The Ben and Emil Show - BAES 116: WHO WILL DIE FIRST: TRUMP OR AMERICA?

Episode Date: September 4, 2025

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Well, we got this new Acella train. The more I looked at it, the more I was like, okay, it's impressive that it goes 165 miles an hour. That's fast. The new trains are not, however, meaningfully faster, 24 minutes slower than the fastest service on an original Acella train. How? Like, what are they doing? Acella's speed depends less on the train itself and more on the rail infrastructure. Curves, outdated signal systems, track congestion.

I propose a solution. Domestic terrorism? Because you said domestic terrorism. It was a joke. And there's something to that, though. We got to get RFK to actually do a 180. Just start jabbing the kids, you know? More vaccines.

We need an army of autistic kids. Give them budgets, unlimited budgets, and say, go buck wild. You want to excise some of these demons, exercise these demons from you? We're going to let you blow up a bridge. Come with me as we set up the new rail line that's going to run from Washington, D.C. to Boston. You notice how I'm not making eye contact with the camera. You look at

time with me tell me what's going on. Tell me what's gone on. You look different. I'm a different guy. But you look different. Maybe it's just because I haven't seen you. I went to these. coast and I'm a different guy and for some reason my brain was like oh you were in Greece but no you

weren't did you gain weight a lot wait seriously I don't think so you you maybe it's because I'm not used to see yeah do I look fat no not fat like like like like meteor bulkier like like you look like fucking yoked dude extra yoke I wasn't even I wasn't doing anything really I mean maybe it's the haircut it's probably the haircut yeah it adds the haircut adds 10 pounds of muscle that's what they say I saw gym the other day because I am

no yeah I saw gym I saw the gym the other day I was at the gym today by the way there's this guy if anyone looks different you're like you text to me you said I now identify as a hot guy

and you're like what do you think I look hot right now hey man thank I have been unlocking certain parts of my body that's an incorrect

I'm going to start saying that to people I've been unlocking certain parts of my body but no I've been exercising different body parts in different ways and I'm finally kind of getting results but

hey how you been man I've been unlocking certain parts of it buddy buddy uh no there's this guy at the gym who like doesn't wipe off the equipment afterward and he's a sweater he sweats but no i saw i saw jim and he told me that i looked real tan you do look very tan yes i feel like i haven't been taking advantage of this time with you away but then i'm like you buddy you you still have time during the week to like go to the beach and shit oh well so i'm still getting tan that's nice you didn't have a summer while i was away

I surfed. I had a few good surf days. Went down to Sano. Went to the beach in Malibu, and I fell in love with a woman. You fell in love with a woman in Malibu? Oh, my God. I'll save it for the bonus. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. We'll save it all for the bonus. I was gone for a little while. Had a nice time in Maine. Yeah, we got to hear all about it. Upstate New York. And then in the city for a little bit. I'll tell you all about it.

Guys, two, three things. We got to give a huge shout out to Glenn because it's Glenn's birthday on Friday. Glenn is turning 63 years old. So happy birthday to Glenn. We love Glenn. That's the same age.

Jeffrey Epstein's friends wrote him all those letters. So we should probably bounce... 63? Yeah. I thought it was like... 50. But then the next one the New York Times dug up

was... His 63rd. His 63rd, which I found very odd. I could see you doing it for the 50th, the 60th. It's because 50 plus 13, which is a great age to train a child to... woman he likes, yes. Yeah, yeah.

Shouldn't say woman, girl. That's disgusting. Yeah, girl. And also, we're going to be live streaming tomorrow at noon. That's Friday. Friday? Tomorrow. Friday at noon.

At noon. Western time. Pacific time. Followed by Stocktwits. And also, so my podcast with Dylan, the movie podcast, is out. We just launched our fourth episode. Go check it out. It's got Austin Butler.

We interviewed Austin Butler. That's a big get. And it's a huge get. And so if you just search on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, three thumbs up podcast, you'll see it. And check out our other episodes. We did We did Weapons, War of the Worlds. This one, oh, dude, by the way, we'll also talk about this in the bonus. Dylan made me watch Salo, Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom.

I don't know what that is. I'll tell you about it. It's so, it was so upsetting. And we included that in this last episode. So please go check that out. Give us a rating and all that good stuff. Anyway, boy, a lot of things have happened. A lot of things have happened.

God, man. I'll tell you, the, the most interesting for me was, so I got back on Sunday. And I don't know when it was that everyone started talking about assuming Trump being dead or hurt or injured or whatever. it was like Thursday okay and so I started I was in New York

being like just please don't die till I can get back I really want to go live with Ben if Trump dies but of course of course these types of things

it's when you want something to be true you can fall for it you know yeah and so I I'm sitting there reading 31 tweet

threads of like here's why Trump is suffering from severe strokes here's why Trump has a very specific heart condition and I convinced myself he was dying I thought it was happening

it all it was interesting for one of the first times I was able to witness the origin of a rumor and it was just someone on Twitter pointed out they're like you probably look shifty

eyes looking side to side, hey, Trump hasn't been, Trump has nothing scheduled for this weekend and he hasn't been seen since yesterday. And it was like Thursday. And everybody's like, whoa, that's, and then that speculation just got through a game of telephone. It just kind of got taken and run with. And I kind of figured that it wasn't going to be the case. But then I started to think, okay, he's not dead. But perhaps he is. sick or took a spill or needed some kind of maybe suffered a stroke or something and that's what I was hoping for but then when the when the market opened up like last night I was like it the numbers always the numbers never lie the numbers I knew in my heart of hearts that nothing ever happens

yep but there was a lot the the J.D. Vance doing the yeah I'm ready to take over I'm ready to step in you know we've been seeing the purple hands we've been seeing he's just been fisting the hamburger yeah I don't know

or fuck grommet or not grommet grimace grimmis grimace grimmis grimace grimmis we've been seeing the purple hands

he was I will say the sleuth server I know everyone looked crazy and everyone looked like the Charlie from It's Always Sunny meme like

but the truths weren't true thing as hard as they were he was either having someone else do him or he lost a step yeah there wasn't weird things in quotes that didn't need to be in quotes it was always the case

no no there wasn't it was like it was too normal yeah he was being it just wasn't right it didn't have the sauce it didn't have that and then of course the crazy the picture they released yesterday

where he looked quite odd but Yeah. What a shame. So we're going to talk about that a little bit more on Friday and kind of go over all the crazy shit that he's been doing. But today? Oh, and to just put a bow on it, the, if anyone tuned into his live press conference today, he looks completely fucking fine. Someone even asked him. They even asked, like, what do you have to say about the people who think that you died?

and I wanted to save watching that for Friday to capture my response or my reaction. Do you know what would have been a cool response from him? What? If they said, what do you say to the people who said you died? And he just said, I've been unlocking certain parts of my body. Very good. Very, very good. I saw a thing today that apparently when he got, when he.

The COVID thing. Yeah, he wanted to wear a Superman shirt. That's such a, that would have been a great move. That would have been really fun. God, man, what a time. That was the only time that something happened. Nothing ever happens and COVID followed by Trump getting COVID were the two instances in my life. Where something did happen.

Yeah. Nothing ever happens otherwise. COVID kind of disrupts the whole narrative that nothing happens. Yeah. I still, I had doubters. Lexi at the time. My girlfriend at the time was like, this is so stupid. Nothing's, nothing, this is no big deal.

And I was like, you don't understand. Shit's about to get real, real fast. And she's like, you don't know anything and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, all right. Okay. All right, that's. You don't know anything. You don't know anything.

It was very funny. But we are talking about something near and dear to our hearts today. Oh, big time. Which is trained. Maybe the issue of the show. Did you hear that there's a train, like, there's like a train museum or something in a model train museum in Pasadena or something.

We should, fuck, we should take ass and go to the train museum. Now we're talking. That'd be fun. Or not even, like, who cares? Get drunk. Just go experience it. You don't, I don't need. Yeah, Pasadena Model Railroad Museum.

The PMRRM is celebrating 85 years? We love an acronym that really makes sense. Come on down to the P-R-M-R-M-R-M. P-M-R-R-M. There was a man in Long Beach who had a... He made his entire backyard a train thing. And I remember my Boy Scout troop went to go visit it. And I don't even remember how my dad found out about it

because he was just a guy. He didn't sell tickets or anything. It was just a hobby. Maybe there was an ad in the newspaper. Oh yeah Or maybe just a little article Like this guy Look at what this old man did

He built Newspapers used to be All about that shit You know Local man Local man builds Train thing Apparently there's

If you might have seen him Because I think it was maybe On TikTok or something But there was that guy Who built a very impressive Scale model of Manhattan Oh oh And he's getting some kind of

He's getting some of kind of exhibit Now He should It looks incredible He doesn't even seem autistic he doesn't well then there's the autistic Japanese guy who built like the train station

for his cat did you see that yes and it's like big because it's big enough to fit a fucking cat inside of it man weaponized autism hey game we gotta take a quick little break to

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That part of our brains? No, no, those, we got to get them together. They got to build stuff. Yeah. No one builds stuff anymore. No one builds stuff anymore. As we're going to talk about, people build stuff, just not us. Yeah. Well, we got this new Acela train.

That's, you know, I was shitting on it at first. But the more I looked at it, the more I looked at it, the more I was, I was like, okay, it's impressive that it goes 165 miles an hour. That's fast. Yeah. That's very fast. And we can talk about the good stuff. Like, if you've seen, maybe we can put some pictures up of, because Acella just unveiled

this next gen Acella. It's going to be their high speed rail. Now is this. Which is the, which is going to cover the northeast corridor. I think D.C. to all the way up. Does it go all the way up to Portland, Maine? I'm not sure. But it's.

and a lot of people are dunking on its fastness it's speed you mean I'm sorry officer I wasn't watching my fastness do you know what your fastness was but look it's got

it does look more impressive okay yeah it's got the long nose nice they got larger windows faster Wi-Fi They've got to grab and go food options, power outlets at every seat, more pleasant experience all around. Business class. They've got live location tracking, which I can't believe it didn't have before.

What? Oh, that others could track? No, no. I think on the thing, it's going to have screens, like telling you exactly where you are and stuff. Why don't we just copy fucking Japanese? Just take, go over there, write it down, take a drawing, take some pictures, come back and do that. Yeah, live location tracking on ceiling-mounted screens, self-checkout. in the cafe car

is coming in the next few weeks that's not even up and running Jesus Christ You know what's really sad I'm looking at the Acela stats The annual ridership for last year 3.2 million

Yeah we could do better than that But that's just Acella So that might be I don't think that that includes Amtrak But that I mean That's ridiculous when you just think about Look if you're not American

Or not familiar with the Northeast it is psychotic we have just from north to south i mean portland boston uh new york philly dc i mean just massive metropolitan areas and then just in the smaller areas like um providence road island it is insane that this geographical area is not just full of train riders i mean yeah That we just have people going on... What do you attribute that to? Too slow? Too dirty? Too gross? Too inconsistent? It's very expensive. I mean, we were laughing about... I mean, maybe you can pull it up, Connor. If you go to like Acella, you know, just try to see if we wanted to go this weekend from New York to Boston, right? That's a thing people do.

I'm a New Yorker and I got a meeting in Boston. I got to go see... meet a Boston Consulting Group and it's probably easier. I'm going to guess it's $300. So one way in coach $190.191. That's one way. With the departing at 545 fucking a.m.

And it's going to take you four hours. Fuck you. It's going to take you four hours. You might as well you'd be better off renting a car and driving for the weekend. You'd be better off flying in an airplane. Fucking airplane, man.

Dealing with those nasty. nasty bathrooms in there? Yeah. The door that slides like you don't trust it. It's not going to fly open. This thing that could be a very pleasant and easy experience is just not. Oh, and then like when we wrote it, it was during the middle of winter, but it was so unbelievable.

They had the heater on, but it must have been broken. And the guy told me when I said, can you please turn down the heat? He said, you want to cool down? Step outside when we stop. when we stop. Right. I was like, again,

fuck you. Which is an insane solution to the problem. But so, yeah, I mean, they made, hopefully those problems will be fixed.

You know, it does seem like the actual train cars are going to be more comfortable. The seats look more comfortable. They've been doing this for a decade. This is, this is all costing over $2 billion.

They brought in a French train manufacturer called Allstem to help with this. And so, you know, a lot of these things do look impressive. But the problem is, and this is from the New York Times article talking about it. The new trains are not, however, meaningfully faster and still lag far behind high-speed rail in countries like China, Japan, and France, where trains can surpass 200 miles per hour. The other thing real fast, sorry, attacking onto that, out of the 457 miles,

of track that these high-speed rails in North America ride along, only 40 miles of the 457 is the train even capable of reaching the 150 to 160 miles per hour. This is the massive problem. You can tell out those 160 miles per hour all you want, but it's basically never doing that. Well, next genusel has a top speed of 160 miles per hour, 10 miles per hour faster than its predecessors. its timetables have not changed.

In fact, on the first day of operation, the fastest scheduled next-gen service from Boston to Washington was set to take seven hours and four minutes. 24 minutes slower than the fastest service on an original Sella train. Fucking how! What are they doing? A cello speed depends less on the train itself

and more on the rail infrastructure. Curves, outtated signal systems, track, congestion, and bridges and tunnels in need of repair, Sela from reaching its top speed on all but about 35 of the routes, 457 miles according to Amtrak. It's a psychotic. You know what we need to do?

Domestic terrorism? By the way, speaking of domestic terrorism, the movie that I've talked about before, Arlington Road, the domestic terror movie, it's on YouTube. You can watch it, I think, for free, or you pay whatever. You guys need to watch this movie. It's so fucking good. But that I also want to be clear

That was a joke I don't think that's a way And I do want to be clear I do feel weirdly hopeful I don't know why these days But like Just be I think the fact that other people We're going to get to all this

But I just Other people can do it We can be this too Just like I propose a solution Okay Here's my solution Because you said domestic terrorism

It was a joke And there's something to that though Allow me to explain We got to get RFK to actually do a 180 and we got to give a lot more folks I'm joking by the way I hate that I have to say that

or am I just start jabbing the kids you know jabbing the kids jabbing with the vaccines we need an army of autistic kids and give them budgets unlimited budgets and say go buck wild

we need you to build us in infrastructure we need like the peace core we need the we need like a rail core something like that we need a domestic rail core or transportation core

and then to solve this is where the domestic terrorism comes into play you know how the FBI trails and tries to entrap troubled young men oh yeah they're on they're on discord servers

just fucking openly say hey you want to get some of these you want to excise some of these demons exercise these demons from you we're going to let you blow up a bridge we're going to let you blow up a tunnel just get it out of your system you know

you can take a gun you could shoot at the rails you could you know we're going to let you guys do that and then we got the transportation corps is going to come in we're all going to like give them all you got to give all these troubled young men and women something to do something to focus on and it's something that we could film

and make it uh it could be a documentary series on Netflix or something like that. It'd be great entertainment for all of us. We could be rooting them on. We could get weekly, monthly updates from these autistic kids. You know, they're already exploiting them with love on the spectrum. It's true. Put them to work.

You know, you're joking, but stuff like this has, you know, you're basically describing a New Deal era works program where, you know, you put people to work and they're, they've got media people embedding and talking about all the work they're doing and brag into the country about how great we're going to be. We should make these people are heroes. Did you see they blew up that fucking goth

kid when he hit the dynamite and he blew up that tunnel? Oh man, you can see that he just, he let it all out. All the abuse that he suffered from all his bullies. And then when the other, when the kid with the hard hat came in and was like breaking ground on the new tunnel, oh man, that really did it for me.

Imagine TikToks. Oh, God. The TikToks are going to go crazy. Come with me. when as we set up the new rail line that's going to run from Washington, D.C. to Boston. You notice I'm not making eye contact with the camera. Hey, guys, we've got to take another quick break to thank a sponsor of the show. It's Moo, man, Moomoo, the longest running sponsor of the show.

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we just have one mega and what we get is we get to watch Elon Musk brag about the Vegas loop yeah well because he's motivated by profit ultimately he says he can talk to the cows for the love of the game

yeah man we need to get back to those billioners who do that shit by the way I was going to mention this later but Steve Wozniak who I said once seems like a very cuddly guy. You like really have an affinity for him. Some say romantic, some say platonic

he's just so fucking suckable you said. Suckable. I believe of the words. But he, I guess that he was getting made fun of on some like Apple. I do have to say he is cuddled like he's like a goddamn beanbag. Human beanbag

Steve was the heck. No, he looks like a wookie. He looks like a wookie. He looks like a Wookie made a wish. And, yeah. But they, I guess a bunch of, on some Apple form that he still is actively posting on. They were dunking on him

for selling a lot of his Apple stock because by all accounts, he should be a billionaire. But he responded. And this was on August 11th. He said, I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for.

I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and art groups, arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak publicly and have risen to the top. Wait, pause. What? They named, is this real? They named a street after me for being good. I like that. It's so him. Steve was, man. That's like what a little kid would say. I know for being good. They named the street after me for being good. I have no idea how much I have, but after speaking for 20 years, it might be 10 million plus a couple of homes. I never look for any type of tax

dodge. I earn money from my labor and pay something like 55% combined tax on it. I am the happiest person ever. Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness, which is smiles minus frowns. I developed these philosophies when I was 18 to 20 years old and I never sold out. Fuck yeah, man. That is pretty, it's nice to see one who is someone who just has money and is happy. Yeah. Wait, go back to that. Was way. That's great. It is a bit. crazy that he has no idea how much money he has. Yeah. I googled it and it said like $100 million or $50 or something like that.

But even then, he's, he still has his employee, his original employee number. I think he's like employee two or three or something like that. That is great. I would have expected him to have more money. $10 million plus a couple homes. He's given a lot of it away. That's what they were dunking on him for. So great.

Like, come on, man. Or at least if you're Elon Musk, build a fucking. cathedral ass house build something beautiful fund something fund the arts you coward yeah but imagine Elon Musk being the one who is picking what

what arts to fund I guess it's like we're gonna it's gonna be fucking AI a giant he's gonna bring the the Blade Runner giant um projection porn porn lady going

you're seeing his art like Annie is his idea of art he's like look at what I've Look at what I've created. Oh, geez, dude. It's a, it's an anime girl, and she, if you're nice enough to her, she'll get naked. This is, this is a good argument for, uh, in the 90s when they were trying to abolish violent video games. I'm like, ah, nobody could have foreseen this, because look at what they did to Elon Musk's brain.

He's got video game brain. Do you think so? 100%. You think it's the video games? No, I'm just being, I'm being facie. I'm being podcasty about it, but. Anyway, all right, the trains, you know what I learned about trains, a really cool thing that Amtrak does. If you, and I, there's got, who the fuck has this?

But you can pay to have Amtrak tow a private car. It costs like $4 a mile. That's a lot. Yeah. But if you're wealthy enough to have your own private rail car, you can pay them and they will tow your shit. What year is it? 1880? I want to...

Who's got a private rail car? What do you mean a private rail car? Like a private... Oh, they'll tow your... I thought you meant your car like your four wheels and a... No, no, no. Like an actual railroad car.

They will tow it and hook it up to the electricity and the plumbing and all that stuff. And... That I like. Yeah. But they won't... You can also hire cars from them.

I'm the type of guy who wants to split my time between New York and Boston and I want just a very comfortable ride seven hours just on your own train car it's kind of cool man like how come you never i just yeah you've you've never heard of who the fuck is out there with that no one some oil baron or something bad way to travel in this country yeah that's true yeah uh apparently but i put one of the i do want to i want people to see what we're talking about so um i sent a thing if you if you pull up this i'm sure a lot of people have seen this but people have obviously

been like, wait, that's how fast it goes? Spotted leaving D.C. Yeah, it looks like 65 or 70 miles an hour. All right. Jeez, dude. Well, yeah, that was a bridge George Washington used. Like, he's... I know.

But, I mean, we both have experienced the rush of a Shikansen Shinkansen Dude when those things go by Blowing past you Holy shit Phil has very good video Or maybe you took the video

of me and Phil With our jaws just dropping As it passes by you Because it's incredible I don't think culturally We are capable Of having nice things Like that

No I think we are I don't trust people I don't trust people To not fucking I don't know Just the trains I was watching there was a great video

was like 15 minutes all about these new train cars and stuff and the guy's POV he's in it and then when he walks out into the station it's just grimy

disgusting whatever fucking train station and I'm like are people gonna be able to have these things without fucking carving them up with graffiti and and litter

and all kinds of nasty shit the trains we were on weren't that bad the bathrooms were gross. The train station was fucking disgusting. Yeah. But we can invest in infrastructure. Yeah. I'm not saying that we

shouldn't. I'm just worried. Obviously, I don't think that we shouldn't. I'm just like, God, America, can you get your freaking act together for a couple years just so we can have these nights things and all enjoy them together? One more for, I sent one more for just an example

of maybe how far we're behind. Look, these are not actually in service right now. These are being tested, but these are the mag level. trains in in Japan that they're working on 310 miles per hour which is absolutely

psychotic or like if that were I don't know anywhere anywhere in America I would not trust that that some fucking fucking asshole teen

wouldn't be like putting rocks on the track or some meth head wouldn't throw a brick at it you know that wouldn't happen I hope not I hope not I hope they would have the wear with all of like that's terrorism I'd go to jail also that train number one can withstand a brick true number two

yeah it's got to because they can hit birds that thing's not even touching the rails because it's maglev it's levitating magnetic levitation which is crazy I don't even know how it works I don't want to know what are you insane clown posse Remember that? Oh, Magnus.

Fucking Magnus. How do they work? But truly, how do they? I did watch a video on Maglev trains and I was like, I'm not going to be able to understand. I don't get it. Do you understand? No. I know they're like on the wheels and then at a certain speed the wheels were tracked and they're just floating.

And I'm like, that's great. If it works, have at it. It seems to be working for them. That was pretty impressive. That is so impressive. I just, yeah, I truly worry about, you know, we also have people who shoot up fucking schools and movie theaters and stuff. Who's to say that someone's not going to, you know, sabotage? I would wait 10 years, maybe two.

Yeah, but who even cares about this? Do you stop going to movie theaters? No. So, I mean, yes, I know this stuff is a problem in this country, but it doesn't stop you from doing anything. Or flying. Yeah. And if we had this kind of. You wouldn't have to fly.

Yeah, but I love flying. Or you wouldn't have to fly as much. Obviously, you're not going to do L.A. to New York, but you could. Maybe. I don't know. My dad used to work on M-Track. He was a conductor on M-Track, and he loved it because my dad, I think, was a little bit autistic. Hey, guys, we want to take another quick break to talk to you about brain fog.

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And actually, the following anecdote proves it. my dad was doing a running streak he had to run every single day for god knows why and he was on day i don't know he he i think he total got like to 2,300 days straight not missing a single day and there was this one he got put on a route down to mexico and uh they weren't going to he had timed it poorly so that they were going to um he was going to miss it and so he was going to miss it and so he figured out he went into one of the luggage cars and figured out like he walked out his paces

because he had to do at least a mile figured out how many laps around the luggage car would equal a mile and he fucking did why? Because he was special because he was like I don't want to break my streak so I got to run somewhere I got to run on the train oh okay I get it

what did you think what did you say he had to I thought I thought maybe the company was like, can you let's know how many times around is a mile? And I was like, why? Can't they just figure out what the circumference is? Also, it

helps to remember also that America is huge. America is way, way bigger than Japan than France. I mean, we are bigger than China, but like... But those corridors, yeah. I don't think that matters.

The corridors, dude, China already has... places and they don't even want to this is not these like insane maglev trains that we're talking about we're talking about hitting like whatever 200 something miles an hour like they can go the same distance from new york to new york to chicago in about four hours which is incredible it's about how long it would take if you were to fly all things included right the flight is probably i don't know two and a half hours it's honestly probably faster because you're getting to the airport what 90 minutes before the flight not me i

I play close to the chest. Think about how much easier it is to get to every train station as opposed to an airport. Yeah. You know, I just get literally on Sunday. If I was able to get on a plane, I was flying on Sunday, I would take the subway to Penn Station. Two hours, six minutes, yeah. Rather than taking an Uber, an hour. And it's $100?

Yeah, dude. I would pay $2.90 to get on the subway. And I'd be on the subway for 35 minutes And then I'd just hop on the train And I wouldn't have to go through security And get felt up by TSA I like that part I don't have to do that anymore

Because I have a pre-checked But still Just an absolute Nightmare experience You brought up Mexico too That's another one Where this is where I'm feeling hopeful I'm like people can do this Mexico

Claudia Scheinbaum unveiled their plan to you know, cover the cover the country and tracks and... Wait, they're doing railroads? I thought it was just hospitals. Hospitals. Dude, they're building all kinds of things. Whoa. We can do this. And

hubs in these parts that are going to be just they're hoping... I mean, we'll see how it all pans out, but I'm open to anyone trying anything while we're like literally dismantling the state. And we can do these things, man. It's really it's really frustrating. Obviously, this administration, it's very hard to watch as like, you know, this investment in clean energy and everything is just bizarre. And this latest one, which if anyone has been following along, this, the Rhode Island one was the big story, this wind farm

was about 80% complete. A lot of these things were already done. It was on track to power, I think, about 350,000 homes. That's a lot of homes. There's a lot of homes. And they just pulled funding. They said, cease. They said it was some kind of national security issue. Right.

Wind power is gay and liberal. But in all reality, they're going to say there's ecological concerns, but then they're like drill, baby drill. Let's frack the shit out of everything. Well, and we're also concerned we quabble over,

and our politicians are now leading the charge doing this because everybody's following Trump's lead. where we we we waste time quabbling squabbling squabbling squibbling quibbling who the fuck knows squabbling squabbling over the cracker barrel changing its goddamn logo that's what that's what we do that's where we put all our energy while we're dismantling and it wasn't just the Rhode Island one one it was uh well there's a bunch so there's a Rhode Island one there's a Connecticut one he cut about uh $679 million dollars I think of investment in these in these wind farms

and this is the kind of thing I'm talking about I mean this is you know these are jobs we're talking about it's clean energy it's just unbelievable these were part you know

Rhode Island leaders were obviously pissed because it's going to have a huge impact on New England's job market there was one in California that was bringing jobs to a bunch of a bunch of places that just hadn't been invested in a long time, good

paying jobs. Those are going away. We got to just pretend that we don't like this stuff. And we think it's bad so that they're like, oh, okay, then we're going to do that, you know? I know. We got to somehow win the culture war on clean energy. Yeah. We got to start saying that it's

stupid. But the thing, it is really important to remember that, I don't know. It's so easy to get like, oh, it's all fucked, man. We're so everything screwed. And it is, things are not good. Don't get me wrong. But There are people doing these kinds of things. There are, like, insane stats out of China.

There was one that went viral recently. It was from an article that was a while ago after Trump won about, you know, what his kind of dismantling of any of our green initiatives could actually look like. And it was just, there's a ridiculous stat. Chinese solar is now expanding so fast that by the early 2030s, the country will generate more power from the sun than the amount of electricity the U.S. will consume all together. That's according to the International Energy Agency.

But, yeah, I mean, I really didn't realize what a decent job we're doing. I mean, we're here in California. We have, I guess, in the last few years, we've, like, broken history with how much clean energy we're using. Oh, wow. It's now, we're now powered by two-thirds clean energy. And the goal is obviously get to 100%. Nice. But they showed new data, 67% of the state's retail electricity sales in 2023, coming from renewable and zero carbon electricity generation.

That was up from 61% the previous year and 41% a decade ago. Wow. And we just keep adding more. We can fucking do this shit. In 2024, the state added a record-breaking 7,000 megawatts of clean capacity to the grid, representing the largest single year increasing clean energy capacity added to the grid in state history. well we did have here in southern california we did have a very very extensive and by all measurable accounts successful public transportation system electric rail cars from like eight i think it was started in like that 18 or early 1900s or something like that yeah all throughout la and orange

county it was called red car pull up like a trolley car map of uh of L.A. or Southern California, you'll see all the... And then the fucking... The car industry said, hey, we got these things that we need to sell the people. Man, this Southern California is a prime spot. Millions of people are going to be living here. You know what we ought to do? Oh, my God. Look at that.

Look at that. He just goes full. Jesus. Oh, my God. Look at that. Look at all those stops, dude. Can you click it and make it bigger? It's wild.

It's so good. Here, can you zoom in on, like, the... I just, like, cannot believe what we did to ourselves. Jesus Christ, man. It went all through... Let's see. Let's see. Through Burbank, Hollywood.

You had Universal City, North Hollywood. Oh, my God. And then, yeah, Los Felas. And then the one going down through Long Beach. Oh, my God, man. It just went everywhere. It went everywhere. It went everywhere.

It went all the way. way down along the beach. Dude, look at this. You can go from Santa Monica to Union Terminal. Just like that. Oh, God. And then along the west side. God, I want to fucking... I want to go piss on the grave of the we should. We should go piss on the graves

of the executives at Ford and Bridgestone and Good Year. Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Yeah. Because they bought... And also the idiots who own that thing to sell it to them. Golly, man. Because that's what they did. They bought it. And then they dismantled it.

And they prioritized cars and an entire car infrastructure. And it really, it fucked us. And now we're absolutely fucked. I love my truck. But. Hey, guys, we got to take a quick break to thank another sponsor of the show, Gooder. I'm wearing these things constantly. Okay, these things are my go-to on the tennis court.

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This can be us. I want politicians who, like, any country that has politicians who are doing things where they're like just bragging, like, here's the shit we're doing. Yeah. We're building you hospitals. We're built. All we get is like. Trump is bad.

Well, yeah, he is. But no, I mean, he's literally going to close down. The cracker barrel logo. All while closing down so many hospitals. hospitals and stuff. There's a New York, obviously everyone's talking about Zoron in New York and stuff, but there's this, there's this city board member, I think down in Bedstai, and I don't want to mispronounce his name. I think it's Chi Asi, but he does these great videos of, I've commented it on it on Twitter because I'm like, this is what I want

every politician. He basically, like, makes these very fun, like, YouTubey, real Z videos where he's like we just opened a new fucking library and it's going to be sick we've got after school programs for you like it was an abandoned building and now it's that's what i want out of every american politician yeah i knew this i knew this girl who who works for this i believe she works for this company that turns abandoned churches into like housing that's something but that's a private company doing that so fuck i mean i yeah and you're always going to have the weird people who try

to like pretend it's bad. New York just opened a, um, they opened a pool this summer. Stinky. No. It's, people pee in them. I mean, maybe you can find it. It's like up in Central Park. Uh, and the pool looks so nice. People are going to break glass. And

there was, there was people trying to complain about it. I'm like, how what is the problem here? There's, people could slip and fall. People slip and fall. I think it was because it was free at first, and there were... Oh, no, the pool's free? I think someone, I think there were like, was there like a homeless guy taking a...

Damn, that's a massive pool. I know. Central Parks premier year-round. Recreation spot. I admission, wow, it's still free. I thought that they started charging them. No way, man. Public goods. I want this, I want this all over the goddamn country. Hell yeah. We deserve it. We do. This is the thing. We all feel like we don't deserve. of this stuff. We got to, I'm changing my whole mindset. We all like, oh. The whole countries, the whole country's we're going to do it. I'm telling you. The cracker barrel shit though. They didn't even

I mean, I'm pointing out the obvious. I'm sure plenty of you have seen this kind of take, but it's basically the same people that rail about snowflakes and being hypersensitive. Can you explain it to me? Because like I've like listened to things. I've read things. I've read things. I'm like, I'm kind of confused by people are pissed. Because I guess it's a

it's a bit of a cultural institution, the Cracker Bell. And it is a very old logo. It's retro. I really do like this tweet from this Byron Donald's who I think he's some kind of, oh, Republican for governor of Florida, congressman, husband, father, and follow Christ.

That is a crazy first line. In college I worked at Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee. I even my life to Christ in their parking lot? So you sucked them off? Like, it sounds like you gave Christ a blowjob. I'm not giving my life to nobody. Their logo was iconic, and their unique restaurants were a fixture of American culture. No one asked for this woke rebrand.

It's time to make Cracker Barrel great again. It wasn't a woke rebrand. It was a modernized rebrand, which is very common. And did I like the new brand? I don't give a shit. First of all, I don't give a flying Cracker Barrel fuck about their new it looked fine

it's like all right fine there are they pissed because that guy's a white guy I don't know I don't even know it's just

stop changing things that I like stop it I like that thing don't change it you're making things woke and it's not even woke

if they wanted to make it woke they would have put a fucking you know fucking they would have turned it into who's

that RuPaul. They would have made it RuPaul's. That's a cracker barrel. That I like RuPaul's Cracker Barrel. She's probably got enough money to buy it. Rupal should buy Cracker Barrel. Cracker Barrel, they're publicly traded. CBRL, $1.27 billion company. RuPaul Net Worth? You know, folks, this is why they, they were doing the... RuPaul does not have Cracker Barrow money. I regret. I regret. to inform you to me it's like a chinty little store yeah well that almost was a slur

RuPaul can have a little cracker barrel as a treat the stock is at five year lows and I think it's because I don't know maybe it's an old-timey thing like Mervins is out of business

no longer around J.C. Penning. Don't say Mervins to me? What are some examples of restaurant Quiznos is no longer around but that was due to mismanagement Chuckie Cheeses is like on the outs because you know you can't

More like Chuckie Jesus I gave I gave my life to Chuckie Jesus I unlocked all new parts of my body I'm unlocking sparking a lot of a Chuckie cheese I unlocked certain parts of my body for Jesus in a cracker barrel parking lot Ah man

I've never been to a cracker barrel I assume that it's good Like, have you? Yeah. Is it like apple butter and biscuits and... Yeah, it's very heavy. It's definitely like a thing you would stop at. I will say it's probably a better option than if you don't want to eat McDonald's or something and you're on a trip.

Yeah, they have these... Yeah, that's fine. They have these gift stores and stuff where you just buy, I don't know, crap. It's not like they were changing and rebranding all the stores and all the shit inside for all I know. I thought they were rebranding the stores a little bit, but I also, I have no idea. It is also a phenomenon. where for some reason they bring in a woman CEO. You don't like that?

It's not that I don't. I think that that's totally fine. Now, you get pissed about it. Women's CEOs have it rough. When a woman's CEO is brought in. Oh, you're talking about the glass cliff? Yeah, where it's like they're brought in toward the... They're basically brought into sunset.

And then they get to take the blame for it. And they go. Marissa Mayer, Yahoo was a famous one. although she did get a lot of hype, but like this woman Julie Fels Massano. And then I saw some fucking ass. Felsm-M-M-M-A-Sin-O. P-U. Some fucking

TikToker, like, found her and followed her to her car and then posted and like, look, the lady behind the woke rebrand drives a $120,000 sports car. Maybe she should just like fucking... Yeah, maybe she should sell that and get

a $20,000 car and donate the proceeds to Cracker Barrow, that'll probably put a dent in their problems. What does that even mean? I don't know. She's going to save $80,000 and put it into the company? Guys, I fixed our problems. I got rid of our car. As much as

people want to blame wokeism on stuff, you know who they can blame? I think you can trace it back to Donald Trump. He's such a fucking vindictive, petty bitch and loves drama and always has to comment on all things pop culture. Think when he was, he was

sticking his nose in Robert Pattinson and what's his name? What's her name's beautiful relationship? He doesn't for she's a cheater. You don't want to do it. It's just like, oh my God, he loves drama and he loves to, yes, oh God. But I think he was just, he's really the guy who realized you know, kind of, we all love drama.

We can't help it. We wrapped up in like, it is American, it's a, it's a benchmark of American culture. He really just captured that yeah he knows what we he knows what we like he knows i'm a dirty little pig person i want to get down there and roll around the mud with him speaking of CEOs we have to talk about open door and what's going on with open door it is the latest meme stock craze and i regret to inform you that it is doing well did you get in on it yes i did and ben's doing well i did okay and i bought back some shares, but there's this guy named Eric Jackson, who's like, he's like a money manager

guy, and he's, he looks exactly what he sounds like he would look like. He's a white man. He probably in his 50s. Is it this guy? Early 60s. Oh, the Carvana hedge fund guy. We've talked about this guy before. Yeah, the Carvana hedge fund guy. He, he, he, I guess, went long on Carvana early on after it had you know it was it like 300 and came back down with like three bucks he went long it and got you know a hundred x return on it and so has been on a crusade to find the next carvana and he believes that he has found it in open door whose ticker symbol is open and open door was one of those spack stocks that went public through an existing kind of shell company and they're just dog shit they're like they're they're they're the stocks

started at, you know, 20 bucks or something like that. Let's just go to his Twitter account. And it started, it started out okay. They do a decent amount in revenues, but it's just been a failing company. And they installed a former CEO open door. The CEO was Carrie Wheeler, who stepped down in August 2025 following investor pressure

from the likes of Eric Jackson in part because this woman, Carrie Wheeler, was just kind of like she was half-assing it. She's assigned shares in the company and she was selling them in the 50 cent range, which is ridiculous.

Like that doesn't exactly bode well for confidence building. If the CEO being assigned free shares is like, fuck it, I'm in the dumb. this shit at all time lows in under a dollar and this guy Eric Jackson was rightfully so kind of calling her out publicly publicly shaming her and she stepped down as CEO and chairperson of the board in August 2025 after uh yeah a lot of people including and especially this guy were

were really railing on her to to get the fuck out you know Karen wheelers the name of the uh i googled it because i wanted to see what this lady was like first thing that comes up is the lady from the mom from Stranger Things. Oh, interesting. So she's not even Googled. Well, she has, if you type in Karen. Oh, Carrie Wheeler.

What did you write? Karen. Carrie Wheeler of Open Door. Got it. Different lady. So this guy, though, has, to his credit, he's got a history of inserting himself

into these companies strategically. Like his pin tweet from August 27th, he says on February 28th, 2023 with Carvana at $9.42 after bottoming at $3.50. I emailed Ernie Garcia Jr., who's, I think, the CEO of Carvana. He kindly wrote back. A few weeks ago, Carvana hit $413. That's so fucking wild, man. Yeah, what did he say? I'm a hedge fund manager. Guess what? Blah, blah, blah, blah. Took almost a year. Press the next.

Since I wrote the paper, if I was in your shoes, I was, oh, oh, wait, wait, yeah, click that. What did he say? I noticed when several of your directors, and especially Dan Gill, bought a lot of Carvana stock. I don't think I've ever seen a chief product officer buy stock on the open market, let alone $3 million worth of stock. If I was in your shoes, I would feel proud that I've created the kind of culture where the top people around me want to do this, especially after a bad year.

So, yeah. Contrast that with Open Door, the CEO's dumping shares. He's like, what the fuck are you doing? I see an opportunity here. I don't know if I don't know anything about this company's business model. I mean, I know a little bit, but whether it's tenable and whether they're able to actually turn the business around. I think they just like flip houses.

But what this guy's doing is he's trying to... like gussy up he's trying to force a meme he's trying to um he's trying to do like what roaring kitty did with game stop and he's trying to manufacture uh interest in and rally the troops and get all kinds of support and uh build hype for this stock and one of the ways that he's doing it is by trying to get drake i know rapper drake to buy the stock in case you were confused which And it's so fucking weird and cringy because just

scroll down and let's see if we can find like his first one. Drake. He's working for him though, you have to admit. Did he buy in at 50 cents? I think so, yeah. God. Drake, Day 14 in San Francisco.

We are in front of 100 Montgomery Street, which is headquarters for Open Door. So we're here. They're protests. It's not the Open Door Army. It's some kidnapping stuff. So I didn't come here to SF to meet with Open Door, but it looks like that's going to be happening later today. I will confirm later. I don't think I'll be live streaming, but I'm here for other meetings. There was a guy who saw the Drake videos, loved them, thought they were creative, said, I want to meet you. I want to talk to you. I want to hear about you. I want to hear your story.

We did a Zoom last week, and so now we're doing a face-to-face today. super excited about that but hey two birds one stone should be interesting to see what the open door folks say later and again no live streaming of that but I'll try to give everybody an update

this guy just like who do young people like they like Drake Drake's the hottest thing out there we got to so his here's a video of him does he do a video every day not every day he'll just do he goes and stands 812

he's now on yeah Or day 10. This is day 10. After Dark at Drake's. Open Army delivered. A $140,000 insider buy. Okay, that's nice. And some of the sales, automatic sales of the stock was canceled. So that's good. He's kind of, he is affecting change within like the board of directors and stuff. But he's trying to artificially like pump the stock by somehow, I don't know what heft it would pull to have fucking Drake. What's he going to do? Yo, bought shares at Open Door. Bacchez or Open Door I think that could weirdly pump the stock I guess but Drake sucks He has no social credibility whatsoever

It's like he missed the entire thing And what's funny is when he was on like day one Two, three and four The first like five days He's standing outside of his house in Toronto Holding up a sign going Drake day one of standing outside Your house until you buy

Open Door stock And finally someone was like He's on tour in Europe right now You dork And then he goes, well, maybe someone out there in Europe can try to get access to Drake. Let's play this video. We've got to go to Europe, have him do this at, we got to get them in the crowd. Hey, after dark, day 10 at Drake's.

We hear, this is a big day for open shareholders. Oh, my God, dude. Yesterday we got, we're the Trisha, the interim CEO, bought $140,000 worth of open stock on the open market, something we've been calling for for a long time. Not only that, he canceled the dreaded 10b-5-1 plans, which allowed all... Okay, enough. I'm sending you a couple other tweets of his. Boy, one thing you can't deny, this guy's got pizzazz.

He's got riz. I know. I was going to say, without his charisma and charm, this would go nowhere. So good. He's lucky. I like these posts. Drake is a poet. His bars hit harder than Kendrick's ever could.

Or than Kendrick ever could They motivate us They teach us They soundtrack this movement Now he's just Drop the track you've had on repeat I'll go first Tuscan leather

I'm living like I'm out here On my last adventure That's how the open army feels right now Every day counts Every move matters You do I do have to I want to sell my stock After reading these fucking

I do have to respect the fact That presumably he's very rich Because he got rich off of some of these trades Yeah can you imagine embarrassing yourself debasing yourself like this while having so much money no i can't i would not do this

that's why i mean we talk about all the time this is a sickness these people are sick and then he tweets also uh yo drake isn't just because someone else was like you need to get like mr beast and he goes you read this yo drake oh oh

drake isn't just a rapper he's the biggest cultural distribution channel on earth If he stands with Open Army, suddenly millions who never thought about eye buying, housing, or our stock are paying attention. That awareness equals momentum, equals value unlocked for shareholders.

Mr. Beast is great, but Jake is from the six. Jake? Did I say Jake? Yeah. But Drake is from the six. This is home turf. This is Destiny. Key rocket ship emoji.

I mean, I'm searching on his Twitter, for Drake from from his account he's literally got probably 200 different um uh tweets mentioning drake just so many is this guy from toronto i i hope so otherwise it's it's just extra bizarre but yeah i uh i just had to share that with you because it's it's probably the cringiest thing we've seen in all all year on finance twitter and that's a lot coming from um he's really taken he's taken the mantle from Chamath, Pallihapitia. All in one fell swoop. He's continually

making strides and making himself the cringiest cringe lord that ever cringed. I mean, at least this guy seems to be making people money. Yeah. Chimoth wasn't making anyone money. No, Chimoth is not making anybody money. In fact, he was losing people a shit ton of money. Yeah. So you got to respect Eric Jackson.

Drake, come on, get on this boy's dream. Get on this boy's dream. Join the Open Army. Yeah. Well, folks. The Open Army, too, is such a bad. Oh, I know. Just don't do that. It feels gross. Like shouldn't the company succeed based on its laurels and the business turning around

instead of this manipulative thing? It makes me second guess wanting to hold on. Like Carvana, at least, was he doing that with Carvana? Fuck if I know, but. I need to know. I'm not going to lie. I'm interested in buying. I mean, it's trading so much volume.

It's like, it's, let's see how much it traded today. 409 million shares. and it's $5 a share. You do the math. That's like $2 billion worth. The math for me, the open army is strong. The open army is large.

Join the open army, man. I might join the open army. I might join the open army. Take a little, take a chance to, take a chance, take a chance, take a chance, take a chance, to unlock certain parts of my body with the open army.

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no that's the worst thing you do naughty yeah but I can afford it just for one weekend I've been being naughty I'll tell you what I did Tell you guys what we did in the bonus Benamil Show.com We'll see you next week Coming up on this week's episode

of Ben andamielshow.com Wait, are you going to tell me the story but then like at certain parts to be like, no, I can't tell you. No, no. Because I can't handle it. It makes me crazy. I fell in love with this woman.

Where was it? I shouldn't say it. And I love. like walked up to these teenagers and was like hey you guys know where is there if there's like a tennis shop in town

and one of them just goes I don't know man and I was like okay and the other one just goes you want a ball or something I was like oh oh forget it forget it

you start laughing at me yeah I could not stop laughing it was so funny It was such like a teenage, they were like so pissed at me. I don't know, man. You want a ball or something? You got to have a fake name and company ready to go. I know.

We all are going to be operating shadow. You guys want to find out. I'll just tell you who I am. My name is, you know, whatever the fuck. We all going to be operating Shadow LinkedIn's at all times. It's a good idea. I know. It's a really good idea.

Except it wouldn't really work for us. We should start calling this to the like, Uh, TMG.