Empire State of Mind
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What is the podcast’s opening banter and how do the hosts introduce the episode?
What is it in this one's love's life? Makes it all worthwhile. It's the small thing, the big thing the humor profundity that I noticed go brood around it. Mess around it, figure it out it's poking around.
Welcome. Hi, Pok Hi folkers and jokers. We've just been informed that my pizza is in fact in the shot. So yeah, my half eaten slice of pepperoni pizza, first food I've consumed today. I have been in multiple states today again. Did you get in this morning? Yes. Oh, I thought you got in last night. I was supposed to. But then I moved my f I kept moving my flight. Basically, I was supposed to get home yesterday morning and then I was gonna get home yesterday night, and then I got home this morning instead. And also we it was a situation where we sat on the tarmac for a really long time. So like I was supposed to have like hours of time before I came here, but I basically only had enough time to like take a shower, have a cry.
Come get a slice of pizza.
Guys, like I'm just gonna give you a peek behind the curtain because I don't know if I can like not. You have to. Zoe and I haven't. Th we said this last episode and it's been true. She's been out of town a lot this month. Sometimes for work stuff and then like Sometimes for fun stuff. Sometimes for other stuff. And this was like an other stuff kind of thing. And a bunch of like stuff we need to talk about. We have not had a single chance at all. Like the second we got here we just started recording the podcast. Like I'm like, she cried this morning.
I cried in Tennessee and New York. She cried in Tennessee and New York. And I did not sleep. And I did not eat. And now it's that better be a Diet Coke I'm looking at. Yes, it's a Diet Coke. I took one sip of this Diet Coke and you like I felt life re enter my body. I was like, everything's gonna be okay.
What do they put in there?
They put something in there that is unlike anything.
One sip can zap you.
Bad zap yeah. It's like um What a member? Yeah, yeah. That's what it That's what it's like to drink a taille code, you're like And then your heart starts working again. And then it's like, so this is all like chemical plastic question mark when things are like zero calories.
You're like, What do you mean? What's in there then? Because all food has calories. Basically that's the whole point of what you consume. So if it's zero calories, it must just be It's nothing.
It's not it's the heart level early. Yeah, well It's a medical device. It's a medical device. Um yeah, so this is the perfect way that one could enter into Where you joke around about poems and poem around about jokes, which is what we do. We're two amateur comedians, professional poets and we both have a gig tonight. We both have a gig tonight and we thought for a second that maybe it was the same gig because that kind of thing one day that will happen to us. It has almost happened so many times.
Well, because we arrived both at this podcast, neither of us had talked about the fact that we have a gig afterwards, but we both had our typewriters and we're both in all black. And my gig was like, We're all black. And Zoe was like, Oh, I'm doing like a volunteer it's like for a volunteer thing and I was like, Mine's a gala for a charity but it's not the same.
It's different. There's just like different stuff going on in New York, basically. Yeah. Have you heard about your typewriter?
He just called me. Oh my god. There's a um listeners, there's a like the last standing typewriter repair shop.
In New York.
In New York is called Grammar C typewriter in Manhattan.
Yeah.
And it's very But there's also a guy in Queens, used to say. I'm saying in Manhattan. Yeah. Yeah. Um and I don't know how long the guy in Queens has been here. Who knows? But this is definitely like Father passed to son, passed to son, passed a son, past a dude.
They've been at this spot since like the eighteen hundreds. Yes.
It's very cool. And it's the typewriter doctor. And I think they have great business because they're one of the only places you can go. And he's very knowledgeable. Um so, anyways, my typewriters have been there.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the podcast’s opening banter and how do the hosts introduce the episode?
0:00–16:23
2
How does the reading of Patrycja Humienik’s poem “Figuration” set the tone for the discussion?
16:23–28:05
3
What do the hosts say about the American Empire, immigration, and the “good daughter” metaphor?
28:05–46:21
4
How do the hosts critique the rising cost of gas, the U.S. economy, and the wealth gap?
46:21–51:55