Welcome back to the mail-in podcast, I am your host Brett Maryman, sitting in front

of me. Native Chicago in, right? New-ish to New York, but has made the city

her own great front of mind throughout the years. And one of my favorite

follows on Twitter, Ellie Schmidt is in the building. What's going on Ellie? What's

up, Brett? I miss you. How are you doing? I'm doing well. I'm doing well. And Austin

Texas now doing our thing, you know, watch media, having a blast doing the

mail-in podcast. We were talking, and it was like, you're doing my podcast now. Like

who would have, yeah, what a tablet turn. Yeah, the tables, the tables have a

fact turned. How are you? How's New York? How's life? What's going on? Wow. Okay. Well,

since the, well, I don't know, we talk a lot. We're trying to think there's like an

update that I have for you. New York is great. New York is back. People were really,

it seems like it's really, people were really being like annoying on Twitter about

it. Like New York is dead now. No one lives there. It's like, first of all, I was

here the whole pandemic. You, you, you, you went full pull. I went full. I became a

New Yorker. I went into the chrysalis. I came out a New York butterfly. Yeah. I

was here for the long haul. And honestly, it wasn't even dead in the summer. Like,

yeah, it was kind of fun. Yeah. The only difference is that bar is close super

early now. So I noticed that it's not as like, as a woman, I'm like, it's not as safe

to walk around late at night because back in the day, like bars went close to four. So

there were all the people out on the streets. So like, you felt like safe walking home

and stuff. But that's really the only difference. I'm sure that I'll change when curfew

changes. What's been your favorite, like, spot or area of the city to get back to? Or

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