Michael Malice
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
One is a lot of people who could left.
There didn't used to be a plan B for New York because New York was its own thing.
Now it's Florida or Austin.
And New York isn't New York anymore because Fran Lebowitz, my second favorite public speaker, she had this point.
She goes, look, there's a lot of things you could say about a city that's full of rich people.
You could say it's good.
You could say rich people are bad.
You can't say it's interesting.
And unless there's a space for young people of nothing to lose who are going to bring culture and innovation.
Broadly speaking, not just little painters, but artists.
It was the Bowery before that.
There were little pockets of magic there.
And Red Hook, I remember there was a bar called Lily's and all of Red Hook was deserted.
And there's just one light open.
And I came to this bar and there were these amazing singers.