All right, guys,

guys,

guys, to Crystal Kyle and Friends.

Today is not Crystal Kyle and Friends.

It's Kyle and Friend. I have Vosheer with me. is not

it is kyle and friends it's kyle and friend I have Vosch here with me Crystal is taking care of some family stuff that we got going on right now but that will not prevent us

from having a beautiful conversation so Vosch thank you for joining me man I appreciate it.

Oh anything for you and you know this is this is how you East Coasters always disarm us you know

I'm over here in Seattle I don't normally wake up for an hour I'm sleepypilledpilled. I'm cozy-maxing right now. I've got my

cardigan on. Hopefully my brain works well enough for me to talk politics. Thank you for having me.

Oh, my pleasure, and that was my plan. My plan was to get you so early that the brains misfire in just a touch and then well that'll even it out a little bit.

It's a classic start. No, it's stack the deck even further in your favor.

Really though, it is nice to talk to you.

Same here, same here.

All right, so let's start with, let's go to the election first because there's so much going on that I'm interested in your thoughts on.

So look, Trump won Iowa, Trump won New Hampshire, he won both of them comfortably.

Nicki Haley is staying in for South Carolina, but that's really like a last-ditch effort.

I don't know if she thinks she could pull off a miracle and win it which she can't or if she thinks look he's got 91 criminal charges he could be taken off the field at any minute I just want to be the fallback option if he gets removed I don't know what she's, but what do you make of Trump's like complete

iron grip on the Republican Party? Because it's literally unlike anything I've ever seen.

I think this pales in comparison to like how Obama had a lot of

Democrats on his side. I mean it truly is cultish from my perspective so

how do you view Trump's iron grip on the party? Yeah it's it's funny because the

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