Hey, what's going on? It's Bill Burnett's time for the Monday morning podcast for Monday, July 24th,

2017 was going on. How why? Yeah, I got to keep my voice down. I got my little little one here is sleeping in the next room. I am in New York City.

I got a little acting gig here. I'm in a little movie in a little city called New York City. For the next week, I'll be doing that shit.

So I'm acting during the day and night whenever the hell they have me doing it. And then I'm looking back home and I look at the scripts that were working on for FFAS for family.

And I don't know. Let's become my life here. I actually did one spot this weekend though. I went over to the Gotham Comedy Club,

hadn't been there in fucking years, went over there had a great time and tried to maybe pop in and do another spot maybe next weekend or something just to, you know, so I don't forget all my fucking jokes.

But Jesus Christ has New York changed. I can't believe it. Like everybody lives in Brooklyn now.

I don't know. I mean, there's a bunch of people still living in Manhattan, but like I don't know. Manhattan's weird now. Like they took it too far.

Like I remember when I first lived here, like Manhattan was, it was scary. Like you were always kind of, you know, being aware of people around you. I remember buying like a jacket and a hat trying to look tougher than I really was. Just trying anything you could do to, you know, keep that fucking thing off you. And I'm, and even then I guess I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that.

It was way better obviously than it was in the 70s and the crack 80s and everything. And Giuliani had just taken over. But somewhere along the line, man, they, they, they just took it too far. I felt like I was in like Sacramento or something.

You know, not saying there are dangerous parts of Sacramento, those dangerous parts of it. It just felt like it didn't feel like New York, like there was just no, there was no vibe.

I guess it was kind of cool, you know, like families and shit. It kind of just, it's starting to feel like a theme park.

I know that's a weird thing to complain about that it's, it's like too safe. But it's just, I don't know, probably just a grumpy old man. It's definitely not the city I remember. So, I was out in Brooklyn, you know, rehearsing some of this shit that I got to do for next week.

And just going through there, oh my God, all the fucking high rises. Oh my God, all the fucking high rises and shit that they're building over there. And it's, it's just not, I'm, I'm a, I used to date this woman that fucking lived off the G train, like, fucking 15 years ago. And it was like, it was like going to another fucking world.

And now you go, I don't know what the fuck's going. I don't know. I'm just an old man going, this isn't the way it used to be.

You know, I went over there and that's like we're all like the hipsters, but even everybody's so anti-hypster that even hipsters don't dress like hipsters anymore. But you can still see him, you know.

Now the new vibe is you sort of like you have like the Conor McGregor haircut with the good Charlotte tattoos and clothes, you know, so you kind of look like does this guy build custom motorcycles or does he ride a tricycle with the giant front wheel?

You know, is he making his own brew? Is you know, is he working with those fucking breweries? You know, it's none of that.

You know, the Michael Jackson pants that don't quite make it down to your fucking sneakers or shoes or whatever the fuck they are. So I don't know, like Brooklyn's like, it's like nice now.

I don't know, it's fucking, it was, yeah, Jesus Christ.

What I want to know is when did all those people go when they white it all up like where do all the rest of the people go? Where are those restaurants go? Where does that vibe go? All that culture? Where the fuck does it go? Everything just looks like a fucking forever 21 now and everything's just a giant glass luxury fucking apartment building. Who the fuck has all this money?

I thought these fucking millennials were broke. They were coming out of college with all this college debt and there were no fucking jobs and all they do, you know, I don't know what's going on.

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