#199.5: Bowery Boys - Behind the Scenes

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2016

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

As we prepare for our #200th episode -- and the release of the first-ever Bowery Boys book -- we've decided to take a look back at our last 100 shows, at some of the highlights of the past six or so years. What were some of our favorite episodes? The most controversial episode?But we start by officially introducing you to "The Adventures In Old New York", our new book coming out in May. We give you a little insight into its development and what history you can expect to find in it.www.boweryboyshistory.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	Episode 199 and a half the Bowery Boys behind the scenes.
0:05.5	Hey, it's the Bowery Boys.
0:07.0	Hey!
0:08.0	Support for the Bowery Boys is provided by our listeners.
0:12.0	Join us for as little as a dollar a month by visiting patreon.com slash Bowery Boys.
0:20.5	Hi there, welcome to the Bowery Boys. This is Greg Young.
0:23.5	And this is Tom Myers.
0:25.0	We're doing a self-reflective experiment here by design.
0:29.0	Of course, if you're looking at your podcast feed, you're wondering,
0:33.0	hmm, shouldn't this be episode 200?
0:36.0	Well, since 200 is a very, very big deal.
0:39.0	For us.
0:40.0	For us, and we're planning on doing an extraordinary topic,
0:45.0	we wanted to spend a little bit more time in our research and production process.
0:49.0	And on top of that, we've got a book coming up.
0:52.0	Indeed, there are so many things that we're celebrating over here.
0:55.0	This very week, we handed in the second draft, which is basically the final draft of the book,
1:02.0	and we're right around the corner from episode 200.
1:05.0	So we thought we would just stop and put out a very special episode of the Bowery Boys,
1:11.0	in which we take a moment to stop and look back at the previous 99 episodes.
1:17.0	Maybe we won't be going through all of those, but just to sort of stop and reflect about
1:22.0	New York history as it's been told on this show.
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