BAES 171: Why the price of diesel is getting scary

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

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Ben (0:18)

What is diesel, in fact? I, for my...

Emil (0:22)

And it's not just the jeans company that foreign exchange students would wear in high school.

Ben (0:28)

And it's not the third track off of the 1997 album, The Fat of the Land by the English electronic group Prodigy. So this east-west pipeline getting hit in Saudi Arabia is bad because it was the main...

Emil (0:42)

It's only bad if you use diesel, oil, gas or anything.

SPEAKER_4 (0:46)

Which we all do in a roundabout way.

Ben (0:49)

National highs of $6.52, which is up 69% from a year ago.

Emil (0:55)

We've never hit this in American history. And I like breaking records. It's nice to be here for history.

Hell yes. Donald Trump, you did it again. That thing's just begging to be shot at with a drone.

Ben (1:09)

I want to attack.

Emil (1:10)

Oh, I just, I want to stop doing the podcast right now. I just want to shoot it with a drone.

Ben (1:13)

Yeah, Spain is doing a diesel discount until end of month.

Emil (1:17)

Wacky diesel discount. Come on down for the wacky diesel discount.

Ben (1:22)

Come on down to Diego's diesel for a-

Emil (1:24)

Diesel as pipeline got you feeling down. Wacky diesel discount.

Ben (1:27)

Hungary's doing a thing. Only Hungarians are getting a discount.

Emil (1:31)

Are you hungry for diesel? Then come on down because Hungarians only are getting diesel discount.

Ben (1:37)

Come on down to Heinrich's Hungry Diesel. What's going on to you?

SPEAKER_4 (2:09)

What's going on to you?

Ben (2:11)

What's going on?

Emil (2:12)

Everyone else stop listening, just you. I want to talk to you.

Ben (2:15)

Yeah, we want to tell you what's going on. Welcome to the show, ladies and gentlemen. You're here because you want to know what's going on. And I'm Ben. I'm Emil. Yeah. And this week we are talking about, man, what the heck is going on with the price of diesel?

SPEAKER_1 (2:29)

Why you should care? What?

Emil (2:31)

And gasoline.

Ben (2:31)

And gasoline.

Emil (2:32)

And jet fuel.

Ben (2:33)

But we're going to tell you all about why this matters as hell. And what's happening so badly that not even JP Morgan, the credit card bank, not even they know what's going on. They have thrown their hands up. They said, we don't even know.

Emil (2:48)

Your honor.

Ben (2:49)

We don't even know. We're going to be talking about all this, why the price of diesel is so important. And normally you just see it on the gas thing. You're like, damn, I'm glad I don't drive a freaking truck. But it's important for you. It could affect your holiday travel and everything else, the economy and all that stuff.

So it's a pretty big deal. We're going to talk about what the administration plans to do about it. You are about to be so informed, baby.

So once you just relax, kick back.

Emil (3:16)

You're a little baby, but you're also informed.

Ben (3:19)

Yeah, you're a little informed baby. Goo goo gaga, not you. Not you. You're going to be going, ooh, ha ha. I know.

I know. Yeah.

So by the end of this episode, you're going to be a veritable expert on diesel and what's going on with all that mess. But before we do that, hey, Q&A time is right around the corner. So Ben and Emil show.com, sign up there and support the show please. And also you can leave a voicemail for us and we will answer it. Our smoking video is up. Ben and Emil, Ben and Emil on smoking is on the YouTube.

Emil (3:56)

And there's another one coming.

Ben (3:58)

Yeah, there's another one coming right around the corner next week. And we're going to have an extended cut for subscribers of benandemilshow.com. So, beep beep beep beep.

Emil (4:08)

Extended is a generous term. This is a bunch of footage.

Ben (4:11)

How long is it? 38 minutes?

Emil (4:12)

Some people are saying 38 hours, it's crazy.

Ben (4:14)

Yeah, so nobody really knows how long it is.

Emil (4:16)

Nobody.

Ben (4:18)

Nobody knows. Okay.

Emil (4:20)

We're also going to get into some Paramount merger talk too.

SPEAKER_4 (4:23)

Oh yeah, got to talk about that. Sit tight, sit tight. Dude, that thing is a mess. Sit tight little babies. Talk about a mess.