Episode #155: The Magick Of New York City

INTRODUCTION:

This edition focuses on the Magick and beauty of New York City which is truly different from anywhere else in the world that I have been to. Enjoy some history as well as NYC hacks that will give you a clearer view into what is really like in the Big Apple.

How Manhattan Got Its Name:
https://streeteasy.com/blog/how-manhattan-got-its-name/

The Unknown Story of Broadway:
https://www.thirteen.org/metrofocus/2015/10/the-unknown-story-of-broadway-street/

Wikipedia - Broadway (Manhattan)
https://shorturl.at/jeCt3

Frank Sinatra: New York, New York
https://youtu.be/2u1zK8AaHic?si=zdy8Mj8nxdMUdVuA

JAY-Z + Alicia Keys: Empire State of Mind
https://youtu.be/vk6014HuxcE?si=5s8Ax9DN7RWR2jzB

Alicia Keys: Empire State of Mind Part II (Broken Down)
https://youtu.be/_W44NZvHc9I?si=3bQ2mfEVFe5TTkMp

INCLUDED IN THIS EPISODE (But not limited to):

 ·      The History of New York’s 5 Boroughs 

·      Test and be sure The Divine is calling you to a new city

·      The magic of the original indigenous peoples yet lingers in NYC

·      The positive & hopeful mindset of immigrants is infused into the city

·      NYC represents a high level of cultural diversity

·      Speaking English is not necessary here

·      NYC dogs are SUPER HAPPY!!!

·      New York City Dancing

·      New York City GOTH

·      House of YES

·      The beaches of New York

·      The TRUTH about fashion in NY

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Transcript

The Magick of New York City

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Speaker: Hello, hello, hello, all my beautiful souls out there. So happy to see you again. Always a pleasure. Welcome back to the Sex, Drugs, and Jesus podcast. My name is Davanon Serafino. Or you could just call me Serafino. It's really been catching on lately. And I'm here to talk to you today about the magic of a New York City.

Speaker: I have absolutely fallen in love with. With this great place, which you see pictured behind me. Ain't it grand? Ain't it grand? Get a little cruise ship down there and the river cruises here are off the damn chain. They happen all the time and those boats be fucking moving. Cause I, I moved here. You know when I would visit here, it's like I noticed that the city carries a different spark to it.

Speaker: It's unusual. Traveled a lot of places. Now that I lived here, I really wanted to dig [00:01:00]into what makes New York City so magical. Why does it all come together? Why are people, why are people willing to spend so much money to be here? Why is everyone so happy? And so I have a couple of theories that I'm going to spit out there.

Speaker: I'm going to go over some of New York's history and some statistics first. Basically I'm going to spend this next, I don't know, 30 minutes or an hour or so nerding out. Over New York, just allowing myself to, to be that nerd, to be that New York and own this shit. Because when I come across something highly valuable and highly unique, I don't just want to leave it at face value.

Speaker: I want to dig into why. I want to enjoy it. I want to definitely be a part of it. But I want to understand the super valuable and unique things and not just take from it, but understand how I can give to it. First way to understand that is to understand its history where it [00:02:00] came from. Now, New York is divided into five boroughs for those of you who don't know.

Speaker: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. Which, for some reason, really hardly anyone talks about poor Staten Island down there. I mean, it can literally take you two hours to get from Manhattan to like the bottom of Staten Island. And so in Bronx, it's Bronx County. Brooklyn is Kings County.

Speaker: Manhattan is New York County. Queens, Queens County. And Staten Island is Richmond County. Our area code's 212 332 347 646 718 929, and the area code of my cell phone is 917, which as I'm told, the highly coveted cell area code apparently is hard to get. Oh, the fuck well. God deemed it necessary for me to be a part of the elite bunch who [00:03:00] have a 9 1 7 area code and I have to say, I do love the numerology there.

Speaker: So I'm going to open the library and read to you, from street easy dot com, an article written by Kevin Walsh. Because it's, it's very cool and interesting how he lays out. How some of these bureaus got their names. New York was originally inhabited by indigenous people long before the Europeans came over here, and I don't know if I wanna say sorry fucking shit up, but because the history is dodgy, when I looked it up trying to discern whether or not the Europeans fucked over the indigenous people in New York or actually helped them, it seems to have gone both ways.

Speaker: Nevertheless, Kevin begins with Manhattan Island was settled by Native Americans millennia before Italian born Giovanni de Verrazzano first settled into New York City Harbor in 1524, [00:04:00]revealing the area to Europeans. But what's the story of how Manhattan got its name, and for that matter, how did Brooklyn get its name?

Speaker: Here's the story of New York's five borough names. For more than two centuries, New York City consisted of only of Manhattan Island. The word Manhattan comes from a dialect of the, of the Lenape Native Americans and can be translated as a thicket where wood can be found to make bows. The bow and arrow were a chief means of hunting.

Speaker: The name was, the name was first recorded in writing as Mana Hata in the logbook of an officer aboard the Half Moon, the vessel of Henry Hudson. who was the first Dutch explorer to visit the area in 1609. Hudson's visit led to the founding of the first Dutch settlement and fort at the [00:05:00]tip of Manhattan in 1624.

Speaker: But for the next roughly 50 years, as various conflicts took place, the territory passed back and forth between the Dutch and the English. In 1674, it finally ended up being In English possession.

Speaker: I wanted to take a second to talk about some of those various conflicts. Not only were the Dutch and the English fighting over this land that wasn't theirs. It belonged to the indigenous people. They came in and like, we're trying to do business with them. With the other indigenous tribes, such as buying furs and stuff for them.

Speaker: Well, that meant that they had to go and kill more beavers and different animals to make those furs. So, then you had different indigenous tribes going into each other's territories to try to keep up with this demand. Because, you know, some certain cultures and people ain't [00:06:00] never satisfied with enough.

Speaker: All they want is more and more and more. So you had conflicts between the Dutch. So, And the European, and also, I mean, Dutch and the English, then you also had conflicts among the indigenous people, only because these outsiders were there trying to reap the benefits of their land, their land had everything, all the nuts and fruits and birds and animals and everything that they didn't have over there in those other countries, just saying.

Speaker: I continue. How the Bronx got its name. The Bronx, by most accounts, takes its name from Swedish settler Jonas Bronck, spelled B R O N C K, the first European to live in its territory, establishing a settlement in what is now Mott Haven in 1639. Been to Mott Haven several times. Bronk leased land from the Dutch West India Company and purchased more from the local Native Americans.

Speaker: He [00:07:00] eventually acquired more than 500 acres and the Bronx River, which ran through his property, also acquired his name, Bronx being a derivative possessive of Bronx. B. R. O. N. C. K. S. Typically, Bronx is preceded by the Though that could be because of the usage of the Bronx River. However, other locations such as Sudan and Ukraine have also been preceded by a the, and it just seems to be a haphazard convention.

Speaker: You know, people throw in little words and shit with whatever the fuck they want to. The this, the that, put an S at the end of things. We know what the fuck people talking about, so we just roll with it. Continue how New York City grew from Manhattan to five boroughs. New York City began adding to its territory in 1874.

Speaker: Prior to that year, all of what is now the Bronx had been part of Westchester County while maintaining identity as a borough in [00:08:00] 1874, all of the Bronx west of the Bronx River was annexed by Manhattan or New York County. Where Manhattan is in Manhattan's east west numbered street system was extended into the bureau by 1896, the rest of the Bronx had been annexed by New York County, New York City was far from done adding territory by 1897, a referendum was spearheaded by Andrew has all green that called for the creation of greater New York.

Speaker: In which the counties of Kings, Queens, and Richmond would be added to New York City. It passed a vote overwhelmingly in most locations, narrowly in Kings County, and New York City had acquired its present form by New Year's Day, 1898. How Brooklyn got its name, Kings County, established in 1683, when the reigning King Charles II was on the British throne, is today, Coterminius.[00:09:00]

Speaker: With Brooklyn, which was named by 1663 for the Dutch city of Rookkelen, which is spelled B R E U K E L E N, which is derived from marshy, and that word, coterminous, coterminous, It's just a way of saying, we saying the shit the same way, or talking about the same thing. That's all Keterminus means. The city, the county consisted of six towns, including the original village of Brooklyn along the East River.

Speaker: I happen to live by the East River. I actually live in between Central Park and the East River in Manhattan on the Upper East Side. So I'm about two blocks away from fuckin Central Park, and then two blocks away from the East River. Which gained which had gained in population and commercial importance enough to become a city in 1834 over the new over the next few decades, the city of Brooklyn absorbed the towns until [00:10:00] Brooklyn, the city and Kings County.

Speaker: we're terminus by 1895, only to join greater New York in 1898. How Queens got its name, Queens County is unique in that it is the only New York State County to lose territory upon joining greater New York City. Like Kings County was established in 1683 and it's thought to be named for Queen Catherine of Braganza, a Portugal native who was married to King Charles II.

Speaker: No documentation though has been found to connect her as the Queen of Queens. Before 1899, Queens County also consisted of what became Nassau County. While the western counties of Queens voted to join Greater New York in 1897, the eastern counties were not included in the referendum. Partially as a dispute over the location of the county courthouse, which would have been in Long Island City, the eastern counties preferred [00:11:00] Maniloa.

Speaker: The split was amicable, with a new Nassau County created in 1899. Now Staten Island got its name. Staten Island wasn't officially known by that name until 1975. Before that, it was the borough of Richmond. Richmond County has kept its original name. The island itself was named in the 1600s for the Dutch Parliament, known as the Staten General, and was Staten Island.

Speaker: Which is spelled S T A A T E N E Y L A N D T to the Dutch. In 1683, after the island landed in British hands, the county was named for Charles II's illegitimate son. I hate referring to somebody as illegitimate, but I get what they mean. His son, Charles Lennox, first Duke of Richmond in Britain, Richmond Shire is a district in Yorkshire.

Speaker: To this day, main vehicular routes in [00:12:00] Staten Island are named Richmond Avenue, Port Richmond Avenue, and Richmond Terrace. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Parkway was originally Richmond Parkway, while Victory Boulevard was formerly Richmond Turnpike. Thank you for listening to that. That is the the tea.

Speaker: On that, and I will put the link to Kevin's, article in the show notes along with the link to 2 articles about Broadway. That I'm about to read and then the library will close and I'll get on with my life, but I wanted to really specifically talk about Broadway because a lot of people around the world know about Broadway.

Speaker: People be flying over here to come see shows on Broadway. There's been songs written about Broadway. I'm thinking about Goo Goo Dolls, Broadway, It's Dog Tonight, you know, and just so many. Yeah. And Broadway is pretty fucking magical, but Broadway used to be like a main [00:13:00]indigenous trail to back in the day.

Speaker: Right. So this is coming from 13 and. org. It says, what do the flat iron building city hall union square and the Lincoln center all have in common? They line one of the longest streets in the world, a storied city jewel in itself. Broadway, but beyond the bright lights of the great white way. Far less is commonly known about the street's history and evolution from the Native American era, tracing more than 13 miles from lower Manhattan's Bowling Green all the way up to the Bronx, baby.

Speaker: A new book tells the story of Broadway through 200 vintage photographs, which I will put that link in the show notes if you want to check out the vintage photographs. And this here is from Wikipedia. It says Broadway was originally the Wikwazeg trail carved [00:14:00] into the brush of Manhattan by its Native American inhabitants.

Speaker: This trail originally snaked through swamps and rocks along the length of Manhattan Island. Upon the arrival of the Dutch, the trail was widened and soon became the main road through the island from New Amsterdam, spelled N I E U W Amsterdam, at the southern tip. The Dutch explorer and entrepreneur, David Pieters de Vries, gives the first mention of it in his journal for the year 1642.

Speaker: The Wacoizegic Road, over which the Indians pass daily. The Dutch called it the Heerenwee or Heerenstraat. Here in Strat, meaning Gentleman's Way or Gentleman's Street, echoing the name of a similar street in Amsterdam, or High Street, or the Highway. It was renamed Broadway after the British took over the city because of [00:15:00] its unusual width.

Speaker: Although currently the name of the street is simply Broadway, in a 1776 map of New York City, it is labeled as Broadway Street. Thank you again for listening to to me nerd out on on New York City every chance to come here. I'm telling you it was worth it. Touching on the population quickly, depending on whether or not you're looking at it by, like, urban area, metropolitan area. New York seems to always rank near, like, the top 10. New York is the most populated city in the United States, but globally it's around 10, because you have other cities with way more people.

Speaker: Depending on what you read, New York has, like, maybe 20 million people. In it, right by like Mexico City, which is right around 20 million people, but when you have Tokyo, but like 37 million people, you've got Delhi, India, Jakarta, Mumbai, you know, [00:16:00] you got a lot of people, you know, with well over 20 million people.

Speaker: This is like insane, this is so fucking insane, but you know, like, I love it. I'm thinking about Frank Sinatra's song, New York, New York. You know where he talks about, I wanna be a part of it. Leaving, he talks about leaving the little town behind, getting a brand new start. And it's true in New York City, which is what I did.

Speaker: I left a little town behind, came here and got a brand new start. You can do it, but you better be sure that you're being led of the spirit. Do not move to Los Angeles and New York or wherever, Tokyo, Mumbai, just because a lot of people or whatever, and you think you're going to prosper just because of that.

Speaker: It's not just about all of these people. It's about how can you fit in with the energy of these people? Will it work for you? Be sure that you have the blessing of the divine to be there. Don't think just because it's big lights and you got all these [00:17:00] skyscrapers, like you see behind me, it's guaranteed to work.

Speaker: Many people move to big cities thinking it's gonna be alright and it isn't. So say your prayers, do your fasting, and be sure, maybe visit, stay for a month or something before you, Decide to just drop everything and move, you know, as I outlined in a previous episode, I did a lot of like praying and different testing and things like that.

Speaker: And coming up here and being sure that it was really what God was telling me to do. It has all worked out deliciously and quite beautifully, but that's because I did the spiritual footwork first to be sure that, that what I was thinking I was hearing from God is right, because it's too easy to get caught up in the And spiky emotions when you're in a big city or in a city that excites you, or even if even, even if it's not a big city and our subconscious can do all kinds of mental gymnastics and acrobatics and Cirque du Soleil moves to convince us that what we're planning to do is right when really it's just [00:18:00] us talking ourselves into something that God ain't got nothing to do with.

Speaker: That's why we got to get close enough to God to know his voice, from Lucifer's voice, from our own voice, and to be sure of the moves we make. And, you know, I think about, you know, Alicia Keys and Jay Z's contribution when they did Empire State of Mind and Empire State of Mind Part 2. Not a lot of people talk about Empire State of Mind Part 2, but there is a Part 2, and it's like a slower version, and I don't think Jay Z is On that one can't remember but they're both fucking sweet ass songs and yeah people be playing those songs Part one at the empire state of mind down in times square all the fucking time.

Speaker: I think it's to like Appeal to the tourists because they'd be down there getting people to pay for buggies to cart them around Times square and things like that because tourists aren't used to [00:19:00]walking 10 to 20,000 steps a day like we are , you know, anything, anything less than 10,000 steps. I feel like I haven't like been a New Yorker for the day and my legs and thighs are giving and they all ready, were like stacked and they, it's likely they've completely changed.

Speaker: Part of it's the walking. Maybe some of it has to do with my ascension. 'cause the spiritual ascension can change your body too. But I've ascended. In New York City, and I am, and I am a Sagittarius, and Sagittarius, the body part that corresponds to Sagittarius is like the thighs and everything, so it is all coming together for your girl over here, okay?

Speaker: Nevertheless, I will put links to all three of those songs, Frank Sinatra's New York, New York, J. C. and Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind, and Alicia Keys Empire State of Mind Part 2, in the show notes. Now, it is my opinion that the magics And I [00:20:00] intentionally spelled it with a K to give a nod to old school ancient magic, is it's still here.

Speaker: I think those, whatever kind of spiritual rituals and chants and prayers and incense that was buried in the ground and whatever, perhaps sacrifices were done by those indigenous people, chieftains, mystics, gurus, shamans, whatever you want to call them. I think that that magic was so strong that it's still here.

Speaker: There's a possibility that New York City is one of those energy vortexes, too, that you hear about, like, Tulum, or the vortices in, fuck, is it Sedona? Shit, somewhere in, like, California, or or fucking Arizona, but you've got, like, places where just, like, shit happens, and those, and those who are super sensitive to energy can tell that it's, like, a fucking lot coming through certain parts of the globe.[00:21:00]

Speaker: There's different research for that. On it out there, but I think those are the two like spiritual reasons that I think that that that New York has this lifted energy to it. That's like, very, very, very, very, it's very, very light. It's very potent. And it's something that just makes people, most people happy.

Speaker: You still have a few negative fucks running around here, but you're going to have that anywhere. Right. But by and large, I just couldn't figure out why, like, why would people come here and spend so much money to to live here? Like, but what it costs to be in New York, I could have had apartments, like, two, three, three apartments in Tokyo.

Speaker: You know, I'm here because this is where God told me to be. I look at people walking around the city, particularly in Manhattan, because [00:22:00] that's where I live, it is the most expensive bureau. Burrow, nobody worried about it. Like, like, it seemed like if we have a choice, we should spend more. And if we're able to spend more to be where we're happy than to spend less just to save money and be measurable.

Speaker: If you do that, the sadness will cost you more in the long run through medical bills, bad relationships, broken up things. Unhappy children, possibly unhealthy children, if you're somewhere where you're not really meant to be. And maybe you're staying there because you find it to be cheaper, more affordable, you know.

Speaker: Because people here are fucking happy. I look at the dogs. I'm a cat person. Everyone knows that. My two children, okay? I am a cat person. I'mma tell you, the way these dogs prance around Manhattan and the other bureaus, shit. Even these dogs, it's like the dogs, these are the happiest dogs [00:23:00] I've ever seen.

Speaker: They have a step to them, and the way they walk, it doesn't matter the breed. They wear their little rubber footies in the winter. Yes, bitch, the dogs here have like winter shoes, bitch. And, and they just bounce and skip and leap and happy. And I was like, oh shit, if I wasn't already a cat person, I might consider one of these New York dogs.

Speaker: I mean, there's so much to look at, so much pretty shit, when you're walking them, and everything, and, and, and, you know, I looked at, at the lights, you know, and the skyline, and, and everything, and just the way it all comes together. When I go out to the club and everything, the way people just get fucking along, no matter where they're from, no matter the race, no matter the sexuality, no matter the body type, no matter the, no matter the financial makeup, okay?

Speaker: As strange as that might [00:24:00] seem. Everybody, it's like we've all fought to be here. We've worked hard and God damn it. We're going to fucking enjoy it.

Speaker: Saw happiness like this in Tokyo too. And I need to take a trip back to Los Angeles to assess Los Angeles from a more spiritual perspective, because I wasn't this elevated spiritually when I was living in Southern California. So I'm very curious to go back there and see how I sense that it sizes up to this.

Speaker: They're very fucking happy in Puerto Vallarta and really the cities I tend to go to. in Mexico. That's why I go to happy places. I don't travel for the sake of traveling, because I don't take vacations. You know, I travel to e immerse myself into the spirituality and the energy of the culture. I have the type of life that I don't need to take a vacation from because I'm very damn happy.

Speaker: I don't take vacations. So it is [00:25:00] not my goal. To travel to every country in the world. I'm not going to be welcome in every country and the spirit does not want me in every country. My goal is to go where I'm led to go, where the spirit is sending me to go and anywhere else I want to go.

Speaker: I thought about the energy of the immigrants coming in here, something about that fight and drive, running away from trauma and terror and nightmare situations with the determination to fucking do better. I think that that spirit is deeply infused into New York City. Right. From FamilySearch, I'm going to read a small snippet.

Speaker: It says large numbers of Germans settled into New York City, Buffalo, and Rochester, New York was the destination for millions of Southern and Eastern Europeans, especially Italians and Russian Jews from about 1890 to 1910. According to Immigratio Statistics, the state, [00:26:00] this state is a leading recipient of migrants from around the globe.

Speaker: From FamilySearch.

Speaker: There's such diversity and culture here in so many different languages and so many types of foods. You got everything from South Africa to Ethiopia to all kinds of European. Hell, just in my neighborhood alone tonight as I was walking home from a restaurant where a man from South Africa was the waiter, but they had like European food on the menu and just an unique mix of people who worked there.

Speaker: I saw. Lebanese food, two different types of like Asian food, specifically sushi. You had the damn Popeye's chicken too, serving up that southern realness. What the fuck else? It was a couple of other things, but it was maybe like five different countries, [00:27:00] and I only walked maybe like seven blocks, and that's just one portion.

Speaker: You have a lot here. I've been to an Ethiopian restaurant. I've been to all kinds of places. This is a city where you, I mean a lot of cities like to say they're a melting pot. They're not. It's just a catchphrase. Most cities are just simply not that damn diverse. New York City is fucking diverse. They're like really fucking diverse.

Speaker: And the interesting thing is you don't have to speak English to live here. There's a lot of Spanish people here. There's roughly like 30 percent Spanish, 30 percent white. And that's constantly changing, but it's way more ethnicities here than you have just like white people. If you don't speak English, you will find either like a cell of people who speak your language or somebody who is a multi lingual who can speak your language.

Speaker: There is literally people here, [00:28:00] especially Spanish. New York City is very, very Spanish. Just like Los Angeles and Miami or Cuban or whatever you want to call it. But but speaking English is not necessary. You have things posted in places here that be having like. Fucking 20 different language breakdowns, interpretations of whatever it is.

Speaker: This is how many different countries and cultures you have here in this city. So the original immigrants, when you get your indigenous, indigenous people here first, then along came the Dutch and the other parts of like Europe and all of that. And now you have every, I think there's probably a person from every fucking country damn near in this, Here in New York City, there is just a lot of people here and I think that that energy of people wanting to come here and with even with even without certain people, you know, shipping immigrants up here, you know, and basically [00:29:00] forcing them upon the city, you know, who you are, you know, it doesn't matter in a way that that's that's really helping us because those people are coming here.

Speaker: You try to find a better day with that sort of positive intention. That's doing nothing but all the good for New York. This city is full of that energy and we're going to help whoever we can, because we're all here together. So what I'm saying is. I think that the energy of immigrants, and I'm all for immigration, is a, is a beautiful thing and it has helped the city to be as positive and beautiful as it is.

Speaker: Let's talk about some financials. I went digging around into the Global Financial Centers Index, the GFCI. From September 2nd, 2023. It GFCI is a ranking of the competitiveness of financial centers based on over 29, 000 [00:30:00] financial center assessments together with over 100 indices from organizations such as the World Bank. The 2023 report ranks New York at the top position, followed by London and Singapore. For So at the very, very top, you've got like New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Washington, DC, Chicago, and Geneva,

Speaker: and I wanted to talk about the New York stock exchange. Everyone's heard of wall street.

Speaker: The New York stock exchange is an American stock exchange in the financial district of lower Manhattan in New York city. It is the largest stock exchange in the world by market capitalization. Been on Wall Street many times. I've walked outside of the New York Stock Exchange.

Speaker: I had places to be. I'll go back there and twirl around one day. Looks like it was really hopping in there. It's located specifically At 11 Wall Street, if anybody is interested, was founded May 17th [00:31:00] in 1792, 232 years ago, the New York Stock Exchange market cap is 25. 564 trillion dollars as of February 2024.

Speaker: Yes, it is 25. 564 trillion dollars. Its indices, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the NYSE Composite, and the S& P 500.

Speaker: Sharon Bowen or the Chair. And Lynn Martin is the, Sharon Bowen is the chair. Lynn Martin is the president. You know, when I read this, I think about that, that beautiful, beautiful fucking movie, with a Leonardo DiCaprio and at the Wolf of Wall Street. I'm gonna tell you, if I still did cocaine, which I don't.

Speaker: You know, I would love to party with them boys down on Wall Street and, [00:32:00] you know, Leo, whoever the fuck is still running around getting that damn twisted. If you have not seen The Wolf of Wall Street, well, you know, DiCaprio, bitch, I'm gonna need you to get your life together. I need you to get your life together and figure out when you can take some time to watch The Wolf of Wall Street, because I need you to do it.

Speaker: I don't do cocaine anymore, boys, but I do all them other hallucinogenics and shit like that so we can come to an amicable agreement to have us a night out on the town. If they really party like that in Wall Street, I hear that they do.

Speaker: Do invite me. Do invite me. Trust me. I'll add to the, I'll add to the the, the Jubilee, you know, the jubilations and celebrations and such. I won't let you down. And also the New York Stock Exchange, I almost forgot that it's a number, total number of [00:33:00] listings as of February of 2024 is 6, 332. We get to that 25 trillion number.

Speaker: Let's talk about sports. We got a lot of fucking sports teams here. The energy of this city is very, like, communicative. It's very, very together. I will be twirling around many, many sports games in the near and upcoming future. But we've got the New York Yankees, the New York Mets, the New York Giants, the New York Jets, the New York Knicks, Brooklyn Knicks, New York Rangers, good lord.

Speaker: And the list goes on. That's all I'm gonna say about that. I'm not really a huge sports person, but I love to go to the games. And just be a part of that beautiful energy. Try to hop around and get my ass in the Jumbotron. If I can. And look at all those fine ass men running around. Well, falling all over.

Speaker: Falling all over each other. I mean, [00:34:00] I don't watch porn, but I mean, there's certain games, certain, certain aspects of sports that is just, I mean, sexual by nature. But of course we mustn't speak of such things. Thinking about you, my UFC fighters, my football players, nothing but love for you, baby, trust me on that.

Speaker: This is not shade I'm throwing. Universities, fuck, we got Columbia University, New York University. The one I wanted to point out is CUNY. CUNY stands for City University of New York. And what's interesting about them is they have, I didn't look into the specifics, but I just wanted to let you know, they have some kind of program. Really let you tailor your degree, kind of pick your own bachelors, bachelors of arts, or some, some shit like that.

Speaker: So you might want to look into it if wherever you live you have a suck ass selection and you're not really vibing [00:35:00] on anything where you live. Or there may be a university near you who's doing something along CUNY's lines. I saw this first on a subway because they were advertising the fuck out of it, and it really stuck in my head.

Speaker: You know that somebody can like pick their own degree or tell her their own degree plan, but see that right there is the spirit of New York City. This city is all about originality. It's all about freedom and allowing people to fully be themselves. It's not about restrictions. It's about honoring the uniqueness in each individual person and doing what we can to nurture that in people.

Speaker: People up here aren't trying to hold people back. That's not the general spirit. The skyline, as you see behind me, I have always been into the way cities look at night. I remember going with Evangelist Nelson to Mexico and waking up on this bus trip, and we were passing through downtown Houston as I was listening to, [00:36:00] Kirk Franklin's, Album that one would like more than more than life on it and we are conquerors that album and it was just so damn Magical watching all the lights the city these lights like these ones behind me look like the stars in the sky New york city chicago Tokyo I have like huge fucking skylines even bigger than los angeles and y'all know.

Speaker: I love me some los angeles los angeles Forever. However, I have to give credit where it's due and New York is shutting it down and there are certain bars and restaurants that we go to here that overlook this skyline, especially if we're over in Brooklyn. And then you can see this skyline or we have like islands and shit.

Speaker: I went to like a rave on Governor's Island. This weekend called We [00:37:00] Belong Here, oh my gag, being able to dance and party like that out so near the water and see, that this, this skyline here was just magical. On this day, I took my first ever ferry ride. Yeah, I grew up on the bayou, on bass boats and all of that, but being on a ferry is different.

Speaker: I thought that big ass thing was gonna move, so that motherfucking thing hauled ass. And I think it got us from, like, the Lower East Side by Wall Street in Manhattan over to Governor's Island in, like, three minutes. That thing was like, zoom! Huge ass fucking thing. Like, hundreds of people on this ferry.

Speaker: But, you know, Skylines make great art. New York City has a very interesting one. It just does. It's inspirational to walk down the street, through it even, and just feel the ecstatic electricity. [00:38:00] You know, the United Nations, as I mentioned earlier, is based here. So you have like strong like international diplomacy, you know, being centered out of New York museums.

Speaker: You've heard of like the MET, the M O M A, the museum of natural history, the Whitney, the Brooklyn museum. I look this up and New York has like over 170 fucking museums.

Speaker: One hundred and seventy museums and M. O. M. A. stands for Museum of Modern Art. Child, who, I'm, whenever I was in the military and I moved somewhere, it would take me three years to truly get, like, settled into that city and feel like I had a firm grip on what to do, where to go, people to go with, all of that.

Speaker: Child, I'm saying for New York, for this city right here behind [00:39:00] me, we don't give it, like, ten. 10 years, there's just, and sure, there's all this to do. They're always building more. The city has that keep going energy, but it's not like it's too much. And everywhere you go, there's plenty of people. I have been to the Rubin museum.

Speaker: It's very interesting. They have like a cute Chinese or Asian type shrine in there. We got to beat on these gongs that you can also pull this thing and. Immerse that gong and like water, so it was like a very like, the current display now is a very like oriental, Asian interactive sort of museum going on and they do an event called K2 Fridays every other Friday night.

Speaker: For a season where they have this badass DJ in there, a bar going, and you can go in there and dance and twirl and everything, and it's a cool way to [00:40:00] start the night.

Speaker: I plan to visit the Museum of Sex. Yes, we have the Museum of Sex here. And I want to go check out how they're perhaps showcasing sex from an artistic inspiration. As you know, my view and approach to sex has been evolving, and I'm looking at sex from a more spiritual way. I will be studying sexual alchemy, as I have announced.

Speaker: I won't be going to a school for it, like I originally thought, because me and that particular school had a parting of ways of such, and it's for the better, because everything magical I've learned, I've learned it. Through experience or through some teacher who never went to a school for it. They don't think it's for me to go to magic schools.

Speaker: So I will be learning it myself through readings and through direct instruction through like shamans and things like that. And I will do a show on that in the future. But since my view of sex is changing, I want to see how they're approaching it from an artistic [00:41:00] perspective. I always like to quote Newt Scamander whenever I think about it. And my boy Newt Scamander from Fantastic Beasts said in New York, it's considerably more interesting than I expected. I have to agree with homie. I have to fucking agree. The dancing in New York city, which is something nobody really talks about.

Speaker: It's the best dancing I've ever experienced in the world. Yes, better than New Orleans. Even better than Tokyo. And they get, they get fuckin down in Tokyo. Even better than Puerto Vallarta. And they get fuckin down to the ground in Puerto Vallarta. There is some serious ass shaking that happens in the places that I go to.

Speaker: But New York City takes the cake. And I ain't never heard nobody say, Hey, you should go to New York and really find good dancing. Shit.

Speaker: These these people up here, us New Yorkers, got a lot to celebrate. Like I stated earlier, we're really, really fucking happy. [00:42:00] And that really comes out on the dance floor, and it does not matter what club I go to. Doesn't matter. And all the scenes seen in the work here, there's a huge goth scene here.

Speaker: There's a website called New Goth City, New Goth City, where you can go and check out the goth scene in different cities around the country. I don't know if it's around the world. I looked that deep into it, but I went to the fuck. I think it's the mercury lounge. Oh, and it was my first goth party. I went to never had been to anything like it.

Speaker: Everyone dressed in all black. Thank God. I was in like all black at night. I had no idea I was going to a goth party and I, somebody else was going, I was like, sure, I'll go shit. All black looking like Adam's family. An Adams family reunion, bitch. [00:43:00] They were playing, the DJs were playing like this, I don't know, old school, but not really acid, slow rock, but not really slow, and the DJs were just like fly as fuck.

Speaker: One of them was giving me this Andy Warhol, blonde, side, emo, ska. Look thing both of the DJs had on like black leather jackets, of course and the DJs up here I ain't never seen DJs dance to their own music like this It is so refreshing when I see a DJ not standing there stoically Expecting people to dance and they actually look like they enjoy their music and what they do These motherfucking DJs be hopping up and down barely keeping their hands on the turntable and shit and looking like they are dancing Just fucking join this shit.

Speaker: I saw this with one DJ in Puerto Vallarta at the at this club that I discovered that don't really just close. I left at 11am [00:44:00] during Pride and it was still going. Okay? It's simply the drugs I was on weren't strong enough to keep me To keep me up that to keep me up any longer than 11 a. m. was since I had been out since the night before.

Speaker: But they weren't trying to stop. This club does not I think it's called Mamitas. I think it's Mamitas in Puerto Vallarta. They just fucking flat out don't close. It's like the after party after the after party. So, you go to the club, 10 11, that club closes at like 4, no, there's a club you can go to 10 3, another one stays open from like midnight to 6, and then you can go to my meet, which is from like 6 to I guess noon, or 1pm, and then finally take yo ass home.

Speaker: And they were getting down in there too. I'd say that, that's close. Very, very fucking close to New York, but there is some type of vibe here. The way [00:45:00] people dance, the way they kinda do this twirl, this kinda like, jig, this kinda like, vibe. It's this dance that's very, very specific to New York, and as I study it in the spirit, it speaks freedom to me.

Speaker: It speaks true happiness. The way that the moves look are not restricted, and everybody is so fucking comfortable in their own fucking skin. And whatever kind of look they have, get on the subway headed into Brooklyn or Depending on where you're going, you're gonna see every kind of fucking look. And a lot of damn skin, a lot of leather, a lot of pleather, a lot of patent leather, a lot of fishnets, a lot of Crazy makeup and eye color and everything.

Speaker: That's why I'm so like, I guess, honored and impressed that people really take a second look at the different beard looks. I thought I would just be another one of the weird kids in New York, and I was so happy about that. I wasn't actually trying to stand out, [00:46:00] but the compliments and the looks and things that I get are really accepted here.

Speaker: And it really, really, really, really turns a lot of heads. So I'm happy to be a part of people's New York experience. And when I walk, but I walk by tourists and shit as my other New Yorkers, I'm sure get this same look when they're going by with their skinny little leather harness looks on when they're going out.

Speaker: There's a lot of fucking leather here. I know they get strange looks too. Part of being part of it. We have goth stores dedicated, not fucking costume stores. Like, goth stores dedicated to serving goth looks year fucking round. That is how strong the goth scene here is in New York. I fucking love it. The energy in there and there's a certain way that people were like kind of doing this rock Rocking back and forth dance not everybody but a lot of people I had never seen that shit And [00:47:00] I and I just got into it and just started fucking gothing out and I was like Bitch, I am giving you Morticia.

Speaker: I am giving you Gomez. I am giving you Pugsley. I'm giving you Wednesday. I am giving you That fucking hand thing whatever the fuck his name is, but I'm giving you Goth it could be any fucking day of the damn week The dancing here is worth coming to New York City for I'd like to give a special shout out to the house of yes Over in Brooklyn my official favorite club in New York City so far It is a very sex positive club, and it, they do like burlesque shows and things like that that really celebrate all orientations, whether it's straight, gay, bi, questioning, queer, whether it's heavy, thin, hairy, smooth, male, female, no one cares about gender or sexual orientation.

Speaker: To me, the House of Yes [00:48:00] is the next evolution after a gay bar. I go to House of Yes so much that I really don't. I don't feel the need to go to gay bars anymore. The gay bars here are just totally fine and damn dandy, but it's just, there's so many queer people in New York that if I want to be around queer people, all I have to do is walk out my door.

Speaker: So, there's not like a cell or this group where we have to huddle over here. There's just a lot of queer people. In New York City and, you know, we're very welcome. You get up until like the Bronx and I don't know about Staten Island, but the only place I've ever experienced some strange looks would be up in the Bronx.

Speaker: You know, you know, when I used to live up there, I don't really go up to the Bronx anymore unless I'm going to the VA. But other than that, people just let people be, this is just, [00:49:00] this is really like a free city. Public transportation is everything. You got buses, like I said, ferries, trains, faster trains than the regular fuckin subway trains.

Speaker: The ones that like take you to the airport and shit. You got Amtrak that can take you fuckin up to Canada and all around different, cities here. You got a lot of options. This is why a lot of us don't bother with cars. It literally takes you damn near the same amount of time by car or Uber. To get from point A to point B than if you took the subway.

Speaker: Subway gonna be like a dollar and change to two dollars and change. One way, without the need to worry about insurance, RECs, and all of that, and car maintenance. I wanna go somewhere and I feel like I wanna drive, I'll just rent a damn car and be done with it. But with the public transportation? Hmm. [00:50:00] And I ain't saying it's perfect, but on most days it does what it's supposed to do, and I'm here for that.

Speaker: It's so great to just set my ass down and not be behind the wheel. I also optimized that when I was trying to learn and master detachment. After I got up here, by letting go of my car and entrusting myself to the subway driver and to the, to the, to the, to the public transportation process. I alchemized that in my mind and in my spirit to be a form of letting go, because I had been driving since I was 15, with the exception of being homeless when I was in Houston, you know, those few months.

Speaker: And then when I moved up here, I got rid of my car. So, it was I cried. It was very emotional to let go of the car, but really what was I letting go of? A habit? A neuro pathway that had been formed a way of life. I thought I couldn't live without. Why was I emotional about letting a cargo because it's something I've gotten used to, but what [00:51:00] was it really holds no value, you know, other than making me feel more independent than I actually am a status symbol when my true value is not can't can't be found.

Speaker: No matter how expensive the car may be. Oh, sometimes I think we associate. Value to shit that's not really warranted. It just isn't. I got over it and now I'm so happy I don't have a car anymore. I went from crying about not having a car and saying goodbye to it to feeling relieved to have that burden taken from me.

Speaker: Kind of like when we leave a bad relationship or a bad fucking job or some shit like that. We cry over what we thought it was but then we get away from it. We like. Dang it, shit wasn't worth a damn. Wasn't really all that. Because we let that old life go, we granted a new life, but we gotta get through the tears to see the [00:52:00] clarity.

Speaker: Coney Island people do talk about Coney Island, but not a whole fucking lot. As I was flying back from Puerto Vallarta, I looked, I was flying into JFK, which is down near Coney Island and Laboraty is by far this chow, and I looked at the beautiful coral Cause the water is like clear, you can see, I can see like the coral and shit off the coast of New York.

Speaker: But we have beaches here. You have Rockaway, Coney Island, all of that. We have a large fucking coastline. And I can take the train straight from Manhattan down to Coney Island with my beach towels. And lay out on the beach. It is not just a beach. We have a full fair, like a theme park that's not seasonal.

Speaker: It's there year round. So you can go get on your Ferris wheel, ride the roller coasters, and really get your inner child some healing, and hang out with your inner child. New York [00:53:00] City has everything. We have motherfucking equestrian options here. If you want to ride horses, you can learn fencing. You can go fishing.

Speaker: Let's talk about rivers and parks, bitch. I went on to, like, the New York City's website and found this, that the system of parks and open spaces spans over 29, 000 acres, covering 14 percent of the city, and encompassing 1, 942 sites across all five bureaus. New York's 1, 942 parks are home to more than 1, 000 playgrounds, 800 athletic fields, 550 tennis courts, 60 public schools, and 30 recreation centers, as well as many other active and passive assets.

Speaker: I looked up these statistics because I was wondering just how fucking much green there [00:54:00] is. They call this a concrete jungle, but it's not just because of this skyline you see behind me. There is just as much green. Rooftop gardens and parks and all of this that I just read. Mixed into New York that have to do with this being a concrete jungle as industrialized as New York City is, we have not missed the importance of staying in touch with nature.

Speaker: So you will always see people and it's not just Central Park. Central Park is large as fuck, but there are many, many tiny parks that you come across. So we've made it a point to have that contact with nature. Get out there. Yeah, we're in the city, and yeah, we're moving fast, but we made it a point to give you what you need to slow the fuck down when you need to.

Speaker: Some people do that by just leaving the city and traveling a lot, especially during the summer, because New Yorkers ain't about no damn heat. And I get it, because my body has changed, and 50 degrees feels [00:55:00] warm to me now, whereas I used to be wrapped up in anything below 70 degrees. Thank you. 50 degrees is like spring to me.

Speaker: So 80 degrees even I'm like, oh my goodness. Oh my goodness. What am I going to do? But

Speaker: But Some people even leave Even leave the whole damn city for like the whole summer, you know The fashion industry is super slow during the summer that would kick kicks back up during the fall And so some people just simply don't need to be here You And fashion, since I'm talking about that, I just wanted to let you know, is actually here more about expression than high fashion, quote unquote.

Speaker: So when people think of New York, you're looking at like, Vogue, and all the different things, you're thinking of the devil wears Prada. But, you know, [00:56:00] don't be like Andrea Sachs basic ass from The Devil Wears Prada and throw shade at the fashion industry before you get read for filth by the Miranda Priestly near you.

Speaker: You see, the thing is, expensive clothes Are great. They usually last longer than the cheap shit, which you have to replace quicker than the expensive shit So which one really is the best buy? If you buy a 100 button down 10 years Or you get a 5 button down that you're going to have to replace in six months You see what i'm saying?

Speaker: Now, of course, you have to be able to afford the 100 button down The point is there's no need to have a negative attitude about high fashion or expensive fashion just because you're in less expensive fashion. At the end of the day, somebody somewhere had to design the shit. High fashion is just that.

Speaker: That is reserved for fashion week. Runway. If we want to go and spend that, those stores are [00:57:00] definitely here, but those aren't most stores. Not even in New York. You have way more Bargain shopping, dollar type stores. There's fucking 99 cent stores here because most of the people are not going to go and buy a 20, 000 gown.

Speaker: And some of us will, but you have all these boroughs, barrios, you know, corner stores, That are just designed for your average everyday consumer level income. And so therefore people can go and get t shirts and jeans and boots and work boots for like super low. You have all of that here. Everybody in New York city is not running around in Chanel and Dolce and Gabbana, that is just not fucking true.

Speaker: Now, what else is cheaper here? A body of services. My full body [00:58:00] wax, which I get, the cheapest I could find it when I lived in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was something like 225 after the military discount. And it was very hard to find somebody who would do a full body massage on a, I mean, full body wax on a male.

Speaker: Here, I have more than one option for that, and I get my full body waxes for, I think, 125. Mm hmm. 125. And there is more than one agency that's willing to work on a male. Massage. There's people who do like $60 massages here. It's not, but if you wanna get more expensive than that, you can. I had my nails did in Manhattan for like, fuck 35 or 40.

Speaker: There are 30 and $35 manicures, jail manicures that you can get. They got 'em done in Queens. There's places in Brooklyn and there's places in Manhattan. Sometimes people say Manhattan is so expensive. And yeah, I've [00:59:00] had a hundred dollars manicures before. You know, if I was in a rush and that's just what I need to get them, that's what I got, I would prefer the 35 or 40 was the 100 one really wasn't all that.

Speaker: So, I mean, it was, it was a damn cute to get the job done, but it wasn't like that much different. And I don't like to be insulted by prices when I'm making purchases. So some people it's like they charge a lot and there's really not a quantifiable reason for it. And I don't need my ego stroked by spending money.

Speaker: I'm valuable because of the Lord. But what I'm saying is, don't assume that New York is out of your price range that everything here is so expensive. There's a lot of fucking free entertainment. There is, you might have to book and reserve your tickets for whatever early, but you don't necessarily, have to, to pay for it either. There's free events, there's [01:00:00] Instagram pages and shit like that that talk about things you can do around New York. Because for people to afford to live here, they've got to really be creative.

Speaker: Now, yeah, you do have the Met and all of those different things, like the Met Opera and all those different things on Broadway, which are going to be costly, but they don't have to. I've seen Met Opera ticket as low as 30 and as high as like 400 or 500. This depends on the show, but not to catch it on.

Speaker: They've got promotions. It can be done. It's like anywhere else. It depends on what you want to get out of it.

Speaker: Queer, barbershops. That's something I had not seen before. I got tired of the toxic masculinity when I would go into a straight barbershop and the cheeky things they would say about my beard or this like that. I wouldn't just fucking cut it and be done with it, you know, trim it and be done with it.

Speaker: So you [01:01:00] have queer barbershops here that are owned by queer people. Run by queer people and only people who work there are queer people or straight people who have enough fucking sense to mind their own life. So it was refreshing to find that. I stopped going because I learned how to do my own shit.

Speaker: Like I don't have time to be, to be popping over there and, and shit like that. And then plus the last time I was there, the boy I was going to piss me off because he was on his cell phone and, You know, when you finish a sale or service, you always want to walk your client to the door in this place. It was like, 3 feet to the door and he was too busy to get on his tip.

Speaker: Talk then to will offer me products. I was actually interested in buying some of their beer beer products, but he didn't bother about going over those with me. And since he's on his phone, I certainly don't want to bother him and. I mean, but for what this [01:02:00] place charge, which is like, 2 or 3 times. The amount of like a straight barbershop and then what I tip which is like the same amount of what the service cost At least say goodbye bitch before I walk out the door and try to sell me some of the products Which some of them barbershops have great products But whatever that just pissed me off just enough to learn how to do it myself And now I just do it all the time, which I needed to do it.

Speaker: Anyway

Speaker: The entrepreneurial spirit here is another thing Yeah That I think, and this is the last thing that I think really keeps this city happy. There's something about making shit happen for yourself that carries a different spice to it than getting it done for you. For those of us who are entrepreneurs and there is a lot of fucking hustling going on in this town.

Speaker: You have fruit street vendors on damn near [01:03:00] every fucking block. It seems like selling. It really reminds me of Mexico. There's so much about New York City. It reminds me of Mexico underneath my building. All I do is walk out the door. There's somebody just stationed there and then somebody like catty corner from them selling all the mangoes and grapes.

Speaker: All the oranges and everything. And it just makes me feel like I'm in Mexico. It usually it's something. Some person from a different country were running these stands. I don't think I've ever seen an American doing enough fruit to be off the damn chain. And, but you have that. You got all these drivers, personal drivers, Uber drivers, this kind of service, that kind of service.

Speaker: It's a service oriented city. Kind of gives me New Orleans vibes in that way. Only bigger. You get a different type of joy when you come up with a concept of how to make money. And you go about the business of establishing that, and it goes from thought in your mind, [01:04:00] which probably came from the spirit or from the divine, as you would call it, and now you have a material thing that you're doing, you're helping people, and you have coin in the bank account, and this was not a job that you went and got from a business.

Speaker: Nothing wrong if you did that, but it's a different flavor of satisfaction. When you do it yourself, as you all know, I run down under apparel, I write books, I host this podcast. Oh, you know, all my income comes from something that I did, you know, or chose to do, or some kind of like way I had to fight for it.

Speaker: That puts me right in a step with the city. I consider actors and musicians and all of those sort of like type celebrities, even if they're not major celebrities. To still be entrepreneurs because you don't [01:05:00] just like apply for a company. You have to like really earn and fight your way and entertainment of any sort and to really fight through all the negativity and all the sharks and everything.

Speaker: It's still be able to maintain who you are and have the discipline to get up and go try every day. Entrepreneurs have to have a lot of fucking discipline because there's nobody telling you, Get up and go to work. There's nobody threatening to fire you if you don't do what you're supposed to do. Your, your punishment and consequence if you don't do what you're supposed to do is you don't eat.

Speaker: So you have to be motivated enough and self disciplined enough and give a fuck enough about yourself to be an entrepreneur and everything. A lot of entrepreneurship, a lot of business owners in this city. That's another thing that helps it shine so bright because that sort of joy rises and it just gets into everything and positively infects everything and everyone.

Speaker: [01:06:00] Entrepreneurs who can make it work are going to be, in my opinion, happy. Then people who work for other people, generally speaking, I'm sure there's exceptions, but I'm happy being able to be in my own energy. I can work with other people, but it has to be, you know, a certain vibration for me to be happy.

Speaker: I'm sure you would say the same thing.

Speaker: Now the rest of this great, beautiful city, as I said, I'm giving myself another 10 years to really get settled in here, have yet to discover, and I'm so looking forward to discovering it. I will post the songs, New York, New York, Empire State of Mind, Empire State of Mind Part 2, in the show notes along to the links with some of those articles that I was quoting.

Speaker: My website is SexDrugsAndJesus. com along with DownUnderApparel. com on YouTube. Sex, Drugs, and Jesus podcast, also on Tiki [01:07:00] Taki. We're on all the social media, but those are like the main two I fucks with. Anyway, next time I talk to you, I'll be talking about my buffo alvarious experience. That is when I puffed, puffed, puffed on that poison toad on the mountainside of Guadalajara and got changed forever in the bestest ways.

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