, if the association with Nick is going
to be there, your party's in serious trouble. Let me

(28:46):
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at it. From Candyland Confections.

Speaker 3 (31:23):
It is candy Land in her living room.

Speaker 18 (31:25):
To nineties nostalgia for Tendies, nineties day Christmas tree decorps
taking over. TikTok searches up one thousand percent in just
the last week. But before you go and buy that
perfect Christmas vacation tree, there it is. Experts say there's

(31:46):
good news this holiday. With supply steady, eighty four percent
of Christmas tree growers say they don't plan on raising
wholesale prices. In fact, some may lower them.

Speaker 19 (31:58):
When you have the large supply that we have right now,
you need to get the trees harvested and sold.

Speaker 20 (32:03):
You can't leave them in the ground forever.

Speaker 3 (32:06):
Oh so they're going to be cheaper. Oh tell me more.
I love that cheaper trees. And again, let's go back
to the natural side of stuff, the smell, all of that.
It's not just about the cheaper tree, because they're real
and they're annoying sometimes because the needles fall off. There's
just something about going and the imperfection which makes it

(32:31):
perfection finding that tree.

Speaker 19 (32:34):
Right.

Speaker 3 (32:34):
Can you remember that when you were a kid, how
excited you were to go get a tree.

Speaker 18 (32:38):
It comes at the right time, as not just the
grinch I stuff up the tree, but tariffs look to
steal some Christmas joy. Eighty seven percent of artificial Christmas trees, ornaments,
and decorations came from China last year and now, the
American Christmas Tree Association expects artificial tree prices to be

(32:59):
ten percent higher. A two hundred and ninety nine dollars
tree last year could go as high as three hundred
and fifty nine dollars this year. Tree farmers like the
Joneses in Shelton, Connecticut, are optimistic. They're real trees can
meet Americans' needs.

Speaker 3 (33:16):
Anyone who wants to get a beautiful, rio freshly grown
Christmas tree, they'll be able to find it, not just
where we are in the Northeast, but you know, all
across the country. I love that, I absolutely love that.
I love Christmas so excited. So we're gonna be off
next week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and I'll be off Monday

(33:37):
as well. And I'm just I love Christmas for doing
some stuff where you just relax and enjoy ourselves. But man,
I tell you, I'll tell you what. I am so
excited for the holidays. And it's funny because seeing it
through my kid's eyes, you know, Charlie getting excited all
that kind of stuff. I'm just I'm pumped for Christmas

(33:59):
next week, Thanksgiving and it's just gonna be awesome. You know,
so Christmas trees, it's a win right there. Christmas trees
a win because they're cheaper thanks to the tariffs. That's
a win for the tariffs. And I will say the
artificial tree, I know you buy it once and stuff,
but they're so expensive. I was looking the other day.

(34:22):
I was like, because I've thought, you know what we're
Last year we had the most amazing tree, but we're
in an apartment and they didn't have one of those
days where you dropped the tree and it gets picked up.
I had to my wife laughing, She goes, do you
remember what you had to do last year? I said, yeah,

(34:42):
so where we live here on Music Row in Nashville.
I had to put it in this bag and it
looked like I was carrying a body down the street
into the alley, throwing it inside of a dumpster. And
then remember when you get the tree up and sand
is gonna come and you gotta go, okay, what's Santa bringing?

(35:04):
Because that's always important too. Charlie still wondered, like how
does Santa get in the house? Like what happens again?
How do the Reindeers? I'm like, he knows what he's doing.
Is he gonna bring me a La Boo boo? She
doesn't like La boo boos. She thinks they look like demons.
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(35:51):
The good question? We'll talk about that because I think
it's a fair question to ask, especially in the times
that we find ourselves, we should ask that question. And
with the debt where it is as well, We're also
going to talk a little bit about affordability, which is
a big deal. More on Epstein as well.

Speaker 19 (36:09):
Now what.

Speaker 3 (36:11):
Which is also another question that is kind of just
dangling over everybody's head in DC and elsewhere. If you're
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Speaker 3 (36:55):
It's getting ugly with Trump, Marree, Taylor Green, a lot
of maga not happy about what's happening. And I told
you guys, this Epstein stuff wasn't going to go away.
The flips, the flops, the flops, the flips. It's not
helping Trump. It's not this weekend. He has been all

(37:23):
over the place from Friday. We're going to start an investigation,
and you go after everybody. Even two hours before he
goes and says, now we should release everything. Trump's like, Nope,
you got to go after these people. We got to
get these people. What are you hiding, sir? That's it.

(37:44):
What are you hiding? Who are you protecting? That's what
people want to know. You promised you were going to
be different. You promise you were going to be this transparent,
transcendent leader, and it feels like you're the same, old, same.
And I think he's finding out that there's a lot

(38:05):
of Republicans out there that are nervous about this. Not
so much that they're on it, although I'm sure if
there's a few they would be, but more that if
there's a lot more to it, and they were seen
as somebody protecting powerful billionaires and donors, that they're going
to get the stink on them.

Speaker 21 (38:26):
A major reversal from President Trump.

Speaker 12 (38:28):
I don't care about it released or not what I
think he should do. If you're going to do it,
that you have to go into Epstein's friends. This read
often spent a lot of time on the island. Lyras
Dever on his island, Bill Clinton is there, supposedly twenty
eight times.

Speaker 21 (38:46):
Trump last night making his new position clear. House Republicans
should vote to release the Epstein files because we have
nothing to hide and it's time to move on from
this Democrat hoax.

Speaker 3 (38:57):
Well, it's going to happen. Happened probably tomorrow. Don Bacon,
Republican Again, I told you guys, once it got through
and they got to two hundred and eighteen, there was
nothing that was going to stop them from getting this
vote out there. And now that it's out there, guess
what's going to happen. You're going to get a ton
of Republicans that will vote for this thing, far more

(39:19):
than people realize.

Speaker 19 (39:21):
I think the speaker realizes the train has left the
station on this let's rip the bandaid off and get
it done.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
Now.

Speaker 3 (39:26):
I wish the President realized that.

Speaker 19 (39:27):
The more the White House pushes back on this, you know,
it just looks bad, right. I mean it was the
Attorney General chaoutsaid all these white binders, we're going to
release all this information, and then a month later said,
oh no, we're not. So it's been a pr blunder
from the beginning. And I think the Speaker's right, this
is going to happen. So let's get it done and
vote on it. And we got to realize it still
has to go to the Senate, that has to go

(39:49):
to the President for signature. Meanwhile, our Oversight Committee is
releasing thousands and thousands of pages of evidence concerning Epstein. So,
for example, like three one thousand pages was released late
last week. So the Oversight Committee, Republicans and Democrats are
putting out the data, they're putting out subpoenas. I think
it's already working. But like Tom, when this comes on

(40:12):
the floor, I'm going to vote yes on it. I
want transparency, we must. We want to protect the victims,
but everything else you should be open.

Speaker 3 (40:21):
And by the way, the victims, most of them, they
want it out there. How many of them are there,
I don't know plenty, And that's where I'm with the victims.
I'm with the victims in this. They deserve that their
voice heard, and they deserve to know that, yes, even

(40:42):
the powerful can pay the price for being awful. Megan
Kelly's absolutely getting just thumped as she should be, by
her insanity last week of trying to, in some weird
way justify what one of her friends told her about
kids being fifteen and that's barely legal. That's a bunch

(41:06):
of crap. Where the hell did that come from? What
are you thinking? That is not even close to anything?
That is a minor, that's what that is, and somehow
that that's okay. Tara Palmery, who has probably done the
most work investigation wise for god knows how long on this,

(41:33):
has released something that I think is very interesting. Just
to give you an example of fifteen and.

Speaker 22 (41:42):
Megan Kelly, you want to hear the sound of one
of the girls that was recruited from her high school
by Jeffrey Epstein, who had a.

Speaker 23 (41:50):
Trust that was there, we had that was like product
Alice west Lucofin who.

Speaker 9 (41:56):
To this book one of his stuff.

Speaker 24 (41:58):
I'm one of his that he has will with them
and when if they played like want to go that
he bought, they like heads back with him.

Speaker 12 (42:06):
They are so young.

Speaker 22 (42:09):
One of the girls, a fourteen year old, according to
police reports, referred to his penis as a wee wee.
Courtney Wild showed up at his doorstep with braces on
her teeth at fourteen. This is not normal for a
fifty something year old man to date a fifteen or
fourteen year old.

Speaker 2 (42:25):
It is pedophilia. And in fact, I would.

Speaker 22 (42:28):
Recommend that you actually go and listen to all of
the audio from the police reports. I think you would
actually understand what was really happening here, a sex trafficking
operation at a nearby high school for a fifty something
year old man.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
I agree. Disgusting, viole and disgusting. Hopefully we will get
this out and the people that did something paid the price.
But America Transparency and I have said, until you can

(43:06):
show me Trump did something, then that's just hearsay. For
the left, that's a want. They want that to happen
so they could say, look, we got them. There are
plenty of people in this that you pay the price,
and we as human beings we as mothers and fathers,

(43:30):
sons and daughters should demand accountability. And if you fail
to do this, people are going to look at you
in a much different way. And I continue to say
this over and over again. Watergate took two years before
it finally blew up. Just putting that out there. Three two, three, five,

(43:53):
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lot of stuff you get to on this Monday. Affordability
always sitting there number one when it comes to us
as voters, as people who are out there every single day.
We're still a checkbook society when it comes to our vote,

(44:16):
and affordability is an issue. And Trump and the messaging
of the entire team hasn't been great in the administration.
It hasn't been. Last week, of course, he flipped on
the tariffs, and there was a reason for that because
he's realizing they don't work. Look, when we were a
society that was a manufacturing society, tariffs played a much

(44:44):
bigger role. We're a consumption based society that is much different.

Speaker 25 (44:50):
One survey showing a basket of seventeen popular things giving
items in New York is up from about one hundred
and thirty five dollars last year to one hundred and
fifty eight this year. The report also finding some sharp
individual spikes, yam prices jumping a wopping one hundred and
eighty eight percent, but these high prices are not limited
to the grocery store. The cost of holiday shopping also

(45:10):
feeling that pinch this year. Some business owners say steeper
tariffs are raising their costs, giving them less room to
roll out Black Friday sales.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Tariffs have always been at tax I could say it
over and over again. Thirty years ago, forty years ago,
fifty years when we were a nation that produced stuff,
tariffs may have been something that was a good idea
to protect we don't we consume now. And it's not
just tariffs that have cost an issue. The insane printing

(45:41):
of money and handing it out, the four and a
half five years of chaos with COVID, all of those
things have played a role in this. But you can't
gaslight America and tell everybody how cheap everything is. And
I know it's their job to do that, but I
can coinue you to say this over and over again.
Be honest with the people they can handle it. That's it,

(46:08):
be honest. Prices have gone up, some prices will come down,
and yes, over time, do I think in a year
from now, our prices are going to be down and
we're going to be a great situation.

Speaker 26 (46:18):
I do believe that coffee, as you mentioned, up fifteen percent,
uncooked ground beef up fourteen percent, bananas up eight percent,
fresh cakes and cupcakes up six percent, let us up
almost six percent, launch meat, salad, dressing, tomatoes all up.
You know, well more than that two and a half percent.
I mean, Americans are clearly feeling that prices are continuing

(46:42):
to go up, and in many with many of the
goods that they buy regularly, they are going up well
and again more I mean my significant number.

Speaker 13 (46:50):
Let's look at it.

Speaker 7 (46:51):
First of all, when we came in, the very first
thing that all of you folks were.

Speaker 10 (46:55):
Talking to us about was egg prices. Yeah, and egg
prices are down in year of year. You could put
that in your church my car.

Speaker 7 (47:01):
But the fact is, when we had almost ten percent
inflation in the I.

Speaker 26 (47:06):
Mean that wasn't about economic factors. That was bird flu
with the egg prices.

Speaker 3 (47:09):
Just to be yes, that was bird flu. Just to
be honest. But yeah, let's be real. The inflation under
Biden was insane. Why printed a whole bunch of money,
lied about it being you know, this is this is
no big this is transitory, this no big deal, and
then did the ultimate to America, told them to stop

(47:30):
worrying about it because everything was great, which caused him
to piss people off and to lose even more trust
in him, if that was even possible, because you know,
he was Biden. Not many people let trust in him
or what was going on. Be honest, it's simple. You're

(47:51):
honest with the people. They'll stick with you if they
see you trying to make an effort, continue to tell
the people that everything is great, and you just don't
get it, and your bank account's lying to you. You
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Speaker 3 (49:48):
Israel not happy, not a shocker. Why is that new resolution?

Speaker 4 (49:53):
UN?

Speaker 3 (49:54):
They don't like it, not a shocker.

Speaker 11 (49:56):
Israeli officials are criticizing a newly proposed UN resolution for Gaza.
The plan, backed by President Trump, offers a pathway to
Palestinian statehood. According to a statement, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
at Yahoo said, our opposition to a Palestinian state in
any territory has not changed, and that Gaza will be
demilitarized and Hamas will be disarmed the easy way or

(50:17):
the hard way. News of the resolution comes ahead of
Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Ben Salmon's planned visit to Washington, d C.
This week.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
That's right, he's visiting this week. I wonder what he's
bringing with him. So the Swiss came last week and
they brought chocolates, a Rolex, a gold bar. What do
you think he's going to bring with him. He's got
more money than the Swiss. I mean, you know, in
some ways, not in the banks that nobody knows about. Uh.

(50:48):
The meeting's going to be interesting though, because all of
this stuff going on. Still, the battle that's happening with
Hamas and Israel is one thing. But the political side
of it, because there's still plenty of people in Israel,
in the government that want nothing but to take over

(51:08):
the rest of Palestine and move on to the West Bank.
That is their belief, the Greater Israel plan. Do I
think it's going to happen. I have no idea what's
going to happen. I don't, But it's going to be
very interesting to see because while all this is swirling around,
obviously you still have what's happening with the conspiracies of

(51:31):
Israel did all this When it comes to Epstein, Look,
we've talked about it. We're going to continue to talk
about it because you can't not talk about it. The
fact is, did Israel play a role in some of
this Epstein stuff? Well, I think that had a relationship.
How much of a relationship I don't know. Again, it
goes back to the conspiracy side of things that everybody

(51:53):
talks about, and we'll touch on that a little bit more.
But when it comes to the political side of it,
net Yahoo in them they want more than what they have,
and as far as they're concerned. It is a no
go for a two state solution. You can't have a
one state solution. It's not possible. Three two, three, five,

(52:15):
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Because eventually Palestine will outnumber the Israelis. So the Palestinians
will outnumber the Israelis, and the look at that is
there's a chance for them to pay the ultimate price

(52:37):
at the ballot box and then everything changes. So that's
just never gonna happen. Let me know what you think. Meanwhile,
in Mexico, if you're not paying attention, and we have
talked about this and will continue to talk about this,
the young, pissed and angry watching the old get wealthy
and be complicit in what they see as a world

(53:00):
that is going against them, are dangerous. We will discuss
a little bit more in detail about what's happening in Mexico.
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Speaker 3 (54:42):
Are we going into Venezuela?

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Maybe?

Speaker 3 (54:46):
Maybe not? Is it possible? Maybe?

Speaker 27 (54:52):
The State Department has announced it's designating another cartel as
a foreign terrorist organization, even accusing Maduro of leading it himself.
The administration releasing the video of its twenty first airstrike
on alleged drug smuggling boats. President Trump has threatened to
go further and strike on Venezuelan soil.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
I'll spit ball.

Speaker 27 (55:12):
But Maduro over the weekend calling for peace, singing the
John Lennon song.

Speaker 3 (55:17):
Imagine that was spectat, Imagine the paper. Yeah, he's terrified
by the way. He's already offered us everything. He's already
offered us the whole kitten kaboodle. You want to come
in and take all the oil, you want knock yourself out.
You want to come in and grab all the rare
earth minerals. Knock yourself out. He's even said he would

(55:38):
step down, but not until after twenty thirty. He gets
what's coming, and the cartel they're going after is the
suns or the cartel of the suns so is what
they're called. And it is kind of funny though except that,
am my holy people, just it's not very nice. Chet

(56:01):
No he is. Look, I don't. We have no reason
to be there. We don't. The drug thing is not
really the issue that the you know, the right the
Maga folks want to make it out to be. Okay,
very little comes from Venezuela. Yes, some gets traffic through there,

(56:27):
but there's no reason for us at this moment in
time to be thinking about going in into there. And
as you've heard, and we'll talk tomorrow, do our buddy
Mike Lions or military analysts, you know, if we were
to go in there hardcore, it would be a nightmare.
Doesn't mean we're not going to win and we're going
to just destroy them. They're very top heavy, so the

(56:51):
military that they have, the closer it gets to Maduro,
the better it is. But like anything else we saw
that with in Iraq, right the first desert storm. You know,
the further away you were from Saddam, the less you
cared about fighting for So those guys are surrendering within
two minutes. So that's always a possibility. But he does

(57:11):
have militias and stuff of that nature that may cause,
you know, some issues. But I think we're going to
bomb the hell out of him if we do anything
at all, or he is going to bounce, which look again,
I don't think we should be going in there at all.

(57:34):
That being said, it would be great if the show
of force got him to act, because it's too late now.
We can't walk away. We can't move all of those
those men and all that machinery there and not get
something out of it, because it's going to make him
feel like he's won.

Speaker 27 (57:56):
President Trump says the US may hold talks with Venezuela's
authoritarian president, Nicholas Maduro.

Speaker 12 (58:01):
We may be having some discussions with Maduro and we'll
see how that turns out.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
They would like, they would like to talk.

Speaker 27 (58:11):
It comes as the US mounts a show of force
in the region, the Navy showing the world's largest and
most advanced aircraft carrier, the USS gerald Ford, arriving in
the Caribbean. It's joined by three destroyers, a B fifty
two bomber, and multiple fighter jets the B fifty twos.

Speaker 3 (58:27):
We got them there, love shack babe la. No, that's
not them wrong ones. So do I think that some
will get done. Yeah, I think there will be some
sort of bizarre compromise. But here's the thing, like anything,
if we get into something and we replace Maduro, which

(58:52):
we're going to at some point in time by the
looks of it, we think in our mind, well, this
is going to go smooth and everybody hates Maduro and
all's going to be well. And well that's not going
to be the case. Inflation's still going to be a rampant.
Now you're going to have more of a free market.
People are going to be struggling. There's going to be
some anger, there's no doubt. And so you're worry is

(59:16):
does it break down and become some sort of civil war?
And there's going to be people that are from the
old Maduro regime. So the US right now recognizes Edmundo
Gonzalez Urutilla. Now he is the recognized by the US
who won last year's election. But here's the issue, no

(59:37):
power inside and in exile. Then you turn to Maria
Corina Mushado and she is the one who won the
Nobel Peace Prize then dedicated to Trump. So there's no
verified official USA government document out there because they've talked
about this one hundred hour plan, so it's not something

(59:59):
just kind of flow around, but that they would try
to install her as the president. So I again, it
is one of those things where what are the unintended
consequences if we do something? What does that look like?
And is there a chance And this is what you

(01:00:20):
got to think about all of the bad things. Is
there a chance that things could go sideways and then
all of a sudden there's a civil war because you
got the guy who thinks he should be president, the
guy that was just ousted as president, and then this
person Maria Krina Mushado. I have no idea. What I

(01:00:40):
do know is we're there, we're not going anywhere, and
God willing we fire no more bullets or drones or
kill anybody else, and that there could be some peaceful
resolution and you never know. I'm hoping for it. I
know I'm weird. Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five, three, eight,

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twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson shows your
ex your insta well. More on this later Mexico over
the weekend. So because they aren't paying attention, we touched
on it just briefly earlier but Mexico this weekend had
a rally. The younger pissed and they're angry, and I

(01:01:22):
think they're they're taking to the interwebs in a way
that kind of like they did earlier this year in
Nepal when Nepaul tried to get rid of you know,
social media and the internet. Next thing, you know, it
went sideways for them, and you know, people were, you know,
all of a sudden resigning. People in Mexico are pissed,
especially the young They're looking around, they're angry. They don't

(01:01:44):
feel like they have anything going for them. The violence,
they're over it, and they're angry because they're looking around
going this government, along with many other have been corrupted
by the cartels. One of what many people looked at

(01:02:05):
as kind of this point of no return when it
came to the anger that they're feeling, was the killing
of a very popular mayor of Europan, Mitukhan, on November first,
and that has sparked absolute outrage because he was leading

(01:02:31):
the anti carteil efforts and it showed that, you know,
without the government really caring, in the federal government side
of it, you're screwed. And these people are angry and pissed.
So you had thousands took to the streets over the weekend,
all right under the gen Z bantner. It's a banner,

(01:02:52):
it's a pirate flag upside down. And there was some issues,
not many. There was a lot more older people than
people realized. And there's this battle going on about who
sent who out there. Why should the gen Z be mad? Well,
they're mad because there's no transparency in the public resources,
no accountability they see for elected officials, the drug cartels

(01:03:16):
seem to be running so much, and the local corruption
is massive. They want better security policy for local communities
and officials, and they want a revitalization of democracy less
interferenced by criminal groups and politics. Good luck with that.
So this is you know, we're sitting here talking about,

(01:03:37):
you know, all the stuff that could go on with
Venezuela right next door to us, next door to us
in a much different way. The Venezuela is Mexico, and
their corruption is massive. Their situation when it comes to
the cartels is way greater than anything Venezuela has. And yeah,
it's happening, and the word is for Mexico that we're

(01:04:01):
going to get involved, which God knows. I don't want
to get involved with anything, but let's be real, you've
got serious issues when it comes to cartels. I was
talking to my kids this weekend about it. Mexico City
is like Barcelona or Rome or any big beautiful city

(01:04:22):
in Europe. You would see, right you get outside of
there and a few of the other big cities, you
know what you have. It's the wild West, and the
younger generation is tired of it. The younger generation is
tired of watching hundreds and thousands of people die violence everywhere.
Nobody cares who gets killed. And while this is going on,

(01:04:45):
they're also dealing with the same thing that many others
are dealing with their age, affordability and a future. So yeah,
I think they're pissed. And what do I always tell
you about the young You put the young together with
time on their hands, frustration and anger, and watch what happens.
It is not a good place for politicians to be

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three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
three at Chad Benson shows your acts, your insta, YouTube
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and we're gonna have a deeper dive into what's going
on with Marjorie Taylor Green and Maga. A lot of
people say this is it for Maga. There's a lot
of things going on in the Mega world. And yes,
Jeffrey Epstein could be the straw that breaks the camel's

(01:05:28):
back in some ways, but there's a lot going on
because the future of the party's looking around going okay,
who is the future of the party? What does the
party actually stand for? And who is going to lead it?
And because again, the Maga world is different than the
conservative world. And I think that's one of the other

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Say, The Running Man didn't run so well this weekend,
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The third installment and The Thieving Magician. Now You See
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In ticket sales. They study U estimates, beating the high
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Speaker 20 (01:08:15):
The Running Man in second place with seventeen million at
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Speaker 3 (01:08:26):
They pumped a lot of money into The Running Man
and it did not do well twenty eight million dollars globally.
That's not big. Now You See Me though, did like
fifty five million dollars elsewhere, which was something I don't
think they were expecting. And Predator bad Lands it's already
done one hundred and forty million dollars. That's going to
get a sequel. But the whole money, the amount of

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money they poured into running man, I thought, because fans
seem to like it. There's just no they're there. I
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of money, gambling, sports woo not a good situation.

Speaker 25 (01:09:21):
Sid Quavious day Day Hunter sitting down with Good Morning Americas.
We'll reave after an NCAA investigation found Hunter and two
of the University of New Orleans teammates engaged in so
called point shaving, manipulating their on court performance to influence
the outcome of select games for betting purposes.

Speaker 10 (01:09:37):
Indeed, I mean I need to go out there, and
I knew my visa.

Speaker 25 (01:09:42):
Investigators say the players even used a code phrase to
signal when they were altering their performance, and when Will
Reeve asked why he did it, Hunter began breaking down
a tear, saying he needed the money.

Speaker 3 (01:09:54):
He needed the money. Well, guess what you're done as
you should be. Do I understand why people do certain things. Yes,
that being said, this is different than the NBA, but
there's a betting scandal all over the place now and
you've got, of course baseball and now basketball, which has

(01:10:19):
already been investigated and then come back into light. And
theirs is very different because you also had cards in basketball,
and now it is expanding the search to find out
if there was more to this than just what we've
seen so far.

Speaker 25 (01:10:37):
The betting scandal in the NBA appears to be expanding.
Reuter's reports. The league has asked multiple teams, including the Lakers,
to turn over phone records goals off jun a league
spokesperson confirming a number of individuals and organizations were asked
to preserve documents and records. Source to say two Lakers employees,
an assistant trainer, and an administrator have been contacted in

(01:10:59):
our coopera reading how.

Speaker 3 (01:11:03):
Much money could you've gotten to throw everything away like that?
Like if somebody said you got fifty million, I'm like, well,
at least you got something for it, right when you
when you hear about some of the numbers these people
are offered, You're like, what the hell are you doing.
Are you blanking kidding me? That's all you got those
baseball players? I mean they were getting two thousand, three thousand,

(01:11:25):
four thousand. I just I'm what's the mindset in that situation?
What is the mindset where you would go and throw
everything away? Hundreds of thousands and in some case millions

(01:11:45):
of dollars on two thousand here and three thousand there.
If they've got your family and they say they're gonna
kill them, Okay, all right, well you know what I
have to do, what I have to do. But this
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because we have to. We have to talk about what's
going on Maga. What is going on with Macca? Is

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this the beginning of the end for MAGA.

Speaker 12 (01:12:31):
Or is this just a.

Speaker 3 (01:12:34):
Kind of reconfiguring of it. There's no doubt there's a
lot of issues, right now in Mecca, and they seem
to be going in several different directions, not just a
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Speaker 3 (01:13:31):
It's the holiday season, do do and people are going
to the airport to fight and yeah that people who
don't want to ruin your day. That was my horrible
song I sing for you. I just want you guys
to understand that you do. Realize that when you get
mad today, I want you to take a deep breath.

(01:13:52):
When you get angry at the person who is trying
to check you in, when you get angry at the
person next you in the car, I want you to
take a deep breath and realize they too don't want
this to go crappy. They didn't wake up and go
you know what, I really like to do ruin people's
day that didn't That's not on their agenda.

Speaker 28 (01:14:14):
The FAA says that today is the busiest day, with
fifty two thousand flights expected. Now we're told there is
solid staffing at towers and control centers nationwide.

Speaker 7 (01:14:24):
The FAA is calling this.

Speaker 28 (01:14:25):
Week they're Super Bowl and it's really no surprise.

Speaker 3 (01:14:27):
Why because the TSA.

Speaker 28 (01:14:29):
Thinks it's going to screen nearly eighteen million people for
the holiday.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
That is a lot of people. So today is super busy,
Tomorrow busy, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday super busy. Okay, now
let's just say for the sake of argument, you're not
flying anywhere, God bless you for that, but you may
be in the vehicle.

Speaker 28 (01:14:48):
Ninety percent of people will be driving. That's seventy three
million of you. The busiest day is today, Tomorrow, and Sunday.
The worst time to hit the road today is between
noon and nine pm. Tomorrow, you're gonna want to get
going before eleven am.

Speaker 3 (01:15:02):
And here's another big number for you.

Speaker 28 (01:15:03):
One point two million people will be taking a train.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
A train? What yeah, no, no, no, that's a hard no.
That's a hard no. Also a hard no is the
is a bus anywhere too? That's a that's a hard no.
Bus or a train. We're gonna go with the solid
new No. But as you guys know, we talk about

(01:15:29):
all time, phil Is, he gets a little weird with trains.
Like trains, he gets all excited about him, takes whenever
he has a chance. And he's like, because I think
that in March, him and his him and his wife Dana,
she's awesome. They're going to I don't know. They always
end up going somewhere February March and they'll train down
to like they're going to Florida, they're going to on
a cruise. They'll train down there. So he loves a train, Okay,

(01:15:50):
he love himself a train a little different overnight, I
don't know, never been my thing. Lived in Europe. Train
was a little different back then. But no, people in
the car, people take an airplanes. Just take a deep breath, everybody.
The best thing you could do is just stay home.
That's the best thing. I'm giving you advice to do nothing.

(01:16:12):
You're welcome, You're welcome, but you know, just be careful
out there and remember and I'm all joking aside the
person that you are yelling at as you try to
get you know, on the airplane or when your plane's
delayed be nice to that person, Be overly nice to

(01:16:35):
that person, stick up for that person, and watch what
happens when they go, oh, well, yeah, this plane over
here is full. But you know what, we found a
two business or first class. Why is that? Because just
treat them nice. That's all they're asking for. Speaking of
treating nice, MTG, we know she's out. I don't think

(01:16:56):
it's a win for Trump. I have to be honest
with you. I don't think it's a win for the
Republican Party. I think there's a lot of fracture. I
saw yesterday that Ran Paul's talking about there's a huge
fracture in the Republican Party right now. But MTG is out,
and will there be more and we're to talk about that.

Speaker 23 (01:17:12):
I think I'll come at this from even the GOP side,
which is I think he's losing some of the GOP,
which I think is the biggest political story over the
last ten days. Look, he's obsessed with going after his
political enemies, but what he should be focusing on right
now is the average American citizen, and that's the economy.
Polls came out today that we're devastating sixty two percent

(01:17:33):
of Americans say it's Trump's responsibility for the economy, not
Joe Biden. Seventy one percent believe tariffs have made their
life worse as a result of things being more expensive.
I'm talking about grocers, utilities, healthcare, housing. And then you
have Marjorie Taylor Green resigning Friday night. That is not

(01:17:54):
that that is not a victory for Trump. That is
a victory for Marjorie Taylor Green. Stay tuned to what
she's going to be up to, and there may be
more following her footsteps. Okay, which brings me back to
how important this is for the cracking potentially of the
GOP and.

Speaker 3 (01:18:08):
By more following the footsteps, I don't think people realize.
I've talked to several congress people, people that work inside
the congressional world, who have said that there are several
that are ready to step away potentially. Don Bacon actually
the other day almost stepped away without seeing out his term.

(01:18:35):
He was so frustrated and angry. And there is a
new and I think this is very telling his new
article in Axios about is it even worth it anymore?
Because of all of the chaos, the craziness. They call
it the worst good paying job around and that many
people in the House in particular, are over They're over

(01:18:59):
the death threats, They're over the NonStop fighting. They're over
the fear of Trump coming down on them and the
loyalty test. They're over the the censures and all of
this stuff. Tim Burchett right said, look, it takes a
toll on people. Jared Golden, who is retiring right you know,

(01:19:22):
said look, one of the reasons they're retiring, they're just
done with the potential for political violence. And Don Bacon,
like I said, Republican who's retiring in twenty twenty seven,
he said he was so angry at Trump's administration to
propose twenty eight point Russia Ukraine peace plan. He thought
about bouncing early. And there are several others that think
about leaving. And why is that important? Because if if
you leave, remember Mike Johnson's lead in the House isn't

(01:19:47):
very much. If if you leave, he could end up
no longer being Speaker of the House. The Democrats could
take over because they'll have more seats filled. It is
not a good place to be right now. The rhetoric,
the violence, the thought of violence, the talk of it,
all of these things is not doing our country any good.

(01:20:08):
It isn't. And yeah, Trump has an issue, and the
loyalty test is a serious thing. It's an absolute serious thing.
And there are a lot of Republicans, like I said,
after she did what she did in holding the line
and fighting with Trump for the Epstein files, there is
no doubt that some other people found their cajones and
they're looking around and thinking, Okay, well, you know what,

(01:20:30):
we got to figure something out here. All right, this
is not what we're hoping for. We need something else.
Because part of that is the fact that Trump is
going to be gone. So they're all trying to find
theirs space in this world. If it's going to be maga,
if it's going to be maga hybrid. But at the

(01:20:52):
same time, just in case stuff doesn't work out the
way they like, just in case next year they get
boat race. And I will tell you there, don't be
surprised that there's going to be seven more retirements coming
soon because they're worried about getting their asses handed to
him next year. Why is that rising cost of everything now?
Thing's going up?

Speaker 29 (01:21:09):
New CBS News polling finds Americans feelings about the economy
and inflation don't match the messaging being put out by
the Trump administration. CBS News Executive director of Elections and Surveys,
Anthony Salvonto, joins us now with more so, Anthony, as
we enter the holiday season, walk us through how people
are feeling about the economy and inflation and how it
differs from what we're hearing from the White House.

Speaker 30 (01:21:31):
Right, it's the time of year people spend even more money. Right,
this is the ratings of the economy, and you can
see it's dropped now. It's at thirty two percent. Good
has been low all year, as you can see. But
that little bit of an added decline, if you will,
is really because you've got a lot of people who
say that prices are still going up certainly not coming down.

Speaker 3 (01:21:53):
So that's one part of it.

Speaker 30 (01:21:54):
Prices have always been driving views of the economy for
recent years.

Speaker 3 (01:21:58):
Right, absolutely, so one of the reasons we no longer
have biden, among other things. But the prices in the
transitory Remember everything here was transitory when it came to
the economy's inflation. It's all it's going to be here
for a little while and then gone. You guys just
don't understand Trump's pitching the same thing best and is
pitching the same thing, how loving is pitching the same thing?

(01:22:19):
People aren't buying it. My eyes tell me that my
bank account is less. Your words are telling me that
this is great, but then I go back to my
eyes and my eyes say, nah, it's not that now.

Speaker 30 (01:22:35):
What you mentioned there at the top, this is the
six and ten who say that they think the administration
is making things sound better than they really are. So
a bit of a disconnect book. Any president is going
to sometimes try to be upbeat, right, be optimistic, especially
about economic things. But at the same time, this is
a disconnect that people are seeing and what they're hearing

(01:22:57):
out of the White House, and a big part of
that is saying not enough attention to.

Speaker 3 (01:23:02):
The economy, and that is the number one driving force
when it comes to voting. We can pretend about all
the other things unless there's a war that we're literally
in the midst of. It's the economy, stupid, and the
economy will always be number two at worse. They have

(01:23:24):
to figure out how they can turn this around. But
what you can't do is gaslight people. What you can't
do is tell everybody everything's great and it's never been
greater and it's the best ever. And if you don't
believe as well, you're just a fool. You can't just
give a portion of a story and hope everybody ignores
the other part of the story, because that other part
juxtaposes your side of the story and tells a completely

(01:23:48):
different story. It's about empathizing and understanding, but it's also
about those two things we've talked about, affordability and urgency.
Absolutely have to find out a way to start figuring
out how you can get to the affordability side. And
it isn't going to be perfect, but you can't gaslight people.
And you have to have urgency because, as we have

(01:24:13):
talked about over and over again, when it comes to
everything we can think of in the world of politics
and sports, winning cures all ills. So no matter how
about a locker room may be, no matter how fractured
it is, if you're winning, everything stays in the locker room.
If you start to lose and there's cracks. Watch what
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Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

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Let's find out what's trending on the old interwebs on
this Tuesday. It's my Friday. That's kind of cool for
It sucks for you guys if you're working, but it's
pretty good for me, although a lot of people are
off because you know, Thanksgiving and all trending right now.
Afton Baine often of course, is running in the Tennessee Seventh,
but she's kind of got notoriety everywhere. Talk about that

(01:27:16):
in a little bit. We've talked about it throughout the show,
just to let you guys know. Afton's going to be
on my local show on Tuesday. Her and I are,
we've kind of become friends. And as far as just
the politics aside, because I don't agree with ninety percent
of what her politics is, but she's genuine and nice

(01:27:40):
and that's what makes it tough when I fight with
her for her politics. But she can be on my
show on Tuesday. Lord Trump. Trump holds eighty seven percent
approval among Republicans. Good for him, Afghanistan, Kiev, Pakistan, Pam BONDI,
she's doing well. I don't think that was very honest.

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Chet forty nine ers Thanksgiving over to Yahoo Rush Ukraine War,
Donald Trump, Steph Curry, Anna Kepner. That whole thing on
that cruise ship is just so bizarre. If you haven't
followed it, it is just bizarre. Travis Turner, he is

(01:28:23):
the missing football coach that I said yesterday. They're like
they're looking for him, and I said, I feel like
he did something wrong, and he disappeared, and sure enough
he has been put on leave. So that's kind of
an interesting twist. Forty nine ers over on Google number
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What I'm saying is I would be thankful see the
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of thankful James Kemy ladies and gentlemen, Leticia James, what happened?

Speaker 7 (01:29:27):
Federal Judge Cameron Curry based her rulings on the law
which says that when a top federal prosecutor's role in
a judicial district is left a vacant for more than
one hundred and twenty days, only the district court can
fill it. As a result, Curry has dismissed the indictments
Lindsay Halligan brought against Letitia James and James Comy. The
former FBI director responded online.

Speaker 4 (01:29:46):
I'm grateful that the court ended the case against me,
which was a prosecution based on malevolence and incompetence.

Speaker 7 (01:29:53):
A White House spokeswoman says, the dismissals will not be
the final word.

Speaker 3 (01:29:57):
Well, the final word was they dismissed it, but without prejudice,
meaning they can go back and refile. The reality is
simply she's in over her head Halligan and it was
unfair to put her in that position because she should
never been there. Right, you can't hire people based on
hotness unless it's some sort of modeling thing. I don't
think that's nice. It's honest, but not nice. And Kobe's

(01:30:18):
probably going to be statue to lipidation. So there's a
good chance nothing comes out of Kobe. Letitia James. We'll see,
We shall see three two, three, five, three eighty four
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Speaker 3 (01:31:19):
That's time of the week. We talked to Man that
we're very thankful for TRD Major the Army and the
best damn military analyst period. Case closed. Mike Lines joined
the program, and Man, there is a lot to talk about. First,
let's talk about Ukraine. The twenty eight point plan deal
that seemed to be put together without Ukraine. What's your
take on this.

Speaker 10 (01:31:39):
One, MITCHI I great to be with you.

Speaker 31 (01:31:41):
You know, a twenty eight point anything would never work,
especially when it comes to negotiating a peace agreement between
two countries that are warring. So from initially when I
first heard of it, I said, something is way off
with this, and you dig into it and there's just
so many things in this are just not in Ukraine's

(01:32:02):
favor on any level that they won't agree to.

Speaker 10 (01:32:05):
Now.

Speaker 31 (01:32:05):
I get the negotiation, I get all that, but really
nothing's changed in the last months since we've been talking
about the situation on the ground. No Tomahawks have showed up,
no Patriot missiles, no NATO, no fly zones, no other
security guarantees for Ukraine have showed up. So this to me, unfortunately,
looks like a deal that the administration is trying to

(01:32:26):
do to get another deal in its cap but overall,
top to bottom, it's just not something that Ukraine, you,
we can't accept on any level. And also given the
current situation on the ground, they're keeping Russia from breaking through.
We talk more about the drone situation that the drones
are at a new level with regard to how they're

(01:32:48):
being operated on both sides. Russia's actually had some real
advances on their drone warfare side as well.

Speaker 3 (01:32:53):
The drone side of it, because let's be real, Ukraine
got really innovative early into this where they were just
buying stuff off essentially Amazon, creating their own little bombs
and drones that weren't very high tech, but at a
time when his guerrilla warfare seems to be the thing
that was really the most important part of that.

Speaker 31 (01:33:12):
That's right, and they used a lot of this technology
that the Russians now have come back with electronic warfare
capability in order to knock a lot of them out
of the sky. They were using the principle of wars
just mass throwing a lot of drones at the Russians.
But the Russians have evolved to have this whole unit
now it's called Rubicon that they have incredibly accurate drones.

Speaker 10 (01:33:37):
They have them tethered with fiber optics.

Speaker 31 (01:33:39):
If there are places now in Ukraine, then there's so
many fiber optic strands out there that looks like the
whole field is covered with plastic.

Speaker 10 (01:33:48):
So tethered drone is something unusual, but it doesn't.

Speaker 31 (01:33:53):
It gives highly accurate signals back to its operator as
well as making it impervious to any kind of electronic
warfare a taxa going against it. So the Russians have
flipped that equation on its head a little bit, and
then they've become just as good at the drone game
as Ukraine is. And so far this the entire battlefield
is just saturated with this technology.

Speaker 3 (01:34:15):
Talking to Mikelines, military expert, we talked about what's going
on in right now the eastern part of Europe with
the battle chill between Ukraine and Russia. I saw several
people yesterday talk about this, this thing that they're trying
to put together. This it seemed like, you know, somebody said,
it feels like it's a Christmas wishless for Putin that
isn't going to happen. But what's the real like if

(01:34:38):
you and I have been talking about this since the
you know, before they invaded, and you've always said this
will be land for peace and how much land is
the question. But right now I still don't feel like
Putin has any reason to stop doing what he's doing.

Speaker 10 (01:34:52):
He doesn't.

Speaker 31 (01:34:53):
And part of this agreement would mean that Russia would
gain land that they technically haven't conquered yet, and that's
what the concern would be here. From Ukraine's perspective, they
have to be concerned about the next attack that was
going to happen. Russia has what's called interior lines in
a lot of this area, in Hauntsk, in the Dunask region,

(01:35:16):
and they can easily reinforce and for it creates a
situation on Ukraine. If they're going to defend they're having
much more challenges. And if they give some of this
land back that that Russia wants in this deal, it'll
make it even worse. And so it's one thing to
freeze this in place. But right now, Russia continues to

(01:35:37):
try to move forward, continues to try to, you know,
create the situation, making it better for themselves. If you
look on a map, it's kind of this very jagged
border that would exist right now, Russia wants to round
that whole thing off.

Speaker 10 (01:35:50):
Which would make it much more difficult for Ukraine to defend.

Speaker 3 (01:35:53):
Okay, so let's just say, for the sake of argument,
we say we're done. You didn't sign anything. We threw
something out there, even though it may be bad. What
is the what is their options is? You know, the
Europeans are still very nervous about what's going on in Russia.
What is their options if we step away from this?

Speaker 31 (01:36:10):
Well, you know, Ukraine thinks it can still grind this
thing out, and it probably can for a few more years,
and it would it would you know, this could eventually
go on for many many years. Russia can't break through,
they can't mass, they can't bring other principles of war
to this battle, but they can continue to try to
bleed out Ukraine in this manner. The rest of Europe

(01:36:35):
is still unwilling to provide the level of technology as
well as you know, kinetic support right now that in
order for them to go on the offensive in order
to really strike back at Russia. So I don't know,
I don't think the US will abandoned Ukraine. I think
that would be politically unviable right now, given how long
this has gone on. And but but Trump is, as

(01:36:57):
we've talked about, did not think that the Tomahawks would
provide this leverage. And I don't think he thinks any
military solution provides any more leverage, which is why he's
demanding a deal to get done.

Speaker 3 (01:37:07):
Talking to my client's military analysts, we have him on
the show every Tuesday, talk about all things military. Venezuela. Obviously,
you know you've said, look that the army's not there yet,
which is good, but there still feels like something is
getting ready to go down. Now we're telling planes don't
even not only don't even fly over Venezuela airspace, be
careful around Colombia, Gayon and all these other places. It

(01:37:29):
feels like something's coming. It's not if, but when and
what does it look like.

Speaker 31 (01:37:32):
You had a good conversation with i'll just say very
high retired classmate of mine who ran a very large operation.
His concern wasn't I agree with this that you know,
you've got professionals down there in the military that know
exactly what they're doing, and they're maneuvering large ships and
there's all kinds of moving parts going to this, well,

(01:37:53):
it could still go sidewaise pretty quickly on a couple
different levels. You know, obviously the performative projecting a power
down there. I think a lot of it also is
sending messages to China and Russia as well. If about
encroaching in this hemisphere. We know the Chinese are trying
to you know, leak their way into into South America.
But this could still go sideways if something goes wrong.

(01:38:15):
Given the amount of military operations and things that we
have there, now, what does a ground war look like there?
Again unfathomable at any level. The army is not there.
The Marines that we have there would not be enough
in order to ensure victory without any kind of large
scale casualties that could possibly happen.

Speaker 10 (01:38:34):
But right now it looks like pressure on Maduro to leave.

Speaker 31 (01:38:37):
I don't know what that means either, because just you know,
when one leaves, we don't know what's going.

Speaker 10 (01:38:42):
To follow him.

Speaker 31 (01:38:43):
Right now, but this is maybe the beginning of their
conversation about putting the drug traffic down, But we have
to remain to be seen whether that's been impacted at all.

Speaker 3 (01:38:53):
And the whole Maduro thing, I mean he's getting it
from Colombia and several others because their fear, right, like
everybody's fear, is because I've seen several simulations they've run.
They've all said the same thing. Uh, it becomes chaos
there and becomes a civil war, and then there's several
different little civil wars, and then it spill spills over
into two Colombia and several other places. I mean that
is you know, that's why everybody seems to be kind

(01:39:14):
of going, hey, ma, Duro, take all the gold, take
all the money you have, and just get the hell
out of dodge.

Speaker 4 (01:39:20):
Well.

Speaker 10 (01:39:21):
And you know that that means a reset for that country.

Speaker 31 (01:39:25):
And you know Venezuela is you know, sits on a
tremendous amount of rare earth minerals. I think that could
be the other strategic plot here. This this administration does
look over the horizon, recognizes that the sooner we don't
have any dependencies on China for erath minerals and in
other countries for any kind of energy, it's just going
to be you know, the best in our in our

(01:39:46):
in our interests, so that that could possibly be what's
happening here. But again, you know, invading a sovereign nation
like this, So I don't think that's that's going to
go over very well with UH, with our allies and
with with other of those countries in the in the
in South America.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
It's talking to my client's military analysts. The guy is
the best dam military analyst in the business. Any big
plans for the Thanksgiving, we no chat.

Speaker 31 (01:40:07):
I have my alternate job of doing some NHL hockey
games and seeing my brother, my sister's coming in, so
the four of us, the sibs and the sibs all
get together watch some football and then, you know, be
grateful for this amazing country that we have, as we say,
coming on two hundred and fifty years, and just just
very grateful for all I get to do and get
to talk to you and talk about the military and

(01:40:30):
about how our great country is. And I really appreciate
you give me the opportunity.

Speaker 3 (01:40:34):
Well, we are thankful for you. Brother. You have yourself
a safe well, a safe Thanksgiving and have fun at
the hockey games.

Speaker 10 (01:40:39):
Yeah chat you tune now, we'll talk soon.

Speaker 3 (01:40:40):
I love talking to Mike and that guy is absolutely amazing.
He will send me stuff throughout the day. He's never
you know if there's some chaos going on around the world.
I texted with it. Two seconds he's back to me
and I just blast have people like that who are
willing to come on and do stuff on the show.
And yes he does. He works. So if you guys

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eight coming up. It's one of the greatest TV episodes
of all time. Oh yeah, Turkeys away. WKRP. We'll do
that straight ahead Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:42:15):
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Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
I'm trapped in a hashtag factory and I can't get out.
The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 3 (01:42:37):
Every year we close our show for the week a
few days before Thanksgiving because we're gonna have time off,
and we do it with something we love. I'm wearing
my WKRP shirt today Scott's Witness. I thought turkeys could
fly one of the greatest episodes of television to ever
take place. Took place actually day before Halloween nineteen seventy eight.

(01:43:00):
It was co written by story editor Bill Dile and
series creator Hugh Wilson, and it is their Turkey's Away episode,
which TV Guide calls one of the greatest episodes of
sitcom in history. And it is amazing and it's actually
based on some true stories that Hugh Wilson, the creator

(01:43:21):
of w KP, adapted from several different stories he had
heard or people he knew that told him stories about
a turkey giveaway, including Jeremy Blum, who's a general manager
of a station in Atlanta called w q XI. He
was there from nineteen sixteen to eighty nine and he

(01:43:42):
was part of the stories that inspired the live Turkey Giveaway.
Blums that he tossed turkeys out of a pickup truck
in a Dallas shopping center back in the day. He
said it was a disastrous promotion. I didn't know turkeys
couldn't fly, was actually what he said. It is truly

(01:44:03):
one of our favorite things to do, and I think
you guys will enjoy it. So without further ado, here
is Turkey's Away and the great ending of one of
the great television shows of all time, one of the
great episodes of all time. From our friends at WKRP.

Speaker 24 (01:44:23):
All right, fellow babies, and now it's time to go
to our live remote man on the scene at the
Pinedale Shopping Mall.

Speaker 3 (01:44:29):
For the big WKRP Turkey giveaway. So take it away,
less Ness Man.

Speaker 2 (01:44:34):
This is less Nesman, your.

Speaker 24 (01:44:35):
Man on the scene here at the Pinedale Shopping Center
where the excitement is mounting. We're here to witness the
big war ne l Urki Thanksgiving Giveaway.

Speaker 3 (01:44:42):
You got permission to be out here? What you're blocking
my store?

Speaker 11 (01:44:46):
Here?

Speaker 3 (01:44:47):
Buddy? Don't you know who I am?

Speaker 24 (01:44:49):
Huh?

Speaker 3 (01:44:51):
I'm less Nessmund.

Speaker 24 (01:44:52):
I won the Buckeye News Huck Award last year.

Speaker 3 (01:44:55):
Good for you, buck Eye. Now get out of my doorway.
I'm sorry, creep. So far, so good.

Speaker 24 (01:45:04):
I can hear hundreds of people who if.

Speaker 32 (01:45:05):
You hab to witness what has been described as perhaps
the greatest Turkey event in Thanksgiving date is. All we
know for sure is that in a very few moments
they're going to be a lot of happy people out here.
And now the crowd is the crowd is curious, but
well behaved, and I think I hear something now the

(01:45:27):
crowd is moving out into the parking area and oh yes,
I can see it now. It's a it's a hell
look cockter and it's coming this way. It's flying something
behind it. I can't quite make it out. It's a
large banner and it says heavy things.

Speaker 24 (01:45:49):
Killy from wy What site they is, gentlemen?

Speaker 21 (01:46:01):
What a sight.

Speaker 24 (01:46:02):
The culture seems to be circling in the parking area
now I guess it's looking for a place to land. No,
something just came out of the back of the helicopter.
It's a dark object or head's a skydiver plummington to
the earth from only two thousand feet in the air.
The second, the third. There's no parachutes yet. You can't

(01:46:24):
be skydivers. I can't not just yet what they are?

Speaker 3 (01:46:28):
Oh my god, they're trunking. Give me this. They're turning
to the earth right, I was.

Speaker 24 (01:46:36):
Going to win children.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
The turkey's running around, pushing each other.

Speaker 3 (01:46:41):
Oh my dash, the huge.

Speaker 24 (01:46:45):
Running the bobs on the turkeys are hitting the ground
like sets of what Sam.

Speaker 7 (01:46:49):
It's I don't know how much longer than the trot
is running for their lives.

Speaker 3 (01:46:55):
I think I'm going to step in side. I can't
stay out here and watch this with the holl No,
I can't go in.

Speaker 1 (01:46:59):
There has never been anything like that. I don't know
how I can hol my position here.

Speaker 10 (01:47:09):
Johnny Last, Last, are you there?

Speaker 4 (01:47:16):
Last?

Speaker 3 (01:47:16):
Isn't there? Thanks for that on the spot report? Last
you just tuned in.

Speaker 24 (01:47:27):
The Pinedale shopping mall has just been bombed with urkey?

Speaker 3 (01:47:33):
Are you okay?

Speaker 24 (01:47:33):
I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:47:36):
A man in his two children tried to kill me.

Speaker 24 (01:47:40):
After the turkeys hit the pavement, the crowd kind of scattered,
but some of them tried to attack me.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
I to gem myself into a phone booth.

Speaker 24 (01:47:51):
Then mister Carlson had the helicopter land in the middle
of the parking lot. I guess he thought he could
save the day by turning the rest of the turkeys loose.
It's pretty strange after that, Let's come on now, tell
us the rest. I really don't know how to describe it.
It was like the turkeys mounted to counter attack. It

(01:48:16):
was almost as if they were organized.

Speaker 3 (01:48:24):
As God is my weakness.

Speaker 22 (01:48:27):
I thought turkeys could fly.

Speaker 3 (01:48:33):
I still love that. It is amazing delivered in such
a way, so incredible, one of the great episodes of
all time in television history, and yes, delivered directly to
you on a platter if you will, right here from
The Chad Benson Show. And I just want to say
thank you guys for spending time with us throughout the year.

(01:48:56):
You guys take your time to listen to us, to comments,
to argue at times, to compliment, and I just thank
you so much because without you, you know, without Phil
and all the people that work around this show, I
wouldn't have the opportunity to do what I do. But really,
without you, guys, it wouldn't be anything. And I am

(01:49:16):
so blessed and happy that I'm able to do this
each and every single day. Go love your family, eat
a lot, and when I say eat a lot, eat
a whole bunch. But on stretch you pants. You guys,
have a blessed and amazing and safe Thanksgiving and holiday weekend.
And we'll do it again next Tuesday as always, Night
Night Chat.

Speaker 2 (01:49:35):
This is the Chad Benson Show.