Dan Naturman Comes Back!!! (And an ASUS Zenbook demo!)

"I just don't feel like the podcast is a vehicle for me to shine, or even lightly glow."

Dan Naturman's resignation email, read on air in the episode where he comes back - which only happened because Periel booked two different Daniels for the same day and neither one showed up.

0:00 Dan does the intro, and Noam's two-screen Asus laptop demo.

5:18 The calendar debacle: Daniel Mendelsohn, Daniel Levy, then nobody

13:06 Dan quit by email: "a vehicle for me to shine, or even lightly glow"

21:30 Periel's Abraham Accords: cruises, MSC and Dan Tries Things

28:48 Comics Unleashed, the Letterman theory and why Dan's jokes aren't "real"

41:00 The new club's 2 a.m. litter summonses, and Noam concedes on congestion pricing

47:30 Raise the minimum wage, lose the fifth day; $25 covers vs. $50

58:59 Movie-ticket pricing, five rooms, "give good, get good" and Yohay at the Beacon

Why did Dan quit, and what would make him stay? Did congestion pricing fail, or is an 11% drop in traffic just invisible from the driver's seat? What actually happened at the Comedy Cellar when wages went up 25%? And why does the Cellar charge $25 when the clubs around it charge $50? Noam and Dan agree on one thing: the Cellar is the cheapest game in town, and Noam isn't going to fix it.

Also: Daniel Mendelsohn's Odyssey, the Asus Zenbook Duo, Comics Unleashed and Byron Allen, the Norm Macdonald documentary, Marc Maron, Gary Gulman, Chris Turner, Philip Roth and The Sopranos' Big Pussy, the new club's 2 a.m. litter summonses, the two-item minimum, Arizona iced tea's 99 cents, and Yohay Sponder at the Beacon.