Hello America, welcome. It's Eric Erikson here, the second hour of the program, and I am delighted to have you with me.

We're treating today as an open line Friday because I got summoned to a secret meeting of the vast right week conspiracy tomorrow.

And I wasn't here yesterday. So in fairness, we can spend some more talking about the state of the play after New Hampshire.

You should know that Donald Trump has said,

if anyone gives money to Nikki Haley moving forward,

that you will be exiled from MAGA,

you will be removed from all of the lists.

I might have given her a little money just so they'll stop sending me all the text messages and emails.

I mean, look, if they're going to purge the list of people who've given money,

that's going to stop all the text messages I've been given.

It sounds like a win to me.

Y'all, the amount of the volume of emails and text messages, come on.

I get enough already.

I need to do something to make it stop.

In any of it, the phone number 8779773-725.

If you text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777-7, well, you can be a part of the program and get all the show notes and live stream links and podcast, all that great stuff.

There's a story in Bloomberg that just made me fall out laughing.

Here's the headline from reporters at Cohen.

Young Congress aides publicly defy bosses upending tradition.

Young congressional aides, it should say, I guess for space saving, for printed publication, I suppose.

Representative Henry Quaylor's top staffer in his Laredo office welcomed the chance to work for the conservative Democrat, despite the fact they came from different parties and managed one of the worst paid offices in Congress.

But Quaylor's vote against Republican-led legislation, barring transgender girls from participating in school athletics for women and

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