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we're here but should we have come an eight-hour flight followed by a 40-minute taxi ride reveals new york to be on the outer rim of short haulery we just had a long flight but i feel no jet lag i feel terrible i find it very difficult to cope with any form of travel yet you're weak travel man it's unfortunate casting you're probably wondering why the heck i've brought you to these climbs are you wondering that i wasn't going to ask you to laugh to the bridge but richard why have you brought me to manhattan well that question is timely new york or the giant hassle has a population of eight and a half mil which makes this america's largest city housing twice as many torsos as the frankly quaint la it's the birthplace of the teddy bear hip-hop and my desert island must-have toilet paper it contains 10 national parks 247 museums and art galleries as well as in the safety deposit box albert einstein's eyeballs and jay-z recently gave me his personal assurance that the streets here are so good that they will both inspire you and make you feel brand new alongside some other statements that we're basically just boasting underground aficionados will already know that it's the seventh most used underground on earth with 1.763 billion journeys a year [Music] you've probably got a ranking system of your favorite underground transport networks how does this rank new york city subway ranks higher than germany definitely higher than toronto not as good as london a trip to the top of 30 rock allows the board a full ocular swoop of the city skyline richer well okay well you know yes this is densely clustered it is prince charles would hate this let's put this virus screen so that we can really drink this in yeah this is going to tell us what we're looking at what are we looking at we're looking at the empire state building that's cool oh you can go round oh yeah try the building i like that one do you like it one of my faves do you know you can buy airspace around your building preventing anyone else from building there and obstructing your views i did not know that sensing myself out of my conversational depth i suggest we leave and do something else it's the met wow within the context of manhattan it kind of looks boutique like a bungalow yeah they haven't used the airspace wisely at all considering the value of the real estate problem we face two million exhibits our time is limited what are we gonna do i'll tell you what we're going to do off camera in an effort to condense this mammoth museum i've secured the services of an independent guide who insists he will make our visit subversive interactive fun and fast we're gonna fly through this music okay good we're gonna blast it into our retina and move on i love it okay well if we're gonna do this we gotta get this thing started yes let's get started we have a little museum hack tradition that gets us going because i know you want to move fast yes i do i need all hands in the center please we go down on you and then up on ziam and then we charge into the match this is quite i'm nearly 40. you're nearly 40. okay well you're gonna have to keep up okay move on museum all right let's go that must endear you to people and so begins our slide across the surface of the met 17 acres of galleries arms and armor this is henry viii and this is before okay and after so as he aged he became less concerned about his groin like many men let's move on next prehistoric and early greek art what do we got we got this all right okay check this out they think this may be a 6 000 year old selfie commentators claim that the proportions of the sculpture mean the artist may have been looking at herself without a mirror oh yes you are looking at this from the wrong angle jenna no and i like that she has natural breasts yeah is this for sale unfortunately not okay let's move on welcome to the temple of dendor thank you this is i mean it's extraordinary the positioning of this gift from egypt was decided by former first lady jacqueline kennedy onassis jackie o had purchased a brand new penthouse apartment right across the street from the museum this is lit up 24 7 365 and suddenly the tabloids start referring to this as jackie's night light it's excellent it's beautiful it's really good you don't have to travel to egypt that's what i like about museums oh yeah you can go all over the world in one afternoon our frantic twirl takes us to the roof where on we behold one of the museum's newest exhibits this is by cornelia parker we're calling it cycle barn yeah yep right thank you for having us now that i have added my approbations okay watch those till receipts saw my influence is huge i didn't even know what a museum was until i'm at return exactly i i bow to you my friend you mustn't all right i'll start a trend thank you bye guys you just gone now i'm just i'm out that's it we're never talking again that's so weird isn't it all right this is good christaberg would love it let's go we are taking a sunset stroll along the high line from which our hotel snatched its moniker straight down okay it's the former elevated railway now linear park green fingered viewers will immediately recognize this as the work of the influential garden designer piet udolph thoughts on this it's glorious let's move on i failed to book a broadway show so this is a cost-effective alternative okay you're more than welcome [Music] of new york's many bars only marie's crisis persists in holding a show tuned sing-along round the piano every night right well i think you're gonna need one or seven drinks this is where all the introverts gather how are you feeling so fast i'm okay how are you yeah this is this is um this is too community spirited for me we passively pootle to the piano just as the throng throats one of catherine's personal highlights from the musical rent [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] um don't know that song so i felt um it was like being trapped it's being trapped in a good way in a in a very one-sided conversation do you guys want to sing another song i mean no but i imagine i imagine they're going to do a little you like it or not yeah [Applause] unable to cope with this public expression of joy i record this flipper did you love it richard that feels like a leading question um i'm pleased they were enjoying themselves but it was a bit like turning up to a party when everyone's drunk yeah it's great to watch them having a great time they were drunk on show tubes the staten island ferry runs 24 hours a day seven days a week it's 100 gracious offering travelers a time and cost effective if somewhat distant look at an nyc landmark [Music] and there she is it's an it it's not a person it's a statue it's a knit i'm never sure about that hat it seems quite unwelcoming and quite pointy i see it as a friendly nod to nearby birds who might want to have a rest right do you feel like you've seen the statue of liberty now richard i actually have seen it so it's more than a feeling it's a reality we career into central park visitors can explore this uptown rectangle by carriage bike or leg after a brief off-camera consultation with our separate stylists we decide to get into our sports shoes what could be better than learning to rollerblade in this heat roller joel created the first ever inline skating school in new york city in 1988. former clients include cindy crawford who used to work as a model hey guys hi are you uh roller joel i am indeed rolla joel and you are richard richard pleasure to meet you catherine catherine so welcome to new york welcome to central park so have you skated before no have you skated before i have a little bit as a child i will make you expert skates when i'm done with you really natural pessimist joel gets us padded up this is going to be a good sequence when it's cut together before we bring the thunder [Music] i'm just going to pull you oh you're a natural look at you i feel like a retired darling now put your hands forward on your knees and roll this is a deleted scene from night of the living dead catherine chose herself to be a classic ringer that's it whereas i develop instant osteoporosis now when you come back next time sure we're going to go out i'll go on for a much more extensive tour we can cover all the acres on skates but we do manage a creditable creep around the park taking in the band shell used as a location in the film breakfast at tiffany's hands and the bethesda terrace which you'll recognize from stuart little too wow this is not my natural habitat we finished at the cherry hill fountain which many mistakenly think is the fountain at the start of friends well thank goodness that was uh now something well better than nothing good luck you had a good time don't forget keep on rolling keep on joeling ooh i like that even better look at this it is quite grand it is grand central terminus terminus not station why not no trains pass through here it's the end of the line and the beginning of the line 750 000 people pass through here daily it used so much granite that there's still radiation here we're in the middle of a radiation zone and they've just decided that's fine there's nothing i can do about it there's that much granite let's hit the dining concourse yes this corner of the station is home to an acoustic anomaly hello hi richard how are you i feel slightly unnerved by this sound is reflected by the curve of the ceiling so we can hear each other clearly despite standing 10 meters apart and facing in opposite directions this is a much easier way for me to communicate than normal it's a lot easier there's none of that kind of strange eye contact business or you know engaging with someone's face i mean it just looks like you're having a wii it does i'm gonna step away now okay hello hello welcome to music is dangerous by the way okay i almost killed myself so the double m is silent yes the first m but the second m you sound if you want to okay play it again slowly museum okay museum thank you opened in 2012 the museum is housed in a goods elevator which this afternoon has reached the temperature of fresh lava my glasses are slipping off my nose when they say the museum challenges you to find meaning and objects from around the world which have been overlooked dismissed or ignored and they actually say this in this condescending sign they're not joking about it being a challenge exhibits include different kinds of cornflakes and things left by illegal immigrants crossing into america these are good these trump accessories the trump energy drink he has an energy drink i actually own the after the comeback myself but in paperback how is it it's heavy going okay it's heavy going maybe you wrote it on the energy drink yeah above the trump collection are cookies displaying major events of 2015 including the vw emission scandal and edible instances of the refugee crisis there is also an audio guide god help us to unlock the complex imagery would you like to listen to the audio recording i'd like my head to cool down it's very hot i tell you what the story this this incredible melting man that's what the story is right here i'm not even incredible it's like the slightly bemused melting man i want you to be comfortable that's why i'm here that's what friendship is no i don't i'm very hot i'm sorry i apologize it's not your fault you didn't design this she didn't you're just out of work well thank you i'm going to leave this has been something it really has so great thank you so much thank you for coming to museum we had a really great time let's sum this up while we're upstaged by the background how's the trip i'm absolutely thrilled that you've brought me to new york richard i had a the rockefeller center good i loved the met yes museum yes i even loved the food tourism new york is very good it's a city of dreams i think they've certainly built themselves a city on a national scale if not an international scale it has been my absolute pleasure to join you i am thrilled to be here well you're more than welcome we'll settle up at the airport okay because this wasn't cheap [Music] we're here but should we have come question mark punctuation's implied what am i going to do add a comma after we're here miami is the cruise ship capital of the world so those with oodle levels of time can hit the drink but since we're trying to get this shiz done quick fast we climb into the clouds and while the frugal could forge a 48-hour floridian frolic for under 1k per purse 48 hours miami is a stupidly long way to go why richard why well let's cut to this montage underpinned by a monologue by way of an answer in 1896 landowner julia tussell persuaded a railroad baron to lay a line to miami making this at time of recording the only major american city founded by a woman greater miami is the largest convention in florida it has the 131st best drivers in america but it's the second most friendly city for people with facial hair floridian first include air conditioning sunscreen and my one-time ally gatorade miami beach's beach is man-made and tragically near a sea which won't quit washing it away in the last year over a quarter of a million tons of sand have been shoved down to sure shiz up mike you guys ready to go yes thank you [Music] skipper mike takes visitors on a 90 min motor around miami but and i feel it's my duty to warn you in advance he does sometimes use the word sexy though with these head turns who the heck can blame the guy this is downtown miami this is the sexiest place on the planet people come here to have a good time and let loose and have fun sounds like hell the people happy with people just looking into their houses from the vantage point of a boat you buy a house on an island it's called star island yes people are probably going to be coming by your house all right to be honest i feel like they're invading our privacy i feel a bit observed here this is the biggest property on star island each one of these palm trees costs ten thousand dollars shut the door these are south african date palms they all stopped growing at the same height he wanted this effect you're out of here he paid 10 grand to get palm trees that grow to the same height but you could cut them in the old uniform whose house is this mike this white one used to belong to julio iglesias get a state of those palm trees so your palm trees out mate i'm embarrassed for you this is the house of p diddy ladies and gentlemen normally when the cushions are out right here that's how we know that diddy's in town did he put the cushions out was that did he asking somebody else to put the cushions out did they did he done it or was it somebody else that done it and then did he thanked him for it i can see you in the house like that yes breaking in yeah trying to take what i can under cover of night this is windward this is the art district eight miles murals over 70 galleries eight miles of europe hips are districts once a rundown industrial district windward has been revivified by the gust of art are any of the houses along here just a simple pebble dash or a nice cement front there's no mock tudor it's very very hit let's go in we roll up into the windward walls an open-air gallery full of top-notch grasped to the feety [Music] hey are you a graffiti i wouldn't i wouldn't deface the building no you wouldn't know no i wonder how he'd feel if this were the face i once drew a little man on my parents bathroom wall did you yeah i was grounded for about a month so i can i can empathize with it i'm a kindred spirit still processing the unwelcome revelation that i'm on the lamb with a criminal i decide to move on this one's coming out of the wall what have they done to that horse is a petting zoo gone wrong though [Music] what's that there i don't know that's when a horse and a crab get together that's a haram that's a party where everyone's got too loose it's an octophant or is it an elio plus depends who who starts things off well this is not my natural habitat and it's very early why would anyone stay in bed when you could walk on granulated rock towards a yoga group you'll be pleased to know this is free my favorite price plan don't get me wrong i've never done yoga i've never wanted to do yoga but if you're gonna have to do it this is the place none of this is right get your towel down beautiful the class is in full flow but we are half-hearted displaying an almost spiritual inflexibility that's not happening it's not happening this is a baptism of fire all the way back child's pose exhale it's like a different breed of person all the way up touch the sky and heart sorry this is just someone who started talking to themselves and they formed a cult to the dismay of our newfound community time restrictions command our early exit we promise to keep in touch via various social media platforms and back out [Music] how do you feel about yoga i don't think that was a triumph no i'm pleased with this cape though we buckle up and put pedal to the metal but sadly i've left my the very best of phil collins cd in the hotel what do you make of this convertible experience do you like it from a uv perspective yeah a disaster you're creamed up i'm fully creamed up that is a nice skyline yes don't you look at it you watch the road okay over there we've got the docks for some nice big cranes for heavy lifting don't you look you look at the road i'm ten and two all the way the other thing is you're driving on the left-hand side again it's one way it's a motorway i mean it's a good job i'm not of a nervous disposition you're in very safe hands with me i'm just sort of telling myself that nothing bad can happen because we're on tv and yet it could they couldn't show that oh they wouldn't show it but they'd edit what footage they had and try and parcel it as some kind of shoddy tribute i conclude this driving master class with an elegant slide into one of the many parking bays of coopertown instantly taking its population to double figures that's all right yeah that wasn't too bad do you want to roll over the front of the bonnet the largest subtropical wilderness left in this country that trump's making great again the everglades is a vast slow-moving river which covers over two thousand square miles it's often only a few inches deep so flat bottomed airboats are a flipping boom it's lovely to be at one with nature i don't if the wildlife even knows my girl after this moment of intimacy rod fatally betrays my trust and the notorious sub-clause of our bloodlines the trip will never be the same again [Music] this is eerie now what would make a gator attack me basically you have to aggravate him more than anything because a lot of people just don't take to me jesse a lot of people just don't like me i think to be honest part of the problem is that you're wearing real flamingo shoes i am i am dressed like a flamingo one right in front of you on the left there we go he's coming for you he's gone he's coming forward standing one leg now stand on one leg now that is not a friend of mine rod rod rod oh god flamingo over here flamingo oh yeah they speaking [Music] they're circling us jesse yeah what do they want from us jesse we're in we're actually in their dining room so we're just curious to see what's moving around maybe we should go through the lounge oh okay they're one of the very few animals that hasn't went through very much evolutionary change since the age of the dinosaur they're much more beautiful than i was expecting yeah you know what i'd say their beauty takes second place to their absolute terrifying nature yeah [Music] our time up we fling my hairy flamingo legs back to the jetty jesse thank you thank you very much amazing thank you thank you what a pleasure even we were in alligator infested waters i still felt safer out there than i did in the car with you how day it's interesting isn't it when you have to play against people like me the first thing you do you start praying because i'm the champion 2016. cubans have been playing dominoes here for 35 years are we playing as a team yes is this the national game of cuba a high stakes 55-tile game with numbers as high as 9. come on richard can i do that yes you can you two are going down oh that could have just lost you again rod like some roided up red yeah boom commences another campaign of psychological [Music] let's destruction him let's focus it we're gonna stay here until we win a game let's stay until we win humbled but angrier than ever we rollick on with round two take that we sniff blood along with the possibility of winning come on rich we can win this i get it you got it you clicked in this is the best time i've ever had this is where i belong you ready for this victory is ours and we accept it with understated grace you guys learn so quick this guy hasn't been beaten since there was color photography that's how you play dominoes yes yes you know that yes yes you nailed that thank you i've never felt so alive no you're pumped these people know what life is you showed up you just caused the cuban crisis they're keeping their minds alive they just need a bit more cardio and they've solved it i wish i'd dressed appropriately right how did you know it's gonna be this cold ah ryan gosling told me did he when he gave me this jacket how do you feel it was miami i've enjoyed it it's a party city isn't it it's big and bold and brash and cash and muscle and flesh and bikini and it's not really used if any town in the world has not got your name written on it is this one dare you i know what you enjoyed most winning the dominoes second to that new domino champion is the continual mystery as to whether you'll ever put that hat on it's given every scene an underlying tension will he yeah would he do it now yeah i'm not even sure myself i've loved it yeah well thank you for coming thanks for having a joy sleep on the plane yeah and don't follow the claim straight away well look you're on lifeguard duty now so i'm gonna okay mate go up there yeah you're gonna have a swim i can't win definitely in between the flags then okay [Music] you

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Published: Mon Mar 14 2022