Ben Cohen

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1,024 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Dec 2025 last heard 19 Jun

Ben Cohen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 9 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 5.

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I wasn't arrested for the chainsaw.

I was arrested for interrupting a congressional hearing.

The chainsaw deal was that Elon Musk had a chainsaw, and he was taking a chainsaw to supposedly government waste, which turned out to be bullshit.

Are you allowed to say that?

You can say that.

Right.

But the issue was that he neglected to take the chainsaw to the biggest source of waste in the entire federal government, which is the Pentagon.

What Trump has now done.

renamed the Department of War under Pete Hegseth, the war secretary.

Exactly.

And, you know, what what we hear about is that, oh, my God, America's in debt.

We don't have any money.

The the.

The national debt is trillions and trillions of dollars.

We can't afford anything.

We can't afford to take care of people.

And then all of a sudden, Trump decides that, well, I can scrape up another $500 billion, and the only thing he can think of to do with it

is to dump it on the Department of War.

I mean, that is such a huge amount of money.

You know, none of us can conceive of these huge numbers, but I mean, it's enough to provide childcare for everybody in the US.

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