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Well, 88 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:47,839 Speaker 1: you know, I will say the White House this week 89 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: noted and designated it as Elder Abuse Day, and I 90 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:57,680 Speaker 1: guess I do have to apologize because apparently I'm interfering 91 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:03,039 Speaker 1: with Joe Biden's naptime. You know, it really is amazing 92 00:05:03,279 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: that the kind of fearmongering that the White House does. 93 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,320 Speaker 1: You remember years ago the Democrats ran ads of Paul 94 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: Ryan literally pushing Granny off the cliff. So now he's 95 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: standing at the aflcio saying Cruise wants to end the 96 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,200 Speaker 1: social security I mean, look, let's be honest. Who has 97 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:29,240 Speaker 1: hurt seniors more in the past twenty years than Joseph 98 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: Robinette Biden Junior. You got nine percent inflation, food prices skyrocketing, 99 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:42,320 Speaker 1: healthcare skyrocketing, electricity skyrocketing, gas skyrocketing. Seniors are getting screwed. 100 00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: The only one who can compete with Joe Biden for 101 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:49,120 Speaker 1: screwing seniors is Jimmy Carter. And so what does he do? 102 00:05:49,640 --> 00:05:54,679 Speaker 1: He fearmongers, He suggests, Look, so security is a bedrock 103 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 1: of our country. Ain't nobody messing with it? He knows that, 104 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 1: but he can't run on his record, so he's got 105 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 1: to scare people. And I'm sorry that that that that 106 00:06:06,640 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is finding it hard to sleep at night. 107 00:06:08,800 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 1: Someone once told me in politics many years ago that 108 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 1: the only thing worse than being talked about is not 109 00:06:14,440 --> 00:06:17,160 Speaker 1: being talked about. And I assume that principle is in 110 00:06:17,279 --> 00:06:21,120 Speaker 1: play here. It's interesting that Biden, while he's making this 111 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,640 Speaker 1: desperate plea in what seems to be a very unfavorable 112 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 1: year for Democrats, he's going after you. Yeah, I will say, 113 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:31,400 Speaker 1: I guess I'm kind of flattered that that. Apparently I'm 114 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: not just maga, I am ultraumaga like and just to 115 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,159 Speaker 1: say that's a point of clarification, your Senator, you worked 116 00:06:38,279 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 1: very well with Donald Trump. Obviously, you guys worked very 117 00:06:41,040 --> 00:06:44,560 Speaker 1: well together during the administration. But I seem to recall 118 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,040 Speaker 1: that you were the man's chief primary rival. If I've 119 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:52,719 Speaker 1: already going to describe someone as ultraumaga, doesn't that seem 120 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: a little bit strange to describe the guy's primary rival 121 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:59,800 Speaker 1: that way. So look, Biden gets confused sometimes, and I'm 122 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: not sure he knows what any of these words mean. 123 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: I mean Biden literally he was elected to the Senate 124 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:10,080 Speaker 1: in nineteen seventy two. When Joe Biden was first elected 125 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:13,720 Speaker 1: to the Senate, I was one and a half years old. Yeah, 126 00:07:13,760 --> 00:07:18,760 Speaker 1: so I understand how he remembers back to the false 127 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: campaigns Democrats of ron way back when you know what 128 00:07:22,200 --> 00:07:24,720 Speaker 1: Biden said, Ronald Reagan was going to take away so Security. 129 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: I mean, Biden has been saying that line for a 130 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:32,040 Speaker 1: long time, for literally the entirety of my life and 131 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: for about double the entirety of years. That's a good, 132 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,120 Speaker 1: good point, actually, and Reagan had two terms didn't take 133 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,119 Speaker 1: away social Security. It did strike me when he said 134 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,360 Speaker 1: that as just a kind of tired old line. Maybe 135 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:46,480 Speaker 1: it would have worked in twenty ten or twenty twelve. 136 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: But you know, even his talking points they seemed to 137 00:07:49,720 --> 00:07:52,000 Speaker 1: be a little dated at this point, but it wasn't 138 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 1: just a Biden senator. You know I do not speak Spanish. 139 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: You know this. You have spoken Spanish to me. I 140 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 1: have responded by asking you where the library is. That 141 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 1: is the extent of my Spanish. But from what I 142 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:08,160 Speaker 1: could make out, it sounds as though the President of Mexico, 143 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:14,760 Speaker 1: mister Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, does not like you very much. 144 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:48,360 Speaker 1: It's a senior endo game insist la protejo qua nicaraguezuela 145 00:08:48,760 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: restaurants amarco no lo covin us for Florida Republican and 146 00:09:05,559 --> 00:09:16,120 Speaker 1: see peror no solos. His sister senior Roo view Albertido Republican, 147 00:09:19,600 --> 00:09:31,080 Speaker 1: it ta Cruz Chamberti Republican t curus, while the Crusado 148 00:09:32,800 --> 00:09:46,160 Speaker 1: solo protejo dictadas see Okay permidi an arcotrafico que Domina 149 00:09:49,720 --> 00:10:05,520 Speaker 1: territorial de Mexicogo senior the Cruz Marco MBI. Also, I 150 00:10:05,640 --> 00:10:09,160 Speaker 1: could make out about one phrase their senator. The phrase 151 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: was ted Cruz. Ted Cruz kept coming coming up, So 152 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:15,200 Speaker 1: if you wouldn't mind I know you're a little more 153 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,600 Speaker 1: fluent than I am. What did the president of Mexico 154 00:10:17,720 --> 00:10:20,079 Speaker 1: say about you? And why is he so angry with you? 155 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: So I will say that that is one of the 156 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,720 Speaker 1: most bizarre press conferences I've ever seen, because you've got 157 00:10:25,760 --> 00:10:29,200 Speaker 1: a Mexican reporter who asked him a question about Marco 158 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:33,000 Speaker 1: Rubio and and am Low says, I'm sorry, who is 159 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:34,679 Speaker 1: this Rubio guy? I don't know who he is and 160 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:38,480 Speaker 1: and and the reporter says, oh, he's the senator from Florida. 161 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, yeah, yeah, they're three of them, 162 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:44,120 Speaker 1: three of the Cubans but ted Cruz. And it's the 163 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:47,679 Speaker 1: most bizarre thing because the reporter asked about Rubio, and 164 00:10:47,880 --> 00:10:50,840 Speaker 1: am Low responds by attacking me, and I mean, going 165 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: off on a screed, attacking me. And it's really bizarre. 166 00:10:57,440 --> 00:10:59,760 Speaker 1: So the reason am Loo is is so worked up 167 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 1: is that a a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, I 168 00:11:02,559 --> 00:11:06,720 Speaker 1: pointed out that Mexico has had a horrific record under 169 00:11:06,760 --> 00:11:11,320 Speaker 1: AMLO's presidency of allowing journalists to be murdered, and we're 170 00:11:11,400 --> 00:11:15,960 Speaker 1: seeing historic levels of the drug cartels murdering journalists. If 171 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 1: a journalist darres Cover the drug cartels and cover their 172 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 1: murdering and murder and extortion and crimes. They're killing them 173 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:26,480 Speaker 1: and AMLO's turning a blind eye. And what's fascinating about 174 00:11:26,520 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: this exchange. So Rubio had tweeted about AMLO's support for Cuba, 175 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: Nicaragua and Venezuela and dictators, and actually Amlo doesn't mind that. 176 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, yeah, forget about the dictators. Cruz is 177 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,679 Speaker 1: saying I'm turning a blind eye to the drug cartels. 178 00:11:42,880 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 1: And what he says there is show me the proof. 179 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: And he actually goes on later in that press conference 180 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:50,680 Speaker 1: to say I have the proof. I have the proof 181 00:11:51,559 --> 00:11:55,439 Speaker 1: that Cruise is on the take from the supporters of 182 00:11:55,520 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 1: gun rights. And so he goes on this whole thing about, 183 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: you know, Cruz refuses to ban guns. You know what, 184 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: am low damned straight, I refuse to ban guns. We 185 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,199 Speaker 1: have this thing in the United States called the Second Amendment, 186 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:09,960 Speaker 1: the right to keep in bear arms. You don't want 187 00:12:10,040 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: your citizens to be able to defend themselves from the 188 00:12:13,679 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: drug cartels that that are terrorizing innocent Mexican citizens. And 189 00:12:19,800 --> 00:12:22,199 Speaker 1: instead of responding to the substance, instead of having a 190 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:26,839 Speaker 1: government that actually takes steps to protect freedom of the press, 191 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 1: to protect journalists, to stand up to the criminals. Instead, 192 00:12:32,160 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: you know, Amlow seems very very dismayed it uh, you know, 193 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaker 1: to quote Shakespeare mean thinks she doth protest too much. 194 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 1: I just love that he has that nickname am Low. 195 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:45,160 Speaker 1: He's sort of like j Low with the Andreas Manuel 196 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,760 Speaker 1: Lopez overdo. That's very impressive. And when you've got two 197 00:12:48,840 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 1: world leaders, both in North America attacking you. You've got 198 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,240 Speaker 1: Biden going after you and then the speckless guy down 199 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:00,400 Speaker 1: in Mexico, I suppose that means you're probably doing something right. Look, 200 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:03,559 Speaker 1: I'm just waiting for Justin Trudeau. I want the trifecta. 201 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 1: Come on, man, the Canadian truckers were right. Let's see 202 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:12,080 Speaker 1: if Trudeau rises to the occasion. Now, Justin Trudeau knows 203 00:13:12,320 --> 00:13:15,920 Speaker 1: a thing or two about Cuba and Cubans, according to rumors, 204 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:19,199 Speaker 1: but who knows. Maybe we can discuss that on a 205 00:13:19,280 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 1: future podcast. I do have to talk about one of Michael. 206 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:26,760 Speaker 1: I'm not going to ask you who's your daddy. That's true, 207 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 1: as Telemachus says, it's a wise man knows his own father, 208 00:13:30,440 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: and certainly that's true. Up in America's hat as well. 209 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,240 Speaker 1: But closer to home, there is another group that's going 210 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:39,880 Speaker 1: after you. That would be, of course, the media and 211 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,920 Speaker 1: the Congressional Democrats. And really, I suppose I'm repeating myself 212 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 1: in the January sixth committee because you have been such 213 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 1: a target of this whole thing. What is your take 214 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:56,079 Speaker 1: on the January sixth hearings? You know, Pelosi really gave 215 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:00,719 Speaker 1: up the game when the committee was being four And 216 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: typically in a committee you have a roughly equal number 217 00:14:04,800 --> 00:14:07,760 Speaker 1: of Democrats and Republicans. The majority party typically has one 218 00:14:07,880 --> 00:14:11,560 Speaker 1: or two more, but it's about equal, and the majority 219 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,040 Speaker 1: party doesn't get to pick the other parties members that 220 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:21,360 Speaker 1: are on it. And so Kevin McCarthy selected several people, 221 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: including Jim Jordan and Nancy Pelosi said no, no, we 222 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:28,080 Speaker 1: don't want real Republicans, we don't want actually people who 223 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:34,480 Speaker 1: will ask questions. Instead, she picked she picked Liz Cheney 224 00:14:34,520 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: and Adam Kinzinger because they both decided they're not Republicans 225 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: anymore and their agenda is the same, which is to 226 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,920 Speaker 1: attack all the Republicans just like Pelosi's is right, and 227 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: you know, I gotta say so as you walk down 228 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: the hall, this is the only question that reporters want 229 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,040 Speaker 1: to ask, and they're they're asking it constantly, and I 230 00:14:51,200 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 1: just laughed. They're like, are you going to watch it? 231 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: I'm like, why would I watch this? I don't watch 232 00:14:55,520 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: the Democratic National Conventions convention every four years. That is 233 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:05,960 Speaker 1: a multi day political campaign ad. It is designed to 234 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:07,760 Speaker 1: be propaganda, and I get it. They can have their 235 00:15:07,800 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 1: campaign ads, but it's not actual factual inquiry. And if 236 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: it were, look if you want to ascertain what's going on, 237 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,680 Speaker 1: if you look at congressional hearings that go somewhere, you 238 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:24,760 Speaker 1: have cross examination, you have scrutiny. You have if a 239 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: particular witness comes in and makes a charge, there's all 240 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: these allegations that are made. You actually have someone challenge 241 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:37,240 Speaker 1: the credibility of the witness. Press on engage. Cross examination 242 00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:42,320 Speaker 1: is a powerful tool for ferreting out truth. But for example, 243 00:15:42,480 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: this kangaroo chord has zero interest in Nancy Pelosi's culpability 244 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:53,560 Speaker 1: on January sixth with stopping a sufficient law enforcement presence, 245 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: stopping a sufficient effort to stop the riot that happened 246 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:01,600 Speaker 1: because she said, in her words, was bad optics. They 247 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:04,720 Speaker 1: don't want to talk about that because that's inconsistent with 248 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,720 Speaker 1: their political narrative. I think it makes a lot of 249 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,360 Speaker 1: reporters really excited, but but I don't think it's going 250 00:16:10,440 --> 00:16:14,560 Speaker 1: to change any voters mind anywhere in America. And by 251 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: the way, the New York Times, there's an old line 252 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: that a gaff is when someone in Washington accidentally tells 253 00:16:22,360 --> 00:16:25,720 Speaker 1: the truth. All right, The New York Times let the 254 00:16:25,840 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 1: cat out of the bag when they ran as a 255 00:16:27,920 --> 00:16:33,520 Speaker 1: headline January sixth Committee hearings present opportunity for Democrats to 256 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:38,120 Speaker 1: change the mid term narrative. Well, that's obviously what they 257 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:43,720 Speaker 1: want to do. I think it has failed badly so far, 258 00:16:43,800 --> 00:16:45,800 Speaker 1: and I think it's going to continue to fail. Do 259 00:16:45,920 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 1: you think Pelosi made a mistake kicking Jordan and Banks 260 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:53,000 Speaker 1: and the real Republicans off the committee? That is, if 261 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: you do think, because if they were on the committee, 262 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:00,320 Speaker 1: presumably the Republicans would be more engaged, you'd have the relling, 263 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,600 Speaker 1: there would be a reason to tune in. I think 264 00:17:03,640 --> 00:17:07,720 Speaker 1: it was stupid to kick off the real Republicans. It 265 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:12,360 Speaker 1: look even from a perspective of of TV. Let's say 266 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: you let's say you're a Nancy Pelosi and you're not 267 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,720 Speaker 1: interested in truth you are interested in nyeballs and frankly, 268 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:24,240 Speaker 1: the clash of seeing Jordan R. Banks go at it 269 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:31,200 Speaker 1: with with with the witnesses makes good TV. That conflict 270 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,880 Speaker 1: would cause some people possibly to give a flip about 271 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:38,760 Speaker 1: what's going on. This is right now, a bunch of 272 00:17:38,840 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: Democrats talking to a bunch of Democrats. It's it's MSNBC. 273 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,320 Speaker 1: This is like a panel of MSNBC talking heads sitting 274 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,320 Speaker 1: down and going Trump is terrible. Yes, Trump is terrible, 275 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:52,560 Speaker 1: though I agree, Oh definitely, uh huh, and like that's 276 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,879 Speaker 1: boring and not news, like we know you think that. 277 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: It was not lost on us that you don't have 278 00:18:00,280 --> 00:18:02,760 Speaker 1: the Donald Trump swimsuit calendar up on your wall. We 279 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:07,600 Speaker 1: got that. I think it was a bad strategic and 280 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: tactical mistake for Pelosi to throw the Republicans selected by 281 00:18:14,080 --> 00:18:17,679 Speaker 1: the Republicans off the committee because, just like The New 282 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:21,879 Speaker 1: York Times, it said the quiet part out loud. It 283 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 1: made it obvious we are telling a story complete with 284 00:18:26,359 --> 00:18:29,680 Speaker 1: our Hollywood producer, and we don't want anyone telling any 285 00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 1: different stories than the story we want to tell. And 286 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: just look at the coverage. I think the Times example 287 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:38,240 Speaker 1: is a great, great point here. The New York Times 288 00:18:38,400 --> 00:18:41,359 Speaker 1: is covering the coverage. The New York Times is covering 289 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:43,280 Speaker 1: the way they want to shift the narrative. But there's 290 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 1: there's no actual news happening, and so it just doesn't 291 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: seem politically urgent. Well, and Michael, an easy way to 292 00:18:51,320 --> 00:18:54,000 Speaker 1: understand how ludicrous it is what the Democrats are doing 293 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:58,639 Speaker 1: is just to flip the premise. Imagine if Donald Trump 294 00:18:58,760 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: held an inquiry onto what happened on January sixth, and 295 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 1: it was just Trump. To be honest, would the press 296 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:11,359 Speaker 1: give it any credibility? Of course not, But to be honest, 297 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:13,480 Speaker 1: if you wanted to have something, you would want to 298 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: have both parties. You would want to have free speech, 299 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: you would want to have conflict, you would want to 300 00:19:17,880 --> 00:19:22,920 Speaker 1: have debate. That's the method for ascertaining truth. Nobody in 301 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: the press would give any credibility to a purely republican 302 00:19:27,320 --> 00:19:30,560 Speaker 1: assessment of January sixth or anything else. I mean, I mean, 303 00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:37,080 Speaker 1: whatever you talk about. A purely republican assessment gets no credibility. 304 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:39,960 Speaker 1: And that's not crazy because we have a partisan system. 305 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 1: Both parties want to advance their narrative. And if you're 306 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,440 Speaker 1: an intelligent voter, look as a consumer of news. I 307 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:52,760 Speaker 1: don't just read right wing news right I read left 308 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,480 Speaker 1: wing news too, and I try to figure out the 309 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 1: truth somewhere in the middle. When the Democrats and the 310 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:06,520 Speaker 1: corporate media are only spewing their propaganda. You know, it's 311 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:11,680 Speaker 1: transparent to everyone. Now, speaking of Nancy Pelosi's missteps and 312 00:20:12,160 --> 00:20:17,040 Speaker 1: transparency and other trans issues, Nancy Pelosi made a claim 313 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:21,640 Speaker 1: this past week on a television show that I will 314 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,720 Speaker 1: admit I don't regularly watch. She gave her theory on 315 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,080 Speaker 1: what America is all about. I'll give it to you 316 00:20:30,280 --> 00:20:34,000 Speaker 1: in her own words. Please give a warm drag race. 317 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:40,400 Speaker 1: Welcome Nancy Pelosi, Welcome back, my honor to be here. 318 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:44,399 Speaker 1: Your freedom of expression of yourselves in drag is what 319 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:49,840 Speaker 1: America is all about. Senator, I'm not a graduate of 320 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:52,760 Speaker 1: Harvard Law School. I've never clerked for the Supreme Court. 321 00:20:52,880 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: I'm not a member of the United States Senate. In 322 00:20:55,920 --> 00:21:02,399 Speaker 1: your estimation, is transvestiism what America is all about? You know, 323 00:21:02,520 --> 00:21:04,720 Speaker 1: I kind of think Nancy may have missed some days 324 00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:08,879 Speaker 1: in American history, Like, look, you you got a right 325 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,120 Speaker 1: to dress up anyway you want. That's great to knock 326 00:21:11,200 --> 00:21:16,560 Speaker 1: yourself out, but the idea, yeah, the last pod we did, 327 00:21:16,640 --> 00:21:23,120 Speaker 1: we talked about the drag show for kids in Dallas. Yeah, 328 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: this is another example of the Democratic Party going so extreme. Like, look, 329 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,720 Speaker 1: if people want to dress in drag, that's fine. I'm 330 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:36,879 Speaker 1: quite libertarian about do what you want to do. But 331 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,720 Speaker 1: to claim that's what America is all about. I look, 332 00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 1: I get it. The founding fathers did wear wigs, so 333 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:45,760 Speaker 1: she does have a point there they were wearing wigs. 334 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 1: But but I'm not sure that's what Washington and Jefferson 335 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:55,159 Speaker 1: were doing. But but it's it is such the dominant 336 00:21:55,320 --> 00:22:00,760 Speaker 1: the the left wing culture war is the Democrat Party. 337 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:07,120 Speaker 1: You know, there was a It's just it is who 338 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,520 Speaker 1: they are and what they're driven by, and they keep going. 339 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:14,879 Speaker 1: It's not accurate to say that's what America is all about, 340 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:17,360 Speaker 1: but it is accurate to say that's what today's Democrat 341 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,320 Speaker 1: Party is all about. I at least understand that the 342 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:24,479 Speaker 1: Democrats are making this philosophical claim that this is at 343 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,800 Speaker 1: least what the country should be all about. What I 344 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: don't understand is how can Pelosi with a straight face 345 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:36,520 Speaker 1: make the historical claim that transvestiism, which was illegal, by 346 00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:38,840 Speaker 1: the way, in lots of America throughout parts of the 347 00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:42,400 Speaker 1: nineteenth century in San Francisco, of all places, which has 348 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,800 Speaker 1: not exactly been promoted. I don't think it was part 349 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,360 Speaker 1: of the Shining City on a Hill speech. I don't 350 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 1: think Governor Bradford was writing about his you know, great 351 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: passion for cross dressing. How do you make the historic 352 00:22:54,160 --> 00:22:57,399 Speaker 1: claim that actually, America, it's not about apple pie or 353 00:22:57,520 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 1: freedom or going west young man. No, No, it's about 354 00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,920 Speaker 1: dressing up like a lady. Well, and there's a richer irony. 355 00:23:04,080 --> 00:23:11,119 Speaker 1: So she did. She has a tiny leg to stand 356 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: on in that she starts off by saying freedom of expression. 357 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,520 Speaker 1: And you can make an argument that freedom of expression 358 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: is what America is all about. But the irony is 359 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:24,560 Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi doesn't believe in freedom of expression, like today's 360 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,080 Speaker 1: Democrat Party has abandoned free speech. So she literally means 361 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,080 Speaker 1: only if you want to dress up as a woman, 362 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:34,360 Speaker 1: he's what America is all about. But if you want 363 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,440 Speaker 1: to make a movie asking what is a woman? That 364 00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 1: is not what America is all about. So so she 365 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: it is quite amazing. You know, Nancy Pelosi leads a 366 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: Democrat party that wants big tech to censor that that 367 00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:52,720 Speaker 1: that wants views that they disagree with. Silence that's wants 368 00:23:52,800 --> 00:23:57,280 Speaker 1: to ban conservative speakers from campus. So I'm glad she's 369 00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,440 Speaker 1: acknowledging freedom of expression is important. But you know, I 370 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:04,719 Speaker 1: wish there were Democrats in Congress that still believe that. Oh, 371 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: of course, because when Pelosi uses the phrase freedom of expression, 372 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,520 Speaker 1: and really it's it's true of democrats broadly. All they 373 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:15,440 Speaker 1: really seem to mean is replacing our taboos with their taboos, 374 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:19,080 Speaker 1: and replacing our standards with their standards. There's this major 375 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,760 Speaker 1: Supreme Court case of a high school football coach who 376 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: just said a prayer on his knee by himself alone 377 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,720 Speaker 1: on the football field after the games, and the school 378 00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,879 Speaker 1: fired him for it. They were they were so angry 379 00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:36,760 Speaker 1: at this individual act of expression. So I don't think 380 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 1: Pelosi is defending that. But but to your point, they're 381 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,119 Speaker 1: only defending this sort of thing. And actually it ties 382 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,680 Speaker 1: right in with the big story out of Hollywood, which 383 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,280 Speaker 1: is that there's a new movie. It's a new toy 384 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,959 Speaker 1: story movie about Buzz light Year, and for some reason, 385 00:24:51,760 --> 00:24:55,240 Speaker 1: Disney felt it was very very important to include lesbian 386 00:24:55,480 --> 00:25:01,159 Speaker 1: toys kissing in the Buzz Lightyear movie. Meanwhile, they fire 387 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,159 Speaker 1: Tim Allen, who originated the role of buzz Lightyear. They 388 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,560 Speaker 1: replace him with Frankly, probably a more expensive actor. What 389 00:25:08,760 --> 00:25:11,199 Speaker 1: is going on? Do our kids? Is it so important 390 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: that our kids see lesbian toys? Smooch? Well, I gotta say, Michael, 391 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:19,639 Speaker 1: I think it is remarkable that the Verdict podcast seems 392 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:23,960 Speaker 1: to be driving Hollywood's agenda. Um. You and I sat 393 00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: at the University of Alabama for our live campus tour 394 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: and we were talking about woke Disney, and I observed, 395 00:25:32,119 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: I said, look, these these lunatics. They want to see 396 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,600 Speaker 1: Mickey and Pluto going at it and and and the 397 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: press lost their mind. And then what do they do? 398 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: Boom the next movie they come out buzz Lightyear. What 399 00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,440 Speaker 1: do we need? We need lesbian toys? Now? Never mind 400 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:53,080 Speaker 1: that the last time I checked, most toys are kind 401 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:57,200 Speaker 1: of androgynous. They're usually without genitalia unless little shopping in 402 00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: the Yeah. Yeah, like it's just but it is the 403 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: commitment to culture, it is. And you know, this movie 404 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,600 Speaker 1: has now been banned I think in fourteen countries. The 405 00:26:11,240 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: UAE has banned it, their countries in the Middle East, 406 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 1: their countries in Asia. There's significant discussion that China is 407 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:21,399 Speaker 1: not going to allow the movie in because of this scene. 408 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,960 Speaker 1: And I got to say, it's it's it's a wild 409 00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:29,200 Speaker 1: twist where Hollywood has been willing to grovel to China, 410 00:26:29,320 --> 00:26:33,359 Speaker 1: to let China censor its movies, to embrace anti Americanism, 411 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: to avoid any criticism of China because they want to 412 00:26:36,240 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: get access to the Chinese Chinese movie market. But when 413 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:45,920 Speaker 1: it comes to their culture agenda, apparently now suddenly they've discovered, 414 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,439 Speaker 1: all right, give up the money because lesbian toys are 415 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 1: more important. And I must say it brings a whole 416 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: new meaning to the phrase to infinity and beyond. Yeah, 417 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,119 Speaker 1: that's that's sort of like the slippery slope, Senator. You know, 418 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:07,320 Speaker 1: it seems that we never get to the bottom of 419 00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,640 Speaker 1: the slippery slope. Maybe that's because the slippery slope goes 420 00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:16,800 Speaker 1: to infinity and beyond. Why do toys have to go 421 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: at it like like like it just you could do without. 422 00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:29,000 Speaker 1: We don't need to see. It's the sexualization of kids 423 00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,720 Speaker 1: that Hollywood embraces, and it is a political agenda that 424 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,679 Speaker 1: that is all consuming. And look, they fired Tim Allen, 425 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:41,680 Speaker 1: they replace him with Chris Evans Captain America. So so 426 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:53,560 Speaker 1: I mean it is American icons driving an agenda that that, 427 00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,640 Speaker 1: astonishingly enough for the first time, matters more to Hollywood 428 00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,440 Speaker 1: than money. Oh. I think that this is why it's 429 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 1: important that Allen's getting dropped for Chris Evans. Is you 430 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: might say, well, maybe Tim Allen was just asking for 431 00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,600 Speaker 1: too much money, and so it's they're moving on to 432 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: a cheaper actor. I suspect Chris Evans is demanding a 433 00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,639 Speaker 1: higher contract right now than Tim Allen is. He's a major, 434 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:19,240 Speaker 1: major movie star, young and write in the prime of 435 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 1: his career, and so the only explanation I can think 436 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: of is that Tim Allen is an outspoken conservative. Chris 437 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:28,040 Speaker 1: Evans is a huge lib from everything that I can tell, 438 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,720 Speaker 1: and so even more to your point that the studios 439 00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:35,880 Speaker 1: are willing to lose money if it advances their cultural agenda. 440 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: And speaking of people losing money, Senator, it's not just 441 00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: Hollywood losing money. You and I and all the rest 442 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: of America is losing money right now because inflation is 443 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:50,040 Speaker 1: through the roof and our president is blaming Republicans. You know, 444 00:28:51,360 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: the White House has one talking point, I didn't do it, 445 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:59,840 Speaker 1: not my fault, it's Republicans fault. It's Putin's fault. It's 446 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:06,719 Speaker 1: anybody's fault, but Joe Biden. There's a reason Biden's approval 447 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:11,600 Speaker 1: rating is in the thirties because people recognize that that's 448 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,800 Speaker 1: just that's just not credible to watch this White House 449 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: try to blame everything. You know, watching Biden's energy secretary 450 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: go on TV and saying, you know, Biden's trying to 451 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,080 Speaker 1: do everything he can to lower gas prices. Won't yeah, 452 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:29,320 Speaker 1: except allow people to drill for oil and gas like 453 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,440 Speaker 1: like Other than that, I mean, you'd literally have had 454 00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,760 Speaker 1: for a year and a half an unrelenting war on 455 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: oil and gas production in the United States. They keep 456 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: doubling down, they keep Bizarrely, Biden is going to be 457 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: flying to Saudi Arabia to kiss Saudi Arabia is behind, 458 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 1: after he's been attacking Saudi Arabia for a year and 459 00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,960 Speaker 1: a half and alienating them because he wants the Saudis 460 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,120 Speaker 1: to produce more oil. He wants Venezuela to produce more oil, 461 00:29:54,160 --> 00:29:56,320 Speaker 1: he wants it Ran to produce more oil. He wants 462 00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:01,280 Speaker 1: everyone to produce more oil except Americans. Yeah, and it is. 463 00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: He believes that he can just convince the American people 464 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,200 Speaker 1: it's everybody else's fault. It seems like they're deflecting a 465 00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,680 Speaker 1: little bit, Senator, And it's actually a type of deflection 466 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,800 Speaker 1: that you first called my attention to right in the 467 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: earliest days of this podcast when we were in the 468 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: middle of the night and the bunker in the middle 469 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:26,480 Speaker 1: of Washington, DC, which is the Democrats line here is 470 00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:31,200 Speaker 1: inflation is not entirely Joe Biden's fault, which, of course, 471 00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: inflation is not entirely Joe Biden's fault, but that doesn't 472 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:37,000 Speaker 1: mean that it's not at all his fault, or even 473 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:40,160 Speaker 1: largely his fault. And you can point to the reasons 474 00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:42,960 Speaker 1: that he's driving inflation the ones that you've named. One. 475 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:46,520 Speaker 1: He's not allowing us to produce energy too. He in 476 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 1: many ways caused the war in Ukraine, at least according 477 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:56,440 Speaker 1: to President Zelenski's take on things three. He's continued to 478 00:30:56,560 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: lock down the economy in many ways that I don't 479 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:02,160 Speaker 1: think is very conducive to economic growth. You know, the 480 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:05,320 Speaker 1: list goes, he keeps spending a crap ton of money, 481 00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:08,480 Speaker 1: like in the end of the day, trillions and trillions 482 00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,040 Speaker 1: of dollars. You're right, it's not entirely Joe Biden's fault. 483 00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,800 Speaker 1: It's also Nancy Pelosi's and Chuck Schumer's and every damn 484 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,040 Speaker 1: Democrat that votes for a trillion here and a trillion 485 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:19,200 Speaker 1: there and spends and spends and spends and spends. And actually, 486 00:31:19,320 --> 00:31:22,200 Speaker 1: you know, so one form of inflation they call shrinkflation. 487 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 1: You notice you go in and like packages are all 488 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,880 Speaker 1: smaller in the stores, so you know, you buy de 489 00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:29,920 Speaker 1: Ritos and you have five fewer chips in the bag. 490 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:35,280 Speaker 1: So maybe CNN was right because they might start selling 491 00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,760 Speaker 1: gas by the court, but we're not far away from 492 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 1: two dollars a court for gasoline, and so so you know, 493 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,800 Speaker 1: it just it's it's a smaller unit. Like a good 494 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:50,200 Speaker 1: question to ask if you're watching a CNN broadcast. I 495 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,040 Speaker 1: pick on CNN in particular because they actually used to 496 00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: be something of journalists. They were bad journalists, but they 497 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,840 Speaker 1: were trying to be journalists. Now they're just shameless shills. 498 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,480 Speaker 1: But a question that's worth asking if you watch a 499 00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,480 Speaker 1: news broadcast is would a word of this have been 500 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:12,240 Speaker 1: different if the Biden White House had written the script? 501 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,920 Speaker 1: And if the answer is no, it's not journalism, right. 502 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,600 Speaker 1: This is not a complicated concept, but CNN and MSNBC 503 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: seemed very confused at the concept well, speaking of perhaps 504 00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:31,560 Speaker 1: unethical ways to make money, like just having the government 505 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,320 Speaker 1: print to endless amounts of cash. There was a mail 506 00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,640 Speaker 1: bag question that came in. I mentioned it to you 507 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,480 Speaker 1: a little bit earlier because I didn't know anything about it, 508 00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,520 Speaker 1: but I would love your take on it, if you 509 00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 1: have formed one. This is from Chris. I believe Chris 510 00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:48,200 Speaker 1: is or I'm sorry that the question is from Jonathan, 511 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:50,240 Speaker 1: but it's about someone who is one of your constituents. 512 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:56,040 Speaker 1: Question is the twitch streamer Asmond Gold said, he reached 513 00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: out to Senator Cruz's office about regulating lootboxes in video games. 514 00:33:01,840 --> 00:33:05,400 Speaker 1: Where does the Senator stand on lootboxes? I know that 515 00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,800 Speaker 1: those are all words, and I understand they have been 516 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,200 Speaker 1: strung together in an English sentence, but I don't really 517 00:33:11,320 --> 00:33:15,640 Speaker 1: understand what it means semantically together. Look, I'm happy to 518 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,520 Speaker 1: engage in a conversation with him. I'm happy to see 519 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,520 Speaker 1: what he has to say on it, as I understand 520 00:33:21,560 --> 00:33:26,320 Speaker 1: if the concern he's raising is a concern about gambling 521 00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:29,880 Speaker 1: and kids. And I will say it is certainly true 522 00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:37,280 Speaker 1: that that social media online environments, including video games, are 523 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: designed to be addictive. Now I'm I'm something of a gamer. 524 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,840 Speaker 1: I'm not a gamer like like hardcore twitch streamers, and 525 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: and I don't don't do the massive multiplayer games, not yet, Senator. 526 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,560 Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, I bet you never thought that 527 00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:52,920 Speaker 1: you were going to be a top podcaster. So who knows. 528 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,520 Speaker 1: We may have to launch the Verdict twitch stream and 529 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: start playing pac Man or whatever the kids are playing 530 00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,040 Speaker 1: these days. That that that that could well be. And 531 00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,560 Speaker 1: you remember when you and I did Dave Rubens podcast, 532 00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,160 Speaker 1: We did a twitch stream on playing I think it 533 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:08,480 Speaker 1: was a Nintendo that he had, and we did that 534 00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: and if I remember right, I beat his ass. I'm 535 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:13,080 Speaker 1: pretty sure that's right, And if not, that's the story 536 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 1: I'm going with. But look, they're different components of it. 537 00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,080 Speaker 1: In games, I'll tell you I don't like it when 538 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,319 Speaker 1: you can buy in game items and sort of make 539 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,719 Speaker 1: your character stronger or get advantages. Now, I'll confess, when 540 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,759 Speaker 1: I play some games, I'll sometimes buy it because it 541 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:36,200 Speaker 1: is more fun. If suddenly your character has a lot 542 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,239 Speaker 1: more great stuff that would take you six months or 543 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,600 Speaker 1: a year to build up. So sometimes I'll okay, I'll 544 00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: spend twenty bucks and buy a you know, a treasure 545 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,319 Speaker 1: chest full of coins, because then I can spend him 546 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,520 Speaker 1: to get cool things in the game. You know, I 547 00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,800 Speaker 1: think it is a greater concern when you're dealing with kids, 548 00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,319 Speaker 1: when you're dealing with miners who have a potential number 549 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,600 Speaker 1: one to spend a whole lot of money. And you know, 550 00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:07,640 Speaker 1: with some of the loot boxes, there's there's a fair 551 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,520 Speaker 1: amount of randomness that you could get a lot of 552 00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,040 Speaker 1: great stuff or some lousy stuff. And so I guess 553 00:35:12,120 --> 00:35:15,880 Speaker 1: that's the argument that it's gambling. I'll confess I haven't. 554 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:21,400 Speaker 1: I'm open to hearing arguments on this, but I approach 555 00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:26,120 Speaker 1: the issue with a pretty strong libertarian bent. So I'd 556 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,920 Speaker 1: like to not see kids exploited and harmed, and so 557 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:37,839 Speaker 1: I'd be interested in his views. But at the same time, 558 00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:41,040 Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the federal government really has a 559 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:43,600 Speaker 1: dog in the fight that if people want to in 560 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,919 Speaker 1: a video game spend money on stuff in the game, 561 00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,000 Speaker 1: I think my instincts are probably that that may not 562 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 1: be a great choice if you're spending massive amounts of 563 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:57,160 Speaker 1: money in games, But I'm not sure the federal government 564 00:35:57,200 --> 00:36:00,239 Speaker 1: has a role preventing you from doing that. Well, we'll 565 00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:03,040 Speaker 1: have to look into loot boxes more. Maybe I'll brush 566 00:36:03,200 --> 00:36:05,799 Speaker 1: up on my Donkey Kong or you know whatever's really 567 00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: hip right now. Um, and I hope that we can 568 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,080 Speaker 1: figure out maybe maybe we'll have to be quite confident 569 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 1: it's not Donkey Kong, is it not? Okay, I'm a 570 00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,680 Speaker 1: little behind the curve, but uh, there were there were 571 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,239 Speaker 1: no lootboxes in Donkey Kong too, So we'll maybe we'll 572 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:24,240 Speaker 1: we'll hear from Osman Gold and you know, I will note. 573 00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,959 Speaker 1: So I actually just watched last week watched again Ready 574 00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,360 Speaker 1: Player one. Did you ever see this this movie? No? 575 00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,160 Speaker 1: I heard it was great, but I didn't catch it. 576 00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: I've seen it several times, but I just happen to 577 00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,120 Speaker 1: have rewatched it last week, and it's it's a really 578 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,239 Speaker 1: good movie about virtual reality and people going into the 579 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,440 Speaker 1: game and a whole alternative world in the game. But 580 00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:49,080 Speaker 1: people amass money in virtual reality and it ends up 581 00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:54,719 Speaker 1: for many people subsuming the world. And look, there are 582 00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:58,719 Speaker 1: hard challenges. We're we're not we're not yet to the 583 00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:03,200 Speaker 1: dystopic world of Ready Player one, but we might be. 584 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:08,680 Speaker 1: We're on a path towards that, and you know, escapism, 585 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,800 Speaker 1: there are times when escapism can be valuable, but it 586 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,040 Speaker 1: also is going to raise all sorts of challenges and 587 00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 1: challenges that can spill over from the virtual world to 588 00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:25,279 Speaker 1: the real world. And how those intersections happen, We're going 589 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 1: to have to learn more about them, and specifically on 590 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,920 Speaker 1: this issue of the loot boxes and gaming, a lot 591 00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,840 Speaker 1: of the question involves the role of parents and parental 592 00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:36,840 Speaker 1: rights is a big topic these days, and I believe 593 00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,080 Speaker 1: parental rights is the topic of your conversation on the 594 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,320 Speaker 1: Cloakroom with Liz Wheeler. Is that right, Liz, Yeah, this 595 00:37:44,520 --> 00:37:46,480 Speaker 1: is a great question, right, It's it's a question I 596 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,960 Speaker 1: think a lot of conservatives are asking our parental rights absolute. 597 00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:52,279 Speaker 1: Ten parents actually be bad parents and take their kids 598 00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,719 Speaker 1: to a dreg show or ten that? Or should that 599 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,640 Speaker 1: be illegal? We're going to break this down on the 600 00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,360 Speaker 1: cloak Room. You can join us for this conversation Adverdict 601 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:01,719 Speaker 1: with Ted crew dot com slash Plus. If you use 602 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:04,839 Speaker 1: my promo code, which intuitively you know this is cloak Room, 603 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,200 Speaker 1: you can get your first month free on your annual subscription. 604 00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,920 Speaker 1: That's Verdict with Ted Cruz dot com slash Plus. But 605 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,080 Speaker 1: before I tossed this back to you, I I want 606 00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: to talk about the Tim Allen thing that you guys 607 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:16,080 Speaker 1: were talking about before the New Disney movie. The buzz 608 00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:19,520 Speaker 1: liked your movie. There was actually a member on our 609 00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,680 Speaker 1: Verdict plus community today that was asking whether you, Senator, 610 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,600 Speaker 1: are ever going to star in a movie or even 611 00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:28,120 Speaker 1: make a cameo in a movie. I think they said, 612 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,080 Speaker 1: are you gonna be a high powered lawyer in one 613 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,959 Speaker 1: of these one of these crime movies? And I laughed 614 00:38:32,960 --> 00:38:34,600 Speaker 1: when I saw that. I thought to myself, what could 615 00:38:34,640 --> 00:38:38,400 Speaker 1: possibly trigger the libs more than conservative Tim Allen being 616 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 1: in a movie? And Senator, I think the answer is you. 617 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,400 Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now. I'm not fighting Sylvester Stallone 618 00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:51,000 Speaker 1: and Schwartzenegger would break me in half. So but but 619 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,680 Speaker 1: but I'm game. And and listen, if if Star Trek 620 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:59,399 Speaker 1: could have Stacy Abrams as the President of Earth, which 621 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:04,440 Speaker 1: which really was Look, I I'm something of a treky. 622 00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:06,799 Speaker 1: I'm not a hardcore treky, but I like Star Trek 623 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:08,920 Speaker 1: and it really is just sad for them to be 624 00:39:12,040 --> 00:39:15,239 Speaker 1: to be yet another woke mouthpiece. It's one thing to 625 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:19,600 Speaker 1: take on issues, it's another thing to be just silly. 626 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,960 Speaker 1: It reminds me of me, you know, Michael Jordan. Republicans 627 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,080 Speaker 1: buy sneakers too, you know, Republicans watch Star Trek too, 628 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,960 Speaker 1: and you start putting Stacy Abrams there, and suddenly I'm 629 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,439 Speaker 1: gonna have to find something else to watch. I'll go back, 630 00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:36,799 Speaker 1: I'll go back to original Star trek Um. James T. Kirk, 631 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,520 Speaker 1: by the way, was the best captain any ever anyway, 632 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,480 Speaker 1: So so that and you've never seen the Internet get 633 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:47,400 Speaker 1: more upset when than when I said that James T. 634 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: Kirk as a Republican and Admiral Picard was a Democrat. 635 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:54,200 Speaker 1: And and apparently lefties don't like it when you comment 636 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,600 Speaker 1: on their art. They believe they own it well. And now, Senator, 637 00:39:56,760 --> 00:39:59,360 Speaker 1: not only will you be criticized by the President of 638 00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:02,520 Speaker 1: the United States, not only will you be criticized by 639 00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,520 Speaker 1: the President of Mexico, but you will be criticized by 640 00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,279 Speaker 1: the president of the world on Star Trek. I have 641 00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,160 Speaker 1: no doubt much more to be covered on the Cloakroom. 642 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:14,279 Speaker 1: So do not go anywhere. I will go somewhere though, 643 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:17,200 Speaker 1: because that is it for Verdict. I'm Michael Knowles. This 644 00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 1: is Verdict with Ted Cruz. 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