Phil & Bob examine WASP culture in New York City.

The Treehouse team also investigates:

• why classy people like cold lunches;

• Winston Churchill's legacy in Connecticut;

• snooty private clubs (including but not limited to, The Metropolitan Club, The Union Club, and The Flo Rida Club);

• George Plimpton, William Styron, and John Cheever;

• why Korean moms might be Jewish moms;

• using coral-colored paint to solve mental illness;

• how K2 junkies sleep while standing (a.k.a. "a miracle of physics") ; and

• Costco cooking wizardry!!!

Phil & Bob share tales of their personal experiences with crime in New York City.

The Treehouse team also investigates:

• the ghost town in the middle of Manhattan;

• why investors in commercial mortgage-backed securities should watch the movie Die Hard;

• Phil's mugging in Central Park;

• a homeless lunatic spitting on a beautiful woman;

• Bob's mom's real-life Dog Day Afternoon;

• depressed criminals vs. schizophrenic criminals;

• The Fancy Boat®, a revolutionary way to commute to Manhattan from Darien, Westport, Stamford, and Greenwich, CT;

• jet-skiing (to Manhattan); and

• the difference between road rage in NYC versus Trump country.

Phil & Bob flip through their college reunion book and discover that there's no such thing as too much information...

The Treehouse team also reports on:

• Average Joe's Community Theater Inititative, a non-profit arts organization sponsored by the Soros Foundation and Sir Elton John;

• the art of humble bragging;

• getting real personal in an alumni publication;

• road trips with your teen child(ren);

• power walking inside Walmart™;

• cooking with scissors; and

• coconuts!

Phil & Bob wonder why college sports suck in New York City.

The Treehouse team also examines:

• Saint John's University (located in the non-ethnic part of Queens)

• Peter Parker's boyhood home

• the Notre Dame marching band

• 5 happy places in New York City

• drinking/whoring at Gotham Bar & Grill

• rewatching The Sopranos

• the shocking inefficiency (and infidelity) of mobsters

• Midwestern restaurants doing too much

• the dietary habits of January 6th insurrectionists

Phil & Bob shine a light on the seedy underbelly of NYC's wellness subculture. The Treehouse team also explores:

• how to buy drugs the old-fashioned way;

• why doctors don't want you to know THIS ONE SECRET about marijuana and dementia (and autism);

• Barry Diller and the powerful "Velvet Mafia"

• a very mean Buddhist Jewish grinch lady;

• Buddha's love for the Dallas Cowboys (minus 3.5 points over the Steelers)

• Phil's special massage in the East Village;

• moon appreciation; plus...

• Botox™, epicanthal folds, and TITTIES galore!!!

Phil & Bob reveal the saddest place in New York City – the McDonald's on the corner of Delancey & Essex.

The Treehouse team also provides insightful commentary on: The Homeless Depot™ (the solution to New York's street homelessness crisis), Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, Hampshire College, Bard College, Robert Moses (again), Mayor Mike Bloomberg, political donations, why the Staten Island Zoo is a major player in NYC politics, The Mysterious Bookstore in Tribeca, Otto Penzler, our favorite listener in Minnesota, and a job-training center for people on the autism spectrum.

Phil & Bob reveal why New York City grandmothers don't babysit on Wednesdays.

The Treehouse team also explores: why senior citizens are essentially toddlers with cell phones, looming inter-generational war, The Connecticut School of Broadcasting, Sixteen Candles, Fran Lebowitz, hiking to JFK, another get-rich-quick business scheme, celebrity deaths, The Shed at Hudson Yards, Robert Moses, Frank McCourt, the other Frank McCourt, and Lehman Brothers (rest in power).

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***Trigger Warning: we talk a lot about suicide in this episode***

Phil & Bob examine the New York Post's extensive coverage of suicides in Manhattan and the tabloid's particular fascination with victims who leap from luxury buildings.

The Treehouse team also discusses: Nigerian counterfeit merchants at war, Canal Street infrastructure issues, Tibetan gongs, marital non-cohabitation, daddy lions, holding hands at Beauty & the Beast, and why you need to be organized in order to cook lasagna.

Phil & Bob get classy by discussing poetry and wine.

The Treehouse team also covers: college admissions, racist babies, Amy Tan, Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize, wine snobbery, the surprising connection between Asperger's Syndrome and oenophiles, the Koch brother(s), food porn, and why you should never cook BangBang Noodles at home.

Bonus feature: Phil & Bob play a game of "Is This A Poem?"

(...plus a shoutout to Bob's niece for her baking skills)

Phil & Bob talk real about mental health. (Completely coincidentally, this episode is sponsored by Invigorizify™ ... go ask your doctor for some!)

The Treehouse team also shares its thoughts regarding: the effectiveness of Freudian psychoanalysis on 9 year-olds, "very special episodes" of 1980's sitcoms, having OCD before it was cool, Sigmund Freud as the initial self-help huckster, empathy for subway masturbators, Stumbling on Happiness by Prof. Daniel Gilbert, and the obscure New York legal statute that applies to psychics and churches alike!