Hindsight Is 2021
The Ben Ferguson Podcast
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4.8 • 5.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Senator Ted Cruz raises a glass with Michael Knowles and Liz Wheeler to ring in the new year and look back on the long, strange year that was 2021, an epilogue to the long, strange year that was 2020. Democrats tried to impeach Donald Trump for the second time, Britney Spears was freed from the confines of her conservatorship as Pope Fauci became the de facto conservator of all Americans, Joe Manchin shocked his own party when he said no to Build Back Broke, and… Michael became a bitcoin billionaire?! Happy New Year from Verdict with Ted Cruz!
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| 0:00.0 | What a long, strange year it has been, an extension of another long strange year, which happened |
| 0:05.3 | the year before. Wonderful to be with all of you in the verdict community that whole time. |
| 0:10.0 | This is very casual. I'm Michael Knowles. This is Verdict, the tech bruce. |
| 0:19.1 | 2021 has been strange, almost as strange as 2020. |
| 0:23.0 | There's been a lot of political developments. |
| 0:24.6 | These are in no particular order, but this is a little list I compiled. |
| 0:27.7 | We began the year, of course, with the Biden administration being inaugurated. |
| 0:31.5 | Then let's not forget President Trump was impeached again at the beginning of the year. |
| 0:35.8 | In August, we had the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, |
| 0:39.1 | that horrible 13 service members, U.S. service members were killed. We had infrastructure. We had, |
| 0:44.0 | you know, COVID from beginning to end. We had the Dobbs case before the Supreme Court. We had |
| 0:49.4 | the free Britney movement, free Britney Spears from her, from her oppressive father. We had, you know, |
| 0:55.8 | this exodus from California, Joe Rogan and Elon Musk, and you guys are the Daily Wire. You all |
| 1:00.2 | left California. We had, we ended the year with mansion saying no to build back better. |
| 1:06.0 | A lot of different things happened this year. The most important one, I think, I think we could all |
| 1:10.3 | agree on this, is free Britney. Senator, I know this was a very important issue for you. And I'm not going to |
| 1:17.6 | say that you single-handedly got Britney Spears' custodiathip removed, but I'm not going to say you |
| 1:23.9 | didn't either. Well, I got to say this podcast helped lead the way on that, and that's a real victory. |
| 1:31.6 | If you were predicting the impact of this pod two years ago, as we were in a basement in D.C. at one in the morning, helping free Britney Spears from her unjust confinement would not have been |
| 1:47.0 | on the top 10 list. But that was one of my favorite pods we've done where we broke down the |
| 1:53.3 | legal issues, the rules, and what conservatorship is and why it's abusive. And, and, and, and I do think the points we made |
| 2:04.6 | contributed to efforts a lot of other people we're making to. Um, and, and, and we saw the court do |
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