Welcome in, my beloved Nexters. Thank you for joining. I'm Mark Kalprin, editor-in-chief of the two-way platform and your guide to everything next up.

Thank you for joining today. It's a crazy news week. And often I think about things in terms of narrative and storylines and characters. And so often it's A versus B. And you've got conflict. Sometimes they're

very high stakes. Sometimes they're just hilarious. But we've got five that I'll run through in my

reported monologue, the folks who are being talked about by people I talk to who are in conflict

at this moment. And we'll talk about the stakes involved in each of them.

So stay tuned for that. After that, the New York City mayor's race. It's been a big story here

in New York, but it's a big story nationally. The stakes are very large for the city, the biggest

city in the United States, one of the biggest in the world, but also for both the National

Democratic Party

and Republican Party. You can bet if Mr. Mondami wins the mayoral race that the Republicans,

President Trump, will make him the face of the Democratic Party as best that they can. And it raises

a lot of questions about social media and how it's effectively used, about outsiders versus

insiders, about the status quo

versus change a lot of issues and so I had the opportunity this week to do something that I love to do

when I'm wondering about something in the news which is to work with my friend David Borell of WIC to do a poll

and we'll present it to you here on the program I think it's the best poll've seen, I say on David's behalf of this race and teases out some of the issues that it should matter to you if he care about politics.

It's a fascinating race unlike we've ever seen with basically four candidates on the ballot in a general election that is wild and willy and unpredictable.

So David will be here to present the

poll of New York City's mayoral race and John Podortz, the editor of Commentary Magazine,

will join us to break things down. He is a keen observer of Gotham City. So I'm looking forward

to talking to two of them. And then in our next block after that, Ben Ferguson, host of the Ben Ferguson podcast will be here.

He is also the co-host of the verdict with Ted Cruz, one of the best talkers in the universe of talkers.

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