• Lousy Spring Break Resort People. Phil's new Physical Therapist.
    Apr 7 2025

    Ok folks. Spring break is over and we're back. This week we get into:

    -Bob's idea to capitalize on the Trump tariffs with homegrown coconuts and sturgeon farms.

    -When New York businesses don't account for weird homeless antics.

    -The appeal of going off the grid

    -Phil's new physical therapist

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    43 mins
  • Old People at the Pharmacy and Running Into Gus Fring at the Gym
    Mar 11 2025

    March is here and the weather is fantastic. A welcome break from the frost despite the loss of an hour due to daylight savings. Today we yak about the following:

    -Be like Tracy Austin and NFL cornerbacks and learn to turn the page and not dwell on the negative.

    -Phil grates his knuckle and deals with the neighborhgood oldies in the pharmacy.

    -Anora and movie roundup.

    -New York as a place to run into celebrities

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    43 mins
  • Bob Searches for a New Duvet. Hunting For Sugar Mommies.
    Feb 21 2025

    Holy crap it's cold. Again. This week more nonsense such as:

    -Bob's search for a new duvet leads him into a magicakl world of MILFs, GILFs and Siamese twins

    -Career advice: find a sugar mommy!

    -What's really going on at the Met?

    -More personals from those nerds at the New York Review of Books

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    46 mins
  • Confronting a Bad Writer at the Strand and HMart Love.
    Jan 31 2025

    Well folks another wintry week (or two) and we're back at it. This week we look at:

    -HMart the suddenly semi-ubiquitous Korean grocery. Asian shopping minus the toads and loogie hockers.

    -Phil considers hijacking a book panel at the Strand.

    -You know all that street construction? Is it all bullshit? And other street perils: dangling steel girders, Mexican scaffold workers, and double parked Ubers.

    -The depressing list of mayoral contenders.

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    47 mins
  • Bookstore Jews and Sex Clinics! Our longest episode.
    Jan 17 2025

    Happy New Year Fans! Episode 40. A nice round number. Who would have thought we'd make it here. Together! And this week we continue the tradition of more nonsense. Including:

    -The Johnnies are back!

    -New Year's Eve AA meetings. Fun!

    -Cold wet Cape Code New Year's. More fun. More fentanyl please.

    -Phil sees a couple of attractive Jews on a bookstore date.

    and a little policy:

    -Congestion pricing. No more police chases (unless you're on an ebike chasing the cops).

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    51 mins
  • The Art of Being Unfriendly to Neighbors and Other Elements of New York Life
    Dec 11 2024

    Apologies for the absence, but Bob is now a semi-orphan (send money). In other news, lots to discuss including:

    -Some guy in the neighborhood who Phil recognized and continually ignores. Or is it the other way around?

    -Opening an offal restaurant in New York.

    -Phil yaks about some stupid thing he did to some kid years ago.

    -opening a salon for fancy artists. What happened to that stuff?

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    43 mins
  • A Sexy New Year's Eve Tale!
    Nov 5 2024

    It's Election time. We maybe voting but definitely podcasting. This week while you're waiting to cast your ballot listen the team as they yak about stuff:

    -Phil unveils a steamy tale of New Year's shenanigans.

    -Bob debates whether he will drag himself to vote.

    -The Great Migrant Baking Show!

    -And why those spicy cookbook publishers pander to white folks.

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    41 mins
  • Chicken a L'Orange and Shitty Hand Doctors
    Oct 14 2024

    It's fall. Leaves are falling around the old treehouse. But the talk lives on. This week:

    -Bob flips Yom Kippur on its head.

    -A new historical village remembers the 1840s. Details to come.

    -More Randall's Island and ebiking tales.

    -Phil's possibly autistic hand doctor.

    -A new weekly (?) segment: go to dinner recipe. This week: chicken a l'orange.

    -A call back for old-timey restaurants.

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    40 mins
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