Ep 39: New York Part 2 — Tattoos, Clubbing, Dive Bars & Dining

It’s Part Two of the Demon Babie New York City Special — and Joey and Emma are back from a hot, sweaty, chaotic week in the Big Apple. From fresh tattoos and clubbing in Manhattan to dive bars, pizza, and bagels, these two did the most.

They’re debriefing it all: the food, the nightlife, the outfits, the people, and the East vs. West Coast vibe check. So grab a Manhattan (the drink… or the borough), settle in, and drop your hot take — is NYC better than LA?

Don’t forget to comment what topics you want them to yap about next week.

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Welcome into another episode of the Demon Babie Podcast. I'm Demon of Hollywood, A K A Joey Lombardo, and I'm sitting here next to my bi Coastal baddie. Blond Babie. AKA Emma Nilsson, and we are post New York trip. So this is kind of a New York recap, recap or a part two of, part part two of our predictions episode. Mm-hmm. We spent five nights, gained five pounds, and uh, I swear it was 15. Feels like 20. Should have made it 30. Oh God, I feel so fat. Yeah. You guys love carbs. You guys know how to put it back? Yeah. Carb one. Carb at a time. Literally. Um, so yeah, we're gonna talk more about New York and what we actually think. Yep. As two La Glazer. Welcome to the show, but, oh. Let's get into it. Let's get into it. Hit me with it. First topic, the weather. The weather is terrible. You. We were there in July. We were there in July. Everyone said, don't go to New York in the summer. Don't go to New York in the summer. We agree. We agree. We found out why it was 95 degrees, a hundred percent humidity, and I wanted to kill myself. My skin broke out in pimples. My hair couldn't hold a style. I sweat out of every pour. We were sweating it up. It was disgusting. Thank God. Most places have ac thank. God. I mean, people say we need ac, they need it way worse. Way more. Yeah, they needed way more. Mm-hmm. Yeah. No, it was sweaty, wetty, gross. I understand why all the rich people go to the Hamptons. They gotta get out of there. Yeah. They need to get their body in some water to get the water off their body. Escape. Escape. Escape. Yeah, exactly. Um, so yeah, weather was terrible. Uh, LA weather gets the w on that one. A hundred percent. Hit me. Next topic. Uh, the city overall, very pretty, very different from la. Very different from la I mean, not that I thought. It would be the same, but, but it is. I knew it would be, it was more different than I thought. I didn't realize how side by side, by side all the buildings actually were and how much you don't really see the sky unless you look straight up. Shocking. Jarring, I would say. Yeah. Not shocking. I also expected it, but it is a little jarring when you're in it. You're like, okay. I don't see anything like it's just building on the horizon. Yeah. There's no horizon. Yeah. Just buildings that, that's why you have to go up the Empire State Building to see you. If you wanna see, yeah, you gotta get up there, but it's a very pret city. Oh, beautiful. I would say, uh, New York probably gets to W for prettier city. Oh yeah. It's, it's a beautiful city. I love all the architecture. Yeah. The architecture is very nice. So you guys can take the W on that one. Agreed. Next topic, breakfast. Now breakfast is controversial because I think our coffee's better. Okay. And I think our pastries are on par, if not better, but I like pastry and coffee better here. Okay. But their bagels. Wow. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. I mean we've gotten some good bagel shops here still the outta the park. We went to two bagel places and they both blew our socks off. Leo's and Leons. Leons Tompkins. Square Park. Park. Mm-hmm. Bagel. Mm-hmm. Yep. Both bomb bagels. Yeah. Highly recommend. Highly recommend both of them. Very cool. So who gets the W for breakfast though? I don't know. What do you think? You haven't really said your opinion. I would say LA gets the W for breakfast.'cause we. Own breakfast burritos better. We have better, and I would say more variety on the options. Easier to find breakfast in LA than it was in New York. It was a bitch to find breakfast in New York. Mm-hmm. Exactly. Like you can walk out, drive, you're not probably gonna walk to breakfast, but there's a different coffee shop in LA on almost every corner. And I'm not talking about Starbucks. No coffee shops are spread out in New York. At least it felt like, I mean, there was two right on our street. True in east village. So, but it just didn't feel like that for some reason. It didn't. Yeah, it didn't. So who gets the w? We do. There we go. Hit me with it. Next topic. Moving on to lunch. Who gets the W for lunch? New York or la? I don't know. Lunch, can be whatever. What do you think? I'm gonna go, New York gets the W for lunch. Why More options for lunch. Everywhere was finally open, it seemed like. Yeah. Also, everything just opens late there. It felt that way. Yeah. Um, so yeah, I would say lunch wise, I think they have better lunch. They're more inclined to have lunch and a lot of lunch deals. Uh, I thought there was better lunch options time-wise and. Food wise, they were more inclined to give you lunch deals, more happy hours, stuff like that. Yeah, there were a lot of lunch deals going on I noticed. Yeah. Which was kind of cool. It's something I've never really seen LA do and easier pickup spots, like slices and stuff like that. Quick lunches. Yeah, grab and go lunches. Much of a thing. So I'm gonna get them the W for lunch on. Yeah. New York is the W. So hit me with it. Next topic. Dinner. What do you think dinner seems like it's much more a part of their culture. I would say dinner in New York versus la. The New York dinner is part of. Their entire bit almost. Yeah, I agree. We'll go out for drinks or to the bar. Yeah, you'll go out to dinner here. But like it's not as much of like LA's personality. Yeah, I agree. Of what you come here to do. Yes. But they're like out at dinner for hours. Mm-hmm. And it's like a big thing. Almost European esque almost. I would agree. So, and I would say dinner restaurants, there. Are better at it. Yeah, I would agree. Mm-hmm. It wasn't that hard to get a reservation. No. And everyone that says, oh, it's hard to get a reservation on a Friday, maybe. We didn't really have a problem, but like, oh, Carbone. I looked it up on a Monday. There were like 30 reservations. Yeah. It didn't seem that hard. We didn't go, but it didn't seem hard. Yeah. So everyone chill out on a, it's so hard to get a reservation. Mm-hmm. It's not, it wasn't that hard. Use your brain. You just had to, you. Oh, if you need a reservation, get a reservation. We also walked in some places, so it wasn't really ever a big deal. It wasn't ever hard. Yeah, I would say their dinner restaurants are prettier than ours, though. Way prettier. All of their restaurants overall I would say are much prettier. Yeah. Very great architecture. Huge interior. The interior design of the whole city is so well done. Yeah. Their art direction is just 10 outta 10, but I think they spend more time inside, which is why. They also have had more time to invest in these buildings. That's also true. They're older buildings. True, true, true. Across the board. True, true, true. We have a lot of new construction, new buildings. True, true, true. So yes. It's gonna be a totally different vibe. Hit me with it. Next topic, dive bars, la dive bars versus New York dive bars. Can you name a New York dive bar? We went to Rudy's Dive Bar. Okay. Which gives you a free hotdog for every round, which was the lit, which is amazing. Oh, I do have, I was gonna say, LA diver bars feel more divey, but I don't think that's the actual truth. I think New York dive bars have better deals. New York dive bars have better deals, is a great answer. Yeah, la Dive bars don't give you the deals. Like New York dive bars do.. La Dive bars will be a little cheaper than a normal bar, but not a lot. A New York dive bar is gonna give you a $4 shot and a $4 beer. New York dive bar though. Doesn't feel divy enough to me. That's what I was gonna say is why LA dive bars feel like a dive, like they feel dirty because we went dirty, went some of small spots, but nothing felt that divy. Everything was nice. It was kind of nice. Yeah. I'm like, okay, not divy. Yeah. Kind of nice here. So yeah, I, it doesn't really get across a dive. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. It doesn't really give dive. Mm-hmm. You've red booths and your lighting's low. That doesn't make you a dive. I agree. A dive is. A dive. Yeah. Um, so I'm gonna say break even on Dives la, New York break even. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Different things. Completely different, uh, definitions for dive. Agreed. Mm-hmm. But I would say I have a preference for the prices at a New York dive. Exactly. Yeah. I do too. Yeah. Um, all right, next topic. Clubs, nighttime clubbing, um, New York clubs are. Much more pretentious. And much more pretentious. They, which is the, they call us pretentious. They don't care how much money you're spending. They don't like you in that moment. You're gone. Yeah. You're gone. You're gone. Get out. Yeah. Which didn't happen to us how, but we saw of it. Yeah. Um, yeah. The club life is different out there and. I mean, it's just goes with the personality. I'm not really sure how to explain it. It's trying to give, uh, studio 54 vibes, but which is where it is originated. So would make sense. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Um, that's crazy. Ah, yeah. I don't know. Clubs, I don't know how, who would get the W one who has better clubs? Their clubs feel like. Bar clubs to me, not like nightclubs. Yeah. Where our clubs almost feel like event spaces. Yes. So like they're two extremes on the same spectrum, for sure. Yeah. So I don't know which do I prefer? Prefer think also, I guess I would prefer theirs. Oh, because it feels more like a bar. Yeah. And less like an event space. Yeah.'cause I don't really like how massive clubs in LA are. Yeah. It's not my favorite. No. Mine either. I'm like, I didn't pick. I don't wanna be at a rave. I'd be at a rave. It's like in a concert. Yeah. So maybe I'll give it to them on that one. Yeah. Nightclub. I'll give it to them. So I agree. It was more intimate. More intimate. And really unique architecture again. Yeah. Loved it. And really good interior design that carried through. Yeah. Agreed. All right. Next topic. Parks, New York Parks, LA Parks, New York Parks are in. Incredible. Makes me wanna move. Central Park. Central Park. Central Park. We, we spent an entire day in Central Park going from. The southern end. The northern end. I mean, oh my God. It was just never the, the most amazing thing in the world. Never. It never stopped. There were so many different parts. There were things happening. There were so many things happening. There were lakes. There were kids playing. There was baseball, there was kickball, there was soccer, there was pickle. There was, and rock climbers. Rock. There was, there was crazy climbers. There was like forest you could hike through. There's a zoo. We didn't even see it. We didn't even see the zoo. There's a castle. We saw the castle. We saw the castle. There's two meadow castle. Beautiful. I mean, it's just gigantic. I'm actually upset. We're not there right now. I loved the Central Park. Central Park. I love Central Park. Central Park. Central Park. It's not is the best park in the world. It's, but by far the best park in the world. There's not even a competition. There's nothing to say. I love la. There's nothing. Our parks are trash. Our parks hate sitting at them. And our parks are literally, we need to take notes. The scum of the world. Yeah. Our parks are terrible. Yeah. And that was. Depressing how good that was. That's what made me wanna move. It was like Disneyland it. We kept saying, why are we walking on Disneyland right now? This is so crazy. Yeah. It was like free Disneyland. It was crazy. Well manicured, everything beautiful. It was amazing. Yeah, I was very impressed with Park. Good job, New York. Good job. Nailed it. And the water features in the park, not just Central Park. All the parks had like little water features, fountains, fountains, sprinklers for the kids. Mm-hmm. Perfect. Amazing. So thoughtful to have kids enjoy it as well as adults. Yes, I agree. Yeah. Thought of the whole lifespan. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Who's gonna be here? Who's using this park? What's the community? Yeah. Mm-hmm. And it was clearly building community.'cause every park was being used. It was beautiful. Loved it. Yeah. Yeah. LA take notes. You're embarrassing take, we're embarrassing ourselves with that one. Yeah. Can't even be in the same boat. In the same room. No. Yeah. Next topic. Uh, mu museums, great museums. It was better museums though. You know pretty well the museums out here. Well, we have good museums. True. But the Met the Met was the only museum we got to go to. Only one we had time for, but it was pretty. Blow my socks off. It blew our socks off. Um, kind of upset. The super fine ex exhibition wasn't open. True. It wasn't fully open. I don't understand why it wasn't open. We're not sure, but whatever. But the ancient Egypt. Installation with the simulated Nile Nile. Crazy Cor I've never seen socks. anything like that? Blown gone. Blown off. Yeah. Beautiful. Yeah. Really appreciate it. Really loved the whole thing. The Met you have to go to the Met, you have to go to the Met, I mean, you just have to Central Park and the Met, even if you don't see every exhibit in it, what you will see is worth it. If I had one day in New York, I'd go to Central Park and the Met. That's all I need. That's all I would need. And a pizza. And a pizza. Which gets me to my next topic. Pizza. New York. Upsettingly. Better. Where'd we go? We went to Ceres. Ceres. Mm-hmm. Cello Uhhuh. That one. Random Pizza by the Slice. Uhhuh. And that's it. That's it. Three places. So we have three pizza says. All bangers. I mean, people make single one joke that LA Pizza doesn't stand a chance. And I was like, oh, and Lombardi's. Oh, and Lombardi's, yeah. And Lombardi's. Four pizzas. Yeah. I mean, they were so good. I. Again, I couldn't believe how much better they were. I was so upset. The crust, LA pizzas are undercooked. What the fuck are we doing chefs? It's because they're double cooking their pizzas, basically. It is. If they cook them once, mm-hmm. They wait, then you order it, then they heat it. Yeah. And then you get that second heat and that's the difference maker. You don't get. It's like you said, it's like making toast. Your bread's already baked. Mm-hmm. Then you toast it. Even better. Even better. Toast is better than bread. Yeah. In my opinion. Facts, facts. Um, so yeah, pizza w for New York. hate to say all the way. Mm-hmm. Next topic. Tattoos. We got two tattoos. Well, you got, I got three. Three. I got two. Tattoos in New York are not as good. I would agree. It was impossible to find an artist. That wasn't shitty. That wasn't shitty. It took forever and then, or a good style. Yeah. There was no, I mean, it just was so hard to find clear to find, win a good style. Or like someone that was in town, which, whatever, if you're traveling, that's fine. So many touristy tattoos too. Touristy tattoos. Oh my God. And then the one shop I did wanna go to was so exorbitantly overpriced. Yeah. You got a quote for $1,500. For a, for a tiny three, three inch tattoo. Yeah. That's crazy. I get. You're paying for their time and dedication to their craft. Listen, we 1500 for one tattoo. We, I'm sorry. Go home for 1500 is fine for a much bigger tattoo. We're you were talking the size of a dollar bill. I wasn't even, I was talking the size of a quarter. True. Yeah, that's crazy. So I mean, $1,500 for that is insane, especially when LA has some of the best tattoo artists in the world. I would say. tattoos, LA gets the W and I'll stand on that and I, I stand on that too. I would say the only one that's really competed so far would be Korea. They have great, they have some great tattoo artists too. Great tattoo artists, and. It looked like Japan did. We just missed it. Yep. Uh, it's on us and that's our fault. But if we're going east coast, west Coast, I'm taking my West Coast tattoos. Any day of the week. Any day of the week. Any day of the week. I'm not gonna waste my time trying to get a tattoo out there next time. Nope. I got my little signature that I was there. And then that's it. That's it. Later. Next topic. Uh, late night food. Oh, um hmm. Well, we only had one place. We went to Katz twice at 3:00 AM Highly recommend.

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00 AM. Walk-in. Walkin no Line. Super late. Late. No one's there. Super late. Yeah, no one's there. People are, there's not packed. Also just Katz in general. Insanely good sandwich. You can't get that anywhere else. No, that was one of the, I'm a big Reuben girl. If you go back to our Irish episode, we talk about my first time trying Reuben's Uhhuh, and now I'm obsessed. Mm-hmm. And the Katz Reuben. Oh my God. So good. I, I mean, it's so good. I went back drunk the next night. Yeah. And got it again, back to back Drunkies. Back to back Rubens was. Fire. Loved it. Loved it. Um, so yeah, it's hard to comment on late night 'cause we only did that late night, but that was pretty bomb. But we did get ice cream late night, which was pretty fun. We got ice cream, I would say. Yeah, we got other stuff. We got cookies. We got cookies. I think think they might take the W think so too. But we have good Postmates options. We have good Postmates, but they can walk to their late night. They can walk, which is better. So I'm gonna get done to w Yeah. New York, you get the W for late night. Agreed. Hit me. Next topic. New York people versus LA people. LA people definitely are grittier. That's something we've been talking about a lot. Yeah, that was, that's what I was so, uh, shocked by. It seemed like there was that like socialite ness in New York or, uh, wannabe socialite ness, which was a lot of that as well. Yeah. Um, like that made 'em a little soft. Yeah. Um. And pr rude. Like the one thing I would say is they're very rude to their bartenders. They, we have so many people rude to, so disrespectful, at least from our trip. So many people were just so rude to their bartenders. Yeah. Like not looking them in the eye or having a conversation, shouting at them before they're ready to take their orders. I mean, just like, like they're not your servant. Yeah. Calm down. I mean, they're there to serve, but not like that Jesus like that. Like they'll get your order when they're ready for it. I'm surprised bartenders weren't angrier out there. I, they was very nice. I was looking at them. I was like, I sorry that you killed kill, kill, kind, kill. This guy's the worst This guy blows!. Both. Yeah. I, yeah. So that's my vibe. I'm just like, can you just be nicer to, yeah, nicer to your wait staff New York. Be nicer to wait staff and you're kind of a pussy otherwise. Yeah, I mean, I wasn't like, I mean, we didn't go into any really bad neighborhoods or anything. No. But like, yeah, a lot of. We were just in Manhattan. There were just a lot of soft people in general, I guess. Yeah. But we're also seeing so many more people, so who knows? Ratios could be just the same. Yeah. I don't know. But overall, new Yorkers very nice to us. Yeah. Very nice. Um, but I, I was expecting it to be like this rough and tumble city. Like everyone makes it seem like I, and I was like a little nervous. Yeah. I was like, oh, I'm gonna get pushed around. It's gonna be aggressive. Mm-hmm. I didn't get that. No, not at all. Mm, mm-hmm. We blended in. At least, at least on that note. Yeah. Alright, next topic. Fashion. Um, for the girls, I would say they're very good at being on trend. Okay. Now being on trend, does that make you fashionable? I don't know. Mm. Because it wasn't like I saw a lot of people with very unique style. Mm-hmm. Or like a perspective on style it seemed like. Mm-hmm. It just seemed like I saw a lot of a up to date capris flip flops up to date on trends. Okay. Okay. But unique and interesting. I don't know. Okay. I think that's a good take. Yeah. Very up to date, that trash style mostly. Some men were very well dressed, E either very well dressed or just very conservative, boring, like. Yes. Polos the same. Yeah. Just polo every guy. And Navy pants and a polo shirt. Yeah. And Brown shoes was like, we get it. Well, you'd see like a hundred of them walking down the street at the same time. I'm like, as you all like go to the same Banana Republic. It's crazy. Yeah, it's kind of wild. Yeah. A lot of carbon copies on that. But yeah, I would agree. A lot of the guys had. The guys might outdo the girls on style. I would say yeah. More of the guys had, there were more diamond me dressed men than girls. Yeah. Women. Not to say that there weren't well dressed women. No. Not to say that too, but I would say from the total population, probably more impressed with a lot of men outfits than women outfits. Yeah. I agree. Mm-hmm. Next topic. Uh, what was the best part? The best part of the entire trip mm-hmm. Was sitting on the roof with you watching the sunset drink wine. Oh, that was a great part. Yeah. I'm gonna say sitting in Central Park. I was gonna say that too, but I wanted to give a different take'cause I knew you were gonna say that. Alright. Well we can't always take the same takes. Yeah. We are one brain cell. Don't forget that people, we haven't split yet. Mm-hmm. Never will. Cute. And what was the worst part? Yeah. Battery park and times square. Times square times square times square, square, square is garbage. That guy stopping us and trying to like touch on me. I'm like, dude, get the fuck. Oh, someone tried to, well, everyone in Times Square was trying to stop you and scam you. Stop you. Yeah. But one guy touched us and I swear to God, we almost socked him. Oh my God. I was so close, close, close. Was so close. I told him like, get, I'm like, dude, get, get the fuck away. Get away from it. I'm not, I'm not. I don't care. Whatever you're trying to sell me, I'm not buying it. Whatever weird story you're telling us about how beautiful we are and, uh, we gotta take it. No, like get the fuck away from me. Yeah. I'm moving away from you. Yeah. Don't put your hand on my shoulder. Don't touch me. Don't touch me. Yeah. Oh yeah. Times Square is the worst times square. I'm gonna say, you don't need to go. Don't go. It's not worth your time. It's not that cool. Don't waste your time. I, I agree. Don't go to Times Square. Go to Central Park. Twice. Twice. Go to Central Park twice over. Going to Times Square once or Battery Park. We, we only went down to go see the Statue of Liberty, but it was giving such same scam vibes as Central Park or Times Square. We were over it. We were over it. We're like, we're not dealing with this. Mm-hmm. So we, grand Central Station. Looked at the Lady Liberty. Gave her the old, gave her the old one two. Thanks dawg. Left and went to, um. Grand Central Station, which is incredible. That's worth it. Highly recommend Grand Central Station. Central Park. Grand Central Station. Go to Campbell's Bar, have a martini. There you go. Classy. Night end your end your night like that. End your night. And that's the end of this episode. Oh, oh, well we did New York and um, we'll see if we ever do it again. We did it though, so, but we really did it. No one did it better than us. And they never will. No they won't because we're the best. Oh. And we're a demon Babie. That's it. We're a demon Babie. Thanks for listening. That was a New York part two. Uh, we'll talk to you guys later. Love you. Bye. Mwuah!.