Welcome everybody to this edition of the Mary Trump show.

I am honored to be joined tonight by the great Charlie Pierce lead political blogger, Esquire

author of the very prescient book as it turns out, it hit America among many other things.

Welcome, Charlie, and thank you so much for being here tonight.

What's the duty here, Mary? How are you?

Well, you know, it's been a rough week.

Yeah, no kidding.

We found out yesterday that the irreplaceable Eric Bollert died on Monday night.

And you wrote a really beautiful piece for Esquire called Eric Bollert's Spirit was decades

younger and his wisdom decades older.

I'd like to read a paragraph if you don't mind.

Read my stuff back to me.

Absolutely.

Eric was gloriously unimpressed by reputations.

He was the implacable foe of journalistic laziness in all its forms, especially as expressed

through access journalism and the reputorial archeracy of both citerism.

Take them all in all.

He was something of a proud throwback to what the craft of journalism ought to be.

Very word of that rings absolutely, lutely true.

And you also call him one of the only immediate critics who mattered with which I completely

concur.

So in addition to talking about Eric who was a wonderful, lovely man, in addition to being

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