It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

Well, it's the last morning of the membership drive.

And the morning after the WNYC mayoral debate, thanks to all of you who have helped us try to

show that you can defund an institution, but you cannot defund the truth, right? And thank you

in advance for any last day sustaining memberships or other donations. We'll devote most of the

show today to debate excerpts and analysis, and then we'll have one final membership drive quiz, so we can all exhale with a little fun and hopefully give away a few more Brian Laird Show baseball caps and our new WNYC tote bag that says you can't defund the truth.

Our final quiz topic will be famous parents of famous children.

Call it a nepo baby quiz if you like, but famous parents and their famous children, some of them

will surprise you. But let's get to the debate. Let me stay first that the station was honored

as an institution and I was honored as an individual

to be selected to moderate this high-stakes debate along with New York One and the publication in the city.

Our senior political reporter Bridget Bergen, who was good enough to fill in for me yesterday,

as many of you heard while I was out prepping for the

debate, is right back with us in the guest's chair as our first analyst. Hi, Bridget, thanks for

yesterday and today. Glad to do it, Brian. Excellent job last night. Major kudos to you and

Arrell and Katie. It was such a great debate. Thank you very much. The first excerpt I want to play

is a question I asked last night about a shocking new statistic that I think isn't getting enough

attention about child homelessness, child homelessness in the city. You will hear that this became

one of the vehicles for a main message of both Cuomo and

Mamdani versus each other. Lack of experience versus experience not to be proud of. This begins with

my question. The cost of living is our next topic. You've all cited it as a major factor. And of course,

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