WEBVTT - The Final Destination: Season 1 Finale 0:00:15.316 --> 0:00:39.596 Pushkin m Ran next week for a conversation. This is 0:00:39.636 --> 0:00:43.356 not Lost California, so far out of my feeling. I 0:00:43.356 --> 0:00:46.036 am Brendan. Friends's new in him great, feel great that 0:00:46.036 --> 0:00:48.156 it's not in New York. That's my friend, the audio 0:00:48.196 --> 0:00:52.116 producer John Delor, just like it is an incredible joy 0:00:52.156 --> 0:01:08.476 to just be out of the city. Yes, right, thank you, 0:01:09.156 --> 0:01:12.516 thank you. Every day. Hey, Tony, how's Brooklyn's most popular 0:01:12.596 --> 0:01:15.676 dry cleaner doing the most? You're always doing something, the 0:01:15.676 --> 0:01:21.876 most famous guy in Greenpoint. I'm happy to have a 0:01:21.916 --> 0:01:25.596 presence with you. Listen. I'm glad that I see almost everything. 0:01:26.396 --> 0:01:29.196 You are truly a fixture in this neighborhood. I don't 0:01:29.196 --> 0:01:30.316 know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. 0:01:30.436 --> 0:01:32.716 That's an amazing thing. Come on, you're like the original. 0:01:33.316 --> 0:01:39.676 You're like the original. Don't don't don't. So what are 0:01:39.676 --> 0:01:42.276 you up to? I got looking sharp, you're looking sharper. 0:01:42.876 --> 0:01:45.236 I'm going to the office. But you drop these off, 0:01:45.476 --> 0:01:47.476 all right? You got a couple of shirts, Just gonna 0:01:47.516 --> 0:01:49.676 put them on the rock outside. I'm trying to get 0:01:49.676 --> 0:01:51.076 a lot of money from him. I'm gonna say this, 0:01:51.076 --> 0:01:58.876 this is Brendan shirts. How you know I have a 0:01:58.956 --> 0:02:02.316 feeling we're gonna have ninety degrees, but it's not what 0:02:02.436 --> 0:02:07.036 you want, so dred degrees for like three months? Yeah? Yeah, never, No, 0:02:08.396 --> 0:02:13.076 I not so hot today? What are we doing here? Why? 0:02:13.876 --> 0:02:15.836 Why are we in New York City? Where would you 0:02:15.956 --> 0:02:18.996 rather be? Like I I understand what you try, but 0:02:19.276 --> 0:02:21.596 where would you rather be? Well that's the problem when 0:02:21.596 --> 0:02:23.556 I really think about it, I don't know the answer. 0:02:23.596 --> 0:02:25.156 And it seems like New York is a good place 0:02:25.236 --> 0:02:27.636 to not have the answer. Yeah, but I mean where 0:02:27.636 --> 0:02:30.676 else can you have this? You're you're pointing towards a 0:02:30.796 --> 0:02:33.716 there's a bag of trash out front, and uh, well 0:02:33.716 --> 0:02:36.036 it's part of the scenery. Welcome to New York. Look, 0:02:36.156 --> 0:02:38.236 there's a dog that wants to stop in. Do you 0:02:38.276 --> 0:02:39.996 tell me? Where could you be? And you can have 0:02:40.076 --> 0:02:43.956 this kind of interaction with people nowhere? It's fair. We're 0:02:43.996 --> 0:02:45.956 both social people and this city is a gift that 0:02:46.036 --> 0:02:48.036 keeps giving. Come on, I mean, you walked down a street, 0:02:48.076 --> 0:02:49.716 you say hello to this one, that one, you talk 0:02:49.756 --> 0:02:52.196 to this one. I mean, you're gonna be where. But 0:02:52.236 --> 0:02:53.916 the thing about New York, though, it's like it does 0:02:54.036 --> 0:02:55.756 like beat you down. Man, It's like it's not an 0:02:55.796 --> 0:02:57.796 easy place to live. You got to tell me what's easy. 0:02:57.916 --> 0:02:59.556 I mean, you can live up state and you're gonna 0:02:59.556 --> 0:03:02.476 come out in the morning and complain about what snow 0:03:02.596 --> 0:03:08.516 bears exactly the birds? And you grew up in the city, right, yes, yes, 0:03:08.596 --> 0:03:11.556 I was born lebon On. I didn't Okay, you're born 0:03:11.636 --> 0:03:14.716 in Beirut or I was one outside of me? Is 0:03:14.716 --> 0:03:17.636 that when your parents came here? They came in eighty two, 0:03:18.076 --> 0:03:20.756 right after the embassy Embassy bombing, and I went to 0:03:20.796 --> 0:03:28.276 Canarsi High School and you turned out. Okay, I think, yeah, 0:03:28.676 --> 0:03:30.716 I think you can have a dressed for my girlfriend 0:03:30.756 --> 0:03:36.356 and paint and black dress. Thank you, thank you. So 0:03:36.396 --> 0:03:38.076 you've seen me now for years. We've known each for 0:03:38.116 --> 0:03:41.196 a long time. It's how have I changed it at all? 0:03:41.236 --> 0:03:43.196 In your eyes in the past, like four or five years? 0:03:43.396 --> 0:03:50.596 Grumpy year, that's true. I still love you, but you're 0:03:50.636 --> 0:03:53.436 a different grumpy. You're like a cool grumpy you know. Okay, 0:03:53.516 --> 0:03:55.836 thank you? You have to annoying grumpy like you want 0:03:55.876 --> 0:03:57.756 to like get away from them. No, no, it's the 0:03:57.876 --> 0:04:01.316 cool grumpy all right. So Tony, I have to travel 0:04:01.396 --> 0:04:04.596 one more place. So what what's your show about? Is it. 0:04:04.716 --> 0:04:07.716 I go places with a friend and I try to 0:04:07.716 --> 0:04:11.356 get invited to a dinner party. So I've done it. Montreal, 0:04:11.476 --> 0:04:14.636 Mexico City, Boza Montana, big sir, I've done this, and 0:04:14.676 --> 0:04:17.916 I have one more episode to make. And your kid 0:04:17.956 --> 0:04:19.756 who came up and out it didn't we us? Well? 0:04:19.796 --> 0:04:21.716 I mean I could are you this weeking, aren't you? 0:04:22.836 --> 0:04:24.596 I mean, I gotta make this show, man, I gott 0:04:24.596 --> 0:04:26.276 if this is what I'm spending my afternoon doing, I 0:04:26.316 --> 0:04:28.236 got I'm going to the office after this to kind 0:04:28.236 --> 0:04:31.756 of I mean, what you want to come up like 0:04:31.916 --> 0:04:35.196 Sunday night. That's tempting, but I seriously have to figure 0:04:35.236 --> 0:04:38.516 out this episode first. But speaking of which, I gotta go, 0:04:38.676 --> 0:04:41.236 So Tony, I'll see you later. Man, Thank you well. 0:04:41.076 --> 0:04:43.676 I enjoy your beautiful day. And again you're looking sharp. 0:04:43.876 --> 0:04:45.956 Thank you. Thanks man. I'm glad that you know you 0:04:45.996 --> 0:04:49.036 help me stay this way. Oh look at this another 0:04:49.036 --> 0:05:03.276 beautiful day. Hey Emma, Emma, Hi, what are you doing. 0:05:03.436 --> 0:05:05.716 I'm coming out of the library right. Do you only 0:05:05.756 --> 0:05:08.116 get one book at a time? Yeah, because I never 0:05:08.196 --> 0:05:11.556 want to have a fi ever, that's probably wise. So 0:05:11.556 --> 0:05:15.356 where's your mom? My favorite former college classmate? Oh? She 0:05:15.476 --> 0:05:17.676 left me here. But I guess you're old enough. Now, 0:05:17.676 --> 0:05:20.156 how old are you? I'm twelve. See, I thought I 0:05:20.196 --> 0:05:22.196 was young in New York when I moved here in 0:05:22.236 --> 0:05:24.436 my twenties, But you're like really young in New York. 0:05:25.116 --> 0:05:26.916 Where are you going? I'm actually going to the office. 0:05:27.236 --> 0:05:29.596 It's a Saturday though, I know. But remember I told 0:05:29.636 --> 0:05:32.076 you about that travel podcast I was working on. I 0:05:32.156 --> 0:05:35.196 have to make one more episode, and I have no 0:05:35.236 --> 0:05:37.836 idea where I'm going. All right, where do you think 0:05:37.836 --> 0:05:41.956 I should go? Um? Maybe I saw it in some 0:05:42.036 --> 0:05:47.556 TV show Reno Reno. Yeah, yeah, I did Las Vegas already, 0:05:47.636 --> 0:05:49.876 so I think I'm gonna I'm gonna skip Reno. But um, 0:05:50.076 --> 0:05:51.516 are you walking this way? I'm going up to the 0:05:51.676 --> 0:05:55.916 l Yeah, all right, let's do it. This neighborhood when 0:05:55.956 --> 0:05:58.756 I first moved here was nothing. This was like auto repair. 0:05:58.876 --> 0:06:02.796 Only my mom talks about it being like Williamsburg. Like 0:06:02.796 --> 0:06:05.156 when she was younger, it was like who But now 0:06:05.156 --> 0:06:10.156 Williamsburg is like chic. Yeah, it's like vegan, gluten free, 0:06:10.796 --> 0:06:14.276 food free restaurants. So what do you think about Waysber? 0:06:14.356 --> 0:06:17.356 Do you like living here? Yeah? I want to live 0:06:17.436 --> 0:06:20.716 in New York for my whole life. My mom tells 0:06:20.716 --> 0:06:24.076 me that I'm too young to decide that, But I 0:06:24.116 --> 0:06:26.996 like the fact that being a New Yorker is like 0:06:27.036 --> 0:06:30.676 being in a club. So what are the membership benefits 0:06:30.676 --> 0:06:32.476 of being part of that club. There's a lot of 0:06:32.516 --> 0:06:35.636 like arts and performing arts stuff in New York, I 0:06:35.676 --> 0:06:40.036 mean Broadway, but like it's just all these different things 0:06:40.076 --> 0:06:44.876 that are like New Yorker experiences. And also like pizza 0:06:44.956 --> 0:06:47.916 and bagels. I mean, pizza isn't specific to New York, 0:06:47.996 --> 0:06:50.116 but the best pizza it's in New York. Now you're 0:06:50.116 --> 0:06:52.436 making me hungry. Should we get a Joe's get a 0:06:52.436 --> 0:06:56.796 slice of pizza? Yeah? Okay, let's do it feel so 0:06:56.796 --> 0:07:01.436 far away though, it's let's to get there every single day. 0:07:01.636 --> 0:07:08.676 So day a little hectic up here. It appears to 0:07:08.716 --> 0:07:13.996 be an out door sports bar, so what happens when 0:07:13.996 --> 0:07:16.836 it rains exactly? But it's also a thing wonder of 0:07:16.876 --> 0:07:19.516 having so many So much partying is bad for kids 0:07:19.556 --> 0:07:23.716 like you, No, because to be living in New York 0:07:23.756 --> 0:07:26.716 you have to be good at ignoring things. Because we're 0:07:26.716 --> 0:07:28.956 also tightly packed together, right, you got to just keep 0:07:28.956 --> 0:07:33.236 it cool. Yeah, you just have to kind of not engage. 0:07:33.476 --> 0:07:36.556 We also just point out. Sorry to interrupt, but I'm 0:07:36.596 --> 0:07:40.316 six foot three and I've just been walking like full pace, 0:07:40.476 --> 0:07:45.076 not even calibrating, and you are just right along my side. 0:07:45.596 --> 0:07:48.316 I also walk really fast to get to school, and 0:07:48.436 --> 0:07:50.196 I think that dozes in New York, so that everyone's 0:07:50.196 --> 0:07:53.356 just trucking like we don't have time for that. Also, 0:07:53.636 --> 0:07:57.036 you've gotten taller, which helps with the fast walking. You're 0:07:57.116 --> 0:08:02.116 like shot up like stalks of corn. Yeah, that's the thing. 0:08:02.436 --> 0:08:04.196 A lot of the boys in my class haven't gone 0:08:04.236 --> 0:08:06.276 to that yet. Some I think I'm taller than all 0:08:06.276 --> 0:08:10.756 of them. Yeah, the boys will catch up, but their 0:08:10.796 --> 0:08:14.156 brains won't. They'll always be behind you. They think they're 0:08:14.156 --> 0:08:17.996 so funny too. They think that they just they got 0:08:17.996 --> 0:08:20.396 the whole crowd laughing with their jokes, but they really didn't. 0:08:20.716 --> 0:08:24.196 And like they're not funny. Can't you can't get like 0:08:24.396 --> 0:08:28.556 knock on their heads and nothing in there? No, I 0:08:28.636 --> 0:08:31.396 mean I can't talk. You know, I have this show. 0:08:31.516 --> 0:08:34.756 But I'm just being a boy who thinks he's funny sometimes. 0:08:35.676 --> 0:08:40.916 All right, pizza, wow, pizza plates is packed? Oh my god, 0:08:41.036 --> 0:08:45.436 what's your pizza move? Just plane perni if it's at 0:08:45.436 --> 0:08:53.956 a party, Let's get to plane. All right, thanks, have 0:08:53.996 --> 0:08:57.996 a good It just came out of the oven. It's 0:08:58.116 --> 0:09:02.076 very hot. I'm very passionate about this. Every time we 0:09:02.116 --> 0:09:04.396 get into talking about the correct way to eat pizza, 0:09:04.796 --> 0:09:07.916 which is to fold the pizza, people argue about it, 0:09:07.956 --> 0:09:12.396 and that's not fold your pizza. It is better and 0:09:12.876 --> 0:09:15.196 everyone should do it. Why do you think it's better? 0:09:16.036 --> 0:09:19.876 It's better for walking traveling, and it's also I think 0:09:19.916 --> 0:09:22.556 it's like you get a better mouth feel and you 0:09:22.636 --> 0:09:26.676 get more more per bite. It's like a pizza sandwich. 0:09:27.356 --> 0:09:29.436 We can walk a little bit and then I'll go 0:09:29.476 --> 0:09:35.476 into the subway. Look how crazy Bedford is though, Wasn't 0:09:35.476 --> 0:09:40.236 this busy when you were when you're young? But I 0:09:40.276 --> 0:09:43.196 feel like New York City has so many different people. 0:09:43.356 --> 0:09:45.036 That's one of the things I love most about it. 0:09:46.156 --> 0:09:50.996 What do you mean, like there are such huge communities 0:09:51.596 --> 0:09:54.556 and you can be whoever you want to be in 0:09:54.556 --> 0:09:57.156 New York City and there will be a community of 0:09:57.236 --> 0:10:01.396 people that like relate to you when are the same 0:10:02.156 --> 0:10:04.276 like and feel the same way as you about something. 0:10:05.116 --> 0:10:07.156 And that's like pretty much a guarantee living in New 0:10:07.236 --> 0:10:10.676 York City. Because there's just so many individuals, there's bound 0:10:10.716 --> 0:10:12.196 to be a person who looks the same thing as 0:10:12.196 --> 0:10:15.396 you go. Yeah, I agree with that. It makes me 0:10:15.436 --> 0:10:18.796 feel less alone, even if I don't know all those people. 0:10:19.676 --> 0:10:21.676 You're right, I always feel like I'll figure it out here. 0:10:23.196 --> 0:10:24.876 All right, This is I gotta hop into the l 0:10:25.316 --> 0:10:28.196 It was nice chatting with you. You too, see you later. 0:10:41.076 --> 0:10:46.236 Dance clear of the closing doors, please, it's so time, 0:10:46.316 --> 0:10:50.876 basic gentlemen, gather around. It's about to begin, So time, 0:10:51.076 --> 0:10:59.636 So time, dude. Is this called showtime what you're doing? 0:10:59.716 --> 0:11:02.356 Or is this dance? It's actually we call it hitting. 0:11:02.636 --> 0:11:04.756 It's called hitting. What he want? Is it called hits? 0:11:04.756 --> 0:11:06.756 Anically a street performing what we callte it hitting because 0:11:06.796 --> 0:11:08.956 it's like it's a hit. It's a lot of him 0:11:09.556 --> 0:11:11.356 when we come out here and do this. It's a 0:11:11.396 --> 0:11:14.036 big impact on New York City. It's a hit. How 0:11:14.036 --> 0:11:15.756 did you get into it? It's such a it's such 0:11:15.836 --> 0:11:18.436 intense activity. Yeah. I got into it because but I 0:11:18.436 --> 0:11:20.316 was in high school. I met a friend freshman year 0:11:20.436 --> 0:11:22.996 and he was a dancer because his father did it, 0:11:23.236 --> 0:11:25.036 and he ain't mighty meet downtown because he seen I 0:11:25.076 --> 0:11:26.916 was a good dancer, and I took her from there 0:11:26.956 --> 0:11:28.876 and I was like, what over fifteen years ago, what's 0:11:28.916 --> 0:11:30.916 the craziest thing that's happened to you while you've been 0:11:30.916 --> 0:11:34.076 doing this. The craziest thing that happened to me was 0:11:34.476 --> 0:11:37.556 one guy gave me eight hundred dollars and yeah in 0:11:37.636 --> 0:11:40.476 one setting, just like because he's just so blown away. 0:11:40.516 --> 0:11:43.396 He was blowing away and he split it amongst the teams. 0:11:44.036 --> 0:11:45.196 A lot of people want to train and they get 0:11:45.196 --> 0:11:47.276 annoyed and aggravated in general. So when they come in 0:11:47.356 --> 0:11:48.556 here a lot of music on the train, it's like, 0:11:48.596 --> 0:11:50.396 oh boy, here we go. And I have to admit 0:11:50.476 --> 0:11:52.396 I love it. I've been that guy because like you, 0:11:52.636 --> 0:11:54.396 I'm going to work at a long night, you're getting 0:11:54.436 --> 0:11:56.036 an argument and you're on the train. They turn there 0:11:56.076 --> 0:11:57.676 and you're like, oh no, I'm on the longest link 0:11:57.716 --> 0:11:59.836 of the train. Yeah, And it makes sense. It's such 0:11:59.836 --> 0:12:03.756 a small area and it's it's sometimes you're flipping and 0:12:03.756 --> 0:12:05.196 you're like so close to them, they'll get nervous. I 0:12:05.196 --> 0:12:07.036 don't want to get hit. But what's amazing is that 0:12:07.236 --> 0:12:08.916 most times I've been I've seen short time on the 0:12:08.956 --> 0:12:13.276 train and like a hundred times, no one's ever been here. Yeah, Um, 0:12:13.396 --> 0:12:14.916 my friend had he did a first flip and he 0:12:14.996 --> 0:12:17.996 landed on a ladies lap. Don't lap like she was 0:12:18.156 --> 0:12:20.436 like if she was saying so, and she was like oh, 0:12:20.516 --> 0:12:23.116 but she wasn't upset. She's like, oh, wow, you know 0:12:23.756 --> 0:12:25.596 how many of you? How many people? How many short 0:12:25.636 --> 0:12:28.076 time people do you think there is? It's a lot. 0:12:28.116 --> 0:12:31.316 It's a shoe for a lot of cruise. Chit you 0:12:31.436 --> 0:12:35.676 park Tom Square, thirty fourth Street, Junior Square, all over 0:12:35.756 --> 0:12:38.236 New York. Ask well, thanks so much for talking. Of course, 0:12:38.236 --> 0:12:56.916 man little Bible. You guys are great, Thank you, No 0:12:57.476 --> 0:13:05.556 I would be balking, like, how are you worried on Saturday? 0:13:05.836 --> 0:13:17.916 Thank you? Hey, Amy Top, Hey, my name is Malcolm Gladwell. 0:13:18.156 --> 0:13:21.916 Welcome to my podcast about here recording right now? Yeah, misunderstood. 0:13:22.396 --> 0:13:26.596 Wait did I just hear someone come in here? Brendon's here? Brendan? Yeah? 0:13:26.636 --> 0:13:28.556 What's he doing here on a Saturday? Can we talk 0:13:28.596 --> 0:13:30.996 about his travel show for a second. We're sending him 0:13:30.996 --> 0:13:34.956 all over the country to find himself. It's bananas, Malcolm, Well, 0:13:34.956 --> 0:13:37.276 at least it's not a true crime show. Hey Brendon, 0:13:37.356 --> 0:13:45.036 can hear you? Oh? Hey Malcolm, Hey Bendon, it makes 0:13:45.036 --> 0:13:47.156 you feel any better? I haven't actually listened to your show. 0:13:47.236 --> 0:13:50.956 Yet I think that makes me feel better. I guess 0:13:50.996 --> 0:13:53.036 it's good to see people here on a Saturday. You know, 0:13:53.036 --> 0:13:55.396 when I worked in LA, I would work all these saturdays. 0:13:55.396 --> 0:13:57.796 I never ran into anyone. What does it say about 0:13:57.836 --> 0:13:59.676 New York that I come into the office and there's 0:13:59.676 --> 0:14:02.756 a bunch of you here today. Well this, this actually 0:14:02.796 --> 0:14:05.716 gets into one of my larger theories about New York, 0:14:06.156 --> 0:14:11.996 which is New York life is exterior. LA life is interior. Right, 0:14:12.076 --> 0:14:15.316 So the implicit bargain you make in moving to New 0:14:15.396 --> 0:14:18.836 York is that you're buying the exterior, not the interior. 0:14:19.076 --> 0:14:20.956 So of course New Yorkers are in the office on 0:14:20.956 --> 0:14:24.076 Saturday because the existence of the office is a reason 0:14:24.116 --> 0:14:26.196 to go there. Right, It's a that's good. It's a 0:14:26.196 --> 0:14:28.676 good reason to get out of my tiny apartment, which, 0:14:28.716 --> 0:14:31.996 by the way, is the Great paradox. It's another one 0:14:31.996 --> 0:14:35.436 my theories, this is the Great Paradox. So the New 0:14:35.516 --> 0:14:42.236 York City turnaround in the mid nineties coincides with three 0:14:42.276 --> 0:14:46.236 television sitcoms which celebrate the life of young people living 0:14:46.236 --> 0:14:49.676 in New York. Right, Everyone's Out Seinfeld, Friends, Will and 0:14:49.716 --> 0:14:53.476 Grace Right, Boom boom, Boom and now all of those 0:14:53.476 --> 0:14:56.436 cell a vision of New York that's tremendously appealing to 0:14:56.436 --> 0:14:59.396 people around the country, and they're part of the Revival's 0:14:59.436 --> 0:15:02.876 extraordinary revival that New York comes back from the dead 0:15:02.996 --> 0:15:06.556 in the nineties and propelled I think by the power 0:15:06.596 --> 0:15:11.316 of this fantasy. The fantasy it is completely wrong. Why 0:15:11.396 --> 0:15:14.156 is the fantasy wrong Because the people in those shows 0:15:14.236 --> 0:15:16.396 never leave their apartment. Now, they'll never leave their apartment 0:15:16.756 --> 0:15:20.996 for TV reasons, because that's the set. But like two cameras, 0:15:21.796 --> 0:15:25.076 it's an La vision of a New York life. Right, 0:15:25.476 --> 0:15:28.996 there's those shows are They were all made in La La, 0:15:29.316 --> 0:15:32.156 of course, so they construct these fabulous New York City 0:15:32.156 --> 0:15:36.916 apartments that people never leave, which is one hundred percent wrong. Right. 0:15:37.196 --> 0:15:39.916 It's the great irony of New York's revival is it 0:15:39.996 --> 0:15:44.916 was propelled by a completely false picture of what living 0:15:44.916 --> 0:15:48.116 in New York. Man. Yeah, um, all right, So I 0:15:48.196 --> 0:15:52.396 still have to pick another place in America, North America. 0:15:52.596 --> 0:15:54.356 Do you have any suggestions for me? I should maybe 0:15:54.356 --> 0:15:58.876 think about going to Well, I mean, my favorites are 0:15:58.916 --> 0:16:05.276 all the kind of like you know, Nashville. I do 0:16:05.356 --> 0:16:08.596 love have a I have a great and overpowering love 0:16:08.836 --> 0:16:11.356 of an Atlanta I'm going to this week. I'm just 0:16:11.436 --> 0:16:14.836 full of excited about my trip to Atlanta. Um and 0:16:14.996 --> 0:16:16.916 I just welcome. I need you back in the booth. 0:16:17.236 --> 0:16:19.156 Sounds like you gotta go anyway, all right, Malcolm, thanks 0:16:19.196 --> 0:16:22.796 for the chat. Thank you, See you later, Amy. I 0:16:23.116 --> 0:16:25.756 still have no idea what he shows about. Welcome. Wait 0:16:25.996 --> 0:16:47.956 still here is later, Malcolm. The subway is down there, 0:16:47.956 --> 0:16:50.156 no trains at the station. If you need to get uptown, 0:16:50.156 --> 0:16:53.796 you're gonna take the buses over there. The subway is 0:16:53.796 --> 0:16:57.316 closed again. Yep. Wait those buses over there. Yes, the 0:16:57.436 --> 0:16:59.316 buses right over there. You're going to cross the street 0:16:59.316 --> 0:17:00.676 and take those buses you need to get up like 0:17:00.716 --> 0:17:03.516 tour buses. That's what they are. They are tour buses, 0:17:03.556 --> 0:17:11.876 but they're on a different route. They're gonna take you uptown. Jesus, okay, 0:17:12.036 --> 0:17:18.396 subway's clothes. Sadie, Hey, oh my god, high so good 0:17:18.396 --> 0:17:20.876 to see you. Of course I would find Sadie Stein 0:17:20.956 --> 0:17:23.956 woman about town here in Union Square on a Saturday. 0:17:24.276 --> 0:17:27.596 Use my absorption. You're just deep in your phone. What 0:17:27.636 --> 0:17:30.356 are you doing? Are you? It was as usual, trying 0:17:30.396 --> 0:17:34.716 to figure out the transportation situation in this city. I know. 0:17:34.796 --> 0:17:38.036 Then they're pointing us to take these buses. You think 0:17:38.076 --> 0:17:41.116 this is a better idea at this hour than walking? 0:17:41.116 --> 0:17:44.796 Because this was a calculus. I was actually mid well, 0:17:44.796 --> 0:17:46.476 you know what, it's an opportunity for us to be 0:17:46.556 --> 0:17:48.316 on the top of a tour bus, so maybe we 0:17:48.316 --> 0:17:50.716 should just go for it. All right? What else am 0:17:50.716 --> 0:17:52.436 I dear? Maybe we can Maybe we'll take this up 0:17:52.436 --> 0:17:54.836 the ground Central and sort it out from that. Really 0:17:54.876 --> 0:17:56.316 that's perfect because I have to be on the sixth 0:17:56.316 --> 0:18:02.916 after Okay, great, Well, I'm just speaking to see if 0:18:02.916 --> 0:18:04.596 we can get upstairs if anyone's leaving. But I don't 0:18:04.636 --> 0:18:08.716 think anyone is leaving. Oh let's try it. Let's go 0:18:09.876 --> 0:18:12.916 potagraph these two right here? Oh yeah, let's do those. 0:18:14.356 --> 0:18:16.436 I always thought this is probably the best way to 0:18:16.436 --> 0:18:19.356 see the city. I've done it in London, but never 0:18:19.356 --> 0:18:22.716 done it in New York. What are like three sady 0:18:22.796 --> 0:18:24.756 spots us tell people to check out to get all 0:18:24.876 --> 0:18:28.676 the flavor of your New York. All right, I guess 0:18:28.756 --> 0:18:33.196 I'd say Whispering Gallery at Grand Central. This is where 0:18:33.196 --> 0:18:36.596 people can stand at opposite sides of this arch and 0:18:36.636 --> 0:18:38.756 the person will hear it on the other side, walk 0:18:38.796 --> 0:18:46.916 over the Brooklyn Bridge Classicum, and then maybe the picture 0:18:46.956 --> 0:18:52.756 gallery of the New York Historical Society, the Dancing Bears. 0:18:53.076 --> 0:18:55.556 Where is the New York Historical Society on the West side? 0:18:55.556 --> 0:18:59.316 It's on West End. I mean, how do you feel 0:18:59.316 --> 0:19:01.356 about I've now been here on and off for a 0:19:01.396 --> 0:19:03.996 couple of decades, and I'm finally coming to terms of 0:19:04.076 --> 0:19:07.116 this is my home, and I get grumpy that I 0:19:07.156 --> 0:19:09.556 have to share it all the time. What is your 0:19:09.596 --> 0:19:12.996 take on sharing the town with visitors? That's what I 0:19:13.076 --> 0:19:15.476 like about it, But but you know how perverse I am. 0:19:15.556 --> 0:19:19.676 I like I like Times Square, I love tourists. I 0:19:19.756 --> 0:19:22.476 love talking to them, giving them directions. I'm so proud 0:19:22.516 --> 0:19:25.436 of the city and showing it off, and it interests 0:19:25.476 --> 0:19:28.916 me what is the city they're seeing? It's so different 0:19:28.956 --> 0:19:32.756 from anything we've ever known. I mean, I haven't been 0:19:33.316 --> 0:19:35.396 to the Statue of Liberty since I went on a 0:19:35.476 --> 0:19:38.596 sixth grade school trip. I have never been to the 0:19:38.596 --> 0:19:41.076 top of the Empire State Building because there's never the 0:19:41.156 --> 0:19:44.196 day when you want to stand in line for two hours. Yeah, 0:19:44.236 --> 0:19:47.956 so you can learn from the tourists about your own town. Perversely, absolutely, 0:19:48.076 --> 0:19:51.596 it's the city contains so many cities within it. That's 0:19:52.196 --> 0:19:54.676 that's what I like. I mean, this is why I 0:19:54.716 --> 0:19:58.636 could never imagine doing an episode about New York, because, yeah, 0:19:58.676 --> 0:20:01.356 you could just do the West Village, could be an 0:20:01.396 --> 0:20:04.516 eight part season, that one they rode Alone and you. 0:20:04.556 --> 0:20:06.716 But sort of the whole thing about being here, isn't 0:20:06.716 --> 0:20:10.636 it You have an abundance of everything, and you always 0:20:10.716 --> 0:20:14.116 know what you don't know. I like that. I find 0:20:14.116 --> 0:20:18.876 it comforting. I find that comforting too. All right, So 0:20:18.956 --> 0:20:22.476 we're here by the library. Here, we are by the 0:20:23.036 --> 0:20:27.596 Stephen Schwartzman Main Branch Library. Do you ever work here? 0:20:27.716 --> 0:20:31.436 I actually have in that beautiful, beautiful room up there, 0:20:31.476 --> 0:20:32.756 I forget the name of it right now, in the 0:20:32.876 --> 0:20:35.396 Rose Reading Room. Yeah, the Rose Reading Room. You know, 0:20:35.516 --> 0:20:39.156 for a while, people were coming in so regularly to 0:20:39.236 --> 0:20:41.916 look at the ceiling. I felt like it was inhibiting 0:20:41.956 --> 0:20:44.516 the behavior of some of the cranks there. Tell me 0:20:44.596 --> 0:20:47.116 more real, Like you used to go in there be 0:20:47.796 --> 0:20:51.756 someone clipping their toenails across the table from you. I'm 0:20:51.756 --> 0:20:55.556 working on their life's memoirs simultaneously. You So, when you 0:20:55.596 --> 0:20:58.396 were younger, did you come here? Yeah? Yeah, But it 0:20:58.756 --> 0:21:01.516 also didn't have as the exhibits in the gift shop 0:21:01.516 --> 0:21:03.516 and things like that weren't as curated and you couldn't 0:21:03.516 --> 0:21:05.516 get a bite d So a lot of the changes 0:21:05.556 --> 0:21:11.276 are terrific, but it's certainly more of a tour attraction. Yeah, okay, yeah, 0:21:11.276 --> 0:21:16.476 we're here. We can have out all right when we 0:21:16.636 --> 0:21:27.956 grab some lunch at the Oyster Bart. You know, when 0:21:27.996 --> 0:21:30.236 I first moved back here, i worked nearby. I would 0:21:30.276 --> 0:21:34.196 take the train to Grand Central and still in love 0:21:34.236 --> 0:21:37.236 with it. It's still does all the things for me. 0:21:37.316 --> 0:21:39.756 I feel like, I don't know, there's such a romance 0:21:39.796 --> 0:21:43.316 to it. Let's peak, Can we peak at the ceiling 0:21:43.316 --> 0:21:45.196 and then we can go down to the Shall we 0:21:45.236 --> 0:21:49.676 do the short cut to the Oh but um rush 0:21:49.756 --> 0:21:53.396 hour coming through here? Such great energy. So I just 0:21:53.436 --> 0:21:56.796 read recently that six hundred thousand people is that a 0:21:56.836 --> 0:22:00.956 possible passed through here on a given day, which is 0:22:00.956 --> 0:22:04.756 the population of San Francisco, And rarely does anyone run 0:22:04.796 --> 0:22:08.236 into each other. Everyone can just kind of do this 0:22:08.356 --> 0:22:11.116 the urban ballet. That's true. If you, if you and 0:22:11.276 --> 0:22:14.156 if you want to even meet up with someone, we 0:22:14.196 --> 0:22:18.156 always used to meet by the clock. Yeah for soft phones? 0:22:18.716 --> 0:22:24.476 Can we open? Yeah? Oh, I'm sure there Eureka. So 0:22:24.516 --> 0:22:26.636 we're going in the side door to the Oyster Saloon. 0:22:27.276 --> 0:22:30.076 This place is so great if you want to do 0:22:30.116 --> 0:22:31.676 the bar or the middle here, how will we do 0:22:31.676 --> 0:22:35.116 down here on the right? I love this the crossroms. 0:22:35.116 --> 0:22:37.596 Theres a guy in a suit a dap pursuit having 0:22:37.596 --> 0:22:41.236 a salad and a beers a cavar sand much please 0:22:42.636 --> 0:22:48.356 tell me about that. See it's not only pretty affordable, 0:22:48.876 --> 0:22:55.756 yeah I mean relatively speaking, but um delicious, unique and 0:22:56.196 --> 0:23:00.516 kind of luxurious. And I will get um the crab 0:23:00.596 --> 0:23:05.036 cake sandwich and a nice tea thank you. Oyster Bar 0:23:05.196 --> 0:23:08.556 is one of the spaces in New York which has 0:23:08.596 --> 0:23:13.196 these these vaulted ceilings with gustamino tiling, so the acoustics 0:23:13.236 --> 0:23:16.036 are kind of special. You can also always hear the 0:23:16.076 --> 0:23:20.436 bustle of them making the pan rose and the oyster 0:23:20.556 --> 0:23:24.156 stew and um No, this place I find very comforting. 0:23:24.196 --> 0:23:25.836 It's another one of those places in New York where 0:23:26.236 --> 0:23:27.716 I'm just happy to know it's here. Un If I 0:23:27.716 --> 0:23:29.276 don't go to it for like a couple of months, 0:23:29.756 --> 0:23:31.636 you just know in the back of your mind, the 0:23:31.756 --> 0:23:33.996 lightings here, the vibes here, the guys are here. I 0:23:34.076 --> 0:23:36.516 like the places you can take for granted, that's so 0:23:36.596 --> 0:23:41.396 much what I what I prize your caviar sandwich. I 0:23:41.436 --> 0:23:43.796 thought it was going to have cream inside it, but 0:23:43.876 --> 0:23:47.156 it is just components of things that are good with 0:23:47.236 --> 0:23:49.836 caviarts fantastic. Would you like to try some of my 0:23:49.876 --> 0:23:52.596 crab cake. I'm not gonna you can finish. I don't 0:23:52.596 --> 0:23:54.596 know if I can do both, but I will pack away. 0:23:56.876 --> 0:23:58.836 One of the risks of coming to the Grand Central 0:23:58.836 --> 0:24:01.516 Oyster Virus that my dad is often here. He makes 0:24:01.756 --> 0:24:06.996 all his appointments here, and his order is multiple bowls 0:24:07.236 --> 0:24:13.876