For ten years I have been living in Asia, writing books and working on American TV shows, but my directors always tell me to tone down the accent, and my publishers tell me I can’t state my real opinions, because someone might get offended and sue us. Now I got a podcast! My own podcast. And no one can tell me what to say. And I’m calling them like I see them. And it’s not just the perspective of an over-forty, over-educated, under cultured guy from Brooklyn in Asia, oh no, I also look at America from the outside, and talk about our absurdities too.
Brooklyn Monk in Asia Podcast, episode 17, Are You Calling Me a Mook? Part 2 A lifetime of poverty makes you good at being poor. Although Antonio Grac...
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The worst part about travel is leaving home. At the airport in Hanoi, Antonio Graceffo is faced with a choice of paying for his overweight baggage or ...
Antonio Graceffo’s biggest obstacle in getting his books and articles published is that the editors want to force him into a genre of travel, but he h...
Some people say giving your two weeks notice is the most liberating feeling in the world. You could bring a portable TV and a box of popcorn to work, ...
The night before filming the Big TV show, Antonio Graceffo receives a call from Johnny Civello. “Tony, Bubbee, Bubeleh, I am calling to talk to you ab...
Doing movies and TV is such a quick way to fame and fortune that the producers hold all of the cards. As a struggling up-and-comer Antonio is no posit...
In Taipei, Taiwan, Brooklyn Monk, Antonio Graceffo’s attempts to meet his hero, Anthony Bourdain, are thwarted, as his phone call is lost in translati...
Antonio Graceffo continues to be amazed by his roommate, Mashooq. Back in his village, Mashooq probably equated being in possession of many goats to b...
In Malaysia, Antonio Graceffo winds up sharing an apartment with a group of foreign students, most notable Mashooq, a goat farmer, who plans to learn ...