The Karol Markowicz Show: Unwoke with Senator Ted Cruz

I can limit all of my conversations with my husband to text. Buy milk kid is sick because there's very little for us to misunderstand, and more important, at the end of the day, we have face to face conversations. Studies have actually found that too much texting, even when you're already in a relationship, isn't healthy. Either quick I Love you or scheduling text are fine, even positive, but any attempt to conduct serious conversations via text quickly leads

to lower relationship quality. It's obvious why texting is divorced from tone and can lead to misinterpretation. Was that a joke or is my boyfriend a jerk? What does that emoji convey? Texting blurs intent. For example, you know young kids are super anti putting a period at the end of text. Now or if you don't know that? What if you know you're from a generation that still does that,

but they've adopted this new philosophy. It's all interpreted as throwing shade, so you can easily make a mistake and not even know it. The TV show Catfish highlights stories of people who meet and fall in love online, sometimes spending years in relationships solely on the computer or phone before finding out that person isn't who they thought they were.

And while sure they were attracted to their words on a screen, finding out that the picture their boyfriend or girlfriend uses fake fizzles the whole thing out very quickly. It's rare that the tricky decides that they still love the trigger due to all the great texting conversations they had. That's because actual physical, in person attraction matters, and so does the breach of trust that develops when long term

text only relationships are revealed to contain distortions. Is it possible to fall in love over text or email, then meet and have all of your feelings confirmed. Sure, we all have friends who have done this, but we also have plenty of friends who will spend weeks or months texting before meeting and sometimes end up not meeting at all. Too often people will meet the person with whom they have texting chemistry, only to find out they have no

in person chemistry. I get it. It's hard to be the weirdo demanding phone conversation when everyone around you is texting. But you'll save yourself a ton of wasted time if you make that leap. Institute a policy for yourself where you can texts for half an hour to see if there's a connection, and then switch to setting up an in person date. Move your life offline as much as possible in twenty twenty four. Coming up next an interview

with Senator Ted Cruz. Join us after the break, Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz Show on iHeartRadio. My guest today is Senator Ted Cruz, one of my favorite senators who has definitely had me thinking I should have converted to Texan and author of the excellent new book Unwoke. So nice to have you on, Senator Carol.

of the book focuses on a different institution. So chapter one starts with universities, because the universities I describe as the Wuhan lab of the Woke virus. It's where the virus was created, it's where it mutated, it's where it spread. And from universities, the book then goes on to K

through twelve. Education, it goes on to journalism, It goes on to government, it goes on to big business, it goes on to big tech, It goes on to entertainment, to Hollywood, movies, television, music, sports, it goes on to science, and the final chapter in the book is on China, which I view China as a central nexus intertwine with each of them. And what the book does is two things.

It explains how and why the radical left seized each of these institutions, and then secondly, it lays out a productive, positive battle plan for how we take them back, because I think if we don't take the institutions back, we're going to lose our country.

abolishing the police. Normal rational people don't support open borders and chaos at our southern border. Normal rational people are not struggling to figure out what a woman is, and normal rational people do not celebrate the horrific atrocities of Hamas terrorists, that those are not mainstream positions. Simply shining a light on what the radical left is doing is

a powerful tool for fighting back. The second tool I advocate is shifting the cost benefit analysis, increasing the costs for those who choose to go woke to increase the disincentives for going down that road. And the third tool, and this applies in particular to entertainment, I encourage conservatives and libertarians with resources, those who've been successful in business,

invest in the or organs of transmission of ideas. Go buy a TV station, buy a radio station, buy a book publishing house, buy a movie studio, buy a record label, engage and speak. And you know, one example, the most profound example of this is Elon Musk's buying Twitter, which I think is the single biggest victory for free speech in modern times. But you know, Carol, I also point out in the book, Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post

for three hundred million dollars. Now, he didn't do so because he was bullish on the profitability of media in the long time. He did it because he wanted to own the commanding heights of public discourse. We need conservatives and libertarians and those who love America to fight in those arenas to take the back.

terrible dictator. But it's interesting my dad has explained to me many times that the people fighting in the revolution were just like him. They were fourteen and fifteen year

old young boys who didn't know any better. And as you know well, Carol, communist revolutions across the globe they're always fought by teenagers who are young and passionate and idealistic, and they don't have any life experience, they don't have any wisdom, so they're easily deceived into being part of a mission they believe in until the Communists sees power and they begin brutally murdering and torturing and using force and power. And I will say, look for my father.

He was in prisoned, he was tortured in Cuba. He fled to America in nineteen fifty seven. In nineteen fifty nine, the revolution succeeded. My dad saw firsthand what happened. He saw that Castro was even worse than the guy who preceded him, was even worse than Batista. Sadly, the Cubans went from one son of a bitch to an even worse son of a bitch. And my aunt Mike thea Sonia, my father's younger sister. She was still living in Cuba.

She fought in the counter revolution against Castro, and she ended up sadly being in prison being tortured by Castro's goon. That had a powerful effect on my dad when he saw his kid's sister being tortured by the same people he had been fighting alongside. That helped open his eyes. But you know many leftists that they refuse to open

their eyes. I will say, Carol, I do think people on the left in the United States who are not hardcore Marxist, their eyes are opening up right now on what's happening on college campuses and the vicious anti semitism we're seeing on college campuses is a manifestation of cultural Marxism, and we're seeing people who had been on the left saying, wait a second, I don't like these people that I'm associated with. I don't like what they stand for, I

don't like what they're doing. And it is it is a potential tipping point in terms of at least some people waking up and realizing that the ideology they had supported is wrong.

January of twenty thirteen. And I have to tell you, as I was being sworn in, I couldn't help thinking back to my dad in Austin, Texas in nineteen fifty seven. His first job when he got to the US he washed dishes. He made fifty cents an hour washing dishes to pay his way through school. And what I kept thinking is if someone had come to that teenage immigrant and told him fifty years hence, your son will become a senator for the great state of Texas, that kid

could not have believed that. That would have been beyond anything my father was capable of imagining. And on that day, when I was sworn in, I had my left hand on my father's Bible, and sitting up in the gallery was my dad looking down and he just had tears streaming down his face. And as my dad said afterwards, he said, only in America. That there is no other

country on Earth where this is possible. And sadly, Carol, that's one of the reasons, one of the central reasons why the left, why the cultural Marxists hate America's why they want to destroy that freedom, that opportunity. They want to replace it with central power and control.

to be Americans number two. Oh yeah, to have family stories where we've seen oppression, we've seen that freedom can be taken away, that we can't take it for granted, and we're blessed to be fighting for something that matters, you know. I tell people, listen, we're not battling today over whether the top marginal tax rate is thirty six percent or thirty eight percent. That matters, sure, but the fate of the cosmos is not going to turn on

that question. We are fighting, I fully believe, over whether this nation the greatest cun in the history of the world, whether we survive, or whether our nation is destroyed, and that that's a blessing to jump up every day and say this is worth fighting for. And I want to encourage your listeners the book Unwoke. It is designed to help you fight to save America, to empower you, to educate you, to inform you, to give you tools to go and fight with your friends, your family. So I

want to encourage folks. You can get the book anywhere. You can get it on Amazon or Barnes and Noble or any place you get books, but I want to encourage you to go buy it. And Christmas time is right around the corner. I would encourage you don't buy just one. It makes a great gift. Buy a copy for your mom, buy a copy for your best friend, buy a copy for your crazy left wing neighbor who

you need to knock some sense into. Or even better, buy a copy for your kids or for your grandkids so they can understand what it is that people are trying to indoctrinate them with. They can be prepared to fight back. This book was written to help empower people to fight together to save our country.