The Ben and Emil Show - BAES 142: Did Trump Start WW3?

Episode Date: March 5, 2026

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We're at war, everybody. Isn't that fun? Yeah. We did it, everybody. Operation Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. Q. Ben Shapiro going, I love these freaking names. So freaking cool. Epic Fury.

Yes. And so all of those guys are dead. All the senior leaders. We cured everybody who is going to take over. So we're going to have to find some new people. America's reached out to be like, are we ready to just kind of... You guys ready to quit?

What are you saying? We both got off some nice shots on each other. Maybe we just wrap it up, go home. But the problem is, they did that in June. And what happened? America and Israel regroup. And then they just level them again. Iran's only choice is to say,

okay, we have to make this so painful for you that if there is a ceasefire, you do not want to do this again in six months. Why would you cheer this on? Why are you getting a hard on for blowing people up? Look, I just like the F-14. I just think it's a cool airplane. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, clap.

Welcome back to another episode of the Ben and Emile Show. We got a real riveting one, folks. We're talking all about block. They laid off 40. Can you believe that? Yeah, the biggest news of the week. It's the biggest. And Warner Brothers.

Oh my God, are you seeing this? Just kidding. We're at war, everybody. Isn't that fun? Yeah. We did it, everybody. We did it, everybody. We became the stupidest country in the history of countries.

The best tweet I saw about all of this is sending your teenager to go die in the Middle East because you saw an interracial couple in a GMCC era commercial. I mean, that's truly where we are. We have a we have the head of the Department of War being like, woke war is over, okay?

Yeah, stop being gay. If you want gay war, elect Obama. Sorry, pal. We're doing war straight as hell this time. I can't believe he was, I didn't know that he's Harvard educated. I thought those guys

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housekeeping things what do you want us to do if you want to get that Southwest Companion Pass card get that what you think life just stops The credit card list.com I have had multiple friends text me and be like

this feels so fucking stupid I'm at work right now and you know all this stuff is going on and they're like yeah just make sure you get me that report better okay sure I'll get right on it All right. So, um...

And we are at war. I don't care how many times these people say, uh, we're doing major combat operations or... Is that what they're calling it? Or whatever they want to, you know, whatever gymnastics they want to do to not call this war. Oh, we're at war with the Iranian nuclear program. Oh, okay. Well, we're at war with the concept of war. I'll tell, I'll tell the Iranians that we're not at war with them.

It's we're at war with their, uh, nuclear program. Yeah. Man, yeah, fuck that program. The Japanese on December 7th, 1941, were actually at war with our Navy fleet in the Pacific and not with us. Ooh, that makes me want to go watch some stuff about the USS Enterprise. If you haven't heard, we with Israel bombed Iran starting for us.

It was Friday night. I found out on Friday night, on Friday night, I was in bed doing my best to get through. Wow, you were in bed. What an absolute loser. I was at a poker game at a house. I was in bed trying to get my ass through Gravity's Rainbow because it's the hardest book I've ever read. And, uh...

Well, yeah, judging by the title. I mean, what kind of... Sarah just went like this. Oh, great. Fuck. Yeah. Operation Epic Fury and Roaring Lion. Q, uh, cue Ben Shapiro going,

I love these freaking names so freaking cool. You've seen that, right? No. We'll put it in. Of Ben Shapiro saying that? About these literal names. He says it. Oh, my God.

I love these names. So freaking cool. Does he laugh when he says it? I need, you just need to see it. The president's decision here is extraordinary. It's known as Operation Epic Fury, which I got to say is just awesome. The Operation Names from the administration, Top-notch. Midnight Hammer

was great last year. Operation Epic Fury. Yeah, man. Epic Fury. I'm not joking. All right? I'm fucking fired up. I'm fucking pissed. I'm not going to lie to you. I'm seeing the craziest shit. This is all real.

Sicafants, freaks, losers. I want to put on high heels and walk all over his dick and balls. I mean, he'd love that. Yeah. Wow, this is epic. I love the way you walk over my balls. My penis and balls. Epic.

Epic. God, this is only for people with child's brains. It is... It's not real. They have video games. They lost everyone else. It's video games. If you're still like, this is cool, you have the brain of a child, I'm sorry.

I love seeing all the cope coming from the Trump supporters who were like just having to swallow all that Trump come and say, yeah, I've voted for this. Do I have to? That's the only good thing is that you get to watch these people like twist and turn themselves into knots. And the people who have turned their back on it, hey, you're welcome here. Welcome to the resistance. Anyone who's like a, anyone who's, because there are still so many high profile people who still have platforms and are against this now, but voted for them in 2024.

I just think. They don't care, dude. It doesn't matter. They don't care. They don't care. I mean, they're saying it today and then become mentors. I know. I'm just saying.

It's just pathetic. If you want to still comment on this stuff, but you got duped in 2024, I feel like you have to open every one of your videos, appearances, whatever, with a like. And just so you know, I voted for this stuff in 2024 because I have a baby brain. Like, I want you in a t-shirt, an ill-fitting t-shirt. Put it over your little suit that you wear to go on Fox News. And that's going to go above your suit and say, I voted for it in 2024. I got poop on my brain. He's like, I just looked at Jack Posobic's Twitter because he's, I think if you really want to take the temperature of Trump's most ardent dicklickers, you look at someone like Jack Posobic. And they're all just focused on what's going on in Texas, the election going on in Texas.

Oh, sure. And Utah. In Utah. They know, like, oh, that's just not, we're just not even going to talk about this. Why would you? Yeah. What could you say? Where would you even start? That's like, we're now. What are we? Two months out from the Venezuela thing. No one has any idea why the hell we did it. No one has any idea what's going on. You know, they've offered what? Like maybe close to a dozen different reasons that were even bogged down in this Iranian thing.

And bogged down is an understatement. I mean, it's obviously America, Israel, Iran. And then we've brought in every Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, Oman. Oh, I thought that Iran brought them in by. by bombing our bases. We brought them in by bombing. Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, sorry. I can't even name them all.

Bahrain, UAE, Yemen is now in. The Houthis are getting in. Lebanon and Hezbollah. Cyprus has been bombed. Greece is bringing warships to protect. Greece has warships. They do.

I met a great Greek guy this weekend. He was our server at the bar. He was really fun He and I connected In what way? He just, we just, just two psychos.

He just knew that, he just knew that, he was wearing a tool shirt, he had long hair and a ponytail. And I was like, are you from South American? He's like, no, I'm from Greece.

Or however he said it. And I was like, oh, okay. And we're just cracking jokes every time he would come to the table. But, uh, yeah,

the shit went down Friday night. We, they already bombed whatever compound and I'm going to butcher his name, Kameney, Kamenei. Kamene. Because the guy that he succeeded had a very similar name. Kamenny and then this guy's Kamenei. You got to be careful with the O and the A. Yes.

And so all of those guys are dead, all the senior leaders, including and especially the like Trump, who they wanted to take over. Trump was like, oh, well, we kill them. everybody who is going to take over. And I'm going to do Trump like that now. We cured everybody who is going to take over. So we're going to have to find

some new people. Well, we'll insert the video of him doing his whole we killed our second choice. So now we're looking for a third wave. Do you have someone in mind right now? Because you said all the people you have in mind have been taken out.

Well, most of the people we had in mind are dead. So, you know, we had some in mind from that group that is dead. And now we have another group. They may be dead also based on reports. So I guess you have a third wave coming in. Pretty sure we're not going to know anybody.

Unbelievable. Just. Yeah. And then the remaining people in charge, by the way, I don't know. I'm just as clueless as you guys. I've been reading about it a lot. But I assumed that with the head cut off, so to speak, that the IRC was just in shambles. that was it. Well, then you're just as clueless as the fucking

president and his dipshit moron cabinet who thought it was going to be, they thought this was going to be over on fucking Sunday. I thought you said this was going to be epic. They thought they were going to kill Kameney and it was going to be over on Sunday. Not epic to me. So the IRGC then fired at U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE, activated Hezbollah and Lebanon. And yeah, the guy who's in power now is a guy named Masood

Pesachin. I don't even think that's up to date anymore, I think. Really? I mean, that was like literally as of yesterday. Three hours ago is an Iranian politician former heart surgeon. Former heart surgeon. Wow, cool.

Well, they also have a... So they have the Supreme Leader and then they'll have like a prime minister or president. So it's a... But I do think last I saw and this could change so quickly. Last I saw, I think they... as the supreme leader they elected one of comedies' children or relatives or something.

There's so much shit going on. It's impossible to keep up with. And in this day, like, what bad luck and bad timing. What fortune to be born in this day and age when, you know, everything you could ever want, all the knowledge you could ever want to consume is at your fingertips. But at the same time, we're in a major, major war. in the age of AI with Donald Trump as president. I don't know what the,

there are certain videos that I'm like, I truly cannot tell if this is real or not. And then there's people retweeting stuff that's very clearly fake, like that fucking gray. Yeah, you got to get off Twitter and make sure it's being confirmed by news sources that are. It's very, very hard.

I mean, it's on Instagram too. It's everywhere. It's AI. That's not. Well, that thing, you made it sound like it was just there. I don't mean get off Twitter and go to Instagram. I mean, get it verified by actual sources and journalists.

All that's to say is Twitter used to be not entirely reputable, but it used to be a at least reliable place to get up to the minute information. Yeah, being the place you can go to for... The algorithm just rewards dipsittery and... Yeah, a guy just trying to make money off getting clicks and... I think I even saw a Tim Pool tweet that was like, by the time this tweet makes this rounds, I'm going to make $5,000 because it's just a intentional. shit post. It's a bad

system to reward that kind of stuff. So anyway, yeah, so why is this happening, huh? Why? Why? Why God? God is dead. It feels much like Venezuela where like all of the, a lot of the reasons they're

throwing out don't make much sense. I mean... And they thought that it was going to be as easy as Venezuela. Two different countries, two different situations, two literally on other sides of the world, other hemispheres. And they're like, it's going to be just Trump is like, it's going to be just as easy as that one. Going to be just as easy as Venezuela.

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Yeah but didn't we blow up their shit last year I thought we I thought we blew it to smithereens It was gone there was no capacity According to our own intelligence They're now years away from nukes Mission accomplished in June Not only that

They're in negotiations The deal that Obama struck in what 2015 that Trump ripped up? Well, that's because Obama's black. And Trump can't... I mean, that's not good. The Iranians were offering a better deal. No, but it was a bad deal.

No, but Trump's... The problem is we sent two fucking real estate moguls to go negotiate. We sent Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff who don't understand what the hell's going on. They don't understand what they're being offered. Yeah, yeah. And so they're going, I don't know. We got to bomb these guys.

Yeah, I didn't like that. the way they looked at me. So, Mr. Trump, yes. It's unbelievable. And I want to, like, really stress that, like, these are people like Trita Parsi, the guy from Oman, they're going on and talking about how they're at the negotiations. Oman's foreign minister said Friday that Iran is offering to give up stockpiling and rich uranium as part of a deal with the U.S. related to its nuclear program. And this is a quote, now we're talking about zero stockpiling, and that is very, very important, because if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched, then there's no way you can actually create a bomb. The only enriching going on here is Jared Kushner and Donald Trump.

Seriously. If there is a deal, international nuclear inspectors, likely from the International Atomic Energy Agency, could inspect Iran's nuclear facilities at places like Isfahan and inspect the stockpiles. And then another quote, there's an agreement now that this will be downblended to the lowest level possible and converted into fuel and that fuel will be irreversible. I think we have an agreement on that. well Donald Trump said in his speech by the way this clown penis

gets in front of everybody on TV after doing this a very serious solemn moment and what is he wearing he's wearing a big fucking white USA hat and he says that this the reason that they're doing it is to protect Americans and military bases and our allies from Iranian aggression

obviously the press has been haranguing them and asking them, okay, what's the plan? How long will this last? Let's play that first clip. How long will this last? Someone asks Pete Hegseth, that very relevant question. The very liberal question. I think about four weeks. It's the typical NBC sort of gotcha type question.

President Trump has all the latitude in the world to talk about how long it may or may not take. Four weeks, two weeks, six weeks. It could move up. It could move back. We're going to execute at his command the objectives we've set out to achieve. And what he has shown ability to do that other presidents can't quite seem to have the aperture to do. Well, I mean, Joe Biden didn't even know what he was doing, is to look for opportunities and off-ramps and escalations for the United States that creates new opportunities to execute what we need on our own timeline. So you can play games of a four weeks, five weeks.

He has all the latitude, and I'm glad he does because there's no better communicator than our president expressing those things. I've been in meetings with the president for the last two and a half days. We know exactly where his headspace is, and he will communicate as he should exactly what he would like, and we will follow those orders. And I think everything he said on that is right down the middle. Absolutely. Yes, right there. Yes, sir. He also said, we're not going to do these stupid rules of engagement anymore.

Like literally, do you have that clip? I do have that. Like, that's what I was referencing above where it's like, we're not doing, you know, we're not doing this gay, war anymore. Here, it's... It's fascinating, as he's pulling that up, it's, it's, um, I don't even want to call it fascinating anymore. It's, uh, extremely

disturbing that these guys who are, who are, uh, executing Trump's will, it's the will of a fucking lunatic old fart whose brain isn't, like, even just looking at clips of him 10 years ago during the 2015, uh, debates and stuff. I don't know if this is Trump's will. I don't know

whose will this is. I know that like neocons like Lindsey Graham. I mean, he's on there with the, you know, this is not, this is not like a Trump project. You know what I mean? Like historically, he has been somewhat against this stuff, obviously at the time it was Obama doing it. I don't know, you know, I don't lay this at the feet of just Trump. These are, there are some like real psychopaths at the, at the helm of this country. Let's play this with maximum authorities. No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically

correct wars. We fight to win and we don't waste time or lives. Or lives like the confirmed six. Will include casualties. War is hell and always will be. A grateful nation

honors the four Americans we have lost thus far and those injured. The absolute best of America. I can't just these guys don't know what they're doing. All of these reasons

they're talking about like the regime change we're talking about they truly just thought they were going to take out committee and then all of a sudden the IRGC was going to go oh yeah.

Oh shit. Oh fuck this week we you know we give up you guys were right instead they fucking martyred the guy he's 86 with prostate cancer

people are talking about how he's probably going to die within the year. His butt was eating him alive they martyed the guy I don't even know I don't even know where to begin with these fucking people It's biblical the amount of hubris

And blind confidence that they've got And just downright lies I mean they were going to strike us first Okay the Pentagon comes out and goes That's bullshit Like every high-ranking official in the Pentagon is like That is not what intelligence says at all I don't know where they're getting that information

Yeah and then Trump During a press conference about Dead soldiers decided to, I mean, he starts talking about fucking drapes. This was beautiful. I watched this live because obviously I was just glued to all this, like, what the hell is going on? So I had it on live. He's giving out, it was supposed to be a presidential medal of honor ceremony, which he

then also. Oh, so that old guy? Yeah. And it barely fit around his neck. So it also became this weird de facto, the first moment he's talking about the fallen soldiers. So he's talking about this very real thing. It's, you know, we honor

the fallen dead, blah, blah, blah. And then all of a sudden, and I could not believe that he was able to switch into just fully doing bad stand-up about the ballroom. He's a deeply unsurious person. Go ahead. Drape, when that comes down right now, you see a very, very deep hole.

But in about a year and a half from now, you're going to see a very, very beautiful building. And there's your entrance to it right there. In fact, it looks so nice I don't think I'll even I think I'll save money on the doors because it can't get more beautiful than that I picked those drapes in my first term I always like gold but I think we can save a lot of money I just saved I just saved curtains but and it will be it'll be spectacular be the most beautiful ballroom I believe it's because I built many a ballroom I

believe it's going to be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world and when you hear all that hammering out there you know why the first lady is not thrilled exactly. Who gives a flying fuck? Will the pile drivers ever stop? You know, they go from 6 in the morning till 11.30 in the evening. Can you imagine?

Here? You know what? To me, that's a beautiful sound. She doesn't like it. I love it. You know what? To me, other than here, because we're donating it,

not a penny to the taxpayer. That's enough. Fuck this fucking guy. We're held hostage by this madman in his administration. This is a... unbelievable. I don't even know.

Did you see any of the Clinton's thing? Of course. Yeah, that was oddly refreshing. Oddly refreshing? Yeah, just to hear like, oh, heads of state used to Hillary, at least, I watched a lot of hers. Just the amount of articul being able to articulate oneself. Oh, please, this is the woman who destroyed Libya. Get the fuck away.

Relative to Trump, come on. I don't give a fuck if you can like be, you know, talk nice about the horrific things you're going to do. Like, get out of here. Fine. I wish that Hillary Trump had been elected in Hillary Trump. I wish that Hillary Clinton had been elected instead of Donald Trump. Fine. But it's not like these people were not.

It made me just yearn for the days when we used to. It's not like these people were not hawks and were not ready to. to just like, I understand. Trump in 2016 inherited, what, eight wars that, yes, he escalated and, like, made worse. But, like, this is the American project. And, like, not being clear-eyed about that and being like, ah, just like, I wish he talked normal like her. I, well, I'm just, you're taking what I'm just the surface of what I'm saying. I, like, I miss when we didn't have, I'm trying to say something else entirely, which is that I,

I miss when we had people in charge who weren't total fucking moron buffoons like this. And I wish that we had elected Hillary Clinton instead. Say what you want. I'm talking to people in the audience. I understand. Say what you want that I'm a fucking dumb lib. Stamp it on my fucking forehead. I don't give a fuck.

I would much rather have her than him. I would rather have anybody else than him at this point. But I think this is the problem. Right now, we're in a situation where we do now. have an opposition party with the Democrats where they're like they have any meaningful response to this any meaning because honestly I think a lot of them want it Chuck Schumer the leader of the Senate Democrats when Trump was first backing off and it seemed like he might not attack Iran he releases a video going everyone calls you Taco Trump oh I thought you were a big bad man what's matter

you're not going to drop those bombs on Iran Taco Trump he did that it's like what the fuck is going on. Chuck Schumer did, I didn't see that. Yes. Well, insert it here. I'm not going to look for it right now. When it comes to negotiating with the terrorist government of Iran, Trump's all over the lot. One day he sounds tough, the next day he's backing off. And now, all of a sudden, we find out that Whitkoff and Rubio are negotiating a secret side deal with Iran. What kind of bull is this? They're going to sound tough in public and then have a side deal that lets Iran get away with everything? That's outrageous. We need to make that side deal public. Any side deal should be before Congress and most importantly the American people.

If Taco Trump is already folding, the American public should know about it. No side deals. I don't want politicians that can, you know, speak eloquently about the horrific things we need to do all across the world. I want politicians who are like, I want this to stop. I don't want to be the, this sweater of death and destruction. all across the world. Well, at least Trump said we're going to avenge those service members, so that's good. And what's also good is that there's probably now a power vacuum that's going to be filled

by people that I'm sure that America will be, or that Trump will be happiest in power. What worries me and has me, I'm trying not to think about it, is they're now warning us about sleeper cells being activated across Europe and in the United States and Canada. which then I'm sure even if we were to get hit, it would be deemed a false flag. And I don't know who, I don't know who would even... That's the situation where we can't trust our own government. I don't trust anything. I would not...

I wouldn't put it past them. Yeah. I wouldn't put it past either the American government or the Israeli government. We are now lockstep with the Israeli government. It's very confusing trying to figure out what's going on. They don't even know what's going on. They can't figure out the right way to communicate this to people. Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, is coming out and literally going, oh, we did this because

we knew that if Iran was attacked, that they would hit our bases and we knew Israel was going to attack. So we had to do it first. And everyone's going, I'm sorry, did you just state that we did this because we couldn't stop Israel from attacking them. Yeah. Like, I don't even know this is the most

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But I mean, just wrapping up with the latest stuff, three F-15s were down in Kuwait in friendly fire, apparently. and yeah, the IRGC yesterday, I mean... Which also, those three planes, that's probably about $400 million. Oh, they're probably... So peanuts. $117 million each to replace something like that. That's good.

Hey, that's good. Oh, well, at least it was friendly fire, so we didn't give the enemy the satisfaction of shooting them down. Yeah, the IRGC... Which, who knows if that's even the case? I mean, I don't know. Like, I saw a video of a missile chasing... we're very, we're very dead set on saying it's, uh, friendly fire.

Yeah. They don't want it to be. But I'm like, what's more embarrassing? Friendly fire that we shot down our own fucking, yeah, three planes, or that the Iranians were able to take down, uh, the most expensive, sophisticated aircraft.

Uh, um, meanwhile, we were, we were looking on, what was the subreddit yesterday? Aviation or something. Oh, God.

Yeah. It's just like, there's, there's, Folks, there's a specific subset of plane autists who love military hardware, who love military planes. And am I one of them? Kind of.

Not really. Not like these guys. But they, in particular, in that subset, in that subculture, the F-14 Tomcat is like the Charizard of military planes. and the B1, the B1 bomber is up there, but like the F-14, it was phased out because it was way too expensive to maintain, but the only military that still operates them is Iran. And these people on this subreddit were just like, God, please just don't blow up those F-14. Not the A-14. Not the F-14. They don't belong in war. They belong in museums. Yeah, it is just, oh, it's just funny. Like, wow, what a-

completely a special world. A political. Just like, what about the planes, though? Yeah. Every time one goes down, it doesn't matter who it was. Like, oh, what a travesty. That is a one well-oiled machine. Yeah.

And that's what Tom Cruise flies in Top Gun. Oh, there's a lot of jokes like that, too. Like, heard the IRC's trying to get Tom Cruise to come over to pilot one of those for. Unbelievable stuff going on. Speaking of the IRC, the, they said yesterday that they're shutting down the straight of Hormuz, which is just south of Iran. And it's like, I think it's where Yemen and Qatar, they all dip into that. Oh, God, what is the sea?

Is it the Red Sea? It's the Persian Gulf. Persian Gulf. So 30% of global seaborne, 30% of the global seaborne oil trade goes through right there. and 20% of liquid natural gas. You've got Saudi Arabia, who's the largest exporter of oil through there, and Qatar is the largest exporter of liquid natural gas. And the IRGC is saying, hey, we're shutting it down.

And any ships that attempt to pass through, be it cargo or energy, we're going to fire upon. Which also wouldn't have even mattered because it was at a point where insurance companies were gone, yeah, like basically what it would cost to insure these shipments is going to be cost prohibitive. We're not, what are you crazy? We're going to insure these oil shipments. Yeah.

And that's what they're trying to do. Like, basically where we're at is that... That's like the one card that Iran still has to play. It seems like they have quite a few. I can't tell what's going on. It seems like Iran has been... They've hit a bunch of bases. It seems like they also have this advantage

where they're using these drones, which are much... Oh, dear, the drones are terrifying. much less expensive to make and they can make them way quicker. And when America is using their like thad missiles to take these down, what's going on is Iran is launching a drone that costs like 50 grand to make, sometimes less. America is launching a million dollar missile at it to take it out.

It takes like two years to build. And oftentimes, yeah, it takes very long to build. They're very expensive. So it's a million dollars. Oftentimes it takes more than one to take it out. So every time Iran launches one of these drones for $30,000, America spends like $3 million. And we don't have just an endless stockpile of these things.

They just had to... So I don't know what's going on. Iran, America's reached out to be like, all right, ceasefire now. We're ready to just kind of... You guys ready to quit? What do you say? We both got off some nice shots on each other.

Maybe we just wrap it up, go home. But the problem is... They put Iran in this position where they did that in June. And what happened? America and Israel regroup. And then they just level them again. Iran's only choice is to say, okay, we have to make this so painful for you that if there is a ceasefire, you do not want to do this again in six months.

Well, and also the thad thing, they apparently, America, from what I've just read over the last 24 hours, because they weren't expecting any of this to be still ongoing. They thought it was just going to be wham-bam, thank you, ma'am, like Venezuela. They're now shipping some over from elsewhere in the world, which has me personally concerned because I'm like, man, if I'm China right now, if I'm Xi Jinping, I'm going, hey, like so many American military assets are way over on the other side of the world, stuck in a bit of a quagmire at the very, to say the least. Or whatever the fuck you want to.

Gay political correct words. Okay. A, this one's cool. An ass whipping. An ass whipping. Project ass.

Project American ass whooping. I'm going to fucking move on Taiwan to quote Donald Trump like a bitch. Why wouldn't you? Why wouldn't you? That's what's got me concerned. You watch them just depleting every,

every munition they have. They're going out and talking about it. Don't worry about it. We have munitions all around the world. We'll pull them all away from there. Yeah. Oh, wow. And you have this cabinet full of people going, oh, China's our biggest threat in the world.

Oh, all right. Well, then why don't you use everything you have on the stupidest imperial adventurism we have ever seen? And part of it is that, I mean, there's so many different- Like a 14-country conflict. There's so many different ways to look at this because, like, China gets a lot of oil from Iran. China also got a lot of oil from Venezuela. So it's like what kind of, I'm sure they're going to, whatever happens, they're going to give all the credit to Trump if it goes well, but none of the blame if it doesn't. And that's just how it goes.

Because Trump is, he sold his soul at some point to the devil. And the deal was never ever make me look bad. And yeah, I'll go to hell. Whatever. Who gives a shit? And that's probably why he's talking about it. I was like, damn, I remember selling my soul to the devil. I think what you're talking about, though, is like the case for so long.

and Venezuela was the last one where it was like, where he was like, wow, I can literally get away with that. I can do whatever I want. It does not matter. And I think he's, that's what, this is imperial hubris. He was like, I command the most expensive, most impressive, sophisticated, powerful in history. Military in the history, I can do whatever I want.

And he's finding out that's not the case. There was also a theory someone put out there that I really liked, just because it's a thinker. And, you know, in this day and age, who the fuck knows truly anymore? That they showed him the AI God when he got into office this second time and basically told him, we have the capability to take out any world leader that you want very, very quickly with minimal damage within days. And he's like, oh, okay, cool. And we were able to do it with Maduro.

And he's like, let's put it to the test in Iran. And who the fuck knows what's next? He was able to do it in Iran. The thing is, he just didn't know what to do after him. Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. They didn't think any of it through. Yeah, he, I mean, he's a massive, he's, you know how the old trope of two kids on shoulders on top of each other shoulders in a trench coat sneaking into a movie theater?

He's just like 17 piles of dog shit. My biggest concern is the theory that he's gotten himself, gotten us into this mess so he can, we all remember the video of him talking to Zelensky in the Oval Office and he's like, Oh, yeah, that's right. You can't have an election if you're at war. And there's a... Oh, midterms. My big fear is, he knows he's supremely unpopular. He knows who's got his back against the wall. Drag this out until midterms? If there are midterm elections with all this shit going on...

This is a thing which I think with Snap polling, it's like 24% of Americans are on board with this. This is not a popular thing. He was already deeply unpopular. Yeah. My big fear is that there is a big move to just be like, fuck it, no midterms. I can't, me and the Republicans can't win them. What if we just didn't have them? Wouldn't that be a nice way to...

Don't you need Congress's official declaration of war to do that, though? I wouldn't put it past them to do that. I mean, have democratically elected... I mean, have Democratic officials shown any backbone in stopping any of this? I mean, that's part of the thing. is that this is, this is, by many accounts, very illegal and unconstitutional. The president has a lot of power. If he can do war power stuff, it's going to be a fucking mess.

Much to look forward to. Well, and so the concern about oil is that the price of oil has already kind of spiked. And shippers are now rerouting container ships and everything else around. the southern tip of Africa, the horn of Africa. And yeah, it's... You know, it is crazy. What? There finally has been,

what you've been saying, nothing will shake the market. There was finally a little bit of a... Yes. But the dips the last couple days have been bought, and I wonder, though... By people like me. You know, I bought it this morning.

But I wonder... I'm gonna get a little... I'm gonna get a little war bond discount on the fucking... on my VT sacks. I do wonder, because the market has just been relentlessly, yeah, even with it gaping down yesterday and today,

it intraday has been bought up, and I wonder if that's just the last gasp before it finally really has a deeper correction, yeah. And I really don't know at this point. It's truly, like, confounding what's going on with this fucking market. I would never root for it to happen, but it's obviously, I've said it on this show. It's one thing that could hurt him.

It's alarming. Yeah, and I think that's part of, the Iranian's calculation of like, you know, let's, let's drive, let's inflict all kinds of pain. Let's make him look weak with the military bases. Let's make him look weak all over the place. And let's also inflict the economic pain at home. Let's have Americans. Let's spike their, let's spike their gas prices. Let's spike their cortisol. And let's destroy their retirement accounts that they're so happy about. And, but if there is all this instability and the stock market It just continues to just little engine that could.

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the most painful thing that the market could do? They call it the pain trade. be squeezing higher, would it be dropping, or would it be going sideways? And there's part of me that thinks that it's probably a sideways to down move, slower than you would expect so that hedging is kind of useless. And individual stocks will get taken to the woodshed. I mean, yeah, I really don't know. That's, there is some comfort to me in knowing that nobody knows. At least that's comforting. I mean, in this situation, for me, just a little bit is just like, okay, at least I'm not alone in that. At least I'm not alone in like,

what the fuck is going on? In this situation, I feel very uneasy. I think, um, um, it feels like the last breaths of the American Empire we're getting to watch. I mean,

this is, um, this is crazy. I mean, and the repercussions, you know, obviously some people are steadfast. Mark Carney,

who we literally on this episode was like, he just called it. Like, uh, the, the world order is ending and gave this whole speech about how like international law really only applies to certain people. And we've been lying about that for so long as time we'd be honest.

He comes out and he's like, yeah, Iran needs to be destroyed. It's like, dude, what is your deal? Yeah. Uh,

obviously like Kier-Starmor doing the same thing, the biggest coward in the world. Spain is like, you can't use our, um, you can't use our basis. Trump, here, we should play it. Oh yeah, and then Trump was like, we're not going to trade with Spain anymore.

But not only that. We're not going to do it. He says, that's fine. I've told them to, well, just play the clip. We don't need your olive oil and humong. But some of the European, like Spain has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request,

paid 5%, which they should be doing. And everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody. And Spain didn't do it. And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base. If we want, we could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it.

But we don't have to. But they were unfriendly. I mean, you can pause it. That's the part. This is, like, we're... The irony of calling that unfriendly, when you are... You, sir, are the unfriendly one. Everybody's treating us unfair.

You're the one who is unfair, sir. But we're heading into some pretty weird waters here where the president of the United States is talking about Spain and being like, fuck it, we'll fly in there and just take their base over. He's a stubborn, stupid son of a bitch. He's really just playing with the idea of sovereign nations now. It's like he doesn't even...

We have Palantir. They don't. We're going to go in there with Palantir. That's basically it. is like Palantir probably Alex Carp is like we've got we've got the weapons okay are you if you're not a retard

then these are his words this is literally what he said at a fucking conference like today he was like if you go against us you're a retard and it's stupid I swear we got to

we are the ones who are fighting for Western civilization and just like fucking God I just want to fucking, you know, fucking... We're run by... Freaks, man. Breaks.

Total circus clown pile of shit. And we're walking on a wire here. It's the... It's very scary. This idea we're talking about with Iran not necessarily interested in talking about and negotiating right now and talking about

ceasefires. I mean, why would you? I saw someone posted today. I don't know if it's like an old quote from military planning or whatever. It's It's, uh, if, if you ask the bear to dance, you don't get to decide when the dance stops. The bear decides. Damn, I like that.

And we ask the bear to dance, man. Like, I don't know what. Like, you don't get to go like, all right, enough. We killed all your guys. Like, stop. I don't. It's, it's terrifying. And, you know, this is on the heels of a months long project of isolating ourselves.

from the world and all our allies. Yeah, calling everybody... Of, you know, saber saddle, saber rattling with all the Greenland stuff and having every European go, dude, what the hell are you talking about?

They respect us now. They respect us. The thing I can't quite understand is the Europeans and people like Mark Carney who are coming back to him and being like, you're right, you're forever our man.

Chancellor Merr's in Germany. It's like, dude, you're... There's never been a more bitch-made. person in history. Yeah. I mean, he's an alpha. That's for sure. I was posting a lot about this stuff and on Instagram and I was getting DMs from some people who were like, who were like, no, you don't understand like you'll get it one day. You're like a person who is, who's protesting in America saying we shouldn't go to war in the 30s because we don't want to go to war with Nazi Germany.

Iran is Nazi Germany. And I'm like, no, we're Nazi Germany, pal. We're, I mean, how many people have we, how many people have we gone out and attacked? Yeah. I mean, we are Nazi Germany going into Austria, doing our little Sudetenland thing, getting our, you know, going into Poland,

and then finally being like, nothing can stop us. Let's try Russia. A thousand-year Reich. I mean a third term. Did I say that out loud? And I mean, this isn't anything new with Iran. Just a quick little crash course.

And also the last thing, I just want to make sure I say this because I have to say this every time I say I don't want to go to war with Iran or Venezuela or anybody. This is not to say that I am some kind of fan of the IRGC or the Ayatollah or any of these fucking people. He is. He was telling me before. I know that like 99% of people can understand that.

But like for the 1% of you who's like going to DM me and be like, dude, you are a fucking idiot. You're a spokesperson for the IRC. You love them. You'd love sucking off the Iatola. Get real. Use your fucking head. Just because someone is bad.

I mean, that's a pretty low bar. We're setting here with all these things. You know, bad guy, unpopular leader. Okay, we got to. Yeah, we have one of those. Honestly. Oh, well, they make women, you know, they're, yeah, they're oppressive to women. What do you think, you know, there's a lot of that here.

Oppressive to women. First thing we do right off the bat. Bomb a fucking school full of girls. Kill 150 girls. All of this shit. I mean, fine. If you guys have the stomach for it, if you guys have the stomach for watching regime change, fine. It's not for me.

Okay? I've seen all the shit coming out of Tehran. The carpet bombing, it's horrific. But if you guys, like, if that's your project, have at it. I can't, it's not for me. And like I was saying, the oil thing. So oil has been at the crux of the Iranian issue for a long, long time. Basically, when it was first discovered there, the company that used to be, well, the company that is now BP, and it was called something else way, way back then, basically took advantage of Iran and was like taking all the money for themselves. They had a secular

guy in charge. He wanted to get a fair shake from BP. He was overthrown in the 50s because the British and the CIA were like, fucking, it's communists over there. And it was a big thing with McCarthyism back then. They install a guy who gets overthrown because there were a bunch of different competing groups in the Ayatollah was the strongest one because he had a bunch of not churches, but, you know, like he had a bunch of, they basically had the biggest footprint in Iran already existing infrastructure, existing influence. And then, yeah, ever since then, it's been a very religious orthodox. It's a very simplistic way of...

It's about oil. That's a long... It's been a long time about oil. I think the most important thing is people are going to be... Continue to tell you this is about 1979, and they've been our enemy since 1979, and nothing ever happened before 1979. And don't you dare ask why BP ran to... ran to MI6 and the CIA.

Could you go? I can't even do it. This is crazy. Okay, so we're going in there and taking all of their resources, right? This resource-rich country who's impoverished by us. And now they're saying they want to audit us. Not even that they want to like take all the money from this. That they want to audit us to see if we're abiding by the bullshit deal we gave them.

It's fucked up. Is twisted in it? It's fucked up. It's fucking twisted, mate. Yeah. Hey, America, there's communists over there. Do you hear about it? I know you're scared about it.

Well, there's plenty of them over there. I just can't fucking... I'm so pissed, man. I'm just... I don't want to live in this horrifically cruel world. And America is such a purveyor of this cruelty. And it really just... It hurts.

It hurts to watch. At least Ian Miles Chong is safe. You guys want to see the saddest video you've ever... scene. So this guy is a Malaysian Twitter influencer who's been around for a long time and he posted this video in Dubai. It's 3 a.m. in a Dubai club

right now and the place is alive. You can't beat this city. And it's the saddest thing. It's three probably immigrants from somewhere, you know, and they're holding up a gray goose and a bottle of something else and they've got sparklers. Every single one of these persons' passport has been

taken from them and they are not allowed to go home. And it's, uh, the, the, the club is empty, there's dry ice, you know, and he's at this lonely table with a guy who just looks absolutely like, what the fuck is my life? And let's play it. All right, it's a celebration. Right. Okay, bottle service. Cool. And then me, that's a lot of strong, hitting the Shisha. Yeah, all right. Go back. Look at his friend just... I think he's on the phone. Death's there.

I think some kind of message went out from, I don't know, Dubai or whatever, all these people who are like sponsored to do Dubai content, him and Andrew Tate, because all these creators... Everything is fine. Everything's good. Everything nice is happening in

Dubai. Because Dubai is obviously this place. They've said, hey, look, we've built this this beautiful place where we operate outside of politics here. You can come to the Middle East and you don't have to worry about all those you don't have to worry about all those problems that plague all those other Middle Eastern. 3 a.m. in the club is alive.

Countries. What else is really bleak and dark is that, of course, the betting industry is alive and well. You could, plenty of people were betting on the downfall of Khomeini. And so Kalshi had a big issue. Kalshi refused to pay out betters who were betting that, I guess it was, it was, because Kalshi is United States-based, they are not legally allowed to make it so that you can bet on someone's death. It was just, is he going to be out of power?

And because he's out of power via death, they are saying, well, that actually, that negate. everything and the guy Terrick Mansour, one of the founders put out a whole long statement, but they're reimbursing all fees. If you have a position from before Kameney died, you will be paid out on the last traded price before his death. If you have a position from after he died, we're going to fully reimbabend. It's just dark, man. Can you imagine building this thing? You can bet on anything. You can bet on someone dying. And you bet that he'll be removed from power and Israel and America light this dude up. Yeah. And then they're like, sorry. Sorry. We haven't seen the death certificate.

That could have been natural causes. We know he was suffering for prostate cancer. Who knows? He actually might have died from natural causes right before the missile hit, so it's actually hard to say. Actually, a cartoon anvil fell on his head, we heard, so that technically doesn't count. It's going to be removed from power. And this could have been a natural succession of power, so actually hard for us to pay that out.

But we will be returning your fees. Yeah. Polymarket, though, operates outside of the United States. And their volume, their, like, betting volume, hit $529 million, with a ton of new wall. So that's what's beautiful. A ton of new wallets were created and a ton of people who knew that this was going to happen placed their bets and made millions. So again, just an awesome time to be alive and an awful time. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. Lindsay Graham just telling his houseboy to like, get me on that polymark. Get on that. Hey, you know, why don't you

place a little bet for yourself, sweetie? Go ahead. Go ahead. No, daddy'll let you do it. Dad'll let you do it. He's gay. That's fine. Be gay. Just, you. You know, stop being a... Just don't ruin the world over it. Yeah, stop ruining the world over it, man. God, you're so deeply closeted. We don't care. Truly, no one cares.

No one gives a shit. And, yeah, so the last thing, I guess, is that the big controversy last week going into this was that Palantir... Sorry, excuse me. At Medcan, we know that life's greatest moments are built on a foundation of good health. From the big milestones to the quiet winds.

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Don't call it that. The Department of Defense is gay and politically correct. Yeah. This is cool and based. the Department of Based War. The government wanted to use Claude, Anthropics Clod, to analyze bulk data collected from Americans, including Google Search, History, GPS, direct movements, credit card transactions, all the questions you asked chatbots. They wanted everything. And basically, Anthropic was like, we don't, we aren't cool with that. We don't want our tool to be used for mass surveillance.

We don't want there to be no human. There needs to be human interaction when an AI is involved in the taking of human life in the war, in the battlefield. And Pete Hegseth said, stop, that's gay. You can't do that. We are going to cut ties with you or invoke the Defense Production Act to force you to tailor Claude to our needs if you don't just do it voluntarily, if you don't comply. and I just think it's interesting because it says a lot about how powerful Claude actually is. That they wanted it so badly? That they wanted it so badly. I also, it's hard to watch. Everyone's making this guy, maybe I get his name wrong a bunch, Dario Amadea, I think it is.

Dario Amadea Amadea. Maybe that's not how you say it. I've seen so many people be like, Dario Amadee is my hero. And obviously there's been a huge spike. Claude went from like 114 in the app store to number one in the app store. It surpassed chatchipT. Everyone's like, I'm doing my duty. I'm downloading Claude.

And I'm like, all right, they were still going to give it to them to use as a weapon. They were just like, make sure a human pushes a button. Like the whole thing. Also this, look, I use Claude because it's a tool, whatever. I'm just like, I'm not going to get my panties at a bunch of times. and everyone be like, oh, make sure you use Claude. It's the woke one. It's the good one.

You know, they built this whole thing on stolen data, all this. Who, like, I was just laughing at the idea. I'm not going to bat for this guy. They've basically, if there's any X-Men fans out there, they've basically created Cerebro, which is the mega-computer that Professor X can plug himself into and see every human and every mutant, like, projected. And I just love the idea of Trump being inside there and putting it on, okay, I'm going to see everybody in the whole world.

I can command it with just my voice. Claude, show me every woman's boobs all at once. Show me Hillary Clinton's pussy. She's inside the, she's in the thing right now. And I'm just curious. All right, that didn't lay in his. That's going to hit for people. Anyway.

That's going to hit for people. So then all these other, you know, Palmer Lucky now, I guess he's not that busy. He's got to talk about a lot of people were chiming in. against Amade and against Anthropic. And they were basically saying, well, Northrop Grumman

and all these other defense companies sell missiles to the United States. Are they going to dictate who they can and can't fire the missiles on? Well, no. And they're trying to make that argument that it's like, it should not be the company's decision

what the government can or cannot do with that product or with that technology. And like, I understand the argument that they're making, but at the same time, but also a company... They don't have any obligation in that shit over. But like Northrop Grumman would never do that.

Yeah, no. They build tools of weapons for the government. That is their entire thing of being. They want all their stocks, Northrop Grumman, all the Bay, Lockheed Martin, they're up. When we're talking about the market taking a hit, you know, Lockheed Martin's taking like a... 6% jump on this shit.

Because this is going to be good for them. When we're talking about... Jesus. Northrop Grumman is up 30% in the past six months to all-time highs. Yeah. L-M-H or LMT. Let's see. L-M-T.

Do L-M-T. L-M-T stock. That's Lockheed. Martin. Do six months. 48%. 48%. Holy God.

This is the business these companies are in. You think they're going to go to the... You think they're going to go to the government and be like, hey, make sure you don't use it in irresponsible way. they're like, dude, destabilize, use it all. It seems like you guys are going to use it all up and need to buy more from us. Like, that's great for us. Anthropic is not that kind of company.

And Google wasn't that kind of company until they like got a little whiff of that Department of Defense money. And so a company is fully within its rights to be like, hey, we're actually all set on building a massive surveillance thing for you. If you want to use our tools, we can provide them to you. But like, yeah, it's got to, it's going to have some. strings attached. And Palmer Lucky's saying that because he's the same thing. He's like building his weird little drones and like his masks to put on, uh, to put on soldiers so they can go like

fight with the metaverse inside their skull or whatever. He, uh, I mean, what freaks me out is the drones. I mean, we're, we're truly seeing real time a new, a shift toward a new era in modern warfare, which is the use of drones. And I mean, some of the video, I don't know if you you saw any of the videos of those Iranian ones, the sound of it is so, it's just, and just... Oh, it's terrifying. Yeah. The whole thing is terrifying. Yeah.

That's why, you know, there's this really beautiful, I don't even know who the guy is. It's probably from, like, the 70s or 80s. I'm sure you've seen the clip. We'll, like, insert it here. It's not worth... But he's talking to... He's talking to Parliament in what it was like growing up with the shelling of London. Just by saying this, war is an easy thing to talk about.

There are not many people of the generation that remember it. The right honourable gentleman served with the distinction last one. I never killed anyone but I wore uniform. But I was in London in the Blitz of 1940 living in the Millbank Tower where I was born. Some different ideas have come in since. And every night I went down to the shelter in Thames House. Every morning I saw Dockland burning, 500 people were killed in Westminster one night by a landmine. It was terrifying.

Aren't Arabs terrified? Aren't Iraqis terrified? Don't Arab and Iraqi women? Weep when their children die. Doesn't bombing strength of their determination? What fools we are to live in a generation for which war is a computer game for our children and just an interesting little channel for news item? Every Member of Parliament tonight who votes for the government motion will be consciously and deliberately accepting the responsibility the deaths of innocent people if the war begins, as I fear it will. Now that's for their decision

to take. But this is a quite unique debate in my parliamentary experience where we ask to share responsibility for a decision we won't really be taking with consequences for people who have no part to play in the brutality of the regime which we are dealing with. And I finish with this in October the 24th, 1945 and the former Prime Minister from Bexley in Oldsert will remember it, the United Nations Charter was passed. And the words of that Charter etched into my mind and moved me even as I think of them. We the people of the United Nations determined to save future generations, succeeding generations, from the scourge of war which twice in our lifetime has caused untold suffering to mankind.

that was the pledge of that generation to this generation and it would be the greatest betrayal of all if we voted to abandon the charter and take unilateral action and pretend we were doing it in the name of the international community and I shall vote against the motion. And he's like, everyone has forgotten what it's like

and what we're doing to people across and he starts being like... Because it hasn't happened to us in 60 years, 70 years? Yeah, and honest, that could not apply more to Americans. I think we are the most pampered, we have no idea what it's like to even be remotely close to stuff like this. And he's talking about like, you know, do Iraqi mothers not fear for their children's lives? Do, you know, do whoever, do Iranians not weep when their children are blown into smithereens?

All these things. And I'm just like, why do people not view the world in this way? you cheer, why would you cheer this on? Why, why are you getting a hard on for blowing people up? Look, I just like the F-14. I just think it's a cool airplane. I'm really sorry, I don't know. It just, it just couldn't be me. I mean, I've probably talked about it on the show. I remember very specifically driving out from L.A. to, we were going to, maybe it was like Bishop or something for some climbing. And I was driving out with my friend, and you get to just the middle of the nowhere desert and we're just talking to each other we've been driving for hours oh i know where this is going

and uh where i i said a fucking jet no i'm guessing and a jet flew past us so quickly and it just like every stress chemical everything it was both of us we just like stopped talking for a while it was like everything in you just panics and that is nothing i'm not saying that for any like pity or like What I experienced is nothing. But it felt horrible. Because your brain's going, what the fuck's going on? What is that? Why?

We're in the middle of nowhere. What's happening? Is it a plane crashing? Is it a little? And I cannot imagine living life in a place where we just deem their lives unworthy of living a peaceful life and putting up with the fucking bullshit that we spread all across this world. Makes it all the more. tragically poetic and ironic that Trump was bitching about the pile drivers

being loud outside the White House. 6 a.m. till 11 p.m. Can you imagine that? complaining about the construction. Oh, God, dude. We are playing with a very scary thing here. We haven't even touched upon the fact that you're talking about two nuclear powers. And yes, Israel has nukes. They're not supposed to, but they have a ton of nukes.

And America obviously has a ton of nukes. what happens when either of these countries are backed into a corner it's a fucking scary situation this is not you know this is not shit you want to play around with I don't it sucks man these are these are people's lives well at least uh at least Netflix isn't

at least not near Netflix isn't going to change right folks because the Warner Brothers Netflix uh Paramount Paramount is getting bought by fucking David Ellison has to pony up his stupid daddy's money.

He's doing a joke, but like that's the shit you know, we wanted to talk about. Let's talk about what's going on with the economy or whatever. I mean, what, we're going to tell you about the effects of this Paramount deal. The effects are that David Ellison is going to have an even more consolidated propaganda

machine. I like... No, I think it's all about making good content. That's what it's all about. It's about. It's been turning Hollywood around. Yeah. All right. Because frankly, yeah, I don't know. I've lost my, I've lost my touch

today. We, well, I'm sorry to have bummed anyone out. I'm just, look, I'm just a human. Yeah, you're scared. Dude, we're at the bar. You're scaring the girls. I don't care. I'm pissed and I'm scared. I shouldn't be out at a bar right now. The girls are like, who's your friend? He's freaking me out. Should we go home?

Should we leave the country? I'm supremely... I'm supremely pissed about what's going on. I really... Yeah, it's... I don't know. I think you said it all well. You said it best, man.

I don't know. Hopefully this all stops. Hopefully Christ comes back or some new prophet. Let's get a new one, man. God, if you're out there, just send a new one to unite the world. That's what we need. We need to kill a guy who... who said he's the, he said he's God's son.

That'll, that'll make us all feel better. We need to kill a guy. We can all rally around being like, fuck, he's not God's son. Fine, I'll do it. Everybody fucking kill me. I'll say that I'm the, whatever coming. Just kill me. You're gonna sacrifice?

Yeah, I'll do it. But it won't be like a good one. People won't praise me. It'll be like a statue that they slap and they spit at. Like, there he is, the fucker. He caused all this. I'll be the scape, like I'll harness all that energy. And I'll just implode.

we need more than that somehow we need more than that I just got pissed all over again because we said sacrifice and I was thinking about Bill Ackman being like the greatest thing you could do is sacrifice yourself for other imagine being a billionaire

in your little penthouse and being like you know they sacrificed themselves man for the like for what tell me for what the silver spoon that was that was in his mouth

when he was born has just been absorbed It's been absorbed into his bloodstream. He worked hard to get into his dad's trading for... He also sucked ass. I mean, like, Jesus, J.C. Penny investing in J.C. Penny thinking that was going to turn around, thinking that you could apply Apple Store design to make J.C. Penny just as well a destination place. Shut the fuck.

If I were one of his fucking advisors, I'd be like, sir, turn around. I need to kick you in the butt because apparently you need that to come to here. amongst his other stupid-ass fucking hotels and shit. Shut up, Siri. Why would you? I'm not even talking to you. My stupid phone's like, I didn't understand. Could you say that again?

Shut the fuck up. You're just bad too. Now I'm pissed at my phone. I'm pissed at everybody. Everybody who's like, oh, why don't you have a case? Why don't you mind the fuck your own business? That's what I think about a case. Yeah, yeah.

Steve Jobs. Eat your heart out, bitch. Stupid bitch. You shouldn't have done. the magnets. You should have gotten, you should have gotten better treatment for that cancer, man. My real hope is that by the end of this, I hope we look stupid on Thursday and that this is just another thing where it's just all over on Thursday, I'd be, I'd be happy if we just killed this episode. No, I'd still put it out. I'd be happy if this was all over. Look how dumb we are. Because who

knows, Trump said, it could last four to five days, could be four to five weeks, could be four to five months. I don't know. It's all up to Donald Trump. It's his idea. Who knows? What did he say? He sets the latitude. It's his latitude or whatever fucking nonsense.

Maybe by Thursday he'll up it to four to five years. Who knows? He did say, maybe we'll go out on this. He said, if this Trump literally had to go to truth social for this one. Because I guess he saw the reporting in the Wall Street Journal and all those places where they're going, I don't know. The math seems a little confusing about. these munitions. Donald J. Trump says, the United States munitions stockpiles have at the medium and upper medium grade never been higher or better. As was stated to me today, we have a

virtually unlimited supply of these weapons. Wars can be fought forever and very successfully. Ben's messaging, so it doesn't matter. Using just these supplies, which are better than other country's finest arms, at the highest end, we have a good supply, but are not where we want to be. Much additional high-grade weaponry are stored for us in outlying country. Sleepy Joe Biden spent all of his time and our country's money giving everything to P.T. Barnum, in parentheses. What the fuck? In parentheses, Zelensky of Ukraine.

Hundreds of billions of dollars worth. And while he gave so much of the super high end away free and he didn't bother to replace it, fortunately, I rebuilt the military in my first term and continued to do so. The United States is stocked and ready to win big. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald's Day Trump. So don't worry, guys, we can go forever. This war can go forever. One last thing. I was talking earlier about Pesobic and what the, to get a pulse on what they're doing, I was looking at, guess, guess who's Twitter page I was looking at? Ben Shapiro? No, Mike Sternovich.

Oh, okay. Because he's, dude, they lost Matt Walsh. Have you seen? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Matt Walsh is. It's fucking like what is going on that Matt Walsh is like. Matt Walsh is stupid. I don't agree with this at all. This isn't what I voted for. Mavals has ceased caring about what a woman is and has moved on to what an Iranian...

What is in a Ron war? Yeah. He's pissed. He's wearing all kinds of goofy outfits and trying to... He's making a documentary. He's going into the army and being like, what is Iran? What is it? That's a bad fucking joke.

But Sernovich is starting to create a new meme or like try to steer us. He's calling it... this is the first masculine the first time we're having a masculine party in charge and doing masculine war, something like that. That's true. Here, go pull up his fucking Twitter page real fast.

I'm sure we can find it real quick. Yeah, we have never in our lifetime seen a war executed in the right wing masculine. We always got this hodgepodge of compassionate conservative, coalition of the willing, or we got the toxic feminine Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton allowing Benghazi to happen. Shut the fuck.

fuck up about Benghazi. Yesterday, a bunch of Pakistani lunatics tried to invade the embassy and what happened? They got shot. We can say to their new leader, you're going to run a stable government and you're going to do it the way that we want or we're just going to kill you. That's the masculine. The right wing

is to say, here is the line. Remember Obama would draw these red lines and then he wouldn't follow them? That's not right wing. Eventually we will get a coalition who is willing to play ball. Dude, these people are so fucking stupid. It's unbelievable. They're trying to affect regime change in Iran.

They're literally all these other countries. They might seriously have regime change in these other countries. Bahrain is on fire right now. I hope the fucker. The fucker who took me for a ride. You're seeing people in these other Gulf State countries cheer on the Iranian missiles when they hit these bases and stuff. I don't know what the fucking plan is here.

But hopefully... Gares, dude. It's the masculine. It's the masculine right wing. Look, it doesn't matter. As long as it's masculine. As long as it's masculine war, that's all I care about. The masculine, the right wing masculine driving the car on the road trip, just drinking

beer, drunk driving. Baby, calm down. Keep your eyes on the road. I'm doing this real mask like. What's that? I'm doing it real mask like. Yeah, I'm doing it real masculine. Okay.

The bonus is going to be fun. We're going to, uh... No, but seriously, we're going to talk about Ben's new health stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the stupid shit I see. shit I said to a Girl Scout. Oh yeah. Did he call her a nectrine kicker?

I stand by the nectar ring kicker thing. That was funny. Only you can decide. All right, folks. See you there. Coming up on this week's episode of Ben and Emile Show.com. I'm fucking craving me some pancakes. I love a pancake.

I think I should shave my head. Fuck it. Dude, I've been thinking about shaving my head. Are you serious? Dude, can you imagine if we both just showed up I wouldn't do it if you did it because it would be like, what are we? You know, that's insane. Who cares?

We'd look like a skinhead podcast. Yeah. We should do that. We're a skinhead podcast now. We're renaming this to the Fourth Reich and- The Hate Podcast. We want to talk to you. That would be crazy.

Well, I forgot where I was going with that. I need to get pancakes in my life. Really cool guy. He gives me like a quick 10-minute, like, you know, follow my finger. touch my, you know, making sure that you can, let me touch your butt, touch my butt now. Follow my finger. Yeah. You know, give me a catheter.

I'll give you one. He does the whole thing and I pass with flying colors. I mean, he's like, I've never seen somebody. He's like, holy shit. With a better brain than you. You can really follow fingers. Yeah. I'm fully up your asshole right now and you're staring right at.

Can you Google famous people with brain aneurysms? Yeah. Maybe Oprah has one. Yeah. Hi, I'm Oprah Infuri, and I'm trying to desigmatize brain aneurysms. Amelia Clark suffered two fatal brain aneurysms during her time on the show. What do you mean? How do you suffer two fatal brain?

Wow. Often fatal. Maybe, wow. Oh, she had the surgery. Dr. Dre, Sharon Stone, Kim Kardashian. Dude, he's fine. He made a full-icardat. Kim Kardashian found one in monitoring a small brain aneurysm?

Oh, my God. Marla Jibs? That does make it easier. Oh, okay, so now we're getting to be when we died. Tom Seizmorey actor died, passed away from a ruptured brain. Joe Biden had two clipped in 1988. It's nothing. Wow.

Okay, if Joe Biden had two clipped in 88. Yeah. Okay, that's what Google should have shown me. Honestly. Dude, Quincy Jones. Yeah. Had two.