Lewis Black

And so when we were charging, like, I mean, it's a hundred years ago, but still we were charging $3, $5.

We were not charging a ton and, and we were paying our actors and had an, and actually cut a, uh, we had a contract with equity.

Yeah.

Manager who's now owner of the place, Steve Olson.

They fired him because they thought he was making a hand over.

So the place gets wiped out because he moves up the street where he bartends.

Now we're all up the street drinking there.

And the theater, nobody shows up.

Nobody shows up to eat there because it really was and still is a place where you could walk in and see, you know, Al Pacino or you could see, you know...

Any number of people, Robert Sean Leonard, I can go to Ethan Hawke.

There's a ton of people who just hang out and eat there.

And it's still one of those places because across the street, there are a whole bunch of off-Broadway theaters or off-off-Broadway, really.

And so it really became kind of a classic institution.

And right now, they're in the midst of...

They were they just did not recover from the pandemic and they're trying to close it down.

And we'll see if that actually happens.

Really something.

And it was just, you know, it's that whole thing.

It's like you guys look.

The one thing you learn from what you're doing in this business, what I'm doing in this business, that you end up being successful because you're in the right place at the right time.