America's Birthday: The 30 Best Movies of the 21st Century
Verdict with Ted Cruz
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🗓️ 4 July 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
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Critique of Hollywood and Media Bias:
- Cruz argues that the NYT list prioritizes political messaging over storytelling and entertainment.
- He claims the list reflects elitist, left-leaning Hollywood values and ignores popular, inspirational, or patriotic films.
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Alternative Film List:
- Cruz presents his own list of 30 films from the past 25 years that he believes are more representative of quality cinema.
- His selections include:
- Gladiator, The Patriot, A Beautiful Mind, Lord of the Rings, Saving Private Ryan, American Sniper, Hidden Figures, Top Gun: Maverick, and Avatar.
- He emphasizes true stories, war films, musicals, and movies with strong moral or patriotic themes.
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Personal Movie Preferences:
- Cruz shares his favorite films (The Princess Bride, The Godfather, Scarface, Fletch), and discusses his love for musicals and classic comedies.
- He recounts personal anecdotes, including taking his mother to Broadway shows and watching Saving Private Ryan and Dallas Buyers Club.
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Cultural Commentary:
- The conversation touches on broader cultural issues, such as the disconnect between Hollywood and everyday Americans, the importance of storytelling, and the role of cinema in shaping public perception.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.4 | Welcome. It is Vertiquist Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. It's so nice to have you |
| 0:10.7 | listening today on this 4th of July weekend. And we're going to have a little fun with today's |
| 0:17.9 | show because it is, look, 4th of July, a lot of families hanging out, having fun, watching movies. |
| 0:24.7 | And there was a list that came out and it irritated Senator Ted Cruz, the point where we're now doing a show over it, which makes me laugh. |
| 0:33.6 | I love this. |
| 0:34.4 | You're going to get to see the real Senator Ted Cruz in this show, |
| 0:38.0 | which makes me very happy. Senator, this list came out. You were a little cranky about it, and I love it. |
| 0:43.3 | Well, let me say to everyone, I hope you're having a fantastic Fourth of July weekend. I hope |
| 0:47.1 | you're celebrating America's birthday. I hope you're grilling hot dogs and burgers in the backyard |
| 0:54.0 | and playing with your kids. By the way, if you are grilling burgers, I hope you're grilling hot dogs and burgers in the backyard and playing with your kids. |
| 0:56.4 | By the way, if you are grilling burgers, I hope you're doing a better job of it than Chuck Schumer does. |
| 1:00.5 | Do not put the cheese on the burger while the burger is still raw. |
| 1:03.8 | That is a rookie mistake. |
| 1:07.8 | But if you're anything like me, holiday weekends, what I love to do is go to the movies. |
| 1:13.6 | When I was a kid, I went to the movies with my mom, my dad, all the time. And I love movies, and it happened this past week that the New York Times put out this list of the top 30 best films of the 21st century, according to over 500 actors, directors, |
| 1:30.7 | and other names in Hollywood. And I got to say, this is the worst list I have ever seen. |
| 1:36.1 | This is a list of a bunch of politicized, woke, effete, out of touch, Hollywood types, |
| 1:43.6 | and no wonder, the movie business is in trouble, |
| 1:46.6 | because most of these movies nobody's seen, and the movies that people go to don't make the |
| 1:52.0 | list. So I'm just going to read you there, top 30. Starting with number 30, Lost in Translation, |
| 1:58.6 | arrival, The Dark Night, Adaptation, Anatomy of a fall. Fantom Thread. Her. Boyhood. The Grand Budapest Hotel. The Royal Tenen Bombs. Wolf of Wall Street. Zodiac. Ithumama Tam Ying. Brokeback Mountain. crouching tiger, hidden dragon, city of God, |
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