Afternoon Breaking Updates on Iran War with Ben 9/1/2026

25:09There'll be world wars. Let's be clear right now.

25:12Ben Meiselas:OK, the only thing that's I mean, I believe that there is a world war going on. I mean, there is a war involving the world right now. And NATO is not invoking Article four or five simply because they know that Donald Trump won't honor it. OK, there's multiple grounds why Article four or Article five should already be invoked. Did you know that off the coast of Romania, in Romanian waters, Russia struck a tanker? That would be grounds for Article 4, Article 5. What about Russia's drone mayhem in Germany? What about that, which is traced back to Russia? Is Germany invoking Article 4, Article 5? No.

25:57Ben Meiselas:Why not? Because they know that Article 4 and Article 5 is dead. And Donald Trump won't honor Article 4 and Article 5. So what's Russia doing? Poking along the lines, showing that Article 4 and Article 5 is dead, preparing for the winter strikes on Ukraine. And, you know, I think that Lukashenko is going to play a major part in that as a northern front is going to be open. Russia's been building up its ballistics. Russia's been building up its Shahid drones with even a more ferocious capability. These new Shahid drones that they create, 300 miles per hour, 350 miles per hour, which the Ukrainian drone interceptors struggle to at that speed.

26:45Ben Meiselas:You need to sometimes shoot them down with other things other than those interceptors, which were used to the like the propeller drones. And so those Shahids also could be used by Iran as this war escalates in the Middle East. and you take a look at all of this. And to me, it all goes back to the weak, pathetic loser, the sexual predator, the guy covering up the Epstein files in the Oval Office right now. It is sickening. It is sickening to me as an American that yet again, the United States struck a wedding today, that the United States killed a child and killed people at a wedding. It pains me.

27:23Ben Meiselas:It pains me that this is what the United States is doing. And then Donald Trump soothes his ego by coming up with fake deals with an authoritarian from Venezuela, Delcey Rodriguez. By the way, we all realize that what this means is that there's never a chance of democratic elections in Venezuela. Obviously, there isn't because the fake fraudulent deal with Delcey falls apart if you do another region, if you have other people in power, both in the United States and in Venezuela. Right. If they're once a new administration comes into control in the United States, we're going to be like, yeah, we're going to do this 18th century imperialistic deal.

28:08Ben Meiselas:Of course not. Of course not. And the companies that there are truly really aren't many. But if there are companies who are doing business in all of this, OK, they're going to be subject to massive shareholder lawsuits for being a part of this sham. Okay, so that's why a lot of people view it as Venezuela as uninvestable, both because the oil underneath is tarry and not the type of oil that is easily refined, but also you can't do business with the Delcy Rodriguez regime. And then on the Venezuelist side, you think Delcy is going to give up power now? You think the bully chicos, the rich young people who are part of these chavistas, who are making all the money on this, they're going to give up power to who?

28:53Ben Meiselas:Machado, Maria Karina Machado, you think that's what's going to happen? You think that's going to happen? Absolutely not. Let's wake up, people, about what's happening here. And that's also, you know, we've seen the whistleblower letter, right, that was sent to the United States Senate warning that the Trump regime is ignoring court orders, blocking their attempt to federalize the elections with requiring that a federal barcode be used for people who Donald Trump claims are eligible to vote, not what the state voter rolls say. Trump has his voter rolls, right? And so if you have to be on Trump's voter rolls, and if there's a discrepancy between someone on the Trump voter roll based on this barcode system that Trump wants to roll out, the Trump regime will destroy the entire batch of ballots.

29:56Ben Meiselas:So if there's 5 ,000 or 10 ,000 in a batch of ballots and there's one person who doesn't meet the Trump voter roll list, as Trump defines that, under the Trump view, that gives him the ability to destroy the entire batch of ballots. And so that's a pretty big freaking deal. The whistleblower called this out. There is a federal injunction blocking this from happening, but the Trump regime is going to want to do as much havoc as possible on mail ballots. And they're going to want to try to create confusion. So mail ballots don't arrive. That's Trump's plan. OK, he's a dictator. He's a sexual predator.

30:43Ben Meiselas:He's a piece of trash. We have to understand what the plan is here. It is dictatorship. It is destroying America. It is forging alliances with Putin. And I mean, in my opinion, that seems to be what's clearly happening right here. But, you know, you know, you tell me we're going to take our first break of the show. Want you to check out Scott McFarlane reports, which launched which launched today anywhere you find podcasts. So check that out, Scott McFarlane Reports. I'm so honored to have Scott McFarlane as part of this network. Great to have him, of course. All right, let's take a quick break.

31:19Ben Meiselas:We'll be right back. Make sure you subscribe on audio to Scott McFarlane Reports. Pre-order WTF America as well. It's the book I wrote with my brothers. It comes out October. But pre-order right now, the pre-orders are very important. Let's take our first quick break of the show. We will be right back with a lot more show when we return.

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35:36Ben Meiselas:Welcome back to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is your Breaking News. Thank you to our sponsors. Great job, Brett and Jordy. Moments ago, the IRGC claimed it hit Camp Titan, a U.S. Marine base on the Gulf of Acaba Coast in Jordan, in the second wave of its, quote, punishment of the aggressor operation, asserting a large number of American personnel were in the vicinity and that an attack helicopter was destroyed. We need to get confirmation on that. But we did see we have the footage, I believe, of a strike in Jordan, at least by Acaba right there, where you can see a missile getting through.

36:14Ben Meiselas:And I think, yeah, there it is right there. You can see clearly at least one apparent ballistic missile was able to hit its target. One of the issues, of course, is Trump lies about everything. And Jordan and these Arab nations often claim everything's intercepted. CENTCOM lies about everything. And you can't always get accurate information from Iran. Sadly, for me to have to admit this as an American is something that I never thought I would ever do. Iran's Tasneem on occasions has been more accurate, on more than occasions, I'll just say, has often provided information that I go, oh, wait, that actually happened.

37:03Ben Meiselas:And CENCOM saying it didn't happen. And then I'm like, damn it. I mean, I'm still an American. I want to see confidence. I don't want to be in this catastrophic and unlawful war at all. It pains me to see what's happened to our country. It's a failed state. We're a failed Trump organization right now. and every day getting weaker and weaker and weaker. That's why I also highlight, I'm like, focus on what's happening with these international meetings. It's not a coincidence right here that you have the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Iran, China, Russia standing side by side. BRICS is gonna be taking place in the next week and a half, two weeks in New Delhi.

37:47Ben Meiselas:You have the Mecca Defense Alliance meeting that just took place in the past 48 hours with Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey. And this Mecca alliance is going to be opening up to more countries. I suspect Egypt. I suspect Bangladesh. I suspect other nations are going to be joining the Mecca alliance. Who's in Egypt right now? Oh, Xi Jinping's in Egypt. They just launched a series of military drills together. China-Egypt joint military drills taking place there with the new J-16s, which also means that other Arab nations allow China access over their airspace for the purpose of doing these training exercises in Egypt.

38:36Ben Meiselas:So yeah, Xi Jinping will be there. Then he'll be going to BRICS to meet in New Delhi. A new order is forming and you got Donald Trump attacking Canada. You got Donald Trump attacking NATO. You got Donald Trump attacking Greenland. You got Donald Trump behaving in this sickening, sickening way. And Trump's statement, as I said earlier, was, this is a direct statement from him, that Iran is a crazy and stupid nation, he said, and if they retaliate, we will basically wipe them off the map. We're saving for them the bigger option, is what he's saying that is going to happen next and again you have that you have jd vance saying i'm trying to focus on doing god's work if that leads to end times okay that leads to end time just play the jd vance clip one more time jeremy okay saying end time what i'm trying to focus on is doing as much of god's work as possible right now and if that leads to the end times okay okay okay if it leads to the end times So, Kai, we're a regime that covers up child sex trafficking.

39:45And we're talking about the end times while engaging in a catastrophic war. While Donald Trump threatens to blow a civilization off the map. Okay.

39:53Ben Meiselas:We have gas prices surging right now. The price of Brent, the price of WTI crude, both approaching$100 a barrel, as we predicted, would take place. You have the salt caverns in Texas and Louisiana at tank bottom right now, which we said was going to happen. Take a look at what's happening in Cushing, Oklahoma there, where you see how big of a supply shock actually exists as they're trying to run this oil through Cushing at such a pace, which shows the overall crisis that is in on an international basis. I'm sure you know what you're paying for gas. You sure know what you're paying if you have to use a diesel.

40:36Ben Meiselas:We know the price of gas and diesel is at record highs right now. everything's at record highs and you've got J.D. Vance talking about, this is an interview that the vice president of the United States gave. Oh, there was a video circulating on X where a woman jumps off a diving board and she's a very large person and she has weight problems. I'm cool, right? Do you like me, Gen Alpha? Do you like me, Gen Z? Millennials? I'm J.D. Vance. What a freaking phony loser here play this clip of jd there was a video that was circulating on x a couple of years ago where it's like this woman jumps off a diving board and it's a very large person a person who clearly has some weight problems to put it diplomatically and goes into the pool and then like the whole like building collapses and like my initial reaction was like oh my god that must have been a very poorly constructed building you're so funny i mean who's the idiot interviewing the guy too i mean that that's oh my god jd that's so funny i'm gonna launder your cover-up of child sex trafficking rings to my audience oh jd oh i'm so funny this is matter of these are matters of war and peace folks these are you know this is this is some freaking weird ass behavior that's going on this is these These are matters of war and peace, national security.

42:00Can we please have freaking grownups in the room? Can we please just have adults in the room? What is this behavior? J.D. Vance goes on to say, you know, with Donald Trump doing these AI photos of Jesus, he's like, we all get it. Trump's like a ball buster. So he likes to have a good time. This is like, we just want to party, man. OK, we just want to party and chill like and have a good time doing Jesus memes and doing memes of blowing up Cargill. Right. That's what we do. Right. That's what the kids like. Right. No, you've destroyed the future of the person who you're speaking to, his generation.

42:40You know, when he sits there laundering your shit, shame on him. And people like, what the hell is this? Bunch of freaking losers. Again, this isn't like, oh, Democrat, Republican, loser behavior from these warmongers covering up child sex trafficking rings with the Epstein files. Here, play this clip. The media tends to exacerbate the division by treating things that the president does as humorous and saying this is him being serious or this is him pretending to be Jesus or whatever the case may be. And I think in reality, the president is just he's one of these guys who he's a back slapper. He's a bit of a ball buster for those of us who work with him.

43:20And he just likes to have a good time. And I think that if people appreciated his humor, they would recognize he's not trying to offend people. He's trying to keep things light. Backstabber. He's a ball cupper, a ball buster.

43:35Ben Meiselas:The first one was not Freudian. And that's when Donald Trump is able. We'll just say he's a bootlicker of Putin and Xi Jinping. We'll leave it at that. Well, what does Prime Minister Carney have to say about all of this? Meming, how Donald Trump and his regime are memeing attacks on Canada, memeing ducks being launching military strikes against Canada. And this behavior is this, as J.D. says, is this something that we shouldn't take all that seriously? I mean, the media, the media just exacerbates all of these issues. They take it. They take it serious. Why would you take the president of the United States seriously?

44:21Ben Meiselas:I mean, it's not like he's blowing up weddings in Iran and causing millions of Americans to be hungry and not be able to afford things and causing inflation to search. This is all funny. This is all one big, it's like a game. This is like, why would you take anything we say seriously? Here's what Prime Minister Carney had to say. When the Americans stop doing memes, maybe we'll have adult conversations. But OK, it's your democracy, America. This is how you want to behave. Wish you the best, bud. Here, play this clip.

44:58But it must have those characteristics. And when the Americans stop doing memes, stop throwing shade, stop trying to be tough and start being serious about having those discussions, we can have those discussions. But it's not constructive, but that's their democracy. I mean, this is... It pains me. it's humiliating it's humiliating it's humiliating it's like um i don't know how i could give so many

45:33Ben Meiselas:different examples but like i don't know if if you if you've been involved in sports and imagine you're playing baseball and you're down you know 20 nothing and you know it's still the fourth inning and the other team keeps running up the score and you're on the losing team like you're you're you're the losers you're you're you're the nothing and you're struggling and you're like maybe we should put in like our best players and not have people who don't know how to play the game continue to have us lose even more and then the captain of your team is just like uh no we're winning we're winning this game we're up we're destroying them we're destroying them And then you keep watching the score, get 20-0, 30-0, 40.

46:25And you're like, okay, we're not just losing, but we're losing in like record fashion. There's never been a worse loss. No, no, we're winning. We're winning. And every day I wake up, I'm just like, I don't view it again, even through a political lens. I'm just like, we are losing so badly.

46:45Ben Meiselas:Our alliances, our strength, our economy, we're losing. We're getting our asses kicked everywhere. The way Donald Trump has gotten his ass kicked everywhere. We're getting our objectively, we're getting our asses kicked by Iran, by Russia, by China, by former allies who are making, not them, the former allies like Europe and Canada who are making mid-power alliances now and forging ahead without us. And we're up there freaking with these losers, memeing, talking about end times, talking about weird diving board AI videos that he saw on X.

47:27Ben Meiselas:While these are the people leading the catastrophic war, as they've fired all of our top generals and admirals, or most of them, have been purged. you got driscoll the army secretary just resigned who i'm not suggesting i'm a fan of driscoll but he was at least an adult in the room but you get purged with that you've got hegseth who literally looks like a freaking rabid beaver

48:00Ben Meiselas:please do a freaking psycho human and you know and and just getting the shit beat out of him you know in this country and it's like are we gonna run for president i heard that rumor and it's just it's just loserville it's loserville in the united states i'm not you know i'm i'm i think that's the piece of i was i was speaking with my speaking with my pops about it today hey, I'm trying to get out of the house for a little bit with all this stuff. That's my new background. And so we took our daughter somewhere. And I'm just like, the part for me, pops, that's just so, I never was a political person before all of this.

48:43Ben Meiselas:I was a litigator. I was a lawyer. I probably represented more Republicans than I represented Democrats. I don't know. I didn't look at people's political identities, but I represented a lot of people in Bakersfield and Fresno, where I spend a lot of my time. So I assume that in retrospect, they were probably Republican. I didn't know what freaking party they were from. I just represented them again, you know, fought for my clients at the end of the day. But I just, I just see the country of the United States as a country of losers right now under Donald Trump. We keep on losing every day and I don't want to be a loser, but that's just what they, that's what it is it's what it comes down to and all of these qualities of him being a predator being you know the cover-ups of this and that you know it's it's it's loser it's war criminals it's rogue and it's it's sad it's sad i love this country i do i still love the country i just i just observed this behavior and i go the hell is going on here prime minister carney was asked by a reporter, what do you make of a U.S.

49:47Ben Meiselas:cabinet secretary, multiple plural secretaries, insulting the Canadian military treasury secretary, Besant said, what's Canada going to do with us with their two submarines? No, they don't pose any threat to us. Dude, you couldn't manage your own$5 billion fund. You have a loser MAGA arc, Besant. You couldn't handle it. You had 90 % redemptions. You don't know what you're doing. You try to bail out the end. That fails. Your bond buyback scheme fails. Your former mentor is out there saying that you don't know what the hell you're doing right now. Okay. And this guy, dude, shut up here. Play this clip of Carney.

50:31Ben Meiselas:It's a free trade deal. Prime Minister, what do you make of U.S. cabinet secretaries insulting the Canadian military. It's beneath their office. Yeah, that's a grown up right there. That's a grown up leader in Prime Minister Carney. That's an adult. It's an adult. We used to have leaders like that. I think. I don't know. I think we used to have leaders like that. Treasury Secretary Besant on CNBC on Iran, we're telling people either you're with us or you're against us. Everyone says to me, what about China? This is what he said earlier today. Play this clip. It is over. And we are telling people either you are with us or against us.

51:20And everyone says to me, well, what about China? I said, we have more in common with the Chinese on Iran than we disagree with on. The Chinese agree Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The Chinese agree that there should be freedom of navigation in the strait of Ramoes. So we have had private discussions with them in terms of achieving those goals.

51:45Ben Meiselas:He's just so dumb. He's China was part of the JCPOA before Donald Trump destroyed the deal. It's not a shock that China would be for the deal that they were before. You know who was also for the deal? Iran. They signed the deal with Obama. They signed the deal with Obama. And guess what? They weren't making nuclear weapons. That was clear from all of the countries that were involved. Russia, China, the United States, all of the stakeholders that were involved. But guess what, Besant? You know where China is right now? You know where Xi Jinping is right now? He's in Egypt right now. But he was at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

52:33Ben Meiselas:There he is right there, right in the middle, right in the middle. And guess who's right next to him? Two people away from him. Guess who's right there? Yes, Pazeshkin is right there. There he is, the president of Iran. Guess what they were talking about? Economic cooperation. Guess what Russia was talking about? Economic cooperation. They're very clear about it. And you said that you would sanction China. That was your threat. Don't talk shit if you're not going to back it up, bud. I mean, you know, that's your, we should never have done it, but you said you were going to do it. And yet again, you don't do it.

53:18And it just puts us through a humiliation loop. Don't threaten it. Don't do the war. Don't threaten it. Stop saying these things that we shouldn't be doing and don't do them. But then, but why? Stop lying about everything. Just stop. Everything's a lie. Literally every damn freaking utterance is a lie. Here's what Besson says about Iran, too. Oh, the reason that the MOU didn't work is Iran wasn't ready. So my job is to force them to be ready. Make a deal with us, Iran. Please, I'm going to force you to do a deal. You know, that's the deals don't work like that. You can't force someone to do a deal with you that doesn't want to do a bad deal with you.

54:04Again, this is a predator mindset.

54:07Ben Meiselas:Here, let's play the predator mindset. This regime, and as President Trump said, the reason the MOU did not work, they were not ready for a deal. My job is to make sure that they want to have a deal, and they will want to have one. You will want this. I mean, think about what he's saying. It's a predator. That's what predators. My job is to make sure that you will want a deal. That's what crazy people say. We will bomb you into making deals with us. We will bomb you. We will bomb you into submission deal. And then we will do a deal with you and then we will break the deal. The deal fell apart because Donald Trump, as soon as the deal was signed by him in France, in Versailles, then started saying, well, aha, I'm going to open up my own route in the Strait of Hormuz.

55:11Ben Meiselas:I wasn't able to achieve that during war. Yes, the MOU says Iran is responsible for administering the Strait of Hormuz, which most people would take to mean that Iran is responsible for coordinating with Oman and the travel. But Trump's like, I will interpret that as saying the U.S. controls the Strait of Hormuz. And Iran says that's not. Don't you think it would say that in the agreement if that's what it was? And then the U.S. didn't do sanction relief that was promised to Iran, mocked what was in the agreement, promising Iran$300 billion. The U.S. then made a deal basically between Israel and Lebanon, which would give Israel de facto permanent control of major swaths of Lebanon, which undercuts the very first article of the Iranian MOU, which says Israel, get out of Lebanon.

56:01Ben Meiselas:It's not your country. But Israel's like under Netanyahu. It's our security zone. We're just calling it the security zone. It's not your land. It's Lebanon's land. It's not yours. You can't just call it a security zone. And the destabilizing impact of all of this, of Trump, it is sickening. And then the human impact. I don't want to ever lose sight of the fact that there is a genocide in Gaza and there are kids being killed to this day. There are children being killed. And what does Trump do? There's a ceasefire going on in Gaza. No, there isn't. No, there isn't. all of Donald Trump's this, that, that.

56:42It's just a framework for his own predatorial interests. That's all this is about. That's all this is about. And then you've got these other weirdos in this regime. You have Sean Duffy on Fox this morning with all of this going on, with all of the chaos in the world right now going on, right? What is the transportation secretary focused on this morning? He's with his wife and his wife is a host of Fox also. And so he and his wife Do the following on Fox this morning. Here, play this clip. I'm going to come back and give you my take on Sydney Sweeney's breasts right after this break. All right.

57:18Welcome back to From the Kitchen Table. Rachel decided to bring up a question about...

57:26Ben Meiselas:Sydney Sweeney's boobs. Yes. And the end of wokeness. If we're honest, we go, men appreciate women. And men that appreciate women are not toxic. God made us a certain way to. Okay. And then what about Kelly Loeffler, small business administrator? She hates small business. I mean, she married a billionaire. They hate small businesses, in my opinion. But what is Kelly Loeffler? What's their initiative? Because small businesses are struggling right now with Trump's tariffs against the world. Here, let's play this one. Later. You got something else pretty exciting coming down. Small business administrators saluting small business in a major contest with some high-profile judges.

58:08Tell me about it. The million-dollar pitch competition is really amplifying the importance of small businesses across America. You think about 36 million small businesses, 98 percent of our manufacturers are small businesses. And so we're really excited to highlight their contribution to Main Street. This is what the Trump administration... We don't want a competition. I don't want a reality show competition of small business. I just help small businesses. Your job isn't a reality show. We don't want any of this. We don't want these wars. We don't want you aiding and abetting genocide. We don't want our money being wasted away on a military industrial complex that engages in war crimes.

58:48Ben Meiselas:I thought we should have a robust military, but you wasted$1 trillion on account or in the aggregate$9 trillion or so. So if you go back from even just the past several years of military spending to only run out of weapons, you can't fight the war with those massive military budgets. It's just enriching your oligarchs. That money can go to health care. That money can go to housing. That money can go to help feed people and lift people out of poverty. That money can go to actually support infrastructure. That money can do a lot of things for the American people, but instead it's being flushed down the toilet for a military industrial complex that is not even able to, that can't go head to head with Iran.

59:42And now, because we lost a war we shouldn't have been involved in to Iran, now Trump just goes into the we won.

59:51Ben Meiselas:We controlled the strait of the most. We did it. Moving on. Venezuela. Did you hear about the 65 billion barrel deal I did with Delce Rodriguez? Did you all hear about that deal? The biggest oil deal in history. we're going to create the Trump state-owned oil company inside the Pentagon with all of our MAGA influencers who are secretly feds inside the Pentagon now. Apparently, every right-wing MAGA influencer is like a secret fed, the deep state they warned about. They are the deep state, actually, and they're not going to tell you that they actually are getting our taxpayer dollars. Maybe that's where some of that military industrial complex money is going to their feds.

1:00:31Yeah, they're feds. And this is what we're going to be focused on. The hell is going on here?

1:00:39Ben Meiselas:We're going to be the, because private business is not going in there because it's uninvestable, we're going to have the Pentagon launch a Trump oil company. But we're going to call everybody else communists, despite having a Trump oil company that's going to work with Delcy Rodriguez. And that's how we're going to do it. 100 years in Delcy Rodriguez. It's 25 years. And Trump's like it's 100 years. And we're like, okay, where's this agreement? Where is it written down? Doesn't this require congressional authorization? Isn't this against every law here in the United States? Don't be woke. Sidney Sweeney's breasts.

1:01:16That's what Duffy wants to talk about. Sidney Sweeney, are you a wokester? You are focused on things like this war in Iran where the US just killed people in a wedding today and killed more innocent people? Are you woke? It's like, dude, we're not woke. We just think you're weird for talking about Sidney Sweeney's breast. Y 'all are bringing up these issues. We're calling you freaking weirdos for bringing up these issues. Oh, you're woke. You're woke. I don't care. I really don't care about any of this stuff. Your behavior is loser behavior. And I think we all, not out of being Democrats or this or that, if we're self-respecting people, if we care about our communities, if we care about this country, if we care about the world, we got to freaking get tough, people.

1:02:11We got to get freaking tough. And we got to just call this shit out. And we just, we can't normalize these weirdos. And it may make our lives difficult. It may intrude on our solitude or our peaceful and our tranquility that we have to call out these people. But there are sickos. There are demons amongst us. Seriously. These are demon, demented, vile creatures right now controlling the United States government.

1:02:41Ben Meiselas:I don't view it even as a Republican. These people are inflicting pain on us because they're predators and they hate America and they hate you. They hate our military. They hate our service members. They hate our farmers. They hate our ranchers. They hate our lobstermen. They hate America. They hate it. How do you know? They think this is good. They think this is, they think right. I'll give you the proof of it. They think this is the golden age right now, right here. They think this is their golden age, that this is the culmination of what we've all wanted right now. And they'll say things like, could you imagine what would have happened if Trump lost?

1:03:24Ben Meiselas:It would have been so much worse. How? Truly, how? Truly, how? We're essentially in a world war right now. Everything is worse. Everything is more expensive. Everything. This is your mission accomplished moment. That's what they say, mission accomplished. Mission accomplished.

1:03:49Yeah. Deep down, they hate themselves. Deep down, they hate everything. They're haters. They're haters. All right. Good audience today. Did you all put in the chat if you got WTF America? Have you pre-ordered WTF America?

1:04:12Ben Meiselas:Do you get annoyed when I plug WTF America? Is it annoying when I plug it? I spent a long time writing WTF America. I'm proud of it. I want it to be the legacy of what we've built. With you, I dedicate the book to all of you. So scan the QR code. Don't click the QR code. My brother says you can't tell people click the QR code. It doesn't work. You can't click it. It's not a book about the election even. It's a book about getting out of this generational loop and getting into a generational of progress, of getting stuff done. All right. Thanks, everybody. Appreciate you. Keep checking in for more videos throughout the day.

1:05:06Ben Meiselas:Shout out to you. Shout out Midas Mighty. Appreciate you. Bye, everybody.

1:05:35Thank you.