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One Leg Up On Banksy, Bam-Tino , and Momma Mastering It 5-26-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. Well, after some more health concerns and
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  complications which did lead me to the hospital, I'm back home and maybe down
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  the road we'll get into it. Before all the health stuff really escalated,
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  there were three major things that happened in three days that I haven't even gotten
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  to yet, and while I have a little energy, I wanted to talk
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  about it today. Firstly, did you know that there's a bank Sea Museum
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  in honor of the street artist Banksy opened on two seventy seven Canal Street.
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  Yes, check it out. Here's a snippet of my conversation from the banks
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  See Museum. All right, well, I'm here at the we can see
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  a museum. You know, Banksy is such a mysterious figure. But I'm
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  here with executive director William Meade. And for anybody who knows about Banksy,
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  you know he keeps a very low, anonymous profile. You don't really know
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  who he is, right, So how did you get him to agree to
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  do all this work and put the museum together? Well, the thing is
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  is in Banksy is an elusive figure. Nobody knows exactly who banks he is,
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  Nobody knows exactly where he comes from Nobody knows his background and stuff.
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  So what we actually did we hired people to come in in this entire exhibition
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  is creating them anonymously. We have no idea who the people who created it
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  are. We have no idea that they have the direct connection to Banksy and
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  we don't. Now you obviously have an affinity for banks right, That's kind
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  of how this whole project started. Or is that? How do we experience
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  art? Now? How do we experience art in all of this art is
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  taking He is a phrase and I really love it. It's called better out
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  than Him. We experience art in an art museum. We experience aren't in
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  places that people tell us to experience. Are his whole idea take it out
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  under the streets. So and all of a sudden, when you take it
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  out into the streets, then people start ripping it down or it's defaced or
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  that sort of thing. But he creates something that exists for the time ineteen
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  in twenty thirteen, he created thirty separate in New York alone. Or you
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  know how many exists now? How many? One? Right? Well?
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  The girl up, the girl with a hammer up on seventy ninth Streets,
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  Okta check that out. It's the only one in him that exists at this
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  point. All of them have been defaced or ripped down or taken away or
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  something like that. So our purpose of this museum is really to honor works
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  that would never be seen and also to honor them in a way. As
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  you can see that we're doing here, we do it in the way closest
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  to the way that it was originally done. I highly recommend you check it
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  out to seventy seven Canal Street, the Banksy Museum. And you know,
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  sometimes I run around, body does get a little worn down, and it
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  was holding on. It was holding on because the next night, that was
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  Wednesday. The next night, I ended up talking with a legend of the
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  New York Yankees, Bam, Tino Martinez. Take a listen to a snippet
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  of that conversation on the stage at the Viscardi Center, my old Stomping Grams
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  grounds, And I was I had the honor, thanks to doctor Chris Rosen
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  Lauren Marzo, of interviewing Tino Martinez on that very stage I grew up on
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  in Albertson, New York, at the Viscardi Center. Well as the indie
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  fans heard and my first month here at truble event, I found me accountable
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  and good advances approval and a tevage approval and a sotical event. I heard
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  the boos from the stadium for at a month say but I don't want to
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  play here or in love you? What I got to help? The one
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  story involved driving runs more importantly to start winning tonight and then fast League what
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  they are thanks to Larry Davis, my longtime friend and friend of Renne Gron
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  and of course the man who helped bringing out Tino Martinez to the Viscardi Center
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  that night on Celebrity Night May sixteenth, for capturing that audio on the wings
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  of the stage at Viscardi. And then the next night, so this was
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  Wednesday, Thursday, so far uh And then the next night, a week
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  ago Friday, someone very special got her master's degree at Sunny Empire State.
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  That's right, my mom, Laurie Sue Brockway got her masters. She went
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  from mastering mother to mastering in public history and then back to mastering motherhood.
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  Is she had to come into the hospital and sure enough, I passed a
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  gallstone this week. That's kind of the news. And there's been some complications
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  from that, which is sidelining me for a little bit, but I'll be
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  back out there soon enough. I'm just gonna need some time to do some
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  follow ups. But I also want to say thank you to Mom and to
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  Vic and to Gabby forgetting me through this entire week. And once again,
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  Mom gotta say this. Just to get her degree was a lot, and
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  she had the support of my stepdad, but she really she really knocked out
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  of the park, even through loss, even through health issues, and I'm
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  so proud of her, and I just want to say that today on the
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