December 22, 2021 • 41 mins
Not only is it Christmas, but we’re celebrating the 100th episode of Verdict with Ted Cruz! Who would have thought that in 100 episodes, Senator Ted Cruz would not only beat Joe Rogan on the podcast charts, but also get upstaged by a cactus and a shag carpet? Starting things off light and cheery, the Senator joins Michael Knowles and Liz Wheeler to discuss BLM’s boycott of a “white Christmas” (no, not the song) and to recount the real story of St. Nick the brawler… You’ll just have to listen. Plus, from Verdict+ subscribers, what are some favorite holiday traditions or memories?
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Do it. You'll be glad you did. Welcome back to
Verdict with Ted Cruz, where there are so many ads.
When did that happen? When did we start getting I
guess it's good that we're getting these ads so that
we can keep this show on the air, free available
to so many people. But Liz, please tell me there
is some way to avoid all of the ads. Well,
there certainly is, Michael. If you just head right on
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over to Verdict with Ted Cruz dot com slash Plus
and become a Verdict Plus subscriber, then you can watch
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with Ted Cruise dot Com slash Plus. Well, that's wonderful.
Grateful to you, the listener is grateful to Verdict Plus,
and grateful to our advertisers as well, who allow us
to remain on the air. Senator, congratulations on one hundred episodes.
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That is crazy. Uh, you know when when we sat
down January almost two years ago, and and in the
basement and did it at what one two in the
morning every night every night, and and and the first
time we did it, we had this shag carpet. We
had we had this chair. I mean, the the the
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chair and the carpet are veterans of one hundred episodes,
um and and listen, I've been upstage by a cactus,
but but for a shag carpet to kick your ass
that that is a little much, But I mean I
remember that that first night there was a lot of skepticism,
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a skepticism from one young Michael Knowles, skepticism from our producers,
skepticism from almost anyone's sentient with a discernible sense of judgment,
like how is this going to work? Is this gonna work?
And then we rocketed up the charts and within weeks
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were the number one podcast in the world. So I
admit I was skeptical at the very beginning. I you know,
I have great admiration for you, Senator, I have voted
for you, but I was a little skeptical that you
were going to beat Joe Rogan on the podcast charts.
And and yet after just a week, I guess on
the air, the show hit number one. Obviously, it's been
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going for two years, and that is now it's a
very popular thing to do. A lot of politicians have podcasts.
It had never been done in a popular way before,
and so I am thrilled, and I'm sorry forever doubting
that you would become one of the biggest broadcasters in America. Well, look,
I will say this. One of the things I get
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great joy from is Verdict has more viewers than CNN's
Morning Show. Like like, in some ways that's such an
incredibly low bar that that's like saying, Okay, you know,
we exceed three. But but it is really an amazing
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sort of commentary on the shift of media and discussion.
You know, it used to be that, you know, the
big three, you at ABC, CBS, NBC, back when all right, Michael,
I bet you don't. Do you remember television sets that
had knobs that turned or was that before your time?
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I do, but only because I grew up kind of poor,
That's the only reason I remember it. But they were
basically extinct by the time I was a kid. You know,
when I was a kid, we had remote control and
they called it kids, as in, you yell at the kid,
go change the station, and I did. Look, I wasn't
growing up in you know, Ward Beaver nineteen fifties, but uh,
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you know, walked up hill both school, both uphill both ways,
snowing both ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm thrilled that we've
hit number one hundred, and I love the coincidence that
we are celebrating this as we were getting ready to
celebrate Christmas. Although there was a story that Liz turned
me onto that. Apparently, you know, there are all these
wars on Christmas, and sometimes the wars are being aged
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by the Liberals, and sometimes they're being waged by the Puritans,
and sometimes they're people attack Christmas for a whole lot
of reasons. Apparently BLM is attacking Christmas and specifically calling
for a boycott of the song White Christmas because obviously
that is a white supremacist anthem. Liz, do I have
that right? Um? No, you do not have that right.
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But don't worry. I'm here. I'm here to correct the
record on it. They are calling for a boycott of
a white Christmas, meaning they don't want anybody to purchase
any Christmas gifts from white owned businesses or to bank
with any banks that are owned by white people. They
only want it's even worse, worse, although it's so much worse,
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although the song is a beautiful song. No, they said
that they're dreaming and this is a play on the song.
They're dreaming of a black Christmas because they want black
people in our country to only solely exclusively buy from
black owned businesses. Because they say that, um, white supremacist
capitalism is a thing is a problem in our nation.
I'm not exactly sure what the tie in there. I
don't know how you can tie those three things together.
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But that's the beauty of black lives matters. They can
invent connections to try to take down the institutions of
our country everywhere. So, yes, they are attacking Christmas. So
it really is amazing that that that that bing Crosby
is now controversial. You know, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
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Bing did you enter the room? Where did I? I
thought he was long gone. I can't. Oh, no, there
was you, Senator. Of course, the terror of it is
it's a white Christmas because friggin snow is white. It's
not a racial thing. It's it's when you freeze water
and it condenses in the air, it turns into snowflakes.
It's not blue, it's not pink, it's not purple. That's
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it just happens to be white. And now that that
that that is you know who knew uh that that
that snow had racial overtones? By the way, I just
want to say right now, it's not fair that the
Grynch's green. What about green people? What do they have
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against green people? Fair? Enough, and it really is. Well,
you are noticing this strange phenomenon now, and it's not
just BLM calling for a boycott of white businesses, but
you're seeing from other major retailers or aggregators black and
white owned businesses being treated differently. I remember during the
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BLM riots, I think it was Uber Eats was treating
black owned businesses whatever that means. By the way, it's
not as though businesses are only owned by a single
individual a lot of the time, but they were treating
them differently, giving different incentives. Is that sort of thing
even legal? So it's not, and it is explicitly discriminating
based on race. And the sad reality is leftists have
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always been racist. They've always embraced racial discrimination. You know,
Black Lives Matter is a racist organization. And one of
the ironies we did one of the earlier verdicts, we
did a whole pod on the history of the organization,
Black Lives Matter, founded by explicit and avowed communists and
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supported by woke corporations. So Microsoft, I forget the stats.
We went through the stats and Microsoft had given I
don't know, one hundred thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Amazon had given one hundred and fifty or two hundred
fifty thousand dollars. I forget the amount. Of course, you
know Microsoft, Bill Gates ain't a black guy. Jeff Bezos
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ain't a black guy. They're literally funding an organization calling
on you to boycott their own business. So Jeff Bezos
is cutting a check to an organization saying don't you
order your Christmas presents on Amazon? Uh, do not do that?
But look look, look like like the woke consciousness is
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really asinine? All right, guys, way to keep it light
and cheery for Christmas. This is the Christmas episode we're
supposed to be spreading joy all over the world. In fact,
that's kind of what this episode is about. Today. We
have some Christmas gifts, if you will, and honor of
both you know, Christmas and of the hundredth episode of Verdict,
and I want to talk about those a little right
now because they're really fun. So if you if you
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by January twenty first, January twenty first is a very
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of the inaugural episode of Verdict. Fifteen thousand members on
Verdict Plus by January twenty first, then we will randomly
select one member to come to a live taping of Verdict.
This is just one of many Christmas presents here on
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our one hundredth episode. And by the way, because today
is one hundredth episode, in January twenty first, a little
bit different date is the anniversary of the inaugural episode.
We will be announcing the winner of that on our
January twenty first episode. So go to Verdict with Ted
Cruz dot com slash plus. Let's get to fifteen thousand
members so one of you can come to a live
taping a Verdict. Michael, this is the Christmas spirit, all right? Well, Liz,
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let me ask you a couple of clarifications. Number number one,
fifteen thousand. How close are we now? Lives? Where? Where
are we right now, we're about to we're about to
hit the ten thousand mark. Well, I mean we can
do it. We can definitely do this, all right, so
fifteen thousand, we're in in shooting range of fifteen thousand
and and and the lucky winner who gets to come
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to a taping of Verdict Live. Are we going to
tell them? All right, you got to buy your own
plane ticket, you got a pony up to cash, you
got a fly to where it is? Or is this
an even even? It gets more? It gets better? As
they say on the Romco ads, what kind of Christmas
would it be if we said you're the winner, but oh,
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you got to pay us for your Christmas present? No, no,
this is a Christmas present in all its glory. We
will bring you to a live taping at no expense
to you. This, I mean, this is the real deal.
This is a really fun thing. People who are part
of the Verdict plus community, I mean they follow Verdict
to a t These are people who are really into
what we're talking about and what the goal of this
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podcast is. And this is just a little way of
giving bath. These people are you know, true blues. These
people are fans of the show, and it's going to
be really exciting to meet one of y'all in person.
And Michael, I got to ask a question, So, if
the winner comes and happens say to want to recite
Dante and the original Italian, are you able to join
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them in that? Well? I hope so. You know, Fortunately,
the last Verdict listener who came up and just began
reciting a Dante in Italian, fortunately he knew one fewer
line than I did. But the next one, who knows.
We have an colectic, intellectual group that listens to the show.
And you know, I take Liz's correction in a proper spirit.
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It's true. I don't this is Christmas time. I don't
want to focus on the rioters and the Pagans and
all the negative stuff. This is a great time to
celebrate a great one hundredth episode. So shall we get
to some nailback questions from the viewers who may very
well be flying out to see us live. Absolutely, we
have some actually some very interesting questions. Michael, I feel
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like there's a question that puts you and I on
the spot in front of the senator here, So let's
start with that one, because that sounds fun. This is
from Paul Over on Verdict Plus. Of course, these questions
are all from Verdict Plus subscribers. He says, for Liz
and Michael, have you decided how to approach Santa with
your kids? Yes? I am very pro Santa. I'm on
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team Santa. I'm so pro Santa that I'm not only
going to teach about the jolly old elf Saint Nicholas
who comes down the chimney with toys. I'm going to
teach about Saint Nicholas, the bishop who, according to legend,
at the Council of Nicia punched the heretic areas in
the face because he was so sick of hearing his
heresy and wanted to shake the man back to his senses. Now,
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the story itself may not have actually occurred, but I
love the legend of Santa Claus showing up to give
presents to kids and punch heretics when he just ran
out of presents. Yes, that won't be confusing at all
to your child. The reality and the fantasy my favorite legend.
By the way, before we even get into this, the
real Saint Nick. Do you know the reason why we
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decorate our Christmas tree with like gold ball's gold ornaments.
Because there was a man, an impoverished man in Saint
Nicholas's town, who had three daughters. He was unable to
pay for their dowry, so they were going to remain unmarried.
But he was so impoverished that he couldn't pay for
their food. He couldn't sustain them. Because they were going
to be unmarried, he was going to have to sell
them into sex slavery and a prostitution. St. Nicholas threw
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three bags of gold through his window, landed on their
shoes and stockings on the hearth. And that's where the
tradition not only of shoes and stockings on the hearth,
but also why we decorate our Christmas trees with gold balls.
That's what I'm going to teach Lady Baby. That is
the most badass story, the coolest. I mean, that's that
is cooler than a fat elf coming down the chimney. Right,
So we're talking about insurrectionists and rioters and pagans and
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now sex slavery. Senator, what was your approach with your
daughters when it comes to Santa Claus. Yeah, I gotta say,
you guys are really going and keeping it light and cheery.
You've got Saint Nick the brawler, like punching some heretic
or something. I didn't quite follow it. And then you've
got the like rescued from sex slavery by flinging bags
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of gold. I'm feeling very historically illiterate because I confess
I know nothing about either one of those stories. Um,
but but but I will, I can go a little
bit lighter. So we did Santa with our girls. They're
now eleven and thirteen. I'm pretty sure they they are
beyond the Santa stage at this point. But but I
used to. Heidi would have me, so every Christmas Eve,
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after the girls went to bed, she'd send me outside,
and we have these bells, and I'd like go outside
their windows and ring the bells to be the bells
on Santa's sleigh landing on the roof. And it was
just enough that they could hear it and and and
and be excited. Um, it's never really worked. I did
it every year, but it didn't quite have the effect
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uh that we envisioned. We also own a Santa suit. Um,
I've never dressed in the Santa suit. We put my
dad in the Santa suit. So that's a grandfatherly task,
and just to give you a sense of where it goes,
we're now post Santa Um. There was not some big reveal,
there was no year where it's like aha, It just
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sort of faded as they got older. But now both
girls put together a power point of what they want
for Christmas. If they present to us with with with
rankings and why they want it, and they stand and
do a presentation, Here's why it's a good idea, here's
why this makes sense, and here's a link to the
specific one I want, and so they like send you
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the Amazon link for their presence. Both girls do do
the presentation now every year before Christmas. It sounds like
they're a chip off the old block. You and Heidi
have taught them well, So I used to when I
was when I was eight years old, Liz, So, I
would type up my Christmas list on my parents IBM's
electric typewriter, because I would go over to their office
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where they had a small business, and I would type
up a Christmas list and rank things and I rank
them one, two, three, and four stars just with asterix,
because you know that's all you had, and you know
I would have different things I wanted I want a TV, said,
I wanted a stereo. I wanted a shotgun. I had
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all these different things that I specified, and one of
the mony year things I specified, I guess this was
after eight. This is probably like eleven, where I had
been working for several years and my parents' small business,
and my parents had a rule that I had to
save fifty percent of what I earned, that I could
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only spend half of it, that I had to save
half of it. And so I had been working. They
were paying me a dollar an hour. And the first
thing I bought was a York's stereo was one hundred
and thirty seven dollars, and what I remembered is that
it had all four media. I'd had a record player,
it had a radio, it had a cassette, it had
an eight track, and I bought it was one hundred
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and thirty seven hours. But it was time to two
because I could only spend half of it. And as
my savings added up because I started working, I mean
they hired me when I was eight, and as my
savings added up, I had, you know, eight nine hundred
dollars in savings, and I bought gold with it. I
bought a gold Kruger aand you know the South African money. Look,
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one of our sponsors sells gold, So there you go.
I was on point with our sponsors when I was
a ten year old, eleven year old kid. But that
next year, on the Christmas list, like number nine on
the list of what I wanted was some krueger aans.
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And my mother to this day still finds hysterical the
adjective some just you know, throw some gold coins by way,
Like like, what kind of eleven year old asked for
some kruger z But I'm like, I bought one? Why
I did not get some or any kruger Ns for Christmas?
And even more funny, it was like two stars. It
wasn't nearly as cool as like a TV or whatever
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else I was asking for that year. You know, this
is the the left's caricature of what eleven year old
Ted Cruise was doing. Little eleven year old Ted Cruise
investing in gold. The conservatives conservative from age. I mean,
it's hardly it's hard to even know how to respond
to this story. It's such a delightful mix of hilarious
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and nerdy. It is it does sound like your daughters
or a chip off the old block, though. I mean
they're ranking their Christmas presents, arguing in front of you
what could basically set them up for better present success
on Christmas morning. I honestly, I honestly don't know if
there is anything. However, in the spirit of Christmas, we
do have more gifts for our wonderful Verdict fans this
time head over to YouTube. Fifteen people picked at random
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who leave comments on this episode that is episode one hundred.
We'll get a free box of signed merch from the
Verdict Merch Store. The only thing that I regret to
inform you is that it won't contain gold coins. Other
than that it will contain really cool merch signed by
yours truly by Michael by Senator Cruz. Fifteen random people
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who leave comments on this episode, episode one hundred, We'll
get a free box of signed merch from the Verdict
Merch Store shop that is, of course the urel. If
you want to see what is in the merch shop,
you can go to Verdict with Ted Cruise dot com
slash shop. That's pretty cool, Michael that it's extremely cool.
So so Liz, let let me ask. Let's let's go
under the hood. So YouTube. We have what about two
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hundred and ten thousand subscribers on YouTube, um, which means
I also have in my office the really cool like
like silver you know album thing, I don't know what
you call it, but the thing they get you when
you get one hundred thousand subscribers. So we've got two
hundred and ten thousand. The silver play button. That's that's
a big deal for the YouTuber community, the silver play button.
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And and and there's what's the million one? What what
is it? Gold? Gold? You get the gold? All right,
so we we got to get to the gold. We're
two hundred ten thousand, so we'll get there, but we're
not there yet. You can put that on your Christmas
list this year. There we go. Now that that's number
one on on my Christmas yet, Liz. But I guess
the comments like feed the algorithm. So you know, you've
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got a bunch of commie leftists and Silicon Valley that
if they had their way, we would have zero viewers.
But when you comment, somehow they're mildly obliged, like more
people see it, it spreads it. And I don't understand
the pixie dust from Santa's elves cause more people to
watch Verdict. So make your comments and say things that
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are interesting and fun, and fifteen of you, well, we'll
get merch signed by us exactly, So you're both fighting
back against big talk, making sure that we make the
most of the algorithms that we face, and you get
merched from Verdict. What could make for a better Christmas
than that? Again, our YouTube channel is Verdict with Ted Crews.
Head on over there be one of the fifteen people.
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I mean, that's pretty that's a pretty good odd there. Um,
All right, are you ready for the next question. The
next question is about family tradition. So obviously, Senator, it's
a tradition in your family to rank the Christmas presents
to give them ratings. But real truth, Cactus M wants
to know, and she says, this is for everyone. What
is your family's favorite Christmas tradition or memory? And so, Senator,
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let's start with you know, to be honest, my favorite
thing about Christmas is just just being with family. It's
like Thanksgiving Christmas from my two favorite holidays because we
get our whole extended family together. When I was a kid,
we would always we'd drive up to Dallas and my grandparents,
my Abuelo and Abuela. They lived up in Dallas and
they lived with my Thesonia, my father's kid's sister, and
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my cousin Babie, who's Theisonia's daughter. She lived up there,
babies five years older than I am, and we were
like brother and sister and we would all get together
and you got a big Cuban household, and we'd have
food and there'd be lots of yelling. I've joked, if
a Cuban can't yell, can they speak? And I think
the answers no, like like, there's no way if you
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had like eight or ten Cuban men in a room,
they're all screaming in Spanish at the top of their
lungs because it apparently they don't they can't modulate volume.
We played dominoes every Christmas. The Domino's games are vigorous,
they're in your face, they're competitive. Um. My father will
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always get out the Bible at at at the Christmas
table and read read the story of Christ's birth, and uh,
you know that's um. I've done that on a couple
of times. My dad hasn't been at our house. But
to be honest, again, look, even though I turn turned
fifty one in a week. You know, Dad is still
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dad and so so, so that's that that that that's
his responsibility. We also go do a lot of movies.
So um ours is a movie going household. You know.
Verdict listeners know that I'm a movie buff. But I
got it honestly, I got it from my parents. My parents.
Both my parents love movies. Uh. My dad actually learned
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English when he came from Cuban nineteen fifty seven and
he came to Austin. He was a freshman at UT
and he couldn't speak English. He had gotten in but
he had this enormous incentive to learn English because his
classes were in English, and if he didn't learn English quickly,
he would flunk out of UT. And if he flunked
out of UT, they would cancel a student visa. If
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they canceled a student visa, they'd send him back to Cuban.
If he went back to Cuba, they'd kill him. So
he had this intense incentive learn English quick so you
don't flunk out of school. And one of the things
he used to do, so he do two things. Number one,
he took Spanish one oh one and he reverse engineered it.
So when the professor said milk is letche, he'd go, oh,
(27:32):
letch's milk. And he'd just like try to do everything
backwards and see if he could look learn. But the
other thing he would do is he'd go to the
movies and he'd see the same movie three times in
a row. And the human brain is amazing. So the first,
you know, a few times he did it, he didn't
understand any of it. But it starts too you start
seeing people interact and the context and the queues. And
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so he loves movies. So I'll over Christmas break, I'll
see several movies. I like the theater. I like being
you know in the sound and I get popcorn and
candy and hot dogs and and uh take the kids,
and and so movies, dominoes and and playing my nephew
diego one on one hoops and we play vigorous, aggressive, brutal, fouling, bloody, bruising,
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taunting hoops much like our dominoes games. Our dominoes games
are taunting. Our hoops games are taunting. It's it's a
It is a family with a lot of fun and
and and a lot of good natured grief. All around.
It sounds it sounds amazing. I mean I can I
can almost feel the atmosphere being there. And I think
I think you said it correctly. I mean, not to
sound cheesy, not to sound tried it. It is about
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being with family and all of the little quirks and
idiosyncrasies of being with the ones that you love. Michael,
what what what is? What does your family do? What
is your favorite memory, either either current or past. I'll
give you a great memory. I mean, we have a
zillion traditions and memories around Christmas. Christmas very important, not
just for the Catholics, but specifically the Italian Catholics. They
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make a big deal, especially by Christmas Eve. So there
was one year give you a sense of how politically
incorrect my family is. There was one year I really
wanted for Christmas a sitar, you know, like the big
Indian instrument George Harry I don't know. I heard George
Harrison played it or something, So I really wanted to sittar.
We found it at some hippie shop in way down
in southern New Jersey. My mother knew I really wanted it.
(29:27):
We didn't have a ton of money, but my grandmother
agreed to buy it if my mother would drive down
four and a half hours, pick it up, drive back
four and a half hours, bring it to her. I
had no clue that this was happening at all, and
it's in my grandmother's house. We go there, huge meal,
lots of people, all screaming Italians. As is often the
case in an Italian household, younger people drink a little
(29:47):
bit of wine at Christmas. So there's thirteen, fourteen year
old Michael. I'm having, you know, a glass or two
of wine. I'm just feeling great, and my grandmother emerges.
My little Sicilian grandmother emerges where a full Indian sorry
that she had picked up on a trip in the seventies.
She's got a dot in the middle of her head.
She would be canceled if there were photos of this
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incident and presents me with this citar. We would all
be canceled if there were any evidence of this. But
it did really bring together so many aspects, the wild family,
everyone being together, even the gifts, that there was so
much thought put into this gift. And of course I
got a real kick out of the abject political correctness.
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That's something something about those conservative Italian families. So do
you still have the star and can you play it
on the podcast? I absolutely have the citar. I actually
just ordered strings for it, Senator and it. Maybe that's
going to be the two hundredth episode spectacular, is it?
We'll just start playing some Rabbi Shan cartoon. We can
have belly dancing. Who knows? Who knows? People have to
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subscribe to get us that far. I was going to
ask the exact same question. It's hard to even know
what to do with the two of you. These are
so they're so nerdy, so dorky. But maybe I found
my people because one of my favorite Christmas memories is
when I was about eleven or twelve, I asked for
a unicycle for Christmas. My parents got me a unicycle.
I taught myself how to ride it. I then taught
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my sisters how to ride it, and we would ride
in parades, ride or unicycles and parades, calling ourselves the
three one wheelers, because who can resist? Who can resist
a bad pun such as that? Yes, yes, I see
your face, Michael, I can see that. Listen. It was
it was a great time. It was a great time
my childhood. Um so Liz, did you have the did
you have the short short unicycles or the tall ones?
(31:32):
Are both? Um, the short ones so it's probably about
four feet three or four feet, so you're pretty much
off the ground. But it wasn't the giraffe unicycles I did.
I did, to be fair, I did ask for one
of those, but that was a bridge too far even
for my mom to, you know, put me up twenty
feet on one wheel, so just the regular I could
ride backwards though. That was kind of that was kind
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of my trick that I liked to do. The last
time I went to my parents, I did think about
trying it again, but being that was a little bit postpartum,
I thought maybe I shouldn't get up on the top
of that and try a trick. But I'd learned twenty
years ago. Yeah, I'm feeling really lame. Before I was
feeling like historically ignorant. Now I'm feeling untalented as well,
(32:13):
because we're going to have a subsequient episode where Michael's
playing the star, You're riding a uni cycle, and I'm
sitting here threatening to sue people like I. Senator, Well,
you were wasting all of that time at Harvard Law
School learning constitutional law. You could have been doing something
productive like learning an ancient Indian guitar, were riding the unicycle.
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I mean, these are the regrets that people have in
their lives. Indeed, misspent youth. This question, by the way,
was asked by Real Truth Cactus, and I want to
give credit work credit to our next giveaway, our next
Christmas gift was this was Real Truth Cactus's idea, so
we can thank her for this. And this is really funny.
So if we get to fifty thousand reviews on Apple
podcasts by our anniversary date that inaugural the date of
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the inaugural episode January twenty first, fifty thousand review on
Apple Podcasts, we will let the fans pick what we
do next year. Now these are the options. Are you
ready for these options? Real Trius Cactus just hit the
nail on the head with this one Senator. The Senator
wears a Braves jersey for an entire episode. That's option
number one. Option number two is the Senator and Michael
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arm wrestle. Option three is the Cactus makes a guest
appearance on the show right here on the pod. Or
four Michael roasts Princeton and the Senator roasts Yale in
a throwdown episode. If we get to fifty thousand reviews
on Apple Podcast by January twenty first, people, I beg
of you. I mean, as you can see, this would
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be a very enjoyable episode for me and for you,
if not for Michael and the Senator. Let's do this, please,
let's do this well. I will say, on the fourth
one of roasting Yale versus Princeton, I kind of feel
like taking candy from a baby, that that's not really fair.
It is a horribly skewed playing field. Senator. I would
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I would have to resist that. I would have to
fight you on that question, except that a few years
ago there was a case of a Yale student screaming
at the top of her lungs that Yale is not
an intellectual place, it is a place of comfort and home,
and the university sided with her. So it's gonna I
hope it's not number four. I'm gonna be It's gonna
be an uphill battle. So Michael, when you say fight,
did you mean arm wrestle, Well that might be an
(34:26):
uphill battle too. I'm you know, I don't know. We'll
see how that shakes out. You've you've got youth, but
uh but but but you know, I may have a
few pounds on you, Michael, so so so we'll see
how that, how that shakes out. I will say on
the first suggestion of the Braves jersey, oddly enough, bizarrely enough,
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I have worn a Braves jersey precisely once in my life.
So fifty almost fifty one years of life, I've worn
a Braves jersey once. And the day on which I
or the Braves jersey was today. So in the World Series,
I had a wager with John oss Off, newly elected
(35:09):
senator from George on the World Series. I actually went
and proposed it to John when the World Series started, said, look,
let's have a wager. The loser has to buy food
for the staff of the other and where the jersey
of of of the winning team. And I pointed out
that I had done the same thing with with Kamala
(35:30):
Harris and she she had to show up at an
Astro's jersey, which was awesome. And then I did the
same thing with Tim Kaine when when the Nationals beat
beat the Astros and I had to painfully don a
National's jersey It's very funny. Ass Off was fine with
the food, but he was really nervous. He's like, well,
if I were an Astro's jersey, that that that could
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like cost me several points at the polls, right, And
I'm like, well, that's a plus two. But I was like,
come on, man, I you know, Kamala did it. You know,
so I will say I did it today. Um, But
but I did it under protest. That's you know, yeah,
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you might have been following the letter of the law, Senator,
but that seems to violate the spirit of the law
if you're wearing the astro's hat. So I didn't actually
wear the astros had. I just wore the jersey. But
I brought in Chritz's barbecue. I flew in barbecue from
Texas all the way up here and fed all of
the ass Off staffers and wore the jersey. So so
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if that that wins the thing, I might might have
to wear this hat too. But but I did wear
a jersey today to pay up on my wager. A
man of his word, And this kind of coincidence you
can't design, because I did not even come into this
episode knowing that fact. Um, and nor did real truth
Cactus to my knowledge. By the way, just to remind
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to Apple Podcasts, leave a five star review, write a
comment telling us, of course how glorious the show is,
get us up to fifty thousand views, and then once
this happens, go over to Verdict plus. That's Verdict with
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poll to see exactly what you would like to see happen.
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Would you like to see the Senator in a braves jersey?
Would you like to see an arm wrestling match between
Michael and the Senator? Would you like the Cactus to
make a guest appearance on the show. Or would you
like a mutual roast Michael roasting Princeton and the Senator
roasting Yale? Those are the options. This seems like a
pretty good, a pretty good Christmas episode, Michael. So let
me let me jump in on two things. Number one. Okay,
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So the goal is to get to fifty thousand reviews
on Apple Podcasts. And it's the same thing because it's
part of their magical algorithm or algae rhythm, as they
said in the Terrible Rebake of Space jam. But so
we got to get to fifty thousand by January twenty First,
where are we now? Are we close? We can do it.
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Let's say that it's it's doable. We can do it
if we if we commit, We're at about thirty five
thousand over the course of the last almost two years.
But listen, with this kind of incentive, we can get
this done. I for one, really really want to see
an arm wrestling match. So I highly encourage everyone who's
watching and listening to this episode please go rate, give
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us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. Please write
a comment. Please then choose, And this is my bias.
I know that I'm I'm creating bias in this poll.
Please choose the arm wrestling match. Oh and by the way, Liz,
I will say on Verdict Plus, if you're disagreeable and
contrary and you don't like any of the four choices,
provide a fifth. We're spontaneous, we're flexible. If you've got
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an idea that you think is a better one than that,
throw it out there. And if a bunch of folks
on Verdict plus like it, and if it does not
entail Michael and the nude, then then then we'll consider it,
and thank you, sir, I appreciate that I was actually
going to suggest it. I don't you know, listen, I'm
a free spirit, I'm hip, I'm cool. But yes, please
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everyone submit your suggestions. It's funny it occurs to me
that we began the show today with me complaining about
how we have too many ads, and now we've had
a bunch of ads, but they're not ads for anything
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a note of gratitude to all of you. Seriously, we're
so so grateful to all of the listeners who've been
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We wish everyone a very merry Christmas from me, from Liz,
from Senator Cruz, most importantly from the Cactus. So really,
thank thank you all. We will see you next time.
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When did that happen? When did we start getting I
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to remain on the air. Senator, congratulations on one hundred episodes.
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That is crazy. Uh, you know when when we sat
down January almost two years ago, and and in the
basement and did it at what one two in the
morning every night every night, and and and the first
time we did it, we had this shag carpet. We
had we had this chair. I mean, the the the
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chair and the carpet are veterans of one hundred episodes,
um and and listen, I've been upstage by a cactus,
but but for a shag carpet to kick your ass
that that is a little much, But I mean I
remember that that first night there was a lot of skepticism,
(05:34):
a skepticism from one young Michael Knowles, skepticism from our producers,
skepticism from almost anyone's sentient with a discernible sense of judgment,
like how is this going to work? Is this gonna work?
And then we rocketed up the charts and within weeks
(05:55):
were the number one podcast in the world. So I
admit I was skeptical at the very beginning. I you know,
I have great admiration for you, Senator, I have voted
for you, but I was a little skeptical that you
were going to beat Joe Rogan on the podcast charts.
And and yet after just a week, I guess on
the air, the show hit number one. Obviously, it's been
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going for two years, and that is now it's a
very popular thing to do. A lot of politicians have podcasts.
It had never been done in a popular way before,
and so I am thrilled, and I'm sorry forever doubting
that you would become one of the biggest broadcasters in America. Well, look,
I will say this. One of the things I get
(06:36):
great joy from is Verdict has more viewers than CNN's
Morning Show. Like like, in some ways that's such an
incredibly low bar that that's like saying, Okay, you know,
we exceed three. But but it is really an amazing
(06:57):
sort of commentary on the shift of media and discussion.
You know, it used to be that, you know, the
big three, you at ABC, CBS, NBC, back when all right, Michael,
I bet you don't. Do you remember television sets that
had knobs that turned or was that before your time?
(07:17):
I do, but only because I grew up kind of poor,
That's the only reason I remember it. But they were
basically extinct by the time I was a kid. You know,
when I was a kid, we had remote control and
they called it kids, as in, you yell at the kid,
go change the station, and I did. Look, I wasn't
growing up in you know, Ward Beaver nineteen fifties, but uh,
(07:38):
you know, walked up hill both school, both uphill both ways,
snowing both ways. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm thrilled that we've
hit number one hundred, and I love the coincidence that
we are celebrating this as we were getting ready to
celebrate Christmas. Although there was a story that Liz turned
me onto that. Apparently, you know, there are all these
wars on Christmas, and sometimes the wars are being aged
(08:00):
by the Liberals, and sometimes they're being waged by the Puritans,
and sometimes they're people attack Christmas for a whole lot
of reasons. Apparently BLM is attacking Christmas and specifically calling
for a boycott of the song White Christmas because obviously
that is a white supremacist anthem. Liz, do I have
that right? Um? No, you do not have that right.
(08:20):
But don't worry. I'm here. I'm here to correct the
record on it. They are calling for a boycott of
a white Christmas, meaning they don't want anybody to purchase
any Christmas gifts from white owned businesses or to bank
with any banks that are owned by white people. They
only want it's even worse, worse, although it's so much worse,
(08:41):
although the song is a beautiful song. No, they said
that they're dreaming and this is a play on the song.
They're dreaming of a black Christmas because they want black
people in our country to only solely exclusively buy from
black owned businesses. Because they say that, um, white supremacist
capitalism is a thing is a problem in our nation.
I'm not exactly sure what the tie in there. I
don't know how you can tie those three things together.
(09:02):
But that's the beauty of black lives matters. They can
invent connections to try to take down the institutions of
our country everywhere. So, yes, they are attacking Christmas. So
it really is amazing that that that that bing Crosby
is now controversial. You know, I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.
(09:22):
Bing did you enter the room? Where did I? I
thought he was long gone. I can't. Oh, no, there
was you, Senator. Of course, the terror of it is
it's a white Christmas because friggin snow is white. It's
not a racial thing. It's it's when you freeze water
and it condenses in the air, it turns into snowflakes.
It's not blue, it's not pink, it's not purple. That's
(09:44):
it just happens to be white. And now that that
that that is you know who knew uh that that
that snow had racial overtones? By the way, I just
want to say right now, it's not fair that the
Grynch's green. What about green people? What do they have
(10:05):
against green people? Fair? Enough, and it really is. Well,
you are noticing this strange phenomenon now, and it's not
just BLM calling for a boycott of white businesses, but
you're seeing from other major retailers or aggregators black and
white owned businesses being treated differently. I remember during the
(10:25):
BLM riots, I think it was Uber Eats was treating
black owned businesses whatever that means. By the way, it's
not as though businesses are only owned by a single
individual a lot of the time, but they were treating
them differently, giving different incentives. Is that sort of thing
even legal? So it's not, and it is explicitly discriminating
based on race. And the sad reality is leftists have
(10:47):
always been racist. They've always embraced racial discrimination. You know,
Black Lives Matter is a racist organization. And one of
the ironies we did one of the earlier verdicts, we
did a whole pod on the history of the organization,
Black Lives Matter, founded by explicit and avowed communists and
(11:14):
supported by woke corporations. So Microsoft, I forget the stats.
We went through the stats and Microsoft had given I
don't know, one hundred thousand, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Amazon had given one hundred and fifty or two hundred
fifty thousand dollars. I forget the amount. Of course, you
know Microsoft, Bill Gates ain't a black guy. Jeff Bezos
(11:35):
ain't a black guy. They're literally funding an organization calling
on you to boycott their own business. So Jeff Bezos
is cutting a check to an organization saying don't you
order your Christmas presents on Amazon? Uh, do not do that?
But look look, look like like the woke consciousness is
(11:57):
really asinine? All right, guys, way to keep it light
and cheery for Christmas. This is the Christmas episode we're
supposed to be spreading joy all over the world. In fact,
that's kind of what this episode is about. Today. We
have some Christmas gifts, if you will, and honor of
both you know, Christmas and of the hundredth episode of Verdict,
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by January twenty first, January twenty first is a very
special day because that is the inaugural episode, the anniversary
of the inaugural episode of Verdict. Fifteen thousand members on
Verdict Plus by January twenty first, then we will randomly
select one member to come to a live taping of Verdict.
This is just one of many Christmas presents here on
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our one hundredth episode. And by the way, because today
is one hundredth episode, in January twenty first, a little
bit different date is the anniversary of the inaugural episode.
We will be announcing the winner of that on our
January twenty first episode. So go to Verdict with Ted
Cruz dot com slash plus. Let's get to fifteen thousand
members so one of you can come to a live
taping a Verdict. Michael, this is the Christmas spirit, all right? Well, Liz,
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let me ask you a couple of clarifications. Number number one,
fifteen thousand. How close are we now? Lives? Where? Where
are we right now, we're about to we're about to
hit the ten thousand mark. Well, I mean we can
do it. We can definitely do this, all right, so
fifteen thousand, we're in in shooting range of fifteen thousand
and and and the lucky winner who gets to come
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to a taping of Verdict Live. Are we going to
tell them? All right, you got to buy your own
plane ticket, you got a pony up to cash, you
got a fly to where it is? Or is this
an even even? It gets more? It gets better? As
they say on the Romco ads, what kind of Christmas
would it be if we said you're the winner, but oh,
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you got to pay us for your Christmas present? No, no,
this is a Christmas present in all its glory. We
will bring you to a live taping at no expense
to you. This, I mean, this is the real deal.
This is a really fun thing. People who are part
of the Verdict plus community, I mean they follow Verdict
to a t These are people who are really into
what we're talking about and what the goal of this
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podcast is. And this is just a little way of
giving bath. These people are you know, true blues. These
people are fans of the show, and it's going to
be really exciting to meet one of y'all in person.
And Michael, I got to ask a question, So, if
the winner comes and happens say to want to recite
Dante and the original Italian, are you able to join
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them in that? Well? I hope so. You know, Fortunately,
the last Verdict listener who came up and just began
reciting a Dante in Italian, fortunately he knew one fewer
line than I did. But the next one, who knows.
We have an colectic, intellectual group that listens to the show.
And you know, I take Liz's correction in a proper spirit.
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It's true. I don't this is Christmas time. I don't
want to focus on the rioters and the Pagans and
all the negative stuff. This is a great time to
celebrate a great one hundredth episode. So shall we get
to some nailback questions from the viewers who may very
well be flying out to see us live. Absolutely, we
have some actually some very interesting questions. Michael, I feel
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like there's a question that puts you and I on
the spot in front of the senator here, So let's
start with that one, because that sounds fun. This is
from Paul Over on Verdict Plus. Of course, these questions
are all from Verdict Plus subscribers. He says, for Liz
and Michael, have you decided how to approach Santa with
your kids? Yes? I am very pro Santa. I'm on
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team Santa. I'm so pro Santa that I'm not only
going to teach about the jolly old elf Saint Nicholas
who comes down the chimney with toys. I'm going to
teach about Saint Nicholas, the bishop who, according to legend,
at the Council of Nicia punched the heretic areas in
the face because he was so sick of hearing his
heresy and wanted to shake the man back to his senses. Now,
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the story itself may not have actually occurred, but I
love the legend of Santa Claus showing up to give
presents to kids and punch heretics when he just ran
out of presents. Yes, that won't be confusing at all
to your child. The reality and the fantasy my favorite legend.
By the way, before we even get into this, the
real Saint Nick. Do you know the reason why we
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decorate our Christmas tree with like gold ball's gold ornaments.
Because there was a man, an impoverished man in Saint
Nicholas's town, who had three daughters. He was unable to
pay for their dowry, so they were going to remain unmarried.
But he was so impoverished that he couldn't pay for
their food. He couldn't sustain them. Because they were going
to be unmarried, he was going to have to sell
them into sex slavery and a prostitution. St. Nicholas threw
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three bags of gold through his window, landed on their
shoes and stockings on the hearth. And that's where the
tradition not only of shoes and stockings on the hearth,
but also why we decorate our Christmas trees with gold balls.
That's what I'm going to teach Lady Baby. That is
the most badass story, the coolest. I mean, that's that
is cooler than a fat elf coming down the chimney. Right,
So we're talking about insurrectionists and rioters and pagans and
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now sex slavery. Senator, what was your approach with your
daughters when it comes to Santa Claus. Yeah, I gotta say,
you guys are really going and keeping it light and cheery.
You've got Saint Nick the brawler, like punching some heretic
or something. I didn't quite follow it. And then you've
got the like rescued from sex slavery by flinging bags
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of gold. I'm feeling very historically illiterate because I confess
I know nothing about either one of those stories. Um,
but but but I will, I can go a little
bit lighter. So we did Santa with our girls. They're
now eleven and thirteen. I'm pretty sure they they are
beyond the Santa stage at this point. But but I
used to. Heidi would have me, so every Christmas Eve,
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after the girls went to bed, she'd send me outside,
and we have these bells, and I'd like go outside
their windows and ring the bells to be the bells
on Santa's sleigh landing on the roof. And it was
just enough that they could hear it and and and
and be excited. Um, it's never really worked. I did
it every year, but it didn't quite have the effect
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uh that we envisioned. We also own a Santa suit. Um,
I've never dressed in the Santa suit. We put my
dad in the Santa suit. So that's a grandfatherly task,
and just to give you a sense of where it goes,
we're now post Santa Um. There was not some big reveal,
there was no year where it's like aha, It just
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sort of faded as they got older. But now both
girls put together a power point of what they want
for Christmas. If they present to us with with with
rankings and why they want it, and they stand and
do a presentation, Here's why it's a good idea, here's
why this makes sense, and here's a link to the
specific one I want, and so they like send you
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the Amazon link for their presence. Both girls do do
the presentation now every year before Christmas. It sounds like
they're a chip off the old block. You and Heidi
have taught them well, So I used to when I
was when I was eight years old, Liz, So, I
would type up my Christmas list on my parents IBM's
electric typewriter, because I would go over to their office
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where they had a small business, and I would type
up a Christmas list and rank things and I rank
them one, two, three, and four stars just with asterix,
because you know that's all you had, and you know
I would have different things I wanted I want a TV, said,
I wanted a stereo. I wanted a shotgun. I had
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all these different things that I specified, and one of
the mony year things I specified, I guess this was
after eight. This is probably like eleven, where I had
been working for several years and my parents' small business,
and my parents had a rule that I had to
save fifty percent of what I earned, that I could
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only spend half of it, that I had to save
half of it. And so I had been working. They
were paying me a dollar an hour. And the first
thing I bought was a York's stereo was one hundred
and thirty seven dollars, and what I remembered is that
it had all four media. I'd had a record player,
it had a radio, it had a cassette, it had
an eight track, and I bought it was one hundred
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and thirty seven hours. But it was time to two
because I could only spend half of it. And as
my savings added up because I started working, I mean
they hired me when I was eight, and as my
savings added up, I had, you know, eight nine hundred
dollars in savings, and I bought gold with it. I
bought a gold Kruger aand you know the South African money. Look,
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one of our sponsors sells gold, So there you go.
I was on point with our sponsors when I was
a ten year old, eleven year old kid. But that
next year, on the Christmas list, like number nine on
the list of what I wanted was some krueger aans.
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And my mother to this day still finds hysterical the
adjective some just you know, throw some gold coins by way,
Like like, what kind of eleven year old asked for
some kruger z But I'm like, I bought one? Why
I did not get some or any kruger Ns for Christmas?
And even more funny, it was like two stars. It
wasn't nearly as cool as like a TV or whatever
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else I was asking for that year. You know, this
is the the left's caricature of what eleven year old
Ted Cruise was doing. Little eleven year old Ted Cruise
investing in gold. The conservatives conservative from age. I mean,
it's hardly it's hard to even know how to respond
to this story. It's such a delightful mix of hilarious
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and nerdy. It is it does sound like your daughters
or a chip off the old block, though. I mean
they're ranking their Christmas presents, arguing in front of you
what could basically set them up for better present success
on Christmas morning. I honestly, I honestly don't know if
there is anything. However, in the spirit of Christmas, we
do have more gifts for our wonderful Verdict fans this
time head over to YouTube. Fifteen people picked at random
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who leave comments on this episode that is episode one hundred.
We'll get a free box of signed merch from the
Verdict Merch Store. The only thing that I regret to
inform you is that it won't contain gold coins. Other
than that it will contain really cool merch signed by
yours truly by Michael by Senator Cruz. Fifteen random people
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who leave comments on this episode, episode one hundred, We'll
get a free box of signed merch from the Verdict
Merch Store shop that is, of course the urel. If
you want to see what is in the merch shop,
you can go to Verdict with Ted Cruise dot com
slash shop. That's pretty cool, Michael that it's extremely cool.
So so Liz, let let me ask. Let's let's go
under the hood. So YouTube. We have what about two
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hundred and ten thousand subscribers on YouTube, um, which means
I also have in my office the really cool like
like silver you know album thing, I don't know what
you call it, but the thing they get you when
you get one hundred thousand subscribers. So we've got two
hundred and ten thousand. The silver play button. That's that's
a big deal for the YouTuber community, the silver play button.
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And and and there's what's the million one? What what
is it? Gold? Gold? You get the gold? All right,
so we we got to get to the gold. We're
two hundred ten thousand, so we'll get there, but we're
not there yet. You can put that on your Christmas
list this year. There we go. Now that that's number
one on on my Christmas yet, Liz. But I guess
the comments like feed the algorithm. So you know, you've
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got a bunch of commie leftists and Silicon Valley that
if they had their way, we would have zero viewers.
But when you comment, somehow they're mildly obliged, like more
people see it, it spreads it. And I don't understand
the pixie dust from Santa's elves cause more people to
watch Verdict. So make your comments and say things that
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are interesting and fun, and fifteen of you, well, we'll
get merch signed by us exactly, So you're both fighting
back against big talk, making sure that we make the
most of the algorithms that we face, and you get
merched from Verdict. What could make for a better Christmas
than that? Again, our YouTube channel is Verdict with Ted Crews.
Head on over there be one of the fifteen people.
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I mean, that's pretty that's a pretty good odd there. Um,
All right, are you ready for the next question. The
next question is about family tradition. So obviously, Senator, it's
a tradition in your family to rank the Christmas presents
to give them ratings. But real truth, Cactus M wants
to know, and she says, this is for everyone. What
is your family's favorite Christmas tradition or memory? And so, Senator,
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let's start with you know, to be honest, my favorite
thing about Christmas is just just being with family. It's
like Thanksgiving Christmas from my two favorite holidays because we
get our whole extended family together. When I was a kid,
we would always we'd drive up to Dallas and my grandparents,
my Abuelo and Abuela. They lived up in Dallas and
they lived with my Thesonia, my father's kid's sister, and
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my cousin Babie, who's Theisonia's daughter. She lived up there,
babies five years older than I am, and we were
like brother and sister and we would all get together
and you got a big Cuban household, and we'd have
food and there'd be lots of yelling. I've joked, if
a Cuban can't yell, can they speak? And I think
the answers no, like like, there's no way if you
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had like eight or ten Cuban men in a room,
they're all screaming in Spanish at the top of their
lungs because it apparently they don't they can't modulate volume.
We played dominoes every Christmas. The Domino's games are vigorous,
they're in your face, they're competitive. Um. My father will
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always get out the Bible at at at the Christmas
table and read read the story of Christ's birth, and uh,
you know that's um. I've done that on a couple
of times. My dad hasn't been at our house. But
to be honest, again, look, even though I turn turned
fifty one in a week. You know, Dad is still
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dad and so so, so that's that that that that's
his responsibility. We also go do a lot of movies.
So um ours is a movie going household. You know.
Verdict listeners know that I'm a movie buff. But I
got it honestly, I got it from my parents. My parents.
Both my parents love movies. Uh. My dad actually learned
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English when he came from Cuban nineteen fifty seven and
he came to Austin. He was a freshman at UT
and he couldn't speak English. He had gotten in but
he had this enormous incentive to learn English because his
classes were in English, and if he didn't learn English quickly,
he would flunk out of UT. And if he flunked
out of UT, they would cancel a student visa. If
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they canceled a student visa, they'd send him back to Cuban.
If he went back to Cuba, they'd kill him. So
he had this intense incentive learn English quick so you
don't flunk out of school. And one of the things
he used to do, so he do two things. Number one,
he took Spanish one oh one and he reverse engineered it.
So when the professor said milk is letche, he'd go, oh,
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letch's milk. And he'd just like try to do everything
backwards and see if he could look learn. But the
other thing he would do is he'd go to the
movies and he'd see the same movie three times in
a row. And the human brain is amazing. So the first,
you know, a few times he did it, he didn't
understand any of it. But it starts too you start
seeing people interact and the context and the queues. And
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so he loves movies. So I'll over Christmas break, I'll
see several movies. I like the theater. I like being
you know in the sound and I get popcorn and
candy and hot dogs and and uh take the kids,
and and so movies, dominoes and and playing my nephew
diego one on one hoops and we play vigorous, aggressive, brutal, fouling, bloody, bruising,
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taunting hoops much like our dominoes games. Our dominoes games
are taunting. Our hoops games are taunting. It's it's a
It is a family with a lot of fun and
and and a lot of good natured grief. All around.
It sounds it sounds amazing. I mean I can I
can almost feel the atmosphere being there. And I think
I think you said it correctly. I mean, not to
sound cheesy, not to sound tried it. It is about
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being with family and all of the little quirks and
idiosyncrasies of being with the ones that you love. Michael,
what what what is? What does your family do? What
is your favorite memory, either either current or past. I'll
give you a great memory. I mean, we have a
zillion traditions and memories around Christmas. Christmas very important, not
just for the Catholics, but specifically the Italian Catholics. They
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make a big deal, especially by Christmas Eve. So there
was one year give you a sense of how politically
incorrect my family is. There was one year I really
wanted for Christmas a sitar, you know, like the big
Indian instrument George Harry I don't know. I heard George
Harrison played it or something, So I really wanted to sittar.
We found it at some hippie shop in way down
in southern New Jersey. My mother knew I really wanted it.
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We didn't have a ton of money, but my grandmother
agreed to buy it if my mother would drive down
four and a half hours, pick it up, drive back
four and a half hours, bring it to her. I
had no clue that this was happening at all, and
it's in my grandmother's house. We go there, huge meal,
lots of people, all screaming Italians. As is often the
case in an Italian household, younger people drink a little
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bit of wine at Christmas. So there's thirteen, fourteen year
old Michael. I'm having, you know, a glass or two
of wine. I'm just feeling great, and my grandmother emerges.
My little Sicilian grandmother emerges where a full Indian sorry
that she had picked up on a trip in the seventies.
She's got a dot in the middle of her head.
She would be canceled if there were photos of this
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incident and presents me with this citar. We would all
be canceled if there were any evidence of this. But
it did really bring together so many aspects, the wild family,
everyone being together, even the gifts, that there was so
much thought put into this gift. And of course I
got a real kick out of the abject political correctness.
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That's something something about those conservative Italian families. So do
you still have the star and can you play it
on the podcast? I absolutely have the citar. I actually
just ordered strings for it, Senator and it. Maybe that's
going to be the two hundredth episode spectacular, is it?
We'll just start playing some Rabbi Shan cartoon. We can
have belly dancing. Who knows? Who knows? People have to
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subscribe to get us that far. I was going to
ask the exact same question. It's hard to even know
what to do with the two of you. These are
so they're so nerdy, so dorky. But maybe I found
my people because one of my favorite Christmas memories is
when I was about eleven or twelve, I asked for
a unicycle for Christmas. My parents got me a unicycle.
I taught myself how to ride it. I then taught
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my sisters how to ride it, and we would ride
in parades, ride or unicycles and parades, calling ourselves the
three one wheelers, because who can resist? Who can resist
a bad pun such as that? Yes, yes, I see
your face, Michael, I can see that. Listen. It was
it was a great time. It was a great time
my childhood. Um so Liz, did you have the did
you have the short short unicycles or the tall ones?
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Are both? Um, the short ones so it's probably about
four feet three or four feet, so you're pretty much
off the ground. But it wasn't the giraffe unicycles I did.
I did, to be fair, I did ask for one
of those, but that was a bridge too far even
for my mom to, you know, put me up twenty
feet on one wheel, so just the regular I could
ride backwards though. That was kind of that was kind
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of my trick that I liked to do. The last
time I went to my parents, I did think about
trying it again, but being that was a little bit postpartum,
I thought maybe I shouldn't get up on the top
of that and try a trick. But I'd learned twenty
years ago. Yeah, I'm feeling really lame. Before I was
feeling like historically ignorant. Now I'm feeling untalented as well,
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because we're going to have a subsequient episode where Michael's
playing the star, You're riding a uni cycle, and I'm
sitting here threatening to sue people like I. Senator, Well,
you were wasting all of that time at Harvard Law
School learning constitutional law. You could have been doing something
productive like learning an ancient Indian guitar, were riding the unicycle.
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I mean, these are the regrets that people have in
their lives. Indeed, misspent youth. This question, by the way,
was asked by Real Truth Cactus, and I want to
give credit work credit to our next giveaway, our next
Christmas gift was this was Real Truth Cactus's idea, so
we can thank her for this. And this is really funny.
So if we get to fifty thousand reviews on Apple
podcasts by our anniversary date that inaugural the date of
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the inaugural episode January twenty first, fifty thousand review on
Apple Podcasts, we will let the fans pick what we
do next year. Now these are the options. Are you
ready for these options? Real Trius Cactus just hit the
nail on the head with this one Senator. The Senator
wears a Braves jersey for an entire episode. That's option
number one. Option number two is the Senator and Michael
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arm wrestle. Option three is the Cactus makes a guest
appearance on the show right here on the pod. Or
four Michael roasts Princeton and the Senator roasts Yale in
a throwdown episode. If we get to fifty thousand reviews
on Apple Podcast by January twenty first, people, I beg
of you. I mean, as you can see, this would
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be a very enjoyable episode for me and for you,
if not for Michael and the Senator. Let's do this, please,
let's do this well. I will say, on the fourth
one of roasting Yale versus Princeton, I kind of feel
like taking candy from a baby, that that's not really fair.
It is a horribly skewed playing field. Senator. I would
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I would have to resist that. I would have to
fight you on that question, except that a few years
ago there was a case of a Yale student screaming
at the top of her lungs that Yale is not
an intellectual place, it is a place of comfort and home,
and the university sided with her. So it's gonna I
hope it's not number four. I'm gonna be It's gonna
be an uphill battle. So Michael, when you say fight,
did you mean arm wrestle, Well that might be an
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uphill battle too. I'm you know, I don't know. We'll
see how that shakes out. You've you've got youth, but
uh but but but you know, I may have a
few pounds on you, Michael, so so so we'll see
how that, how that shakes out. I will say on
the first suggestion of the Braves jersey, oddly enough, bizarrely enough,
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I have worn a Braves jersey precisely once in my life.
So fifty almost fifty one years of life, I've worn
a Braves jersey once. And the day on which I
or the Braves jersey was today. So in the World Series,
I had a wager with John oss Off, newly elected
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senator from George on the World Series. I actually went
and proposed it to John when the World Series started, said, look,
let's have a wager. The loser has to buy food
for the staff of the other and where the jersey
of of of the winning team. And I pointed out
that I had done the same thing with with Kamala
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Harris and she she had to show up at an
Astro's jersey, which was awesome. And then I did the
same thing with Tim Kaine when when the Nationals beat
beat the Astros and I had to painfully don a
National's jersey It's very funny. Ass Off was fine with
the food, but he was really nervous. He's like, well,
if I were an Astro's jersey, that that that could
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like cost me several points at the polls, right, And
I'm like, well, that's a plus two. But I was like,
come on, man, I you know, Kamala did it. You know,
so I will say I did it today. Um, But
but I did it under protest. That's you know, yeah,
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you might have been following the letter of the law, Senator,
but that seems to violate the spirit of the law
if you're wearing the astro's hat. So I didn't actually
wear the astros had. I just wore the jersey. But
I brought in Chritz's barbecue. I flew in barbecue from
Texas all the way up here and fed all of
the ass Off staffers and wore the jersey. So so
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if that that wins the thing, I might might have
to wear this hat too. But but I did wear
a jersey today to pay up on my wager. A
man of his word, And this kind of coincidence you
can't design, because I did not even come into this
episode knowing that fact. Um, and nor did real truth
Cactus to my knowledge. By the way, just to remind
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everyone how the mc panics of this work, go over
to Apple Podcasts, leave a five star review, write a
comment telling us, of course how glorious the show is,
get us up to fifty thousand views, and then once
this happens, go over to Verdict plus. That's Verdict with
Ted Cruz dot com slash plus and vote in the
poll to see exactly what you would like to see happen.
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Would you like to see the Senator in a braves jersey?
Would you like to see an arm wrestling match between
Michael and the Senator? Would you like the Cactus to
make a guest appearance on the show. Or would you
like a mutual roast Michael roasting Princeton and the Senator
roasting Yale? Those are the options. This seems like a
pretty good, a pretty good Christmas episode, Michael. So let
me let me jump in on two things. Number one. Okay,
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So the goal is to get to fifty thousand reviews
on Apple Podcasts. And it's the same thing because it's
part of their magical algorithm or algae rhythm, as they
said in the Terrible Rebake of Space jam. But so
we got to get to fifty thousand by January twenty First,
where are we now? Are we close? We can do it.
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Let's say that it's it's doable. We can do it
if we if we commit, We're at about thirty five
thousand over the course of the last almost two years.
But listen, with this kind of incentive, we can get
this done. I for one, really really want to see
an arm wrestling match. So I highly encourage everyone who's
watching and listening to this episode please go rate, give
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us a five star rating on Apple Podcasts. Please write
a comment. Please then choose, And this is my bias.
I know that I'm I'm creating bias in this poll.
Please choose the arm wrestling match. Oh and by the way, Liz,
I will say on Verdict Plus, if you're disagreeable and
contrary and you don't like any of the four choices,
provide a fifth. We're spontaneous, we're flexible. If you've got
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an idea that you think is a better one than that,
throw it out there. And if a bunch of folks
on Verdict plus like it, and if it does not
entail Michael and the nude, then then then we'll consider it,
and thank you, sir, I appreciate that I was actually
going to suggest it. I don't you know, listen, I'm
a free spirit, I'm hip, I'm cool. But yes, please
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everyone submit your suggestions. It's funny it occurs to me
that we began the show today with me complaining about
how we have too many ads, and now we've had
a bunch of ads, but they're not ads for anything
other really than offering a bunch of free stuff. As
a note of gratitude to all of you. Seriously, we're
so so grateful to all of the listeners who've been
with us for hundred episodes. We really really appreciate it.
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We wish everyone a very merry Christmas from me, from Liz,
from Senator Cruz, most importantly from the Cactus. So really,
thank thank you all. We will see you next time.
I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. So
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I tried to get them great and powerful Jay Hay
to drop Cactus on the Vesta board for this little,
this little bit that we're doing, but he could not produce.
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