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Friday. I work weekends, so

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Any events that you want to shout out

1:19

that your fellow listeners should consider checking

1:21

out this weekend, how do

1:23

you like to enjoy New York,

1:26

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1:28

as we have officially entered into

1:30

springtime? are the allergies

1:32

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at all of

1:45

it, W1YC. And

1:47

while we get

1:49

ready to take your calls, let's hear a

1:51

bit about what team all of it is

1:53

up to this weekend. Here's some of the

1:55

mix from all of its producers. Andrea,

1:58

who typically likes to be

2:00

a homebody on the weekends, is

2:02

unusually busy this weekend. Saturday

2:04

afternoon, she's planning to see the

2:06

new work by dancer and

2:08

choreographer Kyle Abrams at the Joyce

2:10

Theater, and then she's hoping

2:12

to see sinners in the evening

2:14

with her kids, and Sunday

2:16

she's taking her son to the

2:18

SUNY College Fair. Oh

2:20

boy, as college applications will be the

2:23

next big project for her family. That will

2:25

take up much more than a weekend

2:27

for sure. And oh, she's going

2:29

to watch the last of us,

2:31

even though she's still mad about last

2:33

week's episode. Okay, that is a

2:35

very full weekend. If you have any

2:37

weekend plans you would like to

2:39

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producer Jordan, has another busy

2:51

weekend full of wedding activities.

2:54

Okay, she's going to be going

2:57

to pre -wedding drinks tonight at Strong

2:59

Rope Brewery in Red Hook. That's

3:01

an incredible name, by the way.

3:04

Strong Rope Brewery. On

3:06

Saturday, tomorrow, she's going to be going

3:08

to the Spring Showcase for the Brooklyn

3:10

Quilters Guild, which her friend is featured

3:12

in. And tomorrow night, she'll be dancing

3:14

the night away at the Ace Hotel

3:16

at a friend's wedding. And to

3:18

wrap it all up on Sunday, she's

3:20

heading up to Yankee Stadium to watch

3:22

the Yankees take on the Blue Jays

3:24

and hoping that Aaron Judge will hit

3:27

yet another home run. Wow!

3:29

These are some amazing weekend plans. This

3:31

is already filling me with the

3:33

things that I could be doing this

3:35

weekend. 212 -433

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have a text right now. Someone writing

3:48

in to say this weekend, I'm

3:50

going to see Seth Meyers and John

3:52

Oliver perform at the Beacon Theater.

3:54

Can't wait. Okay, that's a

3:56

very cool weekend activity another

3:58

text right now Someone saying

4:01

I will be running the

4:03

Brooklyn experience half marathon very

4:05

cool That is happening this

4:07

weekend as well if you

4:09

want to tell us about

4:12

your weekend plans again the

4:14

number two one two four

4:16

three three nine six nine

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two that's two one two

4:20

four three three WNYC Kate

4:23

Hines of course W1YC

4:25

producer extremely focused on birdwatching.

4:28

It's amazing actually that she's here

4:30

with us today and not

4:32

already out there doing the birdwatching.

4:34

We are coming up on

4:36

peak migration, so that is what

4:38

Kate has planned, birding.

4:40

for the rest of this, probably as

4:42

soon as we finish here, birding for

4:44

the rest of the weekend. On

4:47

Sunday, she is co

4:49

-leading a New York public

4:51

radio bird walk in Central

4:53

Park with Jason Saul, WNYC's

4:55

program director, and here is

4:57

a very fun fact about Jason. He

4:59

is a former managing producer for

5:01

Bird Note, a two -minute radio

5:03

show about birds, so he knows

5:06

his stuff. So that is

5:08

happening on Sunday, co -leading a

5:10

New York public radio bird

5:12

walk in Central Park. She's

5:14

also going to re -watch the last

5:16

couple of episodes. of Andor,

5:18

so she can, of season one

5:20

of Andor, so she can refresh her

5:22

memory before starting season two, which

5:24

as we heard earlier, Nick Quass had

5:27

just came out, so she'll be

5:29

catching up. And we're going to take

5:31

your calls and hear what you

5:33

have planned this weekend, the number. Oh

5:36

my gosh, how could I forget the number so quickly?

5:38

Two, one, two, four, three, three,

5:40

WNYC. And let's take one

5:42

of your calls right now, Marie.

5:45

from Manhattan. Welcome. Do you have

5:47

a weekend plans? Hi,

5:50

actually, I was just telling

5:52

the person with whom I was

5:54

speaking that there is a

5:56

nationwide organization called Aging in Place,

5:58

and it has local chapters. The

6:01

Dutch somehow named the Upper

6:03

West Side where I live, Bloomingdale,

6:05

and we have a Bloomingdale

6:07

Aging in Place. And while we

6:09

don't have specific weekend activities

6:11

that I know of, every Thursday

6:13

we play softball. And you

6:15

have to be 65 or older

6:17

to do it. And we

6:19

played on this incredible field in

6:21

the park, right on the

6:23

Hudson River practically. Wow. And it's

6:25

just very charming. It's a

6:27

wonderful company and a view that

6:30

you can possibly not beat.

6:32

And it's all priceless. That sounds

6:34

spectacular. And tell me about what

6:36

the games are like. Are they very

6:38

fun games? You talk about the wonderful

6:40

company. How serious does it get? They're

6:42

fun, but fierce Fun,

6:45

but fierce how long

6:47

have you been doing

6:49

this? A couple

6:51

of years now I but

6:53

other people have been doing it

6:55

for longer and then we

6:57

usually support one of the local

6:59

restaurants afterwards We gather there,

7:01

you know and have coffee food

7:03

beer or whatever And it's

7:05

just a really delightful group of

7:07

people from all walks of

7:10

life that are now retired And

7:12

it's really, really terrific. So if

7:14

you're ever in our area on

7:16

a Thursday for the next few

7:18

Thursdays, I think maybe five more

7:20

will be down there playing, swinging

7:22

away. And this is all involved

7:24

with the nationwide organization Aging in

7:26

Place. And what's your local chapter?

7:30

Bloomingdale. The Dutch must have sailed

7:32

up the Hudson River when all

7:35

the flowers were in bloom. And

7:37

they gave it a Dutch name

7:39

beginning with B that translated into

7:41

English as Bloomingdale. So our library

7:43

on 100th Street is the Bloomingdale

7:45

Public Library, which has wonderful

7:47

free films on Mondays. They recently

7:49

showed the conclave, you know, about electing

7:52

the new pope. So

7:54

it's just an astounding

7:56

place to be. That's wonderful.

7:58

Marie, thank you for

8:00

sharing. And

8:03

if you would like to join

8:05

the conversation, two, one, two, four, three,

8:07

three, nine, six, nine, two, tell

8:09

us about your weekend plans or something

8:11

we should get out there and

8:13

check out during the springtime in New

8:15

York City, two, one, two, four,

8:18

three, three, WNYC Tamara calling from Seaford,

8:20

Long Island. Welcome to all of

8:22

it. Thank

8:24

you. Hello. And thank you for

8:26

taking my call. I am

8:28

originally from Seattle, born and

8:31

raised. I came over in 2022

8:33

and I like to use

8:35

my weekends to explore my new

8:37

world. I have been in

8:39

north, south, east and west on Long

8:41

Island, haven't made it out to Montauk

8:43

yet, but I get in my vehicle

8:46

and I just drive. So

8:48

you are exploring. What's one of the

8:50

highlights for you? Finding

8:52

that big white duck

8:55

up in Flannery, Flannery

8:57

up there somewhere. I

8:59

didn't know where I was and

9:01

so I posted on the Facebook

9:03

page for Long Island photography and

9:05

they told me where I was.

9:08

So finding things, the

9:11

gargoyles on St. Patrick's

9:13

Church, that's me.

9:15

That's great. Tamara, thank

9:18

you for sharing and

9:20

keep exploring. That's a

9:22

great weekend idea. 212 -433

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text here. Here's a question.

9:29

What is better on a warm

9:31

spring weekend than a walk in

9:33

the park or watching the sunset over

9:35

the East River and a cocktail

9:37

and a meal al fresco. So

9:39

right there, there's a great weekend activity.

9:41

And let's hear from another call.

9:43

This is Rosaria coming from Bergen

9:45

County. Welcome to all of it. Well,

9:49

hello, and thank you so much. I'm in

9:51

native New York or stuck in New Jersey.

9:56

Yes, unfortunately. I

9:58

wanted to share something that seems

10:00

boring, but I feel very blessed.

10:02

My sister owns a dance studio

10:04

down in South Jersey, and she

10:06

has a competition this weekend. And

10:08

she lives with our 96 -year -old

10:11

mom who's in good health. And

10:13

I'm going tonight, and I

10:15

will be with her all weekend.

10:17

We look at old albums,

10:19

and we reminisce, and it's just

10:21

a real joy. Hmm. That's

10:23

that's a fantastic idea for a

10:25

weekend plan. Thank you so

10:27

much for sharing. And let's

10:29

see. Oh, we're getting a lot of

10:32

calls right now. Let's hear from

10:34

Carlotta. Welcome to all of it. Hi,

10:37

thanks for taking my call. I

10:39

also work on the weekends. I'm a

10:42

musician. Oh, excellent. I

10:44

am going to be playing at

10:46

an eyeglass store on Bleaker Street in

10:48

the village called Sea Eyewear. And

10:50

they're having a very big trunk show.

10:52

They have beautiful glasses for great

10:54

prices, and I'm gonna be playing

10:56

original music and a lot of

10:58

eclectic covers from 2 to 5 p

11:00

.m. at see I wear on Bleecker

11:02

Street Saturday and tell us about

11:05

a little bit more about your your

11:07

band Yeah, I I write music.

11:09

I'm a singer guitar player based New

11:11

Jersey and I do everything from

11:13

classic rock to singer songwriter stuff the

11:15

jazz I just I do everything

11:17

but this particular show is more like

11:19

a singer songwriter II Folk Rocky

11:21

kind of set at Sea Eyewear on

11:24

Bleecker Street. That's great. Thank

11:26

you for sharing. And if

11:28

you would like to

11:30

join the conversation, 212

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11:34

I'm David First. This is all

11:36

of it in for Allison

11:38

Stewart enjoying a three -day weekend

11:40

right now. So let's hear about

11:42

your weekend plans. And right

11:44

now, let's hear from Elizabeth calling

11:46

in from Montrose. Welcome to

11:48

all of it. Hi

11:50

David, thanks so much. I'm

11:53

excited because this weekend I'm

11:55

from New York, but I'm

11:57

going out to Sparta, New

11:59

Jersey to see a really

12:01

special show. It's on Sunday

12:03

afternoon. It's called Being Somebody

12:05

at the Sparta Avenue stage

12:07

and the star of the

12:09

show is 89 years old.

12:11

He's a brilliant psychologist. He

12:13

started his acting debut at

12:15

87. And he's doing

12:18

the show with his performing

12:20

artist daughter. And it's

12:22

a father -daughter tale. And they

12:24

take us back in time. It's

12:26

inspiring. It's hopeful. And it reminds

12:28

us of the things that really matter in

12:30

life. So I'm really excited about

12:32

the show on Sunday. Elizabeth, inspiring

12:35

and hopeful. Those sound like two

12:37

wonderful things for us at this

12:39

moment. Yes,

12:41

really. And that's

12:43

happening. Tell us again, that's

12:45

Sparta Avenue Stage. at Sparta

12:47

Avenue Stage. It's in Sparta,

12:49

New Jersey, and

12:51

it's at four o 'clock on Sunday

12:53

afternoon, and it's beautiful. It

12:55

is an experience that people come back

12:58

to see again and again, and

13:00

it takes us back to the moments

13:02

that really matter in our lives.

13:04

That is great. Thank you very much

13:06

for sharing. This is

13:08

all of it on

13:10

WNYC. If you'd like to

13:12

join the conversation, 212 -433

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-9692. We have a text

13:16

right now from West

13:18

Village Nature Writer. Keith

13:21

Mitchell, who leads informal

13:23

tours, mainly Bird and Lizard

13:25

Watching. Okay, Bird and

13:27

Lizard Watching. That's one

13:29

of those tours happening this Sunday,

13:32

April 27th. Let's hear

13:34

another call. This is

13:36

Julia in Manhattan. Welcome

13:38

to all of it. Hi,

13:41

thank you. Do you

13:43

have a weekend plan or are you involved

13:45

in a weekend activity? Yes,

13:47

so I'm a singer and

13:49

a musician and this weekend is

13:51

the Loser's Lounge tribute to

13:53

Dusty Springfield at Joe's Pub. There's

13:56

two shows tonight and tomorrow night when

13:58

it's seven and one at nine thirty.

14:01

I think there's some tickets available. It's

14:03

a really, really fun show. So

14:05

I highly recommend it. You're going to

14:07

be singing and this is happening at

14:09

Joe's Pub, a tribute to Dusty Springfield.

14:12

Yes, the Loser's Lounge, which

14:14

is an iconic New

14:17

York collective of musicians. They've

14:19

been around for, I think, going

14:21

strong for over 30 years now in

14:23

New York. And here's a bit

14:25

of an institution. Here's a bit

14:28

of a description right here. Joe McGinty

14:30

and the Losers Lounge are excited to present

14:32

the music of the queen of blue -eyed

14:34

soul, Dusty Springfield. You're ready to sing? I'm

14:37

ready to sing, and I'm going to wear a blue

14:39

eyeshadow. That's

14:42

great. Thank you so much for

14:44

joining us on all of it.

14:46

Thank you for that weekend plan

14:48

Let's hear from Dan calling in

14:50

from Manhattan Hey, I'm Dan the

14:52

handyman Dan the handyman. What do

14:54

you got planned? I'm

14:57

starting a handyman class this weekend and

14:59

then I'm looking for more people for

15:01

the next round I'm gonna teach pretty

15:03

much handyman 101 in Long Island City

15:05

at my shop Okay, hold on a

15:07

second. Handyman 101 sounds like one of

15:09

the most desperately needed classes in existence.

15:11

Tell us more about this class. You're

15:13

telling me. Good business for me, but I, you

15:15

know, I believe everybody should be a little bit

15:18

handy and they've lost that over the years. So

15:20

I'm trying to find people that want to learn

15:22

how to do their own thing, put

15:24

myself out of business while I'm doing it,

15:26

but I like teaching. So looking forward to

15:28

it. Okay, Dan, thank you very much. That

15:30

sounds like a great idea and a great

15:32

weekend plan. And let's

15:34

hear now from Tracy in

15:36

Montclair, New Jersey. Welcome. Hi,

15:39

thanks for taking my call. So

15:42

I was saying, my husband

15:44

and I are heading to

15:46

Pennsylvania tomorrow to watch the

15:48

pen relays. And we have

15:50

our daughter and three teammates

15:52

from the Montclair Kimberley Academy

15:54

making their debut. in

15:57

the four by 400 relay, which

15:59

is at 1003 tomorrow. So

16:02

we're very excited. Very

16:04

exciting. Thank you for sharing. And

16:07

my goodness, we have a lot of calls coming

16:09

through right now and a lot of texts, some

16:11

great weekend ideas. Here's one, someone

16:14

going to see Aida, the

16:16

Metropolitan Opera Sunday at 3

16:18

p .m. with Angel Blue in

16:20

the title role. They have a

16:22

friend visiting from Florida. This is going to be a

16:24

treat for her. This is coming

16:26

from Steve in Hell's Kitchen. Steve,

16:28

thank you very much for sharing, and

16:30

let's take another call. Oh, my

16:32

goodness. Angela and Brooklyn, welcome to all

16:34

of it. Do you have weekend

16:37

plans? Yes, I do.

16:39

My mom and I, as I told

16:42

the screener, have been having trouble communicating

16:44

lately because she's a Trump voter and

16:46

I'm not. And every conversation

16:48

we have seems to degenerate into that.

16:50

So we decided we're going to

16:52

do some family History,

16:54

research, and do it

16:56

work on a family tree. So

16:58

I'm really excited because I feel like

17:00

this is something we can talk

17:02

about that won't go into arguing. So

17:04

this was a mutual decision, a mutual

17:06

decision to focus on something else. Right,

17:09

yeah. But to still be together. Yeah,

17:13

exactly. Yeah. And

17:15

that's, I mean, that's how great

17:17

is it that you're excited about

17:19

that? That's fantastic. Yeah,

17:22

it should be fun. Angela, thank

17:24

you for sharing that information. And

17:27

let me mention

17:29

the phone number again,

17:31

212 -433 -9692 -212 -433 -WNYC.

17:33

It's Friday afternoon.

17:36

We're talking about weekend

17:38

plans. I'm David First in

17:40

for Allison Stewart. This is all of it.

17:42

And we're hearing from a lot of you, hearing

17:44

about a lot of your weekend plans. Ginny

17:47

in Brooklyn, do

17:49

you have a weekend planned for

17:51

yourself? Yes,

17:53

I'm going to the Brooklyn

17:55

Quilt Show on Saturday

17:57

and Sunday. It's going to

17:59

be 163 26th Street

18:01

in Brooklyn, and it's all

18:03

Brooklyn people who love

18:05

quilting are going to be

18:07

showing their wares. Very

18:09

cool. And I'm getting word this is

18:12

the same show that all of it producer

18:14

Jordan is going to. So this is

18:16

this is the place to be. This

18:19

is the place to be there's

18:21

a $10 charge to get in

18:23

But if you buy that you

18:25

have to buy the ticket at

18:27

the door It's 12 but it's

18:29

worth it because these quilts are

18:31

absolutely beautiful and my daughter has

18:33

four of them in the show

18:35

and so I hope everybody gets

18:37

out and looks at these quilts

18:39

That is fantastic. Thank you for

18:41

sharing and we have a lot

18:43

of texts. Oh, here's a good

18:45

one I live in the great

18:47

state of New Jersey. No regrets

18:49

here. And I live in the

18:51

great state of New Jersey too.

18:53

So thank you for sticking up

18:55

for us there. Where I enjoy,

18:57

what I enjoy doing, I want

18:59

to get out and birdwatch and

19:01

appreciate nature this weekend, participating in

19:03

an Earth Day cleanup at a

19:05

local park. What a fantastic idea.

19:08

Thank you for sharing your weekend

19:10

plan. We have a caller here.

19:12

I think we have a caller here. You

19:14

have to let me know because this person was

19:16

driving and perhaps has pulled over, perhaps is

19:18

in a safe safe place now. Tajid,

19:20

do I have that right? Okay.

19:24

That dropped the call, so not in a safe

19:26

space yet. So if you're listening, call us back.

19:28

We'll see if we can get you on. Here's

19:30

a great text, someone

19:33

texting in to say they're

19:35

getting away with best friends

19:37

of 25 years to Rheinbeck,

19:39

New York. That's a fantastic

19:41

idea, getting together with friends.

19:43

Sometimes it's just as simple as

19:45

that. That's a fantastic weekend

19:47

plan right there. Someone wants to

19:49

know how to contact Dan,

19:51

the handyman. They are

19:53

very interested in that class. So

19:55

maybe we need to hear back

19:58

from Dan. If you're listening, let

20:00

us know more information about how

20:02

to get in touch and hear

20:04

more about your handyman 101 class.

20:07

Thank you for letting us know

20:09

about it and we'll try to

20:11

get to that. Before we wrap

20:13

up here, we have time for another call. Let's

20:15

see if we can take Nora right now. Nora,

20:17

welcome to all of it. Do you have a

20:19

weekend plan? Thank you. Yes

20:21

for years now. I'm a singer I've

20:23

been busking at the south gatehouse of

20:25

the Central Park reservoir on weekends and

20:27

It looks like Sun Sunday will be

20:29

the day I'll be there this weekend

20:31

because Saturday looks like a washout and

20:33

it started because I wanted to have

20:35

some something to do while I waited

20:37

for open mics and Which are not

20:39

happening any longer the ones I used

20:41

to go to but it really I've

20:44

grown so much as a singer and

20:46

I love it and And

20:48

I'm sort of doing very broadly

20:50

the songbook but through like the

20:52

Ellington song you never heard and and

20:54

the Fats Waller song you never

20:57

heard and the Rogers and Heart Ballad

20:59

you never heard and it's um, it's

21:01

a real joy and They are

21:04

for the hearing, but of course donations

21:06

are gladly accepted. That's fantastic. And

21:08

where where's that happening again? The

21:10

South Gate House at the Central

21:12

Park Reservoir, I usually show up

21:14

around somewhere between a little before

21:17

noon and 12 .30. I

21:19

try to get there on the earlier side, but it doesn't

21:21

always work out. And I'm there for a

21:23

few hours. You're there for a few hours. More than

21:25

a few. Yeah. And it's just, as

21:27

Billie Holiday said, just me and my

21:29

old voice, which is a tough sell for

21:31

some people, but I maintain that a

21:33

cappella solo singing is music. That

21:36

is great. Thank you

21:38

very much for sharing and

21:40

oh, I think we

21:42

have information about how to

21:44

get in touch with

21:46

Dan the handyman Let's see

21:49

here team handy dan

21:51

Dot com. Okay, so team

21:53

handy dan d an

21:55

Dot com so that is

21:57

some helpful information there

22:00

for some handyman training else

22:02

texting in to say they're going to visit

22:04

the Flower garden on 89th

22:07

street between Amsterdam and Columbus. The

22:09

tulips are in bloom and it's

22:11

beautiful. That's a fantastic plan right

22:13

there and oh my gosh so

22:15

many other plans. We're not going

22:17

to have time to mention them

22:19

all at this moment but thank

22:21

you so much for calling in

22:23

and letting us know all of

22:25

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