Living in NYC my entire life at the age of 54 I love hearing people say how bad it is. It pales in comparison to the 70s 80s and early 90s . It was seedy and really dangerous but it had personality
@opaljk4835 yeah millions of poor immigrants getting long in the tooth waiting for that house. If you're right I'm sure the city will do well and not degenerate everyday further and further into a favela like it already is.
I saw colin at 9 am on 78th and Broadway in 2004. As we walked passed each other I said " colliiiiiinnnn " he laughed and said " what's up kid. " I was 25. Now I'm 45. Time flies. Colin was cool as hell.
Finally a New Yorker that keeps it real. 80s and 90s was dangerous compared to today. Can't listen to people like Chris D who walk around scared of their shadows 😂
i miss everything pre 2000, people minded their business, cops were cool, if you had a problem, you could just take care of it, meaning assholes got ass whoopins
Biiiiiiiiig Love for this comment. Pre 2000, you take care of your own shit. No cops called, you stand up for Yourself, you take care of your Own business, no outside help needed. Then it’s settled. Done.
I'm really glad that you skipped the obligatory "...people got along with one another ..." comment. Did you live in the Alternative Universe NYC? It sure doesn't sound like the one I lived in.
Pre-2000s were different everywhere I think. And I think the massive reason is people weren’t trying to be a victim. We have a generation of professional victims walking the western world now.
@@matthewstephens6848 Or people WERE victims after... Remember, 9/11 was 2001! The whole country was traumatized, and maybe we are still living in the ripples of that...
He's like a comedian who's not really funny but he has these views on society which really aren't that interesting now that I think about it. These guys have a great job, find people with influence to tell the masses they're funny and they're set for life.
This conversation about the seediness of N.Y. pre-Guliani reminded me of listining years ago to a morning radio show in Detroit that one day had a call in segment, "Worst job." After a few callers, one guy said "Peep show janitor." There was silence for a few seconds and they went to commercial and when they came back there was a totally different segment.
(Shivers.) A guy I knew worked his way through college managing a porno movie drive-in. He said cleaning up the grounds after a movie could be pretty rugged. The concession stand had all sorts of "marital aids." To re-stock, he'd go to some mob-run warehouse and fill up a giant shopping cart. Would have liked to see that.
I used to work 42nd and 5th in the 80s. I had to walk to and from the PA bus terminal through Times Square. There walk countless pushers, pumps hawking their wares. They were aggressive too. You had to walk fast and look straight. Don't look em in the eye.
@@blazayblazay8888I think they mean that everything seems incredible in hindsight. Back in the day, people were miserable and the city was partially romanticized, but there was so much misery and resigned to the fact that it was the end of the world. The mafia controlled all the unions, the bronx was literally on fire, the city was broke, the west side highway was a barren wasteland…it was getting better pre Giuliani, but the upswing the city was on then met with a police state and selling all the best property to the biggest corporations. It could’ve been better, but we had lunatics in office and rich people thinking the chic city was a good place to store their money.
Remember how in Taxi Driver one of the things showing how screwed up in the head Travis Bickle was was that he took a chick to porn theater on their first date.
It does have a grey look at times in Nyc. Born and raised in Brooklyn mid 70s till today. There were some crazy stuff people did. It was scary for a little kid. We were raised differently.
Can you elaborate somewhat for someone born in 83 in Canada…. I’m fascinated with that era 70s-80s through my Dads stories and such. Why was it scary for a kid?
@@jojomcgee3430 he’s been in a bunch of movies, did a ton of tv (tough crowd was on of the coolest shows) but really the last 10 years he’s been putting out tons of great comedy specials.
Richard Jeni (RIP) had a bit about growing up in Bensonhurst in the 70s. He would say that he was 21 before he realized that people didn’t just wind up dying while stuck in the trunk of a car because “body found in trunk of a car” was always on the news. He just figured it happened everywhere and used to stress about how he could avoid it happening to him. 😂😂🤣🤣
I remember the local porno theater (The Riviera) would run XXX "continuous from 2pm" and on Saturdays the matinees would be Godzilla films with the theater packed with kids.
Everyone checkout Colin's online sitcom, 'Cop Show', from a few years back. It features appearances by Seinfeld, Jim Norton, Bobby Kelly and Seth Myers, among others.
I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s. It really was a different world than what we have now. Guilianni did gentrify Times Square, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
People talk about Giuliani like he was a terrible person, but I would absolutely take the tourist trap version of NYC over the depravity Joe and Colin were talking about.
I was born in 86 jackson heights queens best years of my life then I was moved to Belfast Ireland in 96. Queens was like living in the hamptons compared to Belfast 🤣
@@MarcusAurelius7777 my parents are Irish ☘️ Belfast is my home too . I’m dual citizenship. I now have my own family here in Belfast i would not change it for anything. New York is gone now the glory days r over
@@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720 Cool - I wish Ireland had a retirement visa like Spain, Italy and France... Oh well hopefully I don't get shot over here in the US... 😌
@@doctorenda8590 according to who ? It’s the north of Ireland. I hold an Irish passport . It’s not the early 1900s . It’s Ireland and it always will be
Oh my days, how did you think of such an original, extremely funny comment. You are amazing. I've 🤣😂 never 🤣😂oh I can't stop laughing, you are sooooo original. Ever thought of writing jokes. Stop, stop I can't cope with such original people. You are unique. Never ever heard it before 🙄 you complete and utter bore.
@@shawn3405 I was actually standing waiting to cross the street to go to Sbarro. The cab came up on the sidewalk on his passenger side wheels and took me out. No way he didn't see me. I'm lying on my back on the sidewalk looking at the sky getting ready to get up and go at the cab driver when two of the biggest black dudes I've ever seen in 3-piece suits come crashing out the doors of the hotel. One of them picks me up by my belt with one hand, gently placed me on my feet and made sure I was in one piece as the other rips the cabby out of the passenger side door and throws him down on the sidewalk at my feet and they start screaming at him and spitting on him. They let him go with a stern warning, and I bought the big, well dressed black dudes' lunch.
@@ProfessuhLemonAll that shit is very exaggerated. I was born in 79. Lived here till I went to college in 97. Came back in 02. The doom and gloom story is way better than the reality.
@@cactaceous The statistics and crimes reported back then are very much real. Sure, some people act like it was a complete dystopian hellscape, but it's a reality that crime in that period was exponentially worse than it is today. Pretty much every source we have confirms it. It's why statistics are important - we have the ability to look at the big picture, across many people's experiences, not just one person's anecdotal evidence.
@@ProfessuhLemon Sure, statistics are important. Statistics are not what people recite when they talk about the city as being a hell on earth inferno. Because there was crime but it didn’t overwhelmingly affect the very great majority of people that lived here. I grew up in Morningside Heights. Very close to Columbia and to Harlem. My life was not without crime in the periphery but it didn’t live in my stoop or in my life to where it affected me. I took the subway alone to school when I was 13. I skated till very late. Spent most of my time in Riverside Park till we could. Went to concerts and stuff all without having my life be in trouble, ever.
I lived on East Houston in 80s until early 90s, it was a non-stop party 24/7 until Giuliani came and broke up the party! It became so expensive and only yuppies could afford it!
Today, the unaffordability is CRUSHING. And when you see the children of the worlds’s most wealthy taking classes with you, and you’re literally losing weight from financial stress and lack of nutrition…
@@MarcusAurelius7777 I really love studying & comparing transcultural educational modes. Unexpected & interesting ethnography presents itself when you’re asking “why” while abroad. I visited the Sunflower Protests often, and learned BIG respect on Formosa. It was in New York City that paying rent and getting food took my attention and health away.
@@miahconnell23 Exactly. America has a huge system of debt slavery and wage slavery, where many people can only afford rent, food, clothes and bus fare after paying loans...
My first visit was Spring of 1979, my Aunt was a nanny for a family that had a PH on 5th Ave… many times since then. Nothing come close to the late 70’s thru the mid 90’s visits to Manhattan!
I have never been to NYC, but I guess how much that city has changed especially, with the migrant crisis. On the other hand, I didn't know Colin, and I found him a fine guy, thank you Joe for inviting him on your podcast.
It’s a little different, ya can’t compare if you’ve not seen both: Old Times Square was grubby with faint smell of danger in the air. Today’s San Francisco and today’s Los Angeles are ENTIRELY people in need of help pooping openly on the sidewalk, and there is no mid-price “home” to get away to. We didn’t used to observe Times Square or Boston’s “Combat Zone” and reactively feel the whole society was a nano-meter away from complete societal collapse. You could be someplace more functional with only a couple subway stops. California’s cities today are very close to the sort of refugee camps ya’d see in challenged, corrupt, economically disadvantaged countries abroad. There IS money to help, and there ARE policing & social-work methods that work, but our tax dollars go to defense contractors & blacked-out (not allowed to view) budgets. Should the USA remain militarily hegemonic ? Maybe. But all those tax dollars are going to “no-bid” contracts and corrupt politicians. It’s not even being spent on legit defense programs. Veterans are audited and lose what they are owed. But those certain companies receive even more than they ask congress for. There is PLENTY of money to help American citizens and broken social programs.
@@miahconnell23wow perfectly expressed imo … really got to the guts of it :.. and the sick part the infuriating amount to Defense when minus im sure some circus trick fringe classified weapon , there is Nothig. To show for it .. we get beat in every way .’c , and Russia is showing it can so far far more with a ridiculous fraction that we shell out all the while devaluing the fiat currency
@@miahconnell23 More homeless, sure. But “faint smell of danger” is really underselling it. Both New York and LA were much more dangerous 40 years ago. The crime rate nation wide is much lower today
@@miahconnell23I agree we shouldn't be spending so much on corrupt fake with defense contractors. But I don't think spending more money on it will solve the homeless problem. It'll only make it worse. California makes a whole industry out of it. Programs that make it easier to be homeless result in more homeless people. The only way to discourage it would be to make it really suck to be out on the streets, but offer shelters for those who want it, and constantly arrest those who don't. I found myself homeless a few times. Getting woken up by cops every day was better motivation than some lady bringing sandwiches.
I watch things like Kojak and the thing I love is just how rough and real the streets where it looks beautiful to me a lot better than how it is today.
My father had a small Italian restaurant on Santa Monica Blvd., just down the street from the Pussycat theater when the movie Deep Throat was playing. Many people would eat at my dad's place before going to the movie and yes, many celebs also went to see that movie as well.
Read a book a few years ago, and the author said, “By the time you get to New York, the version of the city you fell in love with will already be gone.”
One of Rogan's better interviews, this man Colin is a TRUE New Yorker. Not a poser who moved from Ohio or CT, this is the real deal. And he got stories that will kick your story's ass.
Hell's Kitchen is NOT Times Square, geographically and as far as the vibe/culture. HK is not Disney. It's just evolved and gentrified. Great bars, restaurants, etc. Like so many neighborhoods in NYC.
Simon and Pelicanos(Spellcheck lol) really did their research. Similar to what Simon did with 'The Wire.' The character Vince was a real guy, or atleast based on one, and all the stories actually happened to different people in some shape or form. They didn't necessarily all know each other quite like they did in the series but as far as the details go, it was as authentic as it gets.
I looked into a federal police job 1998, went to NY 🗽 & then later on business, went to NY 2012-2015 a few times. You could quickly tell the shift, changes in the city, culture. After 500pm 600pm the streets would clear out, business closed.
I visited New York city in the early 1970s and could not believe the cacophony of loud car horns beeping in downtown Manhattan. Came back in the late 1970s and all gone.
As someone who lived in NYC for over 30 years, I can definitely say that most of these comments are just people lying their ass off about living in NYC, including me
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and lived on the Jersey shore , I knew alot of people from Philly and Delaware and that whole Tri-state area but there’s nothing like New Yorkers.
As long as you lived in a decent part of town it was OK. You essentially just passed through the crappy parts of town, of which there were many and they were big and densely populated.
@@Jimbojanko17 because it’s the opposite color of the group that the government and media want you to believe are “the nation’s biggest threat to democracy”. That’s why. That’s not fascinating to you?….that reality is the exact opposite of what all of our governments, media, and once trusted institutions are telling you the problem is? Call me crazy, but I find that to be significant, especially for anyone who wants to update their worldview and make sure they’re aligned with reality.
@@joleaneshmoleane8358 so you’re saying white people causing the problems - right? Using your ‘logic’: From normal media it’s implied that ‘people of colour’ are more likely the problem, but you’re telling me the opposite of that is true, so that means whites are the problem? Correct? Can’t you just say what you mean rather than talk riddles?
I was a little girl in the 80's and remember going into the subway with my grandma. I remember the darkness and graffiti and robbers would snatch chains or purses and run off
I enjoy having O&A's old guests on Rogan. Has Joe had Opie and Anthony on at all? Guess I need to look that up. I am so old I remember him on Remote Control.
The NYC subway scenes from 70s films were insane, it looked like a post-apocalypse down there
I rode the subways when they all had graffiti themes in the early 80’s
Death Wish for sure, Taxi Driver.
😅G. A is 😅 0:10 v
Yeah, the good old days 🙂
@@yankees29 Bernie Goetz yo!
Living in NYC my entire life at the age of 54 I love hearing people say how bad it is. It pales in comparison to the 70s 80s and early 90s . It was seedy and really dangerous but it had personality
Yeah and you could also go get a real job. It was an era men could exist and now its one where nobody can.
Recently watched the original Deathwish from 73. They could release the movie today and so much of it still applies.
@@gezenews except for the millions of people that live there
@@everythingisawesome76 haha, no. It’s not the same at all.
@opaljk4835 yeah millions of poor immigrants getting long in the tooth waiting for that house. If you're right I'm sure the city will do well and not degenerate everyday further and further into a favela like it already is.
Growing up in any hood in NYC in the 70s, 80s, and early 90s was gladiator school
I miss those days.. I caught them on the later days since I was born in ‘83
Word
I saw colin at 9 am on 78th and Broadway in 2004. As we walked passed each other I said " colliiiiiinnnn " he laughed and said " what's up kid. " I was 25. Now I'm 45. Time flies. Colin was cool as hell.
dublin house(pub) has been opening its door 8am 79th Broadway for decades now
Nice job, COLIN
@kevinoconnor823 he had coffee in his hand bro.
@@kevinoconnor823I have to visit this place
🎉gay
Lived in Hell’s Kitchen for close to 20 years. Knew all the hookers, a few pimps, a few Westie’s etc.
Best time of my life!
How old are you?
@@LJ-MMA 12
Makes sense
@@LJ-MMA You don’t
You act 12
Finally a New Yorker that keeps it real. 80s and 90s was dangerous compared to today. Can't listen to people like Chris D who walk around scared of their shadows 😂
What has happened to him? That last JRE appearance was insane.
One of the most underrated comedians around. Tough Crowd was ahead of it’s time. RIP Patrice.
Every word I. Your post is 1000% true
Rip Greg Giraldo
Greg Giraldo too! RIP
I even liked him on SNL. But his one man show on Broadway was the best. Still funny 😂
You don't know what underrated means.
i miss everything pre 2000, people minded their business, cops were cool, if you had a problem, you could just take care of it, meaning assholes got ass whoopins
Biiiiiiiiig Love for this comment. Pre 2000, you take care of your own shit. No cops called, you stand up for Yourself, you take care of your Own business, no outside help needed. Then it’s settled. Done.
I'm really glad that you skipped the obligatory "...people got along with one another ..." comment. Did you live in the Alternative Universe NYC? It sure doesn't sound like the one I lived in.
Pre-2000s were different everywhere I think. And I think the massive reason is people weren’t trying to be a victim. We have a generation of professional victims walking the western world now.
@@matthewstephens6848 Or people WERE victims after... Remember, 9/11 was 2001! The whole country was traumatized, and maybe we are still living in the ripples of that...
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I love Colin Quinn.. he’s like the historian comedian guy.
Shane Gillis?
He's in comedy? From his SNL days who'd have guessed?
He's like a comedian who's not really funny but he has these views on society which really aren't that interesting now that I think about it.
These guys have a great job, find people with influence to tell the masses they're funny and they're set for life.
Tough Crowd was such a great show
@@user-wb7nv9ht1g Colin Quinn is great! His views on society are fascinating. You're thinking of Steven Colbert
Nothing better then time square in the 80's and 90's for former sex addicts like myself.
😂😂😂😂😂
Former? Lol...ok
Hot! 🔥🤘🏻🔥
Than
Times Square*
ok weirdo
I was born in the bronx in 76. Saw a lot of dead bodies
This conversation about the seediness of N.Y. pre-Guliani reminded me of listining years ago to a morning radio show in Detroit that one day had a call in segment, "Worst job." After a few callers, one guy said "Peep show janitor." There was silence for a few seconds and they went to commercial and when they came back there was a totally different segment.
😂😂😂😂😂
(Shivers.) A guy I knew worked his way through college managing a porno movie drive-in. He said cleaning up the grounds after a movie could be pretty rugged. The concession stand had all sorts of "marital aids." To re-stock, he'd go to some mob-run warehouse and fill up a giant shopping cart. Would have liked to see that.
I wish Joe could have had Patrice on the podcast
He should!
@IvorMektin1701 get Joe a ouija board!
@@IvorMektin1701uhm... You're gonna wanna sit down for this
Damn dude. RIP to the goat
Would’ve been awesome. Maybe in another space in time
I used to work 42nd and 5th in the 80s. I had to walk to and from the PA bus terminal through Times Square. There walk countless pushers, pumps hawking their wares. They were aggressive too. You had to walk fast and look straight. Don't look em in the eye.
Eye contact is that extra little boost of confidence they need.
The creator of back alley Tunasian knife fighter is one of the funniest comedians
"Tibetan lesbian on couch"
MISS THAT NYC
Its just as shit nit
You shouldn’t. It’s turning into the same shit hole it was. Enjoy your life of squalor.
Buddy, IF YOU ACTUALLY WERE THERE, you already know that it is all NYC hype.
@@stevensica5918 HYPE? EXPLAIN
@@blazayblazay8888I think they mean that everything seems incredible in hindsight. Back in the day, people were miserable and the city was partially romanticized, but there was so much misery and resigned to the fact that it was the end of the world. The mafia controlled all the unions, the bronx was literally on fire, the city was broke, the west side highway was a barren wasteland…it was getting better pre Giuliani, but the upswing the city was on then met with a police state and selling all the best property to the biggest corporations. It could’ve been better, but we had lunatics in office and rich people thinking the chic city was a good place to store their money.
Ha...I took a girlfriend back in the 80s to see Caligula in a main stream theater.
3 is better than 2
'Caligula' was a mainstream film just with a few dirty bits. It starred Malcolm McDowell, Peter O Toole and Helen Mirren. All big actors at the time.
Remember how in Taxi Driver one of the things showing how screwed up in the head Travis Bickle was was that he took a chick to porn theater on their first date.
I remember renting that movie. Lmao
that wouldn't happen today because Andre the giant wouldnt even be in a regular bar
It does have a grey look at times in Nyc. Born and raised in Brooklyn mid 70s till today. There were some crazy stuff people did. It was scary for a little kid. We were raised differently.
Can you elaborate somewhat for someone born in 83 in Canada…. I’m fascinated with that era 70s-80s through my Dads stories and such. Why was it scary for a kid?
@@brizzchizz7302 Go watch Taxi Driver with De Niro
@brizzchizz7302 what people get up to without surveillance was something....
Colin's show is the best thing on the RUclips
Colin is so relaxed and not affected by fame.
Fame? Never heard of this guy prior to this.
Really?? New to comedy??? Like decades famous.
Fame? 😂😂😂😂 He sucked on the SNL News desk. Other than that, what's he done on a national level to be famous?
@@jojomcgee3430 he’s been in a bunch of movies, did a ton of tv (tough crowd was on of the coolest shows) but really the last 10 years he’s been putting out tons of great comedy specials.
@@opaljk4835He was hilarious in a Larry Sanders episode
1:00 Joe is talkin about Dave Attell.
Or is he saying horrible comedians like Bert are great at self promotion ? Both ?
Richard Jeni (RIP) had a bit about growing up in Bensonhurst in the 70s. He would say that he was 21 before he realized that people didn’t just wind up dying while stuck in the trunk of a car because “body found in trunk of a car” was always on the news. He just figured it happened everywhere and used to stress about how he could avoid it happening to him. 😂😂🤣🤣
I remember the local porno theater (The Riviera) would run XXX "continuous from 2pm" and on Saturdays the matinees would be Godzilla films with the theater packed with kids.
Lol! We had a theatre in my neighborhood in Edmonton that also did that! Usually a double Godzilla feature. 50 cents and popcorn 15 cents
Everyone checkout Colin's online sitcom, 'Cop Show', from a few years back. It features appearances by Seinfeld, Jim Norton, Bobby Kelly and Seth Myers, among others.
I grew up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s. It really was a different world than what we have now. Guilianni did gentrify Times Square, but that wasn't necessarily a bad thing.
Stop and frisk was beautiful
Colin Quinn is a real one, always has been. If you ever meet him, he'll make you feel like an old friend.
That sounds extremely phoney
@@user-wb7nv9ht1g Are you a comedian he didn't invite on tough crowd?
People talk about Giuliani like he was a terrible person, but I would absolutely take the tourist trap version of NYC over the depravity Joe and Colin were talking about.
Funniest man is here.
I'm born in 83, in Brooklyn...surviving that era is a true badge of honor that no one can ever take away from you
Guessing English isn’t your first language
@@screamdreamer9085 nah, asshole is
Born in 84, I don't remember anything before 90, maybe bits of 89
you were living in your mom's basement in texas, shut up
You’re so brave
I was born in 86 jackson heights queens best years of my life then I was moved to Belfast Ireland in 96. Queens was like living in the hamptons compared to Belfast 🤣
Why were you moved to Belfast in 1996 if you are an American?? Makes no sense... Do you miss America b/c I'm thinking of moving to Ireland?
@@MarcusAurelius7777 my parents are Irish ☘️ Belfast is my home too . I’m dual citizenship. I now have my own family here in Belfast i would not change it for anything. New York is gone now the glory days r over
@@jimmyburkeirishgoodfella5720 Cool - I wish Ireland had a retirement visa like Spain, Italy and France... Oh well hopefully I don't get shot over here in the US... 😌
Belfast is in Northern Ireland
@@doctorenda8590 according to who ? It’s the north of Ireland. I hold an Irish passport . It’s not the early 1900s . It’s Ireland and it always will be
Love Colin Quinn. Man still sounds the same from his 90s stand up special on HBO 😂
I saw him get booed off stage in Philly at the electric factory - and I love Quinn. We’re brutal.
Y’all booed Santa Clause.
Philly has almost nothing going for it. It’s a pointless city.
@@donkeysaurusrex7881 They also boo their own sports teams and rarely cheer for them lol
Watch the Warriors
I remember occasionally seeing him on MTV during the 80’s and he always seemed wasted.😊
1986 Brooklyn, Graham Ave. Good times.
Jamie pull up that video of that BEAR in NYC.
Oh my days, how did you think of such an original, extremely funny comment. You are amazing. I've 🤣😂 never 🤣😂oh I can't stop laughing, you are sooooo original. Ever thought of writing jokes. Stop, stop I can't cope with such original people. You are unique. Never ever heard it before 🙄 you complete and utter bore.
Don't listen to that guy, someone had to say it.
I got hit by a cab standing on the sidewalk outside the Marriot Marquis in '94.
Awesome 😊
Hey I'm walking here
@@shawn3405 totally ad libb too
@@shawn3405 I was actually standing waiting to cross the street to go to Sbarro. The cab came up on the sidewalk on his passenger side wheels and took me out. No way he didn't see me. I'm lying on my back on the sidewalk looking at the sky getting ready to get up and go at the cab driver when two of the biggest black dudes I've ever seen in 3-piece suits come crashing out the doors of the hotel.
One of them picks me up by my belt with one hand, gently placed me on my feet and made sure I was in one piece as the other rips the cabby out of the passenger side door and throws him down on the sidewalk at my feet and they start screaming at him and spitting on him. They let him go with a stern warning, and I bought the big, well dressed black dudes' lunch.
They tried to make time square disneyland 😂
Good ole SLEAZY NEW YORK 70'S 😜👍🏻
They used to call it Fear City
Yep. People think big cities like NYC or Chicago are bad today. Crime's down drastically from the late 1970s-early 1990s. NYC was in a BAD way.
@@ProfessuhLemonAll that shit is very exaggerated. I was born in 79. Lived here till I went to college in 97. Came back in 02. The doom and gloom story is way better than the reality.
@@cactaceousGet a grip on reality. Statistics speak for themselves. It was a shithole.
@@cactaceous The statistics and crimes reported back then are very much real. Sure, some people act like it was a complete dystopian hellscape, but it's a reality that crime in that period was exponentially worse than it is today.
Pretty much every source we have confirms it. It's why statistics are important - we have the ability to look at the big picture, across many people's experiences, not just one person's anecdotal evidence.
@@ProfessuhLemon Sure, statistics are important. Statistics are not what people recite when they talk about the city as being a hell on earth inferno. Because there was crime but it didn’t overwhelmingly affect the very great majority of people that lived here. I grew up in Morningside Heights. Very close to Columbia and to Harlem. My life was not without crime in the periphery but it didn’t live in my stoop or in my life to where it affected me. I took the subway alone to school when I was 13. I skated till very late. Spent most of my time in Riverside Park till we could. Went to concerts and stuff all without having my life be in trouble, ever.
I lived on East Houston in 80s until early 90s, it was a non-stop party 24/7 until Giuliani came and broke up the party! It became so expensive and only yuppies could afford it!
Today, the unaffordability is CRUSHING. And when you see the children of the worlds’s most wealthy taking classes with you, and you’re literally losing weight from financial stress and lack of nutrition…
@@miahconnell23damn…
@@miahconnell23 Go to graduate school - Make more $$ like everyone else... 🙃
@@MarcusAurelius7777 I really love studying & comparing transcultural educational modes. Unexpected & interesting ethnography presents itself when you’re asking “why” while abroad. I visited the Sunflower Protests often, and learned BIG respect on Formosa. It was in New York City that paying rent and getting food took my attention and health away.
@@miahconnell23 Exactly. America has a huge system of debt slavery and wage slavery, where many people can only afford rent, food, clothes and bus fare after paying loans...
Love CQ. Clicked immediately
Colin's Netflix special, which is not quite stand up but, more of a one man show about New York, is brilliant comedy.
“The country was naive back then.” Translation: information was withheld from the country….
ignorance is bliss? there's an argument to br made that with less information we had more social trust and happier lives
That's TODAY as well...nothing has changed, just people thinking they know what's up but we don't
People are more naive now than ever. Worst part is, they are confident in their ignorance now
Lmao and now they just tell you what to think and everyone pretends to be “woke.”
***withheld from the public MORE EFFECTIVELY
My first visit was Spring of 1979, my Aunt was a nanny for a family that had a PH on 5th Ave… many times since then. Nothing come close to the late 70’s thru the mid 90’s visits to Manhattan!
Hells Kitchen is a gay neighborhood now lol
And expensive!
That’s what Colin was trying to say without saying it
You'd know...
People forget that New York was extremely violent and bankrupt in the 70’s
The guy doesn't even have his geography correct. Time Square is SW of Hell's Kitchen. Lincoln Center is about a mile north of Hell's Kitchen.
I have never been to NYC, but I guess how much that city has changed especially, with the migrant crisis. On the other hand, I didn't know Colin, and I found him a fine guy, thank you Joe for inviting him on your podcast.
How dare he call me a low-class degenerate🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny how Joe's acting somewhat nostalgic about this when he complains about so many of these cities with issues
I dunno man, at least these issues sound fun 😂 it's like a fantasy adventure, but it's just criminals and thugs.
It’s a little different, ya can’t compare if you’ve not seen both: Old Times Square was grubby with faint smell of danger in the air. Today’s San Francisco and today’s Los Angeles are ENTIRELY people in need of help pooping openly on the sidewalk, and there is no mid-price “home” to get away to. We didn’t used to observe Times Square or Boston’s “Combat Zone” and reactively feel the whole society was a nano-meter away from complete societal collapse. You could be someplace more functional with only a couple subway stops. California’s cities today are very close to the sort of refugee camps ya’d see in challenged, corrupt, economically disadvantaged countries abroad. There IS money to help, and there ARE policing & social-work methods that work, but our tax dollars go to defense contractors & blacked-out (not allowed to view) budgets. Should the USA remain militarily hegemonic ? Maybe. But all those tax dollars are going to “no-bid” contracts and corrupt politicians. It’s not even being spent on legit defense programs. Veterans are audited and lose what they are owed. But those certain companies receive even more than they ask congress for. There is PLENTY of money to help American citizens and broken social programs.
@@miahconnell23wow perfectly expressed imo … really got to the guts of it :.. and the sick part the infuriating amount to Defense when minus im sure some circus trick fringe classified weapon , there is Nothig. To show for it .. we get beat in every way .’c , and Russia is showing it can so far far more with a ridiculous fraction that we shell out all the while devaluing the fiat currency
@@miahconnell23 More homeless, sure. But “faint smell of danger” is really underselling it. Both New York and LA were much more dangerous 40 years ago. The crime rate nation wide is much lower today
@@miahconnell23I agree we shouldn't be spending so much on corrupt fake with defense contractors. But I don't think spending more money on it will solve the homeless problem. It'll only make it worse. California makes a whole industry out of it. Programs that make it easier to be homeless result in more homeless people. The only way to discourage it would be to make it really suck to be out on the streets, but offer shelters for those who want it, and constantly arrest those who don't. I found myself homeless a few times. Getting woken up by cops every day was better motivation than some lady bringing sandwiches.
I was told the biggest change was removing lead from the gas. Lead poisoning made the natives crazy.
Before pron was made in the US, it came from Europe. Pron theaters right in train stations in Germany!
Porn
Good ole days... I miss people not being able to look at their phones as a way to be anti-social...
I watch things like Kojak and the thing I love is just how rough and real the streets where it looks beautiful to me a lot better than how it is today.
NY was INSANE in the 80s (70s too, but I wasn’t born then). It’s Disney Land today compared to back then
I love Colin!
Night Flight was showing a film titled Times Square, if l recall, around 81?
My father had a small Italian restaurant on Santa Monica Blvd., just down the street from the Pussycat theater when the movie Deep Throat was playing. Many people would eat at my dad's place before going to the movie and yes, many celebs also went to see that movie as well.
I miss the old New York City
Read a book a few years ago, and the author said, “By the time you get to New York, the version of the city you fell in love with will already be gone.”
One of Rogan's better interviews, this man Colin is a TRUE New Yorker. Not a poser who moved from Ohio or CT, this is the real deal. And he got stories that will kick your story's ass.
Hell's Kitchen is NOT Times Square, geographically and as far as the vibe/culture. HK is not Disney. It's just evolved and gentrified. Great bars, restaurants, etc. Like so many neighborhoods in NYC.
Colin knows NYC better than you. We know what he means.
@@dominysynclair Hahahahahaha
@@dominysynclairnah he doesn’t know. Some guy who uses the word “vibe” knows better.
Long story short remains my favorite set from any comedian
those were the days, i have lots oh history there!
Not sure how accurate The Deuce is on HBO, but a great show.
It was pretty on the money they also did a great job also showing the transition .
Simon and Pelicanos(Spellcheck lol) really did their research. Similar to what Simon did with 'The Wire.' The character Vince was a real guy, or atleast based on one, and all the stories actually happened to different people in some shape or form. They didn't necessarily all know each other quite like they did in the series but as far as the details go, it was as authentic as it gets.
it was pretty damn unwatchable after season 1
@@falcr9995 3 episodes into season 2 and you're not wrong
VHS tapes came out in the late 70's early 80's, which was the biggest cultural change in America in a 100 years
Good ole 42nd st.
Quinn is just awesome!
Where's Lady Di and Marion?
In Oregon there’s a beach area called the Devils Kitchen. It’s super windy. I get it, we’re the same.
I've been to NYC twice - 1979 and 2009. The former was the most exciting place I've been to; the latter was boring af.
I looked into a federal police job 1998, went to NY 🗽 & then later on business, went to NY 2012-2015 a few times. You could quickly tell the shift, changes in the city, culture. After 500pm 600pm the streets would clear out, business closed.
I visited New York city in the early 1970s and could not believe the cacophony of loud car horns beeping in downtown Manhattan. Came back in the late 1970s and all gone.
Only in Hell’s Kitchen would a tough Irish street kid pick a fight with André the giant !
Everything in moderation. People are addicted to alot of things. Balance. Burt Reynolds got an Oscar nomination for Boogie Nights.
Colin embodies the native New Yorker. He’s seen it all
There was a show on HBO a few years back called The Deuce and it was all about this subject.
Omfg I almost died laughing he said a A sad herion addiction gross.
I just stayed in Hell's Kitchen w my daughter for a weekend. Its very nice now.
Now it's here in Vegas lol
As someone who lived in NYC for over 30 years, I can definitely say that most of these comments are just people lying their ass off about living in NYC, including me
WINDOW UP. PANTS DOWWWWN!
Everybody should go and watch CQ's Block By Block show, it's so interesting and obviously funny
Basketball players..
Basketball people*
13%
Just out for a jog, Doing nothing wrong.
@@bobzacamano65813% = 51%
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They don't have handcuffs anywhere on Earth big enough to fit the wrists of Andre the Giant.
I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and lived on the Jersey shore , I knew alot of people from Philly and Delaware and that whole Tri-state area but there’s nothing like New Yorkers.
Now, we have massage parlors
Rogan showing the proper veneration to Colin. I appreciate that.
I wish i could have of grown up in that era
No, it wasn't that much fun
@IvorMetkin1721 how was it in a bad way? Born 83 fascinated by that era especially NYC
@@brizzchizz7302 Watch some old news reels from NYC in the 70s and 80s. Geraldo Rivera did some great street reporting in the 70s, go find those.
As long as you lived in a decent part of town it was OK. You essentially just passed through the crappy parts of town, of which there were many and they were big and densely populated.
53rd & 3rd. NYC
I lived in a drug & alcohol program on Hell’s Kitchen in 2015/2016
Ask any tourist who visits NYC and ask them what color was causing the most raucous
Why
@@Jimbojanko17 because it’s the opposite color of the group that the government and media want you to believe are “the nation’s biggest threat to democracy”. That’s why. That’s not fascinating to you?….that reality is the exact opposite of what all of our governments, media, and once trusted institutions are telling you the problem is? Call me crazy, but I find that to be significant, especially for anyone who wants to update their worldview and make sure they’re aligned with reality.
@@joleaneshmoleane8358 so you’re saying white people causing the problems - right?
Using your ‘logic’: From normal media it’s implied that ‘people of colour’ are more likely the problem, but you’re telling me the opposite of that is true, so that means whites are the problem? Correct?
Can’t you just say what you mean rather than talk riddles?
wilding
So what color??? Just answer the question..
I was a little girl in the 80's and remember going into the subway with my grandma. I remember the darkness and graffiti and robbers would snatch chains or purses and run off
Joe must feel intimidated when proper comedians come on.
Gods speed brotha 🙏
You must feel intimidated when proper men walk in the room...
Come on. Quinn never blew up. He peaked in the early 00's with his appearances on O and A radio. Hardly a big timer
Tired meme about Rogan not being that funny. He knows he's not the best comedian in the world.
For someone that writes comments hating on Joe Rogan you sure are here a lot. Over 100 comments and most are negative. You must be a billionaire huh?
Nostalgia for open air drug markets and degenerate behavior is crazy
i miss hose days so much..
That's how I remember the 80s in black n white.😂
The 80s were definitely color - the 50s were black and white.
7:07 😂😂😂
Colin is the man
I enjoy having O&A's old guests on Rogan. Has Joe had Opie and Anthony on at all? Guess I need to look that up. I am so old I remember him on Remote Control.
Colin was in Crocodile Dundee 2