An 18-year-old Ted Cruz answers questions about his aspirations in a video posted to YouTube. | Screenshot Teen Ted Cruz joked of goals: ‘World domination, you know, rule everything’ 
 
 A new video of a teenaged Ted Cruz, posted Saturday on YouTube, shows a lankier and younger version of the future Republican presidential candidate sarcastically talking about his life’s goals —and they’re far more ambitious than the mere presidency. "Take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything. Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff,” Cruz says 
 
 The new clip was posted on YouTube under the name “Young Ted Cruz.” The operator of the account told POLITICO the video had been provided by a high school classmate of Cruz’s who wished to remain anonymous. The video comes less than 10 days before the Iowa caucuses, where polls show Cruz at or near the lead. 
 
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 Off camera, the teenager identified as an 18-year old Cruz is asked about his life’s aspirations. 
 
 “Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?” a sardonic Cruz says at the start of the 30-second clip, wearing jeans and a tucked in shirt. "No no, oh I see, what you want me to do, what I want to do in life." 
 
 Cruz squints his eyes tilts his head to the sky. "Well my aspiration is to, uh, oh I don’t know, be in a teen tit film like that guy who played Horatio. You know he was in Malibu Bikini Beach Shop,” he says. The reference appears to be to a 1986 movie, The Malibu Bikini Shop, which came out two years before the video was filmed. 
 
 "Well, other than that,” Cruz continued, "take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything. Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff.” 
 
 Asked about the new video, Cruz campaign spokesman Rick Tyler replied, "Good to see he’s always had a great sense of humor." ||||| Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, came face to face with one of his littlest questioners yet in New Hampshire when he had to explain to a three year old girl that the "world's on fire." 
 
 “The Obama economy is a disaster. Obamacare is a train wreck, and the Obama Clinton foreign policy of leading from behind. The whole world’s on fire,” Cruz said at an event in Barrington, New Hampshire on Sunday. 
 
 That’s when a little girl, who the Concord Monitor identified as three-year-old Julie Trant, interrupted the senator’s speech with a voice full of astonishment. 
 
 “The world’s on fire?” Trant said. 
 
 Her interjection drew laughter from the crowd, and Cruz repeated his claim -- but offered assurances to the young girl that her mother and others are working to make the world safe. 
 
 “The world’s on fire. Yes. Your world’s on fire,” he said to more laughter. “But you know what your mommy’s here and everyone’s here to make sure that the world you grow up in is even better." 
 
 But apparently the thought of the world engulfed in flames didn't bother the little girl. In a radio interview with WRKO Monday, Trant’s mother, Michelle, described her daughter’s reaction, saying she wasn’t scared by Cruz’s claim and instead views the senator as a “firefighter." 
 
 “She looked out from my phone that she was playing with and she goes ‘the world’s on fire’ in a really high question kind of voice,” Michelle said. “A huge Cruz supporter both my husband and myself, I said to her, 'He will be the one that will put that fire out,' so she looked at him and he was a hero.” 
 
 “She really basically was like, ‘Oh oh, this is a great man,’” Michelle said. “He’s a firefighter in her mind as a three year old and was quite happy and then she wanted a cookie." 
 
 Zane Richer, the YouTube user who posted the exchange, said the little girl wasn't frightened by Cruz's statement. 
 
 "I was there, right behind this little girl, and she wasn't frightened in the least," Zane Richer wrote on the video page. "As a matter of fact, she was smiling and looking around, and after, when the Senator went on with his speech, the little girl just went back to calmly playing games on a phone. She wasn't upset at all." ||||| Ew, Dad! That’s gross! 
 
 With his two young daughters just feet away from him, Republican presidential contender Ted Cruz told the bizarre story of how he watched porn with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. 
 
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 The Texas senator, his wife Heidi and their daughters — 8-year-old Caroline and 5-year-old Catherine — all took the stage at a CNN town hall Wednesday night, which also featured a strange story about Cruz's love of canned soup. 
 
 Before discussing his relationship with his wife and Caroline’s upcoming birthday party, Cruz discussed how he once had to watch porn as part of his duties as a law clerk for the Supreme Court, a strange tale he first recounted in his 2015 memoir. 
 
 Ted Cruz, his wife Heidi and their daughters spoke at a CNN town hall Wednesday night. (CNN) 
 
 “The chapter begins with me watching pornography on the Internet with Sandra Day O’Connor, which was a bit of a bizarre experience,” he told Anderson Cooper, adding that the court librarians prepared a lesson for the justices and their clerks to demonstrate how the abundance of Internet porn ahead of a case considering the regulation of such graphic material. 
 
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 The librarians switched off Internet filters and quickly found hardcore videos by searching the term “cantaloupe,” he said. 
 
 “And Justice O’Connor — I still remember — she leaned forward, and she squinted, and she said, �?Oh, my!’” Cruz continued. 
 
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 Little Caroline and Catherine were seated in the first row of the audience as their dad told the cringe-worthy story. 
 
 The retelling wasn’t the only awkward moment: Cruz’s wife and daughters had more strange stories to share about the family patriarch. 
 
 Heidi Cruz told the audience how her husband perplexingly bought 100 cans of soup after they returned from their honeymoon because he was afraid she wouldn’t cook. 
 
 “I was completely shocked to see that he arrived back at our apartment with literally 100 cans of Campbell’s Chunky soup,” she said. “We had a tough conversation about it. I said, �?You don’t buy 100 of anything, much less canned soup. We can’t do this. I’ll be making things.’ He said, �?No, I know you. You won’t be making things.’” 
 
 Cruz talked about the time he watched porn with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images) 
 
 The newlywed wife promptly returned the stockpile of stews and called her mother to gab about her husband’s strange shopping spree — but her mom told her she should have let Cruz keep his coup. 
 
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 “So when Ted opened the pantry, I had to quickly tell him that I would go back and buy those cans again,” she added. 
 
 Cruz’s daughters also had some not-so-flattering stories about their dad. 
 
 Heidi Cruz also told a strange story about how her husband once bought 100 cans of soup. (BILL WECHTER/AFP/Getty Images) 
 
 Caroline — who turned 8 on Thursday — said she has a video of her dad in a pink feather boa and granny panties. The Texas dad put on the goofy getup as part of a dress up game at a father-daughter picnic, she said. 
 
 “It was on a videotape the whole time,” the oldest Cruz daughter said. “And that was a class video that they’re sending out to all the parents.” 
 
 Caroline also talked about her upcoming birthday party — a Build-a-Bear bash featuring a chocolate cake — and her love for Taylor Swift. Younger Catherine was mostly silent as she sat on her mom’s lap. 
 
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– Ever wondered what a young Ted Cruz looked and sounded like (and no worries, no Princess Bride impersonations)? A circulating YouTube video, which Politico says was apparently provided by a high school classmate, purports to show the 18-year-old GOP candidate mulling his future. "Aspirations? Is that like sweat on my butt?" Cruz ponders in the video—which Raw Story says was shot for his Baptist high school in Houston in 1988—before offering up his first goal to "be in a teen tit film." Upon further reflection, however, Cruz realizes he should set the bar higher. "Well, other than that, uh, take over the world, world domination, you know, rule everything," he notes. "Rich, powerful, that sort of stuff." Although some reviews of the video aren't terribly flattering—Raw Story labels young Ted Cruz "irritating and horrible," while Gawker calls his less-mature self an "insufferable twerp"—Cruz's campaign spokesman tells Politico: "Good to see he's always had a great sense of humor." (Mother Jones documents Cruz's various beefs with people to see if he's really an "awful, terrible jerk.")