02:14:50 · John Coogan
[02:14:50] S0: Well, the main, other news is that, this is this is somewhat related to New York and Manhattan. A Midtown Manhattan skyscraper under construction is reportedly at risk of collapse. The building was the former Pfizer headquarters on East 42nd Street. It was evacuated Tuesday morning after the FDNY received reports around 8AM eastern time of bricks falling from the high rise. When crews arrived, they found two structural columns inside the building had buckled with floors sagging from the roughly 21st all the way to the 26th Floor. So there's six floors of sagging. This video this this building seems to be falling apart. Video from inside the site shows columns visibly bent, raising immediate concerns about the stability of the building. So so far, thankfully, no injuries have been reported. Let's hope it stays that way, and construction workers have been accounted for. The site was undergoing one of the most ambitious office to residential conversions in New York history. Metro Loft and David Warner Real Estate were converting the former Pfizer complex into roughly 1,500 to 1,600 apartments with plans to renovate the existing 38 story tower and add more than a dozen new stories to part of the property. Officials have evacuated the construction site and nearby buildings as a precaution. Very, very crazy. City inspectors and engineers are now on-site investigating the damage and trying to determine whether the building can be stabilized. They'll need to go and rebuild those columns. For now, commuters are being told to avoid the area. So if you're in New York, stay away from East 42nd Street. I hope everyone is safe there.
02:16:29 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[02:16:29] S1: Bad day to be doing that conversion. [02:16:32] S0: Yeah. Very, chaotic situation. [02:16:35] S1: Anyway It's also imagine trying to sell those apartments. Yes. Have you finished? It's like, oh, yeah. Moving into the building that was buckling [02:16:42] S0: Mhmm. [02:16:42] S1: For six across six different stories. [02:16:46] S0: Yeah. There was a building was it in San Francisco, the Millennium Tower? [02:16:51] S1: Yeah. TZ says good day to be a demolition company. [02:16:53] S0: I guess. Yeah. The the yeah. There there was Millennium Tower that was a very it was it was a fancy high rise in San Francisco, and the foundation, like, sunk a little bit. And so the whole building was tilted slightly. And so if you put a marble on the ground in these, like, luxurious apartments, it would roll. And there was a huge huge lawsuits. I believe that they were able to go do some structural reinforcement and eventually get it back. [02:17:18] S1: Just some saggy floors. [02:17:20] S0: Just some saggy floors. Yeah. Lock in. Just yeah. Maybe it's just a mindset issue. [02:17:27] S1: Sweating the details.
02:17:27 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[02:17:27] S1: Sweating the details. [02:17:28] S0: Okay. What do you think of this what do you think of this sunlight? Sunday light. We've talked about these a few times. Phillips launched one, I believe. You're a big fan of these. I want your take on this one. This is the Sunday light, and Paul Backhouse says it's the closest thing to sunlight that you can buy. He gives it a 10 out of 10. He says no regrets. It's absolutely bonkers. For reference, this is my actual light at 80% brightness in a room with almost zero outside lights. So I believe it's a it's a sort of translucent disc. Some of the light diffuses, but also a bunch of the light is reflecting, bouncing around, creating sort of a a softer feel, softer glow. Are you a fan of this with, the the light that hangs down? If you zoom in on the actual light, will see that there's a there's a little stick. And at the end of that stick is a light emitting diode, an LED that's bouncing off of the disc, the larger disc there. So a little bit more in your face. I'd be worried about hitting my head on that in the [02:18:28] S1: middle of the room there, but that's What aren't you worried about hitting your head on, John?
02:18:28 · Jordi Hays, John Coogan
[02:18:28] S1: middle of the room there, but that's What aren't you worried about hitting your head on, John? [02:18:32] S0: But over over the right, over the right table, maybe it works. The closest thing you can to sunlight you can buy. They use titanium nanoparticles to scatter the light way the the way Earth's atmosphere does. Actual blue sky on your ceiling, 34,500 lumens, water cooled, 95 plus CRI, which is a measure of color quality. Just purchased one, to avoid any doubt, repost it, but I can't vouch for how yet it works. But this man is not sponsored, but he's just stunned this exists. Are you going this, or are [02:19:05] S1: you going into silence. I I wanna see more experiments like it. [02:19:10] S0: Would you go for this one or the Philips, the one that doesn't have the dangling light? [02:19:17] S1: I'm not actually a customer of either. Yeah. But Considering it. But I would be I would be curious to get one of these for the for the studio. [02:19:24] S0: You can get a couple of these and then a couple of the other lights, put them head to head, see which one we want. Anyway [02:19:31] S1: folks That's our show. That's our show. [02:19:34] S0: Thank you so much for tuning in. Leave us five stars on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Sign up for our newsletter@tbpn.com, and we'll see you tomorrow at 11AM. Slash bang. Goodbye. We love you. Have a great week.