The Great American Novel. In Staten Island. Bob Finds a Subway Birthday Friend.
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Back again after a long hiatus. If you're still listening, good luck. But seriously, it's a rainy day in New York City, summer is in the air, and the Treehouse team rehashes more nonsense. Such as: -Bob's subway birthday friend. -John Updike's kids. -Why you don't see warmongering Buddhists. -Those darn Israelis at it again. -Staten Island, home of the next Great American Novel
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Lousy Spring Break Resort People. Phil's new Physical Therapist.
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Ok folks. Spring break is over and we're back. This week we get into: -Bob's idea to capitalize on the Trump tariffs with homegrown coconuts and sturgeon farms. -When New York businesses don't account for weird homeless antics. -The appeal of going off the grid -Phil's new physical therapist
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Old People at the Pharmacy and Running Into Gus Fring at the Gym
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
March is here and the weather is fantastic. A welcome break from the frost despite the loss of an hour due to daylight savings. Today we yak about the following: -Be like Tracy Austin and NFL cornerbacks and learn to turn the page and not dwell on the negative. -Phil grates his knuckle and deals with the neighborhgood oldies in the pharmacy. -Anora and movie roundup. -New York as a place to run into celebrities
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Bob Searches for a New Duvet. Hunting For Sugar Mommies.
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Holy crap it's cold. Again. This week more nonsense such as: -Bob's search for a new duvet leads him into a magicakl world of MILFs, GILFs and Siamese twins -Career advice: find a sugar mommy! -What's really going on at the Met? -More personals from those nerds at the New York Review of Books
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Confronting a Bad Writer at the Strand and HMart Love.
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Well folks another wintry week (or two) and we're back at it. This week we look at: -HMart the suddenly semi-ubiquitous Korean grocery. Asian shopping minus the toads and loogie hockers. -Phil considers hijacking a book panel at the Strand. -You know all that street construction? Is it all bullshit? And other street perils: dangling steel girders, Mexican scaffold workers, and double parked Ubers. -The depressing list of mayoral contenders.
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Bookstore Jews and Sex Clinics! Our longest episode.
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Happy New Year Fans! Episode 40. A nice round number. Who would have thought we'd make it here. Together! And this week we continue the tradition of more nonsense. Including: -The Johnnies are back! -New Year's Eve AA meetings. Fun! -Cold wet Cape Code New Year's. More fun. More fentanyl please. -Phil sees a couple of attractive Jews on a bookstore date. and a little policy: -Congestion pricing. No more police chases (unless you're on an ebike chasing the cops).
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The Art of Being Unfriendly to Neighbors and Other Elements of New York Life
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Apologies for the absence, but Bob is now a semi-orphan (send money). In other news, lots to discuss including: -Some guy in the neighborhood who Phil recognized and continually ignores. Or is it the other way around? -Opening an offal restaurant in New York. -Phil yaks about some stupid thing he did to some kid years ago. -opening a salon for fancy artists. What happened to that stuff?
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A Sexy New Year's Eve Tale!
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
It's Election time. We maybe voting but definitely podcasting. This week while you're waiting to cast your ballot listen the team as they yak about stuff: -Phil unveils a steamy tale of New Year's shenanigans. -Bob debates whether he will drag himself to vote. -The Great Migrant Baking Show! -And why those spicy cookbook publishers pander to white folks.
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Chicken a L'Orange and Shitty Hand Doctors
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
It's fall. Leaves are falling around the old treehouse. But the talk lives on. This week: -Bob flips Yom Kippur on its head. -A new historical village remembers the 1840s. Details to come. -More Randall's Island and ebiking tales. -Phil's possibly autistic hand doctor. -A new weekly (?) segment: go to dinner recipe. This week: chicken a l'orange. -A call back for old-timey restaurants.
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Baking Sourdough With Hezbollah
Phil & Bob's Treehouse
Episode 36 and we have a sponsor! Space W offers affordable Bronx hot air balloon adventures just to the low border of the atmosphere. That plus: -Bobby likes saying Hezbollah. How to find a little joy in warfare...Bihac! -Our business idea: a club for the lonely. -Sourdough starters -Union Square protesters and other humorous urban moments
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The Treehouse team also investigates:
• the current whereabouts of Dr. Zizmor (the subway dermatologist);
• whether Al Pacino and his new baby will be cartoon buddies;
• why Phil went "cruising" last Saturday;
• Cafe Luxembourg;
• The Criterion Channel;
• fo$ter babies;
• the nature of altruism;
• Korean firefighters;
• Squid Game;
• A$AP Rocky; and
• Pachinko.