Ben Owen

And in these signal chat rooms, there was all sorts of people freaking out about the legality of this, the legality of that. Do we need to do something with the Foreign Agent Registration Act? What's the Logan Act? All this crap I've never heard of, nor do I give a flying fuck about. I'm barely two years away from being a criminal, so I don't care at all.

And in these signal chat rooms, there was all sorts of people freaking out about the legality of this, the legality of that. Do we need to do something with the Foreign Agent Registration Act? What's the Logan Act? All this crap I've never heard of, nor do I give a flying fuck about. I'm barely two years away from being a criminal, so I don't care at all.

And in these signal chat rooms, there was all sorts of people freaking out about the legality of this, the legality of that. Do we need to do something with the Foreign Agent Registration Act? What's the Logan Act? All this crap I've never heard of, nor do I give a flying fuck about. I'm barely two years away from being a criminal, so I don't care at all.

I'm going to find out if I can lease an apartment in Kabul. I'll be back in 10 minutes. So I call my guy back at Fort Bragg. He's like, yeah, my cousin's a real estate agent. What do you need? I was like, I need safe houses. So next thing I know, I'm signing a lease in Dari, all right, or Farsi or whatever. I don't even know what the fuck it was. So we're signing leases in Afghanistan.

I'm going to find out if I can lease an apartment in Kabul. I'll be back in 10 minutes. So I call my guy back at Fort Bragg. He's like, yeah, my cousin's a real estate agent. What do you need? I was like, I need safe houses. So next thing I know, I'm signing a lease in Dari, all right, or Farsi or whatever. I don't even know what the fuck it was. So we're signing leases in Afghanistan.

I'm going to find out if I can lease an apartment in Kabul. I'll be back in 10 minutes. So I call my guy back at Fort Bragg. He's like, yeah, my cousin's a real estate agent. What do you need? I was like, I need safe houses. So next thing I know, I'm signing a lease in Dari, all right, or Farsi or whatever. I don't even know what the fuck it was. So we're signing leases in Afghanistan.

We start putting families in these safe houses because we can't get them out of the airport anymore. And my dream of Flanders Fields and helping homeless and addicted vets has now morphed because my weaponized ADHD went for shiny object syndrome in Kabul, Afghanistan. We ended up, like no bullshit, before it was over, we had 68 safe houses in Afghanistan. We had them in Kabul.

We start putting families in these safe houses because we can't get them out of the airport anymore. And my dream of Flanders Fields and helping homeless and addicted vets has now morphed because my weaponized ADHD went for shiny object syndrome in Kabul, Afghanistan. We ended up, like no bullshit, before it was over, we had 68 safe houses in Afghanistan. We had them in Kabul.

We start putting families in these safe houses because we can't get them out of the airport anymore. And my dream of Flanders Fields and helping homeless and addicted vets has now morphed because my weaponized ADHD went for shiny object syndrome in Kabul, Afghanistan. We ended up, like no bullshit, before it was over, we had 68 safe houses in Afghanistan. We had them in Kabul.

We had them in Kunduz. We had them in Jalalabad. We had them in Helmand. We had them close to Torkham. I'm not sure how close. We had Mazar-e-Sharif. At one point, we were housing 650 former members of the Afghan military. I blew through my kids' college savings. But this whole time, it's just we're learning how to get shit done real fast, real fast, make shit happen. We're making contacts.

We had them in Kunduz. We had them in Jalalabad. We had them in Helmand. We had them close to Torkham. I'm not sure how close. We had Mazar-e-Sharif. At one point, we were housing 650 former members of the Afghan military. I blew through my kids' college savings. But this whole time, it's just we're learning how to get shit done real fast, real fast, make shit happen. We're making contacts.

We had them in Kunduz. We had them in Jalalabad. We had them in Helmand. We had them close to Torkham. I'm not sure how close. We had Mazar-e-Sharif. At one point, we were housing 650 former members of the Afghan military. I blew through my kids' college savings. But this whole time, it's just we're learning how to get shit done real fast, real fast, make shit happen. We're making contacts.

And my life had purpose. And before I know it, I've got two years clean. That's the longest I've had clean since that relapse in 2011. And I'm starting to realize if I maintain a purpose, maybe I actually can stay clean no matter how much money I make. So we've dumped like all of our personal savings into Afghanistan.

And my life had purpose. And before I know it, I've got two years clean. That's the longest I've had clean since that relapse in 2011. And I'm starting to realize if I maintain a purpose, maybe I actually can stay clean no matter how much money I make. So we've dumped like all of our personal savings into Afghanistan.

And my life had purpose. And before I know it, I've got two years clean. That's the longest I've had clean since that relapse in 2011. And I'm starting to realize if I maintain a purpose, maybe I actually can stay clean no matter how much money I make. So we've dumped like all of our personal savings into Afghanistan.

I'm making money just to give it to the nonprofit so that we can continue doing what we're doing over there. We had a lot of very early successes. We had a lot of really crappy things happen too. I ended up –

I'm making money just to give it to the nonprofit so that we can continue doing what we're doing over there. We had a lot of very early successes. We had a lot of really crappy things happen too. I ended up –

I'm making money just to give it to the nonprofit so that we can continue doing what we're doing over there. We had a lot of very early successes. We had a lot of really crappy things happen too. I ended up –

I think it was November of 2021, I got invited to Fort Bragg to USASOC, United States Army Special Operations Command, to come talk to a roomful of 3-3 Green Berets about how we're doing this. Like, I'm literally a crackhead, and I'm being asked to come to USASOC and talk about what we're doing in Afghanistan. Damn. They had their own little NGO set up. I think it was called Team America.

I think it was November of 2021, I got invited to Fort Bragg to USASOC, United States Army Special Operations Command, to come talk to a roomful of 3-3 Green Berets about how we're doing this. Like, I'm literally a crackhead, and I'm being asked to come to USASOC and talk about what we're doing in Afghanistan. Damn. They had their own little NGO set up. I think it was called Team America.