2023-10-09
27 分钟Tom Delgado (NYC Tour Guide & Joe's old roommate) shares some spooky stories from New York City's history. Plus Ana Fabrega (Los Espookys) talks about home invasion. Subscribe on Patreon to get episodes early and to access 8 Hour Max-Drift Versions. Plus, we depend on listener support since there are no ads https://www.patreon.com/DriftingOffwithJoePera Check out Tom's Youtube and IG for more NYC History. Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/tomasd00 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/tomdnyc/ Music and Sound Design by Ryan Dann. Produced by Grant Farsi for Chestnut Walnut If you haven't already - check out Joe's new standup special here: https://youtu.be/9_97zE4GRZk?feature=shared Happy Halloween! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Fall has arrived, sort of.
I brought my recorder on a walk Monday evening, hoping to get you the sound of footsteps crunching leaves.
But the city hit 80 degrees this week, so you'll instead hear the occasional air conditioner.
It was pleasant out, though, and you could see through the windows that the Seahawks Giants game was on more than a few TVs.
One house was watching an episode of the show Suits.
I won't be trick or treating, but if I were a kid, I would skip that one because they will probably be giving out something boring or weird.
There are some early Halloween decorations, and if you can't tell, I'm pointing the microphone directly at them as I go by.
And I am going by.
I know what I said suggests I could be just standing and staring in windows.
I would never do that.
I was surprised, though, especially after I called my friend Anna Fabrega, who made the show Los Espookies, to talk about scary stuff.
And she told me that more than anything else, intruders were what she was afraid of.
I was scared of people breaking in.
Like, from a really young age, I was always afraid of, like, intruders of some type.
And I remember being, like, in middle school at night, like, you know, we had windows in the house, and when it would get dark and I couldn't see out anymore, like beyond, just whatever was illuminated by the house lights, I would get scared.
And I would.
Like, sometimes if I was by myself or if there was somebody home, but they were in a different part of the house, I would stand in the kitchen and I would grab a knife and I would just stand there, just like, ready for someone to break in.
But, yeah, I was more afraid of, like, a person than a spirit.
That's so funny, the image of you standing in the kitchen with a knife.
Do you think as a child you had it in you to kill an intruder?