This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment,

pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture.

Hi, this is Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. Today I have a naked life story with Greg.

Greg, thank you so much for being here. Oh, it's absolutely my pleasure. I'm so excited to talk to you.

Where are you at? Looks like there's big buildings behind you. Yeah, I'm in the heart of New York City,

like truly the heart on park Avenue. So you're getting a little view of that right now,

you know, we loaded the ground, but yeah, right in the heart of it all, right?

Right in the heart of all the boozing. Yes, I was one of my, I used to work at 270 park.

Oh, this is 399 park. I literally walked away from there. Yeah, yeah, I'll bet, I'll bet,

with all the bars too. Yeah, there was, that was, I thought it was such a benefit of New York City,

was that you never had to drive anywhere. So it's the biggest curse. It's a huge, I think it's

it's one of the most enabling factors about this city to be totally truthful is that nobody ever

has to drive anywhere. You can always take the train, you can always get a cab. There's the concept

of a Zest of Anodriver is practically non-existent here. Yeah, right? And it's wild. I remember

first moving to New York and feeling like, wow, this is weird because in Colorado, we would do

all sorts of different like activities. And then in New York, it was like, there were some things,

like you could find some golfing on the Chelsea pier if you really tried hard and paid a lot of money,

or you might be able to find like some little bowling activities somewhere, but honestly,

if you wanted to be social, yeah, we're going out. No, that's that's a fact. And also,

it's interesting that you bring that up because from a dating perspective, someone, my good friend

of mine recently moved here from Salt Lake City and he was expressing the same concept to me,

which is that a date is often like a walk there. Not a thing here. It is, it drinks is the only word.

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