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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Senator, it's a new year, and this is our first show in the new year for many on the radio that are listening. And Senator, so let's have a little fun with New Year's resolutions. You've got three, and I've got a few as well. I don't know if I have three, but we're gonna have those for you in a minute.
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Chapter 2: What New Year's resolutions are shared by Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson?
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Impact the world one child at a time and learn how at Compassion.com. That's Compassion.com. All right, Senator, so you've got three New Year's resolutions. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that of my New Year's resolutions, I'm going to be at 33% of your New Year's resolutions. I do not know what they are, but I'm just going to see if we are aligned on this.
So give me your top one for the year. I'm ready.
All right, so number one in 2026, I'm going to lose some weight. I am too damn fat. I weighed in this week at 236. That is too damn fat. When I graduated from college, I was a buck 35, 135 pounds. I was skinny as a rail. And my target for 2026 is to drop 30 pounds. I want to clock in next January. I like it. at 206. I'm at 236 right now. Ben and I are in a weight loss group.
We've got several guys that are trying to lose weight together. And so my objective over the next 12 months is drop those 30 pounds and be at 206 one year from now.
Now, my question is, hold on. What's your plan for this? Is this going to be like water polo? Are you going to get a trainer? I got to give you a little hard time here. I want to know.
Look, it's kind of all of that. It's diet and exercise at the end of the day. And you know what? We're going to talk over the course of the year about how to do that and what's working and what's not. We're going to have some of those conversations over the course of the year on the podcast. The objective, which I've decided on, is to drop 30.
And so we'll see if we can do that and get to that point.
I love it.
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Chapter 3: How do the hosts connect personal resolutions to broader societal issues?
Do you know what that number is for native Minnesota-headed households? Non-Somali immigrant-headed households. If I can just answer the question, you're using the phrase native Minnesotans. The majority of Somali Minnesotans are as Minnesotan as any of us. They were born in the United States. It's only 8,000 of the 108,000 Somalis. Nevertheless, the welfare usage is astoundingly different.
Let me ask you again, does that make Minnesota stronger or weaker? Again, I'd like the opportunity to answer the question here. Go for it. So, again, the majority of Somali Minnesotans are born in the United States, as I understand it. Okay, well, what percentage of working-age Somalians who have been in the U.S. for 10 years or more, 10 years or more, how many of them speak English very well?
I don't know. About half. The answer's about half. That seems pretty low, doesn't it?
I love just the facts there, Senator, like the way that he handled that.
That's the reason why you're good friends with the reason why we played it, because he's just laying out the reality of the situation on the ground and how we got to a point where virtually every government program in Minnesota has been compromised by the Somali community in this way where they could grab money and create fraud with it.
But by the way, Brandon got elected. He had a rough primary. He had a bunch of primary opponents. He had millions of dollars spent against him. Brandon is a conservative. Actually, his father-in-law is Dinesh D'Souza, who's a good friend. And I endorsed Brandon early, went and campaigned with him, and he overcame a ton of money coming against him.
And part of what I told the voters of Texas is, listen, if y'all elect Brandon, he's going to go and fight for you and make you proud. He's doing that. I want to make a point about the back and forth because that Weasley, Minnesota lefty witness, he kept saying, well, the majority of Somalians are born in America. Now, note what Brandon Gill was asking. Somali immigrant-headed households.
And the guy says, well, they have a bunch of anchor babies.
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Chapter 4: What are the details of the Minnesota shooting incident involving an ICE agent?
In other words, we bring over Somali immigrants. Yeah. They have tons of babies here, and because of birthright citizenship, which is a really foolish policy, and my hope is that the Supreme Court will side with President Trump in ending it, but... The Somali immigrants come here. They have a lot of babies here. That guy's focusing on the babies.
And Brandon's saying, all right, how about the person who heads the household? And the person who heads the household are these Somali immigrants. And you've got 81 percent of them on welfare. And I tell you, the stat that was really powerful was. was 10 years later. They've been here 10 years. It's 78% still on welfare. This is a scam.
The Democrats did it deliberately, and they did it to buy votes. They were importing votes to vote for Democrats. They allowed them to commit fraud to steal $9 billion and then to bundle those votes for the Democrats, to bundle cash for the Democrats, and the Democrats covered it up.
And it's why Tim Walz and Jacob Frey and so many other Democrats are trying to enrage the left about this shooting with ICE because they want to cover up from the incredible theft and fraud they're responsible for.
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