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🗓️ 22 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.7 | Welcome, it is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. |
| 0:11.1 | We've got a few more days until Christmas, and we've got a couple of shows left. |
| 0:16.0 | We're going to be talking about some really big issues, including, I think, the most shocking. |
| 0:20.3 | And that is just how old |
| 0:22.5 | Senator Ted Cruz is, as of today, I did not know that I was going to have a 55-year-old elder |
| 0:29.6 | friend. This is seniors coffee is real now. You can get that. You can, I think, get assistance at the |
| 0:35.2 | airport without even needing a medical condition for one of those walkers now. |
| 0:38.7 | That's exciting. |
| 0:39.7 | I'm not going to push you through there, but I'll get someone to hold the sign up for you. |
| 0:43.0 | What other benefits do you get? |
| 0:44.8 | I mean, 55, 55. |
| 0:48.5 | Listen, Skippy. |
| 0:50.9 | I'm in my 40s. |
| 0:52.4 | I'm not 45. |
| 0:53.5 | I'm 44. |
| 0:56.2 | We're 11 years apart right now. |
| 0:59.0 | Laddie, you need to learn to respect your elders. |
| 1:03.2 | Do I need to talk louder to you? Is that what you're saying? What? What? I'm sorry, what? |
| 1:04.9 | I said get off my lawn at 25. I think you came out of the womb. I think you came out of the womb saying get off my lawn, sir. I'm going to, I think we could call your mom right now and she would verify that. All right. What was that Clint Eastwood movie? I forget with the name where he's a crotchety old man with the like Transam. I forget what it was. Oh, it's a great movie. It's a great movie. Anyway, yeah. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, it's a great, you know, Heidi laughs at me because I would drive along in Austin. This is 20 years ago, long before I was elected to the Senate, I'd drive along and I'd see protesters screaming about something and I'd want to stop and argue with them. Yeah. She'd just like, just stop it. And I'm like, well, no, I don't want to. |
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