I love that there were two apparently-impromptu Sly Stallone impressions within days of each other.

Re: your first question, it's connected, but not terribly so.  It looks like they're keeping street-level New York pretty much status quo.

It seems the only winning move is not to play…

Seconding the Jonah Raydio podcast.  I will warn you that if you absolutely hate late-80's early-90's hardcore, you will not enjoy it.  But otherwise it's a fun friends-hang-out type show with some interesting guests that aren't the same LA comedy folks you hear on every other podcast.

While you were gone, the Trotters held a news conference to announce that I was a jive sucker.