Ben Meiselas

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267,135 appearances 2,013 recordings 5 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 4d ago

Ben Meiselas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The MeidasTouch Podcast · Afternoon Breaking Updates with Ben: Trump Convention Backfires — 9/10/26 · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

This isn't normal. voice-verified

How do you deal with it? voice-verified

Look, you film in New York and so you think about it even like this way. voice-verified

There's, you know, the New York Mets and then the New York Yankees. voice-verified

How voice-verified

difficult would it be to make a Met fan into a Yankee fan. voice-verified

And that's baseball. voice-verified

That's baseball. voice-verified

So then when you put people into tribes of a political allegiance, which has defined not just a team you root for, but has defined what you perceive to be a value set. voice-verified

And then have somebody say, you know what? voice-verified

Your team, you're just the evil and the and the worst people. voice-verified

You got to switch to my team. voice-verified

And oftentimes that process really speeds up 60 days before an election. voice-verified

And you're not going to be an authentic messenger to be able to persuade anybody if you waited 60 days to have, I think, this conversation. voice-verified

You know what? voice-verified

You got to be on this team right now. voice-verified

And people wait. voice-verified

I thought I was on this team. voice-verified

I think in what you bring up in this book is when you say, you know what, we're not even playing a game of baseball here or politics is not this gamified thing. voice-verified

Step back for a moment. voice-verified

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