WEBVTT - Why Ted Cruz S*cks: A Comprehensive Biography 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.520 Hello friends, I'm Robert Evans, and this is once again 0:00:05.640 --> 0:00:07.880 Behind the Bastards the Shore, we tell you everything you 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.559 don't know about the very worst people in all of history. 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:13.400 And with me this week are my good friends, my 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:21.800 former and quasi peeple Cody Johnson, Collaborators, collaborators, secret anti 0:00:21.840 --> 0:00:28.120 FA super soldier allies. Whatever terms are secret collaborator, frequent 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:35.000 secret collaborators. Uh. And this week we are talking about 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:39.360 the midterms. Exciting now. Rather than doing a two part 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.640 or about one person, we have two distinct subjects for 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:45.000 both episodes this week, and this episode is the working 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.519 title is every Shitty Thing Ted Cruiz has done in 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:51.239 his Shitty Ship Life. The titles a lie because I 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.440 didn't have time everything. There's just so much garbage that 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:56.400 Ted Cruiz is done. But we are going to go 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:58.480 back a lot further than I think most people know 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:02.320 about Mr Tedrick. I'm excited about this will be fascinating. 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.160 I want to start by asking what did you guys 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.240 first learn about Ted Cruise? Do you would you call 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.600 your first Ted Cruise memory? God, I couldn't say my 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.760 first memory of him, but I know it was around 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:15.400 tea party times. Yeah, that would make sense. Yeah, I 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.080 would say that's around the same time. For me, it's 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.720 all a blur. Well, I want the listeners at home 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:21.880 to know that while we're doing this, there's a tide 0:01:21.920 --> 0:01:24.039 pod that's been in the office the whole year now 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:25.800 that I've been doing this show, and I've just been 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:28.480 squeezing it and it's gradually degrading and you can see 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.080 that it's going to burst at some point. So I'm 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.720 gonna pass this around. We can all take turns squeezing 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.760 and maybe it'll explode in the middle of this session. 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.440 It's really gross right now, Like you can see how gross. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.679 I thought that was a tide pod, and I was right. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:44.480 It will be fun for the listeners at home to 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.960 hear us squeeze the tide pod for this is going 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.000 to go, So yeah, it doesn't have much longer left 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.000 in all right, So, Ted Cruz, the focus of this 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.240 week is the bastards of the two eighteen midterm elections, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:01:59.559 and I want to make it clear to our listeners 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.480 who maybe more politically independent, that we're not just declaring 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:05.520 every Republican who's running right now with bastard, or at 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.280 least I'm not the people that we're talking about this 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:09.560 week are folks that I think everyone in America can 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.160 get together behind and agreer garbage monsters. And on that note, 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.880 let's talk about Ted Cruz Uni. Yeah. Yeah, Now the 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.160 table of Hell Ted Cruz came to be started decades 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.720 before his birth in nineteen thirty nine. It started in Cleveland, 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:27.800 as any terrible things start, Yeah, in the late thirties, 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:30.960 back before the Cuyahoga River caught on fire the first 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:34.639 time of like a dozen times. I'm gonna start with 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.079 a businessman named Fred G. Clark. He was an executive 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.320 and anti prohibition crusader, so that's nice. He was a libertarian, 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.040 very early libertarian, and a contemporary of the Coke family 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:48.000 patriarch Fred Coke. Because for some reason, Freds are all 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.239 dedicated to destroying the social safety net. There's gonna be 0:02:50.280 --> 0:02:52.960 a lot of friends this episode. Yeah, yeah, a lot 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.239 of friends in an episode about a Ted. I gotta say, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:58.639 that's my least favorite name, is it? Fred? There's something 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:01.960 you know, hard core libertarian about the name from Yeah, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:06.359 yes there is, and that's not just a random joke. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.760 So anyway, Clark formed an organization called the American Economic Foundation. 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.200 Its goal was to push and advocate for free market, 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:16.639 limited government ideals. He moved the Foundation to New York 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:18.480 City in the nineteen forties and he set up a 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:21.840 program to educate young Americans about the wonders of capitalism. 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.040 Clark believe the free market worked because it was a 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.280 self correcting system controlled by the consumer. Since this self 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.640 correcting system was obviously perfect, there was no need for 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:32.840 government intrusion into the economy. Of course. Yeah, if you 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.360 have a system that's for like you say whatever you want, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.200 whatever you want in order to make money, sort of 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:40.120 take advantage of consumers. Yeah, the consumers have the power exactly. 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:42.520 Think about like I s p s. That's why everyone's 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:45.520 Internet is fantastic and nobody has complaints about their sp 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.360 because we the consumers, have the power. Perfect example, perfect example, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:52.640 about perfect example. That's why the health care industry is 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.040 famously without flawed because the consumers are in control. It's 0:03:56.160 --> 0:04:00.280 definitely not broken from their perspective, so why would they 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.200 try to fix it? And free is right there. I 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:07.680 love free stuff. I love Boston market, So a free 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.480 Boston market that's what I think of when I think 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.920 a free market. That's just some good associations right there, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.400 they're brilliant. I'm gonna get me a good rotisserie chicken 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:16.240 that's been sitting on a warming plate for four days 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:22.360 for free. Delightful. Okay. So the Foundation published a pamphlet 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.279 called How We Live and sold something like three million 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.680 copies of it during the nineteen forties and fifties. It 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.480 was an economics primer that basically outlined Fred's ideas about 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.640 how the economy out of work. In nineteen sixty four, 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:37.880 the American Economic Foundation had its biggest coup yet when 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.800 it hosted that year's World's Fair in New York City. 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:43.080 I found some New York Time coverage of the event. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.600 The title of the article is free Enterprises hailed it, Fair, 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:50.080 Hall dedicated, and torch of truth lighted at ceremony. Now, 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.760 most of this article reads like the flavor text you'd 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.360 find in a Fallout game. It's it's it's pretty fun. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:58.039 I love reading old New York Times stories from the 0:04:58.080 --> 0:05:01.800 nineteen sixties. Here's a quote. An attack against Russian communist 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:04.520 imperialist aggression and against big government in this country was 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:07.719 delivered by John Davis Lodge, former Governor of Connecticut and 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.440 former ambassador to Spain. For the Russians, peaceful coexistence is 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.919 a tactic, not an objective for us. Plausible appearances to 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:18.200 the contrary, notwithstanding, it is surrender. On the installment plan, 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.520 maryor Wagner praised the pavilion as a most valuable endeavor 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:24.159 to explain in practical terms to the millions of visitors 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.800 to the World's Fair the daily economic benefits inherit in 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:37.599 our free enterprise system. Yeah, any talk of piece is 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:42.039 just communism. We don't knook each other. The Russians win, 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.480 It is just it is just they don't exaggerate it 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.120 all in those games. No, they take it right from history. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:52.280 Take it right from history now. A representative during the 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.360 this World's Fair from the American steel Workers Union was 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:57.800 quoted by The New York Times as noting ruefully that 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:02.120 the exhibit completely left out labor. Weird. Weird that a 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.279 major pro capitalist foundation would ignore labor, and the must 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.479 have been an oversight. Must have been an oversight. It 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.160 actually wasn't, according to the American Economic Foundation. One of 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:14.760 their representatives assured the New York Times that quote labor 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.320 was represented in the hall's major exhibit. Mr Both comes 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.680 to town. This is a show in which Mr Both 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:23.320 has the dual role of producer and consumer and the 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:26.320 audience finds itself involved in the economy of a small town. 0:06:26.560 --> 0:06:37.880 That sounds height of Oh that is branding right there. Yeah, 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:44.440 I'm sorry. Audience participation shows, you can like it's you 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:47.720 were labor, were labor, the CEOs are labor, we're all 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.359 we're all labor. And you know what came about because 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:52.880 some guy was sitting back and like, well, if it's 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.080 an audience participation show, we don't get to pay for 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:59.760 as many actors, free labor being the best time of 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:05.320 them and then the show, don't you guys feel lucky? Yeah? 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.160 I really did look for a video of Mr Both 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:11.400 comes to town because I still have no idea what 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.760 it could actually have been saying. I'm sure it was 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:15.680 a tour de force, but I found no evidence of it. 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:17.480 I do want to go off topic for just a 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.000 second because the New York Times article this all happened 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.600 during like free market Day at the World's Fair, but 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.400 that wasn't the only day that it was that day 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.040 at the World's Fair. So I want to read the 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:28.960 end of this New York Times article. It just gives 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.840 some weird insight and how strange America was in the 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.520 day before the Internet. Yesterday was also law Day and 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:40.320 the Festival of Gas served Unlikely served as unlikely chambers 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.920 for about a hundred judges of the city in judicial robes. 0:07:44.280 --> 0:07:47.920 The day too was Betty Crocker Day, Loyalty Day, Northeastern 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:52.240 Poultry Producers Council Day, Personal Affairs Day, and King's County Day. 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.760 And the list is growing. Today at the Fair will 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:59.240 be Garden City, Boston, Massachusetts, Tours Day, Manhattanville, College of 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.840 the Sacred Heart, Scandinavian New York State Day, Temple or 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:06.880 Elohim Day, willing Born Township Day, and Crazy Hat Day. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:13.960 Crazy one is just fun fun for the Wait, how 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:19.600 many days was Okay? I mean, let's count here. So 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.240 this was yesterday was law Day at the Festival of 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:28.440 Gas Gas. I need to know more, no more about 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:32.880 Also I love like, I mean, what kind of gas 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:37.240 Loyalty Day, Loyalty Day, but also like Funny Hat Day, 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.520 Funny Day. Well now that was the next day. So 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.440 the day that this article is about was Free Market Day, 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.440 Law Day in the Festival of Gas, Betty Crocker Day, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:51.360 Loyalty Day, Northeast, it was like seven or eight days one. Well, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.280 you know what, I think that's rude because you shouldn't 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.160 have to share your special day with several others. But 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.680 you know, I'm sorry, Katy. This is capitalism. And the 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:00.959 more days you jam into a single day, you're getting 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.520 four weeks for the price of two days. Just pledge 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:08.600 your loyalty. And you were a silly hat. Yeah, crazy hat, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.760 crazy yeah, different days. Yeah. Fred Clark died in nineteen 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.160 seventy three in the American Economics Foundation went rapidly downhill 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.040 from there. They moved back to Cleveland in the early 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:20.400 in nineteen eighties, which was not an inspiring time to 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:23.199 move back to Cleveland. Everyone was doing the opposite actually 0:09:23.679 --> 0:09:27.880 in the eighties, if you recall sorry Cleveland, but you 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:34.480 know from Ohio like places. But yeah, not even want 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.800 to go to bed for Cleveland. I'd say Cleveland's my 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.840 least favorite city name. M name of a city, Yeah, 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.000 it just is like, well, because I think that it 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:46.080 must be a city founded by a guy named Cleve. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.960 And then we can imagine a guy named Cleve not 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:53.120 being great Land of Cleve. Yeah, no, no, thank you, Yeah, 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:57.680 like John clevesond or something just Cleve. It doesn't about 0:09:57.720 --> 0:10:01.199 of Cleve is his land. We're gonna build a city 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:06.719 so gross the river catches on fire. So yeah. The 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.280 American Economic Foundation moved back to Cleveland the eighties, and 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.560 instead of hosting World's Fairs, they launched a massive mailing 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:16.200 list across the country, essentially seating the United States with 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.680 far right free market values. Most of what they did 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:21.640 until their dissolution was sent out pamphlets and mailers. One 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.719 such pamphlet was The Tin Pillars of Economic Wisdom, a 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.720 sort of tin Commandments for libertarian free market economics. As 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.200 Fred Clark saw it. Now, the Tin Pillars had first 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.400 been revealed at that nineteen sixty four World's Fair. I 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.600 love the idea of like the big reveal, the big reveal, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:40.600 everyone's a waiting, No one knew what they were. We 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.480 were all just getting money, and I know where it 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:49.120 came from. Full the curtain ground. Here the Pillars strongly 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.520 hint that the best possible world is one where workers 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.360 listen to their bosses and don't ask for raises, because 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:57.000 asking for raises will decrease the amount of money workers 0:10:57.040 --> 0:11:01.000 take home. Of course, that's just basic economics. Yeah, that's 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:05.360 math right there. This list of Robert Baron capitalist wisdom 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.640 wound up outlasting the American Economic Foundation and spreading throughout 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:11.359 the libertarian right. It was picked up as an educational 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:15.640 supplement by the Free Enterprise Education Institute. Now the Free 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.560 Enterprise Education Institute was found in nineteen seventy six, three 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.360 years after Clark died, by a fellow named Roland's story. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:27.520 He'd been a vaudeville performer, Yeah I got that name. Uh, 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:30.640 and an oil and gas industry businessman in Houston, which 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:36.080 is a neat mixtry. He's a mix of the two 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.760 things you assume would be most racist. In nineteen seventy 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.000 anyone's still doing vaudeville and the oil and gas industry 0:11:42.000 --> 0:11:45.559 in Texas. He lived in Houston, and he decided that 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.480 his calling was to indoctrinate young Texans into the virtues 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:53.480 of libertarian economic theory. Indoctrinate specifically, Oh yeah, very much. So. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:57.080 He ran like after school specials and programs and yeah, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.520 they know what they have to do, they know what 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.040 they have to do. Get them young. One of stories 0:12:01.040 --> 0:12:06.920 students called him the Santa Clause of liberty. Yeah, you 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.400 guys enjoyed that the book The Wilderness, which is now 0:12:10.480 --> 0:12:14.560 shamefully outdated. It was published in when the election started up. 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:19.840 It was about how that giant sixteen Canada Republican primary 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.600 slate came about. And the book was definitely written with 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:26.000 the angle that, like, the Republicans are going to lose 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:27.880 this election, let's try to figure out how things got 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:33.000 so fucked up. But that didn't happen anyway, they said 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.600 on that book a little bit longer, but it does 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:39.680 give some good background into Mr. Story. Quote. Story educated 0:12:39.720 --> 0:12:42.360 his students about the brightest minds of free market economics. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.240 They poured over Fredrick Hayek and Milton Friedman and marveled 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.600 at Frederick boss Jatt's denunciations of socialism is legal plunder. 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.160 A veteran of vaudeville, Story like to recreate constitutional conventions 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:56.720 and assigned students to play delegates and mock debates. That's fun. Also, 0:12:56.720 --> 0:13:00.000 I got a note Fredrick Hyak Frederick boss jat both 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.840 Fred's they are it's the fucking friends. I'm more on 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.880 board with the fred Frederick. And also I apologize if 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.040 there are any friends listening, I don't think there are 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:15.040 no If there are Fred's listening. You have to pay 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.480 reparations for the damage that other friends have done. Yeah, 0:13:17.520 --> 0:13:21.959 I'm sorry, We're sorry. It's your responsibility. The rules. Fred 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:29.080 Claus movie, Fred Claus speaking, and Vince Vaughan is a libertarian. Yeah, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:34.720 there all checking out? All. Yeah, if you are a Fred. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.319 The only thing that can stop a bad Fred with 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:42.520 dangerous far right ideology is a good Fred with name 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:46.120 a good friend with dangerous ideology. I can't I can't 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.560 think of a good friend with any kind of ideology. 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.040 Fred's and Cleveland all taking a hit today? What about 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.199 the friend staff as you quit? The cute little boy 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:59.120 in frid Fred Savage. Oh you haven't heard about Fred Savage? Man. No, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.480 there's a six part behind the Bastards about Fred seton 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.240 a lot of a lot of people lost hands anyway. Uh. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:09.679 Continuing on Roland's stories, most gifted student was a thirteen 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:15.479 year old boy named Ted Cruise. There we go. Rafael 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:19.240 Edward Cruz born on December twenty, nineteen seventy was the 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.920 son of Rafael Cruz, a Cuban American who fought against 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:24.560 the Batista regime and fled his home country after Castro 0:14:24.600 --> 0:14:28.040 took power. His mother Eleanor Wilson was just some lady 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.960 from Delaware. Ted Cruz was actually born in Canada. His 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.720 mom and dad owned a seismic data processing firm in 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.560 Calgary before his parents split up and his dad moved 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:39.040 the kids to Texas in nineteen seventy four, and now 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.680 not long after that, his mom came back and the 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.120 family stayed together until I think like nineteen seven when 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:47.280 they divorced. I don't know if these marital difficulties bled 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:49.640 into the childhood of the young Ted Cruise. I do 0:14:49.800 --> 0:14:51.960 know that he was a brilliant student and a habitual 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:55.760 overachiever in school. These aspects of his personality only increased 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:59.600 when Roland story began to groom him. Not liking where 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.480 this is go on marriages that you get divorced, get 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.520 back together, and then get divorced again. That's something else 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:09.440 that has to affect someone. I mean, you gotta assume, right, yeah. 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:11.480 I just don't like knowing that Ted Cruz isn't what 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:13.400 he turned into and just being like, oh, like a 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:16.440 wide eyed kid is like moved to Texas and he's 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.920 an overachiever, Good luck buddy, Oh no, oh no, And 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.680 Roland is involved stories after school studies sessions had a 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:28.280 huge influence on Ted's already conservative upbringing because his dad, Rafael, 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:31.280 who will talk about later, pretty far right, but Rafael, 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.120 his father did later recall quote. Instead of reading comic books, 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.440 Ted was reading Adam Smith, he was reading Milton Friedman, 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.640 he was reading von Mices, he was reading Frederick bass 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:43.640 yat tolerable. Intolerable certainly doesn't sound like a kid anybody 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.320 wanted to sit with it lunch. It's probably worth noting 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.360 since we did a two partner in the Koke Brothers 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:51.160 that Milton Friedman and Ludwig von miss both taught at 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:54.440 Robert Lefeb's Freedom School. If you remember from that Cooke 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:56.680 Brothers two partner at the Freedom School was both funded 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.680 by in a major influence on Charles Coke, among other things, 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.040 that them school believe that slavery should be legal as 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:05.280 long as it's just free people selling themselves into slavery. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:10.800 Those words work well together, Like that makes sense. What 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:17.520 a hill to pic to die on? Unbelievable people in slavery. Yeah, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.160 it's just looking out at the world and being like, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:21.920 you know what the fucking problem is, nobody can selve 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:24.520 themselves into slavery. I also love like there are so 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.480 many libertarians out there who like when you bring that up, like, well, 0:16:27.480 --> 0:16:29.840 that's really like, that's not what we think, Like, yeah, 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.960 you literally do, like it's it's the basis is a 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.120 lot of the thought that underlies this ideology. My body, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.360 my choice, I guess I mean, but no, because you 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.880 can't consent to being eaten by someone my slavery. To 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:50.440 say that I did not mean it my body. Ludwig 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.320 von Miss, in addition to being a pillar of libertarian 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.720 economic theory and a major influence on young Ted Cruz, 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.440 was a member of the board of advisors for the 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.920 Miss Institutes Rampart journal. His name is attached to several 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.640 issues of that journal that include articles denying the Holocaust. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.800 It just a fun little for the Nazi connection. There's well, 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.840 they support the Nazis. There's always a Nazi connection. There's 0:17:11.840 --> 0:17:14.000 always a Nazi connection. And it is weird how many 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:18.040 libertarian journals and writers in the seventies and eighties, in particular, 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.560 back before the Internet, we're writing a lot of stuff 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.240 about how the Holocaust didn't add up to them. It 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:26.400 seems like a lot of classical liberals really, really supporting 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:29.840 Hitler in the early days is weird. I don't know, 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.280 there's no I don't even have a bit about the 0:17:32.320 --> 0:17:35.560 Holocaust denial here. It's it's just the thing that people. 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:37.760 It's just the thing that people choose to do. Yeah, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:40.320 Like some people might choose to be slaves and something 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:43.000 might choose to be slaved. It's their choice. Choice is 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:46.280 what makes America great now. Shortly after he began working 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.359 with story Ted, Cruz was picked to be a member 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:57.879 of the Constitutional Corroborators. Uh, dorks and you say that 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:03.120 Cody as a dork complete? I know, like we've all 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:05.960 made substantial chunks of our living making fun of Star Wars. 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.640 I've been on podcasts where I only played dungeons and dragons. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:16.840 But these fucking um now, just judging by that name, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:19.200 what do y'all think that Constitutional Corroborators might have been 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:28.760 any any guesses? Corroborating the Constitution? Cool kids from sort 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.359 of judicial Watch, Yes, that's what it seems like. That 0:18:32.400 --> 0:18:35.560 would actually be cooler. Um. There were groups of five students. 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:39.159 Each group of corroborators was five students who attended Stories 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.920 after school programs and trained to be able to write 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.880 out the entire Constitution from memory. They also read out 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.119 a definition of socialism when they presented this, which was 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:50.280 portrayed as being in direct opposition to the constitutions. Now, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:54.119 the corroborators toured local chambers of commerce and rotary clubs, 0:18:54.160 --> 0:18:57.159 various groups and association stuff like that around North and 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:00.400 central Texas. They toured and let them watch to them 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.479 right constituent. They would show up in front of groups 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.400 of generally older conservative people and these five kids would 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:07.800 get a bunch of white boards out and they would 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.639 write out the Constitution from memory using anemonic device that 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:16.200 they'd memorize children. Yeah, early teens. That's a good show though. Yeah. 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.440 I mean, I guess if you don't have Netflix, if 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:21.400 good music hasn't been invented yet, which it hadn't been 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:24.320 in the eighties. Yeah, in my day, we just watched 0:19:24.400 --> 0:19:27.400 kids write words on white boards. That was the only 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.679 Netflix we needed. I love groups like this, like Charlie 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:33.600 Kirk kind of person, or like um, like even Paul 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:38.040 Joseph Watson's like, oh, your fans are all over sixty 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.640 conservatives and they just love that there's finally a young 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.960 person saying what they're thinking. They just want to see 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:47.040 a young person who agrees with them. That's it's it's perfect, 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:50.880 It's it's amazing. Now, Taylor's Taylor Taylor at least as 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.119 old as the nineteen age story. He was one of 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.840 the first people doing this, uh in a really organized way. So. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:03.679 One of Ted's fellow constitutional corroborators was Laura Callaway. She 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:05.560 joined the group in her senior year at Deer Park 0:20:05.640 --> 0:20:07.840 High School. She'd been invited there by her friend Jeff 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:09.320 who she had a crush on, who was on the 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:12.880 debate team. Uh. This study group is how Stories Free 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.280 Enterprise Education Center hooked most of its young members. The 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:18.120 even offered scholarships to sweeten the deal. Here's what Laura 0:20:18.160 --> 0:20:22.080 recalled later in a medium post. The nonprofit programs director, 0:20:22.119 --> 0:20:25.119 a jocular round man named Roland Story sends us boxes 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.960 of books, textbooks wrapped in shiny plastic, textbooks unavailable at school, 0:20:29.040 --> 0:20:32.400 but textbooks that tell the real story behind our country's 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:35.520 founding fathers. There are lots of quotes by Thomas Jefferson. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:41.160 Sounds situation, sounds like a Praiger youth situation before the Internet. Now, 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.600 she enjoyed the study program and most of the people 0:20:43.640 --> 0:20:49.000 in it with one notable exception, Ted Cruz. I've heard 0:20:49.000 --> 0:20:50.600 about him from my friend, She writes it in the 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:56.160 present tense. I've heard about him from well, no, I've 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.320 heard about this before she got into She says, I've 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.119 heard about him from my friends, that he is a 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:02.760 master debater and long term member of the organization. When 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.480 we are introduced, it is the first time I feel 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:06.600 as if someone has sized me up, found me wanting, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.080 and moved on all before I finished Hello. It is 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:10.879 not a good feeling. I don't think I'm going to 0:21:10.960 --> 0:21:14.359 like Ted. Laura was about thirty years ahead of the 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:18.040 rest of So we're going to get into some more 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:20.920 about the constitutional corroborators and the rest of the evolution 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:23.880 of ted Rick Cruz, which is not his name. Fuckett 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:25.760 might as well be a friend? Might you might as 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.159 well be a friend? Friend and Ted basically basically the 0:21:29.200 --> 0:21:32.439 same uh to Fred talk. But first we have to 0:21:32.480 --> 0:21:38.359 corroborate not the constitution but products that people can buy. Yes, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:42.960 it was kind of products does support you show in 0:21:43.000 --> 0:21:46.240 a in a way in a way absolutely, and even 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:50.040 better than that, as the consumer, you will have the 0:21:50.080 --> 0:21:52.840 power in this new relationship you're entering into I love 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:58.600 having power. Let's all become powerful and listen to these ads. 0:21:59.400 --> 0:22:07.600 Can't wait, we're back. We're talking about Ted Cruz and 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:13.080 his youth as a constitutional corroborator. You Ted Cruz was 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:17.600 born forty three. Yeah, has not changed much since. Now 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:19.800 we're talking about Laura who who just announced that she 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:25.160 did not like Ted Cruising immediately the instant she talked 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:28.080 to him. At one point, Laura and her fellow corroborators 0:22:28.080 --> 0:22:31.119 were invited to in American Ideas seminar at the State 0:22:31.160 --> 0:22:33.960 Conference Center This is in Houston. They attended classes and 0:22:34.040 --> 0:22:36.440 lectures about the free market and limited government. One of 0:22:36.480 --> 0:22:39.280