Welcome to Episode 71! Topics: day off, autumn, coffee with Kara, flu shot, Bar Great Harry, two-a-day's, Liberty Science Center, The Wrens breakup, Queens by Aeon Station, Late Style by Wesley Stace, Springtime In New York by Bob Dylan, The Lost Concert by Miles Davis, Universal Process by Nelson Patton, Foundation on Apple TV+, Schumacher on Netflix, If I Leave Here Tomorrow on Netflix, This Is Your Mind On Plants by Michael Pollan, Tennō Dry by Schilling Beer Co., MO by Maine Beer Company, Grodziskie by Fox Farm Brewery.

Episode 71

Welcome to Episode 75! Topics: neighborhood report, Vekslers, Sociale, La Cigogne, Campbell Cheese and Grocery, Thanksgiving, Ashokan Reservoir, Inquiring Minds Books in Saugerties, Not Fade Away and Bread Alone in Woodstock, Michigan/Ohio State game, CityPoint NYC COVID hub, Barclays Center/Modells NYC pop-up, Wild East Brewing, 30 by Adele, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts by Bruce Springsteen, The Beatles: Get Back.

Episode 75

Topics: Neighborhood report, COVID numbers, Commonwealth in Park Slope, Wingbar on Smith Street, Henry Public, out of town visitors, continued return to office, Rough Trade, Other Half Rockefeller Center, Savak at Littlefield, Bob Weir at Radio City Music Hall, Wet Leg by Wet Leg, Live In New York City February 8 1975 by Alan Braufman, Terror Twilight by Pavement, The Bear by Walter Martin.

Episode 83

Topics: Neighborhood report, recital, Black Forest Brooklyn, Tacos Casamigas, Alamo Drafthouse, Golden Touch Car Wash, Coney Island, The Cyclone, twenty-five years in NYC, Swift Hibernian Lounge, B Bar, Morningside Heights, Finback Brewery, WingBar, Kentucky Derby, (watch my moves) by Kurt Vile, A Bit Of Previous by Belle & Sebastian, WE by Arcade Fire, 33 1/3: Boxer by Ryan Pinkard.

Episode 85

Topics: Dobbs, neighborhood report, backyard and stoop hangs, Oliver annual checkup, new Delta headhouse/terminal at LaGuardia, trip to Boulder, Dead and Company at Folsom Field, altitude effects, Uber/Lyft prices, last day of school, American Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium, Woodstock, Saugerties Lighthouse, C'mon C'mon, The Kids in the Hall, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Steve Reich: Reich/Richter by Ensemble Contemporain, The Resurrection of Rust by Elvis Costello, Farm to Table by Bartees Strange, The Spur by Joan Shelley, 'Carolina' by Taylor Swift, Home Before and After by Regina Spektor.

Episode 88

Topics: Smith Street Pizza, trip to Rhode Island, Fox Farm Brewery, Little Narragansett Bay boat ride, illness in house, I Get Wild + Stuart Bogie at Littlefield 7/29/22, trip to Maine, Marlborough, MA hotel, Biddeford Mills Museum, Back Cove Trail, The Holy Donut, Crescent Beach, Kennebunkport, Old Orchard Beach, Palace Playland, Bissell Brothers Brewing, spreading ashes, Maine Beer Company, LL Bean, Scales, Tree House Brewing, Barker Character, Comic, and Cartoon Museum in Cheshire, CT, Modern Apizza in New Haven, Holy Diver by DIO, Logger Hero by Wu-Lu, From the New World by Alan Parsons, The Other Side of Make-Believe by Interpol, Earl's Closet: The Lost Archive of Earl McGrath 1970-1980, Birds in the Ceiling by John Moreland, Waiting For Columbus by Little Feat, Into the Groove by Mickey Hart/Planet Drum, Old-Time Folks by Lee Bains and the Glory Fires, Build by Tony Fadell, Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty, The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman.

Episode 90

Topics: Neighborhood report, Ruthie's, pizza at Lee's Tavern on Staten Island, F&F Pizza, Baby Luc's Pizza, Staten Island FunPark, Shipwrecked mini golf, Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Pier 17, Rage Against the Machine and Run the Jewels at Madison Square Garden, Jacob Riis Park/Rockaway Beach, Crown Heights Armory, Crown Heights Cafe, Bourbon Bros meetup, stoop hangs, Success by Oneida, Freakout/Release by Hot Chip, Heartmind by Cass McCombs, Chopper by Kiwi Jr, Saturday Night in San Francisco by Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, and Paco de Lucia, The Music Never Stops by Peter Shapiro.

Episode 91

Topics: neighborhood report, stoop hangs, watering the school garden, Dolce Brooklyn, Nicky's Unisex, Roger Waters at Madison Square Garden, trip to New Haven, Old Heidelberg, Ordinary, Modern Apizza, Norwalk Cove Mini Golf, first day of school, Sunny's, Strong Rope Red Hook, Live at Gilley's by Kris Kristofferson, Eight Freedoms by New Freedom Sound, How Do You Burn? by Afghan Whigs, I'm So Free: The 1971 RCA Demos by Lou Reed, Back On The Road To You by Freedy Johnston, The Individualist: Digressions, Dreams, and Dissertations by Todd Rundgren.

Episode 92

Topics: care package from British Columbia, Bee's Knees Provisions, Central Park, running, Ray Rizzo with Bridget St. John and Michael Shannon at Rockwood Music Hall, The National at Capitol Theatre, Pet Shop Boys and New Order at Madison Square Garden, Pavement and Horesegirl at Kings Theatre, trip to Baltimore, Camden Yards, trip to Ontario, high school reunion, Autofiction by Suede, In These Times by Makaya McCraven, Midnight Scorchers by Horace Andy, Gamelatron Bidadari by Zemi17, Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie by Gary Weiss, No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood.

Episode 93

Topics: Neighborhood report, Poetica Coffee on Smith Street, Black Mountain Wine House, Villager on Classon Avenue, I Get Wild at Colony in Woodstock, The Mud Club in Woodstock, Greenpoint Loft, stoop hangs, Bonnie Prince Billy at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Halloween, Bound For Hell: On The Sunset Strip by Various Artists, Reason In Decline by Archers of Loaf, Garcia Live Vol 19: October 31, 1992 by Jerry Garcia Band, In and Out of the Garden: MSG '81, '82, '83 by the Grateful Dead, The Frow Show on WFMU, Rolling Golden Holy by Bonny Light Horseman, Estella Jane by Steve Salett, Nothing Special by Will Sheff, Stumpwork by Dry Cleaning, Reality by Bill Callahan, Midnights by Taylor Swift, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE by Brian Eno, Stars At Noon (Soundtrack) by Tindersticks, Steady by Sloan, Live in Cuxhaven 1976 by Can, See You in the Stars by Lightning Seeds, Hysteria by Indigo Sparke, Kings Theatre 10/2/22 by Pavement, God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert, Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records by Jim Ruland, White Noise by Don DeLillo.

Episode 94

Topics: days off, Bobbi's Italian Beef, Haven, The Dutch, Spring Lounge, Wingbar, L'Industrie Pizzeria, holiday parties, I Get Wild + Balthrop Alabama at Littlefield, Bonny Light Horseman + Cassandra Jenkins at Music Hall of Williamsburg, The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy, When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison by Greil Marcus, new glasses.

Episode 96

Topics: holiday parties, Peter McManus in Chelsea, Bear Cafe in Bearsville, Cucina in Woodstock, 2022 running stats, COVID, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Yo La Tengo Hanukkah at Bowery Ballroom, Mali Obamsawin, Leyenda, Travel Bar, Skippy in town, Jeff Beck, Belle and Sebastian, Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy, My Life in the Sunshine by Nabil Ayers, This is How You Lose The Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

Episode 97

100! Topics: 100 episodes, The National at Bearsville Theatre, Tinker Street Tavern, Bread Alone, The Mud Club, Best Pizza in New Paltz, I Get Wild at Littlefield 3/10, The Zolephants, Oliver 10th birthday, Titanic party, out of town guests, Orphan Guitars, Black Gold, Bar Great Harry, Ruthie's, Barely Disfigured, Brooklyn Social, non-alcoholic beer, 1973 Dead, Essays 1 by Lydia Davis, Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick.

Episode 100

Topics: Neighborhood report, Esposito's closing, electronic recycling event, trip to Philadelphia, Adventure Aquarium, Citizens Bank Park, Monk's Cafe, Ed Sheeran at Kings Theatre, O'Keefe's Bar on Court Street, trip to Baltimore, National Aquarium, Camden Yards, Baltimore Light RailLink, I Get Wild shows, John and Peter's in New Hope, The Falcon in Marlboro, Dream House Quartet at Town Hall, The Walkmen at Webster Hall, Bono at the Beacon Theatre, The Hold Steady, The New Pornographers, Scott McMicken and the Ever Expanding, Deerhoof, Kevin Rowland, Feist, Kara Jackson, Xylouris White, Dream House Quartet, Tim Hecker, William Tyler, Ed Sheeran, Gord Downie, Fred Again and Brian Eno, Rose City Band, The National, Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Numbers Don't Lie by Vaclav Smil, Stay True by Hua Hsu.

Episode 101

Topics: Memorial Day, I Get Wild at Littlefield, Humbled by the Void gig, Luna Park/Coney Island, out of town friends, school happy hour, Black Mountain Wine House, Bryan Adams + Joan Jett at Madison Square Garden, end of school, Dolce Brooklyn, Keens Steakhouse, Barcade, The Cure at Madison Square Garden, Dead and Company at Citi Field, birthday party, Tears For Fears at Madison Square Garden, last day of school, Henry Public, The Disappearance of Josef Mengele by Olivier Guez, Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy by James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, The Kingdom of Prep: The Inside Story of the Rise and (Near) Fall of J. Crew by Maggie Bullock, Judy Blume books.

Episode 102

Topics: summer stoop and roof hangs, Shipwrecked Golf in Red Hook, lunchtime walks in Central Park, Silverball Retro Arcade in Asbury Park, Jon Bon Jovi rest stop, Savak at Mama Tried, Balthazar, Milady's, Rose City Band at Union Pool, Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, CT, Phish at Madison Square Garden, Evenings at the Village Gate by John Coltrane with Eric Dolphy, The Ballad of Darren by Blur, Welshpool Frillies by Guided By Voices, I Inside the Old I Dying by PJ Harvey, My Back Was a Bridge For You to Cross by ANOHNI and the Johnsons, Lost Son - An American Family Trapped Inside the FBI's Secret Wars by Brett Forrest.

Episode 103

Topics: I Get Wild at Positive Jam in Accord, NY, The Hold Steady, Guided By Voices, New Paltz, tech offices, Automattic, friends in from out of town, The National + Patti Smith at Madison Square Garden, vacation, Montreal, Sutton, Quebec, Schilling Beer Co., New Hampshire, Maine, Old Orchard Beach, Maine Mall, Eventide, Boston, first day of school.

Episode 104

Topics: Neighborhood report, Tacos El Brother 3 truck, new places, Travel Bar, alternate side parking, living in NYC, Pavement at Brooklyn Steel, trip to Cincinnati, Zip's Cafe, Madtree Brewing, Rhinegeist, The National: Homecoming, Bartees Strange, The Walkmen, Patti Smith, Weyes Blood, Pavement, The National, making new friends, Peter Gabriel at Madison Square Garden, I Get Wild at the Falcon in Marlboro + The Cutting Room NYC, Velocity Girl at the Bowery Ballroom, Thai Diner, Epistrophy, Antler, Stop Making Sense at Cobble Hill Cinemas, 68 Jay Street Bar, Brooklyn Social, out of town friends, Manet/Degas at Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Walkmen at Kings Theatre, Rockefeller Center concourse, Goldberg Variations by Vikingur Olafsson, Mellencamp by Paul Rees, Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland, All That Man Is by David Szalay.

Episode 105

Topics: holiday parties, Christmas carol singing, Cobble Hill Ballet's The Nutcracker at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Serafina Tribeca, Mates of State + Versus + Girl Scout Handbook + The Aislers Set at Littlefield, Yo La Tengo + The Aislers Set at the Bowery Ballroom, Madonna + Honey Dijon at Barclays Center, Jon Langford + Sally Timms at the Good Fork Pub, I Get Wild shows at Reservoir Studios, Littlefield, Colony Woodstock, John and Peter's New Hope, Gutenberg! The Musical at the James Earl Jones Theatre, birthday parties, Garcia Peoples at Bacaro, Bob Dylan at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore, Untable, Le Rock, Five Acres, Good Night in Woodstock, Gus's Chop House, Depeche Mode at Madison Square Garden.

Episode 106

Topics: Neighborhood report, Harold Ickes Playground, running, subway adventures, Mardi Gras gig at Mama Tried, DJEAD Night at Broken Land, trip to Cincinnati, World Peace Bell in Newport, KY, trip to Austin, Diana Ross at ACL Moody Theater, Vikingur Olafsson at Carnegie Hall, Jonathan Richman at the Bell House, Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem, My Effin' Life by Geddy Lee, Sonic Life by Thurston Moore, The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan Glaser.

Episode 108

Topics: Catching up, City Hall abandoned subway station tour, trip to Saratoga Springs, heatwaves, Bon Bon, One Girl Cookies, Cafe Volkan, Ace's Pizza, Daryl Hall + Elvis Costello and the Imposters at Radio City Music Hall, R-Cade/Barcade, Olympics watching, New Haven, Modern Apizza, IT! Adventures at Jordans Furniture, subway adventures, trip to St. Catharines/Niagara Falls, Beechwood Doughnuts, Oast Brewers, Wayne Gretzky Estates, Neil Peart Pavilion, Lakeside Park, Sunny's in Red Hook, There Was Nothing You Could Do by Steven Hyden, The Unreality of Memory by Elisa Gabbert, A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold.

Episode 110

Topics: Neighborhood report, back to school, Nate's Detroit Pizza on Court St, Tarrytown House Estate, Goosefeather, Bar Bete, Strong Rope Brewery, Gowanus Waterfront Park, Keen's Steakhouse, Doobie Brothers and Steve Winwood at Madison Square Garden, Trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, Eric Bachmann at Le Poisson Rouge, Jeff Rosenstock at Warsaw, Hamburger America, trip to Maine, Freeport, Old Orchard Beach, Biddeford, Yo La Tengo at Chad's house, Flaming Lips and Dinosaur Jr at Madison Square Garden, The National and the War on Drugs at Forest Hills, I Get Wild at the Falcon, the Mets.

Episode 111

Topics: Holiday season in New York City, visiting old haunts, Old Town Bar, Barcade, Tom and Jerry's, Jimmy's Corner, The Quays, Floyd, neighborhood closures, subway adventures, Holiday Nostalgia train, Mark Guiliana at Village Vanguard, Johnny Marr + JAMES at Brooklyn Paramount, Iron Maiden at Barclays Center, Stuart Bogie and Buck McDaniel at Church of Our Saviour, SML at Public Records, Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, Vanderbeekers Ever After by Karina Yan Glaser, Conclave by Robert Harris, Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins, ed. Sam V.H. Reese.

Episode 112

Topics: social media, toxic 2025, optimism, trip to Hawaii, Zippy's, Hungry Ear Records, Kailua, Ko Olina, Yanagi Sushi, Million Restaurant, Ala Moana, Windward Mall, freeways, HNL airport gardens, Yo La Tengo at the Bowery Ballroom, New Year's Eve, A Complete Unknown.

Episode 113

Topics: Toxic 2025 cont., Saturn Road, Record Shop, Cafe Volkan, Brooklyn Strategist, Bar Great Harry, Viva Mexico Tire Shop, Union Pizza Works, Relix Magazine 50th at Brooklyn Bowl, Taper's Choice, I Get Wild at Brooklyn Made, ENO, Burns Night, subway adventures, Boston, Pino's Pizza in Brookline, Green Line T, Stuart Murdoch at the Bell House, Dog Man.

Episode 114

Topics: lost wedding ring, new subway map, The Airplane Shop in Fairfield, NJ, Colombo's Pharmacy in Middle Village, Queens, Oliver's first visit to Madison Square Garden, Knicks vs. Wizards, walks in Prospect Park and Central Park, subway adventures, New World Mall food court in Flushing, new open gangway G train cars, Great Jones Distilling, Rossi's Lounge, Insa, IT Adventures Ropes Course/Jordan's Furniture, Modern Apizza, Atticus Bookstore Cafe, Dogfish Head/Grateful Dead event, Bushwick's Dead at Brooklyn Bowl, Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy at Brooklyn Steel, The Bevis Frond at Baby's All Right and Night Club 101, +/- + Mark Robinson + Girl Scout Handbook at Littlefield, Father John Misty + Destroyer at Kings Theatre, I Get Wild at The Falcon, Royal American Social Aid and Pleasure Club at Mama Tried.

Episode 115

Topics: Neighborhood report, warmer weather, stoop hangs, Gowanus Yacht Club, running, Coney Island, Junior's Restaurant, Talea Brewing, the Red Caboose, Brado Pizza, Joe + Pat Pizzeria, Staten Island Railway, trip to Cincinnati, Reds vs Pirates, Badges Drum Shop, Cabinet of Wonders at City Winery, I Get Wild + Moral Kiosk at Littlefield, The Colorado Kid by Stephen King.

Episode 116

Topics: Summertime, stoops hangs, roofs, backyards, beaches, pizza, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Brooklyn DOP Pizza, Rome to Brooklyn Pizza, Modern Apizza, Gui Steakhouse, Coney Island, Mr. Beet, Yerba Buena, Brooklyn Social, Dolce Brooklyn, tape night at Bar Great Harry, It's All Gonna Break at Nitehawk Cinema, The Invisible Dog on Bergen Street, 2A, Wussy at the Mercury Lounge, No Kings protest in Manhattan, trips to New Haven, 4th of July, Loose Lemons at King Tai Bar.

Episode 117

Topics: Neighborhood report, trip to Korea.

Episode 118

Topics: Neighborhood report, plane spotting, Planeview Park, LaGuardia Landing Lights, Hermon MacNeil Park, The Mounds, Idlewild Kayak Launch, North Woodmere Park, L&B Spumoni Gardens, Chrissy's Pizza, Andrew Bellucci's Pizza, Eric Bachmann in Chad's basement, Kimchee Kooks Kate's Kitchen, block party honky tonk stoop jams, Chappell Roan at Forest Hills Stadium.

Episode 119

Topics: Neighborhood Report, new Court Street traffic flow, Big Tiny, Poetica Coffee, As For The Future at The Good Fork, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Queens Museum, Panorama of the City of New York, planespotting, Planeview Park, Hermon MacNeil Park, Paulie Gee's Slice Shop in Greenpoint, Andrew Bellucci's Pizza in Astoria, Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet at Littlefield, DJEAD NIGHT at Threes Brewing, No Kings march in Brooklyn, I GET WILD Fall Foliage 2025 Tour, Lizard Lounge in Cambridge MA, Cape Cod, West Dennis Beach, Lighthouse Inn, The Red Cottage restaurant, Myrtle in East Providence RI, Wickenden Street, Round Again Records, Colony in Woodstock, Small Talk, sitting in with Thank God For Science, Listener of the Week.

Episode 120

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