Welcome to Verdict with Ted Cruz. This is Ted Cruz. I hope you're having a wonderful Valentine's Day. I hope you find the love of your life and give them a hug, give them a kiss, and let them know they mean the world to you.

Unfortunately today, Ben is sick in bed with a nasty flu. So rather than do our normal pod, what we're going to do is we're

going to re-broadcast our Christmas Day pod. And the Christmas Day pod was one, it's one of my favorites.

It recounted some of my favorite movies, some of the movies I enjoy watching the most. I am a

movie guy. I love movies. I've loved movies my whole

life. And so I hope today on Valentine's Day, you listen to the pod, you enjoy it, maybe go out

and watch a movie and take your wife or husband or boyfriend or girlfriend and have a great

time at the movies. And we will see you. We'll do our regular week

and review tomorrow on Saturday and Ben and I will both be back. God willing to the Creek

don't rise on Monday morning. Enjoy. By the way, you're a movie theater guide just so people

know this about it. Oh, I like the real theaters. I like the big screen. I like popcorn and gummy bears and, you know, the experience of being there. And by the way,

I'm also rabid about staying until the very end to the last moment of the credits play. I will not

get up and leave. There's a sense of completeness of appreciating the entirety of the movie and so what we decided we

do today is put together just a compilation of movies that that I love that I recommend to you

and and hopefully as you're taking some time with your family maybe you'll go watch one of them

and laugh or cry and it'll touch you and you'll enjoy it and

I think art and storytelling are beautiful beautiful things.

So with that being said, I'm here in the big shows and the big movies on Senator Cruz's

list, Merry Christmas.

I get asked all the time from many of you guys that are watching or listening right now.

What is Ted Cruz like behind the scenes?

So we thought we'd have a little fun.

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