Ben Cohen

You know, everybody's got their breaking point.

So that was my breaking point.

And I was looking to chain myself to the White House gates in protest about that.

And, you know, my people are telling me, well, you can't really do that anymore.

The White House fence has been militarized.

You can't actually get to the White House fence.

They put up a separate fence.

And in between the two fences are these guys with these heavy duty machine guns.

So they said, we think what we can do is we can get you into a congressional hearing and, you know, you can interrupt the hearing.

So they did that.

I didn't really know which hearing it was going to be.

And it ended up being with...

Bobby Kennedy.

And so it was about health and human services or something.

And our government was throwing people off of SNAP, you know, a program for poor people that gives them food for their kids.

I got up there and interrupted, and yeah, I got arrested for that.

Well, when we were 12 or 13, we met in gym class.

We were the two slowest, fattest kids in the class.

Probably.

And, you know, we went through high school together and then went to college.