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Speaker 1: I have never done. I've been to New York off
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Speaker 1: But we're gonna actually start with Backscratcher, Danny. And the
Speaker 1: reason we are going to start with Backscratchers because last
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're backed up like New York City sewage exactly.
Speaker 1: I need some preparation. H We're backed up so bad there.
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Speaker 1: Now here we go Culture Vulture. So I've been going
Speaker 1: to New York for a long time as Tales from
Speaker 1: the Naked City Part two. Been going to New York
Speaker 1: for many, many years. My brother has lived there for
Speaker 1: a long time. We grew up together and then he
Speaker 1: moved away, and I was still in high school when
Speaker 1: he moved away. And so every year or every other year,
Speaker 1: whether it's for work or something else, I have found
Speaker 1: my way to the Big app. It has been the
Speaker 1: place I have been to more than any other place
Speaker 1: in my life. And now during the pandemic, I'd not
Speaker 1: been there since the pandemic started, which was in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: so i'd been there. I'd not been there for three years.
Speaker 1: But other than that, other than that, regularly, whether it
Speaker 1: was for work. When I did the TV show for
Speaker 1: a year at NBC, flew back to New York, then
Speaker 1: drove up to Connecticut to do that show every month.
Speaker 1: And I've been in with different jobs. I've had some
Speaker 1: of them, radio jobs, different things. On these various trips
Speaker 1: over the years, always find my way to the Big Apple.
Speaker 1: So but I did something I have never done in
Speaker 1: all my years going to that city. And this is
Speaker 1: a global exclusive. This is a Marconi Award winning possible podcast.
Speaker 1: Not that they give up Marconi Award for a podcast.
Speaker 1: What's the Podcast award. What's it called the award for
Speaker 1: podcast I don't know.
Speaker 4: This is a ah, the razziez.
Speaker 1: That is it? The uh, the potty.
Speaker 3: It's an outhouse. It's a little miniature outhouse.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know. I'm sure there's an award.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: It's really smart if you're in if you're in the
Speaker 1: podcast business, you create an award and then give your
Speaker 1: podcasts an award and then you're good to go. Anyway,
Speaker 1: get to the point, please, So I did something that
Speaker 1: I had never done all my years going back there?
Speaker 1: What did I do? You want to take a guess
Speaker 1: what I did? It's something that a lot of people
Speaker 1: have on their bucket list. It was not on mind, Dan,
Speaker 1: it was not on my bucket. Go ahead, what do
Speaker 1: you think?
Speaker 3: Okay? Is this very French or is this very high
Speaker 3: in the sky.
Speaker 1: I would say it's not high in the sky. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's French or not. I think it's
Speaker 1: more of an American thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh, because I was thinking that you finally took a
Speaker 4: tour of our lady the Statue of Liberty.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have done the Statue of Liberty. I did
Speaker 1: that when my years ago, I was a kid when
Speaker 1: I went to the Statue of Liberty Ellis Island and
Speaker 1: all that, I've not been backed by the way.
Speaker 3: I did it too.
Speaker 4: But when I was there, the top half was closed
Speaker 4: off for renovations.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well then you got to go back.
Speaker 3: I know, so we only got to go to halfway.
Speaker 1: You're going to go back. I predict in nine years,
Speaker 1: when your kids at that golden age nine to nine
Speaker 1: to twelve, when everything full and all that, you'll take
Speaker 1: your kid there.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm sure I would love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, take them to Madison Square Garden to see Patrick.
Speaker 1: Ewing, Hot trick Ewing, that New York Mecker Bockers, Midtown Manhattan. No,
Speaker 1: so are you ready for the big revealed? Then? Are
Speaker 1: you ready?
Speaker 3: This is all right? What did you do?
Speaker 1: This is when I became a culture vulture. I Ben
Speaker 1: Mahlor attended my first Broadway show. Oh my gosh, oh wow,
Speaker 1: I say Broadway play. Oh, and I'm happy to report
Speaker 1: that I I needed an ambulance almost by the time
Speaker 1: I got done with my first trip to a Broadway play.
Speaker 1: Did I have a heart attack though? Did I have
Speaker 1: a stroke?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: It makes plain. So my wife came to New York.
Speaker 1: She's not a big fan of New York, like she's
Speaker 1: just the's dirty. You know, it's a lot of walking,
Speaker 1: it's hot usually when we go, so it's not her
Speaker 1: cup of coffee. It's it's not mine either, But I
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. I like going and then leaving and
Speaker 1: and and knowing that it's there. But I don't really
Speaker 1: need to be there rare and appropriate, but it's fun
Speaker 1: when I'm there. It's a totally different experience than I'm
Speaker 1: used to, and it's everyone that goes there says the
Speaker 1: same thing. So anyway, so I attended my first Broadway
Speaker 1: play and almost the inn name is Here's why. So
Speaker 1: my wife has kind of throw her a bone. Her
Speaker 1: birthday week was last week or this past this past week,
Speaker 1: and so she always wanted to see a Broadway shows us,
Speaker 1: all right. And the one we wanted to see we
Speaker 1: were going to see in la and we didn't see
Speaker 1: it The Book of Mormon. So it was playing and
Speaker 1: right there, Tony Award winning musical. I'm not a big
Speaker 1: musical guy. Whatever, she wanted to see it. Get all
Speaker 1: dressed up, get all dulled up, go to see a
Speaker 1: Broadway show, all right, fine. So the Book of Mormon
Speaker 1: has been on Broadway for over a decade. It started
Speaker 1: I think at twenty eleven and it was playing at
Speaker 1: the Eugene O'Neill Theater. You ever been to the Eugene
Speaker 1: O'Neill Theater on forty ninth Street there in Manhattan.
Speaker 3: Not that I know.
Speaker 1: Okay, So this had a fin Way poc type of
Speaker 1: vibe to it. Now, there was no Green Monster, but
Speaker 1: it was construction. It was constructed and open. It was
Speaker 1: actually a little after Finway, but it's almost one hundred
Speaker 1: years old. It was open in nineteen twenty five. The
Speaker 1: Eugene O'Neill Theater am right in the middle of the
Speaker 1: theater district there in Midtown Manhattan, not on Broadway, by
Speaker 1: the way. And the difference I learned this years ago
Speaker 1: before I ever wanted to attend a Broadway show. The
Speaker 1: difference between a Broadway and off Broadway show. You know
Speaker 1: what the difference is, Danny, one block. No, it's it's
Speaker 1: totally in the number of seats available in the theater.
Speaker 1: If you're below a certain number of seats, you're an
Speaker 1: off Broadway act. Even if you're in the same theater
Speaker 1: or just one theater over from where the Broadway theater
Speaker 1: is because it depends on how many seats you have,
Speaker 1: so they're very elitist. If you have a certain number
Speaker 1: of seats, you're Broadway. If you're below that, you're off Broadway.
Speaker 1: But it could be the same whatever.
Speaker 3: Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this was this was a Broadway show. It
Speaker 1: was a big theaterka.
Speaker 4: Clearly, you and I are experts on Broadway show shows.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, come on this show right here is a musical
Speaker 1: in many ways, So it's at the theater district, this
Speaker 1: old theater. The reason I claim it was like the
Speaker 1: fin Way experience, and my man Alp the Alien Opiner,
Speaker 1: will back me up on this. The seats were designed
Speaker 1: for someone who was about four eleven to five to three.
Speaker 1: Now I'm like six ' five of I stand up
Speaker 1: maybe six ' six if I shrug over, maybe six '
Speaker 1: four depending on my posture. You know, I can hear
Speaker 1: my mom's voice stand up tall, but so fine. I
Speaker 1: normally whatever I do my thing. And the theater was
Speaker 1: sold out and the only tickets we could get were
Speaker 1: in the middle of a row, not the end of
Speaker 1: a row, the middle of it. Oh no, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know I do overnight radio. I don't do daytime radio.
Speaker 1: I did daytime radio. I'd be sitting on the lower level.
Speaker 1: I was on the upper mezzanine of the Eugene O'Neal Theater,
Speaker 1: so we're in the middle row, upper balcony whatever. So
Speaker 1: I squeezed into the seat. There's a woman fully masked
Speaker 1: up next to me who must not have heard the
Speaker 1: pandemics now over a older woman. So she's on one side.
Speaker 1: I got my wife on the other, and I've got
Speaker 1: to sit in a seat designed for someone that's five
Speaker 1: foot two or five foot three, and I'm six four.
Speaker 1: So this presents a mathematical problem. So I used some
Speaker 1: malor math and I determined I had to bend my
Speaker 1: knees a certain direction. Now, originally I was bending them
Speaker 1: to the masked woman, but then I was like, I
Speaker 1: got so I stood up, and then I bent them
Speaker 1: the other way towards my wife, and of course the
Speaker 1: person in front. It's you know how you get on
Speaker 1: a plane and there's like that one open seat next
Speaker 1: to you, yeah, and you're like, oh, close the doors close,
Speaker 1: the doors, close the doors, and it's always like that
Speaker 1: last person that comes in there and sits right where
Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, I'm gonna lay, I'm gonna lead lay
Speaker 1: on this seat, you know. So that's what happened. The
Speaker 1: last person to come into the Eugene o'neio theater sat
Speaker 1: right in front of me, got screwed on that. And
Speaker 1: I'm trying to watch. I'm trying to be cultured and
Speaker 1: all that and watch the show, and I'm I feel
Speaker 1: like I'm old enough now where if you if I
Speaker 1: had gone to a probably show in my twenties or thirties,
Speaker 1: I would have wanted to kill myself. But now I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, I can put up with it. Whatever. My
Speaker 1: wife really wanted to do it, so I was like,
Speaker 1: I'll go and I'll be into it, you know. And
Speaker 1: I figured I probably won't do it again, so whatever.
Speaker 1: But I was in such agony as I was trying
Speaker 1: to sit. My knees were pushed to the brink. And
Speaker 1: I have a bad as we've talked about on the podcast,
Speaker 1: my right knees screwed up. It's manageable, but not if
Speaker 1: you sit at a weird angle. For it's a two
Speaker 1: hour show with a fifteen minute break in the middle,
Speaker 1: so like.
Speaker 4: Double torture, torture wa and you're at a musical torture
Speaker 4: two that seating it's like you're being waterboarded while people
Speaker 4: are singing.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah yeah. And the Broadway crowd, yeah, they
Speaker 1: they are. They are just like totally going crazy. Man,
Speaker 1: They're they're loving this. And I'm like, I'm like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm looking at my watch. I'm like, oh god, well,
Speaker 1: you know, man, what am I gonna do. My wife
Speaker 1: was even like she's like, listen, you're too much pain.
Speaker 1: We'll leave at the intermission. You know, it's making the intermission.
Speaker 1: So at the intermission, I was like, these tickets were
Speaker 1: pretty expensive, Danny, And I'm like, you know, I'm cheap,
Speaker 1: Like I don't want to leave. So I went to
Speaker 1: this usher. I said, listen, I said, is anything you
Speaker 1: can do? I said I can't. I can physically not
Speaker 1: sit there. I'm gonna need an ambulance. You can do?
Speaker 1: And she was very cool, this woman. I'll give her credit.
Speaker 1: I don't know her name. I'd give her, you know,
Speaker 1: name recognition. I didn't get her name. She's a very
Speaker 1: nice woman, middle aged woman. And she said, yeah, you
Speaker 1: know these people right here in this this aisle seat.
Speaker 1: They left like very early in the show. And the
Speaker 1: theory was they got tickets to the Book of Mormon
Speaker 1: and they were like Mormon, and they were offended by
Speaker 1: the play, and so they left, like like ten minutes
Speaker 1: into the show. They took off. Yeah, Like, why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you read the review of the Book of Mormon. It's
Speaker 1: not it's not a recruiting thing for the Mormons.
Speaker 3: It's things that are called a synopsis. You got to
Speaker 3: read it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you might want to check that out anyway. So fine,
Speaker 1: I was like, that's great. There were the seats were
Speaker 1: right there, and so me and the family we moved
Speaker 1: to those seats and it was still not very comfortable,
Speaker 1: but when I was able to move my legs onto
Speaker 1: the aisle, so that was perfect and it was great,
Speaker 1: and we saw the second half of the show and
Speaker 1: it was wonderful and now wonderful meaning I could actually
Speaker 1: stand up when the thing was over. I saw the
Speaker 1: Book of Mormon, didn't You didn't see the Book of.
Speaker 3: No, not me, you did.
Speaker 4: I thought, Hey, the only I've seen two Broadway shows.
Speaker 4: I saw The Lion King in New York, Okay, and
Speaker 4: I saw Early my very first trip to New York.
Speaker 4: I got dragged to Cats when it was on its
Speaker 4: last run.
Speaker 1: I remember, kid, Yeah, I saw that some of the
Speaker 1: shows on Broadway, like shit that's been since I was
Speaker 1: a little kid, Like that Chicago thing is still on Broadway.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Covino and Rich they tell this story about how there
Speaker 4: was this old TV commercial that ran for like forty
Speaker 4: years on New York television for Cats, same old commercial.
Speaker 4: Their entire childhoods, their entire lives, entire lives. They saw
Speaker 4: the old Cats commercial.
Speaker 1: Well, somebody had I ran into somebody at Fox who
Speaker 1: had seen the Book of Mormon. I guess it obviously
Speaker 1: wasn't you. But anyway, so I here's my malord review. Okay,
Speaker 1: I am not a musical person far as a musical
Speaker 1: like Broadway show. You know, this is my wife's I
Speaker 1: actually enjoyed it more than she did. She said she
Speaker 1: wanted to see the show for like ten years and
Speaker 1: she never got around to doing it. So and I
Speaker 1: told her, I explained to her what she you had
Speaker 1: high expectations. I had no expectations. I was like, I
Speaker 1: didn't know anything about it. I just knew that it
Speaker 1: was written by the South Park guys. That's all I knew,
Speaker 1: and you know, everything like any Broadway show, as I anticipated,
Speaker 1: every scene ends up in its song. You know, everything's
Speaker 1: a freaking you know, freaking song. Fine. But the thing
Speaker 1: that really impressed me is the from a creative aspect,
Speaker 1: it was. It was like watching a movie or a
Speaker 1: TV show and knowing how hard it is due to
Speaker 1: live performance, and we can both respect this, Danny being
Speaker 1: in the business that we're in that nobody tripped, nobody,
Speaker 1: nobody missed a note, nobody missed a line. Everyone nailed
Speaker 1: every single scene of the show. There wasn't one misstep
Speaker 1: as far as I know, There wasn't one line that
Speaker 1: was missed, and there was a lot of freaking dancing
Speaker 1: and singing, and everything was perfect. It was like watching
Speaker 1: a TV show, except they were live in front of
Speaker 1: you and everything was edited already and professionally done. And
Speaker 1: so that from that the choreography standpoint, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm sounded like an old fart, but I was like
Speaker 1: really impressed. I was like, that's really difficult to do.
Speaker 1: My only experience with live performance was elementary school plays,
Speaker 1: which were complete shit shows. So to see this on
Speaker 1: the you know, as my brother said, well, that's New York,
Speaker 1: that's Broadway. That's how I was supposed to do it,
Speaker 1: you know, that's how they do it in New York.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, fine, but and I used the comparison.
Speaker 1: I remember as a kid at Circus Circus in New
Speaker 1: York or not New York, in Vegas at Circus Circus,
Speaker 1: and you see the Midway Magic show and the guy
Speaker 1: juggling the magician will drop, he'll drop some of the
Speaker 1: things he's juggling, you know, in the act, and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's embarrassing. But there was none of that. And so
Speaker 1: that was my experience on Broadway. And if only the
Speaker 1: seats were bigger, I might go back. But I do
Speaker 1: not think I will be back. I think that I
Speaker 1: can check that off my bucket list now, Danny and
Speaker 1: I when I someday die, hopefully long from now, I
Speaker 1: can say I did attend one Broadway show. I have
Speaker 1: gotten a little culture. And in the back of my
Speaker 1: head I heard the voice of Bob Page, who I
Speaker 1: briefly worked with at Fox Sports Radio, who yelled at
Speaker 1: me for not having any culture, for not going to
Speaker 1: museums and for not going to shows and things like that.
Speaker 1: So take that, mister Page in your face, in your face,
Speaker 1: and now I can blend right in Danny with the
Speaker 1: cultured people of society. When I go to cocktail parties,
Speaker 1: I'll blenme and write in with them, because I can
Speaker 1: now say I.
Speaker 3: Attended only if you're slouched over a little bit.
Speaker 1: Well, there is that as well.
Speaker 4: Had a much different week than you did. While you
Speaker 4: were show boating with some expensive Broadway seats. I was
Speaker 4: on offer up because as you see behind me, it's
Speaker 4: going to be a probably another month, I think. Before
Speaker 4: I got everything done, my storage unit is organized, tons
Speaker 4: of trash, tons of Salvation Army giveaways. And then I
Speaker 4: had a pile of expensive things, some good possessions. Think,
Speaker 4: could you know, be used by somebody else? So I
Speaker 4: put some things on offer up, including one of the
Speaker 4: bicycles here in the garage. As you know, Ben, when
Speaker 4: you're dealing with certain items like a bicycle, the manpower
Speaker 4: and the time you put into it that almost is
Speaker 4: worth more than the actual money you get selling the
Speaker 4: stupid thing. I try to take the front tire off
Speaker 4: off this bike. I think it's going to be easy.
Speaker 4: So an hour before leaving for the Covino and Rich show.
Speaker 4: I take the torque rod off the front tire, but
Speaker 4: it won't budge. The stupid front brakes are blocking the
Speaker 4: front tire from coming off. So now I need an
Speaker 4: Alan wrench. And I'm like, damn it, man, I know
Speaker 4: I got this size Alan wrench somewhere in the garage. Yes,
Speaker 4: Now I got to go on this whole chase of
Speaker 4: an Alan wrench. So I message the person. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to do this tomorrow on Wednesday. I
Speaker 4: gotta find the right Allen wrench to get the front
Speaker 4: brakes off for you so I can get the bike
Speaker 4: over to you. And this person they also had a
Speaker 4: smaller vehicle, so they were going to need to buy
Speaker 4: it and have the front tire off as well. I
Speaker 4: find that Alan wrench, get the front brakes off, get
Speaker 4: it in my trunk. I'm sweating, I'm a pig, I'm
Speaker 4: a mess. The sun is blaring on me as I'm
Speaker 4: getting this bike adjusted into the trunk so I can
Speaker 4: close it. I get to after my post production for
Speaker 4: Covino and Rich. The young lady tells me, all right,
Speaker 4: I'm ready to meet you at the Whole Foods now
Speaker 4: she wants to test ride it first, So this means
Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to take it out of my trunk
Speaker 4: in the hot sun, put it back together, let her
Speaker 4: ride it on those little neighborhood streets back there behind
Speaker 4: our City National Bank building, and then take the wheel
Speaker 4: off in the front break and all that.
Speaker 3: Mess again just to get fifty dollars.
Speaker 1: That's a good deal.
Speaker 3: Fifty dollars for her, Yeah, for her. Really, this is
Speaker 3: like a three hundred and seventy dollars bike.
Speaker 1: How many people contact you to say I'll take it
Speaker 1: for free?
Speaker 3: Do you know how many people?
Speaker 4: Because I originally listed it for one twenty five and
Speaker 4: I can't tell you how many people said I'll give
Speaker 4: you twenty bucks.
Speaker 3: I'll give you, forty bucks, I'll give you.
Speaker 4: So it got to the point where I just dipped
Speaker 4: the price down to fifty and she's the first one
Speaker 4: that said, hey, i'll give you the.
Speaker 3: Fifty four it okay.
Speaker 4: So this is where I blend in though, And this
Speaker 4: will really tell you something about our beautiful neighborhood of
Speaker 4: Sherman Oaks, California, not even one block away from our studios.
Speaker 4: I take the bike. You know, there's one thing about
Speaker 4: all Whole food stores. For whatever reason, they all have
Speaker 4: shitty small parking lots. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 4: It's like Trader Joe's same thing. I don't know what
Speaker 4: it is about those designer grocery stores, but you can't
Speaker 4: park your damn car in there.
Speaker 1: And then that one in particular, the one in Sherman
Speaker 1: Oaks is like the worst because it's right off the
Speaker 1: four oh five freeway and so you got people cruising
Speaker 1: off the freeway. I'll go get some grapes or get
Speaker 1: some strawberries in there at the Whole Foods. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Now we've mentioned this Whole Foods because Looney has seen
Speaker 4: celebrities there. I have some movie stars there.
Speaker 1: I have as well. I don't even go. I go
Speaker 1: there like once every couple of years. It's not even
Speaker 1: open when I'm on the air. And they all live
Speaker 1: up in the hills up there and they come down
Speaker 1: they do their shopping at that Whole Foods. It's to
Speaker 1: forget going to the Hollywood Hills. Right there, That Whole
Speaker 1: Foods is a celebrity mecca.
Speaker 4: I did a couple of laps around that small parking lot.
Speaker 4: Finally was able to pull into a spot that somebody
Speaker 4: pulled out of good timing. I get my car parked
Speaker 4: in there, open up my trunk, take the bike parts out.
Speaker 4: But now I'm realizing where the hell am I going
Speaker 4: to put this thing together at? So I noticed there's
Speaker 4: a strip of grass that's beyond right beyond the parking lot.
Speaker 4: So if you continued on that road, it would take
Speaker 4: you to the two freeways that split the four h
Speaker 4: five and the one oh one. Yeah, I take an
Speaker 4: old towel. I set that down on the sidewalk. I
Speaker 4: flipped the bike upside down like a mechanic. I take
Speaker 4: my toolbox and I look around, and I realized I
Speaker 4: almost look like a real freak right now. It's, you know,
Speaker 4: six point thirty pm on a Wednesday in Sherman Oaks,
Speaker 4: and I have this bike flipped over like a bike
Speaker 4: mechanic on the sidewalk right by a freeway, and next
Speaker 4: to me to my left is a homeless person sleeping.
Speaker 4: It was just really strange when I looked around and
Speaker 4: realized what it could look like if I was in
Speaker 4: a city where anyone was paying attention to me.
Speaker 3: But ding, ding, ding ding, that's the thing. Ben. I
Speaker 3: sat there for I got down.
Speaker 4: I took another towel, old towel out of my trunk
Speaker 4: so that I could sit down on the sidewalk. She
Speaker 4: obviously took the ride on the bike before I sat down,
Speaker 4: like a maniac, and took it apart again.
Speaker 3: So I put it together.
Speaker 4: She wrote it took it apart, and I got that
Speaker 4: front break off, I got the torque rod off, I
Speaker 4: got that front wheel off, and I held the wheel up,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, victory. Nobody bat it an I Nobody
Speaker 4: parking at the Whole Foods that was looking at me
Speaker 4: thought anything of it. The people who happened to be
Speaker 4: walking on the sidewalk, including the homeless people, thought nothing
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 3: I blended right in.
Speaker 1: It was so odd.
Speaker 4: She venmos me the fifty bucks. I help her get
Speaker 4: it in her car. She drives away Victory with offer up.
Speaker 4: But man, I couldn't help. But wonder what that must
Speaker 4: have looked like to an onlooker if anybody had cared.
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of La. Nobody cares. They're not. Everyone's
Speaker 1: in their own world. The same thing in New York,
Speaker 1: you know, people just do their own own thing like that.
Speaker 3: But I really don't you like that.
Speaker 4: I like that about big cities that you could basically
Speaker 4: do what you need to do in your own little
Speaker 4: world and people aren't paying attention to it.
Speaker 1: I like it, but it's part of me. Like it's
Speaker 1: occasionally you're like, wait a minute, am I am? I
Speaker 1: Do I even exist? You know? I am I even here?
Speaker 1: I mean what?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 1: The part I don't like is people don't treat anyone
Speaker 1: kindly because they're only worried about themselves. You know, everyone's
Speaker 1: out looking out for themselves, like just the common little
Speaker 1: courtesies that make life more enjoyable, like opening doors for people,
Speaker 1: or acknowledging people when they open doors, you know, and
Speaker 1: all that. Like that kind of stuff bothers me when
Speaker 1: people knew that.
Speaker 3: But well, you know.
Speaker 4: What I lived up to that. I gave her the
Speaker 4: Alan wrench for her to keep nice. I gave her
Speaker 4: a small little pump for the tires because I have
Speaker 4: a couple of them in my garage.
Speaker 3: She was a happy customer.
Speaker 1: Now here's the move, Danny. When you go to Vegas
Speaker 1: to see your raiders, next time you take that fifty dollars,
Speaker 1: you go to the roulette table. You pick red or black,
Speaker 1: and probably you're a Raider fans, you'll bet black, and
Speaker 1: you bet it on black and then just you can
Speaker 1: double your money, or you'll black thirty two. There you go,
Speaker 1: black thirty two. You can make even more than double
Speaker 1: your money on that. Knock yourself out. So we've already
Speaker 1: gone along on this, But I do have some others
Speaker 1: tails in the Naked City I would like to share.
Speaker 1: So we'll combine Cameo and Brooklyn and big Apple Bites
Speaker 1: and a rapid fire at any point, Danny, you can
Speaker 1: stop me at any point. But just a few other
Speaker 1: thoughts I had before they leave my head from Tales
Speaker 1: of the Naked Tales from from the Naked City, as
Speaker 1: we like to say, because as you know, if you
Speaker 1: listen and you used to read the the tabloids from
Speaker 1: back in the day, that the Naked City where the
Speaker 1: names are omitted, as we will protect the guilty and
Speaker 1: things that I can agress. So we do not promote
Speaker 1: this often enough, But I am on Cameo and that
Speaker 1: is a pay to play service cameo dot com. If
Speaker 1: you're a super fan of this show, or you know
Speaker 1: someone that has a big life event birthday, bar Mitzvah's weddings, divorces,
Speaker 1: you name it, life advice, Bonus Malard monologues, any of
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff on demand. It is there on
Speaker 1: cameo dot Com. Just search for my name, Ben Mahler.
Speaker 1: I love to do it. If it's something that you want,
Speaker 1: if it mean a lot to you, that would be
Speaker 1: great if you know somebody that's a big fan of
Speaker 1: the show. So with that being said, I don't promote it,
Speaker 1: so I don't really get that many cameos people know
Speaker 1: about it. Some of the super fans know about it.
Speaker 1: But the timing on this is amazing. So I'm heading
Speaker 1: to the airport and I get a notification while I'm
Speaker 1: on the flight to New York saying that you have
Speaker 1: been requested on Cameo. And this is one of my
Speaker 1: regular super fans, Emmanuel, who's a big, big support with
Speaker 1: the show. And so I'm on vacation. I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: I got to do this. It's time sensitive. His birthday
Speaker 1: was coming up, so I did not want to let
Speaker 1: my friend down. So I was walking around Williamsburg, Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: right across from the Williamsburg Bridge there in beautiful Brooklyn,
Speaker 1: a hipster neighborhood. As we were going around to see
Speaker 1: the Scott you know, the sunset there and over Manhattan
Speaker 1: from Brooklyn, and it was very cool. Got the skyline
Speaker 1: of Manhattan, the background the water there from the East River,
Speaker 1: and I walked away from my wife was with my
Speaker 1: brother and my sister in law, and I wandered off
Speaker 1: to record my cameo for my guy. It was very awkward, Danny,
Speaker 1: I am yapping into the camera. Behind me is the
Speaker 1: sun setting over Manhattan and there are a bunch of people.
Speaker 1: It's like a park. There's like a little bridge and
Speaker 1: there's a park there, not a bridge, it's more like
Speaker 1: a dock area. I don't know whatever.
Speaker 3: So does a mugger come running into the scene.
Speaker 1: No, that did not have it. But but I'm trying
Speaker 1: to like get into my cameo and I had some
Speaker 1: thoughts in my head. I wanted to give to a
Speaker 1: manual and it was very nice to do this. And
Speaker 1: so everyone's staring at me, like what is We just
Speaker 1: talked about people not paying attention. That's normally true, but this,
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's looking where I'm I'm standing with because
Speaker 1: I wanted the background of the Manhattan skyline, uh water,
Speaker 1: So I've got the camera in front of me, the
Speaker 1: skylines behind me, but right behind my hand I'm holding
Speaker 1: my camera are like these these college age girls and
Speaker 1: some other young people and they're all looking like, what
Speaker 1: is this fucking loser doing? You know? And uh, and.
Speaker 3: So it was very very Taylor Swift concert.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was very odd. You know, in my in
Speaker 1: my head, they were listening to everything I was saying.
Speaker 1: You know, they probably weren't, but they in my head,
Speaker 1: they were listening to everything I was saying. And so
Speaker 1: I did complete the cameo. I did that and got
Speaker 1: it done, but it was very uncomfortable for me as
Speaker 1: far as the big apple bites real quick.
Speaker 2: Uh, you know.
Speaker 1: I when we get a bunch of questions about this
Speaker 1: on the email bag for next week, probably some of
Speaker 1: the foods you we talked about this a little bit. Yesterday.
Speaker 1: I went to some of the more memorable meals. I
Speaker 1: had Kats's Deli in in New York there, the famous
Speaker 1: deli from Harry met Sally.
Speaker 3: Yeah, been there. It was good.
Speaker 1: It's good. I gotta tell you, I think Langers is better.
Speaker 1: Though unpopular opinion, Langer's Deli in La better than Katz's.
Speaker 3: No, I mean, I would agree with you. It's cool though, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's cool.
Speaker 1: It's historic. It's been there since the eighteen hundreds. The
Speaker 1: problem with katz Is is I had not been there
Speaker 1: in a few years and they built this massive There's
Speaker 1: like a Marshals and a CVS like right over kats
Speaker 1: Is del almost over the top of it. So I
Speaker 1: was like, where the hell is it? And I was
Speaker 1: a little confusing. The neighborhoods changed down there on Houston,
Speaker 1: not Houston Street, Danny, Houston Street, even though it's spelled Houston,
Speaker 1: it's pronounced Houston's what I da, Junior's Delhi. My friend
Speaker 1: Bob Fesco recommended that he's from that area, does the
Speaker 1: morning show in Kansas City. Roberta's Pizza in Brooklyn like
Speaker 1: a hipster pizza place. Pizza was all right, Joe's Pizza
Speaker 1: in the East Village that was better. The Mediterranean food
Speaker 1: which was great. The Donner House on Fourteenth Street. And
Speaker 1: the reason we ate there their logo. They've basically ripped
Speaker 1: off the porn hub logo. Yeah, and they made it.
Speaker 1: I gotta send you this photo.
Speaker 3: Let me see you can find the photo.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got to see this, Danny. You got a kick.
Speaker 1: So we're walking down to my brother's place in the
Speaker 1: East Village and we see this sign I'm like and
Speaker 1: immediately we were like, wait a minute, that's they've just
Speaker 1: stolen the porn hub logo. What is that? And let
Speaker 1: me send this to you guys check this out. And yes,
Speaker 1: so they must have gone on to the like the
Speaker 1: pornhub site and said I love that logo so much
Speaker 1: and I want that and it's a German kebab Mediterranean
Speaker 1: shop and that's the Uh.
Speaker 4: It's interesting that you say that, because during the Super Bowl, yeah,
Speaker 4: saw something similar for Arizona State's extension classes all over
Speaker 4: the buses there in Phoenix, and it was the same logo,
Speaker 4: style and color as porn Hub.
Speaker 3: And of course Covino and Rich noticed this immediately.
Speaker 1: No, you should have the nervous hearts. Oh well, if
Speaker 1: you have a successful brand, might as well borrow from
Speaker 1: that successful brand. You know. It's like, remember remember in
Speaker 1: what was that classic movie with Eddie Murray Eddie Murphy
Speaker 1: and our City Hall Hall coming to America mcdowells, McDowell's,
Speaker 1: same same concept, same time.
Speaker 3: I like that. So the kabob, what kind of kabab?
Speaker 1: Did you have Well, no, I had a a plate.
Speaker 1: Well actually it was like a sandwich with the chicken
Speaker 1: and the beef. It was really good. I gotta tell you,
Speaker 1: that's probably the top Mediterranean food I've had. I love
Speaker 1: eating Mediterranean food.
Speaker 3: Did they serve up some hummus with it?
Speaker 1: Uh? They had that, I'm not I didn't have any
Speaker 1: of that there. They really good garlic sauce. They give
Speaker 1: you a lot of food, and the New York the
Speaker 1: prices are expensive, very but that was the top place.
Speaker 1: So if you're ever in New York or if you
Speaker 1: live there, it's on fourteenth Street, right around second third Avenue,
Speaker 1: and it's really, really good. I got around on the
Speaker 1: subway Danny all day, every day, subway all day, got
Speaker 1: one of those Metro week passes. Now, I was a
Speaker 1: little worried about the safety here. I've been following the
Speaker 1: news reports coming out of the New York Post and
Speaker 1: some of the other news in the Big Apple, the
Speaker 1: crime Blotterer all over the internet.
Speaker 3: That was just to promote the new Spider Verse movie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was convinced I was gonna get
Speaker 1: shanked as soon as I walked into the subway. But
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, I was pleasantly surprised. I felt
Speaker 1: relatively safe. Now, I generally don't feel unsafe because I'm
Speaker 1: a big guy, so I don't normally feel unsafe. But
Speaker 1: the reason I was actually told by somebody is they
Speaker 1: had just had this subway slasher that they had just
Speaker 1: caught like a couple of days before we got there.
Speaker 1: And so with that and July fourth coming up, the people,
Speaker 1: the idiots that run New York City realize, well, we've
Speaker 1: got a big problem on our hands here. We got
Speaker 1: a subway slasher, bad publicity. So they sent out. There
Speaker 1: were police, and there was such a huge police presence
Speaker 1: all over the main subway lines in midtown Manhattan, which
Speaker 1: is where I was, like the touristy parts of Manhattan,
Speaker 1: that really I felt like I was never that far
Speaker 1: away from police. I felt pretty safe, And you know,
Speaker 1: I want to keep those donations coming in from tourists
Speaker 1: and all that. So I had no issues other than
Speaker 1: the subway stations being up to standard with rats everywhere, trash,
Speaker 1: homeless people smelling like urine and shit. But everything else
Speaker 1: Danny was was fine, Everything else was good.
Speaker 3: Everything else was beautiful.
Speaker 1: Yeah, picture perfect, And you know if I'm being there
Speaker 1: when he gets hot in New York, even hotter in the.
Speaker 4: Subway, hotter in the subway, and all that stench comes
Speaker 4: rising up to the streets.
Speaker 1: Yes, so you've got not only the urine, the shit,
Speaker 1: the rats, You've got also the wonderful smell of body
Speaker 1: odor that's mixed in. I did something different one night,
Speaker 1: late at night, I left the hotel. My wife was tired,
Speaker 1: she was having a bad day, so I let her
Speaker 1: kind of rest, and then I went out of the hotel.
Speaker 1: I was staying near Grand Central station, and I got
Speaker 1: the full New York City at night experience. I just
Speaker 1: like walking around observing people and like being at the zoo,
Speaker 1: except the people are the animals at the zoo, and
Speaker 1: that's what you feel like when you're in New York.
Speaker 1: So I walked around. I walked from Grand Central over
Speaker 1: to Times Square, I guess aimlessly rambling around there, cruising
Speaker 1: through the night satsheaving my way around random streets. I
Speaker 1: saw a construction crew place a giant cow up in
Speaker 1: Times Square, and that was kind of cool. I had
Speaker 1: never seen that before. It was it was like twelve
Speaker 1: thirty at night. I walked over to the Radio City
Speaker 1: Music Hall, famous venue in New York, the iconic building there.
Speaker 1: I took some photos I might get one framed, just
Speaker 1: kind of randomly with my iPhone. I walked by the
Speaker 1: Fox News headquarters there, and I walked past NBC. All
Speaker 1: the big networks are all right around there. And then
Speaker 1: I decided, I said, you know what, I got some
Speaker 1: time on my hands. I'm in New York. How often
Speaker 1: do I do a story about, you know, NFL meetings
Speaker 1: at the league offices in Manhattan, or NBA headquarters in
Speaker 1: New York, or MLB. So what I did was, I
Speaker 1: decided to do the Axis of Sports Evil Tour, Big
Speaker 1: Sporty Danny and I walked to the Global Headquarter is
Speaker 1: where Adam Silver works for the NBA, rob Man Fraud Baseball,
Speaker 1: and Roger Goodell mister Softie there for the NFL. And
Speaker 1: here's what I noticed. All of them are within point
Speaker 1: seven miles of one another in Manhattan. They are ridiculously close.
Speaker 1: They are less than ten blocks away from one another,
Speaker 1: and actually closer than that. Major League Baseball's offices are
Speaker 1: on Avenue of the Americas. The NBA is on Fifth Avenue.
Speaker 1: They're real close. The NBA and Major League Baseball. And
Speaker 1: then the next street over is Park Avenue, and that
Speaker 1: is where three forty five Park Avenue, that is the
Speaker 1: NFL's headquarters. They're really separated by three major streets and
Speaker 1: some other few minor streets, but three major streets in
Speaker 1: midtown Manhattan, and every building, every one of these buildings,
Speaker 1: there are no signs saying this is the home of
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, this is the home of the NBA,
Speaker 1: this is the home of the NFL. Well, they're all
Speaker 1: just generic, cold concrete skyscrapers. Although I did love the
Speaker 1: baseball one because that I remember when the I think
Speaker 1: it was the barstool people last year, Danny, they had
Speaker 1: a little rally and they were called man Fraud, Man Fraud.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 1: It was echoing in this little kind of cutout area
Speaker 1: and I so I was like standing. I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's I remember where this happened, you know, And then
Speaker 1: that was that was kind of cool. But so I
Speaker 1: have now walked and I walked around. I was like,
Speaker 1: where are some of the restaurants these people are going to? What?
Speaker 1: You know, because you figure you're work in those buildings,
Speaker 1: you're eating at the restaurants around there, and they're all
Speaker 1: really expensive. They're all like, you know, high falutin. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a whole different world. They It really is the
Speaker 1: Manhattan bubble. And not only the Manhattan bubble, it is
Speaker 1: the that part of Manhattan.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: So I got a little taste of it, the robber baron,
Speaker 1: the oligarchs of big sporty and and doing their thing,
Speaker 1: their new things. I picked up a new nickname, by
Speaker 1: the way, Danny. On that same trip walking around, I
Speaker 1: was walking down one of the side streets trying to work.
Speaker 1: I was making my way to the NFL headquarters. So
Speaker 1: it's not a bad neighborhood. But it's like one in
Speaker 1: the morning and I'm walking there and just even though
Speaker 1: it's Manhattan, this part there was a side street, there's
Speaker 1: really nobody else out. There was one one dude I
Speaker 1: see off in the business, this black dude who's walking
Speaker 1: towards me, and he appears to be I guess doing
Speaker 1: some urban camping, Danny. Some would call it homelessness. I
Speaker 1: call it urban camping. Uh. And he appeared to uh
Speaker 1: have maybe gone to the pharmacy, but not the pharmacy
Speaker 1: we normally go to. Maybe a street pharmacy and uh,
Speaker 1: but not like a CBS or a a Dwayne or
Speaker 1: Reed or whatever. And and so he saw me and
Speaker 1: and we're on the same side of the street. And
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I'm bigger than this guy.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: I didn't win. It didn't feel intimidated or unsafe. If
Speaker 1: I'm walking, he's walking and I'm not gonna say anything.
Speaker 1: He I figured he won't say anything. And I walked by,
Speaker 1: and I hear this guy yell, man, you too tall.
Speaker 1: He's like, he yells it at me as we strolled
Speaker 1: by each other. So this guy gave me the new
Speaker 1: nickname Danny, the same nickname that an NFL player for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys back in the eighties and the seventies hac
Speaker 1: Ed Jones. Right, remember you remember too Tall ed Ed
Speaker 1: too Tall Jones of Coorse. Yeah, so I was flattered
Speaker 1: by that.
Speaker 3: I thought you too tall? I was.
Speaker 1: I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And you had mentioned in I think it was yesterday's podcast,
Speaker 1: the Patriot hat that I'm wearing. And this is a
Speaker 1: very comfortable hat, the pat Patriot. I love the pat
Speaker 1: Patriot logo. And there's a reason my mom had a
Speaker 1: little jacket when I was a little kid made for me,
Speaker 1: and it was the pat Patriot logan. I used to
Speaker 1: wear it when I was a little baby, and I
Speaker 1: still remember that logo. I love that logo. So this
Speaker 1: hat fits like a glove. It's very comfortable. It's perfect
Speaker 1: travel hat. So I'm traveling, and of course I'm in
Speaker 1: enemy territory for some reason, I guess I thought I
Speaker 1: was going to Boston, but I was going to New York.
Speaker 1: And so I wearing the Patriot hat, and one very
Speaker 1: loquacious fan of the Giants for Big Blue there approaches
Speaker 1: me at JFK and he makes this this. He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's a nice hat. That's an old school Patriots hat.
Speaker 1: Sorry about those two super bowls, right, you know, he's
Speaker 1: like that kind of thing, and what you meaning that?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 1: Of course, I'm like, I like the Patriots, b I'm
Speaker 1: a RAM fan, and you know the the fluke Eli
Speaker 1: manning super Bowls. So I had to then represent the Patriots,
Speaker 1: even though I'm not really like a hardcore Patriot fit,
Speaker 1: I had to represent the Patriots. So then I returned
Speaker 1: friendly Fire, and so I responded to the pompous Giants fan.
Speaker 1: I said, well, I hope you enjoyed that Joe Judge payback.
Speaker 1: You know, how'd that work out for you? And then
Speaker 1: the guy kind of rolled his eyes and put his
Speaker 1: tail between his legs and he walked off. So I
Speaker 1: was very proud of myself. I had the Joe Judge
Speaker 1: come back, and I did that to defend the honor
Speaker 1: of the patriots, is what I did. And then one
Speaker 1: final note, final final. I know we've gone long on this,
Speaker 1: and I apologize the big apple bites, but the fairy
Speaker 1: not that kind of fairy. My favorite free activity in
Speaker 1: New York I did it yet again, the Staten Island Ferry.
Speaker 1: If it's free, it's for me. And I love the
Speaker 1: views of Manhattan. Awesome to took the subway down to
Speaker 1: Wall Street station, walked over through Wall Street and the
Speaker 1: Financial Titans, and then walked over to the port there
Speaker 1: and leaves every thirty minutes. You've got beautiful view use
Speaker 1: of the Lower Manhattan skyline. On the way out, you
Speaker 1: got to sit on the left side of the boat.
Speaker 1: Got to sit on the left side of the boat,
Speaker 1: get the views there or stand and amazing photos. You
Speaker 1: go right by on the left side the Statue of
Speaker 1: Liberty which is very cool, and just the whole thing.
Speaker 1: Ellis Island, get the Staten Island. It's not a very
Speaker 1: long boat ride, Get Satn Island. You run off the boat.
Speaker 1: Everyone's got to be off the boat. You run back
Speaker 1: onto another boat, and you're back on your way back
Speaker 1: to Manhattan. The whole thing takes maybe forty five minutes,
Speaker 1: probably less than that, and it is ononderful, wonderful, wonderful one.
Speaker 1: All right, Saturday, Danny, anything you want to promote, we'll
Speaker 1: get out of here. We get the mail bag on Sunday.
Speaker 3: What are you got going on Saturdays? For you? And
Speaker 3: I all about the podcast.
Speaker 4: So a big thank you to everybody downloading all three
Speaker 4: every weekend.
Speaker 1: A absolutely, we will have the mail bag, will have
Speaker 1: Pop goes to the culture on the Sunday Podcas. Yes,
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you. Then have a wonderful rest of
Speaker 1: your day later.
Speaker 3: Skater bosolation m HM