1 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:07,960 Speaker 1: Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 2 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: Are you single and don't want to be? Here's your 3 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:17,079 Speaker 1: new Year's resolution? Stop texting. Look, I despise talking on 4 00:00:17,120 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: the phone. I don't have voicemail. I don't listen to 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: voice notes. I'm a texter all the way. By the way, 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 1: I don't listen to voice notes. Do not send me 7 00:00:26,120 --> 00:00:29,120 Speaker 1: voice notes. They will never be heard. Don't do it. 8 00:00:29,960 --> 00:00:32,680 Speaker 1: So maybe I'm a hypocrite. But I can afford to 9 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:35,520 Speaker 1: be a hypocrite because I'm not on the dating scene. 10 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 1: I can limit all of my conversations with my husband 11 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:42,160 Speaker 1: to text. Buy milk kid is sick because there's very 12 00:00:42,159 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 1: little for us to misunderstand, and more important, at the 13 00:00:46,120 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: end of the day, we have face to face conversations. 14 00:00:49,080 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: Studies have actually found that too much texting, even when 15 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:56,680 Speaker 1: you're already in a relationship, isn't healthy. Either quick I 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: Love you or scheduling text are fine, even positive, but 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,600 Speaker 1: any attempt to conduct serious conversations via text quickly leads 18 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:10,600 Speaker 1: to lower relationship quality. It's obvious why texting is divorced 19 00:01:10,600 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: from tone and can lead to misinterpretation. Was that a 20 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: joke or is my boyfriend a jerk? What does that 21 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:22,320 Speaker 1: emoji convey? Texting blurs intent. For example, you know young 22 00:01:22,360 --> 00:01:25,240 Speaker 1: kids are super anti putting a period at the end 23 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:27,680 Speaker 1: of text. Now or if you don't know that? What 24 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 1: if you know you're from a generation that still does that, 25 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,319 Speaker 1: but they've adopted this new philosophy. It's all interpreted as 26 00:01:34,360 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 1: throwing shade, so you can easily make a mistake and 27 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: not even know it. The TV show Catfish highlights stories 28 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 1: of people who meet and fall in love online, sometimes 29 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,600 Speaker 1: spending years in relationships solely on the computer or phone 30 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 1: before finding out that person isn't who they thought they were. 31 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:55,520 Speaker 1: And while sure they were attracted to their words on 32 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: a screen, finding out that the picture their boyfriend or 33 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: girlfriend uses fake fizzles the whole thing out very quickly. 34 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:06,600 Speaker 1: It's rare that the tricky decides that they still love 35 00:02:06,640 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: the trigger due to all the great texting conversations they had. 36 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: That's because actual physical, in person attraction matters, and so 37 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 1: does the breach of trust that develops when long term 38 00:02:18,400 --> 00:02:22,640 Speaker 1: text only relationships are revealed to contain distortions. Is it 39 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,600 Speaker 1: possible to fall in love over text or email, then 40 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:29,640 Speaker 1: meet and have all of your feelings confirmed. Sure, we 41 00:02:29,720 --> 00:02:32,280 Speaker 1: all have friends who have done this, but we also 42 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 1: have plenty of friends who will spend weeks or months 43 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 1: texting before meeting and sometimes end up not meeting at all. 44 00:02:39,560 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: Too often people will meet the person with whom they 45 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,880 Speaker 1: have texting chemistry, only to find out they have no 46 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 1: in person chemistry. I get it. It's hard to be 47 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: the weirdo demanding phone conversation when everyone around you is texting. 48 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: But you'll save yourself a ton of wasted time if 49 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: you make that leap. Institute a policy for yourself where 50 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 1: you can texts for half an hour to see if 51 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: there's a connection, and then switch to setting up an 52 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: in person date. Move your life offline as much as 53 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: possible in twenty twenty four. Coming up next an interview 54 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:18,359 Speaker 1: with Senator Ted Cruz. Join us after the break, Hi, 55 00:03:18,440 --> 00:03:21,520 Speaker 1: and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. 56 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,920 Speaker 1: My guest today is Senator Ted Cruz, one of my 57 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:28,200 Speaker 1: favorite senators who has definitely had me thinking I should 58 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,799 Speaker 1: have converted to Texan and author of the excellent new 59 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: book Unwoke. So nice to have you on, Senator Carol. 60 00:03:35,360 --> 00:03:36,800 Speaker 2: Great to be with you thanks for having me. 61 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: A question I ask all of my guests, and I 62 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 1: imagine we'll take us in the direction of your book, 63 00:03:42,640 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: is what do you think is the largest cultural societal 64 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: problem in America? And is it solvable? 65 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 2: Well? I think there are a lot of cultural societal problems, 66 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 2: but one of the most massive, and the topic of 67 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: my book is is how the radical left has seized 68 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 2: control of virtually every major institution of our society. The 69 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:09,400 Speaker 2: full title of the book is Unwoke, How to Defeat 70 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 2: Cultural Marxism in America. And what the book does is 71 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,920 Speaker 2: it chronicles exactly how that has happened. And each chapter 72 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 2: of the book focuses on a different institution. So chapter 73 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:26,239 Speaker 2: one starts with universities, because the universities I describe as 74 00:04:26,360 --> 00:04:31,240 Speaker 2: the Wuhan lab of the Woke virus. It's where the 75 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:34,799 Speaker 2: virus was created, it's where it mutated, it's where it spread. 76 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,479 Speaker 2: And from universities, the book then goes on to K 77 00:04:38,600 --> 00:04:42,240 Speaker 2: through twelve. Education, it goes on to journalism, It goes 78 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:44,880 Speaker 2: on to government, it goes on to big business, it 79 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 2: goes on to big tech, It goes on to entertainment, 80 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:52,360 Speaker 2: to Hollywood, movies, television, music, sports, it goes on to science, 81 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:55,520 Speaker 2: and the final chapter in the book is on China, 82 00:04:55,760 --> 00:05:00,320 Speaker 2: which I view China as a central nexus intertwine with 83 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,080 Speaker 2: each of them. And what the book does is two things. 84 00:05:03,360 --> 00:05:07,760 Speaker 2: It explains how and why the radical left seized each 85 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:13,040 Speaker 2: of these institutions, and then secondly, it lays out a productive, 86 00:05:13,279 --> 00:05:16,799 Speaker 2: positive battle plan for how we take them back, because 87 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:19,320 Speaker 2: I think if we don't take the institutions back, we're 88 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:20,240 Speaker 2: going to lose our country. 89 00:05:20,839 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 1: Absolutely. So, which one was the scariest chapter for you? 90 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:25,640 Speaker 1: Which one do you think is the hardest for us 91 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,559 Speaker 1: to conquer and take back? 92 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:34,640 Speaker 2: I think the most dangerous is entertainment. Entertainment is incredibly pervasive. 93 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,640 Speaker 2: The left understands the power of ideas. The left understands 94 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: and they engage in the battle the arena of ideas 95 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 2: in a way that the right systematically does not. So 96 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 2: in terms of how we fight back, I advocate essentially 97 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,159 Speaker 2: using three sets of tools. The first set of tools 98 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:59,799 Speaker 2: is sunlight and transparency. Because the ideas of the radical 99 00:05:59,839 --> 00:06:05,320 Speaker 2: life left are wildly unpopular. Normal rational people don't support 100 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:10,839 Speaker 2: abolishing the police. Normal rational people don't support open borders 101 00:06:10,880 --> 00:06:14,200 Speaker 2: and chaos at our southern border. Normal rational people are 102 00:06:14,240 --> 00:06:17,600 Speaker 2: not struggling to figure out what a woman is, and 103 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:22,839 Speaker 2: normal rational people do not celebrate the horrific atrocities of 104 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:28,279 Speaker 2: Hamas terrorists, that those are not mainstream positions. Simply shining 105 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:31,040 Speaker 2: a light on what the radical left is doing is 106 00:06:31,080 --> 00:06:34,640 Speaker 2: a powerful tool for fighting back. The second tool I 107 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 2: advocate is shifting the cost benefit analysis, increasing the costs 108 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:45,080 Speaker 2: for those who choose to go woke to increase the 109 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 2: disincentives for going down that road. And the third tool, 110 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:53,599 Speaker 2: and this applies in particular to entertainment, I encourage conservatives 111 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 2: and libertarians with resources, those who've been successful in business, 112 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 2: invest in the or organs of transmission of ideas. Go 113 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: buy a TV station, buy a radio station, buy a 114 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 2: book publishing house, buy a movie studio, buy a record label, 115 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:13,800 Speaker 2: engage and speak. And you know, one example, the most 116 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,200 Speaker 2: profound example of this is Elon Musk's buying Twitter, which 117 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:20,679 Speaker 2: I think is the single biggest victory for free speech 118 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:23,960 Speaker 2: in modern times. But you know, Carol, I also point 119 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 2: out in the book, Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post 120 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:32,000 Speaker 2: for three hundred million dollars. Now, he didn't do so 121 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,000 Speaker 2: because he was bullish on the profitability of media in 122 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: the long time. He did it because he wanted to 123 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:43,360 Speaker 2: own the commanding heights of public discourse. We need conservatives 124 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 2: and libertarians and those who love America to fight in 125 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,640 Speaker 2: those arenas to take the back. 126 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:54,440 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely. You open the book describing how your father 127 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: was for the cast Or Revolution in Cuba and how 128 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:00,480 Speaker 1: he ultimately changed his mind, and you describe him as 129 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,040 Speaker 1: a reformed revolutionary, but you also know that the new 130 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:08,679 Speaker 1: leftist of the seventies stayed committed to Marxism against all odds. Really, 131 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,240 Speaker 1: do you think changing minds as possible and how do 132 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,160 Speaker 1: we reform more revolutionaries? 133 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,400 Speaker 2: Look, I do think it's possible with some not necessarily 134 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:21,920 Speaker 2: for the hardcore committed ideologues. But as you know the 135 00:08:22,520 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 2: opening of the book, I tell my family story, and 136 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 2: my dad was born in Cuba, grew up in Cuba, 137 00:08:29,360 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: and as a kid he fought in the Cuban Revolution. 138 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 2: He fought alongside Fidel Castro. Now, at the time he 139 00:08:36,679 --> 00:08:39,000 Speaker 2: didn't know that Castro was a communist. What he knew 140 00:08:39,040 --> 00:08:41,959 Speaker 2: was that Batista was corrupt and cruel and was a 141 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,839 Speaker 2: terrible dictator. But it's interesting my dad has explained to 142 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 2: me many times that the people fighting in the revolution 143 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,520 Speaker 2: were just like him. They were fourteen and fifteen year 144 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,840 Speaker 2: old young boys who didn't know any better. And as 145 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:00,840 Speaker 2: you know well, Carol, communist revolutions across the globe they're 146 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 2: always fought by teenagers who are young and passionate and idealistic, 147 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,120 Speaker 2: and they don't have any life experience, they don't have 148 00:09:08,120 --> 00:09:12,680 Speaker 2: any wisdom, so they're easily deceived into being part of 149 00:09:13,040 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 2: a mission they believe in until the Communists sees power 150 00:09:17,400 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 2: and they begin brutally murdering and torturing and using force 151 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,600 Speaker 2: and power. And I will say, look for my father. 152 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 2: He was in prisoned, he was tortured in Cuba. He 153 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 2: fled to America in nineteen fifty seven. In nineteen fifty nine, 154 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 2: the revolution succeeded. My dad saw firsthand what happened. He 155 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:39,480 Speaker 2: saw that Castro was even worse than the guy who 156 00:09:39,480 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 2: preceded him, was even worse than Batista. Sadly, the Cubans 157 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:44,880 Speaker 2: went from one son of a bitch to an even 158 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 2: worse son of a bitch. And my aunt Mike thea Sonia, 159 00:09:49,360 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 2: my father's younger sister. She was still living in Cuba. 160 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 2: She fought in the counter revolution against Castro, and she 161 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:03,440 Speaker 2: ended up sadly being in prison being tortured by Castro's goon. 162 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 2: That had a powerful effect on my dad when he 163 00:10:05,559 --> 00:10:09,480 Speaker 2: saw his kid's sister being tortured by the same people 164 00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,960 Speaker 2: he had been fighting alongside. That helped open his eyes. 165 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,839 Speaker 2: But you know many leftists that they refuse to open 166 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 2: their eyes. I will say, Carol, I do think people 167 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 2: on the left in the United States who are not 168 00:10:23,480 --> 00:10:27,560 Speaker 2: hardcore Marxist, their eyes are opening up right now on 169 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 2: what's happening on college campuses and the vicious anti semitism 170 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:36,160 Speaker 2: we're seeing on college campuses is a manifestation of cultural Marxism, 171 00:10:36,440 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 2: and we're seeing people who had been on the left saying, 172 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 2: wait a second, I don't like these people that I'm 173 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 2: associated with. I don't like what they stand for, I 174 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:48,439 Speaker 2: don't like what they're doing. And it is it is 175 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 2: a potential tipping point in terms of at least some 176 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:56,240 Speaker 2: people waking up and realizing that the ideology they had 177 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 2: supported is wrong. 178 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,600 Speaker 1: Well, as a Jew and as a conservative, I hope 179 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:03,640 Speaker 1: that lasts because my concern always is that memories are 180 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:09,040 Speaker 1: very short, and I hope they remember that for future elections. 181 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: Your dad came to the United States penniless and his 182 00:11:12,679 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: son is a senator. Do you feel like you've made it? 183 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 2: Oh? I feel like I live in the greatest country 184 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 2: on the face of the earth. And this is the 185 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:25,920 Speaker 2: American dream. You get to live in it. I get 186 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 2: to live in it. All of us get to live 187 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: in a world where we have a chance to pursue 188 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:33,320 Speaker 2: the American dream. And I'll tell you, Carol, it was 189 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,840 Speaker 2: eleven years ago that I arrived in the Senate. I 190 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 2: was elected in twenty twelve. I was sworn in in 191 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:42,440 Speaker 2: January of twenty thirteen. And I have to tell you, 192 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:45,440 Speaker 2: as I was being sworn in, I couldn't help thinking 193 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 2: back to my dad in Austin, Texas in nineteen fifty seven. 194 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:52,600 Speaker 2: His first job when he got to the US he 195 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 2: washed dishes. He made fifty cents an hour washing dishes 196 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: to pay his way through school. And what I kept 197 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 2: thinking is if someone had come to that teenage immigrant 198 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:08,400 Speaker 2: and told him fifty years hence, your son will become 199 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:12,319 Speaker 2: a senator for the great state of Texas, that kid 200 00:12:12,360 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 2: could not have believed that. That would have been beyond 201 00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:20,120 Speaker 2: anything my father was capable of imagining. And on that day, 202 00:12:20,160 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 2: when I was sworn in, I had my left hand 203 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,560 Speaker 2: on my father's Bible, and sitting up in the gallery 204 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 2: was my dad looking down and he just had tears 205 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 2: streaming down his face. And as my dad said afterwards, 206 00:12:31,040 --> 00:12:32,920 Speaker 2: he said, only in America. That there is no other 207 00:12:32,960 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 2: country on Earth where this is possible. And sadly, Carol, 208 00:12:37,679 --> 00:12:40,360 Speaker 2: that's one of the reasons, one of the central reasons 209 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:44,320 Speaker 2: why the left, why the cultural Marxists hate America's why 210 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:48,319 Speaker 2: they want to destroy that freedom, that opportunity. They want 211 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 2: to replace it with central power and control. 212 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're absolutely right, and that's so beautiful. I love 213 00:12:55,520 --> 00:12:58,320 Speaker 1: hearing about your dad and about your family, so I 214 00:12:58,360 --> 00:13:00,199 Speaker 1: could talk to you forever, But I know you're a 215 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: busy guy, So end here with your best tip for 216 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,040 Speaker 1: my listeners on how they can improve their lives. 217 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:10,520 Speaker 2: Well, improve your lives, I would say, do more to 218 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,280 Speaker 2: fight to save our country. Look, every person wants to 219 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:17,520 Speaker 2: live for something larger than themselves. I think America is 220 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 2: at a greater crisis today than it has ever been, 221 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 2: certainly in our lifetimes, and in many ways, Carol, I 222 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 2: think you and I are blessed. We're blessed Number one 223 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:31,000 Speaker 2: to be Americans number two. Oh yeah, to have family 224 00:13:31,080 --> 00:13:34,880 Speaker 2: stories where we've seen oppression, we've seen that freedom can 225 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,200 Speaker 2: be taken away, that we can't take it for granted, 226 00:13:37,960 --> 00:13:40,680 Speaker 2: and we're blessed to be fighting for something that matters, 227 00:13:40,920 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 2: you know. I tell people, listen, we're not battling today 228 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:46,840 Speaker 2: over whether the top marginal tax rate is thirty six 229 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: percent or thirty eight percent. That matters, sure, but the 230 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:52,440 Speaker 2: fate of the cosmos is not going to turn on 231 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,040 Speaker 2: that question. We are fighting, I fully believe, over whether 232 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:01,000 Speaker 2: this nation the greatest cun in the history of the world, 233 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,280 Speaker 2: whether we survive, or whether our nation is destroyed, and 234 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 2: that that's a blessing to jump up every day and 235 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:10,719 Speaker 2: say this is worth fighting for. And I want to 236 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:15,560 Speaker 2: encourage your listeners the book Unwoke. It is designed to 237 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 2: help you fight to save America, to empower you, to 238 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,800 Speaker 2: educate you, to inform you, to give you tools to 239 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 2: go and fight with your friends, your family. So I 240 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 2: want to encourage folks. You can get the book anywhere. 241 00:14:27,800 --> 00:14:29,480 Speaker 2: You can get it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble 242 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 2: or any place you get books, but I want to 243 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:34,720 Speaker 2: encourage you to go buy it. And Christmas time is 244 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:38,240 Speaker 2: right around the corner. I would encourage you don't buy 245 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,560 Speaker 2: just one. It makes a great gift. Buy a copy 246 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:44,040 Speaker 2: for your mom, buy a copy for your best friend, 247 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:47,720 Speaker 2: buy a copy for your crazy left wing neighbor who 248 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:51,240 Speaker 2: you need to knock some sense into. Or even better, 249 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,920 Speaker 2: buy a copy for your kids or for your grandkids 250 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 2: so they can understand what it is that people are 251 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:01,120 Speaker 2: trying to indoctrinate them with. They can be prepared to 252 00:15:01,160 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 2: fight back. This book was written to help empower people 253 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,640 Speaker 2: to fight together to save our country. 254 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:11,040 Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Senator Cruz. The book is Unwoke. 255 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:13,560 Speaker 1: Get it wherever you buy your books. It's really excellent. 256 00:15:13,600 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: I really enjoyed reading it. Thank you so much for 257 00:15:15,640 --> 00:15:16,000 Speaker 1: coming on. 258 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:18,920 Speaker 2: Thank you, Carol, and I appreciate everything you do. Your 259 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: voice is powerful and it has a real impact that 260 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: it's needed. 261 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,440 Speaker 1: Thank you, senator. Thanks so much for joining us on 262 00:15:25,480 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 1: the Carol Marcowitz Show. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.