It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone.

Coming up today, the Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, with his new book, The Road to Freedom.

Its premise is a reconsideration of how we use the word freedom when we talk about the economy and our personal finances.

I'm so glad he's done this because the word freedom, which can mean so many things to so many

people, right, has largely been captured by the free market right these days in the economic

context. And Stiglitz wants to wrestle it back toward a fuller meaning. So Joseph Stiglitz and the

Road to Freedom coming up. Also our lead Eric Adams reporter, Liz Kim, as usual on Wednesdays,

with clips and analysis and to take your calls on the Mayor's Tuesday

News Conference. And with this being a week off from school in most places, we'll have an

open-ended call-in for teachers at the end of the show. What's the headline from your classroom

so far this academic year? From pre-K through 12th grade teachers. Think about it. And you'll be

invited to call in around 1140, quarter to 12 or so. But here's where we start. This is a day off

in the Trump-Hush money trial. And we'll break down the evidence so far with Politico reporter Erica Orden, who's been in

the courtroom for the opening arguments and the start of the first witness, David Pecker,

former publisher of the National Enquirer, who had this deal with Trump to make up fake news

stories about his opponents in 2016 and to catch and kill, as they call it, stories from

women alleging sexual encounters with Trump. The court has also released data about the jurors,

about their media diets, without naming names, of course, but it's where these jurors say

they get their news. And it's really interesting and surprising in some ways.

One spoiler, one of the jurors cited WNYC as one of their sources of news. But it's interesting

what else that juror takes in. We'll get to that. Again, Erica Orden, reporter for Politico,

is our guest. Erica, always good to have you on. Thanks for taking some of this day off from the courtroom to be with us.

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