BAES 155: Is AI Right Wing Coded? (RIP Emil) artwork

BAES 155: Is AI Right Wing Coded? (RIP Emil)

The Ben and Emil Show

June 4, 2026

Emil is gone. In his place we got Jon Gabrus! This week we're discussing where AI is going to settle in the ongoing stupid b******t culture wars. Follow Jon on Instagram @ Gabrus and be sure to check out his show Staying Alive! Give this video a thumbs up if you enjoyed it!
Speakers: Jon Gabrus, Ben
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**Jon Gabrus** (0:27)
It does feel like people just went from like, NFTs to crypto to AI. It's a predatory way to make money off of people who are rolling the dice. Hey, who cares? We're all making money using AI. It's like, oh, okay, that's a good justification. Let's sell Oxy as well.

**Ben** (0:43)
Oxy does rock, though, dude. You ever take one of those things in?

**Jon Gabrus** (0:46)
For example, we can go around this room and say, cold brew.

**Ben** (0:50)
Left wing.

**Jon Gabrus** (0:50)
Exactly.

**Ben** (0:51)
See? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Jon Gabrus** (0:53)
It's literally Apple products.

**Ben** (0:55)
Apple products? Left wing as hell.

**Jon Gabrus** (0:58)
See, Doug, but we should feel some guilt. We should make people feel bad when they are predators, all the way down to the people who call old people and say, like, just give us your social security.

**Ben** (1:10)
One of the most effective and simple tools to fight against is to have a code word that only you and grandma know.

**Jon Gabrus** (1:17)
Right. Right.

**Ben** (1:18)
But it would be grandma. My code word is grandma. Please help give me money.
Like, he's using the code word. Well, I need $1,000 and then I would just use it all the time.
Welcome back, everybody. We got some breaking, not breaking, because this isn't live or anything. We have some big news. Emil died, he died to death, in fact. He died choking to death on a tennis ball. He's a big tennis guy, and he wanted to see what it tasted like and metastamize that way. But I couldn't think of it. He died doing what he loved, playing tennis. And...

**Jon Gabrus** (2:21)
I would have dressed a little more formally had I known it was like a sad situation.

**Ben** (2:25)
I didn't dress.

**Jon Gabrus** (2:25)
I mean, look at me.

**Ben** (2:26)
Doug, you gotta lay down.
And we have already found a replacement, so we've got him here in studio. Jon Gabrus, everybody.

**Jon Gabrus** (2:37)
Hey, thanks for having me.

**Ben** (2:38)
Thank you for being here. Thank you for coming on such short notice.

**Jon Gabrus** (2:41)
I am feasting on tennis balls tonight, and now I'm a little nervous. Don't be nervous. I wasn't considering the fact that it could kill you.

**Ben** (2:47)
Don't bite off more than you can chew, as they say.

**Jon Gabrus** (2:49)
Quite literally.

**Ben** (2:50)
As my dad used to say.

**Jon Gabrus** (2:52)
It was like something he was whispering on that steak in his final meal.

**Ben** (2:58)
For our audience who might not be familiar with you, why don't you brag about some of your accolades?

**Jon Gabrus** (3:03)
I'm Jon Gabrus. I've benched 325 in competition at the York Powerlifting Meet in York, Pennsylvania. I am a longtime podcaster.
I'm one of those few multiple podcasters. I'm poly podcasting and I am a comedian, writer, actor, all of that. But what I most, I think I need to get across to your crowd is I know absolutely nothing about stock. Like I will say stocks, zero, but even like money, I'm like 8% through the level of learning about my, I know this is like something I've like maybe subconsciously avoided my entire life, growing up poor and like then, you know, getting money and still not wanting to be like a money person. So I, as much as I'm excited to, you know, honor Emil's like green fuzzy death, I am also excited to be here on a very self-centered way and learn something.

**Ben** (4:06)
Yeah. Well, hopefully you'll learn something, I guess.
And for those of you who are unfamiliar with our little show, The Ben and Emil Show, we formerly were called Trillionaire Mindset and then we were called PayPigs. But that was a disaster for search engine optimization.

**Jon Gabrus** (4:24)
Okay.

**Ben** (4:24)
So you obviously know what a PayPig is.

**Jon Gabrus** (4:26)
Yes. I'm very familiar with a PayPig.

**Ben** (4:28)
A shocking amount of people did not know what a PayPig is. Number one. So they were like, what's the bit? What's the joke? We had a falling out with the previous studio that owned the name Trillionaire Mindset just as background there. So we had to change the name, went out on our own. And yeah, all the porn bots and stuff would be in everybody, all of our fans' DMs being like, I'm a great big slut and I'd love it if you bought me a PlayStation. And it was like, who are these fucking people, man?

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