Welcome to With Friends Like These, I am Anna Marie Cox.

Before we start the show, please, if you haven't already, register to vote.

And if you have registered to vote, then go vote if you can.

And if you voted, maybe try to hit other folks to vote.

You can go to votesafeamerica.com for all the tools you will need for those various tasks.

And speaking of voting, we have one of our few elected officials on the show this week,

Julian Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and Democratic presidential primary candidate.

I did not get a chance to vote for him, but I very much appreciated and admired the dignity

and humanity he brought to the debate stage.

And I credit him for basically upvoting the issues that should matter to more people.

Friends rights, disability issues, just talking like a real person sometimes.

He's bringing that warmth and passion to a new podcast from our friendly rival network,

Limonata Media.

It is called Our America, and it's about the wide variety of experiences that we still

call American.

From mobile home residents who might get evicted to the newly food insecure.

We talked about those things and a lot of other things in this week's show, coming

right up.

Julian Castro.

Julian Castro, welcome to the show.

Okay, thanks for having me.

Well, it's really good to talk to you.

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