Hey! It’s the Bowery Boys! Today we welcome a podcasting Hall of Famer, 2024 Webby Award Honoree, a history buff to challenge all history buffs, our esteemed ambassador from New York Greg Young! With his co-host Tom Meyers, his podcast The Bowery Boys is now on their 17th year telling the story of New York from Pre-colonization to modern day.

We’re lucky enough to have Greg spotlight Mad Men with us and also give us his take on the portrayal of New York City, the city in other media, and how he brought his fascination of the Big Apple to life on his podcast. Tune in for our chat with Greg in the first 39:09.

What can we say about Mad Men that you don’t already know? The dozens of awards, the 8 years of critical acclaim, it’s appointment viewing TV status that reigned almost since episode one. Matthew Weiner took a group of purposely non-famous actors and turned the entire bunch into A-listers. Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Christian Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser, and Kiernan Shipka to name a few. Join our deep dive on the birth of this show, the emergence of cocktail culture, and so much more.

Check and subscribe to the Bowery Boys anywhere you listen to podcast. While you are at it check out some episode picks from Greg himself, their recent Park Avenue show (https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2024/04/up-and-down-park-avenue-new-york-city-history-with-a-penthouse-view.html) which goes into a few landmarks that have been in Mad Men, or the Miss Subways show  (https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2023/06/the-story-of-miss-subways-queens-of-the-new-york-commute.html)

which is about a 1940s ad campaign that could have been dreamed up by Don Draper. 

Hosts

Greg Young (Co-Pilot)

Geoff Kerbis

Max Singer

Rich Inman