Matthew Tuerk

It's un gran placer.

It's a huge pleasure to be here.

I landed on Saturday, went right to the marathon expo, picked up my bib.

24 hours later, I was starting the Madrid 42K.

Not 26 miles, but 42 kilometers marathon.

It was hot.

It was hilly.

It was beautiful.

Great crowd support, phenomenal marathon.

finished the marathon and then went right to a reception for Bloomberg City Lab.

And I've been nonstop since then.

i mean he there's he could have been talking about mac trucks he could have been talking about silk manufacturing um that's like the local controversy is that like he's talking about you know bethlehem but he didn't rhyme as well with shutting factories down but then there's you know i was surprised i thought that everyone in the country felt like not great about the song allentown then i met the mayor of toledo and he was like this

It's a great song.

It's about the working man and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And I was like, what are you talking about?

This is the song that like everybody in our region and the Lehigh Valley just like dreads hearing because it's about this like different era that maybe was like felt right in the moment in 1982.

Like that maybe kind of captured the moment.

But in 2026, it's like it doesn't sound further from it couldn't sound further from the truth.

Yeah, I mean, so I mean, the city was founded back in 1762.

It had its revolutionary moment.