It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On today's show. We'll do our latest

100 years of 100 thing segment. It's thing number 28, 100 years of making a living without a college degree.

We'll look at economic history, take your oral history calls about your parents or grandparents

and talk about how the mismatches and even biases today between people's skills and general

education levels and what employers are looking for.

Also today, excerpts from this week's debate in the Andy Kim, Curtis Bashaw, U.S. Senate

race in New Jersey, a high-stakes race with control of the Senate at stake, of course,

and local to us.

And we'll sample from a new documentary. This should be really fun about the time

when John Lennon and Yoko Ono did a week as talk show hosts. But we begin with our lead

Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kim, as usual on Wednesdays after the mayor's weekly Tuesday

news conferences. It came this week amid a continuing exodus of the mayor's

very top appointees as the fallout from his indictment on corruption and defrauding the taxpayers' charges.

Hey, Liz, happy Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, Brian. You want to set the scene for us a little before we

play some clips of the mayor you wrote to us another day

another wave of departures and you're calling this the post banks era david banks phil banks

terence banks all brothers one of them the school's chancellor won the mayor's head of public safety

plus as of yesterday chancellor banks partner and fiance and fiancé, Sheena Wright, who

was the first deputy mayor, they've all left. How dramatic is this wave of departures by people

named banks and people related to them? Well, I think that the departure of the Banks family

is especially significant simply

because of their decades-long relationship with the mayor so the mayor and Phil

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