Pastrami, Playbills, and Polar Temps

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New York City may be freezing, but Fun Friday is anything but. Kevin McCullough and Cristyne Nicholas kick off the episode with winter woes, sports chatter, and Olympic nostalgia—traveling from Lake Placid memories to modern global Games, all while plotting how to stay warm without staying home.

Broadway takes center stage with Julie Boardman, founder of the Museum of Broadway, who shares highlights from the museum’s special Black History Month costume exhibit. From Cynthia Erivo to Denzel Washington, the conversation celebrates the artists, risk‑takers, and trailblazers who built Broadway from the ground up—literally starting in 1732.

Then comes the grit: New York Post columnist Steve Cuozzo weighs in on post‑snowstorm sanitation woes, grading City Hall on snow removal and absolutely flunking garbage collection. It’s classic NYC civic debate—opinionated, passionate, and impossible to ignore.

Thankfully, comfort food saves the day. Cuozzo dives deep into pastrami philosophy, judging Katz’s vs. Langer’s, defending rye bread and dark mustard, and reminding everyone that great pastrami is a sacred, steamy, thin‑sliced experience best enjoyed right at the counter.

The episode wraps with winter survival tips and Valentine’s Day previews—from Broadway Week and Restaurant Week to Love in Times Square and Eagle Fest’s weather delay. The message is clear: bundle up, get out, and let New York City do what it does best—even when it’s below zero.