The Final Destination: Season 1 Finale

presence with you. Listen. I'm glad that I see almost everything. You are truly a fixture in this neighborhood. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. That's an amazing thing. Come on, you're like the original. You're like the original. Don't don't don't. So what are you up to? I got looking sharp, you're looking sharper. I'm going to the office. But you drop these off, all right? You got a couple of shirts, Just gonna put them on the rock outside. I'm trying to get

a lot of money from him. I'm gonna say this, this is Brendan shirts. How you know I have a feeling we're gonna have ninety degrees, but it's not what you want, so dred degrees for like three months? Yeah? Yeah, never, No, I not so hot today? What are we doing here? Why? Why are we in New York City? Where would you rather be? Like I I understand what you try, but where would you rather be? Well that's the problem when I really think about it, I don't know the answer.

And it seems like New York is a good place to not have the answer. Yeah, but I mean where else can you have this? You're you're pointing towards a there's a bag of trash out front, and uh, well it's part of the scenery. Welcome to New York. Look, there's a dog that wants to stop in. Do you tell me? Where could you be? And you can have this kind of interaction with people nowhere? It's fair. We're both social people and this city is a gift that

keeps giving. Come on, I mean, you walked down a street, you say hello to this one, that one, you talk to this one. I mean, you're gonna be where. But the thing about New York, though, it's like it does like beat you down. Man, It's like it's not an easy place to live. You got to tell me what's easy. I mean, you can live up state and you're gonna come out in the morning and complain about what snow bears exactly the birds? And you grew up in the city, right, yes, yes,

I was born lebon On. I didn't Okay, you're born in Beirut or I was one outside of me? Is that when your parents came here? They came in eighty two, right after the embassy Embassy bombing, and I went to Canarsi High School and you turned out. Okay, I think, yeah, I think you can have a dressed for my girlfriend and paint and black dress. Thank you, thank you. So you've seen me now for years. We've known each for a long time. It's how have I changed it at all?

In your eyes in the past, like four or five years? Grumpy year, that's true. I still love you, but you're a different grumpy. You're like a cool grumpy you know. Okay, thank you? You have to annoying grumpy like you want to like get away from them. No, no, it's the cool grumpy all right. So Tony, I have to travel one more place. So what what's your show about? Is it. I go places with a friend and I try to

get invited to a dinner party. So I've done it. Montreal, Mexico City, Boza Montana, big sir, I've done this, and I have one more episode to make. And your kid who came up and out it didn't we us? Well? I mean I could are you this weeking, aren't you? I mean, I gotta make this show, man, I gott if this is what I'm spending my afternoon doing, I got I'm going to the office after this to kind of I mean, what you want to come up like Sunday night. That's tempting, but I seriously have to figure

out this episode first. But speaking of which, I gotta go, So Tony, I'll see you later. Man, Thank you well. I enjoy your beautiful day. And again you're looking sharp. Thank you. Thanks man. I'm glad that you know you help me stay this way. Oh look at this another beautiful day. Hey Emma, Emma, Hi, what are you doing. I'm coming out of the library right. Do you only get one book at a time? Yeah, because I never want to have a fi ever, that's probably wise. So

where's your mom? My favorite former college classmate? Oh? She left me here. But I guess you're old enough. Now, how old are you? I'm twelve. See, I thought I was young in New York when I moved here in my twenties, But you're like really young in New York. Where are you going? I'm actually going to the office. It's a Saturday though, I know. But remember I told you about that travel podcast I was working on. I have to make one more episode, and I have no

idea where I'm going. All right, where do you think I should go? Um? Maybe I saw it in some TV show Reno Reno. Yeah, yeah, I did Las Vegas already, so I think I'm gonna I'm gonna skip Reno. But um, are you walking this way? I'm going up to the l Yeah, all right, let's do it. This neighborhood when I first moved here was nothing. This was like auto repair. Only my mom talks about it being like Williamsburg. Like when she was younger, it was like who But now

Williamsburg is like chic. Yeah, it's like vegan, gluten free, food free restaurants. So what do you think about Waysber? Do you like living here? Yeah? I want to live in New York for my whole life. My mom tells me that I'm too young to decide that, But I like the fact that being a New Yorker is like being in a club. So what are the membership benefits

of being part of that club. There's a lot of like arts and performing arts stuff in New York, I mean Broadway, but like it's just all these different things that are like New Yorker experiences. And also like pizza and bagels. I mean, pizza isn't specific to New York, but the best pizza it's in New York. Now you're making me hungry. Should we get a Joe's get a slice of pizza? Yeah? Okay, let's do it feel so far away though, it's let's to get there every single day.

So day a little hectic up here. It appears to be an out door sports bar, so what happens when it rains exactly? But it's also a thing wonder of having so many So much partying is bad for kids like you, No, because to be living in New York you have to be good at ignoring things. Because we're also tightly packed together, right, you got to just keep it cool. Yeah, you just have to kind of not engage.

We also just point out. Sorry to interrupt, but I'm six foot three and I've just been walking like full pace, not even calibrating, and you are just right along my side. I also walk really fast to get to school, and I think that dozes in New York, so that everyone's just trucking like we don't have time for that. Also, you've gotten taller, which helps with the fast walking. You're like shot up like stalks of corn. Yeah, that's the thing. A lot of the boys in my class haven't gone

to that yet. Some I think I'm taller than all of them. Yeah, the boys will catch up, but their brains won't. They'll always be behind you. They think they're so funny too. They think that they just they got the whole crowd laughing with their jokes, but they really didn't. And like they're not funny. Can't you can't get like knock on their heads and nothing in there? No, I mean I can't talk. You know, I have this show. But I'm just being a boy who thinks he's funny sometimes.

All right, pizza, wow, pizza plates is packed? Oh my god, what's your pizza move? Just plane perni if it's at a party, Let's get to plane. All right, thanks, have a good It just came out of the oven. It's very hot. I'm very passionate about this. Every time we get into talking about the correct way to eat pizza, which is to fold the pizza, people argue about it, and that's not fold your pizza. It is better and everyone should do it. Why do you think it's better?

It's better for walking traveling, and it's also I think it's like you get a better mouth feel and you get more more per bite. It's like a pizza sandwich. We can walk a little bit and then I'll go into the subway. Look how crazy Bedford is though, Wasn't this busy when you were when you're young? But I feel like New York City has so many different people. That's one of the things I love most about it.

What do you mean, like there are such huge communities and you can be whoever you want to be in New York City and there will be a community of people that like relate to you when are the same like and feel the same way as you about something. And that's like pretty much a guarantee living in New York City. Because there's just so many individuals, there's bound to be a person who looks the same thing as

you go. Yeah, I agree with that. It makes me feel less alone, even if I don't know all those people. You're right, I always feel like I'll figure it out here. All right, This is I gotta hop into the l It was nice chatting with you. You too, see you later. Dance clear of the closing doors, please, it's so time, basic gentlemen, gather around. It's about to begin, So time, So time, dude. Is this called showtime what you're doing? Or is this dance? It's actually we call it hitting.

It's called hitting. What he want? Is it called hits? Anically a street performing what we callte it hitting because it's like it's a hit. It's a lot of him when we come out here and do this. It's a big impact on New York City. It's a hit. How did you get into it? It's such a it's such intense activity. Yeah. I got into it because but I

was in high school. I met a friend freshman year and he was a dancer because his father did it, and he ain't mighty meet downtown because he seen I was a good dancer, and I took her from there and I was like, what over fifteen years ago, what's the craziest thing that's happened to you while you've been doing this. The craziest thing that happened to me was one guy gave me eight hundred dollars and yeah in one setting, just like because he's just so blown away.

He was blowing away and he split it amongst the teams. A lot of people want to train and they get annoyed and aggravated in general. So when they come in here a lot of music on the train, it's like, oh boy, here we go. And I have to admit I love it. I've been that guy because like you, I'm going to work at a long night, you're getting an argument and you're on the train. They turn there and you're like, oh no, I'm on the longest link

of the train. Yeah, And it makes sense. It's such a small area and it's it's sometimes you're flipping and you're like so close to them, they'll get nervous. I don't want to get hit. But what's amazing is that most times I've been I've seen short time on the train and like a hundred times, no one's ever been here. Yeah, Um, my friend had he did a first flip and he landed on a ladies lap. Don't lap like she was like if she was saying so, and she was like oh,

but she wasn't upset. She's like, oh, wow, you know how many of you? How many people? How many short time people do you think there is? It's a lot. It's a shoe for a lot of cruise. Chit you park Tom Square, thirty fourth Street, Junior Square, all over New York. Ask well, thanks so much for talking. Of course, man little Bible. You guys are great, Thank you, No I would be balking, like, how are you worried on Saturday? Thank you? Hey, Amy Top, Hey, my name is Malcolm Gladwell.

Welcome to my podcast about here recording right now? Yeah, misunderstood. Wait did I just hear someone come in here? Brendon's here? Brendan? Yeah? What's he doing here on a Saturday? Can we talk about his travel show for a second. We're sending him all over the country to find himself. It's bananas, Malcolm, Well, at least it's not a true crime show. Hey Brendon, can hear you? Oh? Hey Malcolm, Hey Bendon, it makes you feel any better? I haven't actually listened to your show.

Yet I think that makes me feel better. I guess it's good to see people here on a Saturday. You know, when I worked in LA, I would work all these saturdays. I never ran into anyone. What does it say about New York that I come into the office and there's a bunch of you here today. Well this, this actually gets into one of my larger theories about New York,

which is New York life is exterior. LA life is interior. Right, So the implicit bargain you make in moving to New York is that you're buying the exterior, not the interior. So of course New Yorkers are in the office on Saturday because the existence of the office is a reason to go there. Right, It's a that's good. It's a good reason to get out of my tiny apartment, which, by the way, is the Great paradox. It's another one

my theories, this is the Great Paradox. So the New York City turnaround in the mid nineties coincides with three television sitcoms which celebrate the life of young people living

in New York. Right, Everyone's Out Seinfeld, Friends, Will and Grace Right, Boom boom, Boom and now all of those cell a vision of New York that's tremendously appealing to people around the country, and they're part of the Revival's extraordinary revival that New York comes back from the dead in the nineties and propelled I think by the power of this fantasy. The fantasy it is completely wrong. Why is the fantasy wrong Because the people in those shows

never leave their apartment. Now, they'll never leave their apartment for TV reasons, because that's the set. But like two cameras, it's an La vision of a New York life. Right, there's those shows are They were all made in La La, of course, so they construct these fabulous New York City apartments that people never leave, which is one hundred percent wrong. Right. It's the great irony of New York's revival is it was propelled by a completely false picture of what living

in New York. Man. Yeah, um, all right, So I still have to pick another place in America, North America. Do you have any suggestions for me? I should maybe think about going to Well, I mean, my favorites are all the kind of like you know, Nashville. I do love have a I have a great and overpowering love of an Atlanta I'm going to this week. I'm just full of excited about my trip to Atlanta. Um and I just welcome. I need you back in the booth.

Sounds like you gotta go anyway, all right, Malcolm, thanks for the chat. Thank you, See you later, Amy. I still have no idea what he shows about. Welcome. Wait still here is later, Malcolm. The subway is down there, no trains at the station. If you need to get uptown, you're gonna take the buses over there. The subway is closed again. Yep. Wait those buses over there. Yes, the buses right over there. You're going to cross the street and take those buses you need to get up like

tour buses. That's what they are. They are tour buses, but they're on a different route. They're gonna take you uptown. Jesus, okay, subway's clothes. Sadie, Hey, oh my god, high so good to see you. Of course I would find Sadie Stein woman about town here in Union Square on a Saturday. Use my absorption. You're just deep in your phone. What are you doing? Are you? It was as usual, trying to figure out the transportation situation in this city. I know.

Then they're pointing us to take these buses. You think this is a better idea at this hour than walking? Because this was a calculus. I was actually mid well, you know what, it's an opportunity for us to be on the top of a tour bus, so maybe we should just go for it. All right? What else am I dear? Maybe we can Maybe we'll take this up the ground Central and sort it out from that. Really that's perfect because I have to be on the sixth after Okay, great, Well, I'm just speaking to see if

we can get upstairs if anyone's leaving. But I don't think anyone is leaving. Oh let's try it. Let's go potagraph these two right here? Oh yeah, let's do those. I always thought this is probably the best way to see the city. I've done it in London, but never done it in New York. What are like three sady spots us tell people to check out to get all the flavor of your New York. All right, I guess

I'd say Whispering Gallery at Grand Central. This is where people can stand at opposite sides of this arch and the person will hear it on the other side, walk over the Brooklyn Bridge Classicum, and then maybe the picture gallery of the New York Historical Society, the Dancing Bears. Where is the New York Historical Society on the West side?

It's on West End. I mean, how do you feel about I've now been here on and off for a couple of decades, and I'm finally coming to terms of this is my home, and I get grumpy that I have to share it all the time. What is your take on sharing the town with visitors? That's what I like about it, But but you know how perverse I am. I like I like Times Square, I love tourists. I love talking to them, giving them directions. I'm so proud of the city and showing it off, and it interests

me what is the city they're seeing? It's so different from anything we've ever known. I mean, I haven't been to the Statue of Liberty since I went on a sixth grade school trip. I have never been to the top of the Empire State Building because there's never the day when you want to stand in line for two hours. Yeah, so you can learn from the tourists about your own town. Perversely, absolutely, it's the city contains so many cities within it. That's

that's what I like. I mean, this is why I could never imagine doing an episode about New York, because, yeah, you could just do the West Village, could be an eight part season, that one they rode Alone and you. But sort of the whole thing about being here, isn't it You have an abundance of everything, and you always know what you don't know. I like that. I find it comforting. I find that comforting too. All right, So we're here by the library. Here, we are by the

Stephen Schwartzman Main Branch Library. Do you ever work here? I actually have in that beautiful, beautiful room up there, I forget the name of it right now, in the Rose Reading Room. Yeah, the Rose Reading Room. You know, for a while, people were coming in so regularly to look at the ceiling. I felt like it was inhibiting the behavior of some of the cranks there. Tell me more real, Like you used to go in there be someone clipping their toenails across the table from you. I'm

working on their life's memoirs simultaneously. You So, when you were younger, did you come here? Yeah? Yeah, But it also didn't have as the exhibits in the gift shop and things like that weren't as curated and you couldn't get a bite d So a lot of the changes are terrific, but it's certainly more of a tour attraction. Yeah, okay, yeah, we're here. We can have out all right when we grab some lunch at the Oyster Bart. You know, when

I first moved back here, i worked nearby. I would take the train to Grand Central and still in love with it. It's still does all the things for me. I feel like, I don't know, there's such a romance to it. Let's peak, Can we peak at the ceiling and then we can go down to the Shall we do the short cut to the Oh but um rush

hour coming through here? Such great energy. So I just read recently that six hundred thousand people is that a possible passed through here on a given day, which is the population of San Francisco, And rarely does anyone run into each other. Everyone can just kind of do this the urban ballet. That's true. If you, if you and if you want to even meet up with someone, we always used to meet by the clock. Yeah for soft phones?

Can we open? Yeah? Oh, I'm sure there Eureka. So we're going in the side door to the Oyster Saloon. This place is so great if you want to do the bar or the middle here, how will we do down here on the right? I love this the crossroms. Theres a guy in a suit a dap pursuit having a salad and a beers a cavar sand much please tell me about that. See it's not only pretty affordable, yeah I mean relatively speaking, but um delicious, unique and kind of luxurious. And I will get um the crab

cake sandwich and a nice tea thank you. Oyster Bar is one of the spaces in New York which has these these vaulted ceilings with gustamino tiling, so the acoustics are kind of special. You can also always hear the bustle of them making the pan rose and the oyster stew and um No, this place I find very comforting. It's another one of those places in New York where I'm just happy to know it's here. Un If I don't go to it for like a couple of months, you just know in the back of your mind, the

lightings here, the vibes here, the guys are here. I like the places you can take for granted, that's so much what I what I prize your caviar sandwich. I thought it was going to have cream inside it, but it is just components of things that are good with caviarts fantastic. Would you like to try some of my crab cake. I'm not gonna you can finish. I don't know if I can do both, but I will pack away. One of the risks of coming to the Grand Central

Oyster Virus that my dad is often here. He makes all his appointments here, and his order is multiple bowls of Manhattan clamchet. Yeah, why do you think? Do you think he has a reasons he's here? Is the same as you, is a fondness for these classic things. Now, he loves Manhattan clam chatter. I've never met anyone who has a positive preference for it. The existence of Manhattan clam chatter does not offend me. Dad loves it. Any

wisdom pearls of wisdom from New York? Is there a writer you Meyer that really captured what your relationship is in New York? And I don't want to misquote it, but it's that Dorothy Parker quote. If you make it through the night. In New York, you can live through anything or something. It's some great quote about depression. I'll find you the real one, and the essence of it is, um nights can New York can be hard, but if you can make it, you feel not light in the

window of the neighboring building. It can be so lonely. Here would you see attraction because you're just surrounded by everyone, but there's a wall. They still have all the barriers to entry. But it's just like what you be what said? Right for those who value such queer PRIs as New York offers the gift of privacy, I'm gonna be mindful time. Okay, we're done here, I rose, we just paid, so we're good. Thank you very much, thank you. Wow. Okay, so we are.

We're a whispering gallery in front of the Oyster Bar. Which is how does this work? Again? I mean I don't I can't explain the physics, but where the arch forms one of these acoustical odd of these found throughout the world, including Saint Paul's most famously, I believe. Yeah, And as you see, if we stand in opposite diagonal ql far apart, that's like fifty. Yeah, all right, yeah, let's try it. See if this works. Can you hear me?

Oh my god, I can't hear you. Yeah, okay, let me think I see okay, I don't have any Yeah, I don't have any right now. This is zgol. But I can say just thank you for coming to lunch with me, and I hope you have a great rest of your day anytime. All right, all my I wish all my characters ended with me just talking into a corner. Yeah, finally some phone reception. Danielle, why is she? He Brannan, It's Danielle. M Hi. I am unfortunately having a little

problem at home. I discovered a mouth in my kitchen. So now I'm cleeping outside and I feel like I should probably figure out how to sleep inside again, since you know that's the thing I'm paying my mortgage on. Good luck with everything. Really sorry I couldn't be there. I hope you have a great time. No, no, I totally forgot. I invited people over for dinner tonight. I thought it was next Saturday. The farmer's market was right near the office. All right, I gotta find a corner market,

Godega something. Oh shit, it's Alison Roman. Alison Roman. Yeah, this is incredible. I am a fan of your books. Oh, thank you. That is always nice to here. I used to host this show called The Dinner Party Download. Probably haven't heard of it. Oh yeah, I actually do know about that though, Oh you do. Yeah, okay, well that was my show. It's like, why am I not being asked to be on the show? But I didn't take

it personally. It's fine. I mean we were we thought you were a little fancy for us because you wrote for Bonabati and besides we were based in La Yeah. Because it's like you can only record a podcast in the city that you record. I get it. It's like, you know, all right, I still can't believe I ran into you. I assumed you moved to Berkeley, where all the food celebrities go. No, I mean I live in New York, baby, greatest city in the world. So what

are you doing here? It's, you know, close to dinner time. I'm doing some last minute pickups for my own little dinner situation. Um. I know this is a weird thing, but I just I totally spaced it. I was at the office today and I now have to cook dinner for six people in the next couple hours, had no time to prepare. My kitchen is tiny, and so could you give me some guidance like tonight, Yeah, okay, well surprise, I think that's great. I actually almost exclusively only believe

in the last minute dinner party. So you're in luck. When all is said and done, you could very happily live your life off of shopping at about Degga, and I do often. My mother now lives in the Burbs. Whenever she visits me, her head turns when she passes one of these places right here with like apples, mangoes, watermelons. She just can't believe that there's fruit and veg on

the street available twenty four hours a day. The idea that you can walk into this place and you can go in there and can get a green juice, You can get string cheese. If you need a snack, you can get a pack of chicken thighs. You can also get tofu and kim chee, and like hot sauce and noodles and anchovies and pretty much anything that you would need to make your life feel complete. All right, So you give me confidence, okay, So any dietary restrictions to

be aware of. I just don't. I think Brussels sprouts are overrated. No, not for you specifically, what thank you for that opinion. I'm armed at your guests. Oh no, not No, people are pretty pretty much open their omnivores. My friends are not afraid of carbohydrates, which I'm proud of because I'm older, because like at gen X, like lay millennials, like we're not as smart about feel like all my friends are hot. Yeah, Europeans who love pasta

like they're all aging, soft round people. Yeah. Okay, So if I'm you, I'm going to do like a simple sort of lemony, mediterranean vibe pasta. Oh I like that, like a few types of vegetables on the side, Well, let's let's do it. Can we talk about celery for a quick second, because I feel one of my favorite, absolute favorite vegetables. In fact, let's make a celery salad

for you. Okay, well maybe we should because I feel like celery, the big Celery, has tricked us into buying huge bunches of celery when I need like one stock for my tuna fish. Well, if you're putting only one stock in your tuna salad, you're doing it wrong because you're Juna salad needs at least four stocks in like a can. It should be like equal parts tuna, four stocks per cam. Yeah, I'm constantly looking for Larry. I'm constantly buy it because I go through it too much.

In fact, I think the bunches simply aren't large enough. All right, well, let's go celery salad. Okay, we've got candy laning Greens, which is kind of nice and very Euro to me. They're very tart. I like that they're bitter, but tars probably close to bitter if there was a chart of flavor feelings. Let's agree to disagree. Okay, this is bitter. To bring it back real quick. New York.

You think, oh, what a beautiful place. They have everything. Yeah, but sometimes because they have everything, you're sort of paralyzed by options, right, Like what direction do we go with? Ye? Tell me about it. Do we do like a fresh tomato e pasta? Do we do like a bitter green anchovy pasta? Do we do boiled potatoes with anchovies and a soft egg? We do bitter green anchovy pasta? My problem here is I have an acidy stomach. Oh and

tomatoes just kill me. Oh but pasta doesn't, doesn't Okay, So yeah, I'm getting you a jar of cost to Okay, we're just for snacking. You got them with bits. We didn't talk about drinks, Okay, I'm a martini guy. Yeah, should I make them? Yeah? I think you should. Unfortunately, what I learned over COVID and this could be I can't drink tim Martinis anymore. And I used to say, like a vodka Martin is an oxymoron. Yeah, I too

used to turn my nose a bit vodka martinis. But in my old age they're just like better for my gut and my next day. Yeah, I don't know. All right, I'm glad we have this talk. Can I I can't use those olives though, can I? Okay? Yeah, I mean there'll be a pitt in there. But assuming you don't want to buy two types of olives, maybe do you know what? Let's just get Okay, Yeah, let's get them. Malcolm Gladwell's paying. So what else do we need? Um? Did you want to serve a salad on the side?

Are you gonna convince me on this celery thing? How about we do celery and funnel together to cut a little bit of the celery that looks like a lot of celery, perfect an cellery. Okay, wait, what are they eating? She was just talking about impossibleming it. Oh yeah, I can't. I can't eat it. The p proteins. Oh wow you I was like doing the dietaris Chritians. You're like nope, and then turns out over the courts of the last ten minutes. You're like, I can't eat any Here's the

other thing. I'm a total Homas slot Like, I don't make it. I eat any hummas. Yeah, like I'll eat any of that stuff. One two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight types of hummas here. That's incredible. This is why I live here. Now I'm reading new Yeah, okay, we're looking at some cheese. We're gonna get you parmesan. This bedega also has one two three four five types of parmesan, not including the graded stuff, which I wouldn't buy. And

then dessert, what's your dessert move? Sometimes I do get grapes. Sometimes I get a chocolate bar, like a tobleran for the table is kind of a baller table tobleron. I like that. Let's do it. Um, thank you? What a dream? Alison Roman just like grocery shopping for me the world. So I hope you get home safe. I feel like it's about to sky is about to open up. Wait what, I didn't even look at my weather up today New

York summers. The rain comes in hot and fast. All right, thank you very much, take care, welcome to see you later. You've got to be kidding me, see all right, weather app? Weather app? It doesn't even say rain. All right, someone, we need to wait it out? What's going on here? Hey? Hey there? Can I just wait here while the rain clears. I had to go back to California visit my parents because my aunt was visiting from Iran. I was like, oh,

my gosh, she's never been to the US. We absolutely have to take her to eat a taco, right, And my mom is like, oh, that is a good idea about how is taste taco? And I was like, lady, what do you mean how is taste taco? You've been living here for fucking thirty years. You don't know how is taste taco? No? Oh no? And I was so mad. I was so mad. I was like, you fucking immigrants come to this country. You don't try Mexican food. You're just an American that is absolutely TAXI. Hey, you're really

great up there. Thanks man, Thanks pretty early for a comedy show. Huh Yeah, it's weird. They do it at all times these days. You're the first person I've seen hail a cab here in a couple of years. Frankly, most people are on Uber. I like to hail a cab. It's one of those things that you can do basically only in New York City. So I appreciate that. But it's pouring rain. I think it's gonna be a minute for you get a cab. Yeah, I'm okay with that. So I'm guessing that being a comedian and MC is

not for the faint of heart. Like I admire you for going up there. You must be very brave. It's like ultimately very self serving, you know what I mean. If there's one thing I learned during the pandemic is that comedians are the least essential workers. You know. I have a question, so New York audiences versus other audiences. Is there distinguishing traits? Are they different? You know? It's interesting because I remember Lewis Black said to me once another,

you know, just amazing comedian. He said to me after the show. You know, Nigine, you speak really fast, and you can't speak that fast in other parts of the country. When he said that to me, I was like, oh, okay, Like and I think in some parts of the country, I do like slow it down a little bit. I slow it down because also in New York City, I think everything is just a little bit more fast pace, including just the pace of which people like literally speak,

And that's just a cultural thing over here. And also the other thing is notts a megas who cheese you get here? But I met my husband here and my husband is an actor and he's black, and um I'm Iranian and Muslim, and that makes our baby a Blaranian. And it's the kind of you know, this is the kind of family that could only happen in the United States and more specific and it's just like way more likely to happen in New York City. And also like you know, we have this like this Russian neighbor who

also speaks Farsi. I mean, what you know, and so so like you know, a few times a week, like my daughter speaks Farsi with this Russian guy who may or may not be an alcoholic. That's a story for another time. But like that's the weird kind of thing she's just going to be exposed to that. It's like it's not weird to her that, like one of our neighbors is from Uzbekistan, but then the other one is

from Turkey, and then another one's from Mexico. Like these are just very normal things for you also live in the United Nations to care and that is just I feel like this little miracle of a family owes a debt to New York City. And speaking of miracles in New York City, I think this cab open, I think that might be yours. Thanks so much for chatting with me. Yeah, this was unexpectedly a fun conversation. M Hey, Brendan, Um, where are you are You still planning to cook tonight?

People are starting to show up and I'm just feeding them wine and this hummus from the fridge. But let me know when you're going to arrive. All right, Well, at least the rain's clearing up. What are the odds of getting another cab? Right? I think we've been get city bike. I hope these groceries can fit on a city bike. Okay, one bike left. Oh shit, Hey, hey, excuse me. This is the last city bike. That's why I'm taking it. Yeah, but I really, Um, I have a dinner party I have to be at, and I

swear I know that the city doesn't cut people breaks. No, I gotta it's I'm just going home. I'm no, but I'm like a fellow human who's asking you to just cut me. Appreciate that fellow human. Good luck walking. Wait a second, are you dem Taberski? This are walking and I'm not walking to Brooklyn. Well, you can at least check out my podcast not Lost. Yeah, great, I'll check it out. Got it. Oh, here's a city bike then filled with bikes. Hey there, did you see that guy

take the last bike from me? Yes? I did, such a jerk. Are there any bikes nearby? Um? Yeah, we have a couple of bikes at the station. We can check them out and see if they're ridable. It seems like whenever I really need a city bike, there's not a bike, Like what? What? What is that just my misperception? Do I have the wrong time of day that I'm always hitting them? Um? That just means there's a lot of people using the bikes. I mean, I guess it's

like New York in general. Right, Okay, Can I like, hey, you to get a bike from the back of your truck? Oh? No, absolutely not. I can't. I need to get to Brooklyn. Are are you drying? Are you riding there? Can I get a ride with you? Sure? Why not? You would do that for me? Don't tell anyone, I won't. Your boss will never know this happened, believe me. Thank you so much. All right, So are your bike mechanics just

like working full on all the time, depending on the season. Yes, right now we have at our depots we have twenty four operations. Really Pixen bikesix bikes. That's wild. Same thing with moving the bikes were twenty four, twenty four hour operations. Well, and now I feel bad because I often, you know,

I love city bike, I love the exercise. I'm a pretty much like a like a eight to seven PM can so I need a bike then in the morning and then at seven And I feel like often, you know, the bikes are gone because so many people use them, and I feel like I need to have a different life style in order to get more bikes, you know what I mean. Well, that's part of what we do, you know, balancing the system based off of trends. That can be challenging at times, but we definitely work on those.

How often do you ride? I used to ride a lot more, but I work from home now a lot, so I ride less. See. Look, there's a city bike driver drivers. That's another thing. You gotta always watch out for the bicyclists because they're crazy. They're people people just popping in and outs or even in between the vehicles. So I got to always make sure that you're on

the alert. They can't kill the golden goose, though, because this is the thing delivering the bikes, right absolutely, Maybe City Bike could do what you do to make extra money. They could make your actual delivery vans like this one, you know, ubers or cabs. For something to think about. I'm just you know, just try I'm thinking this is this could be like the city Bike Deluxe service. There could be a special button on your app that you press. Have you really need this city Bike your way exactly,

City Bikes Chauffeur City Bike Gags. I feel thank you so much for giving me this ride. Okay, well, we got to do a better job at we balancing the system. We'll have a bike for you next. All right, thank you very much. But now, hey, Brendan, Christy, here, have you decided where you're going to record your last episode? The clock is ticking. Yeah, I'm aware of that. Oh hey, Christy, currently thinking either Reno or Atlanta. We'll confirm tomorrow. Oh hey,

you guys to show up? Do you believe it? Seems like you guys gotta started without me. Oh yeah, you're way behind. You better start cooking because I think we're drama. I could use a drink. As the lead producer on this this season finale of season one of Not Lost was Bart Covid Won't Stop Me Warshaw, who also sound designed and mixed the episode. Who so happy to be sharing with you guys for coming. Sorry was late. The show was also produced and written by me Brendan. I

can't get Covid until I'm done with this show. France has Newnham. Where were you? I was at the office, So how is your show? I mean, I still haven't figured out where my last episode is going to be. You should just junior year. That's not bad idea. Our associate producer was Amy Gaines with additional production assistance from Jacob Smith and aitorial guidance provided by Julia Barton's Mustard Greens. I wanted to do like a bitter pasta thing, and

then there's a fennel and celery salad. I know some people don't like celery, but I love really interesting. Yeah, I'm a big Celery fan myself. I feel like there's not enough Celery in a Celery bunch. Not Lost is a co production of Push Can Industries, Topic Studios and iHeartMedia just developed a Topic Studios. The show's executive producers Army Christy Gressman, Maria Zuckerman, Lisa ling Gang, and lat Lade. Our theme song was created by Alexis Georgiopolis aka Art.

He's done our new album coming out on Mexican Summer called New Pleasures. Who doesn't want those? Check it out? They give me cole sours and Walna Zach actively made my mouth to one to five. I will stab you

with my party. Our artwork is by Topic Studios and thanks to all the New Yorkers who I ran into last Saturday, including Tony Haddad from Clean Green Cleaners, Will from Freeway Entertainment, Emma Hendrickson, Malcolm Gladwell, Sadie Stein looked for her byline Alison Roman, whose video series entitled Home Movies is worth your time attention, even if she's a

show for the Celery industrial Complex. Also thanks to comedian Nagheen Frasad and Shimika from City Bike promised not to tell your boss about the ride and the special Thank you to David Glover at Pushkin and Big Bus Tours, and to dinner partiers Madeline Leon Coleman, Bernadette Napoleon, Robin Hendrickson, Amy Martin and a little visiting puppy named Sequoia. And since this is our final episode of this season, I

have more people than usual to thank. First, I'd like to rethank Latom Malaud, who not only executive produced the series but greenlittit a topic. Thank you for having faith in this idea and producers. Sound designer Crystal Duke Came who helped build the pilot episode, and of course my friend Daniel Henderson. Her memoir The Ugly Cry is out

in paperback now. You should really check it out. Also, the producer Tali Abacasis, who sent the humor and calm prevailed during some challenging circumstances, and to the great Jackson Musker who helped me map out the itinerary for the first handful of episodes. He wrote the award winning Audible original called The Sea in the Sky contains astronauts, humor and pathos. And thank you to Hilu Mergia, whose song Wetti harar guzzo pig I'm pronouncing that right has been

our credit soundtrack. You're hearing it now. I first met Hilu at a concert years ago and Marfa, Texas. He is such a gentleman and his music is fantastic. You can't go wrong. Check him out wherever you listen to music. Thanks to Jenny Bedusa, Ethan Light, Michelle Lands, Alex Giga from Topic Studios, and a big special thanks to everyone

at my home Pushkin. So many people champion the show and helped it along the way, Mia LaBelle, Heather Faine, Carrie Brodie, Carli Migliordi, Edith Russelo, David Glover, Danielle Lakhan, Christina Sullivan, Jason Gambrell. Were sang all their names in a sing songy way, but each one of them made a specific contribution. The great marketing team Eric Sandler, Maggie Taylor, Morgan Ratner, Nicole Morano, Isabella Navarrez, Jordan McMillan, Sean Carney,

and Mary Beth Smith. Royston deserve, Maya Kanig, Justine Lange, and a special special thanks to John Snars who helped bring the show over to Pushkin, and to our fearless leader Jacob Weisberg, who was very supportive of this project. How could I have any more people to thank? I don't know, but I do. I need to give a special thanks to my colleagues at Pushkin Audio Books who made the space for me to work on this project. Jasmine Faustino, Kerry Colin and Nick White, Thank you. And last,

but not least, thanks to you for listening. This is not your average travel show and I'm thrilled that A connected with so many listeners. Please keep spreading the word head to Apple Podcasts, rate review it. I appreciate you. You can also send your audio postcards to not Lost at Pushkin dot fm, who've received a couple already and they've been really tough watching. You can learn more about

Topic Studios at topic studios dot com. To find more Pushkin podcast listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, wherever you listen to podcasts. I'm Brendan France has Newnham. I'll be back in a few months. I'm actually going to go on a real vacation. I'm not even gonna bring my recording device. I may or may not crash your dinner party. But I'll be back in a few months with some chat versions of Not Lost. More about that later. Until then, the pleasure has been mine.