• Chicken a L'Orange and Shitty Hand Doctors
    Oct 14 2024

    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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    40 mins
  • Baking Sourdough With Hezbollah
    Sep 30 2024

    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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    35 mins
  • Dead Mobsters, Mankinis, and Where's the Spicy Food?
    Sep 10 2024

    We're back! In a very special 35th episode we cover:

    -The "accidental" death of a Genovese boss

    -Craving spice in summer whiteness

    -Phil's dad exercises in the land of the mankini

    -A book rec: Gay Talese's latest (yes he's alive and better than ever)

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    37 mins
  • Mid-Summer update: Provincetown, The Town With no Ladies
    Jul 24 2024

    It's our annual mid-summer update! The team recaps a little personal news:

    -Bob's oral surgery adventures

    -Phil's Provincetown summer and gay pizza stuff

    -Making fencing more exciting

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    34 mins
  • Bob Sees a Bear...And Soon It's Bear Week!
    Jun 10 2024

    Summer. Hopefully you'll survive a brief Treehouse hiatus. This week the team takes a look at:

    -Bob's neurotic backyard bird

    -Bob's backyard bear

    -Courtyard life in NYC.

    -Coating fish with everything bagel seasoning

    -Dramatic weatlhy gay partiers

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    40 mins
  • We Solve the Middle East Conflict!!!!!!!
    May 28 2024

    Holy Crap summer's here and the treehouse team looks into:

    -obnoxious Upper West Side shoppers and the relation to Middle East problems

    -the lure of boating

    -spartan bar mitzvahs

    -the city's new pizza box-shaped garbage cans

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    38 mins
  • Vanishing Husbands and a Coyote in Central Park
    May 9 2024

    Springtime at the old treehouse! The team gets into:

    -an epidemic of cold-footed middle-aged husbands.

    -those darn protesters!

    -hoops analytics on the 4th Street courts

    -a coyote in Central Park. Guard your babies.

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    34 mins
  • Job-Stealing Brits and We Win a Nobel Prize
    Apr 19 2024

    It's almost Passover and the Treehouse team is super-psyched! This week we look at:

    -The giant con of Masterpiece Theater and those role-stealing Brits

    -Phil's plan to win a Nobel Prize and save New York City

    -How the west side gets everything and the east side gets zilch

    -Yet another shitty Atlantic City mayor

    -Pickleball. Groan.

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    45 mins