December 5, 2024 • 9 mins
Andrew went to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree lighting last night and recaps his experience!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fine Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Elvis fifteen Morning Show, let's do it, the fifteen minute
morning show. No, no, we changed the name of it, Andrew,
what's the new official name of our podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So it's going to be called the Elvis Durant After Party.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Idea love it. That's so cute. Can we start that today?
Or is that coming soon?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Coming soon in the new year.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm podcasting you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, but okay, the same fifteen minute morning show you love,
just with a different name.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Is it's not always fifteen minutes?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Never fifteen minutes? I think it was one time by accident. Yeah,
it was all right. Well anyway, so today it's still
the fifteen minute morning show podcast, but soon the after
parties all the way? All right, So let's move on. So, Andrew,
were you at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting last night?
I was, and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was beautify.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Were you outside or inside?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Inside? And then I went outside? God, it was flurrying.
It was like this Christmas season has been the most
Christmas ye I have felt in years. I went to
the rock Filler Christmas Show, I went to the tree lighting.
I am loving this Christmas season so much.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Look at you, you're owning it. Yes, we know a
lot of people were saying that because of what happened
with the shooting up here uptown yesterday, people would'd be
too afraid to come out. They're saying they had a
record crowd last night. Everyone came out to see the
lighting of the tree.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It was insane. The crowds were like, I've never seen
New York that like gridlocked with people before. It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And you don't get a little nervous when you're gridlocked
with people. I get a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think from doing so many events over the years
and having to be the guide where I keep my
hand out and everyone's like follows me. I'm like the
lead duckling for you guys. Yeah, we go to events.
I'm used to just being able to weave in and
out of the crowds really quick like that.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
There were people that didn't even have a view of
the tree, like they were there were blocks away, so
all they heard was just cheering and singing.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And that was the one thing that like once the
tree went on, like the countdown, it lit up and
I went. I went with Josh and I looked at him,
and I go, okay, we could go now, and we were
in for it. And I've never been to the ball
Drop before, but I'm wondering if it's that kind of
(02:25):
anti climactic.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Once it's on, You're like, the ball drop is a
little different, because I mean, all that goes into crowd
controlled and stuff, is the ball drops a little different.
You have to be in the stanchions by a certain time.
You cannot leave to go to the bathroom. There's no bathroom.
It's the ball drop is awful unless you can get
like a suite over at least you can get a
suite overlooking the ball drop. Yeah, she's right. People pee
(02:48):
in their pants.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
People wear it depends there because they know they're going
to be standing around all day long and not have
bathroom access.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Scary.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And I one year we were at a party near
Time Square above Time.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Square the eminem Store. It was New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, and and like as soon as the ball drops,
it yeah, cheering, and you know they're cheering and applauding
and you know, yay New Year's and then sixty seconds
after that, it's it's like a mass of zombies trying
to get through the stanchions and then as they leave,
you just see piles of trash and gatory bottles.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, but you know what, they're kind of famous
for getting all cleaned up by us.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
In Disney World, like the next day, January one, the
street is clear.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So we did New Year's in Disney for many, many years,
and we would usually do Epcot, or we would do
one of the other parks anyway, So Epcot's amazing, but
we would we didn't have specific things we would do
because we knew at midnight what was gonna happen. So
at eleven PM we would leave when nobody else was leaving.
(03:53):
We'd get right on, you know, the transportation, get back
to the hotel, and then we'd watch the fireworks from
the hotel balconies because you could see all the fireworks.
And this way we didn't have to deal with the
craziness getting out of the park.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Smart so you know how to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, that was the way to do.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
We learned also at Epcot. Do you take the back
way out?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, you never go out by the by the globe.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, you always go out. You can always go out
like right after England and Canada over.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
There and exactly right next to Canada. Goodbye. We always
exit right in Canada. Yeah, so if you're gonna do
a New York celebration, then you got to know the
inns and the outs the inns when it comes to
the Christmas tree lining or the ball drop, you need
to know people that have private suites that you can
stand with.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And if you don't and you have contails and you
are in Times Square for like the ball drop on
New Years, have a plan to go afterwards, because what
ends up happening is after those people leave, they're looking
for a place to go, and a lot of those
bars and restaurants have their doors locked from the inside,
so the people that are partying are there and they
don't allow people in. So well that's a major problem
(05:01):
of finding what are you doing at twelve fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Where you're going? So you have to have, yeah, a
plan because yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This is really aging me. The last time I was
at Rockefeller setter for the tree lighting, the actual night
was when Britney Spears and n Sync were hosting it
or performing. So yeah, I don't know remember it was
her birthday, but I remember sitting backstage with actually Goomba
Johnny because he was on KTU at the time. We
interviewed Brittany. We interviewed in sinc. We had the best
(05:31):
time with them. I remember I was there all day
waiting for Insinct to finish eating because they had to
eat first. But we had a great time. And I
remember sitting with Brittany and I was wearing a very
big purple sweater and she said to me, I love
your purple Sweater's so pretty. And I said, well, that's
so nice, thank you. I love what you're wearing. And
she said, will they tell me what to wear? I
don't get to do my own thing. And she was
(05:52):
not a happy camper. And this was years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You talked to her before she was even born.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, yeah, so it was a long long time ago.
That's the last time I was working or at that
tree lighting. Now we just watched it on television.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
How this You Ever been to one of those Rockefeller
Center or Times Square on New Year's I've been.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
To both, absolutely, and I vowed never to do it again.
And the thanks never been to the No. I went
to the balloon blow up, but I didn't go to
the parade. But what was I gonna say? Oh, we
were doing a Z one hundred event at the Marriott
Marquee above Times Square for New Year's Eve one year,
(06:33):
and we were but we were so far up you'd
have to like put your head and your nose against
a glass. Yeah, that was going. But all the confetti
it was kind of wild because we were the forty
floors up or whatever. All the confetti blows up, so
it was it was a storm of confetti blowing towards
the sky up there in the middle of you know,
of the hotel. It was kind of a weird sensation.
(06:54):
But we had bathrooms and we had a bar.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
So I did that one time. I was working the
Ouse Traveler show at Roseland in nineteen ninety six and
I popped my head out, walked down the block and
it was just mayhem, and I ran back inside. I said,
I will never do this again.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And I haven't. They gave you the run around, Hi.
I don't know if they still do this.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
There's a little museum down in the city and it's
like the Times Square Museum and it's all about New
Year's Eve and stuff like that. And I remember I
went once and they let us write.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
On pieces that you're going on right now.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, you write on the confetti, right, and that's the
confetti that gets thrown out. So a lot of the
confetti has little notes on it that people write on
there when they throw it out into the crowd. Because
I remember writing on a piece one.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You know they practiced that though, like a few days
before they do it on New Year's Eve. Think they
practice throwing paper.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, maybe there's a talent to it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you know a lot of people say, well, do
I want to see it from Times Square on New
Year's Eve? Do I want to be at the Rocket
photo Christmas tree lining? Do I want to be at
the Grammys? The Edentines usually know it's much so much
better to sit in the comfort of your own home
and watch it because the TV cameras, the cameras have
the best angle. There's no one pushing on and shoving
on you. You're right there. You can go to your bathroom,
(08:10):
you can make a cocktail on your own You're good.
So that's my thought. How boring am I? And then
Andrew is still high from being at the tree lighting
last night.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I will say we did have bathrooms. It was it
was a holiday party, so it was yeah, we had
a whole bar upstairs.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you didn't do it that way, then even.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Behind the velvet right without that, Yeah, that's a different,
different scene all the way. But we must all agree
that Christmas and the holidays in New York City is
it's one of a kind. It really is truly amazing.
And there you have it. I'm glad you had a
good time lest sight Andrew, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It was super magical. And I'm loving this Christmas season
so much. I want to share all the Christmas joy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
As long as you get free bar tabs and free
bathrooms and you don't have to be in a crowd,
you're good. Happy holiday, of course, all right, we're done.
That's the what we used to call the fifteen minute Mornings.
Nine minutes matters you have to do, that doesn't matter.
Do you have to part We're just we're just kind
of curious. We won't know how long. Sometimes after parties,
give me nine minutes, I felt longer like twenty thousand
(09:17):
minutes and hours. Anyway, have a great day. The fifteen
Minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Fine Saturday.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
Elvis fifteen Morning Show, let's do it, the fifteen minute
morning show. No, no, we changed the name of it, Andrew,
what's the new official name of our podcast?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
So it's going to be called the Elvis Durant After Party.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Idea love it. That's so cute. Can we start that today?
Or is that coming soon?
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Coming soon in the new year.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I'm podcasting you.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yes, but okay, the same fifteen minute morning show you love,
just with a different name.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Is it's not always fifteen minutes?
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Never fifteen minutes? I think it was one time by accident. Yeah,
it was all right. Well anyway, so today it's still
the fifteen minute morning show podcast, but soon the after
parties all the way? All right, So let's move on. So, Andrew,
were you at the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree lighting last night?
I was, and it was so much fun.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
It was beautify.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Were you outside or inside?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Inside? And then I went outside? God, it was flurrying.
It was like this Christmas season has been the most
Christmas ye I have felt in years. I went to
the rock Filler Christmas Show, I went to the tree lighting.
I am loving this Christmas season so much.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Look at you, you're owning it. Yes, we know a
lot of people were saying that because of what happened
with the shooting up here uptown yesterday, people would'd be
too afraid to come out. They're saying they had a
record crowd last night. Everyone came out to see the
lighting of the tree.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
It was insane. The crowds were like, I've never seen
New York that like gridlocked with people before. It was nuts.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
And you don't get a little nervous when you're gridlocked
with people. I get a little crazy.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I think from doing so many events over the years
and having to be the guide where I keep my
hand out and everyone's like follows me. I'm like the
lead duckling for you guys. Yeah, we go to events.
I'm used to just being able to weave in and
out of the crowds really quick like that.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
There were people that didn't even have a view of
the tree, like they were there were blocks away, so
all they heard was just cheering and singing.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And that was the one thing that like once the
tree went on, like the countdown, it lit up and
I went. I went with Josh and I looked at him,
and I go, okay, we could go now, and we were
in for it. And I've never been to the ball
Drop before, but I'm wondering if it's that kind of
(02:25):
anti climactic.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Once it's on, You're like, the ball drop is a
little different, because I mean, all that goes into crowd
controlled and stuff, is the ball drops a little different.
You have to be in the stanchions by a certain time.
You cannot leave to go to the bathroom. There's no bathroom.
It's the ball drop is awful unless you can get
like a suite over at least you can get a
suite overlooking the ball drop. Yeah, she's right. People pee
(02:48):
in their pants.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
People wear it depends there because they know they're going
to be standing around all day long and not have
bathroom access.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
Scary.
Speaker 5 (02:54):
And I one year we were at a party near
Time Square above Time.
Speaker 1 (02:58):
Square the eminem Store. It was New Year's Eve.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yeah, and and like as soon as the ball drops,
it yeah, cheering, and you know they're cheering and applauding
and you know, yay New Year's and then sixty seconds
after that, it's it's like a mass of zombies trying
to get through the stanchions and then as they leave,
you just see piles of trash and gatory bottles.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, but you know what, they're kind of famous
for getting all cleaned up by us.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
In Disney World, like the next day, January one, the
street is clear.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
So we did New Year's in Disney for many, many years,
and we would usually do Epcot, or we would do
one of the other parks anyway, So Epcot's amazing, but
we would we didn't have specific things we would do
because we knew at midnight what was gonna happen. So
at eleven PM we would leave when nobody else was leaving.
(03:53):
We'd get right on, you know, the transportation, get back
to the hotel, and then we'd watch the fireworks from
the hotel balconies because you could see all the fireworks.
And this way we didn't have to deal with the
craziness getting out of the park.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Smart so you know how to do it.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah, that was the way to do.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
We learned also at Epcot. Do you take the back
way out?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
Yeah, you never go out by the by the globe.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah, you always go out. You can always go out
like right after England and Canada over.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
There and exactly right next to Canada. Goodbye. We always
exit right in Canada. Yeah, so if you're gonna do
a New York celebration, then you got to know the
inns and the outs the inns when it comes to
the Christmas tree lining or the ball drop, you need
to know people that have private suites that you can
stand with.
Speaker 6 (04:38):
And if you don't and you have contails and you
are in Times Square for like the ball drop on
New Years, have a plan to go afterwards, because what
ends up happening is after those people leave, they're looking
for a place to go, and a lot of those
bars and restaurants have their doors locked from the inside,
so the people that are partying are there and they
don't allow people in. So well that's a major problem
(05:01):
of finding what are you doing at twelve fifteen.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Where you're going? So you have to have, yeah, a
plan because yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
This is really aging me. The last time I was
at Rockefeller setter for the tree lighting, the actual night
was when Britney Spears and n Sync were hosting it
or performing. So yeah, I don't know remember it was
her birthday, but I remember sitting backstage with actually Goomba
Johnny because he was on KTU at the time. We
interviewed Brittany. We interviewed in sinc. We had the best
(05:31):
time with them. I remember I was there all day
waiting for Insinct to finish eating because they had to
eat first. But we had a great time. And I
remember sitting with Brittany and I was wearing a very
big purple sweater and she said to me, I love
your purple Sweater's so pretty. And I said, well, that's
so nice, thank you. I love what you're wearing. And
she said, will they tell me what to wear? I
don't get to do my own thing. And she was
(05:52):
not a happy camper. And this was years ago.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
You talked to her before she was even born.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah, yeah, so it was a long long time ago.
That's the last time I was working or at that
tree lighting. Now we just watched it on television.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
How this You Ever been to one of those Rockefeller
Center or Times Square on New Year's I've been.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
To both, absolutely, and I vowed never to do it again.
And the thanks never been to the No. I went
to the balloon blow up, but I didn't go to
the parade. But what was I gonna say? Oh, we
were doing a Z one hundred event at the Marriott
Marquee above Times Square for New Year's Eve one year,
(06:33):
and we were but we were so far up you'd
have to like put your head and your nose against
a glass. Yeah, that was going. But all the confetti
it was kind of wild because we were the forty
floors up or whatever. All the confetti blows up, so
it was it was a storm of confetti blowing towards
the sky up there in the middle of you know,
of the hotel. It was kind of a weird sensation.
(06:54):
But we had bathrooms and we had a bar.
Speaker 7 (06:56):
So I did that one time. I was working the
Ouse Traveler show at Roseland in nineteen ninety six and
I popped my head out, walked down the block and
it was just mayhem, and I ran back inside. I said,
I will never do this again.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
And I haven't. They gave you the run around, Hi.
I don't know if they still do this.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
There's a little museum down in the city and it's
like the Times Square Museum and it's all about New
Year's Eve and stuff like that. And I remember I
went once and they let us write.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
On pieces that you're going on right now.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, you write on the confetti, right, and that's the
confetti that gets thrown out. So a lot of the
confetti has little notes on it that people write on
there when they throw it out into the crowd. Because
I remember writing on a piece one.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
You know they practiced that though, like a few days
before they do it on New Year's Eve. Think they
practice throwing paper.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
Well, maybe there's a talent to it.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So you know a lot of people say, well, do
I want to see it from Times Square on New
Year's Eve? Do I want to be at the Rocket
photo Christmas tree lining? Do I want to be at
the Grammys? The Edentines usually know it's much so much
better to sit in the comfort of your own home
and watch it because the TV cameras, the cameras have
the best angle. There's no one pushing on and shoving
on you. You're right there. You can go to your bathroom,
(08:10):
you can make a cocktail on your own You're good.
So that's my thought. How boring am I? And then
Andrew is still high from being at the tree lighting
last night.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I will say we did have bathrooms. It was it
was a holiday party, so it was yeah, we had
a whole bar upstairs.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
If you didn't do it that way, then even.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Behind the velvet right without that, Yeah, that's a different,
different scene all the way. But we must all agree
that Christmas and the holidays in New York City is
it's one of a kind. It really is truly amazing.
And there you have it. I'm glad you had a
good time lest sight Andrew, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
It was super magical. And I'm loving this Christmas season
so much. I want to share all the Christmas joy.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
As long as you get free bar tabs and free
bathrooms and you don't have to be in a crowd,
you're good. Happy holiday, of course, all right, we're done.
That's the what we used to call the fifteen minute Mornings.
Nine minutes matters you have to do, that doesn't matter.
Do you have to part We're just we're just kind
of curious. We won't know how long. Sometimes after parties,
give me nine minutes, I felt longer like twenty thousand
(09:17):
minutes and hours. Anyway, have a great day. The fifteen
Minute Morning Show
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