WEBVTT - The Birthday Show 0:00:03.520 --> 0:00:06.359 Welcome in his verdict with Center Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson 0:00:06.400 --> 0:00:09.440 with you. We've got a few more days until Christmas, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:11.920 and we've got a couple of shows left. We're going 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.000 to be talking about some really big issues, including I 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.720 think the most shocking and that is just how. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.439 Old Center Ted Cruz is as of today. 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:23.439 I did not know that I was going to have 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.720 a fifty five year old elder friend. 0:00:26.120 --> 0:00:28.920 This is senior's coffee is real. Now you can get that. 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.680 You can, I think, get assistant at the airport without 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.120 even needing a medical condition for one of those walkers. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.919 Now that's exciting. I'm not going to push you through there, 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.559 but I'll get someone to hold the sign up for you. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.720 What other benefits do you get? Said, I mean fifty five, 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:43.360 fifty five? 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.880 Listen, Skippy, I'm in my forties. 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.640 I'm not forty five. I'm forty four. We are eleven 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:52.080 years apart right now. 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:54.800 Laddie, you need to learn to respect your elders. 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:58.000 And do I need to talk louder to you? Is 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.400 that what you're saying? Respecting your Sorry? 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.160 What my lawn? Okay, I said, get off my lawn 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:04.960 at twenty five. 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:08.319 I will came out of the womb. 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:10.000 I think you came out of the womb saying get 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:11.880 off my lawn, sir, I'm gonna I think we could 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.759 call your mom right now and she would verify. 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:14.120 All right. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.040 What was that Clint Eastwood movie I forget with the 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:18.280 name where he's a crotchety old man with the like 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.000 trans am, I forget. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:23.640 Oh, it's a great movie. It's a great movie. Anyway. 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.760 Yeah, it's a great you know. Heidi laughs at me. 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.400 Because I would drive along in Austin. This is twenty 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.160 years ago, long before I was elected to the Senate. 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.800 I'd drive along and I'd see protesters screaming about something, 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.920 and I'd want to stop and argue with them. Yeah, 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:37.679 she just like, just stop it, and I'm like, well, no, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.279 I don't want to, but I will say double nichol 0:01:41.360 --> 0:01:44.320 is kind of interesting. Fifty five So I am now 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:48.160 officially eligible for AARP. Tell you what I tell all 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.240 my friends when they turn a birthday. So now that 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:54.560 I am, as of December twenty second, officially fifty five 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:58.840 years old. As terrifying as this is, I am closer 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.680 to the age one hundred than ten than I am 0:02:01.720 --> 0:02:02.120 to birth. 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:04.360 Yes, that is true. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.920 And by the way, when when like someone turns twenty 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.120 five and you tell them they're closer to fifty than 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:12.400 to birth, it freaks them out. I mean, I mean, 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:16.120 it really is. It's a terrifying way of framing it. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:20.160 I will tell you my older sister, Miriam, nine years 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.080 older than I am, when she turned thirty, so I 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:25.760 was just twenty one. I actually called a local flower 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.800 shop and I sent a bouquet of balloons to her office. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.560 And the bouquet of balloons on her thirtieth birthday, the 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:38.480 card said happy fortieth, big sis. And I will say 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.680 she called me up on my cell phone and she said, 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.280 and I apologize for the language, but this is my sister, Miriam, 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:48.960 she says, you little shit. Yeah yeah, So somehow she 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.720 didn't appreciate my saying she was forty when she was thirty. 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.400 So you may think forty is really young. But I 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:58.200 got to say, our viewers, we've got teenagers and folks 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.480 in their twenties, and I got to tell you right now, 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:05.040 you know what they're saying to you, Benjamin. They're saying, okay, okay, boomer, okay, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.720 just be clear you are fully on the geriatric side 0:03:09.720 --> 0:03:10.120 of things. 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.800 I just can't wait to see what new sponsors I 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.880 can go. So listen, and they're gonna be like, let's 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.760 see gray in. They're gonna be uh oh, hearing aids 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:22.079 for sure. We gotta get that in here real quick. Yeah, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.960 I'm excited. I'm just opens up a whole new world 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:25.920 to this, to this show. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.760 I am. I cannot wait to talk about my older friends. 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:31.760 Yeah, yeah, I have to admit I've also been sort 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.640 of a mean friend. A buddy of mine turned forty 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:35.760 a number of years ago, and I had two presents 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:37.760 for him. I got him some meta mucils so he'd 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.720 be nice and regular, and I got him some viagraa 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.200 which I knew he would never need. But I just 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:44.760 try to try to look out for him. You know, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.560 you know you gotta be there for your friends. 0:03:46.960 --> 0:03:49.880 This is this is amazing after all that, you know 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:52.000 what you've given me about old miss by the way, 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.280 for that, this is just this is this is the 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.840 this is just Jesus giving me a gift. So happy 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.080 fifty fifth birthday. Sorry I need to say that latter. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:03.360 Happy fifty fifth birthday over there. I'm excited for you and. 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.560 I want to congratulate on on Ole miss you see 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.960 for Lane to get such a big bonus, like you 0:04:11.000 --> 0:04:14.080 guys really take care of people who leave you at 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.320 the altar like hold. 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:16.000 I mean, you know what. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.920 I just love that we beat Tulane by more than 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.880 we did when we beat them in the regular season 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.000 with him being our coach. We are in the second round. 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.359 That's a big deal. And then look there's an exciting 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.679 moment we'll get to play. Oh wait, no, we won't. 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:29.240 Get to play your team because you guys lost. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.640 Yeah that was you know. I was at Kyle Field. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:34.080 It hurt. 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:34.920 Yeah. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.400 So I've had two games in two days, one loss 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.640 and one win. Preferred the win to the loss. Actually 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:43.080 all right, the Aggie game yesterday was frustrating because I 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.919 went to two Aggi games this year. We three. I 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:47.520 went to the UT and M game, but I was 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.240 rooting for both. I'm Switzerland on that. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.240 So that's a smart man right there. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:54.240 I love them both. But as you know, I went 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.640 to the A and M Notre Dame game in South Bend, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.040 which was just spectacular. Like have you been to a 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:01.560 game in at South Bend? 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:03.880 I have been to one. It's unbelievable. It was by 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.440 the way, freezing, but it was awesome. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:07.400 So it was beautiful when I went. It was a 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.599 great fall day and just a bucket list event, like 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.520 I'd never been there. You see touchdown Jesus looking over 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.840 the the the end zone is pretty spectacular and and 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.400 it was number one, an amazing game. It was a 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.120 pure shootout. There was there was no defense on either side. 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:24.240 It was just all offense. 0:05:24.680 --> 0:05:25.840 Yeah, yeah, football. 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.520 And I turned to the folks I was sitting with 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.920 and I said, wow, whoever has the ball last is winning? Yeah, 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.080 And it ended up a m had the ball last, 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:35.960 so we won. And I got to tell you, I 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.280 was in I was in maroon. I was loud, I 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.080 was obnoxious. I was cheering, cheering for the Aggies. And 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.360 the Domers were the classiest fans I've ever seen. They 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:49.479 were polite, they were gracious, both Brett both Brett Cavanugh, 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.400 Amy Cony Barrett was there, and I did talk some 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.320 smack at them when when Notre Dame lost, and even 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:59.160 they were kind of gracious. Yeah yeah, like should but 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.960 but it was all right. Okay, So here's something funny. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.560 I'm down walking on the field and a number of 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:08.159 fans see me, and you know, I guess the folks 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:09.839 there they were they were cheering and liked me. The 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:12.720 folks there, I mean, there are peeps. And so I 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.480 was waving and then I was like doing a thumbs up, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.039 and I realized it's a gigam and I'm like, oh crap, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.720 I'm not trying to be obnoxious and like flip you off, 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.480 but like if you're in Kyle Field and you did 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.560 a hook them, you would get booed. And I'm like, 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:30.960 shut goodness with and so thankfully they didn't boom, even though. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:32.960 I Matthew McConaughey is the only one that can probably 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:35.120 get away with that at Kyle Field and like not 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:38.240 get a right all right, all right, yeah, exactly, it's 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:39.919 that guy. Okay, fine, fair enough. 0:06:40.360 --> 0:06:43.919 So the noted game game no defense and just a 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:46.560 pure shootout and and the Aggies had the ball last 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:51.960 and so we won. Fast forward to Saturday, awesome defense. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:56.120 We went through all the half quarters with the score 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:57.200 three to three. 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:58.800 I was a pause. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.440 You were there, and everyone that's listening right now that 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:05.039 watched that game. The number of field goals miss not 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.240 by one team on both sides of the ball was insane. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.840 As I was watching on TV, it did not look 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:11.960 as that windy. 0:07:12.520 --> 0:07:15.320 So was it that bad? Or was it? Was it 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.880 they were over compensating? What like? Was it really that windy? 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.040 Yeah, I don't I don't have a good answer on that. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.920 It didn't feel that windy in the stands. I mean, 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.480 it was a beautiful day. It was just a gorgeous 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.440 it was warm outside, it was it was a spectacular 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.440 day for football. Now, you know the the ribbons on 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:35.520 the end of the goalposts, they were blowing, but they 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.600 weren't like sticking straight out. It wasn't like there was 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.160 a hurricane in there or something. But it was like 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.760 it was amazing, missing field goal after field goal. And 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:45.920 I turned to them, I was, you know, sitting with 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.600 a bunch of aggies, And I said, Okay, if I'd 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.800 have told you we'd make it three quarters and hold 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:56.200 the hold Miami to three points, how thrilled would you be? 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.240 Yeah, you'd be a static And at. 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.200 The end of the day lost ten to three. Because 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.000 it turns out, if you play a football game and 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.640 you can't score a single touchdown, it's really damn hard 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:08.840 to win. And if we could take that, Notre Dame 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.960 offense and the defense against Miami and actually put them 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.080 in the same game. They could go the whole way. 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:20.040 But sadly, now, since it's your birthday, I just want 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:21.840 you to know we will adopt you for the rest 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.080 of the playoffs as a rebel. 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.480 Okay, you can. I'll bring you a shirt. 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.080 I've got a few of them, I might be yeah, 0:08:27.160 --> 0:08:28.960 I've got yeah, I've got a couple hundred of them. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:29.920 I can spare one. 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.120 Okay, you need to be in I feel like you 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.600 need to still be in the playoff, in the game here, 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.640 and since you really don't have that, I just I 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:41.280 want for your birthday. I don't want you to fill alone. Okay, 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:42.679 So there's my birthday gift here. 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:45.760 So Ben, I'll give you some information. Tommy Tubberville, my 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:46.720 colleague in the Senate. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.480 Oh yeah, remember he screwed all mess back in the day. 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:52.559 Don't forget this, soon to be governor of Alabama. So 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:54.560 you know, he was the coach at Auburn, and so 0:08:54.679 --> 0:08:57.800 we're we're all interested. Like at lunch this week, everyone 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.320 asks him, says, you know, coach, what's gonna happen? Yeah, 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:03.160 So Tommy has made a prediction. He is predicting Texas 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.560 Tech to win it all. He says, Texas champion this year. 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:08.680 So that's now. Look, Tommy used to coach at Tech, 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:11.000 he used to coach at A and M and then, uh, 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:12.960 you know, but it's just interesting. I you know, I mean, 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.439 the guy's a heck of a football coach and that's 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.839 his call. So uh so I'm cheering on Tech all 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.079 the way. I had predicted Tech against an M in 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:22.840 the finals and I was going to pull out my 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:26.439 Switzerland shirt again if that happened, you should. But now 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.839 I can unequivocally root for the Red Raiders, like. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.679 I got your guns up, guns up right. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.320 There are no other Texas teams, so so so I 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:39.000 am uh uh excited about it. And and by the way, 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:40.920 I'm thinking of the folks that listen to us, So 0:09:40.960 --> 0:09:44.120 there's like a divide some of the folks that are 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.400 regulars on our show, like like, oh, this is fun 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.480 that you guys are having some fun and it's Christmas 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.960 time and you're you're talking about you know what what 0:09:51.120 --> 0:09:53.480 normal people do during Christmas time, which is what foot 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:57.000 watch football and ye and give each other grief. And 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.000 then there are other people who are just complete politics nerds, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.920 and I don't say that as an insult because Ben 0:10:01.960 --> 0:10:03.840 and I are the biggest politics nerds on them. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:05.920 We went proing that. We literally went proing in. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.719 And there's some of the politics nerds that are like, 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.439 damn it, like we're not covering any substance right now. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:17.319 Why are you guys yabbering about the the foosball instead 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.080 of instead of focusing on what's happening. And we're going 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:20.559 to talk about what's happening in the country. There's a 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:21.800 lot happening in the country, all right. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.000 So I have to I have to tell you this 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.680 because you're gonna laugh talking about geeking out. So I'm 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:30.200 in a Bible study on Thursday mornings, and you know, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:32.120 like I'll be on the road and I'll travel and 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:34.280 you miss and come in. And so I come in 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.960 and Buddy texts me in the Bible say he's like hey, 0:10:36.960 --> 0:10:39.680 He's like you finally have another rebel. And I'm like 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.760 another rebel. Like he's like, yeah, we got a new dad. 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:43.760 That old miss guy Mike can't wait to meet him. 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:44.440 I walk in. 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:48.040 I will protect the names here, but it is like 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:53.920 a ten year NFL Titan who went to ole miss 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.840 who shows up in my Bible study. So now it's 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:01.520 like gone completely off the chains because you just need one, right, 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:04.160 I just needed one buddy who was in this with me. 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.679 And so now like the chirping, because it's all we 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.439 got a bunch of aggies, you got a bunch of TCU, 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.160 you got a bunch of Texas guys. 0:11:11.360 --> 0:11:12.720 I just needed one. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.240 And so now we walk in like proud peacocks every 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.600 day in Bible study because it's like I just needed one. 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.600 I got my almost buddy. We're good to go now, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.720 and I'm like, this couldn't have been better for me. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.640 I get to go to Bible study and like you said, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.120 geek out over football. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:27.720 And look, the good thing is in Bible study. There's 0:11:27.760 --> 0:11:30.040 nothing in the Bible about pride, so you shouldn't feel 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:30.920 bad about that at all. 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.000 Not at all, not at all. By the way, did 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.439 you go to church on Sunday? I'm putting on the 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.240 spot here. I love doing this. This is fun for me. 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.440 I went, I look for you. I didn't see you. 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:42.240 I'm not saying you were there or weren't there. But 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.920 our pastor is an aggie and he literally made sure 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:52.000 he worked into the false idols into the servant about 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:53.720 going to the A and M game and what happened 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:55.640 to the AAM game, which I thoroughly enjoyed. 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.720 I have not talked to our pastor, both he and 0:11:57.760 --> 0:11:59.840 his wife or Aggies, and I'm sure that they were 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:02.080 more morning. I was not there today. Thank you for 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:02.640 outing me. 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.240 You're welcome. You're welcome. I did look, I looked. I 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:07.439 know where he sits, guys, I know if he's there. 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.160 I was. And actually, our pastor texted me last night 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.760 and said, hey, are you gonna be there tomorrow? Like 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:14.520 he had somebody wanted me to meet. And I had 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.680 to like fess up and say, no, we're like a 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:19.440 lot going on. I'm sorry, we're missing it. We are, 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:21.280 we are going. We'll be there Christmas Eve. 0:12:21.120 --> 0:12:23.360 But we'll say there that you're gonna. 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.160 I've got my in laws coming in tomorrow and my 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.520 brother in law and his wife coming in. We've got family, 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.920 you know. But it uh uh. We we did not 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.320 in fact go today and and and and thank you 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.120 for you're welcome. 0:12:38.480 --> 0:12:40.719 On your birthday, I just wanted God's gonna bless you. 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:42.280 It's your birthday. You get a freebie on that one. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.120 It's fine, you're gonna You're gonna be okay. 0:12:44.360 --> 0:12:46.319 All right, on to the geeks of the politics. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:48.920 By the way, I will say this, whenever anyone has 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.360 a birthday, I do actually have advice to someone. What 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:56.360 is that ever? Want to feel young? Mm hmm, just 0:12:56.400 --> 0:13:00.520 get yourself elected to the US Senate, like cow the 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:03.960 Median agent. You're still undred and six. I mean, they 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.160 really do think I'm in short shorts and wearing a beanie. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:08.480 I mean, I've got colleagues. 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:12.240 Here's the youngest member now. I mean, you were at 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:14.240 the bottom for a very long time. You're still in 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:15.679 the lowest end? 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:17.040 Is it? Kitty Brett? 0:13:18.679 --> 0:13:21.800 Katie's on the young side. Josh Holly's on the young side. 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.679 Assoff shots. All right, Cotton, I'll tell you what. We 0:13:25.720 --> 0:13:27.959 all have supercomputers in our pockets, so. 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:29.160 It's very true. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:34.319 Who is I love the youngest? 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:36.959 You went the city, You're at the big leagues, as 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:37.439 I call it. 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.800 I don't want the youngest in all history. Although interestingly, 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.360 who's the youngest center in history? 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:48.800 I have no idea, nor did I. Samuel White from 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.880 What State born. 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:55.679 December seventeen, seventy died November fourth, eighteen oh nine. You 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.079 have to be thirty years old when you start, and 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:01.880 age at the start of the term. Thirty years, two months, 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:02.880 twenty seven days. 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.320 Okay, there you go, that's young. 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:06.280 Okay. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.640 Congress is twenty six or twenty seven, House twenty five. 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:14.640 I was twenty five, okay, twenty five then then thirty 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:15.559 six to be president. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:20.160 Asoff thirty eight is the youngest senator so from Georgia. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.680 So I mentioned as Off. I knew he was in 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.000 replacing Josh Holly. So what did I say? I said, Holly? 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:31.720 So Holly who had been the youngest person at age 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.320 forty one. So when I was elected to the Senate, 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:36.080 I was forty one. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:40.520 So were you the youngest that year or close? 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:45.920 Yes, I don't know that for sure, but I assume. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:46.160 So. 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:51.480 All right, here's a bit of bit of trivia. How 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.880 old was Joe Biden when he was elected the Senate? 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:56.640 Oh? He had he had to be in his thirties 0:14:56.840 --> 0:14:57.960 because he was there forever. 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.040 He was there forever. But this is actually a weird 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:04.360 bit of trivia. Thirty four was when he was elected. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:08.160 He was actually twenty nine. The constitutional minimum is thirty. 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.920 But he took office he had the birthday. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.320 He turned thirty before he was sworn in, so he 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.240 was eligible by the time he was swart in, but 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:16.960 on election day he was not old enough to be 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:17.440 a senator. 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:20.520 That's there, and and and he never left. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.680 And by the way, that was nineteen seventy two, so 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:25.800 I was a year I had not even turned too 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:28.920 when Biden was elected, which gives you a sense. That's 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.680 what I mean by like, you get in the Senate 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:34.920 and they're just like, fifty five does not even count. 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.800 That's kindergarten and senate years. 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.320 That's it's it's incredible. Well, happy birthday fifty five. That's 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:41.840 a big one. 0:15:42.400 --> 0:15:45.560 By the way, there's a pecking order of senators, which is, 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:47.000 you know, we sit next to each other in the 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:49.040 dais and you look over and it's how big your 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.320 font is and the older you are and blinder you are. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.640 I'm not gonna name, I'm not gonna out an my colleagues, 0:15:54.680 --> 0:15:55.320 but I will say. 0:15:55.160 --> 0:15:57.480 There a solid or very big you can read from 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:58.440 the gallery up state. 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:01.800 It's got to be about zoom forty points, like they're 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.520 like seven words on a page. Yeah, and it's I 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.560 have it a little bigger. I have sixteen point font 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.440 because it makes it easier to look down and read it, 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:12.720 but it is it's literally you could see the gradation 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.480 of age by just how big your font is. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.840 All right, final question on birthday are you? 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.680 Is your family a gift giving family or you you 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.080 buy your own gift for your birthday so you know 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:23.960 you get thing you want. 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:26.600 Yeah, I don't buy my own gift. And I have 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.920 to admit, like as a kid, I cared about birthday gifts, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:32.480 I'm not really like there's not a whole lot I want. 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.360 I'm a pretty happy guy. Like if there's something I 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:38.000 really want, if I want, like, I just go buy 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.000 it because I'm not you know, so so I don't know. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.600 I have yet to see my family will get me something. 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:46.160 Maybe they'll give me a shirt or a tie or 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.320 something and I'll say thank you. A friend of mine 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.040 actually brought some pretty cool, a cool gift, which was 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:54.400 a box of cigars that she had special made for 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.000 them and had a label with my name on it 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:57.760 in the campaign logo. And that was like, all right, 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.080 that's cool, that's like that's cool. Yeah, that was kind 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.000 of a but but I'm not sitting here longing for 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:07.320 anything and I will contrast that to my daughters who 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:11.000 send like links to one hundred different things they want 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.159 for Christmas and they're like, okay, by this one and 0:17:13.200 --> 0:17:16.359 this one and this one and it's pretty and and Heidi, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:16.919 how was that? 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.720 By the way, how expensive was the PowerPoint presentation this year? 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.400 Oh? If you bought everything? 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.480 So I don't know, people, if they missed last year's show, 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:30.400 one of your daughters does a legit PowerPoint presentation for 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:35.280 her Christmas. Yeah, and it's a full presentation, which is awesome, 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.840 And so was it was it? 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.040 Would you rate it? Did you give her? Can? Eight 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:41.520 out of ten? How good was it this year? 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.360 So this was not as egregious as last year. Last 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.919 year was insanely expensive, But this had I don't know, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:48.760