Welcome, it's verdict with Ted Cruz, Senator. You had one heck of a week in New York. I'm not sure that they have come down from the high of seeing you there.

The Yankees game. So let's just start with that before we even get to the view and your book. You went to the game and the world freaked out.

I had the most ridiculous fun over the last couple of days. So it starts off. I go to game four of the ALCS. Astros Yankees. I go with a great friend of mine. We get seats right behind home plate directly behind home plate.

Now, I'm a diehard Astros guy. I grew up as a kid. My parents. We had we had season tickets to the Astros when I was a kid at the old stadium at the at the Astro.

No, we're going back old school a long time ago. So I'm behind home plate and listen, if you're going of course you dress you and you and I went to game two of the ALCS together.

Yeah, thank you. By the way, for that invite that was a blast. That was awesome. We won that. But then again, we won game one. We won game two. We won game three. So game four is the friggin elimination game.

So I flew to New York. I'm sitting behind home plate. Of course I'm wearing bright orange. My Astros shirt.

Like you either go down and you like root for the home team and screw him. And so that's where I was. And listen, I got to admit going in where like, okay Yankee Stadium. I never been to Yankee Stadium.

You never have. No, never. And for anyone that's a baseball truest like Yankee Stadium is Yankee Stadium in the discussion. It's a bucket list.

And the Yankees are a dangerous team. I'll confess actually going in. I was not super optimistic. I think we're going to beat the Yankees, but I thought they're too good a team for us to sweep. I thought we'd beat him in five or six.

I thought that they'll pull out a game for which is okay. But went in. And it was.

It was awesome. So everybody in the news acted like that you walked in and you're Satan, right? We incarnated you show up. That's not actually true.

Like it is the very definition of fake news. So I didn't know what the reaction is. I have to admit I sat down with my body and I'm like, okay, I'm going to Yankee Stadium. I'm celebrating what hopefully is a sweep.

Yeah, they're going to be pissed. And so I'm like, all right, is some guy going to like throw a beer on me? Is some guy going to walk up and punch me in the face? Like what's going to happen? Yeah, like I'm like, all right, I get it.

But I have to say I was blown away. I probably took 150 pictures with Yankee fans who came up and like the degree to which like like you have these big New Yorkers who were hugging me.

And like we took selfies the whole time. Now what happened? Sixth inning, I go to the men's room. I'm walking out. And there are three guys that flip the bird at me. And I would say in the entire course of the game nine innings. I probably had, I don't know, 30, 40 people suggest I do something that is anatomically impossible.

And that's all right. You're at a baseball game. What do they get us say exactly? Yeah, you know, they're going to yell. And there was one jackass. I don't even know who it was who put this little tick-tock video of him yelling and cursing at me about blah blah blah. I'm a leftist. I hate America blah blah blah. I don't even know what he was saying. He was like up further in the stands. Of course, that's what the media ran with.

Yeah, if it bleeds it leads and if it's flicking off you, it leads and it got front page, which still by the way I would have lost a bet on that. If you would have said Ted Cruz going to the Yankees game will get front page of the next day of the newspapers in New York, I would back there's no way it'll be the game. Nope, you're there.

And I got to tell you look, I'm a happy warrior. I'm smiling. I'm laughing. But every time the Astros got a damn hit. I'm standing up waving cheering. I'm like surrounded by Yankees. Okay.

So in the seat behind me, there is this gorgeous woman in a halter top that everybody saw it was trending on social media.

Yeah, I mean, it was it was like the I was laughing because I was watching the game at home. My phone's blowing up there. Like are you at the game? Are you at the game? Like no, I'm a commoner. I'm back at home. I'm watching this on TV.

And then everybody's tweeting me or texting me going, who is that sitting behind him because it was like if you're you had to focus on the game and make sure no one took a picture that they're like, oh, look Ted Cruz.

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