The Ben and Emil Show - BAES 145: Is Donald Trump using the Iran War for Profit?

Episode Date: March 26, 2026

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It looks like all hell is breaking loose at airports. God bless these TSA agents. These are American heroes. 50,000 of them have been working without pay since February 14. Houston's airport is a mess. Atlanta's a mess. At 1203, President Trump told reporters he wanted a ceasefire with Iran. At 1205, he declared victory.

At 1207, he announced he was sending Marines. At 1208, he said, no boots on the ground. At 1217, he asked for a ceasefire. At 1223, he told NATO they were cowards. At 1237, he demanded Iran. open her moves at 1239. He said her moves was never closed. At 1241, he said the U.S. was not at war with Iran. At 1242, he declared victory in Iran. So far, the only thing that Americans are really going to feel is the higher gas prices. Not that that's nothing.

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How about you? How about you? Do you? Massive. Nice shirt, by the way. Thanks, pal. Can't even begin to describe it's, uh... I don't know what's going on.

The, I've asked the people. I've asked friends if they think this is what, especially over the weekend, if this is what they thought the Cuba missile crisis felt like at all. Oh, sure. I bet that was way worse. Probably way worse. Yeah. But you got to factor in. At least Kennedy was competent. Sure.

You got to factor in the fact that you just have zero trust in the person who is. The people. As we're going to get into. Yeah. How are you not anxious with who's at the helm of this whole thing? It's all just such a fucking joke. It's so ridiculous. A tremendous amount of anxiety.

So, guys, we- And not just for physical danger, but also, God, I mean, you have to, I've texted so many family members being like, hey, I don't know what's going to happen. Like, I hope you're, you know, don't make an extravagant purchase or something. It saves some... Actually do it, man. Fuck it. Make that extravagant purchase. Sure. Who knows we all might die, but if we don't,

the economy could be thrown into a tailspin. So I try to have a little bit of money scroll the way. I don't know. I was thinking on the drive over here that it might actually... We might end up getting a boost in GDP and consumer spending because people might just have a fuck-it attitude. Fuck it. I'll buy that TV. I'll buy them mango slices.

that's me at Costco. Fuck it, I'll buy them mango slices. I did. And pineapple chunks. Interesting. I mean, I guess it depends. It depends what your mindset is like. For me, I'm very nervous and, you know, I don't want to, I don't really want to spend money on anything.

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So sign up, Beninamilshow.com, and we'll be posting the phone number for you to call and leave a question for us. So this episode, we're going to be talking all about, boy, oh boy, we're going to be talking, going to give you a comprehensive timeline of what's happened, get you up to speed with what's going on with Iran. And literally moments ago, we just got some headlines that are very relevant to our show. We have to go through. We're going to go through this insane trade that came in on Monday morning. A couple of them. Regarding the Iran. And then we're going to talk about travel and planes and whether or not it's safe to be out there and flying. Because I'm very, you guys know me.

I'm a bit of an optimist and I kind of am like, eh, you know. But lately, I'm like this. Like, even though this was fully human error, well, I guess they typically are in one way or another. maybe 9-11, this is probably the most uneasy. Because as a child, I was a bit like, we're going to get on a plane to Greece right now? And also, I remember JFK for some reason, JFK Jr, it was splashed all across

magazines and that one kind of freaked me out. He was splashed all across the ocean. Because that's where his plane ended up. The news of it was flashed on. And I remember being in the terminal, my dad, going, JFK Jr's a fucking idiot. Like, he's... It's so funny, my dad was devastated

because he really liked the guy. Well, he was calming me down. He was like, you know, this guy, these pilots are trained. It's nothing like. If looks could pilot a plane, he'd be alive. But unfortunately. But he should have never been flying at night. Yeah.

He was very inexperienced. The hubris on that guy, you would think that he would have been a little more, I don't know, he's probably too busy fighting with his wife. Would you shut up back there? She's sipping a martini. Anyway, okay. So, man, here we are. Last Thursday, Netanyahu with his dumb monkey face,

he looks like a chimp. He's a strange-looking guy. He's a strange-looking guy. He kind of looks like one of my uncles, my uncle Jeff. Like if my uncle Jeff lost a little weight and... He does, you know who he looks like? What? Who?

He looks like Androsse from Star Fox 64. Androsse. How do you even spell that? A-N-D-R-O-S-S. Andros from Star Fox 64? Wow. Yeah, he kind of does. That first one on the left, top left?

I have an announcement to make the country of Israel is going to be attacking. I bet you didn't know that I could do a little bit of BB, huh? I honestly... We're going to be dropping bombs on Iran because the government of Iran has

nuclear weapons and we are going to shut off. I'm going to jump off a bridge. He looks like also Winnie the Pooh, a little bit of Winnie. I look like Winnie the Pooh. If you say that about me, that's anti-Semitic

and you should be ashamed of yourself. I know, I saw, if you go back to the Androsse one, I saw the ones with the, he's got the hands. Scroll down. Scroll down. Oh yeah, I mean, that. I'm like, oh, Jesus, someone's gonna.

Someone's going to. It was Andros a bad guy? He's like the bad guy. I'm looking to take that. Look, go to see that game over one with the hands that looks like a, that looks like a, that looks like a,

anti-Semitic conspiracy. Well, so Bibi said it could end earlier than we expect on Thursday. And then Friday, Trump said he doesn't want to ceasefire with Iran. But then when the market closed, he said, we're considering winding down. So just immediately flip-flops within hours, within minutes. And then that caused the market to spike after hours. And I'm sitting, thank God, I was still at my computer. I was like, holy shit, and I'm buying a bunch of stuff.

This has also been, this has been every day. It's been like this. Someone did a little timeline of just basically less than an hour here where how confusing this has all been. At 1203, President Trump told reporters he wanted to ceasefire with Iran. At 1205, he declared victory. At 1207, he announced he was sending Marines. At 1208, he said, no boots on the ground.

At 1211, he said he did not want a ceasefire. At 1216, he declared victory again. At 1217 he asked for a ceasefire. At 1223, he told NATO they were cowards. At 1229, he said Iran was begging for a ceasefire. At 1231, he said everything was perfect. At 1236, he said $500 oil was a good thing. At 1237, he demanded Iran open her moose.

At 1239, he said her muse was never closed. At 1241, he said the U.S. was not at war with Iran. At 1242, he declared victory in Iran. When was that? What day was that? Today? This is March 22nd. Oh, great. Okay, so that was Sunday.

Jesus God. Yep. Because then over the weekend, everybody's all breathing a sigh of relief, the market at least, going, okay, maybe this is all winding down, as he said, we're considering winding down. But then over the weekend, Trump tweets out this 48-hour ultimatum. He says that 48 hours from exactly now, Iran has 48 hours from exactly right now to, what, surrender? Open the straight of Hormuz, or they're going to start hitting, they're going to start hitting energy infrastructure things like their electrical infrastructure, all that kind of stuff.

And then the futures market opens up on Sunday evening, 6 p.m. Well, and Iran said, go ahead, do it. We'll start hitting all kinds of. Water desalination plants, yeah. Every kind of infrastructure thing all across the Middle East. Yeah, water desalination plants is probably the biggest one. And this would basically, this is what I'm talking about. when this weekend, I was wondering if it felt like Cuban missile crisis.

Probably not. But you have Trump being a madman saying, I'm going to cripple their energy infrastructure. And Iran, who is basically fighting a war for survival, but it's like, all right, well, then we'll just destroy the world economy. Yeah. And terrifying. I was going, I guess we'll just see what happens Monday and Tuesday. Yeah. Nothing we can do.

Well, so what always is an indicator for me, and I would encourage a lot of you to do this as well, is I look at what the market is doing because they know better than anybody, typically, until recently, because, yeah, with all the insider trading, it's all just one big manipulation going on by Trump and his inner circle. But I'll get to that in a sec. Market starts to open up and look a little shaky on Sunday, but not that bad. I was expecting like two, three percent down. it was like quarter of a percent. I'm shot. Half a percent. I'm here. I'm like you before COVID. Every week I'm going, what the fuck would it take?

Well, and then early Monday. Dreatening to throw it all into hell is just not enough. So early Monday morning, about 7.30 Eastern time, Trump tweets out that good news. Back channel negotiations have been occurring and they're positive. and the market immediately rips. It's really funny, too, because all this is going, this massive thing moving the market is, it's got a, it's a Trump truth with typos and everything.

I am pleased to report that the United States of America and the country of Iran have had over the last two days very good and very productive conversations regarding a complete and total resolution of our hostilities in the Middle East. Based on the tenor and tone of these in depth, detailed and constructive conversations, which, spelled like a witch that rides a broom,

will continue throughout the week. I have instructed the Department of War to postpone any and all military strikes against Iranian power plants and energy infrastructure for a five-day period. Subject to the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions, thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.

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hastily written out, probably literally on the toilet or something. And extremely hyperbolic for many reasons. Yes. Five minutes before that, someone out there bought, and we'll find a good image of this and posted up there. Someone bought $1.5 billion in notional S&P futures, meaning it wasn't literally $1.5 billion. dollars it was that's how many um that's how much how much the options controlled so it was more like probably a couple hundred million but still and then someone also sold sold short a hundred

two million dollars worth of oil futures and you can see everybody's talking about it because everybody can see it's not some conspiracy you see the spike in the volume which was very unusual for that time because it was before the market actually opened it's very illiquid and uh yeah and then five minutes later he tweets his thing. It's fucking... I believe it's 14 minutes. It's 14 minutes. Excuse me.

Obviously, someone new. I wouldn't be surprised if it was fucking Trump himself or one of his dipshit asshole cocks sucking motherfucked sons. Because who's going to stop them? Who is going to step?

Who's going to fucking hold them to account? It would be so easy for them to to get the SEC and get the fucking the information from the brokerages and have a hearing and get to the bottom of who this was.

But it's not going to fucking happen. It's just not. This is where we are. Trump has effectively conditioned the market to move up or down on his whims and he knows it now. All he has to do is tweet the right thing. He knows he can be brash

and hard as soon as the market closes on Friday and then be Mr. Tough all weekend. and then starts to soften up come Monday so that the market doesn't freak out. And now the market is attuned to it. It's so crazy making because everybody knows it collectively. It's such a joke. Everybody knows that he's willing to just lie to appease markets.

In the market, everybody knows that he's lying. Everybody knows that it's all bullshit, but it's still... And on that point, he is fully lying. multiple sources from Iranian government. Oh yeah. Immediately said... Leaders of parliament. All kinds of spokespeople have come out and been like,

we have not talked to them. We are not talking to them. And in fact, every time we do talk to them, they use it as cover to bomb the shit out of us. So we're actually all good on that. Yeah. He claimed that talks were going well

and he postponed his 48-hour window. I think he changed it to five days or something, which incidentally, lines up with the market closing on Friday. Yeah, the Iranian military, because they're obviously kind of split right now. The Iranian military is pumped and they're like, yeah, you know why he's saying that? It's because we're winning. Meanwhile, the Iranian government says he's a liar who requested negotiations, but Iran did not respond to the request. In fact, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, let's open this up. These two messages from him. This is, I, I,

I can't say his name. I don't know how to say his name. Give it a guy. No, it's fine. Gally buff. Yeah, that seems like what I would say. Number one, out of two tweets. Iranian people demand complete and remorseful punishment of the aggressors.

Us. All Iranian officials stand firmly behind their Supreme Leader and people until this goal is achieved. No negotiations have been held with the U.S. and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the U.S. and Israel are trapped. Yeah, no fucking shit. Well said, sir. I mean, this is the thing.

It's unfortunate because a lot of people are giving a lot of credence to things that the Iranian government is saying because they feel like they can rely on that more than their own government, at the very least, their own president. and that's not just people like us. Here, I'm going to say, it just reminded me, I'm going to send this to you, Connor. Just play this. This is not some shit lib, fuck it.

This is former CIA director John Brennan. Let's see what he has to say about who he trusts more in this moment. Iran, like, they are an authoritarian regime who's known to lie. But, like, I'm confused. What is going on? me calm me down well I tend to believe Iran more than I do that's crazy because he could not acknowledge the truth even when it is he slapped in the face with it repeatedly and it's clear that you know he is flailing right now he's trying to figure out how he's going to get out of this

debacle that he has created and so he's going to make these claims about negotiations that the Iranians now are sending signals that they really want to make a deal and indicates that it's going to make a deal on our terms I don't think anything close to the truth in that They may be talking to people indirectly, and we know that the Turks and the Egyptians are trying to find some way to mediate this problem. So there could be some members, you know, distant members of parliament that are out there. They're speaking individually. But I don't believe there's anybody speaking authoritatively right now on behalf of the Iranian government with the Trump administration. Okay, that's good.

Just wild stuff. I mean, you basically have former CIA director, John Brennan. and saying similar things to the Iranian parliament leader. Apparently, a senior Iranian official tells Al Jazeera that the United States has so far rejected their two main conditions. Number one, payment of compensation and recognition of aggression toward us. So basically, you're pissing in the wind, Iran, because you're never going to get that from...

You want an apology from Donald Trump? well but here's the thing i mean pissing in the wind for me pissing in the wind is going to meet those reject real estate moguls jack off and whitkoff and fucking Jared Kushner these guys have no idea what they're talking about

other other intelligence officials I'm blanking on his name I mean so many have said it that in the original talks what iran put forth to them was so good but these guys are so stupid that they literally couldn't understand what was put in front of them. Well, yeah, it might have been in Arabic.

And so that's... Oh, I can't read this. It would probably be Farsi, I guess. But they, you know, that's going to... That's pissing in the wind. You're going to talk to these guys who every time it's been cover.

And you get back from negotiations. That's 5D chess, dude. Oh, Jesus. Christ. They're bombing the shit out of us. And so now they're at this point where, like, Trump's put them in a position where how do you even, if you want out, if you're Iran, you want out, how do you even get any kind of concession where you're like, oh, yeah, I trust that you're not going to just try to destroy us in two months, four months, six months.

Or trust that whatever he says today holds true tomorrow when he decides to just fucking... I genuinely don't know how, I don't know what assurance is. if you're Iran, you could actually trust at this point. Yeah. And this is what we've done this with so many countries across the globe, including our own allies. When Donald Trump dies in office, which I pray to God, it happens, the celebrations around the world, it very well might briefly, briefly unite the entire globe. There will be, it'll unite the globe for a beautiful week. And everybody will be celebrated.

All of the beautiful tweets we're going to be getting from right-wing freaks like, You guys, you mean! We need to fire them. We need to get them fired. Shut up, you stupid, bitch. I saw him dancing in the street. Yeah, and you know what? Try to fire me.

Come after me, bitch. Ah, God, man. Do you remember that there's a famous video of this old white, white hair, short little college coach? He's like a football coach. And he's like, he's all. Oh, yeah, yeah. People going into the locker room and they're like, this is me pulling over and going into whatever building,

immediate as soon as it happens. And everyone knows what he's talking about. Yes. But this is, I mean, just to really hammer home how confusing this is right now, Iran might not even, can you play the clip I just said? They might not even, this man seems to think the war is over. We've won this. This war has been won.

The only one that likes to keep it going is the fake news. I mean, the New York Times, you read the New York Times, it's like we're not winning a war where they have no Navy and they have no Air Force and they have no nothing. And we literally have planes flying over Tehran and other parts of their country. They can't do a thing about it. Okay. If I want to take down that power plant, that very big powerful power plant, they can't do a thing about it. It's like, take me. That's all they can do.

And yet, if you read the New York Times or if you're watching the United States or if you're watching, ABC fake news or NBC fake news, you'd say it's a close battle. It's not a close battle. And so that is, that's the Department of State. That's the Department of State. Fucking sick of this piece. That's the Department of State's Twitter account. They posted that today at 12.15 p.m. And this is his view of the war. And apparently

the Department of State's view of the war, this thing is one. And so that just illustrates this guy has no idea what's going on. Yeah, you might be flying planes over Tehran, but that's not how this war's going. Yeah. There's clearly a dead man switch here. You had no idea what you were getting into. You don't understand anything that's going on.

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Well, so then, as of yesterday, I was seeing that some Israeli official was saying on Israeli television that Washington has set April 9th as the date to end the war and also says that contacts are underway to arrange a meeting between senior Iranian and U.S. officials in Islamabad later this week with J.D. Vance being considered as the senior official to join the meeting. And Israel then reported that Iran is ready to offer, quote, very significant and serious. concessions regarding its nuclear program, but the likelihood of reaching an agreement is low. And then just before- They were ready to fucking do that. Yeah.

They were like, dude, I just can't. Well, so- President Trump could have gotten a better deal than Obama got. And he could have ended this thing and been like, I did it. I told you guys I could renegotiate the Iran deal. Instead he, I don't, go ahead. I'm sorry. No, no.

I don't understand. I don't understand. Well, and then just before we started recording, minutes before we started recording, an unconfirmed report from Israel's Channel 12 news says that there is a framework in place for a month-long ceasefire that is being spearheaded by Whitkoff and Kushner. And judging by, let's see if the market is immediately spiking up, and it is staying, up, which indicates that people are either everybody's willing to believe it or

just wants to believe it or whatever. But then I was also seeing that there were a bunch of brand new polymarket wallets opened, like a dozen of them. Oh, of course. And all had bets spread out on a ceasefire by the end of the month up to April 15th. So take with that what you will. Probably going to happen.

That's my guess because now that's what you got to go by is hey, what are the absolute corrupt asshole insiders doing? I mean, that's what also gets me is they're only going to make like a million dollars so much is going to pay in up? Well, yeah, I mean, if you've got the resources

in the capital that these butt fuckers have. Well, I guess there's, I mean, doing it with Polymarket is probably a little more sketch. Look, I obviously hope that, I hope that is true. I want this to end as soon as possible. I think this is horrific, obvious.

So far, the only thing that Americans are really going to feel is the higher gas prices. Yeah. Not that that's nothing. We're getting close. I saw it. I think the cheap one I go to now just to hit $5.69 by my house. SoCal gas? Are you one of those guys?

No. I don't even know what it's called. Man, I treat my car right. I go to 76. But they, as soon as I get above like six bucks, because I get a 15-gallon tank, I'm going to start paying $100 every time I want to fill my tank. That's massive.

That's crazy. That's a lot of money. Across the world, it is, it's getting bad for people already. Philippines has declared a national emergency over high fuel prices. They got a four-day work week that they've instituted to reduce energy.

Yeah, a lot of people are doing all kinds of oil shock, deja vu. Thailand may revive 1973 emergency law. Southeast Asia shuts offices, limits travel. Countries such as Indonesia and Vietnam heavily depend on fuel imports and have limited energy reserves.

Slovenia becomes the first EU country to introduce fuel rationing. Hundreds of petrol stations across Australia run out of fuel as Labor Inc. supply deal with Singapore. So this is already, someone pointed out on Twitter, they're like, this feels like in the pre-COVID lead-up where people were posting things

that were happening across the world being like, I don't know, it looks pretty bad over there. It's like this wave cresting towards us. Yeah. And yeah, so I want this to end as soon as possible. I think even if it ends today, if Trump is right and the war actually is over and it's just the fake news media keeping it going, we're still going to have knock on effects that are going to massively fuck shit up.

The liquid natural gas thing is already going to, I don't think anybody even knows what that's going to entail yet. That's the thing. Oh, yeah. But my thing is, I just don't think Iran has any. has any urgency to do this right now. I don't know why they would. I don't know what's on the table for them.

And it does not seem to be going great for the U.S. either. I think we're not getting the full picture. I think it feels almost like there's a little bit of a blackout or the things we do get seem very weird. We've talked about all those, you know, oh, you know, just 3 F-15s flew out of the sky because, you know, that's less embarrassing than them being shot down. We just, an F-35 apparently is, has suffered like a very bad crash.

Well, yeah, the pilot was coughing. You can't cough. Iran said they hit it, but America's like, no, no, no, that's our unkillable plane. The pilot had a bad. It wasn't hit. And the pilot did suffer some shrapnel injuries, but it wasn't hit. Trust us. And now USS Gerald Ford is being docked in Crete for the next 12 to 18, maybe even

two years, 12 to 18 months. Because of the poop thing? No, they're saying that there was a fire on board. The best we can find out is that it was a because they forgot to clean the lint out of dryers.

That'll happen. That'll happen, brother. I don't know. Where did you get that from the fake New York Times or the fake NBC? I just can't. Fake? I can't imagine.

I feel like it's been hit and they don't want to tell us. get a load of fake news guy over here it's okay fine there was a little there was a fire on the from the dryer and it's 18 months out of commission our most our most state of the arts maybe the biggest aircraft carrier in the world

Gerald Ford yeah floating city those things it's a lot of lint it is a lot of lint I mean when you think about it those those motherfuckers do be doing a lot of laundry It's like 5,000 people. I'm not saying, I don't know anything. I'm just, I obviously don't know either.

This is what they're telling us. I'm like, okay, fine. God, I would hate to be on a ship like that. So, but like, I'm like, what's worse? Our planes are just falling out of the sky. That's, that's better than it's just being shot down. And like, literally taking out our floating city, our most prize possession. Our most prize possession.

this beautiful, massive war fighter we built is, it couldn't withstand some some... Pesky lint fire? Some large loads from the

80 second airborne. What are you telling me? That's less embarrassing? I think for me that the damage is just the trust about, this is all about trust. I can't... How are we supposed to

trust that anything is fucking real coming out of the coming out from anywhere, man. I don't know. I can't, I can't trust that, yeah, what the administration is saying is the truth or what anybody's. I am just lost. I really have no concept of what's real anymore and what's the truth. And that's the kind of the point. That's already. The truth is what they say it is. That's, but people are getting fed up with it. That's already having massive effects on, on the economy. This is from the financial times. China touts its safety and reliability to global CEOs. Premier Lee Kang told more than 70 chief executives gathered in a excuse the pronunciation here, the Iyutai State guesthouse for the government's

annual Davos-style meeting that the world's second largest economy offered an unmatched supply chain and a predictable commercial environment. The country was committed to being a cornerstone of certainty and a harbor of stability in the face of rising trade protectionism and upheaval in the rules-based international order, said Lee. This is in quotes, China will unsworship, Promote high level, opening up to the outside, import more high-quality foreign goods. Unswervingly, you've ever seen a Chinese guy drive? And work with all parties to promote the optimized and balanced development of trade, jointly expanding the global economic and trade pie, he told the audience. And yeah, why wouldn't you?

By the way, that was just me predicting what Trump might say. Now, he's actually insanely racist. He said it. That is quite literally what he would say. He would focus on theirs. Did you see the... I can't even... Oh, no, what? I'm just like... Did I see what?

The... Him talking to the Japanese woman. Oh, yeah. When he said the Pearl Harbor thing? And she just kind of went, Oh, what? It made me watching at home... Well, yeah, he's a fucking...

Oh, my God. He's not all there. God. They go, well, if you had all this planned, why didn't you tell, like, uh, so-and-so? And he goes, he looks at the Japanese woman and it was like, well, they didn't tell us about Pearl Harbor. Did you believe that?

Would they have, they really come on a car. We're going to invite to clip in here because I don't, I feel like some people might go, you got, you can't be serious. Well, one thing you don't want to signal too much, you know, when we go in, we went in very hard. And we didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Okay. Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor? Okay.

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senators, uh, yeah, the House who are just every time they get airtime going, we need to remove, we need to impeach and remove this man from office. He is. That's a great point. Like, I don't know. And hopefully that movement just grows. And I'm like, anytime you are on a podcast, on CNN, on Fox, on writing op-eds in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and what it. Just talk about how we need to get our government back. It's been hijacked.

And some, of course, there's always people in your replies. And I literally put, when I tweeted it out, the first thing it says that even if it's not successful. Why is this not happening? Why is your focus not on this? And so many people are obviously like, it would never happen. It would know. That's not the fucking point. And then they were like, and even if it did happen, you advanced. And I'm like, yes, but at least you prove that you cannot just act in this manner. This is a great point, brother. That is a great. Amen, brother. At least you prove that it still functions as it should. Right. We're not going to look. And you can go, you can go down the line of like, yes, presidents

have acted with authority they didn't have, but we're clearly at a point where action needs to be taken. Well, and it's not just, it's not even just the... And if you're running for Congress, Senator, I don't care what... Say, and

I support that movement in Congress right now. We need to impeach and remove this man. It's beyond just the unpredictability and the chaos and the country quite literally like falling apart, it's major, some major,

things are not functioning as they should, as we'll get to with the air traffic control and TSA. A first world, the number one biggest economy from the richest country in history can't even get people on fucking planes in a timely manner because these stupid dipshits running the whole damn thing can't seem to agree on anything because it's all been,

it's all been changed irreparably, over the last 10 years from fucking Trumpism. And so it's all of that. But then on top of that, it's the blatant, obvious, in your face, shameless, shaking down of everyone and everything with this fucking insider trading that happens every fucking time. He sends out a tweet. It's disgusting.

And on top of this, when I'm talking about this removal, I'm also talking about a movement to prosecute all this shit. You know, if you, care about this country just being absolutely shaken down and turned into a kleptocracy. They don't give a flying fuck. Yeah. It's, there needs to be energy

around that. Well, so let's switch gears. There was a really tragic accident late Sunday at New York's LaGuardia airport when a, I believe it was a CRJ, thank God it was a smaller plane. And thank God it wasn't on its takeoff

role and it was instead landing. It had already landed It was an Air Canada Express flight. It collided with a fire truck that was crossing the runway. The fire truck was responding to a separate incident that was an aborted takeoff because of a stinky odor in the cabin. Can you imagine the guy who's responsible for that stinky odor? Like your farts literally killed two innocent pilots. It was a fart confirmed?

I don't know, but it could have been. Could have very well been a fart. What if it was like a child doing a prank with a stink bomb? I think they know the difference between a fart and a... And a smell you need the fire department for. I think it was, yeah, I think it was like jet fuel smell or burning smell or something. And Senator, what's his name? Duffy? Yep.

Duffy, the, Sean Duffy said that LaGuardia actually has good staffing and it currently has 33 of its target goal of 37 air traffic controllers. But it was clearly one guy doing the work of two people. One guy doing the ground ops and one guy doing the landings and takeoffs. That's what I don't understand. I'm obviously not as well versed in the airport airplane world. Yeah. I don't understand how he's saying that. And then also this guy is doing, and I saw people talking about it online, if he's doing both roles.

Clearly, they're not very well-staffed. Yeah. Yeah. It sounds, it also sounds insane to be running both of those things. And that poor guy, I was looking on the whatever subreddit, aviation or ATC or something, but all these people are just some of them are pilots who were saying

I fly into LaGuardia often and I've worked with that air traffic control guy recognize his voice he's really really good he's been there for a long time and he's like a professional and he's been the only guy

in the tower multiple times when I've been coming in and out and it's super busy and stuff so it's like and the guy even says you hear him on the we won't play it but you can hear him on the recording telling the fire truck to stop multiple times.

Even though he did give it permission at first, he realizes, oh shit, there's a mistake. Stop, stop, stop, stop. It doesn't hear him for whatever reason. The fire truck is just, and then, yeah, there's video of it. Yeah, we're not going to play any bit. It's all pretty gruesome. Even just listening to him talk and talk about how he fucked up. Yeah, because then he's talking to a frontier airlines pilot and he says, like, I really messed up.

And the guy says, no, man, you did the best that you could. it's just tragic all around. There was a near collision earlier this month at LaGuardia. Oh, no, at Newark, excuse me. And a plane also bumped another plane when it was parked, both at Newark. Last year, there were apparently more than 1,600 runway incursions, meaning near accidents, which is down 7% from the year before. And in most cases, there was enough time to avoid an accident.

That's what freaks me out. Do you wonder how many times you've been on one of those, if you've been on one of those flights where there was nearly a runway incursion? Yeah, I mean, that's what freaks me out. Getting this kind of peek behind the curtain of just how strapped we are. Infrastructurally, just you have a guy running both when he shouldn't be just near misses. The same day, there was also a ground stop. On Sunday? No, wasn't this?

This was Sunday, late Sunday. Oh, yeah, okay. the same day in Newark, there was a ground stop because they had reports of smoke in one of their air traffic control things. Awesome. Someone's probably vaping. Somebody's hitting that vape. Shouldn't be doing that. And then, yeah, just as a reminder, I mean, folks, if you're looking for a career that pays well and stuff, considered being an air traffic controller because this country needs them. It's got a really high dropout rate, though. I think like 90% of, people who enroll end up dropping out. I believe last year, I want to say a... Dropping out of the program.

Because it's, I think it takes like six years. So there's a guy, I forgot who it is. There's a guy... You can become an ice agent like 300 times over. But there was, someone's proposing to drastically reduce that because they're like, it does not take six years to become adept enough at this to, to, to, to, to, do the job. It seems like more than anything, we just need enough people to be staffed up. Yeah. But I think I want to say out of 3,000 enrolled or something, only 160 ended up completing it last year. God, damn. Like there were, yeah, let's see. 30 to 50% of trainees fail to certify at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. Roughly 30 to 35% of students do not complete the training. Others drop out during subsequent on-the-job training with overall Academy to

facility washout rates often reaching 40 to 50%. So I was a little bit off there. So, yeah, it's a tough job. I knew an air traffic controller guy. I think I mentioned that. His name was Steve, and he had a permanent nervous laugh. Hey, guys. That's terrible.

He was an old. This is when I was a teenager. Do you know if he was born with it or if he did? He might have just been that way. Because this is back in... This is back in the early 2000s. Well, I hope he didn't develop that from being an air traffic controller. No.

He's a really nice guy. It sounds like a pretty nerve-wracking job, I got to say. Yeah, dude. I played an air traffic control video game on my phone. And that was stressful. Got to reroute the planes and a helicopter. Oh, shit, here comes a helicopter. Oh, you got to make them not crash.

But it eventually just builds and builds and you eventually lose because they crash. But... Oh, and then, yeah. you got ice agents are apparently 150 agents have been sent to airports around the country to stand around and look at their phone. Stand around and they're getting paid, but TSA agents aren't. Right. Which is honestly the best we could ask of ice agents.

Obviously very nerve-wracking to hear that ice agents are now going to be in airports. Already have some, it's probably not even worth playing. No, it's too sad. It's like you can imagine it's a mother at SFO being who apparently from the reporting I've seen is a U.S. citizen just being ripped away from her daughter doing what ICE does. But yes, this is a, this is the next escalation in Democrats are not funding the DHS bill because they don't want the money going to ICE, which they shouldn't. there have been there's been reporting and multiple multiple senators themselves saying that they were ready to strike a deal with Democrats and Trump has told them no.

I believe this is from Punchbowl reporting. Senate Republicans would support funding all of DHS except ICE, the agency at the Senate of the better partisan dispute over Trump's immigration crackdown. And then ICE funding could be handled later in a party line. reconciliation bill, so they would still be able to ram it through anyway. But Trump said no, according to multiple sources. The president wants Republicans to stay in D.C. and keep fighting with Democrats over DHS funding. Not only that, Trump warned that he'd publicly slam Senate Republicans if they left town for the upcoming recess. Trump also said he did. Two weeks off coming up.

Yeah. So, and then Senator Kennedy, the Republican, also went on TV and said the same exact thing. He said he went to Trump and was like, we can get this done. And we can also get. get the ice stuff through reconciliation. And Trump was like, no, we will not work with the radical Democrats. Damn, dude. Fucking cock sucking piece of shit. So there's no one to blame but Trump on this one. It looks like all hell is breaking loose at airports.

Well, 50,000, God bless these TSA agents. These are American heroes. 50,000 of them have been working without pay since February 14. They're still showing up. A lot of them have called in sick and are just like not showing up, which I don't blame them for. But depending on the airport, yeah, it's, I believe Houston's airport is a mess. Atlanta's a mess.

JFK is starting to become a mess. LAX is not a mess yet. This just speaks to how fucking stupid and ineptis all is. Tom Homan said that these ice agents are just going to be chilling out. But then Sean Duffy said, oh, they could do TSA jobs. They could man the X-ray machines. But Tom Homan's like, no, because the x-ray machines, you need to be trained. And it's just, I mean, also, there's only 150 of them.

Here's Trump asked if they're going to be arresting people or if they're going to be helping as TSA agents. Will we see ICE arresting illegal migrants at airports? Arrests. Will we see ICE arresting illegal migrants at airports? Yeah, yeah. That's why the Democrats are going crazy. Because they've allowed by what they did and hold up, we put ICE, who are a very important. high level.

I mean, they really are a high level group of people. And they love it because they're able to now arrest illegals as they come into the country. Wouldn't you just love to see his head explode? That's very fertile territory. Just right there. Just pop. They're there. They're really there to help.

Are we talking to Iran? And he calls it very fertile territory. Fertile territory? And this is causing such a mess. So people from the National Transportation Safety Board when they were trying to get to the LaGuardia crash, they couldn't get through security

to come help investigate. That's psycho. It's crazy. The head of the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday that long lines at airport security checkpoints caused by the ongoing Department of Homeland Security shut down, delayed investigators arriving at the scene of a deadly collision

between a jet and a fire truck at LaGuardia International Airport. An air traffic control specialist was stuck in line for three hours at an airport in Houston. She claimed officials had to beg to see if we can get her through. Did you see what Delta said about politicians? They used to have a dedicated desk. Which is honestly great. If every airline has that, well, sorry, explain what it is.

They've got a dedicated desk for politicians for when they have to travel. And Delta said, we're not doing that anymore. Fuck you. You're going to have to deal with everybody else. Which is beautiful. I need every... I mean, they're all. all so rich, it doesn't matter. They're all going to

fucking fly private then. Not all of them, obviously. Delta issued a statement saying it would temporarily spend specialty services for members of Congress due to the impact on resources from the longstanding government shut down. Boy, those bathrooms at the airports are probably a mess going in a high gear.

Oh, dude, I'd be fucked. Gathered around pissing and shitting in the same toilets. I can't say, I mean, I guess hopefully people will let you out of line or something, but no way, I might be able to hold it for four hours. Thank God I have no travel coming up in the next couple, you know, until May, it better be fixed by then. If it's not fixed by May, I...

I'm smuggling a box cutter on it with that airplane. If it's not fixed by May, I don't even... I don't even know what that world looks like. I think... Truly, it's chaos. Well, so that's the other thing. All the... So it's not just...

And this all has me concerned about safety. For some reason, when there's long lines like that, I just... I'm worried about just safety. Who's paying TSA? Are they really paying attention with all this shit? They're understaffed, they're overworked. They're not even getting fucking paid. And the airlines themselves are saying, well, this is different from safety,

but they're raising fares, they're cutting schedules, they're rerouting flights, many of them that go through the Middle East, they're rerouting. So some flights are taking longer, which means that ticket prices are going to go up. Oh, and when you factor in how jet fuel is going to go up. Oh, yeah, jet fuel jumped from $85 to $90 a barrel to $150 to $250 to $200. in recent weeks. As you were saying earlier,

80% of Southeast Asia oil comes from the Persian Gulf. 40% of gas stations in Laos and Cambodia are closed due to shortages. Pakistan apparently just closed school. Pakistani school children closed for two weeks to conserve fuel. We had the same, no one's going to listen to it.

We had a similar order, I think, I forget what administration said it. I tweeted about it because I was like, this is so ridiculous. But they're like, you should start, working from home, you know, doing less trips to whatever, like all of this stuff to conserve energy. It's like, pal, what do you?

Is that going to help? What would these cock suckers say if it was Joe Biden asking you to make such a sacrifice? Oh, that. Oh, they'd be. This is the tyranny that they always knew was coming. We need to get our militia together to go, because this is exactly what we were talking about. Hey, maybe you can take the American Airlines bus. Check out the American Airlines bus.

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Actually, it might not be that bad. Apparently it does get stuck in traffic a lot and you can miss your flight. Oh, yeah. You don't say. You know, you don't say. But it does offer the same amenities as a flight. Yeah. This is my, this is my favorite amenity they're offering right now. I'm sending it to the American Airlines? No, the, so apparently

the lines are so long, they're hiring some live entertainment for the people. No fucking way. This is Atlanta? Yeah, I would lose my mind. Just play it for a little bit. No one else. No one else can feel the rain on your skin. someone probably I bet a commenter knows the reason why

but airlines love horrible like music editions of popular songs because that was what Natasha Beddingfield the rest is still unwritten I don't know what's going on

on Delta you land or before you're taking off and they're just piping in uh we're fell in love in a hopeless but it's just like just loud and it feels like you're at a dentist office

It's crazy. It makes me feel, it makes me want to cry. It makes me want to cry. I'm like, please turn it off. This isn't happy. They must only have so many songs that they have the rights to because after about like 16 minutes, the same song comes back on it. You're like, no, I can't do the music version, the musical version of...

And you know that the Delta CEO is like, we hear a Delta want to make this a premium experience. We're going to pipe in shitty music for you while you wait. So it's a pleasant... It's like nobody wants to hear that shit. everybody's fucking miserable when they're traveling including your own fuck if I was the if I was the flight attendants I would not press that button

just leave it silent don't don't don't do what the corporate overlords tell you to do don't hit play I would run it up the ladder I'd go it seems to make them irritable I don't think they like it it's condescending they're not liking musak versions of Rihanna

it's making them crazy sometimes it is just the real song but man oh man you know what the only time I get the real song. I don't know what airline it is, but it's the original songs that feel like they're from an alternate universe or something. They're like, they're artists you've never heard before. You see it on the screen,

and it's just that... We've got exclusive tracks on American Airlines Radio from... Yeah, Tommy Bones and the Jones Gones. Jones gang. And... Did it phone a do, yeah. Oh, do, yeah.

And on the... on the jazz radio station. Nobody's fucking listening to that radio station. Sorry, go on. It's, they're gonna, someone, they're gonna drive someone to madness. Someone's going to kill someone in line. They were doing that on American Airlines, actually.

I'm just now remembering it. And it was, uh, I didn't know who this guy was and I'm sorry, but they kept advertising for South by Southwest. Nathaniel Raitliff in the, in the, crummy bones or something. And they were like,

you can watch all the, it's just like American Express sponsored blues showcase for South by Southwest. And I'm like, I don't want to, I'm not going to watch this fucking sweaty guy with a cool hat. Performance shit that I've never heard of. Yeah, this guy. That is such an amazing. He's apparently really good. I sure.

He's probably fine. But man, if that ain't an American Airlines featured artist on American Airlines TV, God. fuck you. Oh, look at that. Look at all those denim shirts, man. You know it smells crazy. I wore my denim shirt today. Yeah, but well, I also wore my denim shirt.

That is the most 2014 image I've ever seen. Buddy, you can wear a bigger shirt. Oh, yeah. Let the belly breathe. Anyway, I'm sure that guy's very good. Good Lord. These are... Unbelievable.

Look at the got on the left. I know. His kerchief around it. Is anyone else going to go Hat Kirchiff? Because I was thinking of doing Hat Kirchiff. No, not me. Well, now for a... Let's round it out with a little RIP, shall we?

We can play some nice, sad music. Rest in peace to the founder of Onlyfans. His casket was surrounded by... Naked ladies. Naked ladies. Matt Walsh tweeted, like, he's a smut peddler. And he's burning in...

hell. Can you imagine your legacy being one of just peddling absolute filth and people were being like, what do you think we're going to be saying about you when you die, dude? Oh, it's not going to be nice, pal. I don't think I'm even going to acknowledge it. I'm just going to be like, oh, he died? Huh. He died doing what he loved, asking people what a woman is. And also, Charlie Kirk's mentor died after a choking on a pickle ball, apparently. Yeah, he choked on a pickleball. A freak? What else could

a freak? The subject just Charlie Kirk's mentor dies after a freak pickleball accident. Yeah. Oh no?

I thought this was an ice cube. Apparently he just fell and beefed it super hard on the pickleball court. 76 years old. Befitted.

Severe head injury. You don't say. The hell were you, what were you guys doing? Oh man. They were going hard with the pickleball, man. Yeah.

And his family just decided to take him off life support. You know what? Unplug it. Unplug it. We don't want to deal with that.

Is that his wife or is that his daughter, girlfriend? What does it say? I can't read that. It's my daughter, daughter, daughter, his daughter. I'm, I'm sure. It's very tragic when someone loses a father. Our hearts go out to the families of the only fans founder and Charlie Kirk's mentor.

Yeah, two men we did not name by name. Listen, hey folks. So a couple of things. We are going to have a heck of a bonus episode today. And. I think that's it, actually. What else? Oh, and we're going to have our announcement.

We're going to give an update for everybody about what we're going to do. Keep an eye out for that. Ben onemaleshow.com, go there. We hope if you got a flight coming up, try your best to delay it, man. Because who knows? Or get to the airport 50 hours early. Just get there two days in advance. Also, try to tell your boss, like, hey, look, I think we should do our part as Americans.

I want to work from home. Yeah. Even if you're like a cashier or something, tell me you think it'd be best if you were doing it from home. Yeah. All right, folks. We'll see you in the bonus. Coming up on this week's episode of Ben and Emile Show.com.

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