Welcome, and his verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.

And again, welcome to so many of you that are listening to this podcast, maybe for the first time after the launch of our syndicated radio show on the weekends.

We are so happy to be, have you with us here and to be with you guys three days a week on this podcast.

So if you are new, make sure you hit that subscribe or that auto

download button right now. So you do not miss an episode. And if you're around this weekend,

check your local news talk station and find verdict on the weekend there as we do this new

syndicated radio show. Senator, we've got a lot to talk about today on today's show. We've got four

different big stories and we're going to be going rapid fire. Well, we are. We're going to move through

a lot and I got to say, as you noted, this past weekend was our debut on radio and we ended up

being on more than 100 stations. At first we thought it was going to be 84. We had over

100 stations that took up the podcast, aired it across the country. We were in markets all over

the country. We're in some of the biggest markets in the nation. And I got to say that's really a

credit to the incredible listeners of verdict that we're trying to talk about the big issues that that are

facing the country and to debut on more than 100 stations our first weekend is really strong.

We're glad to be doing it.

Yeah, it really was a blast.

I've got to say, the most fun part, Senator, was getting you into radio timing because

I had to get you in this like, hey, we got eight minutes and we go to

break even if we're still talking. That was really fun for me to watch you like, oh, wow,

we really do have break times now. That was new for you. Yeah, I've gotten spoiled with the podcast

where you can talk about an issue. You can address it as deep as you want. If you've got five

minutes of content on it, you talk five minutes. If you've got five minutes of content on it,

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