Winter Storms Affecting Holiday Travel

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

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Merry Christmas. Trump, have you been a naughty boy? Did
you hide those Epstein files? What? Yeah? Epstein not going anywhere.
I told everybody wasn't going anywhere. And a lot of

(00:35):
stuff going on. It's an a week. We're gonna have
a lot of fun today. I promise do a few
serious things, but mostly fun stuff. Okay, few serious, mostly fun.
Let's talk about some of the serious though, because there
is some serious stuff out there.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Trump and Epstein had a decades long friendship, but a
falling out in the early two thousands after Trump says
Epstein stole Moral Lago employees when the thousands of documents
photos of an Austrian passport with Epstein's picture but bearing
the alias Marius Fortelney.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
That's a cool name, Marius Fortelney. He has a fake passport.
Way has nothing now because he was bad. So this
isn't going anywhere. We all recognize it's not going anywhere.
We get that it's still here. You know, Trump can
come out. They're just mad because of all the great things.

(01:27):
We've got eight hundred gazillion dollars and it's in the
bank and we're gonna give it all to you, and
it's happy. You know, it's it's not going anywhere. It
isn't And this is what you got right now, This
is what you got. And I continue to say this.
I blame the Republicans. This is a you thing. You
guys ginned everybody up, You got everybody excited about it,

(01:51):
and then when push came to shove, you were like, oh,
are we could pay in some trouble? Do I And
I've said this, do I think that Trump has done
any thing untowared? No, here's the issue that Trump would
run into, and he's running into. By the way, the
more that he tries to push this down, the more
that he ignores it. The more that they push it

(02:11):
to the side, the worse it gets and looks for them,
you get a lot more questions and answer every time
they release some stuff. And the way they've released it,
by the way, has been very, very poor. They've released
stuff and it is looked like a joke because it's like,
hold on a second, you got it wrong. This person

(02:34):
is a victim and in their face is right there.
This person was the perpetrator and you've what have you done?

Speaker 4 (02:40):
They have redacted the names of some of the victims,
leaked some of the victims' names out and then unredacted
you know, I'm sorry, redacted the names of the powerful men.
So we're very, very confused on what's going on here.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
A lot of people are, and you're not the only one.
And this is just it's not going it. It's not
going to go anywhere anytime soon. So Trump yesterday, you know,
the Clinton, all these pictures came out of Clinton. I
said last week, I tweeted it out. I said, look,
everything that's going to come out is going to be
all negative for the Democrats. It's a lot of Clinton stuff.

(03:16):
And Clinton's like, hey man, you need to release all
that stuff. You need to do right now.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
In a statement yesterday, a Clinton spokesperson accusing the DOJ
of using quote selective releases of Epstein documents to imply
wrongdoing where there isn't and challenging the Department to immediately
release any remaining materials mentioning or showing Bill Clinton in
these files. Now, what's been released so far only represents
a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of Epstein files

(03:41):
that the DOJ has. They've promised to put out more.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Well, it's not a promise. It's it's the law. You
can signed a law. The law was this, and you've
signed it, and then you haven't done what you were
supposed to. Trump did, by the way, somewhat defend Clinton yesterday,
which I found to be kind of hilarious. I can't
believe this happened. That's I didn't even know you were
you know, I knew there was some picture. There's a
lot of pictures. I don't have any pictures. I'd remember

(04:07):
you met the man. He was probably in the number
of photos of Bill Clinton in the Abstein files, and
can you commit to their full release by the end
of the year. Some of the victims were protesting that
too many of them were reacted.

Speaker 6 (04:17):
I know there are a lot of people that are
angry about all of the pictures of other people, you know,
but I think it's there. But look, I don't like
the I like Bill Clinton. I've always gotten along with
Bill Clinton. They've been nice to him, he's been nice
to me. We've always gotten respect him. I hate to
see photos come out of him. But this is what
the Democrats, mostly Democrats and a couple of bad Republicans

(04:39):
are asking for. So they give you their photos of
me too. Everybody was friendly with this guy, either friendly
or not friendly.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
But then you know he was around.

Speaker 6 (04:47):
He was all over upon Beach and other places. The
head of Harvard was his best friends Larry Summers, and
Bill Clint was a friend of his.

Speaker 2 (04:54):
But everybody was. Everybody was. I feel bad for Bill.
I didn't know. I didn't even meet the guy. You know.
I threw them out and we stopped being friends, but
I never met him. Once again, I'll go say, I
don't think Trump did anything. I think there's a lot
of protection going on, which I'm not a fan of.

(05:15):
And like we say, the more questions that are asked,
the less answers there are, the more the conspiracy and
the anger grows. And remember, look at this in two ways.
Don't look at it from it is right versus laugh
maga versus conservatives. Look at it from a older generation
who doesn't care about any of the stuff. Right. They

(05:37):
want their four owing ka rock, they're in their retirement,
they're living life large, they own a house. Things are good.
Don't look at it in that way. Look at it
when you think about stuff like this on the voting way,
and the voting way is a younger generation is pissed
and frustrated who voted for Trump, feeling like they have
been bemboozled if you will, and they're not getting the truth.

(06:01):
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of you. A lot of holiday stuff we're getting too.
We did a Chad Mark. Okay, I told you guys,
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It is a radio play of hilarity. It is like

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based on one of those funny Hallmark movies and it
is with the Chad Benson Show players and we're gonna
be playing that later on this hour, so I think
you guys will enjoy that. It's very much a festive thing.
And speaking of festive, we're gonna be breaking down some
of the great traditions. I don't know what you guys

(06:44):
are doing for the holidays. We don't travel. You guys
know that you listen to the show. Traveling is a
nightmare and I hate to do it. I like to
do it at odd times when I know that I
don't have to worry about the chaos and craziness out there.
But if you are going to travel, we like to
keep you abreast of the thing things that are going on.
A set of breasts. I do, because it's going to

(07:05):
be nasty out there in certain areas in.

Speaker 7 (07:09):
The Northeast, our quick bursts of rain and snow will
create slick travel conditions starting first thing Tuesday morning, slushy
roads from New York City to Boston, with several inches
of snow for upstate New York and interior New England
moving on by Tuesday night, while in the West, California
is still dealing with downpours, heavy mountain snow, and then
high wind. The focus of the heavy rain in northern
California on Tuesday night before shifting south early Wednesday. A

(07:31):
rare high risk for flash flooding issued for parts of
southern California on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
And it's it's sad because you guys remember, obviously the
massive fire throughout the Pacific Holidays and Malibu, and if
you know anything about fires, they're horrific. We recognize these,
but these fires, what happens is usually it comes at
a time when there's not a lot of rain, hence
the reason to strive. But when there is rain and

(07:57):
the fires, they haven't gone and redone everything yet and
they haven't dug everything out, and what happens is it's
gonna be unstable. So there's a chance for mud slides
and nastiness out there. Now as far as travel goes,
as we all know, it's gonna be busy, busy, busy, busy.

Speaker 8 (08:15):
Major cities from Detroit to New York and Boston bracing
for a blast of rain and snow that could snarl
the morning commute and holiday travel. Some flyers getting to
the airport early ahead of that incoming storm.

Speaker 9 (08:27):
We wanted to get here early, just to make sure
everything was good.

Speaker 8 (08:30):
Storms causing a temporary groundstop in San Francisco that after
a substation fire knocked out power to one hundred and
thirty thousand customers across San Francisco just days before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yes, that was horrific. You guys remember that. That was
awful because the whole Weymouth thing, the way you guys
just see the waymo cars. They didn't know what to
do when the power went out, so they would see
that there would be some lights. It was dark. They
couldn't quite understand. They just it was panic. It was
just basically a nightmare. So but there's going to be
some chaos. But right now I'm on the misery tracker.

(09:06):
We have fifteen cancelations and two hundred delays right now.
New York City has the biggest delays. JFK has twenty
five delays and it looks like six cancelations, and Newark
is leading the charge with thirty seven delays as of now.

(09:29):
DFW has eleven delays, Orlando fifteen, so on and so forth.
So throughout the day, check it. If you have to
go to fly to where they have the misery tracker,
they'll give you an update, but make sure you get
there as early as you possibly can. Kids, you know
it's it's it's holidays. I don't know what you expect.
It's holidays, man, you know what I mean? Meanwhile, is

(09:50):
there going to be a bad holiday for Venezuela.

Speaker 10 (09:54):
The UN Security Council has scheduled a meeting today to
discuss Venezuela. Russia and China up pledging to support Venezuela.
Trump's threats to cut off Venezuela's oil revenues are also
sparking concern about Cuba's economy. Cuba resells most of the
oil it gets from Venezuela to China, which covers half

(10:14):
its budget. Cuba experts say the collapse of the Maduro
regime could mean the collapse of the fragile Cuban economy
and turn into a massive refugee crisis for the US.

Speaker 2 (10:26):
The refugee crisis they don't want. What they do want, though,
is Cuba to collapse. So we've talked about this. Remember
what has happened here Venezuela, friends with China, friends with Russia,

(10:47):
they're all friends with Cuba. If and we're going to
talk to our goodbody, Mike Lion's coming up here a
little bit about this. If this goes sideways the way
they're hoping it goes, Cuba falls. You've got a lot
of powerful Cubans and Latin Americans who are movers and
shakers in Florida South Beach, Marco Rubio, his family, his friends,

(11:11):
those ties. They're hoping this goes sideways. This is what
they want. I don't want a war, and we'll see
what takes place. But we're gonna talk to Mike Lions
a little bit more about this, among other things that
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Speaker 1 (12:59):
Chad to Joe, you're listening to the Chad Bencon Show.

Speaker 12 (13:12):
I love our holiday traditions, like the Christmas tree where
we go out and we chop down a tree and
we put in our living room. Kind of sounds like
the behavior of a drunk man. Really, some woman wakes up, honey,
why is there.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
A a pine tree in our living room?

Speaker 2 (13:33):
Right?

Speaker 13 (13:36):
We're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna decorate that for a Jesus,
and they're not gonna hang my socks over.

Speaker 12 (13:48):
The fireplace.

Speaker 2 (13:51):
With candy.

Speaker 12 (13:53):
Maybe I'll tie some leaves to the ceiling and see
if I can get some action. But no, I gotta
pick on that couch mark Christmas.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
Merry Christmas. Indeed, Gaffigan love that. Speaking of holiday traditions,
let's go over some here, because we're in fun. It
is a holiday time. I'm not gonna be one's got
let's talk. Pile takes out of the first place to
usher in Christmas. It's a little country called Kirabadi, all right.
So there's a line of islands and it's the earliest

(14:24):
time zone on the planet. The island of Kirabody or
Christmas Island, is literally the first inhabited place where December
twenty fifth arrives. It then moves from there to New
Zealand and Australia, over to Europe, then to the US,
then Hawaii and America's Samoa are among the last places
to celebrate Christmas. Ooh, we're an interesting chat. How about this?

(14:48):
What do they do in places like Finland? Speaking of
cold places, so you would think Finland, right, they're gonna
welcome in, you know, the Santa. Right, yeah, they do,
but it's about a peaceful sauna in Finland. That's what
they do, cleanse the body in the spirit. And yes,
Sanna is actually believe to live in and around the

(15:10):
Finish area. Ooh Iceland. They have the Christmas cat, the
Oueld Cat. So what's the uld cat do?

Speaker 14 (15:21):
Well?

Speaker 2 (15:21):
He eats anyone who doesn't get new clothes for Christmas.
Originally it was a way to encourage people to finish
their work before winter. Now it's a fun and slightly
terrifying legend of the yule Cat. Did you get any
You got socks? Okay, you're lucky you got socks, cause
I was gonna eat you three two, three, five, three eight,

(15:43):
twenty four to twenty three at Chad Benson Shows, your act,
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Chad Benson Show. There are so many more of these
we're going to go through. It's crazy. The mule cat. Hey,
that cat try to eat you? Yeah, yeah, I forgot
to tell you. They give you pass this time. But
next Christmas, you got we got to make sure we
get you some clothes. Sana will be on the move

(16:03):
tomorrow as you guys, know we're going to get in
deeper later on to the magic that is the tracking
of Santa.

Speaker 15 (16:10):
NORAD tracks Santa using the same capabilities that we use
twenty four to seven to keep the avenues of approach
to North America safe. It's a combination of radars, satellites,
and fighter jets.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
We better watch it because if Sanna comes said he
doesn't have a visa, we may have to take him out. Ah,
that's not very nice. No, Santa's going to be fine.
He's magic.

Speaker 15 (16:35):
Many many people around the globe call us on December
twenty fourth. Last year, we took almost four hundred thousand
phone calls.

Speaker 2 (16:41):
This year, we think we will take more, which is awesome.
And we're going to go through how this whole Santa
tracking began with NORAD, because it's a very fascinating story
if you've never heard it. So because we do we
do these kind of things on Christmas, well, we do
these things normally anyways, because that's kind of who we are.
Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty four twenty three

(17:02):
at Chad Benson shows your actual insta YouTube and more
coming up. Our good buddy Mike Lion's going to join
the program Obviously there are issues with ukrage. We know
about that. Now we're hearing we could attack Iran again.
I'm not quite sure what that's all about. But Venezuela, Oh, Venezuela,
what is going to happen there? It feels like we're

(17:22):
getting closer and closer on a daily basis to doing
something and we're gonna ask him what the hell is
that something we might be doing? We'll do that straight ahead.

Speaker 16 (17:31):
Chad Benson Show, then.

Speaker 17 (17:41):
Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show, And is that

(18:04):
time of the week.

Speaker 2 (18:05):
To enjoy ourselves. Talk to the man, the myth, the legend,
tired major and the best damn military analysts in the business,
all dressed up, getting ready to do some CNN stuff
in his Christmas time. Mike Lyons joins a program. How
you doing, brother, Chad? Very good? Thanks for having me back. Okay,
let's talk about it's no longer the elephant in any room.
What the hell's going on with Venezuela Colombia. All of

(18:28):
this stuff seems to be just escalating at a quite
quick pace.

Speaker 18 (18:33):
For sure, more pressure, especially from the maritime assets as
now they're chasing down ships and containers and oil ships
that are headed towards Aaron and that are reflagged and
the like. So there's a lot of enforcement going on
within the hemisphere right now. When it comes to Venezuela,
putting as much pressure as we can on them, I

(18:55):
still don't see any kind of invasion or any kind
of attack. You know, this, this is a situation where
if the United States decides to take out the command
and control of the Venezuelan government, it we could do
it in a couple of hours, let's say, But then
you're going to get this insurgent situation where Maduro just
goes to ground and you know, similar to what Saddam

(19:16):
did when we invaded a Rock. We won't see him
for a few months, and it's not going to get
the problem solved. You've got the UN now involved, So
the pressure is going on to him. He does obviously
he doesn't like the deal that's been offered to him,
and it's going to continue to go until until something breaks.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
I look at this, and you know, I heard Trump
yesterday go after Columbia as well, and I'm just trying
to get you know, we own that. Look, we own
basically the globe. It's us in China, and if push
came to Shov, I still think we we'd come out
on the winning end of this. But the whole like, well,
we need to do this to protect our our you know,
our hemisphere. I find that to be bizarre because I

(19:54):
don't think there is I mean, look, I never once
think I don't go bet at night, Mike go when
we go to Kantsley because of Venezuelan, And I don't
think any of that stuff. And I'm just trying to
figure out what's the endgame is? Here is the endgame?
You know what a lot of people like Marco Rubio
and his family and a lot of these powerful especially
people in Florida want, which is go from Venezuela and

(20:15):
then eventually topple Cuba because it just falls Apartlet check
great point.

Speaker 18 (20:20):
I think that's likely one of those intended consequences, not
unattended consequences, of putting pressure on Maduro and Venezuela like this,
It's not just Cuba, It'll be those other any other
states that decide that they would like to go rogue.
Cuba remains I believe the second or third greatest foreign
policy failure of our country since the Second World War,

(20:41):
lived through the Cuban missile crisis that almost started a
nuclear war between US and Russia going back to the
sixties there, but it's still not resolved, still not fixed.
And there are people that are sitting in Miami to
think they're going back to Cuba and regaining land that
their family had at some point, so that could be
possibly what else is going on here, But it's really

(21:02):
just to keep Russia and more or less China out
of this hemisphere on any level, and the amount of
natural resources that it's known inside of Venezuela, to make
sure that the United States has you know, kind of
first DIBs, I guess is the best way to put
it on what's going on there.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Yeah, because from what I hear Mike, and we're talking
Mike clients from military unless you know, Maduro's offered us
basically everything and you know, no offense. But are you know,
I don't know if you guys are being offended by
this out there in the listening world, But nobody really
believes Maduro, and even our oil company said yet now,
not right now, we don't want any part of whatever
they're offering. We don't believe him.

Speaker 18 (21:37):
There's a different kind of oil that's there as well.
I think that that I think that's a factor in
part of the kind of crew that comes out of Venezuela,
and that might factor on some level, but it does.

Speaker 14 (21:49):
You know.

Speaker 18 (21:49):
The bottom line is he creates his dictatorship based on
more or less the drug flow and what exists there
and the insatiable demand that comes out of the United
States for it, and how it goes. We still continue
to attack these boats. There was a few more boats
that were attacked in the Pacific, which to me is
just shows the level you know, of expand and reach

(22:11):
that we're willing to go to. Because boats coming and
attacking in the Pacific are coming from Columbia, and I
think that's the next thing that tips. Once Venezuela's taken
care of, I think Columbia is going to have to
be dealt with as well.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
Talking to my clients are military analysts, let's just say
we decide, Okay, we're going to go We're going to
topple you know, but Duro, what's happening and you just
talked about Colombia, what are the chances of them going?
All right, we can't allow this. We can't allow this
to happen. America just decide to put their thumb on
everybody over here. How ugly could they make it?

Speaker 18 (22:42):
I think they can make it very ugly and create
an insurgency, and things don't happen. Is like we plan
and once we think that's going to go a certain way,
it ends up never going that way. We don't do
well in the phase five. The military is really good
at breaking stuff, no question. Go back twenty years and
every sent Come commander, every SOUTHCOMK commander is likely told
the President, sure, we could take any of these countries,

(23:04):
but what then what next? That whole colon pal you
break it, your bought it rule applies, and we've talked before,
the army is still not there. You'd need sixty to
eighty thousand troops. That's two cores of army troops to
bring not only security to the area, but also the
logistics and the supply chain that the army can bring

(23:25):
to any organization. So again, I don't even think that
this peace president is considering a hardcore kinetic type operation there.
I think it threatens it very well, but I just
don't see us ready any to do that anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (23:40):
Talking to Mike Lions or military analysts, we talk about
all things military, and the globe has some issues Ukraine.
There doesn't seem to be a deal coming in any
you know, at any time soon. You're talking about us
making sure that we keep Russia and China out of
this hemisphere. The Brits seem to really want something. I
think people, you know, the Europeans suspense. They do not

(24:00):
trust anything going on with Russia, and that's understandable. This
isn't getting solved anytime soon. And I don't think he
even if he got everything he wanted right now, he
feels that he would have to give up anything. And
you just keep moving right.

Speaker 18 (24:13):
You know, Trump still is not given Zilensky any kind
of leverage in this. No Tomahawks, no long range strategic
weapons are coming into play there. I guess the Europeans
promised ninety billion dollars in loans to Ukraine and with
the promise that I'll take them through the year. If
I was calculating that, it probably takes them through March.

(24:35):
So there's there's still not a real movement towards any
kind of peace settlement there. And the bottom line is
Russia is less exhausted, I would say, so they are
going to continue to move through. If they can find
a way to break through, they will. I cannot get
over the fiber optic drone technology that's being deployed there

(24:57):
and how it's being a counter against and it's just
this whole new level of warfare that if you're a
military historian or a scientist, you're watching just very closely
because it's really part of the future that could happen
when at least comes to ground warfare. I don't think
it's going to happen in the Pacific. I don't think
that that's something that the Chinese are necessarily worried about.
But if you're a ground guy like myself, and I've

(25:18):
studied war on the ground, it's just incredible what the
drone technology has done and how it's changed the battlefield
and shaped it.

Speaker 2 (25:24):
Talking to Mike Lions, military analysts, we talk about the
all things military, China, Russia. They see what's going on
over here in Venezuela. What's like China in particular, because
Russia's got their hands full, they're doing the things. But
then you look over at China, what is she thinking
at this moment?

Speaker 19 (25:40):
In time you think militarily, well, the Trump administration sent
a message to China yesterday and it has to do
with this Trump War class of ship battleship that they
want to build that sends a direct message to China
when it comes to defending and going on the offense,
and obviously places like the Pacific.

Speaker 18 (26:00):
They're claiming that this kind of ship off of Venezuela
would would ensure even more and provide more pressure on
Withdor to do something. But you know, that's a little
bit of a pipe dream right now. It's not even
you know, still sitting on a chartboard someplace. It's in
the theory made. But the bottom line is the pivot
Dota to this kind of naval operations has got to

(26:20):
be concerning for China as it's built up its navy
over six hundred ships, nothing to the size of this.
They have carriers, but this is an offensive battlefield now.
Now whether or not it's going to be successful remains
to be seen. This is something new, it's a little
bit of back to the future. Thirty to forty thousand
tons displaced in the water. China doesn't have any ship
like that, But that doesn't mean that that with their

(26:43):
mass that they have, with their destroyers and their cruisers
and frigates and the kind of equipment they have that
they wouldn't target it.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
So I think that.

Speaker 18 (26:51):
Message yesterday was as much for Venezuela as is much
for China as it was for anything and saying to
the Chinese that we're going to really include in pre
the size of our navy over the next few years.

Speaker 2 (27:02):
His name's Mike Clients. He's current major in the Army.
The best day of military anols in the business. Brother,
I appreciate you coming on. We all do. We hope
you have a merry Christmas and a save Christmas.

Speaker 18 (27:11):
Cheat Merry Christmas. Thanks so much for having me and
look forward to the next year as well.

Speaker 2 (27:15):
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I'm gonna do it. You can't stop me. The Chad
Benson Show players. You guys know my love of the
Hallmark movies. I've decided this year we're doing a Hallmark play,

(28:39):
a radio play. We're gonna bring it together. We're bringing
them all together. We're bringing everybody together, the men, the women,
the children, all the voice everybody. We're coming. We got
the Foley Artists, we got all of the stuff, we
got a full orchestra. We're gonna come together and we're
gotta do it. We're gonna do it. So are you
guys prepared? That's what I thought. Get ready for it?

(29:00):
Coming up? The Chad Benson Show players bring you the
Chadmark Christmas Adventure of a lifetime, straight ahead Chad Benson
Show irreverence.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
Like, yeah, so what, it's the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
All right. You guys know I love those silly Hallmark movies.
So we decided to get the Chad Benson Show players
together and create our own a Hallmark movie that is
both ridiculous and hilarious. Ladies and gentlemen, sit back, relax
and enjoy a Chadmark production. Nick digs your Mom or
something like that. Probably need a better title, but we're

(29:49):
gonna go with what we got, So deal with it.
The story begins with a young man named Nick. He
has a secret. He's the heir to the throne of
Santa Claus. But Nick has a problem. Before he can
become Santa Claus, he must fall in love and marry,

(30:13):
otherwise Christmas will be lost forever. Welcome to Tinselton, the small.

Speaker 20 (30:21):
Town where it always snows and everyone owns a scarf,
and emotional growth happens exclusively between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve.
Our story begins with the holly Winters, a single mom,
a widow which is better than a divorce, and a
woman desperately trying not to cry in the seasonal aisle.

Speaker 21 (30:44):
Okay, Hollie, Coffee, then work, then Christmas shopping, then kying.

Speaker 22 (30:52):
But quietly, Mom, you forget the reindeer marsh nellows again.

Speaker 23 (30:57):
Emma, We've talked about this. The reindeer marshmallows are five dollars.

Speaker 22 (31:04):
More, but they taste like Christmas spirit.

Speaker 23 (31:07):
Christmas Spirit tastes more expensive.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
Hello, Hi, sorry to bother you. I'm new in town
and my car got stuck in a snowdrift size of
like a moral lesson.

Speaker 23 (31:25):
Then you must be in Tinselton.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
He was tall, handsome, wearing a red scarf that somehow
glowed with destiny A Nick Nick Kringle.

Speaker 22 (31:37):
Okay, are you Santa son?

Speaker 2 (31:40):
No, he was in fact Santa's son, and he was
in fact a terrible liar.

Speaker 24 (31:50):
Welcome to the annual ten Sultan Christmas Festival. This year's
theme love is the reason Santa hasn't retired.

Speaker 20 (31:59):
In every small town there are traditions, and in Tinselton
there are opinions, especially about hot cocoa.

Speaker 24 (32:07):
Before we like the tree, we must settle the cocoa recipe.

Speaker 2 (32:10):
It's too weak, it's balanced balance did week with confidence?

Speaker 23 (32:14):
Is this normal?

Speaker 2 (32:15):
Last year they debated marshmallow buoyancy.

Speaker 25 (32:17):
I want coco so rich it feels like a hug
from childhood.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
That's chocolate milk with an unresolved issue.

Speaker 22 (32:24):
I don't people just choose how much chocolate they want?

Speaker 26 (32:29):
A customizable Coco bar. Peace was restored with chocolate. Now
back to the matter at hand. Christmas will be gone
forever unless Nick gets married. But the marriage must be
based in love.

Speaker 2 (32:45):
Time's getting nearer. I gotta tell her who I am.
How do you feel? Boss?

Speaker 27 (32:49):
Be honest?

Speaker 2 (32:50):
I love her? I do, She's amazing. I mean, it's
love enough I mean, the reality is, this isn't a
normal kind of relationship to take over for Santa. It's
a big deal.

Speaker 25 (33:02):
But in these kind of movies, love cockersall at least until.

Speaker 22 (33:05):
The twenty sixth, So let's go with that.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
They've known each other for weeks, but they feel like
they've known each other for years. Nick knows he has
to tell her the truth, and she knows she's fallen
in love with him. The moment has finally come for
Nick to reveal his true identity.

Speaker 28 (33:26):
Holly, I need to tell you something.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm Santa's son, and if I don't find true love
by Christmas Eve, Christmas ends.

Speaker 23 (33:40):
That's a lot. Most men just say they're emotionally unfeelable.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Look, Holly, I know it's a lot, but I'm in
love with you. I'm in love with Emma. I love
you guys like you couldn't believe. And it's not about
saving Christmas. It's about how I feel about you. I

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couldn't imagine my life without you too, And the Christmas
thing's pretty cool too.

Speaker 23 (34:10):
You're different, Nick, I can't lose someone again. I'm scared, Nick.
I believe in you, I believe in us.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
She kissed him, the sky exploded with festive, over budget magic,
Christmas is saved, Polly found love again, Emma gained a
bonus pant with a limited toye, and Nick Kringle became
the next Santa because in Tinselton, love always arrives right
on schedule. Now, that is a merry Christmas if I've

(34:44):
ever heard of one. We wanted to do it live,
but it's basically me so and pulling some of my
friends and your voice overs here and there. So it's
kind of hard to do it live, but you get
the gist. We need more theatrics plays, more of the
mall of the mall have a good time doing that.

(35:07):
Tell you what putting it together? Because what happens is
you write the script and then me getting mad at
the writer I wrote the script, and then me having
to change some stuff because I was mad at the
writer even though I wrote the script, and so then
having to add lib at certain times, and then I
get mad at the writer, and then I was the
director and I was also mad at him. You see
where I'm going with that. I'm very temperamental. Three two, three, five,

(35:29):
three eight, twenty four to twenty three at ched Benson shows,
your X, your Insta, your YouTube, your Facebook and more
loving from all of you right here in the Chad
Benson Show. Coming up, our number two of the program,
more Christmas Traditions, talk about the travel that's out there
as well, and that tradition we're talking about that we're

(35:52):
going to go to a deep dive because that's what
I do, deep dive nor ad tracking syntacos Saint Nick.
Find it interesting how it came about and if you've
never heard the story, it is awesome how this thing
came about and how children around the world can track

(36:13):
Santa Claus thanks to the most sophisticated weapons defense system.
It's incredible. If you're missing the show, shame on you
read the podcast. Our number two straight ahead Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 1 (36:24):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
It's christ miss Ah. Oh what's handed people? You know
I love me some Christmas. Let's have some fun.

Speaker 29 (37:08):
I'll tell you what no one told me about being
a dad Christmas. Christmas is incredible for dads because it's
not just the kids. They get a wonderful surprise on
Christmas morning when they tear open their gifts. Us dance,
are sat there thinking, Oh, I wonder what we got them?

Speaker 30 (37:31):
Dads might as well believe in Santa Claus. All we
know for sure is we were not involved. Is that
there thinking all that looks expensive?

Speaker 2 (37:40):
Who are you that.

Speaker 27 (37:43):
Did?

Speaker 30 (37:44):
I If you've ever thanked your father for a Christmas gift,
you're a frickin idiot.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
Now I'm gonna tell you guys this right now, that's
abouch crap that it's a buch of whoey. Now, if you
guys know, when you listen to the show, I like
to have fun, and Christmas term is here and we're
having all kinds of fun. We just did our play
if you guys missed it. I'm very much into the holidays.
I am. I grew up. I had a crappy life,
you guys know, as a kid, but I always felt
I was blessed and I was always happy. From Christmas time, Halloween, Thanksgiving,

(38:16):
Christmas like my favorite time of the year. I just
I throw myself into it. I have so much fun.
I'll say this. I'm in my studio right now, and
my house it's decorated a lot. My studio decorated because
my wife, you know, partly because my cat won't allow
anything in the house to survive. He just won't. His

(38:37):
whole goal is, first of all, he's gonna kill the elf.
He's told me that it's his goal, and he can't wait.
Almost got him last night, almost got him last night.
But this whole thought that dads don't do anything. And
there's new Michelle Pfeiffer movie out with Dennis Leary, which,
as I'm saying that, I'm watching Dennis Leary in The Ref.

(38:57):
If you guys have never seen The Ref one of
the greatest movies of Christmas movies of all time, I mean,
just phenomenal. But this this new movie with Michelle Pfeiffer
that's that's out right now, is it's it's interesting. It's
about she's the mom that does everything. Men are just awful.
They don't do anything, you know. It's we never see

(39:21):
the opposite, right, Like, that's what I want to see.
I want to see the opposite. Where's the guy that's
busting his ass? Right he's out there every day and
you know, hey, as Chris Rock would say, he gets
a big piece of chicken. It's always Mom makes it happen. Yes, Mom,
it's phenomenal. I love. My wife does so much, and

(39:41):
she is the as we talked about a bit yesterday,
that kind of the focus of the house. But this
new movie, Oh what fun. Her kids are ungrateful and
they're older, and it's just she ends up getting pissed,
and I don't want to give it too much way
it's it's actually it's an enjoyable movie. And she she
heads off across the country and you know, kind of

(40:01):
and this panic pissed off thing, which brings me to
this which I saw yesterday.

Speaker 31 (40:06):
I just want everyone to picture a world where women
did not make the holidays magical, where women didn't do
any Christmas shopping, they didn't do any wrapping, they didn't
do any hosting, they didn't volunteer anywhere, They did nothing.
Like if the women just did nothing and show up
on Christmas morning, would there be magic? Would it be
the most wonderful time of the year for everyone, or

(40:26):
would it just be another day? Or if anything, would
it be worse than every other day because typically women
are also cooking and cleaning and taking care of everyone
every single day. I asked this because I saw a
video where a girl posted her mom who was crashing
out over Christmas and her mom was crying and she said,
I hate Christmas. And in front of her is like
a ton of wrapping paper and all these gifts, and her.

Speaker 2 (40:47):
Daughter's a laughing.

Speaker 31 (40:47):
She's hugging her, but she's also laughing.

Speaker 2 (40:50):
Okay, first, can I just say this, would there be anything,
you're a crappy father. If there is nothing, women, you
are very important. Wife is like the most important person
in my life. But she's also under no illusion that
if you know, if she wasn't around, that my kids

(41:11):
wouldn't get presents, there wouldn't be any tree. She has
to stop me. Now, I'm not like every guy. I
understand that, but we have this this this thing that
men are idiots, right, you know. And like the new movie,
I'm excited to see Nate Brigatzi in his in his
first movie, and I thought, oh, this would be cool.
It's called The bread Winner. He's an idiot. He's a buffoon.

(41:37):
That's what he plays. He's he's a buffoon. It's his
wife goes on shark Tank and he's there supporting her.
He's got a job, he's like the number one car
salesman where he's at and he comes up and uh,
he goes and they they invite him out and he's
eating a donut and then they all drop out of

(42:00):
of it because he's an idiot and he's got to
take care of the kids while she goes on this
road show. And it makes me sit there's a women,
do you really think this? The guys are this much
of idiots? Do you think that? And it's like, oh, well,
you know, without me, Christmas wouldn't exist.

Speaker 31 (42:17):
And all I can think about is how this is
always considered the most wonderful time of the year, and
yet for so many women it's actually the most stressful
time of the year because they are expected to buy
all the gifts and wrap all the gifts and think
of everybody, including like the teachers and the grandparents and
the bus driver. They're expected to volunteer, right, they are
expected to do all of these things, and then the

(42:39):
day of they are hosting, they're cooking, they're cleaning, they're
doing all these things, and then everyone else gets to
enjoy it. Right, it's joyful for everyone else. And when
she crashes out or she's stressed or something goes wrong
and she's upset by it, people kind of laugh like,
oh my gosh, mom's crashing out over here. It's just
so funny because I think if we actually thought about
it and we said, like, what would it look like
if women just didn't Christmas? It wouldn't be very merry.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
Says you. I can be wrong. And I'm not saying
there aren't guys that flail at this, because we know
there are. I'm just saying, for the very merry, we
always act as if guys are so moronic that they
can't do anything. I can't even believe you want to
go with me, my friend. Yeah, and that's that's ridiculous.

(43:23):
And the comments in this video where you go girl,
men are stupid? Men are this? Men are that? Santa
Claus is lucky for missus Claus, Like, settle down. Miss
Claus ain't doing anything right. You guys act like Miss
Claus is doing something. She's not building the toys, it's
the little ones. She's not doing any of those things.

(43:44):
She's making the cookies right, she's helping out, but she's not.
They act like she's wrapping every present. Goodness, me got
en up to hear no No No three, two, three, five,
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(44:04):
I know the holidays can be stressful. Can I just
see this? Ladies right? Men too, but just adults, we
make the holidays a lot more stressful than we need to.
We do. We put way too much pressure on ourselves
to make everything perfect. And you don't have to. You don't,

(44:27):
you don't. That's one of the reasons I'm not doing
a lot of traveling because it's just too much, right stress,
trying to get on and off the plane, dealing with it.
I want to be able to enjoy my time when
it comes to hanging out with my family, and my
kids are coming out here. I'm super excited about that.
But we do do it. I said, you know, my
wife is a little stressed at Thanksgiving. And I said,

(44:48):
you know, next year, we're not doing Thanksgiving. It's a
problem solved, you know, because you know there's also this
portion of they don't want the help. What can I do? No,
you're gonna do it wrong? Well, what do you want
to do that? So I said, next year, we're gonna
go out. We're not doing Thanksgiving, We're not doing any
of the stuff. It's too much because you overextend yourself,

(45:09):
which you know, supposed to start as something small ends
up being way too big. So stop the always blaming
the dads. Right, there's never anything like, hey, dad was
out there working twelve hours today, busting his ass doing
two jobs. Oh that's not very nice, Chad. Women are
gonna be No, they're not, because I think most of

(45:30):
them to go. Yeah, it's probably right. Just putting that
out there, not trying to be mean, just throwing that
out there. Let me know what you think. Three two, three, five,
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show your acts, your Insta, your YouTube and more love
hearing from all of you. Speaking of the holidays, the uh,
how much way do you put on? What's the average weight?

(45:52):
What do you think the average weight is for from
what Thanksgiving until the New Year that people put on?
And I say that because you'd be surprised everything. So
I put on ten or twelve or fourteen pounds. It's
usually only a few pounds that you put on. You're
not working out as much, so maybe you feel a
little bit more out of shape. But here's the weird thing.

(46:13):
Most of the weight you put on during the holidays
doesn't come off. So you may put on ten pounds
at a certain time of the year and you lose
it or whatnot. But the average one to two pounds
that you put on during the holidays doesn't come off,
according to researchers. But there's help for that. Now, what

(46:34):
is it?

Speaker 14 (46:35):
Ivanordisk, which also makes ozempic, says those who took the
GOVI pill in the clinical trial lost an average of
sixteen point six percent of their body weight. Those results
are similar to the injectable version. The clinical trial shows
people who took the pill experienced similar side effects one
compared to the shot, mainly gas strown testinal issues.

Speaker 2 (46:53):
Ooh, that'll help with the weight, right, taking the pill. Now,
for those of you who are a little worried about
the shot, tell me more or what's the cost?

Speaker 23 (47:01):
The big question what does it cost?

Speaker 14 (47:03):
Well, if your insurance covers weight loss medication, the kope
could be about twenty five dollars or less. Those without
insurance can expect to pay one hundred and forty nine
dollars per month. The pill is slated to be in
pharmacies by early January, with manufacturing already underway in North Carolina.

Speaker 2 (47:19):
There you go no, no, no, says Santa Claus. We
wouldn't want to thin, Sanna. I was watching Red One
earlier today. That movie's great. That's got the rock in it.
And the guy that plays Santa Claus, the State farm guy,
if you've not seen him, JK. Simmons, he's jacked like

(47:42):
he's like jacked, probably the best shape of his life
and which as good as you get older. What is
he seventy seventy, So he's jack though in this movie
it's like, Wow, Santa. Santa's getting out there and making
it happen. But the weight loss, as we talk about here,
one to two pounds on average gain that doesn't come

(48:04):
off during the holidays. Let me teach your stuff every
single day right here, three, two, three, five, three, eight,
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news coming up. And yes, we're gonna do our Christmas
Hallmark like play later on again. We're gonna play it

(48:25):
again every hour. It's called the Chadmark Play. It's like
Hallmark but different because we did it with audio only.
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Speaker 1 (49:40):
Jack, you're listening to the Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 12 (49:53):
I think the most disappointing cake has to be fruit cake. Yeah,
you think that would be better. It doesn't add up
fruit good cake, great fruitcake? Nasty crap? Have you tried fruitcake?
I don't even think that's fruit in there? You're like,
what is that a skittle?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
Someone is a seat here? What is this a treasure map?
What is the recipe of fruitcake?

Speaker 12 (50:19):
Anything but fruit? It's like the baker was just clearing
off the counter, put all this crap, and now nobody
eats it.

Speaker 2 (50:26):
Stuff. They just mail it the relatives truth. Fruitcake is gross.
I don't know why why. There's a lot of stuff
we do at the holidays where you're thinking, we don't
do it any other time. Right, you could have a
fruitcake in April or August. Nobody goes you know what

(50:46):
I'm making today, my famous fruitcake because I'm feeling like
it'd go great with our barbecue. Nobody does that. Nobody does.
Speaking of holidays, it is the holidays, so be prepared
to travel cause chaos, craziness, and weather.

Speaker 8 (51:03):
Storms, causing a temporary groundstop in San Francisco that after
thirty thousand customers across San Francisco just days before Christmas,
traffic lights out, leading to itself driving waymo taxis blocking intersections,
causing major traffic backups.

Speaker 2 (51:23):
Yeah, that was awesome. If you guys didn't see that,
they just kind of stood around there. Know what to do?
The weaimo cars. We don't know what to do. We've
never seen this before. What do we do? I don't
know what to do. You guys are supposed to be
the smart one.

Speaker 8 (51:34):

Speaker 9 (51:46):
We wanted to get here early just to make sure

Speaker 2 (51:49):
Translation. All of these reports say it's going to be
a bit nasty out there. Okay, that's what we're trying
to tell you. It is going to be nasty out
there across the country in certain areas, really really really
bad and other parts of the country not so much. So.
The Midwest looks pretty good. But if you go from say,

(52:11):
Arizona up rain some snow, heavy and nasty California is
gonna get drenched in certain areas. It's pretty ugly. Three two, three, five,
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(52:32):
bit of the southeast right where I am, you know, Tennessee,
kind of up all the way through the eastern seaboard
minus the coastal areas altogether. That look okay for now,
but that could change in any moment. We're just trying
to get you prepared for what could be a cold
and what Holliday. Yesterday, we found out some bad news

(52:55):
about a star that has been with us forever.

Speaker 32 (53:02):
Celebrated around the world for a string of number one
hits man beginning in the nineteen seventies. The eighty two
year old saying his lung cancer was found twice surprise
during an MRI after suffering from months of bronchitis, sharing
that he will undergo surgery to remove a cancer response

(53:24):
on his left lung, saying it's thanks to quote here
luck and a great doctor that it was found so early.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
He had cancer and what like several years ago in
his throat and he's got the lung cancer. So he
went to just git a routine check and thought, wow,
you know I've been coughing a lot. Luckily he caught it.
But you know, we were talking yesterday about this. I
don't think he's ever smoked, and everybody's like, well, well,
how could he get lung cand do you realize think

(53:51):
about how first of all, Barry's what eighty two eighty something,
Think about all the years that Barry performed in clubs
where smoking was the norm. Oh yeah, and his voice,
by the way, still sounds like that, which I always
find fascinating, how good and smooth his voice is. I
think you'll be fine. I do, because he's barely baby.

(54:12):
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Speaker 1 (54:22):
Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 12 (54:44):
I love a holiday traditions like the Christmas Tree where
we go out and we chop down a tree and
we put it in our living room. Kind of sounds
like the behavior of a drunk man. Really, some woman
wakes up, honey, why is there a a.

Speaker 13 (55:00):
Pine tree in our living room? We're gon we're gonna,
We're gonna decorate that for Jesus. And then I'm gonna
hang my socks over the fireplace.

Speaker 2 (55:22):
With candy.

Speaker 12 (55:25):
Maybe I'll tie some leaves to the ceilings, see if
I can get some action.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
But now I gotta pick on that couch. Merry Christmas,
Merry Christmas. Indeed, uh, Jim Gaffigan there, speaking of traditions,
there's a lot of traditions out there that are very
interesting that we don't celebrate. Yesterday we talked about Japan KFC.
How that became a huge deal in Japan thanks to

(55:50):
marketing what they thought was going to be an American
style Christmas. Oh, how about some other stuff. Crampus. Now,
Trampis has his day on the fifth of December. Okay,
So Crampis has his partner, if you will, which is
Saint Nicholas Day, and his job is to scare, whip,

(56:13):
and or carry off misbehaving kids. Symbolically, Crampis has horns, chains,
bells a basket or sack and think of him as
Santa's enforcer. So many people think of as his cousin,
his brother. It's the dark side of Christmas. Oh that's
not fun. I know, right, you go from there too,
and again people still loving the cat, the Icelandic cat,

(56:36):
the Yule cat that eats anyone who doesn't get new clothes.
How about this in Germany pickle on a tree, pickle,
rick pickle, rick glass pickle ornament is hidden in the tree.
Whoever finds it first gets extra presence or good luck
for a year. Oh, this may be the weirdest. The
poopin log. Excuse me? Is that like a foreign language? Nope,

(56:59):
it's called the oop and log. It's in Catalonia. Kids
beat a smiling log called kaya TiO with sticks while singing,
and it poop's presence. Not lying, that's stip, poop and log.
In Ukraine they have spider web trees. Cranes decorate Christmas
trees with shimmering spider webs. It comes from a folk

(57:22):
tale where a poor family's web turned to silver. Now
a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Ooh, some of
the other things that go on. Well, how about some
traditions here, say track in Santa.

Speaker 15 (57:37):
Nora, track Santa using the same capabilities that we use
twenty four to seven to keep the avenues of approach
to North America safe. It's a combination of radars, satellites,
and fighter jets.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
Fighter jets because if he comes here, we may have
to tuck him down. I don't want to, but it's
a possibility. We got to make sure.

Speaker 19 (57:54):
No.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Uh, this is something that's gone on for quite a while,
and it goes on every single year. And as a kid,
it was phone calls. Now it's the website and phone calls.
And there's still a lot of phone calls, many.

Speaker 15 (58:06):
Many people around the globe call us. On December twenty
fourth last year, we took almost four hundred thousand phone calls.
This year, we think we will take more.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
If you don't know what NORAD stands for, that's North
American Aerospace and Defense Command. Let's just call it like
the thing that protects us in North America. Okay, And
you're thinking, why did they do that, Well, it started
way back in the day. Shall we get in the
machine and check it out.

Speaker 33 (58:34):
It's here in the shadow of the Cheyenne Mountain, deep
in the beauty of Colorado, that you'll find Peterson Air
Force Base, home for over fifty years now to one
of the most sophisticated defense systems in the world, scrambling
fighters to protect the entire North American continent. And it

(58:56):
was here one December evening back in nineteen fifty five
that the whole system was successfully infiltrated by a five
year old child.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
What yeah, five year old child, wait, infiltrated cracked the code?

Speaker 33 (59:14):
Not the code you think. When this red phone rings,
a four star general or the president of the United
States is supposed to be calling. He is all military head.
Oh yes, Terry van Kurreen's dad was base commander at
the time.

Speaker 27 (59:33):
Dad answers it with his very best military demeanor. You know,
curdel job.

Speaker 33 (59:38):
It wasn't the president or a four star general.

Speaker 27 (59:41):
There's this long silence, and this little voice says, this
is Santa.

Speaker 33 (59:46):
Claus, the commander of the Combat Alert Center. Thinks someone
is pulling his leg.

Speaker 27 (59:54):
Dad thinks somebody's playing a trick on him. You know,
this is Colonel Shop, the commander of the Combat Alert Center.
Who's this in this little voice? Now? Is crying. Is
this what has set as helpers? Then? So dad finally
figured out this really was a kid.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Yeah, it was a kid. So a kid makes a
phone call and you're thinking, well, the kid must have
missed dial no one else could do it. But being
first and foremost an American, a great American, Colonel Shoup,
it's also a father and realized, so.

Speaker 33 (01:00:29):
That's the ad there that started at all.

Speaker 27 (01:00:31):
Hey kidnies, call me direct.

Speaker 33 (01:00:37):
It turns out Sears had put an advertisement in the
local paper. Hey kids, give Santa a call. But someone
got one critical number wrong. The military's defenses were overrun.
Colonel Harry Shaup decided, if you can't beat them, join them.

Speaker 27 (01:00:57):
Called the radio station. And so this is Colonel Shop,
the Combat Alert Center commander, and we have an unidentified
flying object. Why it looks like a sleigh. Well, of
course crazy craziness, crazy.

Speaker 2 (01:01:15):
Colonel shout after you hung up and you realize what
had happened, told his entire staff. When kids call, you
give him Santa's location. You give him Santa's location. Now
volunteers run it all year. And you know, as one
person said in the military, instead of protocol, he chose kindness.

(01:01:37):
And it's something that we do all the time. My
daughter gets excited because now it's on the net. She
always wants to know where he's at. And so many
people volunteer for this because it's just a cool thing
and they're ready to roll right now. But knowing you're
taking a phone call from some kid whose wonderment is
out there about Santa Claus where is is awesome.

Speaker 34 (01:02:01):
There's nothing more I think special than child's eyes lighting up.
Were a child just feeling pure joy about something that
they believe in.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
And I love that that childlikeness. We need more of
that in this world. And the story itself from a
misplaced ad to tracking the one and only Santa Claus
is at a time to remember this. This was Cold War,
the height of the Cold War, as it was really

(01:02:33):
starting to take off, and they chose to do that
and that is incredible. And now it's become something that
we all get behind in love and I love that
for us in our traditions. Right, it's not the poop
and stick from Spain. I just want to go over
this one again. There's a poop and stack. It's a

(01:02:53):
log and it's got the googly eyes that are taped
down there and like a nose and you can put
a hat on it and then you beat it and
poops presence. Now, is it only poop presents on that day?
Are there other days that I'm just trying to figure
this out, because wow, wow, that's crazy. I don't even
know the pooping stick. Huh, that's crazy. Speaking of a

(01:03:15):
Christmas gift, Real Quick Pivot GDP came in four point
three hotter than expected. Now do I trust it or not?
I'm gonna go with whatever they threw out there. Do
I think it's one hundred percent?

Speaker 21 (01:03:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:03:30):
I don't think it's one hundred percent. But the reality
is is, you know, inflation played obviously a part of that,
but you know, it's still cooking along. The economy is
still rolling, and you know, as we've talked to our
buddy Zach on more than a few occasions, the fear is,
are we just gonna have to get stuck with six

(01:03:50):
percent inflation and a market that's rocking and people are
just gonna have to deal with it? Or you know,
is there gonna be something else we shall see in
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Coming up. The radio play of the Year, the chad Mark.
It's like Hallmark radio production of the plaything we did.
You guys will like it.

Speaker 11 (01:05:50):
Chad Benson, Joe Deep states no Deep doo doo Eyeah
the chat Veson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
We're doing it every single hour. It is our Christmas
chad Mark Holiday radio play. I think you guys are
gonna find it enjoyable. This is just like those Hallmark movies,
only better because it's theater of the mind and you
can decide what these people look like. So without furgor Ado,
here is this thing we came up with Yeah, enjoy it.

(01:06:30):
The story begins with a young man named Nick. He
has a secret. He's the heir to the throne of
Santa Claus. But Nick has a problem. Before he can
become Santa Claus, he must fall in love and marry,

(01:06:52):
otherwise Christmas will be lost forever.

Speaker 20 (01:06:58):
Welcome to Tinselton, the small town where it always snows
and everyone owns a scarf and emotional growth happens exclusively
between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve. Our story begins with the
holly Winters, a single mom, a widow which is better
than a divorce, a and a woman desperately trying not

(01:07:20):
to cry in the seasonal aisle.

Speaker 21 (01:07:24):
Okay, Hollie, Coffee, then work, then Christmas shopping, then coming but.

Speaker 22 (01:07:32):
Quietly, Mom, you forget the reindeer marshmallows again.

Speaker 23 (01:07:37):
Emma, We've talked about this. The reindeer marshmallows are five dollars.

Speaker 22 (01:07:43):
More, but they taste like Christmas spirit.

Speaker 23 (01:07:47):
Christmas Spirit tastes more expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Hello, Hi, sorry to bother you. I'm new in town
and my car got stuck in a snowdrift size of
like a moral lesson.

Speaker 23 (01:08:06):
Then you must be in Tinselton.

Speaker 20 (01:08:08):
He was tall, handsome, wearing a red scarf that somehow
glowed with destiny.

Speaker 2 (01:08:14):
I'm Nick, Nick Kringle.

Speaker 22 (01:08:17):
Okay, are you Santa son?

Speaker 20 (01:08:20):
No, he was in fact Santa's son, and he was
in fact a terrible liar.

Speaker 24 (01:08:30):
Welcome to the annual ten Sultan Christmas Festival. This year's
theme love is the reason Santa hasn't retired.

Speaker 20 (01:08:39):
In every small town there are traditions, and in Tinselton
there are opinions, especially about hot cocoa.

Speaker 24 (01:08:48):
Before we light the tree, we must settle the cocoa recipe.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
It's too weak, it's balanced, balanced? Did week with confidence?
Is this normal? Last year they debated marshmallow buoyancy.

Speaker 25 (01:08:58):
I want coco so it feels like a hug from childhood.

Speaker 2 (01:09:03):
That's chocolate milk with an unresolved issue.

Speaker 22 (01:09:05):
I do people just choose how much chocolate they want?

Speaker 26 (01:09:10):
A customizable cocobar. Peace was restored with chocolate. Now back
to the matter at hand. Christmas will be gone forever
unless Nick gets married. But the marriage must be based
in love.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
Time's getting nearer. I gotta tell her who I am.

Speaker 23 (01:09:29):
How do you feel?

Speaker 2 (01:09:30):
Boss?

Speaker 27 (01:09:30):
Be honest?

Speaker 2 (01:09:31):
I love her?

Speaker 8 (01:09:32):
I do.

Speaker 2 (01:09:33):
She's amazing I mean, is love enough? I mean, the
reality is, this isn't a normal kind of relationship. I'm
going to take over for Santa. It's a big deal.

Speaker 25 (01:09:43):
But in these kind of movies, love cockers all at
least until the twenty sixth.

Speaker 22 (01:09:47):
So let's go with that.

Speaker 20 (01:09:49):
They've known each other for weeks, that they feel like
in in love with him. The moment has finally come
for Nick to reveal his true identity.

Speaker 28 (01:10:08):

Speaker 2 (01:10:14):

Speaker 23 (01:10:21):
That's a lot. Most men just say they're emotionally unafailable.

Speaker 2 (01:10:26):

(01:10:47):
couldn't imagine my life without you too. And the Christmas

Speaker 23 (01:10:52):
You're different, Nick, I can't lose someone again. I'm scared, Vick.
I'm believe in you. I believe in us.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
She kissed him. The sky exploded with festive over budget matchup,
Christmas is saved.

Speaker 20 (01:11:10):
Polly found love again, Emma gained a bonus band with
a limited toye, and Nick Kringle became the next Center.
Because in Tinselton, love always arrives right on schedule.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
I love that, man. I love we wanted. We We're like,
we should do it live, and I'm like, okay, cool,
So it's me. How am I going to do that?
I know I'm a one man band. Guys, and the
other parts of the band I have, we're not together,
so we're not doing it together, all right, So just
just deal with what you got, okay, Okay, if you
didn't like it, I'm sorry. We're having fun. It's the holidays.
There's enough crap out there. We don't need to talk

(01:11:45):
about all this lunacy. I think you guys will agree
with that. Three two, three, five, three eight twenty four
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I just haven't had the time and you know, getting

(01:12:07):
ready for the holidays and whatnot. So we're gonna be
doing a lot more of those during the break and
really kicking off again in the new year. So we
hope you will stay tuned for those because it does
make us smile and make sure we have that podcast
right here on the Chad Benson Show. Coming up, our
number three of the program, the last hour before Christmas?

(01:12:28):
Oh what are we gonna talk about some more Christmas
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moms do everything at Christmas. We'll talk a little bit
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the program to talk about. Are we gonna have a
Christmas invasion of Venice Wuella? Will Santacaus be sending in

(01:12:53):
a missile to Venezuela? I don't think he'd do that. Yeah,
I don't think so there, but still you never know.
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Speaker 1 (01:13:05):
This is the Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show.

Speaker 2 (01:13:36):
The weather will be frightful, but Chatty Claus will be Okay,
the weather's gonna be nasty out there, That's what I'm saying,
because it's traveling and everything and whatnot. Who's what? So
please be careful, all right, And if you're flying, we
remind you this every day. It is a PSA during
these times a year where there's chaos and craziness and lunacy.
The person next to you doesn't want to be in traffic,

(01:13:59):
and the person who is trying to get you on
your plane doesn't want your plane to be delayed because
it doesn't make their life any better, and you yelling
at them doesn't advance the weather.

Speaker 8 (01:14:11):

Speaker 9 (01:14:23):
We wanted to get here early just to make sure

Speaker 8 (01:14:26):
Storms causing a temporary groundstop in San Francisco that after
thirty thousand customers across San Francisco just days before Christmas.

Speaker 2 (01:14:39):
Just days before Christmas. If you didn't see, it was
hilarious because the Waimos cars, they're just like they pull
up to the four way lights in the night. We
have no idea what to do. We're just gonna sit
here and just pause. Let me know when everything else works. Now,
speaking of travel, remember delay, delay, delay, Because of the
domino effects, some times you're going to find some areas

(01:15:02):
where you're going to be hoping that your plane arrives
and you find out it's delayed somewhere else that could happen,
and you know, the domino effect happens. Now if you're
on the road.

Speaker 35 (01:15:12):
More than one hundred and twenty two million Americans set
to travel this holiday, roughly ninety percent of them will
be driving. And that, says Triple A, is thanks to
cheaper gas prices across the country averaging about two eighty
six per gallon nationwide right now, the lowest prices that
we've seen since early twenty twenty one. Now, if you're
looking for when to hit the roads, that's a big question.

(01:15:33):
We've talked to the experts. Of course, they say the
earlier the vetter, preferably before ten am. The worst times
to drive, they say between one pm and seven pm today.

Speaker 2 (01:15:44):
So be careful.

Speaker 35 (01:15:46):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (01:15:47):
Gases down in a lot of places, and that is
great news, and hopefully it comes down more. Hopefully it's free.
That's not gonna happen, but you know, we would like that.
Trump's is one day. Everybody's going to get their own
gas pump, nuclear, everybody gets a nuclear car. What could
go wrong? I don't know. It's going to be fantastic,
So be careful out there traveling. We want you guys

(01:16:08):
to be safe for the holiday season. For the holiday season,
we want you guys safe and sound. Speaking of the holidays,
it'll be interesting to see how this fourth quarter finishes up.
The third quarter numbers came out today. Take this as
you know what you will. Grain of salt not so much,
you know, four point three. They expected about three, so

(01:16:30):
we were up, like we blew that away. Why inflation
potentially yes, uh, you know, spending more. There's a lot
of different things to go into this. The the economy
is moving, there's no doubt is are we in that
K shape that we've talked about where the top is
doing really well in the middle is shrinking, right, you know,

(01:16:54):
and it's and it's just so are we there that
I don't know so, but that you know, it's better
than down four point three, which would send everybody into
a panic. And then the other question, obviously, is how
much do you trust the numbers coming out from from
this this White House, especially with the you know, with

(01:17:16):
the job market slowing down. I think that's real. With
the inflation numbers where you know, as we talked to
our buddy zach A. Brown last week, when we talked
about the fact that they didn't even include some numbers,
and they're like, look, look how good inflation is. So
how much do you believe? How much don't you believe?
Take it for a grain of salt. That's the way

(01:17:36):
I look at it, you know. And then the other
side of it, just when.

Speaker 36 (01:17:39):
Powerball turning out a powerball lottery and the forty sixth
time now there is.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
No big winner.

Speaker 36 (01:17:44):
After last night's drawing, the jackpot has jumped to one
point seven billion dollars. With the next drawing on Christmas Eve.
The price the prize would be the fourth largest in
US lottery history.

Speaker 2 (01:17:56):
The price isn't it?

Speaker 36 (01:17:56):
Price by the way, Yeah, the price is very nice,
so you still have a chance, even if it's just
a little one, as Jim Carrey might say. So you're saying,
there's a chance for a very big holiday gift to us.
Are won in two hundred ninety two million.

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Oh my lord, Oh lordy, lordy, lordy, that is a lot. Now,
should you win the power ball, what does your payout
look like on this holiday? Now, you guys don't really
think you're gonna win, because I'm gonna win. So there's that.
What does it look like if you won and you
took cash or you took the annuity. Now, if you

(01:18:33):
take the annuity, it's thirty years and growth rate is
at what five percent I think annually, so you would
get a billion dollars over the thirty years. Cash payout

(01:18:53):
it's gonna be about close to eight hundred million. So
figure when all of a sudden done. Depending on where
you are in the country, obviously some states take it,
some states don't. You're probably looking at about six hundred
million five point fifty to six hundred million take home.
I mean it's good, it's good money if you can
get it. I mean, I'm gonna get it. What do
you do on Christmas Day? Man, that's a good I don't.

(01:19:16):
I mean, you tell your family and then that's interesting.
I don't know. I told my wife. We were talking
about this the other day. I want it out of
my hands as fast as possible. Honestly, I want it
out of my hands as fast as possible. I don't
want anywhere near me. I wanted if we won on

(01:19:37):
Christmas Eve or when we do wake up Christmas Day,
figure it out. Then on first thing Friday morning, I'm there.
I want it out of my hands, so we would
if people recognize you, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter
at that point, I trust me. I've played it out
of my mind. There are places I can go where
nobody's gonna care. Okay, but that would be what I'd want,

(01:20:03):
just right out of my hands, fast as possible. Kids,
fast as possible. Uh. I don't how much I want
to get into this because we're having fun. Another batch
has dropped of the old Epstein files, and this one
has a lot of stuff in it, a lot of
Trump's named on many occasions. He was named in this
one far more than the other one. Some you know,

(01:20:26):
I just at this point I don't know what's going on.
I don't. You know, there's you know, things with Clinton
in it, things with Trump in it. There's a lot
of mentions of Trump, and this one, you know, the
President gets mentioned and I guess it's Trump in this one. Again,

(01:20:48):
I haven't gone through the amount of these things. But
we're also finding out that he was. They were looking
for information stuff in twenty twenty one at mar A
Lago fore Maxwell in her trial, there are references to
him liking the love of young Newbile girls there, of course,

(01:21:15):
saying it's sensationalism. It's this. I don't Again, I don't.
I don't want to get too deep into it because
it's the holidays. It's the holidays. So but what I
do know is if this is uncomfortable, I'd be very
nervous if I was Maduro. Uh oh. They found some

(01:21:36):
stuff out quick man. The torpedoes. We're gonna get him.
Speaking of that, we're gonna talk to our buddy coming
up a little bit, my client's military analyst. We're gonna
go through what's going on in Venezuela, things of that nature,
because it's it's it's gonna be interesting to see what
takes place in the coming days and weeks with Venezuela,

(01:21:57):
because it's a domino effect. It's not just Venice, Well,
it's Cuba. He's already threatening Columbia. And you know where
does it go from here? That I couldn't tell you.
I don't think anybody knows. But one thing I'm going
to ask him is you know, where's the army? Because
you tell us Mike that if the army ain't there,
no boots on no ground. So we're going to go

(01:22:19):
with that. We've been talking about holidays and the traditions,
so we're gave you a lot of traditions today. I mean,
we're talking about Norad last hour, which is phenomenal. We
started with Finland, the sauna with Santa because yeah, that's
what happens, uh, Krampas night in Austria. The Icelandic cat,

(01:22:39):
the Christmas cat or the Yule cat. He comes and
eats anybody doesn't get new clothes. The Christmas pickle was
always a good one. A lot of you chimed in
on that. Yesterday we talked about Japan and Christmas KFC
and so many of you have chimed in. This may
be the best of so far. The pooping log in Catalonia,

(01:23:01):
think Spain and kids beat the smiling log called the
cagatillo with sticks while singing, and it poop's presents. So
there's that. Ukraine's got these spiderwebs on their trees. Magically,
poor family. The spider webs turned to silver, which was interesting.

(01:23:23):
How about this the Czech Republic. It's a new one.
Shoe tossing for love. Unmarried women stand with their backs
to the door and throw a shoe over their shoulder
toe toward the door. Wedding bell soon and if your
heel is towards the door, you got to wait another year.
Whoa and Norway hijo brooms. It's right, kids, Norway hide

(01:23:48):
joe brooms and Norway people hide their brooms on Christmas Eve?
Why because of the Christmas Witch? What yeah, old says
an evil spirit along with other witches come out looking
for brooms to fly. It's a leftover from pagan beliefs,
but some folks still do it for luck. It's more

(01:24:13):
of those holiday festivities there for you. You guys are
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Barnie Weiss, Seacott, all things trending in the magical world
of X and yes, Christmas is also trending. Venezuela is
always trending, at least right now because we are going
to attack maybe yes, maybe no, maybe yes no no
no maybe yes, Dad, are we aren't we are? We
aren't we?

Speaker 9 (01:29:43):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (01:29:45):
Maybe I don't know. I know. Russia pold their ambassadors
out of Venezuela yesterday. Will China do our good? Buddy,
Mike Lions Military anat's going to join the program. We're
going to talk about that.

Speaker 10 (01:29:59):
Coming up on Monday, Maduro sent a letter to the
United Nations calling the US seizing of tankers acts of
piracy and illegal acts of violence. The UN Security Council
has scheduled a meeting today to discuss Venezuela, Russia, and China.
Pledging to support Venezuela.

Speaker 2 (01:30:17):
I don't know what that means, pledging to support Venezuela,
like we got your back, really no, but morally like
we're we've got we're behind you. We all you had
all the moral support you want. Man, you could do
this really no, probably not. It's probably getting poor for you,
but you know, so we're there. So there's that like

(01:30:39):
we're on your side, but we're from far away on
your side, not like right next to you on your side.
That'd be silly. Three two, three, five, three eight, twenty
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gonna ask him about all of this and so much more.

(01:31:00):
Straight ahead Chad.

Speaker 17 (01:31:01):
Benson Show, Sun, Chad Benson Show, The Chad Benson Show,

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and is that time of the week to enjoy ourselves?

Speaker 2 (01:31:28):
Talk to the man, the myth, the legend, tired major,
and the best damn military analysts in the business, all
dressed up getting ready to do some CNN stuff in
his Christmas time. Mike Lyons joins a program. How you doing, brother, Chad?

Speaker 18 (01:31:40):
Very good, Thanks for having me back.

Speaker 2 (01:31:42):
Okay, let's talk about it's no longer the elephant in
any room. What the hell's going on with Venezuela, Columbia.
All of this stuff seems to be just escalating at
a quite quick pace.

Speaker 18 (01:31:54):
For sure, more pressure, especially from the maritime assets as
now they're chasing down ships and containers and oil ships
that are headed towards Iran and that are reflagged and
the like. So there's a lot of enforcement going on
within the you know this the hemisphere right now when
it comes to Venezuela, putting as much pressure as we.

Speaker 2 (01:32:15):
Can on them.

Speaker 18 (01:32:15):
I still don't see any kind of invasion or any
kind of attack. You know, this is a situation where
if the United States decides to take out the command
and control of the Venezuelan government, it we could do
it in a couple of hours, let's say, But then
you're going to get this insurgent situation where Maduro just
goes to ground and you know, similar to what Saddam

(01:32:37):
did when we invaded a Rock. We won't see him
for a few months, and it's not going to get
the problem solved. You've got the un now involved, so
the pressure is going on to him. He does obviously
doesn't like the deal that's been offered to him, and
it's going to continue to go until something breaks.

Speaker 2 (01:32:52):
I look at this, and you know, I heard Trump
yesterday go after Columbia as well, and I'm just trying
to get you know, we own that. Look, we own
base the globe. It's us in China, and if push
came Toshev, I still think we'd come out on the
winning end of this. But the whole like, well, we
need to do this to protect our you know, our hemisphere.

(01:33:13):
I find that to be bizarre because I don't think
there is I mean, look, I never once think I
don't go bet at night, Mike go when we go
to can't sleep because of Venezuelan, And I don't think
any of that stuff. And I'm just trying to figure
out what's the endgame is? Here is the endgame? You
know what a lot of people like Marco Rubio and
his family, and a lot of these powerful especially people
in Florida want which is go from Venezuela and then

(01:33:36):
eventually topple Cuba because it just falls apart.

Speaker 18 (01:33:40):
Jack great point, I think that's likely one of those
intended consequences, not unattended consequences of putting pressure on Madurou
and Venezuela like this. It's not just Cuba, It'll be
those other any other states that decide that they would
like to go rogue. Cuba remains I believe the second
or third greatest foreign policy failure of our country since

(01:34:00):
the Second World War. Lived through the Cuban missile crisis
that almost started a nuclear war between US and Russia
going back to the sixties there, but it's still not resolved,
still not fixed, and there are people that are sitting
in Miami to think they're going back to Cuba and
regaining land that their family had at some point, so
that could be possibly what else is going on here,

(01:34:21):
But it's really just to keep Russia and more or
less China out of this hemisphere on any level, and
the amount of natural resources that it's known inside of Venezuela.
To make sure that the United States has, you know,
kind of first DIBs. I guess it is the best
way to put it on what's going on there.

Speaker 2 (01:34:37):
Yeah, because from what I hear Mike, and we're talking
Mike clients from military uns. You know, Maduro's offered us
basically everything and you know, no offense. But are you know,
I don't know if you guys are be offended by
this out there in the listening world, but nobody really
believes Maduro, and even our oil company said yet now
not right now, we don't want any part of whatever
they're offering. We don't believe him.

Speaker 18 (01:34:58):
There's a different kind of oil that's there as well.
I think that that. I think that's a factor in
part of the kind of crew that comes out of Venezuela,
and that might factor on some level, but it does.

Speaker 3 (01:35:10):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:35:10):
The bottom line is he creates his dictatorship based on
more or less the drug flow and what exists there
and the insatiable demand that comes out of the United
States for it, and how it goes. We still continue
to attack these boats. There was a few more boats
that were attacked in the Pacific, which to me is
just shows the level of you know, of expand and

(01:35:32):
reach that we're willing to go to because boats coming
and attacking in the Pacific are coming from Columbia, and
I think that's the next thing that tips. Once Venezuela's
taken care of, I think Colombia is gonna have to
be dealt with as well.

Speaker 2 (01:35:44):
Talking to my clients are military analysts, let's just say
we decide, Okay, we're gonna go, We're gonna topple you know,
but Duro, what's happening and you just talked about Columbia,
what are the chances of them going?

Speaker 28 (01:35:54):
All right?

Speaker 2 (01:35:54):
We can't allow this. We can't allow this to happen.
America just decide to put their thought on everybody over here.
How ugly could they make it?

Speaker 18 (01:36:03):
I think they can make it very ugly and create
an insurgency and things don't happen. Is like we plan,
and once we think it's going to go a certain way,
it ends up never going that way. We don't do
well in the phase five. The military is really good
at breaking stuff, no question. Go back twenty years and
every Sencom commander, every Southcom commander is likely told the President, sure,

(01:36:24):
we could take any of these countries. But what then
what next? That whole coal and pal you break it,
your bought it rule applies, and we've talked before, the
army is still not there. You'd need sixty to eighty
thousand troops. That's two cores of army troops to bring
not only security to the area, but also the logistics
and the supply chain that the army can bring to

(01:36:46):
any organization. So again, I don't even think that this
peace president is considering a hardcore kinetic type operation there.
I think it threatens it very well, but I just
don't see us ready an to do that anytime soon.

Speaker 2 (01:37:01):
Talking to Mike Lions or military analysts, we talk about
all things military, and the globe has some issues. Ukraine,
there doesn't seem to be a deal coming in any
you know, at any time soon. You're talking about us
making sure that we keep Russia and China out of
this hemisphere. The Brits seem to really want something. I
think people, you know, the Europeans especially, they do not

(01:37:21):
trust anything going on with Russia. And that's understandable. This
isn't getting solved anytime soon. And I don't think he
even if he got everything he wanted right now, he
feels that he would have to give up anything, and
you just keep moving right.

Speaker 18 (01:37:34):
You know, Trump still has not given Silensky any kind
of leverage in this No tomahawks, no long range strategic
weapons are coming into play there. I guess the Europeans
promised ninety billion dollars in loans to Ukraine and with
the promise that I'll take them through the year. If
I was calculating that, it probably takes them through March.

(01:37:56):
So there's there's still not a real movement towards there's
any kind of peace settlement there, and the bottom line
is Russia is less exhausted, I would say, so they
are going to continue to move through. If they can
find a way to break through, they will. I cannot
get over the fiber optic drone technology that's being deployed

(01:38:18):
there and how it's being encountered against. And it's just
this whole new level of warfare that if you're a
military historian or scienceist you're watching just very closely because
it's it's really part of the future that could happen
when at least comes to ground warfare. I don't think
it's going to happen in the Pacific. I don't think
that that's something that the Chinese are necessarily worried about.
But if you're a ground guy like myself, and I've

(01:38:39):
studied war on the ground, it's just incredible what the
drone technology has done and how it's changed the battlefield
and shaped it.

Speaker 2 (01:38:45):
Talking to Mike Lions military analysts, we talk about the
whole things military, China, Russia. They see what's going on
over here in Venezuela. What's like China in particular, because
Russia's got their hands full they're doing the things. But
then you look over at China, what is g thinking
at this moment in time? You think militarily, Well.

Speaker 18 (01:39:03):
The Trump administration sent a message to China yesterday and
it has to do with this Trump Work class of
ship battleship that they want to build that sends a
direct message to China when it comes to defending and
going on the offense, and obviously places like the Pacific.
They're claiming that this kind of ship off of Venezuela

(01:39:24):
would ensure even more and provide more pressure on Maduro
to do something. But you know, that's a little bit
of a pipe dream right now. It's not even still
sitting on a chartboard someplace. It's in the theory made.
But the bottom line is the pivot Dota to this
kind of naval operations has got to be concerning for
China as it's built up its navy over six hundred ships,

(01:39:45):
nothing to the size of this. They have carriers, but
this is an offensive battlefield now. Now whether or not
it's going to be successful remains to be seen.

Speaker 2 (01:39:54):
This is something new.

Speaker 18 (01:39:55):
It's a little bit of back to the future. Thirty
to forty thousand tons displaced in the world or China
doesn't have any ship like that, But that doesn't mean
that that with their mass that they have, with their
destroyers and their cruisers and frigates and the kind of
equipment they have, that they wouldn't target it. So I
think that message yesterday was as much for Venezuela as
is much for China as it was for anything and

(01:40:17):
saying to the Chinese that we're going to really improve
the size of our navy over the next few years.

Speaker 2 (01:40:23):
Do you foresee anytime in the future. Because she is
one of those guys where you know he's China always
plays the long ball, but she's very impatient because he
wants to be the one that plays the long ball.
Do you see any time in the future, maybe even
early next year, that if stuff goes south here with Venezuela,
we get bogged down and or we're now in some
sort of weird you know, trying to holding pattern inside

(01:40:45):
of Venezuela and parts of Columbia and Cuba fails and
we've got to put some people there. Do you think
that they would say, all right, it's time to go
get Taiwan?

Speaker 18 (01:40:52):
Could possibly be and with the distraction that's also in Europe,
that's also China's problem. They could cut the Russians loose
at that point, you know. I think they're trying to
take Taiwan in a manner at Sun Su would and
that's you know, don't don't you know, evade when the
enemy is strong and try to win that war before
it even starts. And so that's not been working, and

(01:41:14):
the porcupine is gaining more needles, let's say, but we
still don't have necessarily enough naval forces I think to
be confident in order to protect and defend or at
least deter at this point. So I do think that's
a possibility. I don't see that the Chinese are going
to wait much longer, and the issue though they're dealing

(01:41:34):
with Donald Trump as the president, he also is a
factor in the deterrence, similar to the way Reagan was
when he was the president. I think if the Chinese
would rather have somebody that was just less let's say,
bombastic or rhetorical when it came to what they were
talking about, because Trump is still fundamentally unpredictable as to
what would happen if the Chinese decided to invade Timewe.

Speaker 2 (01:41:54):
Talking to Mike Lioness, military analysts talk about all things
in the global theater of war, which is a sad
thing to think that there's still stuff like this happening.
There's been rumors, more than a few rumors that I've
seen pop over the last few days, and people that
I've talked to said, we're looking at Iran again, and
I'm going, what.

Speaker 18 (01:42:11):
Well, you know, Iran remains a very big threat when
it comes to their capability to project terrorism throughout the
Middle East. If we're not confident that they've taken their
nuclear capability away, I think that that's another strike. That's
part of the reason why I'm support of this administration
because of what their posture has been towards Iran. There's
pressure coming from Israel likely to do that as well.

(01:42:33):
So you know Iran is going to if they're going
to put their finger on the scale and continue to
fund and support terrorist organizations. We've got a very strong
position right now in the Middle East. I mean, we've
got thousand troops inside of Syria. We responded against that
attack against the Americans there very Israeli like, right We
did it disproportionately in the past. If they killed two

(01:42:56):
of us, we would kill three or four of them.
They went after almost one hundred of those ISIS fighters
and they're going to continue to do that. So I
wouldn't be surprised if they're going to do more attacks
there that We've become very Israeli like when it comes
to attacking targets in the Middle East.

Speaker 2 (01:43:09):
His name is Mike clons He's current major in the Army.
The best day of military annals in the business. Brother,
I appreciate you coming on. We all do. We hope
you have a merry Christmas and a save Christmas.

Speaker 18 (01:43:19):
Cheat Mary Christmas. Thanks so much for having me, and
look forward to the next year as well.

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