WEBVTT - State of the Union Extravaganza 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:00.560 Welcome. 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.840 It is Verdict was centered Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you, 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:07.520 and it is one am in the morning Eastern time, 0:00:07.840 --> 0:00:10.720 after the State of the Union. I want to be 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.360 very clear that I am doing this show in protest 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:16.599 right now because I was on a plane. No, no, 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.840 let me let me rephrase that center true or foss. 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:21.800 You and I hung out yesterday in your office. 0:00:22.400 --> 0:00:25.400 We did, and you were in DC, and I can't 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.120 help it that you fled Washington during the State of 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:34.600 the Union. And listen, karmes A and so when you 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.080 decided you were a little girl and you had to 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.400 get out of town because the Democrats getting mad at 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.160 the president were scary. Yeah, there was a consequence, which 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:48.440 is for those who are watching on YouTube, a coup 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.959 is a courage. The original co host of Verdict has 0:00:52.000 --> 0:00:55.720 returned and seize the seat. To be clear, he has 0:00:55.840 --> 0:01:00.360 relegated mister Ferguson to appearing as a little box on anor. 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:05.720 He banished Ben. I saw it, not just the seat, 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:07.760 but I saw this cigar, and I said, this is 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.720 pretty good. And this has actually become something of a tradition. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.720 I've noticed it. I've only ever been to two stags. 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:16.920 By the way, if only TC would tell us that 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.800 there is a tradition, then I wouldn't have gone on 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.880 a plane at two o'clock this afternoon leave Washington, d C. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:28.920 Think about this, Hey, Ben, we should have cigars. I 0:01:28.920 --> 0:01:30.600 have to say the union and do the show here. 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.120 Great idea, I'll change my flight. That is how normal 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:35.040 people would have done this. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.120 Michael a year in advance. 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.560 This happened late on the fly, and so this afternoon 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.720 Michael texted me and said, hey, you want to grab 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.000 cigars after everything tonight? And I was like, well, we 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.880 have to do the pod, but aha, I have an idea. 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:56.400 And I didn't really want to do the pod and 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:58.520 finish at two in the morning and then have cigars, 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.240 and so I'm like, we'll combine it. And by the way, 0:02:01.360 --> 0:02:03.680 Daily Wire does this great. What is it late night? 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:04.840 What is it called backstage? 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.880 Backstage? So I've done several times done backstage with them 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:14.440 where they sit around and drink scotch and smoke cigars, 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.080 and so I said, let's bring some backstage. This is 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:23.000 like a This is like a Marvel Universe crossover, where 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.559 like Daily Wire and iHeart are intersecting. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.639 This also really, it's kind of a double verdict tradition 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:33.760 in that two years ago, Yes, I came to my 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:35.519 first State of the Union address. It was Biden State 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.720 of the Union, the one where they injected him with 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.680 whatever they injected him with, and he yelled for ninety 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:41.160 two minutes. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:41.720 Yeah. 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:46.280 And then afterward, actually before i'd set it up, I said, hey, Senator, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.520 I happen to be in town. Hate to pressure you 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.920 for a cigar. Same thing. He said, well, okay, we 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.160 can have a cigar, but you got to do the 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.000 podcast first. I said, okay, well that that'll be a 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.680 lot of fun. And so of course it's you know, midnight, 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.680 one o'clock in the morning. And this really takes us 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:03.800 back because when Verdicts started, it was always one o'clock 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:05.920 in the morning, and it was actually not all that 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:09.840 far from here in Washington, DC. Though I noticed the 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.240 digs have improved a little bit. 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.320 So we're in a high falutin cigar bar in DC. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.080 Because it turns out it's actually complicated to find a 0:03:19.160 --> 0:03:20.919 studio that will let you smoke a cigar. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.640 I don't get to light my cigar. That's the part 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.880 that I'm really chapped about. I did look at my 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:32.320 wife and sender you know Anna well, And I was like, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.480 what are the chances, for the sake of the show 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.280 in authenticity, I could smoke said cigar. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:42.040 I literally did not get an answer. I got the look. 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.960 And when you're married, you guys both know the look. 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.480 Each one of our wives all have a look that 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:50.000 they give you. 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:51.640 And I was like, Okay, I got it. I know 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:52.440 how this is so. 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:56.360 Ben you are thoroughly domesticated, yes, yes, and it doesn't 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.440 pune your manhood, yes, but and I'm not going to 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:02.680 tell a story on myself. So when Heidi and I 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:06.680 were engaged, we had an apartment in DC, and I 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:10.560 would host poker games, and at the poker games, we 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:13.000 would smoke cigars and we do it at my dining 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.640 room table, and my buddies that would come over and play, 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.039 they'd be like, dude, how does Heidi let you smoke 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:23.120 cigars inside? And I was in my twenties and stupid, 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.960 so I'm like, look, if you're the man of the 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.479 house and you want to smoke a cigar, you smoke 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.240 a cigar in your damn house. That right, And I 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.600 said it with all the bravado of a young idiot. 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.440 Yeah. Meanwhile, he didn't own set house. It was an apartment, 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:40.960 but keeps part like the story. 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.360 Yeah, So then we get married. We actually get married 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.800 twenty five years ago May twenty seven, two thousand and one. 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:48.039 That's our twenty fifth anniversary. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:48.520 Wow. 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:52.520 And we come back from our honeymoon, and shortly thereafter 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:54.880 I'm hosting a poker game and Heidi says, get the 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:57.320 damn cigars out of the apartment. You will never smoke 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.080 another one inside again, And in twenty five years I 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.560 never have. And so when I say you a pariod, yeah, 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.919 that's another way of saying you're actually married. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.280 Aren't we all? Aren't we all? In a way? 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:10.160 There you go. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.960 So so one of the stories for planning purposes for 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:16.640 all the viewick listeners and watchers next year, Michael and 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.360 I are in charge of programming. 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.080 Michael, I think we should do the show. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.040 Together, all of us in DC, and smoke cigars together 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.039 after say the union. 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:27.719 What do you think, Michael? Is that a good idea? 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.920 That's a great idea. Okay, listen, I'm I'm in. 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:33.080 All right, good, all right, Well, you you and I 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.240 will have a group chat to set it all up 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.640 in advance and we will all be one happy family 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:38.359 with all of us. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:39.120 Swing your cigar. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.719 The Ferguson family got bigger over the holidays with a 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.359 new puppy, and I can tell you having one dog 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:48.559 that is over a decade old and a new dog 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.599 that's just months old, there's one thing they both have 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:55.360 in common. I want them to live a great quality life. 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.640 And that is exactly why I give them rough Greens. 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I love that he 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.760 was like, you can't even stand for that, you won't 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.080 even see So. 0:07:59.160 --> 0:07:59.960 You guys are crazy. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.600 Yeah, you guys are crazy line and it. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.840 Came like the third most incredible line. I mean there 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.520 were a lot of them, yeah, but. 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:11.720 It came stood on TV in an amazing way, did it? Yeah? 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.640 Oh, I mean it was just his look, his demeanor, 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.120 he was looking over at them. I mean, you were 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:19.280 there obviously, so it's going to feel different to you. 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.400 But like I'm watching, I'm going that line landed and 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.240 I think the American people probably saw it and they're like, wow, 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:26.440 this is going to be really good. 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.200 So I'm sitting there. It was very kind of Speaker 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:34.679 Johnson to invite me, and I'm sitting over the Democrats, 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.640 so I got a prime view of the Democrats. And 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.400 the first line that really brought down the House was 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:46.240 when President Trump looked over and it was beautifully written 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.840 and beautifully executed. He looked over, he said, Okay, I 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:53.160 want everyone to stand up if you agree with the 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:57.760 statement that America should protect Americans or something to that 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:05.200 effect first and not and not over illegals. Yes, and 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.320 they refuse to stand political malpractice the likes of which 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 one has rarely seen. And it was a brutal moment. 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.920 He totally took advantage then. 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:21.240 So that moment will be played in a million campaigns. Yes, 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.760 and by the way, it was the longest sustained applause 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.840 of Republicans. We stood and we applauded, and we applauded, 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:34.400 and he just looked over. He stepped with amazement watching them, 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.959 and and the ad rites itself. They're for illegals and 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.680 not for you. And they were given that choice, do 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.479 you stand with Americans or do you stand with illegals 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:49.120 and the entire party. No, we're the party of illegal 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.040 aliens and not the party of Americans. 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:56.360 It was shocking. So then he doubles down on I'm 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.080 skipping around a little bit in time because it escalates. 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:00.640 Well, by the way, this a trend. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.360 He noticed, this is going to be the trend of 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:05.480 my speech. Like, I don't think he planned it this whole, Like, 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.600 you guys aren't going to stand for that. It was 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.720 the moment and then it hit and then it was like, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:13.199 I'm gonna keep doing this tonight to show Americans how 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:15.640 crazy these guys are on the left. 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:16.960 That's how it came across on TV. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.920 Well, he landed it on the transgender ideology. Kid who 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:24.360 had been transd and had destroyed his family, and then 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:26.800 the kid finally ended up in the right place, and 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.520 the he said, isn't that wonderful? The family's reunited and 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:33.720 everyone's flourishing, and the Dems wouldn't stand And that was 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:38.360 when he dealt the blow. He said, these people are crazy, 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.079 and that that too lit it up now where it 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.520 got a little dark. But it was the same strategy. 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.040 It was the same tactic, I suppose is when he 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.960 started bringing up violence, and he obviously turns to Erica Kirk, 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.719 this national hero, this perhaps the most sympathetic figure in 0:10:55.720 --> 0:11:00.000 the entire country, certainly up there, and the Democrats didn't 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.080 want to stand for Charlie. They didn't want to stand 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:05.960 for Erica. Again, that itself is disgraceful. But he even 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:09.040 gave them an out. He said, we're a country where 0:11:09.080 --> 0:11:12.480 we say in God we trust, and we reject political 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.240 violence of all kinds. And I was looking over some 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:17.520 Democrats stood for that. 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.040 I'd said, more than half on the political violence. I 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:23.520 looked and it was probably sixty seventy percent think that, 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.280 but a third did not, A third did not. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.679 Third would not stand for we reject political violence of 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:34.520 all kinds. It was I felt a disaster of optics 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:36.720 for democrats and a disaster of morals. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.480 Well, and on the we don't stand for political violence. 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.760 The reason two thirds stood is Schumer stood. By the way, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.600 have you ever noticed how much Chuck Schumer looks like 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:48.719 the villain and the Smurfs? What's what's the name? I 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.320 don't even remember the name of the villain? Like the 0:11:50.440 --> 0:11:54.400 curved over like like you know, he's hunched. He has 0:11:54.480 --> 0:11:55.319 kind of a hunchback. 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:57.440 Maybe a penguin from Batman was what I got. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:12:02.960 Yeah, yeah, but he's sort of no. 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.520 I couldn't agree with you more. 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.240 By the way, you guys are in there so you 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.440 may not know this, So I may break news to you. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.920 Did you, guys see what Rashid Talib was chanting while 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.720 everyone was chanting USA, USA, At one of the points 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:22.120 in the speech, she was chanting kkk kkk kkk. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.680 Really, yes, person advertising credit credit for. 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:30.080 You, guys. 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:31.600 I don't know if you can see, but let's be 0:12:32.200 --> 0:12:34.560 our good friend. Steve Guess put it out there. Watch 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:40.240 Democrat representative to leave. She's chanting KKK while everyone else 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:41.800 is cheering USA. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:47.840 Well, the KKK was founded by democrats. It was almost 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.920 exclusively populated by Democrats. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:55.800 the Klan, was a delegate, a delegate to the DNC 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.120 national Convention in eighteen sixty. He was a national delegate. 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:03.640 And you look at the Klan was founded by Democrats. 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:07.880 Jim Crow laws were founded by Democrats. Segregation was enforced 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:12.400 by Democrats. They have been the party of racial bigotry 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.600 the entire history. And by the way, our party, I mean, 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:17.880 we often refer to our party as the Party of Lincoln, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:21.400 but we were literally founded to abolished slavery, right, That's 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.880 why the Republican Party came together. And by the way 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.960 we did. The first Republican president is who signed the 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:28.280 Emancipation Proclamation. 0:13:28.440 --> 0:13:31.360 Well, you know on racial animus and Rashida Talib, did 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:33.679 you see. I don't know if you caught this, but 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:37.679 when President Trump said, what a wonderful thing. We released 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.280 all the hostages. We got the ostage released, both dead 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:44.320 and alive. We returned even their remains, and most people 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.679 stood up. I looked, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib were 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:48.200 sitting down. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:48.720 Yep. 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.000 Yeah. 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:51.600 And by the way, mean at one point they heckled 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.160 when there was a reference to the end of the 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:58.200 war in Gaza. They heckled and screamed genocide. I mean, 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:00.000 that's that's who their party is. 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.400 Well, and you look at tonight there was four Democrat 0:14:03.480 --> 0:14:06.840 responses like that's not good for your party when you're. 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.559 That broken Moore. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:09.320 Who were the four? 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.200 So you had one in Spanish, you had one that 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.000 was a progressive radical, you had one that was like 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.720 the next level monter, and then you had the Virginia governor. 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:19.520 You had four official responses. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:21.880 Sorry, I'm going to have to disagree with you. I 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.680 don't even know who they were, but there are four 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:25.080 who were progressive radicals. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.400 Well, I agree with you. 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.640 Yes, I'm giving you their their official statement, but they 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.920 literally had Hey, depending on how crazy you are, if 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.320 you're a Marxist, socialist, communist, or a radical lefty or 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:41.360 like the transgender or maybe just like a normal Democrat, 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.240 here's your all of your responses for you, and we'll 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:45.240 have all of those for you. 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:47.880 So right after the State of the Union, I did Hannity, 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.720 and as I was sitting there waiting to go on, 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.520 Fox wouldn't put Hannity on air until Spamberger finished her response. 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.720 So I sit down and put my earpiece in and 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:03.600 it's just her voice screeching and loud. And I turned 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:07.080 to Handy and I said, Sean, I haven't led nearly 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.760 a wicked enough life to deserve to listen to this. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.680 As I just turned the volume off, I'm like, I can't. 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.640 There's just a limit to how much pain I can endure. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.400 But you know what's very telling about span Berger is 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.920 you had Andy Bisheer come out, who is a serious 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:27.560 presidential candidate Kentucky governor, and he said span Berger is 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:31.240 the model for Democrats in the midterms, which means translation 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:36.200 will run. They will run as it means live, they'll lie, 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.120 they'll run as moderates, and they will immediately enact the 0:15:39.120 --> 0:15:43.120 most radical leftist agenda you could maybe imagine. 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:44.800 I love by the way. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.400 I know you're a man of the people and you 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:49.160 do all of your own yard work. But if you 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:55.440 lived in Virginia's crazy wearing French cuffs, that would be 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:57.360 only that guy right there. I just want to be 0:15:57.960 --> 0:16:00.280 the one where the big cloud of smoke they just 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.360 went up in the air, that would be that guy's cufflings. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.800 Yeah, that's the one there, So they're there. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.000 Look, it is impressive because at Yale he wore a cravat. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.880 I'm going more populous as I age, and I. 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.680 Wish Michael had to sign it before we knew it. 0:16:16.720 --> 0:16:17.200 Those work. 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.360 But I'm also impressed because Ben at old miss never 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:23.480 wore pants, so so we're kind of reaching a kind 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:24.360 of middle down. 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:27.880 Actually, a man of the people, a man of Prade 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:28.360 and Gucci. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:29.000 It just it is. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:29.880 It is what it is. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.080 No, But like in Virginia, they've gone so crazy. They're 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.200 they're they literally have laws written right now that she's 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:41.720 in favor of to ban gasoline powered weed eaters and blowers, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.680 and then they're putting a ten percent tax on electric blowers, 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.680 so they're going to charge even more to be green. 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:49.840 That's Virginia. 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.560 I love that the President brought up that to shovel 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.440 snow in New York under multiple IDs, you need two 0:16:58.480 --> 0:17:02.760 forms of ID, which I actually had been advising. I 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.719 think humor is a really powerful way to drive this point. 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:09.240 And I think that and also the fact that John 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.840 ossoff to get to his rally against photo I d 0:17:13.080 --> 0:17:15.240 for voting, you had to show an idea, you. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:16.800 Had voto, you had to show voter ID. 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.959 Yeah, this kick was the key, I mean, really the 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:23.479 reason that the State of the Union succeeded. And I 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.280 agree it was one of Trump's best speeches. The Warsaw 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.359 speech in the first term was also an excellent speech, 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.879 but this was up there, and I think the reason 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:35.920 it succeeded was the President had to reassure voters who 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:38.000 voted for him on mass you know, he won the 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.960 popular vote. He had to reassure them that we are 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:48.840 still the party of normal, of safety, of flourishing, of sanity, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:53.119 of sanity where I think some voters you have this 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.760 question after the Minneapolis immigration gocement. Why is it that 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:03.440 voters still support mass deportations but oppose ice supporting people. 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:05.800 You know, that's kind of a contradiction. Why is it 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:09.200 that the fundamentals of the economy are looking pretty good? 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.080 You know, record ized stock market, pretty good, inflation, pretty good, 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:14.800 job numbers, pretty good GDP could have been better if 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.040 not for the government shutdown that the Dems gave us. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.840 Why is it that they're a little the voters are 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:22.600 worried about the economy, but the economy seems to be 0:18:22.600 --> 0:18:25.399 doing well. It's it's this fear that we're in a 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:29.520 precarious moment. And so I think both sides went into 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.119 this saying we want to be the party of stability, 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.440 of security, of normal and flourishing. That's why Hakim Jefferies 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.720 told the Democrats, hey, be cool and if you can't 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:39.800 be cool, don't show up. 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.159 You know, I think it's so Green got thrown out. 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:43.720 Al Green couldn't resist. 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.639 At least at least he had a big sign that 0:18:46.680 --> 0:18:48.520 he got to walk around with, right he felt, he 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:49.320 felt just. 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:54.240 So and as signs said, blacks aren't apes. Yeah, And 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.800 I turned. I was sitting next to Todd Young and 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:03.919 I said, wow, is out Green protesting? Gavin Newsom, Yeah, yeah. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:03.040 Look like it. 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.440 By the way, Gavin K. Newsom, he's like the perfect 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:11.120 Democrat made in the laboratory. An idiot. 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.840 He says racist, open racist. Yeah, he says racist. 0:19:14.880 --> 0:19:17.400 Who goes in front of a crowd of African Americans 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:19.600 and goes, I'm just like you, You're stupid, and I 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.560 am too unbelievable and I can't when I got a 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.280 nine to sixty on the sat which, by the way, 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:29.640 Michael got a nine to sixty on the verbal portion 0:19:29.800 --> 0:19:33.320 of his set. Yeah, and yes, I know it's only 0:19:33.320 --> 0:19:35.360 eight hundred, but still. 0:19:35.680 --> 0:19:37.840 Yes, I love that you just had to geek out 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:39.520 and show the geeks that you know the max is 0:19:39.520 --> 0:19:40.119 an eight hundred. 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.280 There, to be clear, I can't remember I took. 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:46.000 The damn thing and I did anyone doubt I was 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:46.399 a geek? 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.640 Yeah, that's I just we have to remind you though, 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:50.320 every once in a while. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.280 Let's be clear on things like that. I popped, Michael, 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.920 mostly because my own vulnerabilities are so glaring on that. 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.000 No, listen the admission rate for Princeton, I think. 0:20:00.240 --> 0:20:04.479 Hold on, Let's let's be clear. Both of you know 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.080 your scores right by heart. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:08.119 What you made? 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:10.040 What were you? Michael? Don't lie? 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.680 It was higher than Gavin Newsom's. I'll tell you that. 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:13.960 No, what was it? 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.520 I want to know. I want to know what it was. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:17.240