U.S. Military to Assist Hurricane Melissa Relief Efforts in Jamaica

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

Speaker 2 (00:14):
The government still shut down and the theatrics are higher
than ever before as they continue to make their case.
It's rather interesting, John Thune today just shouting very much
a situation where this is the perfect example of what

(00:39):
modern politics has become, which is, it's not for the
people in the room. It's for the people on the internet,
right on the X, on the Insta, on the TikTok.
It is for the screen. It is not for the
people that you're supposed to be negotiating with.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
The top Republican in the Senate shouting at Democrats as
heat blocked a bill that would fund Snap FOODICISTSMS, stirring
the shutdown. Instead, Thoon calling on Democrats to vote to
reopen the government. Forty two million Americans will lose SNAP
funding when it runs out.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
Forty two million Americans. And we're going to break that
down in a little bit what that means who's on Snap?
Because there's so much disinformation out there on who's on Snap.
What we try to do here on this little dog
and Pony show is we want to give you the facts,
period case clothes. I don't want the lies, I don't
want the spin. I don't want the Well, I'm gonna

(01:38):
give you half of the facts. Now we're gonna give
you the whole story, and you go from there.

Speaker 4 (01:43):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
You're big, you're big, boys and girls. You can make
up your own mind in this stuff. But forty two
million Americans.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Forty two million Americans will lose SNAP funding when it
runs out, and it comes on the same day Obamacare
open enrollment begins, when some twenty million Americans, we'll see
there are insurance premiums more.

Speaker 4 (02:02):
Than double on average.

Speaker 3 (02:04):
Democrats have said they'd be willing to work with Republicans
to reopen the government if Republicans negotiate with them to
stop that.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
And of course that's the great healthcare debate that is
going on. And once again, what's the reality? What's the
lies that are being told? Because there's so much, you know,
it's the nuance thing. We talk about it all the time.
Nuance is lost. Life's not black and white. It's kind

(02:35):
of gray. Oh it's darker in some areas and lighter
in others. But the reality there is gray all around.
And to get to the truth you have to cut
through a lot of crap. And I don't like cutting
through crap, But that's the world we live in now.
When it comes to pay We've talked a lot about

(02:58):
air traffic controls, a lot of others out there who
temporarily aren't getting paid. They will eventually, but it didn't
happening right now. And one of the big things is
what about are men and women in uniform who are
potentially going to fight the fight against the evil Venezuelans,
But what about them?

Speaker 3 (03:19):
The White House has now announced a plan to cover
paychecks for US troops coming.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Do tomorrow, So that's the military and not anybody else.
When it comes to SNAP though, that's what everybody's focusing on.
Everybody's got their eyes set on SNAP. There are some
things that can be done temporarily, and I'm correct, I
think it's actually law.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
Legally, they are required under the Snap Act to move
the funds in the contingency Fund out onto the street
to help hungry children, seniors, veterans.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
So here's where we get to that gray part, because
there's a little ambiguity in the law when it comes
to SNAP. The contingency fund is authorized to be used
when the actual funds run short. So let's just say,

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you know, we're just going to round numbers. Here, you've
got ten billion that you need, you've got six over here.
You've only got seven though in that first fund that
you need that ten in you can move four over there.
It's not meant to be moved all over there to
cover all of the benefits. It's to make up the

(04:44):
shortfall in the fund, is what the White House and
the Administration is claiming. So it's going to be and
they've used it in the past. So depending on how
that you want to come at this right and read this,
it's no, we can't. That's all to make up a shortfall.
It's not to cover the fund. So we will see,

(05:07):
we will see. We're going to get into it next
hour on who's actually on SNAP, because I think it's
important that we have a real breakdown because there's a
lot of disinformation out there when it comes to who
gets SNAP, who does it, just like it has to
do with Obamacare, who gets it, who doesn't. There's so
much disinformation, and we want to set it straight and

(05:30):
give you again it's not black and white. Life's a
little bit more gray. The truth is in there, but
it can be muddied at time as well. We moved
from there to the nightmare that is going on in
Jamaica right now. And if you guys did not see

(05:51):
that that storm Melissa. First of all, I don't know
who hurt Melissa, but she was not she was not
having it. It changed the island. I mean it absolutely
changed the topography of the island.

Speaker 6 (06:07):
Melissa battering Jamaica with one hundred and eighty five mile
per hour winds, demolishing homes, knocking down trees and washing
out roads.

Speaker 7 (06:15):
It was horrible. We absolutely don't know how we're going
to recover from this.

Speaker 6 (06:19):
Honestly, thousands of Jamaicans are in shelters as crews work
to restore electricity and access to water across the island.
Jamaica's Prime Minister visiting Saint James Parish, where homes and
businesses are torn apart, saying we are a resilient nation
with the capacity to triumph over adversity.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
That is going to be needed, absolutely needed. Some of
the island is just you can't get to it, and
the rise of the ocean some thirteen feet it was.
It was nature doing what nature does when nature wants
to get get at it. One of the things we
talked about the other day is a weird blessing. And

(07:00):
it's weird to say that that the military, our military
is in the region because of what's going on with Venezuela,
and that's kind of a blessing in disguise. So we've
got a lot of military might already there, which means
man power or woman power that can lend a hand.

(07:23):
Trump's already said whatever they need were there. I saw
one official who said catastrophic. Yeah, that's an understatement, as
an understatement, an absolute understatement. It's not just them to Cuba, Haiti.
There was one last check thirty people dead in Haiti,
and it'll be days before they get out of this,

(07:43):
and there's going to be a lot of people stuck
there for days as well. Three two, three, five, three eight,
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Your Insta, YouTube, Facebook and more? Speaking of the Caribbean,
we struck again.

Speaker 8 (07:55):
Wednesday's air struck on an alleged drug smuggling boat in
Ease from Pacific kill four people. According to Defense Secretary
Pete Hanks f The air strike brings to fourteen the
total number of air strikes against drug cartel boats since
they began in early September, the air strikes that have
killed at least sixty one people. The news came the
same day that the Trump administration briefed the group of

(08:15):
Republican senators on the airstrike campaign, leading to criticism from
the top Democratic senator that Democrats had been excluded.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
They shouldn't be excluded. They should absolutely be there, and
you shouldn't be just bombing and telling everybody. No, you
guys don't even understand. It's absolutely true what's going on.
These are all drug dealers. You want to know why
I don't believe them because I don't believe anything the
government says anymore, and I have it for a very

(08:45):
very long time. Trust but verify, trust, but verify super
important that you trust somewhat because I want to give
you guys a benefit of the doubt. But I'm going
to look for myself and I'm going to continue to look.
But you had these were all drug dealers?

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Are they?

Speaker 2 (09:04):
Do you remember that big, big, giant Dea bust that
they had where they got all the Sinaloa cartel members
and it was like, WHOA, this is incredible. Well guess
what happened? People actually did some reporting dug in a
little bit and said, hold on a second, all the
stuff you'd just told us was BS.

Speaker 9 (09:25):
The Cinelogue cartel is one of the world's most violent
drug organizations. The DEA said that they just took down
hundreds of its high ranking members in raids across New England.

Speaker 10 (09:34):
These are high level arrests, not low level retail distribution.

Speaker 9 (09:38):
The only problem the Globe Spotlight team found that just
isn't true. In President Trump's second term, he vowed to
crack down on Latin American drug cartels.

Speaker 4 (09:46):
This is a national security problem.

Speaker 9 (09:48):
And in late August, that mission landed with a bang
in the small city of Franklin, New Hampshire.

Speaker 4 (09:53):
This is where there was.

Speaker 11 (09:54):
An RV parked in this driveway. In order to the
rest the folks, they threw a flash grenade into that RV,
which rattled all these surrounding houses.

Speaker 2 (10:04):
Yeah, that's why I don't buy it. Well, Chad, come on,
there's got to be more to it. No again, I
want the truth. You guys caught who you caught, like
the worst of the worst, the Sineloa cartel in New Hampshire.
Like the high level cats.

Speaker 9 (10:21):
Federal authorities claim they'd arrested one hundred and seventy one
members of the Cineloa cartel in New England and hundreds
more across the US. More than two dozen were in Franklin.
But after sifting through sixteen hundred pages of court records,
talking to more than seventy five state, local, and federal
law enforcement agencies, and knocking on dozens of doors, the
Globe Spotlight team found the DEA had misrepresented the people

(10:44):
it arrested. The so called cartel members were mostly low
level drug dealers, drug users, shoplifters, and people at a
homeless encampment.

Speaker 11 (10:54):
This is the entrance to the homeless encampment. We'll keep
their privacy.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Yeah, that sounds good. Are you sure that's not that
the homeless canon isn't full of the Cineloa cartel? Are
you sure about that? Because they're not. That's why when
they say they're bombing boats and they know exactly what's
going on, whether it was Biden, Obama, Trump first, Trump Now, No,
I'm not sure I believe everything you say. Just putting

(11:21):
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(12:49):
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Speaker 1 (13:09):
You're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
While we slept last night.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Trump and g coming together trying to get a deal
did and done when it comes to trade.

Speaker 12 (13:30):
We have a deal now. Every year will renegotiate the deal.
But I think the deal will go on for a
long time.

Speaker 2 (13:38):
That's what he thinks. Thinks the deal is going to
go on for a long time. China has their issues
for all the stuff that we have going on here,
and let's be real, we've got, you know, the government
shut down all these things, and we've got some inflation.
They dropped ray yesterday, which is good, but the reality
is we've got some issues they also have issues. We
forget about that. I think a lot of people think
it's only us. The difference is China's been set up

(14:00):
in a way over the last you know, two decades
to put themselves in a position to stave off these
kind of battles that they knew eventually would come, as
did we.

Speaker 13 (14:10):
We've been on the ground inside factories in eastern China.
We've seen firsthand recently where they are heavily diversifying production
away from US customers, you know, because they haven't seen
America as a reliable partner for some time. But you know,
those I've spoken to, they say they still recognize it's
an important market and want to see business with Americans return.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, they're not our biggest trading partner. Actually, people don't
realize Mexico and Canada are China is three, and they're
all kind of you know, one, two three. It's not
like it's a massive gap for China. We're still it.
We're still their biggest trading partner. Now they're trying to
grow throughout Europe and do certain things like that, but

(14:52):
we make up about fifteen percent of their total exports,
so it's a big deal that we have a good
relationship together for them as much as it is for us,
because we're still a consumer based nation. And we'll see
again what comes out of this, because Trump he comes
and he you know he'll come. It's the greatest deal,

(15:13):
it's the best deal. We got it done. It's all
the things. And then what happens from there, I don't know,
because a lot of times we hear about all these
things and then I still can't tell you what tariffs
are on are off at this moment in time on
a vast majority of the countries. I think there's some
more on Canada. I'm not quite sure. I think there
may be some more on Canada coming Saturday. I think

(15:35):
there's supposed to be some more on China, but I
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We're in an agreement on so many elements, large amounts, tremendous
amounts of the means that other farm products are going
to be purchased immediately, starting immediately.

Speaker 2 (16:04):
I hope so, because those farmers are pissed, and I
think rightly. So yesterday Governor Landry and this is so
spectacular in the South. So first of all, his accent
is spectacular because he's got caj On accent. But this
is the thing I love. So they have this big

(16:24):
press conference about what they can do to help supplement
the loss of snap and of course that's the supplemental
nutrition program. And what's one of the first questions he gets,
is it about Snap?

Speaker 14 (16:40):
No?

Speaker 2 (16:43):
And the one he's most excited about LSU football and
what they're gonna do when it comes to finding a
new coach.

Speaker 15 (16:49):
We are not going down a failed path. I believe
that we're going to find a great coach. And maybe
we'll let President Trump pick, and he loves winners. You know,
I'm not gonna be picking the next coach, but I
can promise you we're gonna pick a coach and we're
gonna make sure that dead coach is successful, and we're
gonna make sure that he is compensated properly, and we're
gonna put metrics on it, because I'm tired of rewarding failure.

(17:10):
In this country and then leaving the taxpay.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Is you know, to foot the bill.

Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's Governor Landry yesterday, Governor of Louisiana talking about not
Snap and how they're gonna supplement the loss of Snap
from the federal government to the state side, but how
much it's going to cost them to pay out the
outgoing coach and make sure that we have a good
coach coming in Coach at Tigers LSU. Coming up on
The Chad Benson Show, our countdown continues. Number two scary

(17:37):
movie of all time.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
That's straight ahead Chad BET's.

Speaker 1 (17:39):
The Show, then Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (18:04):
The March continues to number one in our Scary Movie Countdown,
and today, well today, this is my favorite movie of
all time, my absolute favorite movie of all time. There's
no doubt about it. This movie, along with number one,

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left the biggest impressions in my life and had the
biggest influence in the horror mover genre across the board.
But number two today is my favorite movie of all
and it could easily been number one, although I got
to be honest with you that number one it's hard

(18:49):
to compete with number one. But for me, if I
had to watch one movie, so you get to watch
one movie for the rest of your life on an island.
I don't know why I'm on an island with a
place that I can watch a movie, but if I could,
this would be the movie I'd watch. Let's get to it.

Speaker 16 (19:08):
The time has come, so prepare yourself for a journey
of fear from the darkest corner of cinema.

Speaker 4 (19:16):
The most bone chilling.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
Tales ever told.

Speaker 17 (19:20):
It's the countdown you've been waiting for number two.

Speaker 2 (19:28):
When you hear the movie song theme, you know exactly
what we're talking about. A movie that shaped so many
things in the world of slashers, but also an independent
film that showed you didn't need a big budget and

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with a decent screenplay and some young up and coming stars,
you could take a William Shatner mask and make it well,
make it one of the greats.

Speaker 18 (20:08):
Halloween night.

Speaker 19 (20:11):
A small American town fifteen years ago.

Speaker 14 (20:22):
I spent eight years trying to reach him, and then
another seven trying to keep him locked up because I
realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was
purely and simply evil.

Speaker 18 (20:37):
Halloween Halloween, the night he came home.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
Just awesome, young Jamie Lee Curtis there. Halloween is an
incredible movie made on the shoestring budget three hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars. Became at the time, the most
profitable independent film ever made, and it launched a new

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kind of genre of the slasher films. But so many
of them were imitators. Nothing could compete with the Shape,
because you see, that's what it was called in the movie.
If you go watch any of the movies and you think, well,
we know it's Michael Myers, we know it is, but

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that's not what it says in the movie the credits,
it says the Shape.

Speaker 20 (22:03):
My job in making Halloween was to do an exploitation
horror film. Then the basic premise was given to me
by my distributor or when You Blonde. He said, let's
do a movie about these babysitters who get stocked by
a killer. He figured that everybody could identify with babysittings,

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so many teenagers had done it. And then a little
bit later he came up with the idea of calling
it Halloween. Let's set it out Halloween. I didn't call
it Halloween never been used as a title before, never
been used at all. It was an underutilized holiday, so great.
And I was a young director then. I was hungry
for experience, hungry for features. I had done some work

(22:45):
before then, I said, sure, why not.

Speaker 2 (22:49):
John Carpenter out there talking about, Hey, let's do it,
let's go, let's film it, let's get it done and
film it. They didn't have a lot of time, they
didn't have a lot of money. What they had was
imagination and some grit.

Speaker 20 (23:05):
Well, when we were making the film, I thought, gee,
it's Halloween at night and people get dressed up in masks.
One better way to have a killer not be identified
and be wearing a mask.

Speaker 21 (23:19):
And we didn't have any money to make a mask.

Speaker 20 (23:21):
So my production designer, Tommy Lee Wallace, went up to
a magic shop right here on Hollywood Boulevard and bought
a William Shatner Star Trek mask, Captain Kirk mask, spray
painted it, cut the eye holes a little bit different,
fixed the hair, and there we go.

Speaker 2 (23:38):
There you went, William Shatner mask. There was a clown
mask too, but apparently that one cost a few extra bucks,
and they said, now let's go with the cheapest. This'll work.
And the emotionless face because they spray painted and took
out any of the wrinkles, anything that represented that that
any kind of humanity. They wanted out of the mask,

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and they got it out of the mask. Now you
need a star, a little starlet to go up against, right,
because part of the theme of the slasher movies. But
really what John Carpenter started was the theme of purity.
Here's a young girl, she's untouched by drugs and sex

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and any of these things. She is different than all
the others that her friends while they're partying and drinking.
She's doing the responsible thing, taking care of the children
and facing up to the pure evil. So you go
and you get somebody. Who's that somebody? Jamie Lee Curtis.

Speaker 22 (24:44):
All I remember about Halloween was that it was a
script where every single page had the name Laurie on it.
So what I knew was that it was a big
part and in when I was a young actress that
kind of part. Obviously, it was not what I was doing.
I was doing two lines here and there. So to
have something where it was that kind of complete character

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was kind of exciting for me.

Speaker 2 (25:10):
She wasn't the first Anne Lockhart was considered the rising
actress of the day. She had more TV credits and
Jamie Lee Curtis has just been fired from a TV
show and she talked about you know, I wasn't it.
On top of that, they had talked about Deborah Winger,

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Aaron Moran from Happy Days. Christy McVie was also in
early talks, but it was Jamie Lee who they went with.
Jamie Lee tells a great story that the first night
that she had finished shooting and she went home, she
got a phone call and her roommate answered it and

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she said, Hey, I think it's John Carpenter on the phone.
And she said, normally when you get a phone call
at home after the first day of shooting, they're calling
to tell you. Yeah, we're going to go in another direction.
And she said, He gets on the phone and says,
you were amazing today. I'm so cited. This is going

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to be incredible. This is going to be huge, and
it was huge. Part of the thing that made it huge. Also,
what's the music? The theme song? The song that plays throughout.
It's simple, but it sticks.

Speaker 20 (26:34):
As I remember it now, Maybe it was more, but
I had about three or four days to do the
score to Halloween basically record the whole thing. I wanted
something deadly simple and something that would just eat at
you a little bit. And my father bought me a
pair of bongos when I was really young for Christmas.
He taught me how to play five four time on them.

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Ba da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da.

Speaker 18 (26:58):
Da da da da.

Speaker 20 (26:58):
So all I did was to go on piano and
do five to four with an octave dan, and.

Speaker 21 (27:05):
That that was where it came from.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
That's where it came from. So you got the music,
you got the heroin, now you need the monster. The
monster was the shape Michael Myers. It was his buddy,
Nick Castle, college buddy of Carpenter hung around on the set,
Carpenter asking to put on the mask for a few shots,
and it stuck. He was paid a whopping twenty five

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dollars a day, and his silent performance that John Carpenter
credits because he was a dancer and a theater major,
became the template for Slasher Villains to come. He returned
for a cameo in the twenty eighteen Halloween reboot. Now

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we only need one more, one more, and that one
more was the doctor Donald Pleasants. Now, if you didn't
know anything about Donald Pleasants, he was also not the
first choice. They wanted Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, and
that was never gonna happen. Both of them thought this

(28:10):
movie was stupid. Both of them didn't want to do horror.
Christopher Lee was a massive star, and Peter Cushing and
you're looking at Star Wars and all these things, like
these guys are above it. But you had Donald Pleasants,
an absolutely amazing actor who had done, first of all,

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one of those very trained actors. You know I'm very trained,
because he was, he'd done The Great Escape You only
Live twice. And his daughter was a fan of John
Carpenter's Assault on Precinct thirteen. She said, Dad, you should
do this one. He got twenty grand for a few
days work. And the funny thing about all of this,

(28:54):
when it comes to Donald Pleasants, he didn't like the movie.
In an interview on set, he basically said, eah, kind
of sucks, but I got to do it because you know,
I'm not the director.

Speaker 23 (29:02):
As as there are parts of the script which I'm
now doing for John, which I can't accept, but I
have to bring myself round to sing it in his
way because it's his film, and then I can accept them.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
Oddly enough, for all the things that Donald Pleasants would
go on and do in his amazing acting career before
it all went away because he became doctor Sam Lewis,
and that stuck with him forever. He was there for

(29:40):
four and a half days, That's what they told him
they had, So they shot everything, all of his in
four and a half days. Little did he realize he
would be in five more sequels, more than anybody else.
He died after shooting his final scenes for Halloween The
Curse of Michael Myers, and he was so beloved by

(30:04):
everybody on the set and the franchise itself that John
Carpenter said, look, he gave the movie its soul. Donald Pleasants,
this amazing actor of stage and big time movies, said
for all those things, Michael Myers made him immortal. The
final piece of the puzzle was you needed a place

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to film it hadden Field in Illinois, somewhere in the Midwest,
or Pasadena, California, which is where they filmed it. It
is an incredible movie and the impact it had on
Hollywood and set the stage for many Slashers is incredible.

(30:49):
It has endured several sequels as well as reboots, as
well as the Final three that included Yes, Jamie Lee
Curtis that came out just a few years ago. Your
number two scary movie of all time, the first and
the best, if you will, Slasher of Slasher Films, the

(31:12):
Immortal Shape aka Michael Myers. It is Halloween as your
number two movie. We will have number one tomorrow and
there's no doubt why it's number one and the impact
it had huge still being felt to this day. Coming up,

(31:33):
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Coming up, I'm going to wrap up this first hour.
What's going on in France with the Louver? Have they
recovered it all or is it still missing? Hm is

(33:00):
there a mastermind. We discussed raight ahead, Chad Benson, Joel.

Speaker 1 (33:14):
If you look duk.

Speaker 24 (33:14):
Radio like Chad Benson likes his meals, You've come to
the perfect place for takeout.

Speaker 2 (33:21):
It's getting spicy in France when it comes to the
Louver and the theft of the jewels Napoleon's Duels.

Speaker 25 (33:29):
Paris prosecutors say the two men who they believe helped
execute this stunning one hundred and two million dollar heist
of the Louver have partially admitted their involvements. Paris public
prosecutor Lord Beco, citing major progress in the investigation more
than a week after two suspects dressed as construction workers
broke into the Louver and made off with some of

(33:50):
France's crown jewels.

Speaker 2 (33:51):
Now here's the interesting thing. They arrested somebody last night.
They have five more in custody, and they think there
may be be a not only a mastermind, but they
think this may be a larger syndicate of thieves. What's
really interesting is there was another art heist at another

(34:14):
French museum right after the Louver, So the and I'm
probably gonna screw this up. The Misson des Lumineus Denis
in Lendres, just hours after the one hundred million dollar
heist saw two thousand gold and silver coins stolen. Workers
arrived at the museum dedicated to the philosopher and encyclopediast

(34:38):
Denis de Drox noticed that one of the displays case
was smashed and raised. The alarm. Display case contained coins
between seventeen ninety and eighteen forty that were discovered in
twenty eleven. They value the coins at right around one
hundred thousand dollars, So could it been the junior of

(34:59):
these possible? You never know, You never know. Three two, three, five,
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(35:19):
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are here. We're pretty excited about all the things going on,
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So hopefully we'll see you tonight on the old YouTube
right here on The Chad Benson Show. Coming up, our

(35:40):
number two of the program, Melissa the Aftermath the storm horrific.
We talk about that. We're also gonna talk a bit
about what's going on with Israel, but also more on
sedan and free speech. Man, we talk about this stuff
in Europe. It's like, they arrested you for a meme. Well,

(36:01):
you know what, They arrested a guy here in Tennessee
for a meme. It was ridiculous. He got out of
jail finally, but my goodness, meme. It is scary to
think that that could happen right here in these here
United States of America. Our number two, straight ahead, This
is the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:23):
This is the Chad Benson Show. The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:53):
The government in the throes of the shutdown, or should
I say practicing they're acting skills to make the world
recognize the great actors they are as they play for
the camera.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
A shutdown is absolutely abhorrent.

Speaker 2 (37:12):
You're crushing the souls of our citizens. That's pretty good, right,
that's pretty good. Little Donald pleasants in there. I like that,
But that's kind of what they're doing. They're playing the
part that they need to play to try to get
as many people on their side as possible so the
other side can take the blame, and in taking the blame,

(37:34):
you win, which in theory means that you're going to
win next year's midterms.

Speaker 3 (37:40):
John Thune, the top Republican in the Senate, shouting at
Democrats as he blocked a bill that would fund SNAP
food assistants during the shutdown. Instead, Thune calling on Democrats
to vote to reopen the government. Forty two million Americans
will lose SNAP funding when it runs out.

Speaker 2 (37:56):
Forty two million americans one in eight. Now, I said
last hour, I care about truth.

Speaker 4 (38:05):
I like facts.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
The facts are not everything is black and white. And
in today's world, we all go to an area where
we can do what we can feed the narrative. We
want to the people who want to consume that narrative,
who are more interested in affirmation not information. Patrick Bett
David's talking about Snap yesterday, and he's got this. It's

(38:31):
a chart that's going around and it's explaining, you know,
in this chart, and it's it's got millions of retweets
and all this kind of stuff of who's on Snap.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Take a look at this chart.

Speaker 26 (38:43):
By the way, this is a chart tom that shows
foodstamps by ethnic.

Speaker 2 (38:48):
Who's on Snap and what is their citizenship status?

Speaker 26 (38:52):
Seven point eight billion dollars on a monthly on Snap.
If illegals were removed from Snap, the cost reduce seventy percent,
is what they're saying. Zoom in a little bit, rob
take a look at this, Okay, zoom a little bit.
Percentage of US households receiving SNAP benefits food stamps by
ethnicity Afghan forty six percent, Somalia forty two percent, Iraqi

(39:17):
thirty five, Dominican thirty four, Caribbean twenty eight, Native twenty seven,
Puerto Rican twenty seven, Cuban twenty five, Black twenty five,
Arab twenty four, Cambodian twenty three, Asian Pacific Islander, Honduras
Armenians made it under nineteen percent, Bangladesh, Moroccan, Mexican eighteen percent.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
Oh so, and this is a chart going around and
I've seen it. I've had people send it to me.
What do you think of that? It's from the Personal
Finance Wizard via the Social media world. It lists thirty
six ethnic national groups showing the percentage of US households
receiving Snap benefits and the claim that non whites, non

(39:58):
citizens dominate the program. Afghans, Somali's whites only make up
eight point six percent, and playing that white Americans are
only eight point six percent of Snap recipients. We're subsidizing foreigners,
blah blah. You know, they go on and on. It's
and so again, I care about truth. So is that

(40:21):
true that it is all foreigners? And if we got
rid of all the foreigners it would save us seventy
percent better. Yet, if we got rid of all of Snap,
it would save us one hundred percent. Whoare you're hitting
on something? Who's on Snap? Just out of curiosity?

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Do we know what?

Speaker 2 (40:38):
We do have the data of who's on Snap?

Speaker 27 (40:42):
Forty percent of people on Snap are children. Sixteen million
kids rely on Snap. One point two million veterans rely
on Snap.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
And here's here's.

Speaker 4 (40:53):
Something that's interesting.

Speaker 27 (40:54):
Twenty two thousand active duty military.

Speaker 4 (40:58):
Families rely on Snap.

Speaker 27 (41:00):
Yes, people actually serving our country rely on food snams.
One point five million college students are on Snap and
eight million seniors rely on Snap to help them make
ends meet.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
What hold on a second, I was just told that no,
you were given something that riles up the crowd but
doesn't tell you the truth. You were giving something to
affirm what somebody already believes, not knowing the truth, but
just automatically thinks that you know. This is who gets
it because they're being told by people who are pushing

(41:37):
a narrative, whether it is to make their party look
better or to rile up their followers. And yet, when
it comes to if you're going to rile up your followers,
the fact that our men and women serving have to
get Snap at an alarming rate, but that doesn't fit

(42:01):
the narrative. And we know what one of the narratives
is a very big narrative.

Speaker 27 (42:06):
Now, you may have heard that people have said that
illegal immigrants are using Snap. That's not true. However, one
point five million legal immigrants, like long term Green card holders,
are on SNAP. Rules were changed in July so people
who are refugees or asylum seekers they can't access Snap anymore.

Speaker 1 (42:29):
And here's the kicker.

Speaker 27 (42:30):
About a third of SNAP households have someone who is
working a job. They just aren't making enough money to
make ends meet. How much do they get? Well, the
average Snap benefit is one hundred and eighty eight dollars
a month. That means they have six dollars a day
for groceries.

Speaker 19 (42:49):
What.

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Look, we could make an argument that we don't need
snap if we want to, we need to have a
social safety and especially for people that can take care
of themselves. Seniors at a certain level obviously can no
longer take care of themselves and they have nothing. We're
not gonna let anybody starve in this country. I mean,
my goodness, among the poor in this nation, we have
an obesity epidemic. But that aside what you hear, what

(43:20):
you're shown, and what you're told, just do some research
to find out is this real or not. It's my
frustration with what's going on in the modern world that
we find ourselves in is that nobody wants to do
a little bit of research to find out if that's true.
And so much of it is because we are terrified,

(43:41):
apparently that our belief system would be challenged and that
the powers that be would lie to us, and if
that happened, then we might decide to go against the tribe,
and the tribe would be mad at us, and then
we would, I don't know, our identity be destroyed. It's

(44:01):
just it's so bizarre. It really is. Speaking of bizarre,
did you see that the pooter tested a nuke? You
know what, we start doing it too.

Speaker 7 (44:11):
The President posting on social media that he's ordering the
Pentagon to resume nuclear testing for the first time in
more than thirty years.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
On Air Force one, the President asks why now.

Speaker 12 (44:22):
And others doing testing? I think it's appropriate that we
do alside.

Speaker 24 (44:25):
And the President's comments come just days after Russia test
fired a nuclear missile. In North Korea launched missile with
nuclear capabilities.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
Well not North we lest we don't really care about
what they have. Nor it's Korea. I mean, you you
hold it over everybody's head. But the reality is nobody's going,
oh my god, norths Korea has got a nuclear because
you you're not going to use it. Your goal is
to exist self preservation, you know, firing one of those

(44:58):
means self preservation is over. You fire in response to
an attack. So I'm not worried about North Korea. But
I will say I know that they tested a nuke.
Russia did the other day, one of them. They want
to test it. What would cause a tsunami, which that
is not good. But according to the latest data from

(45:21):
I can, and a bunch of other groups out there.
We have about fifty one hundred and Russia has about
fifty two hundred to fifty four hundred. So that's the
latest data. So we all have more than enough that
we can destroy ourselves. It's just refining the stuff that

(45:42):
we have to make sure it actually works.

Speaker 4 (45:44):
That's the other thing. Does it work.

Speaker 2 (45:48):
Well? I guess that's problem too. Yeah, we gotta make
sure it works before we do anything else. Speaking of working,
Gee Trump together again, long last, we're coming together. We're
fixing trade apparently allegedly hopefully we have.

Speaker 12 (46:02):
A deal now. Every year will renegotiate the deal, and
I think the deal.

Speaker 2 (46:07):
Will go on for a long time, which is good.
It is a one year deal. It feels like a
sports thing. It's a one year deal. It's going to
be awesome. It's gonna be fantastic. This deal is going
to be great. I don't know what any of the
specifics are. Trump and G You're supposed to meet later

(46:27):
on maybe this year, early next year. Trump go to China, China,
and then G would come out potentially tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
Lago.

Speaker 2 (46:37):
China has their own problems, and we think about this.
You know, the trade battle, China's was stood a lot.
There's no doubt about that, far more than I think
a lot of people thought they would. That. Being said,
they've got issues. They've got a lot of factories over there,
because we're still their number one in consumption for them,

(46:59):
so we're their biggest trading partner. They're not ours. Mexico
Canada are followed by China, but there's no doubt that
this has put a hurt on them.

Speaker 13 (47:09):
We've been on the ground inside factories in eastern China.
We've seen firsthand recently where they are heavily diversifying production
away from US customers, you know, because they haven't seen
America as a reliable partner for some time. But you know,
those I've spoken to, they say they still recognize it's
an important market and want to see business with Americans return.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
Who wouldn't want that? Who wouldn't want that? It's going
to be fantastic. So Trump says there's a lot of
stuff for farmers, soybeans, things like that, like a lot
of these things. He comes out, there's a big announcement,
China making announcement, and then what is it? Devil's in
the details it's a great step forward, especially as we
head into the fourth quarter. Christmas time is where we're

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that's another thing. What's happening in Sedan is the worst
of the things. Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (49:50):

Speaker 2 (49:55):
We talk about Ukraine, we talk about Israel. The place
though that is seeing the most suffering on the planet
is neither of those, and those places at times are
a living hell. Palestine, Ukraine in certain areas, the don
Vas region and the battle that goes on Sudan is

(50:16):
a not just a nightmare, a nightmare that is so horrific,
and nobody's paying attention to it. Nobody is. And look,
part of it is it's Africa. We don't pay attention
to a lot of stuff that's going on over there.
And I understand that, but I just want to Yesterday
something happened that was so horrific that from space the

(50:41):
satellites could see the flow of blood and dead bodies
piled up, so quick little snapshot of what's happening over there.
There's always some sort of conflict. We know that this
has been going on for a while, but it super
took off in so April of twenty three, it took off.

(51:03):
So you've got the Sudanese Armed Forces and the paramilitary
group Rapid Support Forces. Now the Rapid Support Forces are
backed by the United Arab Emirates. Even though they deny it,
the fact is everybody knows. And one of the reasons
they're being backed by them is because.

Speaker 4 (51:21):
Sudan has gold, lots of.

Speaker 2 (51:25):
Gold, and everybody knows. Now it's about the rare earth
minerals and gold being one of them. They want to
be a part of the quote unquote legitimate national forces
military group. So they're fighting the other parts of the
military because they want to be part of the military,
and they've got a website. By the way, they also
claim they're working toward democracy rather than a purely military rule.

(51:47):
They've kind of changed their you know, we want this
and then we want that. What they are doing, though,
is killing and starving people. They go in, they surround,
they besiege the city, and they eventually starve them out.
What is happening there is an atrocity that we can't
even fathom at this point in time, the amount of

(52:09):
people that are dying on a daily basis. And yesterday
was one of those things where they put up the
videos of them killing so many people three two, three, five,
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(52:34):
just we're not talking about people that they're fighting against
gun on gun. We're talking about men, women and children
being absolutely eviscerated by what seems to be at times
children and them dancing around dead bodies. We move from
there to the other conflict that still has the world going,

(52:56):
is it going to work? Is it not going to work?
That is Hamas, the if Israel Palestine.

Speaker 28 (53:01):
AMAS is going to be concerned about Hamas, and if
they are of disarmed, there's many other groups in Gaza
that want retribution on them, that will take it.

Speaker 18 (53:10):
We've already seen that starting.

Speaker 28 (53:12):
So there has to be some plan and it's in
the plan twenty point plan for them to get amnesty
but also potentially safe passage out of Gaza. I just
don't know any other country that would actually take them.

Speaker 2 (53:24):
Interestingly enough, the u AE, who's supporting the group we
were just talking about there in Sudan, they suggested, hey,
let's move these guys over there. What a tangled web
we weave. And here's the thing. We're their pals, you A.
We have a good relationship with them. They're part of

(53:45):
the Gulf States, they're part of this and so it's
this bizarre thing where we ignore certain atrocities and what's
going on. But this was so bad yesterday even Rubio
State Department said this can't happen.

Speaker 19 (54:01):
It is.

Speaker 2 (54:02):
It's a crazy world. People, So blessed to live in
this country and no doubt about that. Three two, three, five,
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Show,
it's your extra instat coming up, post a meme, go
to jail. What are we talking about Britain? No, we're
talking about Tennessee. Talk about that straight ahead. This is
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 4 (54:20):
Son, Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (54:41):

Speaker 2 (54:43):
I am a free speech absolutist. I'm also not insane.
When I saw this story, I thought this can't be real.
It's got to be one of those fake things, right
because you see some of the stuff and you're like, okay, this,
what's the real story. It's insane and it's happening here
in Tennessee. Now I'm going to break with the lead,
which is he's been released and they've dropped charges. But

(55:06):
when it comes to free speech, you know everybody talks about, well,
there's speech with consequences, Okay, I understand that, and then
of course there's hate speech once again that's free speech.
And then there's advocating violence, which is what supposedly happened
here to a man who posted something that was not violent,

(55:31):
not full of hate and not a threat. I know
what a threat is. So one of the local reporters here,
Phil Williams, went out and actually spoke to the sheriff
who's in charge of Perry County, a small little place
about eighty miles outside in Nashville, and they sat down

(55:52):
and spoke about the meme. Now, the meme was posted
on this elman's Facebook page. By the way, got no
likes or any comments about it. And this guy is
a keyboard warrior and he's a progressive in Tennessee. That's
kind of it's also retired police officer. And the meme

(56:13):
was about a shooting that took place last January twenty
twenty four in Perry High School, which is in Iowa. Okay, Perry, Iowa.
So that's important. Perry, Iowa, Perry High School. That's where
the shooting took place. And the meme was something that

(56:36):
Donald Trump had said, Okay, and this guy, this meme
has been out there. So Larry Butchert put this out there.
It says, this seems relevant today and this is during
the Charlie Kirk shooting and all of this stuff that
had happened. We have to get over it. Donald Trump
on Perry High School shooting one day after that's all.

(56:57):
It says, got a picture of Donald Trump, we have
to get Those are his words, and they arrested him
for that.

Speaker 29 (57:04):
That's the meme that he posted.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
Correct.

Speaker 7 (57:09):
That looks like it, except this part was blurred out
the face.

Speaker 29 (57:13):
But Larry Bussart was arrested last month and locked up
on a two million dollar bond after some in the
community somehow claimed it was a threat to shoot up
Perry County High School.

Speaker 7 (57:24):
That led people to believe in our county that he's
talking about Perry County High School because it doesn't say
Ayeway either.

Speaker 30 (57:31):
But you also knew this was an existing meme that
was already out there on the internet. Correct, And so
it's clear he's not talking about Perry County High School.

Speaker 7 (57:42):
We knew. The public did not know.

Speaker 2 (57:45):
First, the public is stupid, and most importantly, you, as
the arresting officer, knew that his meme was not a threat.
I just want to go over this again. So you
recognized it was not a threat, but you still followed

(58:08):
through on that. And back to the stupidity. If the
people you're dealing with are that stupid as to think
that a reference of Perry High School in Perry, Iowa
when there was a shooting and a meme of something

(58:33):
Trump said the day after is essentially violence threatening in
your mind, You, sir, also need to maybe step away
from your position. It is insane that we're in this situation. Oh,

(58:53):
we knew, we knew it wasn't real. We knew wasn't real.

Speaker 4 (58:57):
You did?

Speaker 2 (58:58):
Are you blank and kidding me? Two million dollar bond
for a meme? He's a keyboard warrior, he admits it.
He's a progressive in the middle Tennessee, the red estate
maybe of all. And while he's not a fan of
Trump nothing he said, there was a threat. You want
to know what a threat is? How about this Lipscomb University.

(59:22):
This lady Carissa Hamlet, she didn't like what was going
on after Charlie Kirk and this, you know, like the
celebration on campus turning point in several of these places.
On top of that, the way that they were handling
the grief. Because she didn't like Charlie Kirk, she said,
I'll go blow lipscumb the blank up right now. That's

(59:44):
a threat. She faces felony charges what he did?

Speaker 29 (59:48):
Nope, Sureff Weens had also told us that Perry County
as local police in Bushart's hometown of Lexington to go
talk to him, let him know the fear his post
was causing and ask him to take it down, and
that Bushart had refused.

Speaker 7 (01:00:02):
You know, parents just want to send their kids to
school without being afraid that they'll get shot. I mean,
what kind of person does that? What kind of person
just uh says they don't.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
Care because he doesn't care because he didn't threaten anything.
And somebody who values their liberty and freedom is the
kind of person If he would have put I want
to go blankety blank blank blank at school, whatever the
hell he was going to say, that's a different thing.
Right again, consequences and overstepping in line with a threat

(01:00:40):
two separate things. The consequence here is you guys took
it amongst yourself to show at his house. And he
even said, look, I'm an a hole, but I didn't
threaten anybody.

Speaker 31 (01:00:51):
Is there a mister Larry that lives here. I had
spoken with a Harry Kenny investigator. They want to come
speak to him about.

Speaker 29 (01:00:57):
Something, okay, but you should if I investigators had just
obtained this video from that encounter a few hours before
Bushart's to rest, and the Lexington Police officers seemed to
have no idea why a Pierry County investigator had asked
police to pay a visit to the progressive Facebook warriors.

Speaker 31 (01:01:15):
He had just called me and said that there was
some concerning posts that were.

Speaker 4 (01:01:19):
Made on Facebook.

Speaker 31 (01:01:21):
On Facebook, yes, sir, and they said they did.

Speaker 5 (01:01:24):
They want a man to come make contact with you.

Speaker 14 (01:01:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 31 (01:01:26):
Lets you know that they may be in contact with
you and see if you still live here. I don't
know exactly what they're referring to.

Speaker 18 (01:01:33):
I knew had Charlotte Kirk, Well, I don't know.

Speaker 29 (01:01:36):
Bushart had posted the mean to suggest people were more
concerned about Charlie Kirk's murder than they were about school shootings,
but the video shows the officer never mentioned any concerns
about the school.

Speaker 31 (01:01:48):
They said that something was insinuating violence.

Speaker 18 (01:01:51):
No what it was, I'm not gonna take it downy.

Speaker 4 (01:01:54):
Look, I don't care.

Speaker 31 (01:01:56):
This ain't got nothing to do with you.

Speaker 4 (01:01:58):
Got that role, yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (01:02:00):
I love the fact that the cops all. I don't care.
There's got nothing to do with me. I mean, this
is them problem. It's insane. The DA needs to be
fired who suggested he be arrested. We live in a
free country. We're watching places like Britain absolutely destroy themselves

(01:02:23):
over speech. We're watching places destroy themselves in such a
way where I don't think people understand how important this
is because without speech, bad things happen. Without speech, people
can't be held accountable. And yes, hate speech is speech

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and we need to protect it, even though you may
not like it, because without speech.

Speaker 4 (01:02:48):
We live in very, very dangerous times.

Speaker 2 (01:02:54):
You find stuff like that happening more often dangerous times.
The fact that they went after him was insane and
a two million dollar bond and one of the questions
because we were trying to get a hold of people
yesterday and by the way, Sheriff Weams went on with
the reporter here and even the reporter said, look, he

(01:03:21):
didn't have to do that. The DA wouldn't come back.
And this story blew up yesterday morning all over Cato Institute,
reason everywhere started picking this and it went national in
like ten minutes, and we were on it and we've
been talking about it for the last couple of days
just because we didn't you know first, you're like, this

(01:03:42):
can't be real. I expected something horrific. Even he who
posted it thought, well, is it because of the Charlie
Kirk stuff? And he didn't say anything horrific about Charlie Kirk.
It was about you know, guns in the whole nine yards. Again,
he's a former cop, and oddly enough, again politics makes
strange bedfellows. And to show you the importance of free speech,

(01:04:05):
one of the big advocates for them to drop charges
and release him was one of the big controversial Democrats
in the state, Justin Jones, who was one of the
state Democrats who remember when the shooting happened here at

(01:04:28):
Covenant and they got them thrown out of the state
legislature and then they were voted back in by the people.
But he sent a letter saying, yeah, this goes against
free speech. You can't do this. You can't. So yesterday
Larry got out though, because the press had become so big,

(01:04:50):
and the fact that they realized, man, if we keep
this guy here till December and we want a two
million dollar bond, we're going to be paying this guyllion
dollars and it's already costing us a kick in the grundle.
When it comes to what's taking place as far as
how people are viewing Perry County. Oh, and I'm sure

(01:05:10):
they're going to have to pay him something. This ain't
going away.

Speaker 4 (01:05:13):
How do you feel right now?

Speaker 32 (01:05:15):
Thanks to all in any supporters out there, And I'm
very happy to be going home. I didn't and I
didn't seek to be a media sensation, but here we are.
But yeah, that's about all lin say right now.

Speaker 2 (01:05:31):
Good go enjoy your life and enjoy the retirement that
Perry County is going to be giving. You kept him
in jail for thirty plus days on a two million
dollar bond for a freaking dumb ass charge because people
in your county are too stupid to understand anything good.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
Where are we?

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty
three at Chad Benson shows your ex, your Insta, your Facebook, YouTube,
and more. Lot of stuff still to get to this hour,
next next hour, we're going to talk about as we've
talked about all the stuff going on with the government shutdown,
We're going to get in to healthcare because that's a

(01:06:12):
big deal, the Obamacare. What's real, what's not real? This
last hour we got into what's going on when it
comes to snap and the benefits. Who's on it, who's not.
We're going to expose some of the insanity coming up
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already according to the dictionary. What we'll talk about that
straight ahead Chad Bencacchoe.

Speaker 24 (01:07:57):
Serving up talk radio medium, rare and dripping with irony.

Speaker 1 (01:08:02):
It's Chad Beenson.

Speaker 18 (01:08:04):
We give you guys.

Speaker 2 (01:08:06):
The urban word today all the time, and the reason
is because we want you to know and you think
of yourself. You kind you do do that, Chad, And
some of it is hilarious and some of it we
just don't quite get. I know, I understand that. But
you know what, we do it because we understand the
youth of tomorrow is actually the youth of today and
their lingo. You got to learn it. In fact, it's
becoming quite popular.

Speaker 33 (01:08:26):
The new word of the year is numbers six seven.
But if you know, you know it's never expressed as
sixty seven parents and teachers say the kids and teens
are using the term to say so so or maybe
this or maybe that. The term's origin is unclear. Dictionary
dot com says it can be traced back to Scrilla's
song doot doote sixty seven. Others link it to NBA

(01:08:48):
player Lamello Ball, who is six foot and seven inches tall.
Language experts say the social signal has also become an
inside joke and soon will be replaced with a new word.

Speaker 2 (01:09:00):
Six seven. It's so funny. I do it at the house.

Speaker 8 (01:09:04):
You know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:04):
The kids like, what do you think of this? I'm like,
it's six seven. And my daughter who's seven, she's like,
dad's so cringe worthy.

Speaker 4 (01:09:09):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:10):
But you know what, sometimes we have to be cringe
worthy because we were to our parents and we need
to allow that to happen. But we need to understand
their lingo. That's why we do what we do.

Speaker 4 (01:09:21):
Now it's time for the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:09:25):
The young have a vocabulary all their own, and we
break it down for you.

Speaker 4 (01:09:29):
It's called the urban word of the day.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
We continue to give you the urban words of the day.
Now this one again, it's the urban word. It could
be a saying it could be.

Speaker 4 (01:09:39):
Letters, it could be.

Speaker 2 (01:09:42):
Just a word. Today's urban word is n p C
non playable character. So if you watch video games, you
play video games, there are people in the games or
things in the games that they're there. They make up
the numbers, but you can't play them. They're just kind

(01:10:02):
of like garnish. And sometimes in life you'll be like, ah,
that's Jim over there. He's a non playable character. That
is your urban word of the day.

Speaker 4 (01:10:11):
That was the urban word of the day, now you know?

Speaker 2 (01:10:16):
And if you know you know, which is also another
urban phrase that the kids used nowadays. Oh, hey, I
think the UFOs are coming when I don't know. We're
going to get more into that tomorrow. But even jd
Vance was asked about the UFOs.

Speaker 1 (01:10:34):
One last question about UFOs.

Speaker 4 (01:10:36):
So I'm in the UFO.

Speaker 13 (01:10:39):
Luna to me, Yeah, so, and you said, I think
the Ruthless podcast we're going to in August, you're going
to figure.

Speaker 4 (01:10:46):
Out what happens.

Speaker 34 (01:10:48):
It was a little tongue of chic. I've not figured
it out yet. I don't have the time to figure.

Speaker 4 (01:10:51):
It out yet, but you've got access to all.

Speaker 34 (01:10:53):
I do, and I really want to sort of dig
into it. You know, Marco is actually very interested.

Speaker 35 (01:10:57):
In this time.

Speaker 34 (01:10:58):
I talked about this little We talked about this back
in our sin of days. So yeah, there's certainly an
interest there. There's certainly an intrigue. But I haven't yet
had the time to really dig in. Things have been
so busy. But this is like the crazy person inside
of me, and there's you know, all of us put
the tinfoil hat on from time to time. I'm like,
I wonder. I was like, I can't allow myself to
become so busy that I spend the next three years

(01:11:21):
and I don't get to the bottom of this. So
I will get to the bottom of this, but it's
going to take me a little time.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
You better get to the bottom of it, because three
I at lists is not far away. And now people
are starting to say, hey, there's a lot more to
this than you guys realize people that normally wouldn't say
things like that, who don't live in the world of
hyperbole and throwing things out there. I'm a little curious.

(01:11:46):
I don't think it's little green men. I've said that.
I continue to say, think other dimensions, Think other dimensions.
That's important. Let me know what you think I've hearing
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Coming up, our number three of the program. We're still
counting it down all the way to number one in
our scary movie countdown. We got a little what's trending.
We're to talk a bit more about the government shutdown.

(01:12:31):
But one of the big reasons we're shutting it down
and have been shut down is because of Obamacare. It's
about to get more expensive. What's the reality of it.
Who's not on it? It's not as simple as everybody
wants to make it out to me. It's black, it's white.
Once again, nuance is missed. We don't do that here.
We try to find the real story when it comes

(01:12:53):
to that, because I think you're mature enough to make
up your own mind in these situations. A bunch of
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Speaker 1 (01:13:03):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 4 (01:13:32):
Trump's still working.

Speaker 2 (01:13:33):
Looks like he's got a deal done with China when
it comes to trade. Not quite sure what the exact
numbers are, the specifications. As we all know, the devil's
in the details. But while all that's happening, guess what government?
The rest of it shut down? Shuttered, go in you

(01:13:54):
look inside the windows, everything's boarded up, the Capitol. People
peeking in, Oh, doesn't seem to be anything. Cobwebs and
dust everywhere. Really no, not really should be though. One
things for sure. They're not spending any money, and that's
going to be an issue comes Saturday because SNAP, So
tomorrow everything's normal. Saturday, Snap gone, at least for now.

Speaker 3 (01:14:20):
Forty two million Americans will lose SNAP funding when it
runs out, and it comes on the same day Obamacare
open enrollment begins, when some twenty million Americans will see
their insurance premiums more.

Speaker 4 (01:14:31):
Than double on average.

Speaker 3 (01:14:33):
Democrats have said they'd be willing to work with Republicans
to reopen the government if Republicans negotiate with them to
stop that.

Speaker 2 (01:14:41):
Ooh, healthcare big issue, no doubt about that. The cost
of healthcare is going through the roof, and that is evident.
I was saying the other day, I have good health
care the company I work with, but the last several

(01:15:02):
years I've had to buy it ourselves because I have
two shows, one of them local station. They offered healthcare
was great, and when I was just paying for myself,
it was beyond through the roof. It was the kind
of it was so ridiculously expensive that it was shameful.

(01:15:22):
And it doesn't mean that you're closer to your health
care provider. I remember, you're just buying a card. You're
buying access to potentially one day sit down and talk
to somebody who may be a doctor.

Speaker 4 (01:15:35):
But the truth is.

Speaker 2 (01:15:38):
There was you know, as we've talked about, there's gray areas,
there's nuance in all of the stuff when it comes
to healthcare that most people don't really understand, like what's real,
what's not real, who's getting stuff, who's not getting stuff?
They say two hundred billion dollars is going to illegals
for health care over here. They the truth is, prices

(01:16:02):
are going to go up. The subsidies were pushed up
during COVID under Biden, and now those subsidies are going
to go away and prices are going to rise. That's
the reality of what is coming. And for a lot

(01:16:23):
of people, you are going to find out that this
is going to be a kick in the grundle. It is.
I've already talked to some people who are like, I'm
not getting healthcare I can't afford it, or their healthcare
they're offered at work has gotten so expensive that they're
now on the healthcare that is okay, if the whole

(01:16:46):
world falls apart and all of our arms and legs
fall off, or the entire family, we're willing to pay
this deductible. But for the rest of it, we're going
to pay cash. You know. Just the catastrophic, massive, just
in case version of healthcare is what they're looking at,
which is totally understandable because prices are going to rise.

(01:17:10):
How much are they going to rise and why are
they going to rise? Well, this is Kaiser Family Foundation,
Larry Levitt, he's the executive vice president for health policy.
He's putting it straight out there. This is what they do.
Health policy is their jam. They study this inside and out.

Speaker 35 (01:17:28):
Yeah, So if these enhanced tax credits are not extended,
ACA and rollies will see their premiums increase by an
average of one hundred and fourteen percent. So for viewers
who haven't been in math class in a while, that
means premiums are going to more than double in terms
of what people pay, and that'll be an increase of
over one thousand dollars a year on average.

Speaker 2 (01:17:51):
That's for a single individual. Think about that, a single individual,
one thousand dollars. If you're in a position where you
are living close to the edge when it comes to
paycheck to paycheck, that matters.

Speaker 35 (01:18:06):
So the amount that insurers are charging is outside of
the norm. It's higher than it's been in recent years.
As you said, the average increase in what insurers are
charging is twenty six percent and that's been the biggest
increase in recent years. So it's a number of factors.
One is just the cost of healthcare is going up.

(01:18:28):
Hospital prices are going up, like the prices of so
many things. GLP one drugs for weight loss, many more
people are using them.

Speaker 4 (01:18:37):
That's increasing costs.

Speaker 35 (01:18:39):
New drugs are coming on the market, so that's kind
of increasing healthcare costs across the board. But there's one
thing in particular that's happening in the Affordable Care Act marketplace,
which is, if these enhanced text credits expire, millions of
people are expected to drop their coverage, and most likely
the people who drop their coverage will be people who

(01:18:59):
are healthier than average, So that will leave a sicker
pool of people for insurers to cover, and that's that's
driving premiums up.

Speaker 4 (01:19:08):
Oh yeah, who would do that?

Speaker 2 (01:19:13):
Healthy people they're going to roll the dice. Unhealthy people
they'll figure out a way to pay it. But healthy people,
they will roll the dice and go, okay, let's just
see what we can do. We aren't you going to
go at it like this. I did that. I know
a lot of people that did that. It said, screw it,
you know what, I'll pay the fine because I'm not

(01:19:34):
going to pay this amount. And then when you know,
when my wife and I got married, I said I'm
going to cover everybody. The cost was and I've told
you guys, this my cost I could have been able
to pay a mortgage of about seven hundred grand plus.

(01:19:56):
That is insane and we rarely use it in fact,
our deduct doubles were so ridiculous. It was cheaper even
through our COPEID just to pay cash. So that was
the frustration. And you could say, well, the cost of
healthcare is going up. No, the cost of doing business
with a healthcare company is going up. The cost of
interacting and working with your healthcare provider, that's the nightmare

(01:20:24):
because you don't get to do that. You get a
finite amount of time with your healthcare provider based on
you need to see X amount of patients a day.
This is the amount of time you have with them.

Speaker 4 (01:20:39):
And go.

Speaker 2 (01:20:43):
That's not the healthcare cost that goes up. The healthcare
cost goes the time that you make the appointment, the
seventy five pieces of paper that get filled out, the
twenty people you encounter on the way into seeing your doctor,
and the paperwork that they have to do that gets

(01:21:03):
pushed between more paper where it's administration's all. That's the
cost that's making everybody so frustrated and angry, as it should.
But I think the healthy are going to roll the dice,
and like you said, the prices are really going to
go up when you have way more unhealthy people and
the healthy people like, screw it, I'm out of here.

(01:21:26):
I'm not doing this. I've been there. I've absolutely been there.
I think a lot of you listening have probably been
there as well. Then when you get a family, certain
things changing, like we gotta there has to be coverage.
I got to do what I need to do. So
the nuance though, of the Obamacare health care battle is

(01:21:53):
these things are going away. But part of the reasons
going away is because he extended by the way the subsidies,
we are going to go back to the level prior
to COVID and the expansion of it. So it's not
that they're going completely away, but you're going to see
a massive jump. One of the other things is it's
always about illegals. That's so many illegals. What's real, what's

(01:22:16):
not real?

Speaker 36 (01:22:17):
I think it's definitely an issue that's very nuanced and
very gray, and it does not fit neatly into the
narratives that really either side are putting out there in
terms of what's going on with the healthcare debate. But
the reality is taxpayers do pay some indirectly and indirectly

(01:22:41):
for care for undocumented people, but it is neither as
glaring and as stark as Republicans might have. You believe
in some of the talking points that are going on
right now or the debate about the shutdown, that is.

Speaker 2 (01:22:57):
David via Washington Post, he did a really good article going,
all right, here's the reality, here's the truth, here's the
numbers of what it really is. And again a nuanced approach,
because life is nuance and.

Speaker 4 (01:23:10):
It's not black white, it's gray.

Speaker 2 (01:23:12):
And so two hundred billion is what was it? Mike
Johnson said the other day, that's not real. You made
that up.

Speaker 36 (01:23:21):
So at the end of the day, the Republican Republicans
have really zeroed in on emergency Medicaid. Now, what's interesting
about emergency Medicaid is all of the stems from from
laws that were passed in the eighties under President Raigian
that basically said you cannot that you cannot deny someone
emergency coverage at the emergency room if they come in.

(01:23:44):
And obviously there's the basic human element, right we don't
want people not being able to be treated for something
like a car crash or for a fall, or for
some emergency thing. So there is the emergency Medicaid program,
which if you are otherwise eligible for Medicaid. Then you

(01:24:07):
can get coverage through you can get the hospitals, can
get reimbursed for the service services that are provided.

Speaker 2 (01:24:16):
So we've talked about this. Nineteen eighty six they passed
a bill were there. If you get hit by a bus,
they're not asking you what your status is. They're taking
care of you. But this is not going to the doctors.
This is not going to pick up prescriptions. This is
none of those things. It's we are going to save
your life. We're going to get your stable, and then
you're on your way. And that is for anybody. So

(01:24:37):
no questions asked, but they make it seem like, oh nope,
it's not that. It's everything. It's everything and look there.
And here's where the nuance comes in for the Republicans.
There are way too many people that use the emergency
room as the doctor's office, way too many people to

(01:24:57):
do that. But it's such a small amount in the
overall amount. But it's an argument that they're winning on
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Speaker 1 (01:26:28):

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
Now it's time to find out what's trending.

Speaker 4 (01:26:34):
What's trending?

Speaker 37 (01:26:35):
I'm signed James Dean, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia.

Speaker 4 (01:26:47):
SERF what trping? That's fine?

Speaker 2 (01:26:59):
That was trying on the old interwebs on this beautiful
third start to magical World of x X marking the
spot today government shutdown, RSF. We aren't falling what's going
on in Sudan and most people aren't, which is look
who we are for. As bad as Palestine and the

(01:27:22):
Israel thing, the hunger and the killings, what's happening in
Sudan is the worst atrocity going on on the planet
right now. We've touched on a little bit earlier Tucker
Carlson because he slams the regime change push in Venezuela
over the fentanyl sources, and we've talked about that with

(01:27:42):
a nightmare. Bs. Just don't lie to me, that's all
I ask. Tell me the truth. I can handle it,
Oh my lord. Some of the other things treading Cuba,
Melissa Jamaica, National Cat DAYO over to you Yahoo Yahooooo,

(01:28:02):
Donald Trump and g Donald Trump has cut some tariffs
on China. We'll see how that plays itself out. Hurricane Melissa.
The monkeys in Mississippi that have escaped. People are like, hey,
just out of curiosity. Are they dangerous? And I'm still
not sure did they get them all? Because everywhere I

(01:28:23):
turn it's like, well there's maybe one out there.

Speaker 4 (01:28:26):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:28:26):
At this point, they're called Reese's Monkeys and they were
heading from Tulane University over to Jasper County and truck
crash next thing you know. They have things like herpies.
Well maybe don't kiss them. Oh chat, and finally over
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Liverpool not doing well right now. Liverpool three two three
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apparently was arrested again and just got issues, I know,

(01:29:15):
with drugs and whatnot. It's a tragedy. Let's be honest.

Speaker 4 (01:29:20):
Rights human being.

Speaker 2 (01:29:21):
Right there and the Blue Jays one went away from
the World series kind of dominating the Dodgers, the Doyers
not being the Doyers that we'd like. Yeah, the whole
thing with the monkeys. I'm still trying to figure this
out because I was like, okay, so are they still there?
Are they not there? I know they shot one, they
caught some other ones. I know they shot one. It's
not very nice. It's not nice, Chad. They shouldn't be

(01:29:44):
shooting monkeys. I get they shouldn't be shooting monkeys, but
these monkeys are not. They've got COVID as well, and
if I'm correct, a few other things. So let's just
make sure we catch these things, okay, because we got
enough problems we don't need. I've seen this movie. I
know how it ends. Okay, that's all I'm saying. We've
all seen this movie. Let's get this thing sorted out.

(01:30:05):
If we could, that'd be fansiastic. The other thing that
is trending was Arctic.

Speaker 10 (01:30:11):
Frost, GOP senators say. As he pursued the January sixth
case against Donald Trump, special counsel Jack Smith issued nearly
two hundred subpoenas targeting Republican leaning organizations and individuals, among
them GOP members of Congress in a probe the FBI
called Arctic Frost.

Speaker 4 (01:30:28):
Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate.

Speaker 10 (01:30:31):
Texas Senator Ted Cruz has his cell phone records were subpoena,
a fact that was kept from him by order of
DC based District Court Judge James Boseberg.

Speaker 8 (01:30:38):
I am right now calling on the House of Representatives
to impeach Judge Vodberg.

Speaker 2 (01:30:43):
Very interesting. Touched on it earlier. That's definitely one of
the big things trending in the world of politics, especially
for the Republicans and the people who follow Republican only politics.
If you missing the show, grab the podcast. Coming up
number two in our Scary Movie Countdown, This is the
Chad Benson.

Speaker 4 (01:30:57):
Show, sun Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:31:20):

Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
As being closer to number one in our Scary Movie Countdown,
we got to go through number two now. Number two
is my favorite movie of all time. Number one had
the biggest impact in the horror world and on me
it was huge, the biggest impact. But this is my
favorite movie. I had to watch one movie like You're

(01:31:43):
on an island somewhere. How I got there?

Speaker 4 (01:31:46):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (01:31:46):
But oddly enough, as I got there, they also had
a TV with a DVD and I get to pick it.
This would be the one. I love this movie and
it went from small budgets franchise. But really it's about
the beginning, the number one, the movie itself that started

(01:32:07):
it all and set a precedent for all the other
slasher movies and villains and stuff that came behind. It's
a simple tale, but a tale. We love my favorite movie,
your number two, scary movie. Let's get to it.

Speaker 16 (01:32:25):
The time has come, so prepare yourself for a journey
of fear from the darkest corner of cinema, the most
bone chilling.

Speaker 17 (01:32:35):
Tales ever told. It's the countdown you've been waiting for
number two.

Speaker 2 (01:32:45):
When you hear the movie song theme, you know exactly
what we're talking about. A movie that shaped so many
things in the world of but also an independent film
that showed you didn't need a big budget and with

(01:33:08):
a decent screenplay and some young up and coming stars,
you could take a William Shatner mask and make it well,
make it one of the greats.

Speaker 19 (01:33:25):
Halloween Night, a small American town fifteen years ago.

Speaker 14 (01:33:39):
I spent eight years trying to reach you, and then
another seven trying to keep him locked up because I
realized that what was living behind that boy's eyes was
purely and simply evil.

Speaker 18 (01:33:54):
Halloween, Halloween Night, he came home.

Speaker 2 (01:34:24):
Just awesome. Young Jamie Lee Curtis there. Halloween is an
incredible movie made on the shoestring budget three hundred and
twenty five thousand dollars. Became at the time, the most
profitable independent film ever made, and it launched a new

(01:34:47):
kind of genre of the slasher films. But so many
of them were imitators. Nothing could compete with the Shape,
because you see, that's what it was called in the movie.
If you go watch any of the movies and you think, well,
we know it's Michael Myers, we know it is, but

(01:35:12):
that's not what it says in the movie and the credits,
it says the Shape.

Speaker 20 (01:35:17):
My job in making Halloween was to do an exploitation
horror film. Then the basic premise was given to me
by my distributor or when you Blonde. He said, let's
do a movie about these babysitters who get stocked by
a killer. He figured that everybody could identify with babysittings.

Speaker 21 (01:35:38):
So many teenagers had done it.

Speaker 20 (01:35:41):
And then a little bit later he came up with
the idea of calling it Halloween.

Speaker 21 (01:35:44):
Let's set it out Halloween. I didn't call it Halloween.
Never been used as a title before, never been used
at all.

Speaker 20 (01:35:49):
It was an underutilized holiday, so great. And I was
a young director then. I was hungry for experience, hungry
for features. I had done some work before. Then I said, sure,
why not.

Speaker 2 (01:36:03):
John Carpenter out there talking about, Hey, let's do it,
let's go, let's film it, Let's get it done and
film it. They didn't have a lot of time, they
didn't have a lot of money. What they had was
imagination and some grit.

Speaker 20 (01:36:19):
Well, when we were making the film, I thought, gee,
it's Halloween at night and people get dressed up in masks.
One better way to have a killer not be identified
and be wearing a mask.

Speaker 21 (01:36:33):
And we didn't have any money to make a mask.

Speaker 20 (01:36:35):
So my production designer, Tommy Lee Wallace went up to
a magic shop right here on Hollywood Boulevard and bought
a William Shatner Star Trek mask Captain Kirk mask, spray
painted it, cut the eye holes a little bit different,
fixed the hair, and there we go.

Speaker 2 (01:36:53):
There you went William Shatner mask. There was a clown
mask too, but apparently that one cost a few extra bucks,
and they said, now let's go with the cheapest. This'll
work and the emotionless face because they spray painted and
took out any of the wrinkles, anything that represented that
that any kind of humanity they wanted out of the mask,

(01:37:16):
and they got it out of the mask. Now you
need a star little starlet to go up against, right,
because part of the theme of the slasher movies. But
really what John Carpenter started was the theme of purity.
Here's a young girl, she's untouched by drugs and sex

(01:37:36):
and any of these things. She is different than all
the others that are her friends while they're partying and drinking.
She's doing the responsible thing, taking care of the children
and facing up to the pure evil. So you go
and you get somebody. Who's that? Somebody? Jamie Lee Curtis.

Speaker 22 (01:37:58):
All I remember about Halloween was that it was a
script where every single page had the name Laurie on it.
So what I knew was that it was a big part.
And when I was a young actress, that kind of
part obviously it was not what I was doing. I
was doing two lines here and there. So to have
something where it was that kind of complete character was

(01:38:22):
kind of exciting for me.

Speaker 2 (01:38:24):
She wasn't the first. Anne Lockhart was considered the rising
actress of the day. She had more TV credits and
Jamie Lee Curtis has just been fired from a TV
show and she talked about, you know, I wasn't it.
On top of that, they had talked about Debra Winger,

(01:38:46):
Aaron Moran from Happy Days. Christy McVie was also in
early talks, but it was Jamie Lee who they went with.
Jamie Lee tells a great story that the first night
that she had finished shooting and she went home, she
got a phone call and her roommate answered it and

(01:39:07):
she said, Hey, I think it's John Carpenter on the phone.
And she said, normally when you get a phone call
at home after the first day of shooting, they're calling
to tell you, yeah, we're going to go in another direction.
And she said, he gets on the phone, it says
you were amazing today. I'm so cited. This is going

(01:39:27):
to be incredible. This is going to be huge, And
it was huge part of the thing that made it huge. Also,
what's the music? The theme song, the song that plays throughout.
It's simple, but it sticks.

Speaker 21 (01:39:48):
As I remember it now, maybe it was more.

Speaker 20 (01:39:50):
I had about three or four days to do the
score to Halloween, basically record the whole thing. I wanted
something deadly simple and something that would just eat at
you a little bit.

Speaker 21 (01:40:00):
And my father bought me a pair of bongos when
I was really young for Christmas.

Speaker 20 (01:40:06):
He taught me how to play five four time on them.
D d da da da da da da dada. So
all I did was too good on piano and do
five to four with an octave dan, and that that was.

Speaker 21 (01:40:19):
Where it came from.

Speaker 2 (01:40:22):
That's where it came from. So you got the music,
you got the heroin now you need the monster. The
monster was the shape Michael Myers. It was his buddy,
Nick Castle, college buddy of Carpenter hung around on the set,
Carpenter asking to put on the mask for a few shots,
and it stuck. He was paid a whopping twenty five

(01:40:43):
dollars a day, and his silent performance that John Carpenter
credits because he was a dancer and a theater major,
became the template for Slasher Villains to Come. He returned
for a cameo in the two thousand eighteen Halloween reboot.

(01:41:03):
Now we only need one more, one more, and that
one more was the doctor Donald Pleasants. Now, if you
didn't know anything about Donald Pleasants, he was also not
the first choice. They wanted Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee,
and that was never gonna happen. Both of them thought

(01:41:24):
this movie was stupid. Both of them didn't want to
do horror. Christopher Lee was a massive star, and Peter
Cushing and you're looking at Star Wars and all these things,
like these guys are above it. But you had Donald Pleasants,
an absolutely amazing actor who had done, first of all,

(01:41:44):
one of those very trained actors. You know, I'm very trained,
because he was. He'd done The Great Escape You only
Live twice. And his daughter was a fan of John
Carpenter's Assault on Precinct thirteen. She said, Dad, you should
do this one. He got twenty grand for a few
days work. And the funny thing about all of this,

(01:42:08):
when it comes to Donald Pleasants, he didn't like the movie.
In an interview on set, he basically said, yeah, kind
of sucks, but I gotta do it because you know,
I'm not the directors.

Speaker 23 (01:42:17):
As there are parts of the script which I'm now
doing for John which I can't accept. But I have
to bring myself brown to sing it in his way
because it's his film, and then I can accept them.

Speaker 2 (01:42:31):
Oddly enough, for all the things that Donald Pleasants would
go on and do in his amazing acting career before
it all went away because he became doctor Sam Lewis,
and that stuck with him forever. He was there for

(01:42:54):
four and a half days. That's what they told him
they had, so they shot everything, all of his four
and a half days. Little did he realize he would
be in five more sequels, more than anybody else. He
died after shooting his final scenes for Halloween The Curse
of Michael Myers, and he was so beloved by everybody

(01:43:19):
on the set and the franchise itself that John Carpenter said, look,
he gave the movie its soul. Donald Pleasants, this amazing
actor of stage and big time movies, said for all
those things, Michael Myers made him immortal. The final piece
of the puzzle was you needed a place to film it.

(01:43:43):
Hadden Field in Illinois, somewhere in the Midwest or Pasadena, California,
which is where they filmed it.

Speaker 18 (01:43:52):
It is an.

Speaker 2 (01:43:52):
Incredible movie and the impact it had on Hollywood and
set the stage for many slashers is incredible. It has
endured several sequels as well as reboots, as well as
the final three that included Yes, Jamie Lee Curtis that

(01:44:13):
came out just a few years ago. Your number two
scary movie of all time, the first and the best,
if you will, slasher of slasher films, The Immortal Shape
aka Michael Myers. It is Halloween as your number two movie.
We will have number one tomorrow and there's no doubt

(01:44:36):
why it's number one, and the impact it had huge
still being felt to this day. Coming up, we're going
to wrap up the show for this Thursday. But first chapter.
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Speaker 19 (01:44:53):
Why is that.

Speaker 2 (01:44:54):
Because it goes away? Was hip yesterday not so much today.

Speaker 19 (01:44:58):
So what do you do?

Speaker 2 (01:44:59):
You call a Medicare ag and what do they do.
They put you in a plan that's going to earn
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plan for Chapter. All right, coming up, We're going to
wrap up the show on this beautiful Thursday. This is
the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (01:46:01):
Like, yeah, so what it's the Chat Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:46:06):
Government shutdown still in full effact. We're approaching a record.

Speaker 10 (01:46:09):
As the shutdown enters its fifth week, and the pain
builds for those who depend on government paychecks or assistance
the House speakers, as he no longer feels a deal
can be reached with Democratic leaders in Congress. I think
Chuck Sherman, Hakem Jeffreys are irredeemable at this point.

Speaker 7 (01:46:22):
I don't think they'll be able to tell Mandanmi and
New York and his disciples that they voted to open
the garment.

Speaker 10 (01:46:27):
Mike Johnson says he thinks the only way out of
the shutdown now is to convince five moderate Senate Democrats
to drop their objections and break the filibuster of a
House passed bill that would restore agency funding, but only
through November twenty.

Speaker 2 (01:46:38):
First, did anybody else find that weird that he talked
about Mondani, the guy that is most likely going to
be the mayor of New York election is next week.
He has nothing to do with the shutdown. He has
nothing to do with Congress or the Senate. And Mike

(01:47:02):
Johnson's like, yeah, well he can't. They can't tell him
this man talk about. You know, as much as Trump
is living.

Speaker 4 (01:47:09):
In the heads of all the.

Speaker 2 (01:47:13):
The lefties out there, especially with the talk of a
third term, it's not gonna happen, Mandannie is living in
the heads of not just the Republicans, he's also in
the heads of the Democrats as well. The Democrats are
freaking out because they don't know what to do with
this guy who's gonna be the mayor of New York,
who's gonna have roadblock after roadblock of getting anything done,
and they don't know what to do with them. They

(01:47:36):
have no idea what to do with them.

Speaker 4 (01:47:38):
They're like, I use their order. But it's so funny.

Speaker 2 (01:47:41):
It's like, why are you talking about mom, Donnie? Why
would you even mention that in a government shutdown where
whether he's a mayor or not means nothing. Whether you
got the mayor you wanted in New York or not
wouldn't help you in the shutdown because that's a state

(01:48:01):
and city thing and you're at the federal level. I
just found that so bizarre. I get why the Democrats
are nervous with him. I absolutely do. They have no
idea what to do with this guy. He is energized people.
He's got a young group of kids that are in
their early twenties to to you know, to young adults
in their thirties who are excited about him because he's

(01:48:26):
used the same playbook that Trump has when it comes
to populisms, he's just changed some of the words. That's it.
Plus he's tuned in with pop culture right like that.
I saw an article there today. He understands pop culture,
I should hope. So he's in his thirties. This guy
understands them taking the talk. That's what I'm trying to say.
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four to twenty

(01:48:47):
three at Chad Benson's show, is your ex your Insta, YouTube, Facebook,
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You know, as we wrap up the show today, I'll
get several texts about today. A lot of you love
that we do the one hit Wonder and we do
the scary movies because I consider this a conversation of

(01:49:08):
fun and we look at all things in life, and
that's what it's about life. And we love doing these
things because I enjoy it my show. Pop culture and
politics are downstream from one another. That's what Andrew Wright
Bart said, and he's absolutely right. So we love doing
these things and I think you guys do as well.

(01:49:28):
And some people out there are just well, they're funny uddies.
So get over yourself. You guys have a blessed rest
of your Thursday. We will do it again.

Speaker 4 (01:49:35):
Hold on a second, I see Friday.

Speaker 2 (01:49:38):
We'll do it again tomorrow. As always, Night night Jack.

Speaker 1 (01:49:41):
This is the Chad Benson Show.

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