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Speaker 1: Hello friends, I'm Robert Evans, and this is once again

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Speaker 1: Behind the Bastards the Shore, we tell you everything you

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Speaker 1: don't know about the very worst people in all of history.

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Speaker 1: And with me this week are my good friends, my

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Speaker 1: former and quasi peeple Cody Johnson, Collaborators, collaborators, secret anti

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Speaker 1: FA super soldier allies. Whatever terms are secret collaborator, frequent

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Speaker 1: secret collaborators. Uh. And this week we are talking about

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Speaker 1: the midterms. Exciting now. Rather than doing a two part

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Speaker 1: or about one person, we have two distinct subjects for

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Speaker 1: both episodes this week, and this episode is the working

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Speaker 1: title is every Shitty Thing Ted Cruiz has done in

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Speaker 1: his Shitty Ship Life. The titles a lie because I

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Speaker 1: didn't have time everything. There's just so much garbage that

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruiz is done. But we are going to go

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Speaker 1: back a lot further than I think most people know

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Speaker 1: about Mr Tedrick. I'm excited about this will be fascinating.

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Speaker 1: I want to start by asking what did you guys

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Speaker 1: first learn about Ted Cruise? Do you would you call

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Speaker 1: your first Ted Cruise memory? God, I couldn't say my

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Speaker 1: tea party times. Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would say that's around the same time. For me, it's

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Speaker 1: all a blur. Well, I want the listeners at home

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Speaker 1: to know that while we're doing this, there's a tide

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Speaker 1: pod that's been in the office the whole year now

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Speaker 1: that I've been doing this show, and I've just been

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Speaker 1: gonna pass this around. We can all take turns squeezing

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Speaker 1: and maybe it'll explode in the middle of this session.

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Speaker 1: It's really gross right now, Like you can see how gross.

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Speaker 1: I thought that was a tide pod, and I was right.

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Speaker 1: It will be fun for the listeners at home to

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Speaker 1: hear us squeeze the tide pod for this is going

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Speaker 1: to go, So yeah, it doesn't have much longer left

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Speaker 1: in all right, So, Ted Cruz, the focus of this

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Speaker 1: and I want to make it clear to our listeners

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Speaker 1: least I'm not the people that we're talking about this

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Speaker 1: week are folks that I think everyone in America can

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Speaker 1: get together behind and agreer garbage monsters. And on that note,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Ted Cruz Uni. Yeah. Yeah, Now the

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Speaker 1: table of Hell Ted Cruz came to be started decades

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Speaker 1: before his birth in nineteen thirty nine. It started in Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: a businessman named Fred G. Clark. He was an executive

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Speaker 1: and anti prohibition crusader, so that's nice. He was a libertarian,

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Speaker 1: dedicated to destroying the social safety net. There's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of friends this episode. Yeah, yeah, a lot

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Speaker 1: that's my least favorite name, is it? Fred? There's something

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Speaker 1: So anyway, Clark formed an organization called the American Economic Foundation.

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Speaker 1: Its goal was to push and advocate for free market,

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Speaker 1: Clark believe the free market worked because it was a

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Speaker 1: self correcting system controlled by the consumer. Since this self

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Speaker 1: government intrusion into the economy. Of course. Yeah, if you

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Speaker 1: because we the consumers, have the power. Perfect example, perfect example,

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Speaker 1: the American Economic Foundation had its biggest coup yet when

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Speaker 1: it hosted that year's World's Fair in New York City.

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Speaker 1: I found some New York Time coverage of the event.

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Speaker 1: The title of the article is free Enterprises hailed it, Fair,

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Speaker 1: Hall dedicated, and torch of truth lighted at ceremony. Now,

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Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. Here's a quote. An attack against Russian communist

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Speaker 1: delivered by John Davis Lodge, former Governor of Connecticut and

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Speaker 1: maryor Wagner praised the pavilion as a most valuable endeavor

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Speaker 1: to the World's Fair the daily economic benefits inherit in

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Speaker 1: our free enterprise system. Yeah, any talk of piece is

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Speaker 1: quoted by The New York Times as noting ruefully that

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Speaker 1: the exhibit completely left out labor. Weird. Weird that a

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Speaker 1: have been an oversight. Must have been an oversight. It

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Speaker 1: day before the Internet. Yesterday was also law Day and

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Speaker 1: Crazy one is just fun fun for the Wait, how

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Speaker 1: many days was Okay? I mean, let's count here. So

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Speaker 1: this was yesterday was law Day at the Festival of

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Speaker 1: Loyalty Day, Loyalty Day, but also like Funny Hat Day,

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Speaker 1: the day that this article is about was Free Market Day,

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Speaker 1: Law Day in the Festival of Gas, Betty Crocker Day,

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Speaker 1: Loyalty Day, Northeast, it was like seven or eight days one. Well,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I think that's rude because you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have to share your special day with several others. But

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Speaker 1: four weeks for the price of two days. Just pledge

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Speaker 1: your loyalty. And you were a silly hat. Yeah, crazy hat,

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Speaker 1: crazy yeah, different days. Yeah. Fred Clark died in nineteen

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Speaker 1: far right free market values. Most of what they did

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Speaker 1: sort of tin Commandments for libertarian free market economics. As

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Speaker 1: Fred Clark saw it. Now, the Tin Pillars had first

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Speaker 1: been revealed at that nineteen sixty four World's Fair. I

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Speaker 1: love the idea of like the big reveal, the big reveal,

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Speaker 1: came from. Full the curtain ground. Here the Pillars strongly

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Speaker 1: hint that the best possible world is one where workers

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Speaker 1: Enterprise Education Institute was found in nineteen seventy six, three

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Speaker 1: years after Clark died, by a fellow named Roland's story.

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Speaker 1: things you assume would be most racist. In nineteen seventy

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Speaker 1: of libertarian economic theory. Indoctrinate specifically, Oh yeah, very much. So.

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Speaker 1: normal conversation we discuss ideas over dinner, Like the only

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Speaker 1: thing government should do is provide for the common defense,

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Speaker 1: fire stations, privatize medical care even medicare, definitely privatize education.

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Speaker 1: All school should be private. Education is a privilege, not

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Speaker 1: a constitutional right. What the fucking people, how do you

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Speaker 1: even like start to talk about those kinds of topics?

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Speaker 1: Those people I just want to live in a nation

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Speaker 1: where poor children are free to be illiterate and sell

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Speaker 1: themselves into slavery, signing their name, writing their marks on

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Speaker 1: contracts they can't read. That's seems like freedom to me.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that doesn't seem like freedom to everyone. That's freedom

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Speaker 1: I want. I want to have to I think education

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Speaker 1: should be profitable. So all the decisions that one would

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Speaker 1: make in giving somebody the education is based off of

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Speaker 1: how much money you'll make, which I think would give

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Speaker 1: that person a good education, because it's motivated by doing

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Speaker 1: whatever in order to make money. Absolutely, and that's always

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Speaker 1: been where our greatest advances have come, when the only

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Speaker 1: thing on the line was was profit. Absolutely, That's how

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Speaker 1: we cured polio. That's why Jonah Sulk, you know, famously

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Speaker 1: became a billionaire from the polio vaccine. That's why all

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Speaker 1: of those NASA scientists who put a man on the

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00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:13,920
Speaker 1: moon got super rich. Yeah, that's absolutely true. Stereotype of

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Speaker 1: the mansion owning NASA scientists there was. It was rich

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00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: fat cat scientists sitting on their ivory Apollo launch of scientists. Now,

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00:25:27,320 --> 00:25:30,200
Speaker 1: Laura felt some disconnecting these conversations because she'd gone to

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Speaker 1: a public school, and she was at a public school,

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Speaker 1: and she thought she got a pretty good education. But

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Speaker 1: despite some lingering doubts, she did find the whole experience

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Speaker 1: almost intoxicating. The most exciting part for me is feeling important,

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Speaker 1: being treated as a thinking adult, and getting to spend

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Speaker 1: the weekend at a fancy conference center. It is the

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Speaker 1: nicest hotel room I've ever been in, and the banquet

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Speaker 1: room has crystal glasses, and there is a magic show

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Speaker 1: and the college kids have beer. Sign me up. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I should note Texas in the eighties you could drink

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Speaker 1: and drive still that was like teen and ecstasy was legal,

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Speaker 1: so this was quite the time to be in a

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Speaker 1: hotel in the Houston area. I'm sure they had a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun. So it's perfect as it is, just like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna say this, and then old people

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Speaker 1: are going to be excited. The young people are talking

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Speaker 1: about these things, and the young people are gonna be

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Speaker 1: excited because they get to pretend to be fancy and old,

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Speaker 1: just a little feedback and to feel like they're better

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Speaker 1: than other young people who are busy getting educations and

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Speaker 1: not being indoctrinated. Yeah, it's great. I wonder if any

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Speaker 1: current far right media personalities had upbringings in any way

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Speaker 1: similar to this. Wow, that's an interesting question. I bet

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Speaker 1: nothing will come of that. Yeah, there's no way to

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Speaker 1: look into people like where Charlie Kirk. Probably there's probably

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Speaker 1: nothing there. There's probably no similarities. So let's let's talk

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00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:48,959
Speaker 1: about the only time this ever happened. Now. Laura studied

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Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz and their fellow Constitutional cooperators to memorize

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Speaker 1: the Constitution. As I stated, she claimed, Story hired anemonic

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00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: expert to create a tried and true method for helping

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Speaker 1: kids memorize the Constitution. This is necessary, but because stories

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00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,240
Speaker 1: goal was to basically mass produce constitutional corroborators to travel

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00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: around and while the easily wallable all around the United States.

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Speaker 1: The time Laura was involved, there were at least six

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Speaker 1: different teams of corroborators touring the country at a given time.

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Speaker 1: Laura recalled a usual visit quote. We arrive at a

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Speaker 1: rotary club meeting and set up our easels in large

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Speaker 1: pads of paper without notes. We use our clever pnemonic device,

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00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: and we each write the headlines of our sections. Mine

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00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,399
Speaker 1: include articles four, five, six, and seven. Rooms full of

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Speaker 1: almost all white men over the age of fifty wearing

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Speaker 1: blue suits are very impressed. Yeah, yeah, that checks out,

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00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: check right there. Now. A major motivation for Laura and

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00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: most of the other corroborators was the chance to win

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Speaker 1: scholarships during one speech competition hosted by the Fortune five

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Speaker 1: auto parts manufacturer Tentaco. Laura placed first, Ted Cruz placed third.

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Speaker 1: We have a picture of them receiving their awards and

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00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: you can see the barely restrained fury and Ted's eyes. Now,

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00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 1: this will be on Behind the Bastards dot com. I

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00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: gotta pass this around and just get y'all to describe

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Speaker 1: how Ted Cruz looks in that picture. I'm not am

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00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 1: I imagining that the definition of all teeth, no smile,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm smiling like they tell me to. But his

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00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:20,840
Speaker 1: eyes are dead, which we're all familiar with dead eyes,

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00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,960
Speaker 1: like a doll's eye. Yeah, he's familiar with what smiles

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Speaker 1: should look like. He's had smiles described to him. It's

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00:28:28,720 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: the exact because if you've ever heard Ted Cruz talk,

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00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: he's got that like, here's how I've talked to you.

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Speaker 1: This is how a genuine person speaks. And that is

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00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,880
Speaker 1: that smile. That is that smile. Clearly, smiling was not

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Speaker 1: one of the tin pillars of economic wisdom, so he

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00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,040
Speaker 1: just didn't study it. Now. Ted went to Second Baptist

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00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 1: High School, which was a fairly expensive private school in Houston.

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Speaker 1: First First Now. According to the book he wrote before

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Speaker 1: running for president, the title of which I have forgotten

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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to give in this episode, fuck

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Speaker 1: itt uh Ted Cruise. But according to this book that

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00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,480
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz wrote, Ted Cruiz was one of the cooler

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Speaker 1: kids that Ted Cruizes high school. Oh my god, are

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00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: you kidding? Ted Cruise might be, but I'm not. Quote

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00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 1: midway through junior high school, I decided I'd had enough

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Speaker 1: of being the unpopular nerried. I remember sitting up one

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Speaker 1: night asking a friend why I wasn't one of the

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Speaker 1: popular kids. I ended up staying up most of that

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Speaker 1: night thinking about it. Okay, well, what is it the

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Speaker 1: popular kids do? I will consciously emulate that. That is

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00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:34,800
Speaker 1: that's where he learned how to smile. Well, that's everything,

528
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:36,959
Speaker 1: is Ted Cruise. If you've seen the pictures of him,

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Speaker 1: video with him and his family and stuff, He's consciously

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Speaker 1: emulating a human being with a wife and children. That's

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruise. Anytime he tries to kiss his wife for

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Speaker 1: a child, ohoy, just the worst moment. They seem offended

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Speaker 1: that he's near them. There was an article today about

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Speaker 1: his wife. We can talk about that later, but it

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00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 1: was tragic breaking. It's really sad. They're sationship and how

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Speaker 1: she basically, well, we can get to him. I would

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Speaker 1: describe the way that human beings look when Ted Cruz

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Speaker 1: kisses them. Human beings that Ted cruize is related to

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Speaker 1: the way they look when he kisses them. It's not

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00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: like I know, you know, people get like pictures of

541
00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:14,440
Speaker 1: like Milannia and try and some of them look like,

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00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:15,840
Speaker 1: you know, a couple that's having a fight and they're

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00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:18,600
Speaker 1: a little angry or something like that. But like most

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00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: couples will have moments like that in their relationship. When

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00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz kisses one of his beloved family members, it

546
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: looks like almost gravitational force repelling. Yeah, like magnets that

547
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: are going further away. It's a it's an instinct. It's

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Speaker 1: not even emotion right, right, There's like there's coldness that

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00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:40,400
Speaker 1: you can see in relationships, but then there's like just recoiling. Yeah,

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00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: and how could you not recoil from how could you?

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00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: But no, there's no This isn't even about his appearance.

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00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: This is about yea sure. I mean this woman remembers

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00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,640
Speaker 1: meeting him for the first time and like within seconds,

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00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: like dating. This is a bad human being. Yeah. Now.

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00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:02,120
Speaker 1: Ted says that in order to get popular, he got

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00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 1: involved with sports, got contact lenses instead of glasses, and

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00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:08,240
Speaker 1: was soon a regular party boy. He was even briefly

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Speaker 1: suspended for smoking pot um I know, yeah, according to

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00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:15,680
Speaker 1: the Guardian quote. On other occasions, he wrote, he was

560
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: beaten up by drunk older kids at two am and

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00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: reprimanded by the principle for a prank that involved covering

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Speaker 1: a rival schools building in toilet paper and shaving cream,

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00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: then fleeing in a nineteen Ford Fairmont with Wagner's Right

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Speaker 1: of the Valkyries blaring out of the car. Sta do

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00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 1: think being popular includes getting beat up? Yeah? I think so.

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Speaker 1: It's attention. Okay, so now we disconnect here. I'm well

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00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:42,200
Speaker 1: known for getting beat up at two am. Also, I mean,

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00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: I will say a lot of people listen to Right

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Speaker 1: of the Valkyries while doing various things. The choice of Wagner, Yeah,

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00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 1: a little fashion, but maybe not in those days. Though

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00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: maybe not in those days people aren't aware. People know

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00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: Apocalypse now would just come out. Maybe that's it. Yeah,

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00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: maybe it was like he was a populyce. Now that

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00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: I know, Ted is a big film puffy and he

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00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,960
Speaker 1: likes art, so I'm sure that he was. Really he

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: does enjoy a nice art, likes to eat it. I'm

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Speaker 1: a big fan of the art. Many of Cruz's former

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00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 1: fellow students and teachers do agree that Ted Cruz was

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00:32:18,200 --> 00:32:20,560
Speaker 1: widely seen as very intelligent and gifted. He was the

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00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: valedictorian of his class in night. He was always an

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00:32:23,320 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: outspoken conservative and always clear that his goal in life

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00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: was to get into politics. It seems like, rather than

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00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:31,560
Speaker 1: becoming popular by acting less nerdy, Cruz actually gained most

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Speaker 1: of what popularity he did have from his nerdiness. Second

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Speaker 1: Baptist was a big speech and debate school, and Ted

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00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: Cruz was a fantastic debater. Uh speaking of someone who

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00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: was in speech and debate in Texas, it is definitely

588
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:49,000
Speaker 1: a community that attracts outspoken, annoying, opinionated conservative kids, which

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00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: I was when I was Ted Cruz's age in an

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00:32:51,200 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: attacks in high school. So I can guess what a

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00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:57,840
Speaker 1: lot of those conversations were like yeah, yeah. Now when

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00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: he graduated in nineteen, seventeen year old Ted Cruze wrote

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00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: this description of his hopes and dreams in his yearbook.

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00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: Upon graduation, Ted hopes to attend Princeton University in major

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Speaker 1: in political science and economics. From there, he wants to

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Speaker 1: attend law school, possibly Harvard, and achieve a successful law practice.

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00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: He then wants to pursue his real goal, a career

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00:33:15,320 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 1: in politics. Ted would like to run for various political

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00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,040
Speaker 1: offices and eventually achieve a strong enough reputation and track

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00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 1: record to run for and win president of the United States.

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00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: Presidency has been Ted Cruz's goal from the very beginning. Yeah.

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00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: I mean, I was a sixteen year old conservative debater

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00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: who wanted to be the president, and then I became

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00:33:38,760 --> 00:33:40,680
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old who had to pay rent and

605
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 1: realized that wasn't a job A good person once. Also,

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00:33:46,240 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: like that video of him from high school, I think, oh, yeah,

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00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: that's what we're about to get into. Yeah. So, in

608
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: a video filmed right after graduation, Ted Cruz lays out

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00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: his ambitions in a much less polished fashion, and we're

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00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: just gonna play this whole video for y'all. Have you

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00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 1: both seen this? Oh good, Katie, I'm excited for this. Cody,

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00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,959
Speaker 1: just live through it again. So let's listen to eighteen

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00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:11,520
Speaker 1: year old Ted Cruise talk about his hopes and dreams. Katie.

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00:34:11,520 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: I think you should be able to you can at

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00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: least see him because he's um, he's a character character

616
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,880
Speaker 1: that like went on my butt. Let's don't know, I

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00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:25,839
Speaker 1: see what you want me to do. What I want

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00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: to do in life, Well, my aspiration is to uh oh,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, being a teen pit film like that

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00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: guy who played Horatio. You know he was in Malva

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00:34:36,120 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: Bikini beach shop. Well, other than that take Over the

622
00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: World roll, everything written, powerful, that sort of stuff, that was,

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00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:52,239
Speaker 1: of course a fake Ted Cruise campaign at using that now,

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00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,279
Speaker 1: normally it would be unfair. I did worse stuff than

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00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:57,560
Speaker 1: that when I was eighteen. I don't want anyone seeing

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00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:59,400
Speaker 1: the videos I made when I was eighteen. No, no, no.

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00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: The thing that's in interesting about this is that this

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00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: is probably the best thing Ted Cruze ever did from

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00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,640
Speaker 1: a moral standpoint, because he's not actively harming anyone in

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00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: that video other than perhaps the cameraman. So Ted did

631
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,400
Speaker 1: get to go to Princeton and he went to Harvard

632
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 1: after that. But his roommate at Princeton was a guy

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00:35:16,440 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: named Craig Mason. Now Craig would later go on to

634
00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:24,000
Speaker 1: write the screenplays for the Hangover movie trilogy. Good on, Craig,

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00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,719
Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, all right for himself. Weird that that

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00:35:26,760 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 1: took a Princeton education, interesting way to Yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 1: Life's funny like that. Nothing against it. Of all of

638
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Speaker 1: the movies that star, you know, the guy who was

639
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: sexy for a hot minute and then he got huge

640
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: and he played that sniper who lied about Jesse the

641
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: body of Ventura. That guy Bradley, I thought, Okay, is

642
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,960
Speaker 1: he still alive? He is? Apparently he's looking real hot

643
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 1: in his new movie. A Star was born. Good directed

644
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: that Lady Garga movie and started this Lady Gaga, she's

645
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 1: still alive. Fantastic, they're all still living? Good I didn't.

646
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: Sophie is covering her her face. Yeah, well, you know what.

647
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: You know more about those people then, and I know

648
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,560
Speaker 1: more about Ted Cruz. So so is the winner now,

649
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:18,200
Speaker 1: although everyone is about to know the same amount about

650
00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, who is still alive? Who is still alive?

651
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: Technically that's the point. Now, when we get back, we're

652
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 1: going to talk about what Craig Mason has to say

653
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: about Mr Cruz. But first, you know, what I love

654
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: is not Dorito's. I do love Cres, but I'm no

655
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: longer giving free ad space to Dorrito's. Well, I just

656
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: feel a little bit like you got to move on.

657
00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,879
Speaker 1: I understand. I mean they're not answering. That's just yeah,

658
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 1: you have to if you love something, let it, let

659
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: it go. Let it go and maybe it'll come back

660
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 1: to you. And provide free ads for Stretch Island fruit leather.

661
00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: The only fruit leather that is currently sitting on the

662
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: table as we record this podcast. That's true, that's the

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Speaker 1: only one I right now. Fantastic. All right, here's some

664
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 1: ads that paid us and we're back. We're talking about

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Speaker 1: Craig Mason, who, when Ted Cruise ran for president, his

666
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: former roommate, Craig Mason, screenwriter of the Hangover movie series,

667
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: got onto Twitter and started to talk about his opinions

668
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 1: on his former roommate, Ted Cruise. It turns out he

669
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: doesn't like him very much. You know. There's some interviews

670
00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:27,840
Speaker 1: with Mr Mason and like with Laura, it sounds like

671
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: Craig pretty much hated Ted Cruise from the moment they met. Quote.

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00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:33,440
Speaker 1: I remember very specifically that he had a book in

673
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: Spanish and the title was was Carl Marks a Satanist?

674
00:37:36,640 --> 00:37:39,880
Speaker 1: And I thought, who is this person? Even in nineteen

675
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Speaker 1: eight he was politically extreme in a way that was

676
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: surprising to me. It's all, Oh, it's all there, it's

677
00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:52,720
Speaker 1: all there, hasn't changed. For reference, here is a picture

678
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: of Ted Cruz at the time. This is his yearbook

679
00:37:55,120 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: photo actually from high school. And I'm going to hand

680
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,520
Speaker 1: this to, let's say, Katie. I just just described for

681
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: me as best you can the look on his face

682
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 1: in that yearbook possessed. I mean, his eyes are kind

683
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: of rolling back. It's almost like he's a shell of

684
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 1: a man possessed by the spirits of two dead conservative

685
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: ideal laws. I know him. Yeah, I've seen this person. Yeah,

686
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: I've seen this person today writing their opinions on the internet. Yeah. Yeah,

687
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty remarkable. Now. The Daily Beast talk to

688
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: Mazing and several other members of Princeton's nineteen ninety two

689
00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,399
Speaker 1: graduating class. These people all knew Ted Cruise at the time,

690
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 1: and the Daily Beast concluded after all their interviews that quote,

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Speaker 1: the Ted Cruz who arrived as a college freshman in

692
00:38:40,840 --> 00:38:43,680
Speaker 1: nineteen eight was nearly identical to the man who arrived

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Speaker 1: in Washington as a freshman Republican senator in two thousand thirteen,

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Speaker 1: Which is one thing everyone agrees about with Ted Cruz.

695
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 1: He has not changed at all since he was a child.

696
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, when you're indoctrinated that early, Yeah, you're

697
00:38:56,880 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 1: not going to pick through that. We're just digging deeper.

698
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: You're going to think that Carl Mark saving you already

699
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 1: know the ten pillars of economic wisdom? What else is

700
00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: there to know? Now? Eric Leitch, who lived with Ted

701
00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: Cruz at one point during their time at Princeton, said quote,

702
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,239
Speaker 1: it was my distinct impression that Ted had nothing to

703
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 1: learn from anyone else. The only point of Ted talking

704
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: to you was to convince you of the rightness of

705
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: his views. The worst kind of person. Yeah, yeah, and again,

706
00:39:20,640 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: very much sounds like a high school speech and debate kid.

707
00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: I've resembled that at a time in my life. Normally,

708
00:39:26,760 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 1: you go into the world, you meet other people, you

709
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,880
Speaker 1: realize you're not as smart as you thought. You encounter

710
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,320
Speaker 1: some surprises, you meet people with different backgrounds, and you

711
00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,200
Speaker 1: become less of that Ted Cruise never did. Yeah, yeah, right.

712
00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: You slowly realize like, oh, I'm a dumbas. Oh I'm

713
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,319
Speaker 1: an idiot. I don't have all the answers. Life's really complicated.

714
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 1: I should listen to other people that you have to

715
00:39:46,960 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 1: be able to learn and grow from your mistakes to

716
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,879
Speaker 1: do that, though, So I wonder if that's something we'll

717
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: see Ted Cruise do or if he'll just be continually

718
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,959
Speaker 1: noted as an unchanging monolith of man. At this point,

719
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: it's too late. I don't start now. No, No, other

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00:40:02,719 --> 00:40:07,800
Speaker 1: classmates at Princeton called College Cruise abrasive, arrogant, creepy, and

721
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: a crank. The Daily Beast notes that four former classmates

722
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: all independently described him as creepy. That's also half of Congress,

723
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Speaker 1: like you, like, you don't even need to say, like, oh,

724
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:22,960
Speaker 1: someone said this about Ted Cruizes correct, just like described

725
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruise for a second. If there was a vote

726
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Speaker 1: in Congress as to whether or not Ted Cruiz was creepy,

727
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Speaker 1: it would be the only unanimous vote our Congress has had.

728
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Speaker 1: Ted Cruise would vote yes. Finally, Finally, some bipartisanship and

729
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: kind of like, if we can't come together on this,

730
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Speaker 1: what can we agree to? Start with the basics? Ted

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Speaker 1: Cruise grossest ship right, Okay, the floor. I'd like to

732
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:53,759
Speaker 1: agree with my colleague, Ted Cruises absolutely creepy stares at

733
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Speaker 1: me in the bathroom. Yeah. Ted Cruise apparently had a

734
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: habit of putting on a Paisley bathrobe and wall walking

735
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Speaker 1: to the other end of the dorm where all the

736
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Speaker 1: women lived and just sort of hanging out there. No, no, no, yeah,

737
00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: that's what Craig Mason says. I would end up fielding

738
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Speaker 1: the girl's complaints. Could you please keep your roommate out

739
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: of our hallway? Ted Cruise. Now, Cruise played poker regularly

740
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:22,960
Speaker 1: with a group of upperclassmen and was apparently just as

741
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: bad at that as he is at all vanig stuff.

742
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,320
Speaker 1: He wound up owing eighteen hundred dollars in nineteen eighties

743
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Speaker 1: money to several students. That's a lot a lot of months,

744
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: like six grand a day in like college yeh and

745
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: college an insane amount of money. It's crazy now, Ted

746
00:41:44,320 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: Cruizes campaign spokesman in two fifteen was asked about Ted

747
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Speaker 1: Cruz being terrible at poker, and she confirmed that Senator

748
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Speaker 1: Cruz once had a quote foolish poker problem. He went

749
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Speaker 1: to his aunt, who worked at a bank in Dallas,

750
00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,640
Speaker 1: and borrowed eighteen hundred dollars from her, which he paid

751
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: in cash and promptly quit the game. Is A spokesman

752
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 1: claims that he worked two jobs and gradually paid his

753
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:07,319
Speaker 1: aunt off over the next two years. Physical responsibility, responsibility

754
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: more than he's shown as a congressman, which we'll get

755
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: to in a second. Now. In general, it seems like

756
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 1: the kids who were in debate club with Cruise actually

757
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: did like him, and everybody else kind of hated him.

758
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:20,600
Speaker 1: His old debate partner speaks particularly well of Ted Cruz. Quote,

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Speaker 1: I consider Ted to be very kind. He's a very

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00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:24,839
Speaker 1: very gentle hearted person. He took me under his wing

761
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: and was a mentor to me. He was very kind

762
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: to me. I am a much smarter and much better

763
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,680
Speaker 1: person today because of Ted Cruz. What did he want?

764
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 1: I don't know, don't you know? It seems like some

765
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: people did like him, really didn't. I think it's probably

766
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: just that like that kind of relationship that he like.

767
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: Some people are looking for that kind of relationship and

768
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz only response to that kind of relationship, like

769
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: he's sizing everybody up, like you're useless to me. I

770
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: think you're beneath me, So I'm not going to treat

771
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: you well. This Oh I can mentor I can, I

772
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 1: can indoctrinate him. And he's a debate kid who's never off.

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00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,759
Speaker 1: Other debate kids who were never off probably get along

774
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Speaker 1: with him. So one thing no one denieses that Ted

775
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,839
Speaker 1: Cruze was exceptionally good at speech and debate. He won

776
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of stuff. Here's how The Daily Beast described

777
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 1: his place in that community. Debate weekends included Friday night

778
00:43:09,560 --> 00:43:11,759
Speaker 1: parties that Cruise often attended, where he was remembered to

779
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,040
Speaker 1: be sort of a stud with girls on the debate circuit.

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00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,839
Speaker 1: Princeton debators also said he spent extra time mentoring them

781
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 1: to improve their skills, even though they competed against each

782
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 1: other Ted Cruz, that's nice. Pretty Much everyone, whether they

783
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: loved or hated Ted Cruz, agrees that he has not

784
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: changed at all since he was a teenager. After graduation,

785
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: Ted attended Harvard Law School and pretty much immediately got

786
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,920
Speaker 1: into government work. He was the first Hispanic solicitor general

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00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: of Texas and also the longest serving Solicitor General of

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00:43:37,719 --> 00:43:40,239
Speaker 1: Texas from two thousand three to two thousand eight. He

789
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: argued in front of the Supreme Court a number of times,

790
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: including to defend a Ten Commandments monument at the Austin

791
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Speaker 1: State Capitol. His proudest moment was arguing Medine versus Texas

792
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,760
Speaker 1: before the Supreme Court, which defended the state of Texas

793
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,640
Speaker 1: right to execute a Mexican citizen without letting him talk

794
00:43:54,680 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: to his consulate. Imagine that being the the hell you

795
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: want to die on. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of a

796
00:44:03,239 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: complicated case, but that's sort of what it boils down to,

797
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: is they didn't inform Ammy at a Yeah. Anyway, it's

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Speaker 1: my soul skating riv slowly sliding out of you. That's

799
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,560
Speaker 1: the Ted Cruise effect. Now, for a long time, cruizes

800
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 1: ambition was to become the Attorney General at the United States.

801
00:44:19,680 --> 00:44:21,680
Speaker 1: But rather than getting good with Mitt Romney and try

802
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: to wangle a job as Attorney general if he you know,

803
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: somehow one in two thousand twelve, Ted Cruz made the

804
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:29,440
Speaker 1: in retrospect wise decision to run for Senate in two

805
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 1: thousand twelve instead one in the primary and that victory

806
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: was one of the most stunning upsets of the entire year.

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00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 1: He was essentially swept into office by a wave of

808
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: Tea Party sentiment that was still a big deal. Back

809
00:44:38,800 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: in two thousand twelve, he won the general election as well,

810
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: and just like that, Ted Cruiz was one step closer

811
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Speaker 1: to his dream of becoming the president. Here's young Ted Cruise,

812
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 1: fresh faced, looking good. I mean, that's all very He's

813
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,400
Speaker 1: just such a tweet, such a tete. I love the

814
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: pictures of Ted Cruiz with a gun because he holds

815
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 1: a gun like someone who's had them described to him before.

816
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: That's about it. And he's aware of what they are.

817
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:03,719
Speaker 1: He's aware of what they are. Have you seen him

818
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,880
Speaker 1: shoot the bacon? Oh god, yeah, that's a bad one,

819
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: so embarrassing. Yeah, where he's trying to cook the bacon,

820
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: it's like, what are you like? Wait, and he shoots

821
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: it instead. No, no, no, you can cook bacon on

822
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,680
Speaker 1: a collash on any kind of gun that has a

823
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:18,839
Speaker 1: long enough exposed like wrap, you wrap the bacon around.

824
00:45:18,840 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 1: They shoots it and heats it up and then he

825
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:23,200
Speaker 1: eats it. And because he's a real Texan man, I

826
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: used to live in Texas and did a bunch of shooting,

827
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,000
Speaker 1: and we would for fun. You do stuff like crack

828
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Speaker 1: eggs in the receiver of a clashnikov or something, and

829
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: you'd like line it with foil and you can cook eggs,

830
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:32,919
Speaker 1: you know, a couple of rounds and the eggs will cook,

831
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: and it's like a fun thing drunk people do on

832
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: the weekend. Not congressional candidates right to prove you're like

833
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: Texan clout like no, Ted, this is no, you're not.

834
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Speaker 1: You're not. It's your Canadian and it's fine, be okay

835
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 1: with that. So the next year, after being elected two thirteen,

836
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: Senator Cruz made a name for himself in Washington, and

837
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: by many accounts, not a good one. One of his

838
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: first moments of dominance was arguing against the Women's Health

839
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Speaker 1: Protection Act. Crews said that this act, which would have

840
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Speaker 1: essentially there was a law in Texas that cut down

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Speaker 1: by like half the number of abortion clinics that were

842
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: allowed to be open in the state by putting a

843
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 1: new restrictions on them. This was a federal act that

844
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: was supposed to basically stop that law and stop other

845
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 1: laws like that all around the nation, so that women

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Speaker 1: could have more access to safe sexual health care and abortions.

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz called this a manifestation of a war on women,

848
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Speaker 1: and he claimed planned parenthood was unnecessary because there wasn't

849
00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: a shortage of rubbers is the term he used? Gross?

850
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 1: Really gross? Sex? Have he has weighed in, Ted Cruz

851
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: actual sex have her yeah now. In late two thousand thirteen,

852
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz is one of several House Republicans who threatened

853
00:46:48,680 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: the United States UH that they would shut down the

854
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,279
Speaker 1: government and refused to pass a new spending bell if

855
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,759
Speaker 1: that spending bell included any money for Obamacare. Cruz was

856
00:46:58,840 --> 00:47:00,840
Speaker 1: one of the main architects of the shutdown, and he

857
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: spoke for twenty one hours in order to help delay

858
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,120
Speaker 1: the vote. He read green, eggs and ham on the

859
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 1: Senate floor for a section of this because politics is

860
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 1: serious business. Theoteen shutdown lasted seventeen days and cost the

861
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:19,560
Speaker 1: United States and estimated twenty four billion dollars. Ted Cruz now,

862
00:47:19,960 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: he was not the only Republican obviously, who supported the shutdown.

863
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,560
Speaker 1: It's not the only Republican who are getting against the

864
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 1: Women's Health Protection Act. One of the things that stands

865
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:30,360
Speaker 1: out about Ted Cruz is the sheer vitriol, a contempt

866
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 1: that he's held in by other Republicans. It's really the

867
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: thing that's remarkable about him, and it seems to have

868
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 1: started with John McCain. So McCain got mifted ted during

869
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: that twenty one hour speech he gave arguing in favor

870
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: of the shutdown because crews compared Republicans who voted to

871
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 1: approve the Spinning Doll with Nazia peasers. Oh, Ted, you

872
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking. If you go to the

873
00:47:51,880 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: nineteen forties Nazi Germany. Look, we saw in Britain Neville

874
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: Chamberlain who told the British people except the Nazis. Yes,

875
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,760
Speaker 1: they'll dominate the continent of Europe, but that's not our problem.

876
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 1: Let's appease them. Why because it can't be done. We

877
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:06,640
Speaker 1: can't possibly stand against them. Not when Neville Chamberlain said

878
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 1: not at all, not at all, would never Chamberlain, Uh part,

879
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:16,600
Speaker 1: for the course, I don't know why, I absolutely not.

880
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: John McCain, being a human being who's read a history book,

881
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: was offended by this. He considered this inappropriate and shameful,

882
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: especially since it was basically calling many Republicans who was

883
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 1: friends with Nazis McCain took to calling Cruiz a wacko bird.

884
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,280
Speaker 1: One of McCain's advisers later told a reporter, he fucking

885
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: hates crews. He's just offended by his style. In two

886
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, when Ted Cruz was running for office, you

887
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 1: remember there was a little bit of a controversy over

888
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:44,080
Speaker 1: whether or not he could be president. What the whole

889
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,080
Speaker 1: board in Canada. Now, most Republicans were pretty adamant that

890
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:51,800
Speaker 1: Cruz was able to be president. John McCain said he

891
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: didn't know the live interview, which is beautiful bit of

892
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: John McCain's shade right there. Maybe might be who knows,

893
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:08,800
Speaker 1: John McCain and I fucking hate Ted Cruise. How Speaker

894
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,520
Speaker 1: John Bayner, a Republican, called Ted Cruise lucifer in the flesh.

895
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,760
Speaker 1: Senaer Lindsay Graham, also a Republican, said in two thousand

896
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,879
Speaker 1: and sixteen, if you killed Ted Cruise on the floor

897
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: of the Senate and the trial was in the Senate,

898
00:49:20,040 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: nobody would convict you there. It is. When Ted ran

899
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: for president in two thousand, fifteen and sixteen, only one

900
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: of his fellow congress people would stoop to endorsing him.

901
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 1: Some guy from Utah. His fellow Texan John Cornyn wouldn't

902
00:49:34,600 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: even do it. Yeah. Now, Cruise has been a consistent ticket.

903
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: After the ISIS attacks in Brussels in March of two

904
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,280
Speaker 1: thousand sixteen, he suggested the government quote patrol and secure

905
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: Muslim neighborhoods to stop radicalization. He proposed banning refugees from

906
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,719
Speaker 1: Syria almost the incident they started fleeing from there. In

907
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 1: two thousand fifteen, he sought and accepted the endorsement of

908
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: Troy Newman, an anti abortion activist who is an anti

909
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,279
Speaker 1: abortion activist in the same way that hit there was

910
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,560
Speaker 1: an anti communist activist. Newman has called for the execution

911
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:05,879
Speaker 1: of abortion doctors and said that the entire nation will

912
00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: be quote blood guilty until people start murdering abortion doctors

913
00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:12,359
Speaker 1: in the streets. I Think Progress notes that that same year,

914
00:50:12,440 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: Cruz was interviewed and asked if he knew of a

915
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,239
Speaker 1: single pro life activist who had ever advocated violence. Ted

916
00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: Cruz said he did not. Um, what what do you

917
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: do on this podcast? If someone is speechless? Usually I

918
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 1: just laugh. That's kind of my my self defense mechanism

919
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: is just to giggle, just to giggle at this gargoyle

920
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,520
Speaker 1: of a man, and like, it's just I think this

921
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:45,080
Speaker 1: so many times every single day. Just say this to

922
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:49,200
Speaker 1: his face and record it. And then when he says no,

923
00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: say but Mr Cruz, I have here on my phone.

924
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: But we're drawn up. It's right here. We know for

925
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: a fact you saw this guy's endorsement out here's things

926
00:50:58,239 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: he said. I'm presenting you with all these facts that

927
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:02,160
Speaker 1: you can read right now. What do you have to

928
00:51:02,200 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 1: say to that God? It would be nice if there

929
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: were some group of people in society whose job was

930
00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:10,560
Speaker 1: to speak truth to people in power. It would be

931
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:14,360
Speaker 1: really good if that job existed. Create that job. Did

932
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: we just invent a new thing? Yeah? It's like almost

933
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: like a fourth branch of government, like a fourth sort

934
00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:22,400
Speaker 1: of institution that you look like like in a state

935
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:24,719
Speaker 1: that's not one of the other three. Yeah, you don't

936
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: want You don't want one of the three. You want

937
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: like a fourth one. We'll circle back around on this.

938
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 1: I feel like we're corroborators, because that's already taken. Could

939
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:38,359
Speaker 1: we just be corroborators? Corroborators the corroborators. Okay, well it's

940
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: got your name in it, so that works. We'll circle

941
00:51:40,239 --> 00:51:43,480
Speaker 1: back on that there's something there. No one's ever called

942
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,600
Speaker 1: me rob and I don't approve of people doing it

943
00:51:46,400 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: in this Roberts thank you. Now. Near the end of fifteen,

944
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: right wing gunman Robert Dear murdered three people at an

945
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:58,640
Speaker 1: abortion clinic. You may remember this. One week later, Ted

946
00:51:58,719 --> 00:52:01,160
Speaker 1: Cruz claimed in an interview that Christians hadn't carried out

947
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: terror attacks and centuries stating this at a rally, President

948
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: Obama gave a speech in which he said, yes, Isis

949
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:09,799
Speaker 1: commits terrorist attacks, but so do Christians, and so do Jews.

950
00:52:09,840 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 1: And then he invoked the Crusades in the Inquisition. Now,

951
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: last I checked those in about nine years ago, and

952
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,320
Speaker 1: I don't think it's asking too much for the President

953
00:52:16,360 --> 00:52:19,239
Speaker 1: of the United States to stay in the current millennium. Now.

954
00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: Cruise reaction to the Deer shooting is interesting because he

955
00:52:22,040 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 1: simultaneously shamed the news media for daring to assume that

956
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,440
Speaker 1: this massacre at an abortion clinic was a right wing attack,

957
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 1: and he found a way to blame the left for

958
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:33,720
Speaker 1: the murders. His initial statement was that basically he floated

959
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: the idea that Deer was a quote transgendered leftist activist

960
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: for really no reason at all but to be a dick,

961
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 1: because it's just as plausible that a transgender leftist activist

962
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,360
Speaker 1: shot up an abortion clinic as a right wing anti

963
00:52:45,400 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 1: abortion active. Clearly the same thing. Now, his sliminess during

964
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,600
Speaker 1: the two thousand and sixteen primary new no ideological bounds.

965
00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: At different times during his campaign, Cruise sent out a

966
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:59,440
Speaker 1: photoshoped image of Marco Rubio shaking hands with Barack Obama.

967
00:53:00,239 --> 00:53:08,160
Speaker 1: Uh nerve, how dare a member of Congress? My god,

968
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: so did you refuse to shake the President's hand for

969
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:19,040
Speaker 1: eight years of shaking? It's just like a normal human

970
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 1: thing to do. Anyway, Ted Cruz sent out a robot

971
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,600
Speaker 1: call design to trick Republican listeners into thinking Marco Rubio

972
00:53:25,640 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: supported amnesty. The actual audio of the call was essentially

973
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: nonsense in Spanish, but it included the words Marco Rubio

974
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: amnestia and immigrassion iligal, so that English speaking Republicans who

975
00:53:37,280 --> 00:53:40,200
Speaker 1: didn't speak Spanish but overheard it on the radio would

976
00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:42,480
Speaker 1: assume it was a Marco Rubio ad reaching out the

977
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: Spanish speaking voters by promising them amnesty is illegal. You

978
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,560
Speaker 1: think that would be an illegal kind of thing to do? Yeah,

979
00:53:55,719 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 1: you would think that would be a crime. That's incredible,

980
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: you know what I do think it is. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

981
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:05,000
Speaker 1: I would say so. I love that. Uh. He definitely

982
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:07,960
Speaker 1: never had an answer for that. Yeah, like nobody ever

983
00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: held him accountable for. He also sent out a robotall

984
00:54:11,120 --> 00:54:14,400
Speaker 1: attacking candidate Donald Trump for not supporting the Confederate flag.

985
00:54:15,040 --> 00:54:17,319
Speaker 1: The recording started with a clip of Trump saying, put

986
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,560
Speaker 1: it in a museum, let it go, and then an

987
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: announcer said, that's Donald Trump supporting Nicki Haley removing the

988
00:54:23,040 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: battle flag from the Confederate Memorial in Columbia. Trump talks

989
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: about our flag like it's a social disease. That's not

990
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: your flag, man, No, it's not. It's the flag of

991
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,319
Speaker 1: an enemy we beat. How did I just agree with something,

992
00:54:37,400 --> 00:54:40,759
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That's the amazing thing about Ted Cruiz is

993
00:54:40,840 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: that now we're both sympathetic towards Marco Rubio and Donald

994
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: Trump in the space of two paragraphs. Because Ted Cruiz

995
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:53,880
Speaker 1: is that slimmy scare you. Now. Another thing Cruises campaign

996
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: did was make a fake Facebook profile for South Carolina

997
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: Congressman Tray Goudy, who had endorsed Marco Rubio. They had

998
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 1: their fake out he endorsed Cruise instead and repeal. Now,

999
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:07,759
Speaker 1: the Cruise campaign officially denies they had anything to do

1000
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:13,240
Speaker 1: with this, but come yeah, who did it then? Ted Cruz,

1001
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:18,839
Speaker 1: guy who has done nothing but the shadiest things. One

1002
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:21,200
Speaker 1: of Cruiz's attack ads in the election was even banned

1003
00:55:21,239 --> 00:55:24,000
Speaker 1: because it basically blamed Marco Rubio for the San Bernardino

1004
00:55:24,120 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 1: terror attacks because he supported immigration reform. It's getting that

1005
00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: man the presidency. This is a guy we need in

1006
00:55:35,360 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: the Oval office. Every time Ted Cruz has been on

1007
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:41,680
Speaker 1: the campaign trail, his number one advocate has been his father.

1008
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: Rafael Cruise is a pastor and a fiery speaker who

1009
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:46,719
Speaker 1: can say things out loud that Ted Cruise only gets

1010
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: to think. Here's a brief list of things that Rafael

1011
00:55:49,560 --> 00:55:52,760
Speaker 1: Cruz has claimed over the years. Number one, the United

1012
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: States is a Christian nation. Number two Barack Obama is

1013
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: an outright Marxist who wants to destroy all concept of God.

1014
00:55:59,560 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: Number three, Barack Obama should be sent back to Kenya.

1015
00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 1: Number four, social justice is a cancer. Number five gays

1016
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: and lesbians are a group of sexual deviance driving the

1017
00:56:10,120 --> 00:56:13,840
Speaker 1: political agenda in this country. Number six, Barack Obama is

1018
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:16,680
Speaker 1: setting up death panels and in two thousand fifteen had

1019
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: established quote another tyrannical dictatorship with no control by anyone.

1020
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 1: You guys, remember when Barack Obama established a dictatorship. I'd

1021
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: forgotten to thank you for the reminder. Remember, Yeah, it

1022
00:56:27,400 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: was really weird because uh we voted for a new president. Yeah. Yeah.

1023
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: The dictator was like alright, stepped down peacefully and did

1024
00:56:36,360 --> 00:56:38,760
Speaker 1: everything he could to make the transitions move. Did everything

1025
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 1: he could like a dictator, classic Hitler move, making things

1026
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:46,399
Speaker 1: easier for the next time. Hate dictator, classic Hitler move

1027
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:50,799
Speaker 1: to accept the idea of the next guy. Now. Mother

1028
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 1: Jones published an article about Pastor Cruise as wildest Statements

1029
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: in October two fifteen. This forced Cruises spokeswoman to clarify

1030
00:56:57,239 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 1: that Pastor Cruz did not speak for his son. Then

1031
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: Mothers found documents that proved one of Senator Cruz's aids

1032
00:57:02,360 --> 00:57:04,560
Speaker 1: had worked to help Pastor crew schedule his appearances and

1033
00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 1: booked gigs, including paid gigs, which is probably illegal, but

1034
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,800
Speaker 1: you know, just enough on the side of deniable that

1035
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: not much ever happened. It's impossible to overstate how critical

1036
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: Papa Cruz has been in his son's rise. Ted Cruz is,

1037
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:20,000
Speaker 1: as of Americans, seemed to agree a gross, creepy weirdo.

1038
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,680
Speaker 1: His dad, however, fought against a dictator and survived being tortured.

1039
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: He's an immigrant hero success store, whereas Ted is just

1040
00:57:26,160 --> 00:57:28,479
Speaker 1: a kid who is good at debate. On the campaign trail,

1041
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:30,960
Speaker 1: Ted claimed that his lifelong desire to quote fight for

1042
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 1: liberty had been born out of hearing his dad's stories

1043
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: of his time as a revolutionary. So that's what we're

1044
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 1: going to talk about next for a little while, because

1045
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,720
Speaker 1: extensive research by The New York Times suggests that these

1046
00:57:41,760 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: stories of Rafael Cruz are largely fabricated. Rafael Cruz claims

1047
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:48,160
Speaker 1: that he was close comrades with a famous martyred student activists,

1048
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 1: Frank Pies, who died months after Cruz claims to have

1049
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 1: watched him die. Now. Rafael also claims that he was

1050
00:57:53,440 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 1: given up by a double agent and tortured by the

1051
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: Batista government. He claims he threw firebombs and blew up

1052
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,880
Speaker 1: buildings and was in general badass revolutionary. But The Times

1053
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: talked to numerous Cubans, both in Cuba and in the

1054
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 1: United States who were active in the country's rebellion at

1055
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: the time, and in interviews, Raphael Cruz's former comrades and

1056
00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:13,480
Speaker 1: friends disputed his description of his role in the Cuban resistance.

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Speaker 1: He was a teenager who wrote on walls and marched

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00:58:15,800 --> 00:58:17,800
Speaker 1: in the streets, they said, not a rebel leader running

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00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 1: guns are blowing up buildings. Here's the New York Times.

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00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: Leonor Aristuche seventy nine, a student leader in the fifties

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00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: whom the Castro government later hired to verify the supposed

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00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: exploits of revolutionary veterans, said a term existed for people

1063
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,600
Speaker 1: like Mr Cruz oh Ya Laterro's or wishful thinkers, people

1064
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 1: wishing and praying that Batista would fall, she said, but

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00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 1: not doing much to act on it. Now. Leonard is

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00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,720
Speaker 1: obviously biased since she works for the government, but The

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00:58:40,760 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: New York Times also talked to former rebels who now

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00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: live in the United States. They were all firm that

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00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: Pastor Cruz had vastly exaggerated his part in the revolution.

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00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:49,920
Speaker 1: The truth seems to be that he was busted for

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00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:51,880
Speaker 1: carrying an illegal gun and beat up by the cops,

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00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:53,960
Speaker 1: but was never able to do much more than draw

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00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: some graffiti. So if you're all up to date on

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00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:59,000
Speaker 1: American politics. You know that Senator Ted Cruz is currently

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00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:02,520
Speaker 1: running to defend his seat from the Democratic challenger Beto O'Rourke,

1076
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:06,080
Speaker 1: who ran up on a skateboard and for some reason recently, yeah,

1077
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:09,920
Speaker 1: because somebody gave him one. They're like, it's like, here's skateboard. Oh,

1078
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:11,800
Speaker 1: you wanted me to write it. Yeah, I'll be cool.

1079
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 1: I'll be I'll be I'll be the cool young candidate. Relatable.

1080
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,560
Speaker 1: We all skateboard, we were all stateboarders here. It was

1081
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: a relatable thing to do if he had been running

1082
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica, the only place I've seen the skateboard

1083
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:26,720
Speaker 1: in the last nine years. So during this election, this

1084
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:29,640
Speaker 1: is a very tight race. Obviously, Beto has raised substantially

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00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 1: more money than Ted Cruz, but Ted Cruz is a

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00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:33,840
Speaker 1: Republican with a beating heart in Texas, which gives him

1087
00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: a pretty significant advantage still to overcome. Now. During this campaign,

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00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 1: Cruiz has continued to use his trademark super Gross Slimy

1089
00:59:40,680 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: Eelman tactics. The campaign, for example, allows people to volunteer

1090
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 1: to send texts and to call voters on behalf of

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00:59:47,160 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 1: the campaign. Several Cruise people have apparently infiltrated the effort

1092
00:59:50,360 --> 00:59:53,640
Speaker 1: as a way to slander Beto God. One of these

1093
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,160
Speaker 1: infiltrators sent this text message out to random voters. Hi,

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00:59:57,320 --> 00:59:59,920
Speaker 1: it's Patsy here with Betto for Texas. Our records indicate

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01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,080
Speaker 1: that you're a supporter. We are in search of volunteers

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01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: to help transport undocumented immigrants to polling booths so that

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01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: they will be able to vote. Would you be able

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01:00:06,840 --> 01:00:11,320
Speaker 1: to support the scrassroots effort? Oh my god? Oh yeah,

1099
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:18,720
Speaker 1: that's the good stuff, the stuff. Yeah. People making a

1100
01:00:18,800 --> 01:00:22,560
Speaker 1: big deal about this because all you can do is

1101
01:00:22,760 --> 01:00:26,040
Speaker 1: just it's just more like it's all he does. I'm sorry,

1102
01:00:26,280 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: that's so upset and it's super sleecy. Yeah, just because

1103
01:00:29,320 --> 01:00:32,040
Speaker 1: like last weekend I was doing canvasing and the very

1104
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 1: first thing they said, be respectful to the other people,

1105
01:00:35,320 --> 01:00:37,960
Speaker 1: don't tear down other people's lines, don't do like this

1106
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: is we want people to vote. It to be fair. Actually,

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01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: we respect each other in a democracy. Just don't like

1108
01:00:43,400 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: we're not like literal worms. Yeah, like we're not all

1109
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 1: chomping at the bit to kill each other. Now, I'm

1110
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:52,120
Speaker 1: gonna throw in a little Texan is m here for

1111
01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:54,520
Speaker 1: the listeners in Texas who are about to go vote

1112
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:59,960
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz is oilier than a water burger. Rapper Burger

1113
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:04,680
Speaker 1: is really popular in Texas. That new uh link later?

1114
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:08,240
Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, the second was like, yeah, anyway, they

1115
01:01:08,240 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 1: talk about what a burger. Yeah, they talk about what

1116
01:01:10,120 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: it's It's a big thing in Texas for reasons that

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01:01:11,880 --> 01:01:14,320
Speaker 1: are inexplicable to people who don't live there. I've seen

1118
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 1: the discussions that I just couldn't care less about. No,

1119
01:01:17,600 --> 01:01:20,400
Speaker 1: you shouldn't, you shouldn't. It's a it's the heat stroke.

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01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:22,560
Speaker 1: We're all of heat strike in Texas and it damages

1121
01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 1: people's brains. And water Burger that's very popular anyway, water Burger.

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01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 1: If you want to support the show, I will recant

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01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:32,720
Speaker 1: my statements about brain damage being the primary driver of

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01:01:32,760 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 1: sales to your hamburgers. It's actually the delicious taste. It's

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01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:38,959
Speaker 1: the delicious taste of water Burger. Actually like water Burger.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I'm just I'm just I'm hurt

1127
01:01:41,200 --> 01:01:43,600
Speaker 1: from the breakup with Derrito's, and I'm just throwing shade

1128
01:01:43,640 --> 01:01:46,600
Speaker 1: on innocent brands. Yeah, well, that's natural in a normal

1129
01:01:46,640 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 1: part of the healing process, don't you know. What else

1130
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: is natural in a normal part of the healing process.

1131
01:01:51,160 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: So now there have been a couple of different variations

1132
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,840
Speaker 1: on the having members of the Cruise campaign infiltrate the

1133
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 1: Beto campaign and send out blatantly illegal text messages. There's

1134
01:02:00,560 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: been a few different variations in this tactic. It's debatable

1135
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: obviously if Cruise had any involvement. I bet you would

1136
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:07,600
Speaker 1: debate it really well. I bet he debated very well.

1137
01:02:07,600 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 1: He's a good debater, he's ready. He wanted to debate

1138
01:02:09,560 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: him about it too. It is worth noting that the

1139
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 1: Cruise campaign also sent out fundraising letters to raise money

1140
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: for the campaign, in an envelope that said summons enclosed,

1141
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 1: open immediately and looked like a court summons people who

1142
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: opened it. It was actually a summons to give the

1143
01:02:22,520 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 1: Cruise campaign money. Uh, something that could backfire? It does?

1144
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:27,880
Speaker 1: It does? He actually tried the same thing in two

1145
01:02:27,920 --> 01:02:31,560
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen, but with a voting violation notice printed on

1146
01:02:31,720 --> 01:02:34,440
Speaker 1: top to make dumb people think they've broken along. Grossest

1147
01:02:34,560 --> 01:02:38,440
Speaker 1: stuff for Ted or else. You're in trouble, like you

1148
01:02:38,560 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: can't be honest about your opponent, you can't be honest

1149
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,040
Speaker 1: about your own campaign. No it's so disgusting. There's nothing

1150
01:02:44,240 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 1: else to you that all you have is dirty tricks.

1151
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:50,520
Speaker 1: It's just like dirty tricks that Richard Nixon would be like, dude,

1152
01:02:52,120 --> 01:02:54,600
Speaker 1: like get a dog and give a speech with a dog.

1153
01:02:54,680 --> 01:02:56,880
Speaker 1: Don't be fucking don't do this. Ship. It's not even

1154
01:02:56,960 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: like it's just like scamming. It's like you're just doing

1155
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: cammera tax ye to get people to vote for you. Yeah,

1156
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 1: it's not even like sometimes you hear about sleazy political

1157
01:03:06,680 --> 01:03:09,600
Speaker 1: stuff where it's like, well, that's evil, but it's genius, right,

1158
01:03:10,520 --> 01:03:12,760
Speaker 1: like that that crosses the line a little bit, or

1159
01:03:12,840 --> 01:03:14,640
Speaker 1: like oh that's a little sleazy. No, this is just

1160
01:03:14,800 --> 01:03:18,120
Speaker 1: like scammer tactics. Yeah, blatantly. It's like he's trying to

1161
01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:22,479
Speaker 1: sign people from an MLM, but instead he's running for Congress. Yeah.

1162
01:03:23,880 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: Now it's unclear at this point who's going to win

1163
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:28,760
Speaker 1: at the mid term tex who's gonna who's gonna win

1164
01:03:28,800 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 1: that election. I think everyone listening to this can guess

1165
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:34,680
Speaker 1: which side I'm on. I suspect more Republicans than will

1166
01:03:34,720 --> 01:03:40,360
Speaker 1: admit it, but I think everyone's sort of in the

1167
01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 1: in the camp of like I just don't want to

1168
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:47,720
Speaker 1: be involved in our national discourse. I mean the fact

1169
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: that Beto O'Rourke has closed the gap so much as

1170
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:53,000
Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. You know, Win Ted Cruz was arguing the

1171
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 1: Women's Health Act thing was a manifestation of a warren women.

1172
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:58,320
Speaker 1: I was in Austin at that point and marched when

1173
01:03:58,360 --> 01:04:00,720
Speaker 1: Wendy Davis did her big filibuster, marched on the state

1174
01:04:00,760 --> 01:04:02,960
Speaker 1: capital with a bunch of friends. I had a concealed

1175
01:04:03,000 --> 01:04:05,040
Speaker 1: handgun license at that point, and I carried a gun

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01:04:05,120 --> 01:04:07,120
Speaker 1: with me. And when we went to the state capital

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01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:10,000
Speaker 1: to protest, I was with several ladies and they were

1178
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 1: searched and had to empty all of the tampons out

1179
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:14,640
Speaker 1: of their backs. They couldn't carry tampons into the Texas

1180
01:04:14,680 --> 01:04:17,920
Speaker 1: State Capital because the guards worried that they would throw tampons.

1181
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:19,720
Speaker 1: But your gun was I was allowed to take my

1182
01:04:19,720 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: gun into the Capital house. Yeah, I could walk in

1183
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 1: with a loaded forty caliber. They saw semi automatic, and you, oh, yeah,

1184
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 1: I showed it. I showed they saw the guns because

1185
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm a responsible gun onner. I showed him my license.

1186
01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 1: I did. Well, you know of women can't be trusted

1187
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:39,760
Speaker 1: with tampons, Well, no, women can't be trusted with his tampons,

1188
01:04:40,120 --> 01:04:44,280
Speaker 1: with them shovel off their vagina. Well, if they threw

1189
01:04:44,320 --> 01:04:48,240
Speaker 1: a tampon, I mean, it is a potential projectile way

1190
01:04:48,320 --> 01:04:52,880
Speaker 1: deadlier than a forty caliber round traveling at percond That

1191
01:04:53,040 --> 01:04:56,240
Speaker 1: is bonkers. It's crazy, right, my god. Can you believe

1192
01:04:56,320 --> 01:05:01,320
Speaker 1: that ship? That is? I mean, I believe it sadly. Yeah.

1193
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:03,920
Speaker 1: Now it's anyone's guests obviously as to who's going to

1194
01:05:04,000 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: win this election no matter what happens, though, I think

1195
01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 1: the story of Ted Cruise is ultimately quite tragic. He

1196
01:05:08,240 --> 01:05:10,760
Speaker 1: was raised almost from birth on the very specific ideals

1197
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:13,800
Speaker 1: of two different conservative idealogues, Fred Clark and Roland Story.

1198
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: Both of these men are now dead and most of

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01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,080
Speaker 1: their ideals have sort of fallen by the way side,

1200
01:05:18,080 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: even in mainstream Republican society. Hence the whole constant expensive

1201
01:05:21,920 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: wars overseas Ted Cruz. It's almost like he's the political

1202
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 1: equivalent of some sort of like AI defense system designed

1203
01:05:29,640 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 1: by an ancient race extinct. Yeah, and then the Aliens go.

1204
01:05:33,520 --> 01:05:36,040
Speaker 1: There's a Star Trek Next Generation episode called the Lost

1205
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 1: Outpost episode four, season one, and in this episode that

1206
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:42,600
Speaker 1: the Enterprise and the Ferengi ship get captured essentially by

1207
01:05:42,640 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: this planet. That's like there's this defense system on it

1208
01:05:45,200 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: that was part of an alien empire sixty million years

1209
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,200
Speaker 1: ago or something that that has since fallen, and the

1210
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,720
Speaker 1: AI that runs this defense thing doesn't know that the

1211
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: empire has fallen. That's that's kind of Ted Cruise. Yeah,

1212
01:05:57,640 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 1: full capacity, his systems online. Yeah yeah, still attacking, doing

1213
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,520
Speaker 1: damage even though, but everyone that wrote the code is

1214
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 1: like long dead and wrong. Yeah, dead and wrong by tragic.

1215
01:06:08,400 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 1: It is tragic, and I think a really accessible reference

1216
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:18,240
Speaker 1: for the great episode. Not a great episode, knows. It

1217
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: introduced the Ferengi, which we're pretty anti semitic. Yeah, yeah,

1218
01:06:23,680 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 1: a little gross, Yeah, little gross there. I mean they're

1219
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 1: Ted Cruzy and there they are. It's like a whole

1220
01:06:28,720 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 1: race of Ted Cruizes. Yeah. Now that's all I have

1221
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:34,280
Speaker 1: to say about Ted Cruz. Hopefully ever, hopefully better with

1222
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 1: Rourke beats him. Yeah, we might never have to talk

1223
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 1: about Cruise again. Yeah, we may never have to talk

1224
01:06:38,120 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 1: about again. Or like I like part of the imagine

1225
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:43,560
Speaker 1: is like, okay, so he loses the better and then

1226
01:06:43,560 --> 01:06:46,160
Speaker 1: he's like, oh well, now I'll find my principles and

1227
01:06:46,200 --> 01:06:49,440
Speaker 1: I'll run against Donald Trump. Uh, and I'll try to

1228
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:53,560
Speaker 1: primary him because he's a principled man who wants you

1229
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,800
Speaker 1: to vote your conscience. Like you said that one time

1230
01:06:56,000 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 1: and then totally flipped around. I was. I was at

1231
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:01,560
Speaker 1: the RNC and the one moment in my life I

1232
01:07:01,640 --> 01:07:03,960
Speaker 1: almost had an inkling of respect for Ted Cruz is

1233
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:06,000
Speaker 1: when he gave that speech where everyone was expecting to

1234
01:07:06,080 --> 01:07:07,920
Speaker 1: endure Donald Trump and then he didn't. But then he

1235
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:12,160
Speaker 1: did it anyway anyway, and it's just so embarrassed. It's

1236
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:25,000
Speaker 1: so shameful. Yeah, about your conscience dog just eating that

1237
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 1: pile of ship and then needing to do that fake

1238
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:32,200
Speaker 1: smile afterwards, like it's not even that he's spineless, and

1239
01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:34,560
Speaker 1: that it's that he's such an absence of spine that

1240
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 1: he lowers the bone density of people around. Yeah, and

1241
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:42,320
Speaker 1: bringing back that article about his wife and her trying

1242
01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,440
Speaker 1: to spin it positive about stuff, and it's sad and

1243
01:07:44,520 --> 01:07:46,400
Speaker 1: you can maybe I'm reading between the lines, but I'm

1244
01:07:46,440 --> 01:07:49,959
Speaker 1: not about her lack of respect, Like she wandered onto

1245
01:07:50,040 --> 01:07:52,720
Speaker 1: the freeway on ramp one night because she had to

1246
01:07:52,760 --> 01:07:54,960
Speaker 1: give up her career to come do this for him,

1247
01:07:55,440 --> 01:07:58,720
Speaker 1: And then it was like, oh, a spiritual person on

1248
01:07:58,840 --> 01:08:01,280
Speaker 1: a Christian retreat, was you put on God to help

1249
01:08:01,320 --> 01:08:04,840
Speaker 1: your husband all that stuff like that, and that that's

1250
01:08:04,880 --> 01:08:07,200
Speaker 1: what this article is about. And she's just like, well

1251
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: like just kind of biting your tongue about her gross,

1252
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: spineless husband that she can't possibly be attracted to. No, No,

1253
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:15,840
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not going to go into detail, but

1254
01:08:15,920 --> 01:08:18,400
Speaker 1: we can all picture what we would think Ted Cruz

1255
01:08:18,400 --> 01:08:21,639
Speaker 1: would look like during sex. And it's gross. It's gross,

1256
01:08:21,680 --> 01:08:23,880
Speaker 1: and it's uncomfortable, and I have to imagine it's gross

1257
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:26,720
Speaker 1: and uncomfortable for his wife for sure. Oh yeah, it

1258
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:32,639
Speaker 1: comes the sex. She did say that he was his moves.

1259
01:08:33,720 --> 01:08:38,120
Speaker 1: Here comes the sex, going to do a sex at you.

1260
01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:44,200
Speaker 1: He's gonna sex towards you, Ted Cruz. Alright, this has

1261
01:08:44,240 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 1: been behind the bastards. Katie Cody. You guys want to

1262
01:08:47,280 --> 01:08:49,640
Speaker 1: plug the plug doubles that you have to plug, there

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Speaker 1: You can check it out on YouTube, also on Twitter

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Speaker 1: of the same name Some more News. Also our patreon

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Speaker 1: More News. It is what it is, It's even more

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Speaker 1: even more and our Twitter accounts also exists in the world.

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Speaker 1: please give them money and get your news from them,

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Speaker 1: because it's it's not good news. There's no good, but

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Speaker 1: it's well delivered bad news. Fun. We have fun. To

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Speaker 1: have fun. We have fun being frustrated with the news.

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Speaker 1: Better to laugh while the world burns than fiddle with us. Yeah. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Robert Evans. You can find this podcast Behind

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Speaker 1: You can find us on Twitter and Instagram and at

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Speaker 1: donate money to them too. They're doing stuff like when

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