An Orgy Of Spending
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Spending, taxes, and inflation, oh my! Will Congress ram through Bernie’s batty and bloated budget? As it sits, the radical bill will raise taxes by the trillions, drive up our cost of living, and authorize over $4 trillion in government spending. Senator Cruz and Michael Knowles arrive in the studio to lay out a possible roadmap for blocking this no good, terrible, very bad idea. Plus, Michael opens the mailbag, and some disturbing questions fall out. Is there a robot uprising in our future?
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| 0:00.0 | Bernie Sanders' budget bill is threatening to bankrupt the nation. As it so happens, our intrepid |
| 0:06.3 | co-host has just returned from Las Vegas, where he was pursuing what I consider to be a much more |
| 0:12.7 | sober financial strategy, and that is gambling. This is Verdict with Ted Cruz. |
| 0:23.7 | Welcome back to Verdict with Ted Cruz. Welcome back to verdicts with Ted Cruz. I'm Michael Null. Senator, I know you've just come in |
| 0:28.4 | from Vegas. You were just there in recent days. And usually people would say, you know, |
| 0:34.7 | we've got to be careful with your money. This is not a good, but I think compared |
| 0:38.1 | to what they're doing in Washington, you were positively responsible. Well, well, that's, that's right. |
| 0:42.8 | And, you know, Reagan used to joke about that Congress spends like drunken sailors. And the thing he |
| 0:48.8 | would say is, actually, they're, they're worse than the sailors because at least the sailors are |
| 0:53.6 | spending their own money. |
| 0:55.2 | So in Vegas, what I was doing was actually was filming poker after dark. So it's a TV show that's on NBC Sports, |
| 1:05.1 | where you play poker. And I was, it was a charity game. So I was playing, it actually was not, not personally impacting my bank |
| 1:14.8 | account, but was playing for charity. But it was very cool because I was playing with, |
| 1:19.9 | with a number of poker pros. I was playing with Doyle Brunson and Phil Helmuth. So Doyle, Texas |
| 1:27.1 | Dolly is 88 years old. He's a two-time winner of the |
| 1:31.4 | main event in the World Series of poker, legendary poker player. Phil Helmuth also won the |
| 1:37.6 | main event. Phil has 15 bracelets altogether. He's won 15 times. Actually, Doyle's won 10. So between the two of them, they have 25 bracelets. |
| 1:47.8 | And I got to, I played poker my whole life. And so I got to say it was a real bucket list event to sit down and play with those guys. |
| 1:58.1 | I'm not allowed to say what the outcomes were because the show will air |
| 2:01.5 | probably in a couple of months. But it was a lot of fun. And interestingly, Michael, someone else |
| 2:08.6 | who played was Clay Travis played, but also Mr. Beast played. Now, you may not know who Mr. Beast is, or maybe you do. Mr. Beast is a |
| 2:21.2 | YouTuber who gives away money and he's young. He's in his mid-20s. He's got something like |
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