Canal Street Dreams

Laura Stemmer is a NYC nightlife consultant and queen of the night who joins Eddie and Natashia this week to talk about what’s hotter than being a mom and the evolution of NYC nightlife. Laura is a force who knows how to pack a club full of hot people and go hard at the parent teacher conference. This trio takes on everything from vaping to dressing to breast milk, so tune in.

Hunter Harris is a screenwriter and culture critic who writes “Hung Up” on Substack and co-hosts “Lemme Say This” on Wondery. Today she’s on the pod to talk about her voice as a writer and also gets into some of her favorite TV and movies of 2025. She and Eddie critique the shopping culture of New York City and discuss where to go in terms of political optimism following the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the recent mayoral election.

Jason Stewart AKA the Pod GOD stops by Canal Street Dreams this week to make us all laugh more than usual and discuss Jimmy Buffett cuisine. Eddie is persuaded to blow big gas on the pod for the first time (allegedly) to pregame dinosaur halloween. Try and keep up as we discuss chicken and the egg logic with the demonstrable genius of R Kelly. For real, no more teasers, you just gotta listen for yourself fam.

Today we welcome Josh Topolsky to the pod! Josh founded The Verge and The Outline, helped build Vox Media, and has shaped some of the most influential digital brands of the past decade. You won’t hear much about any of that on this episode, because today Josh, Natashia, and Eddie do a deep dive into Eddie’s unhinged relationship with sports: how much he watches, gambles, and why The Knicks are his family. They also talk about compromise in relationships and what their greatest ultimatums are.

This week we’ve got Eddie’s Floridian brother dza3000 on the pod, the venerated Commissioner of their fantasy sports league, and of course esteemed DJ. DZA lays down some ethics on participating in the league (do your lineup or die), shares some of his favorite watches and thoughts on collecting, and debuts the Rapid Fire segment, making him the first guest Eddie has ever prepped for. Tune in!

This week, the homie Roman AKA the mayor of Orchard St stops by the pod. We dive straight in to his DJ roots (a known pre-req for guests of the show) and talk about the old New York, with a look towards the fate of future nightlife. We get into the creation of Ronan's spots Regina's Grocery and Mixed Ingredients, and what it takes to build a great team that can create and maintain something special.

This week we've got very special guest Chi Ossé, Council Member for New York City's 36th District, representing Bedford-Stuyvesant and North Crown Heights. We get into a ton about Chi's motivations for getting into politics during the pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement. We debate is housing lotteries are a saving grace or a bandaid for a much larger issue. Plus we get the scoop that Chi gonna abolish wine bars as his next campaign issue (not really, but stop serving our man the little plates and charging big plate prices). There's so much more covered and we really appreciate Chi doing what he does and coming to kick it with the people, so tune in!

This week, we're back to talk about the materialist movie. We get vulnerable about money in relationships, we talk height shaming in the film and much more.

This week, fashion writer and editor Jake Woolf stops by the pod. Amongst other things we talk how you have to dress trash before you can master throwing a fit, what actually makes style, and who wins baggy pants Versuz-- Eddie or Jacob Elordi.

This week, Dave 1 stops by the pod to get our frames right. After getting our angles approved, we talk about everything from disco to what qualifies as hate speech. We talk all types of music, early vice days and more. Tap in!

This week we had our man Quentin Belt aka qringe.by.quentin aka buffydavampireslayer2 swing by the pod! We talk the fine art of being a maître d' and the wild path to get there. We also get into what's going down in the Equinox steam rooms and Russian Turkish Bathouse, specifically on sundays (; IYKYK. Tune in for this all and much more, including an important PSA on an epidemic sweeping the nation which some say is a more pressing issue than climate change...

This is what Canal Street Dreams are made of. In a throwback to our episode with Kareem Rahma where we discovered the Autoblow 5000, this week we were sent one. Eddie gives us the full review, his bust a n*t power rankings, and we talk kinks. Come get weird and oddly philosophical with us on this week's pod!

This week, Natashia's back and we have Isaac Hindin-Miller stop by the pod. We talk about how rich kid intern ruined journalism, Eddie's gigolo days, the proper etiquette for switching up on the homies and much more!

This week we had no childcare so Natashia took one for the team and hung out with Senna. This called for one thing and one thing only. BOYSCAST. Harold Rogers joins the show alongside returning guest Sean Thor Conroe. Plus two VERY SPECIAL guests to kick off the show!

This week Austin Tedesco, the Head of Business Development at Substack drops by the pod to talk food, writing creative distribution and much more!

This week, Ben Barna stops by the pod to talk about Eddie's decision to halt promotion of Vice is Broke and the following fallout with Mubi. We also talk the print renaissance, the process of crafting Interview Magazine, and much more!

This week, Amrit stops by the pod to talk motherhood, how messy dating in New York makes you a good parent, making Spread the Jelly and much more!

This week, our friend Mike Nouveau stops by the pod! Mike is a vintage watch dealer and social media influencer, known for his "Watch Spotting" videos on TikTok where he explores New York City's watch culture. He transitioned from a career as a DJ in the fashion world to become a vintage watch specialist. Tune in to hear about how to get into the watch trade, aging out of the DJ life and more!

This week J Lee stops by the pod to talk about his killer top 10 restaurants in New York City, what the New York Times got wrong, and all things good eats in the Big Apple.

This week on the pod we have my Vice brother Mero dropping by! My man’s resume speaks for itself, we talk the old days, my move back to New York and a WHOLE lot more so make sure you tap in for this one!