Walk A Mile With Tommy McFLY

Andrew Keenan-Bolger is a Broadway actor who finds himself in Washington. He created the role of “Crutchie” in Newsies, which just celebrated a big 10th anniversary. AKB’s an actor, director, author, filmmaker, and always joyful person-of-the-internet with his own photo presets, shoe collab and crazy large following on instagram. We stepped our right before things started to bloom in DC, his new adopted city. 

Step ahead to...

2:30 No tanks on our block

4:00 New Yorker's picks for DC restaurants

5:13 Broadway shutdown

8:00 DC streets are anti-invader

8:55 Theatre in a vacant store window

12:00 The effort of meeting new people

14:10 Andrew Keenan-Bolger person-of-the-internet

15:30 The Dear Evan Hansen guys were classmates

17:15 Why is everything teal?

19:00 The Influencer Association 

21:00 Museums to do

24:30 Smooth Blacklist name drop

27:00 Talking Newsies

29:00 New book and shoe projects

Alysha Clark is the upbeat, positive, dog loving, coffee enthusiast,

foodie who's ready to light it up for the Washington Mystics. The WNBA star is exploring DC after an injury, pandemic and interrupted few years. We stepped out to Walk A Mile in Northeast at Union Market. SPOILER: You're about to hear us become best friends...

Step ahead to:

1:20 Sly Clark the Lebron of Chihuahuas

2:30 What's in the bag?

4:00 Vaseline and Bees

5:00 Dropping Union Market Gems

6:00 Rooting for Rue in Euphoria

7:30 Mystics Players as Ted Lasso characters

9:30 Basketball season in a boot

11:00 Alysha explores DC

13:00 The Dave Thomas Circle Challenge

​14:45 Playing in Europe

18:00 Carla Hall is a Queen

20:00 Chefs > Beyonce​

21:00 White flat, nothin' but net

22:00 Training, Rehab, Repeat

​25:00 Murals are amazing

Special thanks to Bridgeen Joyce, Patricia Anderson, and Sidney Espinoza for contributing to this episode… If you’re enjoying Walk-A-Mile please share it with a few friends that would mean the world. Next time we walk a mile with one of DC​

Dr. Carla Hayden is the best. She’s the 14th librarian of Congress of the United States. Born in Florida she’s spent her career educating and inspiring with stops in Chicago, Pittsburgh and Baltimore. From Charm City Dr Hayden was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate (74-18 by the way) to a ten year term. Dr Hayden is the first woman and person of color to serve as the head of the largest library on the planet. We caught up with Dr Hayden to Walk-A-Mile and to be honest I was not expecting the surprises and treasures she had waiting for us...

Step ahead to:

1:30 Palace to knowledge, not royalty

3:00 Dr Hayden doing DC things

5:30 Audiobooks are reading, says the highest librarian in the land!!!! ******

6:30 The Great Hall

7:00 Oh that’s the Gutenberg Bible

8:30 The reading room

11:20 get your reader’s card peeps

11:30 Librarian of Congress ceremonial office

13:00 Items from the Lincolns, yes this Lincolns

14:00 inside Abe’s pockets, the night he was assassinated

16:00 Washington, Hamilton things

18:20 The President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass plan of escape for enslaved persons

20:30 Treasures gallery on the way

21:00 Love to Dr Hayden’s Mom

22:00 Comics in the Members room. Original Spiderman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin

25:00 Librarians are not concerned with resale

27:00 Pre-pandemic LOC had 2,000,000 visitors and they’re coming back

27:30 Lin Manuel Miranda and Jonathan Larson

29:30 Long Division, RENT Edition

30:00 Lizzo please come play these priceless flutes

30:30 Info on tours

Here are links to see the treasures Dr Hayden showed us along the walk, thanks to the Library of Congress team for an incredible afternoon.

George Washington’s first inaugural address, April 30, 1789

Alexander Hamilton to wife Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, July 4, 1804

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss24612.020_0611_0648/?sp=35

Abraham Lincoln, farewell remarks upon leaving Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms000001.mss30189a.0728000

Frederick Douglass to Abraham Lincoln, August 29, 1864, regarding Lincoln’s suggested plan for escape of enslaved persons in Confederate states

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms000001.mss30189a.3565200 

Mary Todd Lincoln's Seed-pearl Necklace and Matching Bracelets.
https://www.loc.gov/item/scsm001298/

The Contents of Lincoln’s Pockets on the Night of His Assassination
https://www.loc.gov/item/2011646850/ 

$100,000 Reward Poster!

https://www.loc.gov/item/96521960/ 

George Washington’s first inaugural address, April 30, 1789

George Washington Papers, Manuscript Division Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/item/mcc.053/

Alexander Hamilton to wife Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, July 4, 1804

Alexander Hamilton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss24612.020_0611_0648/?sp=35

Abraham Lincoln, farewell remarks upon leaving Springfield, Illinois, February 11, 1861

Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms000001.mss30189a.0728000

Frederick Douglass to Abraham Lincoln, August 29, 1864, regarding Lincoln’s suggested plan for escape of enslaved persons in Confederate states Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/ms000001.mss30189a.3565200 

A huge thanks for reading this podcast. Dr Carla Hayden is truly an incredible human and trailblazer being the first woman and person of color to serve as Librarian of Congress. If you’re a Washingtonian please make a plan to visit the Library of Congress and if you’re coming to town for a visit make sure you stop by. They’re right next to the Capitol building.

Special thanks to Bridgeen Joyce, Patricia Anderson, Roswell Encina and Mark Isaacson for contributing to this episode… If you’re enjoying Walk-A-Mile please share it with a few friends that would mean the world. Next time we walk a mile with one of DC’s most exciting professional athletes, she has several championships under her belt and is hopeful to win one here in Washington.

After we visited the exhibit about his family in the American History Museum, Chef Tim Ma and I stepped out on the National Mall. Tim is a culinary and community master in DC. His latest concept “Lucky Danger” is a fresh take on American Chinese food, he’s the one of the founders of the nation non-profit “Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate” and a very candid guy.

Step Ahead To…

1:30 Uncle Paul’s Family Heirlooms

3:30 Getting Into The Smithsonian

5:30 The cultural balance of Lucky Danger

8:20 Maybe mean people just need to poop?

9:00 Being a Chinese American

10:20 The surprising history of crab rangoon

12:40 Chinese heritage and the Beijing Olympics

13:45 Origin of Chef’s Stopping AAPI Hate

15:30 What is up with helicopters?

17:00 Food for change

19:00 What’s next for Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate

21:30 Great chefs disrupting fast food

24:30 Chinese restaurants going out of business because….

26:00 But, you pushed me to be American!

27:00 DC Central Kitchen

27:30 The magic of Lucky Danger

Check out Lucky Danger and order everything!!!

luckydanger.co

Tim’s Family in the American History Museum

americanhistory.si.edu/food/resetting-table/migrants-table/dine-and-learn

Chefs Stopping AAPI Hate

chefsstoppingaapihate.com

Walk A Mile is recorded while taking a one-mile walk with interesting and inspiring people. Tommy McFLY and his guest each have a microphone, their most comfortable walking shoes, and endless possibilities for conversation.

On a crisp Friday afternoon in January we stepped out in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia with Senator Mark Warner (D-VA.) We got our walk in right before the Senator left for Richmond for the Inauguration of a new Governor in the Commonwealth.

Step Ahead To…

1:00 Halloween at Mark Warner’s House

2:30 Cycling with Steve Mnuchin, Is Janet Yellin next?

3:30 Bipartisan agreement on Senators’ five least favorite Senators

4:30 To Quote Sarah Palin

5:30 From waterfront arsenal to wine bar on a barge.

6:45 on the late John Warner and the Scottish Walk

9:30 importance of sharing meal

10:30 there’s a lot that is working in the US Senate

11:40 people don’t report on the planes that land safely

12:30 Congress never gets the issue completely right

14:00 His Excellency Mark R Warner, for the love of Gov

17:20 How do we find better people to serve?

19:10 Primaries at wild!

20:30 Hidden gems across Virginia

22:15 dream bipartisan dinner guests

24:00 …about Joe Manchin

25:00 the Tim Kaine 95 experience

**Here’s the link about the Alexandria arms dealer story https://alexandrialivingmagazine.com/news/alexanria-va-history-merchant-of-menace-interarms/

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Walk A Mile with Tommy McFLY is recorded while taking a one-mile walk with interesting and inspiring people. Tommy McFLY and his guest each have a microphone, their most comfortable walking shoes, and endless possibilities for conversation.

Walk A Mile is recorded while taking a one-mile walk with interesting and inspiring people. Tommy McFLY and his guest each have a microphone, their most comfortable walking shoes, and endless possibilities for conversation.