Hello and welcome to another episode of the City Journal podcast.

My name is Rafael Menguall.

I am your host, and I am so happy to be joined by my wonderful colleagues, Renew Mukagi, and Santiago Villalcad Calvo. Welcome to the show, guys. How are you? Good. Thanks for having us. Yes, thank you for having us. Always great to be with you guys. I am happy to finally be back in New York after getting stuck on a bunch of planes, trains, and automobiles this past week with some travel. Where are you guys? Are you both in D.C. now?

Well, I have moved to D.C. from New York.

But right now I'm actually in northern Massachusetts at my parents' house because I was in

Boston for a wedding this weekend.

And I also had air travel issues.

My flight got canceled.

So I will be taking an eight-hour-long train ride from Boston

to D.C. very late tomorrow. I'm actually going to D.C. tomorrow. I am testifying before the House

Oversight Committee on Wednesday, and I have a bunch of meetings in the office tomorrow. So I'm going to

go from New York down to D.C. tomorrow night and then

testify Wednesday afternoon. What about you, Santiago? You're in D.C. right? No, actually, I moved from D.C. to Texas like three months ago. Nice. We're in Texas. I'm a big fan of the Lone Star State. Oh, yeah, college station, Texas, House of A&M. Very cool. I'm doing my PhD over here. And while I do not have any travel plans. The city was collapsed this weekend because we had a game

against, very cool. I'm doing my PhD over here, and while I do not have any travel plans, the city was

collapsed this weekend because we had a game against, I think, it was like South Carolina, and we are 10-0, which I believe it's great. We has been like, you know, we haven't been undefeated since like 1992. You know, I became an Aggie, you know, a fan now. Very cool. I'm actually a huge fan of the Texas A&M baseball program,

which has one of

my favorite college baseball traditions, which is when an opposing pitcher walks a batter, particularly

on four straight pitches for the rest of the time until he throws a strike, the crowd will count

ball five and then ball six and then just keep going.

And it's one of like the worst experiences that particularly young and weak-minded pitchers have

when they play Texas A&M, which is kind of cool. Actually, I was just at A&M's law school

speaking a couple weeks ago in Fort Worth, which is nice. Well, I guess I'm the only one here in New York,

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