Live from New York, it's Tuesday night! Join Anson on this travel episode as he and his wife visit some friends in the city that never sleeps. Recorded Tuesday, July 24, 2018.
Special Guests: Daniel Moore, Dr. Sarah Moore, and Elvia Jablinski.
Links:
- Boroughs of New York City
- Great Recession (financial crisis)
- LaGuardia Airport, KLGA
- MTA New York City Subway
- MetroCard — The yellow card that's so famous, it has its own Wikipedia article.
- American Museum of Natural History — Set of the "Night at the Museum" film series.
- SantaCon — "A December 2014 cover story in the Village Voice recounted how SantaCon had evolved from 'joyful performance art' that originated in San Francisco to a 'reviled bar crawl' of drunken brawling, vandalism, public urination and disorder in New York City and elsewhere [...]"
- Steak frites
- The New Colossus (Statue of Liberty poem) — "[...] Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, / The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. / Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, / I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
- Les contes d'Hoffmann (opera)
- "Tchaik 4"
- Silk Road Ensemble, feat. Yo-Yo Ma
- Allegiance (musical) — "The story, set during the Japanese American internment of World War II (with a framing story set in the present day), was inspired by the personal experiences of George Takei, who stars in the musical."
- Wicked (musical)
- "The night is dark and full of terrors"