 of town and like you know it's like this mini festival feel every night and the sounds echo across the boardwalk so like even if you don't have a ticket you were three blocks away on the boardwalk you could hear you know them playing uh hopeless romantic that was nick corosaniti political correspondent for the new york times and author of the new book i don't want to go home the oral history of the stone pony the book is out now it really is an oral history right it's everybody he talked to to kind of just tell that story it's so cool