Tom Waits on New York | Mark Normand and Lex Fridman
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Tom Waits underrated? The man is a living legend.
Yet still somehow underrated for sure.
praising him for his quips was a bit cringey I thought, in light of his musical contributions.
@@simongregory3114 u can thank the internet for making Tom waits known for his "quips".......
He also said that New York “was like being on a big ship, but the waters on fire”
you gotta get Tom Waits on the podcast Lex
The bottle quote is actually attributed to Poet Dorthy Parker. Love Waits though!
"Don't you know there ain't no devil there's just God when he's drunk"
“Champange for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.” -Tom Waits
🎵 🎶"Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses."🎶🎵
“Peanut butter and chocolate? I’ve never tried that.”
This explains so much.
“I live on the corner of Bedlam and Squalor”
Underrated? You just young, son! Waits is a legend.
I'm 26 and kinda laughed when they said underrated, perhaps isn't as far reaching as deserved but whoever he reached in that sense would rate him highly...
@@adlayillskay2213 for sure!
Every bartender in Berlin knows who Tom Waits is regardless their age. Legend
Dang, Tom waits, New York, 25th hour in the same discussion? I used to think it was novel to hear Dostoevsky mentioned on UA-cam but this is kinda even more unexpected. Marvelous convo topics, ya’ll
Lived in NYC for a total of 20 years, I moved there in 1998, then left for 2 years between 2006-2008, then back again until 2012 and I’ve gone back to work there since many times and he’s right, the city has changed a lot in terms of opportunities, but it’s still very diverse, I was never mugged once while living in NYC nor since working there. I miss it a lot sometimes still and it molded me as a person, the good and the bad.
The frontal lobotomy quote is actually not Tom Waits'. There's quite a debate about who said that first. But Tom Waits himself said in an interview that he read it on a bathroom wall. So it was definitely not him.
I never thought Lex would ever speak about Mr. Waits. I knew there was something I liked about Lex.
Under rated ? Wtf ? Legend
Does lex travel with suitcases filled with black curtains? I'd love to see that encounter at tsa
tom waits "there ain't no devil, thats just god when he's drunk"
Tom Waits’ version of Downtown Train is exquisite.
I think the full quote is “I’d rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy” said with a drunken slur for greatest effect
Comparing Austin to Paris is truly hilarious
Decentralization. Social media and just the internet has matured to the point that people don't need to go to NYC to "make it". A sense of community is important but that can be found in many other places.
I write songs and like to play live- I used to go to Williamsburg and surrounding areas in the early 2010's and loved it there. I'm just wondering if it's anything like it used to be? Just want a good place to play my songs
Mark was really himself here, he’s actually pretty insightful. Great chat between 2 fine Lads
Lol his reaction to not having had peanut butter and chocolate
Hi Lex! LOLOL - Weirdo from New York coming right up! (Yours truly:). BTW - I adore your podcast. It has carried me through the last few years during my most difficult times. You have been one of my teachers that have inspired me to "Love So Much Till It Hurts So Good" (emphasis mine). You even inspired me to write a poem about unconditional love. Not many people inspire me to write poems about UL, other than God (and a handful of others). I love you until noon and back. Kidding. I love you for the wonderful, intelligent person you are (not in a creepy way. I'm taken:) P.S. I just subscribed to your podcast. 1:44 X
I remember the first time I saw Tom Waits, on the old Mike Douglas afternoon TV show where I remember that famous quote as "I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy"...said while smoking a non-filtered cigarette and hunched over an ashtray.
"The media sells it and you live the role" is more accurate.
The problem with new york for artists is its way too expensive to move there as a poor person from whatever working class hell you come from. I know I can't and it breaks my heart. Just a bunch of rich kids now. It used to be a mixture of the two, now not so much. Not only that, they keep tearing the romantic history out and replacing it with corporate building blocks.
I’m waiting too
New York, lately you get the sense that the party is over. Could come back but it would take some pretty special circumstances. Transplants will still come and think "wow" because its bigger than their flyover towns, but in reality all the cool left NYC decades ago. The tourists just get high on nostalgia for what the city used to be. And the poseurs who move to Brooklyn from their meaningless home states desperately cling to their new hometown pride.
New York is a flyover state
Tom Waits....come back to us. Please. I'm begging.
we need another day in the life
Mark really seems to have gotten his anxiety in check. Used to be a pain seeing him surviving through a podcast.
Give him a goog sometime!
NYC, SF and LA have a lot more pain to endure before it gets better. Waite and see ;-)
Tom waits n Marc Ribot are my favourite musical pairing, fuck I love that grubby European wonk they dish out
From the Tom Waits spiritual,”Jesus Gonna Be Here, He Gonna Be Here Soon” “I got to keep myself faithful Lord I’ve been so good. ‘Cept for my drinkin’. But he knew that I would.
Anytime regular folks get priced out the party is over
Thanks LEX!! As a New Yorker, i can tell you it's not dead. Anything is possible here. And Yeah without the fakeness of LA.
Leave LA out of this please.
Love me some tom waits tho🤘
Champagne for all my real friends, real pain for all my sham friends.
I think Tom waits and jimy hendrix are the best things that happened to me in the pandamic easy to of the best musicians ever
Weirdos in NY all went to the boroughs. No longer in Manhattan.
Tom Waits and Logic collab please.
That's the thing about "gentrification": it doesn't stop until it devours the cities that enable it. You start with a developing neighborhood, then slowly a few restaurants and bars start to proliferate. Once a neighborhood has a few "anchor" spots, people become aware of the flourishing and money pours in, with residential and commercial development flourishing. Then, suddenly almost, rents become so high that the "mom and pop" spots that gave the neighborhood its appeal can no longer afford to move into these neighborhoods, so the only businesses that can operate are those with massive financial underwriting (aka corporations). Then there is a Target in the neighborhood, a Chipotle, unique architecture is replaced by generic mixed use condominiums and whatever gave the neighborhood character is replaced by the same generic stuff you find in the city's most boring neighborhoods. There is barely anything anyone can do about this pattern, but once it has happened in enough neighborhoods, the whole city takes on that vanilla flavor and it does begin to feel as though these cities are "over." You are just left with people who work for financial instruments as the only people who can afford these lives and these people, without being judgmental, have seldom been the arbiters of "cool."
NYC housing is too expensive and taxes are too high...IMHO not really worth it unless you were already born financially comfortable
Austin = Paris?
You can be whatever you wanna be in NYC right now...as long as you show your papers.
New yourke city is hell on earth.
What's Tom Waiting on New York for?
Born in nyc but had to leave in 2016. The artists have slowly been priced out, even in the burroughs. Not many true starving artists left when i was last there. There was still a few but it was rare/not many like how it used to be. Not sure how it is now
None of what y'all say makes me ever want to even see NY from afar...
Is everyone ignoring the fact that Lex admitted to never trying Peanut Butter and Chocolate? He's never had a Reece's?!?!?!?!?!?
I think creative weirdos left NYC a long time ago.
sounds like 2 non NYers not understanding NY, the city has always and will always be changing but it will always have its benchmarks, thats what makes it the city it is, always has been and always will be, if you want it to stay a certain way then you dont understand it, its like old people complaining about the youth not being the way they remember it
I am not NYer but I like to study the history of cities, your right cities always change. The boomers are used to the gritty and artsy New York of the 1970s and 1980s and they assume that's the way its always been. But before that New York was clean and upper class during the 1940s and 1950s.
@@Austin25254 I think also overlooked to non-NYers is that a lot of the things people know they liked about NY were likely unknown hidden little places at first and people who dont live in those city circles dont find the new hidden places tucked away all over NYC that are currently there under the surface or now in the boroughs, NYC has always been a city that gives to those who search deeper :)
Oh dear. He's asked about Tom Waits and the first thing he mentions is UA-cam supercuts? "Oh ya, he did some songs to"
Dude most people in NY don't have time for a good time. They're too exhausted.
This guy doesn't pass a smell test.
Cool
reality is for people who cant handle drugs , tom waits
The US has only 2 world class cities. NY and Chi.
They should be built up and a source of pride for Americans.
I'd argue that San Francisco should be...it's location is spectacular...architectural achievements across the area...but it's run by children with zero idea how to actually govern...it should be criminal with how poorly it's managed...
LA is bigger than Chicago and by 2028 it will be the only American city to have hosted the Olympics 3 times. You can’t get much more world class than that. London and Paris are the only other cities to host 3 times.
@@ezyryder11 No one outside the US cares at all about LA. No one!
@@finerbiner factually incorrect. I love Chicago but people outside the US care more about LA than Chicago.
New York is terrible.
not your finest guest
Go to Waits... Lex is not in his area. The original is better as it nails it with no misquotes. The guy knows something about science and technology, but culture no.