Barry Goldsmith: Architecture and Travel

0:00 – Sponsor break and Lou's book
1:16 – Intro: Lou's NYU comedy professor Barry Goldsmith
2:45 – What architecture has to do with comedy
3:41 – Why Lou finally started a podcast
5:27 – Writing a book with a new baby and no kitchen
7:01 – Trump Architecture and Buildings Separated at Birth
8:06 – How a Wall Street Journal piece became a book
10:31 – Travel shows, columns, and Liquid Lunch
12:10 – Landing a job writing for Joan Rivers
13:52 – Writing for Steve Doocy and Maury Povich
16:36 – What Joan Rivers was really like
19:20 – Greg and Lou and Gilbert Gottfried
23:13 – 117 countries and travel for the over-50 crowd
25:46 – Only Pack Once tours vs. cruises
26:34 – Giving Audrey Hepburn a tour of the Met
32:49 – Lou's honeymoon in France and Iceland
36:21 – Paris museums and why Madrid beats Barcelona
38:12 – Tapas culture and Dalí's museum in Figueres
41:01 – The day Salvador Dalí sketched Barry
45:27 – Caravaggio, the Prado, masks, and Japan
52:39 – Iconic buildings, Kyiv, and travel during wartime
54:18 – St. Petersburg's water museum and Ecuador's two equators
56:44 – Travel partners, museums, and dining
59:33 – The Code of Hammurabi and seeing buildings from all sides
1:03:34 – Lou's career and Barry's travel wish list
1:06:09 – Wrap-up