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***100*** · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: to remain on the air. Senator, congratulations on one hundred episodes.
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Speaker 1: That is crazy. Uh, you know when when we sat
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Speaker 1: down January almost two years ago, and and in the
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Speaker 1: basement and did it at what one two in the
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Speaker 1: morning every night every night, and and and the first
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Speaker 1: time we did it, we had this shag carpet. We
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Speaker 1: had we had this chair. I mean, the the the
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Speaker 1: chair and the carpet are veterans of one hundred episodes,
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Speaker 1: um and and listen, I've been upstage by a cactus,
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Speaker 1: but but for a shag carpet to kick your ass
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Speaker 1: that that is a little much, But I mean I
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Speaker 1: remember that that first night there was a lot of skepticism,
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Speaker 1: a skepticism from one young Michael Knowles, skepticism from our producers,
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Speaker 1: skepticism from almost anyone's sentient with a discernible sense of judgment,
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Speaker 1: like how is this going to work? Is this gonna work?
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Speaker 1: And then we rocketed up the charts and within weeks
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Speaker 1: were the number one podcast in the world. So I
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Speaker 1: admit I was skeptical at the very beginning. I you know,
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Speaker 1: I have great admiration for you, Senator, I have voted
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Speaker 1: for you, but I was a little skeptical that you
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Speaker 1: were going to beat Joe Rogan on the podcast charts.
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Speaker 1: And and yet after just a week, I guess on
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Speaker 1: the air, the show hit number one. Obviously, it's been
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Speaker 1: going for two years, and that is now it's a
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Speaker 1: very popular thing to do. A lot of politicians have podcasts.
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Speaker 1: It had never been done in a popular way before,
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Speaker 1: and so I am thrilled, and I'm sorry forever doubting
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Speaker 1: that you would become one of the biggest broadcasters in America. Well, look,
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Speaker 1: I will say this. One of the things I get
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Speaker 1: great joy from is Verdict has more viewers than CNN's
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Speaker 1: Morning Show. Like like, in some ways that's such an
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Speaker 1: incredibly low bar that that's like saying, Okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: we exceed three. But but it is really an amazing
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Speaker 1: sort of commentary on the shift of media and discussion.
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Speaker 1: You know, it used to be that, you know, the
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Speaker 1: big three, you at ABC, CBS, NBC, back when all right, Michael,
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Speaker 1: I bet you don't. Do you remember television sets that
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Speaker 1: had knobs that turned or was that before your time?
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Speaker 1: I do, but only because I grew up kind of poor,
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Speaker 1: That's the only reason I remember it. But they were
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Speaker 1: basically extinct by the time I was a kid. You know,
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Speaker 1: when I was a kid, we had remote control and
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Speaker 1: they called it kids, as in, you yell at the kid,
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Speaker 1: go change the station, and I did. Look, I wasn't
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Speaker 1: growing up in you know, Ward Beaver nineteen fifties, but uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, walked up hill both school, both uphill both ways,
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Speaker 1: snowing both ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm thrilled that we've
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Speaker 1: hit number one hundred, and I love the coincidence that
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Speaker 1: we are celebrating this as we were getting ready to
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Speaker 1: celebrate Christmas. Although there was a story that Liz turned
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Speaker 1: me onto that. Apparently, you know, there are all these
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Speaker 1: wars on Christmas, and sometimes the wars are being aged
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Speaker 1: by the Liberals, and sometimes they're being waged by the Puritans,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes they're people attack Christmas for a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of reasons. Apparently BLM is attacking Christmas and specifically calling
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Speaker 1: for a boycott of the song White Christmas because obviously
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Speaker 1: that is a white supremacist anthem. Liz, do I have
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Speaker 1: that right? Um? No, you do not have that right.
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Speaker 1: But don't worry. I'm here. I'm here to correct the
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Speaker 1: record on it. They are calling for a boycott of
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Speaker 1: a white Christmas, meaning they don't want anybody to purchase
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Speaker 1: any Christmas gifts from white owned businesses or to bank
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Speaker 1: with any banks that are owned by white people. They
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Speaker 1: only want it's even worse, worse, although it's so much worse,
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Speaker 1: although the song is a beautiful song. No, they said
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Speaker 1: that they're dreaming and this is a play on the song.
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Speaker 1: They're dreaming of a black Christmas because they want black
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Speaker 1: people in our country to only solely exclusively buy from
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Speaker 1: black owned businesses. Because they say that, um, white supremacist
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Speaker 1: capitalism is a thing is a problem in our nation.
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Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure what the tie in there. I
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Speaker 1: don't know how you can tie those three things together.
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Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of black lives matters. They can
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Speaker 1: invent connections to try to take down the institutions of
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Speaker 1: our country everywhere. So, yes, they are attacking Christmas. So
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Speaker 1: it really is amazing that that that that bing Crosby
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Speaker 1: is now controversial. You know, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Bing did you enter the room? Where did I? I
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Speaker 1: thought he was long gone. I can't. Oh, no, there
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Speaker 1: was you, Senator. Of course, the terror of it is
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Speaker 1: it's a white Christmas because friggin snow is white. It's
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Speaker 1: not a racial thing. It's it's when you freeze water
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Speaker 1: and it condenses in the air, it turns into snowflakes.
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Speaker 1: It's not blue, it's not pink, it's not purple. That's
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Speaker 1: it just happens to be white. And now that that
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Speaker 1: that that is you know who knew uh that that
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Speaker 1: that snow had racial overtones? By the way, I just
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Speaker 1: want to say right now, it's not fair that the
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Speaker 1: Grynch's green. What about green people? What do they have
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Speaker 1: against green people? Fair? Enough, and it really is. Well,
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Speaker 1: you are noticing this strange phenomenon now, and it's not
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Speaker 1: just BLM calling for a boycott of white businesses, but
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Speaker 1: you're seeing from other major retailers or aggregators black and
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Speaker 1: white owned businesses being treated differently. I remember during the
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Speaker 1: BLM riots, I think it was Uber Eats was treating
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Speaker 1: black owned businesses whatever that means. By the way, it's
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Speaker 1: not as though businesses are only owned by a single
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Speaker 1: individual a lot of the time, but they were treating
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Speaker 1: them differently, giving different incentives. Is that sort of thing
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Speaker 1: even legal? So it's not, and it is explicitly discriminating
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Speaker 1: based on race. And the sad reality is leftists have
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Speaker 1: always been racist. They've always embraced racial discrimination. You know,
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Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter is a racist organization. And one of
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Speaker 1: the ironies we did one of the earlier verdicts, we
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Speaker 1: did a whole pod on the history of the organization,
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Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter, founded by explicit and avowed communists and
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Speaker 1: supported by woke corporations. So Microsoft, I forget the stats.
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Speaker 1: We went through the stats and Microsoft had given I
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Speaker 1: don't know, one hundred thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: Amazon had given one hundred and fifty or two hundred
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars. I forget the amount. Of course, you
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Speaker 1: know Microsoft, Bill Gates ain't a black guy. Jeff Bezos
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Speaker 1: ain't a black guy. They're literally funding an organization calling
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Speaker 1: on you to boycott their own business. So Jeff Bezos
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Speaker 1: is cutting a check to an organization saying don't you
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Speaker 1: order your Christmas presents on Amazon? Uh, do not do that?
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Speaker 1: But look look, look like like the woke consciousness is
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Speaker 1: really asinine? All right, guys, way to keep it light
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Speaker 1: and cheery for Christmas. This is the Christmas episode we're
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Speaker 1: supposed to be spreading joy all over the world. In fact,
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Speaker 1: that's kind of what this episode is about. Today. We
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Speaker 1: taping a Verdict. Michael, this is the Christmas spirit, all right? Well, Liz,
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Speaker 1: let me ask you a couple of clarifications. Number number one,
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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand. How close are we now? Lives? Where? Where
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Speaker 1: are we right now, we're about to we're about to
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Speaker 1: And you know, I take Liz's correction in a proper spirit.
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Speaker 1: It's true. I don't this is Christmas time. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to focus on the rioters and the Pagans and
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Speaker 1: all the negative stuff. This is a great time to
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Speaker 1: celebrate a great one hundredth episode. So shall we get
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Speaker 1: to some nailback questions from the viewers who may very
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Speaker 1: have some actually some very interesting questions. Michael, I feel
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Speaker 1: like there's a question that puts you and I on
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Speaker 1: start with that one, because that sounds fun. This is
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Speaker 1: from Paul Over on Verdict Plus. Of course, these questions
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Speaker 1: are all from Verdict Plus subscribers. He says, for Liz
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Speaker 1: and Michael, have you decided how to approach Santa with
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Speaker 1: your kids? Yes? I am very pro Santa. I'm on
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Speaker 1: team Santa. I'm so pro Santa that I'm not only
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Speaker 1: going to teach about the jolly old elf Saint Nicholas
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Speaker 1: who comes down the chimney with toys. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: teach about Saint Nicholas, the bishop who, according to legend,
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Speaker 1: at the Council of Nicia punched the heretic areas in
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Speaker 1: the face because he was so sick of hearing his
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Speaker 1: heresy and wanted to shake the man back to his senses. Now,
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Speaker 1: the story itself may not have actually occurred, but I
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Speaker 1: love the legend of Santa Claus showing up to give
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Speaker 1: presents to kids and punch heretics when he just ran
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Speaker 1: out of presents. Yes, that won't be confusing at all
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Speaker 1: to your child. The reality and the fantasy my favorite legend.
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Speaker 1: By the way, before we even get into this, the
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Speaker 1: real Saint Nick. Do you know the reason why we
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Speaker 1: decorate our Christmas tree with like gold ball's gold ornaments.
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Speaker 1: Because there was a man, an impoverished man in Saint
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Speaker 1: Nicholas's town, who had three daughters. He was unable to
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Speaker 1: pay for their dowry, so they were going to remain unmarried.
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Speaker 1: But he was so impoverished that he couldn't pay for
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Speaker 1: their food. He couldn't sustain them. Because they were going
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Speaker 1: to be unmarried, he was going to have to sell
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Speaker 1: them into sex slavery and a prostitution. St. Nicholas threw
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Speaker 1: three bags of gold through his window, landed on their
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Speaker 1: shoes and stockings on the hearth. And that's where the
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Speaker 1: tradition not only of shoes and stockings on the hearth,
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Speaker 1: but also why we decorate our Christmas trees with gold balls.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm going to teach Lady Baby. That is
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Speaker 1: the most badass story, the coolest. I mean, that's that
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Speaker 1: is cooler than a fat elf coming down the chimney. Right,
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Speaker 1: So we're talking about insurrectionists and rioters and pagans and
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Speaker 1: now sex slavery. Senator, what was your approach with your
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Speaker 1: daughters when it comes to Santa Claus. Yeah, I gotta say,
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Speaker 1: you guys are really going and keeping it light and cheery.
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Speaker 1: You've got Saint Nick the brawler, like punching some heretic
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Speaker 1: or something. I didn't quite follow it. And then you've
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Speaker 1: got the like rescued from sex slavery by flinging bags
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Speaker 1: of gold. I'm feeling very historically illiterate because I confess
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Speaker 1: I know nothing about either one of those stories. Um,
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Speaker 1: but but but I will, I can go a little
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Speaker 1: bit lighter. So we did Santa with our girls. They're
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Speaker 1: now eleven and thirteen. I'm pretty sure they they are
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Speaker 1: beyond the Santa stage at this point. But but I
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Speaker 1: used to. Heidi would have me, so every Christmas Eve,
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Speaker 1: after the girls went to bed, she'd send me outside,
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Speaker 1: and we have these bells, and I'd like go outside
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Speaker 1: their windows and ring the bells to be the bells
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Speaker 1: on Santa's sleigh landing on the roof. And it was
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Speaker 1: just enough that they could hear it and and and
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Speaker 1: and be excited. Um, it's never really worked. I did
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Speaker 1: it every year, but it didn't quite have the effect
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Speaker 1: uh that we envisioned. We also own a Santa suit. Um,
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Speaker 1: I've never dressed in the Santa suit. We put my
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Speaker 1: dad in the Santa suit. So that's a grandfatherly task,
18:36
Speaker 1: and just to give you a sense of where it goes,
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Speaker 1: we're now post Santa Um. There was not some big reveal,
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Speaker 1: there was no year where it's like aha, It just
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Speaker 1: sort of faded as they got older. But now both
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Speaker 1: girls put together a power point of what they want
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Speaker 1: for Christmas. If they present to us with with with
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Speaker 1: rankings and why they want it, and they stand and
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Speaker 1: do a presentation, Here's why it's a good idea, here's
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Speaker 1: why this makes sense, and here's a link to the
19:07
Speaker 1: specific one I want, and so they like send you
19:11
Speaker 1: the Amazon link for their presence. Both girls do do
19:14
Speaker 1: the presentation now every year before Christmas. It sounds like
19:18
Speaker 1: they're a chip off the old block. You and Heidi
19:21
Speaker 1: have taught them well, So I used to when I
19:24
Speaker 1: was when I was eight years old, Liz, So, I
19:26
Speaker 1: would type up my Christmas list on my parents IBM's
19:31
Speaker 1: electric typewriter, because I would go over to their office
19:35
Speaker 1: where they had a small business, and I would type
19:37
Speaker 1: up a Christmas list and rank things and I rank
19:42
Speaker 1: them one, two, three, and four stars just with asterix,
19:45
Speaker 1: because you know that's all you had, and you know
19:50
Speaker 1: I would have different things I wanted I want a TV, said,
19:53
Speaker 1: I wanted a stereo. I wanted a shotgun. I had
19:56
Speaker 1: all these different things that I specified, and one of
19:59
Speaker 1: the mony year things I specified, I guess this was
20:01
Speaker 1: after eight. This is probably like eleven, where I had
20:05
Speaker 1: been working for several years and my parents' small business,
20:10
Speaker 1: and my parents had a rule that I had to
20:12
Speaker 1: save fifty percent of what I earned, that I could
20:17
Speaker 1: only spend half of it, that I had to save
20:19
Speaker 1: half of it. And so I had been working. They
20:21
Speaker 1: were paying me a dollar an hour. And the first
20:24
Speaker 1: thing I bought was a York's stereo was one hundred
20:27
Speaker 1: and thirty seven dollars, and what I remembered is that
20:30
Speaker 1: it had all four media. I'd had a record player,
20:33
Speaker 1: it had a radio, it had a cassette, it had
20:35
Speaker 1: an eight track, and I bought it was one hundred
20:38
Speaker 1: and thirty seven hours. But it was time to two
20:40
Speaker 1: because I could only spend half of it. And as
20:44
Speaker 1: my savings added up because I started working, I mean
20:47
Speaker 1: they hired me when I was eight, and as my
20:49
Speaker 1: savings added up, I had, you know, eight nine hundred
20:52
Speaker 1: dollars in savings, and I bought gold with it. I
20:55
Speaker 1: bought a gold Kruger aand you know the South African money. Look,
21:00
Speaker 1: one of our sponsors sells gold, So there you go.
21:02
Speaker 1: I was on point with our sponsors when I was
21:08
Speaker 1: a ten year old, eleven year old kid. But that
21:12
Speaker 1: next year, on the Christmas list, like number nine on
21:17
Speaker 1: the list of what I wanted was some krueger aans.
21:23
Speaker 1: And my mother to this day still finds hysterical the
21:26
Speaker 1: adjective some just you know, throw some gold coins by way,
21:31
Speaker 1: Like like, what kind of eleven year old asked for
21:34
Speaker 1: some kruger z But I'm like, I bought one? Why
21:37
Speaker 1: I did not get some or any kruger Ns for Christmas?
21:41
Speaker 1: And even more funny, it was like two stars. It
21:43
Speaker 1: wasn't nearly as cool as like a TV or whatever
21:46
Speaker 1: else I was asking for that year. You know, this
21:48
Speaker 1: is the the left's caricature of what eleven year old
21:53
Speaker 1: Ted Cruise was doing. Little eleven year old Ted Cruise
21:56
Speaker 1: investing in gold. The conservatives conservative from age. I mean,
22:00
Speaker 1: it's hardly it's hard to even know how to respond
22:03
Speaker 1: to this story. It's such a delightful mix of hilarious
22:06
Speaker 1: and nerdy. It is it does sound like your daughters
22:09
Speaker 1: or a chip off the old block, though. I mean
22:11
Speaker 1: they're ranking their Christmas presents, arguing in front of you
22:14
Speaker 1: what could basically set them up for better present success
22:17
Speaker 1: on Christmas morning. I honestly, I honestly don't know if
22:19
Speaker 1: there is anything. However, in the spirit of Christmas, we
22:22
Speaker 1: do have more gifts for our wonderful Verdict fans this
22:25
Speaker 1: time head over to YouTube. Fifteen people picked at random
22:30
Speaker 1: who leave comments on this episode that is episode one hundred.
22:34
Speaker 1: We'll get a free box of signed merch from the
22:37
Speaker 1: Verdict Merch Store. The only thing that I regret to
22:39
Speaker 1: inform you is that it won't contain gold coins. Other
22:43
Speaker 1: than that it will contain really cool merch signed by
22:46
Speaker 1: yours truly by Michael by Senator Cruz. Fifteen random people
22:51
Speaker 1: who leave comments on this episode, episode one hundred, We'll
22:53
Speaker 1: get a free box of signed merch from the Verdict
22:56
Speaker 1: Merch Store shop that is, of course the urel. If
22:59
Speaker 1: you want to see what is in the merch shop,
23:01
Speaker 1: you can go to Verdict with Ted Cruise dot com
23:04
Speaker 1: slash shop. That's pretty cool, Michael that it's extremely cool.
23:08
Speaker 1: So so Liz, let let me ask. Let's let's go
23:10
Speaker 1: under the hood. So YouTube. We have what about two
23:14
Speaker 1: hundred and ten thousand subscribers on YouTube, um, which means
23:18
Speaker 1: I also have in my office the really cool like
23:20
Speaker 1: like silver you know album thing, I don't know what
23:25
Speaker 1: you call it, but the thing they get you when
23:26
Speaker 1: you get one hundred thousand subscribers. So we've got two
23:28
Speaker 1: hundred and ten thousand. The silver play button. That's that's
23:31
Speaker 1: a big deal for the YouTuber community, the silver play button.
23:34
Speaker 1: And and and there's what's the million one? What what
23:37
Speaker 1: is it? Gold? Gold? You get the gold? All right,
23:39
Speaker 1: so we we got to get to the gold. We're
23:41
Speaker 1: two hundred ten thousand, so we'll get there, but we're
23:43
Speaker 1: not there yet. You can put that on your Christmas
23:45
Speaker 1: list this year. There we go. Now that that's number
23:48
Speaker 1: one on on my Christmas yet, Liz. But I guess
23:51
Speaker 1: the comments like feed the algorithm. So you know, you've
23:56
Speaker 1: got a bunch of commie leftists and Silicon Valley that
23:58
Speaker 1: if they had their way, we would have zero viewers.
24:01
Speaker 1: But when you comment, somehow they're mildly obliged, like more
24:06
Speaker 1: people see it, it spreads it. And I don't understand
24:08
Speaker 1: the pixie dust from Santa's elves cause more people to
24:12
Speaker 1: watch Verdict. So make your comments and say things that
24:16
Speaker 1: are interesting and fun, and fifteen of you, well, we'll
24:19
Speaker 1: get merch signed by us exactly, So you're both fighting
24:24
Speaker 1: back against big talk, making sure that we make the
24:27
Speaker 1: most of the algorithms that we face, and you get
24:30
Speaker 1: merched from Verdict. What could make for a better Christmas
24:32
Speaker 1: than that? Again, our YouTube channel is Verdict with Ted Crews.
24:35
Speaker 1: Head on over there be one of the fifteen people.
24:38
Speaker 1: I mean, that's pretty that's a pretty good odd there. Um,
24:41
Speaker 1: All right, are you ready for the next question. The
24:43
Speaker 1: next question is about family tradition. So obviously, Senator, it's
24:47
Speaker 1: a tradition in your family to rank the Christmas presents
24:50
Speaker 1: to give them ratings. But real truth, Cactus M wants
24:53
Speaker 1: to know, and she says, this is for everyone. What
24:55
Speaker 1: is your family's favorite Christmas tradition or memory? And so, Senator,
24:59
Speaker 1: let's start with you know, to be honest, my favorite
25:01
Speaker 1: thing about Christmas is just just being with family. It's
25:04
Speaker 1: like Thanksgiving Christmas from my two favorite holidays because we
25:08
Speaker 1: get our whole extended family together. When I was a kid,
25:11
Speaker 1: we would always we'd drive up to Dallas and my grandparents,
25:14
Speaker 1: my Abuelo and Abuela. They lived up in Dallas and
25:17
Speaker 1: they lived with my Thesonia, my father's kid's sister, and
25:21
Speaker 1: my cousin Babie, who's Theisonia's daughter. She lived up there,
25:24
Speaker 1: babies five years older than I am, and we were
25:26
Speaker 1: like brother and sister and we would all get together
25:30
Speaker 1: and you got a big Cuban household, and we'd have
25:33
Speaker 1: food and there'd be lots of yelling. I've joked, if
25:37
Speaker 1: a Cuban can't yell, can they speak? And I think
25:39
Speaker 1: the answers no, like like, there's no way if you
25:42
Speaker 1: had like eight or ten Cuban men in a room,
25:45
Speaker 1: they're all screaming in Spanish at the top of their
25:48
Speaker 1: lungs because it apparently they don't they can't modulate volume.
25:53
Speaker 1: We played dominoes every Christmas. The Domino's games are vigorous,
25:59
Speaker 1: they're in your face, they're competitive. Um. My father will
26:03
Speaker 1: always get out the Bible at at at the Christmas
26:07
Speaker 1: table and read read the story of Christ's birth, and uh,
26:12
Speaker 1: you know that's um. I've done that on a couple
26:15
Speaker 1: of times. My dad hasn't been at our house. But
26:17
Speaker 1: to be honest, again, look, even though I turn turned
26:21
Speaker 1: fifty one in a week. You know, Dad is still
26:25
Speaker 1: dad and so so, so that's that that that that's
26:27
Speaker 1: his responsibility. We also go do a lot of movies.
26:31
Speaker 1: So um ours is a movie going household. You know.
26:36
Speaker 1: Verdict listeners know that I'm a movie buff. But I
26:40
Speaker 1: got it honestly, I got it from my parents. My parents.
26:42
Speaker 1: Both my parents love movies. Uh. My dad actually learned
26:48
Speaker 1: English when he came from Cuban nineteen fifty seven and
26:51
Speaker 1: he came to Austin. He was a freshman at UT
26:55
Speaker 1: and he couldn't speak English. He had gotten in but
26:59
Speaker 1: he had this enormous incentive to learn English because his
27:02
Speaker 1: classes were in English, and if he didn't learn English quickly,
27:05
Speaker 1: he would flunk out of UT. And if he flunked
27:07
Speaker 1: out of UT, they would cancel a student visa. If
27:10
Speaker 1: they canceled a student visa, they'd send him back to Cuban.
27:12
Speaker 1: If he went back to Cuba, they'd kill him. So
27:15
Speaker 1: he had this intense incentive learn English quick so you
27:18
Speaker 1: don't flunk out of school. And one of the things
27:21
Speaker 1: he used to do, so he do two things. Number one,
27:24
Speaker 1: he took Spanish one oh one and he reverse engineered it.
27:29
Speaker 1: So when the professor said milk is letche, he'd go, oh,
27:32
Speaker 1: letch's milk. And he'd just like try to do everything
27:34
Speaker 1: backwards and see if he could look learn. But the
27:37
Speaker 1: other thing he would do is he'd go to the
27:38
Speaker 1: movies and he'd see the same movie three times in
27:42
Speaker 1: a row. And the human brain is amazing. So the first,
27:46
Speaker 1: you know, a few times he did it, he didn't
27:48
Speaker 1: understand any of it. But it starts too you start
27:50
Speaker 1: seeing people interact and the context and the queues. And
27:54
Speaker 1: so he loves movies. So I'll over Christmas break, I'll
27:57
Speaker 1: see several movies. I like the theater. I like being
28:01
Speaker 1: you know in the sound and I get popcorn and
28:04
Speaker 1: candy and hot dogs and and uh take the kids,
28:08
Speaker 1: and and so movies, dominoes and and playing my nephew
28:12
Speaker 1: diego one on one hoops and we play vigorous, aggressive, brutal, fouling, bloody, bruising,
28:22
Speaker 1: taunting hoops much like our dominoes games. Our dominoes games
28:26
Speaker 1: are taunting. Our hoops games are taunting. It's it's a
28:30
Speaker 1: It is a family with a lot of fun and
28:33
Speaker 1: and and a lot of good natured grief. All around.
28:35
Speaker 1: It sounds it sounds amazing. I mean I can I
28:37
Speaker 1: can almost feel the atmosphere being there. And I think
28:40
Speaker 1: I think you said it correctly. I mean, not to
28:42
Speaker 1: sound cheesy, not to sound tried it. It is about
28:44
Speaker 1: being with family and all of the little quirks and
28:46
Speaker 1: idiosyncrasies of being with the ones that you love. Michael,
28:50
Speaker 1: what what what is? What does your family do? What
28:52
Speaker 1: is your favorite memory, either either current or past. I'll
28:55
Speaker 1: give you a great memory. I mean, we have a
28:57
Speaker 1: zillion traditions and memories around Christmas. Christmas very important, not
29:02
Speaker 1: just for the Catholics, but specifically the Italian Catholics. They
29:05
Speaker 1: make a big deal, especially by Christmas Eve. So there
29:08
Speaker 1: was one year give you a sense of how politically
29:10
Speaker 1: incorrect my family is. There was one year I really
29:13
Speaker 1: wanted for Christmas a sitar, you know, like the big
29:16
Speaker 1: Indian instrument George Harry I don't know. I heard George
29:19
Speaker 1: Harrison played it or something, So I really wanted to sittar.
29:21
Speaker 1: We found it at some hippie shop in way down
29:24
Speaker 1: in southern New Jersey. My mother knew I really wanted it.
29:27
Speaker 1: We didn't have a ton of money, but my grandmother
29:29
Speaker 1: agreed to buy it if my mother would drive down
29:31
Speaker 1: four and a half hours, pick it up, drive back
29:33
Speaker 1: four and a half hours, bring it to her. I
29:35
Speaker 1: had no clue that this was happening at all, and
29:37
Speaker 1: it's in my grandmother's house. We go there, huge meal,
29:40
Speaker 1: lots of people, all screaming Italians. As is often the
29:44
Speaker 1: case in an Italian household, younger people drink a little
29:47
Speaker 1: bit of wine at Christmas. So there's thirteen, fourteen year
29:50
Speaker 1: old Michael. I'm having, you know, a glass or two
29:53
Speaker 1: of wine. I'm just feeling great, and my grandmother emerges.
29:56
Speaker 1: My little Sicilian grandmother emerges where a full Indian sorry
30:02
Speaker 1: that she had picked up on a trip in the seventies.
30:04
Speaker 1: She's got a dot in the middle of her head.
30:06
Speaker 1: She would be canceled if there were photos of this
30:09
Speaker 1: incident and presents me with this citar. We would all
30:12
Speaker 1: be canceled if there were any evidence of this. But
30:14
Speaker 1: it did really bring together so many aspects, the wild family,
30:20
Speaker 1: everyone being together, even the gifts, that there was so
30:23
Speaker 1: much thought put into this gift. And of course I
30:25
Speaker 1: got a real kick out of the abject political correctness.
30:29
Speaker 1: That's something something about those conservative Italian families. So do
30:32
Speaker 1: you still have the star and can you play it
30:34
Speaker 1: on the podcast? I absolutely have the citar. I actually
30:38
Speaker 1: just ordered strings for it, Senator and it. Maybe that's
30:42
Speaker 1: going to be the two hundredth episode spectacular, is it?
30:45
Speaker 1: We'll just start playing some Rabbi Shan cartoon. We can
30:48
Speaker 1: have belly dancing. Who knows? Who knows? People have to
30:50
Speaker 1: subscribe to get us that far. I was going to
30:53
Speaker 1: ask the exact same question. It's hard to even know
30:54
Speaker 1: what to do with the two of you. These are
30:56
Speaker 1: so they're so nerdy, so dorky. But maybe I found
31:00
Speaker 1: my people because one of my favorite Christmas memories is
31:03
Speaker 1: when I was about eleven or twelve, I asked for
31:05
Speaker 1: a unicycle for Christmas. My parents got me a unicycle.
31:09
Speaker 1: I taught myself how to ride it. I then taught
31:11
Speaker 1: my sisters how to ride it, and we would ride
31:13
Speaker 1: in parades, ride or unicycles and parades, calling ourselves the
31:16
Speaker 1: three one wheelers, because who can resist? Who can resist
31:20
Speaker 1: a bad pun such as that? Yes, yes, I see
31:23
Speaker 1: your face, Michael, I can see that. Listen. It was
31:25
Speaker 1: it was a great time. It was a great time
31:27
Speaker 1: my childhood. Um so Liz, did you have the did
31:29
Speaker 1: you have the short short unicycles or the tall ones?
31:32
Speaker 1: Are both? Um, the short ones so it's probably about
31:36
Speaker 1: four feet three or four feet, so you're pretty much
31:39
Speaker 1: off the ground. But it wasn't the giraffe unicycles I did.
31:41
Speaker 1: I did, to be fair, I did ask for one
31:43
Speaker 1: of those, but that was a bridge too far even
31:45
Speaker 1: for my mom to, you know, put me up twenty
31:47
Speaker 1: feet on one wheel, so just the regular I could
31:51
Speaker 1: ride backwards though. That was kind of that was kind
31:53
Speaker 1: of my trick that I liked to do. The last
31:56
Speaker 1: time I went to my parents, I did think about
31:58
Speaker 1: trying it again, but being that was a little bit postpartum,
32:01
Speaker 1: I thought maybe I shouldn't get up on the top
32:03
Speaker 1: of that and try a trick. But I'd learned twenty
32:04
Speaker 1: years ago. Yeah, I'm feeling really lame. Before I was
32:08
Speaker 1: feeling like historically ignorant. Now I'm feeling untalented as well,
32:13
Speaker 1: because we're going to have a subsequient episode where Michael's
32:16
Speaker 1: playing the star, You're riding a uni cycle, and I'm
32:19
Speaker 1: sitting here threatening to sue people like I. Senator, Well,
32:23
Speaker 1: you were wasting all of that time at Harvard Law
32:26
Speaker 1: School learning constitutional law. You could have been doing something
32:29
Speaker 1: productive like learning an ancient Indian guitar, were riding the unicycle.
32:34
Speaker 1: I mean, these are the regrets that people have in
32:36
Speaker 1: their lives. Indeed, misspent youth. This question, by the way,
32:40
Speaker 1: was asked by Real Truth Cactus, and I want to
32:42
Speaker 1: give credit work credit to our next giveaway, our next
32:44
Speaker 1: Christmas gift was this was Real Truth Cactus's idea, so
32:48
Speaker 1: we can thank her for this. And this is really funny.
32:50
Speaker 1: So if we get to fifty thousand reviews on Apple
32:53
Speaker 1: podcasts by our anniversary date that inaugural the date of
32:56
Speaker 1: the inaugural episode January twenty first, fifty thousand review on
33:00
Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, we will let the fans pick what we
33:03
Speaker 1: do next year. Now these are the options. Are you
33:06
Speaker 1: ready for these options? Real Trius Cactus just hit the
33:09
Speaker 1: nail on the head with this one Senator. The Senator
33:12
Speaker 1: wears a Braves jersey for an entire episode. That's option
33:16
Speaker 1: number one. Option number two is the Senator and Michael
33:20
Speaker 1: arm wrestle. Option three is the Cactus makes a guest
33:25
Speaker 1: appearance on the show right here on the pod. Or
33:28
Speaker 1: four Michael roasts Princeton and the Senator roasts Yale in
33:33
Speaker 1: a throwdown episode. If we get to fifty thousand reviews
33:37
Speaker 1: on Apple Podcast by January twenty first, people, I beg
33:40
Speaker 1: of you. I mean, as you can see, this would
33:42
Speaker 1: be a very enjoyable episode for me and for you,
33:44
Speaker 1: if not for Michael and the Senator. Let's do this, please,
33:48
Speaker 1: let's do this well. I will say, on the fourth
33:51
Speaker 1: one of roasting Yale versus Princeton, I kind of feel
33:54
Speaker 1: like taking candy from a baby, that that's not really fair.
33:57
Speaker 1: It is a horribly skewed playing field. Senator. I would
34:04
Speaker 1: I would have to resist that. I would have to
34:06
Speaker 1: fight you on that question, except that a few years
34:09
Speaker 1: ago there was a case of a Yale student screaming
34:12
Speaker 1: at the top of her lungs that Yale is not
34:13
Speaker 1: an intellectual place, it is a place of comfort and home,
34:17
Speaker 1: and the university sided with her. So it's gonna I
34:19
Speaker 1: hope it's not number four. I'm gonna be It's gonna
34:21
Speaker 1: be an uphill battle. So Michael, when you say fight,
34:24
Speaker 1: did you mean arm wrestle, Well that might be an
34:26
Speaker 1: uphill battle too. I'm you know, I don't know. We'll
34:29
Speaker 1: see how that shakes out. You've you've got youth, but
34:32
Speaker 1: uh but but but you know, I may have a
34:34
Speaker 1: few pounds on you, Michael, so so so we'll see
34:36
Speaker 1: how that, how that shakes out. I will say on
34:41
Speaker 1: the first suggestion of the Braves jersey, oddly enough, bizarrely enough,
34:49
Speaker 1: I have worn a Braves jersey precisely once in my life.
34:53
Speaker 1: So fifty almost fifty one years of life, I've worn
34:56
Speaker 1: a Braves jersey once. And the day on which I
35:00
Speaker 1: or the Braves jersey was today. So in the World Series,
35:06
Speaker 1: I had a wager with John oss Off, newly elected
35:09
Speaker 1: senator from George on the World Series. I actually went
35:12
Speaker 1: and proposed it to John when the World Series started, said, look,
35:16
Speaker 1: let's have a wager. The loser has to buy food
35:20
Speaker 1: for the staff of the other and where the jersey
35:24
Speaker 1: of of of the winning team. And I pointed out
35:28
Speaker 1: that I had done the same thing with with Kamala
35:30
Speaker 1: Harris and she she had to show up at an
35:34
Speaker 1: Astro's jersey, which was awesome. And then I did the
35:37
Speaker 1: same thing with Tim Kaine when when the Nationals beat
35:41
Speaker 1: beat the Astros and I had to painfully don a
35:43
Speaker 1: National's jersey It's very funny. Ass Off was fine with
35:47
Speaker 1: the food, but he was really nervous. He's like, well,
35:49
Speaker 1: if I were an Astro's jersey, that that that could
35:51
Speaker 1: like cost me several points at the polls, right, And
35:54
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, that's a plus two. But I was like,
35:58
Speaker 1: come on, man, I you know, Kamala did it. You know,
36:02
Speaker 1: so I will say I did it today. Um, But
36:06
Speaker 1: but I did it under protest. That's you know, yeah,
36:15
Speaker 1: you might have been following the letter of the law, Senator,
36:18
Speaker 1: but that seems to violate the spirit of the law
36:20
Speaker 1: if you're wearing the astro's hat. So I didn't actually
36:23
Speaker 1: wear the astros had. I just wore the jersey. But
36:26
Speaker 1: I brought in Chritz's barbecue. I flew in barbecue from
36:30
Speaker 1: Texas all the way up here and fed all of
36:33
Speaker 1: the ass Off staffers and wore the jersey. So so
36:38
Speaker 1: if that that wins the thing, I might might have
36:40
Speaker 1: to wear this hat too. But but I did wear
36:44
Speaker 1: a jersey today to pay up on my wager. A
36:48
Speaker 1: man of his word, And this kind of coincidence you
36:51
Speaker 1: can't design, because I did not even come into this
36:53
Speaker 1: episode knowing that fact. Um, and nor did real truth
36:56
Speaker 1: Cactus to my knowledge. By the way, just to remind
36:59
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37:21
Speaker 1: Would you like to see the Senator in a braves jersey?
37:23
Speaker 1: Would you like to see an arm wrestling match between
37:26
Speaker 1: Michael and the Senator? Would you like the Cactus to
37:27
Speaker 1: make a guest appearance on the show. Or would you
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Speaker 1: like a mutual roast Michael roasting Princeton and the Senator
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Speaker 1: roasting Yale? Those are the options. This seems like a
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Speaker 1: pretty good, a pretty good Christmas episode, Michael. So let
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Speaker 1: me let me jump in on two things. Number one. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So the goal is to get to fifty thousand reviews
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Speaker 1: on Apple Podcasts. And it's the same thing because it's
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Speaker 1: part of their magical algorithm or algae rhythm, as they
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Speaker 1: said in the Terrible Rebake of Space jam. But so
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Speaker 1: we got to get to fifty thousand by January twenty First,
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Speaker 1: where are we now? Are we close? We can do it.
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Speaker 1: Let's say that it's it's doable. We can do it
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Speaker 1: if we if we commit, We're at about thirty five
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Speaker 1: thousand over the course of the last almost two years.
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Speaker 1: But listen, with this kind of incentive, we can get
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Speaker 1: this done. I for one, really really want to see
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Speaker 1: an arm wrestling match. So I highly encourage everyone who's
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Speaker 1: watching and listening to this episode please go rate, give
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Speaker 1: us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. Please write
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Speaker 1: a comment. Please then choose, And this is my bias.
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Speaker 1: I know that I'm I'm creating bias in this poll.
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Speaker 1: Please choose the arm wrestling match. Oh and by the way, Liz,
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Speaker 1: I will say on Verdict Plus, if you're disagreeable and
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Speaker 1: contrary and you don't like any of the four choices,
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Speaker 1: entail Michael and the nude, then then then we'll consider it,
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Speaker 1: and thank you, sir, I appreciate that I was actually
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Speaker 1: going to suggest it. I don't you know, listen, I'm
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Speaker 1: a free spirit, I'm hip, I'm cool. But yes, please
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Speaker 1: everyone submit your suggestions. It's funny it occurs to me
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Speaker 1: We wish everyone a very merry Christmas from me, from Liz,
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Speaker 1: from Senator Cruz, most importantly from the Cactus. So really,
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Speaker 1: thank thank you all. We will see you next time.
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Speaker 1: I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. So
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