The Ben and Emil Show - BAES 74: Trump Euphoria takes over

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

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I gotta say, I am very good at these things. When I have intuitions... Dude, I would love for something majorly positive to happen. Is it just me, or does it feel like something Chinese is about to happen? You know what I mean? I don't. I'm having... What did they put in this cold room today?

I love just to... You know what I mean? What do you plan it? I'm not planning anything. Dude, I like it when you were being fucking positive. You're just freaking me out now. I'm just saying it's entirely possible. It would just be too poetic to have Trump back in a...

office and get another pandemic. And this time, all the same people who were like, I know I'm not, now I'm pivoting and saying it could be a negative thing. It could be negative. I'm looking down tired with baby on me. Tell me what's going on. Tell me what's going on. So listen to a baby to me.

Tell me what's going on. Tell me what's going on. all right wow we're back it's episode 74 we've got a god good golly miss molly we got a big great big chunky sexy how big this thing oh man it looks so good naked i can just picture it oh man thickums a veritable thickum curvy is all get out curvy is all get out don't just say what i say well so we're going to be this This episode we're going to be talking all about. Everybody's got questions. We're going to be talking about Trump's economy. The Trump's economy. What's it going to mean for you and your dollar? Also, before we get to that, huge shout out to all the Ben and Emile show members who are now, they've become pregnant. For all the OG, all the OG people who signed up when we first rolled out, they are now, they are now showing nine month members on their things. And they've got little diamond emojis. And I just wanted to show.

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Is eight months pregnant? And they gave birth to a beautiful little diamond. Is the eight month thing? We talked about this before. This happened so much. We talk about something. I go, oh, well. No, no.

I remember that we were supposed to talk about this, but I'm like. And he goes, where are we? I just forgot. that I thought that we changed it from a diamond to, but we didn't. Okay. Yeah, huge shout to those people. But there is, we're going to, we're going to read one of the guys who said, Oh yeah, we're going to give a little tease for the comment of the week. This is from Colombo on the, on the app. He says, until I earn my monkey emoji, I feel like the keynote speaker at the micro penis convention. Don't be the keynote speaker at the

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Plot to do all kinds of things. Send mail, you know. and check us out on Friday over at stock. Oh, yeah. You're probably seen it on socials by now, but if you haven't. And if you're watching this on Thursday, tomorrow, we'll be doing it. It's going to be every single week after the market's closed. So that'll be about, I think it's going to be 1.15 p.m. Pacific standard time.

And it's just going to be a weekly market recap live stream. It's going to be super fun. It's going to be all live. It's going to be crazy. And I believe it's going to do so much cold brew. He's going to snort cold brew live probably. I've got somebody here, dear. But that's going to be every Friday of those stock twits YouTube channel, dear.

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That's good stuff. Well, folks, the election's over And if you didn't catch our live streams last week Too bad, so sad you can go, they're up on Not so sad, you can go watch them But turn this one off Don't come back to it A wise man said, yeah, don't turn this one off

A wise man said He was live tweeting the election He said, it's men versus gays and chicks What? It was Andrew Tate who said that And just I thought that guy had to go away God, I thought so too.

What a massive piece of shit. And I've said it before. Also, big ups to everyone who noticed. I did, I lost another water bottle, but it's good to be back in the thin neck analogy and game. I tell you what. I love that color. That was a rough couple weeks. That's a beautiful color.

That's a very dentist office in the 1990s color or like psychiatrist office. The glass, you know what I'm talking about? That kind of grayish olive glass. It's the greatest water bottle that's ever existed. Sorry about that. Yeah, I just, I remember years ago being on Instagram when they were just kind of figuring out the explore page. Those are there's Gays and Chicks? Yeah, Gays and Chicks.

And they were just figuring out the explore page. And they were showing me nobody's, complete, utter nobodies. Just kind of, and for some reason, it started immediately showing me like men's rights guys or like pickup artist types. And Andrew Tate was one of them. And I remember looking at him and it was just janky and he's smoking a cigar and he's like, I drive a Lamborghini and I love chicks. And you were like, this is cool.

This is... No, I remember thinking, what a clown! If I want chicks, I need to sob. I remember thinking, what a clown. It only had, not kidding, three or four likes. And I went to his profile. Just goes to show you. Keep pushing. Actually, truly.

I don't know what happened and how he broke through, but I remember bookmarking it or saving it or liking it, whatever I did, and thinking, I need to come back to this and make a video, like, making fun of this. Because at the time, I was still interested in trying to do YouTube videos. And I never did. and I just forgot about it. And then years later, I'm like, why does this guy look so familiar?

It was the same guy. And I went back through and I tried to find it and that old post was deleted because he probably cleaned up all of his shit and started fresh. It reminds me of, I was looking up something. I think it was for maybe the live stream. I was Googling, you know,

how do you do certain things? And there was a little YouTube tutorial. And the top comment was this guy being like, yeah, I've used this for my own channel, blah, blah, la. And it's helped me grow. And I was like, is this fucking nobody he doesn't have a popular youtube channel i clicked it

had a maybe like 200,000 subscribers i was like what is this guy scrolled down a little bit just the entire entirety of the content was just how to last longer in bed uh like every video new new tip what were some of the tips i didn't look damn yeah i don't have that problem

if anything i last too long and they're like can you stop now I'm done. Yeah, yeah, sure, babe. Okay, I wanted to kick this off. Wait, why did you say it's men versus gays and chicks? Just because that's what Andrew Tate tweeted about the election as it was going. It's men versus gays and chicks. Isn't it crazy it was last week?

Doesn't it feel like... It feels like it was months ago. I know. What the fuck is going on? It's hard to comprehend that it was last week. But a good friend of mine, friend of the show, Matt Grippy, had some interesting thoughts on TikTok about all of this. He was lamenting how a lot of the right has been bitching incessantly about the mainstream media.

I thought we were going to talk about the economy. We are. We're going to. We're just kicking it off because we're kicking it off with a little bit about Elon Musk too and how Tesla is just, I mean, who's really reaping the benefits here. But my friend Matt was lamenting about how they talk about the mainstream media being just the conservatives and shit online. Oh, the mainstream media's endorsed Kamala Harrison shit. And if you look at all the numbers, they're not at all mainstream.

The mainstream media is now Joe Rogan, Matt Walsh, Ben Shapiro, Candice Owens. They have the top 10, like nine of the top 10 podcasts. By a mile. Hock Tua as well. Hock Tua. I don't think Hock Tua is a conservative one, but she's definitely claimed. Oh, I'm not claiming, but she's in there. I just don't want you to talk to a.

I just don't want you to leave her out. I don't want Hocktua erasure. Yeah. But it's called talk. On the day of her announcing who Pookiee is. She announced who Puky is? We'll get to that in the bonus. Oh, boy.

Oh, boy. I mean, she really is America's sweetheart. She's the new Reba McIntyre. She's the new Reba. Your face. All right. So, of course, I would say the best. Biggest winner in the election is, I'm giving you a drum roll.

I agree, but I think it's honestly a two-way tie. Between? It's Elon and just the crypto community at large. I mean, just, it's been a tough day, just a tough week for me and seeing guys. Guys I dislike the most. Yeah. Crypto guys? Crypto bros?

I mean, Elon plus, oh, dude, watching Dogecoin go from fucking 15 cents to 50 cents, because why, why? Guy from high school who, you know, in 2022 is like, good, this is all over. I remember him posting like, I got, good news, I get to be one of the early consultants on the NFL's NFT project. I got myself a Patrick Mahomes and being like, what is happening? And when it all came tumbling down, being like, good God, we're past all that. And now him just, he literally posted something like, thank you to our Lord and Savior, Satoshi, blah, blah, blah. It's just like, fucking kill me. I got a family member.

Take me out back. Just put me down. Family member of mine posted one of those text graphic things on Facebook saying he, he won the election. Like I vote, she voted for Trump and said, like, he won the election, but we all have to remember he is not our king. Jesus is the only true king That is true, honestly That's maybe the most salient Yeah, I said preach

analysis I've heard Yeah, so far And Good for him The funniest thing about This whole thing right now Is that I really enjoy That we have these

What is it, like two or three months Of now just Joe Biden Kind of stumbling into rooms In the White House going to Yeah Did you see him Walking on the beach? In all fairness

Walking on the beach. It is hard to walk on the beach but it's not that hard. It's really hard. I liked someone being like, he's not having trouble walking on the beach. He's doing a... He's doing a dune...

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They rose back. The company gained over $200 billion in value. They went up 30% last week and another 9% so far this week to recapture the $1 trillion market cap mark. What was that? 2021? When they first hit? Oh, yeah, yeah. I believe so.

I want to say it was 2021. and then it was just a slow slide and obviously it's because the market is they see the Trump win as good for Elon good for Tesla including and especially because the tariffs will mean that China

EVs are still not going to come here I have to point out when you read about some of the stuff the Tesla and the crypto stuff included it sounds like reading the, like you're reading the pages from, you know, an indictment for a corruption case. This is, it's just like the company stock has rallied about 29% this week after Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election, and investors have grown optimistic that the former leaders

returned to the White House could benefit Tesla. Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, has been a key ally for Trump throughout his campaign, pouring at least $130 million into a pro-Trump campaign effort. It's got to be the most by an individual in political history. Biden buying elections and reaping benefits. Yeah. It's, um, and we'll get into it more with the crypto stuff. Well, and people, so like, let's play this clip from, uh, from, I believe it was Squawk Box. People are already starting to say that a vote for Trump was a vote for, um, a vote for Elon.

Yeah. And this fucking guy, everybody together on this one. I think Tuesday night showed that people want Elon Musk's voice. right in policy discussions they they voted oh i'm not suggesting you shouldn't no no but let me make a point the ethics rules you know transparency and the like we should have them yes they should not preclude us from having a person like Elon Musk who has demonstrated incredible competence including across media and transparency in the next when Barry was here right they were talking about I'm sure Elon you know when Kamala wins I'm sure Elon would want to

work for her, too, as an American way. I just want to say real fast, him saying, by the way, you know who that is? That guy? It's a former head of the SEC. Former head of the SEC says, oh, all these rules and ethics shouldn't preclude us from having someone like Elon to grace us with his genius. Dude, shut up. Shut the fuck up. No, you shut up. Gary Gensler's out, dude. He's getting the boot. We're marrying, we're marrying business and government again. It's going to be fucking sick. And to church. Bring the church on it, too. Let's play this next little part of this from Squackbox. We should figure out how to do it.

Do you remember Elon when he answered those questions from you or from Faber so totally honestly with no thought about how it was going to affect his pocketbook? Do you remember when we asked, I think it was, some, was it Barry about Jeff Bezos? And you could immediately say what he did was totally about protecting his investment in the Washington Post. I don't say that. No, I didn't say you did. But some people do. But with Elon, I don't think there's no... He's the richest guy in the world.

I don't think it has anything to do with the lining is. There's no doubt. Okay. I mean, God damn. I wish I had a... I wish I owned a bridge so that I could sell it to these gullible fucking guys. He doesn't think that... Dude, do you think Elon's doing this to line his pockets?

That's my favorite. I have seen the other sentiment. I forget who it was. Someone was saying something like, it's so clear that Elon is not motivated by me. money. I mean, it really is astounding, man. It's remarkable. I wonder if we're going to look back at him. Who was that Russian guy who like hypnotized? Resputin? Are we going to look back at Elon like a Rasputin? Elon is like treating Melania's fainting spells with weird vagina oils or something. Isn't that

what Rasputin did? I don't know. You're like, okay. Here's a perfect example. So, you know, regulatory bodies are just a bugaboo of any business. And one of the... I just like that word bugaboo. And his whole... The whole self-driving thing hinges on regulatory approval. And on the third quarter call, Musk said he would use his sway with Trump Vance administration

to establish a federal approval process for autonomous vehicles. Currently, approvals happen at the state level, which the CEO sees as a regulatory hurdle, Tesla will need to overcome once it's... finally offers more than partially automated driving systems. It's it's right there. He's saying it out loud. Yeah.

I'm going to use this to make sure we don't have to go through any of that bullshit. It's, it's, you know how we've, we've talked about here before. And we've talked on the show before about how Elon's whole thing seems to be, he believes he is the smartest guy out there. And he, he is the guy who can solve the problems. I can solve. I can help fix COVID. I can help get those little Thai soccer.

The fucking Thai soccer players. I could help build a submarine to get those Thai boys out of the game. And he's pissed if everyone doesn't get out of the way and let him lead the charge on. Yes. And this is just the ultimate. A thing he's got no experience with. Yeah. This is the ultimate thing that he's got now where, hey, I'm the smartest guy in the world.

I was able to do the, and don't get me wrong. It is remarkable. What he was, I will get down and I will, you know what, I'll give him a gentle jerk off. I'll jerk him off. I'll jerk him off. Let me jerk. Just shut up and let me jerk him off for a bit. Great job with SpaceX, bud. Great job with the cars. Not such a good job with the tunnels, but great job with the satellites and stuff. But it's also important to note he couldn't accomplish any of this without government contracts. Of course. This man is reliant on government money. Look, gutting a social media company and like trimming the fat does not translate at all to the largest

economy, the largest government the world has ever seen? Those things just don't translate. That also presupposes that that was a success. I think it depends on who you ask. I would call it a failure. He, you know, he tried to do his whole thing. He went with Andrew Sorkin, what was it a year or two ago where he's like, well, what do you have to say to the advertisers? Go, oh, fuck you. Fuck you. And he does his little fucking edge lord bullshit. And then he comes crawling back and he's like, why doesn't even want to advertise on my website? Like, they don't like the website that it's now okay to promote Nazi propaganda on. Oh, you don't want your ads? Yeah, running up against that. And it's like every company resoundingly, no, we don't.

It's, so just to remind everybody, Elon Musk is slated to be a key advisor to the Trump administration to help cut down on massive swaths of the United States government, to the tune of, like, I think, to quote him, about $2 trillion. So the guy who will be... Yeah, but it's unclear. Sure. It would be very confusing to actually make him an official member of the administration because of all of his business ties and all of this.

Yeah. But he doesn't necessarily have to have an official role to be extremely influential. Sure. Yeah. But regardless, for a guy to be, to have a voice in gutting or to pairing down some of these government agencies, most of them, including and especially the ones that regulate his own companies, is such a glaring conflict. Everybody can agree and has lamented the fact that members of Congress can trade stocks that they are also tasked with regulating. And yet nobody

seems to have a problem with this because they just believe, oh yeah, he's doing it for the good of the country, for the good of everybody. That's a great point. What the fuck, man? Everyone tweets and fucking sounds off about Congress people trading on information but they're like this I love this let the man absolutely fucking rip

and it goes back to the classic I don't remember when we were talking about going over this episode I was like what's that quote who stand just look at who stands to gain the most Elon absolutely stands to gain the most from this removing all regulatory hurdles for him to

do full self-driving um to to get i mean ultimately what we're what we're contending with here is an autistic man who's fixated on going to mars that's the big thing he's just he is you cannot get in the way of of one of the world's wealthiest most powerful autistic guys who's like i want to go to mars i want to go to mars and that's that's what he thinks is the that's his ultimate uh what he call those stim. He's stimming out. He's stimming out on a scale that we've never seen before. Hey gang, we want to take another quick break to thank a sponsor today's show. We've had him before. We know them. We love them. We use them. Shopify. They really helped us turn around

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dollars just to get Trump elected yeah I want to watch this clip real quick because he is he is making himself very present in in Trump world right now I don't know if I believe this thing what do you mean they got pictures and stuff of them no but the whole like the last two days I'm told with two kinds of

people those angling for a job and those who are trying to influence Trump into hiring their picks, but one person has loomed over all of that. His name is Elon Musk. Multiple sources tell me tonight that Musk has been seen at Mar-a-Lago nearly every single day since Donald Trump won, dining with him on the patio at times. Today, they were seen on the golf course together. Musk has been in the room when world leaders have called Trump. And tonight we've learned he's also weighing in on staffing decisions, making clear his preference for certain roles even. publicly tonight Elon Musk is backing Florida Senator Rick Scott as the next leader of the Republican Conference to replace Mitch McConnell.

While Musk himself is still not expected to take any kind of formal position inside Trump's administration, given how complicated it would be with his companies, what's becoming clearer tonight is that he doesn't really need to, with one source telling me, Elon Musk is having just as much influence from the outside. Here's my prediction. This is exactly what I believe is going to happen. we are going to see more and more a narrative that Elon Musk is the one pulling the strings Elon Musk is the one making the calls and Trump's going to get pissed off he's going to take it personally he's going to see this kind of coverage on CNN

and they are going to part ways very non-amicably well I made a note of this to say I think you already called it because there was a I think you said it last week or maybe on one of the lives or something and I didn't quite see it but the Daily Beast posted a to say today, Musk turning himself into the guest who wouldn't leave at Mar-a-Lago, apparently

starting to piss people off. And Karras Swisher, the tech journalist, said that Trump and Musk's bromance likely won't survive the pressure of two planetary-sized egos vying for space in the halls of power. They're both narcissists, and there can be only one narcissist as head of the country. And that's Donald Trump. Trump goes through people like tissues, essentially. And even if it's Musk, they're going to clash at some point. That's really great. He goes through people like tissues. Yeah. And I mean, he just does not have space for no someone else vying for yeah i think i think you're i think you're dead on after uh after seeing some of this stuff like or maybe elon will wise up and kind of get

out of the way he'll be advised to and kind of put his own ego in check to protect the um i mean he already remember when trumped that tweet of it was something along the lines of oh he'd get down on his knees and yeah beg me for whatever yeah kiss the ring whatever something like that I mean, he definitely needs to place himself above at all times. The man really is, Elon Musk really is obsessed with going to Mars. That really is, there is a part of me that's like, okay, I don't, maybe he doesn't believe in all this political shit. He just sees it as a means to his end that he wants to get civilization to Mars because he just, he's, like I said, he's so fixated. He's so overstimming on this idea that, okay, government's in my way.

What do I have to do to fix that? The only, it's so ironic that, yeah, the only thing that's in my way is the Democrats and not even the Republicans. God, I'm just thinking about a world where we just have a much looser restrictions on autonomous driving. And we're just clearing companies. Go ahead, let them out. You know, Waymo is now available to everybody. all across the country I think in California at least yeah

you don't need to we gotta get in there I see them all the time I see them all the time too but we should get in there and make a video or something people are gonna have sex back there I don't think people are gonna jerk off back there's like cameras running and stuff

inside of them I think so yeah but I mean people are still gonna do it just making porn uh yeah I guess yeah uh instead of the bang bus it's the bang Waymo thank you The Wang Waymo.

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Chat.com for $15 million or $15 million or something to open AI. Fuck me. It just, those things hurt my heart where it's like just. It's an entire industry, the whole URL thing. You go back, you just buying single words or phrases or just collections of letters. and hope that one day someone comes up with an idea and they've got to buy your thing. You need it? Yeah, you need it?

You want it? Someone did the same thing with FB, Facebook. They bought FB.com years ago. Genius. It's like millions of dollars. Oh, my God. Those are the real heroes of the economy. Yeah.

But one last thing before we go into Trump's economy is, like, there is excess in the government. There absolutely is overspending and bloat that needs to be cut. But I don't think that the way to do it is to just go in there willy-nilly guns ablazin. Because as our friend of the show, Kyla Scanlan put it in a video of hers recently, these things take time. Changes take time. It takes, you can't just go in and start fucking shit up because not only do you not know the second and third

and fourth order effects of things like the whole Department of Education that he's talking about now completely shutting down. I don't even... But things take time. But not only that, I think it's way more important

to point out that a lot of this comes from weird you know, overreach by business lobbies and things like that where you have, you know, weird rules where Medicare isn't, Medicare and Medicaid

aren't allowed to negotiate for lower prices because the pharmaceutical lobbies made sure that they had to take that out of the bill. It's just like so many, I feel like more than anything, like cut ties with the business world and actually

govern. Yeah, it is crazy making how much of an influence. The last thing you need is a billionaire being like the world just does not work the way we wanted to. The way I wanted to. Because again, it's kind of relates to the whole. I bet it's

Like, first off, it does work the way you want it to. Everything's going great. Yeah, truly good point. The world is going great, Elon, just because from your little, from high atop your castle, one of your many castles, you don't like, I don't know, that your fucking daughter is trans or your son, whatever the fuck. Jesus, man. But like I said, it's not the same as going into Twitter and gutting the certain cutting, a server farm or something.

It's the United States government, man. I wonder if it makes sense to jump ahead to the crypto stuff. First of all we're talking about all this... Yeah, why not? Because crypto... We're going to talk about it later, but it's just... Thematically, it makes so much more sense, I think. Under Trump's first term, crypto was a scam.

But now it's totally not. Which is a brilliant move. That's one of the cool... Not cool, but that's one of the smart things about this Trump campaign has been getting... getting, it's like, he's like playing money ball. It's like getting these, these communities on board with him that in the aggregate can really help you win an election. And the crypto people were, one of them, they also lobbied super hard. Yeah, well, so that's the thing. Or donated, just, just as Elon spent his $130 million, I've seen different estimates, but I think even by the most conservative estimates, the crypto industry donated around $170 million to a trio of super PACs to elect friends. friendly lawmakers. This includes, you might have heard of Bernie Marino is probably one of the most high profile crypto races for Senator of Ohio. Because Sherrod Brown was the head of the Senate

Banking Committee, one of the largest crypto critics on Capitol Hill. They ousted his ass. Just blasting, blasting money into the race. Here you go, Bernie Marino, Republican from Ohio. And he was a crypto guy. Crypto guy and car dealer, I believe. Interesting. Yeah. But, I mean, this, there's been a huge payoff here. They, 50 of the 58 general election candidates, the SuperPack supported.

The crypto SuperPay. Yeah. Yeah. Won the race. Yep. The eight others still, still too close to call. So it might be, it's just unfucking believable. And all this is paying off.

I mean, crypto is responding. I think at last it was close to $88,000 in all-time high. It hit all eights, eight-eight, eight-eight. Did it really? Yeah, today, intraday today. Christ. It's wild.

And, yeah, part of what these guys are going to be gunning for is they want reduced government oversight. And now they're going to have a way more friendly, crypto-friendly government. Right. As we stated, Gary Gensler's getting the fucking. Oh, yeah. He's not going to be bothering you anymore. I mean, anymore. I get what they're going for. They don't want to, they, they're not against regulation. They're just

against being, but they don't want to be treated like securities. They don't want to be treated like securities, exactly. They don't want to be forced to comply with conventional stock trading rules. They don't want to be governed by the SEC. They want to be, uh, they want to be governed by the commodities futures trading commission. They want to be, uh, they want to be ruled by those guys because they are way less stringent. And, um, yeah. Also, crypto. very, very, very strongly tied to young men. Young men love crypto. They certainly love their crypto.

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that they're going to be the Bitcoin president. Eric Trump, one of the president-elect sons, retweeted a meme after the election of a Bitcoin flag flying over the White House. Jesus Christ. I mean, yeah. So you got Bitcoin all-time highs. Coinbase just really absolutely broke the fuck out. Microstrategy continues to break the fuck out. All the crypto miners,

M-A, Riot, BT, BT, I mean, I could list so many tickers. They're all going nuts. Even Kathy Wood, the market environment is so risk on right now. Kathy Wood is back there. That even Kathy Wood's flagship

arc. I'll tell you what. She's Jesus provides. Yeah. There's only one king. Jesus. God. Yeah, like God.

Yeah. Same thing. Yeah. Whoever. But boy, oh, boy, what an unlikely duo, the GOP and Bitcoiners? I mean, he went hard. He used to be a... This was like way back in September.

They were talking... Because remember he was doing all these weird events? The former president and one time Bitcoin Skeptic helped launch a new crypto business with his family. He bought a round of burgers for denizens of the Bitcoin-themed dive bar in New York pledges to block a Federal Reserve back digital currency

and establish the strategic national Bitcoin stockpile and then bringing it up in speeches all the time he was he bought in hard man oh man no geez Louise what's happening the world is upside down what's next

cats and dogs that's the thing I just Skittles and Eminem's I've just got to make peace with the fact that the economy is not going to even remotely resemble what I would like it to look like anytime soon

and it's okay I think I put all my money in Doge I'm ready I salute The Doge coin Now has a market

cap of like 48 billion dollars Good Good But you know what else Would be an unlikely duo I just wish I kept That Patrick Mahomes

NFT my friend Yeah You know I keep trying To make this fucking joke I can't get to it Do it Unlegly do it stupid now I wrote down, what's next?

Godzilla and the Japanese, Saddam Hussein and George Bush, bin Laden and the Twin Towers, Emil and a fucking haircut, or a shower? I like that you wrote that down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you. And that you've been trying to get it out for so long. I kept going, what an unlikely duo?

And then you'd step in and go, I don't know what the fuck. God damn it. How are you going to get in this? It's a dog. it was a terrible joke. This is a terrible joke. This is a stupid joke. Do you think we need to take a break? No, no, no. I think we're good. I think we're good. I do want to, I mean, now you've also got game, just as a quick aside, GameStop is running again,

and there's a bunch of options, call options going off. I saw it on Moomu. You know that. You know, I'm seeing it on the Moomoo scanner. Go to the link in the description, get yourself some Moomoo. But, all right. But I, the last, I just am so surprised with these two examples that there's not been, I don't need, I don't know, I would, I would just imagine that there would be more of a outcry at this just blatant election buying. Well, because when it's your team doing it and you just believe inherently that Elon Musk is your guy and that he's doing things for the good of the country and not. Right. I guess it's the people they want in power. So what does it fucking matter? But I am, I'm shocked. I'm shocked too. Well, let's talk about the Trump economy, shall we? First off, we got the tax cuts that's... Yeah, the famous 2017 tax cuts that...

Set to expire after eight years or the end of next year. And they are likely to be extended, which is part of why stocks rallied, because that includes corporate taxes. No increase in them. in them shits. Widely understood as a huge gift to the rich. Also, another just backwards thing, all these people who are worried about federal deficit and all these things, I think at the time, it was expected to bring it up by $1.9 trillion over the next however many years.

Yeah, just expensive and eats into the revenue base. But, how about it. I believe people still maintain their higher standard deduction, a bigger child tax credit. So if you have a bigger child, you get a tax credit? Is that how that works? So the bigger your child is? No, it does mean that the $2,000 tax credit will be extended, but not to be confused with the one everyone was talking about during the American Rescue Plan, which upped it to $3,600 and made sure everyone got it regardless.

At this point, it's a bit of a messy thing. Not everyone's getting the 2000. If you're reporting no or very little income, you're not getting any of that. Get out there and have a baby, folks. Get out there and have a baby. Get that tax credit. I wouldn't advise that.

Although, J.D. Vance has said something along the lines of wanting to up it to $5,000, which is surprising. But when they did temporarily raise it to $3,600, it had a huge impact. on birth rates uh no child poverty yeah a complete a complete extension you did that birth yeah people would be like damn honey you see we're going to get a big deduction let's have sex uh this is gonna it's projected to increase deficits by four trillion dollars over 10 years one thing that i do like four trillion dollars oh well that would make sense over 10 years it was it was at 1.9 one thing that i can't argue with especially

especially as someone who used to be a server, is that Trump wants to eliminate taxes on tips and Social Security benefits and overtime pay, which is popular with a lot of people. Whether or not he'll actually get that past is another thing, because these things take time. Like we said. Also, one more. It's important to note, this is from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The Trump tax cuts failed to deliver promised economic benefits. Trump administration officials claim their centerpiece corporate tax rate. Cut would very conservatively lead to a $4,000 boost in household income.

New research shows that workers who earned less than about $114,000 on average in 2016 saw no change in earnings from the corporate tax rate. Oh, my God. I'm surprised. Didn't they just complete a study or something about Ronald Reagan's trickle-down economics? And it just didn't. It concluded that, yeah, it didn't do shit. It turns out that the wealthy people,

just were like oh sick thanks for this thanks for that extra I thought it was widely accepted that that doesn't work yeah but like officially they just kind of threw that in there on a Friday afternoon it was like oh by the way Ronald Reagan shit didn't really

and everyone just went yeah we know yeah we knew but thanks for letting us know officially if you got your student loans forgiven you're probably not likely to continue to get it forgave yeah this one hurts this one's personal obviously the

you're one of the 4.8 million Americans, and you got a couple of pennies in that $175 billion that was slated for forgiveness? No, I'm one of the 45 million Americans with student debt. 45? Yeah, no, but, oh, you didn't get any of yours forgiven? No, it got blocked. Maybe you didn't apologize hard enough. Sometimes you got to beg for forgiveness, man. You got a beg down on your knees.

If you have student debt, you might be familiar with the save plan. S-A-V-E stands for something. They always got to make an acronym. Students and... Yeah. Yeah. Which is like, it's all so confusing,

which, you know, they're getting you off of the R-E-P-A-Y-E, the repay plan, and transfer over to the save plan to save money and all this fucking bullshit with your income-based repayment plans. And I did it. I was like, great.

You know what? It'll be... I think it ended up saving me, I think it cut my payment in half. Wow. And I was on it for only a few months. I got an email this summer saying that, I forget which, I forget which state it was, but a judge struck it down and it's over for now. We're going to keep fighting, blah, la, la.

All that's probably dead. I can't imagine he's going to revive. Yeah, it's very unlikely. To be fair, Trump did. pause student loan payments during the pandemic. That's who did it. Right. Biden restarted them. So what you're saying is you like Trump now.

You heard it here, folks. I like that. I mean, I'm not so stupid to say that. Of course. It was great that if he said free ice cream for everybody, it'd be like, all right, that's pretty cool. I mean, I think that's a big problem, too. You have to look at Trump also under Trump. I don't think it was all Trump's doing. Bernie Sanders played a huge role in getting some of that elevated unemployment.

Oh, sure. But under Trump, it was the first time in a lot of people's lifetimes, they probably saw a robust social safety nut. They were without a job and able to keep their head above water. Those got rolled back under Biden. People are going to feel that. Yeah, because like we said, it takes time. These effects take time to reverberate through the system.

But, yeah, Trump is unlikely to pick up that mantle. Credit cards. Yeah, any of the kind of stuff the CFPB did with Consumer Protection Financial Protection Bureau? Yeah, with the $8 cap on late fees, which I believe before that, the average was around like $32. So fucking absurd, man. So yeah, he's probably going to reverse that. Though he has made some promises. I think he said something about how he wants to get the interest rates for credit cards down to 10%.

That's not going to happen. I don't think it's going to happen. It's one of those promises you can make, but then in actuality, it would take so long and you would get so much push back. It's basically impossible. Bernie Sanders has already tried to do something like this, tried to get traction with it at capping it at 15%.

Josh Hawley also tried to do it at 18%. No fucking way. I don't understand what's... And judging by the stocks... But hey, if he can fucking do it, great. Yeah. Credit card interest rates are fucking insane. It's ridiculous.

I looked up the stocks for Visa, MasterCard, American Express, all-time highs, all three of them. If there were any possibility that these things were going to take shape and take place and be implemented, then the stocks would reflect that. And as of now, not even a fucking possibility. So that's upsetting and that sucks. So if you've got credit card debt, don't know what to tell you. You got that.

You got student loans. But yeah, if you got crypto, you're high in a hoggy. heaven. Yeah, fucking yolo your way into some crypto and use that to, I don't know, pay down the interest on your student loan. I don't know what that. Dude. Yeah. What are we going to do? I don't know. I'm curious to see what my new, um, I'm curious to see what my new student loan payable will be. What about the rest of the world, huh? What's the global, what's the global economy going to do? What are they thinking? Well, there's been a lot of talk about the tariffs. Yeah, everyone's bracing for the tariffs. And that's not just the global economy. That's going to,

That's going to have an impact here, too. And just to recap, here's what the tariffs mean. It means that everything that gets imported into the country, particularly from China, you're facing a 60 to 100 percent tariff on Chinese imports, meaning China ain't going to be paying. Also, this is not official policy. This is all speculation at this point because, as we've stated many times, you never know what Donny Boy is going to do. Yeah. So if you are a company that imports goods from China, you are the one that pays the tariff on those goods. And then the consumer who subsequently

buys your goods is ultimately the one who foots the bill for this. And I believe he's pushing for 10% on everything else from every other country. And the motivation here, the idea is that doing so will force people to buy domestic produced goods and force companies to start onshoreing their means of production and whatnot. Yeah, Donald Trump's going to find out real fast. We don't really make anything anymore. Yeah, and also there's, I mean, well, so apparently Steve Madden, the shoe company, said that they were going to reduce China-made shit by 40 to 45 percent,

and they were going to shift to Vietnam and Cambodia. But in most cases, we're probably not going to see very much reshoring back to America unless you've got companies that already do some manufacturing here. and can shift more toward that. Or, yeah. I mean, that's just a long-term goal that I don't think you're going to... You can't do it by forcing people. Yeah.

Well, then part of it is he's... I also think he's going to be talked out of it a little bit. I think so, too. I think that the full-blown tariffs he's talked about is not going to come to fruition. Well, part of his thing was, oh, it's going to cost the consumer more to buy these imports what we can do to make it hurt less is stop charging federal income tax so your paychecks will be that much bigger

that you can then, they'll just offset each other and it's like okay yeah sure again stuff like this in principle I don't know if they'll have the impact he like I think people are still going to be like what the fuck everything is expensive as fuck yeah man yeah exactly it's like it's fucking crazy making

these guys these businessmen who think that America can be run and operated like a business seem to forget that it is such an impossible to comprehend complex system that you can't just fucking change things like that and expect it to just work smoothly. And everyone goes, oh, well, I'm going to make it back on my taxes. Yeah, man.

It's okay that my new kid's shoes are $350. Yeah, because I didn't get that 350 taken out of my paycheck this month. Great. Now I can use that $350 that I saved to buy these shoes. Get the fuck out of here. Get real. And then, yeah, the Department of Education, he just put out, what are these videos he's putting out? He's been putting out these videos just saying he's like, I don't know where he is, what he's doing.

Let's watch part of it. There are 10 key ideas that will power our movement for great schools first. Where's teeth? Always that fucking white? The right of parents To control the education of their children. Second, we will empower parents

and local school board to hire... Wait, pause it real fast? Doesn't it look like a cartoon mallet hit him on the head? Yeah. And he's just got... He's got to like... Flattened hair.

I can't even listen to it. I can't watch him. It looks painful to watch him talk. He looks like he's struggling and in pain. His mouth is sharp. Nobody can fucking read. It's... don't get rid of the Department of Education.

If I'm understanding their position correctly, it's that the Department of Education is so bloated and all it does is figure out who and where to send what federal funds to or something. They don't dictate. The meme that's been passed around now that Elon Musk even tweeted is that, oh, America was number one in the world in education

until Jimmy Carter introduced the Department of Education and then we fell to number 44 or whatever we're at. I haven't seen this meme. Even then, it's just like that doesn't correlate, that doesn't mean that the Department of Education is the cause for that. There's so many factors that go into it. Teacher's salaries. Like immigrants coming into this goddamn country.

Yes, exactly. You get these, you get these damn Mexicans coming in and can't even speak English. They slow down the whole class. I'm sure they would love to... They're going to clip that and it's going to end up on fucking like end-wokeness or libs of TikTok

and they're going to be like, they're finally coming around. Some of these poor people that just, they really do think, well, the leopards won't eat my face. You know, the whole leopard's eating my face thing? Not exactly, but... Oh, it's just...

I don't know where it originates from, but it's just surely it won't happen to me. I'm voting for this. thing as like there is there's a town there's some county i think in arizona or texas i was hearing on the radio this morning a lot of uh a lot of illegal um immigrant who are here a lot of immigrants who are here illegally and have been here for 10 plus years have uh oh yeah here we go the origins of leopards eating people's faces party refers to a parody of regretful voters who vote for cruel and unjust policies and then are surprised when their own lives

worse as a result. Yeah. I never thought leopards would eat my face who voted for the, says woman who voted for the leopards eating people's faces. But I do think this is, I think a lot of people do want this. I'm not

I'm more familiar with the arguments that they have about placing the power back into parents' hands. They have a lot of, they have a lot of issues with the, I think they think that there's some kind of radical indoctrination. indoctrination happening at school where they're teaching kids that America's bad.

And that you're trans and they'll do the operation. Sure, all of the, yeah, that mostly school is, schools are now mostly just operating rooms where kids are getting filed through. I've seen them. Having their sex changed. It's true. No, but I do think there's a lot of, I think people will be, I don't know, maybe long term they'll regret it, but I do think they're going to be cheering on.

I believe their whole thing is pushing the states to have their own. So basically there's not going to be any cohesive, what do you call that? Liberal agenda. No, there's not going to be any cohesive. What's another word for like rubric benchmarks, national benchmarks or anything like that? I just don't understand why you can't reform these things instead of getting rid of them entirely. No, we're past reform. Break the system.

drain the swamp, even though it's funny watching them all get pissed at some of the staff picks like Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and people going like, but he's a neocon. And it's like, yeah, dude, it's not going to be what you want. Yeah. That's part of the issue with, even though he's got the, the Republicans have the majority, there's differences between the House Republicans and the Senate Republicans that don't exactly see eye to eye on some of these issues, which is. surprising to me.

Oh, I mean, that's been a narrative for so long. Remember when they were trying to pick a speaker of the house? And you had all these Marjorie Taylor Green. She wanted a Marshall speaker. And the other guy wanted Bose for Speaker of the House. But then others were calling for JBL. I should just go, huh? I should just smash my head into a wall.

It's nice having the gun taped to the desk just to feel it sometimes, you know? You don't have to turn it on yourself. but it does, it's a nice reminder and there's always an escape hatch. But go on with Marjorie Taylor. No, that's just been a, that's been a narrative for a while. The more,

I guess you would call them the saner parts of the party. And then the kind of, you know, Lauren Boberts and the Marjorie Taylor Greens and. Fucking hate her. Just hate her. And that, yeah. So.

Well, So I guess what do you think, folks? Leave a comment. What do you think? What's going to happen? One thing I wanted to touch on, is it just me or does it feel like something big is coming? Just generally, something big is about to happen. I don't feel that way.

I have a strange sense of optimism. That is strange. And I know that I've harped on trying your best to be optimistic in the face of overreward. overwhelmingly negative things and negativity, but I just, I have a strange feeling that something exciting is about to happen. I don't know what it is. I can't put my finger on it. Yeah. What am I'm not planning anything. And I don't, I can't put my finger on it. I, I don't know. In your personal life or? No, in the, in the, in the, in the ether, I feel like something big is about to happen. And, and interesting. And, and either it's good in the sense.

that it's going to be like Trump dies or something. That would be incredible. It's good in the sense of like, oh, just, I don't know, aliens are going to come finally. We're going to have proof of God. I don't know.

It just feels like we're on the cusp of something big. Or something bad. I don't know. Maybe my vibes are picking up, I'm picking up the wrong frequencies. Obviously, it's a, I don't want to talk about Trump and Elon every week for the night.

No. But they are, going to have such big impacts on all of this stuff it's going to be hard not to keep it you know what big impact I would like to see them have one with a fucking wall you know maybe

maybe Elon gets him into a in one of these Teslas and he says let me show you how how good the I'm just caressing the gun let me show you how good the auto drive full self driving is and it just fucking goes into a wall wouldn't that be awesome a video

of, it's a live video with Trump and Elon getting into a robo taxi and being like, we're so confident in it. A lot of people are pissed because we've removed all of the regulations and people are saying like, oh, it's not going to be safe, it's not road ready. Well, we're here to show you

that this thing is ready to go. There's no steering wheel. If anything goes wrong, there's nothing we can do. They just get in and they say, do your thing and then just like, yeah. Oh, God. Can you, maybe that's what it is. We're going to get in trouble. People are going to be like, you shouldn't say that You hope they die.

I'm not saying that I hope they hit a wall in a Tesla. I'm not saying it. I didn't say anything about death, but you can draw your own conclusions from what happens to a human body when it, you know. It's going 95. Yeah, when it's going 95 and you, you know, when the defecation hits the oscillation, that's kind of what happens to the body. But I got to say, I am very good at these things.

When I have intuitions. Dude, I would love for something majorly positive to happen. I think something's going to happen. And I'm not rooting for this. I did see someone. It's in the ether because I've seen little bits of people. Someone tweeted, is it just me or does it feel like something Chinese is about to happen? And that's a good thing?

No, that one's not good. Oh, okay. Because it could mean another virus. Ben, what do you? Just the way things go. The way things are going, it just feels like the pendulum keeps, whereas the pendulum, pendulum used to swing every 10, 15 years. It's now like every couple years. And it's just the law of, it would just be too poetic to have Trump back in office and get another pandemic. And this time, all the same people who were like, I know I'm not, now I'm pivoting and saying it could be a negative thing. It could be negative. This is every psychic.

Big positive things for coming, but, oh, it could be negative too. I said, no. If you run the tape back, I said something big is coming. And I want to, I feel like it could be positive. But at the same time, it just, it could be negative. But the negative is already coming. And I think an impending Trump presidency is a big, that sure is the big one. Some pretty scary rhetoric coming down the pike.

Exactly, exactly. But there is... Rounding up millions of people. It would be... I just believe in the way things are now, in the culture. Things tend to happen. Things tend to point toward the most interesting outcome. And I think that the most interesting outcome would be...

The most interesting and ironic outcome would be another global pandemic that this time people won't believe the government. They won't take vaccinations, and it'll kill millions of people who are stupid. You know what I mean? I don't. I'm having to. Man, what did they put in this cold brew today? I love just to, you know what I mean?

I do not know what you mean. It's like the last time, obviously, Trump was in office. We had COVID, and then we had Operation Lights. We had the warp speed, thank you. We had the vaccines come out. And then now there's all this, the fallout of that was all of this government distrust that mostly came. Yeah, but now you got Bobby Kennedy leading that charge. Exactly.

He's going to make sure those vaccines are free and clear of autism. It's like a boy who cried wolf on a scale, the likes of which we've never seen, where everybody now thinks that COVID was the boy crying wolf. And now I think that we're going to get an actual wolf And everybody's just going to go That's bullshit That's the mainstream media lying to you I don't think it would matter though Because the one thing COVID did not have

Was people like you know Dropping dead very quickly and that kind of thing I think if it was If it was something like Yeah but people are It was killing people very quickly I think people would just sing a different tune Yeah I mean I hope if people are seeing people just

I would hope too but also blood coming out of eyes and just like I think they would the way that everything is shaping up we now have AI we have distrust in in videos and audio oh that's doctored that's fake that's just a when you were being fucking positive yeah you're just freaking me out now I'm just saying it's entirely possible for for this kind of thing to to happen all the pieces are there for it to potentially happen with the way things have been going the last several years the distrust in government the trust in vaccinations, all this stuff. I'm just saying. And yeah. Let's do the comment of the week. Thank you, Connor. This one comes from Belvis slopping on a meal.

Emil's saying, am I the hot one? While I'm literally on my back blasting my bussy with a Greek cucumber is wild to me. That one had two replies and I clicked in. They were both just like, good God. This one comes from Shrek Toberfest Who says Do you think a meal calls his really fast Tennis serves Guido Torpedoes?

Well, do you? That's really funny. I don't. But now you should. I don't, but now I should. I think I'd get laughed at. I'm a 35-year-old man. I think people would be like,

did you just call that a Guido T torpedo? It comes to Guido torpedo. Yeah. That's your tennis serve. I don't care if I ate someone. I think that guy's... Gonna make fun of me. I think you might get the ace

because they'll be distracted. Yeah, true. Did you say Guido? Too late. All right, last one comes from Gabe. If you're a first time listener, just know that Ben grows on you after 20 to 30 episodes.

Which is a little upsetting to me because when I first read that comment and I, before I read it, I saw that it had 146 likes. And I thought, oh, great. If you're a first time listener, just know that Ben grows on you after 20 to 30, and I thought it was going to say minutes.

But then it said episodes. And I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, well, who's laughing now, Gabe? I could fucking, I could shadow ban you. No, we don't allow that. Yeah, we don't allow that. We're, at the Ben and Emile show, we're like what... We're lesbian fair, you know?

Lesbian fair. It's a French term. It means hands off. government has its hands off you know lesbian fair you look like you want to say something no I'm just

picturing the weight of that sweet sweet handgun taped down to the table I bet you couldn't draw it fast enough oh it's I'm turning it on myself not you oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh I hope that was clear I would never kill Ben I would only turn a weapon on myself oh you could kill me if you wanted to

murder suicide you could kill me if you wanted to we still need to put the proper times on these clocks, if you know what I mean. We're going to figure it out. Yeah. Smart people will know exactly what times they are. We'll see you in the bonus episode. Oh, yeah.

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