Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 18, 2026


Legend Robert Duvall Passes plus Gavin Newsom Claims He's Disabled

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Gavin Newsom Robert Duvall Frankie Dwight Eisenhower Tommy Lee Jones Michael Corleone Texas Ranger Gene Hackman Verdict Augustus McRae Gretchen Whitmer Michael Caine Jump Start Mondami Grock Woodrow F. Carr Jennifer Stewart Caitlin Clark Dustin Hoffman Orville Faubus and 14 more
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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons discuss Gavin Newsom's apparent lack of a dictionary, the new mayor of New York City, how the left in Minneapolis is trying to get a jury nullify our justice system, and the death of Robert Duvall.

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00:00:04.420 Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
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00:00:33.000 Senator, we've got quite a show to chat about today, including Gavin Newsom.
00:00:38.280 He's a little cranky with us after our last episode.
00:00:40.840 Apparently, he didn't have a dictionary with him, and he couldn't use AI, apparently,
00:00:45.380 to figure out what we were talking about, and that's what made him so mad.
00:00:49.540 Well, look, we need to have an intervention.
00:00:51.740 Gavin Newsom is having a hysterical bout of crying anxiety. 0.96
00:00:57.680 Because the last episode of Verdict criticized his imbecility and anti-American leftism as he traveled to Europe to attack this country and to say things that are blatantly false. 0.62
00:01:10.220 It does help that even Twitter, which sometimes can be a fairly lefty forum, lit the poor guy on fire. 0.96
00:01:19.080 I mean, it was so bad, I almost felt sorry for his very pretty anti-American leftist self.
00:01:30.180 You're kinder than me.
00:01:32.160 You know, look, I'm a lover, not a fighter.
00:01:35.280 You know, Ben, you're sometime really harsh.
00:01:38.720 I'm all about the love.
00:01:40.860 All about the love.
00:01:42.320 Just check your Twitter account for proof, right?
00:01:44.540 I, there you go.
00:01:46.360 We're also going to talk about Comrade Mondami.
00:01:48.820 Comrade Mondami has been in office a little over a month, and shock of all shock, what is he doing to start off with?
00:01:56.780 He's proposing a massive tax increase on the citizens of New York that will result in rents going up.
00:02:04.320 And there is an irony in this in that he campaigned on saying he was going to freeze rents.
00:02:07.540 But then he discovered, okay, it turns out you need money to run a city, particularly if you want to run a socialist city where you want to spend massive amounts of money.
00:02:16.340 And so we're going to break down what he's doing.
00:02:18.080 We're also going to talk about the left in Minneapolis is spending real money trying to promote jury nullification.
00:02:25.960 They don't want violent radical activists who assault law enforcement officers to be convicted.
00:02:31.840 They're undermining our justice system.
00:02:34.040 We're going to explain.
00:02:34.680 And finally, at the end, we're going to say goodbye to an American movie classic, Robert Duvall, an extraordinary actor.
00:02:41.740 We're going to have a few words about him.
00:02:43.380 He passed this week.
00:02:44.760 He was 95 years old.
00:02:46.140 He led an incredible life.
00:02:47.340 But nonetheless, we're going to say our farewells to a one-of-a-kind actor.
00:02:53.100 Yeah, he really was.
00:02:54.220 All right.
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00:04:47.900 Senator, I pride myself in being able to read the room, and you reluctantly said at the very end of the show we were going to talk about Robert Duvall's passing.
00:04:56.100 I just am going to do that right now because you're such a movie buff guy.
00:05:00.820 And this is me serving you, Senator, knowing that this is top of mind for you.
00:05:08.560 And it's because of the movies that he was in.
00:05:10.700 And let's just start with The Godfather real quick.
00:05:13.520 Look, Robert Duvall, he lived to 95 years old.
00:05:17.360 He was an incredible actor.
00:05:18.860 He was one of the greatest actors of his generation.
00:05:20.940 He was in, his first major movie role was in To Kill a Mockingbird, where he played Boo Radley.
00:05:29.200 And he had no lines, but he just simply through his face, he turned sort of a weird, freakish, scary guy into someone deeply empathetic.
00:05:40.220 And it was an introduction to a career where he had classic roles.
00:05:48.280 He had classic roles in Lonesome Dove, where he was the most badass Texas Ranger to have ever lived.
00:05:56.580 He had a classic role in Apocalypse Now.
00:06:02.480 Well, look, the phrase, I love the smell of napalm in the morning, is an American classic.
00:06:10.500 And for him to be squatting down, bare-chested, just explaining that, and the look of the young G.I.s looking at the guy going, dude, what?
00:06:20.420 Like, that conveys a lot.
00:06:22.500 But of all of the roles, the one that is my favorite, and it's a sentimental, is from The Godfather.
00:06:32.480 He was Tom Hagen.
00:06:34.480 He was the lawyer to the Corleone family.
00:06:38.300 But he was an adopted brother.
00:06:41.060 And of course, in the second movie, he gets let go by Michael Corleone, because Michael says,
00:06:46.740 you're not a wartime consigliere, you're a peacetime consigliere.
00:06:50.420 And the portrayal he plays of sort of the calm lawyer for the mob, lawyer for mass murderers.
00:07:00.100 The lawyer comes in and says, you don't want to screw with the Corleone family.
00:07:06.080 I got to say, you know, it's interesting.
00:07:08.340 In 2011, Robert Duvall was named an honorary Texas Ranger.
00:07:14.060 And it was his lonesome dove portrayal.
00:07:16.160 But it is still, he was not actually a Texan.
00:07:19.020 He was from California and Virginia and Maryland.
00:07:21.880 But Texas loved him.
00:07:25.000 Yeah.
00:07:25.280 And he loved Texas.
00:07:27.200 It was a mutual arrangement.
00:07:31.200 I got to say, I'm sad.
00:07:33.940 Look, at 95, you know, every one of us is on a journey where we're going to shuffle off this mortal coil.
00:07:40.940 But his acting body of work is incredible.
00:07:46.040 It's incredible.
00:07:46.820 He was very close with Gene Hackman, another one of my favorite actors.
00:07:52.160 And Dustin Hoffman, another incredible actor.
00:07:54.380 They used to be roommates.
00:07:55.620 They worked together.
00:07:57.540 I got to say, Gene Hackman, I could watch Gene Hackman reading the newspaper and be riveted.
00:08:03.420 Yeah, it'd be amazing.
00:08:05.060 And he was another actor in his 90s who just passed away.
00:08:08.160 We're losing modern-day legends.
00:08:11.760 But, you know, Robert Duvall, a life well-lived.
00:08:18.840 And actually, I'm going to call an audible.
00:08:21.620 I want to play, and particularly for those of you watching this on YouTube, I want to play a clip from one of Robert Duvall's great moments.
00:08:33.760 Give a watch.
00:08:34.320 Now, just for context, for everybody that's listening in the audio world only, this is a scene from back in 2003, Secondhand Lions, where two old guys walk into a bar with a bunch of young punks.
00:08:49.220 Here it is.
00:08:50.620 Hey, old man.
00:08:51.980 How's that barbecue?
00:08:53.540 Give me some.
00:08:54.700 We're busy.
00:08:55.860 We won't get lost, all right?
00:08:59.140 What did you say?
00:09:01.800 Here's a perfect example of what I've been talking about. 1.00
00:09:04.680 Since this boy was suckling on his mama's c**t, he's been given everything but discipline. 0.99
00:09:09.020 And now his idea of courage and manhood is to get together with a bunch of punk friends and ride around irritating folks. 0.99
00:09:15.100 Too good natured to put a stop to it.
00:09:18.060 Hey, who do you think you are, huh? 1.00
00:09:20.400 Just dumb kids, huh? 1.00
00:09:21.720 Don't kill them. 1.00
00:09:22.560 All right. 0.99
00:09:22.800 I'm Hugged McCann.
00:09:26.560 I've fought in two world wars and countless smaller ones on three continents.
00:09:29.940 I led thousands of men into battle with everything but horses and swords to artillery and tanks.
00:09:34.880 I've seen the headwaters of the Nile and tribes of natives no white man had ever seen before.
00:09:38.960 I've won and lost a dozen fortunes, killed many men, and loved only one woman with a passion to flee like you could never begin to understand.
00:09:48.720 That's who I am.
00:09:49.560 Now, boys, you're fixing to let those teenage hormones get you into the world of trouble. 1.00
00:10:02.860 Damn it, Garth. 0.99
00:10:03.680 Did I ask you to butt in? 1.00
00:10:05.040 You just come out of the hospital.
00:10:06.700 Well, there's only four of them.
00:10:09.900 Yeah, but, well, look, look, you fight this one first, and then I'll let you fight the other three after, okay?
00:10:16.340 Yeah.
00:10:17.360 Watch this, kid.
00:10:18.380 Now, you, you better pick that knife up, because, son, you're going to need all the help you can get.
00:10:27.400 Come on, Frankie. 0.97
00:10:28.060 Get him, Frankie.
00:10:28.620 Cut him, Frankie. 0.98
00:10:29.260 Come on, Frankie. 0.97
00:10:29.920 Get him.
00:10:30.300 Get him, Frankie. 0.97
00:10:30.960 Cut him. 1.00
00:10:35.720 Shoot. 1.00
00:10:36.680 All this trick in the book. 1.00
00:10:37.680 Come on.
00:10:38.680 Okay.
00:10:39.900 You're holding it wrong, son.
00:10:40.820 Not like this.
00:10:41.600 You always do it like this.
00:10:43.140 Smooth.
00:10:43.840 All right?
00:10:44.580 Try to do it.
00:10:45.440 Come on, Frankie. 0.97
00:10:46.400 Come on, Frankie. 0.97
00:10:47.080 Get him.
00:10:47.820 Get him, Frankie. 0.97
00:10:48.600 Cut him. 1.00
00:10:49.080 Cut him. 1.00
00:10:49.360 Cut him. 1.00
00:10:49.900 Cut him, Frankie. 1.00
00:10:50.780 Ah!
00:10:51.580 Ah!
00:10:52.820 Ah!
00:10:53.620 Stop! 1.00
00:10:53.980 Stop! 1.00
00:10:54.400 I like his arm!
00:10:56.220 You better get in there and help.
00:10:59.440 It's so good.
00:11:00.600 I just, I, by the way, if you're listening on audio only, I wish two things.
00:11:04.340 If you haven't watched that clip, you need to watch that clip.
00:11:07.760 Yeah, you've got to see it.
00:11:07.820 I mean, you've got Robert Duvall as,
00:11:09.820 as an old dude, you've got Michael Caine as his buddy.
00:11:13.980 And then you've got Haley Joel Osment as, as the young kid watching this old dude beat 0.96
00:11:20.780 the living crap out of these four punks. 0.90
00:11:24.240 And, and, and it's, you know, I love Michael Caine comes back with a shotgun and it's like, 0.99
00:11:28.820 all right, let me stop you.
00:11:29.660 Cause I got four guys with a knife.
00:11:31.300 Drop your knives.
00:11:32.760 They dropped their knives and, and, and Robert Duvall is like, come on, let me, let me fight
00:11:36.600 him.
00:11:36.760 And he's like, okay, fight the first one.
00:11:39.180 You pick your knife up.
00:11:40.180 The other three stay back.
00:11:41.240 And then once you beat him up, you can beat the other three.
00:11:43.480 Like it, it's classic old, like badass.
00:11:50.100 And, and, and that, that, that is Robert Duvall.
00:11:52.640 By the way, did you ever see gone in 60 seconds?
00:11:56.400 Duvall was in that amazing.
00:11:58.060 He was, I think it was auto was his name in the movie.
00:12:00.360 If you've never watched that one, like it's not, it's just, I grew up and it was younger
00:12:04.780 than like fast cars and stealing cars and Nicholas Cage and Duvall.
00:12:08.420 He was unbelievable in that one as well.
00:12:11.180 So grab it.
00:12:11.920 Yeah.
00:12:12.160 So there you go.
00:12:12.800 All right.
00:12:13.160 Well, I'm glad we did it.
00:12:14.220 I'm glad to call the auto book here.
00:12:15.560 I knew you wanted to talk about this.
00:12:17.160 Hold on a second.
00:12:19.580 Now, hold on.
00:12:20.380 If you're going to do this, there's another clip we got to watch, which, which is from,
00:12:24.460 from Lonesome Dove, Augustus McRae walking in this old weathered Texas Ranger walking
00:12:32.260 into a bar and let's say there's a punk ass bartender back to, there's a lot of similarity
00:12:37.960 between these two scenes, but, but, but it's part of why I love Duvall.
00:12:41.600 He got better as an old guy. 0.97
00:12:43.060 So, so listen to, listen and watch this great clip from Lonesome Dove.
00:12:47.800 What I like about the man, he's a philosopher.
00:12:50.720 Oh yeah.
00:12:51.800 I hired him to give you somebody to talk to.
00:12:54.800 That'll free the rest of us up, mate.
00:12:56.600 We'll get a little work done.
00:12:57.480 I like a shot of whiskey and so would my companion.
00:13:04.680 It ain't too much trouble.
00:13:07.560 Howdy boy, you got a good game going there?
00:13:10.480 You got mud in your ears or what?
00:13:12.920 Rye or what'll it be, old timer?
00:13:15.100 Rye will do, provided it gets here quick. 0.99
00:13:18.840 Darn cowboys ought to broom yourselves off before you walk in here. 1.00
00:13:23.100 You get all the sand we need without the customers bringing it in. 0.99
00:13:26.620 That'll be a dollar.
00:13:27.480 Now, besides the whiskey, I think we'll require a little respect.
00:13:34.180 I'm Captain Augustus McCray.
00:13:36.840 This is Captain Woodrow F. Carr.
00:13:39.720 Now, if you care to turn around, you can see how we looked when we was younger and the people around here wanted to make us senators.
00:13:46.900 Now, the thing we didn't put up with then was dawdling service.
00:13:50.420 And as you can see, we still don't put up with it.
00:13:53.960 By the way, in that scene, that's Tommy Lee Jones who says nothing at all, which is pretty funny.
00:13:59.840 But you can tell in his facial expressions, he's having the time of his life making this movie with Duvall.
00:14:05.220 No, no, no.
00:14:05.820 And they wanted Duvall to play the role that Tommy Lee Jones played.
00:14:10.520 And Duvall said, no.
00:14:11.660 Now, Augustus McCray was the only role he'd play.
00:14:14.260 He wouldn't do the movie if he didn't get – or it was actually a television series, a four-part series.
00:14:19.480 But, you know, it – he was just an all-time classic, 95 years –
00:14:27.140 By the way, Duvall insisted – do you know he's not having a funeral?
00:14:31.640 He's not.
00:14:32.480 He said, don't have a ceremony for me.
00:14:34.700 Just go and watch a good movie.
00:14:37.600 Tell a good story.
00:14:38.720 Sit around with friends and loved ones.
00:14:40.760 I mean, that really is Duvall.
00:14:42.100 I kind of dig that.
00:14:43.340 I wish – I never got a chance to meet him.
00:14:45.160 I was going to say, did you ever meet him?
00:14:46.960 He was a conservative.
00:14:48.520 I heard fabulous things.
00:14:50.060 I knew people who knew him.
00:14:51.860 I wanted to meet him, but we just never crossed paths.
00:14:55.520 But my heart is beating for an American legend who left us.
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00:15:32.660 Let's get to the politics now.
00:15:35.120 And we'll start with – yeah, you couldn't get any further from Duvall with Gavin Newsom.
00:15:39.980 Gavin Newsom trashes America.
00:15:41.460 No, no, no.
00:15:42.200 Hold on a second.
00:15:43.640 Gavin Newsom is the young punk in the bar.
00:15:47.160 That's true.
00:15:48.480 And by the way, you and I get to be, I think, in this story, Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
00:15:54.180 Yes, yes.
00:15:54.840 Although there is one thing that's stretching that, which is Tommy Lee Jones is silent in that scene.
00:15:58.960 And, Ben, you've never been silent in any scene.
00:16:01.100 No, no.
00:16:02.040 That's also very true.
00:16:03.480 That's why they pay me the big bucks, right?
00:16:05.580 That's why they pay me the big bucks.
00:16:07.800 You know, like the old-time lawyers, they pay you by the word.
00:16:10.660 Yeah, right.
00:16:11.140 All right.
00:16:11.440 So, let's set the stage for this story.
00:16:14.040 You and I do a show.
00:16:15.120 We talk about it.
00:16:16.380 We're going to play part of that in a second.
00:16:18.220 But I want to know, when did you and who, how fast did you find out after he tweeted at us getting all cranky?
00:16:24.760 He got his underwear in a wad is the way I described it.
00:16:28.460 My phone, actually, I started getting random texts from people.
00:16:31.120 I'm like, what are you talking about?
00:16:32.580 I was in a meeting.
00:16:33.280 I'm like, what?
00:16:33.720 Like, they're like, dude, Newsom's like throwing shade and he's really upset with you guys.
00:16:37.680 And I was like, well, that's what I would expect from a California liberal, to be honest with you.
00:16:41.680 When did you find out?
00:16:42.840 So, our last podcast, we lit up AOC and Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom, all of whom went to Munich, to the Munich Security Conference. 0.96
00:16:53.940 And they all made fools of themselves. 0.53
00:16:55.420 They were all trying to run for president. 0.99
00:16:56.880 They were all trying to be impressive.
00:16:58.540 And they all just, like, totally beclowned themselves.
00:17:01.320 And AOC and Whitmer showed they know nothing about foreign policy or national security.
00:17:06.200 Gavin Newsom did something different.
00:17:07.460 He just decided to demonize law enforcement.
00:17:10.520 And he made a statement in particular.
00:17:12.020 He said, no president has ever before federalized the National Guard.
00:17:16.660 And that's just laughably false.
00:17:18.720 So, I want to play the clip from what we said in the very last podcast.
00:17:22.820 And this is the clip that so triggered young Gavin.
00:17:25.820 Listen.
00:17:26.080 Let's be very clear, Senator.
00:17:29.440 That is Gavin Newsom comparing American law enforcement to Nazis.
00:17:33.600 Yep.
00:17:34.120 Yep.
00:17:34.440 Which, by the way, is what Obama was doing, too.
00:17:38.460 By the way, just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate.
00:17:44.260 He said, we've never seen National Guards federalized in the states.
00:17:48.360 I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement.
00:17:51.740 He's never heard of a president named Dwight D. Eisenhower.
00:17:54.420 He's never heard of sending the National Guard into southern states when Democrats who refused to desegregate schools resisted.
00:18:03.620 Eisenhower sent the National Guard in.
00:18:05.760 The pattern is the same.
00:18:07.300 In this instance, you have Democrats who are saying, we refuse to comply with federal immigration law.
00:18:12.660 Then you had, in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying, we refuse to comply with civil rights law.
00:18:18.960 In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement.
00:18:25.820 You know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician.
00:18:32.340 That's all that you really said.
00:18:34.500 And then his response was a total freak out. 0.99
00:18:37.500 Yeah, so Gavin on Twitter, he sent out a tweet, and like all good Democrats, when caught being full of crap, he responds by attacking and screaming, you cannot criticize me. 0.98
00:18:51.300 And in particular, what he said is, Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him. 0.93
00:19:00.980 Now, let's start out.
00:19:02.360 First of all, who the hell knew Gavin Newsom was dyslexic?
00:19:05.220 I didn't know that.
00:19:05.840 Did you know that, Ben?
00:19:07.080 No, I did not.
00:19:07.860 And you know, it's funny. 0.99
00:19:08.500 I'm dyslexic, but that doesn't mean you're stupid, by the way. 0.99
00:19:11.520 By the way, I didn't know you were dyslexic either. 0.98
00:19:14.260 Yeah, because I don't use it as a crutch.
00:19:16.240 But like, since Gavin's bringing it up, like, it's some, like, you went off the rails on him.
00:19:21.040 Like, how dare you do that?
00:19:22.000 Like, I'm dyslexic. 0.99
00:19:22.980 It doesn't mean you're dumb. 1.00
00:19:23.780 It doesn't mean you mean stupid statements because you're dyslexic. 1.00
00:19:26.220 Like, you can still be intelligent and be dyslexic, buddy. 0.99
00:19:29.920 So Gavin's defense is, you're not allowed to criticize me because I have a disability. 0.99
00:19:35.560 That is, if there's anything to embody the idiocy of today's Democrat Party, that does it pretty well. 0.99
00:19:42.560 So it's interesting. 0.99
00:19:43.660 I sent two responses. 0.97
00:19:45.040 The first response I sent was, I didn't say you couldn't read, you clown, with the emoji of the clown. 0.97
00:19:53.180 Now, I said you were, quote, historically illiterate because you apparently have no idea that Eisenhower federalized the National Guard to stop Democrat governors from defying federal law. 0.96
00:20:06.940 Specifically, on September 23rd, 1957, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, federalizing the Arkansas National Guard and ordering U.S. Army troops, the 101st Airborne Division, to Little Rock, Arkansas.
00:20:23.240 Yep.
00:20:23.400 This action broke the blockade by Democrat Governor Orville Faubus, allowing the Little Rock Nine to desegregate Central High School. 0.96
00:20:31.760 Now, Gavin had no response to that.
00:20:34.860 Now, I got to tell you, let me bring you a little bit inside the scenes.
00:20:37.420 So my team had a different response that they suggested, and I have a whole social media communications team.
00:20:44.220 They had a different response.
00:20:46.120 Their different response was to send out a tweet with a GIF, and a GIF of Zoolander.
00:20:56.480 It's a mini video, just so everybody doesn't know what that is.
00:20:59.120 Like, some people may not realize what that is.
00:21:00.500 It's like the mini little video kind of thing you send out.
00:21:03.000 So it's Ben Stiller as Zoolander, and he's looking down at a sign that says,
00:21:08.280 The Gavin Newsom Center for what kids who don't know what historically illiterate means, and who want to learn to do other stuff good, too.
00:21:17.540 So my team put that together.
00:21:19.900 I did not put that together.
00:21:21.940 I saw that, and I sent mine instead.
00:21:25.680 And then my team got all upset, and they're like, wait, you didn't like ours.
00:21:29.640 And I said, you know what?
00:21:31.300 Let's have a competition.
00:21:33.000 Send that one, too.
00:21:35.080 Let's put them both out. 0.83
00:21:36.580 And see which one wins.
00:21:37.880 Both out on the internet, and see which one wins.
00:21:41.820 So as of, we're now 1221 a.m., the Ben Stiller GIF, which was clever, has gotten 397,000 views.
00:21:54.400 Okay.
00:21:55.140 The one I wrote has gotten a million views.
00:21:57.780 Yeah, so how long are you going to haze them on this data that you have that's undisputed?
00:22:03.540 Okay, so not to brag too much, but I did beat the team by 250%.
00:22:10.380 Just for everyone, I want to take them behind the scenes.
00:22:14.440 Senator, when you are correct and your team has these moments, I enjoy not being on that team.
00:22:20.520 I enjoy being a spectator, but I do know the parties, all of them involved.
00:22:23.880 But hold on, hold on.
00:22:24.500 I'm going to be gracious for a minute.
00:22:26.080 I'm going to be gracious for a minute.
00:22:27.940 Although I got two and a half times as much coverage as they did in terms of people watching it.
00:22:32.680 And I will say the comments on their GIF, the folks that saw it, loved it.
00:22:38.560 So I'm just going to go through a few.
00:22:41.240 Joe Lonsdale, a good friend of ours, big tech entrepreneur, he's been on the podcast.
00:22:45.380 He did the crying emoji.
00:22:47.500 Another guy said, whoever came up with this meme needs a raise.
00:22:52.280 Another guy said, sir, this is a 10 for 10 post.
00:22:55.280 It's too bad Newsom won't be able to read it.
00:22:57.860 Another person had a GIF from the Simpsons.
00:23:01.240 It's, hello, 911, I'd like to report a murder.
00:23:06.460 The volume of comments, the ex-trolling continues, good, good, a picture of Trump toasting, crying Trump emojis, Cruz clearly won this round.
00:23:19.540 Bwahaha, it's like this put you in my top five favorite politicians.
00:23:24.960 I'm really depressed who are the other four.
00:23:26.820 Yeah, right.
00:23:28.420 Well done, good sir, well done.
00:23:30.680 Spitting out, he went to school at the Leering School.
00:23:33.540 So the team is going to get accolades for quality over quantity.
00:23:38.300 So I gave them that.
00:23:39.600 Actually, their comments, the people who saw it, loved it.
00:23:43.120 They're like, this is a friggin' great comment.
00:23:45.980 And so, you know what?
00:23:47.060 I said, I'm glad we sent them both.
00:23:49.040 Yeah.
00:23:49.640 We reached more people.
00:23:51.120 Mine had kind of substance.
00:23:52.460 I'm going to tell you another admission.
00:23:53.680 You know how I wrote my tweet?
00:23:58.120 Yeah.
00:23:58.500 How?
00:23:59.960 You do?
00:24:00.400 How?
00:24:01.320 No, no, no.
00:24:01.720 I'm saying how.
00:24:02.320 Tell me how.
00:24:02.780 I know you said yeah.
00:24:04.460 Oh, yeah.
00:24:04.940 No, I know you wrote it, but I can all...
00:24:07.540 What people don't understand about you is when you...
00:24:10.020 You can check out of any conversation if you have something clever that you want to get
00:24:14.780 out into the world of the internet, as you described earlier.
00:24:18.460 I would call it X, social media.
00:24:20.620 I'm just going to hit you on age there.
00:24:22.800 Like, putting it out into the internet.
00:24:24.280 Yes.
00:24:24.580 Okay.
00:24:24.940 Al Gore.
00:24:25.460 He created it back in the day.
00:24:26.680 But when you...
00:24:28.380 There's nothing scarier than watching TC at dinner, just quietly over there and disengaging
00:24:36.600 from the conversation for about five minutes.
00:24:39.580 And you know what's coming.
00:24:41.120 It's going to be something really entertaining on the internet.
00:24:43.600 I can promise you that.
00:24:45.000 So my team had sent me this gift.
00:24:46.740 Monday night, I was playing hoops.
00:24:48.620 And as you know, I play hoops twice a week.
00:24:50.520 And so it was about three hours of hoops.
00:24:51.880 And I had, after a couple of games, we lost one game.
00:24:55.120 And so I didn't hit my free throw.
00:24:56.920 So I was sitting, waiting for the next game.
00:24:58.780 And so I typed this responding.
00:25:00.660 And it's actually a very cool thing about AI.
00:25:03.940 So the first part of it that I sent, which is because you apparently have no idea that
00:25:07.900 Eisenhower federalized the National Guard to stop them governors from defying federal
00:25:10.980 law.
00:25:11.160 I wrote that.
00:25:12.280 Yeah.
00:25:12.500 But then I went to Google and I typed in Eisenhower federalizing National Guard.
00:25:17.660 Because like, you know, I wanted a little more research.
00:25:19.720 And Google AI, so the second paragraph of my tweet was written by Google AI.
00:25:25.460 And so the paragraph specifically on September 23rd, 1957, so I didn't know the date until
00:25:30.320 I went into Google AI.
00:25:32.320 President Eisenhower issued executive order 10-730.
00:25:35.780 I didn't know the number of the 10-730.
00:25:38.120 Like the whole details of the second paragraph, the beauty of Google AI, it took me 30 seconds
00:25:45.740 to pull those details.
00:25:47.640 It took you missing your free throws, then giving you the opportunity.
00:25:52.460 Then giving you the opportunity. 1.00
00:25:54.000 If I hit my damn free throws. 1.00
00:25:55.440 All right, punk. 1.00
00:25:56.280 None of this would have ever happened. 0.99
00:25:57.760 None of this would have ever happened if it wasn't for you sucking at free throw shooting 0.99
00:26:00.960 that night. 0.97
00:26:01.680 I just want to be clear about what brought this opportunity together.
00:26:04.660 Let me just say for the record, what happened the last time you played Hoos with me?
00:26:08.680 You or someone else decided to break my finger.
00:26:12.120 It's still crooked.
00:26:12.920 If you can't see it right there, America, there it is.
00:26:15.080 It has a crooked finger right there.
00:26:17.020 I'm just saying you were a college Division I varsity athlete.
00:26:21.880 To be clear, Lonsdale would back me up on this.
00:26:24.760 I taped it up and played like a man.
00:26:27.180 You did.
00:26:27.920 I agree.
00:26:28.800 You did not crawl up at a ball and whimper.
00:26:32.080 But I'm just saying.
00:26:33.000 And you're like, you know, you broke phones when you decided to hoops with us.
00:26:36.640 And I still hit my shots.
00:26:38.180 You guys don't play fair.
00:26:39.360 You get older.
00:26:39.920 You start grabbing for stuff.
00:26:41.040 You can't see straight if it's a hand or a ball.
00:26:42.720 That's how old guys play. 1.00
00:26:44.340 That's how old guys play. 1.00
00:26:45.820 Exactly.
00:26:46.420 Exactly.
00:26:46.780 So you miss your free throws.
00:26:48.380 AI came and saved the day.
00:26:49.920 You put out the tweet.
00:26:51.240 Gavin shoots back.
00:26:52.520 And that's how we got to where we are right now.
00:26:54.560 But think about it.
00:26:55.540 Even like a year ago, to put together the details of that tweet, I would have a year ago, probably,
00:27:01.680 if I wanted to have a little substance in the tweet, I might have sent a text.
00:27:04.300 Yeah, you get your team involved.
00:27:05.540 To my team.
00:27:06.300 Said, hey, research.
00:27:07.280 Give me the exact details.
00:27:08.920 I know Eisenhower federalized the National Guard.
00:27:10.960 Yeah, tell me when, who, what, when, where, and why, right?
00:27:13.080 And someone would have researched it.
00:27:14.720 They would have sent it to me.
00:27:15.600 And then I would have included it.
00:27:16.860 And instead, I just did it in between games.
00:27:19.400 Like, the whole thing took me maybe three minutes to type.
00:27:22.980 So when did you see the Newsom response?
00:27:26.120 Was it after missing more free throws?
00:27:27.880 Or was it later on?
00:27:29.160 It was before the game.
00:27:30.600 And to be honest, I only sat one game.
00:27:32.740 I missed free throws and won most of the rest of the time.
00:27:35.720 And the couple times I lost, I hit my free throws. 0.99
00:27:37.760 But I did once miss my damn free throws. 0.98
00:27:39.900 But the beauty of it is, it literally, so I had seen it before I started playing. 0.99
00:27:47.860 And I'm like, no.
00:27:48.980 And I'm sort of, you know, I don't know about you.
00:27:50.780 But like, when I'm thinking about something, I often will sort of put it out of my mind.
00:27:55.320 And let the back of my brain process it.
00:27:56.700 Yeah, you ponder for a little bit.
00:27:56.960 You go back.
00:27:57.420 And then you come back to it.
00:27:58.400 Yeah.
00:27:58.760 And it was sort of like, literally, as I'm playing hoops, I'm chewing on what kind of response I want to have.
00:28:04.120 And so then when I had a break, I'm like, all right, let me type it out.
00:28:07.080 All right.
00:28:07.300 I got to ask you.
00:28:08.340 Is Gavin Newsom on your top five liberals that you would love one-on-one debate with?
00:28:14.140 Oh, look, I don't know.
00:28:15.560 We talked about in the last podcast how I think Newsom and AOC are probably the top two Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination.
00:28:24.440 We'll see.
00:28:25.320 Neither of them know what the hell they're talking about.
00:28:27.340 So I feel confident we will see them called to account.
00:28:32.040 Well, there's always the leering center of dyslexia.
00:28:34.620 It could be in California.
00:28:35.980 Gavin Newsom could be in charge of it.
00:28:37.520 Well, you know, there's waste, fraud, and abuse out there. 0.93
00:28:39.760 And by the way, Newsom's being a doofus has nothing to do with his being dyslexic. 0.94
00:28:46.300 I didn't even know the guy was dyslexic. 0.76
00:28:48.380 I've never been offended as being a guy that's dyslexic until I saw his tweet.
00:28:53.400 And I'm like, dude, you don't.
00:28:54.620 Like, this is so out of bounds.
00:28:56.300 Like, you have no idea what you're talking about.
00:28:58.100 Like, you can be dyslexic and be brilliant.
00:28:59.960 It doesn't mean that you're incompetent.
00:29:01.540 And you can know something about history.
00:29:04.160 Yes!
00:29:04.740 Like, you know, okay, fine, so you have a challenge reading because of a learning disorder.
00:29:09.180 It doesn't mean you have to be ignorant of everything that has happened in American history.
00:29:12.780 But when ideology trumps facts, that's when you say things like what Gavin Newsom did.
00:29:18.000 By the way, it's also when you say things like AOC said, where she said, you know,
00:29:24.060 she got mad at Marco Rubio for talking about all the things we've inherited from Europe,
00:29:28.540 including cowboy tradition that came from Spain.
00:29:30.960 And she said, why don't you try asking Mexico and Africa about that?
00:29:35.260 I will tell you on Twitter, I had fun.
00:29:36.840 This was another thing I said.
00:29:37.920 I just said, hey, Grock, where did the Mexicans get their horses? 0.86
00:29:42.780 Yeah.
00:29:43.040 And, of course, Grock responded from, well, from the Spanish conquistadors in the 15th century, Cortez.
00:29:49.220 By the way, I pointed out, it's a little ironic her name is Cortez,
00:29:52.700 and she doesn't actually know about Cortez.
00:29:54.960 Like, the Spaniards bringing horses and bringing, look, yes, the Mexican vaqueros were a predecessor 0.98
00:30:02.280 to American cowboys, but the Spanish vaqueros were a predecessor to the Mexican vaqueros.
00:30:06.940 But you know what?
00:30:08.220 A little Marxist like AOC or Gavin Newsom, they don't want to acknowledge that Europe existed
00:30:14.160 or did anything good, and so they have to, because all is ideology, Europe must be evil.
00:30:21.160 Yeah. 1.00
00:30:22.300 You can't fix stupid, sir. 1.00
00:30:24.120 You just can't fix stupid. 1.00
00:30:25.780 All right. 1.00
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