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Ben Cohen

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624 total appearances

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Radical with Amol Rajan
Could Ben & Jerry's Be Created Today? (Your Radical Questions with Ben Cohen)

So if you open up a homemade ice cream shop and you're working to try to help people in poverty, you're working to try to change government policy and you're making great ice cream,

Radical with Amol Rajan
Could Ben & Jerry's Be Created Today? (Your Radical Questions with Ben Cohen)

I think you'll do pretty good.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Could Ben & Jerry's Be Created Today? (Your Radical Questions with Ben Cohen)

Well, it's been great talking with you.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I'm all good.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I'm having a good time.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I had a strange experience in Shoreditch a couple of nights ago, but I've survived.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

That's correct.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You weren't taking hallucinogenic drugs and insuring it, and you weren't doing acts of violence outside the White House.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

Let's be clear.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I wasn't arrested for the chainsaw.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

I was arrested for interrupting a congressional hearing.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

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.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

Are you allowed to say that?

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

You can say that.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

Right.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

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.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

What Trump has now done.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

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

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

Exactly.

Radical with Amol Rajan
Business Reimagined: Should Firms Have a Purpose Beyond Profit? (Ben & Jerry’s Ben Cohen)

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