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And now a very special presentation, a recording of our live show, Bowery Boys History Live,

recorded at City Winery on July 2, 2025.

I'm calling this our History Cabaret series.

It features me and some of the most interesting historians and tour guides in the city.

This was our second show in the series,

and the theme, Gilded Age Golden Girls. Now, whatever could that mean? Well, you are about to find out.

Ladies and gentlemen, how are we doing tonight? We have a really great show for you tonight, so thank you for coming and please welcome to stage from the Barry Boys podcast Greg Young Oh, What's up, everybody?

Welcome to Barry Boys History Live at City Winery.

This is our first time here.

So we're getting our jitters out.

We have a full crowd here tonight. We did a

wonderful show at City Vineyard, which is the sister place. So what this basically is tonight,

I want to explain, is like, Tom's not here. We couldn't afford the tariffs to sip him over

from Switzerland, so it's just me. Anyway, we have so many great historians and tour guys that we work with and work together with.

And so I wanted to create, you know, I come from like a cabaret background too,

so I was like, how can we kind of combine these two things?

So tonight, it's going to be a little bit of a smorgish board of great

history nuggets and sort of different forms, some incredibly brilliant fun people. Before we start,

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