After a trip to New York City attending the Intercollegiate Broadcasting System conference, Prowl Member Franklin Whalstrom collected his thoughts together to reflect on the experience

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I originally wrote these (extremely sleep deprived) on a Mnemosyne notepad I bought at Mcnally Jackson Books in Rockefeller Center for 2.95$, I figured they should be put in digital form too. Each number coincides with a sheet on the notepad. 

-Franklin

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March 6 2025 9:12 pm

First day in NYC! Gonna recap my days here, maybe to post, so if your reading this, I

did! Woke up at 4:15 am today to get to the Amtrak station in MKE on time. That was

evil, plus I probably could have given myself ~30min more to sleep and been fine.

Whatever. Met up with Ethan and Stephanie at the station and made the train just fine.

2

We rode to Chicago then ubered to O’Hare from union station. Everything went smooth!

Met up with Molly and Ian at our gate, and flew to Laguardia. No complaints about the

flight, except there was zero leg room >:( we ubered to our hotel in times square and

checked in just fine. We ate at the Canes in times square, (which is evil to navigate, by

the way) and had a lovely meal!

3

We decided to go shopping tonight, we went to the Disney store (underwhelming) and

the Nintendo store (Awesome!) I got a hat there. Then to a cool bookstore (more on

that later) after that we went to the Lego store, which rocked. Then we went to rough

trade records, which was closed for an event. We’ll come back another day.

4

We wound up at the NBC store which was very cool, then got some ice cream. 10$ for

one scoop. Crazy. It was earl gray flavor though, which was delicious. After that, we

made it back to the bookstore, where I got this notebook! and a comic book about a

stoner witch and a werewolf in a DIY band. That was cool, now were back at the hotel

exhausted. Day 1 of the conference tomorrow! Goodnight!

5

March 8 2025 12:25 am

Just made it back from our escapades today (the 7th). Long and eventful day! I woke up

and walked to centeral park at 6:30 am, I listened to For Emma, Forever ago by Bon

Iver and Two Hands by Big Thief and walked around till like 9. That shit was beautiful.

New York is so lovely.

6

Then i met up with everyone else and we went to the IBS conference! I won’t bore us

with the details, but I learned a lot that I want to bring back to prowl. Big things on the

way. Mid way through, we got pizza for lunch. They ran that place like the navy. After

day 1 of the conference, we went to central park, and went to strawberry fields.

7

We found a street performer playing Beatles covers and Ian sang a song with her then

interviewed her. It was rad. Then, we walked through the park some more and hopped

on the subway to Columbia university. We found the Seinfeld diner and had a lovely

meal there. Then we got back on the subway to the 9/11 memorial.

8

That was really special. We walked to the shore, and saw the tiny statue of liberty in

the distance. After that, we took the train back and got boba in times square. We went

around filming content and exploring the area, then saw the midnight minute are thing.

Very cool! I just got back now, time to go to bed. Goodnight!