I'm WBC Chicago.
It's American life.
Good morning.
And it's a great morning for New Yorkers and a great morning to be in New York City for the press conference in a park in Harlem,
New York's Mayor Adams in April 2023.
There are two undisputed truths about the Adams administration.
Mayor Eric Adams loves his mother.
Mayor Eric Adams hates rats.
This event was to introduce New Yorkers to their brand new rat czar.
This is the position the mayor created.
Then his job listing called for candidates who were,
quote, highly motivated and somewhat bloodthirsty,
with a swashbuckling attitude, crafty humor, and general aura of bad assery.
At the time of this press conference, New York's mayor was not popular.
He had huge disapproval ratings on crime and homelessness,
fewer than half of all New Yorkers liked the way he was doing his job.
And we're revisiting this moment because Mayor Adams is about to be replaced on January 1st.
And this is an episode of ours that he inspired that we all at our show really loved,
where we tried some funny things that we had never tried before.
It's a show about rats in New York and elsewhere.