Zoran Mamdani's win in the Democratic primary is making me miss living in New York City.

I lived under the Giuliani and Bloomberg administrations. And look, New York is New York.

There are so, so many communities living under this umbrella.

My 12 years in the city, after growing up 30 miles outside of it,

predominantly involved being part of the world music scene and the yoga community.

As I said on Thursday's episode, New York is distinct in terms of its communities, meaning it's not like

one big kumbaya party. Yet it also forces you to grapple with tons of people from everywhere

in the world all the time. That's what I miss most about living there. This is Derek Barris, and you're listening to a Conspirality Bonus episode,

and I've been thinking about Mamdani's victory for a lot of reasons.

I love how he's approaching this campaign.

I do agree with the majority of his politics,

and I think he's the right person at the right

time for a party that really needs some fresh energy. I'm also aware of how easy it is to get

charmed by charisma, given that's what we cover on this podcast in the wellness world. I'm not fanatical,

and I do have some critiques, but more importantly, I just think it's about time because democratic leadership is not cutting it

right now. I'm going to get personal before I spend most of this episode looking at the political.

After moving to New York, I ended up deep in the world music scene.

I worked as managing editor of a world music magazine and produced three albums and four

EPs as one half of Earthrise sound system.

But the most New York memory I have is from my decade plus as part of the DJ

collective Glob Sonic. Every summer for 10 years, we held monthly Globonic on the Hudson

parties on P.R.I. In the Upper West Side, up to 7,000 people showed up to these events where we

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