Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 02, 2026


Very Short Shutdown, Multi-Million-Dollar Detransitioner Lawsuit & Trump Pulls out of 66 UN Agencies

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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergusons discuss the government shutdown, the landmark verdict in a transgender woman's case, and the Trump administration's decision to withdraw the United States from some of the UN's most controversial global commitments.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
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00:00:04.520 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:07.820 It's nice to have you with us on this Monday morning.
00:00:09.900 Senator, we've got a lot to talk about, including as we speak,
00:00:12.900 we're in a partial government shutdown.
00:00:15.800 We're going to cover what that actually means.
00:00:17.820 Plus, we've got two other big stories as well.
00:00:20.160 Well, that's right.
00:00:20.680 We're going to explain what is happening with the shutdown,
00:00:22.800 what's going to happen next, how long it's going to last.
00:00:24.940 We're also going to talk about the fact that there was a landmark verdict
00:00:28.420 for the first time of an individual who transitioned,
00:00:32.860 had a young woman who had both of her breasts removed in a transgender surgery,
00:00:38.260 who then realized it was a catastrophic mistake,
00:00:41.240 and she filed a lawsuit and ended up being awarded $2 million, 0.92
00:00:44.560 the first ever verdict of its kind.
00:00:46.540 We're going to talk about the consequences of that as well.
00:00:49.680 And finally, we're going to talk about Donald Trump just this week
00:00:53.220 pulled out of 66 different U.N. committees withdrawing us from massive global entanglements.
00:01:01.320 We're going to explain what that means and why he did so.
00:01:05.140 Yeah, it's going to be really interesting to hear that story.
00:01:07.400 It's going to also save Americans a lot of money.
00:01:10.100 So let's start with the government shutdown,
00:01:12.440 and this is a partial government shutdown.
00:01:14.740 The media is not playing this up with all the fear-mongering they did with the last shutdown,
00:01:18.880 partly because the Democrats didn't get what they wanted out of the last government shutdown.
00:01:22.780 They thought it was going to help them significantly in the polls.
00:01:24.960 That didn't really work out.
00:01:26.720 So for Americans right now that are waking up,
00:01:29.200 they're like, all right, we've got a partial government shutdown.
00:01:31.120 What does that actually mean for them?
00:01:33.240 What services could disappear?
00:01:35.280 Are there going to be lines at the airport?
00:01:37.140 And how long could this last?
00:01:39.500 Well, listen, I think this is going to be very short-lived.
00:01:42.000 It is a partial government shutdown.
00:01:43.900 Much of the government is funded already.
00:01:46.200 And the way a government shutdown operates is that any essential services are funded regardless.
00:01:51.340 And so what is temporarily shut down is what each cabinet agency deems a non-essential service.
00:01:58.980 I think at the end of the day, this is going to last a day or two at most.
00:02:02.880 So what happened last week is the Senate passed legislation funding the government,
00:02:09.100 funding the entirety of the government through the fiscal year,
00:02:12.760 except for the Department of Homeland Security.
00:02:15.100 The Department of Homeland Security, it funded a two-week continuing resolution.
00:02:19.760 That has gone to the House.
00:02:21.620 The House is back now.
00:02:22.940 Today is Monday.
00:02:23.840 The House will be back.
00:02:24.740 I predict by Tuesday the House will have passed this, and the president will have signed it.
00:02:29.760 So I think this shutdown will extend a couple of days.
00:02:33.680 By the way, it's worth noting the government shuts down every weekend.
00:02:38.040 And so the government shut down on Sunday, and nobody on planet Earth noticed.
00:02:42.160 I think we will see, because Sunday people were at home, they were going to church,
00:02:47.300 they were with their families, they were not expecting government offices to be open.
00:02:51.020 So I think it will be a very brief delay.
00:02:52.980 I will point out also that on Sunday, Steny Hoyer and Jim Clyburn, both senior Democrats in the leadership
00:03:02.000 of the House, told House Democrats on their private caucus call that they should vote yes
00:03:08.100 to pass the government funding package this week.
00:03:11.280 And, you know, it's interesting.
00:03:12.260 That was sent out on Twitter this weekend, and lefties just lost their mind.
00:03:17.600 I'm going to read you the first couple of comments that come off.
00:03:20.340 The first says, 0.94
00:03:21.060 This is getting ridiculous. 1.00
00:03:22.700 These people are rapists and murderers. 1.00
00:03:24.860 Are they effing serious? 1.00
00:03:26.260 Shut it effing down at DNC.
00:03:29.520 The second comment.
00:03:30.940 F no, Steny Hoyer and James Clyburn.
00:03:34.040 You are not speaking for your base, which is why your fundraising is down.
00:03:37.140 No funding for ICE until real reform.
00:03:39.180 They're killing us.
00:03:40.380 And you want to give them more money to do that?
00:03:42.220 I'm so tired of you.
00:03:43.540 We are experiencing true evil.
00:03:47.100 Here's the fourth comment.
00:03:48.760 What the literal F?
00:03:51.060 Stop.
00:03:51.640 All caps.
00:03:52.440 Exclamation mark.
00:03:53.300 Exclamation mark.
00:03:54.060 Exclamation mark.
00:03:54.740 Exclamation mark.
00:03:55.800 That sort of gives you the flavor of the Twitter left-wing glitterati. 1.00
00:04:03.840 But I think at the end of the day, you're going to see a coalition of both Republicans
00:04:08.340 and Democrats in the House pass this.
00:04:10.520 And I think the shutdown will very quickly become old news.
00:04:13.820 When you talk about services, just to put it in perspective for people to understand,
00:04:17.900 like things that you don't have to worry about in this shutdown.
00:04:19.960 Social Security, Medicare payments, they're going to be paid on schedule.
00:04:23.680 And so this can calm many people as well.
00:04:26.660 Food stamps and WIC are going to not be impacted because those benefits got funding through September
00:04:32.120 of 2026.
00:04:33.740 Medicare and Medicaid health coverage still will work.
00:04:36.740 So that's not going to be a problem.
00:04:38.180 U.S. mail service unaffected as well.
00:04:40.460 And passport and visa processing.
00:04:43.080 The State Department says their core services will continue.
00:04:46.020 So that's not a problem either.
00:04:48.260 Is that part of the reason why you're not seeing as big of maybe a throwdown by Democrats?
00:04:52.580 Because what are we really fighting over here?
00:04:54.700 They can't weaponize a shutdown as much as they did the last time?
00:04:57.420 Well, listen, part of the reason is Congress has already passed a significant chunk of the
00:05:01.980 funding for the federal government.
00:05:03.220 So it's a much smaller government shutdown that happened previously.
00:05:06.600 Last year, Chuck Schumer and the Democrats forced the longest government shutdown in U.S.
00:05:13.200 history, 43 days.
00:05:15.140 They did so really to throw a temper tantrum.
00:05:18.240 They did so to show their left-wing base how much they hate Donald Trump.
00:05:22.680 They did so to show they are fighting.
00:05:26.380 And I've got to say, one of the nightmares, if you're a big government Democrat,
00:05:31.420 about the worst nightmare you can imagine is the government shuts down and nobody notices.
00:05:36.980 The reality is, even in a full government shutdown, typically about 18 percent of the
00:05:43.380 government shuts down.
00:05:44.360 About 82 percent continues.
00:05:45.920 Everything that's deemed essential continues.
00:05:48.200 So Social Security continues.
00:05:49.540 Medicare continues.
00:05:50.400 Medicaid continues.
00:05:51.760 The military continues.
00:05:53.080 Law enforcement continues.
00:05:54.300 Border security continues.
00:05:55.980 The only things that shut down during a shutdown are things that are deemed non-essential.
00:06:02.520 Each cabinet secretary gets to make that determination.
00:06:05.500 So typically that's things like national parks.
00:06:09.120 That's things like the Smithsonian museums.
00:06:11.740 It's things that over time can get annoying.
00:06:14.020 And by the way, one of the biggest factors of annoyance are that you have people like air traffic
00:06:20.060 controllers who are not paid.
00:06:21.480 And over the extended government shutdown, the 43-day Schumer shutdown, those air traffic
00:06:28.040 controllers got pissed off and they didn't come into work, or a fair number of them didn't.
00:06:32.900 And so you ended up having a lot of delays.
00:06:36.220 So what is funded already, Department of Agriculture is funded already, Commerce and Department of Justice
00:06:44.820 are funded, energy and water, interior, environment, ledge branch, military construction and VA, all of that is funded.
00:06:51.280 So what is affected by the temporary shutdown?
00:06:55.020 Well, the Department of War is, but again, as I said, our military fighting forces still continue to function.
00:07:02.240 Department of Labor and HHS, but again, that does not include Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
00:07:09.660 Department of Education.
00:07:11.480 Department of Homeland Security, but that is expected.
00:07:14.940 And anything that is a law enforcement function continues to on go.
00:07:18.240 The Department of State, Foreign Ops, is not funded.
00:07:23.220 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development.
00:07:27.280 Court funding, SEC, FCC, some of the independent agencies.
00:07:32.840 But at the end of the day, all of that is, I think, not going to matter very much because I fully expect,
00:07:39.240 I will be surprised if by Tuesday evening the full government is not funded.
00:07:43.280 So I think this will be short enough that nobody's going to notice.
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00:08:18.260 I want to move to another big story, Senator, and this is one that gives me genuine hope.
00:08:24.060 And I want to get your reaction to it as well over what could be coming when it comes to the abuse of children.
00:08:31.180 I call it child body mutilation with the obsession over sex change and transgender children. 0.99
00:08:38.740 We've seen this be a cash cow.
00:08:41.260 Vanderbilt University got busted on video talking about how they need to advocate for this more with their transition center there.
00:08:49.060 And talking about how much money they can make off kids if you just get them in here and bring them to us.
00:08:54.340 And their lifetime treatment because your body is constantly trying to say, no, this is not what I am.
00:08:59.480 When you go through these transitions, you got to take all these pills and all of this medicine and all these doctor visits.
00:09:04.640 And I do this is seven figures and these kids come in here.
00:09:07.200 Get as many as you can.
00:09:08.120 In essence, that backfired when it came out publicly that that's what they were looking at these children as.
00:09:13.820 But we had something very big that happened, and that is a child that has now been able to, in essence, sue and win for what doctors and the mental health people have literally done to her, allowed to happen to her.
00:09:29.420 This is great news for, I think, to warn doctors that are in, that are claiming they're helping people when they're really just mutilating them this way.
00:09:39.240 You're on notice now.
00:09:40.700 You could be held accountable for these actions.
00:09:42.500 Yeah, look, my approach to this is, number one, quite libertarian, and number two, very focused on protecting kids.
00:09:50.520 So, Ben, you're a grown-ass man. 0.61
00:09:53.820 If you decide tomorrow you want to be a chick, okay, that's your choice. 0.93
00:09:59.260 I don't agree with it.
00:10:00.140 I don't encourage it.
00:10:01.260 But I think that's fine.
00:10:02.360 If you tell the world from now on you're Benjamina, okay, that's fine. 1.00
00:10:07.580 You can tell people that.
00:10:09.080 By the way, you don't have any right to—
00:10:10.740 You do such an eloquent job of always bringing me up in these scenarios.
00:10:15.600 Anytime there's a sensitive subject like this, I just feel good that you're going to make sure you somehow figure out a way that I am the example X.
00:10:23.720 But keep going.
00:10:24.760 I just think you illustrate this well.
00:10:27.060 But look, if you want to tell the world you want to call yourself Benjamina, great. 0.90
00:10:31.220 Like, you're an adult.
00:10:32.620 You can make that decision.
00:10:34.180 What you don't have a right to do is make me call you Benjamina.
00:10:37.240 I'd be like, okay, that's a little bit crazy.
00:10:39.300 Ben, I'm going to call you what I want to call.
00:10:40.820 Like, you don't have a right to control me.
00:10:42.720 You can control yourself.
00:10:43.920 You don't have a right to control me.
00:10:45.040 And God forbid you decide you want to do something radical. 0.99
00:10:49.440 You want to chop off body parts. 0.53
00:10:51.820 Look, I very much disagree with that. 0.75
00:10:55.660 But as I said, I'm a libertarian. 0.95
00:10:57.140 You're a grown-ass man. 0.99
00:10:58.000 If you want to chop body parts off, you can do that. 0.99
00:11:00.780 I wish you wouldn't.
00:11:02.020 I think that'd be unfortunate.
00:11:03.460 But you have the ability to make that decision.
00:11:05.700 You know who doesn't have that ability?
00:11:07.440 Kids.
00:11:08.500 Yeah.
00:11:08.620 And I think the idea that you take kids—
00:11:12.240 and sometimes we're seeing these forced sex changes.
00:11:16.140 is for kids as young as 7, 8, 9, 10 years old,
00:11:21.560 no child has the maturity to decide that he or she is going to make
00:11:26.920 what could be a permanent life-altering decision.
00:11:29.320 Look, you look at sex change operations.
00:11:31.540 They can sterilize a child,
00:11:33.000 whether it's a little girl who suddenly thinks she's a boy
00:11:35.400 or a little boy who thinks she's a girl.
00:11:37.780 The chemicals that they give, or even worse, the surgery they give,
00:11:42.800 can permanently sterilize a child,
00:11:44.820 can permanently deform a child.
00:11:47.080 And as I said, an adult can do that.
00:11:48.880 If you want to castrate yourself,
00:11:51.440 I disagree with that decision.
00:11:53.960 It's the wrong decision.
00:11:55.680 But an adult should be able to make that decision.
00:11:58.520 No kid has the maturity to make that decision,
00:12:00.780 and no parent should let them.
00:12:02.540 You and I are both parents of teenagers,
00:12:05.740 and your kids are—how old are your kids now?
00:12:08.280 They're young.
00:12:08.660 Mine are 6.
00:12:09.720 The twins are 6, and my oldest is 9.
00:12:11.580 Yeah, 6 and 9.
00:12:12.600 And by the way, there are kids this age that are being subjected to this.
00:12:17.180 And if you as a parent decided,
00:12:21.340 my kid wants to do this, I'm going to let them.
00:12:23.600 I think that's child abuse.
00:12:25.480 If your kid's an adult and they make that decision, that's different.
00:12:28.740 But what happened, and this is really significant,
00:12:30.860 last week there was a case.
00:12:32.980 So there was a young woman who was 16 years old,
00:12:36.120 and she had both of her breasts removed. 1.00
00:12:38.160 They were healthy.
00:12:39.380 She had them removed because she was supposedly transgender. 0.99
00:12:43.400 And she went and sued because as she grew up,
00:12:45.940 she realized, wait, I don't want to be a dude,
00:12:48.680 and I'd really like to have my breasts back. 0.98
00:12:50.560 And you know what? 0.86
00:12:51.920 Once you have them removed, they're gone.
00:12:53.620 They don't come back.
00:12:54.360 And so she filed a lawsuit, and she was awarded $2 million.
00:13:00.040 It's the first successful detransitioner malpractice lawsuit in the nation. 0.98
00:13:06.100 And she sued both the psychologist and the surgeon. 0.68
00:13:10.660 And what is remarkable, do you know what state the jury was in that awarded the $2 million?
00:13:16.000 Boy, the best part of the story for me, because it's New York, right?
00:13:20.280 New York State, Westchester, New York.
00:13:22.620 And you know what?
00:13:23.620 The jury in New York said, wait a second.
00:13:25.400 You had a healthy 16-year-old girl that these doctors came in, 0.50
00:13:29.640 convinced her that she was a dude, and then cut both of her breasts off, 0.98
00:13:33.900 pay her $2 million. 0.99
00:13:35.820 That is a really significant threshold.
00:13:38.860 I'm going to predict right now this is not going to be the last lawsuit.
00:13:41.720 And you pointed out one of the most evil aspects of this,
00:13:47.400 which is there is a multimillion-dollar, if not a multibillion-dollar industry behind this,
00:13:54.520 behind pushing these supposed treatments that are just abusing kids.
00:14:00.640 And you've got woke adults that are pushing these treatments because they want to virtue signal,
00:14:11.120 just how virtuous they are.
00:14:13.300 But you've also got hospitals, you've got doctors that are making massive amounts of money.
00:14:18.740 And this lawsuit, you want to talk about changing physician behavior and changing hospital behavior.
00:14:26.040 This lawsuit is significant.
00:14:28.740 The young girl, it was reported that the young girl, quote,
00:14:31.980 wept and hugged her mother when the verdict, which followed a three-week trial from a suit filed in 2023, came down.
00:14:40.800 And this is a big deal, and it's a big deal that I'm hopeful will stop this abuse.
00:14:48.420 No kid should be sterilized.
00:14:50.740 No matter what the parents think, no matter what doctors think, no kid should be mutilated.
00:14:55.560 And you know what's astonishing, Ben?
00:14:58.420 Five years ago, everybody would have agreed with this.
00:15:02.700 If you had a Democrat on, if you had picked the most left-wing Democrat five years ago,
00:15:08.000 you and I could have been talking with Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren and said,
00:15:10.840 hey, should we sterilize and mutilate kids? 1.00
00:15:14.800 And they'd say, no, of course not.
00:15:16.020 Like, that was, it was just a blink of an eye ago that everyone agreed with this.
00:15:22.700 And then there were millions of dollars and the radical ideology of the left.
00:15:26.600 And to be clear, it's not just a couple of people on the Democrat side.
00:15:30.460 It's everybody.
00:15:31.780 Joe Biden, as the sitting president, advocated mutilating and sterilizing kids in the name of gender ideology.
00:15:40.460 And so this verdict is, I hope, a really significant step in turning around this madness.
00:15:46.020 Yeah, not only is it a significant step, but this also, I think, is going to inspire others and lawyers, by the way, to take on cases.
00:15:53.240 As you mentioned, this is historic.
00:15:55.860 First one ever.
00:15:57.260 When you see how it was won, this now, and you can give, I think, more insight on this as a lawyer,
00:16:03.860 other lawyers are going to look at this case and go, okay, can I replicate this for a winning strategy?
00:16:08.540 Here's almost a blueprint for these types of cases.
00:16:11.760 And now other lawyers around the country will probably be way more likely to take on these types of cases
00:16:17.400 because now they understand, A, they can win, and B, there's a blueprint of maybe how you want to run this case.
00:16:22.800 Am I wrong?
00:16:24.120 You're not wrong.
00:16:25.100 And I will say philosophically as a conservative, my approach to some of the extreme abuses we've seen
00:16:31.400 is to quote Mr. Burns in The Simpsons, release the hounds.
00:16:39.240 I think unleashing trial lawyers on these really bad actors is a really potent tool.
00:16:47.080 And so for every one of these hospitals and doctors that are pushing this mutilation on kids,
00:16:53.560 I think the specter of their being sued into the poorhouse is really powerful.
00:16:57.720 By the way, it's the same approach that I have to big tech engaging in censorship,
00:17:03.080 and I think we ought to change.
00:17:05.020 Right now there's a provision called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act
00:17:09.260 that immunizes big tech from lawsuits almost across the board.
00:17:13.280 I have long advocated creating an exception to Section 230 that if you engage in political censorship,
00:17:19.740 you should face lawsuits, and the only way to avoid those lawsuits is to stop censorship
00:17:26.740 and create a free speech town hall, a town square.
00:17:32.880 And it's very much the same philosophy, which is unleashing trial lawyers can inflict enormous costs and burdens.
00:17:42.540 I don't want to do so more broadly.
00:17:44.320 I don't want to do so on job creators.
00:17:46.040 I don't want to do so in a way that hurts the economy.
00:17:49.180 But when you have conduct that is really harmful for society,
00:17:53.820 unleashing the trial lawyers to sue the living hell out of them,
00:17:57.360 I think is a really, really powerful tool.
00:18:00.140 It's a new year, 2026.
00:18:02.400 You've probably heard the name Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
00:18:05.560 So the question so many people have is,
00:18:07.940 is it safe and is it something that I should be invested in?
00:18:11.480 It's a question I want to get answered for you today.
00:18:14.520 And joining me now to talk about that is the co-founder of Bitcoin IRA, Chris Klein.
00:18:19.180 Chris, I appreciate you being here.
00:18:21.280 And it is pretty cool to see what's happening in the crypto space.
00:18:24.740 It has become normal.
00:18:26.240 It now can be a part of your IRA.
00:18:28.320 The federal government has changed the rules.
00:18:30.900 They're accepting cryptocurrency like it's a stock.
00:18:33.860 Yes, absolutely.
00:18:34.820 And it's really driven itself into a mainstream space.
00:18:37.580 I remember a decade ago when we first started Bitcoin IRA, 0.60
00:18:40.800 and everybody was like, are you crazy, kid?
00:18:43.280 You're putting Bitcoin in retirement accounts. 0.92
00:18:45.620 Is this even possible?
00:18:46.680 And you fast forward to where we're at today,
00:18:48.560 where countries are building stockpiles,
00:18:50.360 corporations are building stockpiles.
00:18:52.280 Strategy, for example, is pretty much its entire business models around this.
00:18:55.720 It's a piece of diversification that every major player in the space and economics is looking at.
00:19:01.140 And so should, too, the individual sovereignty of the average American
00:19:04.020 looking to put it inside of their retirement.
00:19:05.460 You guys actually have a really cool stat that you told me about at dinner,
00:19:09.200 and that is that your clients, 75% were born before 1976.
00:19:15.240 So the idea that you maybe missed out on this, or if you're a little older,
00:19:18.940 it's a young man's game in crypto, that is also just not true.
00:19:22.820 That's definitely one of the myths I wanted to come debunk with you and your audiences.
00:19:26.260 This isn't our grandfather's economy,
00:19:28.580 and grandfathers are buying Bitcoin and putting it inside of their retirement for long-term holdings,
00:19:33.140 especially now that they're thinking about inheritance and handing some of these things down.
00:19:36.640 But yeah, that was actually shocking to me.
00:19:38.320 We discovered that in 2018, that 75% of them were older than my parents' generation.
00:19:44.700 And what we found from surveying all of them was this is something that they think is new age,
00:19:49.140 and that I think almost every American, especially older ones,
00:19:52.140 has a genuine concern of watching what's happened to the U.S. dollar over the last four or five decades.
00:19:56.760 And there's always been gold and silver as a potential hedge, land, real estate, these scarce assets.
00:20:01.880 And Bitcoin, while it may seem, oh, that's digital and it's different, it's scarce.
00:20:06.380 There's only 21 million assets of Bitcoin that will ever be mined.
00:20:09.620 19.5 million have been mined so far.
00:20:12.260 And you and I actually won't live.
00:20:13.880 Our kids will probably live to see the last one get mined.
00:20:16.340 This is something, you know, we're in a world of abundance since I was born in 1985.
00:20:19.560 It's abundance.
00:20:20.120 We just printed and printed and printed more.
00:20:22.040 This is a moment in time where we may be able to revert back to scarcity.
00:20:24.660 And there'll be a day where just saying I have one Bitcoin will be life-changing.
00:20:28.800 Chris, I hope a lot of people that are watching this, you guys will go and find out more.
00:20:32.740 It is amazing what you can do in your retirement account now,
00:20:36.140 just like your other investments with Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
00:20:40.020 Find out more right now at BitcoinIRA.com slash Ben.
00:20:44.580 That's BitcoinIRA.com slash Ben and see what cryptocurrency can do for your portfolio.
00:20:51.580 I want to move finally to this other big subject.
00:20:54.940 And for people that are listening right now, there is a big scandal that is taking place
00:21:01.420 at the United Nations.
00:21:02.240 But it's a type of scandal that you and I should love and celebrate.
00:21:08.300 And that is the UN is angry right now that there's not enough money for them to do all 0.93
00:21:14.480 their woke crap all over the world, the simplest way I can describe it. 0.68
00:21:18.860 And they're really upset because the number one fund of the UN has been the United States 0.99
00:21:23.120 of America.
00:21:24.160 Donald Trump has said no more.
00:21:26.940 We're not going to just give you this blank check and fund all this stuff.
00:21:31.060 And now the UN Secretary General is freaking out and saying we need desperate money now
00:21:36.920 or things are going to have to be shut down.
00:21:38.960 This on top of the fact that Trump has also taken the U.S.
00:21:42.920 out of 66 globalist organizations and treaties as well.
00:21:47.780 Saving American taxpayer dollars are being wasted. 0.84
00:21:50.540 So you talked about cutting off funding for, as you said, quote, woke crap all over the 0.99
00:21:55.440 world. 0.80
00:21:55.860 I think that's the new motto of the United Nations. 0.99
00:21:59.320 The United Nations woke crap all over the world. 0.96
00:22:02.140 Let me read from our article in Breitbart, quote, the United Nations is going broke and 0.98
00:22:08.540 needs member nations to stump up cash.
00:22:11.120 Lots of it.
00:22:12.220 That is the plea from Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez, who fears the globalist body is
00:22:17.460 at risk of, quote, imminent financial collapse due to their member states not paying their
00:22:23.120 dues.
00:22:24.000 The former leader of the Portuguese Socialist Party said Friday the UN faces a financial crisis
00:22:28.840 which was, quote, deepening, threatening program delivery, and money could run out as soon
00:22:34.300 as July, leaving the unaccountable globalist cabal destitute.
00:22:38.680 Such is the financial drama unfolding at UN headquarters in Geneva.
00:22:43.140 Signs of a warning situation have reportedly been put up everywhere.
00:22:47.360 In an almost desperate attempt to save cash, the escalators are regularly turned off and
00:22:53.480 the heating turned down, the BBC reports.
00:22:55.380 By the way, how much money do you save turning the escalators off?
00:22:59.260 Like, like that's really exactly that that's a little amazing.
00:23:02.760 So Gutierrez sent a missive out to all 193 member states outlining his fears and pleading
00:23:08.120 that they had to honor their mandatory payments or overhaul the organization's financial rules
00:23:13.380 to avoid collapse.
00:23:14.520 It comes after the UN's largest contributor to the United States refused to contribute to
00:23:19.520 its regular and peacekeeping budgets and withdrew from several agencies.
00:23:22.740 It called a, quote, waste of taxpayer dollars.
00:23:26.060 These include the UN's Population Agency and the UN Treaty that establishes international
00:23:30.240 climate negotiations.
00:23:32.220 And I got to say, reading this, it reminds me of, I actually think one of the funniest
00:23:36.920 movies ever made was Team America World Police.
00:23:40.480 You ever see Team America?
00:23:41.480 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:23:42.500 Okay.
00:23:43.100 It's absolutely hysterical. 0.99
00:23:44.780 By the way, I'm going to confess a really stupid thing I did. 0.96
00:23:47.680 So, several years ago, I was vacationing with Heidi and with the girls and with my in-laws, 0.94
00:23:52.700 Heidi's parents.
00:23:54.140 And, and, and they have a houseboat on Lake Powell.
00:23:56.560 Lake Powell is an amazing, have you ever been to Lake Powell?
00:23:59.800 I have not.
00:24:00.500 I, I, you've told me about it.
00:24:01.760 It's on my bucket list now.
00:24:03.340 Like, like, holy cow.
00:24:04.560 So Lake Powell is the southern part of the Grand Canyon and basically envisioned the Grand
00:24:09.020 Canyon dammed up and filled halfway with water.
00:24:12.100 That is Lake Powell.
00:24:12.900 And, and so my in-laws for 30 years have had a houseboat there and you go out on the houseboat
00:24:18.460 and, and they tow, you tow a ski boat, you tow typically one or two jet skis, you go out
00:24:24.460 into the water and, and, and it's amazing.
00:24:27.000 So my in-laws are, are, are not fancy.
00:24:30.280 So their houseboat does not have a working air conditioner.
00:24:33.080 So you go out typically in the middle of the summer, which, you know, 100, 110 degrees,
00:24:37.520 no AC.
00:24:38.760 You sleep on the roof of the houseboat under the stars.
00:24:41.880 By the way, your, your cell phone doesn't work at all.
00:24:45.700 You have no internet and, you know, you get up and jump in the water, you bathe in the
00:24:50.520 lake, you, you go out water skiing, you get on a jet ski and you can go down these finger
00:24:54.820 canyons.
00:24:55.840 Ben, I got to say, you go down a finger canyon, it is breathtaking.
00:24:58.600 You can go down it where on each side, you can put your hand out and touch the, the,
00:25:04.080 the side of the cliff.
00:25:05.460 Yeah.
00:25:05.820 And it's on my bucket list.
00:25:07.120 It goes up a couple hundred feet of just red sandstone.
00:25:11.500 And you're in this sliver.
00:25:13.060 You can go in far enough that you got to jump off the jet ski, swim around and turn the
00:25:17.040 jet ski around because you don't have room to turn it around.
00:25:19.360 So it's an awesome thing to do.
00:25:21.840 So one time a decade ago, Heidi and I are going out with our parents and, and we decided,
00:25:27.440 so they do have a little TV on the houseboat with a DVR player.
00:25:31.200 And we decided to bring, I know where this is going.
00:25:35.500 I, all right, I'm, I'm with you now.
00:25:37.060 Keep going.
00:25:37.860 A DVD of Team America could, because Heidi doesn't like movies very much.
00:25:42.740 I love movies.
00:25:43.500 Like I grew up, my parents both love movies.
00:25:45.480 So like I would go out with my mom and dad and we'd go see movies every week and we love
00:25:48.880 movies.
00:25:50.000 Heidi grew up.
00:25:50.900 She never went to the movies, but I took her to see Team America and she laughed so hard
00:25:55.880 she couldn't breathe.
00:25:57.340 So like, all right, let's bring it. 0.85
00:25:59.120 And this was, I got to say an incredibly stupid thing to do, Ben, because I forgot that Team
00:26:06.300 America, it's okay. 0.97
00:26:07.180 So it's puppets and it's done by, by the South Park guys, but every third or fourth word is
00:26:16.080 a curse word.
00:26:16.900 I mean, it's, it is a relentless and I'm sitting there playing this.
00:26:22.820 We, we, we turned it on with my in-laws and they're just looking in utter horror as it's
00:26:28.620 just curse, curse, curse, curse, curse.
00:26:30.980 We didn't watch 10 minutes of it before we turned it off and said, oh, sorry about that.
00:26:34.520 I really got to apologize.
00:26:36.240 Like, now here's my question though.
00:26:38.780 Did your wife do it?
00:26:40.040 My wife would do that scenario. 1.00
00:26:41.260 Act like she's shocked that you brought this movie and showed it.
00:26:43.480 Or did she laugh as hard as she laughed when y'all were at the movie together?
00:26:46.120 That's the real question.
00:26:47.280 She sort of laughed, but we remembered how funny the movie was, but, but we hadn't.
00:26:52.480 And internalized there's just, if you deleted every profanity in the movie, the movie would
00:26:58.660 be 30% shorter.
00:27:00.100 Like it, it just, and, and part of what I like about team America is it mocks both sides.
00:27:05.920 So it's not a conservative movie.
00:27:07.540 It's not a liberal movie.
00:27:08.560 Like it, it makes fun of both sides in a way that is really funny, but I don't advise particularly
00:27:15.900 if, you know, my in-laws, I mean, I mean, they were, they were Christian missionaries.
00:27:19.460 They're, they're wonderful people, but, but they don't curse and they may have seen more
00:27:26.600 curse words in those 10 minutes we played than they had in the past 10 years before that.
00:27:31.320 So my whole point of this is there's a scene in team America where you have part of the
00:27:39.400 theory is that Kim Jong-un is the dictator of North Korea, which is of course true, but
00:27:44.740 he's a puppet in team America and, and he is, he, he is seeking to attack the world and 0.92
00:27:51.180 it's all, uh, team America world police is trying to fight, uh, Kim Jong-un.
00:27:56.760 But anyway, the, the, the United Nations sends Hans Blix who, who Hans Blix, most of our listeners
00:28:04.040 are too young to remember, but Hans Blix was a weapons inspector for the United Nations.
00:28:09.460 And, and, and the UN sends Hans Blix to Kim Jong-un to go tell him to stop developing
00:28:16.900 weapons of mass destruction.
00:28:18.060 And, and Kim Jong-un ends up feeding the, the puppet Hans Blix to sharks who eat him.
00:28:24.180 And, and, and at one point, right before he gets fed the sharks, Hans Blix says, you must
00:28:29.660 stop what you're doing.
00:28:30.640 And if you do not stop what you're doing, the United Nations is going to send you a really
00:28:35.480 stern letter.
00:28:37.060 Yeah.
00:28:37.980 So I have to say, by the way, so accurate as I'm reading the, the, the, the, the, the,
00:28:42.380 the cries from the secretary general, I keep envisioning Hans Blix in team America saying,
00:28:49.040 give us money or we will send you a really stern letter saying, give us money.
00:28:54.300 It's, it's, it's entirely accurate.
00:28:56.740 Exactly where we are.
00:28:57.540 And that's why the part about this is so funny is the president said he was going to do it.
00:29:01.400 You elect me.
00:29:01.860 I'm going to get rid of all this stuff.
00:29:03.720 I'm going to get rid of the wasting of your, your tax dollars.
00:29:06.960 And it's not just the UN that's freaking out.
00:29:09.060 Now you've got this list of 66 globalist organizations and treaties that he's also,
00:29:15.660 by the way, we're not giving you money there either.
00:29:18.160 Yeah.
00:29:18.540 So the list of 66, by the way, so as Ben and I were prepping for this show, we're talking
00:29:22.760 about the list of six, six.
00:29:23.860 And I asked him, I said, Hey, what are the six, six?
00:29:26.940 And he's like, I don't know.
00:29:28.200 And, and you sent me this whole document.
00:29:30.080 I'm not going to read them all, but, but I'm just going to read some of the topics.
00:29:33.500 So number one is the 24 seven carbon-free energy compact.
00:29:36.660 We withdrew from that.
00:29:37.540 The Colombo plan council, the commission on environmental cooperation, education cannot
00:29:42.320 wait.
00:29:42.760 The European center of excellence for countering hybrid threats, the forum of European national
00:29:48.120 highway research laboratories, the freedom online coalition, the global community engagement
00:29:53.300 resilience fund, the global counter-terrorism forum, the global forum on cyber expertise.
00:29:57.440 That's the first 10.
00:29:59.280 There are another 56 that come.
00:30:01.160 I mean, now, you know why he said we're going to get rid of all of them, right?
00:30:04.820 Like we're just not going to fund this stuff.
00:30:06.660 Many of them, by the way, are like people that hate America on top of that.
00:30:09.980 That's right.
00:30:10.640 All right.
00:30:10.820 Let me read the last 10.
00:30:12.760 So numbers 56 through 66.
00:30:14.600 We withdrew from the UN entity for gender equality and the empowerment of women.
00:30:19.700 We withdrew from the UN framework convention on climate change, the UN human settlements
00:30:24.500 program, the UN Institute for training and research, UN oceans, UN population fund, UN
00:30:29.600 register of conventional arms, the UN system chief executives board for coordination, the
00:30:34.180 UN system staff college, the UN water and the UN university.
00:30:38.380 All of that.
00:30:39.040 Look, you and I and most people on planet Earth have no idea what any of these do, but we 0.99
00:30:44.320 were sending millions of dollars to this garbage.
00:30:47.380 And there is a reason why Hans Blix is floating in the water, having been eaten by sharks from 0.97
00:30:54.060 Kim Jong-un because stern letters from the United Nations don't do a whole lot.
00:31:00.240 Yeah, they really don't.
00:31:01.640 It's I love seeing the president do this.
00:31:03.560 This is exactly what we needed him to do and what so many people voted for.
00:31:07.880 And thank goodness he's he's following through and hammering on this issue.
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