Life coach Laura Westman: moving to NYC; training to be a coach and being coached; the Meow Parlour cat cafe, Hashimoto's; not drinking alcohol.

Nick Griffin is a stand-up comedian who first moved to New York City in 1990 from Kansas City.

Having lots of free time; early humiliations in NYC; getting stage time in the 90s; three-card monte; a brief marriage; part-time dog care; the hoarder spectrum; performing on David Letterman; dessert scams; having time to find your comedy voice; sleep schedules and napping; the other, rotten Nick Griffin.

NickGriffin.net

Twitter: @thenickgriffin

Cathy de la Cruz is a writer and filmmaker who moved to New York City in 2013.

Work-life-protest balance; striking NYC cabbies; airbnbing the yard; rooster colors; going with your gut; Austin Coppock; politics on social media; unhealthy relationships; warnings about red flag men; discretionary spending; the shock of age; living in Portland, Olympia, Athens, Southern California, and Tucson; dark positivity; being a social connector; Sister Spit; Wylie’s perversion; a sad cat story.

cathydelacruz.com

Twitter: @SadDiego

Instagram: @cathydelacruz

Bob Stack moved to Manhattan in 1989 from Boston. Currently he works weekends in a halfway house, and does some acting and babysitting.

Futzing with equipment; Bob's beautiful midtown apartment; getting the gout; rent stabilized apartment buyout; needing an intern; Ruth Draper; studying with Charles Nelson Reilly; not reproducing; being a manny; Trump's first three days; outrage burnout; taking care of a dying parent; Sia; Bob's laundry delusions; The Mary Tyler Moore Show; Stella.com; Bob's acting career; documentaries vs. dramatizations.

Tina Piña

Loving rats and pigeons; urban wildlife; Times Square pigeons; netting; birth control for critters; Pizza Rat; a raccoon in the attic; coping with suffering; how Tina met her husband Jason; being photographed by Bill Cunningham; catnip for the ferals; recognizing bird song; nature for your health; winter shelters for feral cats; being vegan; happy chickens.

motherpigeon.com

Twitter / Instagram: motherpigeonbrooklyn

Dodge should write a cookbook; writing one page a day; Mary’s horror screenplay; creative juices; nosiness; Scorpio detectives; Mary’s husband Mo; shepherd’s pie and what else Mary ate; Mary’s cats’ noises; sleep needs; stealing a ghost bike; man wanted; Off the Rails; Headspace app; scary noises; sensations as horror movie characters; Shazam.

http://www.marycrosbie.com/

Twitter: @marahhhcrosbie

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Dodge on Venice Beach in December; field recorder wigs; trip planning skills; hanging with L.A. comedians; Canter’s Deli; refocusing Dodge City; life logistics; how to leave the feral cat colony; stand-up hiatus; vision board resistance; learning to surf; L.A. neighborhoods; trying to park at the Grove; teenage beach chain-gang; boycott all Nestle brands.

Dry hands horror; cat routine; being Scorpios; being a breech baby; frenching it up; Justin Trudeau’s 90s look; card carrying cat ladies; the ultimate roommate scenario; Mary life coaches Dodge.

http://www.marycrosbie.com/

Twitter: @maRAHHHcrosbie

Michael Colin Shiner is a Manhattan native, advertising executive, and witch.

Vegan Thanksgiving; veggiephobia; Russian salat; Michael’s coven name; being Facebook’s bitch; never had sex in London; Celtic gods; pagan holidays; witch literature; a kitchen invocation; TV goddesses and the memes they spawned; Trump leading the trolls; going to Stuyvesant high school; growing up in Manhattan in the 70s and 80s; heroes; sexy Justins.

Noel Dinneen, originally from Ontario, Canada, is an actor, improviser, and co-host of Get Rich Quick with Josh and Noel on Radio Free Brooklyn.

Awkward configuration; ass problems; Surf Reality; marauding teens; leeches; spying on neighbors; NYC’s gradual slide into crappiness; SoHo on a Saturday; encountering dead bodies; open caskets; open mics at funeral homes; rats; slimy foods; Dodge’s psychiatric update; feral cat socializing update.

http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/show/get-rich-quick-with-josh-and-noel/

Dodge gets a new bike; Oklahoma conservative vs. Portland liberal; doing stand-up in college; Marcia’s tweets; getting boob mashed in hugs; bro nicknames; Marcia’s feminist comedy band; misogyny in pop songs (shout-out to Delfino); Dodge is kinda a Jew; hooking up and the Holocaust; sex rules; Marcia's feminist evolution; being a good agnostic Jew; Dodge's matrilineal ancestry; our grandmas; body hair situations; anal physics; cheerful misandry.

Twitter @marciabelsky

Instagram @marciasky

marciabelsky.com

Twitter: @HlywoodHeadless

Instagram: @HeadlessWomenofHollywood

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