US launches Strikes Against Islamic State in Nigeria

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig Collins,
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about in the world, and
yet the biggest conversation likely to be had by anybody
focused on politics today is about the military strike that
Donald Trump that President Trump ordered last night. The President

(00:35):
said that terrorists in Nigeria who are indiscriminately killing a
bunch of Christians needed to stop, or he would do
something about it. The terrorists didn't stop, They didn't care
isis connected. Terrorists just kept doing their thing and they
paid for it. Peter Doocey is one of several people
that talked about this. I do want to put one

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thing out there before I dive too deep into this story.
Nigeria approved of this, and Nigeria's Foreign Ministry actually put
up a post of their own or put out a
press release of their own that says that they actually
consider it to be a joint attack. So anyone that's
going to go the road of Trump doesn't have the authority,
or Trump didn't use Congress or some stupid crap that

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they do a lot for the commander in chief and
what he doesn't have to do or also Trump somehow
violated the sanctity of another country, Nigeria, was like, yeah,
blow up our terrorists.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
That sounds great to us.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Just so you know, just so that parts out there
with any liberal person that argues or screams and.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yells that this is somehow bad.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
But let's do a little bit of Peter Deucey's reporting
on Fox News about this very thing that happened yesterday
and about Trump putting up on truth social a Merry
Christmas to all the dead terrorists toward the talent of
his post about why he did what he did and
why this better stop as far as harming Christians in
the area or you're likely to see more strength from

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the United States a.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Major military move takes place on a holiday.

Speaker 5 (02:04):
Do you think that the symbolism of protecting Christians on
Christmas factored into this timing?

Speaker 6 (02:11):
Knowing President Trump, yes, And you know he's got Raisin
kin as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He is
the person that President Trump credits with coming up with
the idea of basically the way that they quickly and
decisively took out isis in his first term President always

(02:31):
tells the story about how he was getting a briefing
from some military advisors and they said it was going
to take months or years to take out isis. He
talked to Dan Caine, who is now the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs, and he came up with a way
to do it in weeks or months, and then that
was that. And so, yes, the symbolism of doing this
on Christmas should not be should not be ignored.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yeah, I know that there are people out there that
are going to say that doing it on a holiday,
this holiday specifically is somehow horrible and terrible, because everything
that President Trump does is horrible and terrible to a
lot of people. But of course, protecting Christians on Christmas,
by the way you're doing it, seems to be uniquely
important both to the President and to us, to the
entirety of this country, at least it should be of

(03:16):
the entirety of this country.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
What I want to.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Say about the truth social post that Trump put out
there and some of the discussions around that, I do
think it's interesting that President Trump has found a way
and he knows this and he's been doing this for
quite some time, but it's just so darn effective.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
I don't know what else to call it.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
It's just so crazy how great it is as far
as inability to manipulate the media industry by getting them
to talk about whatever he wants them to talk about,
by putting out a quote unquote mean tweet or a
mean truth. I guess because that is what constantly happens.
And you'd think, and maybe this is the reason I'm
saying something that we all definitely know is a thing.

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You'd think that eventually this would stop working, that they'd
stop having people that get up in arms in the
tone or the way that something gets said on social
media by the president, because the people would know that
they are essentially being used to pass along the message
to the American people on the other side of the
political isle, who don't get their news from places that

(04:21):
are not overwhelmingly unfair to Trump.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
That's the only place they get their news.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
And now these places are talking about Trump, and even
if they're still radicalizing people to hate him and people
to think he's terrible. And I do have some audio
actually of that that I found interesting, and this was
on Chris Cuomo's television show, And I guess I don't
understand how Cuomo can feel as though he has credibility

(04:47):
because of how much Chris Cuomo has changed from someone
who said certain things about the President who says very
different things now. It does show you that who's ever
cutting your check essentially controls your voice in a lot
of places, whether you even you know are asked to
do what they want or not. Like that's the misnomer
I think in this industry is that there are people

(05:09):
who are never actually effectively told by whoever the boss
is that this is the way you got to talk
about this. But if the money's right, they do it anyway.
They're like, I find whatever you want me to say,
however you want me to talk about it, that's okay.
But Cuomo has a viral video out there of someone
calling in and saying how mainstream media brainwashed them into
thinking that Trump was a terrible person. And the more

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they pay attention on their own now, or pay attention
out of places like News Nation that try to be
down the middle as much as they claim to be,
they think that they've learned that he's actually not as
terrible and awful as mainstream media as it is. But
the strike in Nigeria for sure. Just to cap that conversation,
I will be used as a catalyst to a lot
more talking about how Trump is evil and you know,

(05:53):
has no heart or whatever it might be, even though
again his aim is to protect Christians from terrorists, which
seems like a good thing, especially on a holiday like Christmas.
All right, let's move on to jd Vance. There's some
viral video of Vans on Face the Nation saying that
the country, even though founded by immigrants, doesn't need to
have the crazy policies of the Biden administration at our border.

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I liked that this was going viral on Christmas as well,
just because, yeah, this is an obvious comment and a
very quick comment at a question designed to try to
make Vans into a bad guy because of the administration's
policy to not swing the door wide open and let
anybody in at any time whenever they feel like it,
with no checks and balances whatsoever.

Speaker 7 (06:37):
Here we go, Oh, this is a country founded by immigrants.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Well, this is a country country.

Speaker 8 (06:42):
This is a very unique country, and it was founded
by some immigrants and some settlers. But just because we
were founded by immigrants doesn't mean that two hundred and
forty years later that we have to have the dumbest
immigration policy in the world.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
I love the simplicity of that.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
By the way, He's like, it doesn't mean that all
this time later after that was happening then.

Speaker 3 (07:02):
And you know, I don't know why I want to
say this.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I feel like this is you know, history one oh one.
It's a very basic, very simplistic thing to say out loud.
But of course there was a time period in our
country where it needed to grow, and it didn't have
as much people in it as we wanted to have
in it, and we didn't necessarily care who the people
were or where they were coming from early on in
the creation of this country, where our policies might be

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different than they are now two hundred and forty years later,
as jd. Vance is saying, the growth period is no
longer the goal. It's no longer the focus so much
as making sure that we have a secure country, a
country that doesn't waste a whole lot of money doing
things that it shouldn't be doing in the first place,
and certainly making a lot of communities mad that there's

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not enough funding to help them in whatever it is
they're trying to do because that money is going elsewhere.
This is something that a lot of democratic communities have
been upset about. And I've said that before, but I
just thought that was so interesting that that would go
via on Christmas two. It's like, you don't have to
have a dumb policy. And I'll say it, this is
overly I think simplistic too, but I can't help it.

(08:09):
I feel like that's where we're at today in a
lot of these discussions. But I just think it's so
funny that so often now as people discuss some of
these crazier, more insane take things. And I will also
say that over the Christmas holiday, I think politics came
up more at the things I was at than it
usually comes up. And I think that there's something to

(08:30):
be said about the observation that even the South Park
guys have had. And South Park has certainly crapped all
over Trump in most of its episodes this year that
they've put out on television. But how pop culture or
mainstream discussions about politics are When Trump is in the
White House, there are a whole lot of people, whether
you hate him or like him, that seem to need

(08:51):
to discuss him. You need to talk about him, I
need to have a conversation that maybe wouldn't that would
maybe sit on the sidelines or not even think about
it if it weren't this person in office and they
weren't using social media the way they were.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
But I just thought that was sort of intriguing too.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
All Right, you know what, I'm going to play the
audio because I mentioned it, I might as well play
it here before we take a break of Chris Cuomo
and a lifelong Democrat that called into the show talking
about how media convinced them of something that inevitably wasn't true.
That they don't think Trump is as evil incarnate as
mainstream media wanted you to believe. I thought that was

(09:27):
a pretty interesting moment, even if it is, again Cuomo,
someone who himself was passing along the other message not
that long ago.

Speaker 9 (09:35):
And then I want to tell you that I'm not
too proud to say that I am wrong about Trump.
I'm a proud Democrat, and he's done a lot of
things with immigration. I'm happy about what's happening with immigration.
I thought the stock market would tank, and I'm pretty
happy with my four h one k. There's a few

(09:57):
things that I just thought things would go wrong and
I'm very happy.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, that is big of you to say. It'll probably
lose you some friends in this polarized yeah environment that
we're in right now, but there's nothing wrong with being
happy with results.

Speaker 7 (10:12):
A lot of calls.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, you know out here, I'll stop it there. I
really think that's very interesting. And I think even Bill
Maher went viral over the weekend too for something he
said when he pushed back on one of his guests
about how there are things that are successes right now
that are going well. And even I think talking about
the tearing down of a part of the White House,
which liberal media and left leaning media went crazy about

(10:34):
and became a talking point even at Christmas events, I
think I think people are still talking about stuff like
that now. Bill Maher said, we actually do need a ballroom,
that the United States has sort of an embarrassing set
of places near the White House to host bigger events,
and having a much grander area within the the you know,

(10:55):
construct of that building would be good for the United
States and seemed to get him a lot of hate
and a lot of craziness. But I just found that
so funny, and so I guess I just want to
say this thing too at the beginning of the show,
and my brain is in a lot of places, admittedly,
as we kick off the show today, the day after Christmas,
and I'm diving right back into politics more than I

(11:18):
think I want to and more than maybe some people
out there might I want to hear. But the thing
I'm thinking is how good it is to have a
break from so much of this stuff. And I don't know,
I think I kind of told the story the day
before Christmas, filling in on the show of an insane
caller at a radio station I work for in Houston
who calls multiple times to a conservative radio station, multiple

(11:41):
different phone numbers, sometimes with enough convincing that his voice
is like enough fake voices that you.

Speaker 3 (11:47):
Put him on hold more than once.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
He's been on hold multiple times at the same time
on radio shows. And so I had an off air
conversation with this guy. I just was so intrigued by him.
I had to know why he's doing what he's doing.
And it was like a twenty five minute discussion about
how Trump basically runs his life, the Trump Derangement syndrome,
stuff that people talk about that make him obsessed and

(12:09):
make him want to call networks or organizations that he
thinks supports Trump so that he can attack them in
very silly ways and very like low brow stupid ways
and then essentially like lose.

Speaker 3 (12:20):
I think a lot of those discussions.

Speaker 2 (12:23):
But I just thought it was so fascinating because the
overarching message I got, or I tried to provide to him,
was just give it a break. I just take a
twenty four hour break or relax from all of this
craziness that you're obsessed with, and see if your life
gets better, See if you wind up happier or things
wind up being a good somehow for you because you

(12:44):
ignore that thing that you're obsessed with for a very
short amount of time and all of a sudden things
get better for you.

Speaker 3 (12:50):
And I don't think he's going to take my advice,
but I think it's true.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
So in that note, we'll take a break and probably
not talk about politics after this. Craig Collins filling in
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Speaker 2 (13:46):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, Thrilled to be
with you. I'm going to summarize some of the Internet,
both in the last twenty four hours and just in general,
because I think that this is a common prevailing theme
on the Internet. Women are mad at men. That's the
thing that's out there. It exists in a whole bunch
of ways. Let me give you specifics as to how
women are mad at men. In the last twenty four hours,

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there's two of them. One woman said that she's mad
at a man because he didn't take the middle seat
on a plane. She said that it would be chivalrous
for a man if he's traveling with a girlfriend or wife,
for somebody to sit in the middle seat. No matter
which person has the actual middle seat ticket, you got
to sit there middle because that allows the person that
you're with to have the nicer seat, and so that

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is being a man being nice about it.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
I agree with that.

Speaker 2 (14:32):
I think you should do it. I do that for
my wife. Not a big deal, But women mad at
men about that. Also another one, a single woman is
very upset with a man that she went on a
first date with, and the internet seems to agree with her,
or at least the women on the internet who are
saying this.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
So here's what happened.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
The woman went on a blind date with a guy
she met on the internet, whatever you call that, and
he invited her to a restaurant. She asked him, how
you're supposed to dress at the restaurant, casual? Don't worry
about it, not a big deal of The woman got
there and apparently, super nice restaurant. She's underdressed. He's actually dressed.

Speaker 3 (15:08):
Kind of nice. She thought he did it on purpose.

Speaker 2 (15:11):
He's trying to make her look like an idiot or
trying to swing the power balance in his favor.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
So she was mad at him and walked out of
the place.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
I wonder if it was just an honest mistake, But
the Internet seeming to say that women are very much
mad at men because that man, how dare he not
tell her to dress up real fancy for the first date.

Speaker 3 (15:30):
And I think at a lot of.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
Nice restaurants now people wind up wearing more casual stuff.
I think that's also a thing, so two there. But
if you're a dude out there, good luck to you.
You're likely to have some anger coming from you by
the opposite sex in the near future over something that's
the internet.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
This is Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (15:51):
My favorite part of the story with the girl who
got upset about the restaurant is I kind of think
it's awkward as a guy to tell a woman you've
never met in person before and you're only texting that
they need to dress real nice for you and the
first date you're taking them on, even if you're taking
them to a nice place, So like telling them to
dress casually. Although the woman said she wore like sweatpants

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and stuff, so maybe overly casually might have also been
by some degree a wrong decision on her part. But
I love the fact, like that's the road. You go,
dress however you want. I'm sure it'll be okay. And
I'm still trying to impress you to I bring you
somewhere nice, and the last caveat that I'll throw out
there to this and this is just a me thing.
Everything you go to is google a bull. You can

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look it up. If you get invited to a place
and he's not picking you up, which he didn't pick
her up, she had to drive there on her own.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
You know what the place is. You can figure this out.

Speaker 2 (16:46):
You can even if you don't know if you should
trust the person and their advice to you. You can
look on the internet see what other people are saying
and find out that it might be a nice place,
and you might like you might dress up fancier and
then go ahead and do it a version of that.
So I love the fact that there's absolutely no blame
taking for yourself for just being a poor planner. But

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a woman who walked out of a first date and
said she's done with tat man and blocked him forever.
I was only told to dress casually and thought that
that was a sin that could never be forgiven. I
feel like I could still make that mistake now with
my wife, and at least I wouldn't get divorced over it.
Quick break a lot more. Craig Gallin's filling in on
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Speaker 3 (18:04):
It is the Chad Benson sholl.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in. Thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about.

Speaker 3 (18:12):
This is weird. Weird is the right word. It's different
than that.

Speaker 2 (18:16):
This is sad, it's desperate, it's greedy, it's a lot
of things. I think a lot of politicians in Minnesota
are looking for Somalian money, mostly because it's ours. They
stole it, they kept it. There's a ridiculous amount of
fraud that's going on there. But I think they also know,
they being the politicians, that the Somalian money might go

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into some of their accounts if they say and do
things that are nice to Somalians. Right now, as the
rest of the country is talking about how possibly the
fraud could be this bad in a place like Minnesota,
but here's the lieutenant governor in that state on television
well wearing a hajjab or hajjab talking about how important

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Somalians are to her and her Minnesota. By the way
that community has grown somewhat since the nineteen nineties, but
more recently because of refugees who were put there. It's
not like you choose Minnesota, I think on a map,
but they don't have a deep history of a long
tenure of being in Minnesota. It's about thirty years, thirty

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five years or so that there's been a community at
all there. And again this is actually because refugees were
being put there as early as the nineties.

Speaker 3 (19:31):
But here we go.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Here is a lieutenant governor just unapologetically begging for money
from fraudster Sally willlycom.

Speaker 7 (19:39):
My name's Peggy Flanagan.

Speaker 12 (19:41):
I am the Lieutenant governor of Minnesota, and I'm really
honored and humboldt to be here with all of you today.
I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part
of the fabric of the state of Minnesota. I think
about my friendship with Nimko. We've been friends for almost
twenty five years, and when I think of being part

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of Minnesota and growing up here, the Somali community has
always been a part of my Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
Okay, I guess stuff right there. You know what's really
ridiculous about this? Like I'm being honest it's not just
the sad version of the politicians begging for the money
that they've already handed to the fraudsters that exists that
want more free money. It's how obviously on display it
is this time, because right now in the news is

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that millions and billions of dollars or whatever ridiculous sums
of money, powerball jackpot amounts of money has been stolen
by Somalian fraud from Minnesota. And so you'd think that
the last thing you'd do as a politician, mere days
or weeks I guess after this first became a talking
point within the country is go out there and make

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sure to overwhelmingly support the importance and value of the community,
and to also pretend is though being upset about ridiculous
stealing of our taxpayer dollars of their taxpayer dollars in
that state is somehow racist, because it's not. I don't
care who you are if you steal money, it's something

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that we have the right as a society to be
upset about. And if when we catch you you say
the only reason you're mad is because of my race,
you're the one being insane, and you're the one actually
adding that to the equation too, when it doesn't have
to be there. But I just think this is so ridiculous.
I think an amount of years ago, I don't even

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know if this would be the right way to say this,
but I'm going to try to do it this way.

Speaker 3 (21:39):
You had this uncle who.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
You thought was a conspiracy theorist and crazy, and one
of the big things he would tell you is how
money controlled everything, and the government in bezeled money everywhere,
our relationship with places like Ukraine, and this again years ago,
long before some of the conflict we've seen now. They'd
say all kinds of stuff though in the government in
Bezel's money to organizations who then give it back to

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these politicians, and maybe on the heels of Nancy Pelosi
finally deciding to step away from the world of politics
and actually being sort of amazingly crapped on by Scott
Jennings and I'll get to that in a minute. And
how ridiculous the amount of money she made on the
stock mart on Wall Street. Well in you know, a
political position of power is insane. But what's funny about

(22:23):
it is how often that uncle was right. Is I
guess what I'm trying to say here because right now,
in a close to mid term election election cycle, you're
going to see a bunch of politicians in Minnesota beg
for money from the Somalian community because they have a
ton of it. It's just gonna happen, and it's crazy

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to think that it's going to happen as much as
we're going to see it, because again, it's just so
unapologetically not hiding any of the ridiculousness that is this.
You know, this scheme, this fraud campaign, is whatever you
want to call it, that really I scratch your back,
you scratch mine sort of thing. It's amazing how little

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it's being hidden now compared to before. I've said this before,
and I'll say it again. I really do think that
the bad guys, if that's what you want to want
to call them, used to do a much better job
of hiding this stuff, and now they're just kind of
sort of terrible about not caring if you see it,
and they're assuming a whole lot of people can't see

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any of this, even if it's right in their face.
So I just think it's sort of insane that this
is the type of discussion, the type of thing that
keeps being a focal point for a whole lot of people,
because how could you possibly deny that this is what's
going on in places like that, as you're seeing overwhelmingly
overwhelming support come from politicians. All Right, I want to

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play some audio. It's gone viral in the last twenty
four hours or forty eight hours. It's actually from way
back in November, So this initial discussion on ce N
actually happened more than a month ago, but forever reason,
it was making the rounds again on the internet and
people were really enjoying it, and it was jokes about
how Nancy Pelosi should be hired to manage the American

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stock market portfolio because she'd crush it. This was a
reaction to Nancy first saying that she's retirant, which is
happening here relatively soon now, and will be nice that
she won't be criminally stealing our money while stealing money
herself via all of the inside trading that it seems
like was going on because of how much she outperformed
even the S and P five hundred.

Speaker 3 (24:34):
So I'll play some of that audio.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
But I just thought it was interesting that this popped
up again because this seems like it is and I
know this sounds like the maga, a sort of talk
in how people say it. But this seems like people
waking up. This seems like people actually paying attention to
the things that really do happen. There is no rational
way to explain how Nancy Pelosi made so much money

(24:58):
off the stock market. There's only one one way to
do it. Well, there's no other rational way I should say,
other than to say that she used insider trading information
to gain an unfair advantage. But here, I want to
play this audio, as they said again, it actually originated
back in November, but it went viral just the other
day because it's one hundred percent true. And you can't

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imagine what it would be like to have the Nancy
Pelosi running the American stock market portfolios of so many
because we'd all be able to retire in the next
few weeks, we'd all win the power ball.

Speaker 3 (25:30):
Essentially. Here we go any them.

Speaker 13 (25:33):
She made them really angry, but at the end of
the day, there was often grudging respect for some of
the things that she skills that she brought to the table.

Speaker 14 (25:41):
Oh yeah, you know, there were people who respected her
legislative ability and you know, being a political boss.

Speaker 3 (25:47):
I mean, she was the boss of.

Speaker 7 (25:48):
Her contancy to Alessandro.

Speaker 14 (25:50):
And you know there is you know, for political operators,
a lot of respect for that. I'll tell you this.
I don't know how much we raised over the years
off of sending out fund raising appeals based on Nancy Pelosi,
but it was a metric butt Ton, I'm telling you
right now. Putting Nancy Pelosi in fundraising mail or fundraising
emails would always produce. And by the way, it's not
often that someone can become a titan of both Washington

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and Wall Street. Republicans will remember her as one of
the most exhassle and prolific day traders. She'd meet the S.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
And P five hundred by five hundred and fifty nine.

Speaker 14 (26:19):
Percent in her stock portfolio. She's worth a lot of money.
She did an amazing job. So what a blow for
the financial houses today on Wall Street.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
I'm sure they're morning just getting in an album, right, Yeah.

Speaker 7 (26:31):
Deserved classic Scotch Jenny.

Speaker 10 (26:33):
By the way, like I'm beginning to view what you
just did.

Speaker 7 (26:36):
There, It's like Scott Jennings on TV.

Speaker 14 (26:37):
I don't want Trump to put her in charge of
the Social Security Administration. We could all retire in six
months if we let this lady manage our portfolios.

Speaker 2 (26:46):
Can you imagine how great it would be, how incredible
would be I love that that people are trolling Pelosi.
She's got about a year left to be a person
of political power, although hopefully it's a very diminished amount
of power for the last however long it is. I
think January of twenty twenty seven, so a year that
she has any influence at all. And a lot of
Democrats are eating their own That is something you're definitely

(27:08):
seeing and something that's being talked about. They want as
much distance as anyone else does from these politicians because shockingly,
they think some of them aren't radical enough. And actually,
I'll say something about that or real quick, because it's
a holiday show, or it's just after a holiday show,
and part of me wants to tell you stories about
how Logan Paul is selling Pokemon cards for ridiculous amounts

(27:31):
of money and then also advising everybody else to do
the same. And I'll talk about that in a bit,
but I'll tell you that I do think that politics
is mainstream more so than ever. I watched a Joe
Rogan podcast or whatever YouTube show that he put up
with Shane gillis a famous comedian, and almost half the
show is political, and I know that happens a lot

(27:52):
with Rogan. Whoever his guests are, they talk about this
politics that I know Rogan has even is somewhat recently
a complain about Trump not living up to the expectations
that he wanted when Rogan endorsed him and interviewed him
last year. I'm not saying I agree with Rogan on that,
but it's interesting. But I wonder where the escape is,

(28:12):
and I know that I'm going to promptly keep mentioning
this throughout the show. Today is definitely the day after Christmas.
I feel it like, where do you get away from
these topics? When the South Park guys who are trashing
Trump as often as they are say they can't get
away from politics, it's too mainstream, it seems like that's
a bad thing for a whole lot of us, the
people who hate Trump, the people who love Trump. There

(28:33):
might be a value in escaping all of it, at
least for a short amount of time. So, as I said,
We're going to try to do a lot of that
today on the show, and luckily I got a whole
bunch of crazy stories again about stuff like Logan Paul,
the brother of Jake Paul, whose jaw was just broken
by an actual boxer, selling a Pokemon card for five
point three million dollars at auction and telling everybody else

(28:57):
we should look into that instead of the stock market.
We don't have Nancy Pelosi's insider information. But it's your
decision if you want to trust the information or the
financial recommendations of a social media influencer who has a
thing you don't have in a rare charizard, a Pokemon
card that's going to make him a bunch of money.

(29:17):
All right, quick break a lot more. Craig Collins filling
in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (29:34):
Welcome to the Chad Autonomous Zone.

Speaker 10 (29:36):
Who bipolar.

Speaker 9 (29:38):
There's a lot of things that I love about Hitler.

Speaker 10 (29:43):
No bipartisan, don't abandon, don't censor, engage. Yes, the Chad
Benson Show where free speech and uncensored thought run wild.

Speaker 15 (29:54):
That's crazy.

Speaker 3 (29:59):
This is the Chad Show.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
My name is Craig Collins, filling in, thrilled to be
with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about.
This is kind of interesting. So a social media influencer
was on the streets I think in Australia, although I'm
not exactly sure where this happened. I don't know that
it matters the location for this, and she was doing
what's called a fit check. That's where she shows off

(30:21):
her outfit. She tries to be as attractive as possible
and has the camera and a few friends around her
as she's doing this. Apparently an older woman, not sure
exactly how old. Someone accuses her of being sixty in
the video, which I don't know why it's an accusation,
but they say that she's super old for being that age,
which hurts a lot of people who are not in

(30:41):
their twenties when they hear a twenty year old say it.
But nonetheless, what I think is funny is is as
they're going back and forth and yelling at each other,
the older woman yells at her that she'll drop her,
she'll beat her the bleep up, and it goes back
and forth in kind of a crazy way. And the
Internet is now debating if you are allowed as an
Internet celebrity to disregard everybody around you and do whatever

(31:03):
you want in public, even if it's late at night
in a rather empty street, and if someone has the
right to get mad if you're just taking photos on
the sidewalk and annoyingly in their way. That is the
debates on the internet who was right and who was
wrong in this situation. I do have audio to play,
and I honestly, you know what's funny about it. When
you read the description, it sounds like they're screaming and

(31:23):
yelling at each other, but it's a much friendlier version
of go bleep yourself, go bleep yourself. They're saying back
and forth to each other. I'm actually kind of impressed
with how, you know, mild These words are coming out
of each person's mouth right up until the fake punches
are thrown. And no, no real punches got thrown. They
were fake ones. But here we go.

Speaker 15 (31:51):
You're the I'm as you're like, okay, that last.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
Part's my favorite part. That's the fake punches.

Speaker 2 (32:04):
The woman who doesn't actually look sixty in the photos
by the way, she's not twenty, but she doesn't look
sixty's throwing these fake punches and getting in the camera
shot and like, oh and.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
The other girl flinches.

Speaker 2 (32:16):
To me, that's hilarious, not that it's something I recommend
you do, but I find it funny at the tail
end of that fight. But here's the thing I'll say,
it is tremendously annoying to watch somebody do a video
in public where they don't care at all about the
fact that they're around other people.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
Like, it's tremendously annoying. It's distracting and annoying.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
Actually, I was sitting at a restaurant somewhat recently with
the misses outside.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
It was nice.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
I live in Texas, so it's been nice a lot recently,
and there were these two young women off to my
left just trying to take photos outside the establishment of themselves.
I don't think they ever went in. I don't think
they had a meal or anything. I think they were
just trying to look like they were going to the place.
It wasn't even that fancy of a place, by the way,
It was kind of ridiculous they were doing this, but

(33:01):
nonetheless they're taking all these photos, and like, I glanced
at them, and I think one of the times I
looked at them, they looked back at me and they.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
Seemed mad, like how dare this man look at us?

Speaker 2 (33:10):
And I was like, you guys are standing outside being
idiots and morons and taking multiple photos for like several
minutes and then not even actually entering into the establishment
you're taking photos of. This is obviously annoying behavior. Anybody
who would witness this, if the Aliens saw it as
they were shooting past the planets, would wonder what the
hell was going on and then probably lock the doors

(33:32):
and leave because of how terrible it is other things
that it seems that we do here. But I love
how in your own world you have to be, like
how little respect you have to have for anyone that
also exists in the place that you're in to get
annoyed when you're being annoying, because some part of you
should acknowledge what you're doing is uniquely stupid and say, yeah,

(33:54):
I'm doing it for social media, I'm doing it to
get attention, I am doing it at the detriment to
everybody around me, and who gives a bleep? I guess,
But I just find that part funny. Of course, people
are going to get annoyed around other people who are
doing things that disregard the fact that they're in public
at the time they're doing it. All right, Something else
out there that I thought was interesting. A Logan Paul

(34:16):
is auctioning off a pristine Pokemon card a Charizard that
apparently is worth five point three million dollars.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
None of that means to mean anything to you.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
If you have no idea what Pokemon in Charizard is,
that's totally fine, although I imagine you at least know
what Pokemon is. The thing that I love is that
Logan Paul then gave financial advice to people. He said,
don't put your money in the stock market. Put it
into collectibles, because obviously all of us will also acquire
a five point three million dollar trading card of a

(34:49):
kid's game. That will also happen if you throw your
money at collectibles. I do love the advice, though, because
I occasionally buy pop figurines. I have Michael Jordan, I
have Derek g I have several different athletes that I admire,
and I've always told my wife that maybe at some
point they'll be worth money. I doubt that that's a
true thing, and I don't have a tremendous amount of them.

(35:10):
But now I have another example or another thing that
I can use as an excuse to say, hey, I
think there's an off chance that someday we're going to
be rich, baby, and it's all because of the sweet,
sweet Michael Jordan doll that I still have in its
box as a pop figurine, even if it's unlikely to
be true, but Logan Paul has given me that opportunity,
So thank you, sir. Quick Break a lot more. Creig

(35:31):
Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show. Although I
guess before I take a break, I should tell you
that anytime I do a topic like this on the radio,
and this is not a first, I've talked about my
collectibles before. I have a buddy that collects like bands
and stuff got like ACDC, so he does this too.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
You always google as.

Speaker 2 (35:50):
You're on the radio talking about it if things you
own and if any of them are worth any money,
and none of them are. I think my veto Corleone
might be the only thing that's worth more than the
money I paid for it. But so far not going
well my collectibles to retirement plan. But hopefully someday in
the future one of these is gonna take off, all right,
quick Break a Lot more. Craig Collins filling in on

Speaker 1 (36:17):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
filling in. Thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. I promise there actually
is a bunch of stuff, even if it feels like
it's not in its groundhog Day and there's only a
few topics that are ever really in the news. Just
quickly some rounding up of news things. Vladimir Lensky, the

(37:09):
president in Ukraine, has said that he is likely to
meet with President Trump very soon. I think that meeting
has since been sort of ironed out to likely be Sunday,
in hopes to find a peace deal with Russia. I
think Vladimir's Lensky even said there's still days left of
twenty twenty five, making it sound as though it might
be possible to have a deal reached before the end

(37:30):
of the year. If Trump is able to usher in
peace between is between Ukraine and Russia, that's a huge
win in the cap of the president who's done a
lot of other peace negotiating. Regardless of if you hate
him or like him, It's something that the autopen in chief.
President Biden could not get done, so that would matter,
and it does matter, even if Ukraine winds up having

(37:52):
to give up territory that some might think is unfair.
It is a byproduct of the necessity of ending the
conflict and not having the ability to do an endless
war with Russia any longer. In the world of fighting
will continue to benefit Russia and not Ukraine. They've already
been at this for four years, so that's a bigger.

Speaker 3 (38:11):
Story out there.

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Of course, the decision for President Trump on Christmas to
have US strikes happen in Nigeria that targeted ISIS terrorists
that are killing Christians.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
There was a big deal.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
Trump even puts something out on truth Social sort of
announcing it and then doing his typical Merry Christmas to
my enemy's kind of stuff. In this case, it was
actually a Merry Christmas that was provided to.

Speaker 3 (38:39):
The dead terrorists that are out there in the world.

Speaker 2 (38:42):
But anyway, beyond that, I think another kind of interesting
thing is that as these things are being announced, as
these things are happening in the background, there's also some
fantastic information coming out about whether it's the twenty twenty
sixth census or excuse me the census and how it
might have fixed, in fact, the twenty twenty six a
midterm elections. Here we go, let me play part of

(39:03):
this audio. Oh you can't hear this audio. I can
fix that real quick. Let me go ahead and hit
a button here, and then let's go ahead and do
that again. Here is a discussion about the census.

Speaker 4 (39:17):
One of the big things is it helps decide congressional maps.

Speaker 14 (39:20):
Does this have everything to do with redistrictions?

Speaker 3 (39:22):
Well, it does.

Speaker 16 (39:23):
In fact, we know the twenty twenty census the errors
were almost always to the detriment of red states Blue
states like we're know that.

Speaker 3 (39:30):
We do know that.

Speaker 16 (39:30):
The Census Bureau's own audit of its work has proven
that blue states like Rhode Island were overcounted. Rde Island
then doesn't didn't lose a seat. Red states like Alabama
were undercounted. Listen, this is just a fact. It wasn't
all red blue, but it was disproportionately redden It.

Speaker 3 (39:45):
Was disproportionately red blue.

Speaker 2 (39:46):
That is shocking. That is surprising. How could that have
possibly happened? Who could figure out what could be going
on there? It is fantastic. I to have these discussions
to be honest with you, because the more and more
that we deal with this, the more and more we discus,
the more we see this avenue over here, that avenue
over here where likely there's a lot of what basically

(40:07):
seems like fraud going on, or rigging of an election,
if it's legal versions of fraud instead of illegal. The
reason I'm tiptoeing around this is because of a podcast
that Joe Rogan did with Shane Gillis that just aired recently.
I think it just got posted the other day, and
a lot of the podcast, a lot of the episode
is about politics. Nick Fuentes comes up multiple times. They

(40:31):
both say that even though Nick Quentz has ideas they
don't agree with that, they think he's funny and for
that reason he's popular. Because that's a bad thing to
be a mix of both, you know, provocative and humorous,
because then it doesn't matter what your takes are. But anyway,
the thing I'm trying to get to is I thought
it was interesting that Rogan did a deep dive into
the Fulton County election story. And if you don't know

(40:54):
what this is, Fulton County recently announced that three hundred
and fifteen thousand votes from the twenty election were likely
not legitimate, not meaning that they were written by people
who might not exist or any of those more. I
don't know if you call them conspiratorial, but other theories
about how election fraud exists. What did happen is they

(41:14):
just weren't signed. Thirty six out of thirty seven counties
that had mail in ballots before the twenty twenty election
didn't go through the correct legal process for those votes
to be valid. Now, if you look in twenty twenty
compared to twenty twenty four, roughly the same amount of
people voted, So it wasn't like there was three hundred

(41:35):
thousand additional votes in twenty twenty that don't exist in
twenty twenty four, which may or may not be good news.

Speaker 3 (41:41):
That may mean that this amount.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Of fraud or whatever it is is obviously taking place
all the time, but certainly it's relevant in a place
like Georgia where Biden just barely beat Trump, and if
three hundred thousand votes had been disqualified for not following
the correct legal procedure to make sure that they're valid,
would have won. I know it doesn't change the outcome
of the election, but it gives you a sense of

(42:04):
some of what the actual discussion is.

Speaker 3 (42:07):
And I don't care if.

Speaker 2 (42:08):
The win, I'm going to say this as bluntly as
I can in the world of election fraud in twenty twenty,
seems more semantic. It seems more petty than the other
version of the win, which is where you prove that
a whole bunch of votes that came in didn't actually
get sent in by the people that's names are on them,
or you know, dead people or all that other stuff

(42:30):
they say. But if there's other ways to prove that
legal hurdles were jumped through, or concessions were made, or
you know, excuses were given for what is wrong stuff,
and the Trump should have won, it would be a
fascinating thing. I'm not saying that on the show. I'm
not trying to dive that deep into a controversy that
people should probably mostly move on from. There's no way

(42:50):
to time travel, but there is a way to at
least understand this story a better. But I just thought
that was so interesting, because really, what I'm trying to
talk about here today and call it like an overarching
message for the entirety of the show, I'm on the
air on a national show, filling in for a friend
of mine, Chad Benson. I've been doing this for years now,
filling in for Chad, and honestly, when I woke up

(43:12):
this morning, the last thing I wanted to talk about
was politics. And I know Chad does a whole bunch
of not talking about politics, so it's not like it
would be a bad thing to do that on the show.
And yet politics is so mainstream. The creators of South Park,
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who have created several episodes
that are going after Trump as much as you can

(43:33):
in the world of a cartoon show that makes Trump
a character who's in a relationship with Satan, like it's
a real thing that happens on that cartoon. They were
asked why they're doing this, like why not just write
about other stuff the way South Park has for a
long time. And the answer from both guys is Trump
is too a pop culture He's too mainstream. This conversation
is too important, too valuable to people, even if it's

(43:56):
not about politics. And I just think that's kind of
fascinating and it's obviously true, and it's been true when
Trump was in office before, but it just seems to
me to be something that's definitely not helping a lot
of people. It's probably much to our detriment than to
the good to be talking about this stuff all the
time as much as we are. And I guess the

(44:17):
other reason I'm making this observation before I move on
to something else, is that politics came up more at
a Christmas gathering I had with some extended family than
I expected it to. It was a more dominant topic
of conversation at times when you thought that maybe we'd
be talking about other stuff. And it is weird as
a guy who does political commentary for a living on

(44:38):
radio and whatnot to then be thrust into those conversations
a whole lot when I'm not on a microphone, because
part of me wants to skip it for you know,
it's like a work thing a related reason. But I
don't know. I just kept thinking about that that we're
close to the new year. I'm not saying that you
need to go to sleep and not pay attention. You
should absolutely pay attention to what's going on. There's a
ridiculous amount of fraud happening out of Minnesota. There's it's

(45:00):
a crazy amount of news things right now that seem
to scream and yell and demonstrate how many times that
crazy uncle you had years ago that you call the
conspiracy theorist was right about stuff.

Speaker 3 (45:12):
Jd.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Vance even said that recently that he's only a conspiracy
theorist when those conspiracy conspiracies wind up being true. So
not discouraging you from paying attention, that would be terrible.
At the same time, I think we all need to
find a way to get Catharza's from this stuff, no
matter what we think of it. And actually I'll do
this in my rant of a segment here on Chad's

(45:33):
show for him. He is back in a few days.

Speaker 3 (45:36):
By the way, you.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
Don't have to expect more of this in the near future.
I would often joke that we need to get away
from technology. I love technology, I'm obsessed with it. But
I used to say that we should have a day
where no one's allowed to use it, where we all
have to go to the park, somebody brings a hacky
sack or a frisbee, and we just see what happens.
We see how things go when all of us separate
from technology. The same feels true about news, and I'll

(46:00):
say one more thing.

Speaker 3 (46:01):
To you actually about this idea.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
So I'm driving home last night, it's about a three
and a half hour drive from where we were for
Christmas and where we live, and I'm talking to my
wife and during the conversation, she keeps mentioning these tiktoks
that she's seen, and all of them are like overwhelmingly negative.
They're not necessarily all about politics, but they're all just negative,
like this horrible thing happened in this place, this thing
happened in this place.

Speaker 3 (46:24):
And I just.

Speaker 2 (46:25):
Comment, like, we got to watch more fun stuff. We
got to turn on our social media devices or whatever
they are, and consume like nicer things just for our
own mental health. Her own benefits the occasion to have
something that is, you know, more uplifting. And she actually
really loves an influencer by the name of Jimmy who

(46:45):
gives just money to people. He just helps people in
his life. I kind of like mister Beast or someone does.
And she loves those videos, and those videos seem overly nice.
But I was really just thinking that, and I don't
know if this is going to fall in deaf ears,
if a lot of people who hear this segm of
this radio show the day after Christmas, are going to think, Man,
I just want my news. Darn it, just tell me

(47:05):
the things that are going on. How dare you tell
me to go back to a world where I'm not
paying attention to this stuff? But I just can't help
thinking that that there's got to be some happy middle
ground where maybe our phone should just turn off at
a certain point if we've consumed too much stuff we
don't need anymore. Like for today, I've hit my fill.
We should have a version of I Am full as

(47:26):
far as like filling up your gas tank with add information,
and I'll be back to it tomorrow, but for today,
I'm done so in that. Actually, with a couple of
minutes left before we take a break, I saw something
else that I thought was kind of funny. I don't
know if this is tied to the stuff I'm talking
about or not, but a ton of Americans plan to
skip New Year's Eve parties entirely. They don't want to go.

(47:48):
They don't want to go because they said it would
be a hassle. There's other reasons that they think it
might be annoying to be there, but whopping thirty five
percent of people said, they're likely to stay home alone
or with you know, one or two other loved ones
and watch the ball drop and be done with New
Year's Eve and move on to twenty twenty six without
being around other humans. And I think that's partially because

(48:10):
of this stuff I'm talking about, because of the things
people obsess about right now, and the inability to truly
escape when you're supposed to be in escape places. But
who knows, maybe a lot of people out there listening
to the show today are like, Man, I escape all
the time. I do the exact opposite of what you're saying.
I barely pay attention to any of this stuff, and
I'm better off for it.

Speaker 3 (48:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
It just seems like so often now you can't possibly
get far enough away from this to where someone doesn't care.
You're going to be in the orbit of someone who cares.
And they might care a whole lot for a variety
of I think at times kind of bad reasons, although
they might be good reasons at other times. I am
being wishy washy, And how I discuss this. I just
thought it was fascinating. But anyway, a lot of people

(48:50):
are skipping the holiday as far as celebration goes, which
will probably also make the streets and roads safer. There
is that truth that one of the most dangerous days
to be out in a car driving is New Year's Eve,
So if you're capable of skipping a travel on that day,
it's probably better for you and better for other people
as well to have less cars.

Speaker 3 (49:10):
On the road. All right.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
The other thing I guess I think is interesting about
that before I take a break, is that my wife
and I are in a brand new place, so we're
going to do the exact opposite.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
I just told you what you should do on the holiday,
and we're gonna go out.

Speaker 2 (49:22):
We're gonna be somewhere because we want to be somewhere,
because you know, we're new to the place we're in.
But all right, we'll take a break. A lot coming
up at Craig Gallin's filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Helen Keller is a Nazi terrorist that is a male.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
Is that what you're telling me right now?

Speaker 1 (49:47):
Are you thinking of Hitler?

Speaker 10 (49:50):
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hundred percent effective against stupidity?

Speaker 11 (49:56):
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Speaker 1 (49:59):
D Day in person a rapper God, Karen, you are
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Speaker 1 (50:12):

Speaker 2 (50:15):
filling in, thrilled to be with you. A bunch of
stuff out there to talk about. I thought this was interesting.
The largest Nativity set in the world is in Spain.
It was built in twenty twenty. For a little while,
you weren't allowed to go visit it, but you're allowed
to visit it again this year and people have been
going all during the holiday season. How big is it,

(50:38):
you might ask me or yell at your radio. Ten
feet tall? Is baby Jesus so the Manger, the little thing,
you know, the little thing he's laying in there, that's
ten feet tall. Then you got Mary, She's thirty four
feet tall and she is kneeling down. And then Joseph's
a giant sixty feet Baby Joseph is huge, towering over

(50:59):
everybody else. So if you want to check out the
anctivity in a certain part of Spain, be excited because
it's one of the largest ever and you're finally allowed
to see it again after years of people damaging it.
I don't know how you damage something that large by
being at it too much. Also another story out there,
Mariah Carey makes a crap ton of music for All

(51:21):
I Want for Christmas Is You? One of the more
annoying songs that come around every Christmas season, and one
of the ones that I often skip because you hear
it way too much, way too many places. But she
gets like three million dollars or so, maybe even more
than that every year in royalties from the massive amount
of times this song plays. It is crazy to think

(51:44):
that that's a thing that she makes so much money
off of even now, because you'd think that a song
that was made that many years ago that's not even
really like all that great would not be making raking
in that much cash a year in and year out.
So I guess if you're someone in the world of
music that can create another viral Christmas song, you're lucky.

(52:06):
You're likely to be able to cash in on it
for a tremendously long time.

Speaker 3 (52:09):
So there is that way to go. Mariah.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
I wish the song didn't exist, because I truly hate
it at this point in the season, a quick break,
a lot more Craig Collins filling in on The Chad
Benson Show. To be honest, I bough humbugged a lot
of Christmas songs this year. There's the classics that you
always love, You're not Gonna get mad at here, and
a little bit of Ben Crosby or any of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
But I don't know what it was.

Speaker 2 (52:32):
This year, as the Christmas songs were starting to play
on rotation more and more places and earlier that I
probably bough humbugged a little bit harder. And there were
times where I was like, driving somewhere, I went the
missus to a party or something, and she's like, let's
turn on the holiday music.

Speaker 3 (52:47):
And I said yes, and I did it, And in.

Speaker 2 (52:49):
The back of my mind, I'm like, I'd really like
to be listening to not this right now. I'd really
like to be listening to something else.

Speaker 3 (52:55):
And I don't know why.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
I don't know if it's because that part of the
holiday becomes a forced thing. It's not like anybody forgets
that Christmas music exists during the Christmas season, and none
of us are unaware of it. It's everywhere. It's ubiquitous,
and maybe that's a part of it. And maybe I
just want to break from a whole bunch of things,
and maybe that's all that this show is about today.
Even though I'm thrilled to be here. By the way,

(53:17):
I don't want to take a break from filling in
for Chad. I'd like to keep doing that. But maybe
a part of me is just like I want to
bah humbug this and that and everything. I'm a you
know whatever you call it now, I'm somebody who's anti
everything that's popular. I want to be a hipster in
the corner of the room, sipping my machiato and yelling
at no, I don't this sounds horrible. What I'm actually

(53:38):
saying sounds terrible, But nonetheless it really is true, just
for me. I wonder if it's true for anyone else
out there that even the Christmas songs just felt like
the kind of thing you had to do you didn't
really want to do.

Speaker 3 (53:48):
Right, Well, take a break. A lot coming up.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Craig Gown's filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 11 (54:11):
Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:32):

Speaker 2 (54:35):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig
Collins filling in thrilled to be with you. A bunch
of stuff out there to talk about. I was really
amused by a moment with Scott Jennings and Abby Phillip
in which Jennings broke out some puppets to demonstrate what
it means to be illegal here in this country. Scott
Jennings has done a great job of being the catalyst

(54:59):
to viral short clips of him debating everybody on CNN.
I think it's turned into his radio show or podcast
being more successful. Pretty Much everything Scott Jennings has done
over the last couple of years has gotten more likely
to be viral because he is the only intelligent person
in a dumb room, more or less. And Scott Jennings
was a guy that didn't really like Trump all that

(55:20):
long ago either, So the constant defending of the current
president of the United States is a little odd if
you actually go back and watch how he behaved just
a short.

Speaker 3 (55:30):
Amount of time ago.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
Although Jennings has explained that he said that to be honest,
even he was a little bit warped in his opinion
by what he saw other places and not what he
was finding himself. But let's play this This is audio
again of Jennings and Abby Phillip on CNN going back
and forth about criminals, about illegal aliens, about all that stuff,
and Jennings at some point decides to break out the puppets.

Speaker 17 (55:51):
I don't think anybody disagrees with that. Seven million means
that they're not just going after criminals.

Speaker 14 (55:56):
Well, they're going after people who are in the country illegally, right.

Speaker 17 (55:59):
Yeah, I know, but I'm saying the criminals, this is
a much bigger universe.

Speaker 14 (56:04):
Doesn't that make you a criminal?

Speaker 17 (56:05):
No, it doesn't.

Speaker 14 (56:06):
To come across the border illegally.

Speaker 17 (56:07):
Coming into the country illegally as a civil offense, it's
not a criminal offense.

Speaker 14 (56:11):
Okay, if you come into the country illegally, here's the message.
We're going to find you and send you back. I mean,
I'm sorry, that's the way it is. And I think
the government should pull all the levers at its disposal
to find people and pull this off. It's what the
American people asked Donald Trump to do. Yes, they should
be deporting violent people. Yes, they should be deporting people
who committed violent acts before they came here. But at

(56:33):
some juncture, if you're going to allow any illegal immigration
at all. The message then goes out, just get here,
it'll probably work out for you. That was the last administration.

Speaker 1 (56:41):
This is the difference.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
Yes, this is a different one.

Speaker 10 (56:44):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:44):
He goes on to demonstrate his opinions. As I said,
But I just think it's so interesting that that's the
back and forth. And by the way, to fact, Jack Abbey,
because she said that legal immigration is civil.

Speaker 3 (56:55):
Crime, it's not. How dare you say that it's criminal.

Speaker 2 (56:59):
There are both civil viols and federal crimes that come
with that unlawful entry being a misdemeanor for our first
defense up to six months of jail, and a felony
for any subsequent entries. A legal re entry after being
deported is always a felony. So you'd have to actually
parse through, which is exactly the argument that I think
democrats want you to do to figure out who's here

(57:20):
and how long they've been here and to what extent
a crime. It's still a crime. You're still not legally
allowed to be here, that it is to be a
felony or a misdemeanor. But it does seem like such
a silly thing to be debating about and be discussing
about in general. Because it is the line in the sand,
however odd it is for some and the way that

(57:41):
I talk about it a lot, and I know that
there's one part of my position that might be a
counter out of what some on the side of the
aisle that I'm on say. I do think there's an
opportunity to fix how immigration goes, to make it something
that allows people into this country in a way where
they can legal become Americans as we did before. It

(58:03):
doesn't have to be to the same extent, and it
certainly should be controlled by the amount of people we
have now and the resources we have in all of that,
but I do think that argument could be made that
you could enhance the amount of people coming into our
country legally after you fix the problem. The stupidity of
this discussion for so many, especially on the left, is
that they want to do the second part first. They

(58:25):
want to swing open the door more in whatever way
they can before they're forced to close any of the
avenues to people getting in.

Speaker 3 (58:33):
And that makes no sense.

Speaker 2 (58:35):
The thing I've said before about it, and I'll move
on from this just because I know we've talked about
this a lot, you and probably anyone that you're around
has had this discussion before. But it's like fixing the
motor of a boat with a hole in it. The
boat is still sinking, but it might now sink faster.
If you fix the motor, you're not doing the part
you need to do. You have to plug the hole

(58:55):
first and then go back and re calibrate every thing
else about how to get to the place that we
should be in as far as what benefits us and
not what hurts us. So I think that both things
can happen once, and I think it can be a
conservative position that you can do both things at once
and not just do one or the other. All right,
I want to play this audio because it made me

(59:16):
laugh a lot. This is CNN and Dana Bash. She
was talking about the Declaration of Independence and she has
a unique problem with it. She thinks there's something that
now in twenty twenty five needs to be adjusted. There's
an issue, well, concern that not many people are probably
bringing up. Right now here, we get tsk.

Speaker 13 (59:34):
About the word men and the fact that it's men
and this sentence deliberately excludes women, slaves, indigenous people. How
do you reconcile this greatest sentence with the fact that
it just said men.

Speaker 2 (59:53):
All right, I wast have right here, she has a
guest on. The guest's going to go a whole direction,
and a whole bunch of things are going to happen.
But this is the dumbest thing in a while. Yes,
the Declaration of Independence says all men are created equal. Yes,
we can assume that what they meant by that is everybody, women, men, anyone.
They didn't necessarily mean what the one word seems to say.

(01:00:15):
We could just do that because I know that that
was the intention of the sentence in the first place,
how to begin with, and how do I know that? Well,
a whole bunch of other things that they wrote, like
the Federalist papers, to tell us what the intention was.
They weren't actually trying to say that women are nothing
and only men matter. An A lot of that's not
important because in the world we live in now, for

(01:00:35):
you to have an amount of viral success or an
amount of eyeballs paying attention to you, you have to
say crazy stuff.

Speaker 9 (01:00:43):
You know.

Speaker 3 (01:00:44):
It's interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:00:44):
Actually, Andrew Schultz comedian, a guy who's not going to
agree with me on a lot of things in the
world of politics, but did have President Trump on his
show and interviewed him and seemed to be friendly with
him too. Before then, Bernie Sanders popped in and Schultz
became a Bernie bro again. But Andrew Schultz an interview
recently said that the world we live in right now

(01:01:05):
is so driven by social media, especially for young people
who grew up on it. It's so driven by that
that people are getting lesser and lesser audiences simply because
there's just too much stuff, like there's no better way
to explain it, or maybe also there are certain algorithms
and whatnot that silence some of us more than others.

(01:01:25):
And actually, just quickly on that, I know this is
a tangent. I'm doing a lot of things at once.
Facebook keeps telling me that I'm putting up great content,
so it's expanding my reach, and I'm not posting anything
like I'm barely posting to Radio craigsee my social media page.
But I think I was in whatever the silence chamber
was for a while and now I'm finally getting out

(01:01:46):
of the silence chamber, and so all the time it's
telling me that my reach is getting larger and larger,
and I'm doing nothing and it's just amusing to see.
But anyway, Schultz was talking about in an interview how
because certain things drive our culture, and certain things are
very influential to young people, we have to be more
extreme to get more eyeballs. Our audiences are dwindling, and

(01:02:07):
so the only way to have people pay attention to
us in mass is to say and do the thing
that you can't turn away from. And actually, here's a
simple observation I had. So I was thinking a lot
about Candace Owens and all the drama that goes with
all these other people. Joe Rogan did a bit about
Nick Fuentes. We was talking to Shane Gillis about it

(01:02:28):
that I mentioned earlier in the show, and I kept
thinking that I think the misunderstanding that some people in
mainstream media have are just anywhere, is that all of
these people who consume these individuals, whether it's Candace or
Fuentez or someone, it doesn't mean they agree with them
just because you go to that place and watch whatever
the thing is that that person is making. We learned

(01:02:49):
this a long time ago in media. The king of this,
Howard Stern, taught it to us several times that the
people who hate you might pay twice as much attention
to you as the people who love you. Assumption that
Candice Owen's having a podcast that's now in the top
twenty when it used to be in the top fifty
because she's dove very deep into a rabbit hole of

(01:03:09):
conspiracy theories she can't prove about Charlie Kirk might make
people think that the things she's saying actually are credible
to a large amount of her audience that's not necessarily true.
And even more than that, what I think is interesting
is when you see social media people reacting, you might
think that that's a reflection of the totality of somebody's audience,
but it doesn't have to be. It could just be

(01:03:29):
the loudest people in the room and not necessarily the
majority of the people in the room. So I just
found that kind of funny and interesting to take that
step back and wonder if part of what's pushing us
a certain direction, whatever that direction, might be pushing us
into our own political corners, or pushing us on certain
more extreme sides of conversations. Because I think I have

(01:03:50):
also noticed and I wonder if people out there listening
feel the same way about this there are more young
people who are radical on both sides of the equation,
not just one side of the political hill, but on
both sides of it. I think that the stronger political
position now at times, like the strongest of them might
actually come from young people who want this extreme thing

(01:04:13):
to happen. I can't tell you the amount of young
conservatives I've met in the last year living in a
new place and meeting a new group of people within
a community, but the amount of young conservatives I've met
that think that President Trump is a moderate, that he's
too far in the middle, that he's not doing enough
on the extremes, and that for that reason they're disappointed
with him. And you might even agree with it if

(01:04:33):
you're someone out there listening, but it's not the same
take you get from other generations at times as you
get from a lot of young people. So I just
think it's interesting that there's so many out there that
maybe because of the way that media works and what
actually gets eyeballs, that the extreme position on both sides
is more common, Although again I also think that there's
a large amount of audience who pays attention but doesn't

(01:04:56):
actually agree with the stuff they're watching, and I think
even our social media algorithms misunderstand that the amount of
hate watching you get is actually somewhat extreme.

Speaker 3 (01:05:06):
All right, and that will take a break.

Speaker 2 (01:05:08):
We'll come back and do sillier stuff, more fun stuff,
because darn it, we have to.

Speaker 3 (01:05:12):
It's the holiday.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
We can talk about some of my favorite Christmas movies
and maybe yours, because I like that there's a brand
new list out there of the ones we most love
and most hate that more coming up.

Speaker 3 (01:05:23):
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:05:32):
Welcome to chat.

Speaker 10 (01:05:34):
No, not the country, the institutions, the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:05:40):
stuff out there to talk about. Just quickly, former President
Biden put up a social media post of his own,
wishing everybody a merry Christmas. I think he did this
on Christmas Eve. And the funny part about the photo
is he's the hardest to find in it. All of
his families in front of him. Joe is in the

(01:06:02):
back off to the right, with at least two faces
blocking a decent portion of him. In his Christmas photo,
which does feel like an appropriate reflection of how his
family seems to feel about him or how he was
treated while he was in the White House. Because he
was the autopen in chief, he seems to be.

Speaker 3 (01:06:18):
The forgotten dude.

Speaker 2 (01:06:19):
And a lot of this his son Hunter has been
out there essentially bashing him in several different interviews while
also taking no blame for anything Hunter ever did that
was wrong. But I just thought that was funny that
there's a photo out there from the former president that
seems to not really care if he's visible in it
or not, and that seems to say a lot again
about his treatment within his own home and all the

(01:06:41):
times he joked that Jill is really in charge, seems
like that's definitely true once again.

Speaker 3 (01:06:45):
She's front and center.

Speaker 2 (01:06:46):
He is not another thing out there I saw that
I thought was kind of interesting. A new photo says
that it's seen baby Bigfoot, not regular bigfoot.

Speaker 3 (01:06:55):
This is kid Bigfoot. This is the bigfoot that.

Speaker 2 (01:06:58):
Gets to eat for free at certain rests Toronts at times.
But this bigfoot ninety nine point nine percent believable according
to some According to anyone else who's seen it, it
looks like it might be a child in some kind
of costume in the woods and or I don't know
what it would be, but it does. And I'll I
guess I wish I could share it on more social

(01:07:19):
media places, but I'll put it up at Radio Craig
z if anyone wants to find it on my social
media pages. It does look like a child Bigfoot if
you're looking at the photo and the zoomed in one.
But here's the problem with this stuff, man, is like,
why doesn't anybody have a video? Why don't we have
more than just the photo here? You feel like you
should be able to go further. Someone should be in

(01:07:41):
the woods with baby Bigfoot doing some kind of interview,
you know, Like at this point we have so many
social media influencers out there and podcasters and everything else.
You'd think somebody would be there with a camera and
some equipment to have a long form conversation with Bigfoot
and also maybe ask him to do carpool karaoke or
something that would be a part of it. But again,

(01:08:02):
this is what's disappointing to me for sure. And as
I said, if you want to check it out at
Radio craigsy on Facebook, and I'll put it up on
X on Twitter too, but it just it looks like
it's CGI or a kid in elaborate costume or something.
But anyway, I would be thrilled if Bigfoot became a
reality in twenty twenty six. It would not be on

(01:08:24):
my bingo card of things that you know I see coming,
so it would be It would be an awesome situation.
I've often joked actually that I think that President Trump
would be the perfect president for Aliens. He'd also be
the perfect president for Bigfoot, the Locknest Monster, any of
those things.

Speaker 3 (01:08:40):
Because the one thing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Trump would do, and I know he'd do it well,
is he'd make the press conference about himself in.

Speaker 3 (01:08:46):
A positive way.

Speaker 2 (01:08:48):
The Bigfoot might even walk out of it as Bigfoot
Trump and I would find that hilariously amusing. At mainstream
media would hate it, and it would be a whole
topic that you know what, Actually, let me say that
I know this isn't supposed to be and I said
that I want to escape politics on a lot of
the show, including segments like this right before the news, but.

Speaker 3 (01:09:07):
I can't help it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:09):
I would be like wildly amused if something like Aliens
or Bigfoot became a real story, like someone needs to
make a movie about this, and Trump is the president,
and mainstream media obsesses about Trump more than the other thing.
You know, like half of the coverage, or eighty percent
of the coverage, even more than half, is really about
how terrible Trump did in the press conference with the aliens,

(01:09:32):
and not the fact that we have aliens, because it
feels like we're in a society where that would be true.
We're more people than ever would actually come away from
that thing being like, you know, I really don't like
what Trump said about himself here, and then someone staying
next to them would be like, you know that there
was a bigfoot there, right, like baby Bigfoot was a
part of the thing. Yeah, I don't know about that.
That part I'm not too concerned about. I'm thinking about

(01:09:53):
this other thing. One other topic I saw out there,
not politics, that went viral, and I thought this was
probably something terrible that would be tough for a mom
to explain. A mother forgot where she hid her elf
on the shelf, one of the many places that you
put it over the holiday season for the kids to find,
so that the elf, you know, is effectively making sure

(01:10:15):
your kids are being good and not bad. She put
it in the oven, and I think at some point
the kids probably opened the oven, found the elf and
the shelf in the oven and closed it and like
they all had their thing, but she forgot it was there.

Speaker 3 (01:10:27):
So she cooked her elf on the shelf.

Speaker 2 (01:10:29):
She was baking a pizza, and then she was smelling
something really charred, and some disaster was afoot. And so
eventually you had to dispose of the cooked elf on
the shelf because that's probably going to scar the kids.
I would imagine that's probably going to go the wrong
way if they actually discover this thing. And it seems
as though the elf on the shelf was injured in
a way you wouldn't expect it. But I just thought

(01:10:50):
that was pretty funny that not only do you have
to replace the thing, but you've got to hide it
and hide it well, you know, like you go from
one world of elf the shelf. I want my kids
to find this thing to a very different world. I
want them never to know that this exists at all,
in any capacity whatsoever. And I feel bad, and I
also wonder what it's like to be halfway through cooking

(01:11:12):
the pizza and then discover the elf on the bottom
shelf of the oven, and how that actually goes. And
I guess the lesson in all of this, if there
is one, and I don't think there really is, or
there has to be. But the lesson on this is
don't hide the elf in a place that you can
then later light it on fire, Like don't do that part,
like at least allow it to be in a place

(01:11:33):
where fire is never going to be a component, whether
you remember it or not. As far as the storage
decisions of your elf on a shelf, I don't know
why I found this so funny, to be honest, and
the mom seemed to find it funny too. Like that's
the other part is I do think Gallow's humor takes
over once you've done something like this. And even though
again you want to protect your kids from having stories
they tell for years to come about how scarred they

(01:11:56):
were of the time you cook the elf on the shelf,
you yourself will probably remember it fun and maybe not
tell anybody until you're an adult or until they're adults too.
Excuse me, all right, we'll take a quick break. A
lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Chad
Benson Show on the holidays. And actually one more thing
I will say, as far as this mom is concerned,

(01:12:16):
I wonder if the elf just disappeared for good this year,
because I don't actually see that she replaced it, because
maybe she couldn't trust herself. Maybe she thought, once I've
cooked it in the oven one time, now I'm going
to be overly confident, and other things are going to happen,
and I'm just going to keep cooking the elf and
the microwave in other places. So maybe the elf and
the shelf just went away for the rest of the
year with no explanation, which would terrify the kids too,

(01:12:38):
because he's watching, they don't know where he is.

Speaker 3 (01:12:40):
Quick break a lot more.

Speaker 2 (01:12:41):
Craig Collins filling in on the Chad Benson Show.

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

Speaker 2 (01:13:25):
stuff out there to talk about. Let's do this. I
thought this was pretty interesting. The Congress this year, the
representatives in our Congress set a couple interesting records. The
first one, lawmaker set was the lowest amount of signed

(01:13:47):
bills passed during the first year of a president's term
in office. They only had forty bills that were signed
into law as of Monday. That is, again, as I said,
a record for the lowest. Some of those bills were truncated.
There were some that, you know, the big beautiful bill
had multiple things in it all at once instead of
smaller things. But I just thought that was kind of amusing.

(01:14:09):
We also set a record for one of the most
roll call votes in the history of this country, six
and fifty nine. That's more than any odd numbered year
of the last century. It's weird to get that specific
with stats. You almost feel like at some point the
stat is made up to be a record as opposed
to it actually.

Speaker 3 (01:14:28):
Being something that matters.

Speaker 2 (01:14:30):
But the reason why we had so many roll calls
and so few bills passed is a whole lot of
these were attempts to try to get Trump nominations across
the finish line, and the House and the Senate both
have dragged their feet on doing anything there as far
as getting things done and just simply putting nominees into
positions of power. This is a thing we're seeing a

(01:14:52):
lot more of it happened to Biden, it's happening to Trump.
It'd happened to Trump even during his first term to
a degree. But it seems like if you do it
to us, we're.

Speaker 3 (01:15:00):
Going to do it to you.

Speaker 2 (01:15:01):
Is the modus operandi of all this. So you're just
going to see more and more of this happen. And
it does seem terrible to begin with. And you know
what I think is actually kind of funny. And the
Wall Street Journal has a deep dive into this topic
or the Washington Post excuse me, as a deep dive
into this topic. The amount of people that don't care

(01:15:23):
and the expectation that the American people don't care. Like, yeah,
we see DC as something that's not doing anything for
us by and large, it's only benefiting itself and it's
hurting Americans, which means that we should probably vote a
lot of those people out of positions of power. But
the whole like just not going to work together thing
and get stuff done that we're seeing a lot of
in DC.

Speaker 3 (01:15:43):
We have a very surface level.

Speaker 2 (01:15:46):
Amount of frustration with that, and then we let bygones
be bygones way more than we should. Effectively, what I'm saying,
is too many of these politicians who sit on their
hands and do nothing continue to get reelected. And so
it seems though even if we should care more, we
don't care enough at removing people just for refusing to

(01:16:07):
work at all. That feels like something that should be
at the forefront of what we do. Actually, where I
live in Texas, during the fight about redistricting, several Democrats
just left.

Speaker 3 (01:16:18):
They just decided to leave the state to.

Speaker 2 (01:16:21):
Prevent a mechanism that needed to take place in order
to get to the point where the redistricting actually became
the law of land in the state of Texas. And
the funny thing to me is the whole time that
was going on that people had run away, part of
me was thinking, Man, they're publicly saying, I'm just not
doing my work.

Speaker 3 (01:16:38):
You elected me to a position, I'm just not going
to do it.

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
I don't care. It's better for me to not be there.
I'm on an extended vacation. And how that wouldn't be
a thing that would be successful anywhere else in life.
You can do that in politics, I guess you can't
do that at your job. I would beg anybody to
try to do what the Democratic politicians in Texas did
earlier this year, and just for a couple weeks, walk
away from your gig, expected to be there when you

(01:17:03):
get back. Don't really tell anybody the why, say that
someone's asked you to do something you don't want to do,
and just leave and see what happens.

Speaker 3 (01:17:10):
See how long you actually keep that gig? All right?

Speaker 2 (01:17:13):
Another piece of audio I want to play an MSNBC
medical expert and I think this actually happened on Christmas.
Eve was talking about how people need to mask up again.

Speaker 3 (01:17:24):
This is real. I'm going to play this audio for real.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
I think the expectation or the recommendation also included vaccines
and hygiene and all kinds of stuff. I actually know
a couple people who still rock a mask, a one
I work with at a place, not Radio America, not
anybody connected to this show, but a different place I work.
And it's always kind of jarring to see the person.
And they do the mask stuff exactly the way that

(01:17:49):
they were told to do it years ago, which means
they take it off when they think nobody's around, and
then they put it back on when they think they
hear somebody. And I don't know why I laugh at that.
You probably know why I laugh that. We know why
I laugh at that, because it's ridiculous as far as
even the way a mask is supposed to function if
you did need it, which I of course don't think
you do. But here, let's play this audio first of

(01:18:10):
MSN MS NOW whatever it actually is called, talking about
and trying to recommend to Americans to put masks back on,
which that ain't gonna happen. The people who are still
wearing them are the only ones who are going to
listen to stuff like this.

Speaker 5 (01:18:24):
Here we go, So reporting COVID nineteen infections are growing
or likely growing in thirty one states already. What are
you seeing as far as these cases go in the severity?

Speaker 4 (01:18:35):
Yeah, I'm actually on clinical service this week, and it
is the flu season. We're starting to see, you know,
the cases go up as people are more indoors and
there's more sharing, as you know with all of these
four flu everybody over six months. The government, the federal
government now says for anybody who's sixty five or or

(01:18:55):
has a severe SUMS medical condition, COVID nineteen back seen.
But many stays this, we need to be aware are
making that Ford nineteen vaccine available for everybody, So just
talk to your physician to look at your eligibility.

Speaker 5 (01:19:09):
What can people do to protect themselves and their families
as they gather this holiday with all these circulating germs,
which should they be looking out for? And then what's
the best preventative measure?

Speaker 2 (01:19:18):
And I guess have it right there before I'm going
to play the rest of the audio because we're here,
we're doing this segment. I decided I'm going to do it,
and I'm doing it even if it's annoying and we
all hate it. I assume a lot of us hate it.
It's just so stupid. And the thing that's so dumb
to me is that people still think that this won't
fall on deaf ears. As they're going back and forth
and doing this segment like what should people do to
protect themselves? The answers you're expecting are coming, and they

(01:19:42):
have been resoundingly defeated in all kinds of studies and
information about how little it benefits you to do what
she's about to say to do. And this was years
ago that we were having this discussion. How is it
still happening anywhere in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
Here we go.

Speaker 1 (01:19:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:19:58):
The biggest thing I would say is if you're traveling,
just start from there. You know, I still wear a
mask that I'm on the planes, particularly everybody else's coughing.
When you get there, be aware of those multi generational moments.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Those children might be.

Speaker 4 (01:20:11):
Coming in from schools who have been exposed and might
get sick, and older adults, grandparents, and so you want
to make sure that if kids are sick, if grandparents,
you don't want exposure maybe colcording. And also ensuring again
good hand hiding for that nervvirus and some of the
other aspects of vaccination for everything you are qualified for
to ensure that you decrease the disease burden within it.

Speaker 3 (01:20:32):
Yeh Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20:32):
There actually are even newer studies into the amount of
harm that vaccines did do to people that didn't need them,
and a whole lot of people who were not elderly
that were told they needed a vaccine that probably didn't
benefit them. Is I'm not saying something politically motivated. To
be honest with you, I got vaccine shots that I
probably regret getting now as a person, and I'll just

(01:20:53):
put that out there as a thing but there are
more studies going into the amount of heart inflammation and
damage that was done out of the heart of a
lot of you know, not people of a certain age,
everyone younger than say fifty something, who got more shots
than they needed and probably got more COVID infections than
they were aware of, which actually had a lasting negative effect.
There's more and more studies actually demonstrating the truth of

(01:21:16):
those sentiments and statements, and so it's just surreal to
watch medical experts still say this stuff as much as
they are, but it's true. And as far as the
mask thing goes, again, it's so strange to me to
see someone in an office place, day in and day out,
all the time do this for the amount of years
that it's been going on. And I'm relatively new to
the office that I'm in with this person, so I've

(01:21:38):
been told that it's been going on for a long time,
but i haven't even seen it for that long. And like,
you're respectful, there's nothing we do. Mean, you don't try
to steal the guy's mask or anything. You just let
him live his life and do whatever he wants. But
I wonder what that is. I wonder if it's more
like a Linus's blanket a sort of thing than anything else,
because especially the.

Speaker 3 (01:21:59):
Taking it all part.

Speaker 2 (01:22:00):
And I don't mean to rehash a topic that was
wildly popular several years ago, but to watch somebody that
I probably assume and from the work interactions I've had
with this person is intelligent. I don't think they're unintelligent,
but still think that they're doing something to help themselves,
to protect themselves in some way by taking a mask

(01:22:21):
on and off in an atmosphere of shared space with
other people all day long, every day up until you
know it's about to be twenty twenty six. I'm just
mystified by it. I wonder if these are the kind
of people who really had a lot of, you know,
germ style phobias before anything in the world of COVID happened,
and once COVID happens in twenty twenty, it sends those

(01:22:42):
people into the extreme. Those people go to an ether
they can't get away from. Of I knew it. I
was right all along, And all this stuff is terrible,
all right. One other last thing to mention. Winter storms
are going to be a problem for a lot of
places throughout the country, whether it's rain and some of
the flooding that we've been seeing on the West Coast
other places. There are a lot of potential for bad

(01:23:03):
weather situations to be a part of your very near
future as far as travel and what not goes depending
on where you are in this country. And it's kind
of interesting that a whole lot of the country got
a much warmer Christmas than you typically get. There are
places throughout the South, the Midwest and whatnot that got
much nicer days than was expected.

Speaker 3 (01:23:24):
And now we get punched in the gut.

Speaker 2 (01:23:25):
Now the thing that is weather and climate actually does
hit us, not the thing that people talk about and
put political positions inside of, but the real thing, the
thing that can fluctuate up and down all the time forever.
So I guess it's a bit of a psa or
a bit of a warning of come kind to be safe,
to travel safely, and to pay attention to what could

(01:23:48):
just be delays or could be something worse. But storms
are putting airlines to the test, according to a lot
of media outlets, and they're expected to see a record
end of holiday a travel see. That is the one
nice thing I will say this is I just mentioned
masks and COVID and all that stuff that MS now
is talking about and probably made a bunch of people

(01:24:09):
listening roll their eyes, and definitely I'm with you. I
am eye rolling as well. I want to make sure
you know that it is nice to see that we're
at an all time high and travel because it's taken
enough time. But finally it feels that the world is
totally back to the place of not giving a crap
anymore about most of the stuff. By and large, I'm
not giving crap anymore, which is good. It's good that

(01:24:31):
no one is afraid to go see family or friends
or relatives, and that very few people are putting masks
on on airplanes. I can't get over the fact that
the doctor said that in that audio, and how many
people talked about how well circulated the air is inside
the plane.

Speaker 3 (01:24:46):
But I digress.

Speaker 2 (01:24:47):
Doesn't matter one last thing in the airplane story. Airlines
for America, the industry lobbying group that is involved in this,
says that experts, expectations, excuse me, by experts, there will
be a record fifty two point six million people that'll
be on flights between now and January fifth, today through

(01:25:09):
actually Sunday, will be the busiest days right now up
until the end of this weekend is likely the time
where you're traveling back home. And what's funny about that is,
I drove late last night to get here to my
house today where I do my show from, and my
wife and I were debating if we thought we'd see
any sort of issues whatsoever on the road late on

(01:25:30):
Christmas night, and the answer obviously was no. There were
absolutely no issues, no problems Whatsoever's.

Speaker 3 (01:25:34):
Wide open, baby.

Speaker 2 (01:25:36):
So maybe that's a hack for anyone traveling this year
if you get annoyed, and the plan you can make
for next year, even if it seems like a little
bit of a bo humbug to the family to leave
at the end of Christmas Day, if you can book
a flight or something, it seems like a genius move
because definitely things are less stressful and way less people
are out doing whatever they normally would be doing over

(01:25:57):
the next few days. But good luck to anyone traveling now,
especially with any of the weather related delays that are happening.

Speaker 3 (01:26:02):
All right, quick break a lot coming up.

Speaker 2 (01:26:05):
This is Craig Collins filling in on the holidays on
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 7 (01:26:21):
I used to be free.

Speaker 3 (01:26:23):
I am not a terrorist, I am not Antifa.

Speaker 12 (01:26:27):
I am not a sex slave that wears Matt.

Speaker 1 (01:26:31):
Don't be a cutie pie.

Speaker 10 (01:26:34):
Call me sit around and cooks and suits and eat
grand desserts.

Speaker 3 (01:26:40):
And just get off fat and say, see my life.

Speaker 1 (01:26:47):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
This is the Chad Benson Show. My name is Craig
Collins filling in. I wanted to share with you a
part of my experience on Christmas, the Chriss holiday. We
went to a new set of family members celebration because
we moved pretty far away from the places we used
to go, so we shared the holiday with my wife's

(01:27:11):
extended family, a cousin, and some other people.

Speaker 3 (01:27:15):
And an interesting thing happened.

Speaker 2 (01:27:17):
Most of the places I go And I don't know
if it's a my culture thing. Her culture is Mexican.
My culture is not that. But most of the places
I've gone in my life, like we watch a Christmas movie,
something happens. It might be it's a wonderful life. It
might be how the Grinch stole Christmas. It doesn't matter.
People have their tried and true, their go tos that
they pick. This group didn't do that, and so there

(01:27:40):
was a point where I asked like, oh, what movie
are we going to watch? And everybody looked at me
like hah, now, like what are you talking about. I'm like,
we're not going to watch anything, Like, well, we can
watch something. What do you want to watch? And so
I thought it was weird that all of a sudden
I got to pick. And so I came up with
a solution to this problem. And I know this is
a long story. I'm telling you for a reason, I promise.

(01:28:00):
I pulled up the Rotten Tomatoes list of the one
hundred best Christmas movies ever made, and the list is terrible.
I'm not saying these movies are bad, They're just not
the marquee thing to watch. And if you're with a
group of people who doesn't do this sort of thing
a lot, and then they're, you know, pointing to this
list that you've showed them as to what to watch,

(01:28:20):
we're making terrible decisions. The number one movie ranked by
Rotten Tomatoes that is also a Christmas movie is The
Shop around the Corner, which I would not pick to
watch on Christmas. It is the wrong Jimmy Stewart movie.
If I'm picking one of those meet me in Saint
Louis's number two. The Holdovers, which is a movie with
Paul Giamatti that you've probably not heard of for a

(01:28:42):
lot of people, is number three on this list. Tangerine
was number four, as I said, terrible. It doesn't get
to a marquee typical Christmas movie till number five with
Miracle on thirty fourth Street. Then you got to go
way down to like ten and eleven to find It's
a Wonderful Life and die Hard, which did make the list,

(01:29:03):
and I was thrilled by that and did try to
encourage this group of people to watch die Hard as
a Christmas movie, but that you got to build to that.
If you're going to do a Christmas movie for the
first year with a group of people you don't know, well,
you have to watch something regular Christmas to then eventually
go die Hard Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:29:20):
That was my thinking.

Speaker 2 (01:29:22):
The Guardians of the Galaxy or Holiday Special also came
in at number twelve on this list, but I went
all the way down to Elf and I was like, well,
you know what, there's a lot of kids and people
who might like it, and I think it's a movie
that people like. Is a newer one, So let's do Elf.
And everybody did enjoy it. It did seem to go
over well with the group, so that is a recommendation
I can make. But Elf was ranked twenty seventh on

(01:29:44):
the list of best Holiday movies, and because this was
a group of people that doesn't do this a lot,
the conversation after the experience was, Man, I wonder what
the other movies would have been like, the ones on
the top of the list, the ones that you told
us not to watch after you recommended picking a movie
from the list. We don't know why you didn't want
to watch one of those, And I don't know. I
haven't seen The Shop around the Corner in a very

(01:30:07):
long time, if I even truly think I've seen it
at all, or at least parts of it at all,
And I just.

Speaker 3 (01:30:13):
I wouldn't pick that.

Speaker 2 (01:30:13):
That wouldn't be my go to movie, no offense to
anyone out there who loves it, and several of these
other ones, the holdovers, for sure, I would not be
the kind of thing that I think anyone would need
to pick this holiday season. But anyway, there's my recommendation
for you. If you wind up in a group of people,
do not tell them to look for the rotten tomatoes.
One hundred Best Christmas Movies, Quick Break, a lot more.
Craig Colin's filling in on the Chad Benson Joe.

Speaker 11 (01:30:49):
Such Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:10):

Speaker 2 (01:31:14):
filling in. It is amazing how little some people are hiding.
They're ridiculous, you know, asking for money from certain groups
of individuals. This is probably the most extreme version of it.
The lieutenant governor in Minnesota, who is trying to run
to be a more powerful politician within the country itself,

(01:31:38):
is actually out there saying some crazy, crazy things and
bending the knee to some alliance because she hopes that
it makes her a more electable politician that gets a
whole bunch of donation money, which is just it's just crazy.

Speaker 3 (01:31:53):
But here, I want to play this audio.

Speaker 2 (01:31:55):
There's a video of Lieutenant Governor Flanagan standing in a
job next to at least one other person from Somalia,
if not a few, and saying how important this community
is out of Minnesota, and it's the only Minnesota she's
ever known. And again, all she's hoping for is those stolen,
defrauded taxpayer dollars that are in a bunch of Somalian

(01:32:16):
hands that they get put into an election campaign fund
for her.

Speaker 3 (01:32:20):
This is the whole reason to do this.

Speaker 2 (01:32:22):
Hey, we now know you've got a bunch of money
that we let you steal, and the plan is to
have you embezzle some of it back to us. Now
we're gonna go ahead and do this out there in
the open so everybody can see it.

Speaker 3 (01:32:32):
Here we go, Sally willly coom.

Speaker 7 (01:32:34):
My name's Peggy Flanagan.

Speaker 12 (01:32:36):
I am the Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota, and I'm really
honored and humboled to be.

Speaker 7 (01:32:41):
Here with all of you today.

Speaker 12 (01:32:43):
I am incredibly clear that the Somali community is part
of the fabric of the state of Minnesota.

Speaker 7 (01:32:51):
I think about my friendship with Nimko.

Speaker 12 (01:32:54):
We've been friends for almost twenty five years, and when
I think of being part of Minnesota and growing up here,
the Somali community has always been a part of my Minnesota.

Speaker 7 (01:33:06):
So I want to just encourage the community also that
we're with you. We've got your back.

Speaker 3 (01:33:12):
Well with you, we've got your back. Don't worry about it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:15):
You stole a tremendous amount of money from us, or
at least some people did within the group, And why
would we at all think that that's bad.

Speaker 3 (01:33:21):
We got to think that that's good.

Speaker 2 (01:33:22):
I know that everybody in Minnesota that is Somalian didn't
get a check.

Speaker 3 (01:33:27):
I'm not behaving that way.

Speaker 2 (01:33:28):
Don't take it that way and send the hate letters
out of the station, although I'm just a fill in guy,
so really I wouldn't read any of them. But nonetheless,
one I think is so crazy about this is like,
the accusation easily can be made that since the politicians
greenlit a whole bunch of money they should have known
was fraud, and people like Tim Walls were very asleep
at the wheel at best and at worst very actively

(01:33:51):
involved in this. To then do something as pandering as
this and begging for donations, you essentially are screaming the
last part of the equation out loud, that we did
all this on purpose to get some of the money back.
This is the version of why the United States cared
so much about Ukraine when it was a very corrupt
before it was attacked by Russia, because we thought it

(01:34:12):
was one of the ways that we laundered money, or
many people thought it was one of the ways that
the United States laundered money is through Ukraine, so it
could come back squeaky clean for people like Nancy Pelosi
to put it into the stock market.

Speaker 3 (01:34:24):
And make a bunch of money off of it.

Speaker 2 (01:34:25):
Now, look, I know a lot of what I'm saying
feels like conspiracy theory and craziness and all that stuff
to some and that's fine. I don't care what side
of this equation you're on. And to be honest, I'm
not going to provide a whole bunch of receipts I
don't have. And some of this is really just tongue
in cheek me discussing it. But if there ever were
a moment for you to feel like what's on display

(01:34:47):
publicly so very much matches the things that maybe the
crazy uncle in your family has been saying for a while.

Speaker 3 (01:34:55):
It's this. It's what's going on in Minnesota.

Speaker 2 (01:34:57):
It's the version of a ridiculous amount of fraud that
continues to climb every time they look at it, every
time they investigate more and go deeper, and every time
they look at why it happened. One of the biggest
excuses was, well, the people that were asking for the
money said that if we said no, we were racist,
so we had to keep saying yes so that they
couldn't accuse us of being racist. And we were taken

(01:35:20):
advantage of to a degree that we've really never seen
before in society because of that by any one group.

Speaker 3 (01:35:26):
Whether you believe that or not is fine.

Speaker 2 (01:35:28):
I don't know that I do, But that necessarily or
that unnecessarily is the excuse they most often use to
say how it got this humiliating.

Speaker 3 (01:35:37):
It is just ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:35:38):
It's just insane, and so follow the money. It feels
like it's never been more true than ever. Right now,
see where it ends and see who's getting it, to
know who started the chain of events that caused it
to go.

Speaker 3 (01:35:51):
The direction is going.

Speaker 2 (01:35:52):
Some other quick things before we take a break and
hopefully do some fun stuff before we get out of here.
The United States did a strike on terrorists in the
Islamic of the Islamic State that were in Nigeria. These
are terrorists who were killing Christians in the area. Not
a lot of those points are contested. There aren't a
lot of people out there saying like that's a maga

(01:36:13):
thing or this thing. A lot of people believe these
facts to be true. However, then we get into the
world of whether or not we should have done it,
et cetera, et cetera, and a couple points seem like
they deserve to be mentioned. Nigeria was in on it,
they approved of it. They put their own social media
post and own you know, statement and letter and everything

(01:36:35):
out into the world saying that they considered it a
joint action, that the US used its military equipment to
actually strike, but that Nigeria was good with US killing
their terrorists. So there's gonna be a lot of claims
that will very quickly evaporate, I think when paying attention
to this. But nonetheless, by and large, the biggest takeaway

(01:36:56):
is that on Christmas Day, President Trump did something that
he said he was to do.

Speaker 3 (01:37:01):
And I think that's the separator.

Speaker 2 (01:37:03):
In a good way between a commander in chief who
talks tough and a commander in chief who occasionally acts tough.
Biden would say the same thing, as crazy as is
to hear that set out loud. It's true that Trump
would say, as far as don't make that mistake or
you're going to regret it, like that was the Biden
message at times when he was loosid enough to provide

(01:37:24):
it to the American people, and then nothing ever happened,
None of those threats ever materialized.

Speaker 3 (01:37:29):
Into any kind of actual action anywhere.

Speaker 2 (01:37:32):
So you know how much of a false claim, that is,
how much of a fake version of a deterrent, and
then you ignore it completely and do whatever you want.
These moments, no matter how significant or insignificant they seem
to a vast amount of Americans, are actually really important
to Trump threatening somebody else down the road and that

(01:37:53):
person thinking he might be serious, because you need that
component to effectively tell people to not do things you
don't want them to do, and that the military might
of our country could be utilized against them. And Trump
has also said that if this doesn't cause a lack
of strikes on Christian communities in Nigeria by the Islamic terrorists,

(01:38:16):
then this is going to happen again. There will be
more of this if it doesn't actually provide the version
of deterrent he helps for it to provide. Also out
there in the news, Vladimir Zelensky has said that he
will likely sit down with Trump in Florida on Sunday
to further hash out any sort of peace deal between
Ukraine and Russia. He said that there were some new

(01:38:37):
ideas exchanged in a recent conversation with some of the
US envoys involved in this discussion, and that hopefully the
end result is actually going to be a peace and
Zelensky even went as far as to say on social
media that there would be a chance for, in my opinion,

(01:38:58):
the way he's saying it, this to actually be mostly
wrapped up by the end of the year, so in
just a.

Speaker 3 (01:39:03):
Short few days.

Speaker 2 (01:39:04):
I doubt that'll actually occur, but it does seem like
a nice thing to float out there as a possibility.
If things go well, it might be a case of
trying to push blame to Russia if it doesn't wind
up being an end result of a peace deal. But nonetheless,
if Trump actually gets across this finish line, whether you
hate him, whether you love him, whether you're super maga

(01:39:27):
whatever that means, or whether you're the anti version of that,
you have to give him credit for this. Biden couldn't
prevent this fight and couldn't end this fight in his
time in office as the auto pen president, and Trump
is getting very close to doing it. Within the first
calendar year in which he is in the office and
maybe just slightly after it. No, it's not the first day,

(01:39:49):
first week, first whatever the Trump at times offered on
the campaign trail. But it is a much closer version
of a success than we had seen before.

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
And the other truth in all of this.

Speaker 2 (01:40:01):
The last thing that I guess matters to be mentioned
as far as this new story goes, is I think
for Ukraine it's time. And what I mean by that
is the longer this fight goes, the more likely it
will be bad for Ukraine and its dwindling forces.

Speaker 3 (01:40:16):
We can send them a bunch of weapons.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Not that I think we should keep writing the blank checks,
but the allies that they have beyond us in Europe
and whatnot, could conceivably fund them and their weapons for
a long time. You can't create more people, and as
the military of Ukraine is dwindling, I think that inevitably
you know that the losses might be larger, and I

(01:40:39):
think Russia also knows this, and so finding some sort
of agreement now is probably tremendously beneficial to Ukraine. Just
being honest about what's actually happening. As far as this
situation is concerned, and where it's at now. Even as
Ukraine has has very valiantly fought and prolonged a war
that many people thought would never last anywhere near as

(01:41:00):
long as it has. There is only so much you
can do with a force the size of Ukraine's force.
But so that is another big story that's out there
in the news, and hopefully we'll eventually lend end the
way that many people are projecting it to one very
last quick thing before we take a break. There are
you know, bad weather things happening. California has seen some flooding,

(01:41:23):
some mud slides and other possible problems. I think there
have actually been a few people who have died. Other
parts of our country are likely to see some bad
weather as people travel a lot for the holidays.

Speaker 3 (01:41:36):
So it's just something to keep in mind.

Speaker 2 (01:41:38):
Not only will things likely be delayed in some places,
but there are parts of our country that are going
to have to deal with weather even worse than just
a delay, and so certainly being as aware of what's
going on and doing what is needed to protect yourself
is important. So just putting that out there that we're
likely to see a lot of winter storms and a

(01:41:58):
lot of very bad weather out a lot of the
country after a fairly mild a Christmas season in most
of the United States, A quick break a lot more
Craig Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 10 (01:42:26):
To do what you know how to do, because when
you do what you do what you know how to do.

Speaker 2 (01:42:32):
What you've just said is one of the most insanely
idiotic things I have ever heard.

Speaker 17 (01:42:37):
And then they passed us a baton, and the question
is what will we do.

Speaker 13 (01:42:41):
With the time we carry the baton?

Speaker 1 (01:42:43):
You smoking something or you just dumb and hail who
doesn't love a yellow school bus?

Speaker 17 (01:42:50):
Oh my god, get your glass from their cool buff
and go home.

Speaker 10 (01:42:55):
I call myself a joyful warrior the Chad ben Show.

Speaker 2 (01:43:02):
stuff out there to talk about. I thought this was interesting.
Google put out it's Trends of twenty twenty five thing
where it tells you all the top searches that people
conducted over the last year, and number one on the
list was Charlie Kirk. Of course, it was the assassination

(01:43:25):
of Charlie Kirk was a big news story and a
whole lot of places, but even just Charlie Kirk in
general is the top us searching term, which means both
before and after he was killed, people were looking for
things outside of his murder. So one of the things
that I think some believe is that Charlie Kirk's impact

(01:43:45):
has been heightened and the things that he talks about,
the things that he did talk about, the positions he
took on topics, more people are aware of them, not
just aware of whether they're told they'll like them or not,
whether they're convinced that they're going to be bad or good,
but actually what the true positions are because of the
fact that his life was taken. So I think that
that's a pretty interesting Number one search term. Immediately disappointing

(01:44:09):
you as far as the world goes Number two k
Pop Demon Hunters. So right after Charlie Kirk and a
more you know, significant story I think of the world's news,
you then have a cartoon thing that was on Netflix
that a lot of people liked. Number three was La
Booboo and number four iPhone seventeen for the most searched

(01:44:30):
items on the Internet. If you do a bit of
a split into more specific topics for things, and then
you look for, say, the top athletes searched in twenty
twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:44:44):
I thought this was interesting.

Speaker 2 (01:44:45):
Shador Sanders came in at number one, far and away
more than anybody else. This is a person who dropped
pretty far in the draft, who hasn't really played a
whole lot, but did get to wind up starting a
few games for the Cleveland Browns, a pretty terrible football team.
But nonetheless I thought it was interesting that that's a
bigger deal story in the world of sports than most

(01:45:05):
of the other stuff out there. And top musicians trending
and this would make both producer Phil and myself laugh.
A lot is a bunch of names of people have
never heard of.

Speaker 3 (01:45:14):
There's quite a few on the list. D four VD.

Speaker 2 (01:45:17):
Apparently is the number one searched musician, and that to
me sounds like a sexually transmitted disease.

Speaker 3 (01:45:23):
That's what sounds like, not a person who sings stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:45:27):
Cat's Eye came in at number two, and then some
other names again in this list, a lot of which
I don't know. The top trending TV shows that were
searched in twenty twenty five. The Hunting Wives came in
at number one. I was only disappointed in one thing
about this list that land Man's not on it, because
I certainly have enjoyed Landman season one and now season

(01:45:48):
two that's coming out.

Speaker 3 (01:45:50):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:45:50):
If that's because I moved to Texas this year and
so I'm living in a place that does seem to
be somewhat represented, well like represented in a very accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:46:00):
Way by the TV show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:02):
But Landman is something that more people should pay attention
to if they're not paying attention to it. All right,
One last thing to talk about, and I saved it
till the end of the show, even though it might
have been a big deal over the holiday for a
lot of people, is somebody won one point eight billion
dollars from the power ball. The person won in Arkansas,
and so they might be able to remain anonymous for

(01:46:25):
a very long time, at least three years, if not longer,
meaning we might never know who won the powerball. And
what is a relatively small town. The person who bought
it at least was in, if not lives in a
town of like twenty seven thousand people, So it's going
to be noticeable if one of the neighbors in that

(01:46:46):
community suddenly starts spending a billion plus dollars. There also
is the question as to whether or not you should
get the lump some payment. Apparently getting it makes it
easier to stay anonymous in Arkansas, but not getting it
might actually they give you more money because of the
ridiculous difference in the amount you get in the lump
sum first getting the whole amount over the course of

(01:47:07):
several years I paid out as an annuity. Eight hundred
and thirty four point nine million is the lump sum payment.
Otherwise you get twenty nine years of payments. Almost every
financial expert always tells you that the amount of money
you'll make off the lump sum, if you invest it wisely,
is going to be better than the amount of money
you get from the annuity. The thing they don't tell

(01:47:28):
you is how rare it is for a person who
wins a lottery to invest their money wisely. It almost
never happens, if it ever does happen. In fact, I guess,
and so part of me would wonder if it might
be better to guarantee myself twice as much gauge over
the long term, not that it matters at all.

Speaker 3 (01:47:47):
I did not win.

Speaker 2 (01:47:48):
I don't live in Arkansas at this amount of money,
at one point eight billion, when you're giving up, you know,
almost a billion dollars in getting the lump sum payment,
if it kind of makes sense to go the other
way and this way about it.

Speaker 3 (01:48:01):
But anyway, somebody won. And my favorite part about.

Speaker 2 (01:48:03):
It is it ruined Christmas Eve for a bunch of
people or part of Christmas Day where there was almost
a genuine amount of jealousy and negativity surrounding the fact
that it wasn't me and it wasn't you or anybody
at my holiday party that won. Because I think a
lot of us got some hope. It wasn't just the
size of the power ball. It was the season in

(01:48:24):
which it came out of, thinking, if there's going to
be holiday magic, baby, I'm going to get a bunch
of it right now. So I do think we were
a little bit more disappointed than we normally should be
over not winning something that odds are literally and terrible
to win.

Speaker 3 (01:48:38):
They're absolutely atrocious.

Speaker 2 (01:48:40):
But all right on that note, and again I saved
it till the end of the show, so good on me.
I think Craig Collins filling in on The Chad Benson Show.
But you know, I'm tempted to say a little bit
more about it, because darn it, why not. As far
as the power ball goes, I was just so amused
at the amount of my relatives and friends that were
with us around the holidays. I really thought they we're

(01:49:00):
gonna win, like they really actually thought this time it
was gonna happen. And it didn't happen for any of us,
and it's dead. And then also I loved the conversation
it created at a lot of the holiday gatherings, which
is what you would have done with the money, And
of course we all said we would have bought more
presents for everybody else it's Christmas.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
The reality is we would have spent a lot of
it on us. That's it. That's the show. See you later.
Craig Collins, filling in on The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:49:29):

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