United Healthcare CEO Fatally Shot Outside Manhattan Hotel in 'Targeted' Attack

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

Speaker 2 (00:13):
If you put a message on a bullet it's because
you gotta grudge the guy that shot and killed Brian Thompson,
CEO of United Healthcare, put messages on the bullet I'm
going to go with this if I'm going to build
out a suspect profile, angry, nothing to lose, Probably had

(00:37):
bad dealings with either the insurance industry as a whole
or United Healthcare in particular. This is just me speculating
and getting it right.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Please say it was around six forty five am Wednesday
when the suspect pictured at a Starbucks before the shooting,
gunned down Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, as
he was walking alone into the Hilton for an investor's conference.
Even as the lead leader of a large corporation, Thompson
did not have a security team with him. Investigators say
they found shellcasings with writing on them, including the words deny, defend,

(01:10):
and depose. They also say they found a cell phone,
granola bar wrappers, and a water bottle. They believe our
link to the shooter.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
It's dude, if you're writing on these things, come on,
I don't think this was a lover's quarrel. I don't
think somebody slept with somebody's wife or and I know
they're investigating them for the Department of Justice investigating United
Healthcare and them for all kinds of stuff because your
giant corporation gonna be investigated. Are they a monopoly? They're

(01:38):
this big beheemoth. I mean the amount of money that
they rake in. They are the biggest sure in the country.
I mean, they're they're massive, like this guy is huge.
The fact that he didn't have any security is odd,
considering his wife had said he had been getting threats.
So maybe you don't have it all the time, but

(02:00):
at a certain level you start getting threats. You said,
you know what, maybe maybe at least if I'm going
some places, I'm going to take one or two more
precautions that I normally would, and that may include, you know,
I don't know, somebody there with you.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
The killer is at large, but he left behind a
trail of clues. But he said, not identified the suspect.
But they are building a profile of a man with
a grudge, possibly against United Healthcare or the insurance industry
in general. To take the time to actually write on
the shell casings indicates a deeply personal type killing. And

(02:35):
those words deny, depose, defend, those are words often associated
with the insurance industry.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
Yeah, was that movie The Rainmaker of Matt Dame and
Danny DeVito, Roy Scheider. Remember that that was about the
insurance industry. Deny, deny, deny, and they won in court.
This guy, I think, wanted to win on the day
and he chose the gun as the judge, the jury,

(03:05):
and the executioner.

Speaker 4 (03:06):
The details and nuances of this attack are extraordinary and
they do betray an astounding level of pre planning, of organization,
and it should also say cool headedness, and all of
those things together would point towards a very competent assassin
and potentially even someone who does this for hire. We

(03:26):
know first by his use of the weapon. He's carrying
a nine millimeters semi automatic pistol. It appears to be
equipped with some sort of silencer or suppression device. These
are not things that you see on everyday ordinary homicides
drive by shooting things like that. This is a pretty
advanced piece of equipment.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
Is it.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
I mean, he could have went out and practiced, but
if you're in going out and practicing you know, like
if you're going to go do this and you feel
you've got nothing to you lose, you go out and
the suppressor silent to whatever you want to call it,
you know, the silences they call it in the movie suppressor.
It still makes a noise. And I'm sure by now
everybody's seen the video. There was some jams a couple

(04:10):
of times. It wasn't high, you know, powered, It wasn't this,
It was this guy was casual about it, which is
also very eerie, which shows me you're looking at somebody
who I don't know if he does it for hire,
but you're also looking at somebody who is probably feels

(04:30):
they have nothing to lose.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
He uses it with great precision. His timing is impeccable.
He waits behind this the SUV until.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
The target walks past.

Speaker 6 (04:40):
He steps out.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Behind the target so as not to be seen. He
shoots once and then follows it up with two additional
shots to make sure he's got a complete kill. And
of course he's able to recycle the weapon to clear
an ammunition jam in the middle of the attack. That
shows a high degree of training on firearms, and I

(05:02):
think the timing and the way he conducts himself also
really lend to this impression that this is someone who
is very serious and spend a lot of time thinking
this through.

Speaker 2 (05:12):
That's the big thing. Even if you're not a professional,
when you think about this, you're a desperate individual. Maybe
your wife died, Maybe you're dying and you were denied.
Thinks maybe your kid died, and I'm just I'm painting
a picture for you, guys, So this could all be wrong.
He could be some dude who somebody else you know,

(05:33):
blue Cross, no, no, no Lacrosse. But you want to
paint that picture for you. Your wife died, you're dying, your
kid died, whatever it is, they denied, denied, denied, and
those treatments could have saved potentially your life, your wife,
your child, your mother's, whoever it was. You're going to

(05:54):
think this thing through every step of the way, the
mini and not so much where, but how you want
to do it. The feeling of pulling the trigger, the
surprise from behind, then when he's on the ground, having
him look at your face or whatever, you know I mean,

(06:15):
because he had his face covered, but you know I said,
looking in his eyes, walking through those steps, and then
it was when and where just creepy three two, three, five,
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And it's creepy in a lot of ways because you
got cameras everywhere, and you're watching somebody kill another human being,

(06:41):
a person who's walking down the streets, and by all accounts,
you know, he's got a wife, he's got a life,
he's you know, he's he seems to be at the
highest point of his of his professional career, in the
prime of his life. And watching somebody else come up
behind and kill somebody and shoot them and in doing so,

(07:02):
you're watching a human being that thirty seconds ago was
alive and now is dead is eerie. And the cameras
will play a key part because the thing about New
York is there everywhere in a city of cameras.

Speaker 7 (07:16):
Platoons of detectives are searching for the video that might
show the shooter without his mask. So far, the best
images from a nearby Starbucks he visited a few minutes
before the incident, where he discarded a bottle and two
energy bar wrappers. They've also recovered what might be his
cell phone, which could unlock the mystery of who he is.
But an equally big question is why he targeted Thompson.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Well, I think we're starting to put that picture together
as well. So this is very sad, very ugly, and
very much public. And you watch at some point in time,
especially if it's somebody who's was denied insurance, denied a claim,

(08:01):
denied a treatment, You watch what happens the minute that
they sorted out and they find out who he is
and what happened. And if that is the case, people
will start going, well, this is what happens when you
deny people' stuff. This is what happens when insurance companies
can involved. This is what happens to put you know,
profit in front of people. This it's going to happen.
You watch, You watch three, two, three, five, three eight,

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It's your Twitter, your Instagram, all of the other stuff. Yes,
we're going to talk about.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
The Court's conservative majority was highly sympathetic at least many
members of that majority two Tennessee's law, saying that legislatures
should be the ones to regulate medical procedures, not courts.
The bind an administration and the liberal justices seem to
suggest that this is discriminatory, banning outright a treatment that
many families and many kids have said has made a

(08:52):
real difference in their lives.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
We're gonna be talking about that in a little bit
as well as peace heads get And if you didn't hear,
China hacked all the phones you could think of, and
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Speaker 5 (10:15):
Joe.

Speaker 1 (10:28):
Chad Benson.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
The Chinese are not our friends. Just want to tell
you guys that because by all of the stuff that's
going on, the CEO being shot, Scotus and the transgender
hearing and all of that stuff, come to find out
you and I and everybody else our phones probably got
super double, triple, quadruple hacked.

Speaker 9 (10:50):
The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee telling ABC News
millions of Americans could potentially be impacted by a massive
Chinese hacking in espionage.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Camp paying authorities now say at least eight.

Speaker 9 (11:02):
American telecommunications giants or compromise as part of a recently
discovered global hacking operation.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
The news coming is ABC News learned.

Speaker 9 (11:11):
US authorities suspected data of one hundreds of thousands of
US mobile phones users were stolen, with more than a
million unsuspecting consumers likely affected.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
What and those are consumers? You and I? The average folk,
as I'd like to say, the average people, You and I?
What can we do?

Speaker 9 (11:30):
Officials today also acknowledging the massive privacy implications for so
many average Americans tonight their urging consumers to use encrypted
apps for their communications, including text messages and voicemail recordings.

Speaker 2 (11:45):
They can see everything at the read thing. How big
is this? Mark Warner, Democrat, Virginia.

Speaker 10 (11:52):
This is the worst telecom hack in United States history.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
That's uh, that's saying some like huge massive. They're not
our friends. China is not our friends. They don't want
to be pals. They want to dominate us. They do
not want to be our pals. They don't want to
be our friends. They don't want to be you know,

(12:18):
like co workers working for the betterment of mankind. They
don't want that. They want to dominate the world, and
we stand in their way.

Speaker 10 (12:34):
Their capacity to collect huge amounts of data like old
call records of who you called, where you were, and on.
What's really frightening, If they pick you or me to
go after and they know our number, they can actually
listen to our cell phone conversations.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, Mark Warner Again. One of the other things they
talked about is reading a bunch of people's text messages,
including some higher ups, some people that have been these
targeted things. Look Iran, North Korea, they're a different kind
of foe. They're a thorn in everybody's ass. We recognize

(13:11):
that China is something different because our relationship with North
Korea is virtually none. Our relationship with Iran is it
as it should be. But China we're supposed to be
pals with, We do business there, we trade with them

(13:31):
in a massive way. Sweet Mother of God, this is insane.

Speaker 10 (13:36):
We think they have an effect gone are hiding in
the system right now, But when they choose or where
they choose, or who they choose to activate the system
and listen in or read your text, that still is
a threat.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
So this is I mean, wasn't really talked about yesterday.
Over the last couple of days, you might see something here,
So you should probably get something doing, encrypt it and
do this that, and the do everything you possibly can.
And even at that point in time when you're dealing
with this kind of level of hackery, if you will hickery,
they're gonna get in if they want. And we've talked

(14:15):
about it with Mike Lyons, We've talked about it with
Gordon Chang. When it comes to Chia China. Their goal
simply is, when it comes to this stuff, is gather
as much data as possible, even if you can't decipher
of it, even if you can't use it now, having
all of that data is going to help you at
some point in time, and it might not be today.

(14:36):
So gather, gather, gather, gather, gather, gather, gather. Speaking of gathering,
look at that, Chad, the way you did that, I know, right,
Pete Hegseeth, I said it right. Doing everything you can
to try to stick around.

Speaker 11 (14:51):
In addition to pressing the flesh on Capitol Hill, Pete
Hegseth has employed a media strategy to shore up his
bid to lead the Pentagon. Hegseth says he asked his mother,
who said in a twenty eighteen email that her son
was an abuser of women to appear on Fox News.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
Pete is a new person. He's redeemed forgiven.

Speaker 11 (15:08):
And in an interview with Megan Kelly on her Sirius
XM show, Hegsath said he's still got the backing of
the President elect.

Speaker 8 (15:14):
I chose you because you're the guy that's going to
put the war fighters first.

Speaker 11 (15:17):
But sources say Trump has also spoken to others about
the role, including Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Speaker 2 (15:23):
You've got to at this point in time, you have
no choice. And there are several senators out there that
they're like, look, you know, I wouldn't Again. I'm not
saying no to giving him a hearing, but there's several

(15:45):
Republican senators that are very skeptical of him. And that's
why if you're Trump, you have to have plan B.
And in some cases, Plan B may have been Plan
A all along. You throw it out there, see what sticks.
I mean, it'd be great, right like you always okay, man,
when you go into a contract negotiation, ask for something
ridiculous and then you meet in the middle, which you know,

(16:09):
so maybe he's thought, well, I'll throw Pete out there
and we'll see how this goes. But Plan B looks
a lot like Rohn DeSantis, Jony Urst maybe, but we'll see.
It's gonna be very interesting to see how this plays
itself out in the coming days. And in a situation
like this, it feels like it's hour by hour. Unlike

(16:29):
Matt Gates, he's been a lot more vocal, a lot
more in front of the camera and fighting for it
in a much different way. Because I think Matt knew
this isn't gonna work. Where in the situation over here,
I think Pete still thinks he's got a chance, and
maybe he does. So I say give him a shot,

(16:51):
put him in front of the committee, see what happens.
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Speaker 1 (17:59):
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Speaker 2 (18:01):
The New York Times described it as the case this
got of season, the trends case case case case, Oh
my god, what do I think is going to happen?
I think they're going to uphold the Tennessee law that
says under eighteen stay away from the kids.

Speaker 8 (18:21):
The court's conservative majority was highly sympathetic, at least many
members of that majority two Tennessee's law, saying that legislatures
should be the ones to regulate medical procedures, not courts.
The Biden administration and the liberal justices seem to suggest
that this was discriminatory, banning outright a treatment that many
families and many kids have said has made a real

(18:43):
difference in their lives.

Speaker 2 (18:47):
You can go find people that say that, and you
go find people to say that being trands and doing
all this stuff and their d transitioning because they were
pushed into it. You can find all kinds of them.
What's the actual data? Say? You can pick one here
and one there and and say, look, I speak for everybody,
and we know that's not true. What's the actual data

(19:13):
look like that's what I want to know, And the
data looks like, yeah, they're all the stuff that they're
pushing me. Again, I'm not talking about an adult, we're
talking about youth. There, the activists will push it. They'll
find one piece of evidence and they'll run with it

(19:34):
like there's no tomorrow based on anecdotal evidence, or we
looked at three hundred people for two years and they
seem to be okay, what's the long term ramifications? Out
of curiosity? These are the questions very much so that
the likes of justice.

Speaker 13 (19:53):
Alito was asking the Swedish National Board of Health and
Welfare currently assess quote that the risks of puberty blockers
and gender affirming treatment are likely to outweigh the expected
benefits of these treatments, which is directly contrary to the
sweeping statement in your petition. After the filing of your petition,

(20:15):
of course, we saw the release of the CAST report
in the United Kingdom which found a complete lack of
high quality evidence showing that the benefits of the treatments
in question here outweigh the risks. So I wonder if
you would like to stand by the statement that you

(20:35):
made in your petition, or if you think it would
now be appropriate to modify that and withdraw the statement
that there is overwhelming evidence establishing that these treatments have
benefits that greatly outweigh the risks and the dangers.

Speaker 2 (20:53):
Crickets. So we're talking about two big reports. And remember
two months ago doctor Johanna Olsen Kennedy who got ten
million dollars of tax payer funded crap for her study

(21:17):
on the effect of puberty blockers on American children. And
guess what she found. Yeah, we'll never know because she
decided not to release it because what little was released
showed that not only did not have any effect, mentally
didn't save their lives the way that everybody says this

(21:39):
is life saving. And that's just the mental side of it.
Let's go back to the physical side of it. You
are saying, you are ten years old, eleven years old,
you're going to make a life altering decision before you've matured,
before you've thought it through. We would do this with

(22:02):
nothing else. We wouldn't look at a nine year old
and go, let's let's get you to take out alone
what you should probably open a business. I mean, you
see how I'm going with this. I mean, it's ridiculous.
Let's get a tattoo. You want a tattoo. What do
you like? Oh you like blues Clues. You're gonna love this.
Oh I love Bluey too. Like that's and that's what

(22:25):
we're asking. And they come at you with, oh, it's
this is life altering for a sum It may be. Now,
I'm not denying that for a few, but the long
term ramifications it's it's crazy. You're sterilizing children, You're mutilating children.
You're doing things to kids that they have no grasp
of what is going to happen to them long term

(22:49):
because you're pushing an agenda.

Speaker 14 (22:51):
We're talking about a community that has existed forever, and
in twenty twenty, there were no bands against these kids,
and now there are more than half the states in
this country banning this kind of life saving care for
these kids. That's healthcare.

Speaker 2 (23:08):
It's not health care. Stops saying that it's not life
saving care because every study that comes out says it's not.
You pick an outlier of a study done by eighty
people as opposed to one that's been done for years,
and they're looking at thousands of cases and the reason
there wasn't any band in twenty twenty is because you

(23:29):
aren't coming for the kids like you are now. You
can go look at the data starting in about twenty seventeen,
there was a little bit of an uptick and then
it took off and it's more than doubled and continues
to double. Why because we have people who are going
after vulnerable children and pushing these things on them, and

(23:49):
that is a new This has nothing to do with adults.
If you're an adult, you do what you want. If
you're an adult and I've been look, I've said this
for a while, and you identify as an amputy because
there is that disease, by the way, although it's not

(24:12):
a disease now, it's a choice, it's a lifestyle. But
there are people out there who identify as amputees. If
you find a doctor that's willing to do it and
you ain't hurting anybody, knock yourself out. I might find
a little bit odd, but you know what you do,
you boo if you're not hurting somebody else. But as children, no,

(24:38):
if I gave Jack steroids human growth hormone because I
wanted to be stronger as a wrestler and as a
hockey player. I'd be in serious trouble if I took
jack in and got them a big neck tattoo, or

(25:01):
better yet, Charlie, she's six, she loves my tattoos. I'd
be in serious trouble. But we're allowing kids to make
these kind of decisions because political pressure, societal pressure. By oh,

(25:21):
it's just the right thing to do, feelings and wha
could do? Parents? Because I think you're a whack of
do Sorry, you're a whack of doo if you're pushing
your kids into this, or you are putting yourself in
a position where you're almost cheering it on and you're

(25:42):
not going you know what, Let's be adult about this
and I'll be the adult and you be the kid.
And why don't you if you really believe you are
a girl or a boy, why don't you live like
that and go from there? Live like that. You live

(26:04):
like that until you're eighteen and then you can make
that decision. Do I think that we should make sure
that there is no mutilating of children, Absolutely, one hundred percent.
Like I said, this has zero to do with transgender

(26:27):
people because they've been around for years. They just want
to be loved. They just want to be They like
everybody else. Nobody's saying they're not like everybody else. Nobody's
sayings like they didn't deserve right. No, No, we're talking
about kids. You're missing the point. This is about the kids.

(26:49):
It's not about that person over there. It's not about
Caitlyn Jenner or anything. It's not about none. It's about
the kids. The minute you came for the kids, everything changed.

Speaker 14 (27:01):
The more we see and meet trans people, the more
they're humans and they're not. They can't be then created
into these boogie people who live in closets and are
dangerous for society. They're actually just your neighbors and your
friends and your family who want to contribute to society,
like everybody else in America.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
Great, do it. Leave the kids alone. It's that simple.
Leave the kids alone. Don't push them into things, don't
pressure them into things. Don't pick outliers who are struggling
with all the things that you and I struggled with
as kids. Puberty, pressure of society, bullying in some cases

(27:44):
like these are all the things, and don't take that
outlier and then convince them that they are something that
they're not because of your wackado activism and belief. Sorry,
their kids now if they're eighteen, knock yourself out, you

(28:06):
do you at that point boom. But when it comes
to the kids, and I don't care what issue it is,
if you're going after kids like that, you're gonna find
pushback from America three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty
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(28:32):
So this is interesting being tossed around. Pardons already for who,
for people for what don't really know yet. Just should
Biden just pardon a whole bunch of people just in
case they come.

Speaker 15 (28:49):
It's completely uh shocking to even even write this. And
the you know, the idea of offering people who have
not been charged with any crime, there's no even hint
of committing any crimes pardons because the nature of the
income and administration is such that they're pretty open about
the idea of pursuing a kind of third world model

(29:12):
of when we come in, we go after the old guys. Now,
I can hear what the Trump folks are going to
say immediately, which is he's only doing what they did
to us. And I think, guys, that's what you'll hear
next year if the Trump folks do pursue these revenge
investigations or indictments of they started law their first they
indicted Trump left and right.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
We're only keeping the same thing going.

Speaker 15 (29:35):
And you can see it easily right now. Hey, guys,
that's why this debate is so serious in the White
House and why they're taking, as I think, with some
measure of sobriety, even though it is an extraordinary precedent
to set.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Yeah, that's crazy. And Trump didn't go after his evil
enemies before, right could have gone after Hillary didn't. He
wasn't going to go after any of these people. He's
so much talk now going after the Rockers. And if
there are people that are dirty that are doing things,
that's one thing. But just randomly saying I don't like
Liz Cheney, go get her, come on, and that's what

(30:10):
they're talking about. So you're just gonna blanketly give people
what to get out of jail free card or you
can do something and we promise you're not going to
be in trouble card. That's bizarre. Three two, three, five,
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to myself this year, because we did a little bit
last year like tak the top three Christmas movies, but
I said, screwed. This year, We're gonna do something different.
Let's count down top five Christmas movies and the top
five Christmas songs of all time. Are you ready? Merry Christmas?

Speaker 18 (32:44):
It's time for the Great Christmas Countdown, the five Greatest
Christmas Songs.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
Of all time? Number five? All right? Number five? Interesting.
It was written by a guy named Johnny Marks nineteen
sixty two. He wrote some other Christmas songs, including Rocking
Around the Christmas Tree and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.

(33:11):
By the way, he's Jewish, which a lot of people
think what It was first recorded in nineteen sixty four,
so two years after he wrote it. It was recorded
by these youngsters, the Quintos Sisters have a.

Speaker 19 (33:25):
Jolly Christmas is the best time, Hovey Harley Johnnie Christmas
It's the best time, Hoby.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
I mean, you guys are cute, dear little that's nice
that you did that, But nothing really happened to the song.
Then later on that year, Rankin and Bass came out
with their stop motion animation classic Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer,
and they got a folk singer who happened to be
the voice of the Snowman, Sam the Snowman by the
name of Burl Lives to sing the song Holly Jolly

(34:11):
Christmas for the show. They loved it so much he
decided to go back in and re recorded number five
today of the greatest Christmas Songs of all time, and
continues to reach the Billboard Hot one hundred over and
over again. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, the Great

(34:35):
Burl Lives.

Speaker 20 (34:50):
Have I Jolly Christmas. It's the best time all the year.
I don't know if they're but have a cup of cheers,
have a holy jolly prison. And when you lope down
in the stage, say hello, diffriend, you know and that

(35:15):
free one you.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
Means what a great song. Burl was a great guy
and his voice was amazing. He was a folk singer,
played the ukulele and the banjo, and man, what a
great song that was. That is number five today of
the greatest Christmas songs of all time. Holly Jolly Christmas.
But they're great and late. Burl ies three, two, three, five, three, eight,

(35:39):
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson's Show is
your Twitter, we will have number four tomorrow and I
will tell you this. I thought, well, this will be easy, right,
top five. I'm leaving out songs that could easily be
number one, But this is just me. If you've got
any suggestions and you're think you got to have this
on the list, let me and yes, while it's not

(36:01):
on the list, we will do our band aid song.
Do they know it's Christmas? Because it's the fortieth anniversary
and there's a lot of controversy swirling around about that.
You're missing this show, grab the podcast. It is the
Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:48):
Do we have a bit of a break in the
case of the assassination of the CEO of United Healthcare
which took place yesterday search work.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Police have now sought a search warrant for a location
in the city where they think the suspect may have
been staying. And those words on the shell casings deny
to pose defend. That's leading police to theorize that the
suspect may have been angry with either United Healthcare or
the insurance industry as a whole.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
Yeah, So Brian Thompson was killed yesterday six thirty five.
Early shooter comes as he's walking down the street, New
York City. There for like a big investors meeting or something.
And I don't know if it was one of those
of like a thing for all insurance companies or just
for United Healthcare. He had been getting threats. His wife
had said he'd been getting threats, and he didn't do

(37:42):
anything about when he went there. He didn't change the
way he did things. There was no hiding. You know,
everybody kind of knew his movement, which isn't good. Maybe
he thought, I'm in New York. Who's it's New York,
Who's he gonna do anything? So what ended up happening
was as he's walking down the street, New York City,
a person appears between two cars, shoots him in the back,

(38:08):
shoots him a leg, kills him, and the casing has
denied to pose is the stuff on there? They're now
starting to put together what they think is a you know,
a picture of somebody who you know, somebody will say, oh,
this guy was is this is a hit man? This
is a professional It looked professional because it looked very
movie esque, right, somebody with a you know, some sort

(38:31):
of suppressor silencer as they would call it on the
gun is what it looked like. This stuff's kind of grainy,
and you know, it's dark still, he's bundled up. You
can't see him. It was very matter of fact. That's
what I think a lot of people think this was.
But if you've dropped this up in your mind and
you know the picture they're probably painting. If is somebody

(38:51):
who got a grudge now against United, against healthcare in general,
against the wealthy, whatever, probably against I would assume United.
But I'm just drawing. If there was, say Chad dropped
the picture right, like the movie mind Hunters TV show
mind Hunters, somebody who's lost a wife, a mother, a father,
a child who spiraled out of control. Maybe they're sick themselves,

(39:17):
They would deny stuff that would probably either extended and
or saved the lives of themselves their loved one. Again,
I'm drawing this up. This is not this is not it.
I'm just going with if you were to ask me,

(39:37):
and you didn't, But it doesn't matter because to my show,
and he probably dreamt about this for god knows how long,
reenacting it in his mind, going to the shooting range
over and over. Maybe had some experience with guns before,
maybe he didn't, but he had lived this experience multiple times.

(40:05):
Probably it may have looked different because you didn't know
where you were going to catch him, you didn't know
when you were going to do it. But he had
lived this out. And if this was about revenge, that's
that was why he didn't look like he was nervous

(40:29):
when he shot at him. That's why he didn't look
like he had been in a situation where he was
looking around the corner or getting ready to run away.
It was very matter of fact because he had probably
in his mind done it a thousand times. So we'll see.

(40:51):
But the fact that you went and wrote on a
bullet is crazy. So ever changing. Indeed, and here's the
other thing. Camera's hairywhere because it's New York City, but.

Speaker 3 (41:04):
Kind of pre planned to organize things like this.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
You just don't see something.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Like this because there's so many cameras Now it's fascinating
to kind of see it all play out.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
New York is hardwired.

Speaker 21 (41:14):
Camera is not only on the corners but mid block off.
And this really takes balls when you consider that this
guy know exactly what he's doing. He has the silencer,
he gets behind, doesn't rush, it takes the shot, hits
him in the back, and then as they've weaponed jams.

Speaker 2 (41:30):
But man, I'm telling you, it was.

Speaker 21 (41:32):
A pro work there, and a cold blooded one because
then he puts the coup de gras, the killer shots
in the victim standing over him.

Speaker 2 (41:40):
Because if it's as I've described it, he wanted the victim,
Brian Thompson, to look him in the eye, to look
him straight in the eye, to feel the pain that
if what I've described is he's sick and he's dying,
he's lost a child, he's lost everything, his life has

(42:03):
gone to hell, his mother died, his wife died, whatever
it is, he wanted to transfer that fear and pain
in that moment to him, and I will tell you
he's a desperate man, he's a dangerous man, and chances
are he doesn't want to hurt anybody else. I know
that sounds weird. This wasn't about killing other people. This

(42:23):
was about you did something by denying something. I'm here
for revenge. I don't want to hurt anybody else. And
I wouldn't be surprised if they find him that he's dead.
I don't think it'll be a standoff. I don't think
he wants any of that. He might want to live
to tell a story. I don't know, but I wouldn't

(42:45):
be surprised just putting that out there. Three two, three, five,
shows your Twitter, tweet at US text the program you
know today. We'll get to it maybe a little bit later.
Got a great interview, by the way, coming up in
a little bit with a guy who did an incredible
documentary on the Babylon Bee and the fight to basically

(43:13):
protect free speech and satire. So we'll get to the
Doge a little bit later, because I do want to
get to the Doge, because good God, watching people lose
their mind over the potential of what may be coming
is incredible. But yet they're gonna get rid of people's jobs.

(43:37):
They're gonna do this, They're gonna do that. It is
so funny. Even yesterday when I talked about it, several
people chimed in, well, you know what about those people
who might lose their jobs. You don't want anybody to
lose their jobs. But it's funny when it's something like government,
it's like, oh, it's even saturdays. Like, no, it's not.

(44:00):
What if we found out that we could run government
on a quarter of what we have right now, both
fiscally and human wise. Oh, that'd be crazy, right, It'd
be super crazy. So we'll talk about that a little
bit later. Uh, Willie or won't he? I'm talking about
the one and only Pete Hegsgith. Will he be there?

(44:21):
Won't he be there? I'm not sure. I don't think
anybody really knows, because I'm not sure that all that's
out there is all that's out there, If that makes sense.

Speaker 22 (44:33):
Pete Haigseth needs to convince a growing number of skeptical
Republicans like Senator Joni Ernst, who could be up for
the job if Trump moves on hag Seth, who has
said women should not serve in combat, meeting with the
Iowa Republican Wednesday. The first female combat veteran to serve
in the Senate and a survivor of sexual assault, sources
tell us she's on Trump's list of possible replacements.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
On the list Lindsey.

Speaker 23 (44:58):
Ram Pete obviously has a chance to defend himself here.
But you know, some of this stuff is going to
be difficult. You know, time will tell. I like Pete,
I'm known him for a very very long time.

Speaker 6 (45:09):
It's like potential trouble.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Huh does it seemed like potential trouble. What's in the art?

Speaker 23 (45:12):
Well, I mean some of the things have to be addressed,
and you know, we'll see. I mean, what we want
to do is make sure that we have good order
and discipline. I've been in the military for over thirty years.
Leadership comes from the top, and I want to make
sure that every young woman who joins the military feels respected.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
I think that's a growing number of people who are
absolutely saying it's time to move on, without saying it's
time to move on. Three two, three, five, twenty four
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Speaker 24 (47:01):
Chad Benson Spedlana Dollia's departed Paris on a flight bound
for New York as a French security official had escorted
her onto the Delta Airlines operated plane. Now two previous
attempts to send her back to the US were abandoned
as she started screaming after boarding a plane Saturday. Now
her return comes afterward told she bypassed an airport terminal

(47:22):
employee in charge of the line for a known crew members,
that she was able to get through somehow where her
ID and boarding passed should have been checked.

Speaker 2 (47:30):
What. Yeah, So she's a fifty seven year old, she's
a Russian national and she snuck onto an airplane. She's
a resident of Philadelphia, and they couldn't figure out she
got like by she snuck by here, and she snuck
by there, and she she managed to get on the
plane and it took off. They she went through all
the like, she went through the X ray machine and

(47:52):
all of that stuff. They did flaggerbag because she had
two bottles of water in it. But she got on
the plane like she just by the way. TSA is like, look,
eighteen million passengers flew over this Thanksgiving weekend. Nobody got
by this lady did, but nobody else. So she gets
on the plane and they finally figure out when she's

(48:13):
when they're in the air, like this lady's a stowaway.
She doesn't have a seat. She keeps going from bathroom
to bathroom and then she lands over there and she's
like freaking out because they're like, okay, we're going to
take you into custace. She refuses to go into France,
and it is it's again bizarre to say the least,

(48:37):
but she faces some real time.

Speaker 24 (48:38):
Kids Spedlana Dollys was arrested at JFK and we are
expecting those charges to be announced at some point when
she does go before that federal judgment. Now, according to
federal sentencing guidelines, this type of offense could have her
behind bars for at least five years.

Speaker 2 (48:54):
Five years. It's a long time. I hope it was
worth it. So people are like, well, they took her
in at JFK. Yeah, so by then it was in
mid air. They had to fly to Charles Digo and
then they had to fly her back, so she got
to go on two airplane rides. Was it worth it?
Probably not. When you see the picture of it, you're
thinking issues. If I'm her, I'm like, what's his name?

(49:19):
Wants to kill me? Putin just makes something up. People
will buy it. Speaking of airplanes and air travel, yesterday
they dragged all the CEOs of the airline industry up
there to yell at them for junk fees. But Josh
Holly wanted to tell everybody at Frontier how much they sucked.

Speaker 25 (49:35):
I mean, you guys do appreciate that flying on your
airlines is a disaster, don't you. I'm slightly amazed by
the general attitude of all of you here. Flying on
your airlines is horrible. It's terrible experience. I mean I
say this as a father of three young children. Nobody
enjoys flying on your airlines. It's a disaster. You charge
people fees that they know nothing about. You harassed them
to death. I'll never forget mister Johnson during COVID when

(49:58):
an attendant on your airline threatened my wife because our
then five year old son.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
His mask is slipped below his nose.

Speaker 25 (50:04):
This flight attendant came up to my wife and said,
if she didn't keep that mask over his nose at
all points on this four hour flight, she would personally
see that my wife was banned from flying. And your
attitude here today seems to be, well, devil, make care,
there's nothing we can do about it. Well, I think
we are going to do something about it.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Ooh, coming hard, coming hard, Josh All, he's not done.
Wegat just reminded, hey, Frontier, you suck.

Speaker 25 (50:27):
How much of you paid people to pull out customers
who are in line with a bag that's two centimeters
too big?

Speaker 26 (50:33):
Well, we recognize this as a hard job, and so
therefore we incentivize them to do that.

Speaker 2 (50:38):
How much it's ten dollars per bag?

Speaker 25 (50:40):
Wow? Ten dollars per bag? And I think mister Klein,
you and mister Shorter your airlines cumulatively have spent twenty
six million dollars paying gate agents between twenty twenty two
and twenty twenty three to catch passengers whose bags are
a little bit too big. Twenty six million dollars. I mean,
if people want to know why such a terrible experience
of fly, this is news for them. Today, your airlines

(51:02):
are paying millions of dollars to your employees to harass
people who've already paid.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
So wait a minute, here are they getting commission? You
can walk in with a pen. I'd be like, that's
too big. You got to check it.

Speaker 25 (51:15):
Why is it that you charge different people different fees
for carry on backs.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Why isn't it just a flat fee.

Speaker 25 (51:22):
Why is it that I might get charged one fee,
my wife might get charged a different fee.

Speaker 2 (51:26):
Why is that? Overall?

Speaker 27 (51:27):
Our job is to generate the most revenue we can
so we can be profitable as an airline.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
We have costs, and there's costs.

Speaker 27 (51:34):
Out there, and we have to make sure that we're
above the cost line in order to make sure that
we can run a profit entity.

Speaker 25 (51:39):
Yeah, I got it, No, I got it, I got it.
Money's the answer. In last year, your carry on bag
fees ranged between fifteen dollars and ninety nine dollars. How
do you determine it? Is it based on personal characteristics?
It's never women more, it's never based on personal characteristics.
Charge up miners more. We do not, sir it as
people who are suckers. I mean, how do you do it?

Speaker 27 (51:58):
There is a cost to care any any kind of bag. Yeah,
but why do charge some people more?

Speaker 2 (52:04):
That is a good question, right, And these look, these
are the CEOs. Look, this is what happens when you're
when you're a CEO, when you're a major, major major
companies in major industries. At some point in time, you're
going to be dragged up in front of Congress, Senate,
some sort of hearing somewhere where they can just hammer you.

(52:30):
It's just part of the game. But I think we
can all agree. Look, flying is frustrating for a lot
of reasons, including the bizarre fees that you have and
don't have. But it's also cheaper than it's ever been.
It has never been more affordable to fly. Over time.

(52:51):
Overall airline airfares have gone down. The thing is, while
they've gone down, what you guys have figured out to
do is how can I charge you for every thing? So,
I mean, I look at it like this, when's the
first airline company gonna go kind of like Fortnite does,
which is the video game where it's like you can
fly for free, but we're gonna charge you for and

(53:14):
then they're just gonna you know, throw everything out. That's
so Fortnite allows you to play the video game. But
if you want all the stuff right, you'll get the
minimal amount of things. But if you want all the stuff,
the skins, all that stuff, what they do is they
micro transaction you. So it ends up being virtually the
same or more because they realize you'll spend more. It's like, oh,
you want air on the plane, Okay, well that's gonna

(53:36):
be more. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four
to twenty three at Chadbentson Show to Twitter, Instagram coming up. Interesting,
very interesting interview with the guy who did a new
documentary about the Babylon be in their fight with Twitter
and how Elon helped them. It's a great documentary. We're

(53:57):
gonna talk to him straight ahead.

Speaker 28 (53:59):
It is the Chat Benson, Chad.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Benson, Joe, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
In terms of the changes that we see in our
society and our culture, I think that women are those
change makers.

Speaker 29 (54:43):
The Rachel Levine tweet was more mischief than like a
joke that made our writers laugh for kind of how
audacious it was, because you just weren't supposed to do that,
and it was kind of a running bit for us
every year we make Trump our Christian of the Year.
I wrote it, I posted it, and I'll never forget

(55:06):
Kyle Mann calling me and saying, bro, I think you're
gonna get us kicked off of Twitter, and me thinking
I wonder if I should have run that by set That.

Speaker 2 (55:15):
Is a bit of the movie called The Bird and
the Bee, satire social media and censorship. It is an
amazing movie. It's about the Babylon Bee's battle against Twitter,
and now the CEO Seth Dylan found himself basically saying
to Twitter and not backing down, especially when it came
to one tweet, and it's great. We got the director

(55:36):
with this right now, Matt Parral, Matt, why the Babylon Bee,
Why this fight? Why did you make this movie?

Speaker 30 (55:42):
You know, I became interested in all of this after
the release of the Twitter files. You know, Elon Musk
took over Twitter and he sort of released, you know,
via journalists all this information that you know, these these
social media companies were taking direct input from government agencies,
the FBI, all these these different government actors to you know,
sensor content on their platforms. I heard Seth Dillon speak

(56:05):
about the fact that this had happened to them Seth
Dillon's the CEO of the Babylon Bee, that they had
been censored for what they would call viewpoint discrimination on
on Twitter. And not only had they been censored, they
they had had their account locked and they ended up,
you know, being suspended for eight months until Elon Musk
took over the platform, and they were actually one of

(56:27):
the first organizations, this this little satire comedy site to
be released from Twitter jail as they would call it,
after the Elon Musk takeover. So I thought, you know,
this might be a funny, you know, personal human way
to approach this big idea of social media censorship. The
Bee guys just seem like a lot of you know,
fun they're jokesters. They just kind of tell jokes on

(56:50):
the Internet from a satirical angle and making fun of
the media. And you know, I think that they see
part of their you know, their mission is sort of
holding the media satablishment to account. So, like what happened
with their story was the USA Today had named Admiral
Rachel Levine, who's a transgender health admiral in the in
the Biden administration, as one of their picks for Women

(57:13):
of the Year, and and the battle on Bee thought
that you know, they wanted to make a joke about that,
that that that that was you know, that was fodder
for for them to make fun of this the media
establishment that they're that they're you know, naming a biological
male as a woman of the year. You know, they
made this joke naming Rachel Levine as their pick for

(57:34):
Man of the Year, and that's what got them banned
from Twitter. They got they got you know, they got
completely banned from Twitter because Twitter had you know, written
it into their policies that dead naming or misgendering transgender
individuals just wasn't allowed on the platform. They felt like that,
you know, that this should be open for public debates still,

(57:54):
that this this was this was a viewpoint that a
lot of people shared and that they they should they
should be able to talk about it so and joke
about it and tell jokes about this this kind of thing,
especially when they're making fun of the media like this.
And what ended up happening was they were locked out
of their account and they didn't have any option until
Elon Musk reached out to them.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
It's interesting we're talking to Matt Aparol, whose new documentary
is about the Babylon Bee and we'll get to that
in a second, but that whole thing with Elon, because
that felt like that was almost the last straw of
all right, I've had enough of this. This should be
about freedom. And it was one of the I think
one of the moments where Elon said, I'm gonna do

(58:34):
something about this, because it was it seemed to be
several different people were getting suspended for stuff and that
just felt like, come on, guys, this is satire. And
as do you know, Matt, the media doesn't. They take
themselves way too serious and we've seen that over the
last month and a half and the reality is they
don't like being made fun of.

Speaker 30 (58:52):
Yeah, exactly, And you know, we go into it in
the documentary. How it wasn't you know, it wasn't just
this Twitter band that that the Babylonbie experience. They've had
like a slow They had a they had a drip
of different articles being written about them, calling them fake news, misinformation.

Speaker 2 (59:09):
All this they were being fact check for funny jokes.

Speaker 30 (59:13):
Right right. They got a fact check from Snopes for
the fact the article headline that read, CNN purchases an
industrial sized washing machine to spin the news right, and
that that resulted in a fact check that you know,
ding their you know their Facebook algorithm. So you know,
there's there was just a lot of uh, there was

(59:33):
a lot of things that went into this idea that
social media is not just a They're not just a
a you know, a neutral actor, right, They've these algorithms
can be adjusted and they can there can be changes
made to them. And it's not just outright bands, it's
also it's also how much viewership you get, that sort
of thing. Yeah, so yeah, we we kind of go

(59:54):
into that in the documentary and how you know X
has become a bit of an antidote.

Speaker 2 (01:00:00):
Talking to Matt Parral his new movie documentary called The
Bird and the be satire social media and censorship about
the Babylon b In the movie, it talks about that
slow drip, that kind of death by a thousand cuts.
And it happened with and we felt it as well,
because I had like two hundred thousand followers on Facebook
and all of a sudden, I'm you know, putting stuff
out there and I'm getting no views, three views. It

(01:00:21):
was this mysterious algorithm that came out of nowhere. The
shadow banning of yeah you can see it, but we
don't promote it. And is that when they really started
to go something's weird here?

Speaker 30 (01:00:31):
Yeah? Absolutely, I think that they you know, they started
to shift their attention to Twitter because it didn't you know,
their Facebook posts, for example, we're getting like zero engagement,
right Like, they went from having viral posts that would
get hundreds of thousands of views and thousands of shares
to like nothing. They sort of moved their focus away

(01:00:53):
and moved it towards Twitter. But then Twitter started implementing
these policies that sort of had what they would consider
an agenda behind them them, right like, you weren't supposed
to talk about certain topics, You couldn't even joke about
certain topics. You know, they were walking through this landmine
at Twitter. Meanwhile, they weren't getting any engagement on Facebook,
and and so that you know, their business was in jeopardy.

(01:01:13):
And essentially when when the ban happened, when Twitter, when
Twitter banned them, you know, basically saying that they weren't
allowed back on until they deleted the joke and admitted
that what they had shared.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Was hate speech.

Speaker 30 (01:01:27):
That was sort of the last the last straw and
I think what you said earlier it got the attention
of Elon Musk and he then reached out to them
directly and said, you know what happened. Why were you
guys suspended? They sort of explained that they they thought
that they felt they needed to stand behind their comedy,
that that it was, that was.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
The hell they were going to die on. And then
they stood by that, and they did. They stood by
it big time.

Speaker 1 (01:01:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 30 (01:01:50):
I mean they they were locked out of their their
Twitter account completely for for eight months. And you know,
for a for a company that relies on traffic to
be generated from social media to go to their website,
that was a big deal for them to sort of
take that stand. And I think that, you know, the
story just kind of shows that these guys that like,
you know, they just kind of like hanging out smoking

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cigars and enjoying enjoying making fun of the news. They
they ended up creating this sort of seismic shift in
the social media landscape. You know, through this they got
wrapped up in this whole Elon Musk purchase of Twitter,
and it resulted in a huge change, right Like it
was this idea of viewpoint discrimination was something that was

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being adopted across all of these platforms right like they
were taking these these these topics that should have been
up for public debate and making building it into their
their policies that you weren't allowed to talk about them,
which is crazy, which is crazy, And Elon Musk has
has changed all that in a lot of ways.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
Talking to Matt Peerrel, who is a documentary filmmaker's Knew
documentaries about the Babylon Bat, one of the things I'm
curious about is is YouTube. Because YouTube is a big deal.
And obviously the hill that they Joseph Die on was
the hill of you know, Twitter. But one of the
things I've always talked about, and I go back a

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few years and I told everybody this is a red herring.
This is the test that they're doing at YouTube. When
they said anybody who's got flat earth issues, you know,
like in it, we're going to start banning you. And
I thought that's kind of weird, Like of all the
weird conspiracies or any of this stuff, it's the most innocate.
Nobody's going to walk off the end of the Earth
anything like that. But I said, this is a test

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to see what can we get away with when it
comes to speech and how can we stop it? What
was their take on YouTube?

Speaker 30 (01:03:40):
Yeah, they didn't go into YouTube a whole lot, because
you know, they they mainly focus on on articles, right
like that that they're sharing on Twitter and social media.
But I think that it was interesting. One thing that
was very interesting to me. And obviously this story was
continuing to develop up all the way through the election,
right you know, there was the idea that Joe Rogan's

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interview with Trump was almost impossible to find on YouTube
the day after it air. Right that that became that
was like an eye opener for me. It's like, Okay,
this isn't just limited to you know, Facebook throttling algorithms.
This is YouTube and Google. Google is owned by or
YouTube is owned by Google. Right, and when you can't

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find probably the most important interview of the entire election
cycle in your in the at the top of the
Google search results or the YouTube search results, there's got
to be something going on. And I think that that
for me opened up my eyes to Okay, YouTube is
also an area where this is this is taking place.
I think the whole thing that the Babylon b wants

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I think is is practical, you know, transparency, and I
think that that's what we see on X right, like
with community notes and these other you know, these other
ways that they've open sourced much of the algorithm. The
transparency aspect prevents these these ideas from taking hold that

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certain viewpoints are somehow being suppressed. And I think that
it can be done to look at look at the
laws and say, okay, how can we ensure without you know,
limiting these Obviously, these social media companies need to have
an ability to you know, uh, they need to have
an ability to moderate content obviously, but without limiting their

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ability to do that, how can we at least allow
for more transparency so people can see how the algorithms
are making decisions? Right like why is the Chouh Rogan
Trump interview impossible to find on on YouTube the day
after it airs? Right like that? That is a that
is a big question mark in my mind.

Speaker 2 (01:05:42):
You know, I look at the social media world and
and for our business and stuff. You know, somebody, you
don't really need it. It was fun, you know originally what
you thought, Oh good, I'm going to take a picture
and send it to my grandma and everybody able to see it,
and now it's changed, and obviously now it's part of business.
Business is conducted there. And I look at this, and
then I look around the world. I see what's going on. Australia.
Last week they made it, you know, essentially a law

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now that under sixteen you can't be on social media.
There's so much stuff going on, and it is so
important that we have free speech. And then you got
Blue Sky, and it's great that we have competition. I
got zero problems with that. The problem is, I've had
two or three friends went over to Blue Sky. They
were suspended within an hour. And my joke was on
my show, I'm just gonna go over there and I'm
just gonna live stream Alex Jones the whole time until

(01:06:25):
they suspend me. I don't like the fact that that
we are that separated, because I think we need to
have discourse and we need to have conversation. And yes,
people can be a holes and stuff, and it's the keyboard,
you know, cowboys, But man, I want that. I want
that discourse and I want that conversation. I don't want
to be in an echo chamber.

Speaker 30 (01:06:45):
Yeah, I think that's what the bee wants too. I
mean that's I agree. I think that that's I think
that the open discourse, the ability to look at information
and and have even if it's wrong, the ability to
call out that it's wrong, is important for the public discourse.
Right if if the Babylon B says something wrong, right

(01:07:07):
like if they say something that is in fact not good,
or if you or I say something that's not good,
we should be able to talk about it. We shouldn't
just be in echo chambers that reinforce that are that
are if we say something untrue or something wrong, that
that's the right, that that's the right thing, Like we're
just in our echo chamber that reinforces what we believe.
I think that that's I think that that's important.

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
People want to go see this where they go.

Speaker 30 (01:07:32):
So it was released via Real Clear Politics, So you
can search on their website for the Burden the Bee documentary,
or if you search the Babylon B it'll probably come up.
They were the ones who released the doc It did
really well on X So if you go over to
their to the t X and search for the Burden
to Bee, you'll find it over there from Real Clear Politics.

(01:07:54):
You can watch the full thing for free on X
and then you know, you can also check it out
on my website Mattparol dot com. It's on there along
with some of the other projects I've gotten the works.

Speaker 2 (01:08:05):
Right, I'm brother, appreciate you coming on The Bird and
the bea satire social media and censorship. Matt Brew the
director right there. Thanks a lot, brother, Thank you, Chad.
If you have a chance, go check that out. It's
it's an easy watch. It's like thirty minutes. But I'm
telling you, it is so interesting watching the inner workings
of all of this and the fight that they had

(01:08:26):
and the ridiculousness of it's satire. For God's sake. Media
hates hates when you make fun of media, and I'm
talking about the establishment media that thinks they're above everything
and they're, oh yeah, some better than you. They hate
that so much. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty
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Speaker 9 (01:09:55):
Shows the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee telling ABC
News millions of America could potentially be impacted by a
massive Chinese hacking and espionage campaign. Authorities now say at
least eight American telecommunications giants or compromised as part of
a recently discovered global hacking operation. The news coming is
ABC News learned US authorities suspected data of hundreds of

(01:10:17):
thousands of US mobile phones users was stolen, with more
than a million unsuspecting consumers likely affected.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
What, yeah, this is crazy how much data info they got,
And yes it includes the average cat here in America
like you and I.

Speaker 9 (01:10:36):
Officials today also acknowledging the massive privacy implications for so
many average Americans tonight their urging consumers to use encrypted
apps for their communications, including text messages and voicemail recordings.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
And it's not just the average Americans, because you know
why they hack. We've talked to Gordon Chang on numerous occasions.
We've talked to Mike Lyons. Their whole thing is get
as much information as you can. We'll decipher it later.
Gorge yourself on information. I want everybody think about this
for a second. They being China hacked in in such

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a way that we're just telling everybody here in America, Hey,
look we buy our goods from them. You know, it's
a weird relationships. It's incredible, it's nuts. They do not
give a crap, and this administration, and quite frankly most administrations,
they don't do anything about it, and they better start

(01:11:34):
doing some damn things about it. For God's sakes. I
hope they didn't get my text messages to nobody. It's weird.
You know who's been texting me Santa for Charlie? No way? Yeah,
it's really cool. Actually it's very cool. Maybe I'll tell
you guys about that a little bit later. Coming up
next hour. More on the shooting in New York. CEO
United Healthcare dead and Well. New York's got a lot

(01:11:57):
of videos and there's camera everywhere, just out of curiosity.
Are we getting any closer or was there no way
to get anything because he hit his face the whole time.
That can't be. It's New York in a city of cameras.

Speaker 7 (01:12:13):
Platoons of detectives are searching for the video that might
show the shooter without his mask. So far, the best
images from a nearby Starbucks he visited a few minutes
before the incident, where he discarded a bottle and two
energy bar wrappers. They've also recovered what might be his
cell phone, which could unlock the mystery of who he is.
But an equally big question is why he targeted Thompson.

Speaker 2 (01:12:35):
Well, that's gonna be the big question. I mean, so
many conspiracy theories out there, and there's plenty of them.
We might talk a bit about them. If you miss
any of the show, I say shame on you. The
third and award winning hour of The Chad Benson Show
is coming up. Straight ahead. Buckle in, kids, It's gonna
be fun.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Chad Benson, Joe, this is the Chad Benson Show, the

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Speaker 2 (01:13:22):
It's Christmas time in New York. Excited. I'm happy, you know,
especially for my granddaughter. That's why I'm here. If it
wasn't for her, I wouldn't they w come. But I
just wanted to be here to see her face. And
this is like a centerpiece of New York, all right.
So how we stand out.

Speaker 31 (01:13:38):
The start of a new season, the start of the
holiday season, and to be able to do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
It with a friend is really special. And while that
was going on and the lighting of the tree, the
manhunt still continues for whoever killed the CEO of United
Healthcare yesterday out in the open, just walked up and

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assassinated him.

Speaker 3 (01:14:03):
Please say It was around six forty five am Wednesday
when the suspect pictured at a Starbucks before the shooting,
gunned down Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, and
as he was walking alone into the Hilton for an
investors conference. Thompson's wife paul Ette, telling ABC News, we
are shattered to hear about the senseless killing of our
beloved Brian. Ryan was an incredibly loving, generous, talented man

(01:14:24):
who truly lived life to the fullest and touched so
many lives.

Speaker 2 (01:14:28):
She also went on to say that he had been
getting death threats and other threats that obviously he didn't
take serious because there wasn't a real They talked about
it yesterday. People knew where he was, anew what he
was doing there. He had no security with him and
the assassination and that's exactly what it was. It was assassination.

(01:14:51):
You had somebody come out from behind a couple parked
cars on the street and shoot him on the sidewalk.
It was as if he had done a thousand times before.
And we'll get to that in the second. Because there
are some clues.

Speaker 3 (01:15:08):
The killer is at large, but he left behind a
trail of clues. But he said not identified the suspect.
But they are building a profile of a man with
a grudge, possibly against United Healthcare or the insurance industry
in general, to take the time to actually write on
the shell casings indicates a deeply personal type killing. And

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those words dey depose defend those our words often associated
with the insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:15:34):
Industry, associated so much so that in twenty ten, an
insurance law professor named James M. Feineman titled his book
Delay Deny I Defend why insurance companies don't pay claim
and what you can do about it. Now. I don't
want to draw any kind of, you know, conclusion, Oh,

(01:15:54):
this is the guy. No, I just think maybe this
guy read the book. But if we were to build
out a suspect based on what we're seeing evidence wise,
I think it's somebody who is very pissed and angry
about the insurance industry, United healthcare, or the industry as
a whole. Somebody who probably has had really bad dealings

(01:16:21):
to the point where maybe they're sick and dying and
the insurance company could have done something about it and didn't.
They lost their mother, their father, their wife, their child,
and they were denied claim after claim, they went bankrupt,
and somebody who had thought to themselves they have nothing

(01:16:44):
to lose, and probably lived this out fantasizing about it
on numerous occasions over and over and over and over,
and then yesterday he went and he did it. Now

(01:17:06):
this again is we're drawing, you know, like if you
were to go and go, all right, give me kind
of a sketch an outline right of what you would
think this would be the person? Why would he do this?
Not saying that that's who it is, because you know,
everybody's like looking, go, man, this is just crazy, Like
was this guy a this? Was this a hitman doing

(01:17:32):
a job? But you went road on this stuff. I
don't think a hit man is gonna go okay. So yeah,
you give me the money. Do you haven't give any
special messages to give to them, like no leave clues
because if you lost somebody or you dying and you

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thought that the insurance industry had denied your claim over
and over again, and because of that, you feel that.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
You are.

Speaker 2 (01:18:06):
You're done. You can't be saved, and you could have
or your child or your wife or whatever they potentially
could have been saved had they not denied the claim
and say you can't do that procedure. You then are
living in a world of anger like you cannot believe.

(01:18:29):
And from there, your sole focus in your mind is
to go John Wick, and that's all you focus on,
and you live it over and over again in your mind,
and you just wait for your chance. I mean, there
was somebody that was trying to get in the building

(01:18:51):
when he came out from behind the park car and
shot him, and that person scurried off really fast, obviously,
but that he never took his eyes off off of him,
and then he walked over him and stood over him
as he shot because he wanted him to see what
was coming. And it was very controlled because in his
mind he'd probably lived it a thousand times. So I'm

(01:19:14):
drawing up a profile. I'm not saying that's who it is.
I'm not saying any of those things. I'm just drawing
up a profile in what if you were to say,
what do you think this is about? I think that's
what it is potentially about. And now there are some
other things that they're talking about out there. There was

(01:19:35):
some investigation stuff with shares, which I guess he sold
a bunch.

Speaker 31 (01:19:39):
And the shooting also comes as Thompson and several other
senior executives are reportedly under investigation by the DOJ for
selling a combined one hundred and one point five million
dollars in shares, just two weeks before news of a
federal antitrust probe went public back in February. Crimestopper is
now offering ten thousand dollars in rewards for information on

(01:19:59):
the gunman. The New York Post also reporting that police
obtained the suspects Starbucks trash a cup that he actually
threw away, so there may actually be some DNA to come.

Speaker 2 (01:20:10):
And they have his phone, and they got a search
warrant to go into a hotel room. So I drew
you a picture and that picture may be wrong. But
if I had to put money on what I sketched
out for you or not, and you gotta put the money,

(01:20:31):
is it or isn't it? You gotta choose one or
the other. I'm gonna go with mine. Three two, three, five,
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was your Twitter? You could tweet at us, you text
the program? Are there going to be blanket pardons for everybody?
You get a pardon, and you get a pardon and
you over there get a part what? Yeah, they're talking

(01:20:51):
about pardoning a whole bunch of folks, which is bizarre.
They mean pardon it. Yeah, they're talking about at the
White House that they may be pardoning people like a
preemptive just in case Trump wants to come after everybody

(01:21:13):
and get them. Pardon, pardon.

Speaker 15 (01:21:15):
It's completely shocking to even write this, you know, the
idea of offering people who have not been charged with
any crime, there's no even hint of committing any crimes
pardons because the nature of the income and administration is
such that they're pretty open about the idea of pursuing

(01:21:36):
a kind of third world model of where we come in,
we go after the old guys. Now, I can hear
what the Trump folks are going to say immediately, which
is she's only doing what they did to us. And
I think, guys, that's what you'll hear next year if
the Trump folks do pursue these revenge investigations or indictments
of they started law their first they indicted Trump left

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and right. We're only keeping the same thing going and
you can see it easily right now. Hey, guys, that's
why this debate is so serious in the White House
and why they're they're they're taking, as I think, with
some measure of sobriety, even though it is an extraordinary
precedent to set.

Speaker 2 (01:22:12):
It's ridiculous. He could have gone after several people when
he got in, and he didn't, and they did go
after him, so and now they're oddly enough talking about
even pardoning him. This whole thing is a hot mess.
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Speaker 5 (01:23:27):
Joe.

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Speaker 2 (01:23:41):
Now it's time to find out what's trending. What's trending?

Speaker 32 (01:23:45):
I'm signed James Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia.

Speaker 5 (01:23:57):
Ser.

Speaker 2 (01:24:05):
Lot Truphy. Let's find out what's trending on the interwebs
on this Thursday. Where do we start today? How about uh? Yahoo? France?
Their leader has resigned. It's weird. They've got different leaders.

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Like you're the president, but Jenn you're the Prime minister,
so you need to resign. I'm going to be here,
but then I got to find somebody to take your job.
But you're not gonna go anywhere. You're just gonna kind
of resign. Oh, South Korea. Speaking to somebody who's not resigning,
but should Donald Trump? Lakers Brian Thompson, CEO of United Health,

(01:24:49):
shot and killed yesterday. What we know? The whole thing's crazy.
I mean you know, was he assassin? He didn't hold
You know, it's funny when you go on the inner webs.
First of all, you hear all kinds of crazy stuff. Secondly,
it's like he was an expert. He wasn't. He was this,
he was that wasn't he was none of those things.
Look at the way he holds the gun. It's let

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me tell you what he was serious. That's what the
assassin was. And that's an assassin at that point in time.
You're here, you're killing somebody, you're serious about it. Head
over to giggle United Healthcare CEO bitcoin over one hundred
thousand man, Look at that thing. Go what have they
got now? The ha Ta girls got her own coin. Yeah,

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that's good. French government calypsing looking into calypse snow squall.
Parts of the Upper Midwest are getting smashed because it's wintery.
Bobby Altaf, you know, I know who she is. She's uh,

(01:25:55):
it's funny. This is so she was she in the
thirty under thirty or whatever one of the Forbes list.
And it's very interesting. So she is if you if
you've got any of the social media see or she
interviews people and she has this deadpan. Look, it's just
it's hilarious. But the way that everybody thinks though, she's

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she's a plant for who for the industry? What are
you talking about? What industry? The spies, the entertainment industry,
The entire entertainment industry is a plant. Oh yeah. Spotify rapped.
M yes, indeed, you guys know what that is. That

(01:26:39):
is Uh, it's interesting. Spotify has got their list out
of like the biggest artist and what people are listening to.
And it's funny because the number one song of the year,
that person, Sabrina Carpenter, she's number one, but she didn't

(01:27:02):
get anywhere on the Spotify list of like the biggest artist.
Oh it's right, Like it's kind of an odd thing,
like you're, hey, your song's the biggest song of the year.
It's it's it's awesome. You're like, yeah, but you're not
on the list.

Speaker 26 (01:27:24):
Spotify rapped is here, and according to the music streaming service,
Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso was the most streamed song on its
platform in twenty twenty four. Taylor Swift was the top artist,
but Pitchfork editor Mono Sunda Raisin says it's users individual
rapped slide shows that get the most attention.

Speaker 33 (01:27:43):
Spotify mind's all your data as a user, and it
creates this very pretty, very colorful story about your listening
habits for the year.

Speaker 26 (01:27:53):
In addition to your most streamed songs or albums, Spotify
often throws in more outlandish data, like what musical moods
defined each month of your year.

Speaker 33 (01:28:03):
Spotify told me this year that I listened to Pink
Pilate's Princess Struck Pop in the month of July, as you.

Speaker 26 (01:28:10):
Do, as many people like to share their Spotify rapped online.

Speaker 33 (01:28:14):
As a result, Spotify gains a lot from an advertisment perspective.

Speaker 2 (01:28:19):
So Espresso number one, Beautiful Things, Benson Boone, number two,
Birds of a Feather, Billie Eilish, you had it only
from floy Menar and Chris MJ Lose Control, Teddy Swims.
I like Teddy Swims. Those are the top five. Now
the top five artists Taylor Swift, The Weekend Bad Bunny

(01:28:43):
Drake and Billie Eilish and Miss Espresso. She was not
on there, but she had the number one song. And
it's interesting because all those only the only thing of
the top five as far as artist the only one
that got on the Big Songs was in even in
the top ten was Taylor Swift Cruel Summer, So Weird,

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all time, and then next week we'll do the five

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biggest Christmas movies and my biggest. We're not talking about
the most soul. We're just talking about the songs, the movies,
the ones that you know, we rate them like we
do the horror movies every year for Halloween. And we've
got number five today on your Christmas Music Countdown. Oh interesting,

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one of my maybe my favorite Christmas artist because it
missed out, probably because it missed out. Three two, three, five,
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We got number five coming up of the five greatest
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Speaker 35 (01:31:22):
After repeatedly saying he would never do it, and a
lot of people are saying that it's hypocritical, etcetera, as
if any other side doesn't do it.

Speaker 2 (01:31:30):
But what's your reaction to it?

Speaker 36 (01:31:32):
I mean, I think all of the criticism is valid
because you know, Democrats stand on this moral high ground
all the time, and you know they act so self righteous.
The reality is he didn't have to say anything in
regards to you know, whether or not you know, his
son wanted to be part and he could have said, hey, man,
I'm not focused on.

Speaker 3 (01:31:47):
That right now.

Speaker 36 (01:31:48):
But since they were calling trumpet threat at democracy, and
they were saying that, you know, nobody's above the law,
but they were speaking about him, that's what they were
running on. So when he kept saying things like, oh,
you know, nobody's above the law. I respect you know,
the the jury's decision to regard and wist son.

Speaker 2 (01:32:02):
He didn't believe that.

Speaker 36 (01:32:03):
But he didn't have to volunteer that lie to begin with.

Speaker 2 (01:32:06):
But he did it. The other side does it. You
know what the other side doesn't do. Tell everybody what
they're going to do and what they're not going to do,
and then go against it. It's right. That's what makes
you look like a hypocrite. That's what makes you look
like a hypocrite because you knew you were going to
work a deal out to make sure your kid never

(01:32:27):
saw a day in jail, and you had the power
and you thought maybe, eh, maybe I win this thing.
Then you were asked kicked out by your own party,
and then you're like, I don't know what to do now,
and then you're like, screw them, I'll do it. And
I've told you. Nobody on the right or left blames
him for doing that. The issue is the fact that

(01:32:53):
the left and the media told everybody Trump is not
above the law. Blah blah blah blah. They went through
the whole thing, we'd have to relet it again to
all of it, and then it made him look like
well idiots because well in many cases they are.

Speaker 35 (01:33:06):
I'm gonna stop you for a second, oh, only because
you don't know that it was a lie.

Speaker 2 (01:33:13):
We don't know why he changed.

Speaker 36 (01:33:15):
You really think he just changed his mind with thanksgiven
weekend all.

Speaker 22 (01:33:18):
I'm gonna tell you what I think.

Speaker 35 (01:33:19):
Okay, I think he changed his mind because he got
sick of watching everybody else get over And this is
just my feeling because at some point you get to
the place where you just go. So I'm just gonna
follow the straight and narrow always because that's what's expected
of democrat.

Speaker 2 (01:33:37):
Oh is that it will be I'm just sick and
tired of well, you know, everybody getting away with it.
I'm gonna go get mine. Good god, that's insane. You
said that out loud. Oh my god. So that's it
because you were just looking around going, oh, I'm gonna

(01:33:59):
get mine. Now, I'm gonna get mine. Okay. Continue.

Speaker 35 (01:34:05):
So I'm just gonna follow the straight and narrow always
because that's what's expected of democrats.

Speaker 2 (01:34:11):
But that's default.

Speaker 36 (01:34:12):
You're the one that they're the ones that go out
there and they stand on this moral high ground and
they don't have to do that.

Speaker 35 (01:34:17):
Democrat, tell me what the moral high ground is.

Speaker 36 (01:34:20):
The moral high ground is nobody's above the law. I
respect what the jurors is saying.

Speaker 2 (01:34:26):
He didn't hate. He's starting to frustrate them. Charlemagne is
frustrating them. You can hear them. The moral high ground
is none of you guys are super moral. Let's be real.
Doesn't mean what you're doing is illegal, because it's not.
But that being said, we've always said just because you
can doesn't mean you should. And you brag about not

(01:34:48):
being that, and then you are that. That's what frustrates people.
That's hypocrisy. You are the one who preaches to the people,
and all the while, every thing you say behind closed
doors you do the exact opposite. Now that Trump is won,
you say that you don't think cable news will ever
truly cover him.

Speaker 1 (01:35:09):
Honestly, again, why not.

Speaker 36 (01:35:11):
Even just careble, no network, nobody, because they didn't do
it before, so why would they do it not.

Speaker 2 (01:35:15):
It's yeah, well, well let's be honest.

Speaker 36 (01:35:22):
You have to apologize a couple times last week. So
somebody's coming through with some notes from.

Speaker 7 (01:35:25):
Downstowns apologizing but making a legal note as an attorney
of law.

Speaker 36 (01:35:29):
Because you know, we have a penny president.

Speaker 2 (01:35:32):
That is going to be very litigious.

Speaker 22 (01:35:34):
Litigious, But that doesn't mean that we check ourselves.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
I love how they brag about themselves. We check ourselves here.
Then why are you saying that? I mean, if you
believe everything he's saying, you think it's above reproach, then
why would you say that out of curiosity? It's always
fun every once in a while just to listen to them,
the doge kids. Let's move on to the doge I've
had enough of you tackling hens on we move to

(01:36:00):
another cackling hen and her husband.

Speaker 37 (01:36:05):
But this is a scam unless they're going to slash
social security and Medicare and veterans affairs. They're never gonna
get to two trillion dollars, So they need to just
stop pretending. I don't think they'll get two trillion. Could
they get eight hundred billion, it's possible. Could they get
five hundred billion, it's possible.

Speaker 2 (01:36:26):
Could they expose the insanity of how much waste is
out there, which is the most important thing of all,
So then we can get a grip as Americans on
how to deal with it and not just have people
go in there with their scalp and start chopping things
that then get caught up in litigation. You gotta think
long term as well as short term. Would it be

(01:36:48):
great to see two trillion? It depends where's that two trillion?
You're not cutting sold security? Stop with that Bologny Medicare's
thrill security. No, But can you go in there and
streamline those and you go in there and say, we
got forty eight million administrators, We don't need this many
people because we have computers and AI and stuff that's
smart and could get stuff done efficiently. Oh yeah, it's

(01:37:12):
possible there too. Those are the things that I'm talking
about now. I don't know how much still be able
to cut. God knows. I'd love to see him cut
a whole bunch, but I don't think they're going to
be able to cut as much as they want because
I think a lot of this is going to be
a situation where stuff's going to get caught up in court,
and you know, I think they'll find some stuff to

(01:37:33):
get rid of. That'll be that low hanging fruit. Let's
get rid of that first. Don't leave your empty hand,
but make sure when you do leave, you don't leave
everything in litigation that cost us even more money, if
that makes sense. Three two, three, five, three, eight, twenty
four to twenty three at Chad Benson, show your Twitter,

(01:37:55):
your Instagram, out the out there things. Meanwhile, yesterday Scot
has heard what The New York Times is calling the
biggest case this term for the Supreme Court, the trans
Gender Tennessee versus the Biden Administration over SB one, which

(01:38:20):
is the transgender bill that was passed and signed in
the law that says, up until you're eighteen, no hormones,
no surgeries. Now you can still identify as somebody of
the opposite sex. But this is the way this is
going to go.

Speaker 8 (01:38:40):
Arguments allotted for one hour, they lasted two and a
half hours. The courtroom was packed to capacity, huge demonstrations
in front of the court, all of this signaling the
public debate, emotional, public debate around this issue.

Speaker 2 (01:38:54):
Yes, big debate. Indeed, Remember this is not about gender
individuals who are adults who are living their life, going
about their life, and they're not there too and doctor
nature children. They're not there to cause hell and havoc
like anybody else. They just want to live their life.

(01:39:17):
This is about the kids. This is about the kids,
the children. It changed when the children became the focus
of this insane movement.

Speaker 17 (01:39:33):
Opponents say a Tennessee law banning gender affirming care such
as hormone therapy and puberty blockers for transgender miners discriminates
on the basis of sex who can receive certain medical treatments.
Opponents saying an adolescent assigned female at birth cannot receive
puberty blockers or testosterone to live as a male, but
an adolescent assigned male at birth can. But the court's

(01:39:55):
conservative majority seemed inclined to leave the decision up to
the states.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
Which is where it should be. It's exactly where it
should be with the States and quite frankly across the country.
You shouldn't be altering children's bodies. You shouldn't. This shouldn't
be a hard thing somewhere. And by the way, look
at the numbers, right they was talking about will the

(01:40:22):
numbers say publicly that it's we support this, where the
numbers on this are overwhelming, don't act with kids. Wait
till they're a little bit older. If you're fourteen and
you believe you're a girl or a boy and this

(01:40:44):
is what you're going to be for life, when you're
eighteen and you still feel that way, you're an adult,
you can make that decision. It is not an issue
of people who are trans, no matter how much they
try to make it that, no matter how much they

(01:41:06):
try to make it solely about it's only about trans peep,
it's not. It's not live your life, be happy, Stay
away from the kids, no matter what kind of influence
you're putting on trans drugs, any of that stuff. Stay away.

(01:41:27):
That's when all of this became an issue. Three two, three, five, three, eight,
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Speaker 38 (01:42:40):
Bent to Joe fronting with scissors sounds great compared to this.

Speaker 2 (01:42:53):
Say, we'll count down the five greatest Christmas songs of
all time, tabulated by me and many of you, but
mostly me. But I did do my homework. Now, let
me tell you something. To get to the point where
we had the five greatest songs, I had to leave

(01:43:15):
off thirty songs that easily could have been in the
top five. And easily when you hear me, go, oh man,
that's my favorite. And just because they're my favorites doesn't
mean that they deserve to be on the list. Again,
this is scientific, this is data. This is backed by
science and data, and me, shall we get to it?

(01:43:44):
Number five? So we count it down the five greatest
Christmas Songs of all time.

Speaker 18 (01:43:53):
Very Christmas, It's time for the great Christmas countdown, the
five greatest Christmas Songs.

Speaker 1 (01:44:02):
Of all time.

Speaker 2 (01:44:06):
Number four, Number five, Ladies and Gentlemen. Number five comes
to us in a very odd way. Originally he was
written in nineteen sixty two by a man by the
name of Johnny Marks, who also wrote some other memorable
Christmas tunes Rocking Around the Christmas Tree and Rudolf the
Red Nose Reindeer. It's the name a few. He gave

(01:44:28):
the song two years later to this group of youngsters,
the Quinto's Sisters have.

Speaker 19 (01:44:34):
Holly Jolly Christmas is the best time of holly, Johnie Christmas.
It's the best time.

Speaker 2 (01:44:55):
Ky, Yeah, that's nice. It's nice. Look, they're youngsters, right,
They did a good job. They had a bunch of
Christmas songs. They were all over TV. There are six
young kids. Later on that year, Ranking in Bass made
one of the great Christmas staples that we still love
to this day. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Yes, you

(01:45:16):
know the one right. The claymation fantastic and in it
they got a narrator, narrator whose voice is powerful and recognizable,
man by the name of Burl lives and Burl plays
the lovable narrator, Sam the Snowman. It's always the same story.

Speaker 20 (01:45:39):
I love this Christmasy time of year.

Speaker 2 (01:45:42):
Man, that voice was fantastic. So they go and they
record the song for Ranking in Bass and Rudolph the
Red Nose reindeer. The following year, though, he says, Hey,
guess what, I want to do that again. I want
to rock this thing. I want to make it holly
jolly again. So when you listen to the ranking bass one,

(01:46:05):
it is not the same as the one that we
know and love when we hear it all the time.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, friends of all ages.
The number five Greatest Christmas Song of all time, brought
to you by the Amazing burl Lives.

Speaker 20 (01:46:37):
Have a holy jolly Christmas. It's the best time of
the year.

Speaker 2 (01:46:44):
I don't know.

Speaker 20 (01:46:45):
If there will be snow, but have a cup of years,
have a holy jolly christ And when you wope down
the stage, say hello di friend you know and every one.

Speaker 2 (01:47:03):
Amazing song, by the way, still charts almost yearly, which
is incredible. Peaked at number ten in two thy eighteen
and stayed in the top ten for five Weeks's number
five Greatest Chris Song of all time, Holly Jolly Christmas

(01:47:26):
sung by the Great burl Ives three two, three, five,
Show is your Twitter, You can tweet at us in
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you check out all of our social media. We appreciate
it when you do that as well. And again interesting
stuff as we find out more and more about what
took place yesterday morning and the assassination of the United

(01:47:51):
Healthcare CEO. One of the interesting things that people are
pointing out. I've got it up on my Twitter is
a book written in two thousand and ten called Delay
Denied Defend, Why insurance companies don't pay claim and what
you can do about it, written by a law expert

(01:48:13):
in the world of insurance, J. M. Feineman. And we're
not quite sure if he did that. We're not saying
any of those things. We're just saying the bullets had
delay deny Defend on him. So people are starting to
go Okay. Obviously, the picture of this being a grudge
against insurance companies United or else, all of the insurance

(01:48:35):
companies seems to kind of be pointing in that direction.
So we shall see three, two, three, five, eight, twenty
four to twenty three at Chadbnson shows your Twitter. We
cannot leave you with that. We've got to leave you
with something but gives you a smile on your face,
and you know, what I'm talking about, right, Gary, No,
it's time for the Gary Pucy moment of the day.

Speaker 20 (01:48:59):
It's not what you are, it is who you are
to be.

Speaker 2 (01:49:05):
Oh yeah, yeah, he nails it every time, and then
sometimes he doesn't, and sometimes he does it with a helmet.
Oh shit, you guys, have a blessed rest of your Thursday.
We'll do it again. I can't say your Friday night
night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:21):
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