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We have not done a great job on 75 00:04:11,320 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 1: recent episodes in taking questions from our wonderful Verdict audience. 76 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:17,599 Speaker 1: We've gotten so wrapped up in the things we're talking 77 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,839 Speaker 1: about that we have neglected the absolute best part of 78 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:23,159 Speaker 1: the show, which is hearing from you, which we will 79 00:04:23,160 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 1: do in one second. But before we do that, we 80 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 1: have a favor to ask. You need to apply at 81 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 1: yaf dot org slash Verdict to bring this show to 82 00:04:32,920 --> 00:04:34,520 Speaker 1: your school. We don't just want to hear from you 83 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 1: in the mailbag. We want to hear from you in 84 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:38,599 Speaker 1: real life. We had a great time on the fall tour, 85 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 1: going all around to Wisconsin, to Texas to Washington, DC. 86 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,279 Speaker 1: We're going to be doing another three schools this spring 87 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: with Young America's Foundation, So if you want to apply, 88 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:51,159 Speaker 1: the deadline is December fifteenth, head on over to YAF 89 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: dot org slash Verdict. All right, Liz, let's hear from 90 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,240 Speaker 1: our wonderful listeners in the mailbag. Thank you, Michael. We 91 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:02,760 Speaker 1: have a lot of great questions over on Verdict Plus today. 92 00:05:02,880 --> 00:05:04,760 Speaker 1: As always, if you want to submit a question for 93 00:05:05,160 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: the mail bag portion of our show, you can do 94 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 1: so on Verdict Plus. Just go to Verdict with Ted 95 00:05:10,240 --> 00:05:13,760 Speaker 1: Cruz dot com slash plus and submit your question. Subscribers 96 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,359 Speaker 1: over there get exclusive access to be the ones to 97 00:05:16,480 --> 00:05:19,440 Speaker 1: ask Michael and the Senator and me any question that 98 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: you want. As I said, we have a lot of 99 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 1: great questions. You can always continue to submit them, but 100 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: let's get to the first one. The first one, Senator 101 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,640 Speaker 1: Cruz is for you. It is from Jersey. Jersey asks 102 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,800 Speaker 1: can the federal government, after a person has been tried 103 00:05:32,839 --> 00:05:35,520 Speaker 1: and judged by his and her peers retry a case 104 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 1: by what authority or law do they even have that 105 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: authority in power to intervene in a state's judicial system. 106 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,080 Speaker 1: What in the constitution or bill of rights gives or 107 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 1: retrains the federal government from the power to intervene in 108 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: a concluded and tried in a court case. Well, that's 109 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 1: a good question. So the constitution protect you from what's 110 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:58,360 Speaker 1: called double jeopardy, which is you cannot be tried twice 111 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:03,559 Speaker 1: for the same crime. If you're charged with murder and 112 00:06:03,800 --> 00:06:08,600 Speaker 1: there is a murder trial and you are acquitted, they 113 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:10,760 Speaker 1: can't come back and say, oh, we don't like that result, 114 00:06:10,800 --> 00:06:15,160 Speaker 1: so let's go bring another murder charge against you. There is, however, 115 00:06:15,560 --> 00:06:17,760 Speaker 1: an exception to double jeopardy, which is you can be 116 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:21,080 Speaker 1: tried for a different crime, and so there's a legal 117 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:25,640 Speaker 1: analysis of whether. So for example, let's say you, to 118 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:29,280 Speaker 1: use an easy example, you're tried and acquitted to murder, 119 00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: but you also were speeding on the way to the murder. 120 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 1: You can certainly be tried and convicted or acquitted of 121 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:39,080 Speaker 1: the speeding because those are separate and distinct crimes. When 122 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: it comes to a federal crime, if it is a 123 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 1: separate and distinct crime, you can be charged with it, 124 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 1: but there's a legal analysis in terms of whether you're 125 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,440 Speaker 1: simply re trying for the acquitted conduct and the acquitted crime. 126 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: So no one a murder charge for example, but yes 127 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: if they are different indistinct crimes. All right, Michael, let 128 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:04,480 Speaker 1: me pivot over to you, because this is a question 129 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,479 Speaker 1: that came in specifically requesting clarification from Knolls. JJ forty 130 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 1: eight eighty four says, I know you often criticize libertarians 131 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 1: for being too licentious and crazy when it comes to 132 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,520 Speaker 1: certain moral issues. Are there certain people of certain occupations 133 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:23,720 Speaker 1: or fields of interest that cannot be traditionally conservative i e. 134 00:07:23,880 --> 00:07:27,480 Speaker 1: Tech issues? Are there ways you could steal man libertarianism 135 00:07:27,480 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: and any prominent libertarians you could stand alongside. That's a 136 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: great question. Well, you know, I'm glad to hear you 137 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,520 Speaker 1: brought up big tech because at first, when you said 138 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 1: that you wanted to know of certain professions just naturally 139 00:07:40,880 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 1: can't lend themselves to virtue and naturally lend themselves to licentiousness. 140 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: I assumed you were talking about, say, prostitution, but working 141 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 1: for big tech is far far more disreputable than being 142 00:07:52,320 --> 00:07:54,520 Speaker 1: a prostitute or a drug dealer or something like that. 143 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,200 Speaker 1: So I think that's a pretty good example to bring 144 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 1: up big tech here. Yeah, there are certain fields that 145 00:08:03,480 --> 00:08:06,560 Speaker 1: naturally are just not going to be all that conservative, 146 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: and I do think it has been a mistake of 147 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:10,960 Speaker 1: the conservative movement to try to be all things to 148 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 1: all people and to say that you can do whatever 149 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,040 Speaker 1: you want as long as it doesn't hurt me or 150 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:18,280 Speaker 1: scare the horses in the street. I mean, this is 151 00:08:18,320 --> 00:08:20,440 Speaker 1: why we still have drug laws in this countries. We're 152 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 1: saying there are some things that you can do with 153 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:25,480 Speaker 1: your body that we don't think that you should be 154 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: allowed to do, or actually, for that matter, laws against prostitution. 155 00:08:28,800 --> 00:08:31,120 Speaker 1: And so now, as we have discussed on this show 156 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: a number of times, one of the debates on the 157 00:08:33,520 --> 00:08:38,480 Speaker 1: right is over the influence that libertarianism should have versus traditionalism, 158 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,640 Speaker 1: versus all. You know, conservatives love all their isms. A 159 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:44,800 Speaker 1: friend of mine once told me that the obscure political 160 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,880 Speaker 1: monikers are the right wing version of gender pronouns. So 161 00:08:48,080 --> 00:08:52,280 Speaker 1: everyone's got one and some people have multiple. And after 162 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:55,800 Speaker 1: the Second World War there was what's called fusionism. This 163 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:58,560 Speaker 1: was the postwar conservative movement put together by guys like 164 00:08:58,840 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 1: Bill Buckley and Frank Meyer. You might call it the 165 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: Reagan coalition of libertarians and traditional conservatives and warhawk Democrats. 166 00:09:07,240 --> 00:09:09,679 Speaker 1: They all had a common enemy in the Soviet Union. 167 00:09:10,520 --> 00:09:13,040 Speaker 1: They might have hated Communism for different reasons, but they 168 00:09:13,080 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 1: partnered together and won the Cold War. And since that time, 169 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 1: probably the libertarian side or the neo conservative side has 170 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: led that coalition. Traditional conservatives and some of the other 171 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 1: groups have fallen out of favor, lost some of their power. 172 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:31,520 Speaker 1: In twenty sixteen, then you saw the more traditional conservative 173 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: types kind of or the more populous types try to 174 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: take ground, and so these debates are inevitable. But in 175 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:39,600 Speaker 1: answer to your question, would you stand alongside libertarians as I, 176 00:09:39,640 --> 00:09:42,520 Speaker 1: of course I would. The fact is politics is the 177 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 1: art of inclusion, and the only way you're ever going 178 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 1: to do anything is if you can win elections. And 179 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: in order to win elections, you need to win fifty 180 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:53,440 Speaker 1: percent of the vote plus one. And there simply are 181 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: not enough traditional conservatives, or enough Libertarians for that matter, 182 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,520 Speaker 1: or enough whoever to win on their own, so you've 183 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: got to form coalitions. I just think that in some 184 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:10,080 Speaker 1: cases the libertarians have had a little too much leeway 185 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:13,600 Speaker 1: and Frankly, I don't I even use this term libertarianism 186 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 1: reluctantly because I don't think that legalizing all drugs and 187 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 1: saying that we have to totally redefine marriage and legalizing 188 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,200 Speaker 1: all manner of vice and licentiousness is exactly in the 189 00:10:28,240 --> 00:10:31,680 Speaker 1: tradition of John Locke or Thomas Jefferson, or even the 190 00:10:31,679 --> 00:10:35,000 Speaker 1: twentieth century libertarians, certainly not the classical liberals. So I 191 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:37,760 Speaker 1: just think we need to be a little more substantive 192 00:10:37,800 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: about our views, not merely the right to freedom of 193 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 1: religion or the right to freedom of speech, but actually 194 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: have something to say and actually something more clearly that 195 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: we can believe. And I think part of that is 196 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:53,720 Speaker 1: just intrinsic to the conservative movement in America. But whatever 197 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: we've been doing for the past twenty years or so, 198 00:10:56,240 --> 00:10:58,280 Speaker 1: it it doesn't seem to have worked that well. We 199 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:00,880 Speaker 1: seem to have lost on every may your cultural issue, 200 00:11:00,920 --> 00:11:02,960 Speaker 1: and so I think we need the courage to say, now, 201 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,320 Speaker 1: this is this is good, this is bad, this is true, 202 00:11:05,320 --> 00:11:09,280 Speaker 1: this is false, and stand by those convictions even if 203 00:11:09,320 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: they're unpopular. Well, and Michael, let me chime in on 204 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,640 Speaker 1: that real briefly, which is I think I'm a little 205 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:16,920 Speaker 1: bit more libertarian than you are. But but but I'll 206 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:19,160 Speaker 1: go even further right now, Senator, I think a Tell 207 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 1: of the Hunt is a little more libertarian than I am. 208 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:24,240 Speaker 1: So it's absolutely fair. But I'm going to go even 209 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:29,160 Speaker 1: further and and praise a libertine which whiches and by 210 00:11:29,280 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: name Bill Maher. H Bill Maher. His politics are very 211 00:11:33,679 --> 00:11:36,959 Speaker 1: different from yours. They're very different from mine. Um, he 212 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:40,200 Speaker 1: may be an old school liberal, but Bill Maher is 213 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 1: someone who I think might well admit he's a libertine. 214 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: And he defends licensuousness as with with gusto and pride. 215 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: And it's an amazing statement of where we are today 216 00:11:52,160 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 1: that that that Bill Maher as as an unabashed libertine, 217 00:11:55,800 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: as is finding himself relatively conservative because and maybe the 218 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,720 Speaker 1: new impetus for the new Fusionism will be the woke 219 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:10,240 Speaker 1: anti americanism of the hard left. Because when Bill Maher 220 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:14,240 Speaker 1: speaks out against cancel culture, when he speaks out against 221 00:12:14,600 --> 00:12:17,280 Speaker 1: Democrats who have lost common sense, when he speaks out 222 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:21,640 Speaker 1: against the idiocy of of you know, canceling people and 223 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:25,600 Speaker 1: correcting your pronouns, and or when he speaks out against 224 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:33,080 Speaker 1: radical Jahad and today's angry Left condemns him. Even though 225 00:12:33,160 --> 00:12:36,319 Speaker 1: Bill Maher and I disagree on a lot of issues, 226 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:39,920 Speaker 1: I'm grateful that he has the courage to speak out 227 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 1: against the petty tyrants that would silence all of us. 228 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:47,200 Speaker 1: The next question is from Elizabeth P. And I promise 229 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 1: I did not pick this question solely based on the 230 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:51,600 Speaker 1: fact that we share a name. I picked it because 231 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 1: it's a good question as well, but there might have 232 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: been a little element of It's not nepotism, but you know, 233 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:59,400 Speaker 1: some sort of similarity of name. Elizabeth P. Says, please 234 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 1: ask the Senator to block all efforts by the DOJ 235 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 1: to retrial Kyle or to retry Kyle and attach parents 236 00:13:07,280 --> 00:13:12,160 Speaker 1: attack parents speaking out at school boards. Senator, Yeah, look, 237 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: it is a great point. I very much hope we 238 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:18,680 Speaker 1: do not see the Biden Justice Department try to attack 239 00:13:18,800 --> 00:13:22,400 Speaker 1: Kyle Rittenhouse. We had a trial, the jury rendered its verdict. 240 00:13:22,400 --> 00:13:27,280 Speaker 1: They need to accept that verdict. Now I'm concerned. I 241 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:32,160 Speaker 1: think this Justice Department has been wildly political. I think 242 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,640 Speaker 1: it's in the first year been in many ways more 243 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:38,360 Speaker 1: political than the Obama Justice Department, which is hard to 244 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:42,480 Speaker 1: believe because the Obama Justice Department was deeply politicized. You know, 245 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:46,200 Speaker 1: the second half of that question focused on going after parents, 246 00:13:46,200 --> 00:13:49,439 Speaker 1: and it's one of the worst examples of the politicized 247 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:54,400 Speaker 1: Biden Justice Department, where the National Association of School Boards 248 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:56,640 Speaker 1: wrote a letter to the Biden White House saying, will 249 00:13:56,679 --> 00:14:00,000 Speaker 1: you please go after parents, treat them as domestic terrorists, 250 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:03,120 Speaker 1: use the Patriot Act and silence them, because gosh, we 251 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:06,200 Speaker 1: really don't like parents getting mad at us for teaching 252 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:08,880 Speaker 1: critical race theory. We don't like parents getting mad at 253 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:14,239 Speaker 1: us for covering up sexual assaults of girls in bathrooms 254 00:14:14,240 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: at school. And so if would the Department of Justice 255 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,960 Speaker 1: go after these terrorists? And just five days later, the 256 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:25,800 Speaker 1: Attorney General directed the DOJ and the FBI to target 257 00:14:26,880 --> 00:14:29,000 Speaker 1: parents and to use tools to go after them. I 258 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:31,920 Speaker 1: think it was an absolute grotesque abuse of power. It 259 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: wasn't law, it was politics. And I got to say, 260 00:14:35,080 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: if we see the Biden DJ ago after Kyle Rittenhouse, 261 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:41,920 Speaker 1: it won't be law, it'll be politics. And so the 262 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: question asked, will you please stop them? I will say, sadly, 263 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:50,360 Speaker 1: I don't have a magic stop button in my Senate office. 264 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: I wish I did. I would I would much like 265 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,880 Speaker 1: Bill Bill Buckley perhaps stand athwart history and yell halt 266 00:14:55,960 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: or yell stop. But I do at least have a 267 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: spotlight and the ability to draw attention and call them out. 268 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:09,760 Speaker 1: But under our constitution, it's the executive branch that executes, 269 00:15:09,840 --> 00:15:14,440 Speaker 1: and so right now, the Biden administration is the only 270 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,720 Speaker 1: federal branch of the federal government that can bring an indictment. 271 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,800 Speaker 1: It is the only branch of the federal government that 272 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,840 Speaker 1: can execute the laws. So I can do all I 273 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:25,080 Speaker 1: can to shine a light on them and denounce them. 274 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, until the voters 275 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: come in and give us a new Congress and a 276 00:15:31,560 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: new executive, we're going to continue to see more and 277 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 1: more abusive power. I sadly from the Biden DOJ and Senator. 278 00:15:38,920 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 1: This next question is a very good question as it 279 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: pertains to I guess the legal authority of the chief 280 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:48,040 Speaker 1: executive hit here. This question is from verdict Hawk, who 281 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,120 Speaker 1: asks if a court suspends or rules against an action 282 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:55,760 Speaker 1: taken by the administration, ie the vaccine mandate, but the 283 00:15:55,800 --> 00:16:00,760 Speaker 1: administration persists, what remedies are available to the court. So 284 00:16:00,800 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: that's a great question. There are a couple of different 285 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,840 Speaker 1: incidences of that occurring right now to come to mind. 286 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:13,880 Speaker 1: Number one is the order you just referenced, which is 287 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:17,920 Speaker 1: the Fifth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals has issued an 288 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:23,720 Speaker 1: order staying the effect of the Biden vaccine mandate insofar 289 00:16:23,840 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: as it applies to private employers. So the Ocean mandate 290 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 1: that applies to employers with a one hundred hundred and 291 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:34,480 Speaker 1: more employees, that's been stayed pending litigation. Initially, the Biden 292 00:16:34,600 --> 00:16:38,160 Speaker 1: White House, the deputy Press Secretary went out and said, well, 293 00:16:38,240 --> 00:16:40,400 Speaker 1: will you ought to just comply anyway, never mind the 294 00:16:40,440 --> 00:16:43,800 Speaker 1: court order, just just obey anyway. And we've talked on 295 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 1: the pod about how I think the Biden White House 296 00:16:47,320 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 1: knows that this vaccine mandate is illegal and it's likely 297 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:53,880 Speaker 1: to lose in court, but I think they cynically are 298 00:16:53,960 --> 00:16:58,440 Speaker 1: counting on most people obeying anyway while the litigation proceeds. 299 00:16:58,440 --> 00:17:01,120 Speaker 1: And I think that order was an example, not the 300 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:03,280 Speaker 1: order of the comment from the Press secretary was an 301 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:09,200 Speaker 1: example of that lawlessness. I will say OSHA did formally 302 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:12,560 Speaker 1: suspend the order pending the resolution of that lawsuit. So 303 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:18,040 Speaker 1: you did see ultimately the administration forced to comply even 304 00:17:18,119 --> 00:17:21,520 Speaker 1: while they're urging people to pretend like the order still 305 00:17:21,520 --> 00:17:25,800 Speaker 1: has force of law. A second example of this concerns 306 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:31,120 Speaker 1: are open borders and the decision that Joe Biden may 307 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: that caused the most havoc on our southern border was 308 00:17:34,640 --> 00:17:37,600 Speaker 1: the decision to end the Remain in Mexico Agreement. Remain 309 00:17:37,640 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: in Mexico was an agreement Trump negotiated with Mexico where 310 00:17:43,119 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: people who came illegally into Mexico were applying to for 311 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: US asylum. They'd stay in Mexico while the asylum case 312 00:17:50,200 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 1: was proceeding. Remain in Mexico was unbelievably effective. Last year, 313 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 1: we had the lowest rate of illegal immigration in forty 314 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,200 Speaker 1: five years. Biden came in on day one and did 315 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 1: remain in Mexico, and the illegal immigrations skyrocketed to now 316 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: the highest rate in sixty one years. Biden administration was 317 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:15,200 Speaker 1: sued for pulling out of Remain in Mexico by Texas 318 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:18,920 Speaker 1: and Missouri, and Biden had been lost. A district court 319 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:23,080 Speaker 1: in Texas ruled that the Biden administration had violated the 320 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:25,640 Speaker 1: law by pulling out of the Remain in Mexico agreement 321 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: without going through the notice and process and the procedural 322 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,760 Speaker 1: steps required to do that. So they're under an order 323 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,239 Speaker 1: to re enter the remain in Mexico agreement. They are 324 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:40,280 Speaker 1: dragging their feet and they're basically defying that order. And 325 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,320 Speaker 1: I've talked to whistleblowers at Customs and Border Patrol who 326 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 1: said that even though this court order has been in 327 00:18:47,359 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: place for many, many weeks now, they're just slow rolling 328 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: if they're moving unbelievably slowly. So they're telling the JUDGEO, 329 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,320 Speaker 1: we're going to comply. But in particular with this kind 330 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:03,080 Speaker 1: of order, it's easy z for a defined administration to 331 00:19:03,320 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: resist it because it requires the cooperation of a sovereign nation. 332 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,680 Speaker 1: So all they have to do is surreptitiously tell Mexico 333 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,120 Speaker 1: wink wink, nudge, nudge, please tell us you don't want 334 00:19:15,160 --> 00:19:17,360 Speaker 1: to do this. And then Mexico says, sorry, we don't 335 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:19,120 Speaker 1: want to do this, and they say, gosh, Judge, nothing 336 00:19:19,119 --> 00:19:22,359 Speaker 1: we can do. Mexico doesn't want to do this. I 337 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: have deep suspicions that's what they're doing. When Homeland Security 338 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,880 Speaker 1: Secretary Mayorcus testified before the Judiciary Committee, I asked him 339 00:19:30,920 --> 00:19:34,880 Speaker 1: that question specifically, he denied they were doing it. But 340 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,159 Speaker 1: you know, you just ask a minute ago. What remedies 341 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:40,160 Speaker 1: are there. I'll tell you the judge has a remedy, 342 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,400 Speaker 1: which is you can hold the judge can hold specific 343 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:47,760 Speaker 1: members of the administration in contempt for violating the order, 344 00:19:47,760 --> 00:19:52,480 Speaker 1: and can literally incarceerate them. You know, I asked Secretary Mayorcus, 345 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 1: what would you say to the judge if the judge said, 346 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,960 Speaker 1: mister secretary, why should I not put you in jail 347 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:02,240 Speaker 1: right now for buying my order and slow walking my order? 348 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,199 Speaker 1: May Orc As his answer as well, we're trying to obey. 349 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: We are complying what he didn't admit. As they're doing 350 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: so unbelievably slowly and allowing the chaos to unfold. Ultimately, 351 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: they risk I think there's a real possibility you see 352 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,920 Speaker 1: a judge enter a contempt hearing because they have, as 353 00:20:20,040 --> 00:20:24,359 Speaker 1: a real and practical matter, a contempt for anything holding 354 00:20:24,359 --> 00:20:27,360 Speaker 1: them to account. And what makes it even more confusing 355 00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,760 Speaker 1: for especially for a layman like me, is we keep 356 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:33,840 Speaker 1: talking about this as a fight between the executive and 357 00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,679 Speaker 1: the judiciary, and we're taught in school that there is 358 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 1: the executive and the judiciary and the legislature. But there 359 00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,360 Speaker 1: are a couple of other groups pop up as well. 360 00:20:42,440 --> 00:20:44,639 Speaker 1: So we sometimes talk about the media as a fourth 361 00:20:44,640 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 1: branch of government, But what about the administrative state. You know, 362 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 1: in this case, the judiciary is saying, don't enforce the order. 363 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: Joe Biden is tasking an administrative agency OSHA, to enforce 364 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:59,640 Speaker 1: his order. And so Biden says, employers keep following the order, OSHA. 365 00:20:59,680 --> 00:21:02,200 Speaker 1: The ministrative agency says, okay, we're going to suspend the 366 00:21:02,280 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 1: order until the court finally decides on this. And so 367 00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:06,359 Speaker 1: you seem to have a little bit of dissent even 368 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: within the executive branch, you know, the president and his 369 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:12,359 Speaker 1: administrative agencies, all of which says to me, without a 370 00:21:12,400 --> 00:21:15,520 Speaker 1: law school education, never having argued before the Supreme Court, 371 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,679 Speaker 1: that our government might not work quite the way we 372 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:21,480 Speaker 1: were told it does. In Schoolhouse Rock, Michael, I was 373 00:21:21,560 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 1: with you right until the moment that you cast dispersions 374 00:21:24,119 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 1: on Schoolhouse Rock. That was going too far. And my god, man, 375 00:21:29,440 --> 00:21:34,000 Speaker 1: have you no shame? Have you no decency? Sir? Yes? 376 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:39,560 Speaker 1: At long last, have you no decency? All right? Our 377 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 1: next question, Michael, I'm going to toss this one to you. 378 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,480 Speaker 1: This is from well, the username of this individual, just 379 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:47,480 Speaker 1: to quote it exactly, is dead ass nemo. Take that 380 00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:49,359 Speaker 1: or leave it. Here's the question, tho. It's a good question. 381 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:54,959 Speaker 1: What do Michael and Senator Cruz disagree on politically and culturally? Well, 382 00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:58,320 Speaker 1: we touched on something earlier, which is a Senator said 383 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: he's probably a little more libertarian than me. And because 384 00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 1: just about everyone, including Genghis Khan, is more libertarian than me, 385 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: I guess that would be one area of distinction. And 386 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: then we all were both Italian, we were both cigar smokers. 387 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:20,879 Speaker 1: In terms of legislation, we probably agree on almost every 388 00:22:20,960 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: single thing. You know, Okay, I know, I know what 389 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 1: we agree. I have a big point of disagreement here. 390 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,480 Speaker 1: Senator Cruises a money christal guy, and I'm a little 391 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,040 Speaker 1: bit more of a Coheba man myself. You know, I'm 392 00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:37,200 Speaker 1: willing to split the difference and spoke both. See that's compromised. 393 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,000 Speaker 1: It's the art of the possible, all right. The last 394 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: question is from Eileen. This one topically is it's not 395 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,240 Speaker 1: out there, but I thought it was very interesting because 396 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 1: you don't often hear this question. Eileen asked, what are 397 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:56,520 Speaker 1: your ideas for an alternative option for our power grid? Senator, Well, 398 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,040 Speaker 1: there are lots of things we can do to enhance 399 00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:02,479 Speaker 1: the resilience of the power grid. Some of it is 400 00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,399 Speaker 1: having a diversity of sources of energy so that you 401 00:23:05,440 --> 00:23:08,000 Speaker 1: don't have a particular source that goes down and that 402 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:13,159 Speaker 1: the system is dependent on that. You have coal fired plants, 403 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:19,040 Speaker 1: which are widespread and pretty consistently the most reliable. They 404 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:23,639 Speaker 1: also pollute the most. You've got natural gas electricity generation. 405 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:28,000 Speaker 1: Natural gas is also very reliable, has much much lower pollution, 406 00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: much much lower CO two emissions, which is a big 407 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,120 Speaker 1: part of the reason why last year the United States 408 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 1: led the world in reduction of CO two emissions because 409 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,119 Speaker 1: we shifted a whole bunch of electricity production from cold 410 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:45,040 Speaker 1: and natural gas. You've got wind and solar, both of 411 00:23:45,080 --> 00:23:49,080 Speaker 1: which are important parts of the UH the grid. The 412 00:23:49,119 --> 00:23:50,960 Speaker 1: state of Texas. A lot of people don't know Texas 413 00:23:51,040 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 1: is the number one producer of wind energy in the country. 414 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:58,720 Speaker 1: One of the problems with wind and solar as they're 415 00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:01,280 Speaker 1: not always reliable. They're days when the sun doesn't shine 416 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: where it's cloudy or it's rainy, and solar doesn't produce 417 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: the same power their days when the wind doesn't blow. 418 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:10,640 Speaker 1: UH and and so wind and solar can supplement your 419 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:14,679 Speaker 1: electrical output, but they're not good on days, they're not 420 00:24:14,840 --> 00:24:17,919 Speaker 1: consistently reliable, and they tend to be highly variable in 421 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,960 Speaker 1: terms of their output UM. And and in places like 422 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,800 Speaker 1: Texas where we don't often have cold, we saw in 423 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 1: the winter storm last year a lot of the wind 424 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:32,040 Speaker 1: turbines froze because they weren't weatherized. You can weatherize wind turbines, 425 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:35,399 Speaker 1: and in colder environments they do that. In Texas they hadn't, 426 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 1: and that that clearly proved to be a mistake. That 427 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: that that that hopefully is being corrected the state legislature 428 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 1: past legislation to weatherize UH the grid. You've got nuclear. 429 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:52,040 Speaker 1: I think nuclear has enormous potential in terms of steady, 430 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:58,560 Speaker 1: reliable production of electricity UH with with virtually no pollution 431 00:24:59,119 --> 00:25:02,720 Speaker 1: or carbon emission UM. We actually had in the freeze 432 00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: in Texas, UM one of our major nuclear plants went 433 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 1: down and it went down. I actually went and visited 434 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:13,120 Speaker 1: the plant UM a few weeks ago, and it went 435 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,040 Speaker 1: down because one small pipe, and it was a little 436 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 1: pipeline that transmitted water was not weatherized. And we're talking, 437 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 1: you know, pennies to weatherize this pipe, and that one 438 00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,359 Speaker 1: pipe froze and it was water that was used for 439 00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:34,080 Speaker 1: a sensor. But because that pipe froze, it triggered the 440 00:25:34,119 --> 00:25:37,080 Speaker 1: alarms and it shut down an entire reactor for days 441 00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:41,040 Speaker 1: and took a bunch of power offline. Because one pipe 442 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,600 Speaker 1: years ago had not been weatherized, and it didn't, it 443 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:48,800 Speaker 1: didn't jeopardize the safety of the plant. But because that 444 00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,960 Speaker 1: water pipe froze, uh, the the warnings went off and 445 00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:56,160 Speaker 1: they shut the plant down altogether. Um. They've obviously since 446 00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,399 Speaker 1: weatherized that pipe, but it was a lesson that that 447 00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,640 Speaker 1: was not fun learning in the process. You know, I'll 448 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 1: say something else that is really potent for resiliency of 449 00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:12,680 Speaker 1: the grid. And this is going to surprise at least 450 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 1: some of you, but it's bitcoin. And we're going to 451 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 1: do a subsequent podcast diving into cryptocurrency in bitcoin, because 452 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: that's a topic I've been getting very, very involved in. 453 00:26:22,880 --> 00:26:25,720 Speaker 1: It's a complicated topic. Most members of the Senate don't 454 00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,840 Speaker 1: know a damn thing about bitcoin, don't know a damn 455 00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 1: thing about cryptocurrency. I've been in the process of trying 456 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,240 Speaker 1: to educate myself, learn more about it, meeting with industry experts. 457 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 1: But one of the interesting possibilities, and you may be saying, well, 458 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: what does bitcoin have to do with the grid, And 459 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: to the extent you think about anything concerning bitcoin and 460 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,480 Speaker 1: the grid, you think about it as energy consumers. Well, 461 00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: Texas is becoming really the epicenter of bitcoin and cryptomning 462 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,719 Speaker 1: in the United States and in the world. And part 463 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:01,800 Speaker 1: of the reason is if you want to mind bitcoin 464 00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:05,160 Speaker 1: or other crypto, you need abundant energy, you need low 465 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 1: cost energy, and Texas has a lot of that, and 466 00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,720 Speaker 1: there is an opportunity. It's it's something a couple of 467 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:18,919 Speaker 1: months ago, I spoke at the Blockchain National Conference that 468 00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:21,640 Speaker 1: was in Austin, Texas, and I talked about a win 469 00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:24,040 Speaker 1: win opportunity that there is that in West Texas and 470 00:27:24,080 --> 00:27:29,320 Speaker 1: the Permian Basin, We've got lots and lots of wells 471 00:27:29,359 --> 00:27:32,119 Speaker 1: that are right now flaring natural gas. And what happens 472 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,600 Speaker 1: is you drill an oil well starts producing oil. Often 473 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,240 Speaker 1: with the oil, there's natural gas, and there's not enough 474 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:41,439 Speaker 1: of the natural gas for it to be economical for 475 00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: you to build a pipeline to transmit the natural gas 476 00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 1: and use it. So instead what they do is they 477 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,280 Speaker 1: flare it. And flare it literally means they light it 478 00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 1: on fire. So you go out to West Texas at 479 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:53,880 Speaker 1: night and you see these flames like torches that are 480 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 1: just burning the natural gas that is being produced alongside 481 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: the oil that they're piping out and selling. Well, what 482 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 1: bitcoin provides the opportunity to do is you can go 483 00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:09,240 Speaker 1: and set up a bitcoin rig, think like an eighteen wheeler, 484 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,040 Speaker 1: like the back of an eighteen wheeler. You can set 485 00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:17,679 Speaker 1: it up right there at that oil. Well, you can 486 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,640 Speaker 1: capture the natural gas, put it a generator right there, 487 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,480 Speaker 1: and so produce electricity using that natural gas. That electricity 488 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: can turn can power a bitcoin rig that is mining bitcoin, 489 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: so you're capturing it benefits the environment because flaring natural 490 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:37,119 Speaker 1: gas is not great for the environment. It produces a 491 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: lot of pollution, a lot of CO two. If you 492 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:41,560 Speaker 1: capture it and put it in a generator, it's much 493 00:28:41,600 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 1: better for the environment. You generate bitcoin, you it makes 494 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,640 Speaker 1: instead of economic waste, it makes it an economic profit. 495 00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,479 Speaker 1: And if you have that rig connected to the grid, 496 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:59,080 Speaker 1: what it provides is a real opportunity for resiliency because 497 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:03,680 Speaker 1: those rigs can be switched on or off in one 498 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: one hundredth of a second. So if you have let's 499 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,040 Speaker 1: say you have a weather disaster, whether it's a hurricane 500 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,160 Speaker 1: or a tornado or another freeze, and suddenly the grid 501 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 1: there's a shortage of electricity and the price for electricity 502 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,200 Speaker 1: shoots up. Well, if suddenly the price on the grid 503 00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,680 Speaker 1: for electricity is higher than the value that would be 504 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,120 Speaker 1: generated mining bitcoin, in a hundredth of a second, they 505 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: can stop the mining of the bitcoin and put that 506 00:29:27,960 --> 00:29:32,160 Speaker 1: electricity instead onto the grid. So one way to think 507 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: about bitcoin and cryptomning is it's like a battery. It's 508 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:40,480 Speaker 1: a way of producing excess electricity that can be diverted 509 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:43,720 Speaker 1: back into the grid to meet critical needs in a 510 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:47,480 Speaker 1: time of emergency, so it can enhance resiliency of the grid. 511 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:50,040 Speaker 1: You know, my answer was just going to be hamsters 512 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:52,880 Speaker 1: on wheels. So that that's much more interesting, Senator. And 513 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:57,960 Speaker 1: that's that's gosh, And especially now, I just recently went 514 00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,000 Speaker 1: out and bought a crip do coin. I had not 515 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: really invested in crypto at all. I don't know anything 516 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,920 Speaker 1: about crypto or really anything about investing. So I wanted 517 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,200 Speaker 1: to do it. And I found a coin that was 518 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 1: kind of mean about Joe Biden, and I bought about 519 00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 1: a billion of them. So I am a billionaire. I 520 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:16,000 Speaker 1: don't want you to treat me any differently now, but 521 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,600 Speaker 1: I'm very excited for this future episode where I will 522 00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:22,040 Speaker 1: get to learn about the thing that I just invested in, 523 00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: because it sounds like there's a whole lot of possibility there. 524 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:27,760 Speaker 1: So I'm very excited about it. But we'll have to 525 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:31,520 Speaker 1: hold it until then. Thank you, Liz. 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