rant · moment 23 of 23
Finding the Murmur Ballroom and Brooklyn Geography
from America's Election Headquarters · #121
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2 minTim struggles to figure out directions to a Brooklyn venue called the Murmur Ballroom, riffing with Ray about Brooklyn neighborhoods and ethnic food.
- 1:01:16Tim has to figure out where the Murmur Ballroom is in Brooklyn.
- 1:01:27The Murmur Ballroom is located at 17 Eastern Parkway near Grand Army Plaza and the Botanical Gardens.
- 1:01:44An Uber to the venue costs about twenty-two dollars.
- 1:02:01The ballroom is nowhere near where Tim's guest lives, closer to the Botanical Gardens side of Brooklyn.
- 1:02:13Tim's guest lives near the Williamsburg Bridge on Broadway, several miles away from the venue.
- 1:02:28Brooklyn's a massive borough; most people only live in the five percent closest to Manhattan.
- 1:02:38The rest of Brooklyn has ethnic cuisine, phenomenal seafood places, and spicy calamari.
- 1:02:52Tim predicts that everyone's lives will all be horrible.