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

First of all, thanks to Michael and Bridget for getting the membership drive going this morning.

Who wants a tote bag that says you can't defund the truth?

We'll try to do our share of pitching in on that during the show.

We'll also have today's installment of our 30 issues and 30 days election series.

Today, it's issue 18, the ballot question for New York City voters to decide on,

should the city change its mayoral election years to

presidential election years? You know, the argument for that is to increase voter turnout.

It says that's the argument for that right on your ballot when you see your ballot, but not

everyone is for that. So Bridget will be back later in the show with an explainer of the pros and

cons for 30 issues today.

We'll also have, as we often do in the membership drives, a daily 10-question quiz where we'll give away some WNYC swag.

Today it'll be a Brian Lerrishel baseball cap or a you can't defund the truth toot if you get two questions in a row,

right? It's going to be a New York area geo quiz coming up later today. But we begin not with

Bridget Bergen, but another local dignitary. David Remnick is with us, editor of the New Yorker magazine

and host of the WNYC weekend show, The New Yorker

Radio Hour. If you like this show on the weekdays at 10 a.m., you'll definitely want to listen

to our Saturday 10 a.m. show. Among other things, we'll preview the upcoming New Yorker

festival in which David will interview John Stewart and Salman Rusty, and there'll be lots of other live

events, and we'll discuss David's recent commentary in the magazine called Trump Presses Mute on

Free Speech. David, always great of you to pop out of your editors cave on a weekday. Welcome

back to the Brian Ler Show. It's great to speak with you. How are you? I'm okay, surviving.

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