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

I'll start with good news.

We've got Senator Cruz back.

You've got what I'd say, half the voice, 60%.

Where are we right now with this?

Yeah, something like that.

I got to say doing a weekend where you go to like seven inauguration balls

and you're just going from event to event to event.

I've got a nasty cold.

My voice was completely ragged two days ago.

It's still pretty weak.

I canceled pretty much all my media interviews just because I'm trying to rest my voice.

But I'm back to the podcast because I love you guys.

See, you know we started rumors while you were gone.

This was you partying too hard.

And we're blaming your old co-host because there is a picture on the internet of you guys having cigars together at the inauguration.

Yeah, I will confess.

Knowles and I were at a cigar bar smoking cigars and having scotch at three in the morning,

which, you know, with Jeremy Boring and Ben Shapiro and all the Daily Wire guys,

and it was great fun, but it really is crappy for your voice.

It really does.

Yeah, there you go.

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