Welcome in everybody. I'm Mark Calpren, editor-in-chief of two-way. Thank you for joining our new show. We're still just a little bit of a baby. This is season one, episode nine. Very happy to have you here. My job, as I see it on this program, is to introduce you to things and people that I find interesting and important. Well, we'll do that today.

Richie Torres, Congressman from New York, will be here. He's one of the most interesting

people in the Democratic Party. We'll talk to him about where things stand as far as he sees

it with the party and also whether he'll run for governor of New York. Then two of my colleagues

from Two Way, two of the most interesting people I know,

Bajongar Sargon and Bridget Fetesi are going to be here. We'll talk about what's gone on in politics and

in our culture. And they are two people you should know if you don't. So glad to have them here.

Grateful to them and grateful and grateful for the opportunity to introduce them to those of you who may not know them.

And then Kim Rivers, she's the CEO of True Leave, is one of the most successful American cannabis companies.

And we'll talk about the state of the market economy and cannabis.

A huge topic that doesn't get covered enough by the press on both the recreational side and the

medicinal side, just a huge issue and something that politicians of both parties struggle with.

So again, thrilled to be able to bring all those folks to you today to have that conversation.

I'm also delighted to talk to you about something that I really fascinated by.

Whenever there's a new president,

the culture of Washington, the culture of the presidency, the culture of our nation's capital,

there's a consistency, there's a through line. Some things never change. But every new president

has got a new culture. And what's fascinating to me is to be kind of like an anthropologist,

to try to understand what is Donald Trump's Washington like. And of course fascinating to me is to be kind of like an anthropologist to try to

understand what is Donald Trump's Washington like. And of course, for all of us alive now, this is

unique. We've never had a second term president in a newly elected term. And there's so many

differences between Trump one and Trump two. And I'm interested in policy, but again, I'm also

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