This is the Bowery Boys Episode 5, Blackout.

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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Bowery Boys.

Episode number five, as a matter of fact.

This is Greg Young and I have to say welcome back to my co-bowery boy, Tom Myers.

Thank you, Greg.

It's great to be back.

So last week I was actually back in Ohio with family and listened to your fantastic podcast on the dogs.

Thank you.

You bring up Ohio, which is kind of interesting because 2003, there was a blackout that started in Ohio.

Technically, I guess.

It did.

And ironically, I was also in Ohio, if you'll recall the same time, the blackout hit.

And I called you here in New York and you were looking for an ATM.

Exactly.

I had no money, you know, wandering home from work, thousands of people on the streets,

thousands of people lined up, you know, trying to call on payphones because their cellphones didn't work.

And everybody else in America watching the TV coverage of what you New Yorkers were doing.

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